Halloween is getting closer

These kits from Meagan’s Creations and Scraps By Andrea really put me in a trick-or-treat mood. The first thing I want to tell you about today is this Halloween word art pack from Meagan’s Creations. I used the lil’ spook art in this layout of my cousin.   I also used the Nothin’ But Treats kit form Scraps By Andrea to make that layout. I’m in love with the candy corn paper, and the candy corn alpha is super amazing, too. I was sad I haven’t had a chance to use it, yet. This layout features the Myers family. They are such cute kids!

I have a little freebie to go along with this kit: the little cat vignette above! You can download the PNG from 4shared HERE. It shouldn’t take that long of a wait since it’s a small file.

I really appreciate everyone’s comments this week. I have given out a freebie every day this week and I have enjoyed reading all the love.

Boys will be Boys and It’s a Girl Thing

Meagan’s Creations got really carried away, but who am I to complain. The boy and girl kits she came up with are fantastic! The colors are bright and fun and the elements are easy to create with. You can even get BOTH kits in a pack for $5! Only have boys? No worries, she has separated the packs and you can pick them up separately as well.

 

While you are at her store, you should check out some other cool things she has, like this word art pack made for kids. 

The page above is made with KnittinJen’s Chawndelle’s Ellies kit, which I will tell you about later this week. 

Do you like the glasses page above? It’s made with the “It’s a Girl Thing” kit and Template pack 4 from Meagan’s Creations. It’s also your freebie today! Click on the image to download.

Missing my Hubby

It’s been 179 days since my husband has been home. I got to see him with the kids over the July 4th weekend and before that, alone, over Memorial day. Both weekends were spent in New Orleans, closer to where he was training. It was amazing to be together. I miss him terribly. I don’t know how much longer he will be gone, but definitely next year. Meagan’s Creations has a Love Word Art pack out that I think is totally gorgeous. Great masks and swirly titles and such. So beautiful.

For this layout, in addition to Meagan’s Word Art, I used a kit from Manda’s Scrappin’ Creations that was given as part of the September 2010 Color Challenge at the Stuff to Scrap forums. I love the forums there. Great challenges, great ideas, and great freebies. I only needed to participate in one speed scrap long ago to know it was a rad place to be. What post of mine would be complete without a freebie? I love to give you freebies. It makes me happy to read your kind words in the comments and to see the numbers stack up on 4shared after a few days of them being posted.  I especially love you other 8.5x11 ladies. We got to stick together! I do these for you! So without further ravings on my part, here are your quickpages. 8.5x11, and 12x12, because I love you square scrappers, too.

Word Art from Meagan’s Creations in the store

Meagan’s Creations has a new word art made with scriptures from the Bible and Book of Mormon. My personal favorite is “be though humble”.  As usual it is a beautiful word art pack! To play with this set, I found a picture I loved of my joy boy. I cropped it in really close, and added a vignette I gave away last year. You can get that here.  I changed the black word art to white using the brightness/contrast control in PSE. I turned the brightness all the way up and viola! It was white. Super simple and classy page (okay, maybe not so classy with a toddler, but a wedding pic maybe?)

Use it or Lose it

I have never participated in the Use it or Lose it Challenge at Stuff to Scrap before, but it is fun! The premise is that you get a new mini-kit and you have to use every single piece in your layout. Jenasis Designs is hosting this month and as the most amazing kit to work with called partly cloudy. It has a totally in style color palette with the turquoise, yellow, and gray. The lines are pretty modern, too. This layout also features word art from Meagan’s Creations. It is called Baby’s First and it is full of cute word arts for baby’s first steps, first foods, first bath, and the like.