Golden Girls Turns Three

And Leslie is having a big sale to celebrate!

She also has a new release today, Party On:

And here's a layout I made with it, I love the bright colors, great for both boy and girl pages!

Rainy Day Freebie Kit

Golden Girls released a fantastic freebie kit called Rainy Day. It's in the store right now, go snag it! (Image is linked).


Here's a layout I made with it and also Golden Girls' Metal Outline Alpha, which coordinates perfectly!

Date Night from Golden Girls

Golden Girls has a new kit out, perfect for scrapping fancy dinners, bowling, date night, prom, or movie photos! I love the sophisticated colors this kit has! And just look at that adorable little black dress element!

And check out these glitter papers that coordinate! So elegant!

Images are linked! :)

Designer Spotlight - WM[Squared]

I was spotlighted over at the WM[Squared] blog today with a layout I created using her Beach Bum kit. I am seriously honored, Wendy is one of my favorite designers over at Scrap Matters. I thought I'd return the favor by posting about her on my blog!


Check out her blog here and her amazing designs here!

Choo Choo!

All aboard the blog train! The template CT that I'm on, Le Pingouin Designs, and the CT for Spinky Dink Scraps came together for one amazing freebie blog train. We used Spinky Dink's Little Engineer and Le Pinguoin Designs' brag book templates to create a huge brag book for you!


Here's my contribution, click preview to download:


And here are all the stops on the blog train!

Adi
Lindsay
Lisa
Lynn
Glynis
Lizzy <------ you are here!
Marla
Crystal
Sarah
Jamie
Chel

Enjoy! :)

A "Golden" Opportunity!

Sorry about the cheese factor in the title, but I am super excited to announce I was accepted to create for one of my favorite designers EVER, the Golden Girls! I absolutely love every single product Leslie cranks out. I am still in shock that she offered me a position on her team! Here's a layout I did for her amazing Easter kit, "The Hunt Is On". It's available at Scrap Matters and on her own website found here.

This is an older photo that I hadn't scrapped yet, probably because I really don't like the way I look in it. I was 7 months pregnant with my daughter at the time. Here's a trick for photos you don't like... turn them black & white!

Scraplift Challenge at ES!

Starting today through the end of March I am hosting a Scraplift challenge over at ES. Check it out! March 13 Scraplift Challenge: Lifting Holly

Here is the layout I made for it, using Connie Prince's That's My Girl:

March Template Freebie

I just realized I missed February's freebie template. I hope you can forgive me!

This template is good for Project 365, which I am not doing, but I am a huge fan of multi photo templates. Good ones are hard to find! Again, I have not packaged this template up with anything, so please take note of my TOU in the sidebar. Thanks!

Bloggity Blog

I made my first ever blog post over at ES. Check it out!

Product Highlight: Date Elements

Collab Week at ES!

It's collab week at ES and when the designers over there put their heads together they come up with some amazing things!

Here are a few of my faves that I can't wait to get my hands on!

Just look at this adorable girly springy kit from Jessica Edwards and Flutter Expressions. It makes me really hope our snow goes away soon!

And check out this all "boy" kit by simply.scraps and Angie Kovacs. So fun! I know I have a million pictures this would go with!

This Toothbrush Tango kit is adorable, and would go great with boy or girl pages!


There are quite a few other new releases, head over now to check them out, as they will all be 25% off today only! And have a Happy Monday!

Recent Layouts

Just some layouts I've managed to get in this week. They are all non CT layouts if you can believe it!


This one is my first layout from our vacation to Maui last week. I used Amanda Heimann's Hula Princess and a template by WM Squared for the template challenge at Scrap Matters. You can still download the template for free right here: http://scrapmatters.com/wordpress/2010/02/16/


This was one of those layouts that had a mind of its own. I started out with a TOTALLY different concept, but then started playing around with the wordart in the kit and proceeded to make a bunch of my own too! The kit is Let It Snow by WM Squared.


