Traditional Christmas - Scrapbooking

Have you see the 'Christmas Traditional' Collection by Rina Kroes? It may be an older set, but is still one of my go-to collections. And the quality is top notch. (no longer available)

Some of the extras available : Take a look HERE for the full collection

Take a look at all of the items in Rina's Christmas store HERE

I made a 12 x 12 page overlay freebie for you.

Download it HERE


And this older freebie QP is still available too (I changed the 12x12 page into a 12x9 for my photobook LO)

Download HERE

Hope you're having lots of fun getting ready for Christmas!

Winter is looking at us.....

...and the weather man is promising lots of snow. Now that is what they said last year, and we did have a good dump...but only one decent one, and no White Christmas (pout)

Still, I'm always in the mood for snow (that is probably only because we don't get much of it where we live...) so that when I was making overlays, the gorgeously dreamy 'Whispers of Winter' kit by Rina Kroes was calling my name in a most insistent way. (Treat yourself to a look at the whole Collection HERE)

What can I say?
Did I resist?
Did I even try?

Not at all....so here you go

You can download the freebie HERE.

Over on Rina's blog you'll find this QP freebie by Kabra, still available too...

Time to snuggle up with a good book and a warm drink...yummy!

Autumn...beautiful colours and a freebie!

Would you know, I actually got this done! whoooot!

The trees are starting to colour fast now. It is sooo pretty. There is a nip in the air and the rain and foggy weather has returned.

Rina Kroes is Designer of The Month at Scrapbook-Elements this month. She has a beautiful selection of goodies in her discount box. Take a look at these HERE. It includes the kit I used for the freebie (see below) Check out the whole Collection of coordinating items HERE

I just LOVE the colours in this collection!

Here is another fun Autumn Kit by Rina

And finally your page overlay freebie. It is a 4 sided border overlay in png, and the greenish background paper is not included! Enjoy!

You can download the freebie HERE and a QP freebie featuring this kit can be found HERE 

Over on Rina's Blog you'll find yet another free QP HERE

Vintage LO's - so special

I would not say they are my absolute favourite LO's to do - I enjoy variety - but they really are special. Of course I'm very fortunate to have a wonderful collection of old pictures to work from. Anyone who has been following along this blog will know that by now!

I recently made these two LO's with a new Page Set (and Add Ons) by Rina Kroes. I'm really pleased with how they have turned out and I know already that I will be making more pages with this collection for sure. It suits my pictures and my idea of vintage feminine perfectly!

Here is a look at the Page Set but take a look HERE at the rest of the Collection you can also hop on over to Rina's blog for previews, more LO's and a QP freebie

I turned my LO (second one featured here) into a gift for you.

Download the freebie HERE

Oh and Rina is the Designer of The Month at Scrapbook-Elements for this month (starting this Wednesday 14th. (actually this will be from the 21st, so you still have time to sign up for the newsletter!)) ) Here is a look at her free gift. Sign up now for the SBE newsletter if you'd like this beauty. It coordinates with Rina's Serenity Collection

July...done at last

My house has never been this neat and clean and tidy for so many days in a row. Of course don't even think to ask me where some stuff may be. I have only a general idea! I hope to make some progress in that department this week, but in the meantime I finished off the 5 pages I have for July. I'm only posting 2, the others are full of faces I would have to blur and that spoils all the fun of showing them to you :-(

But here is July

and the Flowers of July. Such a colourful time of the year.

For the first page a used a fun kit of Kimberly Stewart's, 'Spotted Cows'

and the Flora one features an older kit ' Lemonberry Zinger' by Rina Kroes

oh and by the way Scrapbook-Elements have a 40% off sale, running till the 31st, don't miss this one!

I'll be back with a little giftie for you shortly...have a great week!

Serenity - New from Rina Kroes

I'm still working on the July pages (when I'm not cleaning/sorting/packing - we are downsizing...need I say more?) so I'll be posting those shortly (I hope!)

