Spooky Sneak Peek

Hi everyone! It is Kassie here and I am so excited to show you this week's release from Chelle's Creations, it is SO amazing! Here is a spooky sneak peek of what's to come! Enjoy!!

Tuesday Freebie: October 2010 Desktop

Happy Tuesday everyone,

Kayla (keepscrappin) here with your Tuesday freebie fix from Chelle's Creations. Can you believe September is almost over and October will be here on Friday? Well I for one don't know where September went; but I want to be prepared for October. That's why I've made up a little desktop for us to pretty up our 'puters for the new month.

Download here

Pssst..... It's made with a new Chelle's Creations kit that will be released on Friday at ScrapMatters, but our loyal blog readers can purchase it early here. shhhh.... it'll be our little secret. ;D Oh, and make sure to come back Friday for the full reveal and the matching blog freebie!

Take care and as always keepscrappin'
Kayla

Want a chance to Win a free kit or Combo from Chelle's Creations?

Hi everyone, Janine here and I'm so excited to be able to give away things from Chelle, and she so generously gave me the okay to give away her amazing new Back 2 School Kit and Combo now that school is back in session!

You could win this fantastic kit:

and one lucky winner will get a chance at this huge gift:

So what do you have to do to win? Just tell me your favorite school memory or your favorite thing about school at one of the locations the RAK is posted for your chance to win. Each person will only be entered one time so please only post on one site.

Here are the links.

ScrapMatters

DST

DSA

**This RAK runs until Friday October 1st and a winner will be announced on Saturday October 2nd. **

Good luck ladies and gentleman, now pick a site and go post those memories!

Product Flashback

Hi Everyone, it's Emma (hobbes130) here to bring you a super product flashback. Where did the summer go! It's fall already and I am now beginning to think about Christmas! I am a little obsessive when it comes to holidays I love to get started early, making lists, shopping (what girl doesn't) and my favorite thing of all is decorating the house. As soon as December 1st starts I am literally chomping at the bit to hang the stockings and get the tree up. As a primary school teacher Christmas always starts early for me, by the middle of November we will be rehearsing the play, practicing carols and making christmas crafts.

So in honor of my favorite christmas activity I am flashing back to

O' Come Let Us Adore Him

Chelle also has the felt nativity available separately.

Now for some inspiration, just look at this wonderful digi creations using this kit I was spoilt for choice in the Scrap Matters gallery for what to show off there were so many wonderful layouts and projects.

Shari

Krisi66

Neeny

becca372

panders77

emileem

jewelz729

Saturday Standouts and CT Spotlight!

Happy Saturday everyone!

Stacey here with today's edition of Saturday Standouts and CT Spotlight! I am going to change it up just a wee bit today and do the CT Spotlight first because (unbeknownst to me) I chose a member who is celebrating a birthday today...shanellgambell!!!

So let's all wish Shanell a very Happy Birthday filled with lots of fun and love! I hope you have a wonderful day!

Here is a little about Shanell, in her own words...

So a little about myself. Well, I thought it was fun that you wanted to spotllight me on my actual birthday. Saturday is my birthday and I will be 32. I have been married to my honey for 11 years and I am a SAHM to 4 daughters. They are 8.5, 7, 5, 3.5. I have lived in the same city my entire life. I went to college to be a teacher and was for three years, until my 2nd daughter was born. After that I stayed home. I've always been a crafter. I would go on family vacations and take my scrapbooking stuff with me and scrap in the hotel while my family was out. That was old paper and tape scrapping. I discovered digi when my last daughter was born. A friend was helping me edit a photo for her birth announcement and I was like, seriously, I could have made all this on the computer and not have cut out how many squares of paper and stuck on how many jewels??? After that she gave me a crash course in photoshop and I've been hooked ever since. I was a big lurker around the forums until about 6 months ago. This is my first CT ever and I LOVE it!!

So first up, I asked her to show me (one of) her favourite products from Chelle and she chose...

