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It's a BIRTHDAY celebration!!

Chelle is celebrating her birthday in style.... and we, her CT, are giving away TONS of goodies!  From now through the end of the month, visit Chelle's Blog to catch all the great giveaways and play in all the festivities.  To whet your whistle. here's my giveaway for Day 7 of the celebration:



You can get the freebie by going to Chelle's Blog or directly by clicking here.  Hope you enjoy it!  And please stop by here and/or Chelle's blog and show us what you did with it!  I'd love to see it.

Are You Chelle's Super Fan??

Are you a fan of Chelle's Creations... then you will love this new feature that will score you a new product of Chelle's EACH month... for FREE! Yep a FREE product of Chelle's each month! Plus have a chance to win a gift certificate to her store!  Wanna see what's up for grabs this month?




What do you need to do? Link up your layouts that you do using her products on the Link Up on her Blog to any gallery you have it posted at - so we can be sure to leave you some much deserved love! The layouts you link up MUST be created during the Link Up period. For this month that will be July 3rd to the 30th.

When should I do it? Each month we will post a new Link Up - after the previous one has finished - simply link your layouts that you create. Just linking one is enough but we would love to see more so feel free to link them all up!

So head over to Chelle's Blog and link up your layouts!! 

Madly Scrapping

It's summer and it's crazy busy.  What, with taking my little fish swimming and some surgeries/medical issues, it's been so out-of-control.  But here I am to show you a little of what I've been working on.  I can't show you everything (sinister grin) because not all the kits I'm working with have been released yet, but you'll see them soon.  :)

Chelle of Chelle's Creations has been a machine this month as she's doing a guest spot at The DigiChick in addition to her regular stuff at ScrapMatters... and she is featured at The Daily Digi this month as well.  All this and she has children too.  She amazes me.  Anyway, I've got a Product Flashback featured on her blog that posts tomorrow.  Check it out! 

It's Christmas in July as ScrapMatters and Chelle has her winter kits on sale 30% off until July 15.  Here's her newest kit, Ho! Ho! Ho!

And the layout I made with this super fun kit (the button tree is awesome, isn't it??)


Here's a kit of Chelle's that only available at The DigiChick, Grandpa's Garden.  It's so cute.. and perfect for scrapping photos of my little boy and my dad working together at the farm.  Here's the kit:


Here's my layout:


Scrapmuss Designs is participating in the ScrapMatters Christmas in July sale too.  Maria created a new kit called Knit Me a Winter Mini.  It's adorable and on sale for only $2.45!  Here's a look:

And my layout:


And here's another layout I did for Sarah Bennett with her kit, Old Glory - a collab with Trixie Scraps.  It's very vintage.  I really love it.  Here's the kit preview:

Here's my layout:


And last, but not least (of those that I can show you today - LOL) is a layout I did for Designs by Tater.  I used her super cute collab kit, Yankee Doodle Doo, that she did with Keepscrappin' Designs.  It's the perfect kit.  It's like it was made for me.  I love the little felt people and the awesome alphas.  Great kit! 


Here's my layout:

 

So thanks for looking and I hope you found some inspiration here today.  :)   'Til next time...

Cara

Chelle's Christmas Sale


See?  Told you my fave designers had kits on sale.  :)  Chelle's Creations has some fab winter/Christmas kits on SALE.  I can't even tell you which one's my favorite because I love them ALL.  If I had to pick, I'd choose Gingerbread.  Yum.  LOL  Sled on over to Scrapmatters to get yours!!!

Christmas in July sale


ScrapMatters is having a SALE!!!  Starting today and going through next Tuesday get your favorite things on sale.  You know you need to stock up on Christmas-themed kits, right???  Now's the time!

My favorite designers have things on sale!  Hooray!  ScrapMuss has a NEW kit, Knit me a winter mini, as well as Christmas in your heart mini and Capture this: Christmas photomasks

See you there:  ScrapMatters