Meantime I have a freebie for you down below. It features Rina Kroes new kit Serenity. Take a look at Rina's store for the rest of the collection, with new additions releasing tomorrow (Sunday 21/08)

There's some beautiful LO's over on Rina's blog featuring this kit. As well as a 12x12 QP freebie.

And here is my little gift for you...enjoy!

You can download you freebie HERE

Thanks for stopping by!

Those Billy Goats Again....

I figured they probably need a page for themselves these guys....Rina Kroes has a new collection out. 'Bring Me Sunshine' (her wish has come true, we've had more sun in the Pacific Northwest since...)

See the rest of the Bring Me Sunshine Collection HERE. If you are signed up for the Scrapbook-Elements newsletter, you'll be getting a couple of BB QP's that I made as gifts, later this month.


Also -  you can head on over to Rina's blog and pick up this beauty

Yearbook - June 2011

So far I'm able to keep to a 2-pages-per-month average. I feel I'm able to keep up just fine that way and that everything that needs to be documented, is. It will probably take me a few more months though, to get 'free' of the desire to do a picture-a-day album. ;-) Click on the picture/link for full credits to products used!

So here is June Page 1  I find nature shots irresistable...

and June Page 2

Right now I'm working hard on catching up on recipe cards. I also host the recipe card exchange over at Scrapbook-Elements. This month we are doing desserts. Here is my contribution (make one card get all the submitted cards see the forum post for details) This dessert is delicious. Easy to change flavours to suit what you have in the house, or to suit your meal. Yummy indeed!

Panna Cotta        

I used  Rina's Sweet Taste of Summer Page Set     I also used this and other bits from the Sweet Taste of Summer Collection for my first June Page pictured above.

Finally...

Wow that was quite the effort to get that lot loaded?!? Still don't know why but I'm glad I managed :-)

You can see the entire Revelry Collection in Rina Kroes' store.  Rina also has different previews and a beautiful freebie on her blog, The Reluctant Recluse.

Here is the page set Revelry. I simply love these colours, and Rina is amazing with her use of colour. She pays attention to the timiest details.

And here the long promised Freebie Quick Page I like to leave them fairly 'clean' I figure it is easy to add more goodies, but how do you take them away on a QP? ;-)

Rina has a new kit coming out this Sunday and it is 'delicious' (hint hint)

For now, I'm off to go play with some new goodies coming into Kimberly Stewart's store this weekend :D





Yearbook - April 2011

I just got the second book for last year back from the printers. I divided the pages for last year into 2 books as it was going to be too big all crammed into one. I have all those extra pages you know ;-) and then there was a problem with the machine during the first print and all the tops of the pages were cut off ACK!
But now this last book is perfect, and I'm soooooo pleased with it! And to think that I am totally up-to-date with 2 full years in digiscrapping (got some years all completed in paper scrapping too :D) I tell you - that makes me happy! LOL

So here is April 2011 I used all goodies by Rina Kroes, click the LO for links to it all.

Now I'm trying to load your QP freebie to 4 Shared, but right now, it isn't loading...so I'll have to get back to you with that one asap.  ugh



Fantastical Future....

Finally a freebie for you all...that is for the few who have stuck around when nothing was happening on this blog! If it is good news, then there is more to come as I finished another freebie, just need to get it ready...hope to post it in the next few days.

Rina Kroes put together a fun page set Fantastical Future. There is an add-on set as well as stacked papers, alphas, decorated frames etc. You can find the Collection HERE.

My freebie for you today is a border. I find that with the photo books that I make I often need a vertical border...hence this one. The kit lends itself very well to guy suited LO's and you all know that I need lots of guys stuff ;-)

Grab your freebie HERE

Now I just need to decide if I want to use this one or Rina's latest (Revelry) for some new blog wear. I feel it is time for a fresh new look....hmmmm gonna have to sleep on that one...

I'm still here!!

