Rainbow Bridge II @ My Memories

:: RAINBOW BRIDGE II ::

Just this side of Heaven is a place called "Rainbow Bridge".

When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.

All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.

They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.

You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.

Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together....

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The perfect companion to scrap your precious memories of your furbabies that have left us for the ethereal place known as Rainbow Bridge. This is the SECOND of my Rainbow Bridge Collections - the first I released a year ago and can found here along with my new collection.

So what do you get in this Collection?

65 elements

12 papers

6 quickpages (+ bonus extras)

29 cluster frames

40 Clusters

10 word arts

So let's take a closer look.

Remember just click on each of the previews to go to that product in store.

Quickpage 1 

Quickpage 2 

Quickpage 3 

Quickpage 4 

Quickpage 5 

Quickpage 6 

Quickpage Bundle 

Clusters 

Word Art 

...and the complete collection! 

*NEW* Rainbow Bridge Collection @ Wilma4ever!

Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.

When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.

All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.

They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.

You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.

Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together....

Author unknown

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A very special and wonderful tribute to our fur babies who are no longer with us, this collection is very close to my heart and took me a long time to complete it as it always made me rather emotional...particularly as it features two of my own angel fur babies. This collection is perfect to scrap those loving memories of your fur babies who have gone to the Bridge, leaving pawprints on your heart forever.

So what do you get in this collection?

88 elements

12 papers

6 quickpages (+ bonus extras)

71 clusters

24 word arts

Let's take a closer look. Remember you can click on any preview to take you to that product in store.

Quickpage Bundle 

Clusters 

Word Art 

...and the complete collection! 

Mini kit 

*NEW* Rainbow Bridge Collection @ My Memories!

Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.

When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.

All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.

They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.

You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.

Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together....

Author unknown

**********************

A very special and wonderful tribute to our fur babies who are no longer with us, this collection is very close to my heart and took me a long time to complete it as it always made me rather emotional...particularly as it features two of my own angel fur babies. This collection is perfect to scrap those loving memories of your fur babies who have gone to the Bridge, leaving pawprints on your heart forever.

So what do you get in this collection?

88 elements

12 papers

6 quickpages (+ bonus extras)

71 clusters

24 word arts

There is also a mini kit available FREE for a limited time afterwhich it will be available for purchase. It isn't included in the collection as it wouldn't fit with the collection already being so large.

Let's take a closer look. Remember you can click on any preview to go to that product in store.

Quickpage 1

Quickpage 2 

Quickpage 3 

Quickpage 4 

Quickpage 5 

Quickpage 6 

Quickpage Bundle 

Clusters 

Word Arts 

...and the complete collection! 

My Memories Blog Train - "Rainbow Bridge"

Welcome to the My Memories Blog Train for August!

As soon as I saw these colours, I knew what I was going to do. For years I've wanted to redo my old tagger sized Rainbow Bridge kit, and this gave me the opportunity! So in honour of our beautiful beloved furbabies that have left us and are waiting for us at the Bridge, I bring you this delightful tribute to them.

Just click my preview above to download.

Keep an eye out for the complete Rainbow Bridge Collection to hit the store next week!

**As with all my freebies, they are limited to the end of the month of release. So be quick!**

Snickerdoodle Designs

ADB Designs

Over the Fence Designs

Marniejo's House of Scraps

PattyB Scraps

Staffy Scraps Designs by Stina YOU ARE HERE!!

Polka Dot Chicks

LouiseL

Ostrea Designs

Kathryn Estry Designs

Elizabeth's Market Cross

Lins Creations

Carolyn's Scrap Creations

KJD Designs

Happy ScrapArts

Sugar Moon Designs

Memory Mosaic

Kaklei Designs

BenThai Creatons

Moore Blessings

Caroline B

Jumpstart Designs

Marieh H Designs

Day Dreams n' Designs

A Tribute to Tooty

A Tribute to Tooty

Yesterday was my baby girl's anniversary and today it is my dear friend Susan's own Tooty's anniversary of 4 years. And as a tribute to her, I used the Lyrics Challenge I am hosting over a Wilma4ever in her memory for Susan. I used the same lyrics again, that speaks volumes of the heartwrenching pain felt when letting them go. Though it is the greatest gift we can give to them, it doesn't stop it from hurting like hell when we do.

