The April 2010 desktop scrapbooking calendar is now available in the freebies section including an iPhone wallpaper as well!

It is such fun to be posting this on the eve of Designer Digitals 5th birthday!  Thanks to Katie and Randy for five wonderful years and best wishes to them & to Designer Digitals for many, many more happy digital scrapping years in the future!  Now, lets see what today’s 3Kits3Ways has in store for everyone.

The first kits is MIndy’s Bunny Hop Hop Pinstripes Paper Pack:

 

 

The next kit is Katie’s Date Strips Stamps No. 01: 

 

 

 

And, last is Pattie’s Frosted Alpha No. 03:

 

 

And, now for the layouts from our Creative Team members.  This week Aino, Terri & Brittany have created some delightful examples of three ways to use the products for the challenge.  I hope that you will add a layout to the 3K3W gallery and show many other ways to use the kits too.

 

I love Aino’s { Aino } cute page of her little daughter at the park is so cute . . . I love how she has used Pattie’s Frosted Alpha so cleverly!

 

Here are the extra’s that Aino used:  Wild Weekend Kit,  Little Plastic Flowers No. 01,  Cut Ups: Springtime,  Egg Pebbles,  Date Labels No. 01 &  Stitched by Anna Borders Bubblegum No. 01.

 

Next Terri { tdavenport } created this fabulous layout showing her wonderful photographs of a family trip to the Toledo Botanical Garden.

 

 

Extras are:  Naturally Krafty No. 01 Paper Pack,  Naturally Krafty No. 02 Paper Pack,  Torn N Tattered FlutterBy Templates No. 02,  Watery Wings Brushes and Stamps  &  FotoDaze Layered TemplateSet No. 01.

 

The third layout is this one from Brittany { BrittanyLane }.  I love the bright photographs against the neutral background with the bright elements.

 

 

Extras:  Katie’s Basic Twills: Springtime (coming soon!!),  All My Chicks Kit,  Classic Cardstock: Cleansing,  Celebrate Moments Layered Template,  New Spring Kit & Torn N Tattered DragonFly Templates No.1.

 

Thanks to the CT members for their lovely pages and to you for stopping by for a visit!  For those of you who may be new to this challenge, here it is in a nutshell. Merrilee {digigrandma} & I {readstoomuch} will post a challenge for you on the DD blog every second Wednesday morning.  We will choose three kits from the store and three members of the Creative Team will use those three kits in three different ways. For your layouts you should use at least one product from each of the three challenge kits along with any extra products from the Designer Digitals Store that you wish.  Remember that you can recolor papers, shift elements around, stitch and clip to your hearts content too.  We love giving some inspiration for the versatility of the kits and we hope that you will join in on the fun!  Merrilee and I look forward to seeing your pages posted in the 3Kits 3Ways Gallery.

 

And, another Happy Birthday wish to everyone at Designer Digitals . . . especially to Katie, Randy & the talented designers for five wonderful years of Designer Digitals fun, inspiration, community, friendships, learning and fabulous shopping in the DD Store!

Welcome to the All About Me Challenge! I’m going to jump straight into the assignment today and then I’m going to show you some amazing layouts from the All About Me Gallery and two examples of this weeks’ assignment.

The title of this assignment is “I Am So Good.” One of my goals with this whole series is to encourage women to take time to focus on who they are as individuals and to realize how important they are to their families. So, this week’s focus is to tell the world what you are good at - what your strengths are and how they play a role in your life. Women often find it hard to accept compliments or to sing their own praises so this might be difficult for some of you. If it makes it easier, create the layout with the knowledge that you are a role model for your children, your grandchildren or your future children. You lead by example so don’t be afraid to talk about what you’re good at.

Some examples to help and remember that it can be silly as well as serious: I have a green thumb, I can put my babies to sleep better than anyone else, I am a great organizer, I am a master cardshark, I take great photos, I am a wonderful mother and wife and my parents know how much I appreciate them.

Because this assignment is all about highlighting our strengths, I want to showcase some of the amazing layouts that our community members have done with previous assignments and celebrate them.

The 1st layout was made by Tiff. What I love about this layout is not only the way she used Katie’s block numbers, but also the way she cropped her photos with perfect proportions to highlight both the number and the photo. All of her credits can be found with the layout - Typical Tuesday.

The second layout was created by Ellan. I was blown away by the design of this page. It is a perfect example of why journaling is so important and how to make a stunning layout without photos.  All of her credits can be found with her layout - When I Was Your Age.

The third layout was created by Carollee and I just love it. She has included so many details while still keeping the photos front and center - just a beautiful job telling her story. All of her credits can be found with her layout - Then and Now.

And now onto this week’s layouts. The amazing Mel from our Creative Team created this phenomenal layout showcasing what she’s good at. And she is so good at it!

Supplies: Forecast Kit, Krafty Tags: Celebrate, Howdy Cowboy Stickers, School Daze Stickers, Chipper Chores Epoxies Element, Hemp Ribbons No. 01, Vintage Journals No. 02, Buttoned Up, Buttoned Up: Vintage, Emergency Mega ElementSet, Felt Board Friends: Oh Snap!, Colored Filmstrips, LoopDaLoop ArtStrokes No. 01 BrushSet, Wynken, Blynken and Nod Kit, Dipped Chips: Travel Elements, Messy Stamped Alphabet No. 06 Brushes and Stamps Value Set, Eat Cake Element Pack, Wild Weekend Kit, Roughed Up Notebook Paper Pack, Mariska Solid Paperie, Naturally Krafty No. 08 Paper Pack, Flossy Stitches: Red

My layout is partially tongue-in-cheek but it’s all true! And I can be good at being funny sometimes, too!

Supplies: Cathy Zielske’s Layered Templates No. 20 (modified from a 2-page template to a 1-page template), Naturally Krafty No. 1 Paper Pack, Cabana White Paper Singles, Letter Box Clusters No. 4 Brushes and Rub Ons, Journal It! No. 1 Brushes and Stamps

I can’t wait to see your layouts this week!

~Steph

Do you have moments of pure happiness? The kind of happiness you can feel in your soul? The happiness that brings a since of calm, a smile to your face, and sometimes a song to your heart. In this PageKraft, we are focusing on the click behind your happiness. How do you take a picture of true happiness? How can you convey that personal, soul tapping happiness to others? How can you photograph something that you feel? Perhaps it is out of a moving car window at 50 miles per hour (while someone else is driving, of course). Perhaps it is a color you capture. An object? Or maybe just an image, not in focus at all. An image that makes you feel. Just like we feel our happiness.

I saw my happiness outside the car window. It told my story instantly. A story so dear to me, a story only those closest to me know.

You can share your image and story of happiness in the PageKraft: WriteTrue+Click

Congratulations to feni. Her layout REMY1 has been selected as the featured layout of the week where she won a $ 5 DesignerDigitals Gift Certificate for product of her choice!