Scrappin' While Dreamin' of the Islands

Pages created using an earthy color based kit

2011-10-30T09:32:00.001-06:00

I was really able to take advantage of the earthy colors of this kit and combine them with the outdoors photos I had taken recently. The Earth Day Page Kit by Created by Jill Scraps provided great greens and blues in both the papers and elements to combine with my photos. Here is a quick preview of the kit:

The kit is available HERE.

I was able to easily put together several pages. Things just seemed to fall right into place for me with the photos I wanted to utilize with this kit. Here are a preview of my pages. Thanks for looking!

Fall kit idea - Autumn colors

2011-10-17T18:24:00.001-05:00

Enjoyed working with a kit called Autumn Colors by Peek a Boo Designs! What a fun and adorable kit Autumn Colors is for all your fall layouts. "This kit includes 10 papers, 12x12 high quality, 55 elements all individual png files, 1 Alpha ( Lowercase and Numbers ). " You can grab the kit HERE!

Here is a preview of this cute kit -

Here are a few pages I created using it! Thanks for looking!

Blueberry Hill Kit

2011-09-30T19:08:00.000-05:00

What fun to use various shades of blues and purples to create some truly inspired scrapbook pages. I utilized the kit by Azur Scraps called Blueberry Hill. Here is a preview of the kit...

It is obvious that blueberries are the inspiration for the kit. The kit includes 12 papers and 78 elements. You can get the kit HERE.

Here are a couple of pages I created using this kit - Thanks for taking a peek!

Inspired pages using magical kit

2011-09-26T06:44:00.000-05:00

I had the opportunity to work the kit Un Monde Magique by Louise Scraps. It is magical and full of so many beautiful papers and elements to choose from. There are 22 papers, 130 elements and 14 word art. So hope you'll go and check it out.

Here are a few of the pages I created using this beautiful kit...Thanks for taking a peek!

"Cosy" kit makes it comfortable to make great pages!

2011-08-31T18:54:00.000-05:00

Found this great kit to use with some of the senior photos that I have taken this fall. Great for guys or gals, Cosy by Saskia is a very versatile kit. The kit adds warmth with its colors of "brown and white, cosy elements, to scrap warmly". The kit contains 20 papers and 104 elements!

Here is a preview of this warm kit:

Here are a couple pages I created:

Moments

Milestone

Thanks for looking!

Remembering...

2011-08-25T18:48:00.000-05:00

This beautiful weather we've been having has made me think of some great vacations we've had on the beautiful island of St. Maarten. What a perfect way to look through old photos and scrap a couple of my favorites - and use a kit by ScrappingMar called Beach Paradise.

Here are two pages I created...thanks for looking!

Steampunk

2011-07-31T09:18:00.000-05:00

The name says it all. It is vintage, yet "punkish" It is "old fashioned, yet speaks to the future." I enjoyed playing around with this kit the last week or so. I used it for travel photos, I used it with some photo shoot photos I'd done. Very versatile kit.

Preview:

Here are the pages I created - thanks for stopping by and looking.

Creating with L'hibernation de l'ours

2011-07-17T14:07:00.001-05:00

What a beautifully colored kit this is! I loved all the deep blues, greys and purples in this kit. Here is the description of the kit from the store -

L'hibernation de l'ours (The Hibernation of the bears) is a gorgeous winter kit that has it all, based in amazing blue, gray and pale purple tones, going through grunge, snowy and beautiful winter landscapes textures, dancing between the coldest season of the year through the most fantastic and magical one when colors blends into a blurry sensation of shades of white and blue, we worked hard in this kit and created each and every item as a paragraph of poetry, so enjoy reading the blue poetry of the year and frame your lovely memories to keep them warm....

The kit includes 29 papers, 12x12 inches - JPG - 300 dpi ; and 78 elements PNG - 300 dpi.

While it is a "winter" type themed kit - I chose to use it for some pics of a little one and utilize the bears and also for one of my teen photos. Lots of options with this kit!

Here is a preview:

You get the kit HERE.

Below are the pages I created with this kit - thanks for looking.

Kit and Pages Focused on the Outdoors

2011-06-25T09:04:00.000-05:00

It seems that life has taken me away from my computer lately, but I have finally managed to finish some pages using a wonderfully nature-themed kit called Golden Barberry. It was a Mega Kit and there were so many great papers and elements to use - it is sometimes hard to pick. :)

You can pick up parts of this kit here, here, and here.

Some pages I created with outdoor themes are below. Thanks for looking.

Finally a moment to let out some creativeness

2011-05-21T18:28:00.001-05:00

I had the opportunity to work with an amazing versatile kit called Red Riding Hood by Kaklei Designs. I have been waiting weeks to sit down at my computer again and be able to create sometime. It has been unfortunate my schedule hadn't allowed for it. I wasn't sure where to begin, but it finally started to just happen. Hope you will check out this kit, but in the meantime, enjoy the pages I have created.

Thanks for looking!

A Kit with so many possibilities

2011-04-30T20:39:00.000-05:00

I just finished working with a kit called Magic Night created by bymurielle. It has so many possibilities it seemed to hard to find a stopping point with each page. Each time I finished a page, I thought of different ways to use the elements with the photos I had. Here are some of the pages I created using this kit:

I hope you find inspiration from these pages. They were so much fun to do. If you would like to take a closer peek at the kit and what it has to offer... please find it in the Coolscrapsdigital store HERE.

Thanks for looking!

