Taking a break, in a sense

As people have probably noticed, if anyone even looked, there's been little to no activity here for quite a while. I hit a big creative drought, combined with a bunch of personal things that caused my output to bottom out.

Lately the design bug has returned, but I'm still getting my creative jucies back in order. So I'm going to close my little store at The Studio until I've got a bunch of new things ready to go. In the mean time, I'm going to work more on collaborative kits and freebies for my blog readers, and I'll still be an admin at The Studio.

From now until the end of March,  my store will be on sale, so if there's anything of mine you've been wanting to buy, get it now before it's gone forever!

Surprise!

Well, whaddaya know, I have a new kit, and a freebie! The kit is in store today, and features the artwork of my daughter, Bethia Kok, who drew some of the cutest costumed children you could imagine! Have a look!

And now, the freebie; a quickpage with plenty of room to add your own touches:

DOWNLOAD HERE 

Happy Easter, everyone!

Christmas Carol blog hop has arrived!

You can find the other carols here:

Must be Santa - Darlene - http://darlenedesigns.blogspot.com
Away in a Manger - Heidi - http://blackrosedigitals.blogspot.com/ YOU ARE HERE
Frosty the Snowman - Lightningbug Creations- http://lightningbugcreationskits.blogspot.com
Here Comes Santa Claus - Maurine - http://LetMeScrapbook.blogspot.com
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - BooLandDesigns - http://boolanddesign.blogspot.com/
Up on the Rooftop - EllenM - http://scrapsationalscraps.blogspot.com/
White Christmas - Monika Designs - http://monikadigitaldesigns.blogspot.com/
Jingle Bell Rock - mITSYBELLE - http://mitsybelle.com/blog/
O Christmas Tree - Veelana - http://veelana.blogspot.com/
Blue Christmas - ShellyMarie - http://shellymariescraps.blogspot.com
Hark the Herald Angels Sing - Ambowife - http://www.ambowife.com/blog/
Deck the Halls - Skrapper Digitals - http://skrapperdigitals.blogspot.com/
O Holy Night - Brenda (CuddleBeez) - http://cuddlebeezscraps.blogspot.com
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas - MoonDesigns - http://moon7x4.blogspot.com
Christmas Alpha/Wordart - Kimberkatt - http://kimberkattscraps.wordpress.com
Rocking Around the Christmas Tree - Toiny - http://piggyscraps.blogspot.com/

And now for my part!

Sorry, this freebie has expired. Look for the kit in the store!

Merry Christmas!

I can haz fan blinkie?

Okay, yes, I should be thwapped for that title.

But anyway, I now have a fan blinkie - all I need are some fans to wear it!

Check it out over on the right!

More quickpages available!

If you liked that quickpage, and would enjoy more, then rush off to Digital Paper Hearts and Stone Accents Studio and sign up for their newsletters! Two different quickpages from Woodland Fairies will be given away free in their respective newsletters this week!

A quick peek at them:

Stay tuned for more freebies!

A freebie for you!

I made a quickpage to share with everyone!

You can pick it up here.

The kit, Woodland Fairies, is available at Stone Accents Studio, and soon at Digital Paper Hearts as well!

Is anyone reading?

For those who may have been checking in here wondering if I'd ever make that fairy scrapbooking kit, it's finally done!

You can find it here, at Stone Accents Studio

Happy news! Stone Accents Studio is staying open, under new management, and I'm staying on!

This means I'm going to be a busy bee for the next while, but SAS will be growing and blooming with new things! come join us!

Just a quick note that I've changed the title of this blog,  for reasons soon forthcoming.

New LOs

Picking up steam after a quiet December:

Mother, done with Old Time Lovers, by Laitha, at SAS. Alpha is an unidentified freebie. If you know who made it, please let me know so I can credit them! This is my mom, wearing an antique dress, taken in the mid-60s.



Bill and Alice, also done with Old Time Lovers, by Laitha, at SAS. These are my former inlaws, Wiep (Bill) and Alida (Alice) Kok. They immigrated to Canada from Holland after the war.



Kiss, from our wedding. Done with the SAS January megakit Sugar & Spice. Fonts used are Acorn Initials and BD Renaissance.



My sister Gretchen's wedding with Larry Porter, also done with the SAS January megakit Sugar & Spice. Font used is Old Script.



And last but not least, a photo of several of my relatives, taken in the 1920s or 30s. I used Treasure Box from Designs by Moo, available at SAS:

Aaaand, it's time for the first crop of layouts in the new year.

These were both created with Stone Accents Studio's December megakit, Home and Hearth.

The first is Three Generations, featuring my 75 year old father as a child.



The second is my son, Emrys, who loves all things moose:

Here's the December crop of layouts I've been working on (and a few more from November):

My daughter Bethia, looking like an Ice Queen. Done with NBK's Doodle Di Dei kit.



