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Hello everyone! It’s me Debra (4noisyboys) with my first post over here as one of La’s girls.

La has a fabulous new Layered Up In You template pack this week, and it’s all about brackets. They’re gorgeous, fun, funky, and I’m sure you will want use them on all your layouts!

So, without further ado…I bring you:

 

Click on the templates to be taken to the store, and if you haven’t checked out all of La’s Layered Up In You templates, now is a great time!

Hi everyone,

My first post for La’s blog, so I better introduce myself! My name is Monique, although you might know me as Jomi. I am on La’s team since January and it’s been a boost for my creativity.

I went through a lot of personal changes last year and have been really struggling with finding ‘me’ again. In my personal life, but also with scrapping and everything that’s involved with it. I haven’t been around the boards for a long time and been wondering what I was looking for.

Well La’s team has been like a home coming So many wonderful girls around there and they are all so talented. Lauren’s style was pretty new for me to scrap with. She has a playfull way of designing, with so many directions to take her designs. Some kits are very girly which is a challenge for me since I have a  household with only men; some kits have just the perfect touch of grunge in them for my boy pages.

Looking through Lauren’s inspiration gallery at SSD and here at Scrapfasticdesigns I was blown away by the variety of layouts. So many different styles, so many different uses of her kits I was really impressed!

For me, if I am in need of inspiration with a certain kit it helps me to browse through inspiration galleries from the designer to see what other people did with the kit. It helps me to find a starting point for my layout. By looking at the specific designer I think it’s easier to find inspiration then just browsing main galleries. You don’t have the stash people used on their layouts, and this way you have at least the goodies from the kit to work with.

Here are a few layouts that caught my eye while I was browsing La’s inspiration gallery at SweetShoppeDesigns

The first one is by MyEbella called LOVE

She used Lauren’s Springtime in Paris kit for this sweet layout on her daughter. The way she used the elements to make them work with her ( beautiful) photo really appealed to me.

Here’s another one made by aly321 called Stinky Cow:

Such a sweet way to use the 2 scoop kit Baa, Moo, Cluck by Lauren Grier & Melissa Bennett . The way she used the trees and her layering around the photo’s are really nice.

Here’s one by Bellbird425 called Hold Me  using My tea has gone cold kit ( one of my favs ;))

I think this is one of my favorite layouts in a long time. A breath taking photo and the way she used so many elements from the kit has been a real inspiration for me to try to use more elements on a layout.

So if you ever need inspiration make sure to check out the designer’s gallery to give you a creative boost or to step out of your comfort zone and try something new. I find this very helpful when working on CT layouts.

Make sure to leave these girls a bit of praise and to check out Lauren’s Team Gallery!

~ Monique

Hi everyone!  It’s Samara bringing you an exciting new challenge that’s sure to rawk your boots!

We are going to be scraplifting my very good bud, Vanessa!!! Woot!!!!!

Now, it wouldn’t be a challenge to just lift her, so we are going to spin her and then lift her!  That’s right, peeps, it’s a spin-a-lift!

You can find Vanessa’s lovely gallery HERE. Trust me, you’re bound to find something awesome, she has 557 layouts in that gallery.  Someone needs to tell that girl to chill out!! LOL.  Totally kidding Vanessa, I ♥ you girl!   Don’t forget you have to use a super dooper kit by the world famous La-ster in order to qualify for a fantabulous prize.  What are you playing for you ask?  A free kit of course!

Link up your layout here in the comments and we’ll be back in a few to announce a winner.  Layouts must be posted by June 8.

Here’s the layout I did featuring one of my favorite La and Heather kits, “You Make My World Go Round”

Speaking of winners….. I’d like to congratulate…..

Susan aka sbrobinson08 for her stupendous layout CHANGING PLANS

Please PM me at SSD so that I can get your prize out to you.

Peace out peeps.

-S

I am so in love with the new goodies from La this weekend. Check it out!

A fab new font with Darcy Baldwin!

and, Moooom… What’s For Dinner?! with Julie Billingsley

Awesome new stuff! Hop on over to the Scrapfastic gallery for more eye candy! Happy scrappin!

Here, take this here word art freebie… live long… and prosper.  *awkward Vulcan hand gesture*

And don’t say I never gave ya nothin’.

♥, Annie

Sorry!  Link Expired!

Hey all!! Kristin here and this week we are spot lighting Deb (aka digideb). Deb chose the following questions to answer to help up get to know a little bit more about her.

Family? Why, yes, I do have one! DH, Alan for almost 4 years & 1 puppy, Bryant, who will be one in just a few short weeks! Nope, no kids yet!

Where do you live? In my house, duh! Georgia, somewhere between Macon & Atlanta!

Where are you from? All over. I was born in Baton Rouge, LA. But have lived in Dayton, OH, Lowell, IN, Ocala, FL, Panama City, FL, Hinesville, GA, Gumbranch, GA, Albany, GA, McDonough, GA, Macon, GA, Lancaster, CA, and where i currently am! lol So, yes, all over! But, GA is home & where I’ve spent most of my life!

How old are you? I am 23! Yes, really! lol I’ll be 24 in June.

When did you start digi? On my 21st birthday, June 13, 2006.

What kind of Equiment do you use, camera, programs, tablet, etc… Cameras: Nikon D40X ♥, Pentax waterproof point & shoot. Photoshop Elements 4! And, I have a wacom graphire tablet that I use about 50% of the time. lol And, I am a PC! & I’m dying to get Lightroom!!

How long have you been with Lauren? Oh gosh! I honestly don’t know. It’s been a long time…maybe what, La, almost 2 years? I lost track a long time ago! lol

Favorite Lauren kit? NO! I will NOT answer this question! I CANNOT choose & you can’t make me!! LOL
Okay, if I *HAVE* to choose…lol…I think I’d go with Absolute Cherry Crush

Favorite layout using Lauren’s goodies?
This one, but I can’t find it in my gallery anymore!


