Thursday, July 30, 2009

A Digi Page & Paper as well !!!

Happy Thursday everyone !!! Today I have a mish mash of things to show you, so lets get started:

I just love my little man !!! He is truly the apple of my eye and he's growing up so quickly !!! Its only a month until he starts school....boy will that day be a cry fest for me !!! Anyways onto the page !!!


This one uses a kit that I grabbed from a blog train. What is a blog train you ask?? Well you have to go to several blogs around the world wide web and pick up pieces to a kit before you have an entire kit. This one is called My Favorite Guy....I love the colours in it !!!

Now these next two pages are paper pages for the girls school albums. Yes, sometimes I do still paper scrap, just not as much as I did before and just not as much as I would like.

These are from the girls school year !!! One is grade six and the other is grade one.


Well, I really don't think that I will get to finishing my next digi scrappin page to show you tomorrow, because my sister & her kids are coming today for a play date & picnic in the park. So I may or may not have something new for you for tomorrow !!! Life is just getting in the way of my scrappin right now, which is OK.....cuz I love it !!!

Have a great rest of your day,

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Sneek Peek

Going to be a short one today - - I have so much going on right now, but I really wanted everyone to know about an awesome new kit that Lyndie is releasing over at Designs in Digital this week. I am still trying to work on a layout with it to show you....so for today its only a little hint.

Here you go!!!


I hope to get working on a page for you when I reveal this awesome new kit, but I am not promising as we have soccer tonight and so much going on in my life right now....I'll let you guys know shortly what is going on, but for now - - just know that its not bad, its actually GOOD NEWS for a change !!!



Monday, July 27, 2009

Blog Party Time !!!

I am so super excited to let you guys know about an awesome time that is going to be happening soon over at the Gone Scrappin Designs Blog. We are going to be partying during the month of August. We want to launch the new blog in an awesome way, we want to introduce you to the awesome creative team members and of course the very talented designers, Lyndie & Nikki!!!

During the month we will have awesome freebies, coupons and other great things for you on the blog on a daily basis, so you will want to bookmark the site above (underlined) and come back often during this month !!!


And I know that the creative team has come up with some awesome FREEBIE BRAG BOOK pages that you can snag during this time. We all used some of Nikki's awesome brag book templates and the awesome kit called Bubblicious for our pages.

I hope to see some of you over during the month, you won't want to miss it !!!


Friday, July 24, 2009

Freebies !!!

Happy Friday to all of you in scrap world !!!

Who doesn't like FREEBIES?? I am sure that there are ZERO hands up right now !!! We all love a deal, right?? Well let me tell you about an awesome deal !!!

Did you know that Gone Scrappin Designs is starting a newsletter? Want to keep up to date on new releases and sales? Do you like getting freebies and coupons delivered right to your inbox? Then you should sign up!!!

For everyone that signs up before August 1st you will be receiving our first official newsletter that will include links to download this adorable little collab that Nikki and Lyndie created. All you have to do is enter your email address and you’ll be all set! Click on the preview to sign up for the newsletter !!!

It gets even better! Just for stopping the Gone Scrappin Designs Blog, Nikki has this cute little alpha that goes with the kit that you can snag now. Click on the preview to go and get that !!!

To show you what an awesome kit this is, as a Creative Team Member of Gone Scrappin Designs, I got to snag this early and I came up with this layout to share with you !!!


I personally couldn't wait to get my hands on this one, the colours were just up my alley and I am in the process of completing yet another layout with this kit - so I will be back to show off that one as well. Until then, I hope you have a fabulous weekend !!!



Thursday, July 23, 2009

Midway Kit !!!

Morning everyone !!!

Today, I want to show you another awesome kit that Lyndie from Gone Scrappin Designs released just last week. This is a great one if you go to midways and hometown festivals. I personally thought it would be a struggle for me to scrap with this kit - it is very bright and just not my usual style. BUT.....I thought that I should try it, you know go outside my comfort zone so I dug way into my pictures - going back to 2004 & 2005 to make some layouts!!!

This kit is called MIDWAY and if you click on the preview you will be taken to the store at Designs in Digital to purchase it !!

And now these are my layouts for this kit, hope you find some inspiration from them. Sometimes its OK to go outside your comfort zone !!!



And this one is my favorite !!! And it isn't even fair or mid-way related !!!


Thanks for stopping into my little part of the web...even with my blog totally not finished yet, I am still going to "clean up" and do some more things to the side bar - I totally love that you guys come to visit me everyday !!!


Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Blog Challenge - Scraplift

Hello everyone, happy Wednesday - it's hump day, we're half way through the week !!!

Today I wanted to share with you an awesome challenge that we are having over on the Gone Scrappin Design Blog. It's a scraplift challenge and this is how it works:

Check out the very talented Heidi's gallery of layouts. Heidi is a member of the Gone Scrappin Team and is VERY SUPER TALENTED !!! Like amazing !!! Just click on Heidi's picture here and you will be taken there - then you choose one of her layouts to copy or scraplift it as its called in our world !!! That can be copy exactly like it, flip it/change it up a bit/use the sketch idea or the colours - whatever you want.


I chose this layout of Heidi's to scraplift:



Isn't that a gorgeous layout !! Yes, Heidi you are amazing !!! And this is what I came up with using the BUBBLICIOUS kit once again !!!


If you would like to play along....please go to THIS POST ON THE BLOG and leave a comment with a link to your layout at the end of the month we will be choosing a winner to win a Gone Scrappin Kit !!! You can't loose anything - so come on, try it out !!!

Have a great rest of your day and I'll be back tomorrow to show you another awesome kit that Lyndie released just this week called MIDWAY !!!




Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Bubblicious Continued....and throw in some soccer with that !!!

As I promised yesterday, I have another layout from this awesome kit by GONE SCRAPPIN DESIGNS called BUBBLICIOUS !!!

Check out this 2-page spread of my middle daughter, Mia's recent 7th Birthday !!! It was a Hannah Montanna Themed party - I even made a guitar cake for her, so I thought that this kit fit very well !!!



I love the brackets with the black around them the most from this kit...well everything in it is awesome, but I really, really like those!!! And doesn't that number seven in the grey really nicely complement these colours?? Anyways, I may be biased, but you really should check it out.

Today I will also leave you with another page - this one doesn't use any kit from Gone Scrappin Designs, it actually just uses some miscellaneous colours/papers that I have no idea where I got them from. This is a page about Noah's soccer this year - its his first year and he is loving it !!! Right after I made this layout for him, he scored his first goal and my darn batteries had just died on the camera, so I didn't even get a photo of it !!! Oh well, I am sure there will be many more this year....check out this double page spread.



That big picture of Noah on the side (beside/under the title) was from a photo and I extracted just him from the picture and pasted it for the background on this page!!! Maybe some day, if I get brave enough and better at it....I will try to do some video tutorials on how to do this with Photoshop. I use Photoshop Elements 7.0 and I love it !!!

Well I should be off and I will be back tomorrow with some more items for you to share !!! Have a great day !!!

Monday, July 20, 2009

Gone Scrappin Creative Team

I am still part of an awesome CREATIVE TEAM for Gone Scrappin Designs and that gives me the opportunity to work with awesome new digital kits before they even hit the stores. If you have never done this before you should try it out !!! Check out forums on different websites to see any calls for new creative team members and then don't be shy, just send in your name and some examples...you never know what might happen. I was hesitant at first, but I am so glad that I did.

Lyndie & Nikki from Gone Scrappin Designs are just awesome to work with as well !!! They come up with some of the cutest kits. Usually they design kits seperately from one another, but on the rare occassion they come together to make some great collaborations...like this one.

This kit is called BUBBLICIOUS - click on the underlined word to head to the store to pick up this great kit.






This is such a nice girly kit, but I wanted to show that it just wasn't for girls. I usually scrap double page spreads - even when I paper scrap, I mostly do double page spreads. I find that I struggle when I do just a single page, but that is what I wanted to do with this one....check out my son !!! He loves the swing when we go to the park, but he will never sit on the swing properly - I think its a little fear in him because his sister has fallen out of the swing and gotten hurt.



Now, doesn't this look familar....yes I also used this gorgeous kit for my new blog design !!! Isn't that cool !!! Well I am off and hope to be back tomorrow with more to share with this awesome kit !!!


Sunday, July 19, 2009

New Blog

Welcome to my new blog !! I am so very excited that I have ventured into the blogging world once again.....here's to hoping that it will be a daily thing for me and that I can come up with some cool things to do on here.