Fun Snow Kits by Colie's Corner

Colie has two kits she released called Snow Wonder & Thrills & Chills. There is one for a boy & one for a girl. I just love the cute snowman & penguin that she has included in each of these kits.

You'll find her kits at BeenThereScrappedThat.com.

Here's the layouts I did using these two kits:

Freebie by HeavenlyScraps

HeavenlyScraps has a cute freebie on her blog today. It's created from her new kit Jolly Christmas.

Working on Calendar for 2009

Wow, 2009 is coming quickly. So quickly that I realize that I'm not finished with my calendar pages yet. I was so good last year & made calendar pages as gifts for the grandparents. So far I have like 4 pages done, so that's not going to work unless I work day & night on it.

Here's what I have done so far.

Fun challenges with awesome rewards!

You really need to check out the challenges at Bit2Kits this month.

Bits2Kits has some awesome, huge rewards for completing only 1 challenge. One challenge lets you choose a free kit from the designer's store, another $4 off coupon for the designer's shop, & another a full set of quick pages.

You know I just love template challenges. This month's template challenge is a printable Christmas card.

Here's mine:

RAK by Chris Young/HeavenlyScraps

Check out this thread to win some cool stuff by HeavenlyScraps!

HeavenlyScraps Sale

Kristin's Grab Bag

You might be interested in a wonderful grab bag by Kristin's Scrap Design. It's filled with loads of fun items. You can grab it at any of Kristin's stores. At Pickleberrypop, you'll find it for $2.65 USD.

I'll give you a hint: there's a really neat set of Christmas card templates included (see my layout below).

Win Tis the Season!

I know you want it, now you can win it.

HeavenlyScraps/Chris Young has an adorable kit called Tis the Season. She went over the top with this kit. You are going to love all the fun snowman, ornament elements & papers she packed into this kit.Please reply in this thread to win! I'll be picking a random winner in a couple days.

Free Quickpages by Me!

Bits2Kits is giving away a freebie everyday in December. Today the freebie is from me. I made up two quickpages using items from the Bits2Kits designers. These will be available for today only! Stop over at Bits2Kits to pick this freebie.

New Journaling Challenge at Color Line Design

I've posted the new journaling challenge at CLD for December. I hope you'll come join me. Here's the link to read more.

This month's challenge is to use the poem by Mark Twain -

Twenty years from now

you will be more disappointed

by the things that you didn't do

than by the ones you did do.

So throw off the bowlines.

Sail away from the safe harbor.

Catch the trade winds in your sails.

Explore. Dream. Discover.

I thought it was perfect for my little busy bodies. Here's my layout I created using a kit called Gabby's Dream Remix by Colie's Corner.

Christmas Advent giveaway at Bits2Kits

Speed Scrap

I've been having fun at DigiScrapStation with their speed scraps or Saturday Night Express as it is called in their forum. I think it's fun & challenging. Every 10 minutes during the hour you are given a new assignment. For example, the first item was to find either a black/navy background or to put an "X" on your layout.

Once all the assignments have been given out, you have one hour to complete your layout & upload it to the DSS gallery.

Here's my layout for the week of November 22nd. I used items from a kit called Tweeting Friends (available at Bits2kits by SAS Designs). I recolored the background paper to be dark black & used items from the kit I hadn't used before. I love the pink sparkly swirls. I feel like if I hadn't searched them out for this challenge they may have gone unused (which is a real shame.)

I created the 8 point star from background paper & used a font called MA Sexy for the quote we were assigned to use "I'll Be There For You."

Overall, I had a blast & was able to create this fun layout. I think I'll hunt out some more speed scraps in the future when they work in my schedule!!!

Gabby's Dream by Colie's Corner

Colie has a fun new kit called Gabby's Dream (Remix Edition) available at BeenThereScrappedThat.com. (It's currently on sale for only $1).

I really enjoyed this fun girly kit. I especially enjoyed all the papers I found in this kit. For my layout, I used a template from Angie Kovacs called May I have a word. I was able to use lots of the papers from the kit in my layout.

