Getting Excited

Party this weekend details here

It is going to be an inspiration fest on a grandiose scale.

Lets face facts when was the last time you turned down a 48 hour non stop party !!

Join me there

Plans

Ok so a few days sans children and I still haven’t got as much done as I had hoped, always the case!

Although I am working on a little crafty something, watch this space.

I am not a great socialite, I don’t do small talk and networking but I am thinking of dropping by Shimelle’s this weekend, I’m taking a bottle and hoping to chink glasses with some scrappy chicks, will you be there ? I think you should drop by.

You can never have too many labels

OK so I didn’t quite manage one freebie post a day, blame it on me not getting the scheduling to work properly whilst I was away, but I am here and I have another link to some more freebies.

I love looking at other peoples organisation, their ideas, their space and hopefully getting inspired to do something with my own space.

Anyway I saw these on The Container Stores site and thought, YAY great freebies.

Essentially the label sizes are designed to fit the stores own range of storage options but they would be useful for lots of other options too. Have a look, see if you can find a design and size that fits your needs.

My personal favourite is the acro bin size they are large enough to use as journaling cards on scrapbook pages too.
Just click on the design you like and a printable PDF page of labels in that
design.
Here is an example of some of the designs.

Journaling Papers

Well as promised more freebies, this site Printable Paper is great for those of us who love to use lined or squared paper for scrapbooking, they have a lots of variations and all of it would look great printed onto white,cream or kraft coloured card stock
Graph Paper
Lined Paper
Music Paper
Columnar Pad Paper
Dot Paper
Note Paper
Printable Calendars
Ledger Paper

A site definitely worth bookmarking.

Stationary Freebie

I set myself a goal of posting a freebie a day this week, so counting the two from yesterday I am up to five.

Today’s freebie is from two sources firstly A Very Chocolate Wedding and secondly The Fussy Designer these are Envelope Wraps and I love the idea.

They have been used to add a personal touch to wedding invite envelopes, however I think all snail mail could benefit from these, I don’t send a great deal of snail mail, but when I do these will go some way to brightening up the envelopes and making manilla special !

I am now cruising the web to see if I can find any more envelope wrap designs, if not I think I may have to have a go at designing my own!

Download the dot wraps here

download the damask wraps here

I’m on a roll !

As promised more speech bubbles, round this time and in more conservative colours.
Switch on the printer, load up with card, print and enjoy.

More Stuff

OK so I didn’t get time yesterday to upload more freebie, so I am adding this today. we have already established that I am a list maker, that is a given but sometimes the things I need to remind myself aren’t things that need to go on a to do list SO for those I have a note pad and in true freebie style I have designed a notes page too.

I love this quote, it so me, If I have anything buzzing through my mind I “empty” it all out onto a note pad and then it feels like I can think more clearly. I saw the quote on a blog, but can’t remember where I came across it.

Here is the notes page, download it here

To Do List

I don’t know about you but I am a serial list maker from organised lists to stuff written on post its and backs of envelopes, if its something I need to remember to do I have to write it down.

I have always been like this, its not an age thing, when I lived at home with my parents I would stick post it notes to my alarm clock to make sure I didn’t forget to do stuff.

Anyhoo there is nothing I like better than an organised to do list, whilst I was sorting some out for myself I decided to design some to share. You can download and print it here

I really enjoyed putting this together and as I am on “caring for a sick child” duty I am going to have a go at designing some more today.

Ta Da !!

OK, I have managed to put together my first freebie download.

These are simple square speech bubbles, great for minimal journaling, and boy am I a fan of that, or tags.

They also look great cut out and used as a simple sentiment on greetings cards adhere with foam dots for even more impact.

Very versatile when printed onto white, cream or kraft coloured card stock

As always if you use them on your projects mail me a photo or scan and I will post in the blog gallery and please credit me where possible.

There will definitely be more to come, so watch this space.

Sketch no:3 for July

Okay, here we go with the third sketch of this month
One to challenge you as its on the “slant”

you can find it here as always

if you use one of these sketches as a basis for your layout, send me a scan/photo of it and I will publish it in the gallery.