New Digital Scrapbook Pages

This one is from Shae's birthday we took her to ride the Wild Woody Racetrack on the strip in Pigeon Forge, TN

This last one if my new desktop on my computer.

I made these new Digital Scrapbook Pages with recent pictures from our trip to the Smoky Mountains.

My Newest Obsession

. . . Ribbon Covered Clothespins. Here are a few pictures of the ones that I made yesterday.

These are covered with vintage ribbons that I have collected over the years. I seend to have gotten so carried away making them that I have so many now I put a few in my etsy shop.

New Finished Objects

I thought that I should post a few FOs, that I have made lately. Please let me know what you think. I have also posted these in my Etsy shop.

This a pair of dangle earrings that I made. Each bead is one its own headpin and then placed on a one inch long chain. The mount is a lever back for added security.

This pair of earrings are made on a antiqued silver headpin with brown and pink Swarovski Crystals.

My Etsy Shop

What I have been up to for the past few weeks.

I think that a couple pictures with captions will explain it all. Both of my girls have had the stomach bug that has been going around, and each of them have visited the hospital because of it, Anastasia only was borderline dehydrated and so they gave her meds and it really helped her along with 2 days of rest at home, but Shae on the other hand had to have IV fluids and meds to get her symptoms to stop. She also had to have 2 days rest per the doctor and it seems to be helping, but she is still very tired. We are at home today for her last day of rest before she can go back to school. Before this she had never missed a day of school this year and she was very upset that she would not get to go to school. She really loves going and getting to be with her friends. By the way in the first picture you can see a new finished object that I made for Anastasia. I made it with Lilly's Sugar n' Cream. The pattern is a improvised shell blanket.

I have been spending the day today updating my Etsy shop and I have alot of new items in the shop and I have taken so many pictures of items that I hope to get uploaded today. I have really not been keeping my shop up and I feel like I need to have a good showing this time around. I have books (with multiple copies) , yarn, knitting needles and handmade items that I really enjoyed making.

Update

I need to get some picture taken but the light has not been good around here for the past couple of days. I have two finished objects this week. I made Anastasia a crochet shell cuddle blanket, and I made Shae a large one square crochet cuddle blanket. I really enjoyed the process of making these blankets and I really need to get pictures when the light is better. I used Lilly's Sugar and Cream crochet cotton for each of these blankets and the best part is that I got these yarns on clearance at Hobby Lobby and only payed about $2.25 to make each of these blankets. They had the 3 ball value packs (2100 yards for kit) on sale for only $7 and it only took one full skein (710 yards) to make each blanket.

Scrapbook Paper update

I am trying to get the new shop up and running and I hope to have Paper Kate up and running very soon. I will be offering more than just digital scrapbook supplies I will also have embelishments for paper crafting, yarn, knitting and crochet books, and much more. I will be excepting PayPal as well as check and money order. I have posted a sample of one of the embelishment kits for digital scrapbooking. I am also searching for Design Team Members for my Digital Scrapbook kits. If you would like to be considered for the design team please e-mail me with links to your blog and galleries that you post to. You can e-mail me here. Also you can leave a comment to this post with a link to your blog and I will look it over and let you know.

Digital Scrapbook Kits

I will be posting some new digital scrapbook kits this week. I have started a blog just for my designs and it is called Paper Kate. I am really enjoying creating these kits. I have posted a sneak peek of one of the papers that I have created for the kits Grunged Out. There is also a sample layout using this Grunged Out kit.

The Quote is a freebie from Designer Digitals, and the font is a free font from Two Peas.

Hey there

I cannot believe that I have let a week pass with out a post. I had finals this week and the start of a new class. I have gotten a little creative work done also. I made a mini scrapbook for each of my daughters' teachers for Valentine's day. Let me know what you think if these pages. I also created a new template for packaging tea bags as gifts. I will post the picture as soon as I can get the camera hooked up.

I also started a new blanket project for Anastasia. Hobby Lobby had the 3 ball super saver Lilly brand cotton yarn on clearance, it is normally $21 for 3 large balls, and they had it for only $7. I picked the pink kit. It had two shades of solid pink and one ball of varigated. I love the colors and I might have to go back and pick up the blue kits for Shae. Each kit has over 2100 yards in it and this is plenty of yarn for a nice size throw. I also continued work on a baby ripple blanket that I am doing in two colors and one a 4 row repeat.

