Little Dreamer Designs

Color Challenge - Text/Titles

It is time for another color challenge!  This time we wanted to play with different ways to show color in Text/Titles. Maybe recolor your favorite alpha, use clipping masks with papers, or different brushes.

For mine I decided to try hiding a secret message in the alpha along the edge of the page by coloring a few selective letters in the alphabet frame. Can you see it? It fits in with the larger title wording on the page that I rasterized and then colored. I also kept the background simple and just used one white  paper so the colors in the text and title would stand out more.

CRISS CROSS APPLESAUCE by Jody

For this next layout Jacki wanted to celebrate sisterhood and the tenderness of this moment yet still capture the vibrancy of sunset colors. The white background helped highlight that contrast.

Sister by Jacki

Rebecca used a clipping mask to accentuate her title as you can see here:

Us by Rebecca

Be Mine Sunshine by Tiffany

A freebie for you, too by Lisa!  Download Here

There are so many ways to add fun and colorful words to your page so we would love to see what you come up with! Just be sure to upload your images to the Challenge Gallery.

 

Scrap a Moment - School Event Challenge

Hi there!

It's Sue here and I'm going to give you your next Little Dreamer challenge. This week we focus on "Scrap a Moment", but with a twist. We want you to focus your challenge on a "School Event". This event can by yours, your child's or another family members moment. There are no other restraints except to have fun.

Here is what Crissy, Jennifer, Suzy and I put together for this challenge.

Crissy

Jennifer

Suzy

Sue

CANNOT wait to see what everyone comes up with.

Here is a freebie from Leora to use with your page.

Lastly, make sure that you upload your layouts to the Challenge Gallery so we can see your fantastic work. Good Luck!

 

January Blog Challenge Winners

It's about time that I award the winners for the January Blog Challenges.  Thank you to all of those who participated.  I hope that you found the challenges inspiring and had fun while you completed them. 
Now, for the winners. . . .

Our first winner, mel_b, quickly completed a page for the Crazy Challege: Fill it with Hearts. Her page, like the titile, is full of sweetness.  She captured her little one in the middle of a yawn.  I also love how she kept the page centered, drawing your eye right to the photo.
Pure Sweetness

Our next winner completed a page for the Focus on Photo Challenge.  Winter is the perfect time for lots of snow photos, so we asked to see them!  Petul created a page using a series of photos that helped to tell the story of her page. She also did some recoloring so that her papers coordinated with the photos.
Snow

Our final winner was aromachock who submitted a page for the Color Challenge using White.  She kept the white background, but then added some bright colors that went along with her great photo.  Make sure you read the journaling on this page too, very cute!
Puppets

Each of these ladies will be receiving a Gift Certificate to the Little Dreamer Shoppe!  Congratulations!  So, if your new to LDD, make sure you join us by completing a page for our blog challenges and post them in the Challenge Gallery.  You could be our next winner!  I had also thrown out a random Speed Scrap Challenge last weekend with one of our featured kits, Groovy Kind of Love, by Lori Barnhurst.  The winner was Kelley, with her page Oh, Love. . .

Thanks for filling the LDD galleries with your beautiful pages! 
Have a great day!
Tana 

Page Recipe Challenge

Hello Everyone,

here is Dagmar with a recipe for you. I'll tell you what you will need for your page - you grab your stuff and cook up a page :)

Ingredients for your page:

a baby picture of yourself (can be sweet)
the colors brown and blue
5 stitches
3 elements almost off the page
Brackets
Journaling has to be left bound
a swirl
7 flowers
3 patterned papers
2 solids
you have to use the Custom Cutter Tool for something on your page :)

- You can spice up your page with anything you have handy in your Scrap Kitchen :)

That sounds easy enough, right? I gave this recipe to Lauren, Audrey and Ana and here is what they came up with:

Audrey's:

Lauren's:

Ana's:

mine

We can't wait to see what will put on the table for us - please grab this fabulous Freebie by Jackie (and use it for your page)

and post your page to the Challenge Gallery so we can check it out!

