Kits for Sale - and a Freebie!

I know I haven't posted on here for awhile, but I recently took part in a designer contest.  You can see my posts on that here and here.  You can view any of my other scrapbooking related content on my Seeds of the Heart blog, here.  I am also doing a week in review challenge... which I have, unfortunately not been updating much of lately.  Oops.  So, I'll have to do a 'mega post' on that yet... probably on my Seeds of the Heart blog, since that is my main one, but I'll post a link to it here as well.  Perhaps I'll just give them all a label and go from there.  That might be beneficial. 

But I digress.

The reason I am here today is to promote my new store at Ivyscraps!  Yup!  I have a store.  I got 8th place in the contest, and as a result I was asked to sign on for a 6 month contract with IvyScraps.  I'm not sure what will happen after the six months is up, but for now I'm contributing to the monthly mega kits (just sent in my contribution for the May kit last week... it's a good-er), and trying to still keep doing some of the challenges as I attempt to continue 'catching up' in my scrapbooking.  Thus far, I have 6 kits in my store.  Here they are... and you may recognize the first 5, although they have been revamped and reworked before putting them in the store.  ;)

Daddy's Hands - Personal Use only ($1)

This kit is a bit bigger than the original from the contest... with 7 papers and 11 elements, it's a nice mini for scrapbooking those masculine pages... kids spending time with daddy or grandpa, working outside on vehicles or even day to day things.  It's a fun kit with a 'handsome' edge.

Doodlebugs - Personal Use only ($2)

Spring is here, and what better way to celebrate than with these fun little creepy crawlies?  These bugs won't bug you, though, as they are super cute... perfect for kids pages, spring photos, even baby pictures.  Add a bit of whimsy to your scrapbook with these colorful critters.  This kit has also been revamped from the contest, with 6 butterflies (2 types of each of 3 colors), more ribbons, an extra flower, bird, sun, and bee, as well as 7 papers (vs. the original 4).  I'm looking forward to putting up a coordinating kit later with many more papers and elements... I've been working on it lately, and I'm excited with how it's turning out.  :)

Lost in Time - Personal Use Only ($1.50)

Another revamped kit from the contest, this one has an extra 2 papers, ribbon, and button from before.  I also added a 'string' tie on to attach to the buttons as needed, to make it look tied on.  It can be used on it's own as well.  This kit is great for those heritage pages, and it has that country feel to it.  Personally, I love that large flower print paper... it took a long time to make, and I think it turned out great!

Birdie Blues - Personal Use Only ($1.50)

Yes, this one was also revamped from the contest.  I added 2 papers and a nest of eggs to the fun.  I love the spring feel to this kit, and it works great for Easter pages.  I also think it has a bit of a fresh feel to it, don't you?  And definitely a little bit 'country'!  I couldn't help but think that this will be perfect for scrapping my daughter playing in puddles on the farm.

Romance - Personal Use Only ($3)

My first full sized kit.  At least, that's what I'm calling it.  I'm not really sure what the line is between a mini, a full size, and a mega.  But with 14 papers and over 30 elements... full size it is.  The above pic is of the elements... there is one below of the papers.

This kit is glamorous, bold and romantic.  It's great for date nights, girls nights, or just for fun.

I really modified this kit from the original in the contest.  I made the floral paper and satin one into 3 different colors each.  I added another 2 plaids to the first, made 3 lacy papers, and put another heart paper in with the embossed one.  As for texture... they've all been revamped.  I added plenty of new elements as well, including frames, swirls, and a border.  There are more ribbon colors and fabric elements as well.

Summer Fair Fun - Personal Use Only (Free for April)

DigiDes hosts the color challenge over at ivyscraps, and this week's colors inspired her to do a rainbow kit... you can pick it up for free for participating in the color challenge when you click the link.  I thought the colors reminded me of summertime, and couldn't help but make this fun kit full of things you might find at the fair.  Mmm... it's making me hungry (I haven't had cotton candy in ages).  My personal fave is the train track frame.  I have so many ideas floating around my head for more papers and elements for this kit that I may have to make a 'sequel', ha ha.  Otherwise known as an add on.  This will no longer be for free as of May 1st, so get it while you can!

Well, there you go!  Six kits for sale!  Wow... I've been busy.  Now if only I was caught up on my scrapbooking instead of still working on June 2010...

Ivyscraps Challenges

Each month at ivyscraps there are a number of scrapbooking challenges some of the designers and members host to help us broaden our skills. This month I wanted to enter all of the challenges. And I did! Here are the pics and their respective challenge.

