Boy On Wheels is Released!

Thanks to all of you who have responded about my daughter's birthday. It was a great day for her and she had a great time with her little friends. My husband and I were completely wore out from the experience. Normally for our birthday zoo trip it's just the family. This time we invited friends. Sure we all had fun, but the children were the only ones who didn't need a nap at the end of the day. I haven't downloaded my pictures yet, but I'll have some soon to show.

Today I wanted to let you see some of the layouts my CT has created using my Delightful Refreshment Kit. I had intended on doing this last week, but it was just too crazy a week for me.

This one is by Geri. She has also used one of the templates from my Keepsake 5 Template Set.



This one is by Jennifer.
This on by Tater.

Here is haynay.

I've got more to share, but I'll wait on those. All these layout will be placed in the CT Gallery soon. Now, down to some store business. I have a new kit in the store today. It's a boy themed kit. You can never find enough of those. It makes scrapping my son difficult. Actually the inspiration from this kit came from my daughter's birthday present. I wanted to do a boy kit first, but there is a sister kit scheduled to be released next week. But for now, let me introduce Boy on Wheels.

Sorry, no layouts for you yet. I intended to complete some myself, but didn't get the chance. I just got the kit to my CT as well so there aren't any there either. I'll work on it.

To make up for it I'm going to offer you a freebie. Here is a small add on to the Boy on Wheels kit. Enjoy!

Download Here

Another Challenge

Well, my first week trying out a challenge did not work to well. It seems that many were willing to download the template, but none quite completed the actual challenge, execpt a few of my wonderful CT Members. Thanks ladies. So that means no one won the challenge for last week, but I'm still going to give away the free download. Congrats to Liesl Larson. Thank you for you link to your layout using my Young Private kit. Brought back memories of going off to see my brother. You'll have your link in your email soon.

Okay, so we're going to try this Challenge thing again. Geri, one of my CT Members, has offered to host the challenge this week. This week it will be a quote challenge and Geri is hosting the challenge on her blog. You can find it here. The winner of this challenge will also win a free download of my Go Fly A Kite kit. I do not have another kit released at this time. There are some changes up ahead for ScrapMatters. I don't want to spoil the surprise, but soon you will all be in the know. You'll see some new things from me then.

Today I am also offering another freebie for you. The same rules apply. You leave me a comment on my blog, not my 4 shared account, and in two days I will pick a lucky person to get a free download of my kit. Simple as that. Don't forget to leave me your email address or at least check back to see who won. Here is your freebie.

In a way, this freebie is also a preview of a couple of kits that I have on the way. I hope you like it.

Now, let's take a look at some of the layouts completed by my CT using my Go Fly A Kite kit.

Tater (she used my template for last week's challenge)

Jennifer

Geri

That's all for today, but don't worry. I'll have some more for you later. I didn't want to put too many on one day. You can always check these out at the CT Gallery.

First Blog Challenge

Time for something new! My creative team and I thought that it would be fun to start offering a weekly challenge so you all could get a chance to win a free download of my latest kit. I had a new release today, so it seemed like the perfect opportunity to have our very first challenge. Since this challenge has begun on a Wednesday it will end Tuesday night of next week and then another challenge will be offered next Wednesday. Me and the ladies of my creative team will take turns hosting these great challenges for you. I will begin it all with a template challenge. Easy, I know.

Sorry, this template is no longer available.

This is the template for this week's challenge. Basically you follow the template as much as possible, but be creative with it. You can flip it and add all the embellishments you want. Also, for this layout I need for you to document a moment in which you felt proud, either for yourself or someone else. Not to hard, is it? Also, once you completed a layout you need to leave a comment at the bottom of this blog entry with a link so that we can all look at it. The link should be to your own personal gallery in flickr or photobucket, etc, or it can be a link at the ScrapMatters Gallery or Digi Shop Talk.

Here is what I came up with. My brother went through basic training last year during his summer break. Came out an army man.

Last year I also release my most popular freebie to date. It was called In the Army Now. It was in honor of my brother's basic training. This year he went off to AIT so that's another graduation ceremony that I have to go to. Well, in this year I have grown as a designer and decided to update the freebie. I offer this kit to you. It is called Young Private. There are much more elements in the actual kit than pictured in the preview.

