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SDD - April Happenings

It's the beginning of the month and a lot is happening over at Scrappity-Doo-Dah. First they have a charity kit called Believe in Miracles for Heather Manning a designer who lost her home in a fire.


If you spend $10 in their store this month you get this amazing kit called The Old Man is Snoring for free.




The Chickadee April Mega Kit you will not want to miss out on. It has a little from many of the designers.



Take a look at what I've been working on.

The above page was made with the Chickadee April Grab Bag by SDD Designers and April Fresh a Collab by Gabs-Art and Pixiemama Designs

The above page was made with the Chickadee April Grab Bag by SDD Designers.

The above page was made with the Chickadee April Grab Bag by SDD Designers and Warmhearted Alphabet by Gabs-Art


The above page was made with April Fresh Collab by Gabs-Art and Pixiemama Designs

A Fairy Tale - Blog Swoop

Hello Everyone! I'd like to invite you to a wonderful event by our Scrappity-doo-dah Teams. We the Design Team, Creative Team and Moderators of SDD have put together a Once Upon a Time event for you... Introducing "A Fairy Tale" blog swoop. A blog swoop is similar to a blog train but at scrappity-doo-dah we are swooping like a flock of birds. Don't miss any of the stops to complete this wonderful collection of fairy tale mini kits, clusters and quick pages!



Please remember there are many stops on this blog swoop in different time zones so if you find a stop without a post, please try back a little later. Thank you for your patience. : )

Blog roll:

Intro on SDD site blog and Asa with her dominos/ memory game:
http://www.scrappity-doo-dah.com/blog/

Designers:

Inspired By:
Humpty Dumpty: Crystal's Creations http://crystalcreationsbydesign.blogspot.com/
Humpty Dumpty: Cara /Sweet Tomato Designs - http://sweettomatodesigns.blogspot.com/
The Three Little Bears: Mandy King http://mybagofscraps.com/
The Three Little Bears: Jaya/Jaya Prems Hangout http://scraps-by-jayaprem.blogspot.com/
Cinderella: Alla http://allacik.blogspot.com/
Cinderella: Mila http://lumikscrap.blogspot.com/
Cinderella: Fanfan http://laruedesangesdefanfan.blogspot.com
Thumblina: Lisette-http://lisetescrap.blogspot.com/
Thumblina: Alegna/Angela -http://www.alegnas-world.blogspot.com/
The Ugly Duckling: Tish/Pixie Mama http://pixiemamadesigns.blogspot.com/
The Ugly Duckling: Tiffany/Inspired by Dominic Designs http://inspiredbydominic.com/blog/
Froggy Princess: Marie http://mariehdesigns.blogspot.com/
Froggy Princess: Belinda/Dylabel -http://dylabeldesigns.blogspot.com/
Little Mermaid: Gabs www.gabs-art.de
Little Mermaid: Brandi Sutherlin http://brandiscreativespace.com
Mary Poppins: Heather/Danospookie- http://danospookie.blogspot.com/
Mary Poppins: Tam/Digioverdose http://digioverdose.com/blog/
Mary Poppins: Bekah E http://bekahs-escape2scrapland.blogspot.com/

Scrappity-doo-dah Moderators:
Laura/Mom2triplets4 ~ http://creativetripletmom.blogspot.com/ (*YOU ARE HERE*)
Elaine Therese~ http://elainetherese.blogspot.com/
Claudio~ http://divadeldiseno.blogspot.com/
Christina/ThreeDogsandaBabyDesigns~ http://threedogsandababydesigns.blogspot.com/


Scrappity-doo-dah Site Creative Team:
Nance47~ http://nancedigiscraps.blogspot.com/
LaurenB~ and Kathryn http://www.laurenbdesigning.blogspot.com/
Missy /jrmminga~ http://jrmminga.blogspot.com/
Blondy~ and Toni Crystal's CT blog http://scrappinggems.blogspot.com/
Monica/ 2GirlsandaDog~ http://2girlzdesigns.blogspot.com/
Joanna/Cutiejo1 ~ http://www.bainsbits.blogspot.com/
Valarie/Valarierog ~ http://www.fleurdescrap.blogspot.com/
Gladys/Glyss ~ http://glyss.blogspot.com/

Here are my 2 contributions.

First one is 2 brag book pages and one Quick Page using Mandy King's portion of the blog swoop. You can download this portion here.


2nd portion is 2 brag pages and one quick page by Jaya Prem's Hangout. You can download this portion here.

CT - Kathy Winters Designs - Rough and Tumble

Rough and Tumble by Kathy Winters Designs can be purchased as a bundle or separately.


My layouts

Gabs-Art Sneak Peek and Chance to Win

Gabs-Art is having a give away. Run over to her blog to find out how to win her new kit.

8 x 8 Books to Printer

I'm so excited. I finally ordered my 8 x 8 books. I had some free credits from artscow that I had to use before Sat. I just ordered 7 books. Total cost was $103.43. Unfortunately, I added extra pages to my free credits and the shipping was what killed me. But hey, I will have 7 books printed. It comes out to like $15 a book.

This is what I had printed:
2009 Project 365 (finally finished this) (81 pages)
2010 All About Me (60 pages)
2010 Victoria (25 pages)
2010 Justin (25 pages)
2010 Naomi (25 pages)
2010 Triplets (25 pages)
2010 My Grandchildren (25 pages) - Gift for my mom

If anyone wants to order from artscow please use my referral link. Right now All your referred friends will enjoy the 1200 free prints credits & 3 8"x8" photo books & other great photo gifts credits *.

