Today is a HUGE day at FPD! Did you know that as of this morning, there is now an open forum at FPD?!?!? There you’ll find subforums for Chit Chat, Photography, Tutorials, How’d You Do That? and even Fun Stuff from the FPD Designers. Not to mention that there are now daily challenges running Monday-Thursday! Make sure to check out the Color Challenge that has been posted.There are also a ton of new goodies in the shop!

Miss Tiina has been one busy gal and has created a bunch of fun element packs along with a new font!

Laura Bratcher has these fun little buttons which are also available as CU.

Corina Nielsen has created these awesome Etsy Starter Packages!

Valorie Brown released all these great date elements and template packs (available in both 12×12 and 8.x11) to help with all those 365 projects!

Krystal Hartley and Graffiti Chicks teamed up to create this cute little blog set that coordinates with Krystal’s Crush kit.

Traci Murphy has these gorgeous frames and fantastic alphas.

And last but certainly not least, Tracy Blankenship has a terrific new template set.

Take a look at all the fabulous layouts put together by the site CT!

Happy New Year to everyone, Kirstie here, wishing you all the very best for 2009 and with any resolutions you have made for the year.

Once again the Gallery here at FPD has been full of wonderful inspiration. The layout that caught my eye this week is a wonderful cold wintery one. I was probably attracted to it as I’ve been sweltering away in Sydney’s summer heat!

This layout by mrsduke2u uses a kit by our Guest Designer, Pamela Donnis. The kit is called Skate Date and I love those huge snow flakes and the hanging mittens.

 I hope you all have a great scrapping weekend.

Wow! Can you believe we’re starting another year already?! It feels like this one just flew by - I’ve been spending the last few days thinking on all of the things that happened this year, and of course rolling over goals for the coming one. I thought it would be fun to include a little motivation with this months desktop - I found this quote, and thought it was perfect!!

Of course, I also put together a .png version for those of you that love to add a personal touch!

I have to admit - this is one of my all time favorite color combos, and when I saw this kit from lauraskathi, I couldn’t resist! This desktop also features elements from these additional kits: calendar from Angie’s Year, evergreens, ribbons and button from Heaven and Nature Sing, a berry branch from Good Tidings and sparkles from Sweet Nothings.

Download the quote desktop here:

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Download the .png to add your photo to, here:

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Enjoy!!