Template Freebie on Saturday: Hong Kong

This morning I go back to China to offer the Hong Kong Template. This template is #41 in the Major Cities of the World Template Series.

This template will go great around the Chinese New Year because of the dragon "float" motif.
Take a look at the Countries of the World Template Series offering China Template. Both of these templates go well with each other.

Winnipeg Template Freebie and a Bear Tale

Good morning! Wow, Friday again! You gotta love it! Where did this week go??!!

Today I am offering the Canadian city of Winnipeg, Manitoba in my Major Cities of the World Template Series. The teddy bear on the template represents the origin of the much-loved Winnie The Pooh.

The Winnipeg Bear, the inspiration for Winnie-the-Pooh, was not
actually born in Winnipeg. Instead, Winnipeg Bear was purchased in White River, Ontario, by an officer (Lieutenant Harry Colebourn) of the Fort Garry Horse
cavalry regiment en route to his embarkation point for the front lines of World War I. He named the bear after the regiment's home town of Winnipeg. In 1924, on an excursion to the London Zoo with neighbour children, Christopher Robin Milne, son of author A. A. Milne, was introduced to Winnie for the first time. An E.H. Shepard painting of "Winnie the Pooh" is the only known oil painting of Winnipeg’s famous bear cub. It was purchased at an auction for $285,000 in London, England, late in 2000. The painting is displayed in the Pavilion Gallery in Assiniboine Park. ~Wikipedia

I thought this story would appeal to everyone who loves all the A.A. Milne characters. What a SUPER way to have your town go down in "history."

So here is the Winnipeg template for downloading.

Template Freebie: Logan (UT)

This is the last of the "lesser known" cities in the Major Cities of the World Template Series. Here is the Logan (UT) Template.

Still left in this series are the following templates:

• Winnipeg


• Hong Kong


• New Orleans


• Houston


• Niagara Falls (NY and Ont)


• Ft. Myers Beach


• Raleigh

So we are nearing the end of a great run of templates. I have enjoyed designing your requests for a total of 145 templates (not counting "extras" like holidays or NASCAR.)

Please keep coming back as I start to offer other elements, papers, templates, styles, etc. as I design them. You never know what I'll be making next! It will be well worth it just to come and take a look every now and then!

And remember, it is ALWAYS FREE here.

Your Layouts!

Guess who is working hard again designing layouts using my State Template Series templates?!?

Right! It is Deborah at Misfit Princess!

Also check out her Alphabet Dog Series Part 1 and Part 2. If you are a dog lover you HAVE to see these!

Look What Else I Found!

Here are some papers from the Scrapbook-Bytes store. The 30 paper pack is called World Tour Sketchbook and you can use the papers with my Countries of the World Template Series and/or my Major Cities of the World Template Series.

There are also 2 smaller packs if you don't need all the places in the larger one. There is an Italian Sketchbook and a Parisian Sketchbook.

**Note that these are not freebies. But the price is very reasonable!**

Look What I Found!

Here is a small kit of papers and an overlay from Zin From the Alps at Everything Grows Better With Love. It is called Moscow and of course I am telling you about it so that you can use it with my Moscow Template from my Major Cities of the World Template Series.

Today: Cedar City (UT) Template Freebie

I had quite a few very nice comments on my Concord (NH) Template yesterday. I'm glad so many people can use it. Some of these city templates aren't getting many downloads. But that's ok because the people who ARE downloading them are very appreciative!

Today's digital scrapbooking freebie is a little place called Cedar City in Utah. This is the template I had a little trouble finding a theme for. I decided on the city sign (because lots of people take their photos beside city and state signs.)

Here is the Cedar City (UT) Template. Also download my Utah Template which was offered awhile ago in my State Template Series.

Thanks for all your requests and comments. Only a handful more of these city templates and then I have another series to offer. But, this time it isn't templates. Keep your eyes open for it in about 2 weeks! I have some other stuff to offer first.

Concord (NH) Template Freebie

Here is another smaller city that was requested along with the larger cities for my Major Cities of the World Template Series.

Remember, it IS a major city if it has significance to you or your loved ones.

I was happy to design the smaller cities along with the larger ones. I enjoy giving people what they ask for. So here is the Concord (NH) Template.

Concord has some beautiful Victorian style homes, as well as some buildings dating back to the 1700's.

Don't forget my New Hampshire Template from my State Template Series.

A Quick, Fun Quiz

I'm stealing links fom the Misfit Princess again. Last time it was the candy hearts. This time is it Which Sports Car Are You?

I think this is really neat because it says I am a Ford Mustang and I actually drive a (blue) Mustang! It is my favorite car! Finally! Someone got it right!

You are a Ford Mustang!

You're an American classic -- fast, strong, and bold. You're not snobby or pretentious, but you have what it takes to give anyone a run for their money.

