Scrapopotamus

Chugga Chugga Choo Choo...

2010-03-22T06:37:00.000-06:00

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

2010-03-21T15:17:00.001-06:00

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

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...

2010-03-17T00:38:00.002-06:00

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...

2010-03-10T23:24:00.003-07:00

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...

2010-03-09T21:11:00.004-07:00

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 :)

Boys Will Be Boys

2009-12-09T00:06:00.005-07:00

So true! It is also the name of another one of JayaPrem's Hangout's wonderful kits. It is really fun, perfect for scrapping all of those boyish moments. Here is the kit, image is linked...

And here is a layout I made with it...

And a freebie...Click the image to download the QP.

Doohikey

2009-12-05T20:54:00.002-07:00

Doohikey Designs is my December Scrapable designer and her first kit is So Chic available here. Super fun papers! Here is my first lei-out with it, using Le Penguin Designs template.

2009-12-05T20:01:00.006-07:00

Eek, long time no blog! I guess thats what happens when your computer is getting fixed (for the same problem for the fourth time) and when the holidays sneak up on you. Anyhow, I have still be a-scrappin and really enjoying being a guest hula at Scrapable. My November designer was Tricia Curtis and the two kits I got to work with were Forever Yours and Schoolgirl Crush. Here is my last lei out with Schoolgirl Crush, which by the way is an awesome kit...

I have also been quite busy getting Christmas cards done and put in my esty shop. Here are a few...

Credits for all the cards are...

Merry Merry by Jeni Hopewell

Jingle All The Way by Golden Girls Designs

Happiest Season of All by Brittish Designs

Christmas to Remember by Golden Girls Designs

Schoolgirl Crush

2009-11-27T19:47:00.003-07:00

No I don't have one, its the name of Tricia Curtis' awesome kit at Scrapable. Right now you can get it on sale for only $2.50. Image is linked.

And here is my first Lei-Out with the kit...

Late Night Scrapping

2009-11-12T09:54:00.000-07:00

So having a 3 month old and a potty training 21 month old you would think i would have absolutlely no problem getting to sleep at night. Well for some reason the last two weeks i just have not been able to sleep so my solution, get up and scrap of course! Yes, I've been staying up and scrapping until 2 in the morning most nights the last two weeks. So here is my latest late night scrap, it is my second lei-out for my Scrapable Designer Tricia Curtis. Her kit Forever Yours is available here.

Also, I am trying to figure out the "rules" for giving away freebies using designers stuff so that i can get some freebies posted on here so check back often. Happy Scrapping!

Scrapable DSD Lei-Outs

2009-11-09T14:18:00.000-07:00

Digital Scrapbooking Day (weekend) was a blast. There were so many fun challenges and events, not to mention awesome sales and giveaways. I participated in the Scrapable DSD Scraplift, Letter Challenge, Bingo and one Midnight Speedscrap. So fun. Anyhow, here's my stuff from this weekends activities...

Midnight Speed Scrap (my very first speedscrap ever!)

Credits - The Scrappy Kat's Owl-o-Ween, Scary wordart By Chaos Lounge for Falloween Blog Traing, A kit i renamed improperly so all i can read is Ocotber 31st, and another kit that is also unknown that just says LRN_TCTS. If you recognize them let me know so i can credit them please.

Scraplift, you can find the original here

Credits - JayaPrem's Hangout DSD GrabBag mini kits Beautiful Mornings and Butterfly Dreams

Letter Challenge (to actually write a letter, not just use a specific letter, had to clarify since i was confused at first. lol.)

Credits - Spring Blossoms April Blog Train

And my (loser) Bingo card, not that i'm bitter or anything ;)

Credits - Black and white papers are from Happy Birthday Me kit, Alpha and ribbons are from Jacabean's Beautiful You kit, Green paper is from Apple of My Eye kit and clip with flower is from Jacabean's Vintage Chic Kit.

