new template!

I was sitting here tonight and thought... why don't i make another template. And so I did. How easy is that? It's one of those classic templates which always look good, and with a bit of imagination you can make it look really good. Here we are enjoying a rainy weekend. I say enjoying, because we really do need rain. But since my plan was to catch up washing this weekend, it kind of doesn't really work. I guess that is why I have time to make templates.
I have been having a great time downloading some fantastic kits from the DSA So you think you can design competition. Today their newsletter came out. It is worth a look, as there are lots of discount coupons for some great scrapbook shops. I had a great shopping spree after the last one. Anyway I am in the middle of watching Billy Conolly travelling to The Ends of the Earth. It is a great series, so i will post my template and go.

I made this layout a while ago for a challenge at Elemental Scraps using
Elemental Scraps Zazzle Collaboration Kit.
Miss Vivi Starting School background paper.
Fonts Pea Susan, Palantino Linotype

Download template here
As always I would love to see what you have made, I am getting a few beautiful layouts in my guest book at the bottom of the page. Maybe next year I will be brave enough to try for the SYTYCD challenge!

Classic Baby Alpha

Today I did it. I sat down and made the first alpha for the Classic baby kit. You note that I say first. Well with so many colours in the kit it was hard to decide what to do with the alpha. Make something non gender specific? But I just wanted to give the flag alpha a go, and i had the flags all made... so that is what you've got. A flag alpha. Blue and only upper case at this stage. But I have supplied a blank flag if you have a yen to put your own letters on.

You can download it here. Now its late at night here, or to be more accurate early morning so I am off to sleep.. enjoy.

sorry about the absence

Well it is a couple of days since I blogged. In fact quite a few days. I think that I was so relieved to have finished my kit and finally uploaded all the parts that I kind of breathed a sigh of relief and sat down to vegetate a bit. So no, I haven't made the alphas. I have had one suggestion of a flag alpha like the baby banners i made. What do you think of that idea? It is quite appealing. Other concepts that are making my shortlist are a baby block alpha or a stitched down alpha. All of the ideas are good. Just need to get on to it.. if you have any ideas let me know. Today was a monumentous day! I got an email with a link to a layout made with my Classic Baby kit!!! wahoo that is the first one! And a beautiful comment today about one of my templates. What a buzz that was.
I have finished my night shifts so am enjoying a few days off. However I had better get myself organised and go and do some agency shifts or the money flow could be grim. I hate that! But I figure that I had lots of years as a stay at home mother and now I just gotta go and work. I really notice the change now I am a working mother. I used to have time for much more time consuming meals and could spend all day getting things ready. Now I am constantly looking for easy meal ideas. Our shopping has changed too, with more instant food and prepackaged stuff. I am a bit sad about that as I really do try to avoid lots of packaging and much prefer fresh food. But trying to juggle work and home and fit in scrapbooking requires a few sacrifices.
My reading is going along slowly, still on Petrodor, and they were right when they said it wasnt as good as Sasha, but there you go, I had to try it.
So, I guess you are wondering when there will be some more goodies to try out. But if you are after high quality freebies then I would be hanging out at www.digiscrapaddicts.com where they are having a cool contest called So you think you can design. All the kits are free to download and there are so many great kits! Definitely worth checking out.
I am currently having a wee Vinnie Pearce crush. I really like her stuff, it is just different. Different and interesting. On Mothers Day I had a wee spending spree (I figured it was too hard to get Mike to go shopping for digital kits and so I did it myself. He bought me perfume though - Arpege, which I love, and the children bought me new essential oils as I use them so much. I love citrus smells. Mandarin is my favorite, along with, sweet orange and grapefruit. The house always smells so fresh! Caitlin bought me the collectors edition of The Notebook, knowing how much i had enjoyed the movie.
We had a beautiful day with Lucus this week, although he has got a nasty cold. We had fun and just hung round home really and played. Of course I took one or two photos as well!
So.. I plan to get to work on a few more templates. It is fascinating how popular they are. I think i have 10 times as many downloads for the templates as for my kit.
You'll just have to keep checking back because I have no idea when I will get the next template done.

Finally

Yes here it is the final part of Classic Baby. I have to admit that the alphas are not yet done. But when I do night shift I am fairly non functional so it is not too surprising. The alphas will be along in a day or two. If anyone has any ideas about how they should look, feel free to share your ideas in the comments section. I do hope with the whole kit now finished, that I am going to see some finished pages in my guest book? I am really excited to see what you do with it.
So, you know that I have been working nights = that about sums up all I have been doing. Last night I was present at a beautiful waterbirth. So wonderful! I have finally finished my book Sasha by Joel Shepherd and am reading the squel called Petrodor. Have heard that it isn't quite as good, but we shall see. So far I have read like 5 pages before i fell asleep! Sasha was an excellent read if you like fantasy type fiction. No gnomes or dwarves or elves in this one, just an imaginary kingdom.
So now to the business you are waiting for.......



Here it is the last part of the elements. I do hope you like them, I did try to make a good variety and make plenty of boy things as well as girl things. Now i understand why people tend to make boy kits or girl kits. Every now and then I would look and realise that I had more pink than blue, and then I realised that I had virtually nothing in the neutral beige tones! Keep in mind that this is my first effort! I was particularly proud of the fuzzy blanket texture which I made myself, by scanning a baby blanket! It just goes to show how creative we can be with very little effort.
Enjoy!

Thursday

Well it's 8am for me, and i have just got into bed after my night shift! But before I go to sleep I really wanted to give you the first part of the elements. There are only two element packs, so I had better get the alphas done asap or you will be waiting and wondering where they are. No chit chat today coz sleep is really looking good.

Download elements part 1 here