Nothing new. :(

I've been in Dallas visiting family this weekend, and my child got horrificly sick. His temp spiked up to 105 today!!! We immediately went to the E.R. where he was diagnosed with an ear infection, but they arent sure if its a virus that just hasn't shown symptoms yet. So he was given a ton of meds and some prescriptions, and hopefully we'll make it back to Oklahoma City on Monday. Ugh. This is soooooo not the weekend I had hoped for!

As long as I arrive back and can get all of my stuff ready, keep my blog bookmarked for some great stuff! Flower Scraps and Nibbles Skribbles are having a CT Blog Train and you'll get all sorts of freebies...I even made my very first QP (Quick Page!). The June BAK will be going live at Stuff to Scrap, and a new kit is coming up soon from Jenasis Design! A big week for all of us, yay!

Jenasis Design Memorial Day Sale!

Jenasis Design is having a HUGE SALE this weekend for Memorial Day!!

Check out this awesome sale HERE!!!

This Scrappers Got Talent Week 1 Challenge

So the competition has started! I was stalking the thread this morning so I could see my options and plan what I wanted to do. Soooo exciting!

(note, you cannot sign up anymore!)

So the Week 1 challenge was to create a layout with only 1 or 2 photographs, as well as lines of text, but no complete sentences or journaling paragraphs. The words "I Am" had to be somewhere on your layout, essentially talking about yourself. Ironically, I completed a similar layout to explain why I started digital scrapbooking for the "My Life" challenge a few weeks ago in a similar fashion, which can be seen HERE.

So here's what I came up with.

I freakin' LOVE how this turned out. Seriously. I'm proud of myself. I guess that's the point of this competition! I used a kit called Fresh Air Adventures by a designer named Scrapalicious Cereal, which is available at Stuff to Scrap. The kit is amazing, lots of wonderful colors in my favs (blues and greens) and I think I can use the kit quite often.

I decided to be ME for this layout. Anyone who knows me knows that I am a comedian. I love making people laugh, I'm the person people turn to when they are really upset and need to get a laugh to make themselves feel better. As you can tell by the photo (taken at Christmas when one of my sister's six-week-old 'goldendoodle' puppies was going to town on my hair like it was her long-lost chew toy), I enjoy even having a laugh at myself! Since I could only use one photo, it doesn't show the series of photos that I took at this time to chronicle the dog attacking my hair. Its pretty funny...and I have funny faces in each photo to go along with the crazed hysteria of the attack. :)

The rules of this competition stipulate that people must complete their layout by the Sunday of each week. The judges take Monday to judge and eliminate some, then Tuesday they tell everyone who made it through. My goal out of this was to just make it past week one. :) Seriously! I'm such a new digi scrapper that I considered making it past week one to be a great accomplishment! If I could make it to week 3....well, I don't know what I would do with myself. Someone would have to scrape me off the freakin' ceiling, that's for doggone sure. :)

Feeling Lucky

Colleen at Pretty Pixel Designs asked me to play with her kit called "Feeling Lucky" to showcase that it is NOT just for St. Patrick's Day. While lots of the elements focus around clovers and the general green-ness of St. Patty's, I managed to create a very nice layout without anything to do with that holiday. :)

I like how this turned out. My husband I were so proud of ourselves for planting this tree. The sucker is HUGE. Seriously, like 12 feet tall. We had to have our builder meet us at Home Depot because the tree was so big it wouldn't fit in our SUV. And then to dig the hole...oh.my.lord. Seriously, took forever. Both of us were exhausted after it...and we had two more (much smaller) trees to plant in the backyard!

We're still not sure if any of the trees are "taking" to their change of environment. Home Depot is about 30 minutes away, and we unfortunately picked a very windy day to go get the trees. So the trees actually suffered "wind burn" on the drive back to our house. We also realized after planting them that we didn't follow the explicit directions on how to plant them, so we're not sure if we supplied enough loose topsoil for the roots to dig into (the roots may have a hard time getting through the wonderful Oklahoma clay that is extremely tough!). So the trees are still looking slightly forelorn and droopy, but they haven't completely died. So there is still hope. :)

Stay tuned for two great kits from Pretty Pixel Designs coming up in the next few weeks! PPD will be participating in the May BAK through Stuff to Scrap, as well as releasing a brand new kit that has some wonderful colors!

Dusty Rose Garden #2

I did another layout with Jenasis Design's Dusty Rose Garden. Very pretty kit! Unfortunately, the fact that I have a boy makes it slightly more difficult to create wonderful layouts that aren't feminine, but I think I did okay. He won't die of shame with a little pink on a layout. :)

The frame featured here is one of the elements in the kit, how nice is that! I don't think I'm creative enough to think about doing multiple frames, so I'm glad Shelby created a frame for geeks like me to just shove on there. :) I did, however, create my own little tag using a circular piece of one of the papers included, as well as the small pearl-like frame that is included. The word "reading" is part of the alpha included, and the words "with gamma" are a font called LT Chickenhawk, which is one of my favs.

Check below to see another layout using this kit!

I have to post a link to this kit I just found, which is one Jenasis Design did (not sure when she released it). Its called "Enchanted Evening". How pretty is this??? Ahhh, makes me relax and think sleepy thoughts just looking at it. Totally have to grab this kit, I only have a thousand pictures of Cameron sleeping that I could use!! :) She also has a kit called "Posh Baby" which is considered a mega kit because of the number of elements included...it has FOUR alphas!!! Must.Grab.Soon. Gee. I'm such an enabler. :) hee hee

Dusty Rose Garden

A new kit is now available at Stuff to Scrap by Jenasis Design! Its called Dusty Rose Garden, and has beautiful soft-colored papers and embellishments. Really pretty kit! Its versatile too...while the theme might be around gardening and/or flowers, I've managed to create a wonderful layout that showcases NONE of that. :) Ahhh, the joy of kits like this, you can create ANYTHING you want!!



Here's my layout. The kit seriously has great embellishments, lots of frames for photos and extra bits that make a page so special. LOVE IT!!

I'll be working more with this kit in the next few days, so keep a lookout for more goodies. Also have tons of other things I'm going to hopefully finish this week. Lots of challenges on various websites I'm trying to finish, as well as the new competition at Stuff to Scrap called "This Scrapper's Got Talent" which starts the last week of the month. It is essentially like any reality competition you see on tv: we get a set of directions, complete them, and each week people are removed from the competition. Every week we go further we get goodies, and the grand prize winner apparently wins some good stuff. :) I'm just hoping to make it through week one!

Flower Scraps Release Time!

Flower Scraps and Nibbles Skribbles have collaborated to create a wonderful kit called Bubble Bath Buddies! Its adorable...I seriously have about one thousand photos I can use this kit on. You know, babies in tubs are too cute to NOT catch on camera. Except, of course, my child, who seems to only be enjoying bathtime if he's emptied his bowels. At the same time. And can I just tell you he's 19 months old...and he had NEVER done this before?!?!? Now its an every-time-in-the-tub kinda thing. Yep. Not my idea of a relaxing bath before bedtime. :-/

But I digress! Here's the kit!



And here are two layouts I made with it. Lots of great embellishments, as well as a full alpha. Great kit!

Check it out at Stuff to Scrap, and be sure to hit up both blogs for Flower Scraps and Nibbles Skribbles to see more!