Happy Spring!

Hi everyone! Sorry that I've been MIA. I hope you've stuck around, nonetheless. Life has just begun to get rather busy for me, but it's a very good kind of busy. :)

Happy Spring! How are you celebrating this gorgeous day? I'm hanging out with my friend outside and we are going to get pedicures. Maybe I'll even end up with some pictures to scrap---you never know.

So I wanted to show you some of the pages I've been scrapping lately.
First, is from Dylabel Designs newest kit, Spring Scrappiness. It has such beautiful spring colors, perfect for spring flowers, children, Easter, babies, and (of course if you're me) puppies (click image to go to store).

 

You can get this as a quick page (QP) at Dylabel Designs CT Spot.

And here's Dylabel Designs' St. Patrick's Day release (click image to go to the store):

Finally, for a speed scrap that I participated in last night, I created this using the new kit Seek Adventure by De Crow Designs and Tracy Stroud Designs:

Hope you have a wonderful Spring 2010!

Clusters How-To

I'm scared to death to try doing any kind of clustering on my layouts. When I am brave enough to try it I give up pretty quickly because it is so challenging! It just looks stupid when I try.

I haven't shared any tutorials from other sites with you in a while, but did not want to pass up the chance to direct you to this one about clustering that was posted at The Daily Digi this weekend. Definitely take the time to check out this lengthy, but very useful guide to clustering. Click here to go to the tutorial. Maybe now after reading it I will be brave enough to give it another try.

Happy Scrapping!

Dipsy Doodles - New Release

Dylabel Designs and Dancing Princess Designs have put together a jammed-packed huge kit. It has a beautiful combination of spring-like colors. I loved playing with this versatile whimsical kit. It's on sale this week for $5.50 at GoDigitalScrapbooking.com. I used the delicate purples to make my layout. I turned it into a quickpage that you can pick up on the Dylabel Designs CT blog. Check out the kit, layout, and quickpage preview below.

 

"Dipsy Doodles" by Dylabel Designs and Dancing Princess Designs; "Pea Stacy Fancy" font by kevinandamanda.com

and the preview of the quickpage (linked to blog).

Speed Scrap Layout and Freebie

Kit: "Roughin' It" by SuzyQ Scraps; "Pea Ky Ky" by kevinandamanda.com

 

I made this page at a speed scrap at Polkadotplum.com. The speed scrap was led by Sweet Tomato Designs. It was loads of fun!

 

And a template from the layout in PSD file format:

Project 365 Week 6

Okay, I finished my Project 365 layout for Week 6. Just jumping on to post it.

 

Kit: Celebrate! by SuzyQ Scraps; Template: P365 Challenge Template January 28, 2010 by BCNatty at Scrap Matters; Fonts: Traveling Typewriter, Perpetua

Project Cole & Lillie 365 - Week 6

Well since I'm snowed in again (Saturday, Sunday, yesterday, and today), I thought I would catch up on my Project 365 pictures. I have them all organized again, but have only scrapped Cole and Lillie's page so far.

Instead of using one kit for all 52 layouts, I decided to switch the kit by month. Naturally I wanted something for Valentine's day, so I chose "Sweet Nothings" by Dylabel Designs.

Here's my page and there's a freebie template made from the page below.

 

Kit: "Sweet Nothings" by Dylabel Designs; Font: "Traveling Typewriter", "Pea Madsen" by kevinandamanda.com; "Date:" tag: "Capturing the Memories" by Maelia Designs; Date stamp: "The Only Date Stamp You'll Ever Need" by Stolen Moments Designs

Project 365 Freebie Template (click image to download):

Project 365 Weeks 4 & 5

I'm getting behind on my layouts and it's only February! This already seems like a momentous task! The hardest part is that my camera is so big, I don't feel like carrying it anywhere, so all of my pictures are made at home. How fun is that?!
Anyway, here are the layouts for Project 365 and Project Cole & Lillie 365.

