Scrapper’s Delights – Bee Happy

Well I teased you yesterday, and now here it is:

Here are the papers:

And here are my layouts:

I hope you’ll all take a few and pick it up,
so many good things in this one.  Only $2.80 now!!!!!

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Scrapper’s Delights – Sneak Peek

The lovely Lady of Scrapper’s Delights has another
of her lovely fantasy kits coming out soon,
it’s beeee-u-tiful!

Stay tuned for more info!!

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Happy Easter Hybrid Freebie

Hello All, are you ready for the weekend of fun, egg hunts and bunnies??  Well we’re gearing up here and with the help of the Lovely Lady Janice of Scrapper’s Delights and Spectacular Jodiann and her Super Styles I have made a hybrid freebie for you.

I used a stack of Jodiann’s Styles and Scrapper’s Delights “Morning Dew.”  I know, a little different for me (a lot! different for me.)  But sometimes you just go where the spirit moves you.  Religious art is is not my usual style and likely to be the only one of its kind.  I made it thinking it’d make a nice little something for the Grandma’s (my Mom and DMIL) so now I offer it to you.  Last minute “Thinking of You” for the pastor or his wife, Grandma, Mom… whoever.

You can download
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Leave me your thoughts if you’d like, feedback is always nice.  This bookmark is personal use only and if you know someone who’d like it print it, cut it out and give them one.  There are three on a page.  I went both ways with my demo just plain ole cut out and I also matted it on a piece of plain purple cardstock, then laminated it and added a tail.

So that’s all I have for now, I hope you all have a great Easter weekend, I may be back this weekend I have some good stuffs in the works and I can’t wait to share.

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Scrapper’s Delights Challenges thru April 15

Well I’ve eluded enough times, well this time I’m really going to tell you about them…. so here we goooooo!
(All images are linked to the challenge thread in the forum.)

Come join us each month in challenges designed to encourage your creativity and show off your personal style, while building friendships in our brand new forum.  Our generous point system will have you earning free kits (full size!) in no time.  And most challenges include freebies to get you started!

Now how can you pass that up?

All the challenges at Scrapper’s Delights run from the 15th to the 15th of each month.  Yeah we’re a little different, what can I say? 
Our desktop challenge include this fun little calendar png, free!!!
It’s also the font we used in our Font Challenge this month…

A super cute little font free from Kevin and Amanda.

And this month, the super cute Word Art made by Lady Janice of Scrapper’s Delights another super freebie!!

And this is one of my favorites because it really is a challenge,
pick from the choices and I’ll PM you a list of what your layout must contain.  It’s even double points!!!

And these last two are special because they are all about YOU!  Challenges to get your journaling skills going and your pages full of your memories, because isn’t that what this is all about??

I know Bucket list is kind of morbid, but hey think of it as a dream list…I’ve already made mine:

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And last but certainly not least, the Card Challenge….

Again, we’ll even supply you with the template.

Here’s my card:

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So sorry for such a long post, but I’m just so excited about the community we are buildling over at Scrapper’s Delights,
I’d love it if you could stop by and see us!!

Hope to see you soon!!

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Good Grief Layout 3

So if anyone has been reading this you’ll know my Dear Father-In-Law passed a year ago.  It’s been a long tough year.  I go back and forth in my emotions about it.  Most days are pretty mellow, I miss him but I can manage.  And then there are days I cry at everything.  Well this month’s challenge at Good Grief was to tell a story without photos.  (These are not my first layouts for Good Grief Challenges about Dad.)  And I had the perfect kit for it. 
Marta van Eck’s Don Quijote. 
(Please note: I’m not on her CT, sometimes
I do scrap with kits that are not CT requirements.) 
It’s a lovely but odd kit with beautiful flowers and moody dark backgrounds, but it’s the windmills that sold me on this kit for this project.  Dad always called my DMIL his “little dutchmen” why it wasn’t dutch girl I’ll never understand, but anyway I’m getting off point.  So with the windmill and the beautiful flowers which I thought at first were tulips, but are in fact poppies I created a sweet tribute that I could get some emotions out and accurately portray my feeling with.  And the horses, horses always make me think of Dad.

