Monday Releases

It seems like most of the designers I work for release their kits on Mondays. I should rename Monday as Release Day! I have several kits to tell you about today. They are all so fun, I don't know where to start!

Digi Designs by Nicole has a new kit out today called "I Scream." It's a kit dedicated to ice cream. Who doesn't love ice cream? My kids certainly love ice cream (although they haven't had it very often and they did not like peach ice cream!) I took them to Culvers to get pictures just to use with this kit! I guess I needed an excuse for some ice cream! Anyways, back to the kit. This kit has soft pinks, aquas and beiges in it. It'll work perfectly for boys or girls! Take a look at the kit.

Here's a layout that I made with this kit. I made this layout for the Recipe Challenge at Stuff to Scrap. This challenge is where they give you a list of things you must include in your layout. Head on over to Nicole's store to pick up this kit!

I actually was able to make another layout at a speed scrap on Saturday morning. I created the word art myself during the speed scrap. That was a neat twist to a speed scrap!
The Scrappy Kat got together with Mommy Me Time Scrapper to create a kit for all those newborn baby photos you may have and also pregnancy photos. Their kit is called "Labor of Love." I love baby kits that aren't gender specific since I have twins, a boy and a girl. It makes it easier for me to scrap when the kit contains both pink and blue! This kit has all the pastel colors you need and is packed full of cute baby elements! Here's a peek at the kit.

I really love my layout that I made with this kit because I think it speaks so much of the love you feel when you have a newborn baby (or two in my case). I hope you like my layout too. Don't forget to head over to The Scrappy Kat's store to pick up this kit.

If you buy this huge kit, you can use this coupon code to get either the cardstock pack or the polka dot cardstock pack for free! Here's the coupon code:LOL_FREEPAPERPACK

Scraps by Andrea has done it again! She has a beautiful new kit out called "Color My World." This kit is full of rainbow colors and is a huge kit! I just loved scrapping with this kit. The preview only shows solid color papers but there are pattern papers in there too! You'll see several of them in my layouts. Here are my layouts. I made the first one for the word of the week challenge at Stuff to Scrap. The word was "flowers." I knew what pictures to use because we had visited the Chicago Botanic Gardens just a few days before and the flowers were in full bloom. Once I saw this kit, I knew it would work perfectly with my photos. The tulips worked so well with the yellows, reds and greens in this kit.

I also made my second layout into a freebie quickpage for you. Here's the preview of my quick page. You can download my quickpage HERE. Head over to Scraps by Andrea's store to pick up this kit!

Another color challenge

I also participated in the Stuff to Scrap Color Challenge this month and made a mini kit for you. The colors were quite different than the colors at Brownie Scraps! These colors are very soft. I called my mini kit "Gentle Spring." I filled my kit with real flowers from Just Jaimee. She has some great commercial use flowers and leaves in her store at Divine Digital. Here's a preview of her flowers and leaves. Just Jaimee has great commercial use items in her store. You should check them out!Here's my freebie mini kit that I created. I hope you like it. Please let me see whatever layout you make with it! Also post your layout at Stuff to Scrap because you'll get points for completing challenges!

You can download this kit here.

Kelcey made a comment on my portion of the STS Blog Train Because I Said So and mentioned that it would be helpful to have the word "mum" included as word art. So I made up a word art to match my other word arts. I added the "mama" for other cultures but forgot about "mum." So sorry! If I forgot others just let me know. You can download this WA HERE. I did upload it on my blog as a png file so you can see if you can just right click and save as but I'm not sure that will work.

Happy Mother's Day today to those who celebrate Mother's Day today.

Juicy!

JW DigiScraps has a brand new kit out. She is a guest designer at Digital Scrapbooking Studio better know as The Studio. This kit is a collab with mISTYBELLE Designs. The kit is called "Juicy." It has some fruity elements and cute little ants. It would be perfect for a picnic layout but works well for so many other things too! Take a look at this kit.You can only get this kit at The Studio right now. You can grab it HERE. Here are a couple layouts that I made with this kit.

Brownie Supreme

I've got some news! I'm one of the new Brownie Supremes over at Brownie Scraps! That basically means I'm a creative member for the store. I'm so excited about this because I get to work with all the designers there! The first kit that I worked with was Flutterbye Faery Designs' newest kit called "SWAK." Now I bet you are wondering what SWAK stands for! I was too! It stands for Sealed With A Kiss. Now that might give you a better idea of what is in this kit. The kit has some vintage elements and papers and few items that have postmarks and things like that on it. Take a look at this beauty.

This layout that I made came together so easily! I just loved the frame and instead of using two pictures I kept one side for journaling. I really like how that looks! Plus I only had 1 picture I wanted to use. :) Head on over to Brownie Scraps to pick up SWAK! And while you're at Flutterbye Faery Designs' store take a look at and pick up Giggles. This is such a fun girly kit. I am in love with really girl kits! Take a look at this kit full of pinks and greens. I made a layout using this kit for the Cinnamon Bear and Chocolate Challenge. In this challenge you are given either 2 or 3 layouts and you need to combine them into one. I LOVE this challenge because I love to scraplift layouts and this one challenges me to scraplift several layouts into one. Here's what I came up with. To see the other layouts, click the link above. I hope you will participate in this challenge!

