Colors and Journaling! Tons of new Challenges!

I have two great new challenges this month.

First, at Digiridoo Scraps come try my journaling challenge:
That's right it's July (or almost depending on your lime zone ).

I'm your happy hostess for the July Journaling Challenge and boy do I have some fun in store for you!

I want to do things a little differently this month. I want you to start thinking about the alphabet. Come up with a fun theme and create an A to Z list on a layout about your theme. Who knows maybe this could spawn an entire A to Z album for you! Try to use a few different alphas if possible to change it up some.

I cannot wait to see your layouts! Make sure you post your layout to the Digiridoo gallery and link it here so I can send you this awesome participation prize created by Kelley of Caffeine Created Designs (a little birdie mentioned there might just be a matching full kit in stores soon so look around for it ) and so we can all give you some love.



Then, at Digital Paper Hearts come join the color challenge:
Welcome to the second color challenge for Digital Paper Hearts. We are celebrating Christmas in July this month and we have tons of fun planned so make sure you check out the Scavenger Hunt, Sales, and our other awesome challenges!

For this month I am going to give you two options. You can either create a layout using at least three of the colors attached to the post or use those colors to create a mini kit with a celebration theme. It can be celebrating anything you like, just think about what you do when you celebrate!


If you need a kit to use you can grab my Girls Night Out Freebie in the store, however this will not count toward bonus points for the challenge.

Check out my Photography Challenge at DPH!

Ok for this month's photography challenge I want us to learn a little something more about our cameras so for this month I found a tutorial on white balance that we can all read over. Here's the challenge:

Read the tutorial on white balance and play around a bit with your settings. While you are playing around take a few pictures of something that reminds you of the special guy in your life. Play around with the white balance on the photos and choose your favorites. Using your favorite photos create a layout explaining why the item you photographed reminds you of your special guy. Above all else make sure you have fun with this! That is the most important part of the challenge, if we learn something new great, but make sure you have fun doing it.

Tutorial - White Balance

Post your layouts in the Digital Paper Hearts gallery and link them here in order to receive credit. You will receive 10 points for completing the challenge and an extra 5 points if you use products from the Digital Paper Hearts store to create your layout.

In addition, I will have a fun sampler for my A Day Just For Dad Kit that you will receive as a posting bonus for completing the challenge.



Have fun! I can't wait to see what you do!

Check out my Photography Challenge!

I'm in charge of the June Photography Challenge at Digital Paper Hearts so come check it out! We are going to work on white balance and photographing something that reminds us of the special guy(s) in our lives. Finally, we are creating layouts to explain our photographs.

Digital Paper Hearts is now using a point system as a reward for our new challenges. For every challenge you complete you get 10 points. If you use products from DPH you get an extra 5 points. 100 points equals $1 and you can start redeeming your points for coupons at 300 points. In addition to that you also get a posting bonus for completing each challenge!

For my challenge I have a sampler of my A Day Just For Dad Kit that you will receive as a posting bonus for completing the challenge.



So come check out our new challenges and grab some fun free items!

New Mini FREE for this week!

That's right another mini free for this week only. Also you have only one more day to snag Glitzy Gardens before the links come down. Starting on Monday will be another fun free mini for one week only so check back to see where!

Scientific Experiment is my newest creation and you can snag it here at Inspiration Lane.

Lots of FREEBIES from me!

Hi Everyone,

I have entered a ridiculous amount of competitions and hopefully I am not overextending myself too much.

I am still working on the Brownie Scraps Challenges (what an amazing group of women at that site! Check it out if you haven't yet.)

I realized that I forgot to put a post about my mini for this past week. You have only today left to download it and then tomorrow the new mini comes up. Don't worry though because if you absolutely love Memory of Me it will be available in stores soon for only $2!!!

Snag Memory or Me HERE for today (Sunday) only!

You can get Glitzy Gardens in THIS FORUM starting tomorrow (monday) until next sunday.

In addition I have entered the Inspiration Lane Desire 2 Inspire Contest. I'm just getting to know this site but the ladies here have been very welcoming and I love the format of the contest. It doesn't officially start until tomorrow, however many of us did a pre-contest mini to get an idea of what they are looking for at Inspiration Lane and to get some feedback on our designs.

Here is mine:

You can grab Complimentary Crescents HERE at Inspiration Lane along with the other minis in this thread.

That's a lot of freebies for one day right? But wait! There's more!

I also entered the ScrapMatters Design Star contest and could you believe over 100 other designers also entered this contest? I have no idea if I am good enough to even make it to the next round with so much competition, but I am extremely proud of my entry. I feel it is unique and really one of the best little minis I have created so far. Unfortunately I cannot direct you specifically to my entry because the first round of the contest is a blind round (at least until you download the entries and look at the TOU).

However, the good news is I CAN direct you to a gallery filled with amazingly GORGEOUS mini kits for this contest. Since we had the same color pallette you can mix and match these kits for an absolutely AMAZING mega collab kit from some very talented ladies. At last count there were almost 50 entries in already with at least 50 more to come. Each entry has 3 papers and 3 unique elements.

You must be registered and logged in at ScrapMatters to see the Design Star Round One Galary (login at the forum first as there seem to be some issues logging into the gallery only).

Without further ado HERE is the Design Star Round One entries! Mine is in there somewhere. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

Water Wonderland *New Freebie*

The new freebies for the Brownie Scraps Designer Challenge are coming up within the next few hours. Here is mine, you can snag it anytime over the next week and then that's it!

You can grab it here and check out all of the other entries here.

Also, here are two layouts I created with the kit. The alpha also created by me is from the K Joi Studios Going With The Tide Collab that will be available in March.



If you want to try your own layout with my kit then you could win a gift certificate to Brownie Scraps, check out the details here:

Another FREEBIE from me!

Hello Everyone,

Don't forget to snag the blog train freebie that is two posts below if you missed it. In addition I forgot to post about my latest freebie from the Brownie Scraps designer challenges. It's called "In the Air" and is only available for a few more days I believe? I'm not sure if they will keep these up longer because of the holidays or not.

Go here to download it.



In addition, my awesome CT lady Donna created a gorgeous wordart out of some of my products that I will be putting up sometime soon for you to download so stay tuned.

Latest Brownie Scraps Challenge FREEBIE!

As some of you know I've been participating in the weekly designer challenges at Brownie Scraps. I created Funky Caterpillar and The Toothfairy for this. Both are no longer available for free, although you can purchase Funky Caterpillar in my DigiScrapStation Store. I will have The Toothfairy Mini plus a full Toothfairy kit available soon in both of my stores.

This week's freebie was all about creating our favorite things to scrap with and using a gorgeous warm color palette. Here is my creation:

Caramelized!

You can get it for free this week only at the Brownie Scraps store. I hope you enjoy it! Hollybeth at Brownie Scraps also posted this amazingly easy recipe to make homemade caramel as gifts and she thought this kit might just be perfect for creating the hybrid labels. Check it out here.