New Release and a blog hop! (That means FREEBIES!!)

   Hi everyone! Hope you've been having a good week. Wednesday, otherwise know as HUMP DAY is here!! I've been having a great and bad week all at the same time. I woke up Monday morning sick. Just like that...BAM, you're sick! I was fine Sunday and Monday was feeling bad, which got worse throughout the day and got even worse by Tuesday. Sigh. Stupid sinuses. On a much, much brighter note, I started working out yesterday and it felt great! I'll be going at least 3 times a week, if not more. I really worked hard and because of the type of machines at Curves, resistance machines versus high-impact machines, I'm not one bit sore. And that's saying something because I know I worked my hiney off. I'm not kidding around here with this working out stuff! I actually enjoy exercise and when I do it I go at it guns blazing. It's finding the time to work out, and I just decided I HAVE to make the time, because Maylee will appreciate a healthier Mommy in exchange for me being gone from the workday an extra 45 minutes.

   Anyway, on to the good stuff! Melanie, or Jumbbumble Designs, has a new release today! Look at this beautiful kit she designed:

Check it out here! 

I'm LOVING the blue and orange! The blue is, well, soft (like the title indicates! Haha), and that orange makes a great POP! I have another one in the works, but here's a LOs I did with this kit:

   So pretty! (The LO, and my dear friends Val and Carrie, too!)

   Now let's move on to the FREEBIES! Yay! Polkadotplum is having a great blog train!

   Check out what Jumbbumble Designs is offering! Oooh, I love her templates!

   You can download this awesome template pack >>here<<

   Here's a LO I did with one of these great templates:

Check out what the rest of the Polkadotplum ladies have for you!

Farynar's Wings

Sweet Tomato Designs

Laughing Sun Designs

Designs by Sweet Mesquite

Sugar Pie Scraps

Rhonda Sunflower Designs

Tree City Studio

Kat's Creations

Pixie Keepsakes

Polka Dot Plum Designs

  GO! Go now! Come on ride that train!!

   Enjoy everybody! Have a great week! Love to all!

Sneak peek from Jumbbumble Designs!

Hey everyone! Wanted to let you know you have a chance to win this awesome new kit, Sweet Soft Blue, being released by Jumbbumble Designs this week!

Check out the sneak peek:

Oooh, look at those colors! Looks fantastic! If you want to win, all you have to do is leave a comment on this post over at Jumbbumble Designs' website by Wednesday at midnight (CST)! Feeling lucky?

Love to all!

Bumblebee busy-ness

   Ok, I've been super busy, but man do I love it! Being on a CT is so much fun! I've made some really good friends and boy, has this put my scrapping mojo in high gear!! I'm so inspired by the templates and kits I've been getting to work with! I love working with Melanie's stuff (a.k.a. Jumbbumble Designs) and I'm loving all the stuff I'm buying over at polkadotplum, (further to be referred to as PDP) too! The challenges they have over there really help me get ideas (well, they tell me!) for what to scrap. It's great to get so many LOs done that I truly love. There's only one LO I've made in the last couple of days that I'm not really happy with. I'll tell you about it further down...

  So, here are some LOs I've made lately. And I have even more, but can't show them yet because the kits and/or templates haven't been released yet **wink**

  I whipped this up for the PDP March Journal challenge, where we were supposed to journal about how we were feeling right now.

 Credits:

A Fresh Start by Sugar Pie Scraps
Font: Pea K*Rayn

  I made this LO for the PDP March Quote challenge. 

Credits:

Granny’s Attic blog train (Polkadotplum)
       Love the Piglet by Utski Designs
Font: Jellyka, Saint Andrews Queen 

   This is the LO that I'm not too happy with. I LOVE this photo of my mom with my two nieces. I made this for the PDP March White Space challenge. If you're not familiar, white space scrapping is smaller photos and showing a lot of the background. I've done very few of these kinds of LOs, mainly because I like my photos to be the main attraction of my LOs. But this is very popular, and since this LO, I've done a couple white space LOs that I HAVE been happy with. Anyway, lemme know what YOU think. I think...blech.

Credits:

With Love From Sarah by Jumbbumble Designs

  This LO was for the Weekly Newsletter challenge. We had to use this one little element offered as a freebie in their newsletter (This time it was that little piece of scalloped trim behind the photos). This was a fun LO. I'm trying to branch out and not just use photos of Maylee (though she will ALWAYS be my favorite subject to scrap). This is my nephew Grayson. 