Journaling says:
Dear Dad,
A year has slipped by since you left us so suddenly. I can't tell you how much I miss you, because I have never felt like this before. It often hits me out of seemingly nowhere. Somedays it does not hurt to remember, but most days it does. Somedays I hate you for that, and then I get mad at myself for that. There is nothing to hate you for, you would not have left if you had been given the choice. You worked your whole life, day after tiring day, rarely complaining, crappy farmers wages. But you made sure Mom would be taken care of. I just wish I had appreciated you more when I had the chance, and that is just a shame, I miss you so much.

I like this challenge because I’m in a phase right now of writing letters I have no intention of sending.  It’s a nice outlet for my emotions.  I can express those feelings we were told all our lives that nice girls shouldn’t feel or dare speak about and it helps me through a lot of things.

Well that’s all I have for now.  Thank you for stopping by. 
I’ll be back soon with info about the great challenges I am hosting
at Scrapper’s Delights new store. 
I hope you can come join us.

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The Secret is Out!

I can finally tell you the secret I’ve been holding on to for what seems like forever now!!!  Scrapper’s Delights has opened her own store!  And she’s opening TODAY!!!  With all kinds of great sales and freebies.  Make sure to sign up for her new newsletter while you are there for more goodies.

And I’m also very excited to tell you not only does she have the store but a new forum also!!!  And we have been working hard to set up some super fun challenges for you.  I jumped on to run a few challenges and I can’t wait for you to see them.  So please come by and say hi, maybe join us in a challenge or two.  SD wants us to build a fun place to hang out and learn from each other. 
And as a bonus we’ve come up with a super point system for the challenges, it’ll be super quick to build up points and earn coupons to use on SD’s super cute kits.  So please come check us out. 
I look forward to seeing you!

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Shhh!! It’s a secret….

I can’t say much now, the others are close and might hear me typing so I’ll make it fast… I wanted to let ya’ll in on the secret…

Something big is happening with Scrapper’s Delights… I’ve been sworn to secrecy but I know you’ll want to keep your eyes peeled for the news when it hits….for now I can give you this scrap… I smuggled it out before the guards noticed it…..

Trust me when I tell you you’re going to like this!!!

Oh, no, here they come!!!  I’ve got to go,
I’ve stayed too long already!  See you there!!

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Scrapper’s Delights – True Romance

Well, as you all probably know by now, I’ve fallen head over heels for Scrapper’s Delights products!  I can’t help myself they are just too cute!  And if you’ve been reading my blog for any amount of time, once I clamp on to a designer I believe in I don’t let go.  See my Winter’s Magic post for the first in what will probably be a long series of gushings about Janice’s super cute kits.  

Well this month she released a super romantic Valentine’s kit
that just so classy you’ve got to see it.

Now before you say anything, yes I know my layouts are not Valentine-y.  The hubs is not a huge fan of having his picture
taken so there’s not many I haven’t used in other layouts
already so I went the opposite direction and wanted to
show the versatility of this kit. 
(And I just have to be difficult/different and not follow the theme.)

 
Photo aging product by Gunhilde Storeide all other items from True Romance by Scrapper’s Delights.

 
Maybe a little explanation would help this one, I’m a big George Burns fan more of a crush actually.  I wanted to make this a “born too late” kind of thing, but I couldn’t find a pic of me with George (from Madame Tussaud’s of course) but the cards in the background easily lent to the playing card Janice included with the kit so I just went where it lead me.  I made the cards by stretching the red background a little and clipping it to the card face, to keep the shape consistent.  Then I added a Vegas style card back with the black velvet alpha included with the kit.  A little outer glow and Rickles font and voila! we have perfectly Vegas inspired tribute to a wax idol. 

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you stop by the Scrapper’s Delights blog and give it a looky-lou or the store and pick up a copy of True Romance.  I’m sure I will be back with more fabulousness from this kit (hint-hint).  There’s all kinds of fantastic things coming from SD soon so stay tuned!

