Feature Designer at SNP til the 15th is Karen Diamond Designs!

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! And for those in the US that celebrated Independence day I hope you all had a wonderful time with your friends and family! I certainly did! Today I am here to share with you about the current Feature Designer at SNP! It is Karen Diamond Designs. She is one of the most generous designers I have ever meet! If you have never gone to one of her speed scraps you need to. She almost always gives away a ton of her product to those who come to the chat and play along! This last week she had a special chat to celebrate being the feature designer. I am so excited to share that I won something! I got her Alphabet Template vol. 1. I am so excited to try this out! I have just started designing and this is going to make alphas so much easier! Here is a preview of the product. 

It is available here and it is on sale! Along with her entire store while she is the feature designer!!

So I would definitely suggest headed over and grabbing some product. She has lots of PU kits as well as CU designer resources! 

She also has lots of challenges where you can earn $$ to her store!! You can check them all out here.

Here are a few Layouts that I have made this week as part of the challenges there. 

 I used a kit by Karen Diamond Designs called Sunny Days for the layout above. I also used Journal Blenders 3 and her Feature Designer Template 2.

 For this layout I used a kit by Adriana's Cafe coming out soon called Our Life in a Year - July (and add-on) and Word Art by Memories by Digital Designs called Liberty. 

My kit in action!

I wanted to share with you quickly a LO that was made with the freebie kit that I gave away for Fathers Day. One of those who downloaded it came back to let me know about her LO using my kit!! Thank you Claudia for sharing with me! Here is a look at her layout. You can visit her blog here. 

Lots of exciting things to share!!!

This has been a wonderful week! Both in the scrapping world and regular life! What else can you expect from a Holiday week though! The first exciting thing was that my passport finally came in the mail! Yea! My husband and I are going on our first solo trip EVER later this year and I am sooooo excited! I will share more details after the fact and I am sure I will have lots of pictures! 

Then my husband found out today that he will 100% start with his new job in 2 weeks. This is great news as it includes a nice race as well as much better insurance! 

As far as the scrapping world I had three special things happen (so far!) this week. 

I think I have mentioned that I decided to participate in the "This Scrappers Got Talent" contest at STS this year. Well I have made it to round 3!! I am super excited and feel very honored to be amoung the 19 that are continuing. I will be back later this week with the page I make for this weeks challenge! 

Second, is another STS honor. I got voted as the LOTM (Layout of the Month) at STS! I feel so very honored! STS is a wonderful Forum with TONS of amazing layouts so I am very proud to have won! 

Here is the Layout that was the winner. You can find the post here. 

My third and final little bit of great news is that I got LOTD at Gotta Pixel yesterday! 

Here is the layout that won. You can see all the Layouts for the week here. 

Thanks for reading and sharing in my wonderful week! And it is only Tuesday! LOL!

Parts and Pieces by A Fish Design

It is Bits N Pieces time at the Scraps N Pieces store. I got to work with the wonderful parts from A Fish Design. I really love the colors in this month palette. Here is a preview of her kit. Remember that each piece is just a dollar during the sale! It goes until the 7th. 

Here is the papers. Available here. 

Here is the elements. They are available here.

Here are my layouts. Enjoy!

I used a template by AK Designs from the Template Challenge for July. You can find the challenge here. 

For my second layout I used a template by Scrapping With Liz and Word Art by Word Art World. 

Now hurry over to the store while this incredible deal is still available!! 

Cherish by Adriana Cafe - July Spotlight kit

Hello everyone,

Adriana's Cafe July's Spotlight Kit is Cherish!

SNP   STS

The kit will be 50% OFF the entire month in both of her shops and every Wednesday you will have a freebie from her and from some of her CT members in her BLOG.

See you there next Wednesday!

The Fourth and Away We Go by Jen C Designs

Happy July! Can you believe that it is already July? It has been going by so fast!!! 

Today I have two brand new kits to share with you from Jen C Designs. 

The first is called The Fourth and is a Grab Bag! I love the great savings with Grab Bags! 

You can grab all the items for just $5 for a limited time! 

Here is a preview of all that you will get. 

It is available at Gotta Pixel, Ginger Scraps, The Studio, and her Personal Store.

Here is a look at what I created with it!

I also used a template by Jen C Designs for my layout called Scallopy Goodness. 

It is available at  Ginger Scraps, The Studio, and her Personal Store.

Here is a preview. 

Next is Away We Go is a collection of travel themed goodies! And all for just $1 until July 5 as part of the Ginger Scraps Bake Sale. You can find it in the store here. 

Here is my layout. 

I used a template by AmyDane Designs called Touch by an Angle.

Pet Parade by Wendy Tunison Designs

The colors for this month's Bits N' Pieces kits are so much fun and what is more fun than our pets? So I'm excited to introduce you to Pet Parade by Wendy Tunison Designs!  You can pick up each piece of this kit for just $1.00 for the first week of July.  After that, it gets bundled up and added to the store at full price!

Check out some of the layouts our CT has already created with these minis...

There is also a fabulous new Designer Collab at SNP that is a must have for all of your summer fun!  It's called Water Fun and you're going to love it!

There is also a Commercial Use Grab Bag release today.  It is filled with flowers, greenery and a few extras.  Check out this gorgeousness!

Don't forget to stop by the forum to check out the new challenges and play along with the old ones too!  I'm so excited about this month's challenges and am sure they're going to be loads of fun!  Wendy is hosting this month's Motto/Quote/Slogan/Lyric Challenge and I can't wait to see what you all come up with!  It's sure to inspire some fun pages!

If you're looking for even more fun in the challenge department, join us on Wendy's FB Fan Page on Monday, July 9 at 7pm MST for a speed scrap where you will be able to earn the fabulously textured cardstocks that coordinate with Pet Parade!  Whoot!

Have a great day!

Here is a closer look at my layouts.