I love simple quick pages that you can customize a little with embellishments to fit your page! This Ohana Quick Page by BioGraffiti is a perfect example.

I added a yellow paper and painted bracket element by JoyceB and some tooth fairy elements from Victoria Feemster & eNKay Design. The layout only took about 40 minutes including shopping time to find  coordinating tooth fairy elements!

Simple Quick Pages that are flexible enough to let you make them your own are a dream come true! They put a smile on my face just like the one on my daughter’s face when she wakes up and sees money from the tooth fairy!

So its Sunday afternoon, the weekend is coming to an end, the dishes are caught up, size 6X-7 clothes are in the attic, the car is washed, and the house is clean. More than I usually get done in a weekend, I have to admit. So what’s a girl to do before the daily grind starts back up tomorrow? Scrapbooking of course! But since going back to work I’m leisure time constrained and therefore LOVING templates!

This layout was done using Take-Two No. 1 by Biograffiti. And the double page spread seriously took me half the time! Check out the selection of Biograffiti templates featured at DigiScrapQuickPages.com.

Credits: The kit is Strange Days by MGL Scraps and the shadow styles are by MicroFerk.

Congratulations to Tami for winning the Shabby Miss Jenn $6 coupon! Happy Shopping!

If your scrapbook stash is getting as piled up as mine, it might be getting a little hard to find your fun!

I started out my digital scrapbook adventure organized, as with anything new! It was easy to manage my stash with Adobe Bridge…until I hit my first iDSD! I’m not sure I ever fully caught up again with all the item by item tagging after that!

So, I came up with a new plan…save scrapbook previews into a folder together. Just make sure the file name convention matches your folder name so you can find what you are looking for! I have Personal Use, Scrap For Hire, and Commercial Use preview folders.

Even then, I fell behind. So, in case anyone else out there has this delima … my back-up to the backup plan is to make sure there is a copy of the preview named as “folder.jpg.” Now, you can’t see these nice and big in Adobe Bridge. But, you can view the folder in Windows Explorer using the extra large icon views.

Without some system, it can get very frustrating when trying to scrap your stash, and impossible to find your fun! So, each time you unzip a kit, make sure and check that the preview graphic is also named as folder.jpg.

This weekend I did find my fun and scrapped my stash! Even better, I finished a carefree, loose, and fun double page spread!

Credits: All of the items used in these layouts are from Tracy Ann, also known as TADA.

Thank-YOU to my Facebook Fans! I hope you are finding some good freebies on my Facebook page AND some great templates and quick pages for sale via DigiScrapQuickPages.com!

To celebrate the 600 fan milestone I’m giving away a $6 Shabby Miss Jenn coupon! In order to register you can leave a comment with a link to your favorite Quick Page or Template showcased at DigiScrapQuickPages.com. You can enter a second time by adding my blinkie to your blog or blogging about DigiScrapQuickPages.com. Either way, leave a link to your blog so I can validate the entry! Here is the URL for my blinkie:

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Be sure to tell your friends about my Facebook page and website because there will be more giveaways as the word spreads!

You know sometimes I look at templates with layers and all I think about is how to use the papers in a kit. I was looking at a template by Biograffiti and I just saw paper layers. Then, I noticed that most of her CT team interpreted it that way…except one!

I really like the way this CT team member used other photos as layers under the main image!

Very nicely done, and that seagull is the perfect finishing touch!

Check the Biograffiti templates featured at DigiScrapQuickPages.com!

My girls are very girly, so why the interest in Karate? I have to attribute it to their dad and his love of watching UFC fights. Like any kids they like to wrestle with their dad, uncles, and grandpa. And then they re-made the Karate Kid movie this year. That probably sealed the deal.

I started back to work this fall and they stay at an aftercare program that offers some extra activities. At an extra fee of course! So, they chose Karate over gymnastics, cheer, strings, and Zumba for kids. These photos were taken at their first test. They are so proud of their first belt….obviously orange!

I had fun making a girly, yet sporty layout using MGL Scraps “Dreams in Colour” collection! This month she had a quick “Sell My Store” deal because she was trying to raise money quickly to pay for a new computer. I had been eying the Dreams in Colour collection for a while anyway, so it was an easy decision to grab that deal while it lasted! Anyway, if the girls keep going in Karate it will make scrapping their belt tests easy since it has every color I might need!

