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Southwest Sunsets

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Road trips through America’s Southwest have become a staple of Americana. Driving west into the desert and the setting sun is both the stuff of legend and of many families’ scrapbooks. Southwest Sunsets by Scraps N Pieces provides the perfect backdrop for your family’s stories. This bold kit combines strong motifs and classic colors to make you feel like you’re already out west. Arrows, feathers, and cacti abound in this kit, along with desert-dwelling coyotes, foxes, and deer. There are plenty of patterned bands, suns, and sunsets to further accent your pages. Southwest Sunsets also comes with a turquoise Western-inspired alpha and a word strip pack that features many of the Southwest’s most popular destinations to make it easier to record your memories. So load up the car (and the camera) and drive west into the desert. Then, scrap your memories with Southwest Sunsets.

Each piece is just $1 April 1-7

I’ve have two layouts to share here and one more to share in a later post. These pics are from a trip James and I took to El Paso to visit our grandmothers back in 2004.

Digikit: Scraps N Pieces – Southwest Sunsets
Template: Scraps N Pieces – Template Pack 25
Font: Pacifico, Lumberjack Regular

Digikit: Scraps N Pieces Southwest Sunsets
Font: Lumberjack Regular

Here are some great layouts from the rest of the CT.

This freebie will be in the Scraps N Pieces newsletter tomorrow!  Also, be sure you are a member of the FB group.  Heidi and Lori will be adding an additional freebie there this weekend.

#2017 April

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I am so excited to be guesting for Connie Prince in April. I am kicking off the month by using the April collection of her #2017 series. Available at Ginger Scraps and The Digi Chick.

I made two layouts about a walk taken when the girls and I went to Keller during spring break 2013.

Digikit: Connie Prince – #2017 April
Template: Connie Prince – In Pieces Vol 1
Font: Beautiful Mess

Digikit: Connie Prince – #2017 April
Template: Connie Prince – In Pieces Vol 1

Sunny Days

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When learning about being a good neighbor, one of the best places to turn is Sesame Street. Generations have grown up learning how to read, count, and make new friends from their friendly neighborhood Muppets. Sunny Days! pays tribute to this community of characters and their impact on our families. This bright, whimsical kit draws on primary colors and bold patterns for that perfect child-like whimsy. Featured elements include everyone’s favorite characters, street signs, banners, and subtle nods to favorite moments on the show, like a rubber ducky and a cookie. This kit also contains a fun capital alpha in 4 colors for learning your ABCs – or titling your pages. Let your favorite photos and memories meet your favorite TV neighbors with Sunny Days!  This kit is 50% off at Scraps N Pieces and My Memories for the week.

In addition to this fun new kit, we are doing a spring cleaning sale and retiring a whole bunch of our old kits.  See details below and click on image to go to the sale.

I created two pages from a trip to Sea World’s Sesame Street themed Bay of Play.

Digikit: Scraps N Pieces – Sunny Days!
Template: Scraps N Pieces – Template Pack 24
Font: KG Primary Penmanship, KG Primary Penmanship 2

Digikit: Scraps N Pieces – Sunny Days!
Template: Scraps N Pieces – Template Pack 19
Font: KG Primary Penmanship, KG Primary Penmanship 2

Here are some super fun layouts from the rest of the CT for the Sunny Days kit.

Be sure you are subscribed to the Scraps N Pieces newsletter to pick up this freebie on Friday.

Spectacular Spring

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Word Art World has a great new word art set that is perfect for spring. You can buy it at Gingerscraps and The Digi Chick.

I have two layouts using two different word arts from this set. They tell part of the story of last year’s neighborhood egg hunt.

Digikit: Scrappin’ Serenity – Egg Hunt
Template: Scrapping with Liz – Blog Template Challenge 2017 March
Word Art: Word Art World – Spectacular Spring
Font: KL Cassidy

Digikit: Scrappin’ Serenity – Egg Hunt; Scraps N Pieces – This Month is a Special One
Template: Dear Friends Designs – 1, 2, 3, 4
Word Art: Word Art World – Spectacular Spring

Bohemian Spring

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Set your spirit free, release your inner flower child and celebrate a Bohemian Spring! With its gorgeous colors and boho feel, this collection by Magical Scraps Galore overflows with hippie icons such as feathers, arrows, a dream catcher, deer skulls, a guitar, peace symbols, as well as loads of flowers, leaves, birds, and butterflies, among many other fabulous goodies. Perfect to scrap your darling teen, your indie style, the positive springtime vibes, your free spirit, your adventurous self, and the peace and love in your heart.

Find the full collection at 60% off -or the individual kit and add-ons at 30% off– through March 16th at , and .

The page kit includes 12 solids, 17 beautifully patterned papers, 2 gorgeous alphas and 53 unique elements:

The collection includes the page kit with 12 solids, 17 beautifully patterned papers, 2 gorgeous alphas and 53 unique elements, plus four add-ons: word bits, journaling cards, barnwood papers, and ombré papers, all bundled up for great savings!

I created three layouts. First up is a layout from our vacation to Albuquerque back in 2006.

Digikit: Magical Scraps Galore – Bohemian Spring
Template: Kristmess Designs – Stacked Temp 3
Font: Black Rose (Old Town); Champagne & Limousines (journal)

Then I have two layouts when my in-laws visited last March.

Digikit: Magical Scraps Galore – Bohemian Spring
Template: Fiddle-dee-dee Designs – Fiddlesticks Number 18
Font: akaDora Regular

Digikit: Magical Scraps Galore – Bohemian Spring
Template: AK Designs – Template Pack 94
Font: akaDora; Alegreya Sans (journal/date)

Some gorgeous layouts from the Creative Team:

Stay tuned for Marina’s new collection coming to stores later this month!