It's coffee time! Coffee, coffee, coffee, coffee, coffee, coffee! Cappuccino, java, YES!

Caramel Cappuccino
Secret Indulgences {Mini} by Brine Design;
Fonts: VT Portable Remington, Marcelle Script

A friend used to constantly say"It's coffee time! Coffee, coffee, coffee, coffee, coffee, coffee! Cappuccino, java, YES. It's apparently a quote from a movie, Dante's Inferno.  I love coffee; we have a wonderful super-automatic espresso machine that I love. Brine Design has a blog hop freebie, that is perfect for scrappin' about my machine. The link above takes you to her blog.

We are Family

It's iNSD weekend, people! Zig Zag Scrap has put out their Lines, a set of coordinating products by all the designers. And course, they are on sale this weekend.

 The Zig Zag Scrap designers are also giving away a coordinating freebie on Quality DigiScrap Freebies.  See the preview here:

You can find the freebie here: link
It's hard to see in the freebie, but it is chock full of goodness!

Here are some layouts I made with Brine Design's part of the lines, We are Family!

Snapshot of Us
We Are Family {Paper Pack 1} by Brine Design;
We Are Family {Sentiments Brushes} by Brine Design;
Fonts: Stone Sans ITC TT-Bold, VNI-Thufap2

Gather Together
We Are Family {Paper Pack 1} by Brine Design;
We Are Family {Paper Frames} by Brine Design;
We Are Family {Sentiments Brushes} by Brine Design;
We Are Family {4 x 6 tags} by Brine Design;
Fonts: LBSharpy

And I made this page with the freebie sampler:

Glendale
May Zig Zag Lines Sampler by the Zig Zag Designers
Font: Ostrich Sans Bold

 

 

The P52 April Collection by Brine Design

I love the colors in the April Collection by Brine Design. They were perfect for this photo my husband took as he wandered around Las Vegas. I used some of the journaling cards to make a quick and easy mat for the photo. I think this is this first non-Project 52 layout that I've made with this collection.

The Luxor
Project 52{April Paper Pack} by Brine Design;
Project 52 {April Journal Pack} by Brine Design;
Fonts: Rockwell, Zapfino

Digital Collage

I took an art journaling class by Tangie Baxter recently and it inspired me to try digital collage. I made this layout featuring me cuddling on the couch with my 13 year old dog. I had him since he was 4 months old and watching him get older is hard. Strangely enough our new puppy, Mia, reminds me of Blue a great deal. He even likes her. He's only ever liked one puppy before Mia; a foster we had years and years ago when he was 1 1/2 years old.

Saying Goodbye by Brine Design;
Fonts: Pea Darlin'Deb

Project 52: Weeks 10 and 11

I'm still working on my Project 52. It seems like I get within a few weeks of "catching up" and then life intervenes.  Here are weeks 10 & 11; which means I am only 6 weeks behind! Both layouts are made with templates from Brine Designs P52 Collections. I have to say that her collections are making almost staying caught up so much easier. And some of them are more than templates. All that clustering on Week 11 came with the template.

Cirque du Soleil
Project 52 {March Template Pack} by Brine Design;
Project 52 {March Collection} by Brine Design;
Project 52 {January Collection} by Brine Design;
Fonts: SS SimpleSlab, Myriad Pro, SketchBlock

This Week
Project 52 {April Templates} by Brine Design;
Project 52{April Paper Pack} by Brine Design;
Project 52 {April Sticker Pack} by Brine Design;
Fonts: Myriad Pro, Century Gothic, Lobster 1.3

Mia and More Mia (Week 9)

The new puppy, Mia is very photogenic. Week 9 of my project 52 is all about Mia again. Week 9 was the first day of puppy class; unfortunately I was using a camera phone and the puppies were moving fast, so the photos are blurry.

Puppy School
Project 52 {February Template Pack} by Brine Design;
Project 52 {Date Stamps} by Brine Design;
Project 52 (February Papers) by Brine Design;
Project 52 {ribbons & flowers: January, February & March} by Brine Design;
Project 52 {March Journal Pack} by Brine Design;
Fonts: PortagoITC TT, SketchBlock, Tekton Pro

In early March, Mia was running around the yard looking gorgeous; so I pulled out the ultra-zoom. Here's more Mia.

