Summer Sailor

Amber from Stolen Moments is back! This is her newest kit called Summer Sailor and it is available at Scrap Matters. She is the guest designer for this month there. Congrats Amber! This kit is beautiful and has fun stuff in great colors. Click on the image above to go to the store and click here to go to her blog for a freebie addon.

Click below for your freebie QP.And here is my layout.
Sorry, not too chatty today, busy with work. See you later this week!

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An award

I got this lovely award from Nicole at Digi-Designs by Nicole. Isn't it fun! I love getting awards! I'm passing this on to my wonderful fantabulous creative team!

• Janice
• Brooke
• Tara
• Narcicca
• Maria
• Erica
• Tami
• Ronda
• and to Heidi just for fun even though she is my kit collaborator, she also does fun creative layouts with the kits we make.
  
  The rules are simple, just pass on to your own creative team or if you don't have one, pass it on to other CT members whose work you admire.
  Thanks again Nicole.

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$2 Tuesday

If you missed this kit on Saturday, we are offering it for sale again this week for $2. Then it will be gone from the store so hurry and get it now. Image is linked to the store.

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Kickin It and Speed Scrap

Digi-Designs by Nicole has this cute cowboy/cowgirl kit in the store. Lots of fun elements and good for boys or girls or adults. Also, if you get the kit this week, you can get a coupon code for the QP set made by the creative team along with Nicole. Click on the kit preview to go to the store and click on the QP preview to go to the blog for the coupon code.

I did two layouts with this kit. Neither one were cowboyish, so you can see the versatility of this kit. This is my oldest son who just turned 16 a couple of weeks ago. Isn't he handsome?

And here is another layout of him on his birthday. This one doesn't show off the kit that well, it was just an afterthought, but I think it is cute anyway.

There is a speed scrap on Wednesday morning. Hope you can make it. I have to work at that time, but I'm hoping to catch the next Saturday or weekend one. The announcement is linked to the forum. See ya later this week!

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Great Outdoors

As promised in the sidebar, here is the regular kit release today. Also available for an amazing deal because of the sale today! (Scroll down to the previous post to see our Christmas in July kit!) This kit is one of my favorite so far. It has some really fun elements in it hand drawn by the artist of this team - Heidi. The charms are so cute! The earthtone colors in this kit make it work great for all kinds of layouts. Image is linked to the store!

We have one of my long time friends as guest CT for this kit. I have been scrapping with my friend Judy for around 9 years now and converted her to digital in January. Please welcome her.

My name is Judy and I live in Utah, USA. I am married and have 3 boys, so yes I get out numbered choosing girl things to do. So that is why I love scrapbooking. I have been doing it for almost 20 years, 7 months of which has been Digital. I must say, "Digital is Amaizing". I Love It!

Tara

Tami & Ronda

Narcicca - I had to ask her about roasting bacon, I had never heard of it before. This is what she said "This is a Hungarian habit. We pin bacon, onion and marinate meat onto a stick and we roast it above fire. Marinate: we put salt, pepper and paprika into some oil, we put this onto the meat and put it into the fridge for a night. It is very delicious, try it once!"

Maria

Janice

Erica

Brooke

Heidi

Mine - don't you love that little chocolate-y face?!!

Here is your QP freebie, click on the preview to download!

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Gingerbread Whimsy

Remember the Stuff to Scrap Christmas in July sale? Well, this is what we came up to help you celebrate! It's a "sweet" kit full of candy, cookies, and gingerbread and it looks good enough to eat! It is available for an amazing price today because of our regular 1st week sale plus the Christmas sale, so don't delay. If you miss it today, you still get the regular deal until the end of the month. Hurry though because it will only be available for a limited time! Image is linked to the store.

Don't forget that everything in the store from all designers is 25% off today, so treat yourself to a present!

Our CT only had 1 day to work with this kit but look what they came up with. We will introduce layouts from the rest of them later!

Janice

Brooke

Tami and Ronda

Heidi

Mine - We have a family tradition of making gingerbread houses the first Monday in December and the kids give them to their teachers every year while they are in elementary school. My youngest had team teachers this year so he got to make two. My older kids still like to decorate houses and either eat them themselves or give them away to a friend or neighbor. It is fun!

and of course your freebie. Click on the preview to download this double page temlate and enjoy!

