Creative Sweeties Blog Train

If you are as in love with Liz's designs as I am, then you are going to love this blogtrain. Liz's Sweeties have all put together something unique to share on this blogtrain.

This is what I have for you

this little box is perfect for just a few chocolates for your sweetheart on Valentine's Day.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it (took some trial and error), and I love comments, so if you could leave one, it would make my day!

Download Chocolate Box here

Someone asked what to print it on, I printed it on regular thick paper in my printer, being in Germany I made it for DIN A4 paper, but it will print fine on Letter size paper!
have fun!

And here is the list for the blogtrain, please take into account time differences and weather problems, and stop by again if the posts aren't up yet!

Creative Sweeties: http://creativesweeties.blogspot.com
Liz: http://sweetdigiscraps.blogspot.com
Leilani: http://leidee-q.blogspot.com
Danyale: http://bygonesscrapbooks.blogspot.com
Kerri: http://kayjaysdays.blogspot.com <------------------YOU ARE HERE! Jan: http://intensemagicscraps.blogspot.com
Rylea: http://u-neekcreations.blogspot.com
Kristy: http://scrapglass.blogspot.com
Sheila: http://www.scrappingmyjourney.blogspot.com
Colie: http://coliescorner.blogspot.com

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Meet Jennilyn Designs

I have joined a new CT - Jennilyn Designs, this weekend she is opening up shop at Sunshine Studio Scraps (SUN). And I have been busy playing with her designs for the Grand Opening.
I met Jennifer through the P365 project last year - we both made it through the whole year, only Jennifer was one better than me, she has just got her amazing P365 layouts printed into a book, its amazing!
Jennifer had a CT call at the beginning of the month and I was too shy to apply, but was over the moon when she asked me if I would like to join - Thank you again if you are reading!

Here are some of my layouts for her (and of course me and my family!) using her products,
I have these two layouts using her "Making Waves" templates - these were so much fun to play with and really versatile.

Here the boys had built their own hideout under Florian's footrest!

Additional Credits:
Just the Thing Dude Style by Flutter Expressions

And here are two favourite pictures of Richard (Journalling reads: Mummy and Daddy love your cuddles, and we make the most of them, as we know the time will come, when cuddling is "uncool"! )

Additional Credits:

Masculine Edge by Flutter Expressions

I won this kit by Flutter Expressions when her CT opened up their new CT Blog and Twitter account!

And I also got to play with Jennifer's Templates "Kickers 1"
Me and Florian having fun taking pics of ourselves!

here I got to use Liz's great Valentines kit "Cupid Struck" too, and also some of Danyale's great wordart that she made to go with it!

Additional credits:
Cupid Struck by Sweet Digi Scraps
Cupid Struck Wordart by Sweet Digi Scraps Designs by Danyale

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KimB's - Passions Blush

I love being on the site CT at DSO! I get to play with such beautiful kits. This week I got to play with KimB's latest kit "Passions Blush" (image linked to store)It is just beautiful, don't you think!

This is what I created using it.
My brother and his wife (I will be using this as their card for their wedding anniversary!)

and here my niece as a bridesmaid at our wedding in 2005

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Love Actually

I love my boys and they love me! Aww, how soppy can I get at nearly midnight? Let's see...

This is a layout that I have had in my head for a while now, but I never knew just what picture to use. When Richard was about 2.5 years old, he started this banter off with me. And he does it all over the place, it's so funny when in the middle of playing football (soccer, for all you Americans reading), he runs to the side of the field and calls "Mummy?" "Yes, Richard" "I love you lots and lots" and then off he runs to carry on playing. Makes me go warm and fuzzy all over! Sometimes we do the full routine, when he tells me just how much he loves me, and I him, finishing with "Lucky Mummy" otherwise we might go on all night!
Anyhow Florian got some good pictures of Richard giving me a BIG hug, and this is what I made with one of them and LouCee Creations new kit "Love Actually".
And tonight I did another layout using LouCee's kit, of just my boys! As Mum said "Butter wouldn't melt in their mouth"!Addtional credits on this one "Scrap Quick Templates" by KimB's Designs.

