Template #9

It has been a long time since I've made a template.  This was rather simple.  I hope that you will use it and come back to this blog for more!  I got my inspiration from this challenge.

This is a 12x12 Template.  You can click on the image for direct download or download HERE.  Also, please comment if you download.

Favorite Posts

I thought I would share three of the favorite posts of this blog (not counting the desktop calendars).  Thank you all for following my blog, as haphazard as it has been the last part of 2012.

Template #5

Family

Bunting Flags

New Year 2013

Wow, it is a New Year!!  I am excited.  I would like to get out of the rut that I have been in the last year and get back into scrapbooking and blogging and documenting!  I need to get into a routine and I'm sure that will help a lot.  I don't think I will be creating my own desktop backgrounds again but would like to get some more scrapbooking templates up for you all to enjoy.  In the meantime, I have found some websites I would like to share.

Lee Lou Blogs has some wonderful blog backgrounds, digital kits, and desktop freebies.  Here is January's.  She also has a wallpaper for your phone or tablet.  So cute.

Click on the links above to go there to get the download.

I just found this cute Desktop Wallpaper that you can use all year long.  Just add your own photos.  So adorable!  Click to go to Pixeled Paper Designs to get the freebie.

Eighteen 25 is another popular blog that shares all kinds of crafts and goodies.  They have 2012 CD covers if you burn all your photos onto a CD to save.  Go here to get those.

Happy New Year!!  And tell me, what is YOUR New's Year Resolution?

Template 8

Wow, it sure has been a while since I've offered a free digital template for you ... let alone scrapbook myself.  So that is what I did this wonderful Monday!  I made a 2-page template for you and even scrapbooked using it!

There are spots for lots of photos or you can use them all or less by adding elements or digital patterned paper.  If you want to download you can do so by clicking here or by clicking the preview.

And because I actually got my page done, here's what mine looked like!

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Christmas Tags from Santa

Remember this post from Memory Clips?  Well, they also just shared a free Christmas Tag Label.  I made some up to use for my Santa Gifts. {shh... don't tell my kids ...}  I thought they were really fun.  I also printed some other labels that are completely different (but forgot to save to show you) that are from me and their dad. I just printed them on Avery Sticker Paper and it is easy-peasy ... peel and stick onto the gifts!  Love it!

Go to Memory Clips to get your own labels.

Template #7

I really enjoyed making this template as well!  I love the circles and can't wait to use it!  I would love to see what you do with your images as well.  You can post them to my facebook page if you want to share.

This is just a one page 12x12 template.  You can use it as just one or you can flip it horizontally to make two pages.  This is also a TIFF file format.  Adaptable in any program that uses layers.

Click on the image to download directly or you can download the template here.

Template #6

Oh boy!  I had so much fun with this template!  It really didn't take me as long as I thought it would with all the spots for photos or journaling or whatever you want it to be used for as I thought it would take.  I've learned some new time saving tips for creating templates!  I am so excited about it!

There are spots for many photos or you can just put digital paper in those spots or other elements or journaling.  It is a 2 page 12x12 spread or you can use it, (as you can with any of my templates) cropped down to 8x8.

Enjoy!!  Click on the image to download directly or download here.

Template #5

Whoa!  It has been a long time since I designed a Template for you guys.  I had a lot of fun with this one and I learned how to select layers with the shift key instead of the control key.  If you are wondering how I do that or how to use this page get a hold of me.  I can schedule a class for you anytime!

So here is the Template!  Just click on the image preview to download directly.  Or you can click here.  Let me know if you have any problems with that.

My Digital Conversion

Persnickety Prints: My Digital Conversion: "Did you start scrapbooking with paper and scissors? Are you still?I started in 1995, all thanks to my mother. Here are my Scrap Books, hand..."

You can read more about Chari's Digital Conversion by following the link above.  My conversion was very similar to hers.

My mom had a photo album for each of us kids that she made when I was in 6th grade or so.  Maybe earlier.  It was the kind with the plastic that you had to peal up and then stick back down on the pictures.  It would yellow and become unsticky as time went on.  I still have it though!

I continued to put pictures in that album and then started my own albums throughout Junior High and then in 1993 I did a Laurel Project for my Church's Young Women Youth group scrapbooking my high school years.  It definitely was "elementary" and had some stickers and journaling and free hand cuts of paper mats ... etc.  I continued on throughout college with the 8 1/2 x 11 binders and sheet protectors.  They were the coolest thing!  So much better than the sticky plastic.

After I got married, I would scrapbook with my Mother-in-law and Sister-in-law's on Sunday's and our layouts got a bit more advanced.  We had animals that we could trace and cut out and were very excited when we got a Sizzix (tm).  Then my Mother-in-law had a Stampin' Up! party in 2003 at her house and soon one of my Sister-in-law's joined up to be a demonstrator.  I thought that was so fun and I LOVED their products and joined up too.  This is when I finally converted to 12x12 pages ... and had to have a complete room devoted to my supplies.  It was such a blast and I learned so much about scrapbooking, layouts, color, and designing.

In 2007, my Sister-in-law decided to follow her passion with photography and has her own professional photography business.  A year later, in 2008 I decided to look into digital scrapbooking and bought Photoshop Elements 6.  I began to read and find all kinds of tutorials and am now totally turned over to Digital Scrapbooking!  I absolutely LOVE it!  I still have supplies and product for traditional scrapbooking and still go to some Stampin' Up! classes. (Because I still have pictures that I printed in 2007 & before that aren't put on pages) But I have all of my pictures digitally scrapbooked from 2008 to 2010.  I only have a few pages that I need to do for 2011 and I will be caught up.  I now use Photoshop Elements 8 and teach classes.  I'm so glad that I went Digital.  I love how mess free it is, how I save SO much money, and how many pages I can get done in a day.  Like Chari from Persnickety said ... a trip equals 10 pages or so.  I love it!!

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