Download 1 ***Corrected Link***

Download 2

For those of you who downloaded my last freebie, you already know this. But for you guys who did not participate last week, here is a review. If you download any of my freebies and leave me a comment here on this blog, you will be entered into a drawing to win a free download of my latest kit to be released. Also, it would be helpful if you left an email link, or at least remembered to check back in two days to see who wins the download. Since there are actually two separate downloads to this freebie, I will randomly pick two lucky winners to my latest kit, Go Fly A Kite. Here's a look.

Goodness, I have a lot of things going on today. So let's review. Template challenge, leave a link to your layout in my comments section. One lucky winner could win a free download to my latest kit. Download Freebie. Leave a comment. Two more will win a free download. So for today's activities, three people have a chance to win a free download of Go Fly A Kite. Not too confusing I hope. For the challenge participants you have until Tuesday, July 29 to leave a link. For Freebie Getters you have until Friday, July 25th to leave a comment.

We'll that's all for today. Everyone enjoy!

Don't Forget

Today I will be offering Part 2 of my Creative Team's QP freebie. Don't forget for the next two days you leave me a comment in the comments section and you could win a free download of my Love My Jeans kit.

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Here is a look at a few more of those great layouts made by my Creative Team.

Tater:

Holly:

Heather:

I actually still have one more quick page to go. I think I may be offering it tomorrow. If not, I'll offer it on the weekend. I've got so much planned for the next couple of weeks so don't forget to check back. I have a huge freebie planned as well. I've mentioned it before, but it's finally coming. You'll love it. As usual, Have Fun and Enjoy!

Hooray!!!

Okay, so now my worries at work are over and I'm back to being normal. Yay! So I can focus more on my designs. So since today is my first official day back my wonderful CT has decided to offer a freebie. This freebie is using my latest kit, Love My Jeans.

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As usual, you click on the image for the download. Let me show you how great these QPs are with these layouts.

Gabby:

Geri:

Right now, Love My Jeans is my favorite kit that I have completed. I loved working with the denim theme. You may see some more of these themed kits from me. Enjoy the freebie and I'll be back with more for you tomorrow.

Oh, yeah. I forgot to mention. Starting today, for those of you who leave me a comment here on this blog for this date, out of that group in two days time I will choose a lucky person to get the entire Love My Jeans Kit for free. From now on, whenever I offer a freebie, if you leave me a comment you will be placed in a drawing to win a free download to my new release kit. So in review. On freebie days, you leave me a comment on my blog and you could win a free download of my latest new release! What Fun!!!

Focus on Sunset Garden

Today I'm going to focus on my Sunset Garden kit. Mainly because my CT ladies have completed quite a few layouts using this kit. For this kit I tried to do something a little different while still staying myself. I love bold colors, but mainly I use them for boy kits. This is definately a feminine kit, but I needed it to be bold. Also I completely themed it around flowers. I like flowers, and I normally have a couple of flowers in all of my kits, but I wanted/needed to do more with this one. Also, this is my first time experimenting with stickers. So, it was a step forward for me.

Now, let's get to the layouts:

Gabrielle (nov05mama)

Christine (alamama)

**Holly**

Geri

Heather (haynay)

Wow! Those were great. Keeping along with my Sunset Garden Theme for today, I'm going to give you guys a freebie as well. Yay! I was working on this last night and just couldn't make up my mind. Did I want to give out a Template or a Quick Page, so I decided on both. I put together a cute little cluster template and made a Quick Page using my Sunset Garden Kit and the template itself. Enjoy!

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Look at These

My new CT is just the absolute best. Everytime I turn around they have something new for me. So today I have some more layouts for you guys to take a peak at. These are also some of my older kits.

Being Bold

Tater:

Spoken Softly:

Gabriele (nov05mama)

Tater:

My Little Tomboy:

Len

Aren't they just the greatest? Okay, I also wanted to let you guys know that I am busy working on my next couple of kits and hope to have them in the shop next week. I also needed to let you know that I'm going to be really, really busy at my other job so I might not be around as often as usual. This shouldn't last more than a couple of weeks. I hope. But I can never fully stay away from scrappin, so you may catch with in between times.

As always, have fun!