Layouts of the Day

These are for a 4x6 scrapbook for my mother for to take on her vacation at the end of the month. I love the way that these turned she loved them. I printed them at wal-mart today and they were ready in an hour online. Let me know what you think. I made these with a free kit. I will have to find the link and I will post it as soon as I can.

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Layouts of the Day

I did not realize that I had not posted the past few layouts that I have made. I have them posted in my scrapbook galleries, but I forgot to post them here. Please let me know what you think I really would love some feedback on these. Thanks so much in advance for your replies.

Featured Site

I would like to start featuring sites once per week. The first featured site is The Shabby Princess.

This site has all you need to get started Digital Scrapbooking, with great how-to's and freebies. The Dinner Party kit is one of the great freebies that are avaliable on this site.

The shoppe is filled with beautiful papers, embelishments, fonts, and kits.

You can also find great premade blog headers and buttons. All you have to do is add your blog title, and you have a great header.

Even if the digital scrapbook medium is not for you this is great for digital collage and other types of art because you can print these images out with your home printer and use them for any traditional crafting.

Digital Scrapbook Paper

I have just completed my first set of Digital Scrapbook paper. I am working on the embelishments to go along with it. I have ribbon, tags, and flowers in the works. Please let me know what you think about them I will be posting layouts using them as soon as I can.

Layout of the day

This picture was taken on New Years Day. It was a sunny cool day and I wanted to take a few pictures out side.

How To:

I created the flower with a couple of patterned papers and clip art in a flower shape. I overlaid the paper with the help of a vector mask. Then I used the mosaic filter to change the look of the paper varing the size of the tiles and the grout. I then added a button embelishment on top for the center.

The Scallop paper border was created with a vector mask also. The shape was created in photoshop and then the patterned paper was laid over it with the vector mask switched on to shwo the scallop shape.

The frame was created with a layer mask painted white, and the photo was placed on top of it.

All of the elements and papers are freebies that I have downloaded from various sources.

I am working on a few designs of my own and I have a kit in progress and I am looking for people who would like to design a couple of page layouts with the papers and elements that I have made.

A New Slideshow

A New Layout

I just finished this new layout and I wanted to share. This one is from my vacation back in September. I go on a Ladies' Retreat with the ladies from our church for a week every year to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. This is another layout using only the freebes from Designer Digitals.com.

A couple of new pages

I am having so much fun with Digital Scrapbooking. Here is a page that I created using only freebees from Designer Digitals. I am trying to see how many different pages that I can make out of these freebees. There are 48 different sets of downloads and I think that just using these I will be challenging myself. I will be uploading them here as I finish them. I hope to be able to make at least double this number, by mixing these kits. This is one of my favorite sayings. I really want to paint it as a border in my bedroom. I think that this is something that you should always do to your children every night. The years when they want a goodnight kiss is so fleeting that I feel like I need to take advantage of it while I can.

My next page uses Anastasia's favorite quote. " I love you to the moon and back", when ever she tells me that she loves me she will say that to me, and I love if when she says it.

The Camera's Back

I found my camera cord so I can finally post my pictures. So be warned this will be a picture heavy post.

Here are a few of the cards that I have made over the past few weeks. The first two were welcome back cards for the girls teachers. I made them little bags of nugget candy with welcome back on the lables and a card each. I used stamps from a kit that I bought at Michael's it was a huge collection that came with ribbon, ink pads, chalk, wood mounted stamps, markers, paper, stickers, and more. The paper for these cards is All Dressed Up and I used a 1 1/2 in scallop circle punch, with a 1 inch circle layered on top.

The letter stamps that I used for this card are from all night media, the brads are making memories, the stickers are from hobby lobby, and paper is just a blue scrapbook cardstock, I inked the bottom section with distressing ink from the making memories distressing kit.

It is getting late so I will post a few more pictures tomorrow.

Digital Layout Of the Day

I made another layout over the weekend. Let me know what you think. I am having so much fun with these. It is really helping me to get my pictures onto layouts. I had a few printed at wal-mart and I love how they turned out. I framed the previous layout and I plan on making a 5x7 album for mother's day for my MIL and Mother.

A New Layout

I completed 8 traditional scrapbook layouts over the last week but I still cannot find the cable for my camera. I have a mini memory stick so it doesn't fit in my reader (ugh!). I made this digital layout to show. I took this picture last January after school on day. I was a unusually warm day, so we went to the park. We took a walk down to the small pond and they decied to walk back and forth across it and on one of those crossing they decied to hold hands and I was lucky enough to catch it with my lens.