Choo Choo! June Blog Train

Hello Scrapland! It is that time again. We have participated in June’s Blog Train. Both Katie and I loved the colors and the theme. We hope you enjoy what we have made! If you are interested in joining the blog train, you can check it out at Stuff to Scrap!

Here is the Preview:

Elements

Papers and alpha

Memories by Digital Design
Farrah Smith Designs
Long's Life & Loki
Ányi + a digitális scrapbooking
Nanascraps
Queen Bee Scraps
Scrappin Ninnie
Growing Pains Scrapped
Saphira's Scrapdesign
Melissa's Scraps and More
The Digi Scrapping Mama
scraphannah
Scrappin Serenity
Let Me Scrapbook!
Mommy Me Time Scrapper
Digi-designs by Nicole
Adriana's Cafe
The Scrappy Kat
Scraps by Andrea
Lovely Creations
Note-able Scraps
Scraps N Pieces
MDK Scraps
Always Be Neighbors Designs You are HERE
Designs by Snowlady
Shel Belle Scraps
HD Creations
Sweet Maple
Rainamoon Scraps
AmyDane Designs
danajscraps-a-lot
Jensen Motley Crew Designs
Lindsey's Digital Scrapbook
A Fish Design

STS Blog Train!

Hello Scrapland!  I’m Soooooo sorry I didn’t have this up earlier!  My hectic weekend caused me to completely forget that today was the 1st!  That said, click the preview to download our portion and the full list of designers is below!  Enjoy!

Sprouting Seeds Studio
Scraps by Andrea
Growing Pains Scrapped
Note-able Scraps
Just For Fun Designs
Flower Pot Designs
scraphannah
Sweet Maple
A Fish Design
Long's Life & Loki
Farrah Smith Designs
JMC Designs
AmyDane Designs
Christins Creations
CutieFruity
The Scrappy Kat
Saphira's Scrapdesign
The Queen of All Wild Things Scraps
Scrappin Serenity
Designs by Snowlady
Memories by Digital Design
Queen Bee Scraps
Let Me Scrapbook!
Lindsey's Digital Scrapbook
Brenian Designs
Always Be Neighbors Designs
Sweet Creations
Seal Scraps
Flower Scraps
Scraps N Pieces
Scrappin Ninnie
Purple Bokeh

Hope you had a great weekend and I hope you have a super great Scrapbooking month!

Celebrate Blog Train!

Hello Scrapland!  If you haven’t heard about it yet, River Rose is having a HUGE celebration to celebrate her 3rd year anniversary of designing!  She has started a new fabulous blog and she is celebrating every day, March 30th, with something new!  Click on the ad to go see her new blog and get the template for the challenge she is having!

So, as you might have guessed, today the big surprise is a really fun blog train at her blog and all of the River Rose CT members!  What you are getting are a variety of fun freebies using and coordinating with her kit Celebrate!  If you started the train at the River Rose blog, then I’m your last stop, so I’d like to say, Thanks for riding our train!!!

My contribution is a set of 4 brag book pages that are 4x6 that can be used for a variety of pictures.  Click the preview to download:

In case I’m not your last stop, here’s the list again!  Oh, and if you didn’t find a freebie at Viola’s blog, the correct address is in this list! 

River~Rose: http://www.river-rosedesign.com/
Tamara: http://www.yesterdaytodaytamara.blogspot.com/
Simona: http://lightmistress.blogspot.com/
Glynis: http://glynisb.blogspot.com/
Lynn: http://themathematiciansassistant.com/
Jaqueline: http://www.jacquelinesscrapblog.blogspot.com/
Viola: http://violamoni.blogspot.com
Katie: http://alwaysbeneighborsdesigns.blogspot.com/

We hope you had fun and keep stopping by the River Rose blog to see what fun she has in store!

Love You More Freebie Kit!

Hello Scrapland!  Are you feeling the love today?  I am!  My two son’s are my Valentines today (although, my six year old would probably say “No, my girlfriend at school is my Valentine!”).  So soon we get swept to the side…  Oh well, I’m here to share some love with you today.  I have a love kit that was inspired by my DH who always wants to argue about who loves who more when he’s away and we have to talk on the phone.  It’s not a huge kit, but I hope you enjoy!  The links are below the preview.

Papers

Solids

Elements

Enjoy!  Spread the love around today!!!

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!

Down By the Lily Pad

Hello Scrapland!  I hope everyone was able to get out of the house and do some fun activities this weekend!  I had a fun time.  My friend from North Carolina is in town and we were able to spend some time hanging out.  My mom and I also took the kids to the children's museum which is always really fun for them.  Then on Sunday I went into Chicago and checked out the Contemporary Art museum which is an incredibly interesting place!  I wish I could afford to have every weekend be so productive!

