Reindeer!!

I finally made a layout using one of my templates. I've been making templates but using others templates lately. LOL! These are pictures from our winter festival pictures the week before last. My daughter got to see real Reindeer for the first time.


Credits:
Template-Christmas Slice Template by me
Kit- CHRISTMAS Swirls and Glitter Kit by my friend Liz at Designs by Little Mrs. Liz

Lots of freebies today!!

Today I feel like offering my other new kit Shiney New Year and a template for everyone to try it out with.

Here is the Template


And the Kit

Get it at these links below
Papers; Elements

Time to Celebrate!

We had a wonderful Christmas holiday with both my husband and my families. Allison got so many new toys she was in Heaven. I have been so busy I haven't had time to get on here and update my blog but I have worked on 2 new kits in time for New Years'. They aren't the best kits, but maybe some of you guys can use them. Today I'll post my least favorite kit of the 2 and I will post the other one tomorrow or Friday so check back because it's much better. LOL!

Celebrate 2008 Kit

Get it at the Links below:
Papers; Elements

Last Day of Goodies...Merry Christmas!!

I am so excited today. First of course is this big freebie kit I am offering and secondly I am taking my daughter to a local area Winter Festival. They are shipping in 10,000 pounds of real snow and will have real reindeer for petting. I can't wait...We haven't had snow here in these parts since 2004 and it wasn't much just flurries. My daughter has never seen snow so it should be a great experience. I'll probably be very busy until after Christmas, but I do hope to maybe get another kit made before the New year for everyone so be sure to check back. Merry Christmas everyone in case I don't get to post another blog before then.

Frosty Winter Fun

Get it at these links below:
Papers_1; Papers_2; Papers_3; Elements

On the third day of Goodies....

Ok here is the last set of the Quick Pages I have made for you guys. This set was made using Template~N~More's Kit2. Enjoy!


Get them at these links:
BB_5;BB_6

Day 2 of Goodies!

As promised here is day 2 of you goodies I have made for you. Be sure to check back tomorrow for the last set of QP's. Then Friday I should have something extra special for you.

Get them at these links
BB_3; BB_4

Thanks to Trish at Templates~n~more for use of her JewelTone Holiday Kit.

GOODIE, GOODIE, GUM DROP...Freebies Are Here!!

Ok here is the first set of 3 sets of Quick Pages I'll be revealing this week. I made these QP's with kits my good friend Trish made(Templates~n~more's). Make sure to visit her blog to download these great kits.


Grab them both at these 2 links below
BB_1; BB_2

Candy Cane Template

I just wanted to say the word BUSY! That is what I have been. I have so many new goodies in the works for everyone I can't wait to finish it all. Today I have a few goodies but first I want to offer this Candy Cane Template I made as a freebie first until I can get the rest of my stuff finished and uploaded. So you'll have to check back later for more goodies I know you'll love.

Candy Cane Template

Get it Here!

Credits:
**The Candy Canes used to create this template was provided by Shawna at Scrapbook STuff for PSP. Visit her blog to get the PSP & PNG versions.
http://scrap-stuff-with-psp.blogspot.com/**

Trish's Template #57

Hi everyone. Hope everyone is having a great Friday. I am so glad the weekend is here. I haven't had time to really do much scrapping today but I wanted to share my newest layout with everyone. I made this layout for my Trish's CT Team Template Treasures. I like how it turned out. It is so nice to finish a layout from a template and see how it turns out. For your viewing pleasure:


Credits:
Template Used: Template#57 from templates~n~more (http://templates-n-more.blogspot.com/)
Kit Used: Whimsical Wonderland
Background paper: ELash (http://sugarsnapscraps.blogspot.com/)
Swirly Ribbon & Tab: Polka Dot Plumb (http://polkadotplum.blogspot.com/)
Ribbons: Templates~n~more (http://templates-n-more.blogspot.com/)Font used: Trebuchet MS

What a week....

Thank goodness it is almost over. Monday started out with a funeral and then taking my daughter to the doctor. So it was really busy. I've just been busy busy. I haven't had much time to make any new freebies because I'm working on something bigger and better in the near future I hope, but I do have one freebie I've been holding back to share so I think this will be the best time to share it since I've been scarce this week.

