It's a Blog Train!!! Gypsy Couture's Grab Bag and More!

I'm participating in my first ever blog train! The girls of Gypsy Couture's CT have been busy making Quickpages using her goodies from the Grab Bag at The Digi Chick! This GB is jammed full!!! And a steal for only $3....trust me!!! You can find the Grab Bag here.
Here is the page that I scrapped with it....using just one of the fabulous kits hidden inside. And I have been chosen as layout of the week at The Digi Chick! Yay!!!


And I've converted it into a Quickpage....minus my gorgeous little girls, of course, lol! Here is my part of the blog train!


There are so many other gorgeous QP's so be sure to visit all the girls! I know Lisa has a special treat for you...so if you haven't been there yet, be sure to go! And she has a giftie for those who sign up for her new newletter too! Here are the links to the rest of the girls and our fabulous homebase...Gypsy Couture!

Gypsy Couture
Sharon
Dani
Ashley
Charne
Laine
Don't forget to grab that bag!!!

Kiss of Spring

Gypsy Couture is re-releasing Kiss of Spring today at The Digi Chick! I was actually so glad, because for some reason I didn't scrap with it before. I love the vines!!! And new to TDC too is her Hang Tag Alpha, it's soooo fun!

Here is my page that I scrapped with it.

And if you like my page....you can download it here.Enjoy!

I just forget!

I get so into scrapping that I forget to post on my blog! I have a bout a dozen pages I've done in the last week! I'll have to pick my favs! First some Kasia layouts....The girls love to play in their kitchen that they got for Christmas. Matthias thinks if we got rid of all their other toys they wouldn't even notice, lol! But I don't think that is true. I went a little crazy at the Disney Store....and got them these adorable dresses with tutus and cute little princess pots & pans. Ava is totally into princess stuff...it seems to be her favorite word!

Then Kasia came out with her Sweet Garden Collection...there are two kits and a set of cute alphas! I did a page with Ava and a page with Bella.
I've been addicted to Kitty Designs at Oscraps too...and she keeps releasing new kits! I just can't seem to get enough of her! Here are a few Kitty Layouts...
And one more.....when we were in Cozumel, we laid the girls in a hammock....and it made for the sweetest photos! Bella got so relaxed she actually fell asleep! We had to take Ava out because she was upset that Bella fell asleep....she kept elbowing her. Anyway...when I saw this "Best of Friends" collab by Holly Designs and Edeline Marta....I knew I needed it to scrap these photos. My Two Peas....in a pod.
Wow...I really need to remember to start posting layouts here as soon as I'm done! I'll be back at least by Thursday with another freebie from Gypsy Couture designs.

New Release from Gypsy Couture & a CT call

Here is the latest release from Gypsy Couture!


And....if you like my page, I've converted it into a QP just for YOU! I've included the title wordart as a separate bonus too!

Be sure to check out Lisa's blog too....hint hint...she has another goodie for you.

Gypsy Couture is having a Creative Team call! We're looking for several people to join us! Here is all the info you need to apply!

New Copycat Challenge @ Oscaps

Well, after a long hiatus....at last the Copycat Challenge is back at Oscraps! I really enjoy hosting this challenge, but I got all confused and ended up taking two months off instead of just March. We didn't want any other challenges to distract from Oscraps 3rd Bday celebration. So it's going again and I'm so excited! Here's a link to the challenge....and my layout I did with the template!


The template is free! So follow the links an play along!

In a Funk

I've been in a funk for about a week now...it all started with the software that I use to organize my scrapping stuff with went haywire and dumped over 1400 folders into one! with no subfolders! I'm sure it was user error...but it would have been nice for some error message to pop up and say, "are you sure you want to do this?"...cuz I definitely would have said no. It took me almost a week, working non-stop to manually re-file everything, and I still have a random folder of stuff that designers didn't label properly. If a paper is labeled "paper1" and gets moved from the folder...it's impossible to know who designed it and what kit it came from! Ok...rant over.

I do have some layouts to share with you that I did before all of this happened...I just couldn't post until release dates and then forgot...

I think I've talked about our trip to the park when my mom stayed with us. It was really a fun day...and I got this picture of the girls walking on the sidewalk together.
I had a lot of fun scrapping it with this new kit by Joanne Brisbois. She's being featured at Digishoptalk for the month of April! This kit is a free download to all gold and diamond members of DST.

The next is a gorgeous kit by Kasia....released last Friday, called Twilight. Doesn't have anything to do with the book series...lol! But it it very quirky and fun. As soon as I saw the large flower I envisioned one of my girls sitting there.



And I've saved the best for last. Kitty Chen has grouped together some of the most fabulous designers in the industry to create a wonderful collab for charity. All the proceeds from this kit will be donated to a friend of Kitty's whose son has been diagnosed as PDD-NOS and cannot afford therapies. You can read more at Kitty Chen's Blog.
That's my sharing for today....I'll be back Thursday with a freebie from Gypsy Couture!

I'm on a roll!

Well, I've gotten a lovely spurt of creative mojo! I've been scrapping like crazy! I can't share them all yet...since some of the kits haven't been released yet....but here are a few that I did this weekend. Laurie Ann of Heaven's Gates Design was a guest designer at SPD this month, so I got the pleasure of working with her kits! She's been a favorite of mine for quite some time now...and I had so much fun!

My mom and I took the kids for a walk this past week and I snapped a bunch of fun photos. This is one of my favorites of Bella in her Tinkerbell hoodie. The green inspired this layout...

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And here is one of Aiden when he was about 18 months old. I used Laurie's Big Dreams & Pocket Treasures Kit.