This layout was actually a redo of an earlier one. It had been one of my first layouts, and I saved it as a JPG and nothing else so I couldn't go back and edit it. This was before I knew how to put shadows on my elements, so it always bothered me that the layout looked so off. I used Pri Rocha's Feeling Moments kit for this page.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Created using Bella Gypsy's Love Stinks:

Love Is In The Air

Digi scrapping really gets me in the mood for upcoming holidays. This is probably because for several weeks prior to each holiday designers are busy releasing their holiday creations! Valentine's day is right around the corner and new in the shop today are more Valentine kits. I love the kits that are really versatile, like Connie Prince's Love Letters. She is releasing wordart to coordinate with her kit today, and I used it on this layout:


To further demonstrate my Connie Prince addiction, here's a layout using her What A Wonderful World also new in the shop today. I used an older picture of me and my son on Mother's Day.

This Is Me

I have a confession to make. I am TERRIBLE about including myself in layouts. The past few months I've been trying hard to hand over the camera. Yesterday I made a layout of JUST ME, shocking!! It was for the template challenge over at Elemental Scraps. You can snag the template here for free if you haven't already!

This was created using Spinky Dink Scraps newest kit, "Little Things". I just love these colors! They remind me of late summer, which was when this picture was taken.


You can find Little Things at ES!

Happy February!

I think today could be the biggest new release day at Elemental Scraps ever! The designers have been working their tails off! There's also a new designer in the shop today: Jessica Edwards. She is coming back after taking a break from designing and while I am unfamiliar with her previous work, her kits in the store today are AMAZING.

New releases will be at a discount today only, so be sure to head over! Your Monday is sure to get a little brighter!

Here are a couple of layouts I made using My Party by MCP Designs and Lovey Dovey by Bella Gypsy:



I can't forget to mention the new Color Play for this month. I wasn't sure how the designers would top last month, but I think they did! All items in the Color Play follow the same color scheme, are mix and match, and only $1 each. I snagged the alpha, papers, and elements for Bella Gypsy's That's How He Rolls collection.

Happy Scrapping!

Super Sale at the Sweet Shoppe

SSD is having their annual birthday sale and everything is 34% off! And if you are a reader of The Daily Digi you can get an extra 30% off Traci Reed's products. (Hurry, the code expires today!) I just bought three kits and two element packs for $10, which is actually my very first digi scrap purchase of the New Year!

New Release Day @ ES

Today is Monday so that means new releases at Elemental Scraps! The designers are truly on a roll lately, I've just seen some of the new February Color Play out next week and it is amazing! Here are some layouts I've done recently using kits new in the shop today!

Oh Baby by Flutter Expressions & Kandy Kane Creations

Love Stinks by Bella Gypsy


Masculine Edge by Flutter Expressions


Connie Prince's Love Birds

Getting Caught Up

I think I'm finally caught up with 2009 and 2010 pictures!

Our family just went to see Sesame Street Live. It was such a fun show, and the kids had a blast! This was made using Kandy Kane Creations' Up Up and Away:


I have been wanting to scrap this page for a really long time, but couldn't find the right kit. Connie Prince's Party On was perfect!


And here's an oddity in my scrapping lately - a kit not sold at Elemental Scraps! It's by Chelle's Creations and I LOVE it. My kids made Jesus a birthday cake on Christmas Eve and we ate it right after brunch on Christmas morning. I think we've started a new tradition!

Check out this kit by Bella Gypsy, called Mayhem. It's one of her older ones, but I really love it because it's so versatile! I can see using this for a lot more pictures, especially older ones of my son that I need to go back and scrap.



I went back and did an older New Year's Eve layout because I just couldn't pass up Bella Gypsy's new Martini's at Midnight kit! The colors are perfect for the pictures I had.


Don't forget this Monday is Dollar Day at Elemental Scraps! And one of the kits I have used here will be only $1! ;)

January Template Freebie

As promised, I have another template freebie this month! Click image to download.


Here's the layout I created with it:


Enjoy! :)

First ES Challenge

It's my turn to host a Surprise Challenge this month. Head on over to Elemental Scraps to check it out!

Surprise Challenge: Letter