Tropical Themed Kit Perfect for Some of My Photos

2011-04-23T09:44:00.000-05:00

I was enthused to find a kit that had a tropical/caribbean feel to it. It was perfect for some of my caribbean trip photos. I chose to use photos I'd taken on my favorite island in the caribbean - St. Maarten - with the kit called Unthinkable by Farrah's Designer Scraps. Here are two pages I created using this fun kit!

Thanks for looking!

Magical World

2011-04-01T18:14:00.001-06:00

I have a project I am currently working on that I can't wait to finish. It is a scene that takes place in a magical fairy-like land. While it is a surprise, I was inspired to work with a kit by Athena Designs called Down at the Bottom of the Garden. It too is made up of such wonderful fairy-like elements. Here are some of the brag book pages I created using this magical kit. Hope you enjoy them and if you like the kit, you can grab it here in the store at CoolScrapsDigital. Thanks for looking!

A Celebration of One's Life

2011-03-27T09:47:00.001-06:00

We recently celebrated my grandmother's 95th birthday. What a great accomplishment and what a wonderful milestone. While not all the family could make it that day, many of us could. The waitress was kind enough to use my camera to take a group photo of us to commemorate the day. I used the kit Amelia - Grandmother Heritage Collection by Shelly Marie Scraps to create a bright colored page to place our family photo. Thanks for looking!

A Fun Kit in "Rosy Dawn"

2011-03-25T17:46:00.000-06:00

I had an amazing night last night working with a kit by StarSongStudio called "Rosy Dawn". I was so inspired that I found myself making page after page and after an hour, I saw I had three done already. I used photos from a photo shoot I did last year and the kit was so perfect for both my little boy photos and the "mama to be" photos as well. Here is a preview of the kit:

Hope you will enjoy the pages that I created...

Thanks for looking!

Scrapping using Cocotounette's Tsk Tsk Kit

2011-03-20T14:39:00.000-06:00

Just got back from vacation and am trying to do a few things that I wasn't able to do before I left...I just ran out of time. Before I left, I was working with a kit by Cocotounette where I was able to use some of my new photos. Here is a preview of the kit:

You can grab the kit HERE!

Here is a couple of the pages I was able to create before I left on vacation.

Thanks for looking!

Heritage Scrapbooking Kit

2011-03-03T21:51:00.000-06:00

I have the distinct pleasure to now to also be working with Shelly Marie Scraps as a member of her CT team. This week I began working with one her Grandmother Heritage Collection kits. Here is a preview of the beautiful kit for your vintage photos:

You can purchase this kit exclusively HERE at The Studio store.

Here is a layout I created using this beautifully put-together kit:

New Creative Team

2011-02-25T19:27:00.001-06:00

With the closure of Designs in Digital coming up at the end of this month, I was thankful to find a new Creative Team to be a part of last month. I competed in a contest on their site to become of the new Creative Team member for Cool Scraps Digital. Here are my pages I created this month for three different designers on the site. The kits are all amazing - I do hope you wil check out their stores.

Sweet Brown Caramel

by Simplette Scrap Designs

Au Natural Page Kit

by Gemini Creationz

Fun Paperie

by Adeyeo

Thanks for looking!!

Quick Page Contest at Coolscrap Digitals

2011-02-21T20:54:00.000-06:00

Come see the amazing Quick Pages that are being created this month during the Quick Page Contest at Cool Scraps Digitals. The competition is fierce as we are competing for a $10 gift certificate to the store. Here is my quick page that I created. We are all using an amazing kit by Azur called Loving You which is available at the Cool Scraps Digital store.

Some New Pages

2011-01-08T18:18:00.000-06:00

I went back and found some old photos of the kids at the holidays and had fun scrapping some of those photos. It was created using the following: The kit - Christmas Gift (collab kit by Zaneta Kovalova aka Janett design, Katarina aka XenaKM, Zuzzka.p, Marbella, Matka77, Bryanna and Klapinka)

Font: Amienne and Angel Tears

Scraplifted using the page Alicia by Griane

I am also posting some of the pages I created using the kit "Hope for a New Season". A beautiful kit created with with others in mind.

Thanks for looking!

A Kit for a Great Cause

2010-12-01T19:51:00.000-06:00

Designs in Digital has created a beautiful collab kit for the month of December in honor of one of our CT members there. The proceeds of this beautiful kit will be donated to help find a cure for Cystic Fibrosis. We hope that you will join us this season.

Santa's Digi Express Starting Soon!

2010-11-10T05:40:00.002-06:00

The fun begins in 5 day! Come on over and see what the hype is all about at Designs in Digital!

Huge Sale at Designs in Digital

2010-11-06T05:15:00.001-06:00

There is a huge sale happening in the store at Designs in Digital this weekend! Be sure to pop over and check it out.

The Santa's Digi Express is also available in the store. It is made up of lots of little mini kits. Here is a page I created just using one small part of the kit.

Happy scrapping this weekend!

Get Ready for the Holidays

2010-11-03T19:17:00.000-06:00

Get your Santa's Digi Express Collab kit at a greatly reduced price of $3.50. That's 90% off the $36 value of the kit. The designers have paired off to create some great mini collabs. Download the kit and then get ready to join us in Santa's Digi Express Challenges that begin on November 15th!

Here is a page I created using just one small portion of the kit. Hope you will pop over and check out the November Challenges and while you are there, take advantage of this great collab for an amazing price!

Happy Scrapping!