RIP dear Tooty.

I hope you like it, dear friend. I didn't have many photos of Toot and I spent more time searching my files for a different one than I did in making the page! lol

I used a combination of  Tootypup Scraps' "Dog Paws in Heaven" and "Cat Paws in Heaven" which you can find in her stores.

Another Paws in Heaven Challenge

 

Following up from yesterday's tags I made featuring our beloved passed pooches, I made another version in a forum style tag for both Susan and myself.  Just something I was playing around with.  I hope you like them, and if you would like to take part in the Challenge please head on over to the Wilma4ever forum - there's prizes to be won!  Just click the link below.

 

September 2013 Tag Challenge hosted by Tootypup Scraps

Paws in Heaven Challenge featuring Sheba

Over on the Wilma4ever Forum, my dear friend is Designer of the Month and has a challenge featuring a few select items from three of her latest kits. I did this challenge last week also but I was inspired to do another challenge tag but this time featuring my beloved Sheba and one just for Susan of Tootypup Scraps featuring her beloved Tootypup, both of whom left us for Rainbow Bridge 5 and 3 years ago respectively next week - Sheba on 22nd September 2008 and Tooty on 23rd September 2010.

 

So in honour of our dear departed friends, I have created these two tags in their memory. May they run free at the Bridge, forever living long in our hearts.

Paws in Heaven Challenge

 

My dearest friend, Susan of Tootypup Scraps is Designer of the Month over at Wilma4Ever store this month and as a part of this honour she is hosting a Random Tag Challenge. So although I am currently on an indefinite break from designing, I thought I would try my hand at the challenge - having started out tagging long before I was designing. And the theme was just too good to pass up....lol

 

So anyway, this was my result of the challenge in which I used 3 elements and 2 papers - the animated one being the tag I submitted to the forum, but the static one doesn't have the usual GIF stippling. *s* I hope you like it. I had to search my old tube files (been a long time since I bought any tubes!! lol)

 

To read more about the challenge, or to participate, visit the Wilma4Ever forum HERE.

 

 

PawPrints Tutorial by Kelly/Karma

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Kelly, from our CT, surprised me with a tutorial featuring my part of the "Rainbow Bridge" collab between Susan and I. Surprised...because she didn't request the kit so she must have bought it..lol
Thank you Kelly. I especially love the one with my baby girls Shebee who went to Rainbow Bridge 2 and a half years ago.

A Day of Mixed Emotions

Today is one of mixed emotions. Two years ago today I said goodbye to my baby girl, Sheba, who crossed Rainbow Bridge at around 11am after suffering two strokes, the loss of the use of her back legs, incontinence and doggy dementia in the space of two years....and then finally the onset of liver disease. It was then I had to make the hardest decision of my life - to let her go. And I still miss her.

A year later I created my very first scrap kit in her honour and it went into stores and on sale a year ago today - "Love is Four Paws". As a tribute to my baby girl I am placing this kit on sale for $1 FOR TODAY ONLY (22nd September) in all my stores.

But with today also comes some just as sad news. Most of you know Susan of Tootypup Scraps. We have been friends for eons - long before either of us started designing. Her design name comes from her puppy dog, Tootypup, who is 17 and a half years old. Sadly, on Monday Susan received the devastating news that Tooty has the advanced stages of cancer - pancreatic and the most aggressive form. And after watching Tooty struggle and the fluid build up in her back legs, which ultimately put too much pressure on her heart, Susan made the heartbreaking decision to let her go. She rang the vet this morning and tomorrow at 12.30pm Australian EST Tooty will cross Rainbow Bridge and join my Shebee there.

