Guitar Star - Featuring Jannylynn Brokken Designs

This is my sweet little niece Abi who got a Barbie guitar for Christmas and nearly deafened all of us with her rock star skills. This photo of her was caught during a break in her studio session LOL!

CREDITS: green paper stack from Dreadfully Happy, a collaboration freebie from scrap-shop.fr; background papers, flowers, folded and stiched ribbons from New Bag by Jannylynn Brokken Designs; jeweled chain from Spunki Charms by Studio Lorie; beaded border from Flittery Sparkles by Studio Lorie; triple frame from Prairie Gal by Studio Lorie; leaf from Kit No. 14 by ON Designs; alpha from Rustic Country by Broken Jar Creations; font is 1942 Report

I won the Vera Lim Blog Scraplift Challenge!!!!

OH . . . MY . . . GOODNESS! I am SO happy.

I won the scraplift challenge on the Vera Lim Blog! CHECK IT OUT HERE

I can't believe they picked me . . . there were some really lovely creations! Of course, with Yvette as inspiration, you really can't go wrong!

This is the layout that I submitted . . . using Vera Lim's One Season from Prima Hybrid.

Party! - Featuring papers, elements & alpha by Krystal Hartley

CREDITS:
All papers and elements, including alpha, designed by Krystal Hartley.

The 21 Day InspiRation Challenge Starts March 1st!

Have you heard? The 21 Day InspiRation Challenge starts March 1, 2008, hosted by Rhonna Farrer at Two Peas. FOR MORE INFORMATION CLICK HERE

Shine - ON Designs Challenge

I created this LO for the first challenge for the ON Designs Challenge Site. There are some fabulous layouts by the ON Designs Creative Team. Check out what they've done and enter the challenge yourself! ON DESIGNS CHALLENGE SITE

CREDITS:
Cardboard Box from Box It Up by Maya; Leaf garland and jeweled flower from Water Spirit by Studio Lorie; Light Beams Brush by Stephanie Shimerdla/Obsidian Dawn; all remaining papers and elements, including alpha, from Kit No. 14 by ON Designs; font is 1942 Report

DST Trash to Treasure Hunt Challenge Layout

Well, I had a lot of fun this weekend hunting down all the freebies the designers donated for the DST Trash to Treasure Hunt. This is my layout created from some of the goodies I discovered!

Background Papers, Paper Butterfly, Lace: Avant Garden by Digital Scrapbook Artisan Guild; Ribbon Wrapped Frame: Blushbutter; Paper Frame with Staples and Notepaper, Journal Page, Key: Broken Jar Creations; Cardboard Strip, Dirty Cardboard Alpha: Scrap Kitten; Album Cover: Cari Lopez; Tabbed Index Card: Kathryn Estry; Brown Ribbon: Kuoha Designs Ink!; Buckle Ribbon: Lisa Joy; In The Garden Quick Card: Mad Scrapper Designs; Leaves: Sugarplum Paperie; Frame, Glitter Doodle, Flower from Berry Ice: Sweet Digi Scraps; Font: Henry Morgan Hand

Go Forth - Featuring New Collection by Studio Lorie

Anticipated date of release of Studio Lorie's newest collection, Water Spirit, at scrapbookgraphics.com is Monday, February 25, 2008. It is a magical watery wonderland that I'm totally in love with (I know, surprise, surprise). The collection is just fabulous. The quality of the papers and elements is superb and they are a joy to work with . . . go ahead and snatch it up! You know you want to do it!


CREDITS: All papers and elements, including alpha, from the Water Spirit Collection by Studio Lorie (anticipated release date Monday 2/25/08). Font is Henry Morgan Hand.

DECK OF ME CHALLENGE, WEEK 3

Our prompt for this week is: I AM.

Create a card that makes a statement about you. "I am woman, hear me roar!" "I am invincible!" "I am sad." "I am worth more." These are just some examples. What can you say you are?

You can view Emily Falconbridge's card here: EMILY'S WEEK THREE CARD

Please upload your cards to the Shakin' Challenges/Deck of Me gallery here:
DECK OF ME GALLERY

These are my cards for this week's challenge:

CREDITS: All papers and elements from My Silly Kitty by Danielle Engebretson. Font is Baron Kuffner.

As always, I'm looking forward to viewing your creations and learning a little bit more about each of you. Thanks for playing!

