I made it to round 3!

I'm so excited, I made it to round 3 of the "This Scrapper's Got Talent" competition at Stuff to Scrap! The judges eliminated 16 people this round, so we're down to 50 contestants. The next challenge is posted Wednesday morning, so we'll see how much trouble I'm in. :)

Scrappy Towne Designs CT Call!

My friend Michelle is having a CT Call for her wonderful creations! Check out her blog HERE to see some of her work. She sells at Ahhh Scrap and Secret City Treasures.

I, of course, jumped on her CT as soon as she announced it. In fact, I think I emailed her back in April and told her when she was ready I was game! :) I've known her for a couple years now, as we were pregnant at the same time. Her son Alex is only a few months younger than my son Cameron...although from pictures, they could be long-lost cousins with their white blond hair and pretty blue eyes!

I can't wait to start working with her wonderful kits and showing you stuff here! If you are interested, please contact her! She's looking to fill 3-4 more slots!

Puckered Kiss

Jenasis Design has a new kit called Puckered Kiss available!



Here's what I did with it. Love the bright colors of this kit, and how wonderful the black elements and alpha really POP on the green!!

So check it out at the Stuff to Scrap store, and be sure to check out the Jenasis Design blog for more info!

My very first QP!

Flower Scraps and Nibbles Skribbles have gotten together to create two kits called "Terrible Twos", and both Creative Teams have some freebies in our own little blog train! This is my first ever blog train, so I'm psyched to give away my very first freebie and my very first QP, or quick page! For anyone who views my blog and doesn't know what a Quick Page is, it is just that: a quick page. :) I've created the page, and you just stick your photo in and add some journaling. Great for when you want to scrapbook in a hurry!

Here are the two kits that started it all, from Flower Scraps and Nibbles Skribbles.





And here is my layout...


Which I turned into a QP for ya!


Go to the link to download!

http://www.4shared.com/file/6lvOhSt9/Mr_Attitude_QP.html

**if this link does not work, send me a comment or message immediately! This is my first time using 4shared, as well as my first time ever "zipping" a file...so I may or may not have done it correctly...LOL!




Now check out the rest of the wonderful Creative Team members and their creations!

Crystal
Flower Scraps
Scrappy Cocoa
Jennifer Myers.
Scrappin' Serenity
Lina
Jennifer Magreevy <<--You are here!

Nibbles Skribbles
Knittin Jen
Donni

NOTE: My QP is for PERSONAL USE ONLY. Do not attempt to sell the layout as it is not YOURS. :) Just enjoy the pretty colors as you have a wonderful keepsake for your scrapbooks!

TSGT Week 2 Layouts

The Week 2 challenge for "This Scrapper's Got Talent" (check out the gallery of all layouts for this competition HERE) at Stuff to Scrap was just that: A CHALLENGE!! I had to create a 2-page layout using 10 pictures, and then create journaling listing a top-10 of sorts. I chose to do a layout on 10 reasons I love my son. :)

This challenge made me realize that I am NOT as far in digital scrapbooking as some of these ladies are. I still scrapbook quite similarly to how I paper scrapbook: I like layers, embellishments, and everything tends to be symmetrical and monochromatic. I am challenging myself into getting more colors into my layouts, as well as using different shapes. I tried to do this page with the pictures being all different sizes...and it seriously killed me! I changed it back to the pictures being lined up. I don't like it when the pages look discombobulated. However, other layouts done by gals look amazing that way! Mine just aren't there yet. (I started this layout on Thursday...took me 3 days of fiddling with it before I considered it "done" and ready for posting!).

I really have no idea if I'll make it through to next week. In some ways, I'm hoping the same thing will happen like last week: so many people didn't even complete a layout that we all got through (so they ended up "eliminating" 30+ people who signed up) so I can go one more week. Every week we stay, we get coupons and free stuff. So I'd like to make it to week 3. :)

The kit I used is called Muddy Buddies, and is such a cute kit for boys! The designer just released a kit similar to this for girls, called Muddy Girlies, so definitely look on STS for those kits! The brushes I used were ones I received in my recent Jessica Sprague class. I'm still having difficulty understanding the brushes...they aren't quite as easy as Jessica makes them out to be in her courses. Although I was impressed with myself for figuring out how to change the color...yep, that's how deep I am into things. I changed the color. WOOHOO! I tried to change the orientation, but ended up flipping the whole layout, so no clue what I did there. :)

June BAK

The June "Build A Kit" is available now on stuff to Scrap! Check out the wonderful kit that Colleen and us CT members helped to design for Pretty Pixel Designs! Colleen is so wonderful, she asked us for help and our opinions. I feel so important. :)




I haven't had an opportunity to play with this kit yet, as the weekend "festivities" in the E.R. with my son really dampened my creative abilities. I'll definitely find time later this week to play!

Also check out ALL of my designers who participated in the STS Blog Train, which is where designers contribute free stuff in one theme so, at the end, you have a HUGE kit that centers around one set of colors or themes. The theme this month was "Summer Romance". Check out

Flower Scraps

Jenasis Design

Pretty Pixel Designs


Once on these blogs, you'll see the entire list of bloggers who participated. Some really cute stuff!!

I'm Through to Round TWO!

So I have made it through to round two...although I'm lucky, because there was a slight mistake on my layout. The judges decided that they didn't give enough information on the rules, so anyone who completed a layout was pushed through to the next round. There were around 95 or so competitors at the beginning, but I guess a bunch didn't actually do the first challenge, so only around 60ish of us are through.

The rules for last week's challenge stated that we were NOT to use complete sentences. Well, I didn't feel that I did. But seeing the results, the judges felt that any sequence of words over 3 words could be deemed a complete sentence. NOW, I will say that the teacher in me says NO. It is NOT a complete sentence unless there is a noun, verb, etc. So my sentence of "full of adoration and love for my child" wasn't technically a full sentence in my opinion. I would have to have added the words "I am" to the front to make it a full sentence. But, apparently the judges felt otherwise.

In any case, the week 2 challenge will be posted tomorrow. Eeek! We'll see what it brings!