Happy Scrappy

It has been a long, very long, time since I have had a free*bie for you on my blog. I had drawn these last year, sometime in the fall. But, then I got busy making other things and never offered them. These doodles were all hand-drawn and scanned in, cleaned up somewhat. They come with a Photoshop brush set. It was done in CS2. Here they are:

To download them, just click on the preview. If you do download them, please leave me a comment. Thanks!

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Posted by Monique at 10:06 PM | Permalink | Comments

So, yesterday I told you that I had something cool, but it was with someone else. And now, it's here. I know it may seem like something small to some, but I am really excited. Krista Mettler, one of my favorite designers, let me make a quick page to offer to you all with a paper pack she offered on her blog last fall. I added a couple of embellishments I had designed on my own. If you've been reading my blog since it started, you'll recognize it right away. You can get the quick page here or at her blog. In either case, you should definitely check her out if you haven't already. Below is the preview. I'd love to see any layouts you do with this and I'm sure Krista would too. Oh, and if you leave a comment for me, please also leave a comment for Krista.



Until later...

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Posted by Monique at 4:00 PM | Permalink | Comments

And so Christmas is upon us. It has been fun looking for gifts for those I love. I even managed to sneak in a little something special for my DH. While this has meant my time has not been my own, so to speak, I managed to finish up the Shimmering Snowflakes kit with the last papers which you can download here. There's no preview on the blog, but if you have been following and downloading the pieces you now have a complete kit. Included in this last zip file is a preview of the complete kit.

Let me wish you the very best of holidays no matter what you celebrate at this time of year.

Edit: This kit is no longer available.

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Posted by Monique at 11:06 PM | Permalink | Comments

I am so excited! The doctor says I won't need surgery. I have a walking boot and I'll be in it for the next month, then have a bit of physical therapy. It looks like I'll be curling for the second half of the season. So, that's my good news.

And now for the free*bie. It's a small add-on to the Shimmering Snowflakes Mini Kit. Preview is below. As always, I'd love to hear from you if you download them and also love to hear from you if you post online somewhere using one of my designs.

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Posted by Monique at 12:08 PM | Permalink | Comments

So, apparently it isn't just an ankle sprain. No, it just could not be that easy. The preliminary diagnosis is a ruptured plantar facia and torn tendons on the top of my foot as well along with the difficulty with the ankle. My curling half season is truly officially over! I am so not happy about that, especially since if the MRI shows that the diagnosis is right I will probably need surgery to fix the damage. Ugh!

But, because I missed last week's freebie and this one is so late, this is a mini kit called Shimmering Snowflakes. Preview is below. As always, I'd love to hear from you if you download them and also love to hear from you if you post online somewhere using one of my designs.

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Posted by Monique at 11:10 PM | Permalink | Comments

First, let me say how much all your feedback and encouragement has meant to me. I was awed by your comments. Thank you.

OK - so I have officially curled too much in one week, but it was so much fun. We lost our second straight game... not that I curled all that well myself. Ah well, it's really just for fun.

But, what you really came here for is previewed below. These photo corners are this week's gift. As always, I'd love to hear from you if you download them and also love to hear from you if you post online somewhere using one of my designs.

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Posted by Monique at 10:08 PM | Permalink | Comments

OK - so too many days at the curling club leaves limited time to do other things, like make these bead strands and stickpins, but it is soooo much fun! I'll be curling 4 days (5 draws) a week and I'll be at the club 5 days a week. But I love curling and once I'm on the ice, the world and all its annoyances and frustrations just disappear which is great.

But, I still want to be sending out freebies at least once a week. So, here is this week's freebie for you. Four strings of beads in autumn colors and three matching stickpins. They're great for any autumn, Halloween, or Thanksgiving layouts. Hope you enjoy. And please, if you use them and post your LO somewhere, let me know so I can leave you some luvin. As always, I ask that if you do download the freebie, you leave me a comment.

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Until later...

Edit: This kit is no longer available.

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Posted by Monique at 8:19 PM | Permalink | Comments

With Thanksgiving just around the corner (in the U.S.) and just over (in Canada), I thought a little something was in order. The preview and download link are below. Since Blogger shrinks the pictures, you might want to click on the preview to see it better. The paper isn't included in the download. If you download it, please leave me a comment. Thanks!

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I'm looking forward to picture taking this Sunday so I can finally make the layout I though of when I made the fall word art. I'll post some of the photos and the layout. Gotta shout out an early thank you to Krista Mettler because her latest blog freebie paper pack is going to be used in the layout. If you haven't been to her blog (Skye Scrapz), you *have* to visit. There's a link to the right for her blog.

Until next week...

Edit: This kit is no longer available.

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Posted by Monique at 10:11 AM | Permalink | Comments

So, my dh & I drove to Columbus Friday so I could see "my" hockey team (Vancouver Canucks) play live for the only time this season. Columbus was the closest to us that they would play. The drive up was beautiful, the fall foliage really beginning to look lovely. As so often happens, I got a vision of a layout I knew I would make. I don't have the photos yet; I'll take them on the 22nd. But I made the word art that I "saw" and you can download it for free. The preview and download link are below. The paper is not included. If you download it, please leave me a comment. Thanks!

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Posted by Monique at 6:59 PM | Permalink | Comments

In September I got really excited about the ScrapArtist Apprentice challenge and thought I'd give it a go. I'm looking to start selling my designs and figured I'll never do it if I don't put myself and my work out there. So, I created a mini kit and submitted it. I knew when I designed it that it didn't fit with the overall style at ScrapArtist, but hey, it's my current design style. I didn't make it out of the first round but that's ok. Afterward, I added to the kit - some new papers (with a technique I picked up after I had entered) and a few extra embellishments (some of which I had decided not to include in the challenge mini kit) and offered it as a RAK at RAKscraps. The preview of the kit is below and you can go to RAKScraps to get it.


Keep checking back; I'll be adding new stuff and redoing older stuff that will be available here.

Edit: This kit is no longer available.

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