April Sketch Challenge - VDBC

April sees a new Sketch Challenge at Visual Designs by Chris. Ileana has created a great Sketch that can be used a a scrapbook layout or a card. All the cutter files are provided as well as the PSD format for those of us who like digitally scrapping.

Here is my layout using this Sketch file. I have also used another of Ileana's files IR00474_Graph Journalers as well as Lori's file BK00434_What A Blast. The papers are from Verena Designs_Magnifico . I have added styles and textures to the cutter files to add dimension.

Steve has recently joined Cub Scouts. He is having a blast! The first couple of weeks he made a volcano and as we had just finished a school reader all about Volcanos, the timing couldnt have been better. He thoroughly enjoyed himself. One of the advantages of now living in town is that we can now take advantage of things like Cubs.

Thanks for looking!

Have a wonderful day wherever you are and HAPPY EASTER!

Terrific Tuesday Sketch at VDBC

Chris has a Sketch available in the VDBC Forum accessed by her Blog . I immediately thought of this design making a great Christmas card. I know.... either waaaay too early or waaaay too late LOL

This card has been created digitally with PSCS5 and I have added styles and textures to the cutter files to add dimension.

I used a kit called Sparkleshine by Kathy Winters Designs. Just right for my card!

Thanks for looking,

Have a wonderful day wherever you are!

February Sketch Challenge at VDBC

Finally getting back into digital scrapbooking and my commitment to Chris as a member of her CT. Ileana provided this template for the February Sketch Challenge and I have used one of Chris's file from the last QMC .

Lachlan "pretend" sleeping. He is so funny!

Layout created digitally in PSCS5 and styles and textures have been added to the cutter files to add dimension.

Thanks for looking,
Cheers, caz

So Sorry MIA

Yes, I have been absent for a while and will be for a bit longer so just wanted to let my faithful Followers know not to give up on me totally yet LOL

We have had to move again! Landlord/Farmer came and told us a few weeks ago that he was putting his property on the market next yr and we had to move out. Lots of bad feeling there which I will go into later but suffice to say, we found somewhere in town (which I am just about coping with), we are  lot broker and now have a loan to repay to my eldest (God bless her and her hubby for making this possible), and are trying fit a lot of stuff into a very small house.

I will be back but probably not til the end of January as I am going to Tasmania with my family after this move for a well deserved holiday!! Hang in there with me please and I promise Freebies for your patience. In the meantime, make sure you have checked the site for freebies which I haven't removed the links for yet.

Look after yourselves and have a wonderful Christmas and New Year.

Halloween Freebies!

So are you all geared up for Halloween ? Here in Australia it certainly is becoming a more widely spread celebrated holiday, but hasn't reached us here in the middle of nowhere yet.... probably 'cos no one is willing to traverse our exceptionally long driveway LOL

I made this Kit, Flairs and Alpha some time ago but haven't offered on my Blog as a freebie for a while so thought some of my new Followers may like it. All freebies are for Personal Use Only!

 A perfect kit for scrapping Halloween pages! Now is the time to catch up on last years layouts, or... get in early for this year and create the layouts and add the photos later on!  LOL  This kit is full of gorgeous elements including a Haunted House and 2 Friendly Ghosts!

Kit contains:

6 papers - textured
2 badges
2 brads
3 charms
2 flowers
3 pagewraps
2 tags  and
heaps of spooky elements to add to your Halloween pages!  Witches and Bats and Cats... Oh My!

All files are created at 300 dpi and papers are sized for 12x12 layouts. Shadows have been added and items resized for previews only.

Links to download Kit:

4Shared:

Part One
Part Two
Part Three


Box:


Part One
Part Two
Part Three

Alpha:

An OOEY GOOEY Slimey Alpha for your Halloween layouts. This Alpha has a style applied to it that makes it Slimey and Glow-In-The-Dark. Perfect for Halloween layouts, but also for any other "ooey gooey" layouts that you create!