Favorite font? Oh, that’s an easy one! Well, actually, it’s 2 fonts but you buy them together, so I’m saying both! Hehe. Brittany & Brittany Script by Darcy Baldwin! ♥

Favorite color? GREEEEEN!

What are you currently doing​? Eating dinner & filling out this “interview”!

Look out the window:​ What do you see? Hmmm…be right back…okay, Bryant (the puppy) sleeping on the back porch, the back porch (lol), grass, fence, dog house, trees…exciting I know. But, behind those trees is a lake! & holy crap! Extreme wind!!!

What was the last piece of candy you ate? Sour Patch Kids
Where was the last place you fell asleep? In my bed, in my hubby’s arms! ♥

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And just as a reminder…..you still have time to get your layouts in for La’s challenge. The deadline is May 24th. You have a chance to win a $15 gift card….that is saweeet!

Hey Scrappers! Lauren’s got 3 brand spankin’ new items in the store for you today. Two fab collabs and the Sweet Shoppe Quarterly. First up we’ve got Baa, Moo, Cluck with Melissa Bennett that’s perfect for those trips to the farm or petting zoo. Check out that alpha and all those cute embellishments, swoooooooooooooon!

Next up is Springtime in Paris with Sir Scrap a Lot. This one’s got a beautiful soft color pallette and with those doodles,  I think it works great for all those dress-up photos!

Last but certainly not least, I think we can all related to being Distracted. You’ll find this little gem in the Sweet Shoppe Quarterly Assortment!

I hope you’ve enjoyed today’s eye candy. Happy Scrappin’!

That’s right, it’s Sneak Peek Friday!  Joan here with a glimpse of what will hit the Shoppe on Saturday.

First up, the most adorable Perfect Pairs.  A little glamour and romance, Paris style, and a whole lot of fresh colours and versatile prettiness!

And it’s Quarterly Assortment time, and here’s a little glimpse of La’s super fun contribution!

 

Have a fabulous weekend, and enjoy your Sweet Shoppe shopping!

Wait!  That’s not all!  I’m back with a peek of a late breakin’ Scoop from La and the fabulous Melissa Bennett!  Have you been to a farm &/or petting zoo lately?  Well, if you haven’t, then GO!  Go now!!  Then rush back and have a blast scrapping all your pics with this adorable kit that will hit the store tomorrow!

Alrighty, I think that’s really it this time.  Have a great weekend, peeps!

Hey everyone, Vanessa here, bringing you a spotlight on one of my most favorite kits from Lauren.  I love all the pastel colors that La did in All the Sweet Flavors.   Isn’t it a beautiful kit?  And look at some of the wonderful layouts that the team did, just beautiful.  And guess what, if you don’t already have this beautiful kit, here’s a code to save $1.00 sweetflavblog1, expires: 05-20-2009 12:00:00 AM (I’m assuming that’s eastern btw).  Enjoy everyone!  Hope you pick up this wonderful kit from La.

Hi Hi peeps! La here bringing you are brandy new challenge for this week! We all scrap for different reasons, to preserve memories, as an artistic outlet… whatever it may be. For me, especially over the past year, scrapping has become quite therapeutic for me. I will admit, I use to really struggle with scrapping (I know I know… LOL ) but when I started really embracing my journaling, I realized I could get a lot out.. and document the journey we’re on (though it’s felt like a really crazy roller coaster mostly). Of course, not all my pages are these open my brain and let it all ooze out pages.. but a good portion of them have been ^_^ . Anyway…. Focusing on the therapeutic side of scrapbooking.. let’s get to what my challenge is about :]

I’m a huge planner, schedules, lists, trying to massively organize every moment of my life.. but we all know not everything goes as planned. So I challenge you to scrap one of those moments- those moments that didn’t quite go as planned. This doesn’t need to be a huge dramatic page (though you are more than welcome.. ) it could be about anything.. the silly moments- like baking gone wrong, or hair dye turned green- to the more serious. Whatever you feel inspired to scrap about go at it. Not every page we create has to be sunshiney bright and happy- our lives aren’t like that, so why should we only document those memories?

Now onto the nitty gritty..

1- I want to see journaling! We can’t truly capture a moment, if we don’t elaborate on it through our words. Having pictures is always great, but I want to see the feelings, the thoughts, the guts of what happened.

2-  Use any product I’ve created in the past MONTH and be entered to win a $15 GC to my store.  Not sure which products have been released in the past 30 days? Well my super awesome CT is so great about posting new products here on the bloggie so feel free to browse through the past posts here

3- If you do not use one of my recent products on your layout, you still have a chance to win a free product of choice. Dependent on the # of entries received there will be two winners for this contest (one for the $15 gc and one for a free product of choice- those who do not use recent products of mine will only qualify for the 2nd prize).

4- Have fun!! Enjoy creating… that’s really all that matters in the end now isn’t it?

5- Post entries by May 24th !

Here is the page I created for this challenge:

My page, is of course about my obsessive planning and apparent constant failure of late.

Click for full credits & journaling.

here are some great pages from my girlies as well :]

From Amy

credits:

Pea Mystie Caps and Pea Summer Sweetness fonts
What I want
Doodle Me

From Kristin:

Can’t wait to see what you come up with!!!!

and .. before I forget!! Congrats isaacsmom (Heather), you were the random winner of Jenn’s challenge on the  27th! Please PM me at SSD to redeem your prize! Thanks so much everyone for playing <3 I love seeing what all of your favorite products of mine are!!

<3 La