Welcome to November

 November means a new Blog Train over at Pixel Scrapper plus Thrifty Scraps has a new bundle releasing today called, "Fallish". 

So let's take a closer look...

Fallish

You will find 22 items in this mini kit with red, blue and beige being the color theme.  I have to say the little bird is my favorite element, (he is so darn cute)!

Here are previews from the Fallish Bundle...

Look at these beautiful designer papers and you get 16 of them.

Fallish Designer Papers

You also get 16 Fallish solid papers.

17 Fallish Rubber Elements

12 Fallish Eyelets

7 Fallish paperclips

12 Fallish Snipits

9 Fallish Tags

Here is a page I created with the bundle...

Be sure to checkout the Fallish Bundle by Thrifty Scraps

I also used a Layout Template by Thrifty Scraps

Now for the Pixel Scrapper Blog Train

Here are the colors and themes

you can check it out all of November.

The Forum opens up today.  Yay!

Have a great start to your November!

"Blue Jeans and Sneakers"

 Good Sunday Morning from snowy South Dakota;)

Today I want to talk Pixel Scrapper with you.

Pixel Scrapper is an awesome site where can can download a few items

per day for free and meet up with a friendly community of artists.  

 With a subscription

you are able to download all day long free kits and bundles for your

scrapbooking stash.

Pixel Scrapper has monthly layout challenges and A Blog Train

I am a Scrapbook Page Designer for

"Thrifty Scraps" by Gina Jones

You can find my Pixel Scrapper Gallery with this link.

So let us get moving and look at one of

Gina's kits called,

"Blue Jeans and Sneakers"

this kit is packed, stacked and so fun to look at...

Alpha

Cluster Frames

Plaid Papers

Solid Papers

Inches

Stacked

Tags

Printable Calendars

Now for a few of my creations using

"BlueJeans and Sneakers"

I have to say I worked really hard on the page above even if it was a "scraplift challenge" and I thought is was going to be easy peasy. 

Nope! 

 Not! 

 This page took me two days (YIKES). 

Patience won out on this one usually I would have scrapped it (pun intended) and moved on.  Now you can find this page in the 👉Popular Gallery Projects This Week.

Hurray for me!👏

Here is another page I created with this fabulous kit.

It is me holding my newest grandchild:

The last concert from Montgomery Gentry I will ever see.

R.I.P.  Troy

This night I was showing off my boots with my blue jeans.

Hope you hop on over to

Pixel Scrapper

and take a look around.

So many goodies to be found.

Have a great day!

 Jesse's Girl Makes

Happy Wednesday all!

So far the week has been good to us with cool mornings and warm

afternoons.  School starts for our  Daughter next week so I guess

fall is not far behind.

I have created a page for Pixel Scrapper Challenge Stacked Paper Background.

It is of my beautiful Granddaughter playing at daycare.

I just can not get enough of her smile.  

I used the "Pretty Bird" bundle by Thrifty Scraps over

on Pixel Scrapper.

Have a wonderful day;)

Today Was Fun

Today was definitely fun playing around with the kits in this month's Pixel Scrapper Blog Train.  You can go over to the forum and pick up the blog train kits for free until the end of August.

If you do not have an account you can sign up for free and receive 10 download credits per day OR you can become a patron and for a small fee every month you can download as much as you wish and you can keep the downloads forever.

Membership really is a great deal!

Here is my page I made use of 7 pieces of the train:

Jan Clark

Marissa Lerin

Rachel M

Robin Sampson

Pauline Thompson

AM Designs

DI Hiller

(this has to be a record for me as it is not my regular style to mix kits)

The page is of my beautiful Granddaughter having fun at daycare.

I just love the smile on her face and the winking eye.  Too darn cute!

I did use a page template on this layout it is from

GingerScraps

"Life is Sweet" template 2

Pixel Scrapper is a whole lot of fun and I hope to see you around.

Have an awesome day!

August 2020 Pixel Scrapper Blog Train

August is almost half over, UGH!  Where has the time gone?  

Today I am sharing with you the August Blog Train from Pixel Scrapper. 

 I have created a page using a part of the train by Gina Jones "Thrifty Scraps". 

 The kit is called, "Baby Love". 

It is packed full

of cute elements and colors...

Here is the scrapbook page that I created using this cute kit...

I just have to show off the newest addition to the family

Raevyn Brown.  She is due to arrive in mid September.

I did also use a page template by  Gina Jones from, "Sorbet Summer" template 4".

You can find more awesome kits in this month's blog train HERE.

What an awesome color palate for the month!

Enjoy;)

My Brother "The Good Life"

Over on Pixel Scrapper a new 

collab kit and ad-on's are

being released today.  Woo Hoo!

This one is called,

"The Good Life".

Living up to the name because this one sure is good may I present your preview...

