Mickey's Ice Cream Treat now available again!

I have my Mickey's Ice Cream treat kit available again for download for free for a limited time!  I am trying out a new service that will send the download links out for me.  So I thought I would give it a try with a freebie kit and see how it goes.
If you don't have this kit, now is the time to get it!

Sorry, this freebie is expired.

New Mickey Templates and another Stashbuilder: MickeyHeads for your Disney Digital Scrapbooking!

Hey all! It's my turn to host the weekly challenge. :)

I am often inspired by the designer Scrapping with Liz. She has so many creative templates to use in soooo many ways.
I saw this one and thought what an awesome idea to use a "cut up" of a shape by filling it with papers, photos, adding staples, stitches, etc.

(Please note that I'm not affiliated with Scrapping with Liz - I just find her inspiring!)

So I decided to adapt that idea for our challenge this week! I made 8 FULL SIZE Mickey Head page templates for you!!

I'm SO EXCITED to see all of the different ways people use them! I'm still working on my own page :)

You can download them here.

Also, my friend Charlene, made them in page files for StoryBookCreator users.  You can download those files here.

And I've got another one of my Stashbuilder:Mickey Heads for your Prize Package. This is volume #3 - monochromatic Mickey Heads.

To get the PP, find the rules and challenge here at MouseScrappers.

Hugs,
Denise aka A Grieving Mommy

New Mickey Scatters in Gold and Silver Colors

Get these new Mickey Scatters by joining me in a few challenges this week!

You can find out about the challenges here and here!

New Freebie Template for Disney Digital Scrapbooking - Mickey Wheel Template

I'm hosting another template challenge over at MouseScrappers!  So I have a new freebie Disney digital scrapbooking template for you :)
It was inspired by our love/hate relationship with the Mickey Wheel at Disneyland's California Adventure!  (Formerly the SunWheel.)  That ride is freakin' scary!  Who knew???!  WE certainly didn't the first time we went on it!  I'm talking about the swinging gondolas not the stationary ones.  It was back in 2006 the first time, my husband and I went on it and we were blown away by how scary it was.  So we went back on it and took my little brother and sister with us (for their first time) and to record their reaction on video.  You can't see anything, because it was at night which made it even scarier!
The MickeyWheel is for sure the most unexpectedly scary ride at Disneyland.
Here us scream on it:

So I was inspired by some past starburst pages I've done and by the Mickey Wheel itself:

Here is the template I made.  I'm excited to see what you do with it.
I'll be whipping up a prize package for ya in the next few days!

In psd for photoshop users and png files for other programs.
Download it here
Or here


Enjoy!
Hugs,
Denise aka A Grieving Mommy

Have you ever been an Honorary Citizen at Disneyland or Disneyworld? Do you have the button to prove it?! Introducing my latest Disney Digital Scrapbooking Kits!!

My new freebie kits are possibly my favorite ones I've ever done!!!Ok, so here is the story behind my latest Disney digital scrapbooking kits.  The last trip we took to Disneyland, my son was given an Honorary Citizen of Disneyland button with a "key to the kingdom" on it!  He was so excited and proud of that button that he took it off so it wouldn't get lost or ruined!  He just kept saying that he had a KEY to Disneyland.  It was soooo cute!  So of course, I had to do a kit themed around the Honorary Citizen button for his pages.
Here is his button:

And here is the kit:

And I didn't forget you Disneyworld scrappers either!  I've got one themed around the Disneyworld button also. :)  It's on our list of things to do to get one of these buttons too someday!

And here is it's matching kit:

Do you like them????
You can get them (they're freebies!!!) over at MouseScrappers for a limited time in the June Kit Challenge thread here.
If you complete the challenge and make and post a page using one of the kits, you will get these add-ons as a prize:

So hop on over to MouseScrappers to download the free kits here and join me in the challenge!
Hugs,
Denise aka A Grieving Mommy

Freebie for my Followers!! My Disney Treats Kit

Hey to my digifriends!  I've giving my latest kit called Disney Treats out to all of my followers.  You can get it on facebook or if you are already subscribed to the newsletter, you will get it in your email in box.  Blog followers will need to email me at agrievingmommy@yahoo.com with their blogger name to get it.