The Love of a Father Runs Deep

CREDITS: Background paper, ribbon wrapped frame, glitter, circle stitching and flowers by Chaos Lounge from February Birthday Member Kit/Digital Candy; aged frame by Maja Designs from February Birthday Member Kit/Digital Candy; twirly twig from Archive Collection by Studio Lorie; passion leaves from Twitterpated Passion by Studio Lorie; Another Boho Love Affair Alpha by Tracy Collins; Green Glitz Alphaz by Vicki Stegall Designs; Tiny Tattered Type by freedigitalscrapbooking.com; Inked Cork Alpha by The Paper Tag; font is Hartin2; lyrics from "I Loved Her First" by Heartland

Dreamy Daniel

CREDITS: Background paper by Chaos Lounge (two papers blended: one from Doodle Love and one from Secret Garden Freebie); swirl doodles from Colour My Doodle by Chaos Lounge; photo mask by K. Myers; jewels from Jordan Claire by Scrap N Tag; stars from My Sunshine by Scrap N Tag; light swirl brushes byObsidian Dawn/Stephanie Shimerdla; handstamped alpha by Michelle Coleman; font is Scriptina.

Seize The Day!

I am so proud of my husband. He ran his first half marathon on Sunday, and finished under the time he set for himself.

CREDITS: All papers and elements from Candy Jar No. 9 Mini Kit by Ziggle Designs with the exception of one patterned paper from Celebration Freebie by Chaos Lounge and brushes from Celebration by Rhonna Farrer. Font is Rage.

Sweet Sisters - Featuring Doodle Love by Chaos Lounge

CREDITS: Papers and elements from Doodle Love Collection by Chaos Lounge; red jeweled flower from Blog Freebie by Chaos Lounge; Alpha from Rustic Country Collection by Broken Jar Creations; font is CK Becky

Sweet Dreams Baby

CREDITS: All papers and elements from Sweet Dreams Baby by Scrap N Tag; font is problem secretary

Steadfast Love - Faith Discovery Challenge #6 Lover Of My Soul

CREDITS: All papers and elements from Lover Of My Soul Collab Freebie (background paper by Eressea Design; frame, chipboard heart, inked heart by Dahlia Co Designs; ribbon and word art by Susan Designs) with the exception of the pink swirl tag and purple flowers from Gift of Love by Dahlia Co. Designs; date bits by Misty Cato; font is MA Sexy.

Avery - Featuring April Bern's Vintage Rose Collection

Shapes and brushes were covered with papers and various beveling and shadow work done to produce the final effect. The challenge was to use a collection's papers only.

This is one of Olivia's closest friends who was at her birthday party.

CREDITS: All papers from Vintage Rose by April Bern; crop shapes from Photoshop Elements 5.0; butterfly, trail and foliage by Stephanie Shimerdla/Obsidian Dawn; font: Mutlu

Sweet, Sleepy, Cuddly Time

This layout created for a 2Peas Challenge for Storybook/Children's Illustration Inspiration. I was inspired by the illustrations of a book called Milly & Tilly.

CREDITS: Papers from Prairie Gal by Studio Lorie; Elements taken from the following collections: Kit Promenade dans les Champs by scrapteamphotofiltre, Art Fusion Collab by Christina Renee Designs; Where Is The Summer by Bridget; Floral Kit by New Life; Those Little Boxes, The Victorian Desk and Mixed Items by Happyscrappy; Prairie Gal, Archive, Twitterpated Passion and Clippity Snippets by Studio Lorie.

8 Girls 27 Dresses

To celebrate my daughter's 11th birthday, she had a sleepover with 8 girls on Friday night and on Saturday afternoon, we went to the movies to see 27 Dresses (followed by the required trip to the mall!).

This is a scraplift of Yvette (alohamomma) for a Vera Lim blog challenge.

CREDITS: All papers and elements from One Season by Vera Lim Designs at Prima Hybrid with the exception of red inked alpha by Foxy Designs, Parisian alpha and celebration brushes by Rhonna Farrer, frame brushes by Obsidian Dawn and copper penny alpha by Tina Chambers

Birthday Wishes

CREDITS: All papers and elements, including alpha, from Joy, The Fruit of the Spirit Collection by Gretchen Tripp; fonts: MA Sexy and Brandywine.

Beautiful - Featuring Vintage Rose by April Bern

CREDITS: All papers and elements from Vintage Rose by April Bern; twine border from Prairie Gal by Studio Lorie; font is Mutlu

Autumn - Featuring Sunrise by Trish H. Designs

CREDITS: All papers and elements from Sunrise by Trish H Designs; Glitter Alpha by Ellie Lash/Love Actually Freebie Collab; Photo from stockxchng; Word Art by Daniela Peuss