Mia, March 6, 2012
Zoey by Amy Wolff;
Fonts: Old-Script

P52–Weeks 6, 7 & 8

I'm continuing to catch up on my Project 52. Here are weeks 6, 7 & 8.
Here is Week 6 of my P52 Project:

Hanford B Reactor
Project 52 {March Collection} by Brine Design;
Project 52 {Date Stamps} by Brine Design;
Project 52 {February Journal Pack} by Brine Design;
Fonts: Teen, Lucida Sans, Sketch Block

And Week 7: Preparing for puppy

Preparing for Puppy
Project 52 {February Overlays} by Brine Design;
Project 52 {February Papers} by Brine Design;
Fonts: Snell Roundhand, Sketch Block

The journaling reads:
Saturday, February 11, 2012
I spent the day cleaning and rearranging the dog room. I've been meaning to do this for a while; we bought the new rug months ago and I've been wanting to be able to use the Wii. We had two 500 vari-kennels underneath the bed and a 450 and a 36 inch Commander in the middle of the room. The room was so crowded with crates that it was unusable. The dogs hardly ever use the crates, so I had decided we didn't need one for each dog set up in the room.  Then Lyn called and offered us Mia. She's gorgeous and square; how could we say no? Mia is coming on Wednesday, so I had to clean up the dog room. Even though a new dog is coming, I decided to go with the plan and bring down the number of crates in the room. I cleaned all the crates and washed all the bedding; threw away the old rug, cleaned the floor and put in the new rug. I nested all the 500s and made one bed and placed the Commander and 450 under the bed. Now we are all ready for the new puppy. We even shampooed the rugs in the living room and kitchen. 

And of course, week 8 is all about the new puppy. She got a double layout because I thought the two sets of photos, outdoors and on the armchair were too disparate. 

Querida Mia
Project 52 {March Collection} by Brine Design;
Fonts: Teen, Outlaw, Sketch Block

And close ups of the two halves:

The Plaza in Mesilla, New Mexico

New Mexico is full of old towns and plazas. The most famous are probably those in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, however my favorite plaza has always been the one in Mesilla. We were able to visit the plaza in Mesilla earlier this winter. I got lots of great photos of the dogs while we were there; enough for a double page layout!

Dogs at Mesilla
Project 52 {January Collection} by Brine Design;
Fonts: Monaco

Dogs at Mesilla-right
Project 52 {January Collection} by Brine Design;
Fonts: Adobe Garamond Pro

Project 52 Date Stamps by Brine Design

Brine Design has released this great package of date stamps in her P52 line. I'm sure these will come in handy as I work on my P52 layouts this year. Here's a layout featuring photos of 3 of my 5 dogs taken throughout the month of February. I better take photos of the other two next month!

A Month of Puppies
Project 52 {Date Stamps} by Brine Design;
Project 52 {February Papers} by Brine Design;
Fonts: Santana-Black

P52 Week 4 and 5

Here are my P52 Weeks 4 and 5 layouts. Both were made with templates from Brine Designs P52 Series and they are more than templates. The cluster in the week 4 layout was in the template. Isn't it gorgeous? These "templates" are real time savers.

Week 4: The Blue Window
Project 52 {February Collection} by Brine Design;
Date Buttons (English) by Beszteri;
Month Stamps 2012 by Beszteri; 

Week 5: Buffalo Thunder
Project 52 (February Papers) by Brine Design;
Project 52 {February Template Pack} by Brine Design;
Date Buttons (English) by Beszteri;
Month Stamps 2012 by Beszteri; 

Project 52-Weeks 1-3

I started P365 in 2010 and utterly failed. My life just doesn't seem compatible with taking a photo a day. I can't have or use a camera at work so during a P365 project I can only take photos in the morning or evening on workdays. I took a lot of coffee and breakfast photos in the early days of 2010. This year I've decided to do a photo a week, or P52 project. It's mid-February now and I'm already behind. I have been working on it and here are my first three weeks. I'm lucky in that Brine Design is releasing a monthly Project52 Collection each month. Every month there is a set of 4 templates. I've used three of the January templates in the layouts below and I'm sure I'll use more. They are more than templates, though in that some of the clipping masks are actually paper so that you can leave them as is or clip in different papers. It's awesome. I'm also using the date buttons and month stamps that were given away by Beszteri on her blog late last year. They are still available as of this posting if you want to head on over to her blog and grab them for yourselves!

