This And That Monday

                                       I have been staying very busy around here lately.
                     You see we are leaving tomorrow morning to go to Disneyland for 4 days.
                                Patrick's brother and his family are coming down to go to Disneyland
                                      and they asked us to join them down there. Aren't they the best.                                      
                       And after that we are going to Arizona to stay with Patrick's sister for the weekend.
                   There is laundry being done, packing of the clothes, cleaning of the house,
                          and making lists of things that can't be forgotten.

                 I didn't want to leave you all before letting you know that I won't
                                                be around for a little while.

       I have put this post together for you in hopes that it will help tied you over until I
                  get back. I have a peek at Week 7, some Valentine's freebies for those of you
            who have not done Week 7 yet !! And a few other fun things.
   
                I have been stealing time here and there to try to catch up on Project Life.
                                I am done with week 7, except for the insert about
                                          Katelyn's 7th birthday.

                          Thought you might like a sneak peek, or perhaps a big peek !! I will be back to the
           regularly scheduled program of sharing closeups, links, and such when I get back from Vacation.

So the most exciting thing first. Here is a look at Week 7. It is all about Valentine's Day.

BOTH PAGES :

LEFT SIDE :

RIGHT SIDE :

PAPERCLIPPING ROUNDTABLE :

Paperclipping Roundtable is a scrapbooking podcast. I have been listening to it since they started and I love to put it on while I am scrapbooking.  They have a weekly podcast with great guests like Ali Edwards, Stacy Julian, Shimelle Laine, and a whole lot of other great people. All different types of topics and I thought that I would share this bit of information to all of you who might not have heard of it.

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

VALENTINE'S DAY FREEBIES :

I thought that I would share some of the fun Valentin'es Day themed freebies that I used in my week 7. And for those of you who are done with your week 7, WAY TO GO !!

#1. Two great free journaling from Jessica Sprague. Click here to download.

#2.  Here is a whole sheet of great Valentine's Day journaling cards. They are also free. Click here to download. Scroll down on the page to find the freebie.

#3. Here is one last freebie for you. I used the grey me and you journaling card from this freebie in my week 7. Click here to download.

NOTES FROM THE PAST WEEK :

#1. Maddie had Pink Eye.
#2. Noah really loves Mickey Mouse. We have been telling the kids that we are going to Disneyland and that we are going to see Mickey again. Every time that Noah looks at last years Project Life he always loves the Disneyland pages and asks "GO THERE AGAIN?" or "MICKEY". So he has been asking to go see Mickey. He says "MICKEY AGAIN", "SEE MICKEY". It is so cute. And today he asked again and I told him that we are going tomorrow. He started jumping up and down and yelling "YEAH". I am so excited.
#3.Katelyn has figured out how to whistle and is driving everyone crazy. She whistles all day long.

INSPIRATIONAL BLOGS:

I have always loved to see what others are doing, creating, writing about. So here are a few new ones that I have found for PL inspiration.

FINDING NANA
CHERISH THE EVERY DAY
KELLY NOEL
SHANNA NOEL

Well that is I all I have time for today. Gotta go finish packing. Have a wonderful week everyone and I will try to check in sometime during our trip !!

Freebies For You Part 2

I need to start out by thanking my wonderful, techy husband for figuring out my computer problem. I am now back up and running !! I am so grateful that he is VERY knowledgeable about computers and can fix anything.

With that said, how about a few more freebies ? Thought you might be interested. I just have a few more links to share with you to sum up the Freebies portion. 

JOURNALING CARDS, TAGS, ECT. 

 These are perfect additions for Thanskgiving. Printables to add to your pictures, pages, and journaling cards. 

and this one is on the same site.

http://rebeccacooper.blogspot.com/search/label/FREEBIES 

These are such cute tickets.

http://maybemej.blogspot.com/2010/01/ticket-freebie.html 

Some cute circle tags They come in different colors too.

http://blog.worldlabel.com/2011/round-labels-in-a-vintage-style-design.html

These cards are so fun. Love the font that was used. 

 http://www.creaturecomfortsblog.com/home/2008/8/5/its-freebie-time.html

OTHER

Found this on Pintrest and loved the idea. It would be great for those families that have lived in several different places. Or if you took a long road trip to visit several states. You get the idea.