I'm not really here to bore you with stories about my life, however. Lol.  Scraps of Ellay teamed up with TWO other designers from STS, Ivory Keys Digital Dreams and Scrappin Serenity, to create a huge and super cute kit called "Down By the Lily Pad."  It's full of frogs and ducks and bugs and turtles and everything else you would find down by a pond!  Check out these layouts I made with them:

This one is using just Scraps of Ellay's portion:

This one is using all three kits:

Here's the kit preview, click it to be taken to Ellay's store:

We even have a special surprise in store for you today!  Ladies from all three CT's have gotten together to bring you a super cute Brag Book Blog Train!  All of the pages are 5x7 and use all three kits.  Here's my portion of the blog train, Click To Download!

Here are the rest of the stops! Go check them out!

Susan

Alessandra

Misty

Deej

Ophelia

Ellay

Katie

Jodi

Ginger

ChristieDawn

Amanda

Jennifer

Noelle

Dana

Drica

Have fun riding the train!  Happy Scrapping!

All Aboard For Some Summer Romance!

Hello Scrapland!  I’m back on the train this month for STS’s monthly forum blog train.  The colors are very pretty and the theme is awesome.  Don’t forget, if you want to join in on the fun, you can!  Everyone is welcome and you don’t have to do a kit, you can do a word art/alpha/QP, whatever!  Go check out next month’s train HERE!
Ok, now for the good part, here’s my preview, click it to download!

The preview is linked to 4Shared, but I "heard" they are having issues, so here's the Mediafire link I couldn't get to yesterday! 
Summer Romance Mini

Don’t forget to pick up the rest of the train!
Manda's Scrappin' Creations 
JeNaSis DeSiGn
Let Me Scrapbook!
Bonnie Allen Designs
Digi-designs by Nicole
Becky aka SAHM Scrapper
Jen C Designs
Scraps N Pieces – Lori
Jensen Motley Crew Designs
Scrappin Serenity
Luna Rosa's Scraps
Always Be Neighbors Designs <---You Are Here
The Scrapping Sisters
A Fish Design
Designs by Christi Dewdrop Scraps
Sheri's Scraps
Eva Marina Scraps
Saphira's Scrapdesign
Melissa's Scraps & More
Scrapalicious Cereal
B2N2 Scraps
Adriana's Cafe
Ányi + a digitális scrapbooking
Becky Young Designs
Scrappin' Memories To Last
The Scrappy Kat
Grandma's Templates
Just For Fun
J4 Scraps
Milly Dee
Shel Belle Scraps
Helena's creative maven
Mommy Me Time Scrapper
Craft With Me
Samantha Scraps
Tricia's Treasures
Circle Of Life Scraps
Pretty Pixel Designs

Purrrfect Princess Freebie

Hello Scrapland!  I teamed up with Scraps of Ellay to bring you a fun princess kit with a twist. The original idea came from Alice who buys a lot of Marie stuff for her daughter, you know, the cat from Aristocats? And all daughters are little princesses, so we put the two themes together to bring you “Purrrfect Princess!” The colors are perfect for any disney princess and there is plenty of kit to satisfy you! Here are the kit previews, click on Ellay’s to be taken to the store:


Here are some inspirational layouts from the fabulous Stars of Ellay:

From Jodi using my part:

One from Ginger using both kits:

One from Noelle using both kits:
Then I made one using Ellay’s kit:

And one using both kits:

And one from me using just my kit:

And finally, Ellay, the super scrapper made a few layouts herself!
Three layouts with her portion:



And one with my portion:

Whew, I think that’s all! As if that isn’t enough! To put the whip cream and cherry on top, if you head over to Ellay’s Blog, she has a little freebie for you!  But if you want my portion of the kit, here are the links:  (There is even a bonus alpha made by Alice that you can see in the layout I did with just my kit)

Papers 1

Papers 2

Elements 1

Elements 2

Bonus Alpha

I hope you enjoy!  Happy Scrapping!

Happy Easter!!

Hello Scrapland!  Ok, this is the last post until after Easter, I promise!  I decided to give away an Eastery freebie as well as the last post with CU freebies, because it is Easter after all.  :)  I made a template based on a paper layout I made a few years ago and loved.  Of course it’s not the same, but I thought it could be a nice starting point for those of you who like to get creative with your shapes/layouts. 

This layout is in .psd format and is CU friendly!  Click the preview to download!

 

Have a great Easter Sunday!!!

