Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Beach, Travel, Vacation Sale

We're heading in to fall, sigh.  I'll miss the warm weather, but I look forward to getting back into those regular routines that seem to go by the wayside during the summer.  And I'm also looking forward to sitting down and going through all of my vacation photos.  Are you?

This sale has come at the perfect time!

Here are some of my products that are included in this sale:
Mermaid Mystique Collection     
Chesapeake Collection Biggie
Sunken Treasure Embellishment Mini
Let's get scrapping!

Friday, August 16, 2013

New Puppy!

We have a new puppy - and we are so happy!  This cute little bundle of joy's name is Pippin. He's an F1 Labradoodle (Lab mommy and Poodle daddy), and he's got a beautifully sweet temperament. He demands a lot of attention, but he also gets more than he demands!  He likes to sleep under my desk chair - and it's hard just to keep from staring at him while he's sleeping.  Consequently, I haven't gotten much designing work done.

I've taken lots of photos of him, and I've been spending my design time making layouts rather than working on my current project.  Oh, well - they're only young once, right?  Here's an example of what I've been doing:





 When I posted this layout in the Scrap Girls Gallery, the positive response overwhelmed me!  So many members loved not only the puppy, but the composition of the layout.  The response gave me the idea to create a template from the layout, to make it easy to duplicate.  I added a couple more templates from among my favorites with a similar style.  The layout template set is available in the Scrap Girls Boutique now!

ScrapSimple Digital Layout Templates: Stacked Strips 1  

The set includes both 12x12 and 8.5x11 sizes.  Here's a brand new layout using one of the templates, featuring my beautiful Mom!





I hope you will enjoy these templates.  You may notice that I called this set "Stacked Strips 1."  If you love the look of stacked paper strips in your layouts, watch for more.  This is just the first in a series!

Friday, August 2, 2013

Photowalking

I missed most of the Scrap Girls Staycation Week fun.  My husband,Steve, and I were out of town attending the National Lutheran Secretariat (of Via de Cristo) National Meeting in West Palm Beach Florida.  Steve  is on the Board as Treasurer, and I attended as a visitor.  What a wonderful destination for a conference!  While Steve was in meetings, I used the opportunity to behave as if I were on vacation.  I went to the beach, took a nap, and took my camera for a couple of walks around the city.

And since we were down that far, we thought it would be a good idea to take a couple of extra days and drive down to Key West to get some real vacation time in together.  Boy was that a good idea!  We had a wonderful time.

We returned just in time for me to catch the tail end of Staycation week.  Wednesday's theme was Historic Downtown - the theme I had in mind when I created the Photo Walk Collection Mini.  I got caught up in all the excitement and was ready to scrap some of the photos I took in West Palm Beach and Key West, and to use the collection. 

In doing so, I found that I wanted an alpha to coordinate with the "ransom note" type word art and some paper backgrounds that weren't so busy.  So as I was making my layouts, I put together a Photo Walk Alpha Mini and Photo Walk Solids Paper Mini, and put them into the boutique this week.

Photo Walk Alpha Mini
Photo Walk Solids Paper Mini
I put them all together in a Value Pack:

Value Pack: Photo Walk

Here are the layouts:


Now to sort through the rest of over 600 photos that I took!