Fun with food

I have taken a bit of a hiatus from blogging.  Rest assured it's only for a few weeks.  I hope to get back to posting regularly again this weekend.  In the mean time I have a fun photo to share with you.

 

This is my little one having what I believe is her first ice cream cone.  A few weeks ago my mom gave me all of her photo CD's and this is one of my favorite photos that I discovered.

 

Why in the world am I posting this?  Well, you should find a fun photo too.  This is for my entry into the "Prego FUN with FOOD" photo contest being held by 5 minutes for Mom.  Go submit your entry for a chance to win a $500 grocery card.  Wouldn't that be awesome???

A fun challenge

A few weeks ago I saw a call by Sine of Designs by Sine at Scrap Orchard looking to add guests to her creative team.  I have been drooling over some of the calls that have been posted there and submitted my application for a few but hadn't gotten picked yet.  Well, when I saw Sine's call I just knew I had to apply.  She is a template designer at Scrap Orchard and she does beautiful work.  I love working with great templates so I had to jump at this chance.  Needless to say, she received lots of applicants.  I love what she did next.  She decided to have a scrap-off.  We were given a template and had to scrap 3 different pages.  really liked this because now I get the chance to show this designer what I really can do.  Templates are so versatile and I wanted to show that in my different pages.  Weather or not I get picked to be on her team, I had lots of fun and I think my pages turned out great.

 

Here's the template we were given:

 

Here's the pages I made:

Kit used: Cloud #9 by Irene Alexeeva at Scrap Orchard
Template by Sine of Designs by Sine at Scrap Orchard
Quotes: Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. ~Frederick Keonig

 

Credits
Kit used: Danielle by Lauraskathi
Additional items: Frame and stitches by Gunhild, Brads by Memories Made Easy and Sticker Action by Atomic Cupcake
Template by Sine of Designs by Sine at Scrap Orchard
Journaling:
We went to the Jelly Belly Factory Tour in Pleasant Prairie, WI. The tour wasn’t quite what we expected. Afterwards we went shopping at Gurnee Mills. The day was tons of fun. Samantha bought a giant jawbreaker, we thought she would never fit it in her mouth. She proved us wrong and showed us her BIG MOUTH.

 

Credits:
Template by Sine of Designs by Sine of Scrap Orchard
Tattered Paper Overlay, Stitches and Paper Tear by Gunhild, Tree and Chain by Angie's Asylum, Bow by The Scrappin Cop. All items created by me using commercial use products.
Journaling:
Finding the perfect pumpkin wasn’t nearly as fun as carving a pumpkin for the very first time. Even though we didn’t really like the feeling of pumpkin guts on our fingers we really liked pulling it all out of our pumpkins. We had fun designing the perfect faces. Mommy and Daddy helped with the cutting because we can’t use a knife yet. In the end we finally had the Perfect Pumpkins.

There is so much you can do with a template and while I did use the template in almost the exact same configuration the designs came out so different.  I could have made some other changes like flipping the template in another direction or replacing one of the pictures with a different element, but I chose to keep them the same just so you could see how some smaller changes can make a huge difference.  To get some of the other great templates by Sine be sure to visit her store at Scrap Orchard: Sine of Designs by Sine.

Catching up

Sorry that there was no freebie last week.  I have almost everything together for a nice kit but I haven't had much free time in the last week.  I have been busy scrapping.  When the moment hits me I have to just go with it.  I got almost 1000 pictures from my Mom's stash and I couldn't help but get some pages done with those.  I'll show you most of the pages I have made in the last few weeks.

 

These are all from various challenges at color line design:

Photo challenge

Black background paper from lauraskathi - Birthday Bash 30 a kit
Everything else is from lauraskathi - Danielle Kit

 

Artist Challenge

Template by ChrissyW of Elemental Scraps
Papers and buttons from Lauraskathi Birthday Bash 1 kit
Frame and stitch by Gunhild
Butterfly bling by Natalia Designs sale freebie
Quote:
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ~Henry Ward Beecher

 

Mix it up challenge

Background paper by Irene Alexeeva at Scrap Orchard
Worn edges on Main photo and heart by Penny Springmann
Alpha by Lauraskathi
Vintage Jewelry by Gunhild
Vintage button by Rachael's Scraps
Staples from Krystal Hartley and Misty Cato's Happy Chappy Kit
All other elements designed by me.
Quote:
The history of our grandparents is remembered not with rose petals but in the laughter and tears of their children and their children's children. It is into us that the lives of grandparents have gone. It is in us that their history becomes a future. ~Charles and Ann Morse

 

Scrap Lift Challenge

Hangars from Mega-Doodle Inspired Dot Me Silly2 kit and Angies Asylum Tagger Goodies2
Alpha Frames from Valarie Ostrom
THE created with Alpha Brushes by Kellie Puddy
Background Paper and all other elements from Happy Chappy Kit by Krystal Hartley and Misty Cato
Also, frames bent with Sticky Note action by Mega-Doodle Inspired.