Enjoy!  Thank you for being a digifriend and follower :)
Also, I've had a lot of people requesting that I give out my Mickey's Ice Cream Kit, Disney Traffic and Rainbow Clubhouse kit.  I do plan on giving those out, I just want to update them a bit - they were some of my first kits so I will be doing that as soon as I have time.  Keep a lookout on my blog and facebook if you are wanting those kits!  Also, my Tron kit will be a freebie for followers too!
Hugs,
Denise aka A Grieving Mommy

Happy 2nd Birthday MouseScrappers!!! Blog Hop and a Disney Digital Scrapbooking Freebie and Tutorial for making Mickey Heads!

My favorite site is having a birthday!  MouseScrappers is 2 years old and we're celebrating with a very special blog hop :)

I have a super fun and useful freebie for you as my part of the blog hop!  And a little tutorial on how to use it :)

It's a Mickey Head Maker - similar to my Disney Alpha Maker - for you to use.  Use it to make Mickey Heads that will match the other items that you've picked up on this blog train.  You can make over 60 different mickey heads in lots of different combinations!!!  (In a psd file for photoshop users or in separate png files for all other programs so everyone can use it.)

Here's a little tutorial on how to make some of your own Mickey Heads using this set:

First, in photoshop, it is super easy.  Just open up the psd file in photoshop (elements or cs - it doesn't matter) and simply click on and off the eyeballs in the layers side menu to choose which layers you want showing!  In this picture below, you can see that I've got the Silver Outline eyeball on as well as the red fill layer, polkadots, and crumpled layer.

Now just go to Layer, Merge Visible and it's ready to be moved onto your scrapbook page!  If you want to make another one, just undo the Merge Visible and start again!!  How easy peasy is that??

In all other programs, you can simply open what you want to be the bottom layer and then drag other layers on top of it.  It's the same idea, you just need to decide which layers you want and put them on top of each other.  Then put them all together so you can put it on your page!  **The only exception to this is the crumpled layer and the striped layer.  They need to be blended with your base layer.  (This is already done for you in the photoshop psd file.)  In other programs, you will need to change the opacity or blend it to have it look right and take the color of the base layer.

Hope you love it and it helps you create just the right Mickey Head for that special disney scrapbooking page!!!

DOWNLOAD HERE - if you get an error code, try again in a few minutes - it means the server is busy!

You should have come from KaylaLovesMinnie
Your next stop is Roxana
Or if you started here, you can go to the MouseScrappers 2nd Anniversary Activity forum to get the complete list.

People from all over the world have contributed to this blog hop so if you don't see their freebie right away, be sure to check back later!

And... if you love my mickey head maker, have a look around.  I have lots of freebies on my blog and facebook.  And my kits are for charity.
Thanks for comments.  Others' comments and notes of appreciation are what keep me sharing!

Hugs to you,
Denise aka A Grieving Mommy

Join me for a Speed Scrap and get my Disney Treats Scrapbooking Set

I'm hosting a Speed Scrap on Saturday as part of MouseScrappers' 2nd Birthday Celebration.
Join me and scrap a page to get this Prize :)
Saturday morning at 10am ET, 9am CT, 8am MT, 7am PT, 2pm GMT

I haven't had time to finish the papers, but when I do, I will have them on my blog here.

