Free Font Friday

Creating Keepsakes offers a free font every Friday and I thought I would share some of those links with you. They are all true type fonts, so you won't have to do an unzipping! That's always a plus!

CK Acedemia

CK Bella

CK Chemistry

CK Rough Script

CK Constitution

CK Cursive

CK Wistful

CK Handprint

CK Stenography

CK Serendipity

CK Leisurely

CK Postcard

CK Mapped Out

Day 4

Day 4

Next Two Days

Day 3: for the top right corner, I didn't purposely crop Titus out. The lady that took the pic did that for me. :-/

Day 2: I really like all of the colors on this page.

Day 1

Yesterday was my first day of beginning another "Week in My Life" project. These are the pictures and stories.

Memories

I think the journaling speaks for itself. I rarely do a page with one picture and wanted this picture to be the focus. As always, it's simple, but I think I like it.

Free CK Allison Font

One more font to tell you about! In the October CK magazine, there is a link for the "CK Allison" font. I don't know how long it will be around, but here is the link for you. I grabbed it a while back, but in case you haven't, here it is!

ALERT! Free Handwriting Fonts

Good Afternoon! We're up north visiting my in-laws and while I was blog hopping, I found a site with some FUN - oh yeah... FREE - handwriting fonts! As a way for me to remember this site, I thought I'd share it with you and then when I get home, I can download these fonts for me! I hope these fonts will find their way onto your computer too!

Wonderful Life

I'm starting to work on a family project. This page was my first for the project, but not in order of display. I got this layout idea from Ali Edwards in the October CK magazine on page 65.

Geese

Although the picture layout is simple, I found it on page 56 of the October CK magazine and just flipped it.

Long Time No Post

Due to moving and all the buying a new house entails, I haven't been scrapping much lately. The first two pages were mainly designed before our move and edited after our move. This page is of Leah's first birthday. I already made two pages of this birthday, but never liked them. So thanks to digital scrapbooking, I changed it all up! I'm glad I did. I like the colors better and not having so many pictures. I wanted to capture what happened that day, but not be on some crazy overload of pictures. Not to mention, I was still new to digital "back then". I may add something more later concerning baby milestones.

Simple page. I know that I like simple, but I hate feeling like there is something missing. Until I find that "something", here what I've got so far!

Very Soon

We have now stayed three nights in our new house and we're loving it! We don't have the internet there yet and have to wait probably another week due to the fact that the company is swapped with business. I did hook up my computer last night and open Elements! And I forgot that I started two pages before our move. I was really happy to see them!! One page is pretty much done, just never posted. The other page needs journaling and a few more final touches. I'm excited to have Photoshop back and to get in some scrapping during moments I don't feel like cleaning and painting! So hopefully I can get more pages done before we get the internet so that I'll have a nice bunch to post. Oh how I've missed scrapbooking!!!

Butterflies

Friday Pages

Tracks

I wanted to use a good amount of pictures for this page, but did just want to throw the pictures on it because I love these pictures! I saw at layout in CK's June issue (page 26) and thought I would try it with these pictures. I really like how it turned out!

Spring

Rockford

I had tried scrapping these pictures the other day, but with the vertical one of Titus, I was troubled in finding a good layout. Strange, I know. So I saw this picture layout in a magazine and thought that it would work perfect. I also have been thinking about the new calendar grid that I downloaded (www.creatingkeepsakes.com/CT3) and thought it might be fun putting the pictures on the actual calendar. I just had to move the dates around to match the dates in March. I think I like how it all looks. Oh and I saw Jessica and Christina use flourishes that were outlined. I haven't asked if they used a stroke on them, but that's what I tried here and it seemed to work well.

Butterflies

Do you ever get butterflies? Butterflies over creating and scrapbooking? I would have to believe that I'm not the only one. Today I was looking through my new "Computer Tricks for Scrapbookers 3" that I won for a page I posted. While browsing, I was getting ideas, wanting to try new things and just HAPPY that I scrapbook - then the butterflies started. It's weird. I can't explain it. Maybe it's all those creative juices coming together. Lately I've been thinking about how thankful I am that I scrapbook. Yesterday someone said that it was really great that I scrapbook. It is really great. I know that I cherish pictures from when I was little. I already cherish pictures that I've taken of our family. And I have to believe that my children will cherish the pictures taken and STORIES that go along with the pictures.

