Christy's Scrap Place: 2008

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Updates to my Blog...

I know, I'm a bad blogger...although I've seen worse, it has been a while! LOL. So, anywho, I've been updating my blog. Pretty, huh? I am so in love with this Dreamsicle kit, I used it for my family reunion invites and now for my blog page. I love the colors! There are so many fabulous designers out there! I hope to be one of them one day. Although I'm a newbie, I have BIG dreams! Haha! So, I'm gonna broaden my horizons a little and try my hand at designing. Mostly it will be a learning experience to sharpen my scrappin' skills. But be on the look out for some Freebies from me and of course I'll be sharing any info I've learned on my journey into this new world! LOL If I find more tuts, I'll be posting them also. Check out my sidebars for more links to scrap sites, tuts, and freebies. I'm also getting ready to go back to work in a few weeks so I won't have as much time to scrap. But thats alright, I need some adult time! LOL So as always, leave me a comment or hit me up on my Myspace!

Monday, May 5, 2008

Invitations...

(front)

(inside)

Page Kit : Girls Rock Too Misfits Scrapz

(front)

(inside)

These are the two invites I've been working on. The first is for my daughters birthday party, this kit really rocks! The party theme is "Pirates and Pixies" and is gonna be in pink and black with pirate treasures and fairy magic. LOL

The second invite is for our first family reunion. The pic in the middle is my great grandparents and on the left is her parents and the right, is his.

I hope the family like this cause I had fun making them.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Geneology sites and a Taylor Made tut...

Here is a new tutorial I found today. Its from Taylor Made Designs' blog, it is photo blending options in Photoshop. I've been trying to keep up with my blog but I've been busy with our family reunion stuff. I've been doing geneology research on my dad's side of the family and boy is it time consuming. I've found so much cool stuff though. The oldest pic I have is from 1904. I've learned so many things about my family and my ancesters. Here are some sites that have really helped me:

Ancestry

My Family

State Archives

Footnote

Cousin Connect

Family Reunion

Geneology Trails

These are a few that really helped me. There are subscriptions to a few, but usually you can find most things through the state archives on different sites. Well, good luck with your searches! I'm gonna try and find some time to do some more LO, there is an Easter LO I've been trying to finish, so hopefully I'll be posting again soon.

Saturday, March 1, 2008

New LO's for 2 albums

I finished another LO for Maygen's baby book and I am posting one I did a few weeks ago for Our Family 2007 album. The baby LO's are actually a challenge, font challenge for March over at DSO, go check it out. Well, short and sweet...here they are.

Credits: Page Kit - Starbright by AllieKat Creations (Penny)

Fonts - Madfont & Bow

Credits: Halloween 2007-

Halloween Night by "" par Newlife septembre 2007 newlifes-dreams.blogspot.com

WordArt - Ghosts & Goblins Pass the Pixel Created by DSP Members

Potions - Treat Kit full...unknown?

Ghost & Cobwebs - Scrapbook Flair

Friday, February 29, 2008

More LO's of Maygen's Book

Wow! Am I on a roll or what? Yea, i just started on my Maygen's baby book and on day two I have 3 LO's! Woohoo! I am a 2 page LO scrapbooker...sorry to disappoint ya! My 1st page is the first page of the album so I only need one, so the rest will be two pagers until the last page. I have my albums printed at Shutterfly, so I have 20 pages unless I wanna pay more and add on. 20 pages equals 18 two page LO's and 2 one page LO's. Is that how you do your albums? Well, thats how I plan on doin' mine! LOL

Credits: Credits: Papers by Second Hand Angel(secondhandangel.wordpress.com)

Pregnancy template by Ronnie McCray.

Flower created by Barbara Peek @ Scrap Girls

Butterfly by Pillowgirl, aka E Blust

Flower Doodle Brushes by Scrappy Pony Designs, Heather Green

Title text is Ahnberg

Credits: Credits: Papers by Second Hand Angel(secondhandangel.wordpress.com)

Pregnancy template by Ronnie McCray.

Flower created by Barbara Peek @ Scrap Girls

Butterfly by Pillowgirl, aka E Blust

Flower Doodle Brushes by Scrappy Pony Designs, Heather Green

Journaling text is Amazone BT

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Blessed

Here is a new LO I made today of my first pregnancy, with Maygen. I had tried to get pregnant for a year before being put on fertility drugs...on my third month taking Clomid...finally a positive test!

Credits: Modern Girl freebie by JenLin Designs @ http://www.jenlindesigns.wordpress.com

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Left Over...Freebie

I few months ago I created two memorial albums for my friend Marsha's little boy Tyler, who was killed by a drunk driver. Well I made my own little element, a sun, to use as part of a LO I did. I thought maybe someone could use it, download here.

I think it was a good try for a newbie, but cc is always appreciated! I'm not sure I'll ever be a designer (LOL) but here it is anyway!