Palma de Mallorca Template Freebie

Here is another Major Cities of the World Template Series installment that I had never heard of. This Spanish city dates all the way back to the Romans. Here is the Palma de Mallorca Template.

The next 3 templates will also be from slightly "lesser known" cities that people requested. This doesn't make them any less desirable as cities, but it might not be somewhere you have ever been or thought to go. Maybe you'll get some new travel ideas.

You can always download these templates and take what elements you like from them and not use the entire template if it doesn't pertain to you. In my dealings with digital scrapbooking I have learned to download when I first see something and if I decide later that I can't use it then I delete it.

My Friend's Wedding

Yesterday one of my Pilates instructors (and a good friend) got married. She had a beautiful (but HOT) outdoor wedding here in Florida.

I thought I would share a picture with you. I haven't had time to do any layouts with the photos because I have been busy finishing up half completed designs so that I don't fall behind with my gifts to you.

Here is the wedding party as Chino and Vanessa say "I Do."

Your Layouts!

Here is a layout from Catmanor. She spent the 4th of July in Heidelberg and used my Heidelberg Template to scrap her pictures!

Once again someone used a little "creative license" with my temlpate but it looks GREAT! Thanks for sharing with us!

Freebie: Acapulco Template

Well it is back to work today for me. I enjoyed my 3 days off in a row. I actually did finish my Major Cites of the World Template Series designs. Wow. Another series finished.

Now I have to start on something else. I have an idea, but I need to get busy on it before I run out of templates in this series!

Today's digtial scrapbooking freebie is the Acapulco Template. Pair it with my Mexico Template from my Countries of the World Template Series.

Freebie Template: Mexico City

I hope everyone had a great 4th of July. We didn't do much of anything but hang around the house. We grilled hamburgers and watched Dale Jr. come in 3rd in the Nationwide Race. Not too bad.

Here is the next installment in the Major Cities of the World Template Series. The Mexico City Template features El Angel, a beautiful statue in the center of Mexico City.

Check out the Mexico Template from my Countries of the World Template Series. That template will go great with the one for Mexico City.

Happy 4th of July

4th of July Template Freebie

I'm taking a break today from offering my Major Cites of the World Template Series templates because of the holiday. Instead of a specific city template today, I am offering a 4th of July Template.

I am including a link to my USA Template from my Countries of the World Template Series in case you missed it before.

And here is my Memorial Day Template that can be modified to use for the 4th of July.

I hope everyone has a Happy 4th of July and a safe one as well. Enjoy what has made this country special to all of us who call it "home!"

Moscow Template is the Freebie of the Day

The holiday is almost here!!! Actually my weekend started at 7:45 pm last night. I don't have to go back in to work until Sunday! YEAH!!!!

I am going to try and knock out the rest of the Major Cities of the World Template Series templates between now and Sunday. I have 9.5 left to design. I am stuck on one right now I just can not get anything going for.

I also have a wedding to go to this weekend. One of my Pilates instructors (and a good friend) is getting married Saturday evening. Obviously she isn't a NASCAR fan...what with the race being in Daytona Saturday night.

Anyway, that catches you up on everything about me. So here is today's digital scrapbooking freebie: the Moscow Template. I love the onion domed architecture in Russia. It looks so cool.

I also can say I have read War and Peace cover to cover. I took a Russian lit class in college and that was one of the books we had to read. It was suprisingly good. But I don't think I would ever have tried reading it on my own without having been made to because of school. It is certainly intimidating!

Wednesday Freebie: Florence Template

Today'scrapbooking freebie is once again from Italy. Here is the Florence Template. This template emphasizes the artistic contribution this city has made over the centuries.

By now you know I am going to suggest that you go to my Countires of the World Template Series and look at the Italy template so that you can use it with all your photos of Florence.

Other Italian templates I have designed include Venice and Rome.

Attention HomeSchoolers!

In the past, some of you guys have mentioned that my template series have been wonderful for you to present study situations for your kids. That is just awesome.

Here is what I think would be great:

Please leave a comment on this blog sharing with your fellow Homeschool Teachers how you have been able to use my freebies as classroom material.

I will tag it so that maybe it will hit Google and be a resource for all homeschool planners.

And I am woking on a mega project that is focused mostly for homeschool projects (although there will be something for everyone to use in the downloads.) Not sure when it will be completed, but I do have it in the works. I'm still designing Major Cities of the World templates.

Please help each other out by giving your ideas to others. I'm not a homeschooler, but I can promise you I can imagine how challenging it must be to come up with "outside the box" ideas to keep your "students" interested.

Venice Template Freebie

Today in the Major Cities of the World Template Series is another Italian template. This one is the Venice Template. I like the way this one turned out. I am partial to the ovelay effect.

As I explained before when this series first started, a lot of the elements for these templates are way too complicated to make into "regular" template elements. So overlays help quite a bit with that issue!

Look in the Countries of the World Template Series for the Italy template to use with this freebie.