Perfect Pairs: Oh Snap! & Main Street | Digital Scrapbooking Kit Combinations

Hello Everyone! This week we challenged the CT members to combine 2 of Chelle’s kits: Oh Snap! & Main Street Kits. Let me show you the kits first, and then I’ll show you the LOs.

First up is Melissa N who shows us “Changes.” Love the then and now of her children at the same location, several years apart, and the clusters she built are just perfect!

Next we have Lynette who uses shows us the main street at one of her travel destinations on her cruise. I bet we all have photos that we could scrap in a similar fashion. A cityscape if you will.

In our final LO, Carol shows us the Main Street where she used to live in Iowa. What a great idea! Each of us memories where we used to live. Carol’s LO made me think of main street’s in ghost towns, pioneer villages, or even restored main streets. We’ve got a picture of several of my grandparent’s and great-grandparents pioneer homes. Some have been renovated and we could do similar LOs like Carol’s.

Hope these inspire you to use Main Street Mini and the Traveler Bundle for some of your LO’s.

Hugs!

Gallery Standouts! | Digital Scrapbooking Inspiration

Hi everyone! It’s Aunt Sari back with some great LO’s I found in the galleries. Couldn’t wait to show you. I start looking through the galleries and next thing I know, it’s been 2-3 hours. I’ve chosen some of my favorites to share with you this week.
First up is senderikaaletter using Chelle’s Choo Choo Bundle.

Followed by Timberlyn using Chelle’s Military Bundle & Fireworks Kit!

Kim Millar provides us with “Up Up & Away” using Chelle’s Ladybug Hugs Kit.

McBDesigns gives us this sunset sweetie using Vrooom! Bundle by Chelle
lwentkie gives us this great design of a heritage park. Love the picture at the top, it really makes me want to step into the design. She used Traveler Bundle by ChelleLast up is Toucan Scraps. I love the green on green of this charmer using Toadally Bundle by Chelle.

I sure hope you all found some inspiration to work on a few more ideas!

Hugs!

Tea For Two Playdate | Digital Scrapbooking Inspiration

Hello Friends!
What a lovely kit Chelle made this week. A beautiful and lovely memory of times present and times past. Chelle’s Great Grandmother Pitcher (my grandmother) collected tea cups & saucers and had them placed about her house. A few years before she died, she gave each of her granddaughters one from her collection. This kit helps me travel back in time so Sunday afternoons at 4pm where we all gathered each to visit with Grandma Pitcher and our Aunts and cousins. You can choose the Tea for Two Bundle or pick them up individually: Tea for Two, Tea for Two Word Art, Tea For Two Ginghams, Tea for Two Freebie, & CU Curled Paper Flowers.
For our CU Friends, Chelle gives us CU Curled Paper Flowers:
Did you hear about Creative Club Digi Designer Edition’s Q&A chat this month? We have a copywrite & patent attorney guesting as our speaker. He’ll be talking about the legalities involved in digi-designing. It’s on Thursday, September 20th at 7pm MST. Spread the news! Tell all our designer friends.
Let me show you what the creative team designed with Tea for Two:

Carol

Jan

Jenn J

Kairyn Left

Kairyn Right

Kayla

Mary

Mel N

Ophelia

Ronnie

Roxana

Shanell

Have a great week! Hugs!

Rainbow Collection | Digital Scrapbooking Classics

Have you ever wished you had just one giant digital scrapbooking kit to be the backbone of your entire collection? Before I knew about Chelle’s Rainbow Bundle, I wished for a multi-purpose kit to be the basic background for any layout, and then I could add elements from specialty themed kits, if needed. The Rainbow Bundle is that staple I needed. Chelle’s team members have been playing with the bundle, and I want to show you their layouts.