November Challenges - Join in the Fun!

2010-10-31T17:27:00.003-06:00

November is here! That means new challenges are being posted at Designs in Digital. With each challenge you participate in you earn credit at the store! This month I am hosting the Word Art Challenge and Scraplift Challange. Follow the thread here to see November's Challenges that are being added. If you haven't participated in our challenges before, that is okay; join our forum and join in the fun. You can even earn credit to our store by not even doing a layout....participate in the Spread the Love by participating in our forum and leaving comments in the gallery. Remember these are our regular monthly challenges...you can even more credit to use at our store by partipating in our Santa's Digi Express.

Here is a preview of this month's word art challenge!

Free Fall Word Art

2010-10-30T08:35:00.008-05:00

I wanted to share with you two word art for fall. These were used at Designs in Digital for the month of October for the Word Art Challenge that I hosted. Since the month is almost over, I am posting here in hopes you can use them for some of your fall layouts.

Download the trick or treat word art here.

Download the Autumn word art here.

Be sure to stop over to Designs in Digital in November to see what word art I've created for the November Word Art Challenge and participate in the many other challenges that earn you credit in the shop. The challenges will start appearing soon. Have a great weekend!

A Sneak Peek

2010-10-29T12:48:00.005-05:00

Here is a sneak peak at the some of the kits that will be available for the Designs in Digital Santa's Digi Express! It's truly a sneak peak. Thanks for Cristoba for putting this together!

Remember that not only will their be special challenges available during the Santa's Digi Express, but our regular challenges will also be available to continue to earn even more credit toward items in the store!

Santa's Digi Express

2010-10-28T06:45:00.003-05:00

November is almost here and that means Santa's Digi Exress over at Designs in Digital is almost here.

It begins on Novemnber 15th and runs through November 25th. Be sure to pop on over to the blog to check out the details. What better way to get into the holiday spirit than to particiapte in Santa's Digi Express. The line up of challenges is growing and there will be many chances to win prizes AND if you participate in every challenge listed and upload your final product to the Designs in Digital gallery, then you will receive a $5.00 gift certificate to the Designs in Digital shop!

Hope you will join in for some holiday fun!

Battle of the Creative Teams

2010-10-16T08:13:00.003-05:00

DSA (Digiscrap Addicts) is once again hosting the BOTCT or Battle of the Creative Teams. I am a member of the Digi Divas from the Designs in Digital Store and are a part of the competition, but we need your help. Please check out the layouts for the store teams here.

You can vote for in this thread - we are competing in the store teams. Each IP address will be allowed one vote and polls will close 10/17/2010 at 11:59 PM EST. We thank you for your support!! Have a great weekend.

October Challenge

2010-10-02T18:12:00.002-05:00

Well, October is here and as the summer events have wound down, we start to spend more and more time indoors as the weather begins to cool. So that means - "Time to Scrapbook!". Please join me and many other over at Designs in Digital where a buzz of energy is being felt. There are new challenges, favorite challenges that haven't left and new designers with new products to be used.

I am hosting the Word Art challenge and hope that you will join me in the forum and take part in the October challenges. You can use kits from the Designs in Digital shop or ones you have obtained from other parts of the digi-scrapping world. Regardless you will earn points (more if you use a DID kit) towards free products in the shop. Hope to see you there!

OMGosh!

2010-03-28T14:00:00.001-06:00

I can and can't believe that it's been so long since I've updated my blog. Things have been extremely busy and while I have been working on projects for my son's graduation, I have been also working hard on varion scrapping projects too.

For those who would like to work with some kits from the NDIDDS contestants at Designs in Digital...hop over there and check out the new kits they are designing as they pursue a chance to win a spot as a designer at Designs in Digital. I have been spending a lot of time working with as many of the kits as possible. Hope you'll check it out!

BLIZZARD!

2009-12-09T14:01:00.003-06:00

Well, winter sure didn't wait to rear it's ugly head. It teased us with about an inch of snow on Monday and then Tuesday night it decided to really let us have it; approximately 8-10 inches depending on where you are located. Today, there is blizzard warning for all of Iowa and it is advised to stay off the roads. Therefore, I guess I get a day to be cooped up inside. The winds are so strong it just sounds awful.

So, with me being inside for the day, what better than to do some scrapping. Here is a page I created for one of the challenges at the Designs in Digital web site. There is also a speed scrap there tonight as well. Here is the link for tonight's speed scrap.

My page was created using Mrs. JayBob Designs kit "December Recycle Bin", which can be found at the shop at Designs in Digital. I used all the items in the kit: 3 papers, wire fencing, flower and string. I also used the fonts Cafe Lounge 19 and Peach Sundress.

Holiday Pages

2009-11-28T18:07:00.005-06:00

It is so hard to believe that Thanksgiving is here and has gone already. Everyone is in full swing with their Christmas shopping now it seems. I am blessed to have found some time to scrap some of the activities that have happened over the course of this long weekend. Using a kit called Family Traditions, I created a page using random pictures from Thanksgiving on Thursday and a page using some pics from when we were outside decorating for Christmas the day after Thanksgiving.

There are 77 papers and 143 elements in the Family Traditions kit and right now through November 30th, it is on sale for 35% off at the Designs in Digital Store!

Some New Pages

2009-11-08T09:24:00.003-06:00

Wow, what a busy month it has been. Football finished up the end of the October and had several photo shoots as well. Seems like the month didn't leave a whole lot of time for scrappin'. Here are some pages that that I did manage to get done though:

Autumn pages are created with a kit by Danielle Christiansen. You can find it HERE.

