Anglesey Adventures 2022 Digital Page

 

Every month at Kate Hadfield Designs we have a completely free scrapbook template you can download. 

Pop over to Kate Hadfield Designs Blog and you will find Photo Bliss in the Free Templates section

At Kate Hadfield Designs there are so many fabulous sets it is really easy to get inspired to use them. There are digital stamps which you can colour, coloured versions you can scrapbook or make into digital layouts. Papers, patterned overlays and doodles galore. No matter what your skill level there are so many goodies to play with.

The first layer of the page is the background paper. I chose one from my fave paper pack Painted Pretties. I love the soft effect and it went particularly well with the image I chose for this page. 

The layout of this image didn't suit a square crop which was on the original template so I increased the text area. That is the beauty of digital pages, you can tweak them to suit your project quite easily.

The view from the caravan is breathtaking. The owners of Gwynfa lived in there whilst they were building their spectacular house and they now rent it out. I feel very lucky to have found this little slice of heaven. The view is to die for and it is so peaceful. If the weather is good you can see so much out of your window with loads of fields, lots of animals, Holyhead in one direction and a lighthouse in the other direction.

As we often saw the Irish ferries going into the harbour I wanted to include that on my page. The On Our Travels kit had the perfect ship and a great camera.

The On The Farm kit provided the moo cow and horse. It was lovely to see so many beautiful horses in the fields when we went on our walks.

The lambs and sheep are from the Nativity kit. I love baby sheepies and the one in this kit is so cute. I am hoping when we go back soon we will see lots of lambs frolicking in the fields.

Signs of Spring provided the grass. Sheepies of course need to eat lots of grass and in Wales there is so much rain that the grass is very green and lush.

The Great Outdoors kits provided the walking boots. 

When we went last time we actually climbed the mountain you can see in the distance. It is located in a country park and the flora as you get steeper and steeper with alpine flowers is gorgeous. 

There was a fabulous path to follow until you go towards the top and then that was a lot of scrambling over some pretty big rocks. This path looks easy enough but you went round the back and then it dipped down and back up again. You could see the top but it felt like you would never get there. I am not the fittest person and I was so proud of getting to the top and the view was amazing.... little did I know how hard it was going to be to get back down.

 

There was no proper path and we got quite lost. We followed what we thought was the right way to get down and came right up to a sheer drop. We went on a very clear day but if it was misty like it quite often was then we could easily have had a very nasty accident. I skidded on my bottom at one point right into a gorse bush. I had so many thorns in my bottom and thighs and ripped my favourite walking trousers. After a lot of false turns we finally got off the mountain at the wrong side of the Country Park and had a really long walk back to the car. I was shaking with adrenaline and in hindsight I know we were very, very lucky. Needless to say we will not be going up there again, lesson learned and all that.

Finally I added my favourite smiley sunshine to the page from the Springity Spring pack. We had quite a bit of rain whilst were there but that just provided the perfect opportunity to do my cross stitch and I started diamond painting for the first time.

I cannot tell you how much we were both looking forward to going back there and we have just come back from another lovely week. Again the weather was changeable but it was the perfect place to relax.

Over at Kate Hadfield Designs there is lots going on. Kate is really generous with her freebies which are readily available. If you sign up to the newsletter you get access to an extra subscriber area the Doodle Den where there are loads more freebies. There is a gallery full of projects by the Creative Team and customers and so much inspiration for crafters and teachers. I would highly recommend you pop over there and join in the fun.

Digital Page Details -

Digital Template - Photo Bliss (Kate Hadfield Designs)

Digital Paper - Painted Pretties (Kate Hadfield Designs)

Digital Images -  On Our Travels, On The Farm, Nativity, Signs of Spring, Great Outdoors, Springity Spring  (Kate Hadfield Designs)

I would like to enter this Digital Scrapbook Page  into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order)

• Classic Design Challenge - #4-2024 Anything Goes
• Crafty Catz - #670 Anything Goes
• Crafty Gals Corner - #254 Anything Goes
• Digi Choosday - #15 Anything Goes
• Double D Challenge - Water Related
• Polkadoodles - #15 Anything Goes
• Word Art Wednesday - #643-644 Anything Goes

Birthday Bowling Digital Page

 

Every month at Kate Hadfield Designs we have a completely free scrapbook template you can download. I have used this page to celebrate my Hubby's birthday bowling outing last year.

Pop over to Kate Hadfield Designs Blog and you will find Photo Bliss in the Free Templates section

At Kate Hadfield Designs there are so many fabulous sets it is really easy to get inspired to use them. There are digital stamps which you can colour, coloured versions you can scrapbook or make into digital layouts. Papers, patterned overlays and doodles galore. No matter what your skill level there are so many goodies to play with.