First, Mary used the Rainbow Bundle to make a page with some photos of her sweet little blonde boy. She has used all bright colors in the kits, various elements from the primary color sets, to make a cheerful page with her gorgeous photos. I love how she used the phrase on his t-shirt as the inspiration for the page, and her clustering of flowers and strings is the perfect background for the pictures.kentlove-2011Mary

Next, Kairyn made a double page layout with the Rainbow Bundle. Her children made adorable lapbooks about subjects they had in school, and her pictures of them proudly holding their projects are the focus of her pages. First, the left side2008-04-29Lapbooking-LKairyn then the right2008-04-29Lapbooking-RKairyn and here’s what the double layout looks like altogether 2008-04-29Lapbooking-2pgKairynLisa I love that yellow gingham paper in the background and the many buttons and stitches holding down the photos.

Here’s a closer look at the bundle in the market: cc_rainbowcollection_bundle

and in case you want to try it out on a smaller scale first, I love the quickies Chelle has done. cc_rainbowcollection_quickies

Aren’t they just cheerful and happy? I know you’ll have fun with these, and they will certainly be a staple of your stash of supplies.

Through The Year QP Playdate | Digital Scrapbooking Inspiration

Hello Everyone!
I’m sure glad it’s Saturday? I had a CRAZY week, and I don’t have kids going back to school. I don’t know how all you busy Mom’s do it, but I hold you all in the highest esteem. Christmas is just a few months away. Wowsers!  Chelle thought it might be a good time to get a jump start of photo books and get ahead of the Christmas shopping season. She gives us Through The Year quickpages. There’s also a freebie on the blog with 2 additional pages.  Adorama has a 50% off 14 page 8×8 album through 8.28 . Here’s a link to the photo book information. Code: PXSEEIT.
To make it even easier, Chelle will walk you through the process using this scrapbook tutorial video.
If your mail client doesn’t play friendly wtih the video, you’ll find all Chelle’s videos on her You-Tube Channel.

Here’s the freebie I mentioned.

For our CU Friends, Chelle offers CU Leaves.
Let me show you the QP’s the CT came up with:

Carol

Heather

Jenn J

Jenn S

Melissa B

See you next week! Hugs!

Unlikely Pairs: Vrooom! & Traveler | Digital Scrapbooking Kit Combinations

Hey! Hope you are having a great day! Utah is in the center of a ton of fires in the surrounding states and some of our own. Cache Valley, were Chelle & I live, has been pretty smoky the last few days–which got me thinking about Vrooom! & Traveler and our ancestors who helped settle the American West. I wonder if they had wildfires and how they would have coped with it. Perhaps, a neckerchief dunked in water and tied over the mouth & nose? I can’t imagine how badly their eyes would have watered from the smoke.

We’re lucky to have the Bonneville Salt Flats & Speedway available for our inner VROOOM here in Utah.  Traveler makes me think of  vintage trains & the Golden Spike National Park where the Union & Central Railroads met in 1869 here in Utah. This week we challenged the CT to make a LO that incorporated Vrooom & Traveler. Let me show you what Jenn J & Ophelia came up with. Thank you ladies, they are really moving! LOL Bad pun! Where has your mind ventured off to as you look at these LOs & Chelle’s stuff? I bet you have a few ideas zooming along in your brain. So scrap ’em now! Ok Enough with the bad puns!

Jenn J

Ophelia

Here are links to the products they used. Can you find all their elements in these kits?
Hugs!

Mark My Words Playdate | Digital Scrapbooking Inspiration

Hello Friends!
Where has August gone? We’ve got some great new things and LOs to show you this week. I hope you’ve been enjoying the Q&A chats we had this last week through Creative Club Digi(CCD) &  Creative Club Digi Designer Edition (CCDDE). I was able to participate in the both club chats this week. AWESOME! I learned a lot and it’s great FUN to interact with all of my NEW friends! If you haven’t joined yet, you are missing out. Join the club.

This week Chelle gave us Mark My Words and everyone went CRAZY. Definitely put it in your cart, you are going to use it so OFTEN! Sometimes you need a little something to draw attention to your story.  Pencils, markers, highlighters…we’ve got it all in this HUGE 140 image set of markings.  Circles, arrows, boxes, brackets, underlines…even some line sets.  EVERYTHING you need to “doodle” up your story.
For our CU Friends, a fun new “DANDY” of an Alpha Doodle. These wide, playful, almost vintage  alpha doodles in a variety of styles will make it super easy for you to create the perfect alpha for your next kit…and the next…and the next.

