Here is your freebie for today. Enjoy!

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This has been one that has stuck with me for a LONG time and it was a toss up between this and another but I think this one wins for now

I seriously dont think it was my fault though, I mean cmon I was born and raised in Southern California. We were IN So. California at the time this happened… WHO THE HECK KNOWS WHAT FIREWOOD IS?! GEESH LOL!

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Journaling:

{Ditz} noun slang
A scatterbrained or eccentric person
-See Leah (StarBright)

When I was around 9 or so my family was living in California. My father took us on our weekly yard sale hunts at a huge mile long neighborhood sale. I was so excited just to find some good deals with my father  anyhow but then I saw it, the sign I had been looking for.. So I rushed to the people in charge and asked where it was, they said “Around back so I rushed in back and started looking. I was back there oh about 15 minutes when one of the guys comes back and asks if im finding everything ok. I say ”no I can’t find any” he said “What do you mean you can’t find any, you’re standing right on it!” now instead of just looking down, understanding where the mistake was, me being the ditz I was and still am said “I don’t see any fireworks” He stared at me a moment, laughed then said “hun, the sign said ‘free firewood’ not fireworks..” then he walked up front laughing as I got down off the huge pile of firewood I was standing on and rushed to the front to find my parents and leave. Everyone was laughing at the time as he had told all the people running the sale and anyone nearby to hear. I just walked off briskly looking for my parents, with my head down and feeling jilted that I didn’t find the fireworks!

Not Fireworks…

Credits:
All papers - Fee Jardine’s Pippi kit
Pocket, String Fastener, Flower Bundle, Tag - Lauren Grier & Robin Carlton’s La-La-La-Leo kit
Sun sticker - Lauren Grier’s Itsy Bitsy Summer kit
Notepaper, Pen, Paperclip, Stitched Ribbon - Ronna Penner’s Express Yourself
Fonts - Dad’s Recipe, Enthuse Solid BRK & Type-Ra

You can also see it at my gallery on RAKscraps here!

Hey everyone. I wanted to share with you a layout I made for the DNTS challenges.

We were to complete the sentence ‘I wish I was/were…’ and use it as the title and substinance of our layout along with using one photo, 3 times. So without further ado, here is my layout for Peppermint Creative’s DNTS challenge!

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Journaling:

 I wish I was back in Boca Raton, Florida., with it’s fancy cars, beautiful people, glimmering beaches and the color pink everywhere you turn. I stayed there for almost two months a few years ago and have wanted to go back ever since. It’s so exotic and relaxing that you can hardly get back into reality once you leave. Everywhere you look there are beautiful blue skies and lovely pieces of art. I love and miss Florida…

Credits:

All papers & embellishments - Miss Mint’s Spring Jellybean kit
Fonts - Curlz MT

Photo is of Boca Raton Resort & Spa in Boca Raton, Florida

Hey all. I am really happy to have you joining me on this month-long freebie journey. I want to express my thanks even further by offering everyone who participates in a little challenge for me a bonus prize! Sound cool? Well here is how you can win the bonus prize.

All participants who use parts of this month long freebie kit, Pretty in Pink, in a layout and email me a link to them will receive a special bonus prize as well as be featured on my blog. I can’t wait to see your layouts! You can email the links to me at leah@scrapmuffin.com This contest will run until the end of August at midnight!

A little later than I had hoped to get it to you but here is your freebie for today, August 13th. Enjoy!

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Sorry for the delay, here is you freebie for August 12th. Enjoy!

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Sorry for the delay, here is your freebie for August 11th. Enjoy!

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Ok it’s been crazy around here. I haven’t had a chance to get the freebies for the past 3 days up so I will do that here in a few, sorry for delays! Hope your days are going well

Here are previews of both my layouts for the Challenges #7 & #8 in the ADSR.

 The first one was hosted by Blue Flombingo:

The Challenge:For this challenge each of you will be creating a multi-photo layout.  And not just 2 or 3 photos - you must use a minimum of TEN PHOTOS on your layout!!!!  NO TEMPLATES MAY BE USED!!!  You may, however, use photo clusters or negative frames, etc.  Just no pre-designed page templates.Now there’s a twist so pay close attention…   

You will choose your background paper(s), photos and title and will arrange them the way that you want them.  THEN you and your partner will TRADE your layouts and your partner will be responsible to embellish your layout for you!  On a sidenote, I’m not sure what the official policy is on trading layouts, but it is very important that we not go anywhere near file sharing.  If your partner owns the same products you used for your background paper and/or title, then you may share your .psd file.  If they do not own the same products, then you must send a flattened .jpg.  I hope this isn’t too confusing!

Please feel free to post your layout links here if you would like (note: we have this forum set up to require approval for all forum registrants to help curb the insane amount of spam that we get so it may be a few hours before you receive approval - I apologize about that!).

You may do either a one or two page layout.

You can preview the post here - Challenge #7

Here is my layout that my partner, Clare (MrsS) embellished for me. I plan on making a 2nd page once I catch up on a bunch of other stuff to go with it for Cody’s car album.

You can also see a preview of it here at Rakscraps.
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Here is my lqyout for the 8th Challenge in the ADSR. It was hosted by Designs by Dani - Dani’s Girls

Your Challenge: Each participant needs to create a layout using the theme “Girl Talk.” Some ideas of how to use the theme: Show us the person you are most likely to “girl talk” with… what is most often the topic of discussion in your “girl talk”? what about when you were a teen? what was the girl talk then? what is it now? how’s it changed? Just about anything goes as long as you incorporate the theme in some way.

You can view the actual post here: Challenge #8

Here is my layout:

You can also see a preview of it here at RAKscraps.

Shy Girl Social

So I was surfing one of my favorite sites for challenges <insertshamelessplughere> Sweet Shoppe Designs <goonwiththepostnow> and there was a spotlight on a designer named Amy Pearson. I was to browse her gallery and select a layout I liked then ‘revamp it’ if you will. She is an amazing artist and I don’t think I did her justice but I tried and loved being so bold and wild for a change! So here is a link to her gallery to see her lovely layouts and then my layout I ’scraplifted’

Amy Pearson’s Gallery

 I scraplifted “Figitized”

 I am horrible at ‘white space’ layouts and just keep adding and adding to it but I also never scrap with wild, bold colors so this was a challenge for me to break out of a mold. I don’t think I did her genius work much justice but I had fun trying

Credits:
All Papers & Elements - Kim Jensen’s ‘Shameless’ kit
Fonts - Dad’s Recipe & ZITZ