Inspired by... serendipity

 

Welcome to another...

 

Greetings! Thanks for stopping by to preview the unexpected and wonderful things found this past week!

 

Book Review

 

My new friend, Holly, over at Simply Life Photographs, blessed me with her sweet review of No Tomorrow! Holly is a talented photographer whom I met through our mutual participation in Scripture & a Snapshot. I guarantee a perusal of her galleries will make you smile. And if you're in Texas and need a great photographer, I know she'd love to hear from you!

 

Blog Train

Check out Krista's contribution to the DigiShopTalk December blog train! Love those blues! Click on the image above to download this fabulous mini kit for free!

 

Support

I've been working my tail off for the past two months to get ready for the annual Christmas Craft Show & Rummage Sale held in the town where I live. It was a great opportunity to showcase The Books and a variety of crafts. A BIG thank you to mom for getting up at 5am and sacrificing her entire Saturday to help me. And I so appreciate all my friends who came out to support me in my first event of this kind. I feel the love and am so thankful for ALL of you!

 

So, what serendipitous finds did you have this week?

 

Blessings,

Inspired by... harvest time {freebie}

 

In celebration of the first day of Fall I'm sharing with you this beautiful kit by Designs by Krista.

 

Even more exciting, you can download it here for FREE!!

I just love the rich red and brown tones in this kit! And so did a lot of other people which is why Krista brought it back this year. Good for us!

Here is a layout I whipped up to highlight some of the beautiful papers included in this kit:

 

I found this photo of my Nana when I was looking through some old photos at my mom's place one day. What a riot! This is so totally something she would do! 

Here is another layout I made using Krista's newest kit, Season Change. 

I made this one for my mom. She moved from VT to TX a little over a year ago and is missing the beautiful fall foliage! These were some particularly meaningful pictures she asked me to "scrap" for her. I hope you like it, mom!

What do you enjoy (or maybe miss) most about Fall?

 

Happy Fall y'all!

 

Blessings,

Sharing inspiration here:

Inspired by... memories {freebie}

 

After resolving a few technical difficulties, I'm excited to announce my Digital Scrapbooking Services website is up!  I still have several pages to add to it, but at least the basic information is there. If you have a moment, please check it out and tell your friends!

 

 

I've got a couple of free templates for you today. These templates were designed by Rachael, one of my fellow creative teammates at Dancing Princess Designs.

Here are the layouts I created using her templates.

 

Kit used: Rise Above

Get your free template HERE

 

Kit Used: Painted Sky

 Get your free template HERE

 

Here are a few other layouts I've been working on:

 

 Kit Used: Sweet Sassy Friend

 

Kit Used: Sweet Pea

 

Kit Used: Buttercup

The Buttercup kit is a Designs by Krista and I really love the yellows and blues she used in this kit! It would be great to use with baby photos, too! Krista also has a new Fall-themed kit that I'm working with and will be sharing with you soon!

I'll be playing catch up this weekend.

The house definitely needs cleaning and our front porch and back patio need help where the swallow babies made their messes. I also have a few projects to start wrap up!

What's on your schedule for the weekend?

 

Blessings,

 

 

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Inspired by... Aslan

 

Our Texture Tuesday theme this week is orange.

With an orange tabby constantly demanding my attention (I swear he has Siamese in him. The only time he isn't talking is when he's sleeping. LOL!) my "subject" for this photo challenge was pretty much decided for me.

I used Kim Klassen's pumpkingrunge texture on vivid light 40% and her youaremysunshine brush.

 

I encourage you to stop by The Cafe and see what everyone else came up with this week!

Since we're on the subject of Aslan... he recently escaped his halter and did this:

 

Yes, in case you're wondering, he is at the end of the road, er, branch as far as the top of the tree is concerned. My new grey hairs are all from this precious one.

I don't recall if I've mentioned it before, but we also have a Blue & Gold Macaw named PiliAloha. Hubby thought it would be fun to put them in the tree together.