And just in case you were wondering this is the kit I used! Image is linked to the store.
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DSA Scrap Off - Week 1

Well, I did it again, I signed up for another scrapping competition. This one is at DSA (DigiScrapAddicts) and we got some mini kits to work with. When I first saw the kits, I had a bit of a panic, all reds and darks with a hint of yellow, not really what I would choose myself. So instead of starting straight away on a layout. I went and did some different scrapping. Then last night after reading the comments on my Project 365 Blog, where Jennifer and Dinphy saw a layout on the way, with the picture of Richard on the phone to Daddy, it dawned on me, that the colours in the pictures went perfectly with the mini-kits, so then it was easy really. And here is the finished result

Credits:
Mini kits for DSA Scrapoff by Genia Benia, Nikki Epperson, SuzyQ Scraps and Sir Scrapalot

The contest runs for the rest of January and all that signed up will get to play til the end, and the current DSA Site CT will vote for their favourites. The winners will then get to guest on the CT there. Me, I'm in it for the challenge and fun! and so far so good.
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Elegant Whisper

A new beautiful kit, which was released yesterday from Legacy4life! Lovely soft colours perfect for a heritage layout, but I made it work for my niece too. So very versatile as you will see.
First this is the beautiful kit
And here are my layouts.
I love getting out the old photos, this time I used one of Mum and her family, way back when!
And here is my beautiful niece flirting with the camera at Xmas!CU soon

A fresh Start...

is the name of KimB's Designs new kit, and I got to play with it. I love the colours and all the elements in the kit. (image linked to store)The kit is geared towards New Year's but when I first saw it, I thought of a cold winters day, and got my favourite photo of the boys out and scrapped this. I managed to combine it with the Quote Challenge at DSO
And then after decorating the tree and messing about with Robert and tinsel, I remembered that there is actually some tinsel in the kit, and this is what came about then.
It's a great kit and I am sure I will be scrapping some New Years pics with it, just after, so watch this space!
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Christmas 2008

Yep, a bit behind with the scrapping, but aren't we all?!
When I saw Bunny's new templates (currently on offer) (image linked)

I immediately thought they would be perfect for all the Xmas photos I took last year!
And yep, they worked. I used Andrea Dickinson's "Deck the Halls" for it.Ooh, and spot who was behind the camera most of the day!! thank goodness for the selftimer!


Back soon! Still plenty of layouts lurking!

I went Hybrid!!!

Yep! I did it! But I managed to find something to make that DIDN'T involve glue! (tend to get that everywhere!)
I made my grandma a calendar using Biograffiti's great template (image linked to store)

And I will let the pictures speak for themselves here they areKits that you can see, are Blaze by Flergs, Stop, Drop and Roll by Ziggle Designs, Snowblind by Sweet Digi Scraps, Deon by KimB's Designs. I used 12 different kits in all, and it was GREAT fun to make!
I had it bound at Staples, cause here in Germany I couldn't find anywhere to buy rings to bind it, all the stores kept offering me were the rings you find on keys, where I would have had to try to feed the paper through, I don't think that would have looked to good!

So if you like this, then you'll be knocked out if you go and visit Danyale today, she has made a beautiful baby shower hybrid present. Go and see it here
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Santa's helpers visited

And I got two completely different layouts done about it.

First of all, I have to show you my new desktop! Charlie has posted her Desktop Challenge on the NEW DSO Challenge Blog, and seeing as I still had Octobers on my desktop it was time for a change.I used KimB's newest Xmas kit "Merry And Bright" which she RAKed me with on Saturday, thanks again Kim, it really really cheered me up!

But I think the pics need explaining. Last year we introduced a new tradition to the family, on November 30th, the boys write their Xmas lists and leave them on the front doorstep for Santa's helpers to pick up, and Santa's helpers then leave an advent calendar for the boys. Last year the helpers also picked up Richard's dummy and their baby drinking beakers. This year we didn't need to "get rid of" anything, so they only got the Xmas lists.
And in the pics on the layouts you can see them both "signing" their lists and this year it was raining so we couldn't put them on the doorstep, so we posted them in our letterbox, and put the flag up, so that the helpers knew where to find them.

I loved the pics so much, that I knew just how to use Funky Playground Designs Template (on their blog today)Credits:
Template by Valorie Brown at FPD
Funky Joy by Wendy Page at FPD
Santa from Comfort and Joy by Miss Tiina at FPD
Alpha from Spot of Color by Valorie Brown at FPD

As you can see I have been having fun, when really i should have been making my Xmas card, at this rate no one will get one before Xmas, more like Easter! OK off now, to try and get the cards made.
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