Holidays at Home Blog Train

Well, I'm back again. This time I've got something really special for you. I chose to participate in the Aspiring Digital Designer collab for this month.

The kit that you'll be getting from me is an updated version of one of the very first kits that I made about this time last year. I've reworked many of the elements and added new stuff to it to. I can't believe how I've grown as a designer in the last year. Everything I make now seems better than the last thing that I made.

That said, here is what you'll be getting:

You can get my kit here: http://www.4shared.com/file/73917217/6994a1bc/holidaysathome_doodle_christmaspast.html?dirPwdVerified=58977bba

Please, please be sure to share with me if you've put it to use. And don't forget to leave love when you download.

And of course, don't miss any of the wonderful pieces of this train ride. Here are the links to all of the other designer's pieces:

Adele of Blind Sight Designs

Adventures in Scrapland

Amanda of Amandas Scrappy Creations

Amie of Amiebear

Beaconscrap

Beckmoores Scrapalittle

Becky's Scraps

Bits'N'Bobs

Bouquet of Pixels

Brooke at Ahhh Scrap

Busyscrappin

CMB Designs

Creative Digital Scraps by Chiara

Deanna at Flower Scraps

DesignsByAmilyn

Digital Keepsakes

Doodle Designs <--- you are here

Elemental Pixie

EmCee Scraps

Erika {aka PinkuPixie}

HeatherStokes at HSDesigns

Jayden's Mama

Jessie

JIC Creations

Just Another Scrap

Kathy Goldstein

KittenScraps

Lei at Fairydustprincess-Magicmaker

Linda at Linda's Dream Designs

Lynn of Heavenly Crafts

Lynn at TMA

MagsGraphics

Manda at Disaster in Designs

Mariscrap

Merrilee Wheaton Designs

MsBhvin Scraps

My Little Corner of the World

Oase Panda Bear Designs

Pamela Yates at Pammy's Playground

Rachness

Scrapping with Jen

Shabby Tagger

Shel at Shel Belle Scraps

Stacy at Kalo Designs

Teri at Teris Thing-O-My-Jigs

Wendi at Willow Grace Designs

WillowRaven at Purple Dragonfly Creations

That's 48 sure to be delightful kits there free for the taking for all of December. Enjoy!!!

So Much Going On

So, November has been full of craziness for our family. We've been busy with all of the holiday preparations. The house is awaiting the arrival of the rest of our stuff (we have way too much, we've discovered) and the kids have been sick with almost everything. Ear infections, Strep throat, bronchitis and pink eye. I've also had sinus problems.

That all has led to a lack of scrapping for me this month.

Despite all of that, I've discovered a great, new to me scrapping site this month too. Brownie Scraps is my new dive. Of course, going there always makes me hungry for some of the sinful treat.

Ramona, the owner of the site is hostessing a great design opportunity, which I'm participating in. It's an 8 week journey of design challenges. The first challenge was to chose one of three contrasting color palettes and create a kit with it. That was so much fun for me.

The challenge for last week, which is available as a freebie in the store this week only, was to create a kit for children with a palette of your own choice. This is the kit that I created with a palette that Kathryn chose for me:

This is available free through Friday here: http://www.browniescraps.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=65_76&products_id=404

Yes, you do have to register in the Brownie Scraps store, but this isn't the only kit you can get for free this week. There are 10 other free kits available as well.

As far as my poor, neglected blog goes. I have a couple very fun things coming up in December and then starting in January, I plan to follow the example set by DeDe of DesignzbyDede.blogspot.com and try to do a weekly high/low and Friday freebie. I guess we'll see how that goes once the first of January comes around. I'd go ahead and start now, but it is so difficult with the holidays that I'll just wait another month.

Enjoy Dress Up if you are so inclined to snag it for free this week because after it is gone from Brownie Scraps, it will soon make an appearance as a PTU kit at my store in DigitalScrapGarden.

Apology

I am so sorry. Last night when I wrote the blog post, extremely late at night, I for some unknown reason linked to a bad file name in my 4-Shared folder.

The link in the previous post is correct now, but if you don't feel like scrolling down, here is the proper link to my portion of Sugar Shoppe: http://www.4shared.com/file/65188306/10100fb2/_2__doodle_sugarshoppe_octadsd.html?dirPwdVerified=58977bba


And a big thank you to the two ladies who let me know that my link was incorrect.

Sweet Shoppe

I participated again this month in the ADSD Collaboration kit. It is called Sweet Shoppe, and though my contribution is small, the entire kit is huge.

So after you pick up mine, be sure to visit all of the other girls and pick up their lovely pieces as well.