I was happy to get some scrapping in this weekend! I spent all day Friday doing a website for my brother. And yesterday my husband took the girls to his parents house for the day but I spent the whole time trying to make room on my computer. I’m almost tempted to get a new computer with a bigger hard drive. It is amazing how 220 Gig doesn’t go very far these days! I have all my scrapbook materials on an external drive but I’ve been afraid to put my photos on it since they are known to fail.

I did these layouts last night during the OU/OSU game. Of course my eyes were glued to the TV during the last 3 minutes! Unbelievable! We are a house divided, so every year only one of us goes to sleep happy, this year it was me!

Well, here are two more layouts, mostly using Shabby Miss Jenn’s new halloween kit. But, this time for the left side I was following a Connie Prince speed scrap formula. Of course I couldn’t resist adding photos because well, two photos just is not enough for me!

And, the right side uses a freebie template I found this weekend from Trixie Scraps, and the new North Meets South Studios (w/ Connie Prince.)

I still have Halloween class parties and trick or treating at Great Grandma’s nursing home. I think I will be very tired of Halloween by the time I get two more spreads done!

Oh, and I also somehow deleted my Megan Turnbridge freebie shadows so I bought some from Microferk and so far I love them!

I have some Shabby Miss Jenn gift certificates in trade for doing some Blogger tutorial videos. I actually tried to do a giveaway during the time Shutterfly was promoting DigiScrapQuickPages.com this past month. I was going to do drawings from people who left comments on quick pages and templates, but to be honest I didn’t get any! So, I definitely need feedback on that one! Maybe the pop up ad announcing it was annoying so nobody read it?

I know there isn’t a digital scrapbooker out there who wouldn’t LOVE a chance at $5 in Shabby Miss Jenn products! So, let’s try this again. It is iDSD afterall (International Digital Scrapbook Day)! And, she has a fantastic sale going on!

Anyway, I have FIVE $5 gift certificates to give away! Leave a comment on this post with a link to your favorite Quick Page or Template showcased at my site DigiScrapQuickPages.com. Make sure and use your email so I have a way to contact you. I’ll do a drawing after the kids go to bed tonight. That means I’ll announce the winners sometime between 9:00 and 10:00 CST tonight. Which gives you all day Sunday to decide how to spend your prize!

Here is a layout I did with Shabby Miss Jenn’s Halloween templates and her new kit! And they are on sale!

Thank-you to everyone for helping me reach 500 Facebook fans! If you have not shared my Facebook page with your friends, and you think they’d like to see the Quick Page and Template FREEBIE finds please share it today!

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I’ve been collecting  halloween and fall favorites quick pages and templates, check them out too! If you are a designer and want to add your quick pages or templates to these categories just register for my site, go to the QP or template page, in the upper right corner hit “submit”, propose yourself as a designer, and then after you upload tag your photo with “halloween” or “fall”! I’ll add you as a designer and next time you will be in the list. You can also add your own freebies to my facebook fan page!

If you like my layout and you are in a time crunch or are a beginner check out Shabby Miss Jenn’s amazing quick pages from the same kit!

Shabby Miss Jenn Halloween QPs

How is that for an attention grabbing headline? Well, I read it in the October 2010 issue of Men’s Health! Here is their scrapbooking love language advice:

“Start using that vast backlog of digital photos you’ve been taking and collaborate on a photo album. Do it old-school, printed-picture-style, in a way that memorializes the funniest and best times you’ve had together. Doris Bazzini, Ph.D., of Appalachian State University, found that couples who laughed and reminisced about good times were more likely to feel more satisfied with their relationship.”

It made me think about the Hawaii trip we took in 2007. I did a Tabblo about our trip, but I never finished my scrapbook. I loved doing these Tabblos before I started doing digital scrapbooking. It was actually a transition time between my traditional and digital scrapbooking. Fair warning- it does have some bikini photos, which is why this was the first album I thought my husband would love for me to finish. LOL! Well that and all the kid-less quality time!

Here are some unscrapped photos of my hubby and I in front of Molokini and in Lahaina. I actually have plans to take a hybrid approach for my Hawaii album. And, I blogged my first examples a while back. I just have not finished it.

Does this inspire anyone else to do an album? Maybe a ten things I love about you album? Do you have beach photos to scrap? Check out the beach Quick Pages on my site DigiScrapQuickPages.com! It is a little bit of a small collection right now because I have not made a concerted effort yet to find all the BEST beach Quick Pages like I have with the current Shutterfly promo for Back-to-School! If you are a designer with some great beach Quick Pages just join the site, propose yourself as a designer, and when you finish tag the products with “beach.”