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!

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).

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:

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):

Melancholy - Dylabel Designs' New Release

Hi everyone! Are you ready for the holidays? I am! I finished wrapping my dogs' presents (the last I had to wrap) this morning. I bought them both new Nylabones. I'm excited that it's Christmas, but there really isn't a whole lot going on. My sister isn't coming home for Christmas, so it'll just be my brother, my parents, and me.

My mom gave me her credit card and let me buy my Christmas present, so I already know what I am getting from my parents. Using their credit card I ordered a gift code for two Internet-based instructor-led classes at JessicaSprague.com. They are Type + Writer I and Type + Writer II. You can purchase them as a bundle. I'm excited about taking those classes because I love typography and do not think I am very good at it. I want to learn more secrets to type to improve my scrapbook layouts.

While I'm on the subject, I would like to recommend a great book on type. It's for beginner, non-designers and it just lays out what type is all about. It's called The Non-Designer's Type Book by Robin Williams.
Anyway, on to Dylabel Designs' newest release---Melancholy.

Here's the preview and below is my layout of my sister and her best friend Corrie."Melancholy" by Dylabel Designs; Pea Hannah fonts by kevinandamanda.com

It's supposed to snow here in the northeast tomorrow. So maybe it'll be white for Christmas. :) You can grab the freebie quickpage of this layout over at Belinda's blog.

Harvest Blessings Release and Freebie

So I got to play with another kit this week. It's called Harvest Blessings by Dylabel Designs. It's 35% off all this week! I've created a layout and a freebie using it. Check them out....and my freebie is being hosted on Dylabel Designs' website. Links to her page.

2 New Releases and freebies

I just wanted to share some kits with you that I played with this week. They are available at GoDigitalScrapbooking.com.

First is a collaboration by Dylabel Designs and geniaBeana Scraps called Holly Jolly. Here is the kit, my layout, and a quickpage from the layout. The layout includes a picture of my mother's family when she was just 4 years old. It was a funny reddish color so I altered the photo to make it look old but more natural.

and a quickpage:
The quickpage is linked, click image to download.


This is the second kit, Happy Hanukkah, that I played with this week by Dylabel Designs. I am a Christian so I went with a snow motif instead of Hanukkah. This kit worked really well for that as well. I loved the pictures I used in the layout of the puppies playing in the snow when they were just 9 weeks old---only days after we got them.

and a freebie cluster frame that I made using Happy Hanukkah by Dylabel Designs. The frame is linked. Click the image to download.

Sweet Pea Release and Freebie

Hey! I have another layout from a new release by Dylabel Designs to show you today. She has this adorable kit called Sweet Pea which has the perfect combination of pinks and greens. It is in the store at GoDigitalScrapbooking.com for 35% off all this week.Sweet Pea by Dylabel Designs

And my layout:

CREDITS: "Sweet Pea" by Dylabel Designs; font: Round Birdie by Aud Neil

and I created a quickpage for you from this layout:
Click the quickpage image to download.

Happy Friday, everyone. Have a great weekend! :)

New Release - Ode to a Starry Night and freebie

I played with Dylabel Designs' newest kit this week, called Ode to a Starry Night. I decided it is about time to start scrapping some of my pictures from Arizona before I forget what we did. I mean these pictures are over three years old now! It's hard to believe it has been that long since we moved to Phoenix. Our time there was such a whirlwind---we only lived there 17 months. Fortunately while there we did take advantage of the location and got out and experienced some really cool stuff you would never see on the east coast.

I did a two page spread of our trip to Tonto National Monument via the Apache Trail. We had been in Phoenix only a few weeks when we took this trip so it was our first real exposure to desert life, the rocks, the lizards and wildlife, and the cacti. Tonto is in the Sonoran Desert and apart of Tonto National Forest.

The CT created some freebies including word art, alpha, frames, and quickpages. Check them out at Belinda's blog: Dylabel Designs.

CREDITS: "Ode to a Starry Night" by Dylabel Designs; journaling font: Round Birdie by AudNeil

Yes, I know the first picture is really dark, but it's the only picture we actually took at Tonto National Monument. And of course, it's of me resting because it was a HOT day (remember, August in the Phoenix area!) and a steep walk up to the cliffs.

Finally, since I made the word art, I wanted to share it with you on my blog, as well. Click to download.

Quickpage Freebie for Forever Heather by Dylabel Designs

Today I'm sharing a quickpage with you that I created from my layout yesterday using "Forever Heather" by Dylabel Designs. The quickpage download includes a PDF tutorial describing how to create the "matted look" that I used on the page. I'm also including the tutorial below. Just click the quickpage to download.Also, check out the freebie word art on Dylabel Designs' blog. You can use it in place of the word art I used on the quickpage.

Kit Release - Forever Heather by Dylabel Designs

Belinda made this kit, Forever Heather, in memory of her friend who just passed away. Keeping with this theme, I made a layout of my Grandma who passed away earlier this year.Come back tomorrow to pick up a quickpage and see my tutorial on how to create this matted look.

Fright Night Quickpage

I made a quickpage freebie to share with you using Fright Night by Dylabel Designs. It's holds three pictures. I hope you like it. It's kind of dark, but the kit is inspired by Tim Burton's A Nightmare Before Christmas so it's supposed to be creepy.

Click to download

Berry Pistachio Freebie

The new CT that I am on is going to be sharing lots of freebies on our blog Dylabel Designs CT Spot. As part of Dylabel Designs' Grand Opening at GoDigitalScrapbooking.com, six kits of all different colors are and themes are being released. The freebies are made using those kits and include brag book pages, quick pages, cluster frames, and more. So be sure to check it out. I wanted to help celebrate the launch of the new site by going ahead and posting one of the freebies that I created. It is a cluster frame made from Berry Pistachio by Dylabel Designs.

Here's the cluster frame freebie:

The 4-shared link to download this cluster frame is:
http://www.4shared.com/file/143149934/1679368e/dd_bp_cluster_erinfazz.html
Please enjoy!

Grand Opening of Dylabel Designs Store

I am on a CT (creative team) for a new designer---Dylabel Designs. Her grand opening is this week. She's releasing several kits at GoDigitalScrapbooking.com. I have two displayed below with a couple of layouts.

I just love, love, love the colors in this kit.

Credits: "Modern Wildflower" kit by Dylabel Designs; font: Katy Berry

...and another wonderful kit. I'll be posting a freebie from this kit in the next few days.

Credits: "Berry Pistachio" kit by Dylabel Designs