Kids to Homecoming

2009-10-04T18:07:00.002-05:00

Wow, hard to believe it's October and really starting to cool down substantially. The kids went to homecoming yesterday and looking back at my experiences, this seemed like mini-prom to me. 10AM hair appointment, then other errands, before coming home, doing the nails and then donning the dress. Then off to another kids house to meet up with other parents to take pictures. Then, off to haul the kids out to eat. Then back to the house, then take them to the dance. Wow, I get tired just thinking about the day again. LOL. Great day though and I think they both had a great time.

Here is my darling daughter and her friend that took her to the dance. Time to get the scrapbook kits out and create some great homecoming 2009 pages for the kids.

Fall Alpha Freebie

2009-09-24T20:08:00.003-05:00

Fall seems to be approaching must sooner than I want, but in light of that, it means the fall layouts will be fast approaching. Inspired by a beautiful paper in Forever Autumn - The Collection, I have created an alpha that would match well with the kit. Mrs. JayBob Designs graciously allowed me to create an alpha from her beautiful leaf paper and offer it as a freebie. Go pick up the kit by her and Tootlebugz and utilize this alpha. If you create a page using this alpha and their kit, please let me know and I'd love to post the page here on my blog!

Please leave some love if you download this alpha, I'd love to hear from you. You may pick up this alpha HERE. Happy Scrapping!

Week 2 of Project Gallery...Need your votes!

2009-09-21T22:06:00.006-05:00

Week 2 of Project Gallery voting at Designs in Digital is finally posted. Click the link and help vote on my page for this week. "Born to Be Wild" by Caribbean_mom

Vote HERE.

Thanks to April for the great pictures and the kit used for this page was Oh, the Places You'll Go (the August Designer Collab kit) at Designs in Digital.

Last week I placed 4th among all the entries, do hope you'll help better that this week!

Thanks in advance for your votes.

Voting ends at 11:59PM EST on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009.

Need your Votes for Project Gallery Page

2009-09-13T10:13:00.003-05:00

I posted my Project Gallery Page, now I need your votes! Click HERE to vote on my page.

My page is called "Yield" and it's by caribbean mom (my screen name).

Have a great Sunday.

Project Gallery - Week 1 Page

2009-09-11T06:45:00.004-05:00

I finished my first page for Project Gallery over at Designs in Digital last night. I was pressed for time due to the kids' activities this week, but thought it turned out well. Thanks to a friend at work who happened to have the most adorable picture of her son, so thought it would be a great picture for my page.

The challenge:

We were provided 12 papers, 2 felts, 3 metals (paper clip, staple and washer). We were to use: 8 papers, 2 felts and 3 metals. There were no other elements provided and we could create elements as long as it utilized the materials. No re-coloring? Ugh. That was hard, but doable. And no using elements from other kits.

Here is my page.

The next step will be the voting. The voting begins on Sunday, September 13th and ends on Tuesday, September 15th. If you love my page, I ask you to please go and vote over at Designs in Digital.

I will post further instructions this weekend. This was a great challenge and made one think about the design of the page and how to use all the bright, bold colors provided in the papers.

Have a great Friday everyone!

Kits on Sale!

2009-09-04T22:00:00.004-05:00

I do CTing for Designs in Digital and have created many wonderful pages using their kits from the site. Recently, the site went down due to a hacker and we lost all of the great pages we'd uploaded. The site had to be re-started from scratch, so the kits are slowly getting re-loaded, however, some exciting news is that there is a great 30% off sale going on over in the store today through Labor Day. Click my blog title and you will be put right into the thick of the 30% off items. Go check it out, as well the great challenges that are getting started back up. I am always looking for new inspiration for my pages, so check out the gallery too and I'm sure you'll be inspired! Have a wonderful Labor Day weekend everyone.

It's Been Way too Long! (Quick Page Freebie)

2009-09-02T18:44:00.007-05:00

Ok, I just realized that summer has flown by and as a result my blog has suffered. Let's see, baseball games, softball games, and then school shopping and then I took senior pictures for my son and then of one of his classmates. Now football season is here. Ugh!

Anyway, I am back into doing scrapping again after taking a small break. I am refreshed (not sure about rejuvenated). LOL. I have done some pages over the last month, but am offering a free Quick Page that is fall related for those upcoming fall pictures. It is pretty basic, so I am hoping you will add lots of personal touches to the page. Here is a preview.

You can get this Quick Page HERE. If you create a page with this and want to share it, please by all means let me know. I'd love to see it!

It was created using a kit by Danielle Christiansen called Natures Simplicity. If you'd like to get the entire kit, visit here site here.

Also, if you are looking for something different to do, then you need to check out the new and upcoming happenings over at Designs in Digital. You've seen Project Runway, now come and join us for Project Gallery on September 9th. Just sign up at DID, register for the newletter and express your interest in the forum and you will be on your way!

Father's Day Word Art Freebie

2009-06-19T20:42:00.008-05:00

Well, I am continuing to work on my scrapbook pages for my husband. In the process tonight, I created a word art to go on one of the pages. It is a beautiful saying by Lydia M. Child.

Here is a page I made using the word art I created. This page will be one of many in the Father's Day scrapbook for my husband.

You can download the wordart HERE. (Leave me a message if you have any problems downloading this FREEBIE. Have fun with your Father's Day layouts!