I have an Apple computer and use a program called Affinity Designer 2 to create my digital projects. I consider myself to be a novice at scrapbooking but the templates really do make it very easy to create some very detailed pages. There are different formats included depending on how your program works. Im my case I use the PNG layer files. I start off by adding the number layers into a single file and then you start adding to or amending each layer one my one.

You start with the base layer and for this I used the painted kraft paper from Red, White 'N Blue. This was a little harsh at 100% and overpowered my image so I reduced the opacity to 80% and this was more subdued. You then add the layer which is the line border around the edge which I changed to be a blue colour.

This page allows you to add a big photo and I thought this one of my hubby playing ten pin bowling for his birthday would be perfect. I re-sized the photo to suit the template and added it to the page along with the shadow layer.

At this stage you simply work through the template layers, changing any colours as required to suit your image. Then the really fun bit starts where you add the elements to help decorate and theme your page.

Kate has designed this really cool kit perfect for this page. Ten Pin Party Doodles has so many elements that are in the photo like the skittles, stars and a red bowling ball. The trophy for the winner, bowl emblem were also added from this kit.

It has got to be about 20 years since we went bowling. We had 3 games and I have to say the first game was a complete washout for both of us.... We called that a practice game.

Paul got a strike, 2nd game we were both very close in scores but he won overall so I was very happy for him especially as it was his birthday.

Over at Kate Hadfield Designs there is lots going on. Kate is really generous with her freebies which are readily available. If you sign up to the newsletter you get access to an extra subscriber area the Doodle Den where there are loads more freebies. There is a gallery full of projects by the Creative Team and customers and so much inspiration for crafters and teachers. I would highly recommend you pop over there and join in the fun.

Digital Page Details -

Digital Template - Photo Bliss (Kate Hadfield Designs)

Digital Paper - Red, White ’N Blue (Kate Hadfield Designs)

Digital Images - Ten Pin Party Doodles (Kate Hadfield Designs)

I would like to enter this page into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order)

• 613 Avenue Create - #202403 Anything Goes
• Allsorts - #773/774 Anything Goes
• A Perfect Time To Craft - #4 - Anything Goes
• A Place to Start - Anything Goes
• Classic Design Challenge - #3-2024 Anything Goes
• C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - #711 Not A Card (digital scrapbook page)
• Crafts Galore Encore - #122 Anything Goes
• Crafty Catz - #668 Anything Goes
• Crafty Gals Corner - #253 Anything Goes
• Digi Choosday - #12 Anything Goes
• Mirtillamente - #30 Anything Goes
• Outlawz Saturday Paper a la Mode - Anything Goes
• Outlawz Twisted Thursday - Anything Goes
• Pattie’s Creations Design Challenge - #216 Anything Goes
• Polkadoodles - #12 Anything Goes
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Anything Goes
• Word Art Wednesday - #641-642 Anything Goes

Signs of Spring

 

Every month at Kate Hadfield Designs we have a completely free scrapbook template you can download. I have used this great layout to create a digital page to celebrate the onset of Spring

Pop over to Kate Hadfield Designs Blog and you will find Framed in the Free Templates section

At Kate Hadfield Designs there are so many fabulous sets it is really easy to get inspired to use them. There are digital stamps which you can colour, coloured versions you can scrapbook or make into digital layouts. Papers, patterned overlays and doodles galore. No matter what your skill level there are so many goodies to play with.

For the base layer I used my goto paper pack Painted Pretties. I used the blue and green one and selected part of the page to represent sky and grass.

I added a continuous border at the bottom using the daisy from Springtime Tapes. By carefully placing several together they can join together seamlessly.

I added the Mommy sheep and the little lamb from the Nativity set. I love the cute lamb and can't wait to see some in the field at the top of our road. I am very lucky that we live only 6 miles away from Birmingham city centre but we have many farm fields within walking distance of our house.

I used many of the elements from both Springity Spring and Signs of Spring. It is so much fun to combine your favourites from these sets ans they always go so well together.

Over at Kate Hadfield Designs there is lots going on. Kate is really generous with her freebies which are readily available. If you sign up to the newsletter you get access to an extra subscriber area the Doodle Den where there are loads more freebies. There is a gallery full of projects by the Creative Team and customers and so much inspiration for crafters and teachers. I would highly recommend you pop over there and join in the fun.

