Handy Daddy BAK at Stuff to Scrap

This month’s BAK at Stuff to Scrap celebrates all the things we love about the men in our lives.  For the first week, each package is just $1.99, buy 3 or more and save 50%.

One of the things I remember doing as a kid is helping my dad do repairs on our house and at many of the houses he worked on.  In the summers, when my mom was at work and I didn’t have camp, I would travel with my dad to the places he was fixing up for people.  I loved to help hand him tools and nails and brushes as he completed his jobs.  In fact this was how I got my first kitten!  One of the houses we frequently worked at had kittens and the woman who lived there let me pick one out!  I named her Rose and she was the best kitten ever!

These are the packs I’m offering for this week.  I included many different tool related objects and paint splatters are everywhere!  These minis will be perfect for scrapping the little helpers in your life, or the big Dad helpers too 🙂

A mini kit

Alpha

papers

Check out these great layouts by my CT:

by Robin:

By Jenn:

By me-helping my dad paint our garage when I was 8 years old:

Spring Fling kit releases + Freebies

I have a new kit in the store at Scraps N Pieces.  Many of you may recognize it as my first entry for the Designer Darling competition at STS.  I’ve added a few more elements to the kit, I really loved those instruments and wanted more!

This kit is a little bit dance, a little bit music, a little retro, and tons of spring!  You will be able to scrap beautiful school concert pages, school dances, or just some lovely pages for spring using this kit.  Lots of great possibilities with this one 🙂

Spring Fling will be 30% off for the first week, making it just $2.79

Also be sure to check out the great pages and all the freebies my CT made with this kit:

By Robin:

And she also has a freebie frame you can grab (link coming soon):

By Dani:

Dani also has a little cluster element you can grab at her blog:

By Jenn:

Jenn has a paper stack you can grab from her blog:

By Wendy:

You can also grab a pretty cluster frame from Wedny’s blog:

By me:
My husband in his middle school marching band

Fiona at a Girl Scout Sock Hop party

Teddy (pet dog kit) by Shel Belle Scraps

This month’s BAK at Stuff to Scrap is all about pets.  I got to work with a new kit by Shel Belle Scraps called Teddy (named after her dog).  This kit is full of fun elements and papers all about dogs.  You can grab an alpha set (which includes 2 full alphas), elements, and papers during this month’s BAK.

I had fun making a couple layouts with this kit to show you!

The first one is of me when I was really young with our old dog Mike.

The second layout is of my last dog, Puck, at his favorite place- the dog park.

Designer Darling Round 4 Freebie

Round 4 of the Designer Darling challenge at STS was one of the most difficult so far, for two reasons.  First of all we could only use our own CU items, this means I had to scan all my own textures, paper patterns, and my own elements (by scanning or creating on Photoshop-using only the shapes and brushes included with Photoshop-no added styles, shapes, brushes, etc).  I have a pretty good stash of commercial use items that I’ve scanned and extracted already, but very few textures and paper patterns.

Also my computer crashed the day we got our assignments for this round and my husband had to completely rebuild the computer and re-install everything. This did, fortunately, make it easy to determine which brushes, styles, shapes, etc were those included with photoshop all my added ones were lost in the re-build!  I just had Tuesday and Monday night to work on this kit.  It’s one of the fastest kits I have made, but despite all the insanity surrounding making this kit, I’m super happy with how it turned out!

I was inspired by a commercial I saw during the Oscars (so it was fortuitous that my computer died and I was forced to watch TV for a change!)  Anyhow the commercial was of women wearing pretty dresses and sitting in trees – I have no idea what they were trying to sell, but I thought it was a very lovely visual image.  So I started thinking about tree bark texture and butterflies, and pretty things against the greens and browns of nature.  And I’m really happy with the result.  I’d like to add on to this kit with my CU stash and make it a full sized kit someday!

You can grab this mini kit from the STS challenge forum if you click on the preview.  Also be sure to stop back by my blog once voting starts to grab an add on freebie 🙂

Friends Across the Miles by Shel Belle Scraps and B2N2 Scraps

Shel Belle and B2N2 Scraps have teamed up to bring you this beautiful collab called Friends Across the Miles.  I love the bright springy colors to this kit and the  fun and versatile elements.

Here are a couple pages I made with this kit.  The first one is one of those cool, old silhouettes of my mom when she was a little girl:

And the second of is my mom and dad back in the 70s!