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The party begins…

The Birthday celebration over at Enchanted Studio Scraps has begun!  First up is the Scavenger Hunt set up by the lovely Janice of Scrapper’s Delights and ESS Pixies Talia & Laura.  It looks to be a doosy but the ladies have already started and are having a great time.  There are ten clues to be found and the prize looks pretty good:

• 1-5 clues correct get a $1 coupon to Scrapper’s Delights Store

• 6-9 clues correct get a $5 coupon to Scrapper’s Delights Store

• 10 clues correct get a $10 coupon to Scrapper’s Delights Store

Looks like a pretty good deal to me, the hunt runs till Jan 8, so there’s still time to enter, see you there!

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Winter Magic by Scrapper’s Delights

Before we start the layouts I want to show you this, from the Better Homes' and Gardens Christmas Decorations slideshow:
(Image is linked if you’d like to see more.)

My boys and house critters (dogs and cats) would have this thing stripped in minutes!!  I can’t even imagine what torture this must be for the children who live in that house!  Because if you start eating the tree before Christmas, you’ve ruined the decorations, so

you gotta wait till at least Christmas morning after you’ve taken all the pix of opening presents, right?  Well maybe we could start on the backside for now….

Umm with a diabetic in the house I guess it’s best not to even entertain the idea.  I’m seriously debating the Second Annual Gingerbread House display.  We started the tradition last year and I hoped to keep it going, the boys had so much fun decorating their little house I made for them out of graham crackers, and this year my DMIL picked me up some Wilton cookie cutters that cut out the house shape for you so no messing with patterns.  I’m so excited, we picked up buckets of candy at the dollar store yesterday, but now I’m unsure if I should put that much temptation out for the hubs.  Maybe we can make a nice one for each of the boy’s classes Christmas party next week, that will get the bug out of my system, but they won’t get all the fun they had last year, hmmm decisions, there’s always sugar free candies, but I’m not real big fan of the taste or the effects. So we’ll see, I just have to hide them maybe.

So I HAVE to show you this super fun kit from Scrapper’s Delights, it’s new this month and I got to play with it, I had so much fun!!  I’ve said it before and I know I will say it again I’ve very nervous of fantasy kits, but in the end I have soooo much fun with them that I don’t know why I get so nervous, it’s kind of freeing to have an imaginary world where you can do what you want.  So here’s what I came up with for Winter Magic, the little fairies in the kit are sooo stinkin’ cute (and kinda hot too!) that I couldn’t resist.  I’m gonna make The Hubs a new backdrop for his computer with these pretty girlies too! ;o)

(Image is linked to ESS store)

And here are my layouts:

 
This is our house this year, we switched to LED icicle lights last year, this year I found the blue so we mixed them up, let me tell you what, there isn’t a spot in the front yard you can’t see, these suckers light up the place!  And with all those penguins in the front yard, you gotta make sure they are seen.  (LOVE penguins!)

This is my oldest boy over his first four Christmases, I love the bow on the top of his head and the crazy hair as he rips wrapping paper apart in front of the tree, and that is our tree actually.  Janice put some gorgeous trees in the kit, but to keep it realistic (ha!) I added ours.  Best tree I’ve ever had, it’s fiber optic so no lights to string!!  I rarely put ornaments on, with little hands, inquisitive kitty paws, and lab’s tails, there’s just no keeping ornaments safe.  So I hang a garland of green on the wall or across the curtain rod and hang them from that.  Keeps them safe because you never want to find your dog eating the kid’s macaroni art ornament.

Well, that’s about it for today, tomorrow I am the bearer of Trixie Scrap’s present for her 4th day of The Twelve Days Of Christmas.  I can’t wait to show you!  But run over to Trixie’s today and get caught up on all the lovelies the ladies have made so far.

Oh and one last thing, the brilliant Melly has a new Retro Christmas kit coming out I just can’t wait to show you what I made…. but you have to wait till Friday!

See you tomorrow!

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