MouseScrappers Birthday Blog Hop!

Happy Birthday MouseScrappers!

It's been a month of chats, learning, speed scrapping, scavenger hunts, hide and go seek, cake smashing, hopscotch, cake baking, simon says, all things Disney, prizes, and hopefully lots of fun and friendship too. To cap off our 4 week 2nd Birthday celebration MouseScrappers has put together a blog hop full of celebration items in classic fab 5 colors.

In celebration of this fun event and our wonderful Disney scrapping home, here is a little goodie from me to you. Click image to download:

You probably just hopped over from Cheryl's blog and are here at Dreamscrapper Designs. Next you will hop over to Lisa's blog, and if you are so tired from all of this partying that you lose your way, you can always check out the MouseScrappers 2nd Anniversary Activity forum to get the complete list.

People from all over the world have contributed to this blog hop, so if you don't see their gift right away, visit their blog again later to pick it up.

I hope you enjoy all the treats and can't wait to see what you create!

Yo ho, Yo ho

It's 3:30 AM on Thursday, March 16. Heaven only knows what I'm doing up, but I guess it doesn't really matter since I'm on spring break and can sleep late tomorrow. I'm in Disney World right now, staying at the Caribbean Beach resort in a pirate room. My son really wanted to stay here. I have to say, the room decor is really fun. It always amazes me how the Disney decorators can carry a theme right down to the most minute detail. Even the bathrooms here are pirate themed. The shower walls have a large carving of a pirate ship, and the shower curtain has a rope netting motif with pictures of pirate ships. And since I see the world through the eyes of a scrapper, I decided the minute I looked at the shower curtain that it would make a great digital paper. So I grabbed my camera (actually my iPhone), took a pic and played with it in Photoshop to make it look like distressed and aged wood. I used it to make a layout about our pirate room.

The kit I used is Buried Treasure by Valerie Randall. I supplemented with a flower action by Doreen Stolz, and then I found some Pirate Mickey clip art that I turned into a chipboard element. I am giving you, my friends, the background paper as a freebie for you to use in your pirate or nautical layouts. You can download it here. If you do use the paper in a layout that you post to a gallery, please leave me a message with a link so I can see it. I'd love to see what you do with it. I'm off to get some shuteye, so remember to keep scrapping life, one dream at a time!

Welcome to Dreamscrapper Designs!

This is something I have wanted to do for so long now, but I never knew where to begin. To be honest, having a blog scares me. I mean, what if I just have nothing to say? What if no one cares what I have to say? It's frightening to put yourself out there on the internet like this. But I thought I'd give it a try anyway.

I hope to make this a place to share bits of my life: my son, my passion for all things Disney, my love of reading and books, my scrapbook pages, and the bits of designing that I do ~ strictly as a hobby, of course. You never know when you might find a freebie or two here, so drop by from time to time. Read about the craziness that is my life, share my dreams, talk about scrapping and Disney (or scrapping about Disney) with me. To say thanks for visiting, here's my first freebie. I've created an alpha based on everyone's favorite mouse friend!

You can download it here. Thanks for stopping by, and remember to scrap your life, one dream at a time!