Layout Beginnings

Considering the fact that my new CT is only a few days old, they have done amazingly well with their layouts. I have enough to post well into next week. It's absolutely great. I'm so glad that they are liking my designs and are actually excited about working with them. Today I'm going to post of few of them for you to look at and I'll continue this for the rest of the week. Thank you ladies for all your hard work!

Giddy:

By Linz:

Gabrielle (nov05mama)

Hopeful Wishes:

Linz

Gabrielle (nov05mama)

**Holly**

Christine (alamama)

Today I wanted to focus on a couple of my older kits. I didn't remember posting any layouts that I completed myself, so I wanted you all to catch a glimpse of them again.

School is Out!!!

Yesterday was the last day of school for my son. I'm proud to say that he has passed into the 4th grade. This year has been so hectic and he has had so many set backs that I wasn't sure that it was going to happen, but it did. Yay!!! He's seeing a new doctor next week, so I can only hope that things will improve.

I've been going through some of my old photos and layouts and have decided to update some of them. I completed this one last week, but have only just gotten around to posting it here.

All paper and elements are from the Digi Chick Mega Kit Homeroom except metal stars which are from Weeds and Wildflowers. Font used is Lorraine by Darcy Baldwin.

Love these pictures of my nephew. My mom brought him this hat and he just loves it. He is so cute!

Here is my second set into my Alpha Name Series. Abram is available at the store today.

You all have a great weekend. My brother graduates tomorrow so let's see what all I can scrap.

Great Weekend

Hi, all. I hope all those mothers out there had them a GREAT Mother's Day. I can say that mine was pretty good. The children and my husband surprised me with a weekend trip to the beach. We stayed that this nice little condo right across the street from the sand and water. I'm not really much of a beach person, to tell you the truth I absolutely hate the sand. It just gets everywhere. But the children loved it and it was worth all the hassle. So while I was sitting around I got a little work done and even completed a couple of layouts.

The background is from my Tender Moments Mini Kit, Glizty Overlay by Britt-ish Designs, Swirls by Ellie Lash. Ashley Alpha by Digi Keepsakes coming soon.

Everything from my Being Bold Kit, except bracket from For Keeps Sake kit.

It's been a long time since I've actually completed a layout using my own kits. I've been doing so much shopping and I've wanted to make sure that I've used what I've bought. But I just love this Being Bold kit, it's available in the store now.

I've been having a hard time coming up with inspiration for new things, but it's like it's just flowing freely now. I hope that this keeps on going. I do have some new things that I need to download into the store, so keep a look out for that. Also I have plans to add some new members to my creative team. There has been some changes and some of the girls have had to step down, so I'm looking for some new talent. I'll make an annoucement once I'm ready to get it all together.

You all have a great week and I'll talk to you again soon.

Still Moving On

Things have been so crazy here. I've been doing my best trying to catch up at work after weeks of being out. My daughter is playint tee ball and I've been doing her games and her practices. My son is having some troubles at school and I'm working on getting his grades up. And then there are my doctor's appointments. But some where in between all of this I have found the time to work. I've found some inspiration as well. I'm doing very good. You'll see a few new products from me coming up in the store in the next couple of weeks.

But there is a new release in the store today. It's a mini kit and I've named it Tender Moments. It's one of those soft kits that are perfect for scrapping those tender hearted moments. Here's a look:

You'll notice some changes in my design style and I've improved the way I put my kits together. It's no longer so random. The most difficult part of a kit for me is the papers. I have so many ideas,but they don't always fit well. I'm getting better at that.

I've also completed a freebie for you guys. Click on the image to download.

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Not all my freebies are going to correspond to the kits that I'm releasing. For the most part they will be completely different. They are like original mini kits for you guys to have. I hope you enjoy them.

I've even had the time to complete a few layouts. Here's a sample.

Background Papers and Ribbon from Adore Kit by Designs by KristaAlphas by Kim Hill Glitter Frame and Silver Words from Sweetness Kit by Ellie Lash along with Glitter SwirlsPaper Frame from Lil Brother Kit by Britt-ish Designs

Little Boy Blue kit by GG Digital Designs Frame and alphas by Kim Hill

Well, that's pretty much it for catching up. I'm looking forward to a pretty quite week, so you may hear back from me soon. Until then.