Thank you M-Scraps

For a fun weekend!! This weekend I shopped a lot, but also won a ton of freebies so my weekend was amazing! I will have plenty of scrap stuff for a while :)

My favorite though were all the challenges at M-Scraps. I always love the challenges on their forum and below you can see all the challenges I participated in.

The first one here is the Tell Me Your Story challenge. Basically you had to create a page with a minimum of 3 pictures showing a little bit about your world using pictures and a little journaling. For my page I used Janyelle Mayara's kit Love Novelette which you can buy HERE

The next challenge was Everything and the kitchen sink challenge. M-Scraps is especially known for the white space scrappers or fairly clean pages. The hostess of this challenge, the very talented Cheryl, is the opposite. She used pretty much every item in a kit when she creates her pages so our challenge was to do the same. Here is my page for which I used Cinzia L's kit My Sunshine

This challenge was the Journaling challenge. We had to journal on our pages why we love digi scrapping so much. I used a lot of different items for this page so I won't link to all of them but at least you should be able to find it!

Credits:

Papers - kit True Colors by Dunia Designs
Yellow paper by me; color picked from True Colors kit Dunia Designs
Pink ribbon, flowers part of kit Easy by Dunia Designs
Torn notepad 'papers' by Jen Yurko part of Bonjour Paper Bits
Alpha title work by Queen of Hearts and Michelle Martin's iNSD Grab Bag
Confetti, camera Scrap Lover by Thaty Borges
Glitter part of kit The World of Pink by Janyelle Mayara
Pink frame kit Madly in Love by Janyelle Mayara

For this next challenge, which was the Quote challenge, I used Deca Designs kit Complicity.

One of my favorite challenges was the Color challenge. It was Tracy's first time to host a challenge and I think she did an amazing job! Basically the challenge was to keep everything black and white but to use one color to enhance the page. So I used selective coloring on the picture and a few touches of orange to complete the page.

I used Deca Designs kit Remember You for this page and Darcy Baldwin's font Angel Baby.

The Non-Photography page was another favorite of mine. I find it hard to scrap without pictures so I have to step outside my comfort zone but I love the result!

I made this page with Queen of Hears and Micheline Martin's iNSD Grab Bag 2011 for this challenge.

Speaking of Queen of Hearts...the next challenge was hosted by the lovely Carly and she also provided the freebie template for the Template challenge. I used Queen of Heart's freebie template and Janyelle Mayara's kit Madly in Love.

The first challenge, that I am showing last, was the Scraplift Chain challenge. I lifted tj7933's page and for this page I used:

I used Ad77 Designs' kit Another Turquoise Butterfly for the papers and ribbon.
Stitches from kit Madly in Love by Janyelle Mayara.
Prongs from kit Easy by Dunia Designs.
Frames from kit Remember You by Deca Designs.
Font is CK Journaling.

I hope you enjoyed my pages as much as I enjoyed creating them and participating in the challenges! Have a wonderful week!!

iNSD-weekend with lots of beautiful new goodies!!

I don't know about you, but I am sure glad I am home during this iNSD-weekend so I can join in the challenges and have fun. Especially since I just got my new camera, a Canon Rebel T3i with tons of lenses, filters and a 3-piece macro kit. I have lots to learn but it will be fun too :)

Anyway, enough about me, let's get on with all the new kits 'my' designers came out with!

Aprilisa Designs has a beautiful grab bag this weekend and one of the kits in this grab bag is Mother Dearest. Get her beautiful grab bag HERE (it's a steal people!!).

Brine Design has been a busy bee! Not only does she have these gorgeous new collabs out, she also has a bunch of stunning frames out you can use on any page so don't forget to take a look in her store either at Funky Playground Designs or at Two Little Pixels.

This first collab she did is together with Siamese Studio; don't you just LOVE the colors? I sure do! You can buy your collab at Two Little Pixels!

Love the colors in this gorgeous collab, Passion Flower as well!! Brine Design designed this collab together with the very talented Danielle Young so you don't want to miss this one either!

You can get Passion Flower at FPD or at 2LP.

