More From River Rose!

Hello Scrapland!  I hope everyone had an amazing holiday break!  Can you believe that it will be 2011 in just 2 days???  I never know where the time has gone.  Well, anyway, River Rose has been at it again to bring you some more amazing Many Seasons volumes. 

I haven’t had a chance to play with any of them yet, but here are the previews for you to check out:

She’s also participating as one of the Funky Club designers for Volume 2.  If you sign up early, you get $20 worth of coupons along with the membership!  Click the ad to go take advantage of this awesome offer!  (I know I will!)

If I’m not back before Monday, have a great New Year’s Eve!!  And I’ll see you next year!

Holly and Cheer

Hello again Scrapland!  I pretty much got all of my ramblings out in my previous post, so let’s get right to it, shall we?

Scraps of Ellay put a Christmas kit in store today called Holly and Cheer, and boy is it a cute kit!!  I had So much fun playing with it!  I love everything about it!  It’s definitely a Christmas kit worth getting.  It’s perfect for any and all Christmas layouts!  Here are the two I did with it:

Here’s the kit preview, just click it if you like it and you can go check it out in the store!

I hope you enjoyed all of this fun eye candy today!  I probably won’t be back before Christmas, so I want to wish everyone that reads my blog and all of their friends and family a Big

Happy Holidays and

Merry Christmas!!!!!!

 

Mouse Tales

Hello Scrapland!  I hope everyone is having fun this holiday season and not getting too stressed out!  I’m super happy, I just finished ALL of my shopping and ALL of my wrapping last night!  Now I just have to get everything for Christmas dinner… 

Oh, and I want to quick show you the final look of the Christmas cards we sent out.  Remember, I used Shutterfly and made a folded 5x7 picture card?  Well, here’s what all of our friends and family members received this year:

I thought they turned out really cute!!  I might have to do this again next year!

Ok, now to show you the new Christmas goodies from River Rose!  She just put a Really cute kit in her store called Mouse Tales.  She never fails to surprise me with her talent!  Check out what I did with it:

Here’s the full kit preview, click it to go check out all of the cuteness in the store!

I hope you enjoyed these!  I’ll be back in a couple of minutes with Another super cute Christmas kit you Have to check out!

Secret of the Heart

Hello Scrapland!  River Rose was at it again!  This time she worked along side Creative Victorian Designs to bring you a beautiful kit that is a little outside of her usual style.  It’s called Secret of the Heart and it’s a gorgeous victorian style that is great for any elegant layout you’d like to create!  Here’s the layout I made with it:

Here’s the kit preview, click it to be taken to the store to get a better look!

I hope you liked what you saw!  And, if you are in the Christmas mood, looking for more festive kits, I have it on good authority that later this week, River Rose will be coming out with something right up your alley!  So, stay tuned!

Many Seasons

Hello Scrapland!  I’m finally back to show you what River Rose just put in store.  She has started a series of kits called Many Seasons.  They are designed with different colors and feels so that you will have a kit for everything!  And let me tell you, they are gorgeous!  I was hoping to use more then one this week, but I just ran out of time.  So, here’s the layout I made with Vol. 4, I did a layout for the FPD Scraplift Challenge:

Here’s Vol. 4 and the other three previews, so you can see what I was talking about.  If you see something you like, click it to be taken to the store!

And guess what?  They are only $1.75 each!  That’s their regular price!  Well, I hope you enjoyed all of this eye candy!  See you back here soon with more!

Windy City Winter Freebie!

Hello Scrapland!  I know it’s been awhile since we’ve given anything away here, but this week I got some motivation to do some designing.  So, today I bring to you a full kit freebie called “Windy City Winter!”  I had a ton of fun making it, so I hope you enjoy playing with it!  Here’s the preview, and the links are below:

Elements 1

Elements 2

Papers 1

Papers 2

Enjoy!!!  I’ll be back here soon to show off my latest River Rose layout and tell you more about her new series of kits!

My First Year

Hello Scrapland!  I hope everyone had a fabulous Thanksgiving and a very productive Black Friday!  I know I did!  Yep, I was one of those crazies walking into Kohls at 3am!!  I love it!  And, now that I am pretty much done with my Christmas shopping, I can relax and get some scrapping done! 

