Friday, December 20, 2013

I got a GSO!

This is completely and entirely a bragging post, but I'm awfully proud of this. I was selected as a GSO (Gallery Stand Out) using an absolutely gorgeous kit from Kristin Cronin-Barrow called Sweater Weather. I adore this kit and have used it more than once! I paired these photos of my oldest son with these amazing designs. I'm so pleased with how this layout turned out!


There was so many goodies to scrap with in this kit, and I love the richness and intensity of the colors - don't you?

Around the World with Kellbell's CT (freebie blog train)

Happy holidays! It's a fabulous holly and jolly time of year!
In the spirit of gift giving, Kelly and her Creative Team have some amazing gifts to share with you. The CT Blog Trains are always a huge hit! And this one won't disappoint.


The theme of the CT Blog Train is 'Around The World'. As you travel through each blog, you'll make your way around all the countries in Epcot's World Showcase, plus a stop in FutureLand. It's a very cultural tour loaded with lots of goodies. I hope you enjoy the trip.

Here is your blog train ride. Each gal has made something special for you. Collect them all and have fun traveling 'Around The World'.
JessicaK - http://www.13point1memories4jess.blogspot.com/
JessicaP - http://applesofmyeverything.blogspot.com/
Julie - http://www.designsbyjul.blogspot.com/
KellyB (guest) - http://artsandainsdesigns.blogspot.com/
Lisa - http://lisacampbelldesigns.blogspot.com/
Roxana - http://scrapscardsandmore.blogspot.com/
Sharon - http://quietangelsb.blogspot.com/

My present to you is an Epcot word art. Download it from here. Enjoy your gift and the rest of the tour 'Around The World'. Best wishes to you and your family during this holiday season!



Thursday, December 5, 2013

Getting crafty with Dream Big Designs

 Popping in with just a few pages with awesome goodies from Dream Big Designs this past month! If you can't tell, I'm seriously feeling the fall golden color schemes. Hardcore. I don't notice how I'm gravitating to the same colors until I line everything up! I'll keep it short and simple today.

Using the Rake in Autumn bundle - super fun word art and graffiti! Template is from Piece of Me templates by Scrapping with Liz

This is using County Bounty bundle for a page from out St Louis vacation this past summer. The colors worked out perfectly for the photos!

 Finally, Cheri released some new journal cards to go with her classic Holy Night bundle. They were perfect for this layout about some of my kids in the nativity play! Template is from Simple Journal Card Inspired Templates 2 by Scrapping with Liz.

That wraps it up with Dream Big Designs for right now! Thanks for reading!

Gearing up for the holidays with Chelle's Creations!

I am way behind on blogging this month - my new nephew and all my own boys and the holidays have kept me so busy. So I'll keep this short and sweet! Here are the pages I've made with the awesome products by Chelle's Creations in the month of November.



The next 3 pages use Give Thanks - can you tell I LOVE this kit! So awesome for fall pages and for Thanksgiving layouts too. 



These next 2 layouts use pieces from the Northern Magic collab with Ziggle Designs - Snowlandia and Norlandia. I bet you can figure out which is which!


Sorry to be so short and sweet, but I gotta run! I'm super proud of these layouts and I look forward to seeing how they look printed. Post again soon!


Friday, November 1, 2013

Kellybell Designs DSD Free Kit, Blog Train and More!

Wow! What an exciting weekend this will be! Digital Scrapbook Day is always the first Saturday in November and it's a jam packed weekend of sales, games, blog trains, freebies and scrapping fun. Kelly has so many things going on that you don't want to miss out on. Especially the new freebie kit on Saturday. Check out all the festivities.



Kelly's collection honors the newest and youngest princess named Sophia The First. She's just adorable and she's filled with an adventurous spirit. The 'Princess Overnight' kit will be free on Saturday only so don't miss out on this one day event.


The kit is so sweet and it's filled with 15 papers along with a castle, crest, Sophia doll, Minimus horse, frames, flairs, Enchancia sash, amulet, banners, scatters, hearts, flowers, crown, shoe, full glittery alpha and much more.

Only the kit is free on Saturday. You can find these matching accessories in the Kellybell Designs Store. There's a gorgeous word art pack, page starters and paper stacks.







While this collection was inspired by Sophia The First, the colors and elements can also be used to scrap all the other Disney Princesses. Here's a page that I scrapped.



Kelly's Creative Team has 3 adorable freebies for you that perfectly complement this collection. You can find them at JessicaP's Blog, Lisa's Blog and Sharon's Blog.



Kelly's got a few more DSD events happening this weekend too. Over at Mousescrappers, Kelly will be hosting a speed scrap on Saturday evening at 8pm EST. Check out the cute pixie dust participation prize.


Plus there will be a forum game inside Mousescrappers for a chance to win a free kit of your choice.