So here you go.
Stars & Swirls Template Freebie

Get It HERE!!

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend if I do get back to posting any new stuff before the end of the weekend.

Snowman QP

Sorry guys I haven't posted since the weekend. I've had a lot going on around here. My daughter is sick with another cold yet again and I've been feeling blah myself. I have been working on quiet a few projects just never seem to finish anything. I did finish this QP I'm going to offer today for everyone to enjoy.

SNOWMAN QP

Get it HERE

Credits: JewelTone Holiday Kit by Trish @ Templates~n~more

Here is the Layout I made with the QP

Thanks for visiting my blog again. I'll try my best to keep this thing updated this week if I ever finish my projects. LOL!

New Layout

Today I made a new layout using Templates~N~More's Template #58. Trish has a lot of great templates so if you guys haven't downloaded some of her templates you should check it out.



Let me just say this Whimsical Wonderland Collab kit is really great. There is so much there to work with. Alot of the papers and elements would also work out for layouts other than Christmas too.
Credits:
Template Used: Template#58 from templates~n~more (http://templates-n-more.blogspot.com/)
Kit Used: Whimsical Wonderland
Background paper: ELash_freecollab_02 (http://sugarsnapscraps.blogspot.com/)
Tree Trunk paper: ELash_freecollab_07 (http://sugarsnapscraps.blogspot.com/)
Tree Paper: ELash_freecollab_05(http://sugarsnapscraps.blogspot.com/)
Bow: IdziBitsy_WWCollabKit_bow (http://idzibitsy.blogspot.com/)
Gift Stickers: Kristi (http://webdesignzbykristi.blogspot.com/)
Font used: Freebooter Script

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. I will try and work on some new templates this weekend for next week.

Exciting News!

First, I'd like to say I'm sorry I didn't post anything yesterday I was soo busy taking my daughter to see Santa and I just didn't feel like getting online after a busy day at the mall with her.

I'm so excited though for a few things. One Digifree has reconized my templates and listed them on their blog. Thanks so much Maria. Secondly, I have began making working with Templates~n~more's CT this week. I am excited because this is bringing me one step closer to really getting into this wonderful world of the digi-scrappin' business. Thanks so much to my good friend Trish who runs Templates~n~more for allowing me to be a part of her great team.

I have a great freebie template for you guys today. I hope you enjoy it. I am calling it Stamp My Life, I'm horrible at naming these things...LOL!

STAMP MY LIFE TEMPLATE

Get It HERE

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Pic from my day yesterday. My daugther loved Santa! :)

Hump Day...Slump Day...

Today is another morning curled up on the couch watching Christmas movies with my daughter. It's been nice. Yesterday I forgot it was the start of Hanukkah so I forgot to offer the template I made for all of you who celebrate this wonderful holiday. So I will offer it today. I hope some of you will like and use it.

Hanukkah Template

Get it Here
*I appologize for the spelling error in the tag on this template. I wasn't sure how to spell Hanukkah.*

Then I have another great template for the rest of you to use if you can't use the Hanukkah Template.

Vintage Flowers Template

Get It Here

I've got some other things in the works as well and hope to have some new stuff up later this week or next week. I'm very excitied to what is coming up in the near future for me and my love of digital scrapbooking. You'll have to check back often to see what's coming up.

It's Cold out brrrrr!!!

It got down to freezing here in Houston last night and it's cold out still....BRRRRRRR!!! We don't get much of this cold weather so it's something we're just not used to. I am just planning on staying warm and cozy inside today. Allison and I have been snuggling up on the couch under a blanket this morning sipping our hot cocoa and watching Christmas cartoons I DVR'ed last night. She's really starting to get the idea of what Christmas is I think. It's really cute seeing her so excited.

Today I am offering a template to help us think about the warmth of Spring time.

Butterflies & Bows Template

Get it HERE!

