Busy, busy, busy

And I love every moment of it!  I forgot all about sharing these with you yesterday.  I got busy scrapping and then our oldest got sick (which we found out this morning is strep throat – so much for her solo and children’s choir program tonight) so it slipped my mind totally.

SuzyQ Scraps released a new kit Friday Called In the Farmyard.  The preview is linked to her store @ ESS.

Here’s a layout I did with this kit.

I just could resist the goat!  These photos have been waiting for a long time to see the light of day!

A+ Designs and Dani Moy Designs have a fabulous collab that they released Friday called Amy’s Birds.  This preview is also linked to A+ Designs’ store.

I made this layout Friday

And then this one during Friday night’s Speed Scrap @ ESS

This Speed Scrap was so much fun!  I love how this page turned out.  Yes, the frames aren’t around a picture – we were suppose to use them in a non-traditional way and this was where my brain took that me.  It still amazes me how the same group of people see the same instruction and come up with so many interpretations.  My students are like that too but often what they come up with is much better than where my plan was taking me in the first place.

Finally I have a free kit to tell you about.  Yes you read that right FREE.  Scraps of Ellay has a kit coming out today on her blog that will be free for this week only.  It’s called Child’s play and it’s full of fun Primary and Secondary colors.  If you have children this is a great kit for you.  If you don’t have kids it’s a great kit anyway.  Take a look.  I linked the preview to her blog so you can go right there to pick it up.  If it’s not up yet check back tonight. 

I made two layouts with this kit and since I can’t decide which is my favorite I’ll show you both.

First Days

Playing

I love the fun colors in this kit.  The top layout also used a template by SuzyQ Scraps.  I usually make a QP to share with all of you, hmmm, how about you let me know which one of the Child’s Play layouts is your favorite either “First Days” or “Playing.”  Which ever one gets the most votes will be the one I’ll turn into a QP.  Voting will go from today until 9:00 pm CST Monday night.  The poll is over on the side bar . . . so go vote already!

I hope you enjoyed these layouts and that they inspired you to make some new creations yourself!  I’ll see you around!

News, and inspiration

First I have some exciting news (well at least for me anyway). Mel of A+ Designs asked me to join her CT! I fell in love with her designs when she joined ESS and I bought her Rainbow Dreams kit. She has a new kit going into the store today called "Naturally Beautiful" that I played with just last night. Here's what I came up with:Then I have found the perfect kit to show off all my "handy man" photos. SuzyQScraps has a new kit out today called "Daddy's Lil Helper" that is just adorable! Take a look at these and you'll see what I mean.

I didn't have the right photos to use all the tools and paintbrush elements but I'm going to be watching for the opportunity to get some the next time my husband decides to go on another "handyman" spree. LOL!

Psst . . . that bottom layout was turned into a QP that you can pick up over on SuzyQ's team blog as a freebie today! One more thing . . . there's a speed scrap being held tonight at ESS hosted by A+Designs. It begins at 9:00 p.m. CST. These are always a lot of fun so why don't you join us? Catch you all later!

SuzyQ Blog Train FREEBIE alert - Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone. You have reached my stop on the SuzyQScraps' Team Easter Egg blog train! The freebie is down just a little. I took the following . . . .

And created these FREEBIES just for you! Download here

Here is our blog train roll in case you missed a stop or just joined on my blog. Be sure to hit all the stops - your basket will be running over with lots of goodies. ***Please be patient if the post for the freebies isn't up yet at some locations. We are spread out all over the world in different time zones but should all be up sometime today. If one isn't there when you check just come back in a little while. Happy Easter!

Team blog of SuzyQScraps

Bre

Susan (IvoryKeys) <----- you are here

Ellie

Charmaine

Joy

I hope you enjoy your freebies. May God truly bless you and your family.

New kit by SuzyQ

SuzyQ has created this adorable kit just in time for Easter called Funny Bunnies.

You can pick it up in her store at ESS, today (Friday April 3rd) for 20% off. After today it goes to regular price.

Here is a LO that I finished with this cute kit: This kit has a lot of great things in it that you can use for LOs other than Easter. So hop on over to her store and check it out!

Awesome kit and Add-on Freebie

I told you earlier today that SuzyQ Scraps and Brittney of Britt-ish Designs collabed a fabulous new kit that went into the store today called Tale As Old As Time. Here is a preview of this awesome kit. If you like it the preview is linked to SuzyQ's store. My LO earlier today was made with this kit and I only scratched the surface. This would be perfect for any of those "Beauty and the Beast" type LO's you have been waiting to create! SuzyQ and Brittany also both have freebie Add-ons for this kit. Go here to find SuzyQ's add-on and there is a link for Brittany's there too.

Exciting news!

I was accepted onto SuzyQScraps QT! I'm so super excited! I still can't believe she picked me. I've been super busy this week putting some things in place so I can do my job as a QT but I finally had time to complete a LO Wednesday night. I used a brand new collab kit by SuzyQScraps and Britt of Britt-ish Designs called Tale As Old As Time. It goes into SuzyQ's store at here at ESS today! This kit is so adorable! It is perfect for all those prince and princess LO's! I'll be back with a preview of the kit later since I scheduled this post on Thursday night. Trust me - this is one kit you don't want to miss!

Scrap happy

The past few weekends I've gotten quite a few LO's completed. Most for different challenges at ESS but a few just to try out new techniques that I'm learning. My biggest accomplishment is learning to do extractions of photos. One of the neat things about digi scrapping is that there is more than one way to get the same or similiar result. You just have to find what works best for you. This is a LO I completed today using SuzyQ Scraps kit Puddle Jumpers. The frog with the word art "kiss me" was the March Elf Excerpt freebie at ESS by Jeanette Bollinger. If you register at ESS then you can download it and join the challenge. I think it is just adorable. Here is a link to Enchanted Studio Scraps in case you decide to swing by. I have to say I really like this forum. Everyone is so friendly and there's always something going on. This is another LO I finished this weekend that I'm really proud of. I spent a long time last night (staying up way later than I should have but hey, that's what Spring Break is all about right?) working on the extraction. I used a free collab kit by the designers at Sunflower Scraps that is downloadable from TDS this week. I counted 8 LO's that I did last weekend and I know I did at least 4 this weekend. I hope to get several more completed this week while we are out for Spring Break though I don't know how many I'll actually get done because my family and I are traveling to Arkansas at the end of the week. My mom's sister is getting remarried. She asked me to play at her wedding and Gaylon to sing a couple of special songs. My poor mom will be corraling our 3 munchkins. I'll be back with more LO's soon.