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Ann’s Grace

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Today, I’m going tell you about a new kit called Ann’s Grace from Karen Diamond Designs. It has my favorite color as the main color, so it must be awesome. It totally  is. I love the little butterfly. It has 20 papers and 33 elements and it can be used to scrap just about anything.

The majority of the time, Jessica and/or Janette are the subjects of my layouts. This time, I’ve included me. James is pretty good about making sure I’m in a number of pictures too.

Digikits: Karen Diamond Designs – Ann’s Grace
Template: Connie Prince – Bigs & Littles
Wordart: Word Art World – Swap 46
Fonts: Jenna Sue (date)

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein

A Few Layouts

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I have a few layouts to share today. These were done for various challenges at the two forums I frequent.

First up was one completed during a fun speed scrap on April 27th.

Digikits: Amy’s Design Playground; brown stitches from Amy’s Designs – For the Birds
Wordart: Word Art World – Swap 66
Font: Times New Roman (date)

The next two were done for interNational Scrapbooking Day challenges last weekend. The first one uses a topsy turvy template.

Digikit: Connie Prince – Backyard BBQ Kit and Word Bits
Template: iNSD Topsy Turvy
Font: Pea Rachael

The challenge on this next one was to have white space.

Digikits: Amy’s Designs – Flashback; Amy’s Designs – Beautiful Life; Robyn Gough Designs – Floral Fancy
Wordart: Word Art World – Swap 59
Fonts: Talking to the Moon (date)

Have a fabulous weekend!

Forty Weeks

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As you may know, Queen Wild is expecting her fourth child. So pregnancy has been on her mind and of course that led to Forty Weeks!

This kit is packed full of goodies – with 20 papers, 50 elements, 29 wordbit and 1 full alpha you’ll be able to scrap all of your prenatal and many of your postpartum photos too!

I decided to make a layout telling the story of Jessica’s birth. I’ve never done a layout without any photos, so this is a first for me. It seems a little weird, but I wanted to document her birth and I didn’t have any appropriate photos.

Digikit: Queen Wild Scraps – Forty Weeks
Template: Queen Wild Scraps – Shape Up Templates
Fonts: Shark Random Funnyness (title), Joyful Juliana (journal)

Check out what the rest of the Wild Princesses did with the kit – and make sure to visit their blogs because they have some awesome freebies for you!

Brooke:

Henriett:

Kandi:

Kendra:

Lahni:

Lauren: (using my Circles and Scallops templates)

And here are the freebie’s they’ve got for you (if they’re not up yet be sure to check back – we’re all in different time zones).

And here’s my freebie. When I was pregnant with Janette, we decided to announce the news by sending photos of Jessica wearing a big sister to all the family. I decided to make something so you could do the same type of thing if you want, but you don’t even have to have a big sister/brother shirt. You can download by clicking here. I would love to know what you think.

Have a super duper Thursday!

Adventures in Space

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The Bits N Pieces from Karen Diamond Designs is called Adventures in Space. You can pick up the elements and the papers for only $1 each this week only.

I’m sharing another double page layout showcasing the rest of our nephew Cameron’s 4th birthday party. It was held at a really neat place. For my layout’s composition I was inspired by this fabulous layout by gwalters.

Digikit: Karen Diamond Designs – Adventures in Space
Templates: Karen Diamond Designs – Border Curves Templates
Font: Monkey Phonics BRK (title); MA Googly Bear (title); Milk & Cereal

Journaling on left page reads: “The kids enjoyed the giant indoor playscape. Jessica was cautious and wouldn’t go all the way to the top to go down the slide.”

Journaling on right page reads: “Another awesome idea from the party host: two chairs for present opening time, one for Cameron and one for the gift giver.”