Busy Weekend

Well the weekend turned out to be busier than I expected. Saturday we met my husband's cousin, he's a truck driver and was in town Saturday, and took him to lunch and then visited with Keith's parents. We got home a little late after finishing up the day grocery shopping. Yesterday we were a little more lazy, I wasn't feeling so well. We went last night to get our family Christmas Portraits done. That's really a task with a squirmy 2 yr old that only wants to play with the legos on the lego table in their waiting room. LOL! We got a few good shots though so it wasn't a complete disaster. I'll share a few of them with you guys.

I also have a few new freebie Templates ready for this week so I'll try to keep up with my blogs and get them posted. Today I have a Snowman Template. I want to see a finished layout with this template to see how well it works. I haven't made anything with it yet. So if you use it please send me a copy of it to my email scrapdesigns@embarqmail.com

SNOWMAN TEMPLATE

Get it HERE

Everyone have a great Monday!!

Hooray for Friday!

Today my husband finally got home after being gone for a whole week hunting in Pennsylvania. He didn't get a deer unfortunately, but he said he had a good time. I am just thankful he made it home safe and sound. I have been busy today getting ready for his return, trying to get all the laundry washed before he came in with a pile more. You know our husband's are so bad at bringing home piles of laundry after a long trip...LOL! My daugther got so excited when he got home before her nap time that she wouldn't take a nap so now I'm stuck with a whiney 2 yr old for the rest of the of the evening. I'm just ready for life to get back to normal. I did finally upload my newest template and I'm proud to offer it here as a freebie for all my great blog readers. This is probably the last freebie for the weekend. I've got to work on some new designs I haven't had much time.

I call this template the Circle & Stars template and give credit to Carolyn of Scrap N Tag for her star overlay I used in this template. Thanks so much Carolyn.


Get it here

Here is the layout I made using this template and using the great kit Created by petit moineaux Conte de Fee


Please remember to leave comments I love to read the ones I get. Have a great weekend everyone.

Shopping day

Finally I got out today to do some Christmas shopping. My husband is going to be so upset with me when he gets home from his hunting trip because I've spent all the money while he was gone...LOL! My mom, Allison and I went to Sam's Club and Toys R Us today. Allison scored a chalk/dry erase easel and a Disney Princess Enchanted Tales table and chair set for Christmas. I have a little more to get for her, but she's almost done as far as gifts go from us. I also got a few things I needed for other people, so all in all it was a successful shopping trip day. I'm pooped out though from it all.

I have another template for this week I need to upload, I will try to get it up later tonight or tomorrow for you guys. Thanks to Candy Cook for using my Snowflake template and featuring it on her blog. It looks wonderful.

I am so excited that this blog has gotten off to a great success. I'm hoping I can keep up and get you all more great freebies out there soon.

Busy Day

Today has been really busy. I went with my dad to pick up the playhouse for Allison today. We got home put it together and cleaned it up and she loved it. One early Christmas present for her. I then had to go to my dentist appointment for my post op appointment. Finally I'm back home and able to post here. I have a template freebie again for you today that has been in my 4shared file for some time. I see some have already found and downloaded it. I hope everyone likes it I wasn't as pleased with this one, but since I haven't had much time today this is today's freebie.

Get It HERE

I Love Craigslist!!!

Hi everyone. Hope you are all having a wonderful Tuesday. It's a beautifully sunny day here in my neck of the woods, but I'm still feeling like poo so I haven't even gotten dressed today. :(

I've been spending my hours surfing the net trying to finish my Christmas shopping. Spending my hubby's money while he's off hunting in PA this week...hahaha!! Today I scored a great buy on a playhouse for my daughter and the best part of it was I didn't have to spend a dime on it because my grandma sent her money and my dad is paying the rest for Christmas. We are going to pick it up tomorrow sometime. I just love Craigslist. LOL!


Since I got such a great deal today I thought I'd share this great Christmas freebie template I created the other night with you guys. I haven't made a layout using it yet, but I can't wait to see what some of you come up with.

Christmas Slice Template

Get it Here

Please remember to leave comments I love hearing from everyone who like my designs.

Monday Freebies!!

Monday is here, back to the work week for alot of people. I'm just sitting at home still medicated from my wisdom tooth surgery Friday. Last night I worked on a lot of great goodies for all of you this week. I will try to offer one or two freebies each day this week for you guys to enjoy. Today I have two freebie templates I hope you can use in your holiday projects. Lets just say I felt snowy last night even though we don't get snow here in south Texas often I still love to use snow flakes in my winter designs. So enjoy.

