Wow!! How Lucky Am I?

Usually - not very lucky lol but I was blown away when I read a pm in my inbox at DST. I'd won a shopping spree to Connie Prince's new store at Elemental Scraps! How awesome is that?! When I entered the contest on her blog I thought it was worth a shot but I never usually win anything!
So last night I was drooling over lots of new goodies including 6 template packs & 5 awesome kits which included these



And with the downloading from ES taking roughly a minute a file I was really impressed! Thank you so much Connie!

I also have news of a really GREAT challenge if you're interested - Your lo is pretty much guaranteed not to look like anyone else's! It's inspired by a challenge over at Cat Scrap and it's over on SuzyQ Scraps blog here - one winner will get a $5 coupon to SuzyQ's store at Enchanted Studio Scraps! Now I know I'm on SuzyQ's CT but I want to play along with this one just for fun!

Well the last few days have been quite busy in my house, myself, my dd & my d have all had a cold & it was also my dd's 3rd birthday! So I'm off to catch up on some layouts - thanks for reading!

Pages, New Stuff & A CT Call!

I've really been on a roll with my layouts recently & been creating a page every couple of days! Here's my latest two, the first is called '1st Birthday' & I really LOVE this one at the moment! It features my son Zach & the journalling details how he wouldn't open his presents! At one point it was just me in the living room with the camera!
I used quite afew different supplies for this one which is quite unusual for me as I tend to stick to one kit & that's it! But on this page I used: All papers and elements from 'Baby Brights' by Misty Cato, Alpha from 'Acrylibets: Rainbow-Filled' by SuzyQ Scraps, 'Birth-day:' wordart from 'Birthday Wordart' by Neverland Scraps
Font: SP Toby Type. I also had inspiration for the star balloons from the page 'Life Is Full Of Wonder' by krystalhartley in the gallery at Sweet Shoppe Designs
and also a sketch by ChrissyW at Elemental Scraps.

Here's my second page featuring my daughter & my son :)
For this page I used a new collab kit called 'Spring Rebirth' by SuzyQ Scraps and Wendy Page!
If you'd like to see some detailed images of the kit then you can see it in the Enchanted Studio Scraps store here
Ok, finally on to the CT Call for SuzyQ Scraps! This is on my blog as I am the Manger of the CT team & we're looking to add to the team! This opportunity will probably not arise for at least another 6 months so if you're interested please don't hesitate to apply, SuzyQ & I would love to hear from you! Here's the ad and if you can't read the ad then take a look here on SuzyQ's team blog. If you'd like to see more of SuzyQ Scraps designs then take a look at her exclusive store at ESS here

Well that's it for today! Thanks for reading :)

Bits & Pieces!

So today I have a couple of pages to show you & news of a new template challenge!
First I'll show you my most recent pages! This one is called 'My Boy!' and I made it for the 'Sprites Spell' challenge over at Enchanted Studio Scraps. Basically you had to include 3 green papers, 2 differnt green flowers & a green ribbon! I actaully learnt a new re-colouring technique while I was doing this lo courtesy of the great Suzy from SuzyQ Scraps! I can now re-colour using a mask! Thank you Suzy for sharing!
I used products by SuzyQ Scraps on this page 'Puddle Jumpers' & the ribbon came from 'Capture Life: Embellish It!

Next is a page I did using the March 09 Collab from ESS 'Ordinary Miracles' & some PU & CU easter egg templates from SuzyQ Scraps (she's released a ton of new products recently!) The templates are called Eggshells (gotta love that name lol) Traditional & Dotty I also used a template from 'My Retro Life' by B&B Designs. Here's my page:

Hot Off The Press: SuzyQ has just put 3 new alphas in her store & there is something for everyone! They're just $2 for each set - that's 50% off! Check these out - Acrylibets:
Pastel-Filled:
Neutral-Filled:
And finally Rainbow-Filled:
Well thank you for staying with me this far! My final piece of news is the template challenge on SuzyQ's blog. You can download a template made by the lovely Charmaine & if you come back to the blog & post a link to your page you may just win a $5 coupon to SuzyQ's store!! It's pretty light on entries so far so go check it out!
Well thanks for reading, I'll be back soon with more news :)

SuzyQ Has Been Busy!!!

So I have some new releases to share with you today from SuzyQ Scraps, a lo from me using one of the new releases & news of a wordart freebie if you fancy a blog hop!

All of what I'm about to show you are 20% over the weekend - these are just SOME of the new releases! There's so many egg-citing new things you shold head over to SuzyQ's store at ESS.

First there's some PU/CU Easter Egg Templates - this is just one of 3 different sets you can pick up:
Next there's 'Egg-spressions':

And then there's my favourite release of the week - 'Mommy's Lil' Monster' to see a load more previews check it out in the store here

And here's a page I made with the kit:

If you're still with me thanks for reading! And here's a preview of the blog hop freebie - It's a pack of 6 pieces of wordart made by myself & two other members of SuzyQ Scraps CT using 6 of her kits:
and you can get it here (there's an option to get it away from 4shared too) & that's it except to say once again - thanks for reading!

Another Page

My mojo really seems to be flowing at the moment for my pages so I decided to FINALLY get round to doing a page about my Nana's 90th birthday - I can't believe I waited so long to do this lol! I saw the template & just had to use it - I love the blocking :)

I used one of my all time favourite kits on this page - 'Secret Garden' by Duchess Designs. I also used 'Photo Therapy #2' and the 'Sew Memorable Alpha' by Duchess Designs. The cupcake was a template by Trish H. Designs (clipped with 'Secret Garden' papers & 'Twas The Night Before Christmas Glitter Fills' by Duchess Designs) & the template is from 'My Retro Life' by B&B Designs.

I also have news of a new kit from Duchees Designs called 'Lucky Charm'. I don't usually go for green but I love the papers in this kit!
This kit is 25% off for a limited time :)
I'll be back tomorrow with news from SuzyQ & a page I have created with her new release - thanks for reading!

A new 2 page layout!

So I don't do 2 pagers very oftern...to be honest I don't know why either lol but Duchess Designs has recently released a new pack of templates called 'Celebration Doubles'.

As soon as I saw them I thought they would be great for scrapping Christmas photos as I have so many photos to scrap! So here is my 2 pager featuring some of my Christmas photos from Christmas 2008.
Here's the Left Page:
And here's the right page:

And here 's what they look like together:
The kit I used is 'Twas The Night Before Christmas' also by Duchess Designs and is currently 20% off!
Full credits can be found here as I used some elements form other kits as well ;)