Decals - Freebies

Good Afternoon, All;

I am running out of time so I won't keep you but a minute.
As promised, here are those decals that Sara made.






Download them all in one file HERE

Tomorrow I will have some doodle frames for you and the following days I will have some papers for you.

I have to go, time keeps on ticking LOL
Enjoy your download and your day.
Huggins
Pat

Ella Lifted - Freebie

Howdy, All;

Whew, are we all having a wonderful week? I hope you are. Today I was home taking a rest from all the who ha when Sara came by for a visit. Sara is the lady who use to live in the building several blocks away from me and had the issue with the noise and moved out. She dropped by to give me some good news; they will be moving back into that building in July. The building was sold to new owners after the Super was sued in a class action suit by the tenants and won.

After Sara filled me in on all that news she then asked me to show her some computer and scrapbooking tips. We then spent the better part of the day having fun. From that fun, Sara made some things she wanted me to pass along to you. She said to tell you she is no pro and just likes to have fun.
These are a few of the things she wanted to do: make decals that had jelly like edges (see thru), how to make a template she could use over again, and how to make a quick pages. I showed her a couple of techniques for each of these and she went off like a whiz.
The day is never as long as we want it to be LOL so she didn't have the chance to get everything completely finished so I told her I would get what she did finish out tonight and the rest I will finish up and share tomorrow. Sound good, all? Okay!

One of the easiest ways to learn to make a layout is....scrap lifting. So Sara went online to some place, sorry I haven't a clue where, and saved an image to lift. I have the image....Do you know where it's from, who it belongs to? Please, leave a note so I can credit and link back. It's beautiful. I can see why Sara choose it.

Update: The follow layout was created by Nikki Hawkins @ Sweet Shoppe Designs Gallery.
The gallery link is http://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=128280&cat=500&ppuser=1012

Thank you Sara for this info *mwah*

From it Sara made this layout...

And this quick page for you.
Click on the image to download.

A lot of teaching hours went into it. She made the flowers and the curly stems and used Corel's patterns and textures. She also made the pattern for the back paper from two paisley brushes. She did fairly well on it all for only her third try at digital designing. Now she knows how to make a template and a quick page. And she realizes it takes a lot of hours to do things from scratch :)

We did the decals first which is why she didn't finish them up for uploading. The lift took us the longest LOL In the time Sara was making the decals I was working on some papers. When I took a break I noticed Sara was making all these decals in the same colors LOL She forgot all about changing colors. We cracked up about that then took a break, came back and did the lift.

It was a fun day for sure. And I think she is just a bit hooked too so she will probably be back, lots LOL

Well I best let you all get on with your time. Thanks for dropping in today.
Enjoy your download and your day.
Huggins
Pat

DSO Sprout Mini - Freebie

After I kissed Joe off to work (hahaha) I was thinking about all the stuff coming up I still have to do, and it being Friday, and I probably won't be around for the weekend, and it being The First Day of Spring tomorrow........I have been slowly putting together a mini for the DSO cc called Sprout.....I might as well get it out to you today.
So I sat down, looked over what I had made already and put it all together for you. Then I noticed I forgot the eggs and did them after creating the preview LOL. I was just not up to doing the fences and baskets. Yup, I need me some sleep.
Jason will be here in 40 30 20 10 minutes to pick up Tyler and then they are going Sugar Maple Tapping, Hiking, and having an outdoor b.b.q. at a conservation area with the rest of his team mates. All boys/men. :)

Well I'm starting to fade so here's the preview to Sprout using Kim B's DSO CC for March.




Sprout consists of the following (for now)

10 ribbons, 10 eggs
6 canvas papers, 6 frames, 6 brads, 6 swirls, 6 bows, 6 butterflies
4 floral swags, 4 bunnies
3 leaf stems, 3 flowers
2 clovers
1 bird, 1 tree

Sprout comes in 2 parts....
Part 1 and Part 2

Well folks, I am going to bid you all a good day, enjoy your downloads and again Happy Spring.
Enjoy
Huggins
Pat

St. Pat's Mini 'n' QP - Freebie

Top of the morning, All!

