January Product Highlight - A Photo A Day!

Happy January! 

Are you scrapping your way into the new year?  Working on P365, P52, or Project Life? Or are you just looking to catch up on all those pictures and get them documented in your albums?  Mary has the perfect kit for all your needs! 

A Photo A Day is available at Funky Playground Designs!  Save 30% off on this fantastic and versatile kit for the entire month of January.  That means it is only $4.19!

The colors, textures, and patterns including cork, red, bright yellow, black, kraft, and blue are wonderful for so many themes including Disney, school, and everyday photos.  A Photo A Day is a huge kit for such a bargain price.  You'll receive 12 - 12x12 Papers, 1 full alpha (upper, lower, numbers and some punctuation), 52 Number Circles + blank, months, days of the week, and over 50 elements!!!   

You are going to find yourself turning to this kit again and again for a variety of themes. It is one of my favorite Plum Dumpling kits! Following are a few of my layouts with it:

May the new year bring you happiness, joy, and lots of wonderful memories to scrap!



We would love to see what you can do with this gorgeous kit.  Just scrap a layout with it, post it in the Plum Dumpling Designs gallery and link us up in the comments of this post.  One lucky random poster will win a $10 gift certificate to the Plum Dumpling Designs store at Funky Playground Designs!!



January's Product Highlight

Hi everyone I hope you are having a wonderful New Year!  Mary is about to make it a little more bright for you because I am here to introduce you to the kit we are highlighting this month....................

A Photo A Day

This is such a fabulous kit I know you will use again and again!  As I said Mary will make your New Year bright by offering this huge kit for 20% off for a very short time so grab it up at this teriffic price!

Here is a layout I made using this very versitile kit:

Happy Scrapping!  and Happy New Year!

Lisa


We would love to see what you can do with this gorgeous kit.  Just scrap a layout with it, post it in the Plum Dumpling Designs gallery and link us up here in the comments.  One lucky random poster will win a $10 gift certificate to the Plum Dumpling Designs store at Funky Playground Designs!!

November Freebie Challenge

Are you ready for another freebie? I'm here to speed up your DSD scrapping with a template! Check out the end of this post for challenge details on how to win a $5 GC to my shop!



Check out the LO I made with the template. I'm only a year "behind" on my fall leaves scrapping, hehe! click image for full credits


Lisa has created another beautiful LO with the template using an oldie but a goodie!


Challenge Details: Each month we have a freebie challenge here on the blog. Complete the challenge with the freebie, post in my Designer Gallery and link us up here at this post and we'll choose a winner to receive a $5 coupon to my shop! There is a link on the sidebar so you can click back to this post easily when you finish your LO. I can't wait to see what you create!!

The winner from last month's challenge is...SueP1963...congrats and thanks to all who participated!! Sue, watch your ScrapMatters PM box for a coupon code for my shop.

Have a fantastic DSD weekend! I'll be back tomorrow with a grab bag!

October Product Highlight: All American Superhero!

Happy Monday Everyone!! 

Denise here with another installment of our monthly product highlight. In October we are featuring Plum Dumpling Designs' fantastic All American Superhero kit!  Perfect for highlighting the super dad, mom, girl, boy, or trick or treater in your life!

Adorable isn't it?  I absolutely loved working with this kit.  Here is one of my layouts with All American Superhero and the Plum Dumpling Designs bracketed templates:

Even more exciting is that the kit is on sale for you right now at 30% off!  Yep... for just $3.85 you can scrap the superstars in your life.  Check it out by clicking here!

We would love to see what you can do with this gorgeous kit.  Just scrap a layout with it, post it in the ScrapMatters design gallery and link us right here on the October 3 post.  One lucky random poster will win a $10 gift certificate to the Plum Dumpling Designs store at ScrapMatters!!

To get you started, I have a little freebie using the kit that you can download using Mediafire by clicking right here.   Enjoy and get scrappin! We can't wait to see your layouts!

October FREEBIE: Candy Corn Alpha

Are you ready for another FREEBIE?! It's time for the October Freebie Challenge! I've created an alpha to celebrate one my favorite guilty pleasures of October...Candy Corn!