Alpha sized at approx 2 inches tall, but maybe resized to suit your needs.

Kit contains

26 letters, all individual PNG's
Numbers 0 - 9, all individual PNG's
Exclamation Mark
Question Mark

Link to download Alpha:

4Shared:

ALPHA

Box:

ALPHA

Flairs:

Halloween Flairs.... 20 fabulous, gorgeous Halloween Flairs just waiting to be added to your Halloween layouts as the finishing touch! Wonderfully cute costumed kids, ghosts, bats and spooky words abound these glossy buttons. They are sized at a useful 2 inches, but can easily be resized to fit in with your needs!

Kit includes

20 Buttons in PNG format.

Drop shadows on preview only
BONUS: Background paper included. Check out my "Frightfully Good Alpha" for the letters used in my Title.

Link to download Flairs:

4Shared:

FLAIRS

Box:

FLAIRS

Please come back and leave a comment if you download, it only takes a minute of your time and makes me feel good!

Have a wonderful day wherever you are!

a new Freebie!!

Yes, I know, it has been ages since I offered a new freebie, but ..... finally here it is. Not sure why it has taken me so long to get one organised but time just seems to slip away really quickly of late and here we are at the beginning of October already.

Last post saw me ranting about the Loan that was taking forever to be approved. Well, we went ahead and purchased a car weeks before it finally came through (a 2001 Ford Falcon Wagon has joined the family), so then, when we were finally approved, we had to think of something else we needed... or, as it turned out, wanted!

We are now the happy owners of an iPad, which is really cool, and a 5000gal rainwater tank which is also really cool (lol) and very necessary.

I have just spent the weekend with my gorgeous grandson, Lachlan, who is as cheeky as ever and driving his parents nuts. Revenge is sweet lol

but.... this meant I could also spend some time catching up on my challenges for the month. I only tackled three and they took me a while to get through.

Firstly the Card Challenge at Paperthreads. I used Shelly's CardBase as provided and created this card digitally in PSCS6 using her SS00178 - Wedding Bliss kit as well. Appropriate as my eldest daughter and  SIL just celebrated their 7th Wedding Anniversary. Come check out the Challenge for October...

 Next I took part in the Card/Layout Challenge at Visual Designs By Chris. Ileana had supplied a template that could be used for a card or a layout, I chose a card. I also used Chris's CD00423- Trees. These are personal cutter files but I used them digitally in PSCS6 and applied styles and textures to add dimension to the various elements of my card. Another Challenge for October ...

The next layout was created using a mini kit I designed for the Colour Challenge at SkrapHappens. Tina has the most gorgeous baby girl, a photo of whom she used to create a colour palette. I used the colours given to create a kit and then scrapped this gorgeous pic of her baby.

Isn't she a cutie!

Here is the kit I created and you'll find the links below the preview. I have been out of this for so long, i just discovered, after the upload was done of course, that you have to be a member of 4Shared to download from them .... is this right ? Anyhow, just in case you have issues with 4Shared, I also uploaded to Box.

4Shared links. Password if required is "starbaby" without the formatting.

PART ONE
PART TWO
PART THREE

Box downloads here:


PART ONE
PART TWO
PART THREE

Please come back and leave a comment if you download, it only takes a second to say thanks! and I really appreciate your effort.

Have a wonderful day wherever you are!

Scrapbook projects and stuff!

hello readers and those of you who just dropped in on the off chance I would have a new freebie for you. Sorry not this time, but soon I promise. I have been really out of it all lately. Gary suffered a really bad nose bleed a month or so ago which ended up in 8 ambulance call-outs, 2 stays in hospital and he is only just getting his strength back now after losing over 3 lts of blood. Scary hey! sure shook me, I really didn't cope well without him by my side for a week and a half, and even when he came home, it was a challenge to sleep through without worrying every time he stirred, that his nose was bleeding uncontrollably again. On top of all that trauma, the boys were on school holidays and Nicholas still worked a few days through the holidays... so I was running to and from the hospital as well as running him to and from work. I was, and am still, exhausted.

