Merry Christmas!!

I know it has been a while since I've blogged, but this time of year is so busy for us retail folks!!  It has been really rough this year for some reason!  Anyway, Britt has an awesome FREEBIE kit that's available on her blog until the 28th and it is absolutely adorable!  I wasn't able to find the time to play but wanted to blog so you can go get it!  Here's the preview, which is linked to her blog, plus you'll find that the gals that were able to get LOs done may also have QPs as freebies on their blogs.  You have to check it out!!

Freebie!!!

It's been a while since I've done a freebie Quick Page. I have been selected to be on Gettin' Scrappy With Britt's CT and she has an AWESOME new fall kit in her store! It is so cute and can be used for so many LOs. Check out what I've done with it. I actually couldn't decide how I like it better, so here are the 2 versions followed by the preview for the kit and then the Quick Page freebie. The preview is linked to Britt's store, so head over there QUICK to get this great kit.  You can head over to her blog to see all of the other QPs you can get from the rest of the CT!







Here's your QP...please leave me some love if you like it!! Click on the preview to get it.

Happy Halloween!!!

STS is having a Spook-tacular sale with everything at 30% off. With that in mind, check out The Scrappy Kat's kit Lil' Ghosts and Goblins...perfect for all of those Trick-or-Treating photos AND it is on sale for only $2.09! What an awesome deal, huh?

This is a LO of my 17 month old trying on costumes...she looks thrilled, huh? I just love the haunted house & all the trick-or-treaters in this kit!!



This LO is for the October Template Challenge...if you hurry, you can still get in on it! Check it out here.



These next 2 layouts were done for Speed Scraps. If you haven't participated in one of these, you are really missing out! You get instructions for a layout over the course of an hour...1 step every 10 minutes. At the end, you have an additional hour to post your finished LO...all this while chatting!! Well, you don't have to chat, but it is a great way to meet new people and have a great time doing it!





Here's the kit preview...remember, it's on sale for only $2.09 until Saturday!! Check out the matching Glitter papers....only $1.39 right now!! Go get them...the previews are linked to the store!

Boo to You!!

I've had a great time playing with the kit "Boo to You!" I've barely scratched the surface of this awesome kit by Growing Pains Scrapped!! There are so many awesome elements and papers in it...great for all of those Halloween related photos, but you can do other LOs, too! She also has a great add on kit, too! Best of all, they are BOTH on sale right now since Tracy is this week's Designer Darling PLUS, if you head over TODAY(Tuesday), you can get the kit for only $1.40 and the add-on for only 70 cents!! You can't beat that! Check out my layouts & then head to the STS store to get them NOW!!!

Come Out and Play with us!

I got to work with Come Out and Play by Gettin' Scrappy with Britt this time around & boy, is it ever a cute kit!! This kit is designed with boys in mind, but you can adapt it to meet your needs for just about anything!! There are planes, trains & cars plus some really cute papers and other elements!! Check out the layouts I've made...both of which you can get as QUICK PAGES for FREE if you play along in the Quick Page Exchange over in the forums...AND you can get the kit for an AWESOME price since it is the kit used for the QPE!! Great deal, huh?!?! Check it out!!





This LO is one that I made for a Speed Scrap at STS...maybe I'll add this one to the mix for the QPE?!?! What do you think???


And here is the kit in its entirety...It really is GREAT!! And for $2.79, you need to HURRY to the store to get it!! Go on, the preview is linked to the store :o)

I'm not sure if this will work, but I wanted to share a video you can make using your own photos. Thanks to Glenda, I created this using my 5 kids pics...it is too funny!! You gotta go & try it!!

JibJab

Whimsy Flyte

I am soooo excited!!! I have been picked to be a CT (Creative Team) member for the Stuff to Scrap Store!!! This is so awesome! I get to work with all the great designers over there each month and create with their beautiful kits!!! It is wonderful!!!

Anyway...this month I start off with FlowerScraps!! I LOVE Deanna's stuff so this was a great kickoff for me! I used her kit "Whimsy Flyte" to create a 2-page LO of my daughter Alexa & her "new" cousin, Toddriq. I say new because they just met since he loves in Illinois & we live in PA...he is my brother Todd's son & is so cute! He has really taken to watching out for Alexa & when we took a day trip to Ocean City, NJ(neither one had seen the ocean before...so cool!!), he kept her under his wing on the boardwalk...I just had to snap about 20 pics!! Anyway, be on the lookout for more pics of Todd & his sons Toddriq & Rashad...be sure to go to the STS store to get this awesome kit, too!!!! There are a TON of awesome papers & elements, so I'm sure I'll be using this kit often!! Here's my LOs followed by the preview for the kit, which is linked to the store, where all of De's kits are 30% off this week only!!!

Cool Nights, Blue Sky and a giveaway!!!

I got to work with an awesome new kit by Kiki Halbert Designs. It is called Cool Nights, Blue Sky and it has lots of great elements and really pretty papers in it. It is on sale for 25% off right now for the new release over at Scrapbook-Elements.com. Click on the kit preview to head over to the store. To celebrate, we're giving away some awesome cluster frames to FOUR lucky winners on Tuesday. All you have to do is leave me a comment and I will pick a random winner. The cluster previews are below the kit. Check them out!!!

