A Big Thank You and Easter Basket Goodie Kit

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Thanks so much for all your wonderful comments on the zippers. I appreciated your comments a great deal. A big thanks too to IkeaGoddess for posting my freebie link on her blog. I love being able to share my freebies with a larger group of scrappers. I can hardly wait to see Awaiting's layout she did with the zippers as soon as Digishoptalk comes back up from system upgrade. If anyone else would like to share their layouts I'd love to see them. Just post your link in the comment box.

Today's freebie I think is a lot of fun. At least it was a lot of fun to make! I hope you get a kick out of it too. It's an Easter basket template. The mini-kit includes the template, the papers I used in my example basket, my example basket empty and already spherized, 4 glitter frames, and some Easter basket grass. I did use the Filter>Distort>Spherize to make my final basket rounded. I think this would look great with Agnieszka's felty egg freebie. Here's the link to her eggs.

Here's a preview of the template



Here's a preview of my finished basket. I would definitely add some kind of bow. I know that Anna has had some great bows on her blog in the month of March. Here's a link to her blog. You'll have to go back to previous posts to check out the bows.



Finally, here's the preview picture of all that's included in the mini-kit. I hope you enjoy it. Remember I'd love to see your layouts! A big thank you goes out to Atomic Cupcake for actions used in the creation of the kit.Click here or the preview to download.

Zipper Freebie

Well, I'm taking tomorrow off. Call it a mental health day. It's not a toddler/hubbie free day like I had hoped. Actually that whole thing turned into a huge fight. I tell you two first borns makes for a fiery relationship. We're both so stubborn. Oh well, I hope we've got things back on track at least, despite me not getting any free time to myself.

Here's my latest freebie. It's a set of vintage zippers. Judging from the packaging, I'd say they're late 60s/early 70s. I like the bright colors. You get all the zippers pictured here. I got them from my mom to make Gianni a zipper book. I just haven't had the time to sew it yet. It goes back to that no free time thing :). I don't dare get the sewing machine out with Gianni around. Maybe this weekend or next I'll finally get around to making the book. Then I can make a layout with the zipper files. Until then, I'll just share them with all of you! Click here or the preview to download.

Field and Flower Freebie

I can't believe it's been a whole week without a post. It was just one of those weeks. I really had very little time to do any designing. Work was especially stressful and Gianni still isn't napping. It's very frustrating when you come home and your normally cheerful little boy is fun and giggles for about an hour before the crankiness sets in. My hubbie just doesn't get it. I told him I was considering taking a day off on Wednesday. That's the day Gianni is with my mom all day. I figured I'd get some down time. John's oh so sensitive, understanding idea is to move Gianni's day with Grandma to Monday, since I'll be home to watch him on Wednesday. Why doesn't he get it? Okay, I've vented! On to the freebie.

Today's freebie is a spring weeds and wildflower paperpack called Field and Flower.
Click here to download or click the preview.

Vintage Frame Freebie

Where did the weekend go? It seemed shorter than usual. Let's see yesterday we shoveled the driveway, cleaned the living room, tried to figure out where the leak in the leaky pipe was, and went to my MIL. That killed Saturday. Today we had to go and pick up my car and get groceries, another day pretty well erased.

The house is a wreck. I didn't watch much of the first two rounds of the NCAAs. I didn't finish my spring book collection or read the book I was supposed to read for work. Hmmm, not a very productive weekend. I'm trying to blame the messy house on the water problems, since it's turned off at the moment so the puddle in the basement doesn't get much bigger.

Okay, I'll stop rambling. I needed an outlet this afternoon, so I came up with these frames with a vintage Easter theme. I hope you like them.

Click here to download.




Here's a layout I did using one of them. It's Gianni last Easter. Love the expression on his face. The papers are by Melany Violette
Designer and owner of simplycleandigiscraps.com, recent freebies of hers.

March Madness is here and so is a quickpage freebie

I love the NCAA tournament. March Madness is so much fun, especially the first two rounds of the tournament. I love that feeling that anything can happen. You cheer for the underdog; you hope your team wins. The excitement of the players and fans is contagious.

So today's freebie is a quickpage made from my March Madness kit.

Click here to download.

Time Scrapping Goes Too Fast

It seems like time scrapping flies by. I put Gianni to bed an hour and a half ago. It seems more like a half hour. I really have to go to bed after this post. I just wish I needed less sleep! :) What I really need is a day to scrap with no interruptions, but I know that's not going to happen!

I have to say running across the top digi blog list was awesome. I think I stumbled on it around Christmas time. Since then I've started my own blog, grabbed hundreds of amazing freebies, and met some amazing people. Today I found a great tutorial blog through links on someone else's blog. You may already know of it, but if you don't you have to go there. She has the most amazing Photoshop tutorials. The blog is Sprague Lab. So I ended up fooling around with some of her tutorials tonight and really got off track from what I should have been doing! Oh well. It was so much fun though. The tutorial I ended up spending the most time on was Photo Overlay + Journaling Block in One "Module" found here. I used it to create this layout of my best friend's dd.

I think I like it better than the one I did last night with the same papers and photo. (BTW the papers are by Traci Sims from her Cherry Vanilla Kit)

Well, I just wanted to share that great site with you. If you are visiting via IkeaGoddess' freebie list, scroll down for the card template and other great freebies!

St. Patrick's Day Card Freebie

I don't know why, but it's taking me longer than usual to adjust to Daylight Savings Time. Usually it's not a problem. I don't know whether it's because Gianni still isn't napping and I'm dealing with cranky boy in the evenings or what. He didn't nap for his father again today. However, he was in a good mood and went to bed at 7 with no complaints. I had to get him out of the tub a little early because he looked like he was going to fall asleep!

Well, I haven't gotten much done in the way of freebies this week. I am posting a card later in the this post. It comes with the chipboard shamrock frame as a separate file in case you want to use it in another layout. I feel like I've been spreading myself thin with my computer time this week. I've been working on layouts for my best friend and trying to get more spring books done. The process has been slow on both. Here are the layouts I've finished so far...

It's been fun scrapping someone other than Gianni, but it's been harder than I thought it would be. It's been especially hard adding any kind of journaling. I'm going to give the drafts to my friend and have her add any ideas for journaling.

Okay, on to the freebie. Here's the card I made with the template. I used adjust color>Hue/saturation>colorize to color the ribbon. Special thanks goes out to Atomic Cupcake for the chipboard action.




Here's a preview of the template and the shamrock. Click here to download.