Just Beachy Paint the Barn Color Challenge Freebie, March 2012 (click here)

Created for Moo Two Designs - Digital Freebie - Personal Use ONLY, March 2012

On this Florida trip I've taken so many photos that this month's color palette for the Paint the Barn Color Challenge at www.mootwodesigns.com seemed an ideal way to feature some of them. Please remember - all the photos, photo embellishments, papers and other embellishments are wholly my own. These items are for Personal Use Only - no shares, no adding to other kits - freebie or otherwise.

Please have the courtesy to give me credit when using any of these and post your LOs in my gallery at Moo Two Designs if you would like me to feature them here on my blog so others can enjoy your wonderful pages too.

It's almost time to head back north - a bit hesitant as I travel the I-65 corridor to visit my children and grandchildren in Michigan and Indiana, and all the weather horros they've had recently make that a rather iffy way to go. Becki flew back down last weekend to ride back up with me. With my daughter at my side we'll just take it easy, and hopefully, be able to stop and do some sightseeing.

February 2012 Paint the Barn Color Challenge Freebie (Click Here)

Personal Use Digital Scrapbook Freebie - February 2012

Six more weeks of winter - according to the groundhog on Thursday! I hope it won't be too miserable as I plan to spend March with my children and grandchildren in Michigan.

In the meantime, what a color palette we had to work with for the Paint the Barn Color Challenge at Moo Two Designs. Red, orange, brown, rose and goldenrod. The first thing that came to mind was 'sunset' . . . it helped that I just happened to have a photo in the right colors - complete with a pirate ship in silhouette!

To be honest, I was rather fearful of the boldness of the colors, wondering how to pull off a usable kit. Once everything started going onto the preview I was pleasantly surprised - I really hope you will enjoy this one.

All photos, papers and embellishments are my own, so this is for Personal Use only. Please read and honor the TOU. And, don't forget to head to www.mootwodesigns.com/forum to see what else will show up this month if you're looking for bright, sunset colors to cheer up the Winter Blues!

Keep warm! Can't wait to see what layouts of yours I get to show off this month. There were several wonderful ones on the 'farm' in January.

Paint the Barn Color Challenge, Jan 2012, by Oreo's Meow

It's almost time for the February Paint the Barn Color Challenge at Moo Two Designs. Carol, (Oreo'smeow) created her challenge piece using my kit this month and gave me permission to share it with you.  Go check out some of the others in the gallery at www.mootwodesigns.com/gallery and be sure to join us.
Thank you so much, Carol. It's really lovely. I like the way you used the embellishments here and have such a lovely, clean-looking LO that simply expresses the sentiment. I'm honored over how you used my freebie.

Happy New Year, Everyone!

Grandson Miles helps me clean the snow off my truck

January 6, Epiphany. Time to take down the first Christmas decorations I've put up, inside, for several years.

Being 'home' in Michigan for my first Christmas since 2003, it felt good to put a few up with my granddaughter, Annika's help. To keep it simple, I opted for a Charlie Brown tree and Nativity, which she and Miles had great fun playing with when they visited. Parking in their driveway for a few weeks was fun for all of us.

After our shifts went from 10  to 12-hour days at Amazon, I was totally exhausted.. Hoping I would eventually adjust to all the new muscles getting such a major workout, I truly expected to stay through January. We received an email saying we could leave prior to Dec 23rd, for those who were not extending to January. When that came, I replied that I would take them up on the offer. Even returning to 10-hour days after New Years, I needed a long-overdue breather, and said goodbye, explaining why, in great detail. Surprisingly, they listened to my comments and said there would be a major revision for this year.

In the meantime, I'm enjoying my Michigan visit, which comes to a close on Sunday, when I head to Florida for two months and catch up with friends and family there before returning to Michigan in March.

Somewhere along the line, I made the silly assumption that I would have more time to get things done, being back on my own again. Ummm. Nope. Not happening. There always seems to be something going on, whether it's filling propane or water tanks, working on greeting cards, creating Digital scrapbooking kits and layouts, or running off somewhere with my children and grandchildren.. No complaints. It's all good.

