November Life Journal

This week's new digital scrapbook kit is November Life Journal. It has some wonderful fall colors still but has a bit of a festive flair to it as well. I think pictures of the upcoming holidays would be perfect paired with these.

November Life Journal digital scrapbook kit can be purchased in the store at Digital Scrapbook Place.

You can get this add on pack for free as a posting bonus. Find out more here.


Here is a page I created using just the page kit. The girl in the photo is my grandmother.

About a Dream

This week's kit was About a Dream. There is a rack at JoAnn Fabrics in their decorating fabric department that I tend to gravitate toward. I would LOVE to do up a guest bedroom in the colors but have run out of guest rooms. So I just made a kit instead.
The add on pack is a posting bonus that can be had for FREE. Find out more information in my About a Dream Posting Bonus Forum over at Digital Scrapbook Place.
Here's a layout that I made using these digital scrapbooking products.

Yes, that's me in the photo. This "extraction" is super easy. Here's the cool thing...it's not really and extraction at all. I took the black&white/sepia colored photo of me and laid it over the cream background paper that I have in the add on back. The background of the photo was white. I set the photo layer to darker color and that is what I got. I did go back in and add the cream paper from the kit with the red design over the cream paper but it didn't take but a couple of swooshes of the eraser to the cream with red design paper to get rid of the little bit of red design from showing through the photo. Really, it was super easy. Try out your layer blend options before going through the hassle of extracting an image.

Famous for a Day

So...a couple of weeks ago I submitted a layout to Memory Makers. I discovered yesterday, quite by chance, that Memory Makers has it displayed on their home page and their featured idea gallery page. Too cool! I'm really not sure how this all works so I'm really not sure how big of a deal it is. Since it's my first time and all...I'm going to have to say, "It's a big deal."


I may have to try this out again. It's kind of fun to be famous for a day.

Along Came You

Brand new to the DSP store today is Along Came You. This is a great kit to use for those special guys in your life. It would look cute for a little girl page as well.


Along Came You is available at the store at Digital Scrapbook Place.

This add on pack is currently a posting bonus. Purchase the kit, make a layout, and get the add on pack for FREE. What a deal! Find out more in the Along Came You posting bonus forum at DSP.

Here's a page I put together using these new products. These two pictures of my son skipping stones are so CUTE!!

Come by the DSP chat room tonight and join me in a lively chat about...well...anything really. These papers will be the chat freebie. Attend the chat, get the papers. How cool is that?

October Life Journal

Autumn in Michigan is gorgeous. I tried to capture some of nature's beauty in the October Life Journal Products. The October Life Journal page kit is brand new to the DSP store this morning.


This add on pack is free as a posting bonus. Find out more here.


Tonight at 9 PM in the DSP chat room I will give out this lovely set of leaves as a chat freebie.



Here are a couple of pages that I made up using these new products. This first one showcases a single photo from Kensington Metro Park. It is a wonderful park nearby. I really do need to try to visit this park more often.
This next one includes pictures from a hayride that my grand-nephew and I went on two years ago. I used just part of the word art from the kit to make the title for this page. He had such a fun time that night!

Two More Days

Just two days left to get this great add on pack as a posting bonus.



Just purchase Rooted Autumn page kit and create a layout with it. Post a link to that layout in the Rooted Autumn Posting Bonus Forum before the end of the day on Saturday to get the add on pack for FREE as a posting bonus.



I love the rich autumn colors in this kit. I made up a few pages.

Autumn Days

Autumn Days was the collection for the week. Fall is in the air here and the trees are just starting to turn. I love colors in this collection. The yellows and oranges are what I see in the trees and the blue is from the sky. We've enjoyed some beautiful days this week.

The photos in the page above are from several years ago. I set up the tripod in the driveway to take the pictures.

The photo in the layout above is another from the wedding I went to two weeks ago now. This collection is great for these fall wedding shots.

I love the layout above. Kensington is a metro park near by. We have always enjoyed going there for walks in the fall. I can't believe how little my son is in these pictures.


This add on pack is a FREE posting bonus right now. Just purchase the kit below, use it in a layout and post it. Find out more information here.


This kit is available for purchase here at Digital Scrapbook Place.

Tranquillity or Tranquility...does it really matter

So I still don't know how to spell the word. Two l's or one? The webster's online dictionary has two l's in it. Microsoft Word let it slide with two l's but Firefox's auto spell correction claims that there should just be one.

Should I really even care? I'm in awe of what I did. I really wanted to create a collection that was different from what I've been doing. Colors are deeper and richer. Some of the items are things that I've never used before.


OMG---I love that flower! It turned out so good. I nearly hurt my other shoulder just patting myself on the back!

I am really looking forward to seeing how everyone will use the elements in both the kit and the add on pack.

When my husband saw these, he said, "This is our house." Yup, all of the colors here are in our house. He also was a little teary eyed. Not sure if he too was in awe of what I was able to make or whether it was the layout that I did below. I didn't ask because I'm not supposed to notice such things. He's a big ol' softy but shhhhh, don't tell anyone.

So I used just the kit to create this page for my girlfriend's wedding. She absolutely loved the page. I just need to get it framed for her.