Find the full info about joining the SS here at MS

For the Lost Children out there - and to all of the Mothers who are Missing them

It's Mother's Day and it's always a hard day for me.  I will never get a Mother's Day card or gift from my girls.  I never even heard, "I Love you, Mama." from them.  It physically hurts to know that I will never spend Mother's Day with my girls, never get a handmade gift or a hug and kiss, breakfast in bed.  My heart just aches - it's like a knife in my heart but when the pain stops for a second and I can think again, I tell my girls it's okay.  Mother's Day is not about me.  It's about them and being thankful that I am a Mom and that I had my beautiful little girls in my arms for one year of my life and how I held them in my arms every night and I bundled them up tight and nursed them (until they got too sick) and kissed them. So, I spent the day spoiling my living son and missing my girls wishing with all my heart that I could just be with them - see them grow, teach them, love them.
My heart hurts so much and yet, there are mothers out there who have it worse than me.  Children who have been stolen and abused or killed - the truly lost children.  This month, my charity kit is to benefit those families.  All profits (minus paypal fees) will go to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.  No matter how hard my life feels, I cannot imagine what it would be like to have my child abducted and killed or to never know what has happened to my child.  As hard as it was to bury my girls, I know where they are and can visit their graves.  This Mother's Day, I want to help those Mothers (and families) who may not.
Appropriately, my new charity kit is called The Lost Princess and was themed after Rapunzel, Disney's Lost Princess, from the movie Tangled.  Rapunzel is a princess that was taken from her parents as a baby and is finally reunited with her family at the end of the movie.
Here is the kit.  It is huge - with all of the freebies and add on, it is over 230 MB!  It also includes an alphamaker to make multiple different alphas to match the kit!

I started to make this kit for my daughter, Bree-Elle, on her birthday last month.  She would have been 4 years old.  We bought her a Tangled cake and decorated with Rapunzel items including a purple and pink pinata that my son broke open.  I made this add-on that will be free with a donation for the kit.

You can get the Lost Princess kit and Birthday Part add-on, for a donation of $4.50 or more.  As always, if you would like to make a large donation for tax purposes, you can just send me a copy of the receipt and I will give you the kit.

**I'm sorry! This kit is no longer available.**

Please allow up to 24 hours to get the download links - I have to email them out to your PayPal email address and I do sleep once in awhile even if I'm an insomniac :)

And I've made a freebie for you to match the kit for your Disney digital scrapbooking pages:

Download it here
Enjoy.  I hope you were able to spend Mother's Day with those you love.
Hugs,
Denise aka A Grieving Mommy

Freebie Frame and Quick Tutorial

Are you looking for great iNSD sales?  Well, my good friend, Anna of Delicious Scraps always has great deals - most of her kits are always 99 cents!  And right now, everything including her awesome CU stuff is 99 cents too.  She also has a ton of freebies on her blog.
Here's her latest kit Bloomsberry with a page I made for my Chloee:

Here's a quick and easy tip/tutorial:
If you want to make a 2 page spread so that you'll have matching pages in your album quickly and easily.  Take your first page and duplicate it.  Then rotate it or rearrange it!  That's what I did with the 2 pages above.  Now I have 2 matching pages ready to be printed and put into her album :)  Makes it so much easier than starting from scratch each time!

And I've got a freebie for you (Thanks, Anna!)  It's the cluster frame I made for my page in png format with a transparent background:

For a limited time, Download it here!
You can find Anna's store at DeliciousScrapShop.com
Hugs,
Denise aka A Grieving Mommy

Thank you for helping Autism Speaks

Just wanted to send a thank you out to all of you that donated for our Huey's Uncle kit!  Together we raised $335 for Autism Speaks ($585 including those who donated separately)!

I am a little behind because of our trip to Disneyland, but I have a new Kit 4 Charity coming out soon to benefit a new charity for the month of May.
For now, here is a freebie from me to thank my followers and digifriends!
Enjoy :)
Thank You Balloons (Mickey Head Balloons for your Disney Digital Scrapbooking)

Download here
Hugs,
Denise aka A Grieving Mommy

Join me for a Chat Thursday and get a free Mega Pack!

Did you know MouseScrappers is turning 2 years old?  To celebrate they are having tons of fun activities all month - starting with some chats this week!

