Lilly's Day and a Commercial Use Freebie

I'm back, fresh from a day with the wonderful Miss Lilly. That girl is so lively now that she has found her feet!! Oh to have that amount of energy all the time...what bliss!! On the days that I'm blessed with my little Cutie everything else stops....she needs your undivided attention or she is off exploring!!

She thinks the baby walker is for wimps or babies and she of course is neither of those..oh no, not for her the safe and cosy way!! She grabs the tray and pulls her legs up and next thing you know she is swinging head first...straight towards the floor...legs frantically pushing her downwards...eeek!!

She can crawl at the speed of light and then it's a rapid pull of the arms and she is standing up and seeing what she can grab!! She has just gone off to bed after her bath...mind you she didn't go quietly!! But it was a busy day and eventually exhaustion won out and things have gone silent...for now!!

Tonight I have a commercial use freebie, a grayscale textured frame plus a dressed up example.

 

 

You can download them here

Now for some terrific layouts! This one has the coloured photo as the background and it works really well. I love the word art and journaling and the photo in the corner is a great reflection of the background! A brilliant job Kim!!

Credits: Simple Things kit by Cen's Stuff
Template 5 by Kylie M Designs
Photos by Kim
Fonts used are - Promised Freedom, Kingthings Annex

What little beauties from Linda, both the page and the those lovely girls!! I love the torn paper as matting and she has made that frame look really good!! Great job!

Credits: Kit Used - Flora's Dream by June Schutrups aka Cen'Stuff
Template by LindaJD
Font's Used - Vivaldi / Rough Typewriter / University Roman

Credits: Little Weeds by June Schutrups from Cen´s Stuff.

The template is also made by Cen's Stuff

The journaling has some bible verses of Psalm 139.

And last but not least drop by Jessica's new blog, The Scrappin Squad, as she has a great freebie for you too! It's a celebration freebie!! Don't forget to leave her some love!!

 

Time for me to go as I spoke too soon, saying all was quiet on the Miss Lilly front....she has decided that she has had a nap and now she wants up. I'll have to have a little word in her ear and advise her of a few facts of life! So bye for now.

 

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Commercial Use Friday

 

Rain, rain go away, come again an other day! If only it would!! Today has been horribly cold and windy, plus very wet...yuck. I have been soaked twice today as there was no avoiding going out. My poor car thought it was on the beach as the water splashed over it's roof from passing traffic and it waded through huge puddles.

I had hoped the weekend would be better as I wanted to go for a forest walk...but instead they have issued a severe weather warning about the rain..so it's in the dry for me this weekend!!

Today's Commercial Use Ok Freebie is just Bits and Bobs. You have a border, a stitched heart patch and a stitched button strip...all for you to use your imagination on. The download includes templates in psd and png files plus the examples. I hope you have some fun playing with them!

You can download Bits and Bobs CU here

Stop Press -I've taken over the Flavour of the Month Challenge at Cottage Scrapbooks from Stella and I know I'll have some fun with that in the next few months. I love colour...(in case you hadn't guessed, lol!) so this is the one for me.

This month there is a choice of 4 palettes, all nature inspired. The idea is that your layout reflects the current month in your neck of the woods. September here in England starts the swirls of the first falling leaves with rich coloured berries in the hedgerows, empty nests and that mist that hangs over fields and hills every mornings. You can almost smell the seasons changing!! That is if it's not raining!!

There's a little posting bonus too - so drop by and join in the fun!!

Find out more about the Flavour of the Month Challenge and get this posting bonus!!

I off to get something to eat and finish getting warm!! I'll see you Sunday with an other tutorial..so pop in and have a look! If there's anything you'd love a tut on just drop me an email and I'll try and fix something up!!

Have a great weekend!

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CU Freebie and News of a Sale!!

This week has been as they say "one of those weeks"! Lilly went home on Thursday...complete with sore bottom..nothing that I or the pharmacist did would shift it!! So I'm hanging my head in shame!!

I tried pink cream, white cream, yellow cream..but not a change!! I tried lots of fluids..thorough washing...with baby soap and then changed to without, just water, lots of water, wipes, no wipes!! Multiple nappy changes, leaving it open to the air etc...I think you get the message!!

It must be her teeth, or is that wistful thinking? Why do some of them get such bad nappy rash then? She's had the mouth stuff and cream for thrush but still it's there....it's indestructible!! Poor Lilly she looks like she has been in the wars.

Just before she went I lost my Internet connection. I didn't worry to start with as I was too busy to get a chance to use it anyway, but when I checked later...still no Internet...grrr!!