Thanks for playing,
Dagmar

Double Feature Premiere & a Speed Challenge

One thing is certain. . . .life never slows down!  This weekend we are featuring two wonderful kits that are filled with ways to express your love and cherish those around you.  First, let's take a look at Lori's Groovy Kind of Love Collection.
It's filled with gorgeous papers, word art, tied ribbons, brushed frames, a stitched felt alpha and so much more!  This collection will help you complete page after page of beautiful memories.  If you don't already have it, pick it up here for a bargain price for the next few days.  And, I'm going to throw in a speed challenge too!  Upload a page using this collection to the Challenge Gallery by midnight 12:00MST Monday, February 18th to be randomly selected to win a Gift Certificate to the shoppe!  It's that easy!  So start scrappin'!

Here's a few pages by the Dream Girls to get you going!

U Love Chocolate, by Jennifer Boott

Love, by Suzy Nunes

Our next kit for this weekend is Michelle's Amour kit.  The color combination in this kit has become a quick favorite of mine and I'm sure with most of you too!  So, let's get right to it!
Amour
Along with Michelle's gorgeous papers, this kit includes stitched buttons, paper flowers, lace, scattered hearts as well as other one of a kind embellishments! Snag this baby and find out what you can do with this beautiful kit! 

Here's what our Dream Girls did with this one.

Best Friend, by Crissy Hunt

Love, by Jody Knapp

Amour, by Dagmar Neumann

I hope you're all having a wonderful weekend.  We've actually had some much needed sunshine here in Utah and that has been so nice!
Tana

Challenge: Focus on Photo's: Show Us Some Love

Hi ladies, it's time to give you another blog challenge focusing on your photo's. I love the month of February, and am always excited to break out the Valentines decorations and prepare to show my family how much I love them . . . but, we don't always need a special "holiday" or day to let them know we care! This weeks challenge is to focus on those special moments of LOVE! Use those pictures that you've been wanting to scrap that melt your heart whenever you look at them! Whether it's holiday or not, we wanna see what you can come up with!

Here are a few layouts from the Dream Team to get your creative juices flowing!

Ahhh, by Susan:

Brotherly Love, by Ginger:

Download this fab freebie from Heidi, here:

And don't forget to post your layout in the challenge gallery for a chance to win a gift certificate.

Crazy Challenge - text along the edge

Looking at my layouts I realized that all my text is always perfect aligned, sometimes too perfect.

While this is fine, it feels good to write outside the lines once in a while!
So, it's time to go crazy and type something along the edge.
You can cut a part of your photo or just create a path for the text.
Have fun and let's see what you can create without worrying about perfect alignment! :)


As always, inspiration from the dream girls!
and don't forget to post your layouts on the challenge gallery

Patricia

Heart by Keela

American Women by Alissa

For mom by Patricia

Wish List Winners!! :)

Congratulations to our 3 random winners in our

Fill Your Wish List Contest! :)

Laura Watson
Andrea Dickinson
Brynn Dukes

Congratulations ladies!! You have all been awarded a $20 Gift Certificate!
Thanks for playing!
~M

Designer's Corner

Hey friends!! I'm so excited to bring you my version of the Designer's Corner!! Yes, I am a designer. But first I am a scrapper. I started digi scrapping 2 1/2 years ago, when things in the digi world were just getting started. It has been so fun to see how far everything has come! Even though I design, I still love to scrapbook. That is my ultimate creative release. There's nothing like taking stuff from so many places and designers and putting it together to create a piece of art! The reasons I scrapbook are mainly for my kids. Besides it letting me be creative, I get to record the everyday moments for my children to remember. That is what is most important to me! So I've done just that here. I've done a layout for my daughter Bryleigh. Her favorite thing that she is attached to is a stuffed animal named Ellie. Even when she is grown, I always want her to remember her little best friend.

Credits are HERE

So my challenge to you is to capture those little moments that make life memorable! Find something everyday that you want to record, and scrap about it!!

Be our Guest. . .

