I am pleased to announce ...

I am now a member of the Creative Team for Amy at 3 Li'l Monsters Designs.  I have followed Amy's work in the Stuff to Scrap Designer Survivor contest last year (she won!) and now at both Stuff to Scrap and Digi Scraps Drive In.  I think I own almost her entire collection and I have loved working with it. 

I will begin posting my CT work for her here - hopefully, I can do it tonight! (sometimes I have issues ...)

MY DEAR WATSON - This was the first kit I used for a CT assignment at DSDI

My next project for Amy was with WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD - I just love LIME GREEN and RED!  I guess I was in a GREEN mood on the day I did this one ... the photos are from my wildflower portfolio 2010!

I used this kit again for my Rochester Vacation Album - now you will see some red!  The photos are from the Dentzel Carousel at Ontario Beach Park in Rochester NY

I did a SPEED SCRAP in June with Amy over at Stuff to Scrap, and I used this great kit again:

STAND IN THE RAIN was the next kit that I worked with ... that's my great nephew Blake at the Silo Christmas Tree Farm Pumpkin Patch in 2009.

When DSDI was celebrating National Scrapbook Day in early May, Amy hosted a Quick Page exchange with STAND IN THE RAIN - the week after the Celebration, participants at DSDI voted in a poll and my QP won the prize ... a gift certificate to Persnickity Prints.  I sent my Rochester vacation off to print last week and had the pages waiting for me when I returned home from Kansas!

Here's another layout I did with STAND IN THE RAIN for a challenge at DSDI in May

Amy's contribution to the Soda Shoppe Color Pop for May at DSDI was a kit called YOU GIVE ME WINGS:  I love the blues and greens in this kit!

I have some others I may add in here later! (Can't find them right now!)

June brought FISH ARE FRIENDS to DSDI and STS - BLUES (my almost favorite color) and PEACH

Amy's latest kit at Stuff to Scrap is ALL DONE - it went live in the store last Friday night.  I kept checking all day on Friday (at least 5 times) before I found it in the store ... and then I loaded my layout of Blake mowing the lawn (they started him early on chores at home!)

VINTAGE ROMANCE has just what you would expect in a romantic kit ... but I like to use kits in NON-TRADITIONAL/NON-THEME WAYS ... I have a couple of pages in my Rochester Vacation album using this kit!

I have a new layout ready to post for a kit that will be at Stuff to Scrap, but I can't post it here until Friday ... you will just have to come back to see it!

I've been trying

I've been trying for two days now to load my vacation layouts, but apparently BLOGGER is doing some maintenace.

Also DSDI site is temporarily down so photos that were link from there have disappeared!  Hopefully it will all be resolved soon.

In the meantime, you can see my layouts (in no particular orde on my FB page

Welcome to DSDI's 2011 iNSD Blog Hop - Spring Forward!

Hello, visitors!  Our iNSD Blog Hop is featuring our current Flavor of the Month called SPRING FORWARD - You can find it at the DSDI store here 

The Pink Ladies (our designers) did a super job on this lovely collaboration.  And the Paper Shakers have added more to it for this blog hop.

My friend Tanni created a cluster and a quick page but doesn't have a blog to feature them, so I am doing it for her.  I wasn't able to add anything of my own due to my two-week old BROKEN ARM!  It's mending but too much time at the computer ... well you know how that goes, right?  I hate pain meds, but I hate pain MORE!!!

Here are Tanni's lovely contributions:

Cluster

Quick Page

You can download these items at 4 shared here

EDIT:  Someone posted that "something was not working" - no specifics given.  I checked both of the files in my download, and both of them worked beautifully on Sunday, May 8 at 7:40 am Texas time CST.

You can find other post by DSDI Paper Shakers

JJ at Giggly PolkaDots 
Jamie at Scrappin Frame of Mind  DL worked on Sat for me
Gail at Gail's Moments in Time DL worked on Sat for me

Kirsty at Littlest Scrapheap
Noelle at Noelle's Little Corner in Scrapland
Starlight Princess at Starlight Creations
This Dixie Pixie at Shh! I'm Counting DL worked on Sat for me
DSDI here this link was repaired on Saturday

iNSD Blog Hop

Please join us at DSDI for a fun weekend

Happy Birthday to Blake, the 5 year old!

Jen C Designs has a WISH FOR IT WEDNESDAY on her FB page each week.  In order to have a wish, you need to leave a comment in her WFIW post.  You can get additional wishes by helping her promote her digital kits using FB, Twitter or your own blog.  Then she randomly chooses one lucky person each Wednesday and fulfills their wish ... and I was the lucky one last week, and got her kit entitled HAPPY BIRTHDAY!  I love the colors she chose for her kit and it has lots of great elements, and papers.

You can find her great kit at the DSDI store  Here's her preview -

Blake wasn't too sure he wanted to turn 5 (his teacher told him that 5 year old's couldn't act silly - who says?)  but I believe he had a great time at the Bouncy House in Kyle, on Feb 26, 2011.  He turned an amazing 5 years old on March 3, 2011!  Here's my layout:

I love 3 Li'l Monsters Designs

My friend Amy at 3 Li'l Monsters Designs made a great new digi kit called STAND IN THE RAIN (which we haven't seen much of lately) so I had to go outside the THEME to do a layout for the kit.  But I love how it turned out!

Her kit is available as a BUNDLE (this is the best $ way to buy it) at the DSDI store

and here is my NON-THEMED layout for STAND IN THE RAIN:

If we EVER get some rain, I will try a THEMED layout! (LOL)

DSDI Collaboration for May ...

The Pink Ladies definitely have a HIT on their hands with their new collaboration called SPRING FORWARD!

I had a great time making my layout with this bundle

Digital Credits: DSDI Collab SPRING FORDWARD; TEMPLATE Jen C Designs

Photos at Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Austin, TX 5.8.2010

You can find this fantastic kit at the DSDI Store