Revisiting DSC

The first scrapbooking forum I posted on was Digital Scrap Cafe, which is where I "met" Val who I now create for, and several other wonderful people whose company I regularly enjoy on the forums. I'm not in on any inside scoop there, I just posted there, so I can't tell you all of what happened, but their site did go down in October for a couple of MONTHS. I had already begun to get involved in the MScraps forum, though, so I was OK. DSC did reopen in January but I have been preoccupied with other sites. A couple of weeks ago, though, I thought I'd head over there and do some challenges as a nice way to kick myself in the butt and put some of the beautiful kids I have from designers there to good use! So I did. I did both challenges and ended up with two layouts that I am very happy with:

Click on links to go to DSC gallery and see credits for the kits used. I snuck one of Val's Chicky Chooks into the second layout. <3 :D

Brrr Cold Pool

Happy Umbrella

Maybe I will be able find time to do a couple of challenges there again.

Back to Life --the kit AND my mood!

I am thrilled with how appropriate Val's new kit is for me. I'm SO affected by the weather and I truely feel like I'm coming back to life this week, even though I haven't been feeling well physically. The weather has been beautiful! I have been soaking it up. Callia has been excited to get started on gardening, too, and we planted our first seeds of the year together a couple of days ago. :) So this kit matches my mood perfectly! I love the colors Val chose, and the word art is fantastic. She and I must be kindred spirits when it comes to spring...

I pulled out a few pictures from last year at this time to make my first layout with it:

More layouts

Continuing on with my scrapping. Note to self: try to scrap faster. I seem to be taking forever even longer on each layout these days than I used to!

I did a last minute layout to snag a point for one of the February MScraps challenges. The challenge was to journal how your love story began, starting with the beginning of marriage, the first date, whatever. I chose to journal the first time we met. Silliness, but still cute to remember. :)

I am not sure about how I chose to showcase it, though. Does it look somber? Like a consolation card or something.


And I did a second page with Val C. and Jen Yurko's "This Smile" kit, as a companion to the first one I did. I stubbornly didn't include green or yellow in the first, but I let it sneak into this layout, and I like it!

It really is a cute kit. Perfect for Callia when she was littler.

New Collab by Val C. Designs and Jen Yurko

Finally Val C. and Jen Yurko's new collab has been revealed!

Ready? Here is "This Smile"!

Click here to see "This Smile" in the ZZS store

How cute is that? I am impressed with how versitile it is. It is amazing how different each of the layouts from Val's CT look.

Here is my first page with it, with pictures of my daughter at the playground when she was 2 1/2. I plan to do another page to go with it, but it's not done yet...so I'll post that later.

I also did another layout this week, also of Callia when she was little. Seventeen months to be specific. I remember feeling like it was SO cute that she made the decision all by herself to get her little bag of board books and take them into my room to "read" where she could get comfy. That's stuff worth remembering!

Click here to see credits in MScraps gallery

Update, Layouts, and RAK

OK I have several things to share! I will save the best for last. First, I will share some recent layouts I have done! :D

This two page LO I did with Val C. Designs most recent kit, a collab with Sue Cummings called "Preserved + unAltered", which is an absolutely beautiful kit and I look forward to doing more with it:

 

 Also, MScraps had an "Oscars" event where layouts could be submitted to win, and I did make a couple and submit them for that, just for fun:

Submitted to the "Best Clean and Simple Non Template" category, made with MScraps freebie collab "So Thankful For":

Submitted to the "Best Clustering" category, made with Joyce Paul Designs' kit "Color Pop":

Now, possibly more interesting, is that Val C. Designs has opened a new website, www.valcdesigns.com, moved her blog to it, and started a newsletter. To promote her new blog and newsletter she is giving things away! Head over to see what she is doing with a RAK to give away her upcoming collab kit with Jen Yurko

 

   I have been able to work with it and believe me, it is adorable! I can't wait to do more with it, and to show what I have already done! Details on how to win it at Val's new site! www.valcdesigns.com

Thanks for looking!

Blog Train!!!

OK Here we go--a Brag Book Blog Train! I have enjoyed taking advantage of Blog Trains that others have participated in, so I anticipate that you will enjoy this one! The Creative Team of Val C. Designs has come together to create a series of 4 x 6 quick pages for you to create a quick and easy brag book! We have even tried to leave you a little room to add text alongside your photos if you'd like to. :)

I have created two quick pages for this Blog Train.

   The first is made with Val's kit Be Inspired: Snail Mail:

Click here to download this quick page from 4Shared

   The second quickpage I have done is made with Val's kit Be Inspired: Purest:

Click here to download this quick page from 4shared

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click Thumbnail to find Snail Mail

Click Thumbnail to find Purest

   Thanks for stopping in!

You probably ended up coming here from Corinna's blog.
Your next stop is Pom's blog!
If you get lost, try going back to Val's Blog to get the full list. :)


If not everyone has their blog train post up right away, come back later...since we are an international team there is an extra level of difficulty in getting it all released at once.

Exciting news for me!

I have two things to announce.

1) One is that my recent layout Little Artists was chosen for Zig Zag Scraps GLOW (Gorgeous Layout Of the Week)!

Announced in their newsletter and here on their blog:

Thank you so much Pink Reptile Designs!

2) The second thing I have to announce is that I will stay on with Val C. Designs Creative Team as a permanent member! I'm so happy to be a part of this sweet friendly talented team.

Thanks Val!