Facebook Challenge

There is a scraplift challenge going on at the B2N2 Facebook page right now!!! We are lifting this amazing layout by JJ!! Go check out all the details here!!!

A Joyful Summer

Digi Designs by Nicole has a fun new kit out called "A Joyful Summer." The colors work perfectly for sunshine and water! It has cute sand and water elements in it. I had fun scrapping pictures of my kids playing in their sandbox and with their water table. They certainly don't stay dry playing with their water table! Here's a peek at "A Joyful Summer."

Here are my layouts. I made the second one for the Scraplift Challenge at Stuff to Scrap. I think the original layout is much better than mine but it's still cute, right?

I have a small freebie for you today too. It's another word art using the alpha and some elements from the kit. You can download it HERE. Don't forget to head over to Digi Designs by Nicole's store to pick up this kit.

Monday Release Day

I have 4 new kits to tell you about today (well maybe 5 depending on when one of the designers decides to blog about her new kit). One of the new releases is a baseball kit that was created for son's t-ball games. Gettin Scrappy with Britt is releasing her new kit called "Home Run" today. This kit has all the baseball elements you want in it! Since my kids are just 1 and not playing baseball yet, I made a page that isn't baseball themed. You certainly can scrap other pages with this kit. Take a look at my layout and take a peek at the kit.

I made a freebie cluster frame for you using elements from this kit. I didn't use any baseball items so you can use this frame for any purpose! Here's a look at the frame.

You can download this Home Run frame here.

Becky Young Designs has a brand new kit in store called "May Flowers." This kit is packed full of flowers and who doesn't love flowers???? This kit was beautiful to work with. I made a layout for the scraplift challenge at Stuff to Scrap with this kit as well as a layout of my niece. Here are my layouts (the first one is the one for the scraplift challenge).

Here's a look at the kit. Head on over to Becky Young's store to pick up this beautiful kit.

The Scrappy Kat got together with Growing Pains Scrapped to make a kit called "Midnight in the Garden." The kit was inspired by the gardens in the south (which are just gorgeous!) and all the wought iron you see there and garden statues. Both designers have their own kit (this kit isn't one huge one sold together), so you can pick up one, or the other, or both! Here are the previews of their kits.

Here is a layout I made with these kits. This shows the garden that is just for my kids! They just love playing in their own garden.

I made this layout into a freebie QP for you! You can dowload this freebie QP here. Don't forget to head over to The Scrappy Kat's store to pick up her part of this kit.

Phew. Now we're onto the last release of today (at least for the morning!) Digi Designs by Nicole is released a bright kit today! This kit is called "Get Wild and Crazy" and boy let me tell you these colors are wild! I just loved working with the bright pink in this kit! I normally don't use a lot of black in my layouts for either of my kids but it worked so well in this layout. Here's a peek at my layout.

Here is what the kit looks like. Fun, huh? This kit would work perfectly for so many great photos. Head on over to Nicole's store to pick up this kit.

Last minute

I'm sorry I didn't blog about this earlier in the month! I'm on the Quick Page team at Digital Scrap Cafe and that means I make 2 quick pages with their montly collaboration kit. These quick pages get bundled together and given away with a $10 purchase. The collab this month is called Spring Garden and it has bright colors plus black. It really looks like a garden! Here's what the kit looks like. The preview doesn't show everything, this kit is HUGE!!!

Here is a preview of the quick pages that you get free with a $10 purchase. Mine are in the 3rd row, the 2nd and 3rd ones. Aren't all of them pretty?
I used the kit Spring Garden to do a scraplift challenge at Digital Scrap Cafe. It was such a fun layout to scraplift because it had so many squares scattered around on 2 sides of the page. I thought it was going to be hard to scraplift but it really wasn't. I threw some squares on the page and then moved them around after I had clipped paper to them. I really love how this layout turned out.

This offer is only good to the end of the month which is coming up quickly so head over to Digital Scrap Cafe to get these QPs free with a $10 purchase at the store.

More Easter Fun and Speed Scrap

My family was in Nashville for Easter and we ended up going to church on Saturday evening right after we were out visiting a garden, so my kids didn't get to get dressed up (or I should say, I didn't get to dress them) in their Easter outfits. So Easter morning we put them in their Easter outfits and went to the hospital where my sister in law works and took pictures by their flower beds. Thank goodness for digital cameras! Getting both my kids to look at the camera and smile at the same time is impossible! I'm so glad I have Photoshop Elements so that I can extract one kid and plop them into another picture! I did manage to get 1 good Easter picture of both of them out of 50 plus pictures. I got several cute ones of Natalie too. She really likes to clap her hands when I sing "If You're Happy and You Know It..." I do pretty much anything and everything to get them to smile for the camera! I scrapped some of the outtakes (which are pretty cute in my mind) using Scraps by Andrea's new kit called Easter Fun. Here's the layout that I made. It was made for the Scraplift Challenge at Stuff to Scrap.





Here's a preview of Scraps by Andrea's kit which is full of fun Easter elements and beautiful Easter colors. You can pick it up HERE.

Becky Young Designs is hosting a Speed Scrap tomorrow night at Stuff to Scrap. Check out the flier and the participation prize. I made one of those QPs!

Early Spring (not here!)

As I mentioned earlier I am on the Quick Page Team at Digital Scrap Cafe. What that means is I offer 2 free quick pages a month using kits from the designers at Digital Scrap Cafe. I also get to work with the montly collab and make 2 quick pages. I don't offer those for free though. In order to get the quick pages the team made, all you have to do is spend $10 and you'll get them for free!! Here is a preview of the collab called Early Spring. We had snow today and such slushy gross weather. I could go for some spring right now! Back to the kit! This kit has such gorgeous colors! You don't have to buy this collab to get the quick pages for free, but why not grab it?



Isn't it pretty?? Here is the preview of the QPs that you get free when you spend $10! The first two are the ones that I made.


Here's another layout that I made using the kit. It was for the Scraplift challenge at Digital Scrap Cafe.

Tomorrow I have 2 releases to share with you. I'm so excited because they are so much fun! Don't forget to stop by tomorrow night.

Some girl layouts

So I recently told my sister about my blog and she commented to me that I post a lot of layouts of my son and always say something along the lines of "here's a layout of my son since I tend to do more layouts of my daughter." She thinks I actually have posted more layouts of my son than daughter! I didn't go back and count to be sure. So today, in honor of my sister, I am going to post a couple layouts that are girly! This first one is made for a Brownie Scraps challenge called Brownie Indulgence Challenge. A designer provides a mini kit and you have to use every single piece of the kit. This kit is called Valentine and it is by Flutterbye Faery Designs. You can go over to Brownie Scraps and join in the challenge.



This second layout was done for a Scraplift Challenge at Stuff to Scrap. I had never done a photo blended into a background paper before and I wasn't too sure if I would like it. Once I did it, I loved it! This kit is called This is Me by Sweet Digi Scraps.


I hope you enjoy your Valentine's Day with your loved ones! I'll be back tomorrow with a freebie QP from JW DigiScraps' new kit.