Becki and I went to see War Horse in Portage, when it opened on Christmas Day. The theater was sold out, but the show was well worth it. I would really like to see the Broadway performance some day. The movie was excellent.

Sarah, Becki and I spent a great afternoon in Shipshewana after Christmas, To Sarah's great delight, she found an end table match to the coffee/end table set her Dad and I bought when we were married in 1968! And, it was about the same price. She still uses the original pieces. The girls also found fabrics that match some of their scrapbooking papers. When I commented that they could really have fun with both, they looked at me and laughed - as last year I designed matching fabric and papers for my Christmas gifting calendar! 

We've also had two great visits with my son and his family, in South Bend. I keep telling his oldest sons, Matt and Tim, that being taller than me now is totally against the rules. All they do is laugh at me with their new, deep voices. Weren't all my grands just born a couple of years ago???!!!! I don't feel any older, so why are they?

Well, I need to get off the computer and, reluctantly, put away my decorations. Stephen, Becki, Sarah and I are going out to a Middle-Eastern restaurant called Zooroona, in Kalamazoo tonight. For the past two years, they've met me at the airport when I flew up from Florida around Thanksgiving and we would go out to eat at Food Dance Cafe. Being here with my House on Wheels, we didn't have our dinner yet, so Sarah suggested we go out tonight. I saw their menu online. It will be hard to decide what to order. We may have to get four different things and sample each other's!

In the meantime, I wish each and every one, a brighter 2012. Last year did not bode so well for many of my friends - not just me!

Beautiful use of new Freebie

What can I say. I just posted this month's Paint the Barn Color Challenge Digital Freebie kit, and Loobyloo at Moo Two Designs opted to create a tribute to her parents with it. Isn't it gorgeous? With St Valentine's Day around the corner, I did have a romantic theme in mind, and she nailed it. I love how she took the flowers and adjusted them to work with her LO, and the sprays and other embellishments all simply work together in a beautiful composition. Setting the second paper up a bit with shadowing simply makes everything 'pop'.  Thank you so much for using my kit in such a wonderful way. I'm deeply honored.

A New Year and a New Digital Scrap Freebie (click here)

January 2012 Personal Use Only Freebie Digital Scrap Kit for the Paint the Barn Color Challenge at www.mootwodesigns.com/forum. Original artwork and elements created wholly by TravlynWomyn.

Happy New Year, Everyone! I hope your Christmas and New Year were as terrific as mine. For the first time since 2003 I spent Christmas with my children and grandchildren in Indiana and Michigan. It's been wonderful. Right now, the House on Wheels is in my daughter's driveway, decorated in Mother Nature's own . . . SNOW! By Sunday I should be heading south for about two months. Then one more month up here before heading East for the Summer/Fall camping season.

Before hitting the road,  I wanted to get my first Moo Two Designs Paint the Barn Color Challenge freebie digital kit posted for the New Year. There are some wonderful layouts posted  already from other challenges, and Ayla was the first to post a mini kit for this challenge. How about that for a bonus! There will be more.

Enjoy, remember, these are my own creations, so they may be used for Personal Use Only - no commercial or sharing of any of my elements or papers. Give your friends the link here so they can get the items that will work for their kits. Please send me the links for LOs you create with them I enjoy featuring your work on my blog with your permission.

For you talented people who enjoy creating your own, but are looking for inspiration. Take a closer look at the triple ricrac trim and circle frame. I used strips from 3 of my papers in this kit, then created 3 strips of ric rac, using Creation Cassel's Basic Rick Rack script. After adding some depth and layering the 3 strips together, I took the triple trim, and used her Circular Script to create the base of the circle frame, before adding my own beading. Cassel not only has amazing scripts, reasonably priced, but also has two creative digital courses available - one is a not-so-basic digital scrapbook course, and the other has tutorials for creating personal elements and papers. Check her out at www.creationcassel.com

Paint the Barn Color Challenge Mini Freebie for December 2011 (click here)

December is going to be a crazy month for me. I'm working for Amazon.com during their peak season. The hours are insane, but I knew that coming in. At first we had 4 days on and three off - that was great as I was able to visit my Michigan family over Thanksgiving. That was the last of our three days off. Now we're into mandatory overtime, including the middle of those three days!

