Showing posts with label anxiety. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anxiety. Show all posts

Friday, February 28, 2020

Digital Scrapbooking Templates Made With Love From The Cherry On Top

Welcome to The Cherry On Top.

We're chock full o' scrap-a-liciousness, today in the form of page layouts, new releases, oldies but goodies and so much more.

Thanks so much for giving us a part of your day!

I've got a pack of seriously versatile templates ready for today.  The little critters from GS Creations are so darn cute.  Keep scrolling to find out how to scrap super fast and turn these templates into texture rich pages for your memory keeping.

 With Love Templates

Hello, gorgeous page!  I often post which shop to purchase and or a designer name. If you ever need more information, pop over to our group and we'll get ya linked up.

If you're new to The Cherry, I often give tips and tricks and I use italics for that.  So if you want peruse quickly through the blog, they are easy to spot.

I started talking about the power of mindfulness in our newsletter and promised that I'd give a bit more of an explanation over on the blog. It really is a life changing practice that you should start, today.  I'll chime in throughout the blog about that as well.  This way, you'll leave here full of scrappy mojo and tips to make your life even more awesome!

  With Love Templates
With Love Templates and goodies from the Sweet Shoppe

Cherry's page is just so beautiful.  Take a minute to let your eyes wander around her pretty page and enjoy that lovely picture as well.  Nature can be so beautiful and inspiring, too.  It's a great place to escape if you're feeling out of sorts.  Step outside at least a few times a day and just breathe in the air and absorb all that's around you.  Push out anything else that tries to creep into your mind and ruin the moment.

 With Love Templates

 With Love Templates

I told ya the templates were very versatile.  Any occasion will do!


 With Love Templates

 With Love Templates

 With Love Templates
With Love Templates and MLDesigns

With Love Templates and Clever Monkey Graphics

 With Love Templates
With Love Templates and Arizona Girl

 With Love Templates

Sometimes we can be surrounded by those we love and forget to really dive into the moment and not let anything come along and take that moment away.  Mindfulness is all about letting go of everything except everything that is happening right now.  For example, I'm typing in a near fury, then I remember!  Stop!  Chill, take a deep breath and just enjoy the process of designing this blog.  Uploading all of these fabulous pages full of faces that I've watched grow over the years with designers goodies that I've also come to know and love.

 With Love Templates


Tip: Here's that page I was telling you about.  It's just the template with a picture cropped into the mask and all I did was add some texture throughout with the use of SnickerDoodle's styles.  You can have a fun, texture rich page finished in under 5 minutes!!  Maybe under one minute!

Go through your templates with a scrutinizing eye and see which ones will make great quick pages.  A lot of ours will.

 With Love Templates

Here are a few more new pages with our Fantasia templates from last week.



What you'll learn from being mindful is that your efficiency will increase greatly and you'll even start to enjoy or at least not mind some monotonous chores, like ironing or the dishes.  Yes!  Im's serious!  Hehehe...

The quality of work will also be much better.  I used to suffer terribly from anxiety.  Those evil wicked thoughts still seep into my mind on a daily basis, but I've learned to be quick to push them the frick out of there!  Hehehe...I might assume and excuse me if this is not accurate, that depression might be the same.

Just look at all of the different things you can do with our templates.  I love how Theresa ditched the wreath and just made a gorgeous mega cluster.  Really, she only used our unicorn!  That's the whole point of templates.  They are there to give you a start.  Someone pointed out they like horn in the middle of the ears and I think I like it better, too.  It's easy to move, if you want to do the same.





More new pages with our previously released templates.

Got Ink and goodies from the Sweet Shoppe

Got Ink and more goodies from the Sweet Shoppe

Got Ink and goodies from the Sweet Shoppe


 Fashionista
Fashionista and Shutterbug from JoCee Designs

 Love Only
Love Only Templates and goodies from the Sweet Shoppe

So if you find yourself rushing through life, remember to take a breath, slow down and really focus on what you are doing.  I promise, it's a life changer!  Everything will become more clear and you'll feel so much better.  Remember to give yourself time.  Time is truly a gift.  It's even a gift we can give ourselves if we plan properly. Stress can cause serious illness even in people who live otherwise healthy life styles.



