Colour Challenge kit

I wanted to create a little kit quickly for a Colour Challenge that my BFF, Pam, is running over at "sKrap Happens" and this is what I came up with.

Link to download Part One HERE Faulty Link removed and reposted above!. Password if required is "scarecrow" without the quotes. Please leave a comment if you download as I really appreciate them. Your appreciation encourages me to keep creating!

Come back tomorrow for Part two and keep checking for the next installment in "Playtime".

Have a fantastic day wherever you are!

New freebie

Digital Scrap Garden is running a new Colour Challenge this month to use Pink and Purples in your layout. Funny how you can look at a colour and think.. easy peasy... and then find out it is not as easy as you first thought. I always try to include new things in my kits and not have them look like each other and like all the other kits out there. Wonder if I am achieving this. Do you feel you are getting the same stuff over and over, just different colours?? Please leave a comment and let me know. I would love to know your thoughts.

My new kit is called "Purple Haze" and will be available in 4 parts so make sure you come back and get them all. I hope you like it.

Link to download Part One HERE Link removed. OMGosh!! I am such a twit! Password to download is "lavender" without the quotes. Please leave a comment if you download, I do read them all.

Someone left me a comment a few days ago as to whether I had anything in Black/Gray/Brown. Just wondering if you could comment again and tell me what theme you were looking for please.

Have a great day wherever you are!

New freebie!! Citrus Flower

At the very the last minute, true to form, I decided to create kit for the Digital Scrap Garden Colour Challenge for July! The colour theme was Yellow, and I thought when I was creating it, it was primarily Yellow.... but looking at my preview, it seems more orange and lime!!

still.... I am happy with the way it turned out anyway! LOL

Link to download Part One HERE Link removed. Password should it be required is "tart" LOL (without the quotes). Please come back over the next few days to collect the remaining parts!

Please leave a comment if you download as I really appreciate them all!

Have a great day wherever you are!

New freebie and THANKYOU!

I am blown away! Yesterday I posted about Gary having surgery and people left comments wishing us well. Thankyou all so much, I really appreciate that you took time out to comment even though you weren't getting anything in return!! I did manage to speak to him last night and he sounded a little drunk! LOL he assured me that he was pressing the button for the Morphine when needed and it sounded as though it was working :) I will ring again this morning to see how he went through the night. It is a shame at times like this that we live so far away from the hospital and petrol is so expensive.... not so easy just to pop in and visit!

Digital Scrap Garden is very organised this month. A lot of their challenges are already posted for June including my favourite.... the Garden Rainbow Challenge! Karen set us a challenge to create a layout or mini kit using only the colour Green! This was indeed a challenge but I am pleased with the way my Kit turned out and I hope you like it as well!

Link to download Part One HERE .

Link to download Part Two HERE .

Link to download Part Three HERE . Once again 4Shared has truncated my links so I have no idea which link is which part! Password if required is "kermit" (what else LOL) without the quotes! Please leave a comment if you download, I would love to know what you think of my new kit!

Have a great day wherever you are!

New kit for Mother's Day

Here is my gift for all you Mothers, Grandmothers, friends, friends of friends and in fact... everyone who takes the time to read my Blog!!

Digital Scrap Garden have a whole new series of scrap challenges on again, and the Garden Rainbow challenge would have to be one of my favourites. I have not visited for ages and it was great to go back a couple of months ago, meet up with old friends and get back into some designing. So check out the challenges.... lots to see and do, and lots of freebies for taking part!

Link to download Part One HERE .

Link to download Part Two HERE . Password if required is "doodledoo" without the quotes. PLease leave a comment if you download, I really appreciate them all!

Have a wonderful day wherever you are!

Mini kit freebie

I have designed a Mini Kit freebie for this month's Colour Challenge over at Digital Scrap Garden!




I love this palette that Karen chose to use, so I hope you like my creation!



Link to download Part One HERE

Link to download Part Two HERE Links removed. Password to download if required is "lillies" without the quotes. Please come back and leave a comment if you download, I love reading them!

Have a great day wherever you are!

New freebie mini kit - Sumptuous

I have just finished a mini kit based on the colour swatch provided at DSG for this month's Colour Challenge. The links will be available for a few days only, and then will make its way into the Store, so don't delay if you want it for free!