Here is my first freebie today, a 4x6 Greeting Card style template. Get it here.



Secondly I have a 12x12 Snowflake Template for you to enjoy. Get it here.


Please remeber to leave comments. I love reading all the comments I get everyday.

Soggy Sunday

Yeah it's still been raining here today in the Houston area. I haven't felt like even getting dressed today so I didn't. LOL! I'm sorry I don't have a freebie for you guys today maybe I'll get busy one night this week and get some things put together for everyone to enjoy.

I finally ordered my scrapbooks I completed awhile back. I have a 8x8 ABC book I did for my daughter and I ordered 3 of those through Shutterfly, 2 for gifts and one for me. I also ordered my first 12x12 book of Allison's 2nd year pages. I can't wait to see them. Right now Shutterfly has a free shipping offer on purchases $50 or more. I think it ends on the 28th, so hurry if you got those books needing printed for the holidays.

Thanks to everyone for downloading my templates and putting them to use. I'd love to see your layouts if you would please send me an email with your layouts to scrapdesigns@embarqmail.com.

New Template

Here is the template I created last night while making a Thanksgiving layout for Allison's 3rd year book I'm working on as the year goes by. I hope you like it and can use it. I only made this

in PSD format only.

Get it HERE

Here is a sample of the page I did using this template. I used Raspberry Road Design's kit Give Thanks. You can pick up this kit at Raspberry Road Designs.

Rainy, Lazy Saturday

Today has been really rainy. I'm just being so lazy today because of the dreary day. Last night I downloaded a bunch of new kits and designer resources from some of my favorite blogs. I thought I'd share a few of my find with you guys in case you want to pick them up for yourselves. I did make a new template and page last night, but at the moment I don't have my external hard drive hooked up so that I can share it with you. I'll try to get it uploaded today or tomorrow so please check back.

Here are a few of the goodies I picked up off some blog sites:

Visit Petit Moineaux's blog and pick these two great kits up for free!!

Get them here

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Visit Stone Accents' Blog and pick up this great freebie Kit

Get it here

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Look at this great Template I found from Lindsay Jane Designs

Get it here on her blog

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Look at all these great kits I got from Raspberry Road Designs' Blog. Susan has some great kits and has just opened her new store check it out.

I hope everyone has a great Saturday!

Surgery Went Well

Well I've got 3 less teeth in my mouth now. The surgery went well, I'm just hurting like heck tonight since the numbness wore off. The Vicodin's are only working like 3 hours instead of the 4 they say I have to wait between taking them. UGH!

I thought since today was Black Friday and I didn't get to join in the shopping craziness this morning I'd offer another free template I made the other day. I haven't made a page with it yet so I'd love to see what you guys come up with. This file is also in both PSP & PSD format to help some of you out who scrap using PSP.

Get the Shape Template HERE

Happy Thanksgiving!!

I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. I will hopefully have some new stuff up for grabs in the next week. We are staying home today since Allison is sick, I've got a ham in the oven and will make some Stove Top Stuffing and Greenbean casserole along with a apple pie I picked up. Just my husband, my mom and her husband and Allison this Thanksgiving. It is nice though. Tomorrow I have oral surgery early in the morning to take out the remaining 3 wisdom teeth I have so I'm not going to be around posting for probably a couple days here.

Again have a nice Thanksgiving and enjoy Black Friday shopping sales.

Update on my Daughter & My awesome friend Trish

Back from the doctor's office today. With this update:

She was fine all morning running about a 100 degree temp. We took her to the doctor and he checked her out said her throat was a little red so ordered the strep test and wanted her temp checked since the nurse didn't do it at first. The nurse comes in to do the strep, Allison got so upset and started screaming and wouldn't stop. Well she started feeling really really hot and after that the nurse came in to take her temp. She did the first ear 105 then she did it again and it was 104 something in the other ear. She went out to tell the doctor and came back in and told us to strip her clothes off and they'd be in with Tylenol and Motrin to give her. They gave her both doses and the doctor came back in to talk with us. Allison is still screaming so bad I could barely hear him. I think he said the strep test was negative (didn't give us antibotics so I am pretty sure it was neg) so he order a CDC blood test to check for a baterial virus. They came back in to do that and it was so bad. We had to physical hold her down crying and screaming for them to draw blood out of her arm. Keith had to hold her arm they were drawing blood from and I thought he was gonna loose it. The blood tests should be back this afternoon and if I don't hear from the doc by 4 he said to call the office. So no Thanksgiving for us tomorrow at all. I just want my baby well.

