Happy Haunts Released

I'm super excited for Natalie's Place Designs release of "Happy Haunts." It's an amazing kit for any Halloween festivities as well as your favorite Disney layouts. You won't believe what this kit has to offer...

It contains 15 papers, 5 flowers, 4 leaf clusters, 2 banners, a bat, a border, a buggy, a buggy frame, a casket, a cauldron (with and without smoke), a fence, 4 flairs, 3 frames, a full moon, a ghost, 3 graves, 7 ribbons, 2 ricracs, a spider, a spiderweb, hanging spiders, 3 frames, 2 stitches, a stitch circle, a string, a tag , a spooky tree, a haunted house, an antique hearse, a headless horseman, a lamppost, a pin, a pumpkin, a jack-o-lantern, a vine element, 2 misc. elements, and 2 alphas.

Check it out..A full kit, paper stacks, page starters, and wordarts!  Oh and did you see the $10.00 deal for all of it!! OMGoodenss do you see that Haunted Mansion, headless horseman, and carriage!!! WOW!

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My first layout I used Natalie's Place Designs template challenge at MouseScrappers to create a layout from our adventure at the Haunted Mansion over Spring Break. I love the greens in this kit and the mixture of the purples and black.  Her Wordart was prefect all I had to do was add a few ghosts.  

Believe it or not but I'm still behind on books and one that I continue to work on is our October 2010 visit which included Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party.  This kit gave me the perfect opportunity to work on my Boo To You Parade.  Here is the full layout... 

and then each side individually...

Oh how I love that headless horseman..hehe!!  I really love the colors and and combinations of elements this kit as to offer.  It's filled with lots of endless possibilities.  Be sure to stop by MJ-AJ Designs and Lisa Campbell Designs for some extra goodies!  I know that Natalie will have a goodie suprise for you too so stop by Natalie's Place Designs and grab this wonderful halloween kit.  I have a little goodie for you as well.  I wanted to share my Boo To You Parade Wordart.  I can't wait to see what everyone creates with this amazing new kit.

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Wishing all of you a magical day!

Something haunting coming your way....

Stay tuned Natalie's Place Designs has a haunting new kit coming your way...

MouseScrappers Weekly Challenge

Hey everybody just wanted to let you know that I'm hosting a weekly challenge over at MouseScrappers from October 3rd through October 9th!

I don’t know about some of you but when I create a layout I have to use a template. My brain doesn’t work on “create your own” mode so one of the things I like to do is take a template and make it my own. So, for my challenge you MUST use a template and you MUST modify it in some way.

For full details go to MouseScrappers Weekly Challenge #154 thread... HERE

To make it easier I wanted to provide to you a couple links to two of my favorite designers of free templates.

One has a Template Saturday and the other has a Template Tuesday.

First is Linda from MJ-AJ Designs. She is wonderful and I have used her templates over and over again…literally! She has a terrific Template Saturday blog post that I look forward to each week.  Here is her link… MJ-AJ Designs

Second is Megan from Designs by Megan Turnidge. She has lots of freebie templates that are great for creating that perfect layout. She has a terrific Template Tuesday blog post that you can find here… Megan Turnidge Designs and her facebook page has freebies too!! Click HERE to go to her facebook page.

Here are my examples. First I used two of Linda’s (MJ-AJ Designs) templates to create my Castaway Cay layout from our recent cruise. I used template #64 and then used her MouseScrappers 2 template.

I liked the photo layout on the first template but I needed them to be horizontal rather than vertical so I rotated it right. I liked the background papers on the MouseScrappers 2 template so I grabbed those layers and dragged it onto my working template. I combined the two and deleted some of the extra paper strips I didn’t need and tahdah!!! Now I have the perfect template to meet my needs. Here is my completed layout...

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My second layout I used Megan Turnidge Designs Tuesday template week 26. I really liked all the star clusters and the film strip is what drew me in to the template. I simply enlarged the entire cluster and then dragged it down so I could use my large photo on top.

Here is my result...

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I’d like to thank Natalie from Natalie’s Place Designs for donating this wonderful Participation Prize. I know she has a very busy schedule and a Disney trip coming very soon so I greatly appreciate her creating these wonderful Boo To You Pinwheels. They are so CUTE!!! Please be sure comment on her blog to tell her thank you!

So be sure to stop over at MouseScrappers to check out more details on my Weekly Challenge #154.  If you participate you will get those wonderful Boo To You Pinwheels as your prize!!  I can't wait to see what everyone creates!

Wishing you a magical evening!

Time to Take Notice...

Today Natalie's Place Designs has release another wonderful kit...Take Notice!! I love Eeyore and this kit is perfect.

 The kit includes 11 papers, 7 ribbons, 6 flowers, 2 leaves, 2 flairs, three buttons, hem stitches, stitched button holes, 2 cloud elements, and umbrella, 2 crystal raindrops, a raindrop element, a balloon, a word tag, a safety pin, a glitter scatter, a bead scatter, bow, a tail element, a rainbow element, a swirl element, 2 frames, a twine, a twig, a heart, a cuddly donkey and a full alpha. Just check it out this amazing kit, word art, and page starters...