Yes, I am a bit late with getting that out to you all. It has been a pretty busy week with loads of fun and we haven't even gone to the movies yet. LOL Hope you all had a Green St. Pat's Day.
I was online this morning, popping in and out while getting some house stuff done before heading out to Playdium for the day and I was able to read a few blogs and make equal thank you's to a few peeps. I am, of course, so behind. I finally finished burning 10 disc, kits for my auntie that she bought and photos, in the meantime trying to create and finish off a mini/quick page. Multitasking was my forte this week.
Last night I fell asleep during the last 5 minutes of the hockey game, can't remember what time that was, and woke up at 12:30 and couldn't for the life of me fall back to sleep. I think it was because my brain knew I had a project to complete LOL. So that's what I did. And the result is what you can take home with you today, if you like. Just click on the images to download.

Quick Page

Create your own pages with this Mini.

It took me awhile but its done and now it's just after 4 am and Joe will be getting up within the 1/2 hours so I must get breakfast started and start the day day hahaha. Will I make it is another story. Tomorrow we go see Alice. I am excited.
Oh, yes, before I forget and don't come back till next week LOL :) Tomorrow is..........

Happy Spring, All!

Huggins
Pat

March Break

Hello, Peeps!

It's just a bit past 10:30 pm and my Auntie just left after staying at our house for the week while her kitchen was being renovated. How I have missed MY computer these last few days. Every time she is here she totally hogs it and goes around buying stuff. Thank goodness she has no internet at home or she would be broke. Seriously. I have received 22 emails so far and I am waiting for 3 more. That is a lot of downloading and burning to disc, yah know! So next week, while Tyler is off for March break, I get to spent time doing that while my Auntie is off to the Bahamas to see her daughter for 2 weeks. Thank goodness Tyler has plans for the first part of the week. I would feel so bad burning disc while he vegged around waiting for me to do things with him during the day.
Joe is on days next week too so that gives us all the evenings to be together and go to hockey finals, and hopefully, I am crossing my fingers, we will go see 2 movies, Alice in Wonderland in I MAX 3D and Where the Wild Things Are (I remember reading that book as a kid). And of course we have to go to Playdium cause for 30 bucks the kids can have a lot of fun. I personally find it boring cause I am not into it. All I do is sit around most of the time. I was never an arcade or pool hall kinda girl. I play a few games but to me I would rather waste money on skiing (no snow, lots of rain thou) or a movie(see above) or (going to Micheal's and buying useful craft stuff LOL) then pluging it into some machine. It's not cheap either, some of these machines can start at 3 bucks a pop, for 1 game. Well at least the kids can have fun, kids can have fun just about anywhere, it's when they grow up into adults the fun changes LOL.
So again I am way behind on blog reading and getting any projects done for you all. My 365 pages are sorely lagging behind too; got all the photos thou LOL. Of course I do my art journal book every night before I go to bed, I would have to be so far out of it to miss doing that, like comatose or my hand isn't working, but it too is seriously lacking my creativity.
Hopefully this week I will visit some places that will peek some inspirations and creativity. Lets hope it doesn't rain all week either cause I sure could use some by the beach time to bring everything back into proper perspective.
Gees, time sure flies when your talking to yourself LOL, its nearing 11:30 pm. I best mosey on to bed. Time waits for no one.

Enjoy your day and March Break.
Huggins
Pat

Full 2010 Calender - Freebie

Hoot to all.

Just popping in real quick to reply to Jody.

I got ahead on that already when you asked before LOL
> see post 2010-calendar-freebie

Here's the download link to the Full 2010 Calender.

No preview image, sorry.

Enjoy your day.
Huggins
Pat

Feb DSO CC 2 - Freebie

Good Morning, All;

I am a bit rushed today. I woke up at 4 am with nothing to do but finish some of the items for the other 3 colours in the DSO Feb CC. So Here is part 2 of the DSO CC for February. Click on the image to download.



Now I have to head on over to DSO and post in the gallery and on the new forum before I head out. So I must bid you all a good day and enjoy your download.