Wondering what to do for your next PARTY? Chelle’s Creative Team has come through with 3 great new Party Printables: Yeehaw, Prehistoric & Princess. Each kit contains: 1 Happy Birthday Banner, 2 invitations, 2 drink bottle wraps, 2 medallions (cupcake toppers, etc), 2 treat bag toppers, 2 thank-you cards, & 2 party hats.  Print exactly the number you need.  Easy to assemble.

Reminder! Register for Digiscrapapolooza On The Road: Utah! Register here and get a ticket to the Original Scrapbook Expo. The fun starts September 28-29 in Sandy, Utah. Save $25 until Aug. 21st. Space is limited. Your Digiscrapapalooza [Utah 2012] Retreat Ticket Includes:
• Admission to The Original Scrapbook Expo on September 28 & 29, 2012
• Entrance to the “Digi Lounge” at The Original Scrapbook Expo [a $90 value] • Digi Lounge Crops & Digiscrapapalooza Team Events
• 20% Discount in the Scrap Orchard Booth

The Creative Team’s layouts are WONDERFUL. Because Mark My Words can be used on any layout, the variety from the team is very inspirational. Wait ’til you see what the team has done with Chelle’s stuff. Your fingers will be itching to MOVE & CLICK. Here you go:
Carol used Something Fishy.
Jenn J used Rainbow Collection, Chocolate Lovers, and Midnight Crow Reloaded.
Jenn M used Oh Snap!, Traveler, & Spic n Span.
Jenn S used Oh Snap!
Karen used Bugcatcher & Celebrate
Kassie used Graduation.
Mel used Beat The Heat.
Ophelia used Happily Ever After.
Ronnie used Ladybug Hugs.
Roxana used Traveler.
Shanell used Rainbow Collection, On The Trail, & recolored the tortoise from Gnome Sweet Gnome.
Shannon used Summer Lovin‘.

Hope you all have a great day! C ya soon!

 

 

My Sweet Valentine | Digital Scrapbooking Classics

Let’s talk chocolate, shall we? I LOVE chocolate in all varieties. Chelle has a yummy digital scrapbooking kit called My Sweet Valentine that has lots of chocolate elements in it, so, naturally, it is one of my favorite kits. Yes, the kit is great for a Valentine’s Day themed page, but it works for many other subjects. It is also full of hearts and red and pink patterned papers, so it is perfect for pages about things we love, whether they include chocolate or not.

Mary felt like making a page documenting a few things she loves right now. Her page is simple and sweet, and it really gives us insight into her heart which is so very important in getting our memories on pages. I love that red heart embossed paper, and I love how she used the heart-shaped cookie as a place to journal the date on her page.rightnow2012loveMary

Jenn also made a page about something she loves – fudgy brownies. I love fudgy brownies, too, and I love how she took a picture of the brownie box to include on her page. I think she will enjoy looking back at this page in years to come to see how this product has changed and think about how much she loved those treats back in the day. iheartbrowniesJenn

As I said before, this kit is one my personal favorites, and I found it the perfect kit to use for pictures from a recent trip to New York City. My friends and I  had read about a cupcake bakery in the city before we arrived, and when we discovered there was a storefront for Baked By Melissa on the same block as our hotel, we felt it our duty to support the local economy. Of course, we took pictures, and I just had to use the embossed cupcake paper and felt cupcakes to make this page.  78BakedByMelissaPB

I’ll leave you with a closer look at the kit in the market. I’m feeling like I need a snack already. cc_mysweetvalentine_kit

Gallery Standouts | Digital Scrapbooking Inspiration

Hello Everyone! Here are some great layouts I recently found in the galleries. I hope you enjoy them.

  • Carolina scrapper shows us this LO from Chelle’s Hole In One kit. What a great opportunity to show a Father/Son teaching moment. Love the use of the arrows.

 

  • Sunflowersbaby designed this lovely family LO. I absolutely am in LOVE with the pocket used for journaling! It uses Summer Lovin’.

  • Collins7350 shows us this patriotic image of this little guy and his favorite flag. I love the use of all the stars. It uses Fireworks & Fireworks Extra.