Digital Page Details -

Digital Template - Framed (Kate Hadfield Designs)

Digital Paper - Painted Pretties  (Kate Hadfield Designs)

Digital Images - Nativity Doodles, Springtime Tapes, Springity Spring, Signs of Spring  (Kate Hadfield Designs)

I would like to enter this page into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order)

• 613 Avenue Create - #202403 Anything Goes
• A Perfect Time To Craft - #3 - Anything Goes
• A Place to Start - #202402 Anything Goes
• Classic Design Challenge - #03-2024 Anything Goes / 4 Legged Friends
• C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - #710 Easter / Spring
• Crafts Galore Encore - #121 Anything Goes
• Crafty Catz - #668 Anything Goes
• Crafty Gals Corner - #253 Anything Goes
• Digi Choosday - #11 Anything Goes
• Mirtillamente - #29 Anything Goes
• Outlawz Monday Greetings - Anything Goes / Add some green
• Outlawz Saturday Paper a la Mode - Anything Goes
• Pattie’s Creations Design Challenge - #216 Anything Goes
• Polkadoodles - #11 Anything Goes
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Easter / Spring
• Word Art Wednesday - #639-640 Anything Goes

A Day On the Farm Digital Page

 

Over at Kate Hadfield Designs blog every month there is a digital scrapbook page template you can download completely free. I am very new to this but these templates make it so easy to create and I am having so much fun with them. Today is also Digital Scrapbooking Day so what better way to celebrate than creating my own page too!

This month the template is Big And Bold and it comes in different formats depending on which program you use to put them together.

I am on a Mac computer and use Affinity Designer to create my digital layouts. The best format for me is to build the page up using the PNG templates. Each page has the element on a different layer and you build it up using each numbered layer. This makes for quite a big file to work with but when you export it out it is like a normal image so quite a bit smaller. Previous to using these templates I never really understood how the layers worked in these sort of programs when watching the photo editing videos my hubby watches so it has really taught me so much.

On September the 28th it was my birthday and we visited Cotswold Farm Park which is the most amazing place to visit if like me you love animals. It specialises in the conservation of rare breeds of farm animals and is run by Adam Henson who is on various TV farming programmes especially Countryfile. My day was spent bottle feeding lambs and goats, stroking pigs, cows, goats, chickens and the softest bunny rabbit. I also got to feed animals grass pellets and let me tell you they KNOW the rustle of the paper bag and come running over to you straight away.

I started out with the base layer which was the green paper from Painted Pretties. I reduced the opacity so it made the paper a slightly lighter colour.

Then I started to build the elements of the page together. I used photos we had taken of Edna the sow and her little piglets. I absolutely adore piggies and could watch them for hours. There were several different breeds but these little piglets were so cute running around after Mom as they wanted feeding. She had just had a mud bath and wanted to chill out but the kiddies were having none of it. I'm not a parent myself but I guess this is something many of you will have experience of.......

On the 3 block sections I added some of the photos. I love the Highland Cow, he was one of 3 in that field but the only one who came over for pellets. He was very photogenic and a complete poser. The Doodle from Scotland the Brave kit was the perfect addition for this page. I visited Scotland a few years ago and naively thought I would see them everywhere. We only saw them in Fort William when we stayed on a farm for a few days. As you can see Kate's image is a perfect rendition of one.

For the chevron section I replaced this with bags of feed stacked on one another. I bought 4 bags and could easily have used many more. It was joyous to feed and interact with so many animals. The white goat above was a real character and a bit of a bully so I was careful to feed others away from him. 

I added loads of Doodles from On The Farm to depict animals that I had seen on my day out. There was loads to see and do and so much for the little ones to enjoy. The biggest kid there of course was me ☺

At Kate Hadfield Designs there are so many fabulous sets it is really easy to get inspired to use them. There are digital stamps which you can colour, coloured versions you can scrapbook or make into digital layouts. Papers, patterned overlays and doodles galore. No matter what your skill level there are so many goodies to play with.

Kate is really generous with her freebies which are readily available. If you sign up to the newsletter you get access to an extra subscriber area the Doodle Den where there are loads more freebies. There is a gallery full of projects by the Creative Team and customers and so much inspiration for crafters and teachers. I would highly recommend you pop over there and join in the fun.

Digital Page Details -

Scrapbook Template - Big and Bold (Kate Hadfield Designs)

Digital Paper - Painted Pretties (Kate Hadfield Designs)

Digital Images - Scotland The Brave Doodles & On The Farm Doodles (Kate Hadfield Designs)

I would like to enter this project into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order)

• A Perfect Time To Craft - #10-2022 Anything Goes
• Classic Design Challenge - #10 Anything Goes
• Crafts Galore Encore - #104 Anything Goes
• Critter Crazy Challenges - #67 Anything Goes With a Critter
• Digi Choosday - #38 Anything Goes
• QKR Stampede - #453 Anything Goes
• Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
• Your Scrapbook Place - Anything Goes

Bike 1 - Paul 0 Digital Page

 

Over at Kate Hadfield Designs blog every month there is a digital scrapbook page template you can download completely free. I am very new to this but these templates make it so easy to create and I am having so much fun with them.

