Testing Can Be Fun

Every year the gang enjoys heading over for the annual homeschool testing. Our evaluator makes everything so much fun. Hannah was so excited about testing that she actually started earlier than usually. To make it even more fun they each had Target Gift Certificates they got for Christmas so while we were near a Target they got to go in and spend their "money".

I used Designs by Lisa Minor's Shades of Green. If it is no longer available as a freebie on her blog make sure you check out her store Scrap Debris where you always get stuff at the great price of $1 for most items.

CT Layouts for Crazy Diamond - Celebrate Freedom

Here is a simple two page layout and the start of our 2006 school album. I'm so excited about getting this album started. I only have 2006 and 2008 and the school albums are caught up. Of course that still leaves everything else to catch up on.

I used the Crazy Diamond - Celebrate Freedom paper and elements to complete both pages. I used the font Constantia. For the title I typed it out and then clipped it with a paper from the kit. I used one of the frames in the kit to create a journal box. Other than resizing everything else is as is from the kit.

Some changes

If you didn't notice there is a slight name change on the blog although nothing else has changed. I decided that I wanted my design name to be somewhat separate from my scrapping name and since there is already a Lighthouse Designs I had to work on something else. So we discussed it as a family and I have a design name. So I will be the Lighthouse Scrapper for my scrapping and Harbor Designs for my designing. I have another freebie from the DigiTreat family almost ready to go but I wanted to come up with my design name first. So I will not be reissuing my first few offerings but all new offerings will carry the new design name. I plan on rewriting my TOU to make it simpler and easier to understand as well. So as soon as I get all that together I'll have a freebie for you. I have also started work on the next ADSDesigners Mega Kit which will be released August 1st. So if you enjoyed Backyard Playground which released July 1st and Popsicle Paradise that released June 1st, I'm sure you'll love the kit as well. Who knows how many designers will be part of the group by then.

Finally just for fun I was playing around in PSE today and created a little lighthouse that may or may not become part of my logo. Let me know if you like my simple little hand drawn element. I was hoping to work on some elements for the August kit and do some layouts but decided to back up my PSE catalog of digi things real quick before I got started. I'm still waiting on that of course. I guess I forgot how long it takes. I wish I had thought to start it before church this morning. I suggest you come back later this week for another freebie as I have a bunch of stuff going on the first part of the week.

Thanks for stopping by.

Backyard Playground - Update

*UPDATE* CRYSTAL (S.AMAZED) HAD PROBLEMS WITH HER FILES EARLIER TODAY..SHE HAS SINCE RESOLVED THE PROBLEM..IF YOU DOWNLOADED PREVIOUSLY AND EXPERIENCED PROBLEMS,THE FILES ARE NOW CORRECTED AND FEEL FREE TO VISIT HER TO REPLACE THE EARLIER DOWNLOADS..*

Crystal's link is below in the main post. She wanted to get the word out that she was informed of the problem and has now corrected the problem. Considering how many there are of us I think a few little glitches isn't too bad.

Backyard Playground Mega Collaboration

I'm so excited to be a part of this great collaboration kit Backyard Playground. This is my first time for really doing design work so please leave me feed back. I've had so much fun working on this kit. And because I'm part of something so big I know that you'll have plenty of things to work with. I created the papers using overlays I created with my own photos as well as added texture. I have sticky notes because I think they can be so much fun. The wax seals and bottle caps come plain or worded to meet your needs.

After I had finished up my kit I woke up the other night and thought of a great bonus back for this kit. I went through my photos and found some great critter photos I had. Most of them were taken in our yard. There are a couple taken at Florida theme parks and a few from my oldest son's travels. These are marked in the name of the location.

Finally I've create a layout using some of my Backyard Playground Elements to give you an idea of how it looks.

Now the important stuff. Here are my links.

My Paper - I have decided to break it up into 2 smaller downloads.
My Paper Small Pack A
My Paper Small Pack B
My Elements -
My Bonus Pack-

And last but not least are the links of the other great designers who are part of this great kit. Remember we all live in different areas of the world and have different family schedules so if you follow a link and nothing is there please check back later. Also remember that things happen beyond a designers control so be kind if you don't find a part of this kit on their website. These links will remain up through the month of July so if you run into trouble come back later and try again. Sometimes accounts like 4Share get grumpy when we all try to download at the same time. Finally, if you like these things put a link to this blog on your site. Please don't steal the download. These are free so why steal just send a link to this or any of the other blogs. Thanks.

The other great locations to find more of Backyard Playground:

Aeryn

Becky

Beth
Brooke

Crystal(digiscrapalicious)

Crystal
(s.amazed)


Debbie

Debi

Denise

Donna

Erika

Heather

Joni

Joy

Lighthouse Scrappers - That's where you are now and the links are above - Karen

Kathy
(carolinagirl)

Kathy
(scraploft)

Kay

Kelly

Kim

Krisi

Lara

Leaonna-Correction

Lori

Melanie(bygodsdesign)

Melanie(scrappinasithappens)

Melanie(sweetasmel)

Michaele

Mollie

Monica

Nadine

Nancy

Nikki

Patty

Penny

Rachael

Shannon

Sheila

Stella

Sue

Tammy(JaydensMama)

Utski