CU Freebie!!

Hello Scrapland! It’s Easter time and so I am really in the giving mood. I’m so happy to hear that a few people like and can use My Marine! Thanks ladies!! However, I’d also like to give something away that more of the scrapping community can possibly enjoy. So, I put together some of my CU items (randomly) and will be giving you all a completely free, do what you want with, designer pack.

It includes:
- 6 CU texture overlays
- 4 CU elements (The bucket is a layered .psd file, the rest are .png)

So, if you would like some free stuff, click on the preview to download!

Enjoy, and Happy Easter!!!

My Marine Addon

Hello Scrapland!  I know there isn’t a HUGE demand for military kits and even less for a branch specific, but I got the motivation the other day to expand on My Marine, so I did!  I had made a baby announcement for my neighbor which I had to make a couple more elements for and that’s where this addon got started.  I hope you enjoy!  I had fun playing with the grungy colors again!
Here’s the preview, the download links are below :)

Download Elements Here
Download Papers Here

 If you haven't been here before and you want the rest of the kit, just click on the My Marine label on the right side of this page!
Happy Scrapping!  And Happy April Fool’s!

Food of Love Blog Train

Hello Scrapland!  First I want to say Congratulations to Amanda for getting a spot on IvoryKeys' Creative Team!  That's so exciting!  I hope you have a ton of fun!

Next, Scraps of Ellay and Digi Designs by Nicole got together to make a super beautiful collab called Food of Love.  It has a love/music theme and boy is it gorgeous!!!  The colors are very rich and elegant.  I think all of the CT members had a blast playing with it!  Here’s the layout I made with the kit:

Here’s the kit preview that you can click on to be taken to the store:

Now for the goodie!  The CT members have teamed up to bring you a QP blog train!  I modified my layout a little and here is the result, a freebie QP just for you!  Click on the preview to download!
Here are links to the rest of the train, go check them out!
Christie Dawn
Katie  <--- You are Here
Ginger
Susan
Jodi
Sandra
Knittinjen
Glenda
Noelle
Ellay
Have fun on the ride!

Spring Fun and QP Freebie

Hello Scrapland!  Ready for Spring Break?  I know I am.  My son’s spring break is next week, and I’m planning on a relaxing week of playing at the park and scrapping with some family game nights thrown in.  Well, SAHM Scrapper has teamed up with Shel Belle Scraps to create a fun kit to scrap all of your spring break photos with!  There’s bowling, skating, baseball, movies, books and lots more!  Here’s the page I made with SAHM Scrapper’s portion of the kit:

Here’s the kit preview that you can click on to be taken to the store!

And if you liked my layout, I have a QP freebie for you!  But, grab it while you can because it’s only available for a couple of days!  Click on the preview to download!

 
Enjoy!!

Fairy Flight Freebie!

Hello Scrapland!  I finally have a freebie for you!  We won’t be joining the April blog train over at STS  because Alice has been busy this month, so I did the Color Challenge over at STS and that’s my mini freebie for you!  It’s called Fairy Flight.  Here’s the preview, you can click to download!

If you like the colors I used, head on over to the STS Color Challenge thread to pick up some more cute mini's using them!

Happy Scrapping!

Pulling into the Station!

Hello Scrapland! It's that time again when the STS blog train is pulling into the station with lots of free goodies! This month is the kit is called French Tulips, and it has beautiful colors. This is perfect for getting ready for the spring months and away from the cold.

Don't forget, if you want to participate in the train, you can! Just hop on over to the STS forum and sign up for the blog train under the Forum Blog Train thread.

Here is our portion of this GREAT kit. Hope you enjoy. Just click the preview (it is linked) and don't forget to check out everyone elses contributions.



SAHM Scrapper
Nibbles Skribbles
Scrappin' Serenity
Craft With Me
Christin's Creations
Scraps N Pieces
B2N2 Scraps
Shel Belle Scraps
Saphira's Scrapdesign
Let Me Scrapbook!
Grandmas Templates
Where The Heart Is
Jensen Motley Crew Designs
The Scrappy Kat
Always Be Neighbors Designs ----> You are Here!
Scrap Attack-Designs by Beth
Scrapping Sisters
Seal Scraps
manda lane scraps
Ányi + a digitális scrapbooking
Pages N Memories
Flower Scraps
Arizona Sweetheart Scraps
Just For Fun

