Twitter & Facebook Tag, Just Breathe and a Freebie Cluster

Hey Everyone

Head on over to Scrap Orchard to this thread here and sign up for all the various Facebook and Twitter accounts. The Orchard is hosting Twitter and Facebook Tag and the first giveaway will be this awesome kit! You don't want to miss it! The fun starts January 15th!

But before you leave, take a look at this lovely kit from Raspberry Road, "Just Breathe". My favorite colors! And all these lovely elements. Plus of course there is a freebie add-on that Susan generously gives to us with each kit. She is such a doll! Click on the previews to go to the store.

And here's a page I did with the kit, this is a perfume topiary at the France pavilion in Epcot.

Credits

Oh and I did I say freebie up above? Yes? OK, you've been patient, here it is! Click on the image to go to 4shared. See you next time!

Raspberry Road Freebie Cluster

OK so twice in one day, but I wanted to share this other layout with a Raspberry Road kit using the Victorian Holiday collection - don't you just love this Victorian look? It was perfect for the Christmas decorations at the Grand Floridian at Disney World. I just loved the soft pinks and beautiful papers for this kit. I had hard time not using all of the elements, they are all so wonderful!

You can see the Victorian Holiday Elements and Papers here and here.

Credits
Raspberry Road's Victorian Holiday Elements, Papers and Add-on
SO Tiny Templates by Designs by Sine
Scriptina font

Plus I have the cluster freebie for you, created from my layout above. You can pick it up here

New CT - Raspberry Road

Hey Everyone - long time no see! I've just been invited onto the Raspberry Road CT and have this layout to share with you! This uses the Letters to Santa collection! You can find them in the shop Elements, Papers and Add-on.

Credits
Letters to Santa Collection by Raspberry Road Designs
Template Set 3 by Designs by Megan Turnidge,
Very Merry Alpha by Brittney of Britt-ish Designs and DeCrow Designs,
dear Joe4 and Feltpen Fonts

Choooo-choooooo Freebie on Board

Hey everyone! Welcome to the Scrap Orchard Honey Bee Blog Train! Have you come to get your Free’bee’???

First I have to tell you, the whole time I’ve been getting this blog ready my 15.5 year old Maine Coon Cat, Winston, has been lying behind me SNORING like crazy! Do you have a cat that snores? It is the funniest thing! It’s like a little mini rattle kinda snore, he’s so darn cute! With DH in the other room it’s like zzzzzzz stereo. Hmmmm I think I’d rather listen to Linkin Park! ROFL! So when you leave me a hello here, tell me about your cats!

OK, back to business! I had the opportunity to work with Designs by Sine this month! She has some great template kits in her shop and lots of super masks, borders and text paths. I love using them! This time I chose her SO Tiny template pack to work with:


and created this layout of my new Grand-Nephew, Garrett – isn’t he just darling???? Look at those precious feet with the rings on them! Click the image to go to the credits and find Irene Alexeeva’s kit here: Tom Thumb!
Speaking of designers - be sure you check out the Scrap Orchard Blog on Halloween!!!! There’s going to be a Designer Trick-or-Treat Blog Trains with lots of Halloween Free’bees’ that you just won’t want to miss!

So, if you are on the Honey Bee Blog Train, then you came here from Jaimie’s Blog. At my stop, you get another Spooktacular Brag Book Page. This Orchard Collab kit is available here In the Shop. And now click the image to go to 4shared to get your treat. Heh heh are you SHOCKED that my free'bee' has a cat in it??? ROFL!
After you download your free’bee’, come right back here and take a ride on the train to the next stop at Tami’s Blog. And if you just wandered in here and want to start at the beginning, or you get lost - take the alternate route back to the Scrap Orchard Blog. And while you’re there – check out the shop it is chock full of Scrap Orchard goodness!!!!!

"Fish are Friends" New Kit by Britt-ish Designs

Hey I'm back! I have four layouts today for kits that are being released! First up is for Britt-ish Designs at Scrap Matters

Britt's new kit is Fish are Friends, take a look at this beauty!

