Thursday, Nov 5 Free Template

Happy Thursday!

I have a new template to share, as well as the example from my own digi-scrapping using the template.

Feel free to download the layered template here:

http://www.4shared.com/file/142529979/be023335/dece3_oct09.html

If you download it, leave me a little note! And if you create a LO with it, please share your creation! :)

Have a great Friday-Eve!
Dece

Get Meaningful School Days and Free Layered Template

If you're like me, sometimes you need a push to get scrapping. For me, I often need a topic to scrap about. The blog: http://jessicabree.typepad.com/get_meaningful/2009/10/lesson-25-school-days.html is inspiring me to do some scrapping and yes, make it meaningful. Not that birthday layouts aren't meaningful, as they are! I just feel so wasted mentally that I need something to focus my attention, if it's only for a few minutes to scrap.

Here is my layout for Lesson 25, School Days.

and you can download the layered template for free at:

http://www.4shared.com/file/143906681/cf0b680c/dece_oct09_09.html

If you download the template, please leave a comment for me! :) I would love to see what you create with it!

Off to get kids to school (and hopefully a baby to bed!),

Dece

JBS Heritage Layout with Free Layered Template!

I hope you had a great weekend!

I did this heritage layout about my Great-Grandfather and made a template to go with it! If you download it, please leave me some feedback and/or show me what you make with the template.

Here is the template:

:)

http://www.4shared.com/file/143917973/281d1c07/dece1_oct09.html

Enjoy!

Dece

New Template: New Layout!

I took a break from scanning photos today to concentrate on my digi-scrapping. :) I made the following template: and here is the layout I made about my DD Hannah...





Here is a link to the template: http://www.4shared.com/file/142530256/50b6c5fd/dece5_oct09.html

If you download the template, please leave me a little love! :) If you create something with it, please send me a link to check it out!

Have a great scrappy day!
Dece

Still Scanning...

Okay, I totally lost my last post. Ugh.

I'm in the midst of a huge pile of photos, scanning like crazy. I'm trying to get my MIL's photos scanned before Halloween night, as I want to start writing my 50K words for the

http://www.nanowrimo.org/

National Novel Writing Month challenge

You can check out how far I've come at my profile page there:
http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/168497 or look for dayzeedesigns

I have a few templates that are waiting to be uploaded, so look for those coming soon. :)

Have a great week!
Dece

Get Meaningful - Dear Dominic

I was browsing through the Pubcalls - or whatever it's called now - newsletter and found this challenge, Get Meaningful on http://jessicabree.typepad.com/get_meaningful/2009/09/lesson-24-dear.html#comments


I took the moment to make a quick layout using a free template that I have downloaded, and some digital goodies I've downloaded. If you want to know the designers, I can figure it out, but seeing as I've already closed the file, I am being lazy. LOL





Here is my attempt at being meaningful...

Thanks for looking. Time to wipe the tears from my face and go take care of my baby boy. His ear infection is getting better, but he's still grouchy. ;-)

Dece

Scanning Mode

I have been in "scanning mode" for everything lately. I am in the midst of a big project: scanning the photos, negatives, and slides of my own family as well as my husband's family. Ahh, what's a few thousand photos, right? LOL

Here is a layout I did last week of my sweet Dominic.

I will be back soon with another new digital template. :)

Dece

First Free Digital Scrapbooking Template

Well, I have done it! Below you will find a link to my digital scrapbook template, as well as a sample layout I created today using the template! :) Enjoy!

click for 4shared link: http://www.4shared.com/file/131549268/68263b27/dece1_sep09.html

here is an example of this template:

As I get more savvy with my program and with posting, I hope the layouts and the templates will become more involved and "professional". I used 2peas, Spring Chicken by The Queen of Quirk for the background papers and color palette.

Thanks for looking! :)

Dece

Life insists on Digital Scrapping

My life is up and down. A new baby makes it impossible to scrap with scissors and glue, so I'm digi scrapping and I love the results! :)

I hope to learn enough about digital scrapbooking to create my own papers and embellishments, but until then, I will use the vast collection of digi-scrap materials I've collected. I also will be posting links to the layered templates I make while scrapping.

I hope you are recording your memories, whether blogging or making darling scrapbooks, it's all important in sharing your family history.

- Dece

Been Out of Commission

I just wanted to post a quick note... As you can see I've been out of commission as far as scrapping goes for MONTHS now. If you check my myspace blog you'll see that it has been a rough 3 months or so and everything has taken a back-seat to medical drama... Blah.

I had even been asked to make paper piecings and had to turn down the job. I haven't had time to make dinner, let alone do anything crafty. It is hard! :(

So, that's my scrappy life right now... Out for the moment.