One of the things I love to do during iNDS is getting to know new designers! Since there are so many grab bags and huge sales you can buy all these kits from designers you're not so familiar with (yet). One of the new designers on the block is Studio Q! She is definitely worth checking out! I always love scrapping with her products as they give such a clean look to your pages but they are also very easy to use. Her latest kit is called Marvelous and it sure is!

I hope you will enjoy all these new updates as much as I did and enjoy your iNSD-weekend!!

Hug, Petra

Afternoon Tea by Studio Q

Here's another gorgeous kit by Studio Q for you called Afternoon Tea!

Just think of some me-time with a cup of tea and relax!

You can get Afternoon Tea HERE

Ooh La La! New kit by Maya de Groot Designs

Who doesn't love Paris? And France! I do! Here's the perfect kit to scrap your pictures with or if you are looking for a European flair kind of kit to create romantic pages with then this is definitely for you! You can buy Ooh La La! at a discount right now but it's for a short period of time so grab the chance while you can! Find it at the O right HERE

It's almost like Christmas!!!

Here are some more gorgeous updates for you!!

Aprilisa Designs has this fab new kit called Where's my coffee? I know I need mine every day if you want to see me in a good mood :)

Then Maya de Groot Designs has a beautiful new kit called Home Sweet Home and it also has a FREE Add On you don't want to miss!

The first of her kits is called Garden Fairies - beautiful colors for your garden pics or the little fairies in your life! Happy scrappin'! Garden Fairies Elements and GF Papers.

And then last but definitely not least, Ocean Wide Designs has 2 kits out! The first is called Stroll on the Wharf which is ideal for all your San Fran pictures but also for all those beach pictures, summer pictures etc.! So go check it out :)

New kits by Brine Design, Aprilisa Designs and Studio Q!

Good afternoon all! I have some wonderful updates for you today!

Brine Design has a wonderful and colorful Easter kit for you, not just for the young but also for the old :) It's called Hot Cross Fun and you can find it @ Funky Playground Design OR Two Little Pixels. You can also buy the elements or papers separately at either store.

And Happy Birthday to Lisa aka Aprilisa Designs!! She made a beautiful birthday kit for young and old and even offers 33% off on all products in her store to celebrate her birthday with you. This new kit is called Age To Perfection and also has some adorable matching labels.

Last but not least a fabulous spring kit by Studio Q! I just love the clean, fresh look you can create with this kit! Qoqo's kit is called Spring Bliss.

New kits by Brine Design, Aprilisa Designs, Scrapable and M-Scraps

Woohooooo finally a day off! We sure need it as we drove 7200 miles within this week.

We drove from Santa Fe Springs, CA to Santa Clarita, CA to pick up our first load and took it to Columbus, OH. From there we went to Hebron, KY for our second load to Las Vegas, NV. Then we drove with an empty trailer (called dead head in the trucking industry) to Southgate, CA and picked up our load we delivered early this morning in Upper Marlboro, MD. Now we're at a truck stop in Hagerstown, MD until tomorrow when we go from Hazleton, PA to Phoenix, AZ and back to Hebron, KY. It's making me tired reading it but once you're going down the road it's not so bad. Anyway, enough about us! There are new goodies to be purchased in the digital scrap world so here goes!

Scrapable has a gorgeous new store collab called Secret Garden. Perfect for all your spring pictures and pages you want to do or gardening pages in general or whatever else comes up in your mind of course :)

You can buy it HERE

Note: Not all items on my example page are inside Scrapable's collab!! I made this page for another challenge and used the papers, glitter styles, frame and little worm from the collab. Everything else is from other designers!!

Aprilisa Designs has some amazing new templates out!! They are called Picture Perfect #5 AND #6. Number 6 came about because one of the CT-members was looking for a template which could hold 6 pictures so there ya go! Aprilisa did it in the Picture Perfect #6 templates.

You can get #5 HERE and #6 HERE

Second release this week is a beautiful collab by Brine Design and Studio Demo! Don't you love those funky colors? The papers are gorgeous and will make your pictures pop!

You can buy the collab HERE

And then last M-Scraps beautiful April store collab called Barefoot In Spring. TONS of gorgeous papers and elements that will suit anyone's taste!

So make sure to check out these kits and splash some money and love around!