Beautiful Things Mini Part 2 - freebie

I have included more things than are shown in the preview! extra ribbons, paper etc!

download this mini kit here

May Photo Op Stop Challenge

for Jazzy's photo op stop at DSO.

I extracted his photo, used a hue/saturation layer on the background and his photo, lowered the opacity on the quote to match.

May Font and Scraplift Challenges at DSO

For the May font and scraplift challenges at DSO. led by the awesome andrea and loucee (respectively). Gorgeous Posting bonuses!

Yugly font
urban scrawl brushes by Invisible Snow (they are super cute!)
paper by les brumes (who has wonderful textures on flickr)
scraplift of spring thy name is colour by chaos lounge

the font was kind of 'grungy' so I thought the brushes fit perfectly. my photo is old so it had that grungy feel too, along with the paper. I used part of the paper as an overlay (hard light) on the background photo.

Beautiful Things Wordart Mini Freebie!

Please click to enlarge as blogger distorts images.

For the May color challenge at DSO led by kimb.

I have been playing with making patterns and wordart I wanted to get something out there in the beginning of the month for others to use.. I hope you enjoy this ~ sparkles are always fun! keep an eye out for additional parts!

I made this page from my mini kit.

download here

Beautiful Things and Bee My Honey - challenges at DSO and a freebie!

Click to enlarge my Beautiful Things Quickpage (blogger distorts images)!

I made this page for the May Quote Challenge at DSO, led by andrea dickinson! She is DSO's designer of the month for May - but we get the prize!! andrea has given us a gorgeous freebie kit called Bee My Honey! This is a preview of the quickpages I made from it for the May Great Exchange (led by Shannon):


Be sure to click the image to see it better!

Since you made it this far, you can have my Beautiful Things page for free!

download here

Morning Glory Freebie - part 3 (and 4 hehe)

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I hope you enjoy the next part of my Morning Glory kit! 7 elements, 4 ribbons, 2 borders, 3 papers, 1 edge, 3 uppercase alphas and 2 wordart (not all shown in preview)! I made it for DSO's April Color Challenge, led by kimb. It is kimb's 2 year anniversary so be sure to visit her blog for some goodies!

Be sure to add my blog to your blogroll so you can be notified when I update with new freebies.

download part 3 (alphas and wordart) here

download part 4 (elements and flannels) here

Morning Glory Freebie part 2!

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I hope you enjoy the next part of my Morning Glory kit! 2 cluster frames, 1 doodle frame, 1 quilt frame and 5 papers! I made it for DSO's April Color Challenge, led by kimb. It is kimb's 2 year anniversary so be sure to visit her blog for some goodies!

Be sure to add my blog to your blogroll so you can be notified when I update with new freebies. This kit is getting pretty big and I want you to be able to grab it all!

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Morning Glory Freebie Part 1 - desktop, quickpage and paper!

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I hope you enjoy the first part of my Morning Glory kit! I made it for DSO's April Color Challenge, led by kimb. It is kimb's 2 year anniversary so be sure to visit her blog for some goodies!

Be sure to add my blog to your blogroll so you can be notified when I update with new freebies. This kit is getting pretty big and I want you to be able to grab it all!

PS: After you drop your photos behind the May desktop (png), make sure you flatten/save as jpg file. Otherwise your desktop icons will look a bit funny! (my photos are not included hehe)

download here

Please visit this post for an additional quickpage from this kit.

forgot to add thanks to irisb477 in my TOU :)

Scraplift Challenge and a freebie!

for April 2009 Scraplift challenge at DSO, using Livia's fantastic page titled : Chelly as inspiration. Challenge is being led by Beth Long. Be sure to click the image for a better view.

The ideas that inspired me : picture frame to the side with a border, the flowers, having a Word art tag and the "grungy" (yet sweet) feeling to the background paper.

all elements and paper Made by Renee from my kit entitled "Morning Glory"(soon to be part of the April 2009 Color Challenge - so watch for it!). Thanks to scrappin cop and delicious scraps for their CU items, obsidian dawn for the brush on my wordart tag.

Since you were so nice to stop by my blog, I'm going to give you this layout as a QP. Enjoy!

download here

April Quote Challenge and my slide converter

Yep, that's me in that picture.

This is my page for the April 2009 Quote Challenge at DSO led by Andrea Dickinson. Be sure to click the image for a better view... and let me know what you think!

all papers, elements, cluster frame and edge made by me for my new kit Morning Glory.

CU items: thanks to delicious scraps, Tbugz, gunhild and polarfuchs. You can find their links in my sidebar.

This photo was a slide that I converted to a digital picture. The quality isn't that great, but I really love my converter because I can be assured I will have the pictures for a long time to come. It also converts negatives, which is pretty nice too. The only downfall to the converter is if your slide is too bright. I had one like that and it didn't come out at all.