I had to post this last one, lest anyone reading this was afraid for the bird. Trust me, if anyone is in danger, it's Aslan! (You guessed it! More grey hairs as I worry about Aslan trying to escape the bird and falling out of the tree in the process!)

And, since we're on the subject of orange, here is a LO I did today using Groovy Girl by Designs by Krista.

The caption is pretty much what my brother would say if he saw this layout. LOL! These are a couple of my favorite photos of him and of course I had to include his orange Willy's Jeep!

 

So, I'm curious, do your pets do anything to give you grey hair?

 

Blessings,

 

Sharing inspiration here:

 

Inspired by... baby

 

 

I've got some inspiration by way of scrapbook layouts (LO's) for you today.  When I first joined the Creative Teams (CT's) for Dancing Princess Designs and Designs by Krista, I was a little concerned about having appropriate photos to scrap.  After all, the majority of scrappers out there have families and are doing LO's (mostly) of their kids. On the other hand, I have quite a few a lifetime of memories saved on my computer and could probably find something to work with pretty much any kit out there! I was rockin' along pretty well until...

Krista asked me to work with her Baby Girl kit.

Umm, baby? baby? anybody got a baby? Anybody had a baby?

We have several new babies in our church family and I knew my friends would probably let me do a LO using their pictures, but I really didn't have time to gain the necessary permission (my LO's are published in online galleries) and photos.  So, while I knew the photos wouldn't be the best quality, I decided to do a LO with some old family photos.

This kit is really fun! And as you can see, there are many elements in the kit that didn't even make it into my LO. Working with the older pictures has got me thinking about working with some (much older) family pictures that my dad has collected over the years. Krista has some beautiful "old paper" kits which would work fabulously for this!

Here's a LO I did for last week's Trixie Scraps challenge, to use cardstock papers:

I also picked up two new kits this week:

 

Aromatic Herbs by et Designs and Master Chef by Trixie Scraps.  I'll be using these for some fun hybrid ideas I have in mind and will be sharing those with you soon! (the images are linked if you want to check them out in more detail)

I'm working on several projects that I'll be sharing with you soon.  And I finished a project today that I'll be sharing with you tomorrow and I can't wait for you to see what I made!!!

 

Are you working on any projects you're excited about sharing?

I'd love to hear!

 

Blessings,

Inspired by... serendipity

 

Welcome to another...

Serendipity is about finding unexpected and wonderful things. Each week on Serendipity Sunday, I share with you some of the serendipitous things I found that week!

(I just love using that word: serendipitous. It's a bit like saying Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, which is also very fun. Don't you think?)

 

Okay, back to what I found this week...

 

While doing Blog Train downloads, I found Designs by Krista and absolutely fell.in.love with her designs!

Aren't these papers gorgeous?

Love. Love. Love.

What's even MORE exciting is that she accepted my application to be on her Creative Team! Yay!

Here's my first LO, using her new Whimsy Collection:

Click on the image to go to Designs by Krista (store)

 

Since I actually have followers on Twitter now, I'm trying to be better about sending, ah, Tweets. Admittedly, this does not come easy for me, especially since I'm careful about tweeting things I think people would actually be interested in knowing – ha!

It was on Twitter that I found out about this fantastic Giveaway!

Sweetopia is giving away two of these babies!

I can honestly say, I have never participated in any blog giveaway.

Until now.

My friend recently lent me her KitchenAid mixer and I.love.it!

Winning one of these would definitely be serendipitous!!

Click over to Sweetopia for all the entry details and please, pretty please, mention I sent you.

So we can BOTH win one!

How cool is that!

 

Okay, last but not least.

Remember I told you about the two births at our house earlier this week?

Well, yesterday, I discovered there were actually

THREE!

Aren't they just adorable!!! 

Their eyes aren't even open yet! (can't say that about their mouths – ha!) And yes, their mouths really are that color.  I did not alter the photos in any way.

I'll try and update you on their progress. I have to be careful when I take pictures though. The sound of the camera got them so excited I thought they were going to push each other out of the nest! They must think its mamma coming to feed them.

 

What serendipitous finds did you have this week?

 

Blessings,

 

 

 

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