Chocolate Kisses in time for Valentine's Day

This has been a busy week in Designing and Scrapland for me. I finished my latest kit, Chocolate Kisses. I love the colors I've chosen - Pinks and Browns (my favorite color combination at this moment). This kit is perfect for Valentine's Day Layouts, Weddings, Romance, Baby Girls. Just perfect!
You will find within this kit:
* 5 Solid Papers - Chocolate Brown, Caramel, Cream, Pink, Lt. Pink
* 6 Patterned Papers - Plaid, Argyle, Stripes, Circles, Kisses, and Love Circles
*3 Buttons
*3 Eyelets
*3 Brads
*5 Ribbons
*5 Bows
*3 Felt Hearts
*3 Glitter Hearts
*4 Puffy Stickers
*1 Lace Embellishment
*2 Chocolate Hearts
*1 Chocolate Rose
*1 Postage Stamp

You can find Chocolate Kisses in all 5 of my stores! See my sidebar for the links.

This is also the first kit I have created after reading Sandra Adamson's e-book, So You Wanna Be a Designer. This book has helped me so much in my designing techniques. It has taught me the art to making papers as well as packaging my products and previews. I love how this preview has turned out!! The book is geared towards Photoshop CS2, so I really had fun learning how to use my new program, Photoshop CS3. If you are really interested in learning to become a designer and are looking for something to help walk you through the steps, I highly recommend this book.

I have been busy scrapping photos from Hannah's class. I'm creating a Digital Scrapbook for Hannah's teacher that highlights all the field trips, parties, and special events from throughout the year. Of course, they are on the desktop and I'm typing this on Stephen's laptop. But that's all going to change in a couple weeks as Stephen is getting me a laptop for my Valentine's Day present with our tax refund. I'm soooo excited!!!!

I do want to apologize to my CT Designers. I am seriously slacking in my CT Areas. I still need to scrap photos using products from the majority my CT Designers. I promise I will get them done. It's just been a busy week, playing catch up after being so sick last week. To make up for it, I want to do a little enabling.

I am still sitting on the Guest CT at N4D, and this month, I chose to work with KylieM Designs's kit, Swirls are for Boys, too. I'm looking forward to working with this kit. I know I'm going to have so much fun with it.




This weekend, I am going to be working with Lliella Designs's kit, Fancy Hearts Club. This kit is just gorgeous!! I love the colors, the papers, the elements - everything about it!!! But until I am able to start working on the layouts, let me share with you this awesome Blog Party that Lliella Designs is taking part in this weekend in celebration of ScrapLadies's 1st Birthday. The designers at ScrapLadies have put together an amazing Mega Kit for absolutely free. All you have to do is visit each of the designers' blogs. Start with Lliella Designs's blog!


And while you're in search of freebies, be sure to spot by Mermaid's Haven and pick up Candee's latest freebie kit, October Romance, that she made in honor of her sweetheart!











Traci Thompson, at Make It Scrappy, has finally come out from her hiatus and started designing again. She has really outdone herself with her latest kit, A la Grunge. It's absolutely gorgeous and sitting on my desktop awaiting me to open it up and scrap lots of photos using it. I just love the brown with that color blue/green.
I will be back tomorrow with more enabling and LOs. Tomorrow is going to be a long day that starts with Weight Watchers and ends with 2 birthday parties. I know I will be looking forward to the scrapping break I get to take at the end of the day!!

Just Some LOs

I've been working hard on an Add On for my first Element Team Assignment, a Christmas Kit using some different colors, a Cheerleading Kit, and more templates. But the one thing I have been missing is scrapping, soooo, I've just finished a ton of LOs and I want to share with with everyone!!!

Both of these LOs were created with Fiesta Tile by Traci Thompson, which is available at Make It Scrappy. The first LO was also created with Baby's First Christmas by Jamie Rousselle, available at DigitalScrapbook Place. And it was with one of my templates. The second LO was created with a template by LB Creations for the October Template Challenge at Just for the Scrap of It

These next two LOs were created with Sandra's (aka SeAscrAps) kit, Crop Til Ya Drop. I made them and then used the LOs as Quick Pages to be given away at the weekly chat I host.

These next two LOs were also made with a kit by SeAscrAps. These are from her Timeless Kit. I LOVE it. I cannot wait to scrap more wedding layouts. Man, it was 8 years ago that we got married. And I'm happier now than I've ever been. God is good! The first layout was created with a Template by LB Creations for the September Template Challenge at Just for the Scrap of It. The botton LO was created with a Template by me and was made for the Words Challenge at DigiScrapShak.

Some of My LOs and Two New Freebies

Okay, so I've done some scrappin' for myself this weekend. It's been a long time coming. I love scrapping my kiddos. My mom has asked me to put together a Brag Book for her to share when she goes on vacation next week. Here are some of the pages I've made. I used my Brag Book Templates and Go This Way by Amy Bleser.

And then I created this LO with Little Boy by Sarah Design. I'm on her CT and haven't been very active lately. Trying to make it up to her.I used a template by Laura Carlson for the DigiScrapShak Template Challenge.


Cayden is playing with one of the manipulatives at the Austin Children's Museum. He figured out this "game" very quickly into our trip and spent most of his time dropping the ball and watching it roll.





And this LO I created with Hop Along by Traci Thompson. I love this kit and the template (which is by Andrea Gold). It was perfect for these bubbles pictures.



Journaling reads: What could be more fun than spending time outside with your big sister?? Playing outside with your big sister while she entertains you with the bubble blower. July 2007





Okay, and now what you've all been waiting for. I've got two more templates for you. One of them is kind of a pain to work with, but the final product is so much fun. Here's the template and MY LO using it. The LO was created with Summer Fun by Sarah Designs and elements by SeAscrAps, J. Cantril, and Buzy Bee Scrapper.

I haven't done a LO with this template, but I love the idea of using smaller photos to frame the journaling. I have done a paper LO similar to this but it's in storage.


Here is the link.