My Father's Day Scrapbook

2009-06-19T08:31:00.003-05:00

I've been trying to finish as many pages of the scrapbook for my husband as possible. It has been hard to choose some of the earlier pictures because there are so many cute ones. I thought I would post one of my favorite pages so far and when I am all done I'll try to post a slide show of them all.

Look forward to seeing some of the great Father's Day pages on the many of the galleries I visit.

Have a Fabulous Friday!!

So, so busy!

2009-06-18T12:54:00.003-05:00

I feel like I haven't posted in a long time. I am currently working on a small album with pages for my husband for Father's Day. In addition to that I was getting items ready for a garage sale. I will try to post some samples of the pages I've completed here soon. I am in the process of tryiing to get ready to do my son's senior pictures too. I love taking photography and while I doubt it will ever become a career, I can at least enjoy doing it and post some of my favorites along the way.

Watch for the link to my second blog that will be dedicated to my photography and photo composite creations. I am currently in the process of setting it up and no use linking to it until I get some of my favorite pictures up on the blog.

Have a happy Thursday everyone and tomorrow if FRIDAY!

New Sky Alpha (finally)

2009-05-25T15:24:00.007-05:00

I've finally been able to finish the Sky Alpha I had posted about before. Perfect for summer pages. It seems time had slipped by way too quickly for me to finish it. I have the upper and lower cases in a .png file and the numbers and some additional punctution in a second .png file. Just use a selection tool to select the letters you need and copy/paste them onto your scrapbook page. Happy scrapping! Collect the free Alphas HERE and Numbers HERE.

New Mother's Day Wordart

2009-05-24T09:43:00.005-05:00

Here is a fun wordart creation to use on your Mother's Day pages. Hope you enjoy it.

You can get it HERE.

This word art was created using the following fonts: papyrus, peach sundress, scriptina, hearland regular, pupcat and riesling. The heart was courtesy of an element created by Wimpychompers as a part of the Winter Love Collaboration kit available at Designs In Digital.

New Alpha Coming...

2009-03-28T09:01:00.003-06:00

I have created a new Alpha and will be posting it on my sight here in the next couple of days. Look for it. It is great for those spring layouts. Check it out here on my Dreaming of Paradise page.

The word 'paradise' is made up of the new alpha. It will consist of upper and lower case letters and numbers.

Spring Is Around the Corner

2009-03-21T14:31:00.005-06:00

Well, yesterday was the first day of spring. Thank goodness. I am hoping we have see the last of the snow. I see that there are a few of my crocus flowers blooming today. A sure sign that spring is here. Here is a spring page to help us all look forward to the upcoming season. The flower is from a bouquet that my husband gave me for our anniversary. I took a macro shot of it. It appears on the page as black and white and in color. Have a great start to spring everyone!

Pink Flower near title is from the Designs in Digital March Designing Duos kit.

A Beautiful Day!

2009-02-07T10:22:00.005-06:00

Today is going to be a beautiful day and will be close to 50 degrees. Wooooo Hooooo! Been working on several layouts lately, but wanted to post a couple of them here too in addition to my galleries.

My "Cherish Your Kisses" page was created using the February Collaboration Kit The Birds and The Bees created by many of the Designers at Designs in Digital. It can be found at the store at Designs in Digital.

My "Love Your Smile" page was created using Blending Happens by Green Elephant Designs by Nicolina (available at Designs in Digital's Store) and Word Art by geniaBeana Scraps (a freebie off of digiscrapdepot)

Thinking of Summer!

2009-01-24T09:55:00.003-06:00

Well, we had a short break in our cold weather this week and since we had ONE day that got over freezing, I decided it was time to get the first layer of winter grime off the vehicle. Wow! I had forgotten how pretty my vehicle looks when it isn't coated in snow, salt and dirt. LOL.

I think some summer scrappin is in order today to help warm the mind and body. Today I have used a kit by Bratty Sisters Designs. The kit is Indian Summer and can be found at the Store on the Designs in Digital Website.

This picture was taken in 2004 when the neighborhood kids were in the neighbor's pool. I used a paper shaper from digiscrapdepot to create the waves in the paper and used several blending effects to create the flowers and the second set of waves.

We've Survived Record Breaking Temps

2009-01-17T13:42:00.005-06:00

Well, this week was one to remember...I guess add it to the growing list of records over the past year. Last winter, 'almost' record breaking snowfall total; last spring, record breaking flood crest on the Cedar River with record flooding that was just unbelievable to see; this winter, record breaking temps -24 degrees below zero. It was so nice to see it at 4 degrees above zero yesterday. Not sure what it is today, but the winds cannot be helping what is feels like outside right now. We are supposed to get into the twenties and maybe thirties this next week. It will be like a heat wave, almost a 40-50 degree swing in temperatures!

Anyway, with thoughts of warm weather in my head, I created another page with Dorothy's Creations Spiced Leather kit. I used this page for last year's Father's Day picture of Bill and the kids. Everything is so green and pretty in the picture. It can only bring warmth to ones self. All the papers and elements are original to the kit, however, I should note that the mats under the picture I did create, but used colors included in the plaid section of the page.

Making today bright

2009-01-12T17:58:00.005-06:00

Such a ominous day with the snow falling and then the reports that wind will start tonight and could reach gusts of 40 mph. Definitely will make for dangerous travels if anyone dares to venture out. I had some fun today after work and put together some fun pages with two new kits that I had been working with this month.