Huggins
Pat

Feb DSO CC - Freebie

Good Afternoon, All;

It's been a while. I have been so busy with other things lately that I haven't had the time to do any designing. The boys went away this weekend and I thought I would have some time to catch up and actually play with my tablet and get my 365 pages done but Brenda showed up and my plans flew right out the window. The boys were suppose to come back tomorrow so I took some me time this afternoon to get a couple of pages done while I cook up a duck. At 3:30 Joe called to say they were heading back asap. I hope they make it. It's a snow storm out there right now. And we've got about 2 inches on the ground so far and it isn't letting up any time soon so snow, snow, snow.
So I made two pages, sort of. They are not complete and need some more work but from them I created a very small kit for the Feb DSO CC. Mind you I used 3 colors but it sure doesn't look like I did so i don't know if it will pass but its fun sharing.
This very small mini contains 2 papers, 2 frames, 2 snowflakes, 1 tree, 1 ribbon/band, and 1 alpha (no lower case lettering).
I read that a few of you wish winter was over already so I named it Winter Blues.
Click on the image to grab the link.



It's time to turn the duck so I will bid you all a wonderful day.
Enjoy.
Huggins
Pat

Happy Valentine's Day

Good Evening, Everyone.

How was your Valentine's Day? I hope the love was abundant throughout your day. We had a grand time strolling along the beach at sunset, dining, dancing, came home and watched Fast and Furious on ROD, now Joe is fast asleep. Me, I am just too excited. See I got a surprise from Joe and Tyler for Valentines. Totally unexpected. I am over the top. I draw, a lot LOL and they thought it would be really cool if the got me the package you see below. It's an HP Tablet PC. I can draw on it. I am thrilled I got it but as I think of the endless possibilities I wonder if I will stop doing my art books on paper? Will I toss my art brushes, oils, inks, watercolors, charcoals, chalks, pastels, easel, etc? What about my present 6x9 Wacom tablet? It's still in mint condition. Will it eventually collect dusk? LOL It's a bit bewildering. I've put a few programs on it already. I had PSP 11 laying around so I installed it and drew you all a very simple quick image. Nothing spectacular cause I am just learning to use the pen as a brush. It's going to be fun.

Here I have it all set up on the docking station.

It's portable so I can take it to the park and draw my little heart out :)

It's just after 11 pm now and I am yawning here so I best get my self to bed. Tomorrow is Family Day and I haven't a clue what the boys have planned but they tell me I will have a great time. How could I not. These two think out the wildest things to put me through and I always have a great time too.

Have a super Family Day.
Huggins
Pat

2010 Calendar - Freebie

Good Afternoon, All;

I am popping in real quick. I have to pick up Tyler shortly.

Jody commented that she hoped the rest of the monthly templates would follow. Well I was going to hold off and give them to you all one at a time, but why put off tomorrow what can be done today. So I converted them all into p.s.d files, zipped and uploaded them all.
I don't have a preview, no time, sorry, but they look similar to the Jan & Feb ones posted below. Oh, and I put them in the zip file too, so you can have the entire calendar in one place. Toss the others. The font I used was Black Jack. You can delete the text. I forgot to add that to the t.o.u.s.

Here's the link to the Full 2010 Calender.

Now I hate to run but the bell just rang.
Enjoy your download and your day.

Huggins
Pat

Layout and Templates - Freebies

Well I finally got my plain paper. Thank you Mandy. It's good to know I am not alone in my addiction and collection.

I am posting quickly as I have a plumber coming in to fix a leak in my sink drain.

This morning I upload the rest of the January templates and I uploaded a template for the months of January and February.

Click on the previews to download.





Okay, that's it from me for now.
Enjoy your downloads and your day.
Huggins
Pat

Ginger Scraps Party

Oh my goodness, I totally forgot... Ginger Scraps is having a Ginger Bread Ladies party!
...till Feb 4th. Talk about more fun then you can shake a stick at. And sales....loads. Check it out.

Huggins
Pat

Happy Birthday SSD

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEET SHOPPE DESIGNS.

Sweet Shoppe Designs is 4 years old today and they are having
1. a big sale in celebration. 34% off until Feb 4th,
2. a ton of fun to be had in the forum....all month long.
Check it out and have a blast.

http://sweetshoppedesigns.com/


I feel better after my long bath. The boys are still watching hockey. I am off to catch up. Hopefully I can make it through without craving .....you know.