 

TNT Challenge

Fun Frames by Kellie Puddy
Strings and Stitches by Gunhild
Background paper and remaining elements by Creative Dreams - Eclectic Love kit

 

Template Challenge

All items from Lauraskathi Julia kit.

 

These are all from various challenges at Get Digi With It:

Speed Scrap Challenge

Mega-Doodle Inspired European Traveler Kit
Handstamped Brushes Michelle Coleman of LittleDreamerDesigns.com
Ribbons by Gunhild Storeide

 

Speed Scrap Challenge

All items were created by me with my own designs and items by the following designers:
Crow, tree and moon by Angie's Asylum
Folded ribbon and overlay to create frames by The Scrappin Cop
Stitches by Gunhild
Bottle cap and folded edge created with actions by Mega-Doodle Inspired

 

Speed Scrap Challenge

Papers and elements from the CLD August Colab kit
Alpha and doodle by Lauraskathi

 

Template Challenge

Kit used - Happy Chappy by Krystal Hartley and Misty Cato

 

These are all from various challenges at Scrap Orchard:

Template Challenge

Template by Sine of Designs by Sine.

I created all of the elements with designer resource items. Paper fold action by Mega-Doodle Inspired, Splash Overlay by Wetfish Scraps, Brush to create Beach Ball by Obsidian Dawn and Sticker action by Atomic Cupcake and Alpha brushes to create Splish Splash Words by Kellie Puddy.

 

Bring It Challenge

Main kit used: Cloud #9 by Irene Alexeeva
Alphas all by Lauraskathi
Template by Chrissy W at Elemental Scraps
Journaling: You love to dress up and when I see you I immediately get a smile on my face. You can make anything into a costume. Your favorite thing used to be the silk play scarf but now it is anything princess. You dress up for fun but I think you love to see the smile on everyone’s face when they see how beautiful you are. You really light up my life.

Are you a storyteller?

We all have some kind of story to tell.  Some of us may not know how to tell those stories.  Do you want to learn how to tell your story? 

 

There's a great new class coming up. 

 

 

I stumbled upon The Sprague Lab a while back.  And I have been loving reading it ever since.  This class looks like it is just what I need.  I always experience things that I know I just need to document and then by the time I sit down, I have either a) forgotten all about wanting to document the experience or b) don't know what to write about.  I also want to make sure I expand my focus on journaling on my scrapbook pages.  I know that when these pages are shared many years from now, the person looking at them will want to know a little about the story behind the pretty pages.

 

Mark your calendars and don't miss out on this class.  Oh yeah...the best part is that it's FREE!!!

It's been a long week...

...and there hasn't been enough time or energy for scrapping. 

 

Last weekend was scheduled pretty full.  We got started with a shopping trip on Friday and then a long time at the apple orchard/pumpkin farm on Saturday.  Then...it...happened.  Jazmine got sick at dinner.  I knew that the rest of us were doomed.  By Sunday afternoon I had been bit by the flu bug too.  I think yesterday was the first day that I was fully recovered.  That was lucky because I was able to play a little and I made another freebie. 

 

I have to give you a bit of background on this freebie first.  I may have said it about a billion times but I am a part of the product test team at Mega-Doodle Inspired.  It's great because we are able to get a sneak peek at some of the new elements and actions that Brandy develops.  I love that I get to play with these new things but I was also missing some of the previous actions that Mega-Doodle Inspired already had in stores.  That's why when I saw that there was going to be a bundle of them sold, I knew I had to have them.  Here's a tiny bit of info but if you click on the pictures you can go right to the store to see what all is included.  Oh yeah, I think you can still get a discount if you go to the Mega-Doodle Inspired blog and read <THIS> post. 

 

 

The reason I am telling you about this is because that cute little purse that you see in this freebie was created with one of the actions that is included in the PS CS3 bundle.  You can also buy it separately but why would you want to do that when you just know you want even more of those cool actions.

 

The newest release from Mega-Doodle Inspired is this grab bag.  You can also click on the link to go right to the store to make the purchase or you can go to the blog and see where you can pick up a bunch of freebies using items from this grab bag.  I used one of the plastics styles to create the cute little lipgloss that is included in today's freebie.

 

Here's a page I made using the notebook and the keychain from this grab bag.

 

Credits: Strings and rubber band from Gunhild, pattern to create the texture on the leaves by The Scrappin Cop, Notebook, Paper and keychain all by Mega-Doodle Inspired.

The jounaling says: We started taking walks as often as possible. Not only are our walks fun but they are educational. We recently were learning about all the different kinds of trees and leaves we find. We also love to play red light green light stop. We can't wait to see what we can discover when spring comes.

I guess it's about time I get to what you all really came here for.  On to the freebie.  This was really made because I wanted to try out another fun new action I got.  It was an action by Cindy Doerksen Designs.  It was to clean up clip art and line art.  I wanted to try it on some sketch brushes I had from Obsidian Dawn.  I just knew that the makeup sketches would go perfectly with that cute little purse.

 

So without further ado, I present the Makeup Mini Kit.  I'd love to see what you create with these.  Please come back and leave a comment with a link to your page so we can all see.

 

Download the kit here:

Makeup Mini Kit 

 

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