Sugarplum Paperie

Well, it’s the final day of the Great Freebie Migration! Here is the last kit that’s retiring from the shop and moving to the blog forevermore, the Leap Frog mini kit:

Leap Frog

DETAILS: This kit includes four pretty papers, five little paper flowers and four word-art paperstrips. Drop shadows for illustration only. Saved as .jpg and .png files at 300 dpi.

Just click to download! And if you’re looking for the Dirty Overlay, it can be found all the way back at this post: Dirty Overlay Freebie.

Well, are you ready for tomorrow? July 26th was the first day I ever logged on to make a post here—the day all my Paperie dreams started coming to life! And to celebrate, I’ve created a whole new kit to share with you! Be sure to stop by over the next six days and pick up all the pieces. And then next Friday be sure to be here for the Grand Finale! Freebies galore and some really exciting news!

See you tomorrow! And happy scrapping!

It’s Day 3 of the Great Freebie Migration! Retiring from the shop today and moving to the blog forevermore, the Softly Spoken mini kit:

Softly Spoken

DETAILS: Soft and sweet, this mini kit includes one peachy piece of painted paper, one paper tag, two paper strips, one paper swirl, one peachy flower and one green leaf. Drop shadows for illustration only. Saved as .jpg or .png files at 300 dpi.

Just click to download!

Tomorrow we’ll have the last kit move out of the shop… and then on Saturday it’s time for the fun to really get underway!

Happy scrapping!

Day 2 of the Great Freebie Migration… Retiring from the shop today and moving to the blog forevermore, the Classical Melody mini kit:

Classical Melody

DETAILS: This darling old-fashioned kit includes one lovely piece of patterned paper, one vintage frame, one pink and red flower, one strip of velvet ribbon, one musical note tag and two flower stickers. Drop shadows for illustration only. Saved as .jpg or .png files at 300 dpi.

Just click to download! Happy scrapping!

Let the Great Freebie Migration begin! Retiring from the shop today and moving to the blog forevermore, the Sweet as Sugar mini kit:

Sweet as Sugar

DETAILS: This sweet little kit includes one polka dotted paper, a cardboard frame, a sheet of note paper, one pink polka dot bow and a row of stitches (with drop shadow included). Other drop shadows for illustration only. Saved as .jpg or .png files at 300 dpi.

Just click to download! Enjoy!

Creative Monday

Happy Monday! I hope you’ve all been enjoying our sweet Mango Tango Sunshine freebie. Those are some tasty colors, don’t ya think? Yum!

Well, it’s time for another round of creative beauty! Let’s jump in and find some scrapping inspiration, shall we?

Here’s a tasty layout from Amy (using the above referenced Mango freebie). I love the layers and little things around the photo here:

Stickers

And here’s a lovely layout from Crystal, using A Little Birdie with a mix of Paper Garden goodness. Love the simple combination of teal and green here:

Joy

Here’s a sweet and simple layout from Jeannette, using Twitter Blossoms. I just love her title work with the Graph Paper Alpha here:

Nature\'s Beauty

And here’s a stunning layout from Kate, also using Twitter Blossoms. I just love it when she plays with color in her photographs:

Time Out

And finally here’s a layout from Tigz, where she played around and created a new look for the Twitter Blossoms paper. I just love it!

The Tent

Goodness! I just realized that it’s “Southpaw Monday” this week. Look at all these left-aligned layouts—Funny!

On to the Sugarplum news for this week… well, get ready to get busy! We’re coming up on the blog’s one year anniversary and me and the girls on the team have been making lots of party plans for you… and you know what that means—FREEBIES!

First order of business: I’m retiring all the old freebie kits from shop. I will be moving them over here to the blog so that anyone who would like them can freely download them! So, don’t worry, they won’t be going away for good, unlike the retiring kits in the shop. Starting tomorrow look for those kits to start showing up here.

Then the party really gets underway starting on Saturday! I’ve planned six days of freebies for you along with a Grand Finale from the girls and some special news that I can hardly wait to share with you. Get ready to put your party hat on!

Happy scrapping!

Are you ready for a tasty treat? It’s time for a Good ‘Ol Fashioned Sunshine Freebie Mega Kit—and this time it’s really MEGA! Lots of new designers are joining the Sunshine Shop this Friday and so to properly introduce them, we thought we’d start with the one thing the Sunshine Girls are most known for—A FREEBIE KIT!

Here is my contribution to our wonderful Summertime Collaboration, Mango Tango!

Mango Tango

Be sure to stop by the Sunshine Blog to find all the links for everyone who’s made a piece of this fabulous collaboration! And enjoy the Sunshine!

Happy scrapping!