Join me on Thursday at 9:30ET for a chat on my secret weapon - Coloring Book pages!  They're super cheap and so versatile to use on your pages!!  I love them :)  I will be showing you multiple different ways to use them and giving you an action to easily extract them (for Photoshop CS and up).  Plus if you complete the challenge, you'll get a huge mega pack of Disney coloring book pages I've extracted for you perfect for your Disney scrapbook pages!

Find the info for the chat and challenge here at MouseScrappers

Download this Coloring Book mini for the chat and I'll see you then!

Hope to see you there!

Hugs,

Denise

aka A Grieving Mommy

Join me for a Scraplift Challenge and get my Tron Digital Scrapbooking Kit!!!

My little boy is infatuated with Tron.  I blame the Disney Channel :)  They really promoted that show and when we were in Disneyland last, he was so excited to see the Electronica area over at the California Adventure side of Disneyland.
Then we saw the movie and he LOVED IT so we had to get the toys.  So of course I had to make a Tron kit for him!!!
Here are my pages of my boy getting his Tron toys.  He he, they make me laugh.  What would I do without that kit :)  The photos captured exactly how excited he was!

I still need to do the pages of him seeing the movie.
But I also found that this kit is awesome for Star Wars and Monorail pages when I used it to do a Monorail page last night:

We rode in the front of the monorail (never done that before!) and it was super cool :)
Here's the kit:

You can only get it by completing my Scraplift Challenge over at MouseScrappers this week.  Find the info about it here.
This kit will never be for sale (since it has so many Disney specific items), so join me in the challenge to get it!  (Or at least follow me through my blog or facebook to have a chance to get it after the challenge!)
Hugs :)
Denise aka A Grieving Mommy
PS - I did include the monorail from my scrap page with Mickey and Donald in the kit too!!

There is no footprint so small that it doesn't leave an imprint on this World

"There is no footprint so small that it does not leave an imprint on this World."

Every birthday of my daughters, we do a service project.  We've done all kinds.  Last year, we donated a year pass to the local children's museum for families at the hospital to use.  Another year, we donated swings to the infant unit at the hospital for the babies to use.  It is our way of honoring our girls on their special day by making the world a better place.
This year, we made handprint and footprint cards for our local Share Unit.  Share is an organization that helps families who have lost a baby.  They do hospital visits, make hand and foot molds as well as prints, provide support groups and have a phone hotline for grief support - just to name a few.
The cards are blank with the above quote on them so that parents have a chance to get prints before their child is buried or cremated and they will not be able to do that anymore.
Here is an example of what we made showing a sample card I made for my Bree's handprints.

We met today for her family birthday party.  We let off balloons with messages written to her and we had a Tangled/Rapunzel cake.  It was another hard day, but it was nice to spend the day remembering her.

I made a little freebie for you with the wordart I made for the handprint and footprint cards.  I also included the footprints and handprints, the arrow and dotted border too.
Hope you can use it and document something special in your life :) 
I also want to send out a thank you to those of you that sent sweet messages on Bree's birthday.  I sooo appreciate you and thank you for your kindness.  It DOES help to know that people care.

Download it here

Hugs to you,

Denise aka A Grieving Mommy

Disney Labels

I've got a prize for you over at MouseScrappers - these Disney Labels:

It has 54 different disney labels.  Find out more about how to get these at the challenge HERE.

