Thank You by Lee Benkers Designs

Lee has released another of her beautiful kits! Thank You was released just today at Hummie's World. There's a link on the side bar. Go to the Boomerang or the Boomerang Forum to see it, complete with layouts by Lee's Creative Team. Best of all, Lee is giving it away for a limited time as a thank you to her subscribers! Link to Lee's blog is right over there on the side bar. Here is a preview with two layouts I created using Thank You.

Photo Walk

There is a lot going on for me so I missed sharing about the Photo Walk at Hummie's World Saturday. I created this freebie template to share so you can hop on over to hummiesworld.com in the Photo Walk Forum to grab it if you like. The walk was therapeutic for me. Just knowing my digi friends were doing the same thing on the same day gave my mood a boost and now seeing the results in the forum really warms my heart. I created it from a recent layout of mine and it was my first template ever! Can't wait to do it again. Now I see why so many people give things away. It's fun!

Blog Train-Little Did I Know has arrived from Hummie's World

It's blog train time. The Hummie's World Designers have collaborated to create a fantastic new kit-Little Did I Know. I know you will love the blue and white color palette. There are already some beautiful layouts in the gallery for inspiration, including three by, yep, me!! There are seven great challenges in the forum that Little Did I Know is perfect for. See the preview of goodies created for you by the designers and some of us CT members.

The Boomerang at Hummie's World 

Little Did I Know forum 

   

 Click here for my freebie.

And here are the participating bloggers:

Nicole
Nan
Lee
Tammy
Jen
Hummie

Little Did I Know is now at Hummie's World

Oops! I'm late getting this fantastic new collab from the Hummie's World Designers posted. It's called Little Did I Know, it's all blue and white and it's beautiful! I've had so much fun using it and watching the wonderful layouts popping up in the gallery! And of course, Lee Benkers Designs is a contributor! There is a link to Hummie's World on the sidebar. Just go to The Boomerang to shop. It's right there! While you're there check out all the lessons and the fantastic community. It's one of the most welcoming communities I've found in digi-land! Here are some layouts I created using Little Did I Know: One of the first things I did was some white-on-white. I used to love white-on-white fabrics back in my quilting days and always snapped some up when I saw it. I feel the same way about this kit. White-on-white is great and...so is blue-on-blue! I just may have a new favorite color combo. Besides, my mom always loved blue and white together, so this kit feels especially special:)

I am so pleased to be added to Lee Benkers Designs creative team. She creates such beautiful digital kits. Her papers are always my favorite part, of course, because I am a paper lover. But honestly, I love everything she does. Keep in Touch, released today is absolutely beautiful. It is so cool that the first kit I am ct'ing for uses one of my favorite color combos, blue and brown. It's fun, too, because you can make any photo into a postage stamp with the stamp frame. I used one of my flower photos to do just that. Just gotta love this kit! It can be found at Hummie's World dot com, a link is right over there on the right. Hummie's store is called The Boomerang. Hop on over and take a look! Here are three layouts I created using Keep in Touch: Take a look at Lee's blog, too. She is an amazing photographer. She is just plain amazingly all-around creative. Lee is on Etsy, too!! If I forget, remind me to add her link;) Take care and have fun...Kim

Mundy Wildflower Garden

Mundy Wildflower Garden, a photo by Kimm23 on Flickr.

Lee Benkers Designs! Lee just released this new kit, One Fine Day. So excited to be creating for her now! My first ever being on a Creative Team and I love Lee's designs so much. How could it be more perfect!!

The Amazing Digital Scrapbooking Race 7

Wow, I am participating in ADSR7 this year after only a year of digital scrapbooking. I remember hearing about this last year and found it overwhelming even thinking about entering into such an activity. Now I get it. I'm doing it. I'm scared. I'm doing it anyways. Enough wining. I am so excited to try this. And goodness, what a way to start right out of the gate. I lost my first layout when I saved it. I have NO IDEA what happened. I went shopping for an Alpha and when I went to open the psd. it my computer had NO IDEA what program to use to open it! What's that about? ...at least I had saved a flattened copy, so I could find it again, so I used it to recreate the layout today. Whew! Since I'm a bit nervous about this I really didn't want to start over. I have teamed up with Brenda from Brazil and we named our team Elements X 12, in reference to her 7 children and my 5, totaling 12. Cool beans, huh! I think we'll make a good team, though I worry about living up to Brenda's talent. She is more experienced than I am so I don't want to let her down. Her first layout is Awesome! I only hope she likes mine as much as I like hers. The challenge is to take a failure of a photo, for some reason, and scrap it. Wow! Pretty clever challenge. Brenda scrapped a photo her husband took with her camera. So funny. You can't tell what he was snapping. It looks like a fence with...something...behind it. Brenda created a Fantastic layout. The photo fits right into it as though it was taken just for the layout. She used perfect colors and journaled about her husband's curious photography subjects. Okay, enough blabbering for now. Here's the layout I created for my first ever ADSR. I used a photo from my son's wedding. I wanted to catch one of those perfectly posed wedding party photos the professional photographer was shooting. Well, mine was anything but perfect. It was backlit, sporting dark shadows and a lot of things were going on. The girls were, all but one, laughing at who knows what. Michelle, my DIL the bride, had a very confused expression on her face. And the other bridesmaid I mentioned was standing to one side deep in thought about something unknown to anyone but her. I love the photo, but saw it as irreperably flawed. After scrapping it, I see it as precious beyond belief. It is a magic moment caught on film (or digital film?) which will never be seen again. It's priceless, and I can't wait to show it to Michelle and Matthew. So without further ado...