Different Scraps

Digital Candy is closing :( So, Christie Lemmon & Steel City Scraps have SALES!!

2009-05-16T15:41:00.001-07:00

Images are linked! Head to their stores for big sales!!

An AMAZING Coupon & Deal for you from Christie Lemmon & Steel City Scraps

2009-04-03T12:10:00.001-07:00

Check this out!!!!

Christie Lemmon and Steel City Scraps have lost their pretty little minds.

They are having all kinds of sales this month, AND they have given each of their CT a coupon to give to you!!! I have two 50% off coupons just for you from me, from them!! How cool is that?!?!

Nothing more needs to be said about this cool deal, just check it out. Here are their coupons, and their sales flyer is below. You are NOT going to want to miss this!! WOZERS!!

More layouts!

2009-03-25T19:52:00.000-07:00

Hello all!

Spring Happiness, a collab by the wonderful Christie Lemmon and Steel City Scraps is out.

I finally got to work with this kit, and made several layouts.

Digital Candy had a Blog Train, called My Kind of Rocket, now on sale at Digital Candy.

Here is a page I made using Christie Lemmon's part of the kit, and some word art by Ellie Lash.

I have made one more layout using Ellie Lash's Sugarville. This was made for a Monday Makeover I did on Ellie's CT Blog, see the link to the right to see post there and the old layout I redid. Here is the new one, MUCH better!!

Newest layouts

2009-03-15T18:23:00.000-07:00

Hello all!!

I'm back with another drive by post. I thought I'd share all the layouts I've done over the past week or so that I haven't posted yet. These layouts are all done with kits by the wonderful Ellie Lash. I'm so behind I haven't shown you her newest 2 kits, bad on me. Well, wait no more - here they are.

First off is Ellie's newest kit ~ Whimsy.

Here are my layouts ~~~

Last week, Ellie and Melanie of Pixie Keepsakes put out a collab. Perfect for the little pixies in your life --- Pixie Far Away

I've only done one page with this cute kit so far, as I usually scrap my son ~ my girls don't like getting their photo take any more. :(

I have also worked with a few of Ellie's older kits this week. First up is Far Far Away and my layouts using it.

Here is Frogs & Kisses and my layouts.

Finally, I realized when I posted these and looked over my previous posts, I completely forgot to share my layouts for another kit of Ellie's. Oooops!! I did these about a week and a half ago and have posted them at my usual places (DST, JDL, SBG, DC) they just haven't made their way here yet. So, here it is now. This is Ladybug Picnic, and the layouts I made with the cute kit.

Whew. And that's all I have for you for today. I hope you enjoyed, and thank you for stopping by!

Another catching up time

2009-03-11T03:57:00.000-07:00

Hello again. Did you miss me? I'm back to work, starting this week, so I won't be around as much any more. Good on the pockets, bad on my scrapping!

But I still have been scraping, and I've done quite a few pages since I last updated you. Here are some.

First up, Christie Lemmon Designs and Steel City Scraps teamed up with Paula Phillips to bring you Among Friends.

I usually am not any good with reds, but this tone ended up matching one of my sons PJs exactly, so that was easy to scrap. I also used Christie's newest templates, Kate Inspired, to make my layouts.

Here are the layouts I made using only Christie Lemmon and Steel City's portions of Among Friends.

I've done some other pages, but they are kind of a mix match of different kits. I like to post them when I have at least 2 from the same kit, so I'll post more another time. Thanks for stopping by!

Random Inspirations newest kit - Moments In Bliss

2009-03-07T07:47:00.000-08:00

Finally I can post about my 4th CT for Monica of Random Inspirations. She's been getting up a new store and had a new kit she was working on, so I hadn't had any news until now.

Her new kit - Moments in Bliss - is now up in her store at Inspiration Lane. Here is the preview, clickable to store.

Here are the layouts I made using Moments in Bliss

Monica also has TWO free Quick Pages on her blog, made from 2 members of her CT. You can see them here, and click each to get to her blog to get them free!!

Come back later, I'll probably have my newest layouts up from kits by Ellie Lash.

WOW!!! Wanna win $50 to Mandy Mystiques ES Store?!

2009-03-05T16:51:00.000-08:00

Wow - check this out for your chance to win a $50 GC to Mandy Mystiques store at Elemental Scraps. Mandy, aside from my CT teams, is my FAVORITE designer. If you haven't bought from ES yet, check out this chance from Mandy. And if you haven't checked out ES yet, you should just for their $1 Mondays on the 1st and 3rd Monday of every month. Great stuff!!

Here's the info from Mandy's Blog, which you can also click ----> to your right to get to as well, she's in my favorites.

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Want to win a $50 Gift Certificate to MANDY MYSTIQUES ES Shop?

