Here’s her beautiful layout using the new Candy Sunshine kit, along with the five little hearts element that you can download and play with:

Not only can you earn yourself some Chickie Points for playing along with this challenge, one lucky winner will also win a gift card from me! So be sure to check it out.

Can’t wait to see everyone’s layouts!

Happy scrapping!

Here’s a sneak peek at the kit:

Want to see the whole preview? Be sure to stop by the Featured Designer Kits category at DST!

This kit is only available to Gold and Diamond members for the next year at DST. If you want to find out more about membership, just stop by this page: Gold Membership

I hope the DST members enjoy this kit. It was just a blast to make!

Happy scrapping!

Be sure to stop by and play along with us! Hope to see you there!

Her use of paper blocks and simple elements just make this layout a standout. Now as you can tell, Denise created this with a Christmas theme in mind, but I can’ t wait to see all the different ways you take this.

I just had to try my hand at this and here is what I came up with.

Please use mostly Sugarplum Paperie products in your LOs. Nicole has a massive amount of freebies right here on the blog and awesome goodies at her own shop and TDC.

This challenge will run from 03/27-04/02. To play along with the challenge, don’t forget to link us up in the comment section. Thanks for playing along with us here at Sugarplum!

Jill (jjstar) here again, twice in one week… are you excited? Haha! Did you catch the tutorial earlier this week? I provided detailed instructions on how to create an Easter banner. Now I’m here to challenge you to create one of your own!

Here are some other decoration items to get your creative juices going:

• acrylic heart
• leaf banner

The Fine Print: please use Sugarplum goodies to create your banner. You can find Nicole’s stuff at the Sugarplum Paperie shop and at The Digichick. Nicole has had TONS of freebies, so don’t feel like you can’t play because you haven’t been able to shop.

Upload your project to any gallery you want, and leave a link to your layout in the comments section of this post. You have until Thursday, March 26th to complete the challenge and you could win a $5.00 gift certificate to the Sugarplum Paperie shop!

Congratulations to Christina who won the challenge from last week… here is her layout!

Have fun with this! I can’t wait to see what everyone creates!!!

What I would like for you to do is take this beautiful photo and make a layout based on what it inspires you to do. You can choose the colors as your inspiration or the shapes and position of the windmill to inspire your page.

Let your imagination run with your layout!  Have fun.

{photo from Stock Vault}

I took the colors in the windmill and the round shape out of the inspiration photo. {click the image for credits}

And here is a fun one from Elaine:

You have until March 20th to finish your layout. One lucky winner will receive a $5.00 gift card to Sugarplum Paperie!

Please use mostly Sugarplum goodies. You can find Nicole’s stuff at the Sugarplum Paperie shop and at The Digichick. Nicole has had TONS of freebies, so don’t feel like you can’t play because you haven’t been able to shop.

Have fun!

The rules are simple: pick a colour and try to use only that colour on your layout. If necessary, you can use a related colour (in the same colour family), and/or neutral colours like black, white or brown. Easy peasy!

If you have an element you’d like to use, but it isn’t the colour that you picked for this layout, you can easily recolour it. There are lots of great tutorials for recolouring in your specific program, just google for them! Here are a couple links for Photoshop/Photoshop Elements to help you get started:

• By Emily Giovanni for her personal blog
• By Alice for the Weeds & Wildflowers blog – this is for Photoshop, but also works in Photoshop Elements, and she has a PSP tip in the comments section as well.
• By Tee for the Weeds & Wildflowers forum

Here is an example to get your creative juices flowing. I used a good mix of Nicole’s stuff, most of it recoloured to fit my green theme. You can view the credits here.

Please use mostly Sugarplum goodies. You can find Nicole’s stuff at the Sugarplum Paperie shop and at The DigiChick. Nicole has had TONS of freebies, so don’t feel like you can’t play because you haven’t been able to shop.

Upload your layout to any gallery you want, and leave a link to your layout in the comments section of this post. You have until Thursday, March 5th to complete the challenge and you could win a $5.00 gift certificate to the Sugarplum Paperie shop!

I can’t wait to see your take on this challenge! Now go have fun!

I am feeling pretty lovey-dovey with Valentine’s day being tomorrow, so this week’s challenge is going to be focused on that. The rules are pretty easy. I want you to use the word “love” in your title and I want you to use a mix of fonts and alphas to highlight it. Just to give you a good idea of what I mean, here is my example layout using the new Hopelessly Devoted collab:.

As you can see I used a font for everything but the word “love”.  I hope you have fun with this!!

You have one week to get your layout done and the gift card winner will be announced on 2/20. You page must be made of a majority of Sugarplum products. You can find some freebies on the blog, or you can purchase some things at the Sugarplum shop or The Digichick. Happy Valentine’s everyone!! I look forward to seeing your pages!

Congrats to last week’s winner: Caren!