September Life Journal

Wow---not even September and I have the life journal page kit ready to go. I really wanted a touch of back to school feel with this kit so I did the ruler frame. The quote of "Measure your own Success" came from a wall hanging that I noticed at my neighbor's house last week Wednesday.

September Life Journal

Can't you just see a cute little back to school page done with this? Some of the papers and elements from the Cute as a button products would work with this kit as well.

So, do you think my seventh grade son would appreciate a cute back to school page done up for him????

Cute as a Button

As part of an assignment way back in third grade, my son had to interview one person a month and then give a very brief presentation to his class. To make this monthly assignment easier for him and for me, I rounded up all of his grandparents and then recorded my son interviewing all of them. My folks and my husbands folks have always gotten along splendidly so this group interview session was perfect. A question from my son would trigger memories and each parent would have to add upon what was already reminisced about. It's actually quite a treasure to have all of this on tape especially since Zak has already lost one of those treasured grandparents.

During Grandma Loman's portion of the interview, Zak asked her about games that she used to play as a child. She responded with, "Button, Button, Who's got the Button." Imagine Zak and my complete and utter delight when this hand crafted wall art came into the rummage sale at our church two weeks ago. Zak immediately thought we should buy just to remember Grandma. I assured him that we remember Grandma everyday and that we really didn't need this. Then he said, "Well it would make a great kit." That's my boy! Always ready to help his mom with ideas.


Well, he was right, it did make for a great kit. I wasn't so sure about the usability of "Button, Button, Who's got the Button" so I swapped that out for "Cute as a Button" since we all have little cuties in our lives. I did print it on the twill tape as a bit of a tribute to Grandma Loman.

The kit is available in the DSP shop here.

I created this add on pack to go along with it.
The add on pack is available for free as a posting bonus. Find out more about that here.

Very soon to the shop at Digital Scrapbook Place will be this great word art for the cute as a button kit.

So...I have to wonder what great kit idea my son will find for me next.

The Work Space

Yes, I finally got off of the couch!

Dan helped me move a bed out of the extra bedroom so that I can use the room as my work space again. I forgot how much I miss looking out this window. BTW---the remaining bed is perfect for "creativity" naps. Yup, had one this afternoon.

Brighton Art Fair

Today was the Brighton Art Fair. Brighton is really my closest town I guess. It's a neat old town with trendy little restaurants, a hair salon, a few antique stores and good variety of other little stores. It really is a neat little down town to walk around. Brighton likes to host several different festivals throughout the year. My favorite is the art festival. Barricades get set up to close down main street through town and all of the vendors set up their tents.

Here are some shots from the day as well as some links to some of my favorite vendors.



The first is Michael Glenn Monroe. He's actually a local resident and has a building in downtown. He used to have a frame shop and gallery but now he just leases the front of the building to a hair salon and leaves the back for himself.

His art is amazing. So amazing that he was asked to paint 1000 Christmas ornaments for George and Laura Bush one year. Here is a link to an article about that. Artist paints his way into the White House.

He is also an illustrator children's books. We have several signed copies of his books. Here is a link to his gallery website, Michael Glenn Monroe and here is the link to the company who publishes the Children's books, Story Time Press.

This guy is truly a nice guy and his wife is just a doll as well!





One classy lady. I meet this woman for the first time this year. I hope she comes back again next year. I just LOVED her style!! You can find out more information about her at her Webstore, Retrose.



I love wandering through the tents of the artists who paint. I can't paint...well, I could but I doubt it would be called art. I am always fascinated by the paintings at the art fair.

There were two artists who shared a tent. Gorgeous works! Information about Galye can be found at her website, Artist Gayle Sanchirico
In formation about Jerry can be found at his website, Jerry Hosier
After spending time under their tent, I really wish I could paint.



Next I came across this lovely Button Lady. Everything in her booth was buttons. I do so love buttons. Check out her website at Black Button Studio.


There are always several booths of photography at the art fair. Since I'm not a very good photographer, I LOVE these booths. I like to try to learn all I can about how the shot is framed. I also enjoy being able to travel to exotic lands or just fascinating locations while never leaving main street.

Dan is a local photographer. I can't say that I've meet him before. I may have...if he was at the show before. He has an online studio at Dan Stuart Photography. Good stuff there.


Okay...this next booth is... hands down one of my favorites. These guys come back every year. They have the Junkyard Dogs and Cats. They come all the way from Louisville just to come to the Brighton Art Fair. Their art is so much fun!! They can be found on the web at Yardbirds
These sculptures just crack me up!!!



Here are just a few more random shots from the day.
This is the mill pond.


I pretty much got nothing for this picture. I never did stand there long enough to figure out what it was all about. Active art maybe???



There is always live music as well as the local radio station.


I love it when the artists are painting. I could stand there for HOURS and watch them. I wish I could paint like that.


I think I need this fish...maybe?




We did come home with a new spoon rest. The pottery always gets us but we are really trying to get rid of a lot of unnecessary items that cause clutter in our house so we are not about to buy any thing new. A spoon rest is good. We can always use a spoon rest. We bought it from another local merchant, Earth Hand and Wheel.

So now that I'm motivated by art, maybe I can come up with something good myself.