This LO is of Cyndi from her Senior Prom. The colors in this kit went very nicely with her dress. Come back next week for a QP of this LO!




These are the awesome frame clusters up for grabs!! Each one is linked to the kit they were made from. The first one is mine & the other 3 are from Sarah (Sabedavo). You can check out her blog here.




Don't forget to leave me a comment to be entered into the draawing!!

New Layouts

Well...I've been pretty busy over the last week or so. Between working 30+ hours when it should only be 20 & 3 soccer games a week for Austin, school during the day with Austin & Kelsey, and TRYING to keep Alexa occupied, I've actually managed to scrap a few pages! One I can't show off until next week, but here are a couple I've done for the new designer I'm CTing for. Her name is Norma & her shop is called Scrapbooks Gone Digital (SGD). She has some really great stuff, including a Disney kit I can't wait to get my hands on!!! Anyway, the kit I worked with this month is called It's a Girl & it is part of a collection that you can get in pieces or all together. The BEST thing about SGD is that you can buy a pass to her "club" and get access to EVERYTHING in the club store for only $25!!!! AND...that membership is good for a WHOLE YEAR!!! Talk about awesome!!! Anyway, here's the 2 page LO I did using the kit. I also used a template from Andrea Gold which I LOVE!!! You can get it here for FREE!!! Previews are linked to the SGD store!













I also did a LO using Britt-ish Designs kit "Let's Kick It" for some of Austin's soccer pics. I LOVE this kit! So many elements and she has some cute coordinating freebies to go along with it on her blog! Check it out!! Preview is linked to her store at ScrapMatters.

Great new FREEBIES!!!

Just For You Digi Scraps is back with a great Back to School kit that is available on her blog this week as a freebie...go check it out!! Here's what I did with it followed by the preview, which is linked to Michelle's blog.

This LO is of Minnie Mouse in Mickey's Jammin Jungle Parade in Animal Kingdom. I am having issues with my external hard drive & couldn't access pics of the kids from school & since I home school them now, I don't really have pics anymore. I decided that Minnie went perfectly with this kit!




Digi-Designs by Nicole also has a freebie kit this week, which also happens to be a collab kit so make sure you go to both her blog AND Dream Big Designs to get everything they have to offer! Here are my LOs followed by the preview for Nicole's part.

This LO is from Cyndi's Senior Prom and is of her with her good friend Nicole.


This LO is from Closing night of Bye Bye Birdie...it's of all 5 of the kids with both sets of their grandparents.

WooHoot and more!!!

Digi-Designs by Nicole has some exciting things in her store at Stuff to Scrap this week! First up is WooHoot. It is an adorable kit with great colors and cute owls! I'm not a big owl person, but these are just adorable!! She also has a template pack in the store called Template Temptation Volume 2. There are SIX awesome templates in this pack and they are so great!! Check out what I've done with both of these great items!

The 1st two layouts use WooHoot and I really love the colors in this kit...they go with so many photos we have.

The 1st LO is of Alexa playing with a GIANT cucumber a lady from Tom's work grew in her garden. Alexa LOVE cukes and was just so amazed by this one, as we all were!! It was almost bigger than her! LOL!


This LO is of Alexa after a swim. I LOVED this froggie robe we got from a friend for her baby shower! It is so cute with the frog eyes on top & it has come in very handy this summer after swimming!


If you buy the kit and the quick pages you get these adorable matching flairs. All preview images are linked to the store!


This is the kit...so cute!!


If you go to Nicole's blog by Wednesday, you can get a couple of awesome freebies!!!



I used the kit Dreamin by Digi-Designs by Nicole for this layout using a template from the Template Temptation pack. If you have pictures from anything Disney, this is THE kit for you! This LO is from when we went to Walt Disney World in October, 2007 and we went to Ohana for breakfast. It was so much fun and the food was awesome!! All the characters were dressed in Hawaiian clothes & they had a parade with the kids...tons of fun & great memories!


I used the kit Family Ties by Digi-Designs by Nicole for this layout using one of the templates. This kit is so versatile!!! LOTS of great elements & papers!! This LO shows off my beautiful & wonderful family!! It features one of the only photos of all 5 of my kids since Tommy no longer lives at home and one of the most recent photos of Tom & I, since I HATE photos of me! LOL!


And this is the template pack...check it out!!!

Lots of great New Stuff!!!

Digi-Designs by Nicole has some really awesome stuff in her store over at Stuff to Scrap right now!!! I've been a bad, bad blogger & haven't posted in the last 2 weeks, so here's what you may have missed...and don't forget to check out the Two Dollar Tuesday specials...a bunch of new ones EVERY Tuesday & they last all week!!!!

Rafting Fun was just released today...it has some really great colors and elements in case you don't have any rafting/boating pictures (like me!!! LOL!). If you check out her blog, you can get a freebie!!! Go check it out! Here's what I did with it(from a night out seeing our friend's band play!!!) & you can click on the preview to head to the store to get it!





Last week, Nicole released two awesome kits...Girls Rock Star & Boys Rock Star! I got to play with the girls kit & had a hard time choosing which papers & elements I wanted to use since there are so many to choose from!!! I have to run to the store to pick up the boys version since there are different items in both kits! Click on the previews to go check it out!!