Luxuriate

Luxuriate - Massage

I have a wonderful husband!  He is created so many amazing memories for me that represent his love.  Once, before we were married, he delivered roses to my place of work dressed as a florist delivery person.  And when he proposed to me, he sent me on a scavanger hunt that sent me place to place where he has left poetic clues to his where abouts. I found him at the table in the cafe where we had our first date.   Not to make you all jealous.

Luxuriate - Beau Rivage

For my last birthday, I woke on Friday morning to breakfast in bed. Blueberry pancakes with fresh strawberries and whip cream on top. He also made me a frozen latte!  And he took the day off to take care of the kids while I went ot the Beau Rivage Resort for a chocolate butter massage!  I told him he had me at "I took the day off" but the massage was fabulous anyway.  We then went to the buffet at the Beau which we never go to because its so expensive.  What a wonderful day.  He made me feel special once again.

The layout above is one of the two I did to commemorate such a wonderful day.  It is images of the things around me during the massage.  The second layout is of our lunch at the buffet and the lobby of the hotel.

I used the wonderful kit called Autumn Delight created by Schnuki.  Oh gosh this kit is wonderful.  There are such magical elements in this kit.  The paper alone has some really wonderfuly unique attributes.  One ones I used are like canvas with frames. So the idea of creating a setting on the paper that reflected the feeling of the day I spent at Beau Rivage made perfect sense to me.

You can see how many elements alone you get with this kit.  Some are magical. Some are traditionally fall while others are fun and quirky.  I have used this kit a number of times since I made these layout in mid February.  I kept thinking, you can't use a Fall kit to make these layouts but the theme didn't limit me at all.

My First CT!

I am so so excited! And a bit frazzled to be honest.  I have been applying for a position on a few designer's Creative Teams (CT).  I may have mentioned that being a member of a CT means you get to promote that designer's new kits by scrapping with them and posting them on galleries and blogs for all to see.  This is a way that designers can get their kits out in the scrap community. Everyone who looks at that layout will see what can be done with their kit.

Today I was appointed to CocoDigiscrapeuse's CT!  Yay Me!  I am really jazzed.  The reason i am frazzled is that Corinne, the designer is French.  I feel like I have entered into a very exotic world. I have been trying to familiarize myself with her forum and my responsibilities but everything has to be translated for me. LOL

I love a Good Collaboration Kit

I just completed this cute layout of my daughter Avery.  I love these photos of her as a baby.  At 7 years olf she is becominbg too old for me to scrap the sweet colors of babies.  So when I need a fix, I just got back and grab baby photos and go to town.

 

I used a collaboration kit from Digiridoo Scraqs.  Its called Thula Baba.  Just a $5.00 purchase at their shop gets you this kit free.  And let me tell you, its loaded.  

72 papers
90 Elements
23 Word Arts
6 Alphas
2 Templates

And because its a collaboration kit... you get papers and elements from a number of their designers.  The papers themselves are very versatile.  And the elements are just real fun.  I have actually used this kit for a number of layouts since I got it this last week.  I can not stand how cute it is.  This would be great for a baby book.  The colors and elements would take you such a long way.

Many site offer collaboration kits each month from their designers. Sometimes you can earn them by participating in challenges.  Sometimes it just takes a purchase amount at their store.  But either way, collaboration kits are usually HUGE with alot of diversity in elements and style.  So they are a great way to stretch your digi scrapping buck.

Fee Jardine Guest Creative Team Challenge

This is a layout I did for a challenge.  Fee Jardine has a challenge on her blog each month for a chance to be a guess member of her creative team.  Being a part of a CT means that you get to create layouts for the dedigner in order to highlight their new kits.  I have never done this but would love to try.  You might have remembered that I made a layout last month but didn't submit it.  But I am not going to make the same mistake again.

Not sure why but when I resized it I had some trouble getting good quality.  Still trying to make sense of it in Paint Shop Pro.  If you click on the layout it will take you to a larger version which is not very crisp.

Well here it is. 

Something of Yourself

The challenge was to create a layout and incorporate a quote from Mr. Rogers to commemorate his birthday which is this month.  The quote I used reminded me of the full potential young children have to change the world.

"If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person."

And since I love to scrap my kids baby pictures I went back and got one of my two sons.  Oh the potential!
I used Fee Kardine's What's Happening Kit.  Fee is a designer over at The Sweet Shoppe. Seems I am given alot of sugar to the Sweet Shoppe this week.  LOL

Wish me luck on this one!

Using Templates

For Edward

I just completed this layout. LOL  It was suppose to be for Valentine's Day and was for my husband.  I have a folder for "Works in Progress" and it kinda got stuck in there.

Don't get too excited. The layout itself is not mine.  I worked off the template below. I am NOT the brilliant.  Isn't this template amazing. This template is designed by Cindy Schneider at Sweet Shoppe Designs.  She has some really extraordinary templates over there. If you want to try Digital scrapbooking but need help with layouts, templates are a great way to go.  I am addicted to them myself. :D

Cindy Schneider's XOXO Template

I started doing  this layout with traditional reds for Valentine's Day but I decided I really wanted it to look non traditional.  So I used the Doctor Doctor kit by Cindy Schneider and Pink Reptile Designs.m Yup, you got it! The same designer who did the template.

Doctor Doctor

I love the Doctor Doctor kit. It was perfect for what I was looking for in a kit since my husband is a doctor and these colors remind me of him. They are both masculine and unique.  Just Like him.  I think it turned out great, even if it s a tad late.

Go check out all Cindy's templates over at Sweet Shoppe.  You will be inspired.

DigiridooScraps Quality Control Team Member

I am so excited to announce that I have been given a chance to be on the Quality Control Team at DigiridooScraps.

I, along with other team members will be checking to make sure each piece of each kit meets a standard set
by the Digiridoo Management team and Designers. 

After a kit goes through the checking it will be stamped with a Quality Control stamp so that consumer know it has gone through a process of checking.

Things that are checked for include stray pixels or jagged edges of elements, ghosting or shadows on elements, blurriness, consistency of element size, file size of papers, seamlessness of pattern paper just to name a few. 

Its a fun process for those who love to pay attention to detail.  And I get to see the new and exciting stuff coming out of in the store before a lot of other people. LOL

All About ME

I created this layout for a Theme Challenge over at  Digidesignresort.  They have some fun challenge that earn you a HUGE collaboration kit each month.  Well worth the time.  The theme last month was "What gets you up in the morning?"  This month it is do a layout that expresses who you are.  I originally did this for a challenge on Fee Jardine's Blog to get a guess spot on her Creative Team but I did not turn it in. I am always so hard on myself and thought it was too cuties.  But i have since gotten alot of good feedback on it.  And it does tell a lot of about who I am.

I made the Layout with Jenn Barrette's I Love You Sew Kit and Fee Jardine's Tweetie Kit.  Both these designers can be found at the Sweet Shoppe.  I also included elements from Vera Lim's happy Collection.  Love, love, love Vera Lim!

I Love You Sew by Jenn Barrette

Tweetie by Fee Jardine

Happy by Vera Lim