Color Challenge (used DigiDesigns Stormy kit... freebie for the color challenge partakers)

Blessings Impromptu Challenge (used Gloria's Thanks a Bunch kit)

Newspaper Challenge (used Gloria's Grandma's parlor kit)

Scraplift Challenge (used TayrinaScrapDesigns Charmed Chic kit)

Ingredients Challenge (used TayrinaScrapDesigns Charmed Chic kit)

Recipe Challenge (used Gloria's Grandma's Parlor kit)

Changing Ivy Challenge (used DigiDesigns Silverbells kit)

Theme (used DSE's December collect a kit)

Heritage challenge... we were to scrap a tradition (used Angelic Mini by DigiDesigns)

Font Challenge (using 2 of 3 given fonts... stephanieee and Coctail Bubbly)

That's all for now! Why not head on over to ivyscraps.com and play in the challenges too?

December Ivyscraps Challenges

I managed to do a few challenges at IvyScraps in December... which I haven't yet posted here. So, here they are!

Scraplift Challenge

Recipe Challenge

I have the post for the color challenge up already, and I did the changing ivy challenge, which was a bookmark, but I don't feel like putting that one up right now. Don't ask... I just don't feel like it, haha.

I will post the January challenges later. ;) You can see what I've done so far, here.

I thought it was awesome, though, to find out that my scraplift challenge page and color challenge layouts were both nominated for layout of the week, both won seperate weeks, and both ended up being in the layout of the month nominations! And... guess what... I won layout of the month! With my color challenge layout, Winter Wonderland! So I get a $5 coupon for IvyScraps store and can buy anything I want with those $5! You'd be suprised what you can all get for that price!

Why not head over to IvyScraps and meet the awesome community there?

(Note, the digital paper and embelishments on these layouts are from the Ivyscraps store)

December Color Challenge

This month I decided I would join in on some of the fun challenges over at IvyScraps forums... this is my color challenge for the month of December using the color palette provided.

I love how it turned out!  Can't wait to try another challenge soon!

Another Scrapbook

I completed another scrapbook! Thanks, Stacey, for making me this album (has it been 2 years already?). It makes it easy when all I have to do is fill in info and photos!

I'm Done!

I am done my wedding album! I am so happy!

And so, for the final pictures.

This page I edited from before. I removed some things and added others that will hopefully tie in the album a bit better (Aug 5)

I edited this page as well. I added frames to the photos to help them stand out a bit, as well as a few embellishments that I think add a certain je ne sais quoi! (Aug 5)

I'm really pleased with how this page turned out, especially since it was hard to figure out what to do since the one photo was an odd size. (Aug 3)

I love this page. I think the square look lends itself well to these photos. (Aug 4)

And, the final page! I'm so happy! Funny, the photo itself took longer to edit on gimp than it did to scrapbook this page, haha. I love how it turned out though. Sigh... (Aug 5)

That's it! All done! SOOO Happy!

So Close!

I think I'll only have one more post after this one, and my album will be done!


The above photo is of the guest list page, and the redid page that I had posted in my last post. The bright yellow one? Yeah, completely different... paper, photos, etc. (July 28)

This one I could finally work on since I had the pictures of us signing now. I wanted to have the photo of the women singing the song that I typed up, but that was a color photo, and to keep both of these pics of us each signing, it wouldn't have worked. Plus, it just wasn't the greatest quality photo either. (July 28)

I did this page today. Took a long time. I had such a hard time with it because I REALLY wanted to use the sheet of paper on the left, this was the only place I could really use it, and it seemed busy, so I had to try to work with it a bit. I'm happy with the result. The ribbon was what really sealed the deal here. (July 30)

Alright, now I only have 5 pages to go! The two of the groom, the two with the both of us together, and the final page. Shouldn't take much since the paper is already picked out for them all. I'm looking forward to this being complete! :)

Guess what... more Scrappin

Time for more pics.

First some older pages I did ages ago.

This was the last page I did before I quit for 2 years. I quite like this page, so all I did was add the 'boy meets girl' title.

This is yet another old page. Lots going on here. I'm not thinking I'll change this one.

This one needs to change I think. At least adding some borders to the photos would be good. This was my very first page I did.

I love these pics, and as a second page, I think I did much better (I added borders, which helped). I added the 'I'm Yours' title to it today.

This is going to be completely redone. The colors are far too harsh for the album, so the page is going to be taken out completely and I'll be adding in different 'getting ready' pics instead. Sad, really. Then the adjacent page is for the guest list, and the paper shown there is what I'll be using for that.

I finished this page last week Tuesday. I had started on it Monday and was thinking I'd leave it and do 5x7's for the pics instead, but I didn't feel like waiting on it (hahaha) so I just left it with the 4x6's. The 'black squares' in the corner are mirror pieces. I think it turned out rather lovely (July 20-21).