Huggins
Pat

Paper Withdraw - Memory Scraps Blog Train

Yup. I am a plain paper junkie and I have run out of plain paper. You see I have to draw or write and I need my plain paper. Let me tell you I am going crazy. If your computer has ever crashed and you've gone through computer withdraw you can totally relate to what I am going through. One never knows they are a plain paper junkie until the paper is finished.
Tyler brought me in a pack of lined paper from his school stash and I am suffering with it. I don't care for lined paper but it's paper, right. So I should just be happy with it. But it's not the same. totally not the same. I don't need lines in my work, I don't want lines in my work.
You see I make art books with my plain papers like we make scrapbooks with our photos. I have been making my art books since I was 9 years old. I have the first song I ever wrote, the first picture I ever drew, the first poem I ever wrote, the first hand drawn card I ever made. And to go a day without a plain piece of paper is like breaking a toe or thumb and realizing just how important that digit is to the rest of the body.
Can you tell I am going wacky. Heck, I am here telling you about it, like therapy, I must get it out. But believe me the only cure is plain paper. I so need it. I tried doing other things, honest, but I found myself needing paper, to write stuff down. I went for a walk to Helen's before the hockey game started hoping she would have paper since my corner store was out of paper, and I had a thought and couldn't write it down. Helen had no paper either but she wasn't going through any symptoms of withdraw. I phoned my cousin, not home. I am usually ahead of the game on stuff like that. I always stock up and usually have a full box while I am using the last pack. I thought I told Joe last week I needed paper, I think I even wrote it on the shopping list, but he says he doesn't remember paper being on the list. The list is garbage so I can't prove I wrote it down. Like it matters that I prove it. Yes I am going insane. Insane I tell you. Insane.

So I thought I must put my mind to something else so I went on line and read two whole blogs and poof, I needed paper. Now I must retain all the stuff I want to put on paper in my brain till Joe gets me the paper tomorrow. That is a lot to retain I hope I can do it, I have never had plain paper withdraw before and I hope I never will again. In fact I am going to mark that as a priority; 2 boxes of plain paper will now be stashed in our house at all times. And when 1 box is finished I'll get another. Never again will I be out of plain paper, Never. Never. Never.

Okay, so now you know.

And here some other exciting news.....

Memory Scraps has opened their store and they are having a blog train celebration.
Check out the blog for the train, pop into the store for their grand opening sale and say hello in the forum and see who the new designers are.
You can get to all the places mentioned above by starting here http://www.mscraps.com/

The boys have been wrapped up in the Hockey Day in Canada event since noon and they don't even notice me LOL So I am going to go and have a long hot bath and listen to some music. And perhaps, just maybe, Joe will go up to the 24 hour grocery store once the events are all over and buy me some plain paper.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone.

Huggins
Pat

Cuddlebeez & Just So Scrappy - Check it Out!

Some Scrap News.....

Brenda of Cuddlebeez Scraps has a new blog for her new Creative Team to display and tell you about her scrapbooking products. Please drop in a check it out. There are some gorgeous kits already up for your viewing pleasure and some awesome layouts by her fantastic team. Brenda will also be starting a Newsletter so don't forget to sign up for that as well.
http://cuddlebeezscrapsct.blogspot.com/


Also...
Katie of Just So Scrappy has opened a new store and if you drop in before the 1st of February and make a purchase you'll get 25% off the already low price. Visit her blog to get the coupon code and learn more about her new store. Katie will also be starting a Newsletter so sign up for that as well.
http://justsoscrappy.blogspot.com/


Sonia, I am so glad you finally got them all. I hope you have a lot of fun creating with them.

Oh, the update on 4shared....I almost forgot...LOL...there are still a few glitches but they now have a 'click here' if the download doesn't take, which has worked great for me so far. I only missed one download yesterday (5/6) and I think it was because the server was really busy so I'll wait till it's not and try again, but aside for that one, all the others I downloaded have worked...Yeah!

