Chugga Chugga Choo Choo...

You have arrived at the next stop on the Little Engineer Brag Book Blog Train! I hope you've enjoyed your ride so far and snagged all the great QP's made by the very talented CT ladies.  We were all so lucky to get to work with Spinky Dink's Little Engineer kit and Le Pinguoin's Brag Book Templates. The two together are a sure win! The kit is perfect for any little train fanatic and the templates make it super duper easy to show off your little engineer, you can't lose, its perfection and totally cute too! Here is a preview of the kit and templates I used to make a little freebie for you to add to your brag book collection....

You can find the full kit HERE

 And you can grab the full template set HERE

Oh yeah, I almost forgot the reason you are here, your FREEBIE! Enjoy!

DOWNLOAD

Your next stop on the train is Jamie's Sweet and Sassy Cupckake blog

If you get lost, head back to Le Pinguoin's blog for a full list of all the train participants.

Thanks for visiting, come back soon!  Happy Scrapping!

Captivating

So, I already told you that I was picked up by the Elemental Scraps Site CT in earlier posts but I still haven't told you that I also got the privelege of being chosen for a guest spot with Captivated Visions.  Rachel is great, her designs are fun and funky and she's just super sweet.  My guest spot ends this month *tear* so I just thought I'd share some of her designs and my layouts with you, perhaps something will strike your fancy and you will find yourself captivated by one (or more) of her lovely products ;)

The first kit I got to play with was this super fun and bright kit, Oh Sunshiny Day available at Gotta Pixel and Elemental Scraps

and here is the layout I made with it...

Credits

Another very bright and springy kit out is Bellis Pernis, available at both Gotta Pixel and Elemental Scraps also

And here is the page I created...

 For my Life is Hard page I also used these totally awesome stacked papers templates and date stamps from Captivated Visions too...

Available at Gotta Pixel and Elemental Scraps

 

Available at Gotta Pixel and Elemental Scraps

The next kit I worked with was soft and sweet (which I thought was perfect for my scrapping my little princess) called Everyday Bliss available now at Gotta Pixel and tomorrow at Elemental Scraps

And here is what I did with it...

I also used the All Stacked Up templates for that page too as you can see :)

The most recent kit I got to work with was a bag full of awesomeness, literally, it was her P365 Grab Bag collab with Jessica Edwards.  Let me just say how much I love everything in this bag, it is full of goodies, scrapping essentials that I know I will keep coming back to time and time again. It is a really versitile bunch of papers, elements, frames, alphas, fasteners, date tags, etc. You can snag it at now at Gotta Pixel and tomorrow at Elemental Scraps

Here is my layout...

Thanks for visiting, come back soon! Happy Scrapping!

Boy Pages...

My son turned 2 at the end of February and I guess I'm feeling a little nostalgic. I can't believe how fast time has gone and just how amazing and amusing he is.  Having a little boy is awesome, I love it. When we were planning our family we hoped and prayed to have our first born be a boy and he was the answer to those prayers. He is an energetic little monster, he's into everything and constantly on the go, he is tons of fun and sooo full of life.  He is firey and fiesty and giggly and cute as can be and I love scrapping pages about him.  He give me so much inspiration and I love my little guy with all my heart :) Here are some recent pages for his album...

Credits - Masculine Edge by Flutter Expressions

Credits - Love Stinks by Bella Gypsy

Credits - Dustin's Kit by Collies Corner, Heartstrings by Connie Prince, Under the Bed by Bella Gypsy, Silly Boy, Cuddlebug by Shabby Princess, "Birth" alpha by A Scrapadelic Design (That layout was done for an ADSR5 Challenge)

Credits- Tuff Stuff and Tuff Stuff Add-On Alpha by Amanda Carlson

Credits - All Star Stuff by Litabells Designs, You and Me Dude by simply scraps, Its a Date by Connie Prince

And in honor of my little man's recent birthday here is a little Freebie for all your boy pages :)

You can download it HERE

Thanks for visiting, come back soon I might just have some girlie goodies to go with the boy stuff next time ;)

Happy Scrapping!

Scraplifts and Templates...