Scraps of Ellay just put a very cute kit in store called My First Year, designed so that you can scrap all of your baby’s firsts with.  I’m loving it because it’s getting me to actually scrap those baby pictures I took of my little one.  Here’s what I’ve done so far:

Super cute huh?  Here’s the kit preview, click it to be taken to the store!

I hope you enjoyed what you saw!  Happy Scrapping! 

River Rose Winter

Hello Scrapland!  I want to say an early Happy Thanksgiving since I probably won’t be back until after!  River Rose has been busy this month and has put out 3 winter/Christmas kits in the past couple of weeks!  I’ve been having soooo much fun scrapping with them.  Let’s get started with the eye candy, shall we?

This first one is a collab she did with Amanda Carlson.  I absolutely love everything about this kit.  The colors, the theme, the cuteness!

Here’s what I did with First Frost:

Her second kit was a very cute and bright Christmas kit called Christmas Surprises:

Here’s the layout I did with Christmas Surprises, it was for the FPD Scraplift challenge:

And this last one she just released yesterday.  I LOVE this kit!  I love the colors and I absolutely love the theme! 

Here’s the layout I did with Cozy Winter, of my hubby and me cuddled up on the couch.

I hope you saw something you liked!  I know I did!  Now I’m off to scope out the Black Friday sales and plan my attack :)  (I know, I know, I’m crazy for going out at 3am to fight the mobs, but it’s just so much fun!  And it’s something I get to do with just my mom.  So, it’s well worth it!)  Oh, and I just picked up the perfect kit to scrap my shopping pictures with over at the Scrap Orchard Farmer’s Market sale.  No, I have no affiliations with Scrap Orchard, I just LOVE $1 sales!! :)  Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!

Two Kits and a Contest!

Hello Scrapland!  I hope everyone had a wonderful Veteran’s Day!  I’d like to say thank you to all of my fellow servicemen and women past and present, for their wonderful time spent protecting our country, and a belated Happy Birthday to all of my fellow Marines!!! 

This week, River Rose has a whole bunch going on!  If you missed her kits in the Designer’s Contest over at DSA, she is putting (my favorite) one of her kits in store today.  AND, if you missed her Full kit newsletter Freebie, that will also be in store today for purchase!  Check out my layouts and the kit previews:

Here’s the Countryside Fall Kit that River Rose gave away in her newsletter:

 

And next week, River Rose will be releasing 2 wintery kits!!  One of them is a collab, and both of them are Fabulous!    

One of them is a kit with Amanda Carlson.  It’s just beautiful, and they are giving it away to TWO lucky winners!  All you have to do is click on the sneak peek to head over to the River Rose blog, leave a comment, then click on the link to head over to Amanda Carlson’s blog and leave a comment.  Then, you are entered!  Good luck everyone!

Have a great weekend everyone!!

Shutterfly Holiday Cards

Hello Scrapland!  I don’t know about you, but during my 5 minutes of downtime a day, I’ve been thinking about how I’m going to get my Christmas cards out.  Usually I would try to throw something together myself, but I can already tell that I’m just not going to have the time this year.  I’ll be lucky if I can get some nice holiday photos taken!  So, I’ve been looking into it and it looks like Shutterfly will be my go to place for cards this year.  They have hundreds of templates with something for everyone!

The layout I’m choosing to go with this year is simple and elegant and will give me room on the inside to write a nice note telling everyone what’s been going on this year in our household.  What a time saver!!  Check out the template I chose:

Like I said, there are HUNDREDS to choose from, so if you want to see more, just click HERE and choose the type of card you are looking for!

If you are too busy to even send out Christmas cards, maybe sending Happy New Year cards are more for you.  They have a HUGE selection of those as well!  Just click HERE to check out that selection!

Alice and I have also been known to put together photo calendars as Christmas gifts for family members.  We usually make a layout for each month and then upload them to Shutterfly for them to put together calendars for us.  Our family always loves getting those!  Some neat features that Shutterfly has are:
- You can put pictures of birthday people On the day of their birthday!
- You can type in special occasions right onto the calendar!
- They have lots of pre-made templates, so if you are having scrappers block, don’t fret, you have the drag and drop option!!

