Wednesday, October 10, 2012

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!
Click HERE to go to Natalie's Place Designs






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.
Click HERE to download.
Wishing all of you a magical day!


Tuesday, October 2, 2012

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...
Click HERE to go to MouseScrappers for full credits.
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...
Click HERE to go to MouseScrappers for full credits.
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!