Time for a Freebie!

I couldn't wait any longer. I just finished this fun digital 12 x 12 template and wanted to share. So please feel free to download. It was made with PSE 7.

We would love it if you would be a follower of the blog too. Share with your friends! There will be more digital freebies to come.

Thanks,
Michelle

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Finally! My Page Maps Contest Entry

This digital page was done using the Page Maps design for the contest, the Sandbox Summer Pack and Word Art kits from My Memories and Photoshop Elements 7. You can click on the picture if you want to view a larger image.

I really have been working on this for about a week. I have had so much trouble getting my photos from this trip off my phone and into my computer. Wow! I finally ended up emailing them to our family email address. After that, they show up on my computer in my sent mail from my gmail account and I was able to download them. Why, oh why can't I remember to take my camera in the first place. I can't even believe I did that. Well, it all worked out in the end I guess and I got my page done and posted on the very last day of the contest. Typical Michelle, right?

Anyway, I hope Peggy or I win the big prize. LOL!

If you forgot what Peggy's page looked like you can see it on her blog at flourishscrapbooker.blogspot.com

Cupcake Heaven!

My card class at The Craft Spot included a really fun cupcake box and topper all wrapped up with a cellophane bag. We had such a good time making them that I had to share.
The box was cut with the Cricut using Tags, Bags, Boxes and More. I also cut the circles from the Cricut. The stamps are Printworks.
Some of the students opted to eat their cupcakes and save the box for later. That is what I would have done as well. LOL!

Emily finished hers!



Pat holds up the topper for the camera.



The cupcakes. Yum!



Pat's finished cupcake box (minus the cupcake LOL) and one of her finished cards. Very nice!



Michelle

Off to the Gallery!

I have had a lot of fun with this new digital kit from Shabby Digitals. I hope you will check out her blog and website. I am on the Creative Team and am having a blast using this kit.

It features a lot of pink, black, white and turquoise. And here I am with no girls...go figure. But, I do have a very photogenic neighbor, Brooke. So I used her in both layouts. One is Brooke with her niece, Lainey and the second involves Brooke and Brian at Prom 2011.

I could also use it without the pink papers for my boys if I wanted to. Anyway, I hope you like the layouts. There are other kits for sale at the website.

Michelle

http://shabbydigitals.weebly.com/gallery.html
http://greenfamily-life.blogspot.com/

More Fun!

I really hope you are liking the layouts and projects we have posted because I am showing you more today. I am having so much fun just playing and getting some pages done. I haven't done traditional scrapbooking in a while and I am enjoying it. I am just going to talk a little bit about the layouts then post the pictures.

All of these, again are using the Moxxie products. I hope you have visited their website at gotmoxxie.com. They really are fun to work with. If you live in Emmetsburg, Iowa you can purchase a variety of the products at Hughes Pharmacy. And, for those of you who don't scrapbook, a lot of their papers work great for cards. I have a couple of cards pictured below.

The lines I have used this time are (not sure if these are the official names but you would be able to find them I am sure) love, dog and cat, medical, and USA. Enjoy!

Sharing is FUN!

I like sharing. Sharing makes the giver happy, and the receiver happy. Because I like sharing so much, I'm sharing a contest with you! Pagemaps Blog has a sketch contest going on right now, through July 24th, which you can see here: Pagemaps Punky Sprouts Sketch Contest

All you have to do is use the sketch posted in the blog entry to jumpstart your creativity and complete a layout based on that sketch. In the comments section, leave a link to where she can find your entry. That's it!

But I'm not done yet! This blog post is about sharing, so what I'm going to do is share with you the entry I made, and I'd like you to share in our comments section the entries YOU made. Isn't that lovely? I already saw a couple of other entries for this contest, and they're so diverse. It really fascinates me the way different people can interpret the same sketch and come up with completely different looking layouts. I get a lot of inspiration seeing them, so please, enter and share yours.

If you'd like to see mine, hop on over to my blog: Flourish Scrapbooker

I can't wait to see what you all come up with for your entries!

Sending Some More Moxxie Love!

Since we love Moxxie so much, I thought I'd add some more fun projects I've been working on lately.

This first one is a fun layout using Moxxie's picnic line. I LOVE the gingham background paper! If you look very closely at each square, you'll see a word embedded in there! "Eat" and "Yum". Do you see them? So clever... I also really loved the graphics of the ants carrying off all the picnic food, so I found a Pagemaps sketch that I could work with to show my photos, as well as the cute papers. :) I hope Rich, Lori, and Andy don't mind being on my blog!


That adorable baby girl is the granddaughter of one of my very best friends! Cindy emailed me the pictures, and they just HAD to go on a layout. This little bundle of joy has the BEST facial expressions I've ever seen on a newborn! I used Moxxie's Special Delivery line as my backgrounds because I like how sophisticated the color palette is, and I really liked the way Reece's bright yellow and pink outfit popped when put on this paper. Besides, the pink and brown color combo is SO this half of Micheggy...



I loved this dog! I was never really a dog person, but Jay was, and he came home one day with the most adorable puppy he found at the Humane Society. (I never even knew he was going!) Anyway, we quickly named the dog Captain, and he was a wonderful companion. Captain looked awfully nice on this Paws & Claws paper line from Moxxie. I think the puppy on the paper is equally as cute, so I was really pleased with the layout, and just had to try another for my kitty page:



There's Penelope! The world's greatest, most spoiled kitty! I have a ton of funny pictures of her, but these of her sleeping in my old butterfly chair are just too adorable. Look how easily the paper line becomes a neutral background, and Penelope is highlighted in all her glory... On a product note, the rub-ons that go with this line reminded me how much I love using a good quality rub-on! I have to say that Moxxie's are some of the best on the market. The graphics are beautiful, they're backed in white so that the images are opaque and can be rubbed onto any color background, and they rub off the transfer paper with ease.

I hope you enjoyed the layouts. I think we'll have lots more Moxxie ideas coming up in the next couple of weeks or so!