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A Party for Miley

Amanda — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 08:00:55 +0000

This weekend was Miley’s first agility trial since she earned her MACH title in Nashville a few weeks ago. It’s customary for the newly crowned champion to have a party in their honor, complete with a MACH cake and all. Since this trial was in our hometown with all of Miley and Kevin’s agility friends, it was the perfect place for a party.

I headed straight over to The Tomkat Studio for party table inspiration. Such a fun blog! She’s got tons of ideas. Here’s how Miley’s setup turned out.

I used the Silhouette to make her MACH banner.

And printed out some custom water-bottle labels.

This is an actual silhouette of Miley, made from a photo of her jumping through a tire during an agility trial.

Since everyone’s running around all day, I tried to keep the menu light and fresh. Here we have Tortilla Club Pinwheels.

These fruit kabobs were the hit of the party! They flew off the plate like popsicles. I don’t think I can ever throw another party without making these again!

Everyone loved the sweet and salty combo of Picky Palate’s White Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel Cookies.

The Mighty Meaty Nacho Dip was another hit. Always a favorite!

There were even Milkbones for all the puppies that stopped by.

It wouldn’t be a party without cake! Here’s Miley’s MACH cake. It reads “Congratulations MACH Miley & Kevin!” Half the cake was chocolate and the other half was vanilla.

We set the MACH bar trophy on the table for all the guests to sign.

And had her MACH video playing on a loop on Kevin’s Galaxy Tab, which provided some fun party music. :)

Congrats again, Miley and Kev!

Here are some free printables you can download and use for your next party.

Scalloped Triangle for Banner PNG | Silhouette Studio File
Outer Triangle PNG | Silhouette Studio File
Inner Triangle PNG | Silhouette Studio File
Water Bottle Labels JPG | PSD
Menu Labels JPG

Free Christmas Cards and Matching Holiday Gift Tags!

Amanda — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:39:21 +0000

Happy Holidays, friends! I have some last minute Christmas goodies to share with you! Hopefully you can still use them! :) Last night I made these cheerful gift tags to add a little “merry” to our gifts this year. I wanted to give our presents a fun and personal touch with the “to” and “from” photos. Plus they’re great for Christmas morning if you have little ones who can’t read yet- once they see the labels they’ll know right away which ones are for them! :) These will be great for Miley and Howie. ;)

And I thought you guys might like ‘em too! :) You can download these tags, add your own photos and names, and print away! :) They are sized at 2×3 so you can print them from home or at your friendly neighborhood photo lab as “wallet” sized.

After I made the labels, I thought it’d be so cool to have a matching Christmas cards and matching gift labels! :) So I made some Christmas card templates to match! :) I hope you guys like ‘em and it’s not too late to use them! :) So sorry for being so last minute here! ;)

The cards are sized at 5.25″ x 7.25″ – That way you can print them as a 5×7 card (or photo) and still have a little extra spacing on the edges for “bleed” (you know how the printer sometimes cuts off the edges). Oh, and there’s one square one that’s 5.25 x 5.25 so you can print it as a 5×5 card! :)

Here they all are! There are four matching holiday gift tags and Christmas card template sets. To download, right click on the links below and choose “Save Link As” or “Save Target As”.

Shabby Christmas Frames
*Papers and elements from Crystal Wilkerson’s December 2009 Kit

Download 5×7 Card Template
Download 2×3 Holiday Gift Tag

Snowy Window
*Papers and elements from Roben-Marie Designs

Download 5×7 Card Template
Download 2×3 Holiday Gift Tag

Holiday Wreath
*Papers and elements from Roben-Marie Designs

Download 5×5 Card Template
Download 2×3 Holiday Gift Tag

Sugar Cookie Frames
*Papers and elements from Megan Turnidge’s Sugar Cookie Kit

Download 5×7 Card Template
Download 2×3 Holiday Gift Tag

All templates are 300 dpi and in PNG format so they can be used in any program that supports layers (Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Gimp, Paint.NET, etc).

If you use any of these templates I would *love* to see what you do with them!! :) You gotta take pics of your super cute matching Christmas cards and tags and post them on your blog- or find me on Facebook!! :)

Special Thanks so much to Crystal, Roben-Marie, and Megan for sharing their super cute kits and making this post possible! :)

Thanks for looking! :)

Free Blog Backgrounds from the Fall Collection Kit

Amanda — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:24:55 +0000

They’re here!