Week 4:

  

Kit - "Celebrate" by SuzyQ Scraps, Template - "Project 365 Temp. 2" by Connie Prince; Font - "Pea Madsen" by Kevinandamanda.com

Kit - "Butterfly" by Audacious Designs; Template - ?; Font - Traveling Typewriter, "Pea Madsen" by Kevinandamanda.com

Week 5:

Kit - "Celebrate!" by SuzyQ Scraps; Template - "Project 365 Template No. 6" by Scrapmuss Designs; Font: "Pea Madsen" by kevinandamanda.com, Traveling Typewrite; Date stamp: "Simply Dated v.4" by wm[squared]

 

Kit - "Butterfly" by Audacious Designs; Template - ?; Font - "Pea Madsen" by kevinandamanda.com, "Traveling Typewriter"

Confection Heaven Frame Freebie

Just wanted to encourage you to check out Dylabel Designs' CT blog today. I am hosting a frame freebie there.
I'll share the preview, but you have to go there to get it. Have a great weekend!

The frame is made using Confection Heaven by Dylabel Designs available at goDigitalScrapbooking.com.

New Release - Confection Heaven by Dylabel Designs

Dylabel Designs has a new kit out today called Confection Heaven. It's on sale for $3.50 today through next week. It's a sweet kit with wonderful warm browns and pinks. Check out the preview and my layout below.

CREDIT: Kit: "Confection Heaven" by Dylabel Designs, font: "Pea Aimee" by kevinandamanda.com

I also wanted to tell you to check out two other blogs. Dylabel Designs' blog and the CT blog. Dylabel Designs blog has the cutest freebie alpha that you can grab. And the CT blog will have new freebie goodies everyday. Yesterday's were cluster frames and today is a desktop background, both made using Confection Heaven. I'll be hosting a cluster frame there tomorrow. Here's a preview of the alpha freebie (image linked to blog):

Necklace Giveaway

Dylabel Designs is having a giveaway of some fabulous necklaces. Check them out!

To have a chance to win your choice of one of these necklaces, just make a purchase from Dylabel Designs' store by Valentine's Day, February 14th and you will be entered in the drawing.
Tweet Tweet and Zoom Zoom are on sale right now for $3.50 and she'll have a new release tomorrow. Oh, and if you love the necklaces, check out the kit that these were based on:

Digi Dare 165

I stayed in tonight so I could scrap a layout for Digi Dare 165. The directions were to scrap about your accomplishments, or what you wished you had accomplished, in 2009. We had to journal about that. We also had to make a big 2009, use two different alphas, and add two curly ribbons. Layout below.

Digital Template (photo layout): "365 SYTYCD" by Wild Dandelions; Alphas: "Alpha 04" by Deca Designs, and "Roughin' It" by SuzyQ Scraps; Circular Text Path: "Project 365 Essentials V.1" by [wm]squared; Recorded stamp & Circle Mat: "The Weekly Record" by Emily Powers; Background Paper: "365 SYTYCD" by Wild Dandelions; Everything Else: "Roughin' It" by SuzyQ Scraps

 Journaling Reads:  

My biggest goal for 2009 was to fix the house up and make it really nice and livable. I made curtains for the kitchen, bought table pads for the dining room table, cleaned the dining room chairs and made seat cushions, painted the living room and decorated it, and Bill and I grew a garden. The house looked really nice. I was very proud of all of my hard work. Unfortunately, the year did not go as I had hoped. In fact it was a really bad year. First, the best grandma in the whole world went to be with the Lord. Second, Bill and I split up in August and we are going to get a divorce. Financially things are bleak. Things may take a long time to get better. Fortunately, though for the first time in years, I had my health. This year I turned 30 and I would like to say things were looking up, but sadly not so much.

New Release - Tweet Tweet by Dylabel Designs

Dylabel Designs has a new kit at GoDigitalScrapbooking.com that is full of sweet colors: red, pink, and mint green. Of course, I'm so crazy about pink, I just used some of the pinks from the kit in my layout. Check out the quickpage I made from it below. Download from 4shared.com.

Here's the preview: 

 

  

 Kit: "Tweet Tweet" by Dylabel Designs; Font:Pea Ky Ky by kevinandamanda.com

 and the quickpage (click image to download):

Week 3 Project 365

Here are my layouts for Project 365 and Project Cole & Lillie 365. I'm starting to fall off the wagon with the project 365, but going strong with the Cole & Lillie.