Links to download: Links removed

Part One

Part Two

Please return to the Blog and leave a comment, I appreciate them all!

Have a great day wherever you are!

new Freebie!

I have finally got around to making a little mini kit for the Colour Challenge at DSS. I was a bit worried that I couldnt work with the palette given as it was all shades of purple, but I am pleased with the way the kit turned out, I hope you like it too.



Links to download (NOTE: I have been finding that sometimes Mediafire will kick up an invalid file error, just click your back button on the browser and that should take you to the download button. Very weird, but there it is!)

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Please come back and leave a comment if you download. It is these that keep me going.

Stayed tuned for some very exciting news as well. Check back tomorrow!!

have a great day wherever you are!

I'm BACK!!

YAY!! we are moved in and well on the way to sorting out our new house! It has certainly been a lot of work, we have a LOT of stuff, and you never realise how much, til you have to shift it all!

I have several new Challenges already underway at DSS and at IL this month.

Firstly, a Template Challenge at Inspiration Lane. Check it out! you get a free template to use and can earn points to convert to dollars to spend in the Store for taking part in Challenges in the Forum. Here is a preview of the Template and my layout for the challenge.

My 2nd Challenge at Inspiration Lane is the Colour Challenge. Check out the Forum. This is the colour swatch for this month and below, find a mini kit I have created for you all!

Links to download

Part One

Part Two

Please come back to the Blog and leave a comment if you download. I have had a few downloads of my freebies of late and very few comments. It is a little discouraging :( So, make me happy.... leave a comment please!

A new Template Challenge is also on a DigiScrapStation for this month. Here is a preview of the Template you can download for free in the Forum and my layout for this challenge. AND!! for taking part in this Challenge, you not only get the free Template, but you also get a free mini kit created by me! "Powder Puff". Check it out!

Click on the links in the text or on the previews to get you to the right Forums for each of my Challenges!

Thanks for looking, have a great day wherever you are!

New Challenges at Inspiration Lane

I almost forgot to post these challenges that I am hosting at Inspiration Lane. I am giving a free Template to use for Template challenge and you can earn points to use as cash in the Store. The Colour Challenge is also up and running again for this month and once again, you can earn points for taking part.

This is my layout for this months Template Challenge.

This is a photo of a Dinosaur Quilt that my 13yo son, Nicholas, made. He started off with the panel and then had to measure and cut the strips for all the borders. He had a friend of ours, Ruth, guiding him and I sewed the back of the binding but that is all the help he got. He did ALL the work himself. I am so very proud of him and he loves it!
I have used DinoSAUR by Sharon Langford Designs. As soon as I saw this kit, I wanted to use it to scrap this photo!.

and this is the swatch for this months Colour Challenge. So hope over to the Forum and get the details and start scrapping!!

Click on the links within the posts or the previews and you will fly over to the right forums. Have fun!

Have a great day wherever you are!

It's that time of the month again....

Two new Challenges have begun over at Inspiration Lane. Actually, a whole heap of new Challenges have begun, but I am here to let you know about the one I host. The Colour Challenge is up and running and so it the Template Challenge. Now, I don't know if you remember, but as I now host the Template Challenge at IL, I won't be giving my Templates away on the Blog any more. However, if you click the link, it will take you to the Forum, where you can download this Template for free. You might even want to go back and participate in the Challenge and earn yourself some Inspiration Lane points that you can put towards purchases in the Store!

I have created a Kit for the Colour Challenge, but will be giving it away in parts over the course of April as it is HUGE! . I have been making an effort to keep my download sizes to no larger than 25Meg (especially for those on slow or intermittent Internet connections such as mine), but this does result in a large number of downloads to completely download the whole kit. So, as this Kit ended up being 10 download files, I thought I would break it up, and, of course, encourage you to return to the Blog often LOL

See what you have to look forward to :) I have mixed it up though, so in each part you will get a couple of papers and some elements. So make sure you keep checking for the next part so that you get all the pieces!

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Link to download Day One

Please leave a comment if you download, I really appreciate them all.

