Chance to Win

Another Free Ride Friday :D For a chance to win, head to the blogs of these two awesome designers.

Shawna Clingerman

and Penny Springman

Free Ride Friday

I love it when designers offer a chance to win their new releases! Such a fun way to try and get a free kit! I rarely win, but it sure doesn't hurt to try, right?

Today I entered a couple different drawings - one for Meg Mullins new Disney kit coming out and also for Penny Springman's kit. Here is a preview to hers:

Doesn't it look so cute!! I hope I win! :D

Babypalooza!

Welcome to the Sahlin Studio and Britt-ish Designs Babypalooza Blog Hop!! Both Krista and Britt have come out with some gorgeous goodies and all of the ct have had fun creating some freebies for you with their new products.

I created some frame clusters for you using Krista's gorgeous new kit, "i'll love you forever." *sigh* Isn't it beautiful! Everyone needs this kit, because I'm sure we all have some unscrapped baby photos! This collection of gorgeous goodies will not disappoint!

Ok - so on to the freebie. One in a girly version and one in a boy version!

Here is the boy frame

and here is the girl frame

Of course feel free to download them both! I just decided to separate them in case someone only wanted one or the other. So I hope you enjoy!!

Well, it is time to head to your next stop. You should have just come from Krista's (norton94) blog and your next stop on the blog train will be at Brenda Smith's blog!

Happy Hopping!!

Recent Layouts

I haven't posted any layouts in quite some time and I have been scrapping like crazy this week. Sahlin Studios (who I CT for) and Jenn Barrette (Who I love! :D ) came out with this amazing collab called Vintage Carnival. The colors are just so yummy! I could eat it!! Take a look!


Isn't it amazing! So much fun to play with and I haven't even exhausted all the goodness with the kit. WM[squared] designs came out with a wonderful school bundle. I can't get enough of school kits. I love to scrap school memories and I like unique kits. I love the colors in Wendy's. Here is the page I scrapped with it. Last week Jenn Barrette came out with this adorable kit called Adventures in my backyard. I had to get it because it is full of outdoor adventure...creepy crawly critters...flowers and dirt. Everything my kids love to do outside on a daily basis! This page was just something I wanted to do for fun. Like a good wall art for a boys room! It also showcases all the great elements in the kit.

Krista Sahlin (Sahlin Studios) also contacted me this past week to tell me she had taken part in a HUGE collab. 45 designers came together and each created pieces of an enormous kit that had over 100 elements, 200 papers, 20 templates, 2 full alphas and a set of photo actions by Sarah Cornish. She said that she had 2 free passes to give to her CT members and she thought I would represent the kit beautifully and would I be willing to scrap a page with the kit to post in all the galleries. I was SO honored! I can't even begin to tell you how honored. I feel so intimidated CTing for her. She has some amazing CT members...a big chunk of them are designers that I love and also buy from! haha! So, I was beyond excited and honored and said Yes!! I still haven't downloaded that entire kit...it is HUGE! I got most of it and need to work on more of it today, but it is amazing. All the proceeds go to cleaning the oil spill, so the kit, Hands Across the Gulf, is an ocean theme. You can get it at After Five Designs for $10 and let me tell you...you won't be disappointed! Here are a couple pages I did with the kit.

......and I haven't even scratched the surface of all the amazing elements.

Here are another couple of layouts that I did with Krista's amazing-ness. I love her school kit Explore.Learn.Grow. She came out with that kit last year and it is still one of my all time favorite school kits. She put some journaled note cards in the shop last week, so I created a page highlighting those.She also came out with this stapled alpha. I thought the grey colors would go perfectly with her story of friendship kit. And I love all the pink against these gorgeous photos of Faith Ann.

For credits and links to the individual kits that I highlighted, head on over to my gallery at ScrapMatters. There is also a link in the sidebar.

And...for patiently reading my post...here is a little freebie for you. A fun little alpha I created a while back. You can download it HERE. Hope you enjoy and always feel free to leave some love or link me up to some of your layouts done with any of my freebies! If you scroll down I have some other freebies available. (I don't expire any of my personal freebies unless it is associated with a blog train.)

Until Next Time....Happy Scrapping!

ScrapMatters Birthday Blog Train!!

Welcome to the next stop on ScrapMatter's Birthday Blog Train. You just came from Krista Sahlin's blog Here and your next stop will be at Lawteeda Designs blog Here (also a Christa :D ) Should you ever get derailed, just head on over to ScrapMatter's blog.

ScrapMatters is having a HUGE birthday bash this weekend so be sure to head on over there and shop! Everything in the store is 30% off for regular items and 20% for CU items (sale does exclude sweet deals and cannot be combined with any other coupon or offer.) After you finish shopping, be sure and head to the forum for all sorts of fun games and prizes! There are also several speed scraps this weekend and all the info about it is in the forum here.

And one more awesome thing to tell you about is that with a $20 dollar purchase in the store you can get this amazing kit absolutely FREE from August 6th-12th!

Isn't it awesome!? Birthday kits are just one thing I can never get enough of, especially with 4 kids. There are a lot of birthdays to scrap and I'm always looking for unique kits! I've also made a freebie for you from some of the pieces of this kit...a stacked paper layer in 12x12 jpeg format for you to download and play with.

Download HERE (Link is Disabled)

I hope you enjoy and be sure to leave some love. Chugga, Chugga, Choo, Choo....you are off to the next stop!

More Layouts and a Freebie!

Here are some pages I scrapped this week. I actually scrapped like a crazy woman! Stolen Moments put these new templates in the shop and I scrapped with all four of them! They were such gorgeous templates...I couldn't resist. And Jennifer Barrette and Tracie Stroud came out with a beautiful collab this week, Walking on Sunshine, that just called my name. Definitely a must for anyone's digi stash. This first layout I'm posting is for a Sat. special challenge tomorrow and I'm so pleased with how it came out. Sweet, chubby cheeked Emma at 1 year! She has the prettiest blue eyes! I did this page with another of Jennifer Barrette's older kits, Dandelion Wishes. I don't have the credits yet, as I haven't posted the page. The challenge goes live tomorrow, so I'll have the credits then. I love how this page turned out so much, that I made it into a template! I even made my own little scalloped edge! I am so proud of myself! The more I scrap, the more I learn about photoshop. So...here is the layout:

And here is the template that I made from the layout!Download HERE

Now here are some of the other layouts I did this week. Click the credits link below each one to find out what products I used. You can also click each picture if you want a larger view. {Credits}

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I hope you enjoy the template. If you download be sure and leave some love and I'd also LOVE to see any layouts created with it! Just drop a link in the comment box! Have a great day!

Speed Scrap at ScrapMatters!!

If you love Speed Scraps as much as I do you are NOT going to want to miss out on this one. Check out this amazing PP from Chelle's Creations!

I'm gonna be there! and I hope you will too!!