Elemental Scraps is having a designer contest to see who can recruit the most new customers. So i’ve decided to run a little contest of my own!For each NEW customer that makes a purchase in my Elemental Scraps Shop through the month of March will be entered into a drawing for a $50 gift certificate at the end of the month. I will draw three names!

First Place=$50 GC

Second Place =$25 GC

Third Place=$15 GC

You must be a first time shopper with me at ES to qualify though! And you have to put that in the “Customer Notes” section at the time of checkout to qualify. When you check out after you enter your payment option there will be a very large “Customer Notes” box at the bottom. Just put something like “First Time Customer” or something along those lines! This would be a perfect time to give my designs a try if you’ve been on the fence. It doesn’t even have to be a large purchase either. Dollar Day items DO qualify! Now if you have purchased with me in the past you can still win! For each new customer you refer to my shop,you will also be entered into the same drawing brackets! So you and a friend can both win! Just please remember to put “Jo Smo”(friends name) sent me and i’m a new customer in the “Customer Notes” if you don’t do this there will be no way for me to know or keep track.

Good Luck and spread the word!Any questions feel free to e-mail me at MandyMystiques@aol.com

~Mandy

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Remember if you go there as a new customer through me, put that you are new, and you were referred by me, DEJAVU, in the customer notes when you check out!! Then we'd both be in the drawing. Easy as that!!

Catching Up

2009-03-04T05:10:00.000-08:00

It's been a few days since I've posted, so I wanted to catch up. I've still be scrapping. As it's the beginning of the month, all the challenge have started back up. Where are your favorite places to do challenges? I do certain ones at Digital Candy, Elemental Scraps and Enchanted Studio Scraps. I love their challenges and their challenge reward systems are good. If I run out of things to do, I may start up the challenges at Just Digital Layouts as well.

So, here's some of what I've done for the challenges. First up, I used Steel City Scraps HAPPY DAYS for a few.

Here's a preview of Happy Days, linked to store.

Next up, a did another speed scrap, which you know I LOVE doing! This one was at Digital Candy again, hosted by Trixie Scraps. Since I've used In Dreams (finally in store, click to go there!) so many times I decided to use Something Cutsie again. I like how it came out.

Finally, if you don't have Ellie Lash's Blog and CT Blog - Ellie's Angels - on your favorites, go add them! I've posted on the CT Blog a few times now, including today. Wednesdays are Wednesdays in Writing, all about journalling or any aspects of writing such as titles and word art. I did today's post about journalling with humor. I'm not the best with journalling or titles for that matter, but my layout yesterday was just tooooo funny, I had to journal it comically. Go on over there and leave me your funniest layouts for everyone to see. Here is my layout, using Ellie's Sugarville. This comical and downright silly layout will provide us laughter for years to come!

journalling reads - "You love these Snoopy toothbrushes so much. Today you kept 'planting' them into the couch, then you would pull them out just to put them back. You did this non stop for a while, then as soon as you got up from your nap you started doing it again. You always seem to have one of these toothbrushes in your hand, playing with it, banging it on things. Who needs toys when you have your toothbrush garden?"

That's it for today, thank you for visiting! By the way, I LOVE the comments that I get, please keep them coming. But just wanted to note that this blond ringlet haired beauty is my SON. :)

3 Speed Scraps in 2 nights

2009-02-28T06:15:00.001-08:00

I love me some Speed Scraps!!

So when I had 3 in two nights, 2 of them at the same time, I had to tackle them. :)

First, my favorite, from last night was the Speed Scrap at Digital Candy. I really like how this layout came out, it's sooooooo cute. If I do say so myself.

Then at the same time, was a Speed Scrap at Enchanted Studio Scraps. I don't like this one as much, I'm not a big fan of doing the same photo a few different times, but it came out ok.

Then finally, there was one Thursday night at Elemental Scraps, and this is what I did for that one.

Can you tell I REALLY love Christie Lemmon and Steel City Scraps collab In Dreams? I really need to scrap with other things, but I love that one sooooooo much!! :)

A New Kit by Ellie Lash!!

2009-02-27T06:16:00.001-08:00

YAY!! More awesomeness from Ellie Lash!!

She released two items today, Sugarville & Itty Bitty Fairies!

Here are the previews linked to her store. Both are 20% off right now.

Here are the fun layouts I made using Sugarville.

New layouts

2009-02-26T05:00:00.000-08:00

I haven't posted since Sunday, so I have a lot of new layouts to show you today, all in one big post.

First off, Ellie Lash and her collab kit RUGRATS PLAYGROUND with Moon Scraps (see below for link to kit in store). I made two more layouts with this kit.

Journal reads - "Jackson recently discovered the joy of coloring. Now to teach him paper only!"

