Layout Spotlight

I am so excited to share a layout from msbrad!!!  Michelle did an amazing job on her layout using my Design Star round 4 entry Blast Off!!! 

 I love her journaling, the photo, the blending of the elements to make a cosmic scene in the background, the different papers and basically the overall composition of this layout!!!  I thought it needed to be spotlighted.

 

 It is fabulous right?!!!  You can go and find her layout with credits and leave her a comment here.

If you would like to download Blast Off you can find it here.

If you have a layout you have created with one of my kits or templates I would love to see it!!!!  You can email me at downthisroaddesigns(at)q(dot)com.  You could even get a coupon to my store for sharing a layout and having it spotlighted on my blog.

Design Star Round 4

Well, today is the final round of the Design Star Contest!!!  I am really excited about this kit and think it turned out great!!

 You can go to ScrapMatters and download the kit HERE.

As part of the assignment this week we needed to scrap at least one layout from our round 2/3 entry and at least one layout from our round 4 entry.  Here are mine:

 

 I just could not narrow it down to 1 of each. LOL!!

 I appreciate all the support and super kind comments while in the contest!!!  It means so much to me that people enjoy and like my designs!!!

Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week

I had posted about the MS Movement Collab and my fundraiser for the cause earlier today. Well, there is more!!
All this week, Jackie will be donating 100% of her proceeds to Mandy's BikeMS. Yep, 100%!!! I'm sure there is a kit in her store that catches your eye. There's a LOT of variety in there. Short on cash? There are some $2 minis too.

MS Movement Collab and Fundraiser

Today starts MS Awareness week. And I am SO EXCITED.

For the last few weeks, bunches of digital scrapbook designers have been working on a really amazing thing together –these incredible women got together and created something beautiful for Multiple Sclerosis.  A BIG Thanks to Mandy Hornbuckle for putting it all together!!

Almost 200 papers. More than 400 elements. And 3 alphas on top of that. I’m blown away.  Is is so big and so wonderful!!


(And! There are a set of about 50 quick pages/templates being uploaded and coming soon to be sold separately starting tomorrow!!)

And best of all? 100% of the sales of this go to Mandy Hornbuckles BikeMS ride, which is all MS Society.


You can buy this kit at http://www.MSDigiKit.com. 

Here are the designers who contributed and and who I would therefore kiss if I met them. If they were into that kind of thing:
AKay Designs
Benthai Creations
Black Rose Digitals
Creations by Rachael
Designs by Angel
Down This Road Designs
Hornbuckle Designs
Jacabean Designs
Jen C Designs
JennCk Designs
Julie Marie Designs
JusMe Digital
Kimeric Kreations
Mama Llama Designs
Mommyish
Ocean Wide Designs
One of a Kind Design Studio
Photocowgirl
Polka Dot Chicks
Pretty in Green
Psychozoe
Rhonda Sunflower Designs
Rumki Designs
Scrapping All The Way
Scrappy Cocoa
Scrapvine
Shmooangel Designs
Starving Artist Designs
Sus Designs
Tracy King
Unforgettable Moments
Z Pink Boudoir Designs

Fabulous Right?!!!
Help by purchasing the collab and by spreading the word about this wonderful fundraiser.


That is not all folks!!!
I will be donating 100% of my sales from March 14-21 to the Mandy's BikeMS Ride also!!!  Be sure to check out my store and help this cause!!

You can find my store HERE.

Design Star Contest Round 3 Merriment

I have been so worked up over this contest!!  It is so hard to put myself out there!!  It is a good thing though.  

This round will be an elimination round and I am so nervous!!  There is a ton of talent in this contest!!  I am learning and pushing myself to be a better designer and I am so happy to have the opportunity!!  Of course, I would love to continue on in the contest!!  We will just have to see what the judges say.  Right?!!  Today I posted my Round 3 submission!  And I loved how it turned out!!  It matches the Round 2 papers so if you have not had a chance to grab those you can find them HERE.

Here are the elements pack.

 You can go to ScrapMatters HERE and download these elements for free!!

Here is the entire kit preview:

Do you love it!!!  Go leave me some comments at ScrapMatters or you can post a comment here.  I would love to hear what you think.  Thanks for all of your support!!!!!

Design Star Round 2

As I had mentioned before I made it to round 2 of the ScrapMatters Design Star Contest!!!  Can I get a Woot Woot?!!!  Our instructions for this round:  Create 8 papers with our own color selctions.  5 patterned and 3 solid.  So, I got to work and I will admit I struggled a little bit.  I was so nervous!!!  I finally decided on a theme and some colors and I love what I came up with.

 You will be able to download these papers by going to the ScrapMatters Gallery HERE.  You will also find the paper packs of the other Round 2 Designers as well.  They all did such an amazing job and I am in awe of the talent!!!  There are also some others who are playing along and they are doing a wonderful job too.  So lots of fun stuff to gather up there.

Just to let you know the elements to coordinate with these papers will be our next assignment so stay tuned for that next week.

Design Star contest

I entered the Design Star Contest at ScrapMatters.  I had participated in this same contest 2 years ago but,  I did not make it past the first round.  Do you remember this little beauty?

  This item is no longer available for sale or freebie.

I have kept on with designing and have learned so much along my journey.  I entered this time to prove to myself that I had indeed grown as a designer.  Here is the submission I created for this time around.

During the contest I am offering this mini as a Freebie!!  You can go to the ScrapMatters Gallery to pick it up along with many other submissions. 

I am very thrilled to announce that I am moving on to round 2.  There was so much talent in round 1 that I was really nervous!!!  I mean the gallery is full of really amazing creations.

Well, I guess I can say that I proved to myself that I have learned a thing or 2 and have grown as a designer. LOL!!!  I learn something new everyday about designing and I just love it.  Wish me luck as I continue on in the contest.