SNP blog train Morning Fresh

Sorry, I’m late with the blog train post. Totally forgot what day it was! Anyhow, here it is: sorry link expired

Here’s the list of blogs where you can find tons of great minis 🙂
Designed by sltppr (Janet)
THEOCDCRAFTER
Lady Sherwood Designs
Karen Diamond Designs
Amy’s Designs
GraceBlossoms4U
Shuckclod’s Stuff
Ponytails Designs
Arts & Ains Designs
Scrap Happens Embellish It
Adriana’s Cafe
Scraps N Pieces
Joyful Expressions
Just For Fun Designs
Prairie Song Scraps
True North Scraps
Lisa’s Scraps
Scraps by Missy
Wendy Tunison Designs
Keystone Scraps
Lorien´s Workshop
Yez Designs
Leaving a Legacy Designs
KATKREATIONS
Ladybug Pics n Scraps
Scrappin’ Is My Thing
Stampgram’s Studio
Busy Crafting Mommy

Designer Darling Round 2 “Skate Girl” + Freebies

We’re on to round 2 of the Designer Darling Challenge at STS. This round we were all given a couple photos to use as inspiration. One of the photos showed the owner of STS who is on a roller derby team. I really wanted to go with the roller derby kit as I think this is such a cool sport. I loved the movie Whip It!  I tried to make my kit grungy and hard core.  Those derby girls are super tough!

I picked a grungy palate, and I really love the results.
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Here’s a photo I made using the mini kit and the add on o my daughter trying out roller blades for the first time!  Using a template by Shayne’s Girl

And here on my blog you can grab this freebie add on 🙂

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Deer to Me Valentine’s Day Kit releases + Newsletter Freebie

I have a beautiful new Valentine’s Day kit in the store for you today, and if you are a subscriber to my Newsletter, you will get a beautiful newsletter subscriber exclusive add on to this kit!

Deer to Me is perfect for scraping your Valentine’s Day parties or the special people in your life, it’s also great for making Valentine’s Day cards.  Also, it’s 40% off for the first week 🙂

This kit includes 12 papers, 7 embossed solids, and 49 unique elements

Check out the beautiful layouts made by my CT!

Guest CT (my Daughter) Fiona:

By Robin:

By Wendy:

By Dani:

 

Dani also has a cool page border freebie for you on her blog:

 

By Me:

You will soon be receiving this great add on to Deer to Me if you are subscribed to my newsletter 🙂  I often have freebies and coupons in my newsletter so sign up today!

STS Designer Darling “Spring Fling” plus freebie

I decided to participate in the Scraps N Pieces Designer Darling competition again this year.  I had such a great time last year and got to know so many great designers, so I’m excited to be a part of it again.

For this first week all the designers were given the same bright, springy color pallet.  We could each decide on our own themes as long as we used those colors and had the right amount of elements and papers.

My theme is Spring Fling.  I wanted to capture some of the feelings of a retro spring formal.  You can download my submission to the contest from the Scraps N Pieces forum.  I also have a freebie here on my blog and one on my Facebook page 🙂  So if you visit all three stops you’ll have a nice sized kit.  I had a hard time sticking to the required elements and papers!

click the preview to go to STS. You do have to be a member of the forum to access the threads.  Voting has begun for the competition!  If you liked my kit please vote for it HERE.  Don’t worry, you can pick a few favorite kits 🙂

If you want to be sure to be kept up to date on all my freebies during this competition be sure to follow my blog and Facebook page.  Also you can sign up for my newsletter, where in addition to assorted freebies and coupons, I will keep you guys up to date on all the fun happenings during the contest 🙂

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And this add on part you can get right here on my blog (click preview to download)  sorry download link expired.  Watch for this kit to be in my SNP store soon!

And here is a freebie add on from my Facebook page:

Here are a couple  sample pages I made with this kit (also using some of the freebie pieces).  The first one is of my daughter’s recent Girl Scout adventure at a sock hop.  Both of my girls had such a wonderful time dancing around to fun music and batting around giant balloons.

This second layout is of my husband back when he was in his middle school marching band!  

Merry and Bright Kit releases + Freebie

I have a beautiful new kit in the store at Scraps N Pieces today that I am so excited to share with you, and best of all it’s 40% off the introductory week!  I had so much fun making this kit and I absolutely love the layouts my CT made with this kit.  I began it as a Christmas kit but it morphed into more of a general winter kit, although there are a few Christmasy papers and elements in there still that you can use to scrap any photos from the holiday that you still have!

This kit is full of fun and bright elements and papers that will give your layout a really fun and festive appearance and bring some beautiful colors to this time of year.  This kit includes 18 papers, 6 glitter sheets, 6 solids, and 69 elements.  Also be sure to grab the alpha freebie at the bottom of this post 🙂

And check out the beautiful pages my creative team made:

By Wendy:

and Wendy also has this great cluster frame freebie she made on her blog:

by Robin:

By Dani:

By Leah:

by me:

and I also have a fun alpha freebie for you today that coordinates with Merry and Bright (click preview to download):