September Recipe Challenge...

       I hope everyone is having a safe Labor Day Weekend! It's a quiet one around here. College football is back (Fight On! ✌), after a "non-soon" here in our part of Arizona, we've been hoping for a little bit of rain.

  ****Edited 09-04-23---I just realized that I linked this to the wrong kit, the correct link is below**

   Marisa at DigitalScrapbook.com put up the Recipe Challenge for September (she lists the pieces needed, and you design around that). Here is my end results:

You can get my part Here

I hope you all enjoy it, have a good rest of your weekend!

Michele

Life moves faster than we imagine...

     I opened up my blog the other day, and I was honestly surprised to see that it was even still here lol. It's been almost 13 years since the last time I made a post. So much has changed, we've moved, moved some more, and then moved again. My kiddos have all grown up on me. One has gotten married and now has 2 of his own ( I am a VERY proud Mimi), another has graduated high school, and is almost 21, and this fall, our last two boys just started their Senior and Sophmore years. I guess time flies when you're having fun... but I really wish it would slow down just a little.

       I recently found a wonderful website, DigitalScrapbook.com, and am working my way back into my scrapbooking, both making layouts of my kiddos, grandkids, and furbabies. I'm trying my hand at designing again...we'll see how that goes lol. But, in that vein, Marisa at DigitalScrapBook.com, put up a Mini Kit recipe challenge a few weeks ago, and I threw my hat in:

You can find it here. Please let me know if the link doesn't work.

I made this desktop with this kit:

I hope to post more often, and maybe throwing some designing in here and there.

Have a wonderful Friday, and a safe weekend!

Michele

A new kit....

**EDITED 5/30/09**

Thank you for bearing with me! I think I've gotten everything fixed, please click HERE to go to the new post, with the new, fixed links. Thank you again!

Michele

**EDITED 5/29/09**

I wanted to thank you all for letting me know that the rar file isn't opening for some. I am in the process of trying to fix it, but because my computer is still out of commission and the original files are on there, it's taking me a little longer than I would like. If you download He's All Boy and have trouble opening it, please email me or leave a comment, and I will either email you back or leave a comment on your blog, along with posting it here, that the link and files have been fixed.

Thank you for bearing with me, and thank you again for letting me know there's a problem, I really appreciate it!!!

Good Evening all!

Hope everyone is having a good evening! It was a beautiful day here, high 70's - low 80's! I spent my evening working on yard work at my grandma's house.

Tonight I have for you the 3rd kit in a series that 3s_Enough and I are doing for our kids. The first was Brianna's Butterflies, then It's A Girl Thing, and now we have He's All Boy. It's a kind of grungy boy kit, but should be versatile enough to use for the tom-boys in your life also.

This kit consists of 19 papers, and 42 elements. The download is in 2 parts, one part here on my blog and the other is at Midnight Scrapping. You can click HERE to go to 3s_enough's Midnight Scrapping to pick up the part she has there.

Here's a preview of all the elements:

A full preview of the papers:

Here is what I'm giving here on my blog:

Click on either preview to download.

I'm sorry I don't have any layouts to share with you using this kit. I haven't gotten much chance to sit down and work on any.

I think I'm going to go for the evening, have a great night!

Hugs,

Michele

A layout, a link and a quick page...

Good evening all!

Hope everyone had a good week, and a great weekend!

My good friend 3's enough at Midnight Scrapping has put together another fun kit! My little miss Bri got chance to name this new kit and she called it The Color's In It. Click on the picture below to go to Midnight Scrapping and download this fun little kit. It has 10 papers and 19 elements:

I made this layout of my beautiful little niece from the kit:

And I've turned the layout into a quick page:
Click on the preview to download

Happy Scrapping!

Hugs,

Michele

Another great quick page from Midnight Scrapping

Good evening!

Hope you are all doing well and made it thru your Monday!

I wanted to share the link with all of you to the beautiful quick page that 3s_enough made with Brianna's Butterflies:

You can click on the preview to go to Midnight Scrapping and the link for this quick page.

Hope you all have a good night!

Happing Scrapping,

Hugs,

Michele

Brianna's Butterflies, a layout and a quick page

Good evening!

Hope you're doing well! I have a layout, a link to a great quick page by 3s enough, and a new kit!

The layout is of Miss Bri and her 'do for crazy hair day at school:

The template is a fun one from 3s enough at Midnight Scrapping, it's Template #168. The papers and elements are from the new kit I'm releasing tonight Brianna's Butterflies, you'll be able to see that and find the link a little farther down in the post.

Next I have the link to the great quick page that 3s enough has put together using Brianna's Butterflies, you can click on the picture to be taken to Midnight Scrapping for the link to it.

And last but not least.....

I started working on this late last summer, but hit a creative block. I was fortunate enough to get back on track again after some help from 3s enough. I'd like to thank her for her help, she's been a great friend and I really appreciate it!

Click on preview to download

This kit has a total of 14 papers and 34 elements.