Beautiful Mornings and Butterfly Dreams

2009-11-09T14:10:00.002-07:00

Two of the great mini kits that are part of JayaPrem's Hangout's DSD PU Grab Bag. It is still available but I'd hurry and get it before its gone as it was a DSD weekend special. It is on sale now for only $2.00! Click the image to link to the previews of everything included in the grab bag.

Surf's Up...

2009-11-09T13:51:00.000-07:00

...At Scrapable of course! I am now a member of JayaPrem'sHangout and Inspired By Dominic's CT! These layouts were my submission for their CT call using their kits for Scrapable's Surfs Up Collection. I especially loved the swirls pack as you can tell by my lei-outs. Right now you can snag all the parts of their kits for only $1.00 each. Previews are linked.

JayaPrem'sHangout kit is Smile and InspiredByDominic's kit is Hop Right to It.

Hula!

2009-11-07T21:39:00.000-07:00

That's right, I have been asked to be a guest Hula Girl for Scrapable for November and December. I am super duper excited about it. My first designer is Tricia Curtis. I get to work with her kit Forever Yours (image is linked)

Here is my first lei-out with her kit

And in celebration of DSD (weekend) right now you can snag it for 50% off! Happy Scrapping!

Justmommies

2009-11-07T19:12:00.001-07:00

Just a couple of layouts done for JustMommies Digi Scrap board contests and challenges. Stop by and check them out sometime.

http://www.justmommies.com/forums/f410-contests-and-challenges/

Fall Recipe Challenge as Part of the October Scrap-a-thon
Enchanted Studio Scraps Fall-o-Ween Blog Train Kit, which i LOVE. (Image is linked)

October Scrapper of the Month ~ Jacabean's Beautiful You Kit (image is linked)
My layout

And one more layout that was not for a challenge, just fun to do. I used Under the Bed by Bella Gypsy

Heather Hills Designs

2009-11-07T18:14:00.000-07:00

Yay! My second CT! I am so thrilled. I love Heather's Designs and am so lucky to get to work with them. Her two latest kits are Wicked and Twinkle. Both awesome. She does have some others out but Divine Digital was hacked and the store is down so those will come later.

Wicked by Heather Hills Deigns

My layout

Twinkle by Heather Hills Designs

My layoutDivine Digital should be up and running in the next couple days hopefully so you can grab these kits then.

Happy Scrapping!

My Very Firt CT and a SALE!

2009-11-07T18:00:00.000-07:00

Kat's Creations! Thank you so much Kat, I am so honored that you thought of me to work with your designs. The kit I worked with is a collaboration with Dorky Mommy Designs called Another Wish. You can find it here...

Here is the layout i did with their awesome kit...

Oh yeah and the sale... :)

First Blog Post!

2009-11-07T16:13:00.001-07:00

Hooray! My very first blog. I decided it was time to start one since I've been lucky enough to have been selected for various designer's CTs. I will mostly be using this blog to promote their designs (and show off my work, of course). I don't really know where to start so I guess I'll just start at the beginning, with my very first digi pages. Now, I know that you are supposed to credit all the designers who's kits or parts of kits are used in each layout however, I did these before I knew all the "ways" of digi scrapping so please forgive me as I know the credits are incomplete. Anyhow, here are my first digi scrap layouts, newest first...

Credits - Adi's Template, Mostly Lynn Grieveson's Hugs Kit

Unforgettable by Spinky Dink Scraps
Scraplift from Lovemylukeandjoel on JM using Jacabean's Vintage Chic Kit

Another Scraplift from lovemylukeandjoel on JM and honestly on the kit credits I have no idea, everything is from different kits.

Mostly Gigglebox Kit Papers from The Shabby Shoppe

Mostly, Gigglebox Kit from The Shabby Shoppe

Organic Kit, The Shabby Shoppe

Organic, The Shabby Shoppe

Honestly, i have no idea, all elements are from different kits???

Again, i have no idea, all from different kits.

Again, no credits :(

Thanks so much for looking. I will be back soon to post more layout and my CT stuff.
Happy Scrapping!