This week, I found a page created for paper crate that I found intriguing to scrap lift and turn into a digital layout. I scrapped about a recent picnic with my friends using the composition of this page, and the placement of papers, photos, and embellies as approximate guideline for my own page. Of course, being someone who loves to cluster, I had to add a couple more elements to my page, and switch out the placement of the title. Here’s how my digital version turned out:
Credits: Have a Little Faith by Meghan Mullens Template from Set 147 by Cindy Schneider Layered Cards: Everyday 5 by Cindy Schneider
Credits: Hats Off to the Grad by Meghan Mullens Template from Triopack 7 – Star Power by Cindy Schneider Font: DJB Third Grade Teacher by Darcy Baldwin
Credits: Resolve to Grow: In Spirit by Traci Reed 365unscripted: Stitched Grids 2 by Traci Reed 365unscripted: Freestyle Frames by Traci Reed Tear from Clip It to Me Vol. 3 by Traci Reed Font: DJB I Love Me Some Lizzy by Darcy Baldwin
Credits: Wide Open Spaces by Kristin Cronin-Barrow Art Notes: Adventure by Kristin Cronin-Barrow Font: DJB I Love Me Some Lizzy by Darcy Baldwin
Today I learned that fruit salad can be a very fascinating thing. You don’t think so? Well, I didn’t either. But my visitors (for whom I had made the salad) were thinking quite along those lines, because as soon as the salad was ready they all snatched their cameras, gathered around the bowl with the salad, and snapped away. And I? I grabbed my camera as well. Not because of the fruit salad. But to take a picture of them taking pictures. So, you see, fruit salad can be a very fascinating thing indeed!
Well, it’s time for you to start collecting for you, and I’ve got good news, because I’ve got a brand new kit I’d like to share with you: “Find Joy.” As always, this kit is jam packed with papers and embellishments, and it’ll be perfect for you to scrap those summery moments in life, or even do some project life scrapping with it. Today, we’ll begin with the alphas again: My Terms of Use haven’t changed, so you can only use this kit for your personal scrapping needs. No sharing (parts or all), and no direct linking is permitted. You may share a link to mistyhilltops.com to send people this way. I hope you’ll enjoy scrapping with this freebie. And now, all I’ve left to do is to wish you happy scrapping! P.S. Previous freebie kits are still available for download, and if you have layouts with those kits, I’d be excited if you could link me up in a comment!
I made an exciting discovery the other day. There’s actually something like an ant farm you can buy to watch ants. Sounds boring to you? Trust me, I thought the same before I knew of this, but after I laid eyes on the “Ants Working Place” (yes, they use the literal translation for this, although they should’ve actually translated it into “ant factory”), I was captivated in no time. You see, their job is to dig tunnels into the pink jelly, and you’re supposed to be able to watch them do this. And, I mean, what is there more exciting than watching a couple of non-digging ants running all over the place, kissing each other (or was that biting?), eating up the sugar we fed them, and, well …, not digging holes? I was fascinated. But I also have a theory. After discovering that these ants were not in the least inclined to dig at all, and taking into consideration that these ants were plucked from a tree, I developed the theory that tree-inhabiting ants …
I have a very simple card for you, one that was super easy to make and still has quite the fun result: All I needed for this was plain brown card stock (of varying shades), and I printed out some light blue flowers that I cut and folded just a tinsy bit. With some raffia, I gave it a last finishing touch, glued everything together, and there I created a pretty little greeting card.
Oh, I love me some holidays. Because that’s one of the precious few times of the year when our campus isn’t overrun by people; I mean students. Of course, the Dragon Boat Festival is also the holiday when you have to eat rice balls wrapped in leaves in order to prevent – well, I forgot which terrible fate to happen in your life (like you have to eat long noodles to have a long life, and you have to eat dumpling at winter solstice to prevent winter from stealing your ears, … things like that). But I’ve managed to survive the Dragon Boat Festival without eating these rice thingies, and now I’m enjoying my holiday splendidly with a nearly empty campus. Oh holiday, oh holiday!