NOTE: I have received a couple of comments of people being unable to download from Mediafire. I too found the same problem when checking my files. This solution worked for me, so give it a try if you are having issues. I found that I couldn't download from Mediafire if I was logged into my Mediafire account, so if this is you as well, make sure you have logged out of your Mediafire account before trying to download the files. This worked for me even on other peoples files that I was unable to download previously, I logged out of my Mediafire account.... and no more issues, found the download file and downloaded successfully.

Have a great day wherever you are!

New freebie - Mar09 CC at PDW

Well, I found another Colour Challenge to take part in and I set to and created this Kit. However, Plain Digital Wrapper won't be benefiting at the moment as I can't post in their Forum, so you guys get it first. Lucky You!! UPDATE: Well, PDW came to the party just before the Mar 31st deadline and I was able to post this kit and layout there. :)

The papers in this kit have been created using my Textures which I posted as a freebie earlier. So, if you were unsure about what they look like, download this kit, check out the papers and then .... come back and download the Textures and give them a go when creating your own papers.

Links: Sorry links no lnger available

Part One
Part Two
Part Three

Please remember to leave a comment on the Blog if you download so I know you like my work.


This is the layout I created for the Colour Challenge at PDW which required you to use products from their Store (at least one product) and then recolour if required to follow the swatch supplied. This layout uses items that are not in my Kit.

This is a photo of my eldest daughter on her wedding day. She is so very beautiful and I love this photo of her.

Thanks for looking, don't forget those lovely comments I relish in!

Have a great day wherever you are!

New freebie - Mar09 CC at DSG

I have finally finished my kit for the Mar09 Colour Challenge at Digital Scrap Garden. I love these colours. It was quite funny, there was a gap between making the papers and finishing the kit. I named it "Washed Out" and then noticed the swatch was called "Spring Rain" which I had completely ignored when I started designing :)

There are four links in all so make ure you get them all. Please leave a comment on the Blog if you download, these are what keep me designing those freebies for you.

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Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

have a great day wherever you are!

My layout for the IL Mar09 CC

Here is my layout for the IL Mar09 CC. I have used my "Spring Picnic" kit for this layout and I am pleased with the way it came together.

Friends & Family = FUN

Journalling reads:

Katarapko, a Murray River National Park is located in the Riverland about 180 kilometres from Adelaide. The park is opposite the town of Loxton and is four kilometres south of Berri. Access to the main area of the park is by a sealed road just past the township of Glossop. Other access is gained by crossing the floodplain from either Lower Winkie Road or under the bridge at Berri. Due to the terrain the park is in three distinct sections, which can only be accessed through their separate entrances. The park was formed in 1991 and includes 8,905 hectares with a rich range of habitats. 75% of the area is floodplain and contains many wetlands both permanent and semi permanent. This is an important breeding area for many forms of life including water birds.

Camping in such beautiful surroundings. What could be more perfect! The kids had a ball, the River was gorgeous and it was so peaceful. These are just a few photos of mealtimes whilst we were away.

Fonts: Giddyup Std; Freestyle Script; Eccentric Std

Thanks for looking :)

Have a great day wherever you are!

New freebie for Inspiration Lane Colour Challenge

Here is my submission for the Inspiration Lane Colour Challenge. Please feel free to download this kit and use it to create a layout for the Color Challenge, post it in the Color Challenge Gallery, then link back to the CC Forum to earn points that convert to dollars to spend in the Inspiration Lane Store.

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

Part Five Links removed

Please leave a comment here on the Blog if you download as Mediafire doesn't accept comments, and I really appreciate them.

Have a great day wherever you are!

Inspiration Lane Challenges

Okay folks, get on your creative caps and get over to Inspiration Lane to check out my Challenges. I am hosting a Colour Challenge and a Template Challenge. Both these challenges are ready to go and you can earn Inspiration Points by taking part, which are able to be converted to dollars to spend in the Store. Click on the links to be taken directly to the Forum concerned.

Please help me out here, this is the first time I have ever hosted a Challenge, and for some reason, felt the insane desire to host TWO!! so I need you all to come over and participate so I don't feel like a failure. Com'on ..... boost my ego!

note: as I am now hosting a template challenge, you will have to come over to the Forum to get your freebie template as I will no longer be giving them away on my Blog.