The first page I used a favorite picture of my hubby and me. I used the kit Winter Love that was a Designing Duo kit put together by Tink's Trinkets and Wimpychompers over at Designs in Digital. You can find the kit at the store over there.

The other kit was working with today was a new kit by Tiger Lily's Digis. She has created a great kit I <3u> over at Designs in Digital.

Darling daughter was being silly last Valentine's Day when she received these large chocolate lips. Thought these pages would help brighten the day with all the potential winter weather coming our way.

Hope you all had a great Monday!

It's Beautiful Outside

2009-01-11T19:17:00.002-06:00

I enjoyed my drive into town today to get groceries. The snow we received on Friday has placed itself so beautifully on the evergreen trees in many yards along the way. I wish I would have brought my camera along for the drive and got some pictures. I'm sure there will be more opportunities though, as we are to get another 1-4 inches of snow tomorrow now too. It was nice out though with temps in the low 20s and very little wind. Tomorrow may be another story though with winds anticipated to pick up in the afternoon increasing the wind chill factor despite the temps are supposed to be in the 20s again. I guess with those increased winds, that explains why they have issued a blizzard warning for tomorrow. I was going to take daughter out for some pretty winter pics, but I have a feeling that those plans may have to wait.

More Snow

2009-01-10T14:54:00.003-06:00

Well, we got hit with more snow last night again. It had been a little while since we've had this much at one time. At least it is a fluffier snow, but it was interesting driving last night to pick up my daughter from the movies. It sure would have been nice to be able to see the road. It was just all snow every where and was still coming down.

Today has been a good creative day though. I have been working on some of my pages using some kits over at Designs in Digital. One of my favorite ones (which is probably because it takes my to a warm place and fond memories) is the page I created using a kit from Dorothy's Creations called Spiced Leather. It can be found over at the Designs in Digital Store.

Working on Scrapbooks

2009-01-04T12:47:00.003-06:00

Another icy morning here in Iowa. I guess that's what we get for wishing for a warmer winter....then we get ice instead of snow. Seems to be a common occurance this winter unfortunately. We will be having one last holiday gathering, then kids will be back to school tomorrow. The routine will be back finally...the holidays being on Thursdays this year really messed up my thinking of what day it was it seemed.

This morning I finally got a chance to work on some scrapbook pages and decided to work on some pages for daughter's soccer scrapbook. I downloaded a great soccer kit from Danielle Christiansen that can be found at http://www.danicdigiscraps.ecrater.com/ And here are the pages that I created. Thanks Danielle for the great kit!

Winter Wishes

2008-12-26T18:52:00.003-06:00

It doesn't seem possible that it has been eleven days since I have last posted. It has been a very busy eleven days. I have been busy at my new job and I find it is more taxing on the brain as you get older to start a new job, but it is invigorating and I am really excited about the work I do. But as a result, I am having to find a new balance for my hobbies, digital scrapping included. Granted the holidays have thrown off the schedule a little. I am excited about some of the holiday pictures that I took yesterday and couldn't wait to use a great picture of a cardinal I took. I thought the stark contrast of red against a blue themed kit would be great.

I created this page using Danielle Christiansen's Winter Wishes kit. The kit provided such a wonderful canvas to promote this beautiful red cardinal that was flying around in the trees outside my parents' living room window. He seems to be looking right at me...waiting for his picture to be taken.

Hope everyone had a safe and wonderful Christmas and will look forward to the holiday pages that so many with scrap.

Trying to Stay Warm

2008-12-15T16:42:00.005-06:00

Hard to believe Monday has rolled around already. I got my Christmas cards back (for the second time) today. I had ordered my cards and they came in the mail stuck together obviously they had gotten wet and then dried on their trip to my mailbox. UGH! Well at least they are here and now I can work on getting them mailed out. At least they arrived in good condition this time and the second set were free!

The last few days I have been able to put together a few pages using some various kits. One page was my second layout for Winter Flannel by Tiger Lily's Designs and Gone Scrappin' Designs over at Designs in Digital. If you haven't check it out over there, they have some great challenges and great people!

The interwoven snowflake papers are not in the kit, as shown, but are available individually. I took the two papers and wove them together.

The next page I created was by Danielle Christiansen using her Winter Fun kit. I had to use the father/daughter picture again. Hope you'll check out her store.

I also finished a page created by Lost Gurlz 'Ventures who is a designer over at Designs in Digital as well. She has a great kit called Slumber Party with some great elements and papers. It is available at the Designs in Digital store.

Hope everyone has a great evening and stay warm if you're here in the midwest!

Winter Flannel

2008-12-11T17:39:00.004-06:00

Well, what a busy day. I started a part-time job today for a large funeral home in the area and will be a part of the support staff to the funeral directors. I will be a member of the team that creates the folders for the services, creating memorial DVDs and other items that pay tribute to loved ones that have passed on. I look forward to utilizing my skills to help others during their time of grieving. It will be a job that comes with gratification of helping others.

In the meantime...

I have added another to my list of those that I CT for. I have joined the creative team over at Designs in Digital. One of the kits that is a collaboration kit this month is called Winter Flannel. It was created by Gone Scrappin' Designs and Tiger Lily's Designs. Here is a layout I created using the kit. I have it posted in many of my online galleries.

Will only post a short post for this evening. Must cook dinner. Have a good evening.