My creation making use of the kit and ad-on's

This is a memorial scrapbook page for my brother

Michael Lee Tieszen.

Mike passed away in June of last year.

This has to be the hardest and most time consuming page I have ever created.  Lot's of love and tears went into this design making sure it was perfect.

I am asking you today make sure your loved ones know they are loved and forgiven everyday.

I miss you big brother!

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As you go about today remember:

A grateful

heart

is a magnet

for miracles.

Thrifty Scraps, "My Tribe"

Over on Pixel Scrapper this month the March Blog Train is called "My Tribe". 

 It makes use of this beautiful color combo...

 Gina Jones "Thrifty Scraps"

has come up with an adorable kit and extras for this months blog train.

Here is her, "My Tribe"  kit download preview.

I can not get enough of those birds so cute!

I love these softly beautifully styled papers that can used in so many different ways.  I have created a page and will show you how it was transformed below.

Here it is can you believe it??? 

Yup.  I am not pulling your leg. 

 Keep reading. 

I chose the soft rose color.

 Here is a little *preview so you can see the subtle styling of this digital paper.

* preview is not a printable size or resolution. 

I changed the layer to hard light in Ps.

Voila, a totally different version

 of this beautiful paper.

The My Tribe papers 

are such a lovely tool

 for your tool box.

Seriously you need to check out

 these beauties today.

Preview of the 

"My Tribe" kit plus the add-ons

My digi scrapbook page made using

Thrifty Scraps "My Tribe".

It is a page about our family night out for

dinner and a hockey game.

With two older children out of the house with

families of their own and a teenager still at home

 it is hard to find days

when we can all be together. 

I  made use of those little birds to represent each of us on the page. 

This page documents

a rare event in our lives. 

Enjoy...

 

Grateful!

Selfie Time Emoji

Gina Jones (Thrifty Scraps) 

has released a new bundle this month called.

Selfie Time

I so enjoyed working with the pieces in this bundle and the pattern papers were my ultimate fave product on this page layout by Marisa Lerin.

Selfie Time Pattern Papers by Gina Jones.

 link for the page in my 

Pixel Scrapper gallery.

The papers totally make this

 page layout sing! 

So fun!

Can you guess who is behind the emoji?

Have an amazing day and remember,

A Grateful 

heart

is a magnet

for miracles.

Pixel Scrapper Feb 2020 Blog Train "Delish"

 There is still some time left on the clock for this month's blog train over at Pixel Scrapper.  The theme for the month is "Delish" and you can see the beautiful colors above.

 pixel scrapper is in reboot mode and are looking for support to keep things running as normal.  Become a patron and receive unlimited downloads. Donate.

Either way sign up for an account while you are there it come with free downloads each day.

Pixel Scrapper is my go to for commercial use kits and templates and I highly suggest you check them out if you have not already.

Chug, Chug, Chug and away we go leaving the blog train station and headed to

Gina Jones aka Thrifty Scraps. 

Gina has a very delicious kit on the train. 

 Preview below...

 I am crushing on the flowers and banner so adorbs.

Below is a preview of the "Delish Solid Papers"

Lovely colors!

Check out the "Delish Pattern Papers".

 These dots are my most fave digi papers to use.

I love the ones for this kits because the colors can be used for a lot of layouts.  "Delish Dotty Papers."

Delish Delish papers

 Ooh la la.  These flowers are fab.  I can see myself using them a bunch in my future projects.  Check out

Delish Flowers.

 These fun little brads are worth checking out you can find them here (Delish Brads).

 Here are some Delish Labels.  Again these can be used and mixed in with many projects.

 Gina has just released this newest part of the kit

Delish Dex Cards.

I am in love with these beauties.  They are so new I have not gotten to use them yet.  They have been moved to to the top of my to make with list.

I have no words.  

Okay, I guess 

 a few words to introduce this

AMAZEBALLS

kit

called

called "Delish Planner".

There is just so much awesomeness here I can not get over it.

 Below are the digital scrapbook pages I have created

using Gina's wonderful, awesome and amazing kit

and add-ons for "Delish".

This first one was from 2012 our family went to Sioux City to eat at the Golden Corral.  (Sorry it has now closed).  Yes, it broke all of our hearts.

You can see we love the sweeter side of life;)

Layout template used here is found in the commons and created by Melissa Riddle.

 This next page describes GMR (German Mennonites from Russia) little meat breads call Bierocks.

I used a layout template from 

Pixel Scrapper 51- 51b

In the above page I share our family recipe with you.

Again using the same template just changed it up to

work the way I envisioned it to.

WOW!  I hope you are as inspired as I am by all this fabulousness.

Head on over to PS and check out Gina's Kits.

And remember:

A Grateful

heart

is a magnet

for Miracles.