Sweet Georgia Brown paper pack

Here's another digital scrapbooking paper pack, this time various browns. All free for you to use, click on the image to be taken to  the download page. Enjoy!

Click here to download the papers

Life's Light

Playing catch-up at Beyond Layers… the day 33 challenge was Honouring Life's Light. The purpose was to capture "anything that shines light into your life", to celebrate the love.

This one was so easy. My bright spot, as Kim said, is without any doubt similar to hers: the pets. There’s been a Dandie Dinmont Terrier in our household for more than twenty years, and after the first half year there have always been at least two of them. Our current pack has six members, each one of them unique, each one of them special. Life certainly isn’t boring with the lot of them around, and I really cannot imagine life without them.

We discussed this with Better Half some time ago, trying to imagine what our lives would have turned to if we hadn't taken the first Dandie. You know, "Turn a different corner and we never would have met." Although we are both blessed with good imagination, neither of us could really figure out where we'd be now without the Dandies. But there's one thing we concluded: it certainly would be hugely different. There are so many things we're involved in nowadays - and have been for years - that have evolved out of this, our whole way of life, how we see the world, friendships… everything.

The scrapbooking layout shows the whole current pack in photos taken between 29 July, 2011 and 25 October, 2012: the old Great-grandauntie Leia, Granny Foxy, Mom Misaki, Dad Renny and their daughters Marleena & Justiina.

A Pack of Dandies

Resources used:

- background paper Happiest Search 01 by myself
- gradient from the Super Dooper gradient pack by Digital Phenom
- template 212 by Yin Designs

A Book Review, of sorts

For day 32 of Beyond Layers, the challenge was to pick a favourite book, photograph it, get creative with the set up and process the image however we pleased, and also tell why I love this book.

This was some challenge, since I've read shamefully little in the past quite a few years. Of course I use books for work, a pile of them. Didn't feel like photographing them, though, and after some consideration, I picked the one not-work-related book that I use regularly. Also I happen to like the look of this book. Since it's the song book for my singing lessons, I very much doubt this "review" is useful to anyone but me, though.

Back in 2008, when the book was published, I first bought the middle-range version, but later on, as my vocal range has grown, I have also bought the same book for high voice. This is the version in the picture, and yes, I chose to photograph it because the cover here is my favourite colour orange (or thereabouts) instead of the blue one in the older book. It's not the only sheet music collection I sing from, but definitely the most used one, alongside the Vaccai vocalises. There are 109 songs, ranging in time from Renaissance to 20th century, in five languages (English, Italian, German, Swedish and Finnish). At the time the photo was taken, 29 October 2012, I had studied 31 of them with my singing teacher.

Cantus

Resources used:
- texture Fully by Kim Klassen (35% soft light)
- texture Put Me Down Boogie by Smoko-Stock (35% vivid light, masked corners)

Living Fully or Frantically

Having been awfully busy all autumn, it was not without certain bitterness that I read Kim's post for day 31 of Beyond Layers. Not daring to even open the posts lest I'll be swept to playing with the challenges when I really should be doing something else, I was not delighted to find a challenge about slowing down.

However, I guess I have come to realize that busy really doesn't matter. Sometimes there's nothing else to do but to rush along, but it's not as if I wouldn't enjoy it. Oh yes, I have been whining about not having enough time, but right now, this very moment, I'm overjoyed to really have had holiday time to beautifully unwind, spend time at home, do little or a lot or nothing at all and -- be there. Together with Better Half and the doggies. Feel.

For the photo challenge, here's my take. Since the past autumn's particular busy has mostly been at work, this picture's fittingly been taken at my work place.

Stairs

Resources used:
- texture Tears of Hope by Smoko-Stock (70% Soft Light)
- texture Be Still by Kim Klassen  (40% Multiply)

A load of freebies

Decided to update here those of my scrapbooking freebies that I haven't posted on the blog yet. 

First, some paper packs:

Download Green Finch and Linnet Bird here

Download Road to Sunset here

Download Lilac Wine here

Download Mellow Yellow here

Here are some templates:

Download template 001 here

Download template 008 here

Download template 009 here

Download template 010 here

Download template 011 here

Download template 006-007 here

Everything is free to use, would love to hear where it gets used, though.

A Daily Deviation!!

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 I simply don't believe this -- just stopped for a quick visit at deviantArt and wondered why there were suddenly so many people adding one of my scrapbooking paper packs in their favourites --- and then noticed it has been featured as a Daily Deviation! Am totally overwhelmed. *faints*

Nestled among Trees paper pack

Another scrapbooking paper pack with some earthy, greenish hues this time.

Click the preview image to download

My, it's so much fun creating these packs. These have all been made quite a while ago, when I was on my lengthy sick leave last year and had time to do a lot of scrapbooking, but perhaps I'll at some point get to really create papers from scratch again, since that's a lot of fun, too. *beams*