Here's the LO I used for sun...

Credits:

Page kit - "Down On the Farm" by June Schutrups - Cen's Designs
@ http://censloft.blogspot.com/

Thanks for looking!

You can find the rest of Tyler's album here.

Updates...

Just some updates to my blog today. As you know I'm a beginning scrapper and use my blog as a resource. Well, I have really started to scrap alot more due to challenges, mostly, so I have added a "Whats Happening At" to the right side of my blog. The links to different sites will take you directly to a calendar or list of challenges/chats/events for that specific site. If you want any more sites added let me know. Also I try to keep my calendar updated with specific challenges/events I am taking part in, so go check that out too.

And don't forget to take my poll to the right...What size LO do you print?

Monday, February 18, 2008

My Lil' Cyclone...Maygen knocking over her blocks after I spent time building her this robot. I created this layout for the Scrap Girls Monday Challenge 1/28/08...Before and After.

Here are the credits:Background: Created by Erica Hite, Copyright 2006Folded Frame: Copyright © 2005 Gunhild Storeide

New LOs of Thanksgiving 07

(I can't remember where this kit came from because as I was finishing the LO, I lost almost all the kits on my harddrive. So if this is your kit I'm sorry, and if you know who's kit this is, please let me know so I can give credit where credit is due. Thanks!)

Here's LOs of Thanksgiving 07'. We had Thanksgiving dinner at my Aunt Vickie's house, everyone was there except my dad and brother, of course. I hope my girls always think of our holidays as extra special, because its really the only time our whole family is together. I'm planning on changing that though. I have started planning our family reunion for July 12th. I plan to do a theme: All Because Two People Fell In Love...like the Brad Paisley song. I want it to be centered around my great-grandparents, whose anniversary was on July 11th. I never knew my great-grandfather, but my great-grandmother was an amazing woman. She was so strong and all-knowing, and unwavering faith like you've never seen. It amazes me how many obsticles they overcome during their marriage. They lived through the great depression, horrible floods after that, there are almost 20 yrs between their first son, and their lasts( a set of twin boys), 11 children (6 boys and 5 girls); My great-grandmother had to send three of her baby boys off to war, one to WWII, one to Korea, and one to Vietnam. She had 3 miscarriages in her lifetime, her husband died after 40 yrs of marriage, and after going through all she had endured, she had the faith of an angel, which is exactly what she is now...an angel!

Sunday, January 6, 2008

Our Angel Tyler

I wanted to share with you two albums I put together for some very special friends of ours. These albums are dedicated to the love and memory of Tyler Lee Evans who was taken from us on August 31, 2006 by a drunk driver. Tyler is loved and missed by so many people, but no one has been more devastated than Tyler's mom, Marsha; dad, Terry; and little brother, Micah. They have held together through this unthinkable tragedy and have honored Tyler's memory in so many ways. Even though Tyler is gone, he will be in our hearts forever! If you would like to find out more about Tyler and what an extraordinary little boy he was please visit Marsha's site and Tyler's Myspace. Please leave me some comments about the albums and leave Marsha some hugs too! She would really appreciate it.

This is the album I made for Tyler's Mom Marsha...

Template - Altered, Close 2 You Quick Click created by Stacy Jewell Stahl 2006 DSP @ http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=112720

Frame - from Hopes & Dreams Sentiment Pak by Michelle Shefvelands and Doris Castle 2006 Cottage Arts.net @ http://www.cottagearts.net/samples.html

Tag - Altered, from Vintage Nursery Collection Biggie by Keri Schueller, Scrap Girls @ http://store.scrapgirls.com/product.php?id=9986&cat=

Lace - Monogram Mouse Lace from Dream Trip Lace Ribbons by Chris Beasley, Seebee's Freebies @ http://seebeesfreebies.blogspot.com/

Background - Altered, Kim Broedelet's Mothers day freebie2, Mothers day pink, @ http://kimbsdesigns.blogspot.com/index.html

Page Kit - "Dump Trucks and Diggers" 2007 by Erika Zane

@ http://zane-escraps.blogspot.com/

Template - RQH_TuesdayTemplate_080607-39 by “Ruby Q Hammer” (aka Rubyq, aka RQH, aka Mary Wray), @ http://rubysthoughtsonthat.blogspot.com/

WordArt - "I love my daddy" Wordart by Ms Kari @ http://relocateddixiegirl.blogspot.com/

Page Kit - Strawberry Iced Kisses :: Sampler Pack, Created by Anita Stergiou Designs @ http://anitastergiou.typepad.com/

Poem - " Boys In My House" by Erin Jo Kilmer @ http://www.scrapbook.com/poems/doc/11958/9.html

Template - Nancy's Template - 23, All designs created by “Ruby Q Hammer” (aka Rubyq, aka RQH, aka Mary Wray) @ http://rubysthoughtsonthat.blogspot.com/