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Are You Ready For Mother’s Day?! A Friday Freebie in Case You Aren’t!

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If you aren’t ready for Mother’s Day yet, perhaps I can help you just a little with the free Mother’s Day Bookmark I have a couple of posts down.  Use this as is, or use the blank bookmark to create your own for your Mother, Grandmother, Aunt, Godmother or any other special lady in your life that you would like to honor.  While you’re at it, look at the Post categories to the right and click on freebies, there’s quite a few goodies here that might help you make your day special for your Mom (or for my UK/Aussie  friends "MUM!") 

About 8 or 9 posts down is a link to a Mother’s Day Sentiment or Sayings kit with precreated messages using my art and original verse that is available at DAISIE COMPANY.  If you scroll down and then click on the image, it will take you to where you can purchase for only $5.98 and download the kit immediately (with plenty of time to spare for Mother’s Day!)

(UPDATE: the link has expired.  Please check back for other specials about once or twice a month).  These cute little elements are part of Vickie Hennessy’s Wildflower kit.  They were missing at the time of upload, so she has replaced them here for those who have the kit, and given them as a little bonus freebee for those who don’t… and included a delightful bonus frame to boot!  Simply click on the image to go to the download.  You will have to check out in the store, but won’t be charged anything.

Link to Friday Freebie

Miss Vickie hosted a crop last weekend at Daisie that was quite successful and her cheerful demeanor and excitement for scrapbooking was infectious!  I heard from lots of ladies at DAISIE that they were thinking about picking up scrapbooking again, but this time using digital scrapping mixed with the paper supplies they already own.

If you can’t be with your Mother for Mother’s Day, perhaps you might want to make her a scrapbook page of your own Mother’s Day with her grandchildren?  Take a digital camera to your celebration and decide to scrap it in one hour when you get home.  Believe it or not it’s easy to do.  Look at the galleries at your favorite digiscrapping site like http://www.daisiecompany.com/galleries/. 

When you find a layout you love, use it for inspiration.  Do you like the way a particular layout looks?  I found this one by "scrapperlicious" a delightful woman that posts on our boards and galleries but who lives in Malaysia!  She has a blog that you can read for inspiration about scrapbooking and is very committed to teaching and inspiring others to scrap.  There aren’t very many scrappers in her country, so she would love it if you dropped in on her and left her a comment!

Great example of scrapbooking

  

For more close-ups and details, you can refer to http://scrapperlicious.blogspot.com

 

How do you "borrow" another’s inspiration without being a copy cat?  Ask yourself a few questions.  "What do I like the most about this layout?  Is it the colors?  Is it the way the pictures are stacked/displayed?  Is it the embellishments?  What would I do differently?"  Use other’s works as starting points to get your creativity going and you might be surprised how easily your own creativity begins to flow!  You could take a design like scrapperlicious’ and using it as a springboard, create a layout that is similar in form but looks nothing like hers when you get your papers, art and photographs in it.
The most important thing to remember is to HAVE FUN!  There is no "right or wrong" way to scrap your priceless memories.  To borrow a well-known phrase from NIKE "Just Do It!"
Audrey Jeanne Roberts

 

2 thoughts on “Are You Ready For Mother’s Day?! A Friday Freebie in Case You Aren’t!”

  1. Thank you very much for choosing my layout to share it here. I’m really honored and this is one of the best Mothers Day gift that I could ever get. Thank you again. By the way, just for your info, I’m not from Indonesia. I’m from Malaysia. Maybe my avatar had misled some people about my nationality. Anyway, it’s fine to me. I wish all mothers here, a very wonderful and happy Mothers Day! (I had second thoughts about Indonesia after I posted! So sorry!!!! I’ll correct the post. I hope lots of people are stopping by your blog you have a wonderful, helpful spirit! Happy Mother’s Day to you too! AJ)

  2. Thank you for the link to Vickie’s Freebie. I had forgotten about it! I also visited scrapperlicious’s blog a few times. She does some very creative work!

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