I hope you like this new kit! I would love to see anything you make using this kit or any of the other freebies that I've offered on my blog. You can find my email address in the about me section on the right side of the blog.

Please remember... no hot linking! If you would like to share this with others, please share the blog not the files!

Happy Scrapping!

Michele

Summertime Friends Quick Page #2

Good Evening!

Hope everyone is having a good week so far!

I've made another quick page from Springtime Friends, the newest kit from 3s_enough at Midnight Scrapping:

click on preview to download

Here's a preview of the full kit:

Click on the preview to go to Midnight Scrapping and the link for Springtime Friends

This is the layout I made the quick page from. The pictures were taken of Nathan late last summer when he was learning to stand:

Thank you for stopping by! Stop tomorrow, I'm releasing a new kit that I had started last summer, and with the help of my good friend 3s_enough, have finally gotten finished!

Have a good evening!

Hugs,

Michele

Quick Pages and Layouts

Good evening!

Hope everyone had a good weekend! Ours was pretty quiet.

3s enough over at Midnight Scrapping is releasing a new kit tonight! It's a beautiful kit in greens and yellows, with ladybugs and butterflies that makes me wish for spring! Here is the preview for Springtime Friends:

This kit has 10 papers and 28 elements. Click on the preview to be taken to Midnight Scrapping to get the link to the kit.

I made this layout of Nathan with her kit:

The pictures were taken back in August during one of our thunderstorms.

I've also made my layout into a quick page, you can click on the preview to download:

Did you notice the blinkie I've got on right side of my blog? I'm proud to be the first CT Member for 3s enough and Midnight Scrapping!! Thank you my friend for asking me to be on your CT!!!

I hope everyone has wonderful evening! And please remember no hot linking!! If you'd like to share these with family and friends, share the blog not the files please!

Hugs,
Michele

A few layouts and a challenge...

Hi all!!!

I have a few layouts to share tonight and a challenge if you're up to it!

3s enough and I would love to see any layouts using the Adore kit. Those of you who submit a layout using Adore to either blog will receive this Add On for participating! Contest runs from Feb 15 to Feb 28 at midnight. Links will be sent out on March first(Sunday) via return email. You can find my email address in my profile to the right. We look forward to seeing your creations!

Here's my layout using the Adore Kit and 3s enough's Template #138...

Here is the preview for the Adore Add-on Gift:

The add-on includes:

5 Papers
2 Torn Papers
4 Word Arts
14 Elements

Here are a few layouts that 3s enough has done with both the Adore kit and our Add-on Gift:

This one is made with her Template #12

And this one is her soon to be released Template #165:

This layout I made using the add-on and 3s enoughs' Template #158...

I hope I get to see what you've made with our Adore kit!!

I'll try and post tomorrow with a few more layouts. Have a great night, and I hope to see your layouts!!

Hugs,

Michele

Adore Mega Kit

Hi all!

My good friend 3s enough over at Midnight Scrapping has asked me to work with her on another kit! We put together a Valentines kit that we are calling Adore.

My baby boy turned 1 a little over a month ago! ....Yes I'm a bad blogger....lol 3s enough challenged me to do a layout using both her double Template #13 and Adore. Here's what I came up with:

You can see the layout 3s enough put together as well as several other layouts she made with Adore, here.

All together this kit contains 32 papers, 70 elements and 9 word art! You can get the papers and word art here, and 3s enough will be giving the elements.


Here are the elements that 3s enough will be sharing on her blog Midnight Scrapping:

Click on the preview to be taken to 3s enough & Midnight Scrapping for her links.

The word art and papers are in 2 seperate downloads, so please remember to get both!!!

Here is the word art:

Click on preview to download


Here are the papers:

Click on preview to download

We hope you enjoy scrapping with this as much as we've enjoyed making it!
If you have any problems with any of my links, please leave me comment or email me at shelemcbee at msn dot com and let me know, so I can fix it as soon as possible!


Please remember.....no hot linking, if you like to share this kit with you friends and family, please send them here!

Thank you!!!

Hugs,
Michele

Holiday Traditions Add-on and a layout

Hi all!! Yesterday was Nathan's First Birthday!!! I can't believe he's one already, it seems like just yesterday he was born and we were bringing him home. We didn't really do much. We're going to have cake and family over next weekend, to space out a little bit from Christmas. I put together this lay out of his first year:

The template is from my friend 3s_enough at Midnight Scrapping, it's her template #142, although I did add a picture space to get all the photos in that I wanted. The paper in the background is from Ashalee Wall Design's Dirt kit.

I made a few extra word art as an add-on to the collaboration kit that I did with 3s_enough:



I did 3 additional word art, each one is in done in both silver and gold. If you'd like these, click on the preview to download. I occasionally paste the wrong link in, so if you have any trouble with the link please email me at shelemcbee at msn dot com.

You can find the previews and download links to our Holiday Traditions kit here for Part 1 and here for Part 2. 3s_enough will also be releasing an add-on on her blog, I'll add the link and preview for that when she does.