Credits:

Crazy Templates Volume 1 by Jumbbumble Designs
Spring is in the Air by Sugar Pie Scraps
Music notes: Birthday Girl by Julie Bullock

 And this last LO I did for the Weekly Photography challenge. We needed to scrap spring pictures. Well, I was in the mood for spring, because we HAD been having wonderful spring weather, but that witch Mother Nature changed her mind and winter's back in my neck of the woods. Woke up to snow this morning! I asked a photographer friend of mine if I could use some of her beautiful nature photos and she kindly obliged! I really like how this one turned out.

Credits:

Crazy Templates Volume 1 by Jumbbumble Designs
Spring is in the Air by Sugar Pie Scraps
Photos by Shawntae’s Photography
Font: Palatino Linotype

  

  Notice that the last two LOs where done with the same template pack (2 different templates, but that same pack with the same "feel") and the same kit? Could those two LOs be any different from one another?? Nope! See what you can do with templates? Change them up to suit what you want your LO to be!

Well, this has been a fun post! I love that I participated in all these challenges and got so many LOs done! I love being a Jumbbumble Bumblebee and I love my new home over at PDP! I'm just.....in love!!! (I know, I'll shut up now.)

Love to all! 

**Note. All the images in this post were linked from my Photobucket account, which is not usually the way I do it. It's kind of a trial. If I don't like it, I'll go back and edit this post with photos instead of links. But I can tell right off the bat that it's much easier with Photobucket. Lemme know if you have any viewing problems.

The rest of it

  Well, better late than never, huh? It's still technically tomorrow. I promised I'd post the rest of the LOs I've done, and I'm here to do just that!

   But first, gotta share about our day. We went to a good friend's daughter's birthday today. My friend's name is Amber (Amburger, according to Maylee LOL!!), and her daughter's name is Skylar. Skylar and Maylee get along pretty well, even though there's a bit of an age difference. Skylar turned 5 earlier this week and her birthday party was at a gymnastics studio. Maylee did pretty well...she didn't want to do any of the organized stuff and just wanted to dance and bounce. I had to keep reminding myself that she's a bit younger than the other kids, so I'd give her a little leeway when it came to following directions. One activity she found she did like was a the trampoline. This wasn't a regular trampoline, but a really long, narrow one that ran along the whole length of the back of the studio.It wasn't too bouncy, which is why I think she liked it. The bouncy, bouncy one scared her.

   Boy, I just read that previous paragraph and it was really poorly constructed and kind of ramble-y, but it's getting late and I'm not going to correct it. Sigh.

   Now to the good stuff. As promised, recent LOs I've done:

This is another CT LO I did, because I just love being on a CT and I love doing LOs for it!! I hope the shine (of the CT) doesn't wear off too quickly!

My little girl when she was still...little! Sweet!

Credits:

Template: Crazy Templates Volume 1 by Jumbbumble Designs
Kits: Missing Spring by Designs by Kat
Font: Courier New

Missourians, remember that ice/sleet/snow episode a while back. Yeah, I don't think Brandon's going to forget it anytime soon. 

Credits:

Template: Shabby Princess Project Scrap Month 2

Kit: Shabby Princess Seasonal Sampler - Winter
Font: Pea Stacey’s Doodles

 Credits:

Template: Shabby Princess Project Scrap Month 2  

Kit: Happy Go Lucky by Shabby Princess
Arrow (recolored) from Bright and Cheery from Double Dutch Designs
Font: Tekton Pro 

Don't know why, but I'm not crazy about this LO. Hm.

Credits:

Template by Shabby Princess Template Challenge #10
Barefoot by Shabby Princess

(This kit's on sale right now! Go get it! And hurry!)

Now, I love how this LO turned out! And it's pretty much a kit-less LO!

Credits:

Frames from Shabby Princess Template Challenge #10
Font: Pea Bitt Bitt

And this kit?? Well, I've had it in my head for about a week now, and I LOVE how it turned out!

 Credits:

Kit: Love the Piglet by Utski Design
Word art: Vector Alpha by Angel Hartline Designs
Font: Calibri

   Whew. I think that's it. Stay tuned for Jumbbumble Designs new template pack coming out at the beginning of April (can you believe it's already April? That is crazy.)!

Love to all,

So much catching up to do!