Now that I have converted them to digi, I may feel safe enough to send my slides off to be developed into true photographs. I think that would be a nice pressie for my mom :)

The Great Exchange April 2009

These are my 2 submissions to DSO's Great Exchange, led by Shannon! Here's how the challenge works:

Join us each month as we create items to share! Create one item to share and receive ALL that month's creations in return. For this month's Great Exchange, we're featuring Flitter Flutter and To The Moon by our April Designer of the Month - Melanie Ann. We'll continue with the QuickPage theme; this time we'll be creating 8.5x11 or 12x12 QPs. So come on, show me what you've got - post a preview (low-resolution marked with preview) in the Gallery and leave us a link in this forum. Send the full-resolution file in either PNG or JPEG format (a zip file is fine) to [Shannon] - and in return, you'll get ALL of the QPs submitted this month. How great is that!?!?

You can check out Melanie Ann's kit "Flitter Flutter" here and her shop here.

Book of Me Challenge

This was done for the March Book of Me Challenge at DSO... it is led by Livia who has a GORGEOUS posting bonus (do 3 of her challenges and you have a really wonderful kit named I heart sunflowers!). You had to scrap 5 of your favorite things (right now).

Of the scenic photos Ive taken, these are my 5 favorite (right now). I'm definitely no photographer, but these pictures evoke certain feelings when I look at them.

Thanks to Mrs Wresh for the template and pimpyourscrapbook for the "wooden" background paper.

Lyric Challenge

I made this layout for the Lyric Challenge at DSO led by Livia. She has 3 challenges this month and if you do all 3 you get to collect a whole kit! The kit is super cute too.. it's sunflowers!

The layout is kind of plain, but I texturized the paper and extracted the picture. It came out how I wanted it to.

March Color Challenge Freebie

The March color challenge at DSO (led by kimb) is up and FLYING! Here's my contribution: 4shared or Box.net




I also made this bonus mini kit just for you visiting my blog :) 4shared or Box.net


thanks for stopping by and as always, please send your friends to my blog to download and do not send direct links!

Template Challenge..and a Sneek Peek!

I guess I am challenge crazy! This one was done for the DSO template challenge, led by Bunny this month. She has a really pretty posting bonus available!

fonts: cheri and angelina

template by bunny cates

papers, stitches and elements from the kit I am making for the march color challenge (I have added the rose colors.. you didn't get to see those on the sneak-a-peek.. but look how cute that cherry blossom tree is!)

Photo Op Challenge.. and 2 Freebies!

I did this one a few weeks ago, but thought I would enter it into the March Photo Op Stop Challenge at DSO. It is being led by Jazz who always has fabulous wordart posting bonuses!

and just for stopping by - I am giving away the Vintage Paper and Cluster as Freebies! The paper doesn't have Sparky on it, it is just the antique white with lace behind it. The cluster inclues the postcard, kids card, string and lace! They are both very cute - make sure to click the preview to see them closer. Special thanks to Gunhild for her CU items!

download from 4shared

Quote Challenge

This is for the March Quote Challenge at DSO, led by andrea dickinson.

You may not be able to see it, but everytime I look at this picture I know my sister is laughing hysterically.

her and that dog!

ribbon - lovely sample - bad candy
robinsegg paper - blossom love sampler - by chrissy snow
striped paper- blue paisley - by mommyscraps
heart frame - Dear Mother - by Helen Monteiro
Smile - Edwardian Script
quote and backdrop - Tempus Sans ITC

I really love that DSO gives kits as posting bonuses (they are really pretty!) and don't do the whole point system. I can't always do 20 layouts in a month just to get a buck off of some store item. I actually don't do challenges that give coupons as rewards.. maybe I'm missing out on something, but I prefer it this way.

March Scraplift Challenge!

New Challenges at DSO! This is for the March Scraplift Challenge led by Beth ! She has a beautiful posting bonus up (hint hint: it has butterflies!!)

I really love these photos I took while driving. I changed them to "newspaper" black and white and then duplicated the layer. I changed the duplicate layer to Overlay, then sepia tone and finally turned the opacity down to 50%. I think it makes the BandW a little richer. There are some really nice actions out there for beautifying BandW but I forgot to load them into my PSE7.

papers, lace and bronze heart by Gunhild (CU items) and the buttons are from the scrappin cop (CU items). font used is Payrus.

Keep checking back for a new freebie sometime within the next week! It's for the Colour Challenge at DSO - and those are always fun! I'll give you 2 hints about my freebie:1) it has quilled flowers and 2) here's..

domesticG

Click to view entire layout!

I did this double page layout for the February Template Challenge at DSO hosted by teriann hanks.

The kit I used is from Andrea Dickinson and the alpha from Sir Scrapalot Designs

This is kind of out of the box for me.. thought I'd try something new with a grungy look to show off my new washer and dryer! and that's not me BTW haha that's Mrs June Cleaver herself - the original domestic goddess!

See my post on Made by Renee about Joaquin Phoenix and the Dosmestic Goddess!

Freebie Quickpage!

I thought I'd make a QuickPage to go with the Feb DSO Colour Challenge (click picture to enlarge). Of course, my little kit is still available for download (see this post).

download the QP from it's new home on box.net and enjoy! (4shared link)