So, during your busy holiday preparations, don’t forget about your holiday cards!  Your family and friends will be looking forward to getting them, and photo cards are even more exciting!    Good luck everyone!

P.S. Bloggers get 50 free holiday cards from Shutterfly. sign up: http://bit.ly/sfly2010

November Boys

Hello Scrapland!  I hope everyone had a fabulous iDSD!  I didn’t do much on the computer because I had previous engagements, but I did take a ride on a couple of blog trains!  There sure was some great stuff out there this weekend.  I also took a trip to Archiver’s yesterday where they were doing a couple of free make-and-takes.  (I Love Free!)  It’s always fun to see the new techniques and products the paper scrappers are using nowadays. 

Anyway, I’m not here to babble about my traitorous trip to the paper scrapping world.  I’m here to tell you about the awesome kit River Rose released last Friday.  I always get excited when she makes boyish kits!  This time, she made a kit called “November Boys.”  I love the name, the colors, the concept, EVERYTHING!  Here’s the layout I made with it, titled “Keep Looking Up:”

Here’s the kit preview, click it to be taken to the store where everything is 40% off until the 17th!!!

That’s it for now, but this Friday, River Rose will be releasing her DSA Designer contest kits to her store, so keep a lookout for that!  I’ll be back with some eye candy in a few days.  :) 

November Playgroup

Hello Scrapland!  I hope everyone had a fun and scary Halloween!  I took my two little ones trick-or-treating, but they didn’t last very long.  It was a little chilly here.  I still had fun though (and am enjoying the candy). 

Well, now it’s November and coming up this weekend is Digital Scrapbooking Day!  Lots of places are planning LOTS of fun stuff to do all month in honor of DSD and River Rose is no exception.  Head on over to her blog HERE to check out what she has in store for you!  She also put out her November Playgroup yesterday and it’s fabulous!  It has a bunch of rich colors and elements and I love the variety in the colors.  Here’s what I did with it (using the template from FPD’s Template Challenge):

Check out all of the pieces of the Playgroup:

   

Fun stuff huh?  I hope you enjoyed the goodies today!  See you back here soon!

This Little Piggy

Hello Scrapland!  Didn’t we all play that little game with all of our babies?  Well, I love that Scraps of Ellay and Knittenjen Designs decided it was time for someone to make a scrapping kit just for those precious moments!  They teamed up and created a super cute kit full of pigs and piggy elements, and I just love it!  Check out the page I made using the template from this month’s STS Template Challenge:

Here’s the full kit preview, click it to be taken to the store:

I hope you enjoyed all of the cuteness!  If I don’t blog again before this weekend, Happy Halloween!!!!!

Grateful Sentiments

Hello Scrapland!  Is everyone as ready for the weekend as I am?  I’m having my sons’ birthday party (yes, one party for both :) ) this weekend at Chuck E Cheese’s.  I usually do a big production at home, so this will be a welcome relief.  Especially since all three of us have been sick all week. 

But, I’m not here to chat your ear off.  I’m here to show you River  Rose’s new goodies!  This week she teamed up with Jayaprem’s Hangout to create a beautiful kit that you can use for Thanksgiving layouts, or just any layout you want to create about something/someone you are grateful for.  They really did an outstanding job!  Here’s the layout I created with it, also in conjunction with the Scraplift Challenge over at FPD:

Here’s the kit preview, as always, click it to be taken to the store where it is currently on Sale!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Trick or Treat

Hello Scrapland!  Is everyone completely soaked in the Halloween mood yet?  I know I am!  I was so happy when I saw that Both of the designers I create for did Halloween kits this year!  (It’s my favorite holiday)  So, today I’m here to show you the Halloween kit Scraps of Ellay made this year.  It’s a collab with Rainamoon Scraps (also at STS) and it’s super cute!  Check out what I did with it:

This one is with just Scraps of Ellay’s part.

This one is with both parts.
 
Here’s the kit preview for Ellay’s portion, click it to be taken to the store where it’s on Sale!

  
I hope you enjoyed all of these Halloween goodies!  Happy Monday!