Free Digital Scrapbooking Template, Holiday Page Layouts and More Free Stuff with the Cherry On Top

Welcome to The Cherry On Top.

Here we are with the last free template for the Love For Layout Templates train. Did you get all 6 for the year? The links are still there. Try using the search bar or hit our Pinterest board, The Cherry On Top's Freebies. I lost my Pin It button for the blog and cannot for the life of me, figure out how to get it back. I've tried! I did research, no luck.

Anyway, you're going to love today's blog. I've got the free template, the last of the freebies from, Welcome to the Coop and some layout love to inspire you.

Did you catch Wednesday's blog? I posted some links for Thanksgiving with a lot of recipes. Scroll back and see what ya missed, grab some recipes and use them any time of year. Last week, I showed off some old, traditional pages of a trip to Monschau, Germany. There's a Germany freebie there, too.

Y'all, I know this is a kind of crappy thing to say, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to give up my shop at Design Bundles. Unless, I can get more support there. It's a whole lot of work for a handful of sales. I'm giving it one last try with this big bundle of templates. Please support the work I do and consider all of the free stuff I've been sharing for well over a decade. Thanks!!! I'll be having a winter sale of 50% off.

You just came from Throwing Some Scraps Around. The next stop is my gal from, Aimee Harrison Designs.

Think outside of the box with templates. There are so many ways you can change them up. Use templates to design cards this holiday. That snow globe would make a great card. The shoe template would be awesome as well. Ditch the photo spots and add large text like, Happy Holidays. Move the elements around, ditch the large photo spot and your card will be nearly finished if you use the big mug template. I left the first template pictured in the above image uncropped so you can not only move it all around, but you could also use the tree as an actual template. Print it out, trace around it and design your very own, Christmas mini scrapbook. How cool would that be?! Sounds like a super fun kid's project.

The desktop style templates can be used for any pages at all. Not just holiday ones.

Enjoy the layout love!

I'll be having a lot of food related gifts this year. I want to do something for my neighbors and for the family part, I need 4 different gifts. I'll be sharing those ideas with you in another blog. Maybe you'll get inspired. I do have a Christmas Pinterest Board as well as a gift giving board that might be helpful for you.

My goodness! I just love the shadow's on Bernice's page. Just one sweet cluster, the text from the template and a few papers. It's a simple page, but stunning.

I'm a big fan of desktop style template, like the one above. They are great to make mockups, too. I use them all of the time.

I'm working with Chai 18 Designs this season. My team and I used this fun kit with my templates. Click on the preview to get the collection.

Changing gears a bit. Have you got all 10 parts of the, Welcome to the Cool Collection?

Here's a peek at the collection. Scroll through the blog and get all 10 packs of freebies.

This is the newest pack of freebies and the last one from this collection.

Here's some previews of the other free parts.

And now for the layout love. Did you create a page with the collection? Share it in the group.

I love the warm, natural colors in this collection. The designs are super fun. They are from Design Bundles, of course.

I thought I'd share some of Chai 18 Designs kits and coordinating pages. They are seasonally perfect! 

Look at these gorgeous clusters on Jenni's page!

Here are some more pretty, natural colors.

These colors are way fab! I love the mauve color.

A torn paper effect looks perfect on an autumnal page.

I'll be back next week with more from Chai Eighteen, another free pack from the Catalonia Collection, holiday card making, tags, gift ideas and tutorials for crafting this winter. I'm hoping to get a few travel blogs in soon as well. Don't miss out!

I hope you had an amazing Thanksgiving if you celebrate it. If not, remember to take the time to be grateful for all of the little things, everyday. As I am grateful for you.

Happy scrapping!

Free Digital Scrapbooking Designs Page Inspiration and Another Fun Free Chicken Design Life is Better with Chickens

Welcome to The Cherry On Top.

I've got some more freebies for ya, a fun pic of my angry looking chick and some notes about chicken runs. I'm so thrilled you are here.

Above is a little tease at what's to come with my chicken kit. 

I found a really, really cute pack of elements from Design Bundles for some of these designs.

Isn't it so cute?! I love the color palette, too.

There's Daisy! My son got this funny picture when I had him working in the chicken run. As you can see, it is absolutely nothing special. We only have this little space behind our garage. The long and narrow shape is ideal for a run. We only have four girls because our yard is too small for more. Four chickens will fit fine in this size space, but I let mine out in the backyard most of the time.

I do have a little bit of green net that you can just barely see, all the way in the back so they don't jump on their house/nesting house and then over to our neighbor's whose dogs would shred them to smithereens. The side you can't see is a tall wooden fence and a long, high shrubbery from our neighbor's.

I tried planting some plants in the run, but it isn't going all that great. I still have my raspberry bush that's growing well. It's surrounded by a wire cylinder like the one you see I use for my compost. The ladies keep digging all around the new plants despite my huge rock borders. They even started sitting on the one lavender I had left! Grrr...