Now mind you, the butterflies were fluttering and I thought, "I'm going to blog this". While blogging a few other things first, my 3.5-year-old son came in my room with his pants off showing me that he peed. I don't know what was going through his head at the time (since he's been potty trained over a year), but he showed me what happened. This is also amidst random bickering between my two kids. Although I'm still excited about scrapbooking, the butterfly wings slowed in their fluttering. Such is life as a mom. I know the butterflies will come back - probably around nap time!

Old Photos, Wonderful Memories

While at my parents this past weekend, I decided to go through some old photos, bring them back and scan them so that I can scrap them with my own stories and memories. There are a lot and I won't blog them all, but I wanted to give a little sample of some of my favorites (a LOT more are on my Facebook).

Decorating Christmas cookies was a family tradition that started young and one that I carry on with my family. I think my mom is just gorgeous in this picture!

My grandpa was my favorite person. I love this picture of him and I. He died when I was 11, but I have some amazing memories of him. It still makes me cry when I think of him being gone (and as I type this), but the warmth of his love and sweet memories I'll always have are deep within my heart.

This was me at my second birthday. I was happily surprised at how I can see Leah in myself. I plan to use a picture from this day on her 2 year birthday page!

Even though I was young, I remember this skirt being one of my favorites. Don't you just love that expression!?

Little Girl

Awesome hair! How I wish it were like this now!

My Strawberry Shortcake banana seat bike!

In my dad's pants and shoes. Stylin'!

My sisters and I loved sitting in the truck of our car halfway through apple picking. We would eat apples with crackers and cheese and felt so "cool" to be in the trunk.

Both Grandparents

My Grandpa and Grandma Reed (my dad's parents) on their wedding day, October 12, 1946. My Great-Grandma Hartley (Grandpa's mom) and my Great-Grandma "Du" (DuRussel) (Grandma's mom) are next to them.

I LOVE the excitement on my grandma's face! Although I wouldn't choose this for my bridesmaids, I actually love the headpieces her bridesmaids are wearing! I love all things old.

My Grandpa Andrew and Grandma Betty - my mom's parents. My grandma was pregnant for my mom in this picture. My mom's dad died when she was 13, so I was never able to meet him.

My grandpa shortly after returning from war. I think this picture is truly awesome!

Thankful for Home / Play date

Ahhh....I'm home! I've been out of town for 9 days visiting family and doing things to the house we are buying on the other side of the state. Tonight the kids and I got home while my husband went back to start a new work week. I can't wait until we are in our house and back to living life as our family unit! For now, I'm so happy to be back to our apartment. My own things, my own computer, my own bed, my own everything! I am *really* excited to scrapbook again! I've really missed it! I even want to scrap pictures from this month! *gasp*

Today I realized that I didn't post a page from before we left. I'm really into different colors right now that are just not common for me. I really like the button "flower" my friend, Christina, created so I decided to make one myself. I knew the colors I wanted to use and then chose the buttons. I later realized that except for one button, I chose the same buttons as my friend without even knowing! Great minds think alike, I guess! I'm lovin' the brighter colors! I'm thankful for my friend's and other's blogs that I'm able to look at, get ideas, and try new things for myself. I'm so looking forward to getting back into scrapping tomorrow (or maybe tonight)!

Friendship

This layout idea mostly came from pg 24 in the June CK magazine.

Father's Love

I think I plan to use this as a gift next month! I created an 8x10 of this (for the gift) because I want this page for my scrapbook!

Valentine/Birthday

I took ideas from pg 25 of the February 09 CK magazine for this page. I originally had a big heart behind our pictures but then liked the flourishes better. I really like being able to "hide" certain elements to see what looks best rather than just deleting and then possibly changing your mind!

This page was inspired from pg. 57 of the June 09 CK magazine. Lately I've been trying to focus on the main pictures of the event rather than trying to use most, if not all, of the pictures taken. For this page, there were a lot of other pictures I *could* have used, but for me, these tell the story. And that is what I'm really wanting to accomplish!