Next, a layout using SkrapperDigital's Magesty kit. The photo? Me. The font used is BD Renaissance.



Here's another layout featuring my daughter, made with Boo's April Clair kit:



For November's ATC challenge at SAS, I did a layout featuring my uncle Walt Weispfenning, who was a WWII veteran and hero. I used Miss Crow's Liberty kit (no longer available) and the Freedom alpha by Amy Teets:



This one's called "The Groom Awaits" and was made with CathyC's In My Life kit:



Also with the same kit, The Women who Made Me. The font in this one is Scriptina:



This one was done for the November Color Challenge at Stone Accents Studio. The kit is Boo's Color Challenge kit, the paper scrap is by Lilou, whose website has vanished, and the pink jewel and doubloons by Kyra of With a Russian-Dutch Heart.



And I think that's a wrap for this post. Leave a comment, let me know if you're reading me?

Catching up, part 2

More layouts to post. This is a series of photos of my daughter. I'm not entirely pleased with how the layout turned out, but it was an interesting experiment. It was done for the Ad it Up challenge at SAS. The kit used was the April 08 SAS megakit, April Showers.



This is a portrait of my oldest son when he was a teenager. The paper is Grey Matters from the Urban Edge line, the overlay is from Digikeepsakes.The font is Amsterdam Grafitti with an action by Atomic Cupcake. It was done for the Font Challenge at SAS.



Next is a photo of my beloved husband. This layout was done for the Clutter It! challenge on SAS. Leaves and mushrooms by Kubivet, love wordart by Elegant Wordart, and angel wordart by Ladylove of Aussie Scrappers.



This is made up of several photos of our friends and us. Halloween is for grownups, too! Done entirely with the Sept. 08 SAS Halloween megakit



And finally, I made this layout for the Picasso Challenge. The challenge was to make the frame without using someone else's product. Everything else is from the Geist kit from Miss Crow's Magickal Emporium.



I think I may have a few more lurking around, but that's quite enough for this session!

Boy, am I behind!

What with taking on lots of challenges, oral surgery, and beta testing a new MMORPG, I haven't posted any layouts up here in over a month!

So here's a giant blast of layouts all at once!

This is Bethia when she was 4. Kit is For the Birds by Enaideel Scraps



An ATC card I did for the SAS ATC challenge. I used the kit Gotta Have It - ATC by CanDesigns:



This one is my paternal grandparents, done for the Designer's Giveaway challenge at SAS. It uses the Pout Pourri kit, by Mamrotka:



This one is for the SAS Element Challenge. It's made with the Jan 08 SAS megakit.
Additional elements from Barb Derksen, Coco&Co., and MirkaK. Felt action by Atomic Cupcake.



Next is my entry for the SAS-y Self Challenge. For October, the theme was your hairstyles over the years. It was done with the SAS Feb. 08 megakit:



This is done with the October Mega Kit, Gathering Leaves, from SAS:



That's roughly half of what I need to post, so I think it's a good stopping point. More to come!

Oops!

I got sidetracked by my virus yesterday,  but I feel better, so let's get back to those posts. 

Both these are done with challenge kits from ET Scraps

The first is a photo I took of Brandon Lee's grave shortly after he died, before the permanent marker was ready. For those who don't know him, he was the son of the martial arts legend Bruce Lee, and is buried next to him here in Seattle.

The second is a photo of my son and daughter in law's wedding five years ago. She had spent time in Japan, and members of her host family came out here for the wedding.

The caption reads, "Our Aunties came all the way from Osaka just for us".

Things I've been doing

I've been knocking out quite a few layouts lately, thanks to my nice new replacement monitor's arrival.

It's so much easier once you're not struggling with a 16-bit color remote connection!

So here's what I've been doing:

This one's about my Grammy. Not my actual grandmother by blood, but she took the role with pleasure, and was the best Grammy a kid could want. Some day I'll have to post more about her.

This is my daughter Bethia and her friend, clowning around just before Halloween back 9 or 10 years ago.

My nephew Steven, roughly the same time period.

All these were done with the SAS September mega kit, which you can get for a great price right here.

I have more to post, but I'm getting the hairy eyeball from my sweetie, so I'd better shut down for tonight and continue this tomorrow.

Hello again!

I decided to split off my scrapbooking to a separate blog, since my original was chosen without scrapping in mind.

If you're puzzled by the weird title - I'd hoped to do something involving scrapbooking and night, but everything I thought of was already in use.  I thought latin might be the way to go, but of course it had no word for scrapbooking. So my title (hopefully) means "Cut and Paste the Night"  if I got the grammar correct.

If you've wandered in, could you take a second to leave a comment? I'd like to know if anyone's reading this, and also - would you want a music widget on here, if it was easy to find and turn off the music? (I get frustrated by the ones I can't turn off when I have other music playing).

Thanks!

Now to try to do something about prettying the place up!