Shanell also shared her favourite page she has made with Chelle's goodies!

Sophia's 3rd Birthday I just loved the colors and the photo treatment and the kit, well, it's amazing!

I also asked her a few scrap related questions...

What is one thing you put on every layout?

One thing I put on every layout?? Ribbon! I love ribbon. Curled, straight, bowed, I love it! I was so excited when I discovered the polygonal lasso tool. I was always wondering how people got their lines so straight. Well, I use my Polygonal lasso to make a triangle to cut my ribbon nice and straight now.

What is one thing you struggle with on your pages?

The biggest thing I struggle with is composition. I find it so hard to get my LO's to flow. I am a HUGE template fan because it takes the hard part of where to put the pictures. Then I can rotate, flip, change the template and have fun putting elements and pictures on. I also love to use Chelle's Round the Block and Round and Round frames because it helps me to get the groupings of photos down so I can go from there.

Thank you so much, Shanell for letting us get to know you a bit better!

Now on to our Standouts!

Have you browsed Chelle's gallery lately? There is some serious talent posting in there and I have chosen 3 pages to spotlight here for you today! So in no particular order...

Learning to Sew by Cyndi146

smores by kmkarayannis

C is for Cookie by Tammy Gary

so there you have it! Don't forget to upload all of your pages with Chelle's goodies to her gallery and you just might be spotlighted next!

New Release Friday: Street Smarts Collab and Primarily Stitched Alpha Plus Wordart and Blog Freebie

It is Friday and Chelle once again has some awesome products for us!  First up, Chelle has teamed up with Connie Prince to brings us Street Smarts and coordinating wordart!  A great kit for the kid in all of us.  The possibilities are endless.

Chelle also stitched up a fantastic alpha called Primarily Stitched Alpha.  It works well with Street Smarts but would work with any of Chelle’s kits!And here is some CT inspiration:

 

And finally, here is the freebie that coordinates with Street Smarts: Have a fabulous weekend!  And don’t forget to give your suggestions of what Chelle should do for her next kit!  You could win that kit for free!

Sneak Peek

Heather here, with a sneak peek of the very fun kit Chelle has coming out tomorrow!

Tuesday Freebie

Krisi here with a fun freebie... perfect for back to school time!

Two bookmarks! They fold over in the middle and you can use the magnetic pieces on each side to create a magnetic bookmark.

Hope you enjoy them. Don't forget to leave a little love before you grab them HERE.

That is all folks!

You Spin Me....

It's time for a little fun - this week we are spinning Kayla a.k.a. keepscrappin. Take a peek at the cute layouts below featuring Chelle's fun designs. All these layouts are inspired by Kayla's awesome gallery!

CT Member Carol lifted Kayla's Ahoy Mates! and came up with this beautiful layout featuring Chelle's Half Moon Bay kit -

CT Member Melissa chose Kalya's Megan's Egg Hunt layout to spin and came up with this fun layout using Chelle's Ho Ho Ho kit -

CT Member Kassie lifted Kayla's So Happy and came up with this fun layout featuring Chelle's Play The Game and and Stitch Me Up Frames.

CT Member Shane took Kayla's Painting Megan for a fun spin and made this adorable layout featuring Back 2 School and other Chelle kits

Finally, CT Member Karen took Kayla's First Haircut for a spin and came up with this rockin' layout featuring Chelle's Celebrate - Brite kit.

Want to play along and win??? Chose your favorite layout by Kayla and take it for spin! Just rotate the layout in any direction (or flip it) and lift the layout from there adding your own personal twist. Don't forget to use at least 75% Chelle Creations product. Then link us up in the comments below so we can leave you some love! We'll pick one layout to win a $5 GC to Chelle's store.

Have a great week scrapping friends - Juli

Chelle Wants You….

to tell her what you want next! You read right, Chelle is looking for ideas for her next kit and is asking for your help.

