New Challenges and LOTW!

Remember my LO titled "fishing with Papa" a couple of posts ago? It was picked as the Layout of the Week over at DSO!!! This is first for me and it took me about an hour to be calmed down enough to respond. As a side note, the boys now think that they are famous, lol.

A couple of new April challenges are up in the forums. First off I am hostessing another Quick Page Exchange this month and decided to go with a bright and cheerful kit called Popsicle Paradise. It can be gotten here and here. When you make a quickpage and send it to me you will receive ALL of the quickpages for the month, early in May. And here is one that I have made to get us started.


I am also bringing the color challenge back to Creative Dreams. I have picked a color palette and would love to see what you can do with it! Just for participating ... this month only you will receive not one but 2 posting bonuses!

Be sure to stop by the forums to check out all the details!

Catch!

Here is another LO I did last week that I am rather pleased with. The pictures are of my son out throwing and catching the football with his dad. I thought that the first week kits from the Design Star Competition had the perfect color palette for these pictures so I went looking through them to make my layout. Credits: Design Stars numbers 9, 12 and 55 (Sahlin Studio) competition kits at Scrap Matters, Shel Belle Scraps - Date stamp, Gunhild Storeide - Staples & Stitching, Atomic cupcake - scalloped edge and rub on action

Also be sure to stop over at the Dream Team Blog. I put up a new desktop wallpaper for April. I am also trying to decide which kit I want to use for the next quickpage exchange, so be sure to check back around April 1st and see which one it is. I would love to see more people jump into that challenge!

A first... (freebie)

Well, I have a first for you all today. I decided to jump in and make a mini kit for the color challenge at DSO. I have made some quickpages with Creative Dreams kits and given them away, as well as making things for my own LO's ( I even gave one of those away) but this is the first actual kit that I have made. All of it is made from photos that I took last summer. I hope that you enjoy it, and please don't be too hard on me.

You can grab your freebie here! And here is a layout that I made with my kit.

Also don't forget to check out the Quick Page Exchange at Creative Dreams this month. There is still a little time left to get in on it!

Catch of the Day

I just can't seem to stop using this kit! I absolutely love it. For years my Dad was a fish biologist for the ODNR so I have hundreds of fishing pictures that span 4 generations. I can see myself coming back to this kit time after time. But anyways I have two more layouts using this kit to share today.

Credits for fishing with Papa: What a Catch - Pressed Petals Designs, Date Stamps - Shel Belle Scraps, Paris Template - Joni Gray Digi Scraps, 4mellisa alpha - Ellie Lash

Credits for What a Catch! : Template 1 - Pressed Petals Designs, Catch of the Day - Pressed Petals Designs, Date Stamp - Shel Belle Scraps

** photo pulled for publication**

Daydreaming boy

I have been busy working on challenges over at DSO. Here are two of the ones I finished up today.

For the DSO Lyric challenge I came up with this one. It took me forever to figure out what I wanted to do with this photo. I wanted to use this photo, but I didn't know how I was going to make it work. Well, last night I was looking at all of the Design Star Competition kits over at Scrap Matters and I saw a fishing kit by Pressed Petals Design called Catch of the Day.

And for the Quote Challenge I did a LO of my niece. This was taken last summer in the water feature at the Tennessee Aquarium. Credits : Heart - A work in Progress - Spring romance kit, Brushes (on dk purple paper) - Amanda Rockwell - WC brushes, Bracket text path - Just 2 More Things Design, everything else - Jessica Dixon - Winter Solstice kit and add on.

I also made up the April desktop wallpaper that I will be giving away. Look for it in the next week or so!

Aliens Among Us

It appears that tease time is over. Anne has the new kit Aliens Among Us up for grabs in the store a little before I expected it (always a pleasant surprise!). So on that note here are my remaining two layouts. I had so much fun playing with this kit and I think you all will too!

5 faves

One of the challenges over at DSO this month is to do a LO about your current 5 favorite things. After some thought I managed to weed it down to 5 (family counts as 1 and not 3, right?). I decided that I really wanted to use Sara at Sweet Blossom Designs kit Bohemia. There are just sooo many great papers and fun elements in that kit. Here is what I came up with. I also used one of Nicky's templates CD #05 (it can be found on the Dream Team blog). Aren't the papers and elements just wonderful? I decided to make myself a new avatar for the various boards with this kit as well.

The March QuickPage Exchange challenge is still going on over at Creative Dreams. Be sure to stop in and give it a try. I would love to see what you can come up with!

Pssst!

Pssst! Want to see a sneak peek of the kit to be released later this month at Creative Dreams? I am having a LOT of fun with it and already have 3 layouts done in less than 24 hours! I'm gonna be a tease though and only show them to you one at a time. Any guesses? Yes, I chose the LO with the least giveaways first. Evil aren't I? I think it will be a big winner, especially if you have boys at home. Be sure to keep checking back to see the others!

I am finally getting back into the groove! My first challenge at Creative Dreams came to a close and we had a decent turn out for the first month. There is a new challenge this month that you should come and check out. Here is just one of the quickpages that you will get just for participating! (credits: Thoughts of Spring kit and add on - Creative Dreams)

I have also been working on some of the challenges at DSO. There have been some great ones this month and I am having a ball working on them.

For the template challenge I did this one. (Credits: Photobooth 1 template - Bunny Cates, BG paper - Fun in the sun - Creative Dreams, Alpha - For Mellisa - Studio Flergs, hat - ME!, Date Stamp - lgperspectives, rub on action - Atomic Cupcake)

And for Doodles Dares I made what is probably one of my favorite layouts to date. (Credits: Pocket Full of Sunshine - Andrea Dickenson, For Mellisa - Studio Flergs, Grosgrain - Creative Dreams)

Be sure to stop over and check out my challenge this month!