Aquarium Fun

Digi Designs by Nicole has a new kit out today called "Aquarium Fun." It's a fit full of fun fish and other sea life elements. My favorite is the jelly fish! I also love the bright (but not too bright!) colors in this kit. I scrapped one layout of my niece at an aquarium but I also scrapped my son swinging. So this kit can work for other photos, not just fish photos. Take a look at the kit.

Nicole also has a freebie add on on her blog that you can pick up. She turned her sea life elements into CU items that you can purchase at her store. And now without further ado, here are my layouts.

I even made a freebie 7x5 brag book page for you. I adapted one of the layouts to make the brag book page.
You can download my freebie brag book page HERE.

Mamma Mia!

Designs by Sweet Mesquite has a new kit in her store at Digital Scrap Ink. Her kit is called Mamma Mia. I just love the colors with the bright purplish-pink, light blue, darker blue and beige. The kit has fun flowers in it and so many other cool elements. I had a lot of fun scrapping with this kit. I also used Designs by Sweet Mesquite's template set called "Got the Wiggles" to make my layouts for this kit. Take a look at the kit and the template set.

Here are my layouts that I made. Aren't they cute? These templates were so great to work with! Head on over to Designs by Sweet Mesquite's store to pick up this kit and the templates!

Rub a Dub Dub

Laurie's Scraps, who sells at Digital Scrap Cafe, has such a fun bath time kit called "Rub a Dub Dub." The colors would work well for pictures other than bathtime but I chose to scrap my daughter's first bath because the bath elements are adorable especially the ducks-they are the cutest ones I've seen! What's nice about this kit (besides all the cute bath elements) is that it's gender neutral-it works well for both boys and girls. I just loved working with this kit. I'm sure to do more layouts with it! Here's the preview of the kit and my layout.

Aren't you lucky because I turned this layout into a freebie QP for you! The download link will be active for just one week only so make sure to grab this QP today! Then head over to Digital Scrap Cafe to pick up Rub a Dub Dub by Laurie's Scraps.

You can download the QP HERE.

Upcoming Speed Scrap

Mark the date & time on your calendar, as tomorrow The Scrappy Kat is hosting a speed scrap in the STS forum. The participation prize for the SS is part 1 of a 2 part kit. Part 2 of the kit will be the participation prize for a speed scrap she is hosting on June 2nd. Attend both speed scraps and get both minis that will combine to make a full-size kit called You Rock.

This is part 1 of the kit that will be the participation prize for Thursday's SS.
I'm not sure if I'll be able to make this one because my kids might not be down for their nap yet. But maybe I'll be able to make it after it starts! I attended a speed scrap last night. I joined half way through the instructions and managed to get caught up by the time it was over. The journaling took me a couple more minutes but for me it was a really fast layout. This is what I created. I used Digi Designs by Nicole's latest kit called Get Wild and Crazy.

Store closing

Punky Princess Scraps is closing her store at Brownie Scraps. But don't worry! She'll be back in July. Her entire store will be gone in June, so you better head over to her store to pick up her great kits before they are gone. You can pick up her entire store for just $5!!! What a fabulous deal! Take a look at some of the layouts I created with her kits.

Take a look at the kits that I used. The top layout used For the Love of Dirt. The second and third used Birthday Boy. The last one used Whispers of Winter.

Head on over to Punky Princess Scraps' store and pick up all these kits before they are gone!

Blossom

Shel Belle Scraps has released a new kit called "Blossom." I've been dying for a really girly kit and I sure got my wish with this kit! Although when I told Shel that she said she didn't intend for it to be super girly! This kit has bright pinks and purples in it and I just love it! When I showed my husband one of the layouts I did with the kit his comment was "that's a lot of pink!" I just loved working with this kit and I'm sure you'll love it too. Here's a preview of the kit.


Isn't it gorgeous! So perfect for all those girl pictures you have. Here are my layouts with this kit. I bet you can guess which one I showed to my husband that lead to his really pink comment! :) Head on over to Shel Belle Scraps' 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.

New collab

The designers at Digital Scrap Cafe put together a great collab this month. It's called "Boyish" and is perfect for all those little boy pictures you have. Here's a preview of this collab.