I think I'm off for the night, Nathan is sleeping soundly, now I just need to get Zack to bed. Have a good night!!

Hugs,
Michele

Holiday Traditions Collaboration Kit

*I have fixed the download link, I'm sorry it didn't work!! If you're still having trouble getting the link to work, please leave me a comment or email me at shelemcee at msn dot com*

Hi All!!

I am sooo excited to be posting this today!! I was asked by my good friend 3s_enough at Midnight Scrapping to help her make a holiday kit.

Here is what we've put together:

Here is the paper preview:

Here is a preview of the elements:

Full Kit Includes:
22 Papers
6 bows
6 ribbons
8 ornaments
2 metal swirls in both Silver and Gold
3 page borders
5 light bulbs
5 strings of lights
2 candles
4 tags
1 piece of tape
2 stockings
2 suckers
2 frames
2 clips
7 word art in both Silver and Gold
4 word art in both Red and Green
1 holly leaf

Here is the Preview of my Part, which is Part 2:

(Download no longer availible)

Here is the preview of Part 1 that 3s_enough will be sharing on her blog:

By clicking on the preview, it will take you to Midnight Scrapping, where you will find the link to download part one.

We hope you enjoy using the kit that we've put together, and please remember no hot linking!! If you'd like to share the kit with some one please send them here!!

Hugs,

Michele

Another Word art....

Good Afternoon!! I only have a few minutes before I head out to get Bri off the bus, but wanted to put this up before I forget...

I'm still playing with the papers on the new mini-kit I've been putting together, it's called Brianna's Butterflies. I was a little burned out on that, so I started playing with this word art....

I started with just the square one, but wasn't sure I liked it, so came up with the oval one too. I zipped them both together in one file, you download them here.
I hope you like them, and can use them!

Have a good day!
Hugs,
Michele

Nathan news, and I made a word art.....

Nathan got his second tooth in!! Finally....LOL. He's been struggling with this one for about 2 weeks now, and it finally broke through a few days ago. Now you're really in trouble if he manages to get your fingers in his mouth.

I've really been struggling with the new kit I've been trying to get done. Every time I think I'm done, I decide I don't like this or that, I think I've changed how the papers look like 5 times now...lol. I think my problem is, that since I'm still learning how to make the kits, I have to rely on several different designers CU friendly products, and get frustrated with my lack of knowledge and experience. I know it will come with time and practice, but patience has never been one of my strong points....

I did get the word art made that I've been playing around with for the last few days. Anyone with small children, will probably agree with this......
My Zack and Dustin definitely fall into this category. If you can use this, you can download it here.
The fonts I used are Hurry Up and Austrailian Sunrise (although I modified it a bit to make it come out the way I wanted).
Let me know what you think of it, your comments about my work is always greatly appreciated, good or bad....

Have a wonderful evening, I think I'm off for the night. Hopefully I'll get motivated to get some pages done one evening soon. I'm still trying to find all the credits for the pages I have done in the past, so I have sooo many that I don't yet want to post because I can't give proper credit.

Hope everyone has a great night!!
Hugs,
Michele

Hi everyone, I finally finished my new kit!

Sorry I haven't posted in a few days. I've been trying to get my new mini-kit finished. I was a little stumped on what to put in it, so it too me a lot longer to put this one together than it did my last one.


Bri only has 1 more day until she starts kindergarten, and she is soooo excited. We met her teacher briefly last Friday, and tomorrow is her back to school night (why they call it night when it starts at 2pm is beyond me.) and she's looking forward to seeing her teacher again. Every one she sees, she tells them that her teachers' name is Miss Twiss. I'll be taking lots of pictures on Thursday for her first day, so be prepared....lol


Like I mentioned, I finished my new mini-kit (as I get better, I hope to be able to put together bigger kits, but it may take me awhile). I'm not sure I like it as well as my first one, but here's the preview for Trouble:

Click on preview to download

And here's the two LO's I made of Zack in the t-shirt that inspired it...

The template I used is from Renae, it's Template 4. It actually has a lot more details such as flowers and borders, but they didn't look right with my little trouble maker. The word art is from Elegant Word Art by Bethany, you can find this word art here. The papers are by me.

This one is a scattering of 2 of the papers and some elements from my kit.

I hope you can find some use for my new kit for the trouble makers in your life!

Hope you all have a great night!

Hugs,

Michele

My first Mini-Kit...

I finally am feeling brave enough to share this! I finished it the other day, and did the last fixing last night. It's my first mini-kit, called Little Brown Puppy. I made based on a shirt my grandson had on in a picture, and I didn't have anything in my "stash" that I wanted to use with it, so I made my own....

Here's a preview:

(drop shadow for the preview only)

Click on Preview to download

This has 4 papers, 3 frames, and 6 elements. I hope you can find a use for it! Please let me know what you think of it.

Thank you to Renae for encouraging me to make this!!!

I'll be back to post more later...

Hugs,

Michele