The link to my portion is: http://www.4shared.com/file/65188306/10100fb2/_2__doodle_sugarshoppe_octadsd.html?dirPwdVerified=58977bba

Blog roll starts here:

A Zone for Digiscraps
Adventures in Scrapland
Andrea Whitt
Angel
Ann (mumsy)
Arvita Elam
BeaconScraps
Blind Sight Designs
Brooke & Joni of Ahhh Scrap!
Burkhart Scrapzone (Michaele)
Buzybee (Penny)
by God's design
Carolyn Ritter
Charlie
City Scribe Scraps
Creative Digital Scraps by Chiara
Deanna at Flower Scraps
Deb aka The Scrappin Cop
Debbie
Doodle's Designs
Erika {aka PinkuPixie}
jeanniebs designs
Jody of Munchkyn Scraps
Judith of Just Another Scrap
Kalo Designs
Kathy Goldstein Designs The Scrap Loft
Krystal of Scraps Sealed with a Kiss
Late Night Scraps
Lei
Linda's Dream Designs
Lynn of Heavenly Crafts
Mags at MagsGraphics
Manda at Disaster In Designs
Mandy at Scraps With Spunkitude
Mardesia at Crafter's Boutique
Marie
Melanie aka Sweetasmel
http://designsbymel.blogspot.com/
Merrilee
MJ at My Sweet Tater
Monica at Random Inspirations
Nadine at Scrappinmamma's Digitals
Nora
pandabeardesigns
Rachness
Scrappy Cats at Moving ON
Shabby Tagger
Shannon of ScrappyShannon
Shel at Shel Belle Scraps
Silver Fae (aka Karen J)
Stacey Crossley
Stephanie
Teri at TerisThingOMyJigs
Three Bright Lights Design
Xandra

We're Having a Birthday Party

Yes, you read that right. We are having a huge first birthday party to celebrate one year of Digital Scrap Garden.

Nearly everything in the store is on sale for 40 percent off and some of the designers, myself included, have chosen a featured kit that will be a whopping 75% off. (More about that in a moment)

First off, tonight, Thursday the 25th we will have a birthday bash kickoff chat in the DST chatroom at 9pm est. Friday the 26th and Satureday the 27th at 10pm est there will be Speedy Scraps chats in our very own chatroom. We have forum challenges planned and even a huge scavenger hunt all planned for our birthday week. Don't miss out.

My featured kit for the sale is my Flowers and Fairies:

Which is normally $5.50. At 75% off, it is on sale for $1.38 for one week only.

To celebrate this momentous occasion, I also have a freebie for everyone today. This is a quickpage created with Flowers and Fairies. Hopefully this will give you a taste of my work.

Which you can get here: http://www.4shared.com/file/64423271/abfc6346/doodle_flowersandfairies_quickpagefreebie.html?dirPwdVerified=58977bba

Enjoy and be sure to join the fun with our Goofy Dorks at our little garden in cyberspace.

Scrapbook Pages with Hybrid Albums

Okay, you know all of those cool bracket and shape albums that you see in all of the stores? I love 'em it is so cool to be able to make shaped albums for gifts and the like. However, I've also discovered an awesome way of incorporating them into my layouts for the kids scrapbooks as well.

I've been having an absolute blast playing with Glenda Ketcham's Aunt Ella's Pool kit, bracket album and flip flop album that you can find at digitals.

Papers and ribbons: http://digitalscrapbookpages.com/digitals/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=&products_id=11665

Elements: http://digitalscrapbookpages.com/digitals/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=&products_id=11666

Bracket album: http://digitalscrapbookpages.com/digitals/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=&products_id=11836

Flip Flop album: http://digitalscrapbookpages.com/digitals/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=&products_id=11612

In both of these layouts of the kids; first Kathryn's first swim and then Paul's first swim I incorporated the albums into my page. Not only did using the albums make the layouts easier, they also made for unique pages for each of the kids.

I have so much more that I'd like to share right now, but the kids are begging me for dinner.

Back Again

How is it that I always make a resolution to myself to be a better blogger and then I horribly fail?

I don't know. I mean I do know that life is extremely crazy around here right now between the impending move, Kathryn starting school, and my having to babysit my niece quite frequently as my brother and SIL wait for the arrival of their new baby. Sometimes I don't even have time to take a breath, let alone share my life with everyone and make gifts and for sale kits.

At any rate, I am the daily petals designer this month at Digital Scrap Garden. The kit that I'm giving away is called Bright and Vivid, and I really think it is my favorite kit to date.

Here are a couple previews:

and:

The first three links are gone already, but since I'm feeling generous, if you leave me a comment here in my blog, with your email address, I'll send you a link to all three pieces via email.

Also, I've been wanting to talk about quickpage albums. Do you like them, do you hate them? If you like them what kind do you find yourself using the most? 12 x 12s, bragbooks, or one of the nifty hybrid albums? I want to make some albums with my kits but I really don't know which type is the best.