Tracie Stroud - Cosmic Connections

I took the plunge and applied to be on Tracie Stroud's CT as a guest for March and April... madness maybe, but I thought what the heck! 

As a start I got to play with her current kit called Art In Nature: Cosmic Connections

Check this out over at The Sweet Shoppe.

Cornelia Designs - Blossom

Cornelia has a delightful new collection available today called Blossom

Check it out at The Digital Press.

I discovered today that The Digital Press will be closing it's doors on the 2nd of April... shucks!! They were one of the first sites I joined when I started digi scrapping... will miss the shop (the forum and gallery have already disappeared). Anyway, besides this week's new releases, there will be weekly sales going on too... check it out for some great bargains.

The Lilypad - BYOC March23

It's the new BYOC day at The Lilypad and there are lots of lovely goodies to choose from

Gina Miller has a cute kit called Leo & Poppy

ninigoesdigi has a lovely collection called Haven. 

and Rachel Etrog has her Be Younique Be You collection

You can get these and a lot more on the BYOC sale all weekend long at the Lilypad,

Digital Scrapbook - The Good Life Mar-April

DigitalScrapbook has a new edition of The Good Life series... this one for March and April.

Check out the DigitalScrapbook.com for lots of freebies and monthly challenges.

MissFish - Charming Spring

 Juli has a lovely template set available for today's buffet sale called Charming Spring.

Check out the buffet sale on till the 5th only at Gingerscraps.

The Lilypad - SOSN 1 Mar

It's the beginning of the month at the first SOSN sale for March... check out these great kits:

Gina Miller - Winifred papers and Mash Up 10 elements

Gina is also one of the sponsors of this month's Finding Me challenge and has made these Health and wellness cards and snippets freebie which I also used on my layout.

Nini has a great birthday bundle available called Yay! It's Your Day. (you can see my previous layout here)

Rachel Etrog has The Little Things collection on sale (You can see my previous layout here)

Get these and lots more today only at The Lilypad

Adrienne Skelton - A Taste of Spring

 It's time for the buffet sale and Adrienne has a lovely bundle available today called A Taste of Spring.

Check this out on the buffet sale at Gingerscraps

Challenge Summary - Feb23

Each month seems to get busier and busier with challenges and CT commitments.... I do enjoy scrapping so am not complaining... just noting how busy I seem to be. And because February is a short month it just seemed to be even busier with lots to do quickly before month end. Anyway, here's the list of this month's challenge layouts:

Gingerscraps

1. Buffet - MissFish Light Weight and Adrienne Skelton Friends 4 Life

2. Daily Download - MissFish Shapely Blends

3. Jumpstart - MissFish Bitty Blocks

4. Colour - MissFish Dreamy Love Blends

5. Designer - MissFish Noteworthy kit & ALFLT template

6. CAP #2023 - MissFish Simply Stacked 73-88

7. Inspiration - MissFish Blended Landscapes 2

8. Perfectly Paired - MissFish Simply Stacked 13-16

9. Bingo - GS Bake Sale layout

10. Use It All

11. Template 1 - ASD Cabin Fever Mountain

The Lilypad

Inspiration - Gina Miller Sugared Hearts

Style - ninigoesdigi LOD layout

Random - Micheline Lincoln Designs A Case of Infatuation

Journal - Day 2 of The Studio LAD

Template - Gina Miller Lovey Dovey

Finding Me Feb - Day 3 of The Studio LAD

Rachel Jefferies - Featured Product challenge - - Day 11 of The Studio LAD

SWL MIS

Kim Jensen background challenge

Speed Scrap

The Sweet Shoppe

It's the Sweet Shoppe's 17th birthday. I have followed this site since the early days as they have lovely freebies every year. However I only started participating in the last year. So now for their birthday celebration there have been games or specific scrapping challenges. I took part as you can earn a free collection by playing along. Here's a list of the actual scrap layouts I did:

Day 2 sketch - used Micheline Lincoln A Case of Infatuation layout

Day 4 Bad Photo

Day 8  Scrap-a-Spin - MissFish Loving Life layout

Day 13 Scraplift Chain - Day 6 of The Studio LAD

Day 15 Paper to Digi

Day 17 new Siggy - using Micheline Lincoln Designs Creative Mind collab

Day 19 Black & White photo

Day 23 recipe - MissFish Month to Month Jan template

Day 26 - template love - Day 15 of The Studio LAD

Day 27 - The Birds and The Bees

Digital Scrapbook

They ran the Winter Layout Madness again this month. This is where you set a goal and complete as many layouts as you can. I set a goal of 28 and I managed to do 51

Feb Kits - DS Winter 

Colour - SS Day 4 layout (shown above), MissFish VA Travelogue 13-16

Scraplift - Day 2 of The Studio LAD

No Photo - Day 3 of The Studio LAD

2 layouts same kit - Michelene Lincoln Designs A Case of Infatuation and Broken

Redo - Rachel Etrog You're My Favourite, MissFish Simply Stacked 13-16

Pocket Scrapping - MissFish Month to Month JanFeb

Bingo - SS Day 17 layout (shown above)

Not so Picture Perfect - Rachel Etrog Happy Heart Day

10 Patterns - Michelene Lincoln Designs Creative Minds

Recipe - Gina Miller Freebird

Hearts - Gina Miller Love Shack and Lovey Dovey, Adrienne Skelton Heartstrings, ninigoesdigi Tying The Knot, Gina Miller Foxy, Gina Miller Me&You, Adrienne Skelton Love Always

Minikit - GS UIA challenge (shown above), DS Baby SS Day 19 layout (shown above), Adrienne Skelton All Heart

No prompt - all the other 26 layouts

Plus there was the Layout-A-Day at The Studio. So it's been one heck of a busy short month!

MissFish - Month to Month Jan&Feb

It's the last $2 Tuesday for this month and MissFish has two great template sets available. I have played with Month to Month Jan&Feb template

You can get these templates on sale today only at Gingerscraps

The Studio - Broken Hearts LAD

I decided to try the LAD challenge at The Studio again this month. I again used a mix up of CT layouts and other challenges plus some specific for these challenges. It was hard keeping up but I did and here's the final list

Day 1 - 3 dark papers - Gingerscraps Bake sale layout

Day 2 - use song lyrics

Day 3 - A disappointment turned positive

Day 4 - Template - using Micheline Lincoln Designs A Case of Infatuation kit

Day 5 - Font - MissFish Blended Landscapes 2

Day 6 - First love

Day 7 - Heart patterned paper - Gina Miller J'Adore & Foxy layout

Day 8 - No Photo

Day 9 - Grief - MissFish Star Bright

Day 10 - Redo - MissFish Simply Stacked 13-16

Day 11 - expressing loss

Day 12 - Template - GinaMiller Sage

Day 13 - Comfort - Rachel Etrog Self Love

Day 14 - Shadows - MissFish Month to Month Jan Feb template

Day 15 - Empathy

This LAD was a lot harder than the last one I did, mainly because of the topics that were covered. But I managed to get it all done.