A Productive Weeekend!

Happy Memorial Day! Thank you so much to all the men and women who have fought to ensure our freedom.

I took Friday off from work and ended up having a really productive four day weekend - spending time with the kids (including a fun trip to Old Navy with Alexa), cleaning the whole house, and being crafty! Alexa and I made some really cute paper flowers and we set the kids up to fingerpaint on the deck - I definitely have some layouts to do - what a fun mess that was!

I did find some time for me and did these two hybrid projects using templates from Kelleigh Ratzlaff's May Grab Bag. The seed packet features the Tangled Twirls kit by Design by Heather T, and the soap box was made with a paper from Stenciled Papers - Two by Roben-Marie Designs. Oh, and one of our cute paper flowers! :)

Slices of life

:)
Credits: She Sells Seashells by Jennifer Fox, Memories Preserved Templates 1-4 by Susan Robinson.

Credits: Primaeval Pathways by Quirky Twerp

A Serious Challenge!

I have always been a big fan of The Daily Digi - they provide such fantastic scrapping information and inspiration. One of my favorite things about the site is "The Digi Files," which is a monthly huge package of kits and templates from both well-known and up-and-coming designers. Every month, TDD offers a challenge with products from that month's digi files. This month I decided to participate!

These are really difficult challenges for me because TDD provides a specific list of products (paper x from kit 1, element y from kit 2, etc.) and you can use those products and only those products, and you have to use each one at least once. The only other thing you can use is fonts. Talk about trying to be creative with very tight parameters!! Here's what I came up with this month!

Almost Summer

And we're having a lot of fun in our little vegetable/berry garden! Here are a couple layouts I did this week featuring new products at The Digichick - credits under each :)

Credits: Take Me Away by Jennifer Fox, Blocky by Nikki Epperson, Edges by ViVa Artistry

Credits: What's Cooking by Mari Koegelenberg

Just a couple layouts for today!

Remember - new release day at The Digichick means savings for you!!! Credits under each photo.
Credits: Citrus Tangerine by Danielle Engebretson

Credits: Girlfriends by Mari Koegelenberg and Sugarplum Paperie, Edges by ViVa Artistry, and Star Struck Templates Volume 3 by Trixie Scraps.

My Rite Aid score from this week!!

Check out what I got at Rite Aid this week for 65 cents!! It's about $110 worth of products! Details under the photo:

Details - in two transactions - sorry I didn't separate them out all nice and neat :(
6 Covergirl cosmetics - BOGO free sale
Used 3 BOGO free coupons
OOP - FREE

1 Febreeze Fabric Refresher $4.99
Used 1-$1/1 coupon
OOP - $3.99

3 Synovium Pain Relief Gels 3/$15
Used 3-$2/1 coupons
OOP - $9.00

1 Soleil Disposable Razors (4 pack) $5.99
Used 1-$3/1 coupon
OOP - $2.99

1 Johnson's Detangler $2.99
Used 1-$1/1 In Ad coupon
OOP - $1.99

1 Nivea Body Wash $3.99
Used 1-$4/1 coupon
OOP - ($0.01)

1 Clairol Nice n' Easy Hair Color $7.49
Used 1-$2/1 coupon
Used 1 - $2.50/1 In Ad coupon
OOP - $2.99

2 Pure & Natural Hand Soaps $4.69 ea = $9.38
Used 2-$2/1 coupons
Used 2-$2/1 Video Values Coupons
OOP - $1.38 (this is a great price for this expensive stuff!!)

2 Lysol Disinfecting Wipes BOGO Free Sale = $3.49
Used 2-$1/1 coupons
OOP - $1.49

Used 2-$5 off when you spend $25 coupons
Total OOP = $14.65 including tax
Submitted for $14 in SCRs (#84, #38, #62)

TOTAL SPEND: $0.65 - which was all tax!!

Last weekend

We had so much fun - including playing outside in the beautiful weather and visiting the Please Touch museum in Philly. Here are three layouts featuring some photos from last weekend!

Credits: Boy oh Boy by Nikki Epperson, Scrappers Block 5 by simply.scraps Designs

Credits: From Anotha Mista and Scrappers Block 5 by simply.scraps Designs.

Credits: May Grab Bag by Elise's Pieces and Paint Shapes 1 by Design by Heather T.

Sketchapalooza 6 has started!

I have raved in the past about the awesome sketch classes - Sketchapaloozas - at Feeling Scrappy. We started a brand new class yesterday and I'm again doing digital templates for the awesome sketches created by the current design team. Here's the layout I did based on sketch 1 by Becky Rico:

Other credits: Atomic Cupcakes burned edges action, Cowboy Cool and Happy Camper, both by Elise Hansen.

And - I created a pre-class bonus sketch for class participants - here's the layout I based the sketch on:
Credits: Ready for Spring by Elise Hansen and Jude Toone.

Happy {inter}National Scrapbooking Day!!

Can you believe it? It's {i}NSD and I spent the day in Philadelphia with the kids at the Please Touch Children's Museum instead of scrapping or shopping for scrapping supplies. We had a blast!! More photos to make more layouts :).

Never fear, though - I've had a very busy week creating. So much news in my digi-world -- first, Mari Koegelenberg is guesting at Miss Tiina and has loaded up a bunch of beautiful goodies in her store. In addition, The Digichick is celebrating their fifth anniversary and the designers have created a huge number of amazing birthday-themed kits that are all 50% off!!! And....it's my favorite time of the quarter at The Digichick - Grab Bag time! GBs are such a great way to get a ton of digital goodies for a great price. Here's some of what I've done this week!

Using The Beach House by Mari Koegelenberg:
Using Go Fish by Mari Koegelenberg:
Using Ready Set Blow by Danielle Engebretson and Karen Lewis:

Using Celebrate! by Elise Hansen:

Using Danielle Engebretson's May Sweetness Grab Bag for Girls:
Using Nikki Epperson's Hello Sunshine May Grab Bag:
Using Jennifer Fox's I've Got a Feeling May Grab Bag: