Junkyard or Treasure Chest? Thanksgiving Freebie

Hello All,

Psalm 100:4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving; go into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him and bless his name.

We have so many things to be thankful for even amidst many struggles and trials. It's always easy to find something to complain about. Well, I am reading a book, and doing a book study with some ladies at Hummie's World called Power Thoughts by Joyce Meyer. We're just beginning but Hummie is leading it and we are going to be doing some Scrapping along with our reading. (by the way, it's still open I believe, you have to request to join as the group is only viewable by members of the group for privacy and sharing). In the book Joyce Meyer says, "Your mind can be a junkyard or a teasure chest, and you alone have the ability to choose what it will be." So, as we enter this time of Thanksgiving Celebration in our nation, what will your mind be? A junkyard or a treasure chest? We poison ourselves with wrong thinking patterns. Isn't that so true? Well, it is for me at least. Sometimes, well often, I am my own worst enemy, well, THE ENEMY, satan, actually is the worst enemy and he uses our very own thoughts as tools against us and to keep us from the LOVE of God.

I know this is not my typical posting but I felt compelled to share this. We can get so mired down. But you have the power and control to choose what your thoughts will be. Will you take it?

I am going to give away a Quick page today that I made from my portion of the Gratitude CT Caboose Challenge at CraftyScraps.  It's my Thanksgiving gift to you!  Here's a preview of the mini kit that if you go and make a layout you'll get the MEGA Kit the preview of that is after the mini!

They are great wonderful FALL papers and elements! You'll love it!

 

Here's a preview of the Quickpage. I hope you enjoy it. My dear friend, Robyn and I got to get together this summer. She lives in California and I hadn't seen her for about 6 years. I am truly THANKFUL for her friendship. It's sort of small but on the layout is a Friendship Prayer.

Happy Thanksgiving and remember to be THANKFUL! Tell someone what you are thankful for about them today! You'll feel great and so will they!

Many Blessings!

Dina

Another Ballgame

Hello All,

Kingsbury Middle had their 3rd game Tuesday. They WON!!! :) Yeah!

Here's a page from the game:

This is made with Template from Humime @ Hummie's world.

The Kit used was Fields of Dreams by Becky Swayzee

Have a great week!

Blessings,

Dina

CraftyScraps has released a new kit -- Sunshine

Hello All,

I wanted to show you some layouts I made with Michelle's new Kit Sunshine available at http://www.shopcraftyscraps.com/  (see link to right ).

There's over 40 pieces in this kit! It's absolutely amazing!  You will be very happy with this kit! :)

Here's a few layouts to give you an idea of what you can do with this kit. 
All papers and elements are from this kit except some shapes that were a part of the templates used.

This one was created with influence from Hummie's Template #19 at http://www.hummiesworld.com/

The next two were completed with templates from Becky Fleck @ http://www.pagemaps.com/

Don't you just love the colors and the papers in this kit?  Michelle just recently lowered her prices in her store due to the state of the economy. She wants everyone to be able to preserve their memories in delightful ways. She's a gem, everyone, and she gives away so much stuff in her forum and her blog.  Check everything out at http://www.craftyscrapschat.com/   You won't be disappointed.

Check back later this week, I'll have a quickpage for you.  If you want it right now be sure to visit Michelle's blog as she has a freebie QP up there right now for this kit!

Blessings for this new week!

Dina

Another Ballgame a couple more layouts! This time using some gradients.

Hello All,

My son had another game last Thursay. It was beautiful weather. They played hard but didn't fair so well in the game. The game ended because they were losing by 10 points. I hate seeing the boys so disappointed. Here are two layouts of Kyle I did from the 2nd game! He's still my favorite athlete win or lose! :)

The lesson this week at Hummie's World was on Gradients. So, I used the gradients on the tag. Can you tell?

Paper and elements by Becky Swayzee, Kit is Called Baseball Dreams.

Papers and Elements by Terry Marauco and Holleyberry designs.

I used the gradients on the baseballs. It came out ok but not really how I wanted. I made a pattern from the baseball to repeat it. Wow that is so much easier than copying and pasting it a zillion times like I had been. There's tips to pick up in these videos all over the place.

Well, I leave you with one more thought. Read the quote on the following layout.  What are your thoughts about the quote? Feel free to share. I love hearing from my readers! I took the photos in my yard. This was another layout to experiment with gradients which I did on the background. It's a custom one at that.

Something new to scrap! BASEBALL!!! Batter UP!

Hello All,

I hope you are enjoying the freebies and thank you all that have left comments...very touching and makes all the hard work worth it! :)

Well, I wanted to post a couple of baseball layouts from my son's game yesterday. So here they are!

This was created with Hummie's Template #9

http://www.hummiesworld.com/

This was a template I got off of the Adobe Exchange..slightly modified.

He had a great first game! I am sure there will be many more of these to come! :)

Blessings,

Dina

Learning How to Make Textures and Patterns in PSE

Hello All,

Now I really had some fun tonight. When I was out taking pictures of the first Spring Flowers in my yard, I also took some pictures of what I thought would make good textures or patterns.  So, tonight I watched the tutorial at Hummie's World on how to make them.

Here's a couple I came up with and I am very pleased.

This is the pictuer that I started with...it's an old decaying tree stump in our yard. Very cool pattern on it in and of itself.

Here's the seamless pattern I made from it.

Here is the paper I made from the pattern. This one has no texture added. I did add the lighter color blending mode. I really like how it turned out.

I decided to add some texture to it. I had also taken pictures of the brick on the side of my house. I made a brick texture. So, I added the brick texture to the above paper and got this look. So cool and I created it all from scratch by myself! :)

So, what do you think?

Now, I have to share a gorgeous flower picture with you.

The paper is from CraftySraps kit, If I Could. Template is Hummie's #6 at Hummies World.

Aren't they gorgeous?