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Petting Zoo

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If you know me well, you know that I love to visit zoos. Sometimes James thinks we shouldn’t visit a zoo every time we go on a trip, but now that we have kids, he doesn’t give me as much grief. Karen Diamond Designs recently released the perfect kit for any zoo lover, although I’m not quite sure why she named it petting zoo since none of the adorable animal elements are animals actually found in a petting zoo. It’s currently on sale (previews linked).

Here’s a close-up of the papers.

The layout I made using this cute kit has photos taken on a recent visit to the Cameron Park Zoo in Waco. That zoo is awesome. It was the second time we visited it, the first time for Janette. I plan to make a few more layouts to document that trip.

Digikit: Karen Diamond Designs – Petting Zoo
Template: AK Designs – Template Pack 19
Fonts: Apple Boy BTN

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New Car Seats

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Recently, I mentioned a new monochromatic kit by Queen Wild Scraps called Perfectly Plum. Today, I have a layout to share. It was my week 3 entry for the Scrap It to Win It contest going on at Scraps-N-Pieces.

Journaling reads: “When I saw a flyer for the semi-annual car seat seat exchange promotion at Toys R Us, I thought it was about time to start researching car seats. The plan was to get Jessica a new seat with higher weight limits and booster seat convertibility and then put Janette in Jessica’s existing car seat, a Britax Marathon 70. At the time of the research, Jessica only weighed 28 pounds and she had weighed about that much for a year or so. I didn’t know how long it would take her to reach 30 pounds, so that eliminated a number of the choices with minimum 30 pound requirements even though we didn’t need to upgrade Janette immediately. I decided on the Britax Frontier 85 with side impact cushion technology. She can use it harnessed until she weighs 85 pounds and as a booster seat until she weighs 120 pounds, although I imagine she will grow tall enough to safely use the vehicle seat long before she weighs that much. Currently only available online, it happened to be on sale for 25% off, so I ended up ordering it immediately. We hadn’t intended to start using it as soon as it arrived, but Jessica saw the box and was quite excited about her new car seat. We went ahead and installed it for her with the thought of waiting a few days to upgrade Janette in case Jessica got possessive of the old seat. However, we didn’t have to worry about that as Jessica wanted to Janette to sit in her “new” car seat right away too. I took these photos 9/17/12, the day after they both starting riding in their new seats.”

Digikit: Queen Wild Scraps – Perfectly Plum
Fonts: Brennan (title), Angelina (journal)

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Scraps-N-Pieces Facebook Hop 10/1 thru 10/15

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Please visit the following SNP designer Facebook pages to find all the great alphas, templates, word art, and mini kits in the Scraps N Pieces Anniversary Facebook hop:

Scrap Happens to Me
Memories by Digital Design
AK Designs
AmyDane Designs
Karen Diamond Designs
Scraps N Pieces
Fit 2 Be Scrapped
Keystone Scraps
Just For Fun Designs
Queen Wild Scraps
Busy Crafting Mommy Designs
A-Manda Creation
Digital Designs by Noelle
True North Scraps
Wendy Tunison Designs
Adriana’s Cafe
A Fish Design
Reminiscence Design

Sweet Baby Girl and a Winner

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This was supposed to post last Friday, but alas I must have forgot to hit schedule so it didn’t and I was out of town and didn’t notice until today. Needless to say, the sale is over, but you can still pick up this sweet kit.

Back in June when Lahni found out she was having a bouncing baby boy, she designed and released the über sweet kit, Sweet Baby Boy. Today, she is releasing a kit for the girls, Sweet Baby Girl. So now Queen Wild Scraps has the entire spectrum of baby kits: gender neutral Hush Little Baby, boyish Sweet Baby Boy and feminine Sweet Baby Girl. You can pick up the latest piece in the trio for 30% off today through Sunday. You can also pick up all three baby kits in a bundle.

Here’s the preview of the kit.

And a close of the papers.

Check out what the Wild Princesses did with this kit:

Cindy

Henriett

Kandice

Kendra

Lahni

Lauren

Meleah

Also, new this week is a pretty little monochromatic kit, Perfectly Plum. Lahni designed this with the scrappers in the Scrap It to Win It contest in mind. Week three’s challenge was a monochromatic layout. This is also 30% off today through Sunday.

 

Here’s one layout by Wild Princess Kandice.

In the sneak peak, I asked what were your favorite baby names. I used random.org to select a winner from the 7 comments and it chose #5.

Jennifer send queen.wild a private message over at Scraps-N-Pieces and Lahni will get you your coupon code. You have until next Friday to claim your prize.