http://www.nettiodesigns.com/2011/09/22/how-to-create-a-scrap-worthy-map-with-photoshop/

Some free collage type templates for extra pages.Click link and scroll down till you find them.

 http://maybemej.blogspot.com/search/label/Free%20digital

A great tutorial on how to make your own accents for your journaling cards if you want to take some time to read through it and figure it out. Looks really neat.

http://homemadebyjill.blogspot.com/2010/07/how-to-make-printables-without-photos.html

These are going to be so fun. These ones are free. I have another set you can purchase that I will show you in a future post.

http://www.fuzzimo.com/free-hi-res-blank-polaroid-frames/

Love this saying and plan on printing it out for my PL album

http://aliedwards.tumblr.com/post/1556343756/amy-tangerine

Now go get scrappin' !! I know I am ready to dig in and some work done. Have a great weekend everyone. Not sure when I will get to posting next. I've got family coming to visit for Thanksgiving.

Freebies For You Part 1

Freebies, who doesn't love free !! Am I right. Well today I wanted to share some links with you that you can use in your Project Life Album or even your other scrapbooking projects. Some I have show you before. Some you might have come across already. Some came from Pintrest. Take a look. Please help yourself.

I am always on the look out for new things that I can add to my PL album. For some reason, if it is new, its exciting. It gets my creative wheels turning. Some people like repetition, the same thing all the time. I am not one of them.

Maybe some of you need to be fast in putting your pages together. I understand that too. Then the core kit comes in handy. You can grab one of the cute cards, journal, on it and be done with it. Understand.

For me, I want to take some extra time. I want the extra "STUFF". It is what I need in my life. I love to take something and create with it. I always joke around that scrapbooking is my therapy. My stress reliever. With three little kids I needed an outlet. Or rather need an outlet. And scrapbooking gets the job done for me.

Without further ado here are some of my favorite FREEBIES.

I have split it up into categories for you. 

JOURNALING CARDS, TAGS, TABS,ECT

I have shown you this one before but it is packed with tons of free stuff in pdf format.

 

http://www.creativityprompt.com/tag/freebie/

Now these are in pdf format. So I use most of these things to journal on and cut out to go on my pages. There are a lot of journaling cards that can be resized and then printed out as well.

Journaling cards on this website that are cute. The smash page tabs are cute. 

http://scrapbookprintables.wordpress.com/freebies/

Tip for using pdf's. Sometimes the colors aren't always right for what you need. Some of them you can change the color on and the rest you can always turn black and white before printing. 

A few different fun things on here to print. 

 

http://ormolu.typepad.com/blog/freebies-1/ 

This one I have shared before. She has all sorts of free digital downloads. Journaling cards, overlays, tags, ect. Love it !! 

http://www.karenika.com/?cat=31

These are great journaling cards for travel, vacations. 

http://www.scrapbooksetc.com/blogs/iscrapuscrap/2010/06/14/free-printable-journaling-cards/

This one could be fun if you have any year school aged kids.

http://silverboxcreative.com/blog/2011/09/after-school-printable/

Cute tags to cut out and journal on.

http://poppytalk.blogspot.com/2009/03/new-free-download.html

Cute lined journaling cards.

http://thecreativeplace.blogspot.com/2011/06/diy-printable-journaling-cards.html

More journaling cards

http://www.backtopaper.com/2011/11/01/print-your-own-project-life-journaling-cards/

  
TEMPLATES FOR COLLAGES AND EXTRA PAGES

Oh how I love these freebies. Can see making simple, fast, cute pages and collages with some of her freebies offered. 

http://roadsidedesigns.blogspot.com/search/label/Freebie 

In case you missed it. Cathy Zielske's free instagram template. 

http://cathyzielske.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/07/feeling-the-instalove-free-template-download.html

OTHER 


This is another link I have shared with you all. All things digital. All free.

http://www.pixelscrapper.com/

Well I planned on getting it all done in one post but blogger is not being my friend today !! UGGGG!! So I will post this one and finish the rest later when I have better luck. And most of the pictures I wanted to include are not copying in for me. So I apologize. I might try to go back in and add them in later. Hope you have enjoyed this post.