   You know, I used to decide not to blog because I didn't have any LOs to share. Then I thought, well, I don't have to share scrapbooking stuff on EVERY SINGLE post, do I? And I decided, no, I certainly did not. Well, I kind of have the opposite problem right now. I have so many new LOs to share, but I don't want to do it in one HUGE post, so I'll post some today and some tomorrow. So stay tuned for more!

First, because I'm still on such a high about getting on my first CT, I'll share my first CT LOs with you guys. One of the awesome things about the designer I'm CTing for, Jumbbumble Designs, is that not only is she a kit designer, she's a template designer. Love, love, love me some templates. So I get to use her kits to do LOs and I get to use her templates to do LOs, either with her kits, or another designer's kits! Isn't that awesome!? I'm still showcasing her work, even when I use another designer's kits, because she designed the amazing template I'm using! It's like win-win-win!

Credits:

Kit: Flowerpower by Jumbbumble Designs
Font: Journal

 Credits:

Template: Crazy Templates Volume 1 by Jumbbumble Designs
Kit: Love Who You Are by Captivated Visions
Font: Word Art: Journal
                 Journaling: Iskoola Pota

    And guess what?! Jumbbumble Designs is still looking to fill some CT spots! Check this out:

 OK, I HAVE to mention this, because those of you who know me know how it's bugging me. Now that Melanie has some good CT girls, we'll be sure that her ads going out are all translated well, with correct spelling and grammar. That's one of the things we're there for! 

   On the top LO, My Star, I used the "Seventies" photo action by Pioneer Woman. I love that one! Isn't it cool how it really looks like a photo from the '70's? (I guess that's the whole point, huh?) Since I'm mentioning the Pioneer Woman, I'll share the LO I made from the photos I took from our night out to see the Pioneer Woman.

Credits:

Template: Girl Talk
Kit: Dinner Party by Shabby Princess
Font: Myriad Web Pro

   OK, ONE more LO, then I'll do another post with the rest of them tomorrow. Remember the other day when I was telling you all how nice Day, from Inspirations from Day was, and how she did me a wonderful kindness even though I was stupid?? Well, here's the LO I made with the kit I purchased from her.

 Credits:

Spring Kissed by Inspirations from Day
Chocolates: Sweet Stuff to Scrap by Honey Designs
Font: Pea Aimee

   So, that's all! Well, not all, but that's all for today! More to come tomorrow, so stop by then and see the rest!

I'm a Jumbbumble lady!!

    Hey everyone! I've been accepted to my first CT! It's for Jumbumble Designs at PolkaDotPlum! I'm so excited!

    For those of you who don't know what a CT is, it's a Creative Team for a designer. The designer designs her kit, then us, her CT, create layouts for her to use in her promos and to showcase the kit. I've been debating on whether or not to apply to a CT. I knew I kind of wanted to, but didn't know if I had the time to dedicate to it. I decided I wanted ONE CT spot, but I was very particular about who it would be. I wanted a great designer at a really well-respected shoppe. And I got it!

   So, yes, you'll be seeing a lot of Jumbbumble Designs on my blog from now on. But it won't really be much different...I'll still just be posting LOs! I love to digiscrap, as you all know, so this is just a win-win situation!

   Stay tuned for my first LO using Jumbbumble Designs! I'm off to go work on some as we speak!!

Multiple Sclerosis Charity Collab

   March 14-20, 2011 is National Multiple Sclerosis Awareness week, and in honor of that, 34 designers got together to create a mega-kit called "Movement." MS stops people from moving, and we're raising money to make sure that doesn't happen.

This HUGE kit includes 190 Papers, 419 Elements, 3 Alphas, and there is a matching set of QPs sold separately.

100% of the proceeds from the sale of this kit and the matching set of QPs go to the National MS Society, more specifically, Mandy's BikeMS ride.

Go get this kit at GingerScraps!

 

The QP/Template pack includes 42 QPs, 1 Brag book, and 6 templates. Get it here!

 Ooooor, you can buy them both in a bundle for a great $15 (for MS Charity!!) here!

 

And look at this kit in action. This is a layout done by my friend, Star. Isn't is just adorable?!

   This is something I just love about the digiscrap community. The way we all come together for a greater cause is just amazing. This isn't the first charity collab I've bought and I'm sure it won't be the last. Designers donate their talents for charity all the time, and that's just awesome!