Valentine's Class Party

Template by Jen Caputo. Papers by SirScrapaLot Designs.

Baby, It's Cold Outside & Sledding

I can't find the TOU that went with these QP's but the initials are CGL and I think I picked them up this time last year. The swirly text path is from Jen Caputo. The Sledding wordart is from Word Art World. The photo mask is from Pewter7.

Christmas Aftermath & New Year 2009

There were a lot of supplies in these so I'll try to get them all right. Christmas Aftermath: Template by Jen Caputo, Lavendar paper from Scrapbook Flair, Snowflake paper from Missy at Misfits Scrapz, Pink paper from Meredith (It's call Girl Time; I think it's from Meredith Cardall), Big circle from Designs by Helly. New Year 2009: Template by Bunny Cates, champagne glasses from A-Design by Lena & New Year 2009 wordart from LJD.

Riding the Bus

Our Gingerbread House

This was a fun layout! Template from Jen Caputo. Gingerbread House assembled with a kit from ScrapGirls. Striped paper is from Two Peas in a Bucket. Craft paper background was a freebie from the Father's Day collection from RAKScraps. Wraparound ribbon, polka dot paper, and pink flower paper was a freebie called Touch of Pink from http://creativedelusionzscraps.blogspot.com
Font is CK Frosting.

Layouts Completed at our ScrapGirls Getaway in O'Fallon

My Little Stamper Girl

Page Template by Jen Caputo. Pink & Green paper made using LCO-Grunge Texture Paper Template from ScrapGirls, Striped paper from ScrapGirls (Refresh 2 JHI Stripes), and Embellishment from ScrapGirls (Refresh STI). Fonts are Street from Chatterbox and Letter Home from CK.

Fun in our new Pool

Fishy Font is from Creating Keepsakes. Page template from Jen Caputo.

Can you say Page Templates?

I am in love with Page Templates. While I love quick pages (already completed layouts), sometimes you spend more time searching for what you need when you could have just created it yourself. Page Templates make it fast and easy to create a page that is still your own.

I have spent the last couple days downloading (free and purchased) page templates. I have over 30 of them on my computer. Today I organized them into folders by the number of photos on a page or 2-page spread. This is sort like how Becky Higgins organizes her sketches in her first "Sketches" book. It's how I start a layout much of the time.

Also, while in this process, I realized that Jessica Sprague had mentioned Digital Page Templates in the April edition of CK. How did I miss that? Anyways, she has a tutorial on the CK website on how to use the templates along with some free samples created by Jen Caputo. I think I've pretty much mastered them. It really is quite simple. Just remember the command "Ctrl+G" (or Alt, hover, click--that's how Jessica does it).

Off to play with my new page templates...