It's Friday again!!!!

Yes it is and Sas has yet another wonderful kit out!! Where does she get all these ideas and how does she put out a brand new kit every week?? It's amazing I tell ya! My imagination does not work in those ways. LOL

Well, this week Sas has a brand new kit perfect for all those Garden photos, tea party photos. recitals. out door garden partys, etc etc etc.........

Garden Party is full of very feminine papers and elements that work so well with all those types of photos. Since I have no feminine photo's that are good enough for a layout I again used a photo of my son and while the layout is a little girlie this time I think it still works.

I just love the colors and the papers in this kit. They are fun and relaxing all at the same time.

Now don't abandon me yet, because I have again created a very special Quick Page for you to make your very own layout as well.

So run don't walk to Sas's store to grab your Garden Party kit and then click on the link below to grab the awesome QP I created for you. HERE.

Sharing a great tutorial by Sahlin Studios

I don't know about you but I have always loved the look of clear acrylic elements on a layout, but unfortunately I very seldom ever attempt to use them myself. Why you may ask? Well because I quite simply cannot ever seem to shadow the elements in a way that creates a pleasant outcome to the element. What I mean is that the shadowing always makes the element to dark and well it takes away from the clear crispness of the acrylic and replaces it with an ugly dark shadow.
How fortunate was I too find in my inbox today in Sahlin Studio's newsletter but a wonderful tutorial for solving this annoying problem?!? Let me tell you I was so excited I almost chocked on my hamburger, I swear! How bad is that when I get so excited about shadowing that I almost kill myself? Well, frankly my dear this is a big deal to me! I can now use clear acrylic elements with ease and I am sure you will soon find a stupendous layout featuring something clear and acrylic. LOL
I was so excited about it I immediately decided I had to share it with you!!!! So below you will find the link to this awesome tutorial compliments of Sahlin Studio's and her creative solution!

CLEAR ACRYLIC SHADOWING TUTORIAL

Enjoy please, you know I am going too after all!!!

It's Friday!!! Yeah!!!!!!!!

It's Friday and that means one important thing! Sas Designs newest kit release and this weeks kit "Everyday I Love" is adorable. At first I thought how am I going to use this pastel kit since I have boys. Then I got to working with it and realized how easy it was to make it work for my sons beach photo. I decided to use the kit to really display all the papers in the kit which are simply adorable. I layered the papers across the background page and then fitted them to some Muggles Pockets from Dawn Inskip at SBG. I then filled the pockets with differing elements from the "Everyday I Love" kit from Sas designs. Let me tell you I used a lot of the elements to fill all those pockets. LOL Below is my layout completed with a ton of layers and alot of the elements in the kit.

Isn't it great and doesn't it work well with my sons beach photo. I think the colors are perfect for a wonderful beachy layout. I also made a QP to share with you all just incase you want to have your very own!!!

You can grab your free QP HERE and you can grab the awesome kit by Sas Designs HERE. I really hope you enjoy the freebie and I know you will love the kit its made from. See you all next Friday!!!

Summer Time means fun right???

I have been on pins and needles waiting to show you my latest layouts using Sas Designs newest kit: Summer Days. This kit was perfect for me because we just came back from the beach and all the items in the kit and so very beachy!!! I just love how my finished product came out, really I do!

You can grab it HERE. Right now!!!

This is what I was able to do with this spectacular kit!!!!
The layouts are both the same except in the first ones I just used my original photos with doing anything fancy with them. In he bottom page I tried using a saturation filter on them and now I don't know which one I like the best!!! Help me please!! Which one is your favorite?

How fun is that kit huh???

I love that BG paper with all the colorful squiggly lines its so bright and cheerful!!

Now I had to change my upload server because 4Shared simply would not let me upload my file and I have no idea why. I do have a freebie QP for you though that I made from this exact layout, so I hope you like it.

You should have fun adding your own photo's to the layout I created above using Sas Designs wonderful kit!! You can now grab this and other freebies HERE at Deposit Files or HERE at Dropbox.

Let me know what you think about it or if you have problems or anything its my first time using them so I don't know what the service will be like but I worked for a week trying to get 4Shared to take my file and it simply would not. Hopefully this one works better it certainly uploaded much faster.

if you have suggestions for sites you like to download files from I am open as long as it is not one that uses Captcha. ( I hate them and my eyes are just to bad to read those things.)

I hope you all have a great day!!!

Hugs

A creative slump....

So sometimes I find that being on a CT really jump starts your creativity. When I know I have to create something I find myself looking around for inspiration where I might not look for it otherwise. I look at other peoples work and I see layouts in common advertising and and even quotes. I have been taking some classes at Jessica Sprague and she gave us a free template to use that featured some hexagonal images that i just loved. I decided to give it a go myself using some hexagonal shapes. Its my first go at it but I like my start. I am going to keep trying this and see what i can do with it later as well.

I used Sas designs newest kit Cute Fruit to create the layout full of hexagons about our recent trip to the Avila Valley Barn.

I think I can do better. It came out a little busy to me so I need to work on this and figure out what the best shape it for the hexagons and how to place them so they d not overpower the layout. It is a start though that it is. You can grab Sas designs kit here: http://bits2kits.com/shop/cute-fruit-p-4983.html?zenid=65532ada732e6a64fc413fc8eda5c82a at here store.

Next I used Sas's kit to create a layout about myself or maybe I should say a layout to remind myself who I am. I think we all forget who we are at times. I found this great quote and saw a similar design on Pinterest the other day. I added my own flair and my own quote and I had limited photos to choose from because I am never in my pictures. LOL

Yep that is me at 3 years old. LOL I used a lot of brushes on this layout that i had hidden away on my hard drive. The lace you see behind the photo is actually a brush. Yes I swear it is, I colored it and gave it a slight shadow to make it pop. I also used a template by Angie Briggs at ScrapGirls to create the torn look to the photo's. It worked great as you can see!!!

I cannot wait until the next new release at Sas Designs because I have already seen her new kit coming out on the 29th. Lets just say it will work great with all my most recent photos and I cannot wait to create some layouts with it. Unfortunately I have to take a break and head out to the movies with my DH and DS to see Madagascar 3 in 3D. So I will see you all on the flip side!!!
Adios!!

2 new layouts!!

I have to admit i just love the newest kit by Sas designs because I simply love to read and I absolutely adore my Nook on top of it! So when I saw this kit I knew I had to create a layout of my Nook.

Well then of course I had to use it to create a layout that was not about reading just to show what it is capable of becoming.

I also created a QP out of the bottom layout. So if you want it you can grab it HERE.

Thanks for looking

Princess Jayden

Completed another layout this week of my gorgeous Niece Jayden playing dress up. She loves to dress up like a Disney Princess and she always looks so adorable doing it.