MY AWESOME SCRAPPING FRIEND

She's the person who got me hooked on this blog site. I wanted to mention her to everyone and let you know she's out there in the scrapping world and doing an awesome job. You can snag her many templates like this one she posted today

Check out Trish's blog here

Too early Wednesday

I'm having a really bad morning today. My daughter woke up at 3 a.m. after I really never fell asleep so I'm running on no sleep today. Fun! Fun! She is running a low grade fever again for the second day in a row so I guess I'm calling the doctor today to see if I can get her in, she's never sick so of course I'm worried when she gets a little fever.

Anyway, today I have a 12x12 scrapbook template for everyone to enjoy. This is only in PSD format.

http://www.4shared.com/file/29869912/6098937e/Fall_Leaves_12x12_Template_1.html?dirPwdVerified=107da684

Here is a preview of the page I made using this template. I used Designs by Krista's kit Autumn Beauty

You know friends are great

I have had the pleasure of going on a couple trips this year to meet some internet buddies of mine. In May I visited my grandma in southern Missouri and while there I met a friend of mine from Kansas City half way in Springfield. We had a great time and took our kids to the zoo there and all. Then just about a month ago I had the pleasure of traveling to New York to meet friends from Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and Canada. We all met up in Niagra Falls and went over into Canada to tour the falls one day for a few hours. The rest of the weekend was spent on shopping and a road trip from Pittsburgh to Niagra Falls and back. It was nice to have a weekend away with no kids for all us ladies. Anyway I got some really great pics and made it into this page to remind myself how great of friends I have.

For this page I used a Design by Krista kit Thankful from her blog linked in my favorites here. I also used a Templates-n-More Template #39 from my great friend Trish. You can get this template or one of her many other templates here. Thanks Ladies for your wonderful designs.

I will try and post a few more of my latest pages in the next few days along with another freebie template. So be checking back soon. Thanks!

Introducing ME!!!

Well since I'm new to this whole Blog thing I thought I should start off by really introducing myself. I'm Shanna, 27. I am a SAHM to my 2yr. old daughter, Allison, and married to a really wonderful man, Keith. We live in a small town just north of Houston, TX. I enjoy spending time online on message boards and such. A year and half ago I started my own parenting message board which I spend a lot of time working on. Other than that graphics is really my passion. Way back in 1998 I was introduced to Paint Shop Pro and started making avatars for friends on a chat client. I really loved it then so I decided to take Desktop Publishing in college for a semester but didn't have the drive to learn it then so I dropped out. After years of not doing much with enhancing my skills I picked it back up again and bought Paint Shop Pro 8 and starting working more with avatars for a message board I was on at the time. After Allison was born I really got into the graphics and started making siggys. About a year ago I was introduced to Digital Scrapbooking and was hooked. I never thought I would ever make a scrapbook because I thought only paper was done, but found this is a huge hobby for many people. So here I am a year later, now using Photoshop and scrapping away. I have printed 3 books so far for my daughter and I plan on making many more in the future. I am trying to learn more of the design aspect of it all as well and start making my own kits a templates.

That all being said I have made a freebie template for my visitors to use. This is a Christmas card template and comes in 5x7 & 4x6 size. Sorry I only have it saved as a PSD file format because I'm really new at this sharing freebie stuff and hope to learn how to save in other formats in the future. ENJOY!

http://www.4shared.com/file/29869878/d7d5b7d1/Christmas_Card_Template_1.html?dirPwdVerified=107da684

*credit the ribbon used in this template was designed by Retro Diva in her Tis The Season kit*

Here is a preview of a sample I made using this template.

Thanks to Retro Diva for her Tis the Season kit I used to make this example.