I can’t believe it’s back to school time already! This year I have great plans to help my kids stay organized or at least get ready for school, and of course I used my digital supplies to do it. Inspired by an article in the Disney Family Fun magazine I made a place mat checklist, which is like a chore chart.

I created 6x12 documents for each side with the Do At Home and Bring to School lists. I used some scrapbook paper for the middle section. Ticketed No 2 by Katie Pertiet had a great checklist that I used for my list.

We’re going to test this out next week but I have high hopes! Have you used your supplies to make a chore chart or checklist? Post it in the hybrid scrapbooking gallery - I’d love to see what you made.

It’s Thrifty Thursday at DesignerDigitals where we have a brand new item priced at just $ 99 cents and 397 items marked down 30%. These specials only last until 6am EST on Friday morning so don’t miss out.

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

Welcome to the All About Me Challenge!

How often do you wish that you had just 10 minutes to yourself? A chance to unwind for a minute, sip some coffee or maybe a Diet Coke, and put your feet up on the couch. Just 10 minutes can do wonders. Well, this challenge is all about that. This challenge is entitled “Right Now.” What I want you to do for this challenge is find 10 minutes in your day just for yourself - early morning, after the kids have gone to school, on your lunch break from work, or late at night - whatever works for you. Take a deep breath, relax, and find a pen and paper or your computer and just write for 10 minutes. Whatever comes to mind - just write it. If something’s troubling you, get it out. If you’re feeling grateful and blessed, pour out your heart. If you’re simply in the moment and feeling comfy, describe where you are and what’s so comfy. The point is to just write for 10 minutes and then make a layout using that journaling. When you’re done, you’ll have a mini day-in-the-life layout. You’ll have a “Right Now” layout that will capture just a quick slice of your life right now.

My layout is super simple. The last layout I made didn’t use any patterned paper, so I really wanted to go back to using patterns and I kept the rest of the layout very simple. As you can tell from my journaling, the photo of my feet at the beach has nothing to do with where I was at that moment, but it’s what I was thinking about so I used it.

Supplies: Ali Edwards Layered Template No. 10, Caught Red Handed Kit, Contessa Paper Pack, Primes Paper Pack

Can’t wait to see your layouts!

~Steph

Welcome to this weeks 3 Kits 3 Ways Challenge!

The Designer Digitals Store is chock full of wonderful products to choose from . . . it is so hard to just pick three each week, but so easy to find exactly what I’m looking for once my mind is made up.  This store literally has everything we could possibly need in the way of digital products!  Debi, Bailey and I will use the three challenge kits in three very different ways . . . so here we go with the 3 Kits!

The first kit is LIfe and LIberty Solids from Jesse Edwards

Next is Sweet and Salty Icons from MIndy Terasawa

And, finally we have Katie’s Rounded Corner Clipping Masks No. 01.

For our 3 Ways this week we will begin with Debi ( Beehive50) and her simple and fun layout featuring Debi’s favorite subject . . . Soccer!  Debi is our purist this week and used only the three challenge kits.  Don’t you just love this fun page?

Bailey’s (Starlight9711) layout is all about a fun summer day with the family!  I love these rounded corner masks and love how Bailey used so many of them to set off her photos so perfectly!  Bailey these extras:  Word Strip Labels No. 04, Staple Its! Clusters, Travel Word Transfers No. 02 & Jelly Alpha No. 13.

My (readstoomuch) layout was made using a photograph of our youngest grandchild at the beach on her first birthday. 

I used these extras:  Bead Scatterings,  Birthday Zoobilee Kit,  CurvyCorner Stitched Blocks No. 01, Dorothy Collection,  Evie Kit,  Hello Summer Hand Drawn Brushes,  Nana’s Buttons, Notebook Paper Page Masks,  Painted Text No. 01,  Stamped Stitched: Summer Brushes,  Stitched by Anna Borders Ice Blue No. 01,  Vintage Flashcards: Summer &  Worth Repeating Expressions No. 05.

I hope that you love these kits just as much as Debi, Bailey and I do . . . and I hope to see the layouts that you create with them in the 3 Kits 3 Ways Gallery here at Designer Digitals.  Merrilee and I are teammates for this challenge and we love checking the gallery to see just what you have come up with each week.  For your layouts you need to use only the three challenge kits and any other DD products that you need want to use.