Tyler and Joe will be looking for me any minute now so I will bid you all a good night.

Enjoy your day.
Huggins
Pat

Scrap Designers - Oh Yeah

Hello Scrap-pers;

First; imchrists, did you finally get to download the sets? Please try again. File sharing sites are topsy turvy depending on the time of day. Mind you I still can't download some files I have been trying to get for the last couple of days from 4shared. Keep me updated if you don't get the sets, please. thanks.

Anon; I noticed there were 2 servers down at 4 shared. Anyone who uploaded and had their files loaded onto those servers can kiss them good bye. If you check out the 4shared forum you'll notice a lot of people complaining in there LOL
And here's a funny...I use Firefox and I block 95% of the crap that tries to get threw, so I go to get a download from the 4shared China server and it stops in the middle of the count down so I have to enable the entire page in NO SCRIPT just to get it to continue and then poof, it refuses to give it to me. Totally useless and a waste of time. Thank goodness I clear my browser cache too because no matter how many times I removed the China cookies they just kept coming back, on their own, without even being on site. Eventually I went off line and cleared it and poof they were history.
If you can work on your computer off line without any issues then your computer is fine.

Okay folks the reason I dropped in today was because it's Thursday and I have the rest of the day to play, until 8 pm that is, that's when Tyler comes home from hockey practice.
So I am off to read some blogs, lord knows how many reader has in there for me, and hopefully say hello to some of you in the comments. Plus I need to reorganize the reader as I want some of the people I subscribe to visible here on the blog and to do that I have to manual add them to blogger. So I will say adieu for now and keep a look out for the added blog links on the left.

Enjoy your day.
Huggins
Pat

20 Templates - Freebies

Good Evening, Scrappers.

I feel I have neglected you all so much lately that I thought I would share with you some templates I created from some of the layouts I have made so far this month.

I have been really busy with family stuff, kid stuff and community stuff and some days I only have an hour or so to play before I am off doing one of the above.

Without further ado...Please find the links below the preview.



http://www.mediafire.com/file/imhfmyglzkz/btmo_jan_tps_set1.zip
20.13mb

http://www.mediafire.com/file/dcmfyzdymmm/btmo_jan_tps_set2.zip
23.29mb

http://www.mediafire.com/file/dygijwzzefy/btmo_jan_tps_set3.zip
38.19mb

http://www.mediafire.com/file/mycjdnnnomt/btmo_jan_tps_set4.zip
65.11mb

http://www.mediafire.com/file/0yy5td1wnym/btmo_jan_tps_set5.zip
20.42mb

http://www.mediafire.com/file/hmynmgkto2n/btmo_jan_tps_set6.zip
19.51mb

It's just after twelve here and I am nodding. I hope you find some use for these.

Enjoy.
Huggins
Pat

4Shared Issues

Hello, All.

I finally finished reading 1001 blog posts after 3 days LOL I missed so much. Sometimes I wish the clock would stop ticking for a while but there's no chance of that ever happening. Life goes on without me LOL
Today I went to get 3 downloads from 4 shared, first time there in a couple of weeks, and I got several issues. I checked the site for any notes on these issues and could find nothing yet. So I thought it best to give you all a shout and let you know that there are some issues you should be aware of if you haven't noticed them already.
My first encounter with a download went threw all the motions until the download came, then I waited and waited and waited and poof, the page changed and no download appeared for 5 minutes so I gave up.
My second encounter with a download went threw all the motions until the download came, then I waited and waited and waited and poof, it went to a page that claimed the server had reached it's limit Huh? Unlimited, I thought LOL
My third encounter with a download went threw all the motions until the download came, then it went back to the first page making me re do the counter down and then it had the nerve to tell me I was already downloading it. Really? Where the heck was it downloading too and why hadn't I selected to save it LOL
My fourth encounter told me to come back later and try again LOL I hadn't even tried yet.
So I gave up, saved the download links and tried again later only for it to fail again.
Then I waited some more, tried again and the link to one of the downloads came up dead, link not valid, like when the download is removed from the public.