I have just been very busy with all kinds of stuff, meantime I have a few LO's from recent weeks to show you. Rina Kroes also has an awesome kit out. Fantastical Future (see the entire Collection HERE) And the previews of Rina's New Revelry kit coming this Sunday are gorgeous!! I hope to have some gifts featuring these two kit for you in the very near future. Meantime you can pick up a freebie QP at Rina's blog - The Reluctant Recluse.

Julie Jorgenson has beautiful vintage kits...the sort of kit I have good use for. This one is An Old Time Story

And this one was fun with the pictures I have of these vintage cars. I used a variety of goodies, so better check out the gallery for the credits HERE

And then I realized that I never did post my March page...and I need to do the April page!

So here is March 2011

But now it's dinner time...till next time - happy scrapping!

More Family Pictures

I was just looking at a disc featuring family pictures taken at the end of last year and the picture on this LO was taken in the early fifties. What a joy and privilege it is to have cameras, pictures and captured memories. Distance is no longer an obstacle either. Pictures zip around the globe in no time at all. Just on the weekend I got a set of pictures from friends that they had taken at our house back in the 80's. Wow! The memories! friends, games, the apartment, the books on my shelf. A real trip down memory lane...

For my LO I used a QP found over on Rina' Kroes' Reluctant Recluse blog.

It features Rina's new 'Cherished' Page Set.

Rina has several items that make up the Cherished Collection. Do take a look, it is beautiful! And Add-Ons are coming this Sunday the 13th!!

See you soon!

Week 52 - 2010

And Week 52....I have all the confidence in the world that I stand a good chance of actually really finishing this P365/52  job! Wooohooo.... the final page is coming together one day at a time. This page below is just as full, busy and slightly confusing as the week was  hehe

Week 51 - 2010

Wow! It's been busy! This LO has been collecting dust sitting on the virtual shelf here on my 'puter! But here it is finally :

Week 51 - 2010

The original QP is still available HERE

Have you seen Rina Kroes' new  "Whispers of Winter" Page Set? Just gorgeous.....and many more add-ons coming this weekend...

Week Four in December!

Getting better slowly and of course I have lots of scrapping to catch up on! Am I ever glad I made these QP's though...they are really saving my 'skin' this month. I haven't posted my pages yet as I'm waiting to get some pictures from friends, before I finalize which ones to use. I like to keep my options open :D

Meantime...here is the next page for you. All Christmassy because after all this week includes Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. I'm sure I will be adding at least one extra page of pictures in my book just for the pictures from those 2 days.
You can download the freebie HERE - Enjoy!!!

Week Three in December!

I'm kinda keeping up with pages and will be posting them later this week. Colds and coughs are always a nuisance, but no more so than this time of the year when there is so much fun to be had...sniff sniff, cough cough... ;-)

Here for today is the 3rd Quick Page for December. Getting a bit more of a Christmas feel here....time to put up the tree if you haven't already, time to get the baking done and put the final touches to those gifts!!

Hope you find it useful! :D

You can download the QP HERE

The First Week of December

Here we are - the last month of the year - WOW!

I mentioned a freebie yesterday. What happened was that I knew December would be very busy indeed, so in October I made myself a set of quick pages for my p365/52 weeks in December. Then I thought that they may be of great help to you too, as you may be just as busy as I am!

My last week of November I ended on a Tuesday instead of Thursday, and made the first week of December run from Wednesday to Saturday (4 pictures) and from then on the rest of the month runs from Sunday through Saturday. So sometime on the weekend prior to the week coming, I hope to post the QP for the upcoming week. That way you can just slip those pictures in and add journalling at the end of the day, and so keep up quite easily!

I hope you will find it useful!

So this is what the page for this week looks like and you can download it HERE

Here is another cool product for busy folks everywhere - a set of Christmas Cards by Rina Kroes. These are also available in 4 seperate sets of 4 cards each. Take a look HERE

I still have weekly pages to finish off and post, so I had better  get cracking! I hope to get my Christmas tree up soon too!!