Better late than never I always say.

Nah, not really, but in this case we’re going to go with it.

This was supposed to happen last week but I was sick coming off CHA and didn’t get it together in time. So then it was supposed to be THIS Weds, and I got sick (do you see a pattern here?) and couldn’t stay vertical long enough to get it done.

SO….here is is…the first (and hopefully only) Friday edition of 3K3W!

Basic rules:
3 different products from the store
3 different creative team members
having fun coming up with 3 different ways to use the aforementioned products.

Here we go!
Products for this week’s challenge:

Speed Byte #32 by Pattie Knox

Doodled Daydream Kit by Katie Pertiet
(I pulled another kit off the home page!)

Imagination Brushes by Danelle Johnson

And here are the layouts for the week:

Page by Wendy McKeehan

I didn’t end up tweaking the speed byte as much as I had thought I would, but I managed to flip the photo horizontal and leave off the circles. I also REALLY tweaked the colors of the papers. The black is actually Metro Graffiti Paperie and I also added Distressed Frames No. 2 (coming soon) both by Anna Aspnes.

Page by Linda Rodriguez

I love this page. And I love how completely different the template looks when used minimally. Linda added a couple other products to her page which include: Little Fishy Paper Pack by Katie Pertiet and the ever popular Worn Stripsby Lynn Grieveson.

Page by Janet Ohlson

Janet stayed true to the 3 kits and pretty true to the template leaving off only the circles. But really, when the subject is her darling daughter Ella, you don’t really notice what is missing from the template now do you?

Thanks for checking out the challenge this week and if you are inclined to play along, please post your pages in the 3 Kits 3 Ways gallery. We’ll see you in a little less than 2 weeks with another challenge.

Make sure to checkout our Thrifty Thursday specials today.  There are 127 items marked down 30% for today only!

This week over on the IdeaBooks4u blog I wanted a cool new challenge so I pulled out one of my favorite books, We Dare You - Scrapbook Challenges about Real Life.

As the book says, “We all have obsessions. You know you do. Things you can’t pass up, things you can’t live without. Maybe it’s lip gloss, maybe it’s a store, or even the rituals that make up your daily life. Scrap ‘em. You’ll thank us later. Even if it’s only to laugh at that crazy fad you thought you couldn’t live without.”

Here’s our inspiration layout, done by author Nisa Fiin:

Put aside your reservations about revealing to the world what obsesses you and have fun with this one.  Check out the blog to see what the design team is obsessed with and then create your own page.  Post your page in the IdeaBooks4u Inspiration gallery at Designer Digitals. We’ll call this exercise free therapy!

This wonderful layout by Billie really jumped out of the gallery at me:

I just love her subtle color scheme with just the right splash of colors from the patterned paper - not to mention the fantastic typography. And, looking at this, I can’t believe I haven’t yet used Katie’s notebook edge frames.
Lots of great inspiration here!

Credits: Layout by Dagmar, In Distress 2 paper by Lynn Grieveson, Decorative Journal prompts by Anna Aspnes, Notebook edge frame, ledger grids,, canvas tag mask (coming soon!), community center kit and La Cremerie fraise kit flowers all by Katie Pertiet, A Good Life paper by Jesse Edwards.

Credits: Layout by Sarah, Monoblendz Woodsey paperie by Anna Aspnes, Notepaper, stitching,stitching holes, safety tags and ledger grid briush all by Katie Pertiet, Be Mine felt alpha by Pattie Knox, Family Ties kit by Mindy Terasawa.

Credits: Layout by Jodi, Lov-e-ly solids and Lov-e-ly patterned paper by Jesse Edwards, Mega tag pack, ledger grids, notebook edge frames and fastened frame by Katie Pertiet, curled paper edges and distressed edge overlay by Anna Aspnes.

I hope you can come up with a layout too based on Billie’s striking layout. If you do, don’t forget to post in the Saturday Scraplift gallery.

Check out all these pages from last week:

Make sure to checkout our Thrifty Thursday specials today.  There are 121 items marked down 30% for today only!

And as a special we have a new item priced at $ .99!  As with the Thrifty Thursday items this price is good only until 6am EST on Friday!