We just added a NEW Outdoor Digital scrapbooking kit in the store. This one is about twice the size of the other outdoor kit in the store, and includes a lot of different elements and a brighter color palette. I love the papers in this one: there are 4 landscape papers in a watercolor finish that are absolutely gorgeous! I put together a very simple layout to include on the main page, and I plan to do additional layouts very soon using the neat papers. Can’t wait! I also love the paper with the different camping/fishing/wildlife elements! I think I’ll be able to do lots of different looks with all the papers and elements, or I can use a common theme and do an album. Whatever you choose to do, you can create many unique albums from this kit.

You can see the kit HERE.

We will be posting the new Baseball Digital Scrapbooking kit in the store later this week. In the meantime, here is a preview of the elements and papers, together with several layouts using the kit. This kit is packed full of fun items, including a ‘working’ baseball scoreboard complete with ‘digital numbers’, lots of acrylic baseball-related word elements, ribbons galore, frames, and lots more!

You can see the kit HERE.

Big news here last night, of course, was NY Giants winning the Superbowl. We are HUGE Peyton and Eli Manning fans, and it’s great to see them both achieve such lofty goals. (Peyton and the Indianapolis Colts won SB last year!) As always, we were impressed with the defense and offense team play last night. Don’t care how great your quarterback is, he can’t do it alone. And after the game, when Plaxico Burress was being interviewed and teared up, it made me tear up, too. He was so moved by the win, and it was a warm/fuzzy moment to see how much it meant to him. A great game, certainly not a cake-walk! The Patriots went down fighting. Now they can all take a long and well-deserved break.

As I write this today, it is cold and blowing snow outside my window! Eeek! We are subject to lots of wind here, anyway, but the snow allows you to ’see’ the wind. Kind of cool, especially since I don’t have to be out in it! I’m toasty warm and have been having such fun scrapping some of our Las Vegas photos from 4 years ago. It does seem like that trip was ‘a while back’, but not 4 years. Time flies faster and faster, the older I get. Not sure I like that…..

We posted the latest Las Vegas digital scrapbooking kit in the shop yesterday, finally. Here are some small views of the goodies in the kit.

You can see the full kit by clicking HERE.

It always seems to take longer to complete the kits than I think it will–I can work so much faster in my imagination. I like this kit a lot, and it adds a different mood for scrapping all those Las Vegas vacation pics. I didn’t take time to scan and use the memorabilia we collected on our trips, but the actual poker chips, tokens, entertainment brochures, and so on, would add a lot to my layouts (or yours!). Of course, I can’t include things like that in my kits, since they are copyrighted, but you can scan and use any of the stuff you picked up on your trip to add your personal touch to your layouts. If you are doing hybrid scrapping, you can actually adhere them to your layouts!

Just a note to let all who have pics of their Las Vegas adventures to scrap…..I am working on a new Las Vegas kit, and it’s looking pretty good so far. If you aren’t ‘in love’ with the three kits currently offered, you might want to check back in 4-5 days to check out the new kit!

I think we tend to take the bands for granted when we attend our high school and college football games. Just think how much they help us to express our enthusiasm and support for the teams as the players hurtle back and forth across the field! The kids in the band work hard and at unbelievably early morning hours to practice their marching. And, like the football players, the band members must practice and perform in all kinds of weather. Don remembers a time he was ‘forgotten’ and had to walk miles and miles to his home in a blizzard following a cancelled game performance. Poor guy. None the worse for wear, but it wasn’t fun!

This marching band kit has a nice mix of papers and elements to achieve the mood you want for your layouts. In addition to the stripes, plaid, and dotted papers, there are four ‘designer’ papers specific to music. They are gorgeous! This kit includes 17 (yes, 17!!) musical instrument elements that can be used in an unlimited number of ways. There are black inked circle word stamps (also offered in white), which can be used as-is or recolored. There is a full uper and lower case alpha that is green ink stamped and distressed on white cotton sheeting. I recolored the alpha for one of my layouts! There are stitch swirls, ribbons, ricrac and decorated frames. There are stamped frames and overlays, pewter musical notes and band word stickers. There is a gel drum major hat, a frayed fabric patch with embroidered words on it, and a darling pewter and vellum charm. And, that’s not all!

Here a couple of small previews to give you an idea what’s in the kit and what can be done with them!

You can see the kit HERE.

