Its December!

That means a lot of holiday decorations and treats.  And not just on our homes and Christmas trees.  The digi world is full of beautiful kits,  wonderful mega colabs, and some freebies too. I am particularly fond of one kit, exclusively available at Scrapable.co and perfect for those of us who never see snow, can wear flip flops most of the year and decorate palm trees as well as Christmas trees.

Seaside Santa by Modern June

My Christmas blog wear was made with this kit – the penguin is too stinkin cute!  Not to mention Santa and his reindeer I just love it! And Im sure you will too.

Been busy

I am so behind in posting so I figured that I would start with a new blog design. I used the kit Rustic Brillance from Dream Big Designs (available at Scrapable.net).

Do you like it? It even matches the colors of my house LOL.

I have a bunch of projects in the works, as usual. And since Persnickety Prints had their annual sale, I was able to get some prints done. Here are a few...

I’m so excited

I am very lucky to be on the Cream of the Crop team at Artisan notebook.  I am responsible for completing one layout a month using a designer of my choice and the layout gets published.  Well, this month my absolute favorite layout I have done all year got FEATURED in the magazine as HOT TREND.  I never would of thought this in a million years …. but here is the layout:

The layout was done using paper from BubbleScraps Designs and Elements from Farrah’s Creations (Jordan kit). 

WOOT!  My day just got a little brighter :-)

Sweet Summertime

We are getting ready for a wonderful vacation with some great friends but the oil spill in the Gulf threatens to ruin all the fun.  I started taking pictures in April before the spill happened but have been taking pics almost every weekend since.  Its my attempt to document the disaster as well as preserve memories for my wonderful kids.  I have been fortunate to work with some great designers and have great beach kits to showcase these pics. 

This layout was made using Sweet Summertime from Polka Dot Plum designs (available here).  The picture was taken the 2nd weekend we took the boat out this season …there will be more coming soon.

Template {freebie} Blog Train

Its a blog train for Valarie Ostrom Designs!  But its not ordinary Blog Train – this is all templates and done by the CTs just cuz we love Valarie.  Here is a layout I did using bits and pieces of Valarie’s Grab Bag, which is available here. And word art by Kathy Winters which you can grab here.

The template looks like this:

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I should be the last stop on this train, but if you missed anything you can go to Valaries CT Blog

Happy Scrapping!

Feels like summer

The heat is getting to be unbearable and its not even summer yet.  So, I have been spending more time indoors – hanging out with my kiddos and doing alot of scrapping. 

Here is one using the fabulous new kit from Scrapberry Designs called Just Like Sean

The colors and elements make it the perfect tween boy kit.  And you can grab it here.

almost a 3 day weekend

Can you believe that Memorial Day is almost here?  I am looking forward to spending time on the boat, bbqing and lots of time spent with the family. 

And speaking of families, I got a new one – well another digi family that is.  I am now going to be creating for Polka Dot Plum!  Yay!  They are sooo nice over there and hopefully the challenges will be lots of fun. I can’t wait to get started.

What a week!

Two teenagers = too much drama for me.  At least for this past week it did.  Day 1:  my daughter got herself into a world of trouble and is now grounded forever.  Day 2: still reeling from day 1.  Day 3:  my son is riding home with a friend and they get rear-ended!  Day 4: my son gets his driver’s license, keys to a truck and I went to concert with a friend. Day 5: I’m sick – can’t keep anything down and have the worst headache.  Day 6:  Feeling better but a little on edge as my son is now really enjoying his freedom…and finally Day 7:  got some layouts done and uploaded – whoo hoo!

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Back on the Island

I am so excited to be back on the Creative team at http://www.scrapable.net. The folks there are super friendly, the challenges are fun, and there are some very good tutorials as well.

Here are a few of my latest layouts using kits from Ruby Lane and JustJaimie

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You can grab their kits here and here

Hopefully I will be posting more soon… just waiting on some technical stuff to be worked out

Hugs!

I finally got one layout done for my son's baby album. Its the only picture that I have of me showing off my pregnant tummy. I used a kit entitled This Is Me by Valarie Ostrom Designs - the colors matched perfectly! Now to get to work on those baby pics!

March Madness

I absolutely love spring - time to clean out the cobwebs and start some new things growing! In keeping with spring cleaning, I have decided to give up my role as digital store owner and get back to doing what I absolutely love: scrapbooking! Hopefully I will be able to get those baby albums done - its only been 15 years since I started.

I have been accepted to join Valarie Ostrom's creative team - and I am very excited. I used her new kit Family Treasures to do my latest blog wear - aren't the colors fabulous?



I have also been invited to join the wonderful Miss Mis Designs team and I will still be hanging around with Jeanne Marie Scraps.