New Pool Shark/Booze Hound Links

Hello Scrapland!  I recieved an email from someone who was having trouble downloading from Mediafire so I uploaded the old Pool Shark and Booze Hound kits to 4shared in case anyone still wants to grab them :)  Here are your links:

http://www.4shared.com/file/224653880/86bfb3cb/ABND_Pool_Shark_alpha.html

http://www.4shared.com/file/224660226/cdb1ae9c/ABND_Pool_Shark_Balls.html

http://www.4shared.com/file/224678232/2b135a9b/ABND_Pool_Shark_Papers_1.html

http://www.4shared.com/file/224691169/1c838e4/ABND_Pool_Shark_Papers_2.html

http://www.4shared.com/file/224622831/18d0e1e3/ABND_BoozeHound_Elements.html

http://www.4shared.com/file/224631438/47c3267d/ABND_BoozeHound_Papers1.html

http://www.4shared.com/file/224646007/d4af245a/ABND_BoozeHound_Papers2.html

http://www.4shared.com/file/225524358/3e8b37e6/ABND_Pool_Shark_Other_Stuff.html

Enjoy!

Dude Blog Train!

Hello Scrapland!  Have you had enough blog trains this month yet???  No???  Didn’t think so ;)  Well, before you grab your goodies, let me show you the kit they came from.  Scraps of Ellay and The Scrappy Kat have teamed up to bring you a fabulous grungy boyish, rockish, skaterish kit called Dude.  I have two boys so I was super excited about it!  Here are a couple of layouts I did using Scraps of Ellay’s portion:

And here’s the kit preview that you can click on to be taken to the store!

 
Ok, now for the good stuff!  The Scraps of Ellay CT has teamed up with The Scrappy Kat’s CT to bring you one large luggage tag album!  So click on the preview to download and don’t forget to visit the other blogs to pick up the rest of the train!

 

Ginger

Jodi

Christie

Knittinjen

Katie  <—You Are Here

Amanda

Sandra

Ellay  <—Find the link to The Scrappy Kat’s CT portion of the Blog Train!

Enjoy!

Young Love Freebie Kit!

Hello Scrapland!  I think it’s time to give away another free full sized kit, don’t you?  I had submitted a color palette to STS for the February blog train, but it wasn’t chosen.  I liked it so much that I decided to make a kit with it anyway!  And, because it’s Valentine’s Day weekend, I’m hoping you will all be busy doing SOMETHING, so you get the whole thing today!  One stop shop!

I made a desktop for the STS desktop challenge using the kit.

Here’s the kit preview:

And the download links, Enjoy!!!!

Alpha

Elements1

Elements2

Papers1

Papers2

Streets of Ellay

Hello Scrapland! Come and take a walk on the Streets of Ellay! If you haven't heard yet, Ellay of Scraps of Ellay is having her birthday this month! So, All of us on her CT have decided to put together a big freebie blog train just for your enjoyment, to celebrate! It's called Streets of Ellay and it's a fun grungy kit with beautiful colors. Here's a page I did using Ellay's portion (rather her full kit!)



Here's the preview of the whole blog train:


Here's my preview:


And now for the goodies! Click the links to download.

Download Link 1

Download Link 2

Don't forget to pick up the rest of the kits! Here are the links to the other blogs you will want to check out!

CT Blog

Jodi

Ginger

Christie

Glenda

Susan

Amanda

Katie <---You are here

Noelle

Knittinjen

Ellay

Enjoy!

Choo Choo!

Hello Scrapland! It's that time again when the STS blog train is pulling into the station with lots and lots of free goodies for you! This month we did a Groundhog Day theme with some very pretty colors. I really like how the whole train turned out!

Don't forget, if you want to participate in the train, you can! Just hop on over to the STS forum and sign up for the blog train under the Forum Blog Train thread.

Ok, now for the goodies! Here is our preview, download links are below it!



Elements

Papers

Here's a page I made using our portion of the train:


Don't forget to head over and pick up the rest of the blog train!

Becky aka SAHM Scrapper
Night Light Scrapper
Digi-Scrapz by Christi
Scraps N Pieces
¡nyi + a digit·lis scrapbooking
Nibbles Skribbles
Little Red Scraps
jensenmotleycrewdesigns
JIC Creations
Scrapalicious Cereal
Just For Fun
Saphira's Scrapdesign
Lots of PrettyThings
Let Me Scrapbook!
Rainamoon Scraps
Adriana's Cafe
Quiltifications
Always Be Neighbors Designs <--You are Here Scrappin' Serenity
The Scrappy Kat
Craft With Me
Shel Belle Scraps
Tonisha's Playground
Where The Heart Is
Altered Sea
Kerry's Scraps
GB DESIGNS
This Little Missy
Seal Scraps
Samantha Scraps
Milly Dee Designs