Here's my LO to celebrate...


And some delicious inspiration from the CT!

Challenge Details: Each month we have a freebie challenge here on the blog. Complete the challenge with the freebie, post in my Designer Gallery and link us up here at this post and we'll choose a winner to receive a $5 coupon to my shop! There is a link on the sidebar so you can click back to this post easily when you finish your LO. I can't wait to see what you create!!

The winner from last month's challenge is...SHANELL...congrats and thanks to all who participated!! Shanell, watch your ScrapMatters PM box for a coupon code for my shop.


Enjoy some candy corn...digital or otherwise!

New Release: Prehistoric Pals & a Freebie Challenge!

September? Really? It's a little bit sad and a little bit wonderful all at the same time. I'm happily exhausted from a play-filled summer and ready to settle down and get back to work. This month we are changing things up here on the Plum Dumpling Designs Blog. Be sure to check back often. We'll be offering tutorials, inspiration, a freebie challenge, discounts, RAKs and so much more. You can even subscribe so you don't miss out!

And Mix A Kit is here! I always love Mix A Kits. It's so fun to see how differently everyone interpreted the colors. This month is NO exception. There is a fantastic array of products from all of the designers. Be sure to stop by the shop and check it out. This is my contribution. We are all about dinos around here and I love it. I had so many photos sitting on my hard drive waiting for a dinosaur kit, so I had to just sit down and draw it out! I give to you the Prehistoric Pals Collection!!







And I've scrapped a LO with it too! I have plenty of dino photos to scrap, so I'll be using these products again and again!


And some romping stomping CT work!


But wait! There's more! How about a freebie template?!?

Each month we'll have a freebie challenge here on the blog. Complete the challenge with the freebie, post in my Designer Gallery and link us up here at this post and we'll choose a winner to receive a $5 coupon to my shop! There is a link on the sidebar so you can click back to this post easily when you finish your LO. I can't wait to see what you create!!


OK - now go and enjoy your September!!

Past Matters

I'm hosting the Past Matters challenge at ScrapMatters now. The challenge is to create a LO showcasing a few generations from your family history. I created this LO of my mom, grandma and great-grandma. I am so thankful for them and their examples of being great moms. I never knew my great-grandma, but I know she was a great mom because I knew my grandma. Before I get all mushy, come play along with me this month. You can find the challenge details here.

Eco-Trip (Roadmap to Scrap) Challenge

As part of our Design Star Contest, we were asked to host a challenge and provide an alpha as a participation prize. One of my favorite challenges at ScrapMatters is the Roadmap to Scrap. But this isn't any old regular RTS, there's a little twist!

April 22nd is a favorite holiday of mine…Earth Day! So in honor of our planet, I thought I would use eco-friendly principles to guide our eco-trip. Your LO does not have to be Earth Day themed, but you’ll be applying some green principles as you create.

Instructions

1. Choose 2 or more photos or you can duplicate a single photo
2. Arrange the photos so that they are not touching each other. (do you separate your recyclables?)
3. Use at least 3 papers (stands for the three pillars of green living: reduce, reuse, recycle)
4. Add a string and embellish it – if it is already embellished, good for you! (embellish your world with flowers and beautiful things, not litter)
5. Use a combo font/alpha for your title (Together we can make a difference)
6. Including something green in your LO or something from nature
7. Reuse something in a new way – recoloring, blending, etc.
8. Add something recyclable: metal, cardboard, newsprint, plastic (all other paper types are excluded)

In order to reach your destination, you MUST have all 8 things in your layout. Be creative and if you use something that meets more than one requirement, lucky you!

Here’s my LO that I created using these instructions (and my Happy Earth Day to You kit)!

You will have ONE WEEK (Deadline: midnight, April 20th) to scrap your layout. Post it to the ScrapMatters Gallery AND in the forum here to get your participation prize.

You will each receive this super cute Earth Day Alpha for completing this challenge (alpha coordinates with my Round 2 and 3 DS entries Happy Earth Day to You)

I hope you can come with me on this Eco-Trip, and I can’t wait to see what you create!