Dunia Designs - This Is August kit

I am always excited when the designers bring out a new kit to play with. The colours of this one are a stretch for me again... just not my usual colours I scrap with... but I love being able to stretch myself and figure out how to use the kit.

Just after I got the kit, I saw a layout on instagram that I used as inspiration to create my layout. This made scrapping my page so much easier. And changing my photo to black & white also meant that the colours everything just works!

All this month there is the PennySavers special on at The Digital Press. Dunia's This Is August kit will be released over the next week at $1 per piece... grab them whilst you can.

I am off to shop in the Pennysavers sale to pick up some great specials. I know last year I got some awesome goodies to scrap with.

Edited to add: my layout got picked as a gallery standout.... soooooo chuffed.

Pixel Scrapper - Summer Layout Madness

I joined Pixel Scrapper last year just before their Summer Layout Madness... and now it's here again. This means that I've officially been digi scrapping for a whole year now. Do I miss the paper, ink and glue side of it? ... sure, but I really am having fun without the mess. I am scrapping just as much (if not more!) than paper scrapping and don't have to worry about the layouts just piling up waiting to be filed. At this stage they're sitting on my pc (and in sync) waiting for the day to be printed....hopefully by the end of this year I will get my 2018 and 2019 albums done. 

Anyways, back on to the topic of this post.... I set out to do 15 layouts this month for the SLM, knowing that at least 9 of them would be for Gingerscraps, plus a few DT pages and then hopefully a couple of the challenges specifically for Pixel Scrapper too. I managed to combine a few as well. So here's the list of what I accomplished:

1. Commons

2. Scraplift 2

3. Journal

4. Pocket Challenge - page 2 of Moholoholo

5. Pocket challenge - Appscrappers sketch No3

6. Template Challenge - Dunia Design Staycation

7. Chain Reaction - Gingerscraps Mix It up

8. Month In review - Connie Prince layout

9 & 10. Selfie Challenge - Gingerscraps Use It All and AYOB

11. Design - Rachel Etrog Template

12 & 13. Summertime - Akizo template and Gingerscraps MiniKit

14. Scraplift - Gingerscraps Template

All other layouts created this month (9 of them) fall in the No Prompt category and count towards the total. All in all I managed to do 23 layouts this month for the SLM challenge!

Super chuffed to have accomplished so much more than what I had originally set out to do. I guess 15 was a little conservative!

Dunia Designs - Staycation

Dunia has launched her newest kit today called Staycation at The Digital Press

Go to the shop and pick up this lovely kit on special all weekend.

Edited to add: my layout got picked as a gallery favourite for SLM by Marisa at PixelScrapper.

AppScrappers - sketch challenge

On Friday there was a sketch challenge announced on the AppScrappers facebook group... well I am a sucker for sketches (I think I've said that before!) so just had to tackle this one.

The original sketch was an 8 1/2 by 11 inch page so I did most of that and just stretched the top paper turn the page into a 12x12. I used lots of but from kits by Dunia Designs, GoneDigital Designs and Rachel Etrog to create this layout. Love the mix and match effect.

Dunia Designs - This Is July kit

Dunia is launching her newest kit today at The Digital Press called This Is July. I used the papers, wordstrip and ribbon to create this layout:

This is not a colour scheme I would normally use but it's great for these pictures of my niece's two little girls.

Check out the store for this collection whilst it's on sale this weekend.

Dunia Designs - Endless Summer

It seems a bit strange talking about an endless summer when we're shivering in the middle of winter... guess that's what happens when you're on a DT for a northern hemisphere designer...hehe. Oh well as least we get warm just looking at the pretty papers and photos.

This new kit is on special all weekend. It's filled with all sorts of summery bit and pieces. Head over to The Digital Press and get shopping.

DigiScrapParade - Priorities

The DigiScrapParade is a online bloghop that happens once a quarter with a whole host of participants and you end up with a huge free kit. I've used portions of it to create these layouts:

GoneDigital Design kit along with the extra freebies

Dunia Designs had a black and white PL card freebie.

Rachel Etrog made some PL cards too. After trying to do a layout only using her cards I finally gave up and combined them with papers and bits from other designers as that is more how I'm scrapping at this moment.

and just because I love it so much, here is another layout using more bits from the huge kit:

and there is still more of the kit that I haven't even touched... as I said it is HUGE and free till the end of June. Head to DigiScrap Parade and download it.

Simply PL - Telephone Scrapping

This weekend in the Simply Project Life group on facebook they're having a telephone scrap... ie someone posts a layout and the person gets inspired and posts, and so on. Well after two days I decided to jump in and do a page too.

I used Dunia Designs' ThisIsMay kit.

These simple quick challenges are always fun to do (even when feeling rather snotty!)

Dunia Designs - This Is June

There are lots of new kits hitting the store today at The Digital Press including a new one from Dunia Design called This Is June. As I didn't have too many current June pics nor any from the last two years to suit, I picked one from April last year ... when it was a little chilly at Wyndford.

 

I saw a gorgeous page using Penelope Dee papers and loved the design principle of it that I used it as my inspiration for this page.

Check out the store for this lovely kit today.

Dunia Designs - new templates

There are new templates available today by Dunia Designs in the shop at The Digital Press. These are so clean and simple that I just had to play with them.

First up is my CT layout that I made using the TheseDays kit which came out a few weeks back.

 

I also created this layout below using a different template in the set with the SweetSummer kit. I decided not to share it as a CT layout as it has tiny baby pics in it. This is just for my own pleasure and memories.

Check out the templates in the shop.

Rachel Etrog & Dunia Designs - Sweet Summer Collab

One of the benefits of being on a design team is getting free product... how much of a bonus it is when two of the teams I'm on collaborate on a kit and I get to design pages for both of them at the same time.

The kit is available all weekend at a special bundle price. Check out The Digital Press for more info.

Edited: This layout was chosen as a gallery standout

Dunia Designs - This Is May kit

There is a new kit available for Dunia Designs at The Digital Press today. I used it to make a layout about Mother's Day a few years back... perfect timing for Mother's Day this year, except it will be very different seeing as we are in level 4 lockdown.

So head over to the shop and get your own copy of this gorgeous kit.

Guest Designer for Dunia Designs

I'm super excited to being chosen as a guest CT member for Dunia Designs at The Digital Press for the months of May to July.

Today is my first reveal using the brand new NSD Grab Bag kit available for NSD weekend, called These Days

I used the kit to document one of our afternoon strolls around the garden.