I called my provider and my call went through to India...yep India. I explained the problem I was having and eventually we were both on the same wave length...it took a bit of time but we got there. The man was very nice and after several hours and calls I finally got back online.

The world is a funny place when it is more cost effective for companies to send their calls halfway around the world to be dealt with! But if it works then I'm not knocking it.

There is so much going on at the moment, lots of planning and a few surprises in the pipeline for you...so watch this space!!

If you like a great bargain then check out my store at Studio Style Designs this weekend. Saturday and Sunday everything is 50% off and I mean everything!! There is a sale in the whole store at the moment but Saturday and Sunday I have marked to set my designs at a real discount, so don't miss it!!

Today's freebie is Commercial Use OK. It's something that I have been working on, layered tag templates. They are great to have in your stash, then when you want a tag just dress it up with styles or papers and each time it's different!

The download includes the example tag, a layered psd file and png files. So have a go and see what you come up with.

You can download it here

I love seeing other peoples layouts and I am lucky as I get to see some beautiful ones. Take a look at the fantastic extraction on this photo...those hula hoops must have been fiddley!Great work Tracy, you did a brilliant job!! A fun layout with lots of colour detail, I love it!!

Credits: Simple Things from Cen's Stuff

Kat's card is one of the cutest I have seen and I would certainly love to get one like this!! I adore those photos and the choice of Alpha is just right!

Credits: Purrfect from Cen's Stuff, Template by Dracy Baldwin, Cardboard Alpha by Jasmin-Olya

Well, time for me to go but I'll be back tomorrow with some thing nice for you, so drop by and check it out!!

 

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New Stuff and a CU Freebie Too!

The world has gone mad!! I was working on an idea for a kit and was explaining about the idea to my DH. Basically when I was a young child and still living in Scotland there was a children's rhyme "Wee Willie Winkie".

This is how the rhyme goes:

Wee Willie Winkie running through the town, Upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown. Chapping at the windows and crying through the locks "are all the children in their beds it's past 8 o'clock".

I thought that this would make a good basis for a kit, with a little boy in a nightgown carrying a candlestick etc. I had all sorts of pictures and word art in my head.......all cute!! But then my DH said.."You can't call it that!!". Shock, horror!! That would be so un-PC.

I'm afraid that I am perhaps not as aware, so to speak as I should be and political correctness goes over my head most of the time. "Can you imagine the search engines picking that up" he kindly pointed out..."they'd assume it was something not very nice!!"

Just to wind him up I replied "What do you mean..not very nice?". OK, so he was not amused or fooled by my apparent stupidity.

But what is happening to the world..it's a nursery rhyme!!! But OK, I've taken onboard what he says and I won't do it. He did suggest that I called it Little William....but I never was one to compromise on something I saw as a principle...not even a small one like this!!! It's Wee Willie Winkie or nothing!! So I have shelved the idea...the world is not ready for it!So I'll just stamp my foot and have a tantrum instead!! Lol!

Apart from my rant,  there's news of new things in my store and things to come, plus a commercial use freebie too! So read on!

Today's freebie is personal and commercial use. I had so many comment on the stamped borders that I decided to play around with stamped frames. I have made a few for the shop but I thought I would share some of the others with you.

 

You can Download the Stamped Frames here

I'm really excited - today my new kit went in the shop at Scrappin Digi Kreations and yes...it's 40% off until next Friday!! Can't put my finger on it but I really love this one...It's just what it says..simple. But that makes it more versatile.  Take a look - the kit consists of 12 papers and 30 elements: 4 frames, 4 bows, 4 flowers, 4 flower brads, 1 rikrak, 5 ribbons, 4 journaling blocks, 4 buttons.

You'll find it here 40% off

And my new Commercial use overlays (preview in yesterday post) are 40% off too..so drop by and take a look at the crazy ones!!!!

Well, that's all for today folks..see you all soon!!

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You've Been Framed!

Good morning! Today's post is a hit and run job...but... I do have a Saturday freebie for you. But first I want to say a few thank you's. TI have to thank my wonderful CT girls for their hard work, talent and generosity. You did a brilliant job ladies on this months Ct Collab Kit...thank you!! You are the best!!

Secondly, thank you to all of you who have leave me comments. I really appreciate it, you make it all worth while!!!

Now two quick questions, I'm doing my own little survey, lol!! How many of you attend chats? If you do what are your favourites? Or if you don't, what is it you don't like about them?...Ok, so that was three questions, lol!

Now for the freebie....it's a stitched frame for commercial or personal use and includes the example shown, 1 grayscale psd and grayscale png files. The stitching in the psd file has a separate layer for the holes. Have a play.. change the colours, scale etc and have fun!! At least that's the theory..I hope you do!