And here are my layouts! I'll be back later today to add the credits when I post them in a gallery. The first one is Crushes' Coaster At Disneyland Paris - look at that wait time! I love the way this looks like the turtles are on the EAC!!!
The second one is my DH, Me, SIL and BIL in Feb 2008 at Epcot
Next kit is Pocketful of Templates 3.

I found these pics of me as a baby and knew Britt's kit Tiny Cowgirl would be perfect. Then she announced she would release this perfect template! What more could a cowgirl want? Am I cute with my daddy or what?
OK Next this kit is being released by Irene Alexeeva at Scrap Orchard - Whispers

And my layout is the Lost Treasure. This was part of the Fairy Garden at Epcot's Flower and Garden Festival in April '09 and is Tinker Bell's Balloon - made of cotton and powered by pixie dust! LOL I think this came out awesome, I really love it. I took that photo and extracted the balloon and then cloned out all the people in the backgound (as well as an ugly pink backpack) and then blurred it. Came out lovely I think. Then I put that old frame over it. Hmmm Maybe I should have distressed the photo too. Maybe I'll go back.......

Hey I'll be back this weekend with more Scrap Orchard loveliness that I've posted recently and also another LO for Britt. Plus I may just have a freebie template to post!

I'm Yours Kit by Britt-ish Designs

Finally back with an update, I'm just so busy with CT commitments now, that I've been neglectful of getting posts about them onto my job. So my half year resolution (is there such a thing?) is to post more of my layouts here and talk about my CT kits.

Lots has changed in my CT world. My commitment to ESS was done at the end of June. And the Supreme Team gig was to be over at the end of July, but they asked me to stay on for two months, so I accepted. I have to say, I have been assigned some kits that I thought ???? what am I gonna do ???? Not the usual kits I would buy, but I've found it stretches my imagination and my skills to work with ones that are out of my comfort zone. So I"m very happy for that, I've got a lot of great LOs done being on the Supreme Team.

Mid-June I started the Honey Bee Creative Team contest at Scrap Orchard. Much to my shock after 3 weeks of making the cut, I made it once again on the 4th week and am now a Honey Bee. I am trying to work my commitments into my days but the work is worth is as after I have done my 3 layouts for the month, I can choose anything from the shop. Wow! Kid in a candy store!!!! My Wish List is HUGE! I'm only taking what I can use and make sure I create something with each item. But it's making me more productive for sure!

And then - most excitingly (new word, Google it....) I applied for Britt-ish Designs Britt Girls. I really would like to be on a designer team and she is my #1 choice! While I didn't make the team, she did offer me a guest spot for August, so I'm happily there, if not just for the time being. I can still hope for a permanent spot someday! My assignment there is one layout per week with her new product and then a layout with whatever I take from her shop. I have Totally Buggin in my Britt folder now, waiting to be scrapped!

So being up to date now, here is the first kit assignment from Britt and my layout. This lovely collab with DeCrow Designs I'm Yours and the I'm Yours Word Art Pack.

And here is my layout with the kit. This my nephew Greg and his wife Jenny. They are expecting their first child on 9/9/09. For the photo, I used a gradient map to change to B&W, then I extracted them because the background was distracting. Then I used a gaussian blur on the background. The result was too sharp for the soft colors, so I made a distressed overlay so soften it up. I really liked the results.
Credits for Wedded Bliss


OK so now that I'm back, I hope I can do this - um - at least once a week? Ha - I don't want to go crazy and commit to twice a week! Hopefully I get on here soon and dress up my Blog with the blog stuff I bought months ago. Hmmmmm. Don't even know where to start!

Hugs, Nancy

Still here!

Well, OK, so i've been a bad blogger once again. I'll be back with a new post this week, but for now, I'm taking down the links for the freebies! They've been up a long time, so it's time to say good-bye!