Updating my Blog

Hey all,
I'm feeling the New Year's urge to clean up a bit.  Old freebies done for CT requirements have now been deleted and I have fixed some old freebies that you might not have.  Some freebie links have expired and the kits will becoming Charity Kits to fundraise for different nonprofit organizations.  I also have some new Charity Kits coming out soon!

Turtle Talk is back up and linked to download.

Alice's Autograph is fixed (It was not in a transparent png format and now it is.)

Snow White The Ride freebies are back up and linked to download.

Buzz and Woody are linked to download again.

And I've updated the Purple Tinkerbell freebie - you'll probably want to download it again since it is now a Tinkerbell instead of a cluster element.

Enjoy :)
Hugs to you,
Denise aka A Grieving Mommy

A New Year, A New Project, A New Freebie!

It's a New Year and that means the usual things for me - new goals and a new project that I am going to try my best to do.  My hubby and I have a resolution to take more video of my son.  And I have some scrapbooking resolutions.
But first, let me explain a bit about the changes you'll see in my scrapbooking and blog.  About a month ago, I had some trouble keeping up with my CT (Creative Team) Duties.  A CT is when you scrap pages for a designer in exchange for a free kit.  I had to evaluate why it was I was having touble getting pages done for that designer and I came to the conclusion that I didn't want to sell other people's kits anymore.  I'm not a salesperson, have never been, and don't want to spend my spare time selling someone else's stuff and working on whatever theme they need done.  Scrapbooking had become like a job and it was all about making pretty pages to sell someone's kit.  Deep down I knew that I didn't want to do it anymore, but because this designer (and the others) had become such a good friend, I hadn't quit earlier. So I made the decision to quit my creative teams and focus on my own scrapbooking and what's really important to me.  Although, I still do some CT work on occasion, mainly I want to get back to my roots for this hobby.
I will still be sharing my designs with you here, but some of my old freebies (made for CT requirements) will be going away soon.  So if you want to download any of those, do it asap!
My pages are going to be more meaningful to me - documenting my son and the day to day things I never want to forget.  Yes, I am jumping on the Project 365 and 52 Bandwagons!  Project 365 is when you take a photo everyday of the year and Project 52 is when you scrap about your week.
I started early, documenting our week this last week and I have a freebie template and element pack to share with you!
My son said he had the best week ever! And since it was Christmas and we went to LegoLand, that's probably true! Here are my pages documenting this week. I love how simple the pages are and that they document the fun, crazy, and important things about this week.  It's all about the photos and remembering these special and everyday moments...the things I want to cherish since he is here and alive.

These freebies will be available for a limited time, after which I will be collecting them to be put in a charity kit.  So pick them up soon if you can use them!
Here are the metal frames I used on my page:

Link Expired  (They will be put into a kit for Charity.)

And I turned my pages into templates.  Hope you can use them!  They are in psd and tif files with some extra metal elements including the days of the week.

Link Expired (They will be put into a kit for Charity.)
Sending hugs to you!
Denise aka A Grieving Mommy

Merry Christmas in Heaven to my Angels

This year we decorated our girls' graves in a Snowman theme.  It turned out very cute with all of the different snowman decorations.  We went over last night on Christmas Eve to light their lanterns so they would be lit on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.  And to take over their metal signs with their photos on it.

You can't see their photos in the pictuere of the graves.  I did a Snow Princess theme for their photos.  This is what they looked like.

I am sharing their Snow Princess stuff with you here.

Download here.
Enjoy!

A Little Christmas Freebie for ya! Some Mickey and Minnie Clip Art

Merry Christmas!  I wanted to share something with you today.  Here are some Mickey and Minnie Christmas clip art images that I scanned and handpainted in photoshop.  I hope you can use them.

Download here
Please note that I do not sell my designs and claim no copyright to any Disney images.

Enjoy and Merry Christmas!  Thanks for any comments.  I really do appreciate them!
Denise aka A Grieving Mommy

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to my friends out there!

I always hate the Christmas card thing.  It's so hard to represent the girls when they are not here to photograph.  So this year, I used the Disney fairies to represent them.  My son and I argued about which one is which girl!  He thinks Chloee is Tinkerbell but I think Bree is.  It's not your traditional card, but it let me be creative and still include them somehow.  And I actually took a family photo - which is also hard for me.  So yay!  Sending love to you this Christmas :)

My son has been putting the Happy in Happy Holidays.  He just LOVES the holidays and decorates our house with little crafts and colored pictures!  He is such a joy and helps me smile even if I am also crying because I miss my daughters.  I scrapped a page for him using Delicious Scraps' Happy Holidays kit.  He's making a gingerbread man to hang on the wall.  You should see our house.  It has taped drawings hung up in the most random places!

I've taken a break from scrappin' this month (more info on that later) which has been super nice and let me get Christmas stuff done.  We've been busy getting the last gifts done.  My son is 6 and I always want him to be involved with the gifts because we teach that Christmas is about giving.  We did "angel" gifts for 3 kids his age and he picked out presents for them.  And we're taking donations to the children's hospital where the girls lived on Christmas again this year.  He fabric painted some hot pads for each family member to go with his own "Tyson's Tasty Treats" Christmas Trail Mix.  (He's a little chef in the kitchen and he always claims to be making a tasty treat!)  We went to the store and he just picked out his favorite things like MnM's, fruit snacks, marshmallows, pretzels, cereal, etc.  Then we came home and mixed it up and packaged it to give to his friends and family.  I've been busy making a hybrid craft - a new bow box for the hospital's infant unit (more about that later!)  Then I made this cute little tag for his Christmas Trail Mix.

And scrapped a page of him with his little gifties!

As for what my son wanted this year, he decided he didn't need any more presents and that "he's taking a break from Santa this year"!  Seriously!  He really said that...  He wants to go to LegoLand instead.  So we will be off on Christmas to go to his favorite place on Earth (it's sooo not Disneyland).

Have a merry Christmas from me to you with this freebie kit - Tasty Treats 4 Christmas

Download here

I hope that you will get to spend Christmas with the ones you love.
Hugs,
Denise aka A Grieving Mommy