Just For Today

Okay...Just for today...I'm going to PRETEND that it's not still freezing outside.

Here is a new Digital Scrapbook Collection that has a nice WARM feel too it!

Just for Today is in the Store at Digital Scrapbook Place.

You can get the Add on Pack to the kit FREE as a posting bonus. Find out more HERE.

Here are the papers that coordinate with the kit and the add on pack. They are in the DSP store as well.
I used just the kit for this great page of my son, his friend and more toads.



I used the kit and the add on pack for this page of my grandparents. I love having a print paper on the same background as a light colored paper. It makes layouts like this so easy to do as the picture of my grandfather was placed over a circle of the solid paper. I faded both the edge of the picture and the circle of solid paper. I also lowered the opacity of the picture but clipped and copied just the part of the picture with my grandfather so he would be darker than the rest of the image. I took the ribbon star from the kit and clipped off just the tips which I then arranged under the journaling circle.


I used the kit, the add on pack and the papers to make up this page of my son's first time out in the snow. Oh, my poor baby boy was not a fan of the snow his first time out. He was such a little guy and the snowsuit was designed for a baby so it was awfully hard for him to walk around. To make matters worse, the two different sleds we used to pull him in kept tipping over dumping him into the snow.

I love that envelope! I made it in two parts so that you can easily have things peeking out of it. No worries about that gummed seal on the envelope not being archive quality. It's all digital! Lots of great stuff in this collection!

Daisy Country

It's still cold here in Michigan and it's rather rainy today. What a perfect day to escape to my imaginary world of country living again. In my imagination, it's sunny and warm of course!

Here is the latest rather Country kit. It's called Daisy Country and is available in the store now at Digital Scrapbook Place.


Here is the add on pack for this kit. You can get this add on pack FREE as a posting bonus. Find out more here.
I made up some extra background papers to coordinate with the kit and add on pack. They are a chat Freebie tonight! Join me in the chat room at Digital Scrapbook Place at 9 pm Eastern Time.
Here are a few digital scrapbook pages that I created using these products. The first one is a heritage page using only the kit.
I just loved the fact that my Great-Grandmother always had a great time.

This next page is an all boy page using the kit and the add on pack.
Even now at 13, my son still does enjoy the challenge of catching a few toads every now and then.

This next page is such a cute girly page and utilizes the kit, the add on pack and the background papers.
Isn't she a Doll???

I had an absolute BLAST creating all of those very realistic elements. They are great for clustering together.

Imagene Doll

I guess it's no secret to those who know me that my favorite author happens to be Lisa Wingate. She created a wonderful character, Imagene Doll. Imagene (pronounced I'm-a-jean) is one of the beauty shop babes from Lisa's three Daily Texas books. Talk of the Town happens to be FREE on Kindle right now. In the books, Imagene Doll works at the town diner but can be found next door at the beauty shop most of the time, sharing the town news (and maybe a little gossip) with her gal pals, Donetta and Lucy. She misses her dear husband something fierce and discovers that she has an abundance of time as well as love to share with the people she cares about. This Imagene Doll digital scrapbook page kit is brand new to the store at Digital Scrapbook Place. I love that vintage diner ticket in the kit.

I created an add on pack to go along with the kit.
This add on pack is a posting challenge FREEBIE. Just purchase the kit, create a scrapbook page with it and post in the gallery at Digital Scrapbook Place. Don't forget to put a link in the Imagene Posting Bonus forum so I can find it. Post your page by the end of the day, Saturday, March 5th to get the posting freebie.


The coordinating papers are a chat freebie for tonight, Wednesday February 23. Come to the DSP chat room at 9PM est for some fun chatting and these free papers.

Here are some digital scrapbook pages that I created using the entire collection.
From heritage...

to vintage...

to those precious little ones, this collection is very versatile. I really can't decide which page I like best.

Gone Country

I had the absolute honor of proof reading a manuscript for my girlfriend, Lisa Wingate, last week. It's her 17th book and will be the second book in the Moses Lake series. It was wonderful and took me on a delightful journey south to Texas. With this Michigan winter dragging on, the vacation of the mind was a welcome relief.