Thanks for looking and hopefully I will be back soon with some much needed up-to-date layouts.

Random Acts of Love and a freebie

From the team at Denim and Daisies and only this weekend - February 12th - 14th: Random Acts of Love (5 mini kits) will be given away to some very lucky scrappers! You can see the kits here

but thats not all ... check out these blogs for more freebies:

Kulscrap Designs
Sylvia
Anika
Kate
Brandi Beaver

Lynelle

Jeanne Marie Scraps

Francesca

and from me.. this template


Which I used to create this...





Happy Scrappin!

WOW was I behind

I hadn't realized how long it has been since I posted - wow was I behind! I guess life got in the way again... but to catch you all up. I started designing digi kits last year only to realize that I really dont like making kits nearly as much as I like to scrap. So I thought about it and put out a few templates for Project 365 - that didnt do too much. Oh well. Then I started playing around with more with photoshop and I discovered that I LOVE to make things. Not just templates for layouts but paper templates, shape templates - all kinds of things. Then I really started thinking about all of us scrappers who don't necessarily need an entire kit - maybe just a few things. So, I started a new line of digi scrap products called Simple Inspirations. I really like it and am hopeful that you all will too.

Everything is priced at 1.50 and under and each week an entire color series goes on sale for 25% off. BARGAIN! This week red (in honor of February) is on sale.

I am still playing around with templates but I kind of like those that can be turned into two page layouts - I am still needing to do a book for each of my kids and am hopeful that my "playing around" will eventually turn into their albums.

Here is my latest

you can grab it here free but if you go to Denim and Daisies.net you can check out the wonderful free kit from Jeanne Marie Scraps! Its perfect for scrapping birthdays of any age and you can get it just for completing the challenges!

Well, I guess that is it for today... hopefully my next post will not take so long LOL!

I'm so excited!

I finally gathered up my courage and started designing. Its a small thing, but I did it. Right now I am selling the kit at a low introductory price but it will only be for a short time - might want to grab them while you can! And come back soon - I will be giving away a freebie.

Huge Sale and a Freebie

Denim and Daisies is having a HUGE store wide sale to celebrate National Digi Scrapbooking Day Saturday November 7th.  The sale will run all weekend long, so don’t miss it! 

and to celebrate this wonderful day, our creative team has been very busy making free quick pages which show off our very talented design team.  I have chosen a kit from Miss Mis Designs.  The kit is entitled Bitten, and, since I am such a huge Twilight fan I could not resist!  Y’all do know New Moon is being released in 2 weeks, right?

Here is a sneak peak

 

you can grab it Here

Can’t wait to see ya at the store this weekend!

Grand Opening Blog Train and Sale

Denim and Daisies is finally opening!  And to kick things off we’re having a huge store-wide sale and hosting a blog train!  Come on and jump on the Denim and Daisies train and then head over to the site to check out the sales, challenges, prizes and freebies!  Be sure to visit each blog – they’re listed below. 

My quick page is available here 

and this is a preview

Jeanne Maries Scraps

Mel's World

Shellsurfer

Tessa Art

3 Dog Designs

Brandi B

Designs by Vicki

Just Jessa

Miss Mis Designs

Meetjes Designs

A-liya

Anika

Kate

Maaike

Tess

Sylvia

Amy

Its almost open

Scrappin for a cure (and a freebie)

Do you know someone who has been diagnosed with breast cancer? Or is a survivor? Do you want to do something special to celebrate their courageous battle with this disease? Well, lets scrap together and bring awareness to the fight. Team up with Denim and Daisies by purchasing their fabulous October Colab Kit – which profits the Susan G. Koman for the cure!

And to help bring more awareness, I designed a desktop from this fabulous kit.

And its yours free just by going over to the Denim and Daisies blog - http://denimanddaisies.net

Its almost open

It is so exciting! Less than 3 weeks until the grand opening of Denim and Daisies! All the designers are super busy filling the store with fantastic kits and everyone else is busy planning the opening events. There will be opening weekend challenges, specials in the store, and even a blog train! Be sure to check back here often as I will be updating store news frequently.

Happy Sunday

I can’t believe the weekend went by so fast and yet I really didn’t do all that much.  Oh well. 

Did you know about the competition at http://www.divinedigital.com?  It’s called Last Scrapper Standing and is 6 weeks of very interesting challenges.  I’m in the contest but due to the rules can’t post my layouts until the contest is over.  You can still check them out in the gallery though.

Jeanne Marie Scraps has been designing some awesome kits lately.  Her latest release Cheer Sassy is super cute and comes in 4 colors.  If you head on over to her blog you can grab a freebie to go with the kits!

Have a great day!