Twice the Fun!

It's hard to believe that March is almost over.  Spring has certainly sprung here.  In fact, we might be skipping right over to summer!

To get in the springtime spirit... Keystone Scraps is releasing not just one, but two kits today.  While they are both spring and Easter themed, they are so very different from each other that you are bound to want to add one of them to your stash, if not both!

Elegant Easter

This kit was created with a soft, elegant, beautiful holiday image in mind!  However, there are so many gorgeous general elements, papers, and colors that you will be scrapping with it long after the Easter season is over!  Beautiful mauves, greens, and golds will create a beautiful accompaniment for wedding, prom, Baptism, 1st Holy Communion, Dedication, and feminine layouts all year long!

This kit includes 52 unique elements, 17 unique papers, and a beautiful gold alpha!

It is available thru March 30th at 30% off!  So don't delay!

The second kit available today is:

Dip, Splatter, & Roll

This fun and whimsical Easter kit was created for the final round of the Designer Darling contest at Stuff to Scrap!  It was free for a limited time, but if you missed picking it up there, now you can get it in the store!  A bright and playful color palette, combined with adorable characters, will make this kit a sure favorite!  There are plenty of general and art-themed elements included as well, so don't think that it is just for Easter scrapping.  You will love creating fun pages of the kids making messes, doing arts and crafts, and just hamming it up for the camera with this kit!

This fun kit includes 22 papers, 56 elements, and a full alpha!

It is also available thru March 30th at 30% off, so add it to your stash today!

Here are the layouts I created using these two kits.

With Elegant Easter:

With Dip, Splatter, & Roll

To thank you for visiting my blog, I am offering you this paper stack freebie that I created to coordinate with Elegant Easter.  Click the image to download.

Have a terrific day and keep scrapping life, one dream at a time!

How Do You Choose...

what to scrap?  Are you a chronological scrapper, an event scrapper, a moment scrapper, or some combination of those?  When I started I really wanted to be a chronological scrapper.  It somehow fit my idea of order.  The only problem with that, as I discovered, is that it is not humanly possible to start at the beginning and "catch up."  I'm always taking new photos so I'm always behind.  So then I started scrapping events.  But I realized that I was missing out on some of the truly wonderful moments in my life and my son's life.  So now, I guess I'm a combination scrapper in that I scrap whatever it is I feel like scrapping at the moment.  Sometimes, I just look through my iPhoto library and see if any photos speak to me.  Sometimes, I see a great kit and it inspires me to think about that photo I know I have that would be perfect for the kit.  That's what happened on Saturday, which is new release day over at Sweet Shoppe Designs.  I saw this wonderful kit by Shawna Clingerman:

When I saw this kit, I immediately thought of the pics I took of my son on the first day of school this year.  I still hadn't scrapped them, but this made me want to.  Here's the layout I made:

I came up with the composition one day when I was out.  I was bored and without my laptop when I started imagining scrapbook layouts.  I grabbed a pencil and some paper and started sketching.  I made a template from one of those sketches and used it for this layout.  I am offering it to you as a freebie just for visiting.  If you use the template and post your layout anywhere, I'd love it if you'd leave me a link in the comments so that I can see the layout and leave you some love.

Please click image to download:

Have a great day and keep scrapping life, one dream at a time!

Weathering the Storm

Into every life a little rain must fall.  Unfortunately, sometimes that rain feels more like a storm!  To help us document those struggles and face them on our own terms, Keystone Scraps has created this stunning kit.

Weathering the Storm

This is a gorgeous monochromatic kit inspired the by stormy purple gray of a thunderstorm sky.  This elegant and classic kit contains 17 stunning papers, 55 unique elements, and a wonderful script style alpha.  This kit is perfect for all manner of projects.  Create lovely wedding, heritage, portrait, faith-booking, journal pages, and so much more.  You will be sure to love the beautiful variety of elements and the 10 quote blocks that are perfect for reflecting on those challenging moments of life.

Take a moment and look at the page I created for a little inspiration.

Did you notice the unique date element in my layout?  I created it because I wanted a date element to go with my title about things going up.  The vintage look of this kit inspired me to create a date element reminiscent of the floor indicator on old victorian era elevators.  I have created a whole element template and am offering it to you as a freebie.  Simply click the image to download.  Enjoy!