I just finished this page today, and I'm rather happy with it. I got the pics in yesterday (I love Photolab.ca... I can pick my pics online at home, and then the next time we go shopping just go to pick them up). This was one of the pages I skipped due to not having any pics of me coming down the aisle. (July 25-26)

This one I did today. Yup... decided it would be good to do this... since it is the first page. I didn't feel it needed a title... it sort of speaks for itself (not to mention all the words at the bottom of the page make one kinda unnecessary). (July 26)

So, that's that for this week. Now let's see if I can get the other 7 pages done next week... and maybe even the other 2 I wish to redo! Then this book will be complete! :)

Scrappin Some More

The above page took me a bit... trying to pick paper. Why is that so hard? Really... black, black, or this black... it shouldn't be so difficult! Anyway, I like how they turned out. I was going to have 'bride' on one side and 'groom' on the other, and then completely different page 'sets' dedicated to family and the bridal party, but I couldn't fit the pics I wanted of us on only one set, so I'm separating them into two sets instead. These pics lent themselves well to the square look... better than the others. (July 14-15)

I started this page last week Thursday... only to run out of stickies. So, since we were in the city on Sunday, I picked up some more from Dollarama and finished it today! I'm pleased with the look of it. I tried to do something a bit different by not having a border around some of the photos, and adding only one colored pic to each page, and making them sort of the 'negative' of each other... haha. (July 16, 20)

More Scrappin'

This page I had all planned out in my head for years now. And now it's done! I'm so happy with the results! (July 13).

More Scrapbooking

I finally finished this set of pages... it took me four days! Sheesh.

I had the most trouble with the set up of the right page... mainly because of the setup of the two toasts being so different. I finally decided to try to mirror the left page somewhat instead. I think it turned out rather well (July 8-11)

Scrapbooking

I've finally gotten back into scrapbooking again... after almost two years. Yeah... it's been awhile. I figured since I haven't been doing any work on photos now, I'll post these pics of the pages I've done. I only started last week Saturday...

Here's the page of the guys coming to the ceremony... hubby in the tractor. (did June 27)

This is a pic of my guestbook attendants, candle lighters, and the list of attendants (June 28)

Here's the 'Down the Aisle' page, with the guys walking the mom's down, and then the bridesmaids and flower girl and ring bearer. (June 30). I skipped the next page, due to me not having a printed photo of me down the aisle (photographer only took one in his square film camera... so I have to get those sent in).

The vows, the wedding prayer... I watched to video and wrote everything up, then typed it out and made the titles on the computer as well, since nothing else I had worked the way I wanted. This one took me a number of hours to do. (July 1)

This was a fun page. It sort of spanned two days, but the majority was done on Friday the 3rd, with just a few finishing touches on the left page on Saturday. Yeah... I skipped a few pages in between my last set and this one due to us not having a normal photo of both of us signing the certificate... again, same problem as my aisle photo. (July 3-4)

I wanted only 4 pages for the reception, and two of them had to include stuff on the program, so I needed to put a lot of pics on one spread. Hence, these pages. (July 6-7).

And above, the program page. This includes a brief writeup of the program, and the lyrics to a song that was sung. (July 7-8)

The page I'm currently working on I've been working on for a few days with little success. I'm having such a hard time with the layout. That is always so difficult. I think I've worked something out now, but I haven't even started picking the paper and such... so it may be another day yet before I can post it. That is the page of the 'Roasts and Toasts', so to speak. Basically, what happened at open mike (there was only one speech really) and the toasts. However, the difficulty comes in the toasts page. They were so different... my sister's toast was written up and while not long, it looks long typed. The best man's toast is literally 2 lines long. How do you balance something like that?

Anyway, we'll see what I do, hopefully tomorrow. For now... I want to continue working on it!

4in1

This wedding photo is not something I would want to scrapbook... unless I could fix it of course. I knew what I wanted to do to fix it, but it was gonna take another 3 pictures blended into this one to do it.

First of all, three of us are sitting. Not really working out so much... so I found a pic of mom standing (she was being walked down the aisle), tried to make it look like she had her arm behind her back, and put her in that way. I moved my SIL's up 'one step' to match with the boys on the other side, added my one SIL's 'back' from another photo someone else took (our photographer chopped her off when he took the pic), moved the boys closer in, took out one BIL who is no longer part of the family anyway (divorce... such a nasty thing)... it worked better with the scheme of things anyway to do so, and he's in another photo anyway. I 'moved' my nephew to stand with the BIL's. Moved dad over too. Then I added me and DH from another photo of us standing. Ok... I guess this is a 5 in one... 'cause I needed my skirt from somewhere as the photo of the two of us had someone sitting on it. Anyway, it took a REAL long time and a lot of work. I think it was well worth the effort. As usual, I faded the edges a bit too.


Not even the same photograph! I love black and white... it's so much easier to match other pics together!