And the last layout I have to share is my favorite... I used an unlikely photo...that normally I would never scrap, and turned it into a page from a fairytale! Here is what the original photo looked like:
I extracted her from the photo and flipped her so that she looked like she was reaching for the handle of the carriage. I also altered the carriage to put her Frog Prince inside, lol! This was such a fun layout to make!



Well, I have more to share soon! And I had a "photoshoot" with the girls today. They weren't exactly cooperative...but I got some cute shots. Enjoy the start to your week!

Obsessed with Parisan Kits

I admit it...I'm completely obsessed with Parisian Themed Scrapkits! I just love them! The only photos I have left are my photos from our trip to Paris in 2006. I need to make a whole book of them...but for now I just have a bunch of random pages, lol!

Aiden is actually sitting on the side steps of Basilique du Sacre Coeur, which mean Church of the Sacred Heart, in this photo. It was January and sooooo cold!

We're standing in front of the Eiffel Tower in this shot...it was so much fun to be out with Aiden. He was only 21 months, but said, "Merci" everywhere we went! I can't even get the girls to say thank you in English!!!

I anwered a one kit call from Sylvie of Digiscrap.ch and got the pleasure of scrapping with this kit!


And my favorite Paris layout so far...I didn't even use pictures from Paris! Ava & Bella's room is themed, "Pink Poodles in Paris". All of their bedding and room decor is pink, white and black and has poodles and little french sayings all over it. Their first Halloween they were dressed up as Pink Poodles. I created this page with a new collab from Catherine Designs and Bisontine to hang up in their room! I'm so pleased with how it turned out!
Here is a link and preview of the kit I used....it is amazing!

That's all for now! I guess I'm ready to go back to Paris!

New Releases from Gypsy Couture and a Freebie!

Lisa's been busy! She has two new releases this week! The first is at Plain Digital Wrapper called, "Midnight in the Garden". I love the fantasy feel too it....so I turned my little girls into fairies!
And another fabulous kit at The Digi Chick! My little Bella just loves books! We took some pictures of her reading her coloring book...just too cute! And this kit was just perfect for my little bookworm!

Last, but not least...here is a freebie for ya! I hope you like it...leave me a message if you do!

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That's it from me today! Have a good one!

What a cute boy

I recently had to reconfigure my laptop because I got a nasty virus. Well, in doing so I found so many old photos that need to be scrapped....and reminds me what an absolutely adorable little boy Aiden was! Oh, he's still adorable....but he was just edible at 2! This was from our family photoshoot in 2005.

Isn't the kit I used perfect? It's Woodland Retreat by Catherine Designs @ A5. I just love her designs! I just love remembering these days as I scrap them! The last few layouts I've done have really evoked a lot of pleasant memories!

A Train Trip in the City

One of my absolute favorite memories was when we had a 3 day layover in Paris on the way home from Lebanon. Aiden loved trying the new food and hearing the different languages, he was so amazing for 22 months! He even got over excited one day and ran into the elevator by himself! He rode up with it where people had called the elevator...and then rode it back down. Yes...it freaked me out...but the memory of his smiling little face when he came out makes my heart warm even now! On the day we took the Metro he loved it! And as the day faded into night, the lights of Paris started twinkling out the windows of the train. Aiden would get so excited and point out the window screaming "City! City!". I scrapped this memory...in kind of a non-traditional way with a recent release from Kasia Designs.

The past few weeks...

So the past few weeks have been pretty rough. First, I landed up in the ER one morning with the worst abdominal pain I've ever had in my life! Turns out my Gall Bladder was full of stones...so they gave me pain and anti-nausea meds and sent me home to wait for the surgeon to call and set up an appointment. By the time my appointment rolled around almost a week later I had a terrible cold or the flu! So I had to wait another week to recover from from the cold before I could have surgery to remove my Gall Bladder. My surgery was on March 5th (a week ago Thursday). And since then it's been slow going....

And of course I've fallen behind in a lot of my CT work, I began to feel overwhelmed. So I decided to cut back a bit and stepped down from the site CT at Funky Playground Designs. Tough decision, but hopefully it will allow me to dedicate more time to my other scrapping commitments. Oh...on that same note....one of my favorite designers that I CT for, JenU has decided to longer have a creative team. This TOTALLY bummed me out....I was so excited to be a part of her team....

But I have been busy scrapping....I'll share a few of my favorite layouts from the past couple months...until I get caught up, lol!

I'm hosting the Gherkin Hues Challenge at Shabby Pickle Designs for the month of March. The challenge is to scrap a monochromatic layout in green. It was kind of fun to scrap a photo of one of my baby girls in a layout other than pink! lol!


That's my tiny baby Bella sleeping on the moon! She hadn't even left the hospital yet!

I scrapped an older picture of Aiden playing in the creek out at Eagle Fern Park. He didn't care how cold the water was, and it was the first outing with my Cannon.



And I used this awesome collab kit, Garden Friends by Gypsy Couture Designs & JanaM at The Digi Chick.

Here are a couple of layouts with goodies from Oscraps....click on layouts for full credits.




I finally uploaded the family pictures that our friend, Mike Cumings took. He did a great job! I love this candid one...there is no way all five of us could look at the camera at the same time.

And the last layout I'll share with you now is one of my favorites I've done in a while. I think it's because I remember taking these photos of the girls...and buying those adorable dresses. And Ava sat there so perfectly...like a little doll.


It's with this New Release form Gypsy Couture:


That's pretty much what I've been up to! I'll be back again tomorrow!