Chill Out Remix & template freebie by Kristin

I completed a layout using Colies' Chill Out Remix Kit & Kristin's freebie template for the template challenge on the SNT blog. I just love this template layout & the colors of Colie's kit. Colie has included some super cool alpha with the kit (in both blue & green).

Freebies at HeavenlyScraps blog

HeavenlyScraps has been participating in the charity event at Divine Digital. The Divine Digital Diva's have came together for this wonderful Charity Event and will be having a blog party!!

If you hope over to her blog, you'll find ASPCA Day 3 Freebie & the other links to continue on the blog party.

Blog Template Challenge at SNT

Kristin has a blog/template challenge over at Scrap n Tag's new blog. You'll get the chance to try Kristin's templates & possibly win one of the prizes, a gift card to the store or her 2009 calendar template set (shown below).Kristin has also offered up an extra bonus!! Check out the blog for more details.

Here's one of the pages I have completed with the 2009 templates.

Sale at Bits2Kits

Jolqa has all of her kits currently 50% off at Bits2Kits. This is a great time to pick up some fun kits & try her out.

Baby Boy created using Sweet Baby Boy.

Driving the Tractor using Golden Lief

These two layouts of my grandma's 95th birthday - Red Elegance.

Bits2Kits Winter Collab Kit

The November Mega Kit at Bits2Kits is called Whispering Winter. The kit includes 70 papers & over 120 elements.

I love the mix of colors included int his kit along with the fun Alphas.

Here's the layout I created using some of the items from the kit.

CLD Collab Kit

The November collab kit at ColorLineDesign is fabulous. They put together a really super holiday kit. Here's the link to learn out more about the kit.

Here's my two layouts using the kit.

Sale for Kristin's Templates

***NEW*** TEMPLATE PACK NO 12 IN STORE ***NEW***

Buy before October 19th and get 25% OFF

Only $ 2.63

Calendar 2009 - 25% OFF until October 19th.

Available in both A4 and Letter size

Only $ 4.50 (USD)

Kristin is now selling at scrapwithtemplates.com, pickleberrypop.com & scrap-n-tag.com

Halloween Freebie by Chris Young

Go check out HeavenlyScrap's blog. She has a cute alpha freebie pack! I think they are just adorable.

My Fall Layouts

I think I love fall this year more than ever. Kaitlyn is at an age where she loves being outside. Nathan has always loved being outside, so we are enjoying these last few days before the cold hits.

Here are some of my fall/autumn CT layouts. I love the new kits that were released for Fall!!

Forever Autumn by Christy Skaggs (available at Bits2Kits):

Forever Autumn by Christy Skaggs & a template coming soon by Kristin's Design Scraps:

Boy I'm Falling by Colie's Corner:

October Collab Kit by CLD designers & template by Kristin's Design Scraps (coming soon):

Win free kits at Bits2Kits.com

At Bits2Kits you can win free kits just by commenting on layouts in the gallery. (I think this is a really cool way to get free kits & try out new designers). Check out this link for the B2K posting competition.

There are tons of awesome kits in their store. Here's a couple layouts I completed this week. All the items for these layouts can be found at Bits2Kits.

Plasticine Garden by Darhena Design

Underwater Baby by SAS Designs
Shopping Fun Page Kit by HeavenlyScraps

Grab Bag by HeavenlyScraps

Awesome Grab Bag by HeavenlyScraps

You won't believe the awesome items that HeavenlyScraps has in her huge grab bag. You'll need to hurry since is it only on sale at this great price for this weekend only! You can only get this at ColorLineDesign.



I created two quickpages with items from her grab bag that you can download here for free.

Quickpage #1

Quickpage #2

Helen's Jeans4U

Helen's new kit, Jeans4U, is just adorable. It's filled with denims & pinks. Here's a preview of the kit. If you like it, hurry over & register to win yourself a free one at DST.

This is an adorable add-on. It contains the sweetest background papers.

I love the alpha papers. I've been waiting to scrap this photo for a very long time. I just couldn't find the right kit to work with the photo. I was so happy to use this photo for my first layout. I love the way it turned out.