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Sneak Peek and Speed Scrap reminder and sale reminder

Just a reminder that there is a Christmas in July sale tomorrow! Don't forget because it only lasts ONE DAY! Everything in the store will be 25% off and with that in addition to any other kits that are already on sale could make for some amazing deals. We have our Great Outdoors camping kit releasing tomorrow, so that will be at least one great deal for you!

Also, for those of you looking for Christmas kit, we whipped up a great kit for you that will be on sale tomorrow. This kit will only be in the store until the end of the month though so hurry! It is a "sweet" kit and I'm giving you a sneak peek below.

Stuff to Scrap is having another great speed scrap tomorrow, so check it out in the forum. Announcement is linked to forum.

Here is the wonderful PP you get if you participate.

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Little Learner

Laurie's Scraps is back! She has re-done a lot of her older kits and has also released this fabulous school kit called "Little Learner". To celebrate, she is having a great sale that you won't want to miss. So download this QP, then click on the sale announcement to go start shopping at her store.

Here is the layout I did with this kit. I didn't do a school layout but check out how versatile the kit is! You can use it for lots of things! These are our Father's Day pictures for this year.

If you want to make sure you don't miss any freebies here on my blog, click over on the right to become a follower.

If you do a layout with one of my QPs or with one of our kits, make sure you upload it on my slide show to share. I'd love to see!

If you would like to be on our guest CT, send a link to your layout gallery and a short bio along with the upcoming kit you are interested in. We will only select one per kit, so get your input in soon. All of our upcoming kits are listed in the sidebar to the left.

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$2 Tuesday

It's that time again. Everyone at Stuff to Scrap is changing their $2 Tuesday specials for the week. Lots of fun products will be on sale starting today for $2.

If you missed getting this QP set over the weekend when it was on sale, it is on sale for this entire week again! Don't delay, you never know when it might be on sale again.

Scrappy Cocoa is hostessing the speed scrap tomorrow. Come on, I know you want to do it! Participation prize is undecided so far but I'm sure it will be fantastic!

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Take a Dip

Are you ready? I have a lot to talk about today. First up - Digi-Designs by Nicole has this spectacular pool kit out called Take A Dip. I think it is one of my favorites she has done! It is so refreshing. Love the color scheme. Here is my QP preview, you get a double pager, but don't stop reading here, there is more great info below.

Here is my layout of my cute baby in swimming lessons last week. He did so good this year. He finally "gets it"

Here is a preview of Nicole's full kit. Click on the preview to go to her blog to get it for free if you hurry! It is a collab kit with Nibbles Skribbles, so make sure you go to her blog to get both halves.

Digi-Designs by Nicole is also having a Blogoversary sale! It starts today and runs thru Wednesday. Tuesday is the best sale day with an amazing 40% off coupon. You won't want to miss out on this!

Stuff to Scrap is having a Christmas in July sale on July 25th (can you believe we are that far into the year already?) It is one day only, but the whole store (excluding CU licenses) will be on sale for 25% off since it is the 25th. Great chance to treat yourself to something fun!

Lastly, there is a scrap N Chat at the forum today. Great chance to visit and get some scrapping done without the pressure of a speed scrap. They have drawings for prizes, so go try your luck and get some scrapping done at the same time. Preview is linked to the forum.

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Lessons Day 9 and 10

Day 9 - adding a burned edge to a photo so that your focus is drawn to the center of the photo. The one on the left is the before photo and the one on the right is the after photo. I think I used too large of a brush because Tyrel looks like he is glowing, but you get the idea.

Lesson 10 - this is my last one for tonight. It was creating clipping masks, that was fun, adding the textures and overlays like in some of the previous lessons, adding text and burning the edge. So clipping masks was the new thing (that made it so it had the rounded edges) and then the rest was a review of our other stuff. I'm not totally sold on the photo I picked, but I'm too tired to go back and find a better one. Here is the before photo.

Here is the after photo. I think I should have picked something with more browns in it to start with instead of the blues and greens.

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