#2 in Most Valuable Player Template Series: Hockey Template Freebie

This is the second installment of the Most Valuable Player Template Series.

This is really where the whole idea for the series was born. I had been doing some hockey freebies and when I started this template I thought about the small amount of sports themed freebies out there.

Here is the Most Valuable Player Hockey Template .

Look for the other four templates in this series in the coming days.

Hockey Bear Set Add On Freebie

Here is the second half of the hockey freebie I offered yesterday. This is the Hockey Bear Set Add On.

As promised, here are the numbers you can use to honor your favorite star! Just use the ones I made up (zero to nine) or you can take the bear from yesterday's Hockey Bear Set and add the stand alone numbers from today's add on and make whatever number you need.

Realize that the numbers and the bear are made using the watercolor script in Paint Shop Pro and are supposed to be a little "blurry" for effect. The tag also has a slight blurred effect. So there is nothing wrong with the download! LOL

I hope these and my other hockey freebies have filled a hole that was out there for digi scrappers with hockey needs!

More Hockey Freebies: Hockey Bear Set

There was much intrest in another hockey type of download amongst my faithful few. So I have designed a whimisal kit with a hockey theme.

This will go just super with the Mites or Pee Wees. Even female hockey players might like this. In case it isn't "tough enough" for the older boys, there are some textured papers and tags that might go well with their photos.

Here is the first part of the Hockey Bear Set. Look for the add on tomorrow. The add on will include a set of numbers you can use "as is" or create your own to match the number of your favorite player!

You can get my other hockey freebies here.

Day 2 Hockey Request: Hockey Papers Freebie

I'm offering another hockey themed digital scrapbooking freebie today. I try very hard to fulfill as many requests as my talent can offer. Sometimes someone will ask for something and I just do not know how to design something like that.

My apologies for anyone who can't use this Hockey Paper download because the colors aren't right for their team!! If you have enough experience in your scrapbooking program you can use the magic wand and delete the background color and add your own.

If you don't know how to do what I am saying then email me at the link in my sidebar and I can walk you through the directions.

It was my intention to put some neutral colors in the pack so that you could at least use some of the papers.

If this download and yesterday's download, the Hockey Alphabet, are popular I can always make more hockey designs.

PLEASE let me post the layouts you make with theses papers. Who knows, one day your hockey star might be a huge NHL star and we will have had a layout of him/her when they were just a Pee Wee! Imagine what that would be worth!!!

Stanley Cup Template Freebie

This morning I'm offering a freebie you can use to celebrate your NHL team's trip to the Stanley Cup finals! If you are like me, you may have to go back a couple of years, but that's ok!

I love the Carolina Huricanes, and especially their captain Rod Brind'Amour. They won the Stanley Cup in 2006! (That's actually THE picture of Rod Brind'Amour holding the Stanley Cup from that year in the template outline.)

In 2002 when the Hurricanes were in the Stanley Cup finals my fiance' and I were working at the RBC Center in Raleigh. It was an awesome experience! The Stanley Cup finals is like the Super Bowl of hockey so anybody who was anybody was there.

We met famous hockey players like Ray Bourque. (If you know hockey, then you know who Ray Bourque is!) I was working the suites at the RBC Center and met some of the rock group Three Doors Down, who were in one of my suites. I also met the singer Five For Fighting, John Ondrasik. There were politicians, like Elizabeth Dole in the suite too.

Working at the RBC was great becaue when Wayne Gretzky bought part ownership in the Phoenix Coyotes NHL team, the Carolina Hurricanes were playing the Coyotes that night in Raleigh. The Great One, as Mr. Gretzky is known in the hockey world, was traveling with his new team and was at the game that night!

It gave me goose bumps when they held a little impromptu ceremony at the beginning of the game. Imagine the Queen of England or a President of the US just happening to be in your neighborhood. It was THAT exciting!

Mr. Gretzky is THE best hockey player of all time, holding such a lead on most of the league's records that it will be YEARS before anyone can catch up to him!

Here is the Stanley Cup Template. I'm sorry to say I can't pull for the Detroit Red Wings because they are the team that beat my team in 2002! Besides, I don't think they need any of my support! They are doing fine on their own!

My fiance' is from Pittsburgh, so he is all about the Pittsburgh Penguins. They are running on a huge head of steam and could end up winning the whole thing. It should be an exciting series.

Another Hockey Loss

Oh well. I am disappointed once again by my hockey team. But I'm not giving up on them. The season is long and every team struggles during the year. Hopefully we can get past this slump we are in right now! Go Canes!

Why Hockey?

Some people have been asking me why I am so "into" hockey, especially if I am originally from North Carolina. Well, to make a long story short, I used to work at the RBC Center (when it was called the Raleigh Entertainment and Sports Arena) for 3 years when it first opened. That is the home of the Carolina Hurricanes.

I knew nothing about hockey but I was always a big sports fan. As I worked at the arena, I began to pick up on the intricacies of the sport. It was way different from anything I was accustomed to seeing.

What KEPT me hooked was what I follow as a general rule: I first begin pulling for the team with the good looking guys! If you have any doubts about the Carolina Hurricanes, just look at the picture attached to this post. That's our team captain, Rod Brind'Amour. There are also a bunch of other hotties on the team! By the way, for those of you who don't know, he's holding the Stanley Cup. That's the Holy Grail of Hockey. Carolina won it in 2006!

Carolina Hurricanes Hockey Tonight!

My hockey team plays tonight. But man, they kill me when they play the Flyers! They just can't seem to beat them most of the time! What makes it worse is that the Flyers are my son's team. I had to ban him from coming over to watch the game with me because he jinxes my team by pulling for someone else!!! He calls to rub it in and I say , "Don't you have a test to study for or a paper to write?" What am I sending him to college for if he has so much free time!!!