  • Last we have lovebug’s “Pounce” design. Love all the layers & stacks. What a great picture, I can almost FEEL the kitty getting ready to jump. Great Job! Lovebug used Chelle’s Here Kitty Kitty kit.

See you soon! Sari

Beat The Heat Playdate | Digital Scrapbooking Inspiration

Hello Everyone! Chelle’s Aunt Sari here. Have you ever Beat The Heat with Lemon-Lime-‘Lectricity? I have. Back in 1991, my sister Ellen and I lived in in an apartment community in Salt Lake City, Utah. We decided to go to Lagoon Amusement Park and meet up with some other family members. Ellen made some Lemon-Lime drink for us to take along. We had a fun and exhausting day. When we rolled back into the apartment, we both thought we had rinsed the remaining few drops of lemon-lime drink out of the cooler and left it on our kitchen counter. A few days later we heard this loud pop we thought was an electrical wire popping. Scared us good. We called maintenance and for the next 3 weeks, they opened up walls following the electric lines trying to find the “popping” noise, but it just kept moving to different points in the apartment. Being “good” tenants, we kept moving our “stuff” out of the way for the maintenance worker, which included the box the cooler was in. Imagine my sister’s horror and embarrassment, when she saw the pop-up lid on the cooler make the “noise” one day will the maintenance workers were in the apartment. They were clearly frustrated they hadn’t found the problem. [Start Laughing -HARD- now!) As the remaining drink mix in our cooler fermented, it built up pressure in the cooler until it “popped” to release the pressure. Then the pressure would build up again until it needed to “pop” again. You get the idea. Let’s just say when our lease expired, we moved to another location. Ellen still remembers the maintenance worker’s faces when she told them what was causing the popping? I was at work (Whew! Thank Goodness!) We were sooooo embarrassed! It’s been 21 years and I still get a little-red-faced when I think about, but then I just have to LOL!

Chelle’s designed some great things this week. She released the most melt-in-your-mouth, Beat the Heat kit that has had my mouth watering for the yummy coolness in the kit. She adds in Beat The Heat Word Art Sticks, & Beat The Heat Blog Freebie. I had to go buy myself a snow cone! LOL

For our CU Friends, she gives us CU String Flowers & a CU String Flowers Sampler.
Chelle released Clipping Digital Paper Clips in her ongoing instruction of Digital Scrapbook Tutorials. If your mail client doesn’t play friendly with the video, you’ll find all Chelle’s videos on her You-Tube Channel.
Chelle is a sponsor at the Mousescrappers Minnie Marathon and Banner Collection is her participation prize. It’s only available through Mousescrappers, but will be available in the market at a future date.Reminder! Register for Digiscrapapolooza On The Road: Utah! Register here and get a ticket to the Original Scrapbook Expo. The fun starts September 28-29 in Sandy, Utah. Save $25 until Aug. 21st. Space is limited. Your Digiscrapapalooza [Utah 2012] Retreat Ticket Includes:
• Admission to The Original Scrapbook Expo on September 28 & 29, 2012
• Entrance to the “Digi Lounge” at The Original Scrapbook Expo [a $90 value] • Digi Lounge Crops & Digiscrapapalooza Team Events
• 20% Discount in the Scrap Orchard Booth
Don’t forget about Creative Club Digi (CCD) and Creative Club Digi Designer (CCDD). If you haven’t yet registered, click here. Members get Chelle’s products at a reduced rate & 2 free chats each month. The first CCD Question & Answer (Q&A) Chat is on the 14th @ 7pm MDT. & the CCDD Q&A Chat is scheduled for the 16th MDT. The Tips & Tricks chats are scheduled for the week of August 19th. Join now! You’ll be glad you did! Learn more in these 2 video’s where Chelle tells about the clubs. (Just click on the images.)

On to the CT’s LOs. Love them! Had to give you a “big” view so you could see their creativity at it’s best.

Carol

Erica

Jenn J

Jenn S

Kassie

Karen

Kayla

Lynett

Ophelia

Ronnie

Roxana

Shannon

Talk to you soon! Hugs!