CREDIT:  Kit: "Celebrate!" by SuzyQ Scraps; Template: Project 365 Template 17 by Sweet Tomato Designs; Fonts: "Pea Madsen" by Kevinandamanda.com, and Traveling Typewriter

 

CREDIT:  Kit: "Butterfly" by Audacious Designs; Template: "Project 365 Week 20" by 3s Enough; Font: Traveling Typewriter

Sweet Nothings by Dylabel Designs

Just wanted to share with you this really darlin' kit for Valentine's Day. I love pink so I'm totally in love with this kit. I've scrapped some pictures from my wedding and honeymoon with it.

 

 "Sweet Nothings" Kit by Dylabel Designs; font: "joeHand2"

 

CREDITS: "Sweet Nothings" by Dylabel Designs; font: "Pea Madsen" by kevinandamanda.com

Didn't we have the most beautiful wedding cake ever? Those were my colors: pale pink and a fun pale taffy orange. Loved it!

Week 2 - Project 365

Today I'm showing you the layouts from Week 2 for Project 365 and Project Cole & Lillie 365.

CREDITS: "Celebrate!" by SuzyQ Scraps; Fonts: Pea Madsen by Kevinandamanda.com, and Traveling Typewriter; Project 365 Template 19 by Sweet Tomato Designs; Datestamp: "The only date stamps you'll ever need" by Stolen Matters Designs

 

CREDITS: "Butterfly" by Audacious Designs; Font: Renaissance?

Wait

I have had the word "wait" on my mind for two weeks now, thinking that would be my word of the year. They quoted a verse using the word wait in Sunday School last week and I thought, "that is the Lord speaking that word to me."

Well since that day I have had the worst week in my life, in these 30 years I've been here on earth. No exaggeration. I thought my Grandma's death was horrid this past summer, but I have now experienced worse. I mean 2009 was up-to-date the worst year of my life, and I thought 2010 had to be looking up, but we're just two weeks in and I'm wishing away this year! The age 30 has come with a lot of problems. What I'm speaking of is a personal matter not to be broadcast across the Internet.

So, anyway, in my pain, I decided to go ahead and scrap my word of the year. This idea of a word of the year comes from Ali Edwards.

There are many verses on waiting on the Lord, but I went with something raw that spoke to me in my pain. That is simply that He "heard my cry." I am clinging to that. I need to know that if nothing else changes, at least God is there and knows how hard this is for me. As I go through this I will wait on Him and His timing and trust that He will not give me anything that He can't handle through the Holy Spirit.

CREDITS: Paper--from "Spontaneous Delight" by Carrie Stephens; Alpha--Alpha 04 by Deca Designs; Font--Berlin Sans; Datestamp--Project 365 Essentials V.1 by [wm]squared; Stitching--from "Green" by Creashens

Week 1 - Project Cole & Lillie 365

Yep, I'm doing 365 of my dogs, too. I thought it'd be fun and at the end I might have some neat pictures of them to remember their "terrible twos."

So here is my layout of Cole and Lillie and you can have the template if you'd like it. Download below.

CREDIT: "Butterfly' by Audacious Designs; Fonts: Traveling Typewriter & Pea Madsen

and the template--Photoshop/Photoshop Elements file included (click image to download):

Project 365 Week 1

I'm not sure how faithful I will be about posting my scrapbook pages of Project 365, but here is week #1 (Friday & Saturday, January 1-2).

CREDITS: Kit-"Celebrate!" by SuzyQ Scraps; and Font-"Pea Madsen" by kevinandamanda.com

I think I'm going to make all 52 layouts from this one kit. We'll see how it goes making that much variety from one kit. But it's a good sized kit, including 22 papers and plenty of elements. I love the bold colors.

Happy scrapping!

Date Stamp for Project 365!

I have to admit that I am a sucker for date stamps. I found some that are not just worth checking out, they are worth blogging about! I mean I don't just promote random material on this blog. But these are worth sharing with you, and buying if you are doing Project 365. Check them out and click the image to go to the store---it's on sale right now.

Contains:

• 365 numbered stamps
• 12 month stamps
• 7 day of the week stamps
• "week" & "day" stamps
• year stamps 2000-2015
  
• 12 month rings
• 7 day of the week rings
• yearly rings 2000-2015
  
• 3 additional rings for 365 days, 52 weeks & 12 months