Monday, January 3, 2011

A little something from me - a New Year's gift for you :)

First of all, Happy New Year!!! I wish you all the best that 2011 has to offer! I personally don't have any resolutions set for the new year. If I have to make one, though, it'd be to make better choices in time management. Isn't it irritating that the older you are, the faster time seems to fly?

Anyway, I figured that since I've been such a lazy blogger lately, I should at least have something special for you as a New Year's gift. :) Just bear with me a little and go through a few layouts I haven't shown here yet first. (I believe I have about a dozen more but those can wait for now. If I can't manage my own time well, at least I should try to help you manage yours. LOL)

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I'll start with this one. Using Kit Jolly Season from Designs by Anita with Follow the Curves template by Studio Basic, the layout was made for an All About Me challenge at MScraps where you're supposed to scrap about Christmas trees and the decorating tradition at your house. Since we're not celebrating Christmas here, I scrapped about this national tradition instead.

I'm totally satisfied with it and proud to be sending this message about the tradition for our wonderful King to the world. The page, Cradle for the King, consequently earned a mention in MScraps' Gallery Standout thread. :)


Journaling reads:
December 5 is the day Thai people get together to light candles as tribute to our beloved King Bhumibol, who has been the country's guiding light throughout his years as the world's longest-reigning monarch. This year, along with a group of friends, we held our own candle lighting ceremony. It was such a beautiful and meaningful moment and we are glad that all the children got to experience it first hand
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I made this double page layout as a RAK to my friends Adi and Avner, and their beautiful son, Yarden. The kit, Together -- a collab from Designs by Anita and Three Paper Peonies, is just stunning and I love this picture of Yarden and his apple so much. So my focus was just to keep it as clean and simple as possible and let the photos shine.

I was inspired by this layout, Thanks by Elisa (Zizazzi) who is a real queen of double page layouts, although in the end I changed, moved, removed, added, and tweaked it a lot that it hardly looks like a lift anymore. :D


Here's my double page, Together Forever:


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This most recent layout is another RAK/gift I made for my dear friend PaMam and her children Prima and Sinat. The first moment I laid eyes on Anita's new set of CU layered frame templates: Frame It In 03, I knew it would be perfect for this series of pictures. I had so much fun doing the little extraction to make it look like the children are peeking out of the frame. The kit Little Thoughts, also by Anita, is also just right for the whole look!

The layout went on to earn Gallery Standout at MScraps and Oscraps. Woohoo!


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Okay now, here's your gift! :) I made this template set out of the double pager Together Forever. I'm hoping to make more DP templates in the future so I named the series "2gether". You can use the templates to make one double page layout, or two individual pages -- it's all up to you. And many thanks to chilli07 for the swirl brush used in the template!

Please click on the preview for the download link.


Hope you like your gift and Happy New Year once again!!!

37 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank you for sharing this beautiful template

Ella said...

Pom, you are incredible !! wow ! thanks for the wonderful template !
And I am especially in love with your last page...amazing! congrats my friend, you deserved the GSO !!

Anonymous said...

Thank you so much for this classic template. Your inspiration should help us create stunning layouts!

Jessica said...

Thank you for your wonderful template and creativity.

Anonymous said...

Love your DP!!!
Thank you very much for the template and happy new year to you too!!

Anonymous said...

Just a quick note to let you know that a link to this post will be placed on CraftCrave in the DigiFree category today [04 Jan 01:00am GMT]. Thanks, Maria

CBH said...

Thank you so much for this post. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in CBH Digital Scrapbooking Freebies, under the Template(s), Overlay(s), Photo Mask(s) post on Jan. 03, 2011. Thanks again.

Karen said...

Thank you so so much for this template. It is gorgeous. Cant wait to use it!

Jitka, Most said...

Thank you for your wonderful freebie!

Scrapcoco said...

Your double page is fabulous, thanks for this wonderful template gift !
Best wishes for the Happy New year!
Corinne

Angie said...

Thanks for sharing!!!

Pom said...

Thank you so much ladies! I'm so glad you like it. :)

@Ella... Thanks a bunch, my friend. My blog and my scrapping life will be so lost without you. :D

PaMam said...

Thank you so much for such a wonderful page you made for us. Can't believe I was missing many blog of yours. Congrats to me cuase I'm now your follower eiei.
Wishing your wish for this new year become true ja.

Anonymous said...

thank you so much for this beautiful template

Åsa said...

Thank you Pom - another wonderful template!

http://scrappity-doo-dah.com/gallery/data/500/Badsminkad_DP.jpg

http://scrappity-doo-dah.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=39961

ella said...

Hi !!! you have seen my DP with your template ? I did the same as yours ...yep !! when I said I loved it...that was true !!!
You know what ? I'm flying in Thailande in February with my 2 daughters. Where are you living ? in BKK ? I don't remember....I will write you this WE. {hugs}

Lilipuce said...

Wowwwww ! Beautiful DP template ! I love it.

Zeb said...

So beautiful Template !!

Thank you !

di basnett said...

Hi Pom, Thanks so much for sharing your awesome talent. I miss chatting with you. Hope you are doing OK. Cheers, Di

Chris said...

Pom, I can see why your PaMam gift earned a Gallery Standout - it really is hip, beautiful, stylish, terrific, and very you! :)

Ellen said...

thank you Pom, it's a beautiful template . Love your layout with Anita's frame . wonderful how they move through it and your follow the curve is a delight . well in fact all your layouts hit the enjoy button with me.

Babeline said...

Thanks for this gift and happy new year to you !

Taloche said...

Merci beaucoup pour ce magnifique template... Bizzzzzzzzz !

brinic said...

Thank you! It's a beautiful template. I've make a page with your template:)

http://bouilleascrap.canalblog.com/

valiloun said...

Thanks for this great template! I love double pages! Looking forward to using it!

Mély & Lyza said...

thank you so much for sharing ! It looks great !! ♥

Anonymous said...

Thank you!

morgane said...

Thanks for this beautiful template :)

Loulou said...

Superbe template, merci!

Steph said...

thanks !

PrisScrap said...

Thank you so much!!
http://prisscrap.blogspot.com/2011/03/double-page-en-duo.html

Anonymous said...

A superb template, especially for heritage scraps, thank you so much for your generosity. Sandra

snoopy 22 said...

Très original, merci beaucoup

sissi said...

thank you for the beautiful template

Sylvie said...

Ma-gni-fique !
Merci.

Alina said...

Thank you so much for sharing.

Anonymous said...

your templates are gorgeous xxx