Happy Birthday to my Lost Princess

The movie Tangled is without a doubt my favorite movie of all time.  It has such a huge significance  to me and correlates to my life in so many ways.  My favorite part is when you see her parents, the King and Queen, on her 18th birthday - still crying, still missing their baby girl that was taken, sending off lanterns in her memory.  I will be no different.  No matter how many years pass, I could be 99 years old, and I will still miss my girls.  Nothing will change that.  I will still cry and hurt because I will still love them then.
Today is my daughter, Bree-Elle's 4th birthday.  She's my baby and it's hard to believe that she wouldn't be a baby anymore.  It feels like yesterday that she died in my arms cuddled in bed with us.  How could she be 4 years old?  How could I have missed out on so much??  I don't know how I will make it to her 18th birthday but if I do there is no doubt that I will cry that day too.  And like the King and Queen, we will let off our own "lanterns" (balloons) in her memory today still remembering her.  We even ordered her a Tangled birthday cake and decorations for her grave.
One of my best friends said to me last night that Rapunzel "screams Bree-Elle".  She was everything purple and pink, sweet and spunky and a little goofy too.  She was very different from her other sister that died, Chloee.  Chloee was more what I would call a classic Princess - quiet, shy, regal, beautiful.  I'm so thankful I got the chance to know them and love them - a lot of my friends had stillborns and they didn't get that chance.  But the bad side of that is that the suffered very much in their short lives.  They were so sick - thinking of it just physically hurts me and makes me so sick.
Today we will spend the day together as a family.  I am donating blood and we might stop by the hospital to donate some things.  We will spoil our living son and just take it easy on ourselves.
I spent this morning scrappin a page for my Lost Princess, my Bree-Elle, using my latest kit I've been working on.  She was so sick in this photo, but I think it still shows how beautiful she was.

The kit will be out in a few days to benefit a new charity.
Well, my boy is up and singing, "Happy Bree-Elle Birthday".  So I am off to enjoy my last living child.
Here is the wordart from my page as a freebie for you for any Tangled scrapbook pages you need to do or save it for future ones!

Download here

Last Call for Donald Duck Digital Scrapbooking Kit

I finished scrappin my Donald Duck's houseboat in Toontown pages for this last trip to Disneyland.  Here's my page:

And I've got another freebie for ya!  Only a few more days to pick up our Huey's Uncle Kit and have the proceeds go to Autism Speaks.  I have a new kit coming out in a few days and then we will be switching over to a new charity.
Here's the freebie:

Download it here
Hugs,
Denise aka A Grieving Mommy

Another Donald Duck Disney Digital Scrapbooking Freebie for ya!

I am in a bit of a funk right now - just trying to function and make it through - 3 days until my baby girl's 4th birthday that she won't be here to celebrate :(
But I did make another Donald freebie  for you! Enjoy :)

Download it here
Hugs to you!
Denise aka A Grieving Mommy

Another Disney Digital Scrapbooking Freebie!

I've got another Disney digital scrapbooking freebie for ya!
I made another page for when my son was playing at Disneyland on Donald's houseboat Miss Daisy using our Huey's Uncle kit and I turned the wordart into a freebie.
Here's my page:

And here's the freebie:

Download here or here
Enjoy!
:) Denise aka A Grieving Mommy

(Layout made using a template from Sweet Spring Template pack by JumbBumble Designs.)

A Donald Duck Digital Scrapbooking Kit - Huey's Uncle - and a Freebie too!

My good friend Natalie of Natalie's Place Designs and I teamed up for the very first time to bring you a charity kit to benefit Autism Speaks.  It's a Donald Duck themed kit for those Disneyland and Disneyworld Donald Duck scrapbooking pages and also for sailing and boating pics too.
Natalie is an amazing person and her 2 children have autism.  We made this collab charity kit for Autism Awareness Day and all proceeds from the kit will go to Autism Speaks, a nonprofit organization to benefit children with Autism.
Here's our kit!  Huey's Uncle:

Here are some pages made using it by Natalie's CT:

And here's a page by me:

**This kit is no longer available**

As always, if you would like to make a large donation for tax purposes, you can do that yourself and just email me the receipt and I will send you the kit.  Please allow me a few hours to email links!

And I have a freebie for you!  The "I Met Donald Duck" frame I made for my page:

Download it here or with a MediaFire Link here
As always, please don't share the link - send them here to download if they want it!
Enjoy!  Stop back in the next few days because I've got 3 more freebies to give out matching this kit!
Hugs to you :)
Denise aka A Grieving Mommy