I can never get enough trims. Isn't that how life is? It's the side dishes that complete a meal, the jewelry that completes an outfit, and the trims that complete a digi-scrap page. You'll find the matching free papers in the GrannyEnchanted.Com paper directory.
19182 4 Free Blue Tan Scalloped Digi Scrapbook Trims
These frames are lightly textured. The actual files have no drop shadow. I love Photoshop Elements because I can take a monochromatic paper and change it to any color I want, using the same pattern several times in different colors. Because of this I only need a few basic patterns in my collection of files. Plus, once I make the frame template I only have to make it once, the rest is a select and cut for a new piece of paper. Sometimes, like here, I use "edit->stroke outline selection" to make a little border on my frames. You'll find the free matching papers in a paper pack in the GrannyEnchanted.Com Paper Directory.
19181 Free Blue Tan Rectangle Digi Scrapbook Frames
I love to shrink a variety of brads down and create a scatter effect on my pages, the messier the better. Over the past year I've learned so much about digi-scrappers. Some of you like flat images with clean lines. Some of you like more dimensional images. Some of you like a natural look. Some of you like the ease of quick pages. And some of you will always prefer to make it from scratch.
The papers that match this freebie come in a free paper pack that can be found in the free paper directory at GrannyEnchanted.Com
Free Tan and Blue Digi Scrapbook PrintedI think we'll need some hearts in this one too... Maybe some animals and characters. This is perfect for those baby boy pages, and even little girl pages. At first, I only had the stars on here and started thinking about the trim. I was just going to make you make a trim yourself, but finally decided I'd go the extra mile and make it for you. It will look good repeating across a page at the midline, the top or bottom. You can find this free paper pack in the GrannyEnchanted.Com Free Paper Directory.
19179 Free Tan and Blue Digi Scrapbook Printed Stars Stars
I've been drinking a smoothie every morning for breakfast. I actually get a little grumpy if I miss it. That's a huge thing because I'm seldom grumpy. We buy the cheap mushy bananas, squash them flat in a snack bag, and freeze them (This way they freeze flat and can stack in a tidy pile in the freezer). In the morning I have 1 frozen banana, 1/3 cup of uncooked regular rolled oats, 1/2 cup of orange juice, 1/2 cup of water, 1/2 to 1 cup of fresh spinach, and a splash of vanilla blended together. It has been a wonderful meal replacement while I lose weight. I'm using MyFitnessPal.Com to lose weight and it is working like a charm. I like it much more than WeightWatchers.Com.
I love Pinterest. I wish I could find the time to make and try every recipe and craft I repin. Sigh. Did you know I have a Granny Enchanted Board full of Guest Freebies there? If you like Free Digi Scrapbooking it's an awesome resource. Again, I'll mention that the freebies I've been giving away the last few days on Snip Snap Time to Scrap have matching papers that you'll find in the free GrannyEnchanted.Com Paper Directory.
This video was so awesome. I think about stuff like this all the time. There is no woman, or man for that matter that can choose 100% what they look like, yet we make decisions about them based on their looks, some look kind, some look severe, some look stupid, some look smart, short, tall, thin, fat, ugly, pretty (You can't tell me you've never met a pretty who was ugly inside, some are and I testify there are plenty of uglies that are beautiful inside too)... and a lot of the time we miss who they are because of what they look like on the outside. I really started thinking about it a few weeks ago when we took our scruffy dog in for her haircut. She came out a beauty that could have strutted her stuff down the street with Zsa Zsa Gabor and nobody would have doubted she was a star... and I had been treating her like a rag-a-muff mutt until then. The way I treated her completely changed because of her temporary beauty. It was then that I started to wonder, who else's beauty I was missing because I was looking at them with my eyes and not my heart. Lesson from a dog (or Dustin Hoffman) #284. )
I pulled my almost 8 year old daughter out of bed this morning and set her on my lap. She was still dozy and warm. Wrapping my arms around her, I rocked back and forth memorizing the moment. This is the last day she'll be this big. Tomorrow she'll be bigger. I'm going to enjoy every minute of today. That's what a scrapbook is for. Tomorrow I'll remember today, the last day I had with her when she was this big.
I was looking around our home yesterday, thinking of decorating. I've been greedily grabbing every catalog from my mailbox looking at curtains. But then it occurred to me as I looked at the clutter from our puppy and our children... You know what the best decorating would be? To clean it.... That should be the cheapest way to decorate it too. Really, when I see new drapes as the backdrop for the Great-Lego-Explosion of August 2015... Are they going to look that good?
Did I ever tell you about the time my son put purple glue stick goo all over his fingers, dressed up in his Halloween Spiderman costume and tried to climb the walls? It took me hours to figure out what all the gooey purple globs were from. All of these papers are available free at GrannyEnchanted.Com. You'll find them in the free papers directories.
As I was making these stars today I was thinking about my troubles. But you know, I started thinking of stars and staring up at a diamond blanket of night sky. I remembered how small that made me feel. Suddenly I was a tiny speck on a little planet. Of course, you couldn't stare at the stars very long without awe swelling up inside of you for our Creator, the Creator of the cosmos. And even this morning, though it isn't night, just thinking of stars made my problems seem tiny. It helped me take my gratitude out of my pocket so I could shine it up and remember the God of all is watching over little old me.
Do we measure up as mothers? Of course we do! And we are not alone.
"Through the thick and the thin of this....I know deep down inside I am doing God's work.
I know that my motherhood is an eternal partnership with Him." ~ From this video.
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