Ice Cream Blog Train

I hope all you folks have an extra hard drive handy LOL

The third blog train to leave the station is the Ice Cream Blog Train hosted by a small group of friends over at Brownie Scraps. They are all ready to freely give you some gifts for your summer layouts.
So hop on board and begin your journey here.

Enjoy the ride.

Regards
Pat

Freebie - Julia Layout

Tyler is presently outside and guess what he is doing LOL Playing hockey! One would think that since the hockey season is over for him he would take up baseball or something other then hockey LOL But nope, hockey it is. Either way he has given me some time to do some web surfing and sharing.

I have only had the opportunity to download a few of the Spring Things mega kit offering and I haven't even touched upon the Spring Blossom mega kit offerings yet. I am totally behind on internet happenings and the visiting of my regular haunts. What can I say, life does not slow down and there are only so many hours in a day LOL

However, sharing is the reason for this post and Mandy from Mandy Made Digi-Bits has kindly given me permission to share the Julia layout I made with you all. She is so cool! Thank you Sweetie! mwah

Sharing is a wonderful thing but like so many designers have discovered, there are thieves lurking about. And designers abhor thieves. So in light of the truth of this matter I have opted to use Media Fire as my file host and to password protect my zip files.
What this means is that a thief can take my files but they will not be able to get the stuff inside without the password, unless of course they can hack the password with its 128 bit encryption. And if they want it bad enough they will hack away and I will gladly applaud them for only then will the contents be well deserving to them LOL
Anyhow, all passwords for my zip files will be found within the text of my posts. Therefore you have to read, or at least observe, where the password may be. Write it down or swipe it and save it to a notepad file.

Now I had intended to get this file up for aprilone but as I said, life got in the way and I did not have the time. But without further ado, I freely offer you my first layout, Julia 001.

Click on the preview to download

Now I hope I got all that done right. And I hope you found the password and saved it.
Now I will say so long for now and be on my way getting caught up with internet stuffs.

Enjoy your download and your day.

Regards
Pat

DST Blog Train

Yup that's right! Another train left the station yesterday and you are going to love this mega kit as well. You won't want to miss out on this one either.

Thanks to Mandy for reminding me about DST's April Mega Blog Train. This one left the station yesterday and it's called Spring Blossoms. There is a totally of 91 fantastic designers involved in this collaboration. So head on over here and start your way along the track to some more terrific freebies. And don't forget to leave them all a big thank you and some love.

I will be back later to give you a surprise.

Enjoy your day

Regards
Pat

ADSD Spring Things Blog Train

I woke up at 4 am and the first thing that popped into my mind was, Oh my goodness I forgot to tell everyone about the blog train. So here I am, eyes half open, giving you this fantastic news.

In January I came across a terrific scrapbook artists site by the name of Mags Graphics. After reading several of Mag's posts I discovered she belongs to a group of designers called the ADSD Group, a.k.a the Aspiring Digi-Scrap Designers. Every month this group puts their heads together and comes up with a theme and from that theme they collectively create a mega kit. This mega kit is totally free too.

Well this group is at it again this month with a collab kit called 'Spring Things' and for the entire month of April, 50 of these wonderful designers will be offering out this mega collaboration kit they put together.
It all starts today, April 1st 2009, and it's all for free. How cool is that!

So hop on board this months ADSD's 'Spring Things' Blog Train and start downloading this beautiful mega kit.
It all begins here at Mags Graphics
then you can choo-choo your way from there on over to the other designers blogs.

Don't forget to read their posts carefully because some of them will be offering out more downloads over the course of the month.
And please don't forget to leave them all a big thank you and some love.

Enjoy the ride.
Regards
Pat

My First Layout

For the past few days, as time has allowed, I began working on creating a few layouts with Mandy's Julia kit. After putting Tyler to bed tonight I finally finished one. This one is of Bella, my niece's dog. She is a Pomeranian Teacup and only 6 months old. She is so cute.

What do you think of my first layout? All suggestions are welcome.

I made a quick page of it. Do you think it's worth a download? If so, leave me a comment in my shout box and I will ask Mandy for permission.

It's almost time for me to hit the hay, (so to speak) so I will say, Good Night, Sleep Well.

Regards
Pat

What Fun!

Tyler went to play at his friends house after school so I have the opportunity to make a quick post before before starting dinner.

I have spent the better part of the day learning about Blogger and Google and the things I can do with them. I am having so much fun learning these really cool things. I even got a CBox. Now that was a hoot trying to figure out how to add it LOL but I finally figured it out; I needed to add the widget for html java script and with a few adjustments in the edit box, tada, it's done.

You can see I added my favorite blog spots in the Blog List too which also appear in my Google Reader. Now how cool is that. Now I don't have to blog hop to get the latest scoops on my favs.
I have only touched upon a few of the many things Blogger and Google have to offer and I am like a kid in a candy store LOL

I even got a comment today from Mandy from Mandy Made Digi Bits. I visit her nearly every day during the week. She is so cool! You should go and check out her site.

Hello, Mandy! Thank you for being my first commenter. mwah
I hope you have added me to your Follow List :)

Well there goes the timer. Yup, I set it so I would not forget to get cracking on dinner. Tyler will be home soon and there is nothing like a hunger boy.

Thank you for taking the time to read my post today.
Enjoy your day.

Regards
Pat

A New Beginning

Welcome to our humble web log. We are the Mossgate Family: Tyler, Joseph, Lady & I, Patricia.
Our blog, like many others, is our way of sharing our photos and stories with family and friends, in the fashion of digital scrapbooking pages.

I, Patricia, will be the writer and creator of our digital story.
I am fairly new to the art of digital scrapbooking which means I am just beginning to learn about this beautiful artistic craft.

Over the past few months, as time has allowed, I have had the opportunity to visit several sites of wonderfully talented scrapbook artists who have so graciously shared their creative works with the internet community. It is because of their gracious offerings that I have been able to start some scrapbook layouts using their items and to become more interested in the craft itself.
At present my goal is to scrapbook our photos with the eventuality of learning how to create items so that I can not only use them in our own layouts but also to give back and share with the community as was given and shared to me.

I am also new to web logging and at present I am learning how to be able to put my layout up on to the blog, set up the blog itself, etc.
With that all said, I will eventually post some thing. (I am learning the art of layout design this month)

That's about all I can said for now. I will write again in the near future.
Thank you for taking the time to read my first post.
Enjoy your day.

Regards
Pat