And I had such high hopes to get to scrapping when my kids started school last fall. Sigh...

So, it's genealogy and writing that get my moments of creativity. In the car, waiting in hospital rooms, and occasionally a trip to the library... But I miss paper. I miss glue. I miss photography and all that it entails.

I will come back to scrapping eventually. It's just going to take time. (and thankfully, photos and paper will wait for me!)

Love, Dece

Mini-books ROCK!

I love little books. I feel like I can sit down in one afternoon and make a whole book, start to finish, and have something done at the end of the day...

This week I have three auctions going...

Pre-School Chore Book (Girl) - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=140175518806
Pre-School Chore Book (Boy or Girl) - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=140175576130
Life is GRAND Grandma's Brag Book -- PERFECT Size for a purse! - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=140177409934I just love the mini-size of the brag book! They're perfect for Grandma's who are "on the go"... I think there are some Grandma's in my family who will be getting books like these of what makes life "GRAND" for Christmas. :) (Now, to get cute candids or beg for wallet sized school photos... which will be easier to get from my family to put inside?) The little books are PERFECT for wallet sized photos!!

I hope your Halloween was filled with sweet treats! Now, to get ready for my most favorite holiday.... THANKSGIVING! Yum!

I am also attempting to take the National Novel Writing Challenge this month, which explains why my blogs (and my laundry!) are not up to date. ;-)

Have a great weekend!!

Dece - dayzeedesigns

Farewell to July...

Happy Saturday Morning! It's the last Saturday of July 2007. I thought I'd relist a couple of layouts I'd made this month with ultra low prices... I scrap 8.5 x 11, so they're going to just collect dust here for me... So... bid away! ;-)

I have 5 auctions up at eBay right now. Two were listed this morning, others end late Sunday. If you have a moment, check them out!

Fun in the Sun PreMade Scrapbook Page -http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140141121724

Pre-School Chore Book 1 -http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140141119511

Household Chore Book for Kids or Adults - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140140859362

God Bless America - super cute Karen Foster accents! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=140142753819

Daddy & Me 2 for 1 Special - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140142762549

I have a 2page layout that has to be done before midnight, but chores to do, too. Eek! I've been putting off this layout all week and now I'm down to the wire. Plus, I've got a lunch date with my mom... Oh boy do I know how to procrastinate or what?!? LOL

Wish me luck!

Dece - dayzeedesigns

Scrapping with my eyes closed...

Well, right now I'm typing with my eyes closed, anyway! ;-) Staying up till 3am last night is catching up to me. Even listening to New Wave from the 80's as I type is not working... Sleep is overcoming me! Oh no!

Here are 2 layouts I finished today... One is for ScrapLove, the other is for the 3 Bugs sketch contest. I'm not crazy about the 3 Bugs one. Some elements I really like. Other things I'm not digging. Oh well. Like I said, scrapping with my eyes closed, what do I expect?!? LOL





I have another layout to do for ScrapNCircle and then I'll finish this little book I'm working on for eBay.

OOOOOOoh, I won first place at CreativeXpress http://www.creativexpress.com/community/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=21927&cat=532 for July! I'm so excited!!
That's enough to make me open my eyes a little!!

ANyway, I'm going to bed. Have a great weekend!
Dece - dayzeedesigns

Chore books and other "stuff"

Now that the Spam-bots have unlocked my blog, I am once again free to blog away! That was highly annoying to want to come here and share sketches, share my ideas, on and on and on... anywhoo... I am a real person with a real blog! LOL

I have 3 auctions up at eBay right now. I am also
taking special orders and up for adding specific
chores to the books -- for instance if your family has
a prayer time or bible study, gardening, etc. Feel
free to email me.

Fun in the Sun PreMade Scrapbook Page -
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140141121724

Pre-School Chore Book 1 -
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140141119511

Household Chore Book for Kids or Adults -
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140140859362

Here is a sketch for the week, too... (I had trouble with photobucket this week, too... I have no idea what my problem with computers is right now! LOL)


This week I have 2 layouts I need to complete for scrapping challenges at ScrapLove and ScrapNCircle. I'm struggling to find time and inspiration for both. Today's my DD's birthday and so I've got a lot to do with that... as well as my usual scrap for hire and household duties. Can you believe my husband and children want to have (gasp!) three meals a day AND snacks thrown in? I know! Don't they know how to put a HotPocket into the microwave? LOL Anyone ever heard of cold cereal? Toast? But once in a while I *do* need to eat, too. I have noticed that on days that I eat more regularly, I lose weight. I have to keep my blood sugar stabilized.

Again, if you haven't signed up for the EASIEST CONTEST IN THE WORLD, you only have FIVE MORE DAYS to go to ScrappersAnonymous and enter the Stampboard Contest-- The EASIEST CONTEST EVER. You should do it!  The stampboard is a fun new product and you'll get to try it for FREE. Who doesn't love free SCRAPBOOK PRODUCTS?...