Week 1: We Love Trains
Project 52 (January Collection) by Brine Design;
Project 52 (January Stickers) by Brine Design;
Fonts: STALKER2, Sketch Block

Week 2: The Snow Falls in Santa Fe
Project 52 (January Collection) by Brine Design;
Font: Sketch Block, pastel

Week 3: Richard and Rudy
Kit used: Love & Romance (Kit) by Brine Design;
Month Stamps 2012 by Beszteri;
Date Buttons (English) by Beszteri;
Lace and paper from Practically Perfect by Julianna Kneip & Sahlin Studio;
Fonts: pastel, Sketch Block
Template from Project 52 {January Template Pack} by Brine Design

Love & Romance

Brine Design has a new kit releasing today, Love & Romance. It's a great Valentine's day kit. I love the blues and browns in combination with the traditional red.

Just Love Me
Love and Romance (kit) by Brine Design

My Main Man and Sweet Holiday Surprise

Today at Zig Zag Scraps Brine Design is releasing My Main Man papers and elements:

Here is my layout with My Main Man:

The Devil's Inkwell
My Main Man (paper pack) by Brine Design;
My Main Man (element pack) by Brine Design;
Fonts: VTPortableRemington

Also today at Digiridoo Scraps, Key of D Designs is releasing an amazing collab, Sweet Holiday Surprise with Studio4 Designworks. It's a huge kit including a template that I used to make this layout:

Santa Stop Here
Sweet Holiday Surprise by Key of D Designs and Studio4 Design•works

Here are detailed previews for this collab:

http://www.digiridooscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=18902

http://www.digiridooscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=18902

I also used this kit to catch some of our early holiday baking:

Midnight Sack
Sweet Holiday Surprise by Key of D Designs and Studio4 Design•works

I just love that marshmallow scatter!

Christmas Twinkle by Brine Design

Brine Design has a Christmas Collection releasing today at Zig Zag Scraps! It is gorgeous. Here are the product previews (Previews liked to products):

And my layouts:

Joy
Christmas Twinkle Paper Pack 1 by Brine Design
Christmas Twinkle Element Pack 1 by Brine Design
Christmas Twinkle 3 Alpha Sets by Brine Design

Christmas Lights
Christmas Twinkle Wrapping Paper by Brine Design
Christmas Twinkle Element Pack 1 by Brine Design
Christmas Twinkle 3 Alpha Sets by Brine Design

And Brine Design also has card templates and an ornament pack to go with the collection:

And of course, the entire kit and kaboodle is available as a collection.

Captured Forever-Ollie and Rudy

Here's a layout featuring my two smallest dogs. Aren't they adorable? I made this with a freebie that is available on Brine Design's blog. Head on over and grab it. And while you are there make sure you read all about her exciting news.

Captured Forever
Memory Keepers (Blog Hop Freebie) by Brine Design
Font: Printcess

Balloon Fiesta 2011

We attended the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta this year. It was the first time that I had ever gone. I took almost 400 photos, so expect more layouts.

Balloon Fiesta
Just Me Collab by Brine Design and Siamese Studio;
Tatch-Its6 {Decorative Stitch} by Brine Design;
Lifted Frames 5 by Brine Design

Fasteners Galore

Don't you hate it when you need a staple or some stitching and the kit you're using doesn't have any, or any other fastening devices for that matter? When that happens I do one of two things, I go searching through my stash for a staple, clip, stitch or brad or I tell myself that I'm using a tape runner to attach my item and leave it bare. Brine Design has come to all our rescues when this happens in the future. Today she released oodles of attachy-thingys over at 9th and Bloom. I'm a sucker for brads in digital and real-life so I grabbed this one:

Tatch-Its 2 {Prongs & Brads} by Brine Design

And used it to make this, yet another farm layout:

Amazing
Alana (paper pack) by Brine Design;
Tatch-Its 2 {Prongs & Brads} by Brine Design;
Journal spot from Toothless by Brine Design;
Fonts: CK Academia, Chaparral Pro-Regular

And Brine Design also has these Tatch-Its in her shop. Previews are linked to Personal Use items, CU items are also available in the shop: