August Challenge!

August brings us the dog days of summer. All we can think about is cooling off and hanging out by the pool. Mixing kids and water is a guaranteed recipe for happiness. So that will be the theme for this month's Kellybell Designs August Blog Challenge called "Wet and Wild".
Here's all the rules and instructions to play:

• Scrap some Disney water fun. This can be photos from a Disney cruise or water park, a water ride like Splash Mountain or Kali River Rapids, swimming in the resort pools, splashing in the squirting fountains, boat rides from the resort, waterfalls from Jungle Cruise, squirting Tikis in Adventureland, standing in front of the Epcot fountains, even photos in the rain. Be creative here!
• Follow these 3 instructions:
• Use at least 4 photos
• Include some waves or splashes (a wavy or curvy border, ocean waves, water drops)
• Use at least one blue paper
• Layouts should be made with 100% Kellybell products or freebies (you are allowed to use a template from another designer). You are welcome to submit more than 1 layout.
• Post your layout into the Challenges Gallery at Kellybell Designs by midnight EST August 31th

Two winners will be selected and announced the first week of September. One winner will be chosen at random so all participants have a chance to win. The second winner will be selected as the most outstanding layout. Both winners will receive a gift certificate to Kellybell Designs store.

Kelly has lots of kits to choose from to scrap your layout for this challenge. You might choose from Beachy Keen, City of Tomorrow, Just Keep Swimming, Kiss The Girl, Land Of Adventure, Sail Away With Me, Water and Ice, Where Dreams Set Sail.

Check out Kelly's blog to see lots more inspiration from her entire Creative Team and to find out who won the July Blog Challenge. Here's a page I made for the Wet and Wild Blog Challenge.

Summer at Tokyo Disneyland!
Template: Crossbone Cuts Love Bursts
Little Green Frog for the photo layers
Kelly's Sail Away with Me, Where Dreams Set Sail, and Water and Ice.

 

Let's Rock and Roll!!!!

When you're listening to some great music, it makes you feel better. And when the song has a great beat and some funky words, you can do anything, right? So can an Aerosmith song make you enjoy getting catapulted off at 57 miles an hour and then flung upside down twice? You bet it can if you're riding the Rock 'n Roller Coaster ride at Hollywood Studios!! It's an amazing fun roller coaster ride with the best rock and roll music playing in your head rest. Kelly's collection today focuses on all that rock and roll fun with a new kit called....

The colors are fabulous in shades of red, black, white and blue along with some funky patterns. It's packed with lots of amazing musical elements like a guitar, microphone, sheet music notes, amplifier, ticket stub, cassette, gold record, back stage pass and reels along with cool road signs, flairs journal tags, stars and much more. This is a great kit to scrap layouts for Rock 'n Roller Coaster, High School Musical, Hollywood Studies as well as music recitals and all those air guitar concerts.

There's a fresh and funky black alpha with red outlines included in the kit that's fabulous for creating titles. Take a look at these 7 word art titles that Kelly made for you.

The 4 paper stack feature one in each color theme for Rock 'n Roller Coaster.

Check out the set of 5 page starters. You'll get 2 borders and 3 cluster frames. So fabulous for scrapping a quick layout.

This new collection will be on sale this weekend only for 25% off at www.KellybellDesigns.com. If you've been thinking about adding a music kit to your stash, do it this weekend when you can get a discount on this gorgeous collection. Make sure you stop by Kelly's Blog to check out all the amazing layout inspiration from the Creative Team.

There's so many fun ways you can scrap with this 'Rock 'n' Roll Baby' collection. Take a look at what I scrapped.

Disney California Adventure, 2002
Little Green Frog Designs' Mulberry Thistle Template
Kelly's RocknRoll Baby
Extra Shadows: Crossbone Cuts Designs
Font: WM2 Fonnetta

If you're ready to pick up some rockin' great freebies from the team, you can grab your guitar and sing along at Julie's Blog, Kelly's Blog and and Linda's Blog. Make sure you give them a thumbs up along the way. Happy scrapping and have a great week!

Sail Away!

For those of you that have been Kellybell Designs fans since the very beginning of her digital scrapping adventures, you'll probably remember this kit as one of her earliest designs. Some things just remain a classic! This kit was designed for scrapping all your sailing memories from a Disney cruise including all the fun adventures at each port of call. This week, Kelly will add to this old classic. Let's cruise together as we remember the magic of.....

This kit is packed with all kinds of nautical goodies including a cruise ship, port holes, captain's hat, shells, flip flops, ship's wheel, glitter splats, chaise lounge, shells, treasure chest, raffia, palm tree, dock, coconuts, even footprints in the sand. You'll also get 20 papers in the classic Disney cruise line colors of red and blue along with other beautiful colors, prints and patterns.

Kelly has a new Add-On for this kit filled with 7 papers, 25 elements and a beautiful white full alpha. Check out the sweet sand castle and all those flairs!

Look how gorgeous that alpha is. Here's 5 word art titles that will be perfect to top your Disney cruise pages.

I don't know about you, but I'm addicted to these paper stacks and page starters.

Can't you envision using these page starters on your layout, how awesome one of the borders would look on your page and what photos you'd pop into the frames? Better put these in your shopping cart too!

I'm sure you know how the Remember The Magic sales work at www.KellybellDesigns.com. You get 50% off the kit for this weekend only and 25% off the new add-on, word art, paper stacks and page starters. Now, if only putting a Disney cruise in your shopping cart was this easy! Stop by Kellybell Designs blog to see all the CT inspiration with this collection.

While this kit is perfect for scrapping your cruise and beach pages, the colors are very versatile and can be used for lots of other Disney places and characters. Here's a page I made.

Columbia ship at Tokyo Disney Seas and Cape Cod lighthouse
Template: Scrapping with Liz
Kelly's Where Dreams Set Sail
Photo Action and Frames: Charmstagram Toolbox
Font: A Drippy Fountain Pen
Additonal Shadows: Crossbone Cuts

Wow, are you just dying to go on a Disney cruise now? I think I am! Here's one last bit of information for you. You get to "cruise" on over to Kelly's Creative Team and pick up their beautiful freebies. Have a great weekend and happy scrapping.

JamieB - Scrappin Frame Of Mind

JessicaP - The Apples Of My Everything

Lisa - Lisa Campbell Designs

What a Small World!

It's a world of laughter, a world of tears. It's a world of hope and a world of fears.

The lyrics to this song will stick in your head forever once you ride Disney's It's A Small World. Originally created by Walt Disney and his team of Imagineers, this ride was a tribute to the children of the world at the UNICEF pavilion at the 1964/65 World's Fair. It features over 300 animated dolls in brightly colored costumes showcasing their native countries. It's such a gorgeous display and a wonderful boat ride too! For scrapping all those precious dolls and all your photos inside It's A Small World, Kelly's got a collection that's just spectacular. Introducing....

Wow! Just look at all those amazing dolls! This kit is so fabulous. It has 15 brightly colored papers and neat geometric patterns and textures. You'll get a clock tower and 8 dolls along with banners, stemmed flowers, boat, hearts, buttons, ribbons, globe, scatters, strings, stitches, flairs and so much more. The white alpha is just precious and perfect for creating awesome titles.

Check out these 4 word art titles. You'll want to create lots of Small World layouts just so you can use each one of these titles!

Don't forget about the gorgeous clustered Page Starters and Paper Stacks.

Head straight to www.KellybellDesigns.com to pick up this entire collection for 25% off this weekend only. This is certainly one that belongs in your scrapping stash. If you need some creative inspiration, you can check out all the CT layouts at Kelly's Blog.

This kit was so much fun to play with. Here's a page I made.



Small World at Hong Kong Disneyland
Template: Michelle Batton and Little Green Frog Collab
Kelly's World so Small
Font: SMD Teacher Man
Additional Shadows: Crossbone Cuts

 

And now that you've made it to the bottom of this blog post, you can take your boat and sail on over to visit these CT gals blogs for your freebies. As you're visiting, make sure you start singing the chorus "It's a small world after all, it's a small world after all". I bet you'll be singing that song all day long!!

Jenn - Scrapping With Jenn

JessicaK - Handbags & Scrapbooks

Wendy - Neverland Scraps

Time for a Challenge!

Summer has settled in. Is it hot where you live? Wouldn't it be nice to take a Disney trip right now? One of the first things you do with trip planning is to figure out where you want to stay. Disney offers so many choices of resorts. And that's the theme for this month's blog challenge from Kellybell Designs. The July challenge is called "My Place". Here's all the rules and instructions to play:

• Scrap some fun at a Disney resort, DVC or offsite lodging nearby Disney. This might be photos checking in, photos of your room, eating at a resort restaurant, playing in the pool or resort scenery
• Follow these 3 instructions:
• Layouts must contain at least 2 photos
• Frame or mat all your photos
• Use an alpha and a font for your title/subtitle
• Layouts should be made with 100% Kellybell products or freebies (you are allowed to use a template from another designer). You are welcome to submit more than 1 layout.
• Post your layout into the Challenges Gallery at Kellybell Designs by midnight EST July 31th

Two winners will be selected and announced the first week of August. One winner will be chosen at random so all participants have a chance to win. The second winner will be selected as the most outstanding layout. Both winners will receive a gift certificate to Kellybell Designs store.

There are so many amazing Disney resort with lots of fun themes. Kelly has several kits that can be used to scrap your resort photos including All Star Resort, All Star Movies Resort, All Star Music Resort, All Star Sports Resort, Everything POP, Expedition Safari, French Quarter, Modern Magic, On The River, Polynesian Paradise and The Wilderness. Wow, so many kits to choose from!

Check out Kelly's blog to see lots more inspiration from her entire Creative Team and to find out who won the June Blog Challenge. Here's my resort layout:

Template: Little Green Frog Designs
Kellybell's Essential Disney
Additional Shadows: Crossbone Cuts

 

Spirit of America

This week we are all feeling a little bit more patriotic. For those of us here in the United States, it was a time to celebrate our independence on the Fourth of July. With bold colors of red, white and blue and lots of flag waving, this holiday is filled with family celebrations, parades, marches, fireworks, picnics and lots of outdoor fun. At Disney, you can find your fill of red, white and blue in Liberty Square in Magic Kingdom or at Epcot in the United States country inside the World Showcase. Your patriotism can soar with the release of Kellybell's latest collection called ....

'Americana' is packed with solids and patterned papers in the classic red, white and blue. The mix of patriotic elements is so wonderful -- you'll find a bald eagle, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, a stockade, liberty bell, feather ink quill, liberty tower, grandfather clock, tree, American flag, Abraham Lincoln top hat, Uncle Sam hat, hinges, lantern, iron fence and so much more. Kelly's included 2 alphas for you. One is a a red, white and blue flag print and the other is a classic gold.

Kelly went a little crazy creating lots of word art titles for you. Look at all these amazing titles to use for Liberty Square and the American Adventure in Epcot. Isn't the mix of the 2 alphas fabulous?

She's also created 4 paper stacks which make a wonderful starting point for your layouts, along with 6 different page starters. These make scrapping so fun and easy.

Kelly's newest collections are always on sale for 25% off for the first weekend. Head on over to www.KellybellDesigns.com to grab 'Americana'. Now let's take a look at what you can create with this kit.

With 'Americana', you can scrap your Fourth of July celebrations, parades, picnics and lots of other holiday events. It's so versatile. Here's what I created:

Rivers of America in Tokyo Disneyland
Template: Cluster Queen Creations
Kelly's Americana
Shadows: Crossbone Cuts
Font: SMD Teacher Man

Ready for a parade of freebies? You can march yourself on over to October's Blog and finally to Roxana's Blog. Enjoy these matching freebies and have a wonderful weekend! Can't wait to see what new layouts you'll be scrapping with this collection.

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