Click here to download the free quick page. You must be logged in to view and download.I just wanted to wish my very dear friend, Dea Spina, a most happy birthday!
Check out Dea’s blog and store and be sure to wish her a Happy Birthday! She has a 40% off coupon on her blog so be sure to run over and grab it!! It's only good today, so hurry up! You can always come back and grab the freebie here!
I made this card for her using an upcoming kit of mine. Be on the lookout for it at the beginning of May!
Enjoy this third installment in my Template Tuesday series. If you missed any of them, they'll be available in my store later in the month!
Head Over Heels Extras is on sale this week for 25% off!
This week, I'm featuring all my templates for 20% off. This includes my Commercial-use-friendly All About Me Templates and my fun and quirky Fringed Frames Templates. You can see them all here: http://tinyurl.com/63u4lw
Congratulations to Dorannmwin, winner of a $5 coupon to my store. Lucky Dorann was chosen by random draw by my husband, Randy! Thanks Randy. Cookies are in the mail, right Dorann? Be sure to check back on Tuesday for the new template challenge and on Wednesday for last week's winner!
Need a little sunshine to brighten your layouts? Walking on Sunshine will have you walking on sunshine with its bright cheery colors and quirky embellishments! The watercolor paper textures, torn and wrinkled embellishments, and glittered sprays will add some fun to your Spring and Summer layouts.
Included in set:
10 12x12 300 dpi lightly shabby backgrounds 4 frames 11 buttons 4 wrinkled paper border 6 torn paper flowers 2 torn paper stems and leaves 2 journaling squares 2 strip of tapes 2 clothespins 5 glitter sprays 3 torn tags 2 staples 4 rows stitching 1 swirl 2 wadded papers 2 butterflies 1 birdhouse 1 wrinkled paper bracket
Welcome guests! I'm glad you found me as part of Digitals Blog Hopping fun! I've got a coupon code for you good for this week only--25% off all my Quick Pages, Albums, Brag Books, and Calendars!
Visit my blog every Tuesday for a free template challenge! Make a layout with the free template, post your layout link in the comment section, and I'll award a random poster a $5 coupon to my store! 
Come to Scrap Therapy Chat tonight and get these great freebies for attending! Both freebies coordinate with my new kit Les Jardins du Manoir. Join the Digital Quickies Challenge and get a bundle of QUick Pages FREE! Chat is held in the Digitals chat room at 9:00 PM EST!
I can't believe I completely forgot to blog about my St. Patrick's Day kit! Doh! Well, here it is a little late, but still really cheap! This is part of a series of kits I'm working on that all coordinate called "Soft Pastels".
Stop by Digitals and join our Digital Quickies challenge! Purchase one or all of the featured kits for only $3 each, make a quick page (or two or three…) and get everyone’s quick pages made with that kit--FREE!!
At $3 a kit, you just can’t pass this up!!!
The first one comes from 3 Scrapateers! I received their layout of the day for my layout "The Family". I made this one for the Amazing Digi Scrap Race. We were supposed to scrap our favorites: color (red), element (those flourishes), and subject (my family, of course!) I used my new kit "Les Jardins du Manoir" for the layout! I also used photo actions from Holly McCaig.
The next layout of the day (this one at Digitals) was also one I made for the Amazing Digi Scrap Race! This one we were supposed to "vent" in our layout and use blending modes. For "Footprints" I used a background from my Count Your Blessings kit and blended it with little Emily's feet.
Journaling was from a journal entry I made while I was taking a Mind and Nature class at The University of Utah. We were on vacation in Blanding for the 4th of July and had just come home from visiting a dinosaur museum.
Journaling reads:
I find that I can never look at things the same way as before. When we talk about the dinosaurs that lived on earth 250 million years ago, I now have a timeline to put them into. I found myself telling my children, “If we looked at earth from the point of view of a 24 hour clock, dinosaurs would have been here at 10pm.” It has also been humbling to view these reptiles that were victim to a mass extinction, knowing that we may be headed for their same fate. I wonder what type of organisms will survive this extinction and what they’ll think about us when they dig up our artifacts.
As I lie under the night sky looking upward toward a magnificent fireworks show, I wonder, “When our artifacts and fossils are found, will they tell the whole story?” Will they know our wonder and thrill of seeing the colors burst forth in the blackness of night? Will they know the heady aroma of a rose wet with dew? Will they know the simple joys of holding a child’s hand as you walk along the beach at sunset? What part of Lucy’s story are we missing; or the story of anatomically human humans? When their children were sick, did they softly brush the wet hair off their fevered brow? Did they look up at the same night sky and thrill at falling stars?
I am fascinated by the footprints made by dinosaurs that have been found throughout the world. From these footprints, they are able to discover mating rituals, migration patterns, and social behaviors. It makes me ponder the roles I’m playing, and the footprints I’m leaving behind. How will my footprints be interpreted? Will they show an interconnected web of family and social relationships? Will they portray me as a person who watched over others and the environment? How will the human race be viewed? Will we be commended for saving the world from a mass extinction, or will we be known as the ones who caused an annihilation of epic proportions that led to the extinction of all life forms on earth, ourselves included?
It is humbling to think about, and yet motivating at the same time. We don’t have to go the way of the dinosaur. We can live in harmony with the natural world and lighten our footprint on the earth. We can fight for changes large and small. Government policy can be changed and personal habits can be changed. We are not on a theme park ride that we have to travel to its inevitable conclusion. The end is not an inescapable foregone conclusion. We can detour, change direction, and switch rides.
Confucius said, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Where will our journey lead and are we willing to take that first step? Will another creature be fascinated by our footprints or will our descendents find pride in our ability to save the planet from a disastrous conclusion? When the final curtain falls, will it be of our own making?
Visit Digitals to see the coordinating add on to Les Jardins du Manoir!
I've decided to add a Spring-y look to my blog in an effort to forget winter! I hope you like it!
Join me at Digitals for the Calendar Challenge! I'll provide this great mini kit for you to make your layout with!
Come over to Digitals where my Shabby Sheik Collection is on sale--BIG TIME!
Come join me in the Designer Element Challenge at Digitals where my new kit "Head Over Heels" is being featured! Join the challenge and you'll get a free mini kit to use in making your layout. You'll also get a great posting bonus for participating and another extra little freebie from me! I've also got a free mini kit in the Bonus Gallery at Digitals. Log in to Download!
