Friday, April 27, 2012

April layouts for One Story Down

This was such a busy month creating tons of new layouts for One Story Down.  It helps when you have great templates tons of new kits to help get the creative juices flowing.  Here they are in no particular order, click here for my gallery to view credits.










Office Space

It's not too often that I blog about work or even create layouts about work.  Well, I finally got a good reason to do so . . . a new kit (well a week old already) called Office Space Part 2 by Gennifer Bursett.  I really loved the real vintage thing going on.  Here are two layouts featuring her kit.




Katherine always host the best digi morph at Design House Digital.  It is really fun to see how the layouts keep changing.  Here is my page.

I'll be back with a much longer post . . . be warned

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Happy Easter 2012

Happy Easter!

While Bostyn was outside playing, the Easter Bunny came and hid a present for Bostyn.  It was a good thing that he left a trail of grass so she could find it easily.  Bostyn loved her gift, a Barbie doggie with a vet kit.  It was a really cute set.  The dog and accessories are magnetic so when you put the tissue to her nose, it blows, the bone and bottle to the mouth makes a slurping noise.  There are also different parts on her body that will respond when you touch it.


Here is another collage of all the fun we had at Grandma's house.

One Story Down

Okay folks, I am officially a week late.  One Story Down opened their "doors" last weekend.  They had a week long fun of challenges and games.  No longer are they just a blog but a store with great designers.  I've been busy the last few weeks helping to prepare for their opening by working on a few layouts.  Here are some:

Tell Me a Story by One Story Down Designers

Sippin' Honey Template by Peeps & Milo and Me Time by Valorie Wibbens

Hip Hip Hooray by The Sissy Sparrows and Transformers v14 by Lauren Reid

Olivia by The Ardent Sparrow (lifted Marcy Penner)

Me Time by Valorie Wibbens, Inklins by Lauren Reid, These Moments by Crystal Livesay, and Tell Me a Story by OSD Designers


This page was using Feb/March Zig Zag Lines by Pink Reptile Designs, featured designer at OSD.

And this is for April's Girl vs. Scrap Challenge at OSD.


Now onto Design House Digital . . . Mad March Memories challenge.  So the last time I blogged, I showed you 2 layouts for MMM challenge.  With each round, they get harder.  I am pleased to say that I finished all 6 rounds.  Here are my final 4 layouts for these challenges.  These layouts are linked to my gallery since the last layout, I had to use 15 different kits from 6 different designers.  That was a challenge for me as I am usually a 1 kit kind of scrapper gal.

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6, 2 page spread

I'm going to work on some Easter pictures and will be back soon to post.

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Something Coming Down

There is something coming down on April 1st.  Go check it out now!


The once inspiration and challenge blog is turning store.  One Story Down is filled with gorgeous products for all your digi (and hybrid) scrapping needs.  Some are many new faces but a few familiar ones to make it feel like home.  I can't wait to see you all there.  I have a bunch of new layouts that I've been working on and hosting a game in the forum.

Sunday, March 18, 2012

catching up

So why do I feel like I am always playing a game of catch up here?  I thought I better post before I get too far behind.

So first off, I played with a NEW (to me) designer, Anna Aspnes.  Her designs are best suited for artsy layouts which is not my typical style.  However I do love experimenting and playing with new products.  I really have to thank my dear friend, ViVre, for inspiring me to give it a try.  Her photos and layouts are always so gorgeous!  Plus I think it is really cool that she lives in the Netherlands and is 11 hours ahead of me.

This is what I came up with.  I actually really loved how it turned out.  Anna has some really nice photo masks that make blended photos easy to do.  Also many of her papers have a blended look to them so that takes the work out of doing it myself.  On March 10th, I got a Gallery Standout on this first layout.  I was so excited because this was my first time doing a real artsy layout.



Here are 2 more project life pages that I completed this week.



This month I am also playing along with DHD's March Madness.  So far I have completed 2 rounds.  Both both of the layouts, I used their free (if you did their blog hop game), Spring Menagerie collab kit.



As you can see, I have a range of styles to show you today.  I think that is what makes this hobby so much fun.  I promise to be back soon and be a better blogger.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Where have I been?

Sorry, my poor neglected blog and readers.  Since I am not doing NEW52 this year, I really don't have a set date or real reason to blog.  However, I'll try to be better because my sister who lives in Oregon misses our family updates.  Here are a bunch of up layouts that I've done the last few weeks.

To start with, how about some Project Life pages using goodies mostly from Lauren Reid.  As you can see, I kept my pages rather simple, or I will never get caught up.





Gosh, I have several Valentine's Day layouts to share (so behind, so behind . . . )


Here are more goodies from Lauren Reid.





Gennifer over at Design House Digital, released tons of goodies that I got to play with.  These Instragram photo journalers were my favorite.  If you look carefully, they have a letterpress embossing on the headers.









Thanks for looking and hope to be back more regularly for updates and new products.