I love comments and emails... feel free to leave me a smilie... let me know that someone is reading! ;-)

Dece - dayzeedesigns

The World's Easiest Scrapbook Contest!

There is a really fun, really EASY contest going on at this site... CHECK it OUT!

World's Easiest Scrapbook Contest

Everyone wants free scrapbooking stuff, right?  Here's an opportunity to get some!!

It's going to be a lot of FUN! So come on! You can win a great prize and it's as simple as saying "I'll Try That!"

See you at ScrappersAnonymous!

Chores and More Chores

I have been busy scrapping this week! I've got new layouts up for auction as well as an ADORABLE Chore Book that is looking for a new home. I originally made a chore book for my girls --


And they worked so well I thought I'd make another to share with another family! You can see the layouts and my cute new chore book in the following auction links...
Daddy and Me - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140138342947
God Bless America -http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140138342651
Disney Magic - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140138342198
Beach Babes - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140138341932
Happy Birthday 2 You Floral - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140138332083
You Color My World - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140138337952
Chore Book - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140138299593

Thanks for taking a moment to look at my auctions. I relisted some from last week with lower prices -- please bid! ;-)

Have a great day!
Dece - dayzeedesigns

Summer Scrappin' Contests

Well, I've gone ahead and signed up for 2 - multi-week contests at two different sites. What am I thinking?!? LOL I've got kids home, paper crafting for hire to do, as well as the usual around the house stuff to do... But I want to scrap sooooo much and I know this will motivate me! So... I'm doing it!

I'm signed up at... ScrapNCircle http://www.scrapncircle.com

and ScrapLove http://www.scraplove.com

If you're in need of motivation like me, come on over and join in the fun! Oh wait! DON'T join! I need better chances to win! ;-) Nah, I'm kidding. Come over and get your scrap on!

Okay, I told myself that I was coming to the computer to write a quick email and then I'm back to the giant pile of laundry, so I must go back... HELP! LOL

Have a happy, scrappy day!
Dece - dayzeedesigns

I discovered BRUSHES!

Well, I suppose for the non-digitally scrapbooking challenged (and photoshopping experts) brushes are not a big revelation, but I finally found a tutorial online this morning and "figured it out". Gosh, where have I been?? LOL

So, I made this sketch to *hopefully* inspire you (and ME!) to scrap this week. I'll have to do some reverse printing on the computer to get nice flourishes as I'm all out of pre-made ones... But what good is an x-acto knife if you're afraid to use it, right?!?



Now that I've used an entire morning on the computer, it's time to get started on my day... Those pesky mountains of laundry are still there... and GROWING!

Have a great day!
Dece - dayzeedesigns

Too busy to scrap? Let me help! :)

I've got 8 - 12 x 12 layouts up at auction tonight and another one on my table ready to photograph and upload. I've got another on my table that needs to be assembled. I'm on a mission... ;-)

Here are the links to my auctions...
Fun in the Sun - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140136087875
Daddy and Me - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140136089021
God Bless America - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140136091084
All Star - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140136092080
Disney Magic - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140136093153
Dad can Fix Anything - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140136094647
Beach Babes - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140136096542
So Happy Together - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140136097991

If you have a moment, check them out. I'd love your feedback!

Now I'm off to watch the shows that I've DVR'd this week and crawl into bed! HURRAY!

Love, D

Scrappy Challenges

Challenges and contests keep me scrapping and creating when my everyday "life" is chaotic. I am both surprised and relieved that June is almost over! Six more weeks until the kids are back in school and I can get back into a "normal" routine for me which includes quiet time to create.

However, there are some fun challenges at Scrappers Anonymous that have pushed me to create, as well as having the opportunity to teach a mini-class at Church. Come and check out the challenges at SA...

The card challenge:The Card Challenge

The Use Your Scraps Challenge Use Your Scraps Challenge

And I am going to enter another 8 week scrapping challenge at another site... I'll post my details and layouts as I create... Here are the cards I made for Patty's Card Challenge! (Keep in mind I am NOT a card maker! LOL)







I plan to get back to paper piecing and making layouts... But right now, I have to let the contests and challenges push me. I've been writing fiction -- my mind is brimming with ideas -- and when I'm like this, I am not just compelled to write... I have to write or I lose the story!

BUT this morning I'm going to look through my Tracy White Photography for Scrapbooking book again before I head to the pool. I want to capture some great photos of SUMMER. It's definitely summer in Arizona.

So, I wish you happy scrapping AND if you have a moment, come by ScrappersAnonymous and check out the challenges and contests!