It's now 7 pm and hockey is starting soon and the boys are ready to beat my buns. We got a bet going and I have to watch at least 2 periods so I choose the last two periods giving me time to catch up on the downloads I missed but that idea flew out the window LOL
So I guess I will just have to do some layouts for this weeks 365.
What's a scrapper to do but scrap :)

Enjoy your day.
Huggins
Pat

The Music in Me

When I was younger and off at camp in the summer, my favorite event of the night was singing around the campfire; next to eating those smore's that is LOL
I had several favorite songs I loved to sing back then but over the years some of them just slipped from my mind while other bore a lasting impression and you will find me singing them quite often, to myself mostly, when I am alone. Well I think I am alone...most of the time. I've been caught by the boys on a few occasions sneaking up on me. When Lady is around, and this at first surprised me, she will actually come and sit near me, listen with this sweet look on her face and eventually go to sleep. I'll be the first to admit I don't have the voice of an artist but I have whale d out a good one at times. Just ask the dog ROTFL
This is one of my favorite songs from those days.

Today

Today
While the blossoms still cling to the vine
I'll taste your strawberries
I'll drink your sweet wine
A million tomorrow may all pass away
Then I'll forget
All the joys that were mine
Today

I'll be a dandy
And you'll be a rover
You'll know who I am
By the songs that I sing
I'll feast at your table
I'll drink in your glory
Who cares what tomorrow may bring

Enjoy your day
Huggins
Pat

Welcome 2010 - 365 - No Sweat!

Howdy, Folks!

We hope you all had a safe, warm and happy New Year's Eve. Previous posts tell what we did LOL. We have found it much more relaxing and enjoyable to stay home for the big welcome then to travel here, there and around. I read that's the norm for most of us :) Besides we were all fast asleep when the ball dropped. LOL

January 6th, the last day of Christmas, Epiphany. Time to take down the tree, decorations and wreaths and store them for another year.
Although the holiday is over and school SHOULD have been back in on Monday, Tyler has been off due to SNOW. I doubt they will be back this week at all. All the more hockey to play and watch for Tyler and his buds.
I was wondering if the snow would ever come. It's been so brown around here. What is winter without snow. So many places around us had snow but we were getting none. Monday is started coming down, then stopped. I was disappointed. But an hour later it started again, then stopped, then started, and it's been on and off like that ever since. :) There is a a good 3 inches so far. It been quite a pleasant hit to our neck of the woods too. It hasn't snowed up a storm and drop a heavy load all at once. It's just coming in a half an inch at a time. That's our neck of the woods. LOL

Have you all started your 365 Projects? I finally finished our 2009 album. I haven't printed it out yet. I will be doing that in February as gifts for Valentine's Day.
I was reading some blogs tonight which told of the dread of doing such things and the disappointment of not completing a 365 project.
Here's an idea to save your sanity....take a look at the project in a different light.
Reduce the compulsion to take a picture every day because you feel like you have to. So you miss some days, it's no sweat, really. A 365 project doesn't have to be a picture a day. It can just be just a yearly album of the pictures you took for that year. You do take a ton of photos every year, right. Well there you go. 1 year = 365 days.
You don't have to scrap them all either. Printing the pictures and storing them in a 'hybrid photo cache' is just as fun and you can drop in note cards, dried flowers, tickets, anything you might want to keep.
The Hybrid Photo Cache is not something you can go to the store and ask for by that name but you can get them. It's just what I call my expandable folder cases. It's organization in a case. I use them for lots of things like bills, insurance papers, tax papers, receipts for purchases, etc. I even have a case for Tyler where I keep his medical records, birth cerificate, report cards, his baby teeth, hair, and other stuff. You can get them at Wall Mart, Ikea, any Stationary or Office supply store. Some scrappers even decorated them up or buy them with cool designs already on them. My Aunt uses recipe card cases for her 5x7 photos, notes and keepsakes.
Overall just take a new approach to your yearly album and enjoy it without the stress.

Look at the time. I best get to bed. I hope there is enough snow on the ground in the morning to build a snow person. Tyler and his buds promised me today that they would build some for me when there was more snow to build them with. So Let it Snow!!!

Thanks for stopping in.
Enjoy your day.
Huggins
Pat