The Details:

Post a comment to this posting telling us what kit you would like to see Chelle make next. You can comment more than once but please only one idea per comment. If Chelle uses your idea, then you will win that kit for free (multiple entries of the same idea may not result in every commenter getting that kit).

So post away and I can’t wait to see your ideas!

Saturday Spotlight (On Sunday)

Hi everyone!! It’s canadianmommy and I’m so sorry that this post is a day LATE! Ack! I don’t know what I was thinking yesterday….. but here are your gallery picks. I am sure after seeing them you will agree they were worth the wait!

First up, look at this gorgeous page by neenee using Sew Crafty:

I love her title work and the story she tells. Her cluster of elements is perfect too!

and now this beauty by briarwoodpups using Let’s Camp S’More:

I love the clean lines of this page and how she framed the photo!

And last but definitely not least is this fabulous page from TanyaH666 using Pearly Whites:

Her layering is AMAZING and those photos are adorable!

Keep those layouts coming and you could be featured on the Saturday Spotlight too! Have a great weekend!

WIN A FREE SHUTTERFLY HARDBOUND BOOK -- Fall Semester & Quickpages

I love my layouts on my computer, but I love them even more printed in a book:

When you purchase either Back2School Fall Semester, Back2School: Combo, or Back2School: Quickpages you will be entered in a drawing to win one of 2 coupons for a free 8x8 hardbound book from Shutterfly.  (20 pages.  Additional pages and shipping not included.  Expires 11/22)
Contest ends 9/22.


Want to see those kits up close?  I know you do.
At our house we have 4 students who are no longer in elementary school.  This calls for an "older student" add-on:  Fall Semester

And the combo:

Need a way to get that book ready FAST?  How about these FABULOUS quickpages by my creative team (aren't they wonderful?...the pages AND the team.)

Now snag one of these items quick and get yourself entered to WIN that photobook!

The CT has been busy this week with the quickpages, but they found some time to show off Fall Semester as well:

(Sorry about the fuzzy...I'm a little rusty with blog posting.  ACK!)
And now for your freebie.  Here's a couple of quickpages...they are just a sample of what you'll get in the quickpage collection.  Enjoy!

--Chelle

Sneak Peek Time

Hi everyone! Kendall here to bring you a little taste of the awesomeness Chelle has in store for you with her new release tomorrow. I'm running a little behind today, but trust me, this adorable kit is worth the wait!



Be sure to come back tomorrow for the full reveal!

Grab yer Freebie!

It's Sam bringing you another fantastic freebie from Chelle's Creations. Check out her latest kit all about teeth - Pearly Whites. You can use it for anything teeth - braces, dentist, loose tooth, brushing - so many possibilities! And if you purchase this kit by 9/16, you also get this super cute word art for free!



Here's my LO using this kit:

And here's a QP just for you! Click on the image to download. Enjoy!

September's Journaling Jumpstart

Hi Everyone, it's Kate (mom2my2monkeys), here with this months Journal jump start. I am one of those scrappers who likes to journal every page. Sometimes, I journal, but have no idea where to put it and end up saving my page for upload without my journaling and it makes me cringe every time I see it! It's not that I can't journal the page because of a loss for words, it's more of a loss for placement! Even using a template doesn't always help me, it just looks funny or the template doesn't show where to put your journaling. So my journal jump start is a little different than normal - I want you to come up with a creative way of incorporating your journaling with your page - it could be a page border, on a text path around your photo's, down one side etc etc. I would love to see the ways you can place your journaling on your page, but still make it feel like it belongs on that page.

For once, getting a little creative with my journaling worked to my advantage. I love how the page below turned out and I managed to write down everything I wanted to! The page below is of my oldest playing soccer using Chelle's kit "Kick-It!"

{Click for Credits}

Need a little help getting started? Check out these fantastic journal helpers in Chelle's store, that are bound to help you get a little more creative with your journaling!



I can't wait to see what you come up with, have fun being creative with your journaling!