This was our first batch of chickens that didn't want to sleep in the house where they nest. Every evening when we came out to check on them, they were huddled up behind our house and perched on our BBQ grill. So, the hubs quickly fashioned that open, wooden contraption with spare wood. There are a few perches in there and they love it. It didn't cost us a penny to make and it went together quickly.

You can see the wood chips and hay, under the clear, plastic roof. That was about 100 Euros to construct. It's rather handy, but I'd like another section of it because it gets mega windy and rainy, here in Belgium. Also at the corner of the roof, is a water container. It's easy to clean and give the girls fresh water when it's right there. Be CAREFUL! We had a lovely drown in a large bucket that we forgot to empty. So tragic! I have a large rim around the container to prevent that from happening, again.

You can see my super cool compost heap. All we did was bend some rigid chicken wire or fencing into a cylindrical form and folded over the places where we cut it. It's about 3 feet in diameter and around 5 feet tall. This is also a super idea I found on the internet.

I can easily scoop out the poop from where they sleep and chuck it in my compost bin and or spread it around the run. I have to clean up the run at least once a week. I simply fill in the holes they dig and rake around until it's all evened out and clean. When it gets rather dry, it turns into lovely compost because we also throw our left overs back in the run and the wood chips and poop from the nesting house.

The cylinder is great for our food scraps, grass clippings and garden left overs, too. We don't have any kind of large space for composting. So, this is really great. I plan on putting a few more of them in the run. What the person did whose idea I stole, was add seeds and soil every few inches of compost. She also added some baby plants that she had too much of and stuck them all around the compost pile, too. This way, the girls can pick at it. Add some sticks and the girls can perch on them while they nibble. It keeps them busy. The woman even had a tree growing on the top of one of her compost bins that she replanted when it was bigger. Cool, eh?!

I've got another pack from the new collection for you. The commenting isn't going all that well and I get sick of coming back and forth looking and counting. Hehehe...I need a lazier way to do this. Ooh! It just dawned on me. I could have it where it only takes a few people to unlock the next freebie by asking a question or making up something fun with what we have so far. I hope I don't forget! It will be easier for all of us.

Keep scrolling for the link for the free pack and chicken freebie.

Click here for the second pack of freebies from the Catalonia Collection.

Hilary designed a nice page for us. I love this salmon shade! It looks neat with the blue.

Click here for the new free chicken design.

This image is linked up to the product at Design Bundles.

I'm not sure why I didn't mention where I got the design for the other freebies. I'll do better, next time. Of course, it is from Design Bundles. I have a shop there and because I do quite some promotion for them, I get a free Plus Membership, though not a gold one any more. Hmmm...I will admit, I don't make any money affiliating for them or from the shop. It used to be a lot better, but now it's like a few bucks a year. 

This image is linked up to the product at Design Bundles.

If you are here only for the freebies, then you'll love bombarding Design Bundles freebie section. You can find the link in the side bar, near the top.

Last week I showed off JoCee Designs new endeavor, Chai Eighteen Designs. I recently saw she's got a freebie in her group. Pop over and grab it and say hello to the other fans. Go back to last week's blog and find more of her designs as well as how to get more free stuff from CED.

Thanks for popping in. Enjoy the free goodies and help us unlock the next free pack. I'll be asking that you use the two packs you've got so far to make a fun cluster. As soon as someone makes a GOOD cluster to share with us in the group, I'll unlock the third free pack and give another instruction. Make sure ya tag me! Thanks for your help!

Happy scrapping!

 

GingerScraps Birthday Celebration with a Free Kit, Scrapbooking Page Inspiration and Scrap-A-Licious Fun with The Cherry On Top

Happy birthday to GingerScraps!

We're celebrating GingerScraps 15th birthday, this week. The forum at GingerScraps is full, full, full with all kinds of scrapbooking challenges and nifty gifties. I'm offering an entire free kit as well as other coordinating goodies that coordinate with the free kit. Pop over to the forum to find all about it and check the other challenges offered by more amazing designers at GingerScraps. Of course, the shop is yet again 50% off. Check out my new items I've been putting in since I returned to GingerScraps and save.

This is the free kit on offer.

These are coordinating templates. They are NOT free.

Here's a page I designed using both the kit and template.

Here is some more page inspiration for ya.

This is my page with a template and another kit from the Sweet Shoppe.

More pages with the templates.

I've got a little gift when ya upload your layout with our free kit into our album, Sleep Tight over in the group.

Here's a freebie from a previous blog with this collection.

This is today's new, freebie for you.

Make sure to join us in the forum at GingerScraps where you can get that full kit and scrap along with The Cherry.

Here are just a few previews of my newest goodies in GingerScraps. They are 50% off!! Look for other favorites from The Cherry and consider supporting us. Thanks!!!

Happy scrapping!