Day: January 25, 2013

scrapbook layout, winter, snow, misty hilltops designs

Winter Wish

Credits: A Cupful of Winter by Misty Hilltops Designs (me, upcoming freebie on my blog) Layered Cards: Winter by Cindy Schneider Layered Weekly Labels & Journaling Cards by Cindy Schneider Font: DJB Celeste by Darcy Baldwin

A Bag Full of Hearts

It is a fact well-known that wedding guests are expected to bring gifts for the bride and bridegroom. What is less well-known is the fact that here in these parts of the world, it’s also expected of the bride and bridegroom to give gifts to their guests. Much like a birthday party for kids in the West. I, for one, didn’t know that part of a wedding yet, and found myself surprised at the bag full of hearts (filled with treats) I was given when I was taking leave from our hosts (the bride and bridegroom) the other day. And surprised at the huge box filled with even more expensive healthy snacks they expected me to take home with me. So, I ended up going home with a lot more than I had come (though, of course, money – the expected gift for weddings – is much easier to carry than a whole lot of snacks and a bag full of hearts)! Now, I’ve learned a new thing about weddings, and about a bunch of …

Freebie Friday: A Cup Full of Winter, Part 1 – Alphas

Ho ho ho, it’s Friday again, and that means it’s time to start sharing a new scrapbooking kit with you. It’s my third ever created full scrapbooking kit with a winter theme, called “A Cup Full of Winter.”       As usual, this kit is jam-packed with 26 papers, 78 elements, and three alphas. That’s a full-fledged kit with lots of unique elements, for which you’d pay good $$ elsewhere. But here, you’ll get it for free, and I’d love it if you could spread the word, so more people can enjoy this kit. Sooo, when you start collecting the parts to this kit, why don’t you go and drop a note about this on your blog, Facebook, twitter, galleries etc. and send people this way? I’m sure they would appreciate you sharing this info with them. Read this about the alphas … Anyhow, today, we’ll start with the alphas, and there’s something a little special to the red one I included. I left it as a full sheet of letters on a red …