These last two pages are from our previous $2 Tuesday deal.  Make sure to stay tuned to each week's amazing deal.  Either keep up in the GingerScraps Group, our Group or in the shop.


 Jovial Templates
Jovial templates and goodies from the Sweet Shoppe

Let me leave you with some cool freebies from around the web and an amazing new collection from HeartStrings Scrap Art.  We share freebies nearly every single day in our group and on our page.  So don't forget to visit those places, too.

 Free Template

 Free Template

 Free Journal Card

 freebie
An awesome freebie from HeartStrings Scrap Art

 Slightly Strange
 One amazing collection!

Here's the page I made with it.  Bryony adds really fabulous paints and graphics.  She's got such an amazing artistic talent.  You'll love her products.  They are truly unique and beautiful. Make sure to click on my page and look closely at all of the details.  It started off with just this black stamp...



 Freebie!


Thanks so much for checking out The Cherry.  We'll see you around our social spots.

Happy scrapping!

Friday, July 12, 2019

Ecstatic Digital Scrapbooking Templates with Coupon and Beautiful Inspiration

Welcome to The Cherry On Top.

I actually took a week off, last week.  I've not done that too many times over the many years of this blog's existence.  Hehehe...So you better believe I'm back with a BIG, totally scrap-a-licious entry. I just told my team I was so thrilled with their pages.  I couldn't stop smiling as I was putting this blog together. I hope you like it half as much as I.

We've got new templates, some serious layout love for them, previously released templates and pages from other designer's goodies.  I've also got a new challenge in the group and a coupon code so you can grab the new templates at a discount.  Enjoy!

 Ecstatic Templates

A scrappy sister sent me a few sketches of what she wanted as digital templates and that's how several of these templates came about.  A few I sketched out myself months ago and finally got around to designing.  This first one was such a blast to design, though I will admit, it took me a long time to get just the right patterns, solids, backgrounds together...then it was smooth sailing from there.  I just don't like a page that is too busy and with a lot of different colors and patterns.  My mind is cluttered enough so I need my pages to be less spazzy.  Hehehe...

I recently came across these adorable pictures of my boys and their cousins, thanks to FB and there flashbacks.  I loved the contrast of expressions when my boys received a kiss from their niece.  Hilarious!  Of course, JJ had his typical "Autistic" expressionless look.

 Ecstatic Templates

These template need a designer with awesome papers.  So you know, I jumped right to my gal Aimee Harrison.  She's got a new collection out that is so bright and fun, I couldn't resist Pineapple Express. If it's totally your kind of 'thang.  keep reading, I've got another page with it.

 Ecstatic Templates

No what I love about templates and maybe you too, is that the designer has taken all of the time for the hard parts!  Hehehe...That is totally what happened on this page.  The template took me a really long to design, but the page scrapped up in mere minutes flat.  I used our Optimism Collection for this page.  I love the masculinity and youthfulness of this collection.

 Optimism

Tammy totally rocked this pack of templates. She played with three of them and as usual, they are jaw droppers.  She also confessed to how fast they scrapped up.  When you see them, you won't believe that she didn't spend an afternoon on them.

Like this one with our little cutie...Is she just not the cutest?!  Those faces!  Find these goodies at the Sweet Shoppe.

 Ecstatic Templates

Tammy used an amalgamation of goodies from the Sweet Shoppe for this one. If you ever have any specific questions about a page, download it and bring it to our group and ask.  The sisters are so, so helpful and always have an answer.  

 Ecstatic Templates

I know, right?!  How absolutely exceptional?!  These colors are so, so beautiful, too.  Ya just know they are from the Sweet Shoppe, again.


Jarmila has worked her magic with BooLand. I'd like to be standing right there!

 Ecstatic Templates

Ngoc used goodies from Aprilisa.  You can find her at GingerScraps.

 Ecstatic Templates

I miss the Blue Jays and Cardinals.  I've not spotted them here in Europe yet.  Though there are some lovely replacements.  I'm in love with the tiny red (orange to me) breast.  He's so darn cute.  I've got so many birds at our place in Germany.  I fill FOUR feeders in the morning and by lunch they are all empty!  Even the crows are starting to hang out at the cafe!