This month the template is Pockets and it comes in different formats depending on which program you use to put them together.

I am on a Mac computer and use Affinity Designer to create my digital layouts. The best format for me is to build the page up using the PNG templates. Each page has the element on a different layer and you build it up using each numbered layer. This makes for quite a big file to work with but when you export it out it is like a normal image so quite a bit smaller. Previous to using these templates I never really understood how the layers worked in these sort of programs when watching the photo editing videos my hubby watches so it has really taught me so much.

Talking about my hubby he is the subject of my scrapbook page today. Unfortunately he had an accident on his bike a couple of days ago. He went out with a friend and I had a call to say he had fell off his bike and was hurt. Hubby has epilepsy and a few times I have had the most awful calls that he has had a fit when away from home and he needs to be fetched. The panic you have when getting to the location is just pure adrenaline and fear. In this case I was told he'd not had a fit but he'd hurt his shoulder and had cuts and bruises and could I come and fetch him and his bike.

Fortunately where he did it was close to a hospital so a nurse on her way home had stopped and made sure he was okay. His friend was calling for an ambulance and one arrived in a couple of minutes. They were on the way to the hospital and had seen him at the side of the road so that was really fortunate. He wasn't classed as an emergency so they couldn't take him to hospital so we were advised to take him to Accident & Emergency to get him X-rayed just in case.

He was in a lot of pain by this stage and when they did the initial examination it was pretty clear he had a fracture of some sort. It turns out he has broken the left hand side of his collarbone. A breaks go it is a clean one with no splinters so that is good news but he cannot use that arm for at least 6 weeks.

I used the Jade paper from Also Edgy for the background. I made it larger and cropped the edge off as there is a border in the template.

One of the layers is like splats on the background so I re-coloured this in red to symbolise the blood that has spilt. He has quite a few cuts and bruises, a really bashed up elbow with a pretty large and deep patch of skin that has scraped away and even had some tarmac in his hand so definitely lots of blood.

We took a photo of the X-ray showing his break and one outside the hospital. I honestly had no intention of making a scrapbook page about this but when I saw this template it really fired me up to create it. Even the shape of the photos in the template were made for it.

The border on the edges is the result of playing about with some of the special effects in the Affinity program. It took the basic shape of the diamonds and applied this metallic effect and you change the colours. I don't really know how I did it so probably would never be able to recreate it but like what it did.

The pocket on the longer photo obscured part of Paul's legs and feet (a big no no in photography compositions is you shouldn't cut off a limb) so I made it shorter and translucent so it looks like a vellum pocket.

I added various images from the Bruises and Breaks Doodles pack and the bike from Hip Hip Hipster Doodles to further embellish the page. The great thing about Kate's pack is that you can mix and match to your hearts content from all the different packs and you know that they will work together.

The final stage was adding a title and some journalling.

If you fancy having a go with this template you can find it at the link. I am finding making digital pages a great way of saving memories and doing something creative with them instead of them just languishing in folders on the computer....

At Kate Hadfield Designs there are so many fabulous sets it is really easy to get inspired to use them. There are digital stamps which you can colour, coloured versions you can scrapbook or make into digital layouts. Papers, patterned overlays and doodles galore. No matter what your skill level there are so many goodies to play with.

Kate is really generous with her freebies which are readily available. If you sign up to the newsletter you get access to an extra subscriber area the Doodle Den where there are loads more freebies. There is a gallery full of projects by the Creative Team and customers and so much inspiration for crafters and teachers. I would highly recommend you pop over there and join in the fun.

Digital Scrapbook Page Details -

Template - Pockets Freebie (Kate Hadfield Designs)

Digital Papers - Also Edgy (Kate Hadfield Designs)

Digital Images - Bruises and Breaks Doodles, Hip Hip Hipster Doodles (Kate Hadfield Designs)

I would like to enter this project into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order)

• A Perfect Time To Craft - #09-2022 Anything Goes
• Classic Design Challenge - #9 Anything Goes
• Cupcake Inspirations - #551 Hobbies (riding bike not having accidents LOL)
• Digi Choosday - #34 Anything Goes
• Double D Challenge - Wheels
• Krafty Chicks - #627 Stamp Act
• Mirtillamente - #13 Anything Goes
• Polkadoodles - #34 Anything Goes
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Anything Goes
• Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
• Word Art Wednesday - #559-560 Anything Goes