Another Place and Time: Russia, Lake Tahoe

Have you noticed that it's cold outside? Well it's certainly cold here! That might have something to do with the fact that it's winter. No better time to be indoors keeping warm and getting creative with your genealogy!

Today we have a couple of winter kits that may be useful to you for scrapbooking family photos. The first is called Winter in Russia. It was created by Kyra at the With a Russian/Dutch Heart blog. Here's the preview.
This is a personal favorite of mine. I love the colors and the ethnic feel. My Polish grandfather was actually born in what was Russia at the time (the borders changed over time). And really, culture knows no borders. The folk art from Russia is very similar to the folk art from Poland, Slovakia, Lithuania, etc. It all makes for beautiful scrapbook pages! You can download the kit here (just scroll down 10 rows and click on the text below the preview image). Enjoy!

Next up we have a beautiful winter kit with a Lake Tahoe theme. Got any skiing pictures? How about family vacation photos from the Tahoe area? How about dreaming of Tahoe vacation pictures? How about sledding or building a snowman photos? From Jane at the My Scrapping Life blog we have Tahoe on Ice. Here's the preview.This kit has more to it than what you see here. It come in three downloads which you can get here, here, and here. This is a wonderful and versatile kit for all your winter photos. There are a total of 19 backgrounds and loads of elements too! I know you have some winter family photos... get 'em out and play with them!

Now go get creative with your genealogy!

An Honor for Creative Genealogy

Kimberly Powell, author of About.com:Genealogy, has come up with "10 Genealogy Blogs Worth Reading". It's a great list and I have to agree with her that choosing 10 blogs from among the wonderful and talented group of genealogy bloggers online is no easy feat. But she's come up with a wonderful sampling of that talent! Check it out and see if you don't agree.

The Creative Genealogy blog was one of those that made her list... {grin} She was also kind enough to mention and link to my Creative Gene blog as well. THANK YOU FOR THE RECOGNITION KIMBERLY!

Another Place and Time: Chanukah, Christmas, New Years!

Has it really been over a month since I've shared any tips for getting creative with your genealogy? Well shame on me!

The Christmas and Chanukah holidays are behind us for a few months but hey, there's always next year! On that note I'm going to share some holiday scrapbook kits with you so that you can scrap the memories of your most recent holiday and share them with your loved ones next holiday season.

First off I have a Chanukah kit called Chanukah Joys by CanDee that is very elegant. You can get the download link to Part 1 and Part 2 on her blog. Isn't it lovely?

And next up we have a HUGE Victorian Christmas kit I know you'll love. This kit is from the Winged Heart Ohio blog. It was created last year and re-released this year... with an add-on! Check out the previews...



You can find the download link for the main kit here and the add-on here. Isn't it just great?!!!

And just to round out the holiday season, I have a New Year's kit for you. This is a great timeless kit all done in black and white... tres chic!

It's called New Beginnings from the Raspberry Road Designs blog. Head on over and get it for yourself here! This is obviously a very versatile kit that you can use for both vintage and contemporary photos. Color photos would pop on these backgrounds!

I am constantly amazed at how generous these designers are to share their talents for free. They live for kind comments so please don't forget to drop them a note of thanks when you download!

It's time to start the new year off right. Go ahead... get creative with your genealogy!!!

Christmas Around the World

Free! Get it while you can!

The ultimate digital scrapbooking Christmas mega-mega kit is now available. This kit has like 60 designers contributing and will have hundreds of pieces. It's available free from today, December 10, 2007 until December 16, 2007 only so get it while you can.

A special blog has been set up to access this kit. It's called, Christmas Around the World Kit! The URL is: http://christmasaroundtheworldkit.blogspot.com/. The blog will have a list of links to the blogs of the participating designers. You'll have to hop from blog to blog to download all the pieces. Expect slow downloading at times as this will be a very popular kit, sure to have something something to please everyone.

I'll be busy downloading this kit over the next few days. I just know this is going to make my hard drive groan! I know you have Christmas photos just waiting to be used in scrapbook pages. Here's the ultimate digital scrapbooking kit... for free!

Now go get creative with your genealogy!

Happy St. Nicholas Day!

Here in America we don't really celebrate St. Nicholas Day the way they do in other countries. In Poland, for instance, Sw. Mikolaj brings all the children their presents on December 6th rather than on Christmas.

Whether you call him St. Nicholas, Sw. Mikolaj, or Santa Claus... whether he comes on December 6th or on Christmas... he is loved by children (and adults) around the world. I'll bet you have some photos of yourself and/or your loved ones with the gift-giving dude. In honor of St. Nicholas Day, here's a great free digital scrapbooking kit so you can create wonderful layouts with your photos.

This kit was make by Moune? (sorry but the blog is in French and I can't find the designer's name). Anyway, go to her blog http://escrapade.canalblog.com/ and scroll down to 21 November 2007 and you'll see the download link right below the image.


Here's a page I created with this kit.



Your turn! Let's see what you can do with the St. Nicholas kit...

Now go get creative with your genealogy!

Jasia's Christmas Card

Here's the cover of my Christmas card for 2007. It was created using the November megakit at SAS.


The photo is of the Nativity at Sweetest Heart of Mary Church in Detroit, Michigan.

Another Place and Time: Holland 2

I wanted to let you know about a non-Christmas ethnic kit while I'm at it. It's a follow-up kit for Holland by Lia Holland which I featured previous on this blog. Lia did a great job with her first kit and now she's created another kit of Holland that is just as great if not better than the first!

You can download Lia's second kit here. Aren't these terrific kits?!!! No excuses now...

Go get creative with your genealogy!