5 weeks ago we applied for a StepUp loan. Never heard of these... well this is a loan of an amount up to $3000 for a major purchase, such as a car, which we desperately need, offered at a low interest rate for 3 yrs, especially designed for people such as Gary and myself, on Centrelink payments, low income, discharged bankrupts and those that cannot get a loan through normal financial channels. We found the perfect vehicle and, as the loan approval was 2-3 wks, we told the car dealer we were interested and not to sell the car if he could avoid it. 5 weeks later, and because we cannot get a form from Community Services explaining Steve (our foster son) and the allowance we are paid, we are still waiting for approval, even though we have saved up the other $3000 for the car in the meantime. So desperate are we that we even tried money lenders, and still no success. I am so stressed right now, I completely lost it with Gary the other morning and spent the day in bed howling. Not that that did any good, just left me with sore eyes and a terrible headache. We are also waiting on reports back to reclassify Steve at a higher level of care than just a normal foster child. These are also taking weeks, instead of the days we were led to believe would be the case. I am so fed up! 

so.... are you still with me.... Thanks for letting me vent!

Chris and members of the More team at Visual Designs by Chris have a wonderful Grab Bag available this month for the great price of $7.00US .

Click on the preview to take you to the Store for this great deal. 

As a member of Chris's CT I have the privilege of working with her fantastic personal cutter files (KNK Zing   and Maxx, Cricut, Silhouette, etc) only I work with them digitally. This way I get to combine my digital scrap-booking work with personal cutter files which I can use digitally as well or mix up the two for hybrid projects. In this instance I took all of the files Chris sent me and used them digitally on my pages. I add textures and styles to the cutter files to give them added dimension, and they work perfectly.

These files are all in this months Grab Bag, so don't miss it! These are just a small sampling of the files the Bag contains. Plus, there is an Early Bird file available for quick purchases, but only for a short time.

Firstly I used CD00934 - Autumn. My favourite time of the year. The Word Art is actually a personal cutter file that I have added textures and styles to. I created this layout in Photoshop CS5.

Credits:  CD00934 - Autumn; cshneider-seq5to8S2-pg2;   wlop - Vivaldi; APD_Mystic Springs; aprilisa_Built Boy Tough; armina - April; BellaGypsy - GoOutside.

Second layout uses CD00935-Happy Halloween. In this layout the title "Happy Halloween", the Witch and the Moon are the personal cutter files. Once again I have played with them in PSCS5 and this is the result.

Credits: Shappy Princess-Holiday Sampler-Halloween; image from Internet; CD00935-Happy Halloween. 

My third layout uses CD00936 - Got Mud. The title and the ATV Quad bike are the personal cutter files in this layout. As we don't have a quad bike, the pictures for this layout came from the internet.

Credits: cap_goteam_template2; CD00936 - Got Mud; GDS_Collab_Jun12_Mr Adventurous.

My last layout uses CD00938 - Fish Fish. My hubby and my eldest love fishing, actually the youngest likes fishing too, it just isn't always practical to take him along for a day long trip. The "chipboard" boy holding his catch and the title are the personal cutter files on this layout. They look great don't they!

Credits: CD00938 - Fish Fish; GDS - Collab-0609_Catch Of The Day; cap_KeepItEven_Template 3

As you can see, personal cutter file description doesn't preclude you from using your files digitally if you wish. Sometimes, you just want to put a layout together quickly and not have to get out the card, paper and so on. Digi is sometimes the better way to go.... but unlike digital scrapbooking files, you always have the option of cutting them out on your personal cutter as well!!

For sticking with me for this long, I will promise to make a huge effort and get back here with a freebie soon. In the meantime, scroll down... some of my files are still available as I havent had the chance to remove the links yet. Check 'em out!

Have a wonderful day wherever you are!