Hope to see you there!

New freebie - Mar09 CC at SAS

Hi all, hope you are all having a great week, of course I am already halfway through the weekend, but never mind :)

I have finally finished my submission for the Colour Challenge at Stone Accents Studio (SAS). I absolutely loved the colours for this month and it has been a challenge sorely missed over at SAS for some time.

I have also chosen Media Fire to host my files this time. There has been a lot of talk about viruses being downloaded from files shared at 4shared although I, touch wood, have not been affected, poor Pam was wiped out and NOT HAPPY! and rightly so. From what I can gather, it is affecting quite a few people, so I hope that none of you have been adversely affected by downloading my files. Anyway, I thought I would try out Media Fire and see how it goes. if you have any problems downloading, please let me know and I will try to help.

Sorry links no longer available

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

Part Five

Part Six

You will notice there are six links, I am trying to keep my file downloads Dial-Up User friendly as I know from experience how difficult it can be to download larger files with a s...l...o...w internet connection. So make sure you get all six links!

have a great day wherever you are!

Freebie for DSG Feb09 CC

I finally got around to finishing a submission for the Colour Challenge at Digital Scrap Garden. I only managed a Paper Pack this month, but I am hoping to add Elements to it later on, so keep checking :)

Sorry links no longer available

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Password to download is "flower" . Please leave a comment if you download, I really appreciate them. If you click on the Paper Pack Preview, it will take you to my Gallery posting where you can also leave a comment. Thanks!

Have a great day wherever you are!

New freebie for Color Challenge at TSG

This cooler weather has done wonders for my creativity :) now, if only I could stop my neck and shoulders from killing me, I would be in scrapbooking heaven LOL

However, the weather has worked in your favour as I have created another freebie kit for you all to enjoy.... and you will enjoy it .... got that!! LOL

I must admit I was stumped when the palette went up at The Scrapping Garden. I couldn't think of anything that it suggested to me, and I do like to have some idea where I'm heading when I start designing something. So I decided I would just make a paper selection and forget about the elements. And I did! but when I had finished the papers, they looked so lonely in the preview, I was compelled to rethink my theme and come up with something. After chatting with my DH, Gary, we started coming up with flowers, but there were no flowers in my papers at all..... then it hit me, the colours reminded me of weeds, in particular the thistle. Gary hopped online to check out pics and came back with the Scotch Thistle and this unforgettable name "Thistle Doo". It was perfect, and now I had a theme to create some elements around.

I searched the Internet for gardening tools and took a few pictures of our gardening tools, and was able to get some nice additions to the kit. I then decided to fill it with lots of different sorts of flowers and vines and so on. I am very happy with the way it turned out in the end, I hope you feel the same way.

As it started life as a paper only kit, there are 16 papers to choose from. As it grew into a full sized kit, 36 elements accompanied those papers!

I hope you enjoy using this as much as I enjoyed putting it together, and don't forget, if you make a layout, please email to cazpamATgmail.com so that I can show it off.

Links to download: Sorry links no longer available

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

Password to download is "scotch" without the quotes.... and this as in "Thistle" not as in "Drink" LOL

have a great day wherever you are!

New submission for Colour Challenge at CLD - Feb09

It has finally cooled down here enough to feel like working in the computer. We have had well over two weeks of temperatures over 40C and it has been terrible. Now, we are getting all the smoke haze from Victoria, and, as it is pretty thick here, I can only begin to imagine how terrible it must be for those right in the heart of all this trauma.

I finally finished my mini kit for the latest colour challenge at ColorLine Design. I have called it "Loved" and it is a very similar colour scheme to our Collab "Only Time" (still available, scroll down for info and links).

Links to download here

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Password to download is "beloved" without the quotes. Please leave a comment if you download as it does encourage me to keep on creating freebies for you.

I have also created a layout using Kellie Puddy's "A Little Bird Told Me" available here at CLD.

This is a lovely kit, full of soft colours and unusual elements, all of which are gorgeous!

These are a couple of pics of areas in my huge, but very wild, garden.

have a great day wherever you are.....