Boy, this blog post is packed with all kinds of goodies! And it's not over yet. Kelly's Creative Team has a super duper Blog Train for you. The theme is Fab Five Accessories. You'll find an amazing set of word arts, cluster frames, cluster strips, borders, and journal cards for your 5 favorite Disney characters including Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy and Pluto. You know you're gonna love this!! Here's the path you need to follow to pick up all your Fab Five accessories. But don't delay, these links will only be available for this weekend only. Links will be removed on Monday morning and then these items will be placed in Kelly's Store. Have fun collecting all your freebies, shopping the sales, speed scrapping and gaming. What an amazing weekend! Have fun!

Friday, October 25, 2013

Guesting with Kellybell Designs!

I'm in my first month of a two-month guest term with the fantastic Disney designer Kellybell Designs. I'm loving all the huge and creative kits she has released so far! Seriously, she is so prolific. I'm awesome excited to see what she comes up with next!

First up is the Pretty in Pink collection - a gorgeous color scheme of pink, purples, whites and blacks. It's fantastic for the Minnie-in-pink photos as well as Daisy! We have only met Minnie in her red-and-white dress, so I knew Daisy would be awesome for this collection. I used a coordinating paper stacker to start my layout off easily.

Next is a kit and collection devoted to the gorgeous new Beast's Castle and Be Our Guest Restaurant in Fantasyland. I have yet to go there, but I can hardly wait. It looks amazing and the reviews are great too! Love Transformed is absolutely lovely for creating the perfect layout about these exciting new additions to Disney World. I also used a word art to title my layout quickly. I love word art!

Next, this beautiful new collection is filled to the brim with Cinderelly elements and works wonderfully for Cinderella's Castle, character greetings, as well as a general princess kit. It's filled with sparkle and pixie dust too - one of my favorite things! For the following layout, I used so many fun products from this collection: Fairytale Story kit, paper stacker, page starter, and word art. It came together quickly and easily!

Finally, Kelly has released an awesome spooky collection - Villainous! You can pick up the kit, paperstacks, page starters, word art 1 and/or word art 2 and be ready for all kinds of creepy layouts. These are perfect for photos of meeting the villains at Mickey's-Not-So-Scary Halloween Party or really any kind of Halloween layout. Here's my page!

Thanks for reading!

Expect Something Big from Dream Big Designs

Cheri of Dream Big Designs has been enjoying her new baby, spending time with her family, and getting ready for the upcoming Digital Scrapbooking Day, so I don't have a ton to share with you. I do love what I have though!

First up is my first hybrid project. It is Wendybird Designs Boxed In: Candy Wrap Up template. I think it turned out cute! I used an adorable new collab kit with Bella Gypsy called All Treats! I love the sweet theme and the bright and fun colors. It definitely tempts me to try hybrid again!

Next is some new journal cards for the Expecting collection! Creating this page was super easy using the journal cards as tiles. Love the variety and the soft color scheme. The photo is of me with my 2nd son in my belly. Hard to believe he's 9 years old now!

Get ready for DSD! I know Dream Big Designs is!

Happy Weekends, Photo Ops with Memory Clips

Time for another Memory Clips update! There have been a few fun new products released recently that I was fortunate enough to work with. I'm so excited to share them with you! Let's get down to it.

A lovely new release is Happy Weekend... filled with fun breakfast-in-bed and lazy weekend elements and word tags. So fun! I used it for a breakfast layout for our recent St Louis vacation. This is a pretty simple page but I love it. It says everything I want it to!

 Next, the new release here is the template: Clip It Vol.6, and I used Memory Clips' Off the Record to record this silly little photo opportunity with my 2 year old. They seemed like the perfect fit! I really love how this page came together. Bright colors and I love the mix of patterned papers.

Just in time for Halloween comes Ramona's newest release, All Hallow's Eve! The colors are spot on traditional colors. Even though the photos I have from Halloween 2006 are terrible (sob! Stupid camera!), I thought they were still worth preserving. I can't go back and take new photos, but I can embrace the ones we have. I'm so glad to have these memories down for my boys!

Ramona is gearing up big time for DSD! Stay tuned!

Fall fun with Clever Monkey Graphics

Hello again! A mid-month update from me with Clever Monkey Graphics' goodies. Let's get right down to it! First up, I couldn't wait to get these memories down for our yearbook. We had two hair misadventures in one week and I knew that Cut & Snip was a great choice to scrap them! I also used a Yours Truly v4 template by Stolen Moments. Only a scrapping mama would snap a photo of her crying kid!

A new release, Fall Pumpkin Patch, has lovely soft but bright colors for your fall scrapping needs! I love the purple and that big sunflower. We haven't visited the pumpkin patch yet (hopefully this weekend!) but we did visit the apple orchard. This photo is my mother and her husband.

This photo was from a family photo session in 2011. The kit colors in Can We Feed Them?, a collab by Clever Monkey Graphics and Re Kneipp, were perfect! It's filled with goodies for all your duck/goose/seagull/pigeon feeding scrapping needs, but it also has just gorgeous fall colors.

Tracey's newest kit is Halloween Jack-o-Lantern! The pops of pink in this are so fun. I love the seed scatters - the sticker and the realistic. We actually don't usually carve pumpkins, but I may have made a visit to the store to buy one for the purposes of having photos to scrap for this layout... Haha! Anyway, I also used the new Proper Scribble Alpha for the title. It works so well with this kit!