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My first layout is from our Spring Break trip this year.  The character landing is a perfect place to find Eeyore hanging out with Tigger and Pooh.

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My next layout is from October 2010 when we attend the Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween party.  Oh how I wish we could go this year but instead I created a layout from our dinner at Crystal Palace using Natalie's Place Designs Take Notice Page Starter and Word Art.  A few little finishing touches and it's a unique personalized layout.

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Be sure to stop by MJ-AJ Designs and Lisa Campbell Designs for more wonderful inspiration and of course some terrific freebies to add your collection.  I thought I would provide my word art "A Tail isn't a Tail to them, it's just a little bit extra at the back."

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So don't forget to stop by Natalie's Place Designs to grab this wonderful kit...Take Notice!  I can't wait to see what wonderful designs your create!  Wishing you a magical evening.

Animator's Palate

One of the most magical things we experienced aboard the Disney Fantasy was at Animator's Palate. Our on second evening of dining in the resturant as soon as we sat down we had a placement and markers with instructions to draw a character. We immediately started drawing and shortly after they gathered up everyone's designs. After dinner is when the real magic began. We were dazzled by a show of music and a cast of characters...who you might ask? Our characters!! They put all our characters to life through animination.  I did a double page layout using MJ-AJ Designs Freebie Template 51...slightly modified of course.   On the right side I scanned and placed all our individual drawings. As you can see we each picked our own colors and each of us are very talented.. hehe!

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On the left side of the layout I wanted to showcase each of us with our own drawing in hand.  I also had Neil hold up the menu for the evening so I could take a photo to use for later as seen below.  We were also very excited to see Wemick, our head server, once again but this time in his Alabama "Roll Tide" jacket.  John Wesley was the first to notice that so familiar pattern.  Alexia was also spoiling us by cutting up John Wesley's steak and making sure Adrianna had plenty of Mac and Cheese.  

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I used Natalie's Place Designs, Animating Our World kit to add those special touches to my layout.  The drawings and colors in this kit were perfect.  I also used the alpha from her Rock Star kit to create my word art title.  I thought since I was sharing my layout I would also share a freebie just for you.

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I thought I would add the Animator's Palate official certificate seal as well as a blank placement to assist in your creativity.  I can't wait to see what you design.  As always I would love to hear your feeback on my designs and freebies.  Wishing you a magical day!

Time to Take Notice

Natalie's Place Designs has another wonderful kit coming your way so it's time to take notice...

Shabby Gal....Released

I'm so excited to announce the release of Shabby Gal by Natalie's Place Designs. This fabulous kit is a wonderful twist on traditional Disney classic colors.

 This kit is includes 12 papers (one cut as a mat), 4 flowers, two frames, 6 hearts, 3 leaf elements, 4 buttons, a clip, two bows, a scrap of lace, a berry pick, a ricrac, 7 ribbons, a stitch line, a flourish stamp, 2 scraps of torn paper, a heart scatter, two overlays, a punched circle, a string, 2 swirl elements, a staple, a teacup, a tag, 2 word tags, and 2 alphas. Check it out...

She has these great additions to go along with this kit to include word arts and great page starters.

To the make the kit even sweeter she has bundled them so you can get all three for a great price!

My first layout I used a page starter as well as a word art.  I just love the colors and elements in this kit.  The additions made it super easy to whip this layout together.   We just love Minnie and John Wesley received some extra hugs and sweetness from Minnie herself.  

My next layout is from our recent cruise on the Disney Fantasy so this kit made it super easy to complete another layout with Sailor Minnie.  It was great to meet her and I really love the blues in this kit which add that extra unexpected surprise.  Plus it goes perfect with her sailor outfit.

My next layout definitely provides the unexpected out of the classic Disney colors is the the blacks and yellows.  On the Disney Fantasy in the La Piazza Lounge they have on display this wonderful Vespa with a side car.  I couldn't resist to take the kids there during the day and take a few pictures.  Once on the bike they could turn the handle and it actually made noise as if they were riding...so cool!

My last two layouts I used the wonderful new templates also available from Natalie's Place Designs...Punch it out.   They are like no other template I've seen and trust me I've looked at tons!!  The punch out feature is unique and provides interest to any layout!!  Check them out here...

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I've saved the best thing for last as Lisa from Lisa Campbell Designs suggested that we each create a paper stack.  What a terrific idea but I was a little nervous as I have not done this type of freebie very often if ever but I was really thrilled with the result.  So without further a do here is my paper stack must do... :) 

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I used my clustering paper stack from my first layout.  I hope you like and I can't wait to see what you create with it. Don't forget to stop by Lisa Campbell's Designs and MJ-AJ Designs for some more wonderful paper stack freebies.  Natalie has a little surprise for you as well so don't forget to stop by Natalie's Place Designs and grab this wonderful new kit.. Shabby Gal!!

Wishing you all a magical day!