Happy Shopping

Mud Puddles by Digi Overdose

Mud Puddles by Digi Overdose


Mud Puddles Wordart


My layout:

Dollar Tweet Weekend at SDD

You can find more dollar kits at Scrappity-Doo-Dah.

SDD CT Call

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Here's your chance to work with some of the best designers out in digi-land!!



If you can't read the ad:

team requirements:
- at least 3 layouts per month
- post layouts in the sdd gallery, dst gallery and 1 other gallery of your choosing, linking credits where possible
- active participation in sdd’s forum
- 3 month commitment
- promote sdd’s designers when possible
- and stay relaxed, easy-going and drama-free on the forums!

if you love the designers at scrappity-doo-dah and can commit to the requirements above, please submit your application to monica - monica (at) scrappity-doo-dah (dot) com by march 8, 2011.

please include the following:
- your full name and forum username
- link to your best gallery
- list of your current ct’s
- brief explanation about why you’d like to be on sdd’s site ct
- short bio about yourself

Scrapbooking Fun - NOT!

I like to do scrapbooking challenges and from time to time I like to visit other websites where I can use other designers kits to make my pages. I do this just for fun (no pressure from CT work) and I get pages done for my children's albums that I wouldn't have done otherwise. Scrapbooking should be fun not frustrating.

Being frustrated is not my idea of having fun. I have been a member over at After Five Designs since January 2009 and have participated in their challenges each month and have enjoyed them. However, for the past 2 months I have had some issues with my layouts. In December, two of my layouts were deleted from their gallery and I got an e-mail saying they were inappropriate! I couldn't figure out why my layouts were inappropriate. Finally someone got back to me saying that I used retired designers from their sight. Now, the correct way would have been telling me that originally when they deleted my layout. So I didn't have to track down why my layouts were INAPPROPRIATE!

In January, I did the color challenge. Here are the colors I had to use
What colors do you see? I see ORANGE, PINK, GREEN AND BROWN.

Here is my layout:
credits:
playtime paper by nbeaudreau
Cottage Critters paper by ah
playtime paper by cd
GCA stitch by cd
My Little Winter flower by Martencja Designs
WF Alpha Charms by Create Wings
wordart by Bethany

I got a PM regarding my layout: "I see you play the "Flavor of the Month" and make a little mistake... so i want to give you the chance to change it.
Because You should work with all this Colors: Brown, Green, Yellow and Orange and you must have all this colors in your Layout. So i think you want the points... so i want to tell you that you can get it and the chance have to change it. Sorry for it. But this are the Rules

WHAT? Where is the YELLOW in the swatch! Please someone tell me? This is so frustrating!

I think I may boycott After Five Designs because I don't need this frustration in my life!

SDD - Free with $10 Purchase

Crazy for Love can be yours free with a $10 Purchase at Scrappity-Doo-Dah.

I read many many blogs. I came across a tutorial on how to make Silhouette's using Photoshop. Of course, I had to try it as I thought it was really cool. Anyway, I made these silhouettes of my children the other day. I used them in my layout below using Crazy For Love FWP Collab above.

SDD - February Mega

It's February. Check out the amazing February Chickadee Mega Grab Bag.

Gabs-Art Bundle

You can find it here.

Sneak Peek - Gabs-Art

CT - Kathy Winters Designs

Who wants to play in the snow? Kathy Winters Designs has a new full kit along with several coordinating pieces to scrap all your fun in the snow. Designed with a slightly different color palette the kit contains 20 papers and 55 element.

Winter Wonderland

Full Price $5.50 Sale Price $3.85

http://store.gingerscraps.net/Winter-Wonderland-kit-by-Kathy-Winters-Designs.html

Winter Wonderland Bead Alpha

Full Price $3.00 Sale Price $2.10

http://store.gingerscraps.net/Winter-Wonderland-Bead-Alpha-by-Kathy-Winters-Designs.html

Snow Much Fun

Full Price $3.00 Sale Price $2.10

http://store.gingerscraps.net/Snow-Much-Fun-by-Kathy-Winters-Designs.html

Want to save a bundle? Then check out the bundled offer Kathy has put together with all the coordinating

pieces.

Winter Wonderland Bundle

Regular Price $9.00 Sale Price $6.30

http://store.gingerscraps.net/Winter-Wonderland-Bundle-by-Kathy-Winters-Designs.html

Check out these layouts I made using her bundled kit!

Speed Scrap Jan 24th at 1 pm eastern

CT - January

It's been a while since I posted. Been so busy with catching up on my project 365 2009 project and starting my blog for project 365 2011. Besides all that I've been doing my CT layouts. Here's what I have been working with so far.

Old Fashioned by Gabs-Art


My Layout

As Time Goes By collab by Heather Manning, Vonnie's Digiworld and Digi Overdose


My Layout


Who is Lost Mitten? by Lumik


My Layout


One Cold Day by Kari Q Designs

My Layout

Feeling Frosty Wordart by Kathy Winters Designs

My Layout

January Mega by Scrappity-Doo-Dah Designers

My Layout

Snowman Soup Collab by Scrappity-Doo-Dah Designers (You can earn this free with a $10 purchase at Scrappity-Doo-Dah for the month of January)


My Layout


There is more but the kits haven't been released yet so will post when they are released. Lots of great stuff coming soon.

Kathy Winters Designs Sale

You can find her store here.

365 - All Bundled

Life 365 has begun. Right now Gabs-Art has a great kit called 365 - All Bundled for $25.


Now this is a great bargain - you don't wanna miss it!

All her 365 goodies that were released until Dec 31, 2010 are included!

This whole bundle is valued for $36.50 - so this really is the best deal ever!

Get it here.