Have you seen how many gorgeous grab bags are for sale at ScrapMatters??
Unfortunately, my time is limited and I’ve only been able to play with one so far, but they’re all just gorgeous! You better grab them quick before they are unpacked, because they’re such an amazing deal!
I loved using Erica Zane’s grab bag:

Make sure you check out the previews in the store because the content of the bag is revealed there, and I know you won’t be able to resist! 🙂
Here’s a page I did with it for the Saturday Special challenge:

Can you believe how cute that owl is??? 🙂
I also did a very pretty card, but I won’t be able to show it for a few days.. 😉
And now, I’m off to play with some more of these gorgeous grab bags! 🙂

It’s sale time at ScrapMatters! There’s a great store-wide sale going on this weekend, with a gorgeous free with purchase store collab to top it off!

Make sure to check out all the great DSD grab bags in the shop!
There’s a special DSD section in the forum where you’ll find all the information on the fun games planned for the celebrations.
I hope you have fun! I’ll see you tomorrow for a great ScrapMatters blog train! 😉

I know it’s only Monday, but I really cannot wait for the weekend, because Digital Scrapbooking Day is coming up and the celebrations at ScrapMatters are going to be tons of fun!

There will be games, a huge sale with a free with purchase collab (and it’s a fabulous, huge kit!), gorgeous new products+grab bags, and a blog train too! I cannot wait! 😉
In the meantime, let me show a couple of pages I’ve done lately. First off, I played with a collab by Denise Beatty and Erica Zane (and let me tell you, this team is a winning one!), Let’s Get Together:

I’m so glad I have a little turkey at home, because I already scrapped all of last year’s pictures, and I just couldn’t wait for Thanksgiving to scrap with this gorgeous kit! 😉 (Of course, you can scrap any page with this kit because it’s really versatile, but I really wanted to put that adorable turkey on my page! ;))

I did this page for a Roadmap to Scrap challenge at ScrapMatters, following these instructions:

1. Choose three photos – and do something creative to them all (i.e. use an action, crop them, kick up the brightness/contrast, turn them into B & W, selective recolor them)-as long as you change them from their original state.
2. Select four papers (3 patterns and 1 solid).
3. Crop any two of those papers into a geometric shape (circle, square, triangle).
4. I want to see at least 4 different botanical items (leaves, twigs, flowers) on your layout-you can use all flowers (as long as there are 4 different types).
5. Add at least 3 different ribbons, strings, or lace.
6. Use two different alphas on the LO.
7. I want to see two different fonts-and one needs to be a handwritten or journaling-type.
8. Add something metal (such as a staple or paperclip). You can use something mentioned earlier to satisfy this requirement (like a metal alpha).

Next up, I did a page for the latest My Story Matters challenge: we had to scrap about changes, and I scrapped about how different high school was from middle school (and from anything I experienced later, too!):

OK, that’s all I can show for now!