Hilary is a huge Clever Monkey Graphics fan.  You can also conveniently find her at Gingerscraps.

 Ecstatic Templates

If you are like me, a fan of bright colors, then this page from Robin will certainly make you smile and this little lady has me cracking up.  As much as I love the digital part of designing and scrapbooking it really is the photos that win the show for me.  I love photos and they don't even have to be mine.

 Ecstatic Templates

Nearly as much as I love bright colors, I love denim.  Nothing like an awesome fitting pair of blue jeans, right?!  I love what Rachelle from Bits N' Pieces has done with her page.  She used goodies from Just So Scrappy. I so love Katie's kits and collections.

 Ecstatic Templates

I've got a page from scrappy sister Dorian this week.  She's also showing off her little man who is actually quite the big man, now.  Hehehe...I love going back to old pics, though.  Especially, since the boys are so big now.  Don't get me wrong, I love watching them grow and I really appreciate that they are becoming so independent.  Scrapping kids, teens, adults, pets and various occasions makes the hobby so much more interesting.

 Ecstatic Templates

 Ecstatic Templates

I've got a COUPON of 30% off the Ecstatic templates for one week only!
Use code TCOTECSTATIC and save!

 Ecstatic Templates


I've got some new printables in the shop for our hybrid and traditional fans.  If you are a planner fan these might be just right for you as well.  I'm in a few groups for planners and there were a lot of people looking for things dealing with mental issues.  There were also some requests for more masculine content.  After all, guys can have cool planners too, right?!  I thought our Optimism collection would be perfect for these.

 Optimism Printables

So I designed some dashboards in Personal size.  Though you could size them anyway you want.

 Optimism Printables

There are also three pages of stickers.  I designed all the printable pages on an 8x11 inch sheet so they will easily go through all kinds of computers around the world.  There are png and jpg formats for the stickers so if your cutting machine is png compatible, you can run them through there.

 Optimism Printables

I told you earlier I had another page with Pineapple Express.  Here it is!  My mo-la at their place in Spain. If you're a fan of ours, you've seen this view a lot.  Hehehe...Mmmm...Spain!

 Pineapple Express AHD

This is a page using our Colorful templates and what inspired me to make the rest of the pack.  Unicorns and Rainbows from Aimee was used and those are my fabulous peonies, which I recently found out were edible.  So are roses!  I've been making rose water, potpourri...Can't wait to try rose jam, but I've made SO much jam from the berries, it'll take all year to eat it.  

Colorful templates

LouCee also had a fabulous release last week, Sugar and Spice.  I'm so in love with all of this girly delight.  That mason jar of hearts and the little lady are so fab.  I scrapped up my girlfriend's little beauty.

 Sugar and Spice

I've got a few more pages to show off that have come in later.  Nothing wrong with using the same templates or pack of templates over and over, right?!  Scrappy Sister Jenni has been totally abusing both our packs of Planned templates and I'm loving the results.  This is the kind of abuse that I can totally appreciate.  Hehehe...She's another jaw dropping creative artist.

 Planned Again

I've got several new pages in using our Love Always templates.

 Love Always

Just take a gawk at this one!

 Love Always

Ngoc also played with a few of our templates from Love Always and A Reason To Celebrate.

 Love Always

These colors and the setting are so beautiful and inspiring.  I love seeing so much of Ngoc's life.  How awesome of her to share it with us.

 A Reason To Celebrate 1 templates

Danica scrapped her star in some seriously refreshing goodies.

 Love Always


More from Ngoc and A Reason To Celebrate.  You don't have to scrap romantic or wedding pics with our, A Reason To Celebrate collection.

 A Reason To Celebrate Templates 2

Jump over to the group, click on the photos tab, click on the July Album, then read the Recipe in the album's description.  Scrap up a page using our free goodies from all of the previous month's challenges and place your page back in the July album.  At the end of the month, I'll send around a link for this free template for your participation.


Shoo wee!  That was a big one. I'm so glad you joined us and I hope to see you in our group.

Happy scrapping!