Theme Challenge 1/18

Here's my page. I actually prefer candids over posed pictures. Probably because at the moment if ask Cassidy to smile for the camera I get the over the top smile with squinty eyes.

I used a template that's been in my folder for quite some time. The word art was the perfect piece to tie the pics together.

I don't have any journaling because I have a few other Xmas pages that have journaling.

Joint pages

These are pages I include in all three books.

Zac's pages

Love this page, cause I love the pictures of the two of them together

Best of Jax's 2009 Pages

Jax's first haircut was quite a traumatic experience :(

Recap of the Jax's first year.

This is one of my favorite pages of Jax and my mom.

Poor sick baby :(

Best of Cassidy's 2009 Pages

On the way home after a hockey game.

Cassidy's Christmas pages

One of my favorite pages, the first one where I made a picture the background of the page

The cover her her photobook

Almost all caught up

More layouts.  I did go and buy Photoshop Elements 7.0.  I have been using the trial version for about a month now and am over the moon in love.  AND there are many freebies available online for digital scrappers.  Every background page, element, frame, etc is all free stuff I found online.  I check this site http://digifree.blogspot.com/ every day and it gives you the new freebies available daily.  

I've done Cassidy's last year and Jaxon's first 6 months all with free stuff I found and I have lots of other things saved to use later.  From births to birthdays, holidays to vacations, to snow to the ocean, I can find it all for FREE.  The best things I d/l that are free are templates, it's a gray page that shows how to do different layouts, sometimes I follow them exactly, other times I edit the sizes of pictures and whatnot, but they have helped me navigate PSE.  Oh another freebie I love is word art, those little sayings I add to pages, those are priceless.

There is so much out there available for free, plus some really cute kits that if I want to spend money I could get for a couple bucks, I just don't see the reason to go to this sites that offer the same things for a monthly charge.

I'm not looking to make a buck, or become your consultant, I want you to have as much fun doing this as I do and do it for little money.   

Gotta go, my PSE just came in the mail.

Couple new layouts

Here are a couple pages I've been working on the last couple of days.  

The last page, the one with the kids and Santa, is a Quick page.  Which means all I did was download the whole page already decorated and just added the photo.  There are lots of quick pages available.  For the most part I enjoy doing my own pages, but once in a while I find a quick page that I think would work well with a photo and use it.

Enjoy