Next up is a kit I LOVE LOVE LOVE. It is called "In Dreams" and is a fantastic collab by Chrisite Lemmon and Steel City. It will soon be in stores and when it is, I'll link it, because it's sooooooooooo awesome!! Here's a preview of the kit.

And here are the layouts I've made - so far - with it.

And the reason I hadn't linked any kits is because Christie Lemmon Designs & Steel City Scraps have moved shop BACK to Digital Candy!! They just announced it in the last day or two, so I'll go back through and start posting the links of the kits they have up, which isn't everything yet. They will be having a grand opening sales starting March 1st!

Here are the other layouts I've made this week, featuring Christie Lemmon Designs & Steel City Scraps! Linked to the ones they have in store.

Mud Puddles kit & alpha by Christie Lemmon

Little Charmer by Christie Lemmon

Cruisin by Steel City Scraps

Whew! I'm all caught up. I'm sure more layouts will come today, so come back tomorrow!!

Fairytale Collab for Melissa

2009-02-22T17:12:00.000-08:00

Another HUGE kit has been made for Fairytale Studios, AKA Melissa, who was in a car wreck in January. This HUGE collab was headed by Steel City Scraps, and have MANY designers involved with it. Here is the kit, linked to the store, and more info on it from Rachel of Steel City Scraps

The Digital Candy Design team along with some other super SWEET Fairytale friends have come together to create this adorable kit for our very own Fairytale Studios - Mellisa, an Exclusive Designer at Digital candy. Created for her after her car accident in January to help cover medical expenses & lost wages. ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS KIT WILL GO DIRECTLY TO MELLISA a/k/a Fairytale Studios

This is one MONSTER kit! This kit contains:

160 12x12 300 dpi papers
320 elements
2 alpha's
18 word arts
2 templates
Total Download size is 972 MB!!

**This kit can be burned onto 2 CD's or 1 DVD for an additional charge for your convenience. **

Digital Candy and I personally would like to say a special thank you to all of our Fairytale Friends

Digital Candy Designers:

*Christie Lemmon
*Jessica Edwards
*Steel City Scraps
*Stolen Moments
*Trixie Scraps
Armina
Christy Haig Creations
Creations by Rachael
Danielle Engebretson
Julie Marie Designs
Paula Phillips
Pixie Perfect Designs
Scraps by Jen
Wimpy Chompers Creations

Digital Candy's Sweet Tart Team:

Artistic Leanings
Midnight Charms
Scraplett V

Scrap Orchard Designers:

Bren Boone Designs
Irene Alexeeva
Ziggle Designs

Our Other Friends from the Digi Commnunity

Ali Sarah
Amy Sumrall
Chaos Lounge
Inspired by Dominic
justplainbee
Kitty Chen
Neverland Scraps
Scrappy Shannon
Viva Artistry

A very special thank you goes out to EVERYONE who volunteered to help with this through my blog. I was touched DAILY by emails from designers willing to help. Designers willing donate their time, effort and creativity to someone they don't know or only know of. These designers just stumbled on my blog and saw that one of their peers needed a hand, and acted. The overwhelming feeling of sensational kindness and true sincerity is one that truly touched me personally, and gave me a strong sense that I am definitely among some of the most amazingly caring and generous human beings in this digital scrapbooking business. Personally, you all gave me a new found outlook on people's genuine desire to help others and that is in one word 'Hope'.

Today's layouts

2009-02-22T16:42:00.000-08:00

Hello all

I did two layouts today, I hope to get another one done, we'll see what the rest of the night brings.

First I downloaded another kit by Ellie Lash. I was debating between 4, and ended up going with Rugrats Playground, which is a collab between Ellie & Moon Scraps. Here's the adorable kit.

And here is my first layout using it.

Then I grabbed Cruisin by Steel City Scraps, and a template of hers as well. I'll link to Cruisin shortly, Steel City & Christie Lemmon are in the process of changing stores, so I'll link up when they are in their new store.

Here's what I did with Cruisin.

My Speed Scrap Layout

2009-02-21T17:39:00.000-08:00

I decided to use Something Cutsie again, as there is a lot to work with. Here's my layout from the speed scrap. I LOVE speed scraps, I always try to make them as much as I can.

We had company come over today, so I actually didn't scrap for a change. Shame on me. :) I'll get to it tomorrow. I hope to download a new kit by Ellie Lash soon, and I'm trying to decide what to work with next from Steel City Scraps.

WOW! One last CT! Two for One!

2009-02-20T18:12:00.000-08:00

I got accepted to my third, and final, CT. I'm BEYOND thrilled.

