Free Photo Templates

As I've mentioned before, I'm totally addicted to this digital scrapbooking thing.  I'm hooked.  It's my new drug.  I know, I know... I said a few months ago that decopauge was my love.  So I change my favorites like I change my underwear.  But, I do still love decopauge.  I'm just multi-versatile in my craftiness now.

I've been scouring the web for blank templates for collages and digital scrapbooking and came across this blog M Originals she is super talanted and has so many free templates for you to download and personalize.  I love the ones for lots of photos so that I can combine many pictures into one frame, not for the lack of wall space but the effect of many children.

This was meant for a 365 day digi-scrap, but I love it just to combine many photos into one print.  If you can make the smallest things in any type of photoshop, you would be able to easily do these.  Basically all you've got to do is plug in the picture where you want it.  But you could get creative and add digital scrap paper to some of the squares.  Check her out, great inspiration as well as great downloads!

Happy Father's Day Daddy

It's hard to believe that my Dad has been gone for 12 years.  Still seems like it was yesterday.

Hard At Work

Goodness, little did I know when I set out on this journey to create a photo gallery of our family tree that it would be so hard and time consuming.  In my search, I've nagged relatives for information and pictures, signed up with ancestry.com and lastly, had to buy the family tree charts and .psd/.png templates.  Good thing I had been teaching myself photoshop.  I know enough now of photoshop to get through and create something, but there's so much more to learn.

I am a stickler for wanting the correct information, that's why it's taken so long, but here's my first 12x12 digital scrapbook page for my family heritage album and the picture for my family tree wall.

My Mom

If your looking for some great digital scrapbook kits for your family tree or heritage book check out the great stuff at Heritage Scrap.  Their prices are reasonable and customer service is superb!  Did they pay me to say that?  No, LOL, I was just sharing the link to their website because I could not find the family tree designs that I wanted.

And the fonts, I didn't like the basic ones that I had so I searched the web for free font downloads.  Can't remember exactly where I found this one, but there's tons of free stuff out there.

Cute Fonts For Your Blogger Posts...

I'm so addicted to this blogging stuff, especially learning the tricks on how to change and spice things up with your blog.  Want to know how?  Kevin and Amanda has tons of free handwritten fonts and a super easy tutorial on how to change the font on your blog posts and sidebar.  It only took me FOREVER to do it.  No one in my home believes in "Mommy Time" so I constantly had to stop and would forget where I left off.  But really, it's easy, if you have some free "Me" time.

*FYI*Attempting this tutorial with needy children present can be hazardous to your health.

Loving The Digital Scrapbooking...

Oh, it only took me about 3 hours to complete this simple template.  Haahaaa.  I'm slow.  Seriously though, PhotoShop is harder than I thought, but I am trekking through with tutorials by my side.  Probably the best ones yet that I have found are Funky PlayGround Designs or FPD there are alot of great digital scrapbooking tutorials here.  And for your blog, I've found that Shabby Blogs and Cutest Blog On The Block have great how to's as well as freebies for your blog.