Another Freebie

2008-12-10T10:20:00.003-06:00

Yesterday was so hectic, as the kids didn't have school due to the icy road conditions. Earlier in the day at least I had a chance to finish some snowman word art. I created a snowman using the words from Frosty the Snowman. It was great fun to do and I knew I had the perfect pictures to use for a layout.
If you would like to pick up the snowman word art, you can pick it up HERE.
You will need to add your own hat to the snowman though.
Credits for this page go to:
Snowman word art - mine; using PSP X2. (corncob pipe was a pic from internet)
Snowman's hat from Winter Dreams kit from Oscraps by Nina Scraps Designs
Remaining background and elements all from Silva's kit Cold Winter Days

Christmas Freebies

2008-12-09T07:27:00.006-06:00

We received our first two Christmas cards yesterday and I was inspired to create a wonderful Christmas tree using the words "We Wish you a Merry Christmas!" I have created one in white and one in red. If there is another color you would like, please let me know and I would be happy to make it available.

You can download the tree with white wording HERE.

You can download the tree with red wording HERE.

Please leave some love if you download either of these. I would love to see what you create with this tree, so feel free to drop me a message to let me know where I can find your page, as I would love to post some other samples.

Here is a sample of a page I created using my tree and pictures of my nephews at Christmas two years ago. I love how my one nephew's present is as big as he is. Sooo cute!

Credits for the background and remaining elements are from CuddleBeez Scraps kit Christmas Blessings.

Oh, the weather outside is....

2008-12-08T18:39:00.004-06:00

frightful, but the inside the scrappin' is delightful! It has begun to freezing rain here tonight and I sit here hoping son will return home from work this evening safe and sound. I must go out and put some sand down at the top of the driveway, or he might not make it up the incline as DH has just said he about slid into the neighbors yard. EEEK! I don't like freezing rain. But to cheer me up a little, I will post a page I completed yesterday with a beautiful Christmas picture of my DD in 2003. Every year I would take pictures of the kids in their Christmas best. Oh the memories. Have a good evening!

Credits for this page go to:
Paper & Elements: Love Christmas by Ingrid7459
Snow in Snow Globe: In a Snowflake World by WaterLO Project
Snowglobe Template: C.W. Picket & Company

It's Snowing Again

2008-12-07T14:19:00.004-06:00

Well, the snow is flying again today. Luckily it doesn't look like a whole lot right now, but enough to cover the sidewalk again anyway. Today is a short post, but wanted to at least post some pages I did with a Retro kit of Danielle Christiansen's. I had some fun with this and dug up some old Halloween pics to match the theme. Have a good rest of the weekend.

It's Friday!

2008-12-05T07:48:00.004-06:00

What a busy day yesterday was! We switched out our Dish Network system for a DirecTv system. We'd had Dish for over 5 years and frankly the equipment was getting old and our DVR receiver had crashed at least once and we had lost everything we had recorded. It was time for new equipment and a better price for at least the next year! Of course, it wasn't as simple as swapping out the satellites and then just swapping receivers, with updates come new things to do to install the receivers. Wish they would have at least sent out a "what to expect" list, then we could have had some or our prep work done before they arrived, but hey, oh well, it's done and things are working great!

I have a couple of pages from Wednesday that I'd like to post for you all. One is created for a Marriage Is Challenge on Scrapbook Flair. I had a lot of fun with this one.

Credits for this page are:

Photo: Taken by a friend at our wedding

Little Hearts: "Just a Little Bit of Love" kit by Mia Design; http://designofmia.blogspot.com

Quote: Unknown (taken from website http://scrapsaying.com/say-love.com

Rest of elements and paper: "In Love" kit by Zalinka & Dallien

I also finished a second page working with Danielle Christiansen's Lemonade & Pink Lemonade Stand kit. I decided to work with some birthday pictures back when dd turned eleven. It was a pretty page with the pink and yellow. Made the day just a little brighter when it's cold outside. LOL.

You can pick up this kit at Danielle's site: http://www.danicdigiscraps.ecrater.com/.

Hope everyone has a great day. I see the Worldwide Christmas Scrapbooking Freebies are ready on their blog, so I am off to see what great Christmas and winter kits have been created by their hard working designers.

New Kits to Use!!

2008-12-03T08:13:00.003-06:00

I received an e-mail last night from Danielle saying that she had two new kits for her creative team: Lemonade & Pink Lemonade kit and a Retro kit. They have great colors and look forward to using them to create new pages! I already created one this morning as it is cloudy and starting to snow again today. Another 1-4 inches is possible. So what better way to brighten the day then to think about lemonade and summertime activities. I found this great picture of when my daughter and her cousins had crawled into a toy box and it was absolutely perfect to modify to make it look as though they were at a lemonade stand with their hands over the front of the stand.

I will mess around with the kits some more today and see what creative juices start going. Have a great day!!!

Sorry, It's Been Awhile

2008-12-02T15:42:00.002-06:00

Well, I guess the weekend flew by and with so much to do, I guess the blog didn't get its needed attention. We received our first snowfall of the winter on Sunday/Monday. Only about an inch or two, but enough to stick around and not leave. A reminder that winter has arrived in Iowa.

I have not scrapped much in the last few days as I began to create the annual "Year in Review" video from all my pictures and video clips from the year. I have to make two, so the first one has been completed. Takes time to determine songs, pictures, video, etc. It has been a successful venture for Disc #1, so I will take a break and catch up on my scrappin' stuff. Hope your week has started out well.