I have dealt with some major family issues over the past couple of years and I’ve felt at times like I was never going to get out of the hole that I seemed to be falling deeper into.  So many things kept cropping up around me and one thing just compounded another but being the start of a new year, I thought it no better than to take stock of my life and where I want to be and how I want to live it.  I always have put myself on the backburner and focused on my kids and family first as many Mums do.  I’ve certainly let my health deteriorate and social activities dwindle unless it involved chatting to my cyber-buddies into the wee hours of the morning.  This year I am turning 40, but I mostly feel like I’m going on 50, so my challenge this week is to think of YOU, focus on YOU and scrap about what YOU want to achieve in life.  Whether that be a short-term goal or something that might take much longer to reach for or even just some things about YOU that you want to record for you only.

I have always had trouble managing my weight and when I’m stressed or unhappy about life or not coping well with being a single stay at home Mum, I tend to turn to food as my comfort.  And having a sedentry hobby such as scrapbooking, I don’t tend to do much activity — um, that includes housework if I can scrap instead!  I also have two toddlers under 6, so my wakeup call had to come sooner rather than later if I want to enjoy the fun times with my boys before that precious time just passes me by.  I find it much easier to journal from my heart about the things that impact me greatly in life even though they may be the sad or hard-hitting things that I have experienced, but as the saying goes, all of this does make us stronger.

And here’s a layout from Kiki:

So have a little think about where you want to go this year, what you want to achieve and scrap about it for your chance to win a GC to the fab Sugarplum store! Please use mostly Sugarplum goodies on your layout. You can find Nicole’s stuff at the Sugarplum Paperie shop and at The DigiChick. Nicole has had TONS of freebies, so don’t feel like you can’t play because you haven’t been able to shop. And our winner will be announced here next Friday on the blog. 

Thanks for playing along and have a fantastic week!

ps. congratulations to last week’s winner: Jennifer!

• take 3  papers
• add 2 photos
• mix in one trim (ribbon, string, lace, etc.)
• sprinkle on 4 elements (hearts, flowers, brads, frames, you name it)
• and top off with some personalized journaling!

Here’s one from me…I used the NEW Strawberry Au Lait kit, Tough Stuff mini, Calico Harvest, and First Kiss of Spring on my layout:

There you have it!! Easy peasy… and have fun with this!!!

Please use mostly Sugarplum goodies on your layout. You can find Nicole’s stuff at the Sugarplum Paperie shop and at The DigiChick. Nicole has had TONS of freebies, so don’t feel like you can’t play because you haven’t been able to shop. 

Upload your layout to any gallery you want, and leave a link to your layout in the comments section of this post. You have until Thursday, February 6th to complete the challenge and one lucky person will win a $5.00 gift certificate to the Sugarplum Paperie shop!

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

And I’d also like to announce last week’s winner: Congratulations to Sharyn!

Are you doing Project 365? I am and I’m really excited about it. I’m not sure if I can keep up, but I’m going to try!! I started a blog for this, but soon realized that I’m only stressing out by trying to post there every day. I just decided to scrap one page per week.

This week’s challenge, should you accept it, is to scrap a Project 365 page. It could be a page summarizing your week or a page with photos from one day. If you are not doing the project 365, your challenge is to scrap something with a number, like a 2nd birthday or 10 random facts about you or just anything with numbers. 

Here are a few layouts from Denise and from Sharon for your inspiration:

And here is my layout using the new Project 365 embellishments:

Please use mostly Sugarplum goodies on your layout. You can find Nicole’s stuff at the Sugarplum Paperie shop and at The DigiChick. Nicole has had TONS of freebies, so don’t feel like you can’t play because you haven’t been able to shop. 

Upload your layout to any gallery you want, and leave a link to your layout in the comments section of this post. You have until Thursday, January 29th to complete the challenge and one lucky person will win a $5.00 gift certificate to the Sugarplum Paperie shop!

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

Also, let me announce last week’s winner. It is Cristina again because she was the only one to play along with last week’s challenge. Congratulations to you! You can see her pretty layout here.

The idea of the challenge is to record a daily routine. For my page I took a picture of a typical breakfast sense at our house, lunch and again for dinner:

Now it is your turn to give it a try… take some pictures and create a page all about your routines! The challenge is open until next Friday, January 23rd. I’m excited to see what everyone creates!

Leave a comment with a link to your daily routine layout. Then next week a random winner will be select to receive a $5 gift certificate to Sugarplum Paperie. Please use mostly Sugarplum goodies. You can find Nicole’s stuff at the Sugarplum Paperie shop and at The DigiChick. Nicole has had TONS of freebies, so don’t feel like you can’t play because you haven’t been able to shop. Remember, come back before next Friday (1/23)!

Also, I’d like to announce last week’s winner: Cristina! Congratulations to you!