As soon as I saw the new alpha Tall Blackout Alpha by Clever Monkey Graphics, I knew exactly what I wanted to use it for! I have had this fun kit, Turtle Power, by Scrappin' Serenity for quite a while but hadn't used it yet. The new alpha was a perfect complement to the kit, and it would work well for so many!

That's all for now! Thanks for reading!

So much Chelle's Creations eye candy!

Chelle's Creations, as usual, has tons of goodies to play with. I've created just a few pages lately that I'd love to share! Without further ado, here goes...

Chelle's newest Halloween kit, Toil and Trouble, has super cute felt elements and all of the standard scrappy things that you know, love, and need to create the perfect layout. These photos are from 2004, but I love them so much. There are also new additions to the Little People line just in time for Halloween!

I created this photoless page for a challenge at Scrap Orchard. It's about my journey with my glasses and contacts. Chelle recently released See Clearly Now and a coordinating alpha. They worked well with the Kraftabulous paper I used as a neutral background. I am in love with kraft paper! I also used a template from Little Green Frog Designs A Day Out template pack... the triangles are really fun!

This page I made for another challenge at Scrap Orchard. The main kit for this layout is actually from Meredith Cardall - A Bushel and a Peck - but I used lots of Chelle's Creations products as well! Again, I told you I love kraft paper, so here Kraftabulous is again. I also used CU Felt Flowers 2 and CU Ricrac Flowers to have more variety of flowers for the flower challenge. Little Green Frog Designs' template pack Barley Water gave me a starting point, and I love the result!

Lastly for this round is a page that's a bit out of my normal style. I'm not usually big on cutesy type layouts, but I do love a good pun. My 12 year old will probably cringe when he reads the title, but I don't care. I think it "toadally" rocks anyway! I used the Toadally kit by Chelle's Creations and Scrapping With Liz's Scrap Orchard blog challenge freebie from August.

Photos of my sweet new nephew! I loved doing his newborn photos so much... and I did this set up with using the Aviator kit and coordinating bonus papers! Also used Double Monthly Challenge templates 7 by Scrapping with Liz to whip this layout together so quick.

Finally, Chelle's super fun newest release: Game on, and the coordinating alpha #weplaygames! This kit is so perfect for family game night photos and so much more. Once I saw the kit, I knew exactly what I was going to scrap with it - this great photo I snapped of my 2 year old completing a matching game all on his own. He was so proud, and so was I!

That's all for this round! Be on the lookout for a ton of exciting new things for International Scrapbooking Day, coming up soon!

Friday, October 18, 2013

Spooks and More with Suzy Q Scraps!

Suzy Q Scraps has had a spook-tastic month so far! Lots of Halloween-y collections being released and re-released with new goodies. I've had the privilege of working with two, and then there's a new non-spooky release too!
First up is the super cute Lil Spooks collection! There are some super fun new journal cards to this previously released collection. This photo is my nephews from last Halloween. I love this bright color scheme and those silly ghosts and monsters! This layout came together easily with the Simple Story Grids 1, also by Suzy. There's something really satisfying about getting a page done easily!

Another spooky collection, Spookilicious - this time with a softer color scheme. This features my little sister, also from last Halloween. The softer colors are so sweet - it was just more of a challenge for me to work with! I think it turned out nicely though.

Here's my sweet new nephew! I was blessed to be there for his birth and it was such a beautiful day. I captured these photos when he was just a couple hours earthside. When I saw Suzy's new release You're My Everything collection, I knew it was perfect for his sweet newborn goodness. 

Yet another layout down for our St Louis vacation book! I used Suzy's awesome Mad Scientist collection. I love all the science themed elements and that kooky scientist. How fun is that?! It totally sets the tone for the pages about our visit to the Science Center.

Suzy is gearing up for International Scrapbooking Day coming up soon. Stay tuned!

Monday, September 30, 2013

Fun with Chelle's Creations!

I've made just a few layouts with Chelle's Creations designs lately. Life has been so busy!

First is a layout about my second son's "cheeto tooth," how he lost it, and then how we celebrated. It's hard to find a cheeto themed kit, naturally, but Rainbow Golds worked so well! All the shades of yellow and orange were perfect.

Next is a kit I've used many times because I love it so much! It has the perfect boy colors, which of course get used a lot in this household: About a Boy. It happened to match spot on with these photos of my littlest in his special outfit. I love how this one turned out.

I made this page for an All About Me challenge. Can you tell what it's about? My love affair with chocolate! I used Chocolate Lovers, My Sweet Valentine, and a fun wavy template by Scrapping with Liz. The dripping chocolate at the top is the perfect accent!

Lastly, here's another kit I've used multiple times: Play and Grow, along with the coordinating word art, and the fun Chalked cards. The bright colors are so wonderful with little baby toys in the photos. Love this sweet layout with the pictures of my cute baby boy!

That's all for September with Chelle's Creations! Thanks for looking!