Here's my December challenge freebie for the Paint the Barn Color Challenge at www.mootwodesigns.com/forums/  Be sure to stop over there as there is already another darling kit posted. Join in the challenge and take a peak at our incredible December Collaboration in our store. If you're stumped for ideas, this one has an interesting twist. Each of us was asked to select a Christmas Song, and create our kit around that.

As usual, my kit is wholly designed and created by me, with the exception of the base tree on the first paper which is a stamp in DIS. My kit is for Personal Use Only and may not be used for any resale purpose, nor added to another kit you may be putting together. Feel free to recolor my papers and elements, but never claim as your own. And remember, I really enjoy seeing how you use my items. Send me a link and I will be glad to show them off on my blog.

Paint the Barn Color Challenge Freebie, November 2011 (Click Here)

We got a nice head start on the November palette for the Paint the Barn Color Challenge at www.mootwodesigns.com/forum. Fortunately, MediaFire opted to cooperate with my upload and it didn't take too long to get a mini kit put together for you.
It's for Personal Use ONLY. Send your friends the link here so they can get the bits and pieced they want for their personal layouts. My items are created wholly by myself so they may not be used as additions to any other kits (commercial use or otherwise), nor sold in items you are making for resale (including charity sales/bazaars).

It's almost time to pull in my slides and head to my next position. I've had 3 great weeks with my children and grandchildren, marred only by a miserable virus that finally started to break up this morning. In the meantime, not knowing how good my internet connection will be at my next post, I've been trying to finish up my part of Moo Two Designs mega Christmas collab, and finally getting product ready to sell in their great store after years of turning down their request to do so. It is an honor, and I'm looking forward to be more active with the team. There will still be digi-scrap freebies here, but it's time.

Talking about Freebies - now's the time to 'Friend' Moo Two Designs. They have a promo going on over there through November - how fun is that? Lots of freebies being given away simply for friending us or peeking in.

It's also a great chance to come and play on the farm. There's already one more kit in this challenge that's been posted.

Progressive Scrap, October, at Moo Two Designs

Mark your calendars. The October Progressive Scrap at Moo Two Designs starts tomorrow, October 15.
I was honored to be the winner last month. (Thank you, Eileen!) You can take a look at it in the gallery at
http://www.mootwodesigns.com/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=500&page=2&ppuser=542

Click on the header to hop over to the Forum and join us this month. And look at the prize and participation prize! Are they amazing, or WHAT????? Elizabeth Dau, an amazing designer, has been so generous. Her store is awesome in its own right!  Thanks, Liz!

Paint the Barn Color Challenge, October, 2011, Mini freebie (click here)

Another busy month here. On Monday we close Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park at Birchwood Acres in New York's beautiful Catskills for the season and reopen on May 1, 2012. This season really flew. I plan to head to Michigan on Tuesday and still have a few things on my 'To-Do' list, but should be in good shape to head over.

Instead of getting things together this evening, I finished this mini kit for the October Paint the Barn Color Challenge at MooTwoDesigns. Hopefully, some of you are joining in the fun over on the farm. There have been a few changes in the challenges recently, keeping us on our toes with all the new twists!  Come on over and take a peek at www.mootwodesigns.com/forum.

As usual, my kit is for Personal Use Only. When you download the elements and papers you like this month, please be sure to get a copy of my TOU. Not reading it, or honoring it does not give you the right to abuse my papers and elements, or any other designer's hard work. CU items are a wholly different story, but even they have certain terms.

For those, like me, who have way too much on their hard drives, downloading the preview is a good way to see what's in the kit. Then, when you're looking for what you need, look at the preview  to see what's in it, head over to MediaFire and download the items as you need them.

Back to organizing so I can hook up my house on wheels Tuesday morning and head over to my children and grandchildren for a few weeks. Keep well, and show me what you've done with this one!