I was so excited yesterday when I opened my feed reader and discovered that not one, but two of my absolute *favorite* blog background designers had made free backgrounds and headers from my recently released digital scrapbooking freebie- the Fall Collection Kit! :)

If you’ve been searching for the perfect new blog background… Try one of these on for size! :)

The first two sets come from Mikelle at My Style Backgrounds.

*To get any of these headers and backgrounds, and for instructions on how to install them on your blog, just click the images below. :)

Mikelle, I am in love with what you’ve done!! These are just gorgeous!! :)

And this next background and header comes from
Allie at Allie Brown’s Layouts.

Allie girl, you know I love this one!! :) I love the flower accents you added- they give it such a soft and feminine touch! :)

I am constantly stalking Allie and Mikelle’s blogs- If you need an awesome resource for unique scrapbook blog backgrounds, take a look at either of these two *extremely* talented ladies’ blogs. If the Fall Collection Kit isn’t your thing, you will *surely* find something you will just absolutely love there!! :) My jaw drops every time something new is uploaded. :)

*** Edited to Add! ***

I just got an email from an *amazingly* talented blog designer-
Heather from Butterflygirlms Blog Designs.

She can customize Blogger in ways I have never even seen before! Need to spruce up your blog? Her site is definitely a must see- she offers free backgrounds, headers, blogger templates, and even Twitter backgrounds! And so much more!. I just had to add these two templates she made using the Fall Collection Kit! :)

These are awesome, Heather!! I love what you’ve done- thank you so much for sharing your site with me!! :)

If you use one of these backgrounds, I would LOVE to see it on your blog!! :) Leave me a comment here and I will rush right over to check it out! :)

Thanks so much for looking! :)

The Fall Collection Kit- A Digital Scrapbooking Freebie!

Amanda — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:31:14 +0000

I had an intense need for digital scrapbooking supplies that matched my new fall scarf, so….

I made some! :D

{ Download Now }

This kit includes:
6 bookplates
5 bows
10 buttons
4 clips
5 ric racs
20 papers

…in these fabulous fall colors!

If you like it, leave me a comment and let me know! :) If you do anything with this little ‘ol kit, I would *love* to see it- leave me a link! :) I’d love to check it out and leave a comment for ya! :)

Thanks so much for looking! Hope you like the kit! :D

A Digi-scrappin’ freebie!

Amanda — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:35:10 +0000

I don’t know what came over me. I was just learning how to use patterns and textures in photoshop. That’s it, I swear. But then I saw this really cute pillow in this decorating magazine. And I thought, Man, that would make some really cute scrapbook paper. And we all know I’m not above scanning in a pillow to make a cute design. Heck, I’ve even done it with a dog bed to make a blog background before. The next thing I knew I was acting like I knew what I was doing and trying to make digital scrapbooking papers :p

Now don’t get too excited or anything. ;) I don’t think this is going to be a regular gig for me. (Are those famous last words?) I enjoyed making the papers, but that’s about it. lol …You’ll be able to tell from the glaring lack of elements in this “kit”. Can it even be called a kit if it only has like 3 different elements? Hah.

Well anyway. Since I made it and everything, I figured I might as well share it with you guys too. :D

This kit includes:
22 papers
5 ribbons
5 buttons
4 stitches

{ Download Now }

If you like it, leave me a comment and let me know. :) If you use it, leave me a comment and a link so I can see it! :) If you want more papers, well, leave me a comment and let me know. I might could be talked into it. But only if ya’ll want ‘em. :D

And……..Before I forget……

We have a winner!!! :D

The winner of the $25 gift certificate to BloggerBoutique.com is
#42 Rachel!

Rachel’s blog, Rambling Robinsons, will soon be getting a makeover! Congrats Rachel! :)

Thanks to everyone for all the comments, and I hope ya’ll like the kit! :D More giveaways are coming soon… aren’t they fun?? :) If you’d like to be the first to know when a new one is posted, you can sign up to get an email or subscribe by RSS! More info in the sidebar, look at the top where it says “Subscribe”! :)

Thanks for looking! :)