I am deeply saddened by this because I remember all too well the pain of not only losing them but having to make that decision. Our loyal companions do not want to leave us until we are ready to let them go, so we must make the decision and allow them to go. Shebee would not leave until I gave her the OK. And she passed quickly and peacefully, but she lives on in our hearts and our memories forever. Just as Tooty will for Susan. The pain will be excruciating at first, as I remember all too well, but it does ease. And the love of another four-legged friend always helps ease that pain, for they are themselves the best therapy known to mankind.

So today, I remember my baby Shebee and honour her memory and ask her to keep a place warm for Tooty who will join her tomorrow. RIP girls - we love you around the world and back again!

Cheers
Stina

Rainbow Bridge Tutorial by Shani

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Shani from our CT wrote this darling tutorial featuring my part of the "Rainbow Bridge" collab I did with Tootypup, and featuring my gorgeous girl, Sheba, who crossed Rainbow Bridge 2 years ago in September.

Thank you Shani....a little teary seeing her gorgeous smiling face, but you done a fantastic job. Thank you.

Drift Away Tutorial by Maggie

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Maggie from Aussie Scraps wrote this tutorial using my part of the "Rainbow Bridge" collaboration I did with Tootypup Scraps. This shows a somewhat different aspect to this gorgeous kit. Thank you Maggie.

Somewhere Over the Rainbow Tutorial by Julie

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Tutorials, tags or layouts featuring my angel baby Sheba always make me mist up. *smiles* Here she is showcased at Rainbow Bridge using my part of the collaboration with Tootypup of the same name as precious and as happy as she always was.
Thank you Julie for a lovely tag and tutorial.

New Rainbow Bridge Tutorials

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Beth is the first one to tut our "Rainbow Bridge" collab kit and instead of posting just mine I am posting the one with Tooty's as well. This one above is made with my part, the focus on my Angel Sheba crossing the Bridge. *sniff*

And below we have the tutorial using Tooty's part of the collab.

(click image for tutorial)

New PTU Collab "Rainbow Bridge"

:: RAINBOW BRIDGE (PART 2) ::

A very special kit made in collaboration with Tootypup Scraps about something very near and dear to our hearts. Losing a pet is like losing a part of yourself because they love so completely and unconditionally.


~ Message from Rainbow Bridge ~

Today I went to Rainbow Bridge
for it was time to go
But I take with me fond memories
more than some ever know

I'd had so many years on earth
yet I was truly blessed
To know a life so rich in love
and filled with happiness

You see I'd had a second chance
that was given to me
And it was then I found new hope
and a loving family

And yet it was much more than that
for it was by design
That I would bring a special gift
into their hearts from mine

Together we shared many things
walkies to the park
Lots of smells along the way
where I could leave my mark

Playing ball with daddy
when he tried to mow the lawn,
A clever dog I surely was
bringing laughter in all forms.

Then in the twilight of my years
when I relied on mum
To be there when I needed her
she did so out of love

When my legs stopped working
and I suffered my strokes,
Mummy was there to guide me
full of sacrifice and hope

She soothed me and she talked to me
as she went about her day
Singing silly nonsense songs
which I loved anyway

She'd take me out for pee pees
and always clean my mess,
Mummy was so very special
but to me she was the best!

But soon the body dwindled
and time was drawing near
When I knew I'd have to say goodbye
to those I have loved dear

I didn't want to leave them
but I knew my time had come
I'd given them my very best
and my work on earth was done

So today they granted me the wish
I had been searching for
And I looked within their tearful eyes
that I would see no more

Mummy held me long and strong
as I gently took my leave
And walked me to the Rainbow Bridge
then let me go in peace...

I know you won't forget me
just as I never will
Our memories join us heart to heart
so I'll be with you still

And whenever you feel my presence near
or hear the echo of my bark -
Just know I'm watching from the Bridge
to where I left my mark.

© Christina aka Stina
22nd September 2008
(for Sheba)


Please note this kit is Part TWO. To complete the collaboration just purchase Tootypup's part.

Here is a preview of Tootypup's part

Available in stores NOW!