The first book in the Moses Lake series is called Larkspur Cove and is in bookstores now. I read that one about a month ago now just prior to it's release. You can read the first two chapters here.

With these two captivating stories fresh in my creative thoughts, I designed the Gone Country collection of digital scrapbook products.

Gone Country Page kit is available in the store at DSP

The add on pack for the kit is a posting FREEBIE. Find out more here.


The Gone Country Papers are available in the DSP store now.

This collection is so versatile. It was incredible easy to come up with several different pages.

Here is a heritage style page that I put together. This lovely couple is my great grandparents, George and Ellie.
This masculine style page features my treasured Grandpa in his boat on Bear Lake.

The way-too-cute star of this page is one of the little boys from across the road. This was taken several years ago. He's a little older now but rest assured, he's still way too cute.

And of course, here is the country that inspired the whole collection. These are some pictures that Lisa sent me of her boys out fishing. Aren't the colors PERFECT???

The sun is trying to shine through the light cloud cover outside. It snowed a little this morning. I never thought the sight of more snow could make me happy but the falling snow means just one thing right now --- it is not so bitter cold outside. It's been so bitter cold lately that it's actually been too cold to snow. Brrrrr.

I hope you'll enjoy a little trip to the (warm and sunny) country with these brand new digital scrapbook products.

AnnaBelle's Porch

Okay, so maybe I have been spending a little bit too much time in my imaginary South. Between helping with a graphic for a Southern Fiction Writers' Blog, Listening to Lisa Wingate's Lone Star Cafe (a Texas based book) on tape, and watching a few too many episodes of Designing Woman on You Tube, I've been hiding out in the south which is good because it's cold here in Michigan and it just keeps snowing. Sure....this is pretty but after a while, trust me, it gets old.

I was asked by my fabulous author girlfriend, Lisa Wingate, to come up with a graphic for her new Southern Belle View. She hosts this blog with four other delightful authors of Southern Fiction. Anyway, she said she wanted to have an image to showcase their current books but "could it be wrapped in a bit of lace." Keep it southern, ya know. So I made this for them.

Well, as luck would have it...that inspired a kit. That and all of the other southern escapes that I have found.

AnnaBelle's Porch page kit


is band new in the shop at Digital Scrapbook Place.

I also made up this add on pack.


It will be in the store soon but for now it is a posting bonus...That means you can get it for FREE! Find out how to get it free HERE.

I have to say, that lattice is way cool. I made that up while I was keeping my son on task studying his Algebra. It took a full afternoon to digitally weave those laths.

So here's a page I made up with the Anna Belle's Porch digital scrapbook products.


That's my mom in the back and her sister in the foreground. I emailed my aunt this morning with the question of "where was this taken and was the soda pop a treat?" Here is her answer, "It was at a picnic and soda was always a big treat, not just at picnics. We never had it in the house. In fact, one of the first things I remember buying with my own money, from baby sitting, was a 6 pack of coke. And, boy, did I ever watch it closely because it was mine. But I also remember that it didn't taste that good because I was being so selfish, so I shared that last couple of bottle and I never bought it again. LOL!!" My aunt is such a DOLL!

By the way, the brown and the peach paper in the layout come from the AnneBelle's Porch background paper set that will be in the DSP store by next week.

Aren't those great vintage papers??

I love that blue flannel. It reminds me of a chamois shirt that my husband had way back in college before we got married. I was still in high school and stole the shirt from him for several years. He snagged it back and then it disappeared. Imagine my utter surprise when, after we were married and we took a trip to visit his brother in Alaska, the shirt emerged...on his brother! His brother had "borrowed" it when he was home to Michigan for a visit well before we were married. Too funny.

The temperature out side is a balmy 19 degrees Fahrenheit and guess what??? We should see some more of the white stuff. Oh joy.

I think I'll snuggle back into my comfy couch and find more episodes of Designing Women to watch. Too bad I finished that audio book already.

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.