Here is a pic of the freebie download for the September Unit Challenge --love it! Here comes our SEPTEMBER unit and this is a truly AWESOME unit! This SHABBY PRINCESS digital art FALL set will be great for such a variety of photo pages! The colors are so cozy and delish! This art set and sketch will work beautifully for a nice fall walk, pumpkin patches, back to school, Halloween and Thanksgiving. Here is the sketch. (K. Aho) And here is the Back to School page sample. Love it!! Don't feel you have to have all this same stuff. IMPROVISE using papers and accents you have on hand. Just do the page! Need some accents or artwork? To get the great artwork featured here, you will need to go to the SHABBY PRINCESS website and download the set SHABBBY FALL Make a mental note of where you saved it to in your computer folders. It will be in ZIPPED format and you will need to unzip it. Use free trial versions of WINZIP or another program to do this. Instructions on unzipping fi...

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Here is a pic of the freebie download for the AUGUST Unit...isn't it pretty? Here comes our AUGUST unit and this is a truly AWESOME unit! Your memories might include anything from picnics, gardening, family events, little cutie pies, water parks, poolside fun, or just a sunshiney day. This Unit and this set are for you. This SHABBY PRINCESS digital art SPLENDID set will be great for such a variety of photo pages! The colors are so yummy! Whether it is travel, beach scenes or anything from the last days of summer. This art set and sketch will work beautifully! This set is so versatile, it would even work for catching up on your floral gardening or wonderful Mom and Pop parent pages! Everything goes with stripes, dots and paisley! Truly versatile and full of eyepopping colorful cuteness! Here is the sketch. (K. Aho) And here is the page sample I did with this set for a ValleyFair Waterpark page layout for my daughter and her bf on a physics class trip to the waterpark. (Hence the h...

JUNE and JULY UNIT BY UNIT -SUMMER A special thanks to Kristie who designs the new Shabby Princess line for BoBunny and her own websites The Shabby Shoppe and The Shabby Princess . Truly beautiful papers and downloads. I love them. So glad I asked her to help us out here and she said yes!!! You can read Kristie’s blog here http://shabbyprincess.typepad.com/shabby_princess/ Our fourth and fifth unit this month will be for summer units of June and July photos. I am sending them together since they are so related. Use these background images for any summer photo You can choose completely WHATEVER THEME suits your next group of photos. These soft florals are great for almost any theme. Or use/download another set that goes with your photos. To get the great artwork featured here, you will need to go to the SHABBY PRINCESS website and download the set CELEBRATING . Make a mental note of where you saved it to in your computer fo...

My dd has decided she loves this gown (think Prom 2007). Anyone have this pattern from the 1940's or so era or something identical???? We are watching it on ebay too. If you have this or any patterns from the 1940s gowns let me know. Rock

CONTEST CONTEST CONTEST How are you all doing on your Unit by Unit challenges? This is about the time in each challenge when people start getting bored or lagging behind or just plain busy with ohter things in life and their monthly challenges hit a little hurdle. So we are going to have a 'keep it going' CONTEST! You could WIN a brand new Pioneer 8.5x11 postbound album FREE just for letting us know how your UNITS are going -- and how you are going to keep your momentum going. Comment on the NEW BLOG to let me know. I will pick one winner in a week. This should take you to my NEW blog which I changed to last week. Please bookmark it at the NEW SITE http://myall2.blogspot.com/ Enjoy and keep going! We are halfway done! June and July units coming to the blog in the next 24 hours!! Rockester

I have a couple of duplicate Missouri history books up for grabs if you leave your comments here. Please only enter this one if you have a genuine link and interest in family history research in Cooper or Cole counties in Missouri. Drop me a comment which towns your people are from! You might just WIN a book that will help you. Rockester

APRIL and MAY UNIT BY UNIT -SPRING A special thanks to Kristie who designs the new Shabby Princess line for BoBunny and her own websites The Shabby Shoppe and The Shabby Princess . Truly beautiful papers and downloads. I love them. So glad I asked her to help us out here and she said yes!!! You can read Kristie’s blog here http://shabbyprincess.typepad.com/shabby_princess/ Our fourth and fifth unit this month will be for April and May photos. I am sending them together since they are so related: Great outdoors, Spring, Rain and Flowers. You can choose completely WHATEVER THEME suits your next group of photos. These soft florals are great for almost any theme. Or use/download another set that goes with your photos. To get the great floral artwork featured here, you will need to go to the SHABBY PRINCESS website and download the set SPRING BREEZES. Make a mental note of where you saved it to in your computer folders. I...

How to Pack a Page Kit and get More Done. Got Photos? I admit it, I am a VERY productive scrapper. I get pages done. And cute ones too. I journal, I embellish, I add handmade doodads as well as store-bought. I honestly can say that after 19 years of scrapping, I make great scrapbooks. And I do them fast. Need a two-page layout design in 45 minutes or an album in a week? No problem. I get asked all the time HOW I do it? I will share with you my straightforward and simple process. If you can master this, you can get a LOT more done in your limited scrapbooking time. I can get up to 160 kits packed in a weekend and later get up to a hundred pages assembled in a week. And I do it consistently, incorporating the cutest and newest materials and accents. But you don’t want to hear me brag. You want to know HOW to do this for yourself. Planning is the key. You probably have heard that many times at many websites and forums. What do I mean when I say plan ahead or make a set of page ...

Our third unit this month will be for March. You can choose from Smiles, St Patrick, or Celtic Irish love themes or completely do WHATEVER THEME suits your next group of photos. Again Use what you have to make the INTRO pages and any 4x6 accent or journaling cards that go in your slip in sleeves. Use stickers, premade items and try to use some stash items. Try to use what you have instead of doing everything just like you might see it here. Be creative and innovative and do your pages YOUR way. These freebies and ideas are just in case you get stuck or don’t have access to accents/shopping in time to get your pages underway. We want you to keep rolling along here. If you don't need this theme, skip the themed artwork and make the same sketch into another theme that you DO plan to use for the pages in your book. Either way, you have 2 to 3 days to make your INTRO pages for March and get the rest of your pics for the march unit into slip in sleeves or pages to follow that INTRO set....