$2 Tuesday at STS

Leaving a Legacy Designs is featuring the wintery kit, Just Chill, over at Stuff to Scrap today. Download my freebie cluster I made with the kit and then go buy the kit and add some fun papers and other snowy creatures to keep the penguin company.  You know you need to get those winter photos scrapped sooner rather than later!

download here

Here is a  layout I made using a different version of the frame cluster.....I'd love to see yours!

(I posted this one before in a blog entry, but I wanted to share the frame cluster so you can use it for your snow photos, so I made some changes and created the png file just for you.)

Happy Birthday to Leaving a Legacy Designs!

Leaving a Legacy Designs has been designing for one year and as a thank you to her wonderful customers and fans she wrapping up her celebration month by giving away a new kit! You will be able to collect a part of the kit each day starting tomorrow. Each part will only be available for 24 hours.  

The kit will be available in a different spot each day....so make sure you are subscribe to the blog, a fan of the Leaving a Legacy Designs facebook fan page and subscribed to the newsletter! Check into the blog each day to find out where you will find the days part.

Vernazza Italy

I wanted to do a layout with one of the TD52 kits, since a new month is coming up. I scanned through The Daily Digi blog and found this to scraplift:

 Layout by Kelsey using One Moment by Studio Rosey Posey

I copied it pretty much item by item, then chose a photo and sort of winged it after that.  Here is mine:

This was pretty much a throw-away picture in my photo album from Europe, but with some digi magic, it becomes very interesting and intriguing.  While walking around Vernazza, I point my camera up one of the narrow alleys and caught that lovely door at the top.  I love how digiscrapping can rescue ho-hum pictures!!!

Freebie Border using Mother Knows Best Kit

Made a free border/cluster just for you using Leaving a Legacy Designs' Mother Knows Best Kit, which is on sale over at Stuff to Scrap.  Download my freebie and then go over to Kimberly's store at STS and get the kit (she has a freebie for you there, too!)

click on the image/ad and it will take you to the zip file to download.

enjoy.

Leaving a Legacy Designs amazing creative team has put together a fun blog hop of freebies from their favorite Leaving a Legacy Design Kits.  Head over to each blog to grab the freebies and remember the store is on sale for 30% off until Wednesday!

The next freebie comes from Henriett (Heni scrappel). She used Oh the Places You Won't Go and created a fun paper stacker for you. Next up Jen (Buzzing Creations) has a word art freebie for you using Life's a Beach. Tina used Chalk Talk to create this fun freebie frame cluster. Do you have a future artist that would look great in this frame?   Last but not least is Robin (Robin's Ramblings). Robin used Love Ya To Pieces and the Love Ya to Pieces Add On to create this beautiful quickpage for you. Leaving a Legacy Designs will have a freebie for you starting next week but make sure you are signed up for the newsletter, a fan of her facebook fan page and subscribed to the blog so you don't miss any of the parts!

A Vintage Paper to Share

I scanned this from some of my Mom's old stuff from the 30's.  Just right click and save to your computer.  You can get rid of the black fill by using your magic wand.  Hope you enjoy.

Weinstube

Ahhh....loved those Wine Bars in Europe.

the alpha I used is a perfect all purpose one.  You can grab it here at Hummie's World April Challenges for a few more days.

Speed Scrap

Leaving a Legacy Designs is hosting a speed scrap on Thursday morning at 10am CST! Join us in the speed scrap thread or in the chat room for all the excitement! --

Scrap Mom and a Freebie

Mother Knows Best

$6.00 
Sale: $4.20
Save: 30% off

Problem solver, wiper of tears, mender of broken hearts, hug giver, calmer of fears, maker of the best PB and J's, listener, advice giver, taxi driver, nurse, friend, sister, wife, mom, mum, mommy, mother, grandmother, grandma, nana, hama, lala, nannan, granny...what ever you call her she is amazing, beautiful and special! Leaving a Legacy Designs newest kit Mother Knows Best is the perfect kit for those photographic moments of that special lady in your life. This kit is jammed pack with over 80 elements (66 unique), 14 patterned papers, 5 solid papers, 4 glitter papers and a full alpha. There is a also a word art pack that contains three word arts and over 80 word bits in 2 colors!

My layouts with this kit:

Here is a free Quick Page I made to get you started!

click on image to download QP.

The Tower's Windows Collab is Coming Soon!

Watch this space for the link to the latest Hummie's World Collab, The Tower's Windows.

Here is a Sneak Peek.

Vintage Ballerina Freebie

I inherited a lot of ephemeria from my mother.  She kept albums and scrapbooks and never threw them away and they came down to me.  I have finally gotten around to scanning pages from magazines from the early part of the century and would like to share.  This first freebie is a ballerina that she had cut out from somewhere and glued into her journalism notebook.  Just click on the image for
download.  PU only.  Enjoy.

(If you do make a layout using the ballerina, please leave a link to it in the comments, I love new ideas)

Babies and Sinks

Bathing babies in a sink is fun. And when you have a brand new copper farmhouse sink to bathe her in, even more fun.

Granddaughter Teaghan in her Mommie's brand new sink (in the kitchen renovated by her Mom and Dad)

Europe and My Mom

Disney's Electric Parade

On a trip to Disney with the grandkids, just as we were leaving the park, the Electric Parade started up and what a spectacle it was.  

The French Cooking School Story

While in Europe, I got the chance to go to a 2 day French Cooking School arranged by the Women's Club of the Taunus.  This was one trip that Larry would not let me go to alone, so we called Mr. Hibsham, our school teacher/babysitter and headed for France with a bunch of my friends.  Here are the two pages I made today documenting (finally) the story.  And, yes, that is me with the Chef in the bottom right corner of the first layout.

Religious Sculpture with a Purpose

I wonder how many tourists visiting the beautiful cathedrals all over Europe are aware of just why the entrances are heavily adorned with sculpture.  Something that to us modern day travelers is simply decorative was essential to the worshipers of the day to tell them the stories of the Bible......the everyday man of the time could neither read nor write.

Butterfly Is Free

My sweet friend Lynn teaches first grade and I go in once a week to interact with the class, help with crafts, and read with a sweet little girl.  Today the class let the butterfly that had watched change from a caterpillar fly free.  How much fun has that been?

Stuff to Scrap $2 Tuesday

Great chance to grab some goodies over there from Leaving a Legacy Designs

http://stufftoscrap.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=40&products_id=7224

The Turtle Won the Race!

The story of the Tortoise and the Hare is the basis for the adorable new kit by Leaving a Legacy Designs:  Slow and Steady.  Not only is there a cute rabbit and turtle, but there are sneakers!!!  You can grab it at her store at Stuff to Scrap.

I made a couple of layouts using the kit:

I also made a Quick Page for the Bundle and added a photo of my Jenni and her friend Sarah with a cute alpha title.

Watch for a rabbit and a turtle on Friday

Leaving a Legacy Designs is cooking up something delightful for her new kit release on Friday. Check back here for the link.