The Day After

2008-11-28T11:23:00.003-06:00

Well, I took a day off from the blog to spend with family on Thanksgiving. Of course the meal was wonderul with ham, turkey, potatoes, stuffing and all the fixings. I am not a fan of getting up early for the "Black Friday" deals, so I slept in and and enjoyed getting up when I felt like it. I think I will work on a Thanksgiving Day themed page today using some of the pictures that I took yesterday. It's a bright and sunny day today, although chilly and look forward to some time with my hubby today! Have a Fantastic Friday!

I created this page using a kit called Tom Tukey Collection by Raspberry Road Designs. I loved the colors and elements and it make for a perfect memory page of Thanksgiving Day!

The Creative Juices

2008-11-26T08:58:00.005-06:00

Boy, I really had a productive day yesterday. I think I did four or five pages of scrappin'. I ended last night working on a page that combined all the 1st days of school for daughter through her elementary years. I, of course, will have to now do one for son and probably pages showing their middle school years as well. They grow up way too fast.

This morning I worked on a page that highlighted a favorite picture of mine and used Danielle Christiansen's Little Princess kit again to feature the picture. Always loved her expression and smile in this picture.

I am sure that everyone is starting to prepare for tomorrow's upcoming Thanksgiving Day. Hopefully everyone has taken their turkey out to thaw and will have fun and blessed time with family and friends.

It's Princess Day

2008-11-25T09:08:00.003-06:00

Today is a bright sunny day here in Iowa. Although I know if I step outside, I will get hit with a wall of cold air. Brrrrr. I really don't care for this time of year; that transition between fall and winter. I keep seeing many scrapbook pages with kids outside in the first snow of the season. I guess if I was a kid, I'd be disappointed that there hasn't been any snow, but honestly I think I am just fine with no snow right now, especially after how hard we were hit last winter. It seemed that winter went on for 6-months. Ugh!

There are many beautiful winter and Christmas kits I would like to try, but for now I think I am content with scrappin' with some pretty colors and traveling down memory lane again. Today, I am working with older pictures (okay 13 years old) of daughter. I had scrapped pics of son when he was little, so using Little Princess kit by Danielle Christiansen, it was time to dig out the little girl pictures.

I hope to find a great Turkey Day kit so I can scrap some memories of the upcoming Thanksgiving on Thursday. Have a great day!

New Wordart for You!

2008-11-24T07:00:00.006-06:00

I was listening to music the other day while doing some scrappin' and I heard the words "The World Goes Away When You Kiss Me". The music moved onto the next song, but the words stuck, so I just had to go back and see who sang the song. The lyrics came from was a song by Shania Twain. The words really took hold of me and it seemed only right to put them into my own version of word art. I am making the wordart available to you as a freebie, just please be sure to leave a little love. You can download this wordart HERE.

I have also posted an example of how I used this wordart. I re-colored the black lettering white in my page to show up better, but other than that there were no other modifications made. Credits for my page are: my photos from our trip to St. Maarten, my wordart, background texture comes from the kit Pistache Glacee by Melancolie.

Sunday, Sunday

2008-11-23T09:34:00.004-06:00

We had an awesome time last night at the in-laws with the pizza and football game. Mom-in-law dug out some old pictures of the kids and family and we had a chance to go through them and any pictures we didn't think we had of the kids we took home. More pictures for scrappin'! Today we're going to my parents for dinner. Our busy summer didn't really allow for visiting so with fall sports done for the season, what a perfect time to visit. Despite we'll be traveling today, I have managed to find some time to put together a couple of pages this morning from Danielle Christiansen's Little Man kit. Hope everyone has a great Sunday!

Busy, Busy Day

2008-11-22T08:55:00.009-06:00

Today will be a busy day today. I have a good friend from high school whose father passed away earlier this week, so I will be attending his funeral today. I will be happy to see her, but it's so sad to do it under these circumstances. Then later tonight it will be pizza and college football at the in-laws. That will be a lot of fun.

Today I will post a couple of pages that I created using Danielle Christiansen's All Boy kit. I had to dig up some old pictures of the son from when he was little, but who doesn't like to reminisce?

This page I had a lot of fun with because son was sitting down. I thought what better way to really make him "pop" out was to make him pop out of the frame. So I took one of the frames and modified it to lay a little flatter so I could work my magic. I really liked how it turned out!

This page I took several of Danielle's backgrounds that she had in the All Boy kit and put them together on the page and used ric rac she had in the kit to give a nice finished look. I did modify the ric rac slightly by adding a grain texture to it. I found some great pictures of son playing with various sport equipment, so thought a nice collage of those pictures would work well on this page. It was a lot of fun to create and gets the pictures out of tubs onto a page! Hope everyone has a great Saturday.

My First Blog Post

2008-11-21T07:51:00.008-06:00

It's Friday! Well, I have finally decided to create a blog for all the scrapping that I do. What a fun way to share some more insight to what I create and possibly share a few QPs that might pop into my brain.

Earlier this week I joined Danielle Christiansen's Creative Team and had the chance to use her new kit Autumn Berry. It is a beautiful kit with many rich colors. The first page I created used some older pics of my daughter, but they were fall pics regardless, so what better kit to use them with then Danielle's.

The second page I create was a fun one for me. There were so many good backgrounds in the kit, that I had a hard time picking just one or two, so I thought a patchwork type background would be fun to do. I hadn't really done one this elaborate before, but I thought it turned out pretty good. All the stitching I did was mine, so that took some time to complete, but all in all the look was what I would hoped it would be.