You can download the Stitched Frame here

Have a great weekend and I hope the sun shines on you all! See you Monday!!

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Commercial Use OK Freebie and a Sale!

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Just a quick post tonight. I have one more freebie to post for this week and as 4shared played up earlier in the week, it has left me running late with the freebies.  So I thought I would post it before the weekend really started. I hope you have some fun playing with it!

It's a  flower today, a bit different from the last flowers and it's Commercial Use OK. The download includes the two coloured flowers plus a psd file in grayscale and png files in grayscale. Hopefully this means that more people will be able to use them and design their own flower.

You can download it here

Great news too if you like a bargain, check out my store at Studio Style Designs as everything, commercial use and new products included are on sale at 40% off this Saturday and Sunday!! So drop by and check it out!

My thanks go to all the people that have commented and emailed me about the horrid caterpillars, soon to be horrid moths!! I appreciate all the info and have accepted the fact that unless I want to kill off half the family with toxic pesticides, I have to let nature run its course and hope that the moths head away from the house...not into it..... when they hatch!!

Next week I am planning to decorate my kitchen and dinning room...that should be fun..not!! Hopefully it will be uneventful and boring but with me around you just never know, so watch this space! At the moment my DH is looking like a rabbit caught in the headlights....he hates decorating and tries to stay away from it as much as possible...especially if I'm doing it. It always brings disruption surprises...or so he says! Lol! But we shall see.

This must be my shortest post ever...told you it would be quick!! I hope you all have a relaxing weekend and take care of each other.

I Didn't Do It!

 

 

An other day and an other Paper Machine Pack!! By now your paper stash should be looking healthy!! Plus there is a little bonus...a Commercial Use goodie too!! But first........

Yesterday I was so good...you would all have been proud of me! I got up and splashed and swished my bathroom, changed my bed, got the washing machine on with the laundry and even got dressed...all before breakfast!!

By this time I was really on a roll and so I decided that my couches in the sitting room could do with some conditioning...they're leather. So, out come the cloth and conditioner and after lots of buffing and rubbing....it looked brilliant! Not long and the sitting room was looking a treat. I was so pleased that I decided I could now start work on the computer and have a guilty free day, lol! What a surprise those men would get when they came home...that sitting room would knock 'em dead!

Not long and my DH came in and decided to have a sprawl on the couch and watch some TV before he had lunch, it was his day off and he had gone and done some shopping so he felt he deserved a rest. Feeling rather smug I said nothing and waited for the comments and compliments. Nothing!! OK, I wasn't going to say a thing...grrr!!

Next thing I heard was a bang..strange? I thought I'd take a look...there he was half on the couch, half on the floor....ooops!! I got the gist of it, my rubbing and dubbing looked great, but it had proved just a tad slippery and his reclining had ended in almost horizontal. I was tempted to act innocent and tell him how clumsy he was...but you know what they say..honesty is the best policy. I gather he was not impressed with the brilliant finish from his muttering. Perhaps I'll ease up on the super housewife thing...it can be dangerous, well for others at least!!

Today's little bit of trivia is:

Did you know that bulletproof vests, windshield wipers, laser printers and fire escapes were all invented by women.  We're a clever lot!!

Download time!

You can download Paper Machine Part 5 in 2 parts:

Download Part 5_01 here

Download Part 5_02 here

 

The folded and twisted ribbons are for personal and commercial use. They are grey scale for you to recolour and the sample ribbons are included.

You can download the CU Folded and Twisted Ribbons here

 

That's all folks, I have to run..some work to get through and then the wonderful Miss Lilly is visiting! have a great day and be good!

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Wednesday Freebie, Commercial Use OK

Two frames and psd layered template file

Just a short post this evening but it's Wednesday and that means a freebie day again. Today it's two little frames in neutral colours for you..plus a psd layered template shape file for you to make your own frame using papers/colours or styles of your choice.

Commercial Use is OK. I hope you have fun playing with it!!

You can download them here

Some great layouts again for you to share..what about this one from Chris. I adore that alpha you used for the title and that flower is brilliant!! Love it, love it!! (no pun intended, lol!)

Credits: Happy Easter freebie(letters)Blossom and shine freebie(flower) and doodled paper hearts freebie from Kate Hatfield. Cens Stuff Country Check papers and Windy Washday Freebies(flowers) and bubbles freebie from Kim's Scrappin'

And what about this Boys Games....little cars and...yes the now traditional gaming hand piece, lol!! This is a clever mix of of kits and of high tech and traditional, great job!!

