I resolve ...

Imagine that ... it's New Year's time already, and I've been gone from this blog for quite a while now ... I'm making a resolution to get back to this blog more regularly with the start of the New Year!  Happy 2017 everyone!

I'm back from the Coast ...

After spending most of last week at the Texas Gulf Coast, I just had to go look at some fabulous ocean-themed kits from Alexis Design Studio.  If you have beach pictures to scrap, you will want to check these out at The Digi Chick.

OCEAN BREEZE

My layout created in 2015 for a TDC challenge

That's one of my absolute FAVORITE vacation photos taken on Ocracoke Island, North Carolina in May 2009

OCEAN BREEZE SIMPLICITY

My layouts

Template - La Belle Vie Designs MIX AND MATCH Vol 4

Same day on the beach in Ocracoke, NC!

Template - Alexis Design Studio Former FB freebie 

Same beach on Ocracoke Island!  Love that place!

SEASIDE SOLACE

I have two similar layouts made with this kit.  The first one was CT work when the kit first released. (July 2015)

Template freebie from Fiddle-Dee-Dee Designs

I like the quote so much I decided to use it again for  a challenge in 2016 at The Digi Chick.  

Template/composition designed by me! 

Be sure to drop in at Alexis Design Studio store at The Digi Chick to see all the beautiful product designed by Alexis and Barbara for Alexis Design Studio.

And even MORE challenges!

These challenges were done for Go Digital Scrapbooking!  Check out

TEMPLATE

Collection:  Dana's Footprint Digital Design WISHES & DREAMS

Template:  Dana's Footprint Digital Design freebie provided for the challenge

COLOR

Collection:  PattyB Scraps (Over the Fence Designs) 
SAFFRON DAYS AND AZURE NIGHTS
Template freebie from Fiddle-Dee-Dee Designs

More challenges!

Check out these fabulous challenges at Gotta Pixel

DRESS UP YOUR TEMPLATE

Collection: Jen C Designs BELIEVE IN YOUR DREAMS
Template - provided for the challenge 

SIMPLE SIMON SAYS

Collection:  Jen C Designs DOCUMENT IT

Template - provided for the challenge

I love challenges!

I love digital challenges, and there are plenty to be found around the web!  Here are some I've been doing at The Digi Chick:

TIC TAC TOE

Collection:  Sherwood Studio SUMMER SUNSET

Template - made by me (gift on my other blog 9/21/2016)

TEMPLATE 

Collection:  Sherwood Studio WESTERN WONDERS

Template:  Akizo Designs TEMPLATE CHALLENGE freebie 

"WORD" - Fall

Collection:  Sherwood Studio AUTUMN MOSAIC

Template: made by me - gift on my other blog on 9/28/2016 

GIVE ME SPACE

Collection:  Sherwood Studio DAKOTA PRAIRIES
Template: made by me for challenge specifications

It's September ... and I'm longing for Fall

Each year when September rolls around, I start feeling a longing for Fall ... which has become (almost...) my favorite season now that I'm no longer in school as a student or teacher!  The Autumn color palette certainly has it's appeal for me, and I find that I can scrap Autumn photos at any time of the year!  I love the rich, vibrant hues that "speak of Autumn" so fluently!

Manu Scraps has 3 wonderful little mini kits (all very full, by the way) which cover the entire gamut of rich, vibrant Autumn color.

FALL FAMILY PHOTO 

As a nature photographer primarily I'm always looking for realistic elements ... flowers and foliage especially ... to compliment my landscape photos.  Manu Scraps FALL FAMILY PHOTO fills this requirement beautifully for me!

Here are my layouts with the fun kits:

Mini #1

Template is a freebie on my blog on 9/7/2016

Mini #2

Template is a freebie on my blog on 9/28/2016

Mini #3

Visit the Manu Scraps store  and gallery at Digital Scrapbooking Studio. 

BEACH TRIP

I am so ready for another BEACH TRIP ... Florida in May 2016 makes me want more beach time (Another trip coming soon to Gulf Coast!)

I love working with Dana's Footprint Digital Design

BEACH TRIP

and reliving some memories of a vacation in the Outer Banks of North Carolina a few years ago.

You can find 

BEACH TRIP 

at Go Digital Scrapbooking.

My layouts using this fun collection

My favorite lighthouse in the Outer Banks!  I climbed this one (the tallest brick lighthouse in the world) on May 10, 2009! The view from the top was amazing ... long stretches of clean, sandy beaches and sparkling Atlantic waters!  I couldn't resist "framing" the layout with those cool palm trees, although there wasn't a palm tree anywhere to be seen in North Carolina!

Collection - Dana's Footprint Digital Design BEACH TRIP

(see link above)

Template - made by me!

HINT:  There's a freebie coming from this layout on my other blog on 9/2/2016

My second layout features one of my favorite photos:  Mike & poki on a leisurely walk on the beach on Ocracoke Island, North Carolina!  We've been to the island twice (2008, and 2009) both times off season, and we've pretty much had the beach to ourselves both times! Mike's sister Pat took this photo of us with my camera!  What a fabulous memory!

Collection - Dana's Footprint Digital Design BEACH TRIP

(See link above)

Template - Sherwood Studio THE PHOTO PROJECT - BIG PICTURE

Head over to Go Digital Scrapbooking to grab BEACH TRIP or any of the other fabulous products from Dana's Footprint Digital Design 

It's Mixology time at Go Digital Scrapbooking 8/24/2016

The Mixology collection at Go Digital Scrapbooking released on 8/24/2016 and it's gorgeous.  I've worked with packs from three of my favorite designers there:

Ginger's Scraps N Pieces

My layouts:

Collection - Ginger's Scraps N Pixels YOU AND I

(see link above on store name)

Template - Jen C Designs LIFE'S SNAPSHOTS Vol 5

Collection - Ginger's Scraps N Pixels YOU AND I

(see link above on store name)

Template - made by me

Dana's Footprint Digital Design

Layouts

Collection - Dana's Footprint Digital Design YOU & I

(See link on store name above)

Template - Dana's Footprint Digital Design - PREVIOUS BLOG FREEBIE

Collection - Dana's Footprint Digital Design YOU & I

(See link on store name above)

Template - freebie 

PattyB Scraps

My layouts: love how different from each other I was able to make these two layouts using the same collection!

Collection - PattyB Scraps YOU AND I

(see link on store name above)

Template - made by me 

Collection - PattyB Scraps YOU AND I

(See link above on store name)

Template - Mommyish Designs Freebie

Head over to Go Digital Scrapbooking and check out the latest Mixology collection:  YOU AND I

THE FAITH PROJECT - GENTLENESS 8/11/2016

New today 8/11/2016 from Sherwood Studio

THE FAITH PROJECT - GENTLENESS

available at The Digi Chick

kit

wordart

templates

Both of my layouts feature the kit and the templates and Mike's photos from 2015 trip to visit family in Denver.

GRANDMA'S SECRET RECIPE

Do you have a "secret recipe" that just NEEDS to be shared?  Dana's Footprint Digital Design/Janece Suarez Designs  have the perfect kit to do it ...

GRANDMA'S SECRET RECIPE

available today 8/9/2016 at

Go Digital Scrapbooking 

My great nephews never knew their great-great grandmother, but they certainly do know her sugar cookies:  by using her tools (cookie cutters) and her techniques (colored sugar sprinkles)

My sister is the perfect NANA to her FABULOUS grandkids - Can you tell I like them too (she shares them with me since I don't have grandchildren)