Happy Scrappy Weekend!

Hey everybody! Hope you scrappy ladies (and gents?) had a wonderful National Scrapbooking Day/Weekend! I hung out at one of my favorite scrapbooking forums, Digital Candy, where they had a bunch of awesome speed scraps and challenges for us to play with! There were 10 main "Scrap-a-Thon" challenges for points, and a bunch of extras for the overachievers. I missed all three speed scraps, and was too burned out for the extra challenges, BUT I managed to complete all TEN of the Red Carpet challenges -- and I was the first one at DC to complete and post ten entries! What a rush, let me tell you! Here are my layouts. If you get through all of them, there's a prize at the end ;)

Challenge #1
(use a kit you've had for a long time and never used)

Credits:
kit - I Miss You by Aisyah Roslan
font - Pea Kawai

Challenge #2
(grand theft layout/scraplift challenge)

Credits:
Scraplifted from Just Born by Linz
kit - Where the Heart Grows by Golden Girls
string - Growing Up by Stolen Moments
font - Pea Kawai

Challenge #3
(use this minikit)

Credits:
kit - Red High Heel mini by Little Missy

Challenge #4
This LO is my absolute FAVORITE.
(formula challenge - certain numbers of papers and elements)

Credits:
kit - "Ooga Booga" by Tracie Stroud
staple - "Snips & Snails" by Tracie Stroud
font - Pea Kawai

Challenge #5
(use a line from "Pure Imagination" the song from the original Willy Wonka movie)

Credits:
kit - "Retro Boy" by Fairytale Studio
font - Pea Kawai

Challenge #6
(scrap one thing, abstract and simple, about yourself)

Credits:
kit - "Pure Perfection" by Stolen Moments
font - Pea Kawai

Challenge #7
(template challenge)

Credits:
template - Christie Lemmon Designs
kit - "Mud Puddles" by Christie Lemmon Designs

Challenge #8
(scrap about WHY you scrap)

Credits:
template - Kimi's Kreations
kit - "Quite Contrary" by Christie Lemmon Designs and Steel City Scraps
fonts - Cafe Rojo, Pea Kawai

Challenge #9
(use one of three given Dr Seuss quotes)

Credits:
kit - Happy To Be by Scrapmuss Designs
font - Pea Kawai

Challenge #10
(every element must come from a different kit)

green paper - The Way I Are by Fairytale Studios
orange strip - Ooga Booga by Tracie Stroud
yellow strip - My Little Artist by Creations By Rachael
light blue strip - Snips & Snails by Tracie Stroud
blue spotty strip - Bee Happy by Andrea
orange patterned strip - Boys Will Be Boys by Jaya Prem
blue circle - (cut from paper) Totally Buggin by Mira and Britt
brown stitches - Day at the Zoo by Jessica Edwards and Fairytale Studios
light blue string - Playtime by geniaBeana
brown string - Frosty Winter by Fairytale Studios
Silly - Clementine alpha by geniaBeana
boy font - Smiley Monster

Phew! Did you get through all of that? Good! Because having shown you all of my pretties, I'm ready to give a couple to YOU! I took a couple of my most useful layouts and turned them into templates for you!

Template 36
This template is based on my "Make a Wish" layout. There is room for 5 photos, cascading down the page, with white mats that are easily toggled off. ;)
6/11/09 - This template has been updated and now includes both the original PSD and new PNG files.

Click on the preview to download!


Template 37
This template is based on my "Kimi" layout (the one with the shoes). Please note that since I used this for blocking apart ONE picture, the squares are NOT separated into layers as they were in Template 35. Instead, there is the simple direction to click one layer and paste, and it will automatically group your photo in so that it is masked this way. Feel free to e-mail me (addy in the TOU) if you have questions about how you can layer in some papers in those rectangles. Anyway, I hope it's not too complicated! Have fun with it and I'd love to see what you do with it!
6/11/09 - This template has been updated and now includes both the original PSD and new PNG files.

Click on the preview to download!