We love Soccer at our house. Don used to play with a team at work, and he enjoys watching the professional games very much. He coached kids’ soccer for several years, too, and thoroughly understands the emotions from ‘both sides’ of the fence! One thing we love about Soccer is that both boys and girls can play and do very well at it. We are thrilled that opportunities for girls to enjoy team sports are becoming more prevalent and that girls are encouraged to participate.

I kept the colors in this kit rather muted, but did include a bright ‘hot pink’ textured paper to add a little spice. The papers include the expected ’soccer ball’ backgrounds, but I’ve thrown in a background covered with words and terms used in the game, too. Then, there is also the black and silver diamond paper and the multi-colored geometric paper, both of which I really like. The pin-dots don’t show up as well as I would like in the preview, but the dotted papers coordinate nicely with the stripe, and all the other papers in the kit, of course, offering you so many paper combinations.

Then there are the embellishments. Wow! Besides the ‘working’ scoreboard, there are t-shirts, epoxy soccer player figures, word stickers, ‘prize’ ribbons, frames, cardboard stars with and without glitter, a soccer field stitch outline, and even criss-crossed shoelace segments so you can ‘lace up’ portions of your layouts. And, wait, there’s more! Take a look at the kit, and be sure to read the list of contents on the left side of the page because the preview is so crowded you might miss something! Nevertheless, here are a couple of small previews!

You can find the kit HERE.

A little late to be talking about the latest Christmas Kit, huh?! Oh, well. I am just now scrapping my photos from this Christmas, and I needed something special to entice me! So…..this kit is crammed with neat things to use in your layouts. Chipboard words in Christmas Red, with and without snowdrifts. Felt Christmas trees dusted in glitter and ornaments. Tons of felt Christmas balls with brushed gold hangers. A darling glittered angel to watch over you. Snowflakes, papers, and TONS of glitter flakes and edge overlays. AND, there is a special fancy ornament border ready to adorn layouts or cards. Using this kit, I made a very green Christmas album, trimmed with red ricrac, for the photos from one of our gatherings. I used the same theme throughout to provide continuity, and the pages are only 8″ x 8″ so I can easily print them at home and put them into mini albums for everyone. This has always been a hit with everyone, and, talk about a way to maximize the benefits from time spent on the project!! The second album I made uses only the softer blues in the kit, and the result is totally different. I am using it for the ice storm pictures we took this year. If you are like me, and just now getting around to Christmas (!), you might find something you can use in the Christmas Kit.

Here are a coule of previews for you!

         
You can take a look the full kit HERE.

Take a look at the elements in the new Basketball kit. Click on the preview below and it will take you to the shop for larger views of the elements and papers.

Here are three layouts made with elements and papers from the kit and additional papers that will be available shortly. You can see larger versions of the layouts in our Gallery.
                      

The Basketball kit is jam packed with elements and neat things to make your scrapbook pages unique. Like the Football Kit, there is a ‘working’ scoreboard, but this one is more suited to the game of basketball. There is a player silhouette and a two chipboard filmstrip photo frames. There are word stickers, charms, ribbons, and many other elements that will spur your creativity. I hope you enjoy playing with this kit!

Here is a peek at the elements in the new Football kit. Click on the preview and it will take you to the shop for larger views of the elements, overlays, and papers.

Here are three layouts made with elements and papers from the kit:
                      

I’ve been away for awhile, so not able to post to the Blog. Back now, and I have a new kit up in the store. Bet you can’t guess what it’s theme is, ha ha. Right. The Football kit is jam packed with elements and neat things to make your scrapbook pages unique. There are two text paths in the shape of a football; one is an outline and the other is a fill. These are so much fun and so easy to use (instructions in kit, too). The paths can be resized easily to suit your needs and you can use the font of your choice, too. There is a ‘working’ scoreboard! It has the dimmed lights, just like a real scoreboard, but a set of ‘light’ numbers is included to use for entering your own scores, time remaining, and other information. It’s a perfect way to emphasize the special moment when the winning touchdown was scored, etc. There are helmets and pennants and twill ribbons. There are torn papers, a chipboard alpha, player silhouettes and a filmstrip photo frame. There are grunge overlays, paint strokes, and a football texture plate. There are over 20 papers, including a football playing field paper and papers with appropriate ‘football words’ on them. Some of the items are going to be broken out for individual sales, but the kit package is the most economical way to get all the goodies.