Join me in welcoming our first Guest Dream Girl at Little Dreamer:  Jacki Steinkamp! 
Jacki will be joining us for the month of February and her gallery is full of color and inspiration, so be sure to check it out!  One thing that I love about Jacki's pages is her ability to use multiple photos on one page.  She really tells the whole story with her pages!  I thought that it would be fun for us to get to know her better, so I asked her a few questions.
1. What is your full name? Jacqueline Steinkamp but everyone knows me by Jacki
2. Who do you love? My hubby of 17 yrs., Karl, and my 3 kiddos – Josiah, Karissa, and Mikaela. I also have lots of sweet friends who I really love and make my life that much richer.
3. How long have you been digi scrapping? Last year in May I had unexpected surgery and found myself with lots of time on my hands. I had learned how to digi scrap about a year before but it didn’t all make sense until I put some time into it.
4. Where does your inspiration come from? Oh, I love looking at other peoples’ work. Such amazingly talented people out there! It never fails to surprise me to see the new ways of doing things and the clever designing popping up all over the place.
5. What do you listen to while scrapping? Nothing. I love the quiet too much!
6. What is one scrap item you could not live without? Michelle’s little date tags. I bought the whole kit (Lighter Shades of Pale) just for those perfectly versatile tags!
7. How long does it take you to complete a scrapbook page? Since I work full-time I try to be economical time-wise – LO’s take anywhere from 20 min. to 2 hrs. if it’s for a challenge. If I use a template it goes much more quickly.
8. What are your favorite moments/subjects to scrap? I’ve never paper scrapped and my kids are a bit older (12, 10, 7) so I’m trying to play catch-up on major events (holidays, birthdays, accomplishments) and scrap some of my favorite scanned photos of them. Plus I’m trying to keep up with the here and now and capture moments that really define them at this age. I wish I would’ve had a digital camera and started scrapping 12 years ago. I’m so hooked!
9. What are your other hobbies or interests? Even though I have lots to learn, I really enjoy photography. My family enjoys travelling and seeing new places too. Oh, and I collect picture frames. Guess that all fits together, huh?
10. If you could live anywhere in the world for a year, where would it be? Wow - I’ve lived outside the US most my life so that’s a rather fun question! I think I’d pick Australia. It’s beautiful and the people are gorgeous!
11. What super-power would you most like to have and why? Hmm, invisibility. I’d love to see what my kids are up to when I’m not around.
12. What is the last book that you read? “The Grand Weaver” by Ravi Zacharias
13. What famous person would you like to meet? Condelezza Rice. I’d love to hear about the people she’s met, the places she’s been, the conversations she’s had. Just imagine!
14. What's something that you should throw away, but can't. Explain. Magazines. Oh, my – the ones I love are often expensive or hard to come by where I live so I just can’t bear to throw them out even though they’re tattered and I’ve read them through dozens of times. Goodness – when I write that it sounds so pathetic!
15. Complete the statement, "I recommend. . ." Watching the movie “Amazing Grace.” It’s so powerful and makes you want to go out and make a difference in the world. If I could add another thing it’d be this great book on parenting I just read called “Say Goodbye to Whining, Complaining and Bad Attitudes in You and Your Kids” by Scott Turansky and Joanne Miller. Now if I could just do what the book recommends I’d be in good shape!
16. What are your favorite TV shows? We don’t have TV, but we do try to find DVD’s of Numbers, Prison Break, Amazing Race and Survivor. My choices are obviously influenced by my hubby.
17. Where is your favorite place to shop? Anywhere in the US! Oh, give me Target and Walmart any day. I love the choices, the variety, the prices. You should see my list when we come for the summer – it’s enormous!
18. What helps to get you through each day? Knowing what I do matters. That investing in my family and the lives of the kids at school pays off in the long run. We work in a pretty intense environment and it’s easy to become fatigued. Then out-of-the-blue a former student will come by or drop a line and say how much s/he loved it here and how much s/he appreciated being listened to or helped in some way and I think, ‘yep, I can do this a little longer.’
19. What is your motto? Take a step back and gain perspective.
20. What has been your greatest scrapping moment? This and being asked by Janet Phillips to be on her CT – both a HUGE thrill!

Our Dream Girls took some inspiration from Jacki's gallery to create some fabulous lifts!  So now it's time to show them off. . .

Love Big Wheels, by Jacki          We Love to Roll, by Alissa

Believe, by Jacki                       Free Spirit, by Jody

12 Stitches, by Jacki                  Candy Cane, by Rebecca

5 Beautiful Things, by Jacki          Life is Beautiful, by Janet

Soo. . . .are you wondering how you can become a guest Dream Girl?  Show off those Little Dreamer Products by participating in the blog challenges and you may be our next guest!

Have a great weekend.
Tana