Brownie Scraps has a fun event planned! Check out this flier for all the details. You can also find more information HERE.

New Mini Kit

At first I wasn't sure what to think of the colors this month for the Unbaked Brownie Mix Challenge at Brownie Scraps but then once I started working on a mini kit, it all just came together. My first thought was to do a kit called "Sun Kissed" but then the colors reminded me of a beautiful sunset so I call my mini kit "Sunset." You can snag my mini kit and create a layout with it and post it at Brownie Scraps and you'll get 2 points for completing the challenge! When you rack up points, they lead toward a coupon to get a percentage off a Brownie Scraps product each month. How cool! So head over to Brownie Scraps to participate in the challenges. Here's the preview of my mini kit.You can download the papers HERE and the elements HERE.

With Purpose

Just Jaimee has some beautiful older kits that I'm working with. Recently I downloaded "With Purpose" because I loved the soft purples and greens. I really like the distressed pattern papers! This kit was perfect to scrap some Easter pictures from last year. Here's a preview of this kit.

Here's my layout. Just so you know I used some of the papers to make my own flowers. You won't find the purple or the blue flowers in the kit but all you need to do is use your custom shapes and clip the flowers to them. Voila! Flowers! You can pick up this kit at Jaimee's Divine Digital store.

So many announcements!

Saturday was International Scrapbooking Day and Stuff to Scrap is actually celebrating all month long because it's also Stuff to Scrap's 1st birthday!! There are so many special things going on. They're having speed scraps 3 times a week! Woohoo I love speed scraps! There will be a progressive scrap starting next Monday the 10th. Most of the challenges at Stuff to Scrap are birthday themed and you'll get extra points if you scrap birthday layouts for the challenges. The Scrappy Kat is in charge of the Use It or Lose It Challenge. You're provided with a mini kit and you have to use all the pieces. The Scrappy Kat's mini is a portion of her bigger kit called "Undersea Birthday." She has it on sale all month ofr 50% off so that you can use more pieces for this challenge if you want. Here's a look at the mini kit and the bigger kit. Check out the forum at Stuff to Scrap for more details of this challenge.

Here are the layouts that I made using this kit. The first one is just using the mini kit for the challenge (but remember you CAN add pieces from the bigger kit for this challenge). The second one is a layout I made while doing a speed scrap at Stuff to Scrap. The tag was hard for me because we had to journal 3 sentences on it. My sentences are short! Ha ha.

Here are some fliers detailing all the specials at Stuff to Scrap this month.

More Mother's Day

Digi Designs by Nicole has released a new kit today called "Lavender Fields" which can be used to scrap those Mother's Day pictures but it also works for so many other pictures too. I used a family photo of my family, changed it to sepia and it worked so well with this kit. This kit has beautiful elements in it that work well to cluster. Here's a preview of this kit and the layout that I made using this kit.

Mother's Day and Sailing Away

Mother's Day is soon approaching so most of the designers that I'm working for are releasing their Mother's Day kits. Scraps by Andrea has a soft, beautiful Mother's Day kit for you called "Unconditional Love." This kit could also work well for Valentine's Day if you still need to scrap those pictures! Here's a preview of this kit. This kit has glitters and cardstock that accompany them and I found both of them extremely useful when scrapping with this kit.
Here are my layouts that I made. The second one is using a template from Christin's Creations.

I made the first layout into a freebie QP for you. Here's a preview. You can download this QP HERE.
Shel Belle Scraps also has a new kit out today called Sail Away. This one's a MEGA kit. It has tons of papers and elements. The theme of this kit is nautical but there are so many general elements and papers that you could scrap whatever pictures you want with this kit. I scrapped a 4th of July page and another random page. Take a look at this fun kit. Shel was inspired by a pillow that she saw at Target!

Here are the layouts that I made and see not a single sailing element to be seen! This kit is very versatile!
Shel is offering a sampler of Sail Away on her blog. Here's what you'll get. Be patient if it's not up yet, she'll post it sometime today!

May Build A Kit

It's a new month and that means so many things. It means blog train time (scroll down one post if you are looking for my contribution to the Stuff to Scrap blog train), new challenges, new collab kits and new build a kits at Stuff to Scrap. I was able to work with two of the May Build a kits and they were both so cute. The theme must be boy kits because the first one I worked with was called "Country Boy" by The Scrappy Kat and the next one was called "Creepy Crawly" by Gettin Scrappy with Britt. You can pick up these mini kits at Stuff to Scrap for just $1.99. You can purchase which ever ones you want to make yourself one big kit. Here are previews of "Country Boy" and "Creepy Crawly" and the layouts that I made with them.

The Scrappy Kat is also offering QPs for sale with her build a kit. Take a look at how cute they are! Perfect for pictures of visiting farms, petting zoos, zoos or things like that.

At the last minute I was able to work with Digi Designs by Nicole's contribution for the May Build A Kit too and hers is called "Precious Memories." I guess the build a kit theme was not boy because this one works for just about anything! Here's the preview of Nicole's mini kit and my layout.