Credits: Pumpkin pie alpha- Boys mini freebie, Arrows and blog overlay(recoloured) and Graffiti Sampler frame all by Cens Stuff

Kim has used some wonderful colours and brackets in her challenge for this week. Ideal photos for this word art Kim, well done!! The photos have the girls faces whited out. A lot of people don't like their children's pictures on the Internet, I can understand this. Kim has made a Face White Out freebie and is offering it as a freebie on her blog. This means you can still share a layout without showing those little faces!! So if you could use this for your layouts, pop by and snag it. She also has some great Word Art for you as well.

Credits:Little Blossoms kit by June Schutrups aka Cen's Stuff, Brackity Template by Beth Long, Word Art by June of Cen's Loft, Face White Out - by Kims Scrappin'
Font used is Promised Freedom Font for the Face White Out is Vinque

Are these dogs gorgeous? Yes they certainly are. They look like two gentle giants. Jessica made this layout to remember her two dogs that have both now unfortunately passed on. But what wonderful photos to remember them by!!! The layout is wonderful Jessica and I love the way you have blended the edges of the photos!! Fantastic job!!

Credits: Chat Gift Papers 15 April by Cens Stuff, Ingeborg's Garden by Cens Stuff

Time to go!! Hope you have a great week and I'll see you again on Friday with a new freebie and lots of news!!

Doodle Frames - Commercial Use Allowed

My photoshop has died!!! Well, hopefully it's just poorly, lol! I tried mouth to mouth but no joy...boo hoo! I will reinstall it tomorrow after I have made sure I have saved all my plugins etc. So todays freebie is one I had already done and packaged. I would like to say I forward plan but my mother would slap me for telling fibs!!! Luck plays a large part here!! Lol!
It's a set of Doodle Frames, two ripped cardboard,one paper, colpete with doddle string and nail. There are three sets: one set neutrals, one set coloured and the third is grayscale (not shown on preview). These can be used for personal or commercial use. I hope you like them.
You can download them here

Tonight is my chat at SDK so drop in if you get a chance. Its at 4.30pm EST, 9.30pm GMT.


More of this weeks challenge layouts...you ladies are brilliant!! Thanks so much for playing along and for producing such fantastic layouts!! I adore Heathers, the colours are wonderful and those photos show just what fun they were having. Real precious moments that were shared, full of laughter! Great touch the purse hanging on that bead string Heather! Great job!!

Credits: 3scrapeteers Kit Girls - Know How To Have Fun

Our Kim has been really busy again this week but she still found time to do a challenge layout and it is a stunner! I love the "Riber", the is soo cute!! Great journaling and I love those brads!! Your granddaughter looks like she had a great day!! Wonderful layout!

Credits...challenge7 template by Cen's StuffThe kits used in this LO are from the DSO Feb. Color challengeblack paper & buttons from Feb Color Challenge Gift by Kim Broedeletphoto prongs by Angel PowellRose by Pat W - Sorry no blog linkheart by Belanna At Oddscorners & background paper by mefonts are OkrienHmk & Times and Times again

The next one from Cheryl is just beautiful! I really think this kit is perfect for this, it makes the layout soft and bright. Great choice!! And those photos..from tomboy to a little lady!! I love it!! Fantastic job Cheryl!!

Credits: Papers and Elements from Lollipop Shop from Kimberly Cameron

Now this little doggy won Eva's heart and you can see why! Zack was her birthday gift (after a little bit of pleading!) and what a gorgeous gift. Look at those big puppy eyes!! An other one that shows template challenges produce such a great range of personalised layouts, each with their own individual flair. I just love that flower!! Beautiful layout Eva!!

Credits: Scrappy Expressions Man's Best Friend kit, Font 2Peas Gimme Coffee

As I said Kim has been a busy bee and look at this she made Pixie Pick of the Day at DSO with this one! Congratulations Kim and what a great job you did !! It made me smile..that photo...the lady monkey was still not impressed...even after the flowers!! Typical of us women..not easily won over! Lol!

Credits...Kit used is Decades-1960 by Cen's Stuff Blog Template 9 by Misty CatoFonts are Flower & GroovyPhoto from the web

The CT girls are getting up to all sorts of fantastic thingsthis week! Checkout Chris, she has a super challenge on her blog. Read down in her post and she gives details of a challenge she has set herself. Its for digi or hybrid so read the post and halfway down you'll find the details. She has great prizes...a freeb digi kit plus a voucher!!! Worth entering!! So drop by and have a look.

Well, I need to go now and get some food before chat time. Take care and have a great weekend and see you Monday with a new challenge!!