Creative Monday

Happy Monday! Hope you all had a great weekend! We visited the church across the street from us yesterday, thinking that we’d just attend the early service, and found ourselves instead in a great little Sunday School class and then at their annual summer pool party/cookout. Great way to meet new people! Tons of fun for the kiddos. But my poor hubby looks like a lobster now. I always forget about sunscreen for him, since I rarely ever burn. Oopsie!

Well, the girls created so many beautiful things this past week. Let’s take a peek at some of them, shall we?

First we have a sweet layout from Kristin, using Paper Garden with a mix of things from Plumberry Teacakes, too:

growing princess

And here is a layout from Tracy, using the Flirty Skirty kit. Love her little hearts!

The Hermans

Here’s a great layout from Michelle, using Twitter Blossoms. Love all the action in this one:

homerun\'in

And here’s another Twitter Blossoms layout from Sya. Love her title work here!

self-esteem

(ps. remember that if you like the alpha from this kit, it’s now available all by itself in the shop: Graph Paper Alpha.)

And yet another sweet Twitter Blossoms layout from Tigz. Just gorgeous!

Joy

Well, I’m off to work on a dozen or so projects on my to-do list this week. Lots and lots of behind the scenes things I have planned for you including freebies, new kits and a party at the end of the month. Would you like a sneak peak at what’s coming this Wednesday? It’s time for some SUNSHINE!:

Mango Tango

See you then!

Some cool news: I’m this week’s featured designer at The Daily Scrapper!

TDS

Go and check it out! There’s also a drawing—three lucky winners will receive the kit of their choice from the shop. Be sure to enter!

News, news and more news! I don’t post all week and look what happens: It all piles up! Oops!

First of all, there’s a clearance sale going on now in the Sugarplum shop!

50% off!

Left to right, those kits are:

Fashion Candy - Petits Fours - Confetti & Candy
Sorbet Kisses - Little Veranda - Summer Sorbet

They will be on sale until the end of the month. After that, they’ll be gone forever!

Also new this week: I’ve decided that two of the alphas that I made in my most recent kits were too cool not to offer them as separate items for alpha lovers everywhere! So now you can pick up the Clear White Alpha, from the A Little Birdie kit:

And the Graph Paper Alpha, from the Twitter Blossoms kit:

Also, I’ve been busy repackaging my Vintage Paperie alpha set:

And Printed Paperie alpha set:

…so that they’d all be nice and neat together! Makes me happy just to look at them!

Now, for more news! I’ve been invited to take part in yet another fantastic design (a.k.a. creative) team for Erika Martin’s on-line Journaling 101 course! You can find out more about it as I ramble on about all my various creative teams over here at my blog: creative chick-a-dee. I think what she’s doing is so needed in the digital scrapbooking world and I’m thrilled that she’s asked me to be a part of this course!

And while we’re talking about creative teams, don’t forget that Friday is “Template Day” over at the Shanty blog! There’s a new template up for this week’s Scraplift Conversion challenge. Come along and join us, won’t you?!

And now… for the sort of news I KNOW you love to hear: FREEBIES are coming in MASSIVE DOSES! Next week it’s Sunshine Girl Freebie time again! I’ll give you a sneaky peeky on Monday.

And after that, there’s the little matter of a certain little blog’s one year anniversary. I bet there will be lots of freebies… maybe a whole week of them. Hmm. And I bet there will be a grand finale, too! You won’t want to miss this Birthday Bash! More to come on that…

Well, that’s all for now! I hope you have a wonderful weekend! And of course, much happy scrapping, too!

Creative Monday

Well, people… you sure do know how to take advantage of a sale! I’m so glad that you all enjoyed the coupon over the weekend. I hope you find some time for some scrapping away as soon as possible! And to help in that department, it’s time for Creative Monday inspiration!

First this week, here is a gorgeous layout from Jessy, using a mix of fun stuff from Queen of Hearts, Fashion Candy, Summer Sorbet and the alpha from A Little Birdie. I love her title work here:

Precious

And here is a darling layout from Jeannette, using Paper Garden. I love the softness of this one–it’s gorgeous!

Kisses

And here’s a stunning layout from Rosanne, also using Paper Garden. I just love the crop of her photo and all that pretty purple!

Precious

Here’s a precious layout from Katy, using the Plumberry Teacakes kit. Look at how she used the journaling tag for a clipping mask for her photos! Isn’t that such a neat idea?! I love it!

Love

And then look at this amazing work from Andrea, using the new Twitter Blossoms kit. I love the little garden she’s made here!

Little Delight

These are all so wonderful… in so many different ways! I’m so blessed to have so many wonderful scrappers on my creative team–and each one so unique! Be sure to click on these layouts to leave these girls some love! And I hope you found something here to inspire you on to scrap.

If you need any more motivation to get scrapping, be sure to visit the Shanty blog and play along with us in the Scraplift Conversion! Here’s this week’s template:

Template

Be sure to stop by the blog to pick it up!

Happy scrapping!