A Whole Lot o' Scrapping

Hi everyone! I hope to be posting a bit more frequently here in February, mostly because I hope to be scrapping more. Sweet Shoppe Designs is hosting a 14th Birthday celebration this month, and they have 29 days of challenges and games that allow you to receive daily downloads and earn an entry into a grand prize drawing if you participate all 29 days! Oscraps hosted a similar event during December, but since I'm on the CT there, I wasn't eligible for prizes. I tried to participate in The Lilypad's January event last year, but a) the requirements for each day's challenge were pretty stringent and b) my hard drive crashed about 2/3 of the way through the month and I couldn't finish.  So, since I love challenges and wouldn't mind winning a huge prize, I decided to try the SSD event. I had spent some time there a few years ago when I was on Digital Scrapbook Ingredient's CT, and it's refreshing to engage in a different sort of scrapping than I've been doing lately. Long story short, in addition to my usual pages, I'll be posting my various and sundry layouts for the SSD event.

First though, here is a layout I did for a regular monthly challenge at Just Art Scrapbooking, a mini kit challenge. This is the mini we were given:

 

The title prompted me to scrap a poem that my sister shared with our family shortly after our mother passed away:

Over at Oscraps, I've participated in a couple of challenges so far. The first is in acknowledgement of the fact that Anna Aspnes Designs has reached the milestone of 50,000 layouts posted in her gallery! The theme of the challenge is "change", and we were given some free products we could use if we wished. I already had some of the goodies, and tried to make good use of the rest:

The other challenge I participated in so far was the Featured Photo Challenge, which asked us to scrap a layout featuring a photograph that had a heart in it. Since I didn't have a photo handy, it was Pixabay to the rescue!

I used Captured Love by Natali Design:

Now, for my Sweet Shoppe Designs layouts! First up is a page done for a scraplift challenge, using Summer Fades Away by Digital Scrapbook Ingredients:

Then we have this layout, done for a paper-to-digi challenge. I used Siblings by WendyP Designs:

Finally, one day's challenge was to scrap a celebration. Once again I used Siblings by WendyP Designs; I also used items from Imagination by Meagan's Creations, and the alpha is from Summer Bucket List by Digital Scrapbook Ingredients:

I didn't link them up, but all the products used for the SSD challenges can be found in the shop there. The cute little kids belong to my niece, you can't have those, lol! All caught up for now! I'm hoping to stick with this month of scrapping, so make sure you come back and see me soon!