If you spend $10 or more (and you do not need to buy the collab, you can buy anything in the store) you get the quickpages for Boyish free. Here are the QP preview. Mine is the first one and the one under it.

I loved working with it and I've had the opportunity to make another layout with this kit just today for the template challenge at DSC. They have a new template challenge every Friday! You should check it out if you like templates. This template was from Aprilisa Designs and I just love it because it has non rectangular paper pieces and that's not something I can do with Photoshop Elements. At least I haven't figured out how to do it yet! Here's the layout that I made.

Speed Scraps!

Flower Scraps is hosting a Speed Scrap tonight!! The participation prize will be an un-released QP pack! Come and play and have fun with up and get a great prize for doing it!
Since Stuff to Scrap has been having 3 speed scraps a week (Love it!) I've been participating in a lot of them! I also have been doing a couple at Brownie Scraps but I never can finish in time because I join late! Here are some layouts that I've made recently during speed scraps.

The above layout was made using April Showers by Becky Young Designs. Our directions were to make 3 photos black and white and use 4 papers that were the same color. I really struggled to find the right pictures and kit. But once I found this one and did sepia and brown rather than black and white photos with a white or black background, I loved the monochromatic look. This next two layouts were done for speed scraps at Brownie Scraps. For the first one we were doing a 50/50 speed scrap which meant you had to use 2 kits and use each one equally. Boy this was tough for me! I used Flutterbye Faery Designs' kit called Giggles (which by the way I cannot get enough of!!) and Scrappin Daisies' kit called "So Girly Add On." This add on is not an add on, it's a whole kit in itself! I just love how this layout came together but I didn't finish this one in time :( The layout under this one is also done using Giggles. See I told you I couldn't get enough of it! I had a hard time with this one because I don't do circle photos well. I just don't know how to place them on a page! But I think in the end it turned out well!


I just love The Fragrance of Flowers kit by Digi Designs by Nicole so when I got it I had to find a use for it! I thought it worked well with the photo I took of my daughter at the Botanic Gardens. I had so much fun using this kit but I couldn't get my squares/rectangles under my photo just right. I still think the layout turned out well! Gettin Scrappy with Britt hosted the last speed scrap at Stuff to Scrap. She threw us for a loop when the first step was to do selective coloring. What you do is duplicate your photo, turn the top one to black and white and then erase parts of it to show the color underneath. It took me a while to pick a picture. Then it took me forever to get the circles under the photo and the paper strips just right. I really hated my layout for a while. But then I adjusted some things to make the layout just right. I used the Stuff to Scrap April BlogTrain called "Spring Picnic." These colors were just gorgeous and matched with the tulips!

Boy I'm wordy today! Here is my last layout to show you that I made during a speed scrap. This speed scrap at Brownie Scraps was different. You were given a menu and you had to pick your courses. Then the hostess came back and told you what you were scrapping with. So I was dining with 3 people (so I got 3 pictures), started with a salad (7 papers!!!), and I can't remember exactly what else I had but I had to use 9 elements, cluster my elements around my photos and use strong tones. I would have finished in time but my kids were being a little fussy! Since I didn't finish in time, I decided to take even more time and change this into a two page spread. The left side is what I did for the actual speed scrap. I also did this layout for the motto challenge at Stuff to Scrap. The motto they chose was the Weight Watcher's motto: "Watch Yourself Change." We took pictures of our twins on their month birthdays in the same outfit (until they outgrew it). This kit is Pocket Full of Posies by Scrappin Daisies.

Moody Blues

I was in the mood for something different this month for my freebie QPs at Digital Scrap Cafe and I came across Moody Blues by Double Dutch Designs and I knew I wanted to play with it! This kit has beautiful papers in a couple shades of aqua blue and also black and white. I just love these papers! The elements are fun too but I didn't use too many because the papers spoke for themselves! Take a look at this kit.

Here's my layout. It's a diferent style for me too! I just started cutting up paper and layering them. I think it turned out really cute. And I think it worked well for the picture that I chose.

Here's my freebie QP preview. You can download it HERE. Head on over to Digital Scrap Cafe to pick up this kit.