Free Weekly Kit by Featured Designer: Fran B Designs

 

Let’s welcome FranB Designs as this week’s Featured Designer! Q&A With The Designer: FranB Designs How long have you been designing? I started selling my designs in 2011 (where have all these years disappeared to??), but of course I had blog freebies as I was learned for awhile before that time. What movie could you quote the best? The Little Mermaid. I used to watch it often and could pretty much recite the whole movie. I haven't seen in it years, but I imagine I could recite quite a bit of it. Now I tend to spew random quotes from various movies and shows. What is your favorite book? Alice in Wonderland. What is the farthest you have ever traveled from home? We cruised to Europe in 2024, visiting France, England, Holland. We loved the experience so much that we will be doing another transatlantic cruise in a couple weeks. This time we will be starting in Spain and then cruising back to Florida. I wish to see much more of the world, I'm trying to convince hubby that we need a cruise that circles Japan with several stops along the way. What would you do if you won the lottery? The aforementioned Japan cruise. To finish off we would love to share some of FranB Designs’s favorite layouts: Layout from Together Again Layout from Christmas Gifts Layout from Wild Thing Monkey Layout from Haunted House Layout from Wild Thing Elephant Spend $20 or more and receive this kit from Fran B Design for free! This week's free kit is Haunted House by FranB Designs. This kit will give a spooky feeling. Perfect for Halloween hauntings, spooky photos, and more ! Normally priced at $4.99, the kit includes 10 papers, 64 embellishments, and 73 monograms. To make sure that you collect your free kit please follow these steps: Add $20 (must total $20 before sales tax) of any of our talented designers kits to your cart, but DO NOT add this kit to your cart! Once entered, the promo code will add it to the cart for you! Enter the promo code October19FBDS (code is case sensitive) in the promo code field on the checkout page. Code will add this kit to your cart and then you can proceed to checkout as usual. More from FranB Designs:

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MyMemories October Blog Train

  

Time to ride the blog train...whoo whoo!

Join the designers at MyMemories on this month's blog train!

Here is the color palette used to create October's beautiful kits!

You will be directed to each designers store at the MyMemories site. If you have not already done so, you will need to sign up for an account (note: this is a one time sign up and no purchase is necessary).

There is a special link to each designers gift that must be obtained from each designer. That link will take you to their store and their gift.

The new process is:

1. Visit each designer’s blog or FB posting for their preview & special link

2. Click on the link provided you will then be taken to their MyMemories store

3. Place their gift in your shopping cart

4. Check out when you have all the gifts collected

*October's Blog Train ends October 31st*

Twin Mom Scraps

Shmooangel Designs

Scrapbookcrazy Creations

PrettyJuScrap

ScrapChat Designs

Happy Scrap Arts

Designs by Lisa Minor

Elizabeth's Market Cross

Aimee Harrison

Connie Prince

Cutie Pie Scraps

Songbird Scraps Designs

QueenBrat Digital Designs

Pat's Scrap

LLL Creations

October Use It All - On a Positive Note

October Use It All Challenge

Sometimes photos are precious no matter the quality.

These photos of my late daughter are screenshots of selfies we found on her phone. They were small, only 720x1280, so I decided to use them at a matching size across the layout. Keeping them small and consistent helped even out the differences in quality, while still making them the clear focus of the page.

To keep the attention where I wanted it, I resized some of the papers to as small as 1100x1100. The word paper works especially well this way because the words still jump out of the background circle without losing the impact of the pattern. The plaid also holds its own beautifully even at a much smaller scale.

I used the frame as a mat for one of the photos, and the patterned purple paper became both the photo matting and the outer background.

The challenge sampler did not include a white cardstock, so I created the look I wanted instead. I used the Eyedropper Tool to choose a cream color for the background. Then I desaturated the green cardstock, clipped it to the cream background layer, and lowered the opacity until just enough of the cardstock texture showed through.

Little adjustments like resizing papers, recoloring cardstock, and using elements in unexpected ways can help stretch a sampler quite a bit while still keeping the layout cohesive.

This month we’re working with the On a Positive Note Sampler, a bright and cheerful mix made for documenting good days, encouraging moments, little wins, fresh starts, happy thoughts, and the memories that deserve an extra dose of optimism.

Check out the MyMemories forum for all the challenge details:
October Use It All Challenge

If you like the sampler, the full On a Positive Note Collection is only $5.00 for the month of October.

Shop On a Positive Note by ScrapChat Designs

Create your own layout using the On a Positive Note Sampler and share your finished page in the MyMemories forum. I’d love to see what you create with it.

Free Weekly Kit by Featured Designer: QueenBrat Digital Designs

 

Let’s welcome QueenBrat Digital Designs as this week’s Featured Designer! Q&A With The Designer: QueenBrat Digital Designs What's your favorite movie? My favorite movie genre is any movie that falls into the disaster/end of the world category.  Out of these my favorites are Day After Tomorrow, 2012, Twisters, and The Stand.  But, with it being Halloween season I have been watching a lot of horror movies lately.  I love the Purge movies, the Final Destination movies, and of course Freddie, Jason, and Michael!  It's very hard for someone like me that watches a lot of movies to pick just one! Would you rather eat sweet or salty foods for the rest of your life?   Sweet most definitely!  I have a definite passion for dark chocolate. My biggest salty weaknesses are chips and popcorn.  In the past year I have had to give up my dark chocolate and my salt.  Getting old really stinks! Aside from the necessities, what one thing could you not go a day without? Coffee!!!! Hot, cold, espresso, cappuccino, iced, anyway you fix it......but I must have my coffee. People don't like me much without my caffeine boost. Email, text, or phone calls, which do you like best? Email if I don't know you, text if I do, phone calls if you are family or personal friends.  And if you are my grandchildren or children you best be facetiming me cause I want to see your beautiful face! LOL. Hard to believe that I'm a Gen-X soul who spent hours on the phone growing up, but I really despise talking on the phone and love texting technology. What is the best gift you have been given? I've said it before... Salvation! This sinner is forever grateful for God's greatest gift To finish off we would love to share some of QueenBrat Digital Designs’s favorite layouts: Layout from Coffee Time Layout from Boo-Boo Brigade Layout from Fall Bakery Layout from Pumpkin Spice & Everything Nice Layout from upcoming collection: October Enchantment Layout from upcoming collection: Pumpkin Patches Spend $20 or more and receive this kit from QueenBrat Digital Designs for free! This week's free kit is Halloween Magic by QueenBrat Digital Designs. This kit will give a spooky feeling. Perfect for Halloween hauntings, spooky spirits, and more ! Normally priced at $6.99, the kit includes 23 papers and 104 embellishments. To make sure that you collect your free kit please follow these steps: Add $20 (must total $20 before sales tax) of any of our talented designers kits to your cart, but DO NOT add this kit to your cart! Once entered, the promo code will add it to the cart for you! Enter the promo code October12QBRK (code is case sensitive) in the promo code field on the checkout page. Code will add this kit to your cart and then you can proceed to checkout as usual. More from QueenBrat Digital Designs: Copyright (C) 2026 MyMemories, LLC. All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because of your interest in scrapbook design and the My Memories Suite digital scrapbook software and the online design download shop and community. Our mailing address is: MyMemories, LLC PO Box 1660 Richfield Springs, NY 13439