I am now creating for LemmonCity, a combination of Christie Lemmon Designs & Steel City Scraps. I get to create for both of these amazing designers. I've been playing with Christie's kits pretty much from when she started making them. I'm thrilled to be on this team, and I've already played around with their collaboration kit - Something Cutsie. Here's the kit (not linked, check back soon for the link up), and what I've done with it. Also, if you are interested, they are doing a Speed Scrap at ESS tonight at 10pm EST. Details below.

My layouts

On no! Not again!

2009-02-19T17:02:00.000-08:00

Sigh! It's just not safe anywhere online that you don't want people finding you.

I'm done changing things around. Screw it.

Would you like this template?

2009-02-19T10:08:00.000-08:00

A fellow CTer on Random Inspiration's team has created a template that she is giving out as a freebie. It's so darn cute!!

Click on the preview to be taking to her site so you can get this awesome freebie!

Dream CT, day 6 of layouts

2009-02-17T14:00:00.000-08:00

I had to choose my next kit to work with, and as usual, I just want to work with them all, so it took me some time to choose. I went a little against what I normally do, and I'm glad I did. I LOVE how this 2 page layout turned out!!

I used the kit "Bubblicious" which is a collab by Ellie & MGL Scraps. The part I used was only by Ellie. Also included is a new font Ellie was a part of, called "Hasty Reply". Here are the previews for both, linked to store.

And here are my layouts. I'm so proud of these, I LOVE how they came out!! I've done more now, they are posted as well.

Dream CT, day 5 of layouts

2009-02-16T14:00:00.000-08:00

This is such a pretty kit. Heart Song just looked interesting to me, so I wanted to try it out. I thought it would be more geared to girls, but I found that all my layouts of my son look great in the different blues and greens. Check it out!

And here are my layouts with it.

Dream CT, day 4 of layouts

2009-02-15T16:00:00.000-08:00

Another day, and more layouts!

I started going back to Ellie's older stuff. She has a TON of cute new things, but a few of her kits, Aquamarine & Something Wild specifically, I don't have photos for right now, so I went back and am going through her older things.

First up is Star Gazer. I LOVE this kits, the colors are great, and I'm thrilled with the layouts I've done with it so far. Here's the kit.

And my layouts.

Dream CT, day 3 of layouts

2009-02-14T14:00:00.000-08:00

Welcome Back! :)

Here's my next group of layouts, which are some of my FAVORITES. I absolutely LOVE this kit by Ellie Lash.

This is perfect for your little dinosaur lovers, and is called RAWR!! Perfect for layouts with and without the dino elements! Here is.... you know the drill.

Here are the layouts I've made. The last two are about the same because they were done for a speed scrap. I had started the scrap with my son's photos, but then remembered the GREAT photos of my girl, so I just did both of them.

Dream CT, day 2 of layouts!

2009-02-13T12:00:00.000-08:00

Hi again!!

Thank you for coming back and checking out my layouts.

Next up of Ellie's kits is Birthday Joy. Perfect for scrapping all those birthday photos of your little ones. Here is the kit, linkable to her store.

And here are the layouts I have made. I wasn't too thrilled with the first two that I did. The first was done as a scraplift, and the second was done during a speed scrap. I just didn't really like either. I did the double page today, and like how it turned out much better than the other two.

I'm on my DREAM CT!!!

2009-02-12T15:31:00.001-08:00

I can't believe it, but I am actually a part of my DREAM CT!! Wow!!

I have LOVED Ellie Lash's designs since I found her a while back. She makes the CUTEST kits, I always loved them all soooo much. And at the beginning of February, I joined her CT!! I still can't believe it!!

I've been creating pretty quickly with her kits, I just can't get enough of them!! I have had the chance to work with 5 of her kits so far. Each time, it's soooo hard to decide which to do next. :)

So, I thought I'd share what I have done so far. I'll do a kit a day, starting with her newest that I have worked with, and working back. So check back to see what all I've done!! :)

First off was Kiss Me Sweetheart, Ellie's Valentine's kit. Lots of pinks, but the greens and browns make it usable for boys too. Here is the kit, linkable to her store.

And here are the pages I have made, so far, with this kit.

Grab the Grab Bag!!

2009-02-11T03:59:00.000-08:00

It's so much fun to play with!! And it's soooooooooo worth the price, just $5 for over 400mb of goodies!!

Here's what I've done with it. Check out my post below, and click on the preview to be taken to it! Run and buy it!!

HUGE Grab Bag!!

2009-02-08T15:10:00.000-08:00

5 designers have teamed up for it! So you know it’s crazy big right?

It’s $5 for 2 weeks and ALL proceeds are going to a fellow designer in need.

You can read about Mellisa’s accident HERE she’s really sweet, a great friend, CT member, designer and customer! So we are hoping this will help her and her family.

And you get a LOT of products for your $5 too All the contents are revealed in the detailed images in store.