Have a great day and keep scrapping life, one dream at a time!

No Peekin'!

No Peekin'

It's time to shake those packages and dream about what's in store for Christmas! Scrap the memories you create while celebrating the most wonderful time of the year with this sweet and whimsical kit! A fresh and sweet color palette will brighten up your pages and give you a festive alternative to the traditional Red and Green holiday pages! This kit is just also perfect for all your hybrid crafts! Try it for card making, gift tags, school treat foldover cards, advent calendars, desktops, personal blog wear.... you think of it... you can make it!

Check out what I made with it!!

Also available in the store this week... is a relaunch of Remember the Magic!

This kit has been refreshed and some elements have changed! Be sure to read the list of elements in the store (linked to the preview) so you aren't surprised! If you purchased the original kit, and would like to have the updated version, just email a copy of your receipt to keystonescraps@yahoo.com and you will get a coupon to download it for free!

AND... since it IS Black Friday... OF COURSE there is an awesome sale over at Scraps-N-Pieces!

To thank you for stopping by today, I have a little freebie for you. I have created a customizable December desktop in PNG format. Just add your own photo, save as a JPG and use it on your computer.

Click the image below to download.

Thanks for visiting, and keep scrapping life, one dream at a time!

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!

Que Pasa?

Keystone scraps is spicing things up today with a brand new release!!!

You'll want to shout Ole when you scrap with Que Pasa. Perfect for pictures from a trip to Mexico, the Mexican pavilion at Epcot, or a night at your local Mexican restaurant, this kit contains 16 fun South of the Border inspired papers, 43 elements to bring out a little spice in your page, and a full matching alpha! All this fun is available now at the Keystone Scraps store.

I love this kit so much that I scrapped two layouts with it!

My fellow CT members and I have also created some freebies for you to help you scrap some amazing pages. I have a paper stack and word art that are both used in my first layout. Click the image below to download.

You can pick up the other freebies by visiting the other CT members' blogs:
Paula's blog
Patty's blog
Cheryl's blog

Have fun creating with all this kit and all of the goodies we created to go with it. Now, I've got some more scrapping to do!

A Cluster Frame Freebie!

I participated in a scraplift challenge over at MouseScrappers and decided to make a Jungle Cruise layout using the I Dream of Africa kit available over at Keystone Scraps.  It's really a beautiful kit with so many possibilities.  Here's the layout I created:

I liked the cluster frame that I made so much that I decided to snag it right off the layout (isn't Photoshop great?!) and offer it to you as a freebie.  Just click the image to download.

I hope you like it.  It was a lot of fun to make.  Now I'm off to do some more scrapping!

Makeovers and Mouse Heads...

Now that's a seriously strange title for a blog post! But that's really what this is all about. I did a layout last night for an April Matter of Scrap Challenge over at ScrapMatters. It was the Extreme Makeover Challenge where you take an old layout (maybe from your early digi days when you were still learning and developing your craft and skills), and redo it. I chose to redo a layout of a photo taken by the overpass you go under from Magic Kingdom Parking to the Ticket and Transportation Center at Walt Disney World. I won't bother putting up the original layout because... well... ugh! But here's my redo using The Magic in You and Mostly Magic Alphas, both by Band Geek Designs at ScrapMatters.

Well, I wanted a wire Mickey head for my layout to go with the other wire elements, so I made myself one. Of course, Mickey is awfully lonely without Minnie, so I made a Minnie head to keep him company (not on the layout though). I'm offering my His N' Hers Mouse Heads to you as a little freebie for visiting my happy home here on the web.

You can download it here.

Well, thanks for visiting and remember, keep scrapping life, one dream at a time!

A MouseScrappers Challenge!

I am sooooo excited to be hosting my very first challenge at MouseScrappers! It's a scraplift challenge, so I made this layout for lifting:

The Test Track emblem on the layout is a FREEBIE that I'm giving to you all. You can download it here.

It completes the really cool participation prize that I made for everyone who participates in the challenge. Here's the prize:

So why not have some fun? Join me and all the other MouseScrappers for Scraplift Challenge #9. You'll have a great time. Now go scrap life, one dream at a time.

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!