Are my best friends. LOL. Really though, I bet more than half of my pages are from a lift or a template, thank goodness for all the talent out there in digiland for me to draw inspiration from.  Elemental Scraps has loads of fun challenges every month including scraplifts and one challenge in particular led me to create one of the most meaningful pages in my gallery.  I used this very fun kit by Erin Keith which you can find here

And created this layout honoring DH's Grandfather

I also created this little cluster freebie for you to snag, hope you like it :)

You can download it here

One of my good friends from JustMommies opened her store at Divine Digital at the beginning of the year too and she has some awesome templates for sale in the shoppe, you can find them all here. I have the privelege of being on her CT so here are some of the layouts I created using her products...

This first one just so happens to be a template by Adi, with a scraplift of one of her pages and also one of her templates :)

Kit - Party On by Connie Prince

Credits - Spring Blossoms Blog Train papers and flower, Its a date date strip by Connie Prince, Sweet as Candy mesh by My Scrappy Heart, Waves Template by Le Pinguoin Designs

Credits - Owl See you in my Dreams by Sherri Tierney, Waves Template by Le Pingouin Designs

Credits - Mele Kalikimaka Mega Kit, Template by Le Pinguoin Designs

Credits - Doohikey Designs So Chic, Template by Le Penquin Designs

Credits - LePinquoin Designs Template, Hugs Kit by Lynn Greivson

One of my other very favorite template designers is the very generous Chrissy W.  Every month there is a template challenge at ES and she is nice enough to create a template out of one of the CT members layouts and provide it FREE for the challenge! Just another reason to head over to ES and check out all the great challenges. Right now you can pick up Sample Pack #18 for 25% off so hurry and snag it.

Here are two layouts I did with these terrific templates...

Credits - Startastic by Connie Prince, Labels by Thats my Boy by Connie Prince, "boy" Alpha from Under the Bed Kit, Template by Chrissy W.

Credits - Winter Romance by Amanda Carlson, Freebie Template by Chrissy, Alpha from Emma by Meredith Cardall

I think thats enough for tonight, will be back tomorrow to continue my updates and possibly add another freebie ;) Thanks for stopping by and Happy Scrapping!

Way Back...

Oh goodness, my poor neglected blog. It has been too long. Lots of stuff to catch up on. First off, lets go back, way back all the way to 2009. LOL. I finished up my guest hula creative team spot at Scrapable and these were my last layouts of the year...

Credits - Mele Kalikimaka Mega Kit Scrapable Store Mega, Template by LePinguoin Designs

Credits - So Chic by Doohikey Designs

Credits - So in Love by Doohikey Designs, template by mommy22girls

Credits - Mele Kelikimaka Scrapable Store Mega, Scrapable scraplift challenge

Credits - So in love by Doohikey Designs

And here are the only other Christmas layouts I managed to get done in December...

Credits - Happiest Season of All from Brittish Designs, Jingle All the Way from Golden Girls, fonts are Harrington and Elephant

Credits - Pincecones and Holly Berry by Golden Girls, Christmas to Remember by Golden Girls

The new year started off great as I was lucky enought to be selected to be on the Elemental Scraps Site Creative Team. It is AWESOME! I mean really, I can't say enough about the designers and the CT Leader and their entire Creative Team set up. I am loving it! Since I get to use all the goodies from the ES Shoppe you know I have been scrapping like crazy. To be fair to all of the designers who's kits I've used (and not to completely overload you with layouts) I will be catching you up on my pages from the last 3 months a little at a time. I will try to post two or three layouts along with the kit links everyday. Sooo to start off here my very first layout with the ES Site CT using Carefree Whimsy by MCP Designs...

Next up we have the ES January color play goodies from Bella Gypsy and Connie Prince (all previews are linked to the store)

By Bella Gypsy- Viva La Vida Paper

Viva La Vida Elements

Viva La Vida Alpha
A New Beginning Papers by Connie Prince
A New Beginning Elements by Connie Prince

And here is my layout using the goodies...

The New Beginning Kit by Connie Prince was defintely a "new beginning" for me. The beginning of my love and adoration of her totally awesome designs! I find myself going back to her kits all the time. In my next layout I used these two beauties...

A Perfect Pear (for a limited time you will get the matching Shabby Paper Pack free with purchase of this kit)

Thats My Boy

And here is the layout I created using them, I think it might be my all time favorite layout...

OK and the last kit and layout for today's post is yet another Connie Prince design. I told you I love them :)

Startastic (sooo fun!)
And here is my layout using the kit and also Connie's Forever After Template
Thanks so much for stopping by! Come back soon and Happy Scrapping from the one and only, Scrapopotamus :)