Good Morning!!! Happy early iNSD! I hope that you all have a fabulous weekend planned with lots of time for scrapping and chatting. A whole bunch of fun stuff is planned including this fun blog train we have going. So toot toot! All aboard for the sweetest blog train around. 

As your first blog stop, please allow me to give you a preview of all of our stops: 

YOU ARE HERE

Sugar Plum Corinne

Sugar Plum Sharon

Fabulous Designer Emily

Sugar Plum Brandy

Sugar Plum Mama Faye

Sugar Plum Jadelyn

Sugar Plum Nikki

Polka Dot Pixels

Sugar Plum Shauna

last but totally not least

the Polka Dot Plum! 

I created this little freebie for you with a Quick Page taken from 

Sir Scrapalot Designs' fabulous kit Up Up and Away! 

here is my page for you: 

download here

wanna know a secret? 

It was created with one of 

Berry Sweet Designs' templates.... all clustered up

Brenda's templates are becoming my favorite around town!!

Ok, on to your next stop ... Sugar Plum Corinne for an oh so fabulous template! 

Enjoy the train and I hope you are able to pick up some sweet kits of your own with all the super fabulous sales going on! And be sure to pop around the Forum for lots of fun games and prizes. 

Just sayin...

you umm... may want to be sure to stop back here tomorrow... you know... umm... there may be some little thing i have for you... i mean, maybe... just sayin! 

but what ever it is... i'm sure it has nothing to do with that ^^^












ok, it does! i am so excited for iNSD! 

What a Week

Hi all! 

First of all, there is a new post over at a weekly focus blog and it's all about the shutter. 

Be sure to check it out, and test out the shutter settings on your camera. 

Then, Brenda (Berry Sweet Designs) released this fabulous new template set! 

I am officially in love with it. I have created a few pages with it: 

(click titles for link to credits) 

fun fact

I did this RAK for Kristen with some of Cindy's photos

mommy and daddy

what i will do

and finally who isn't excited for iNSD!? It seems like it is going to be pretty fabulous all around. The Polka Dot Plum is going to have a blog train and this is a stop. So be sure to check back here over the weekend for a quick page using one of the fabulous kits from Sit Scrapsalot! (I couldn't tell you which one, that wouldn't be any fun!) 

Hope you guys have a fabulous few days. See you soon! 

I have a Template Challenge at the Plum!

There are a whole slew of new challenges over at the Plum today (including a new weekly focus challenge!) 


You should totally go check it out. Here is the template: 

And the page i made with it using Allison Pennington's kit Forward:

be sure to head over there and check it out! 

How to Depth of Field

Yesterday i posted on Jennifer Fox's blog how-to depth of field. 


You can read all about it here

these were a few of my sample images i included in the post

and then it got picked up by Craft Crave and can be found here

all i have to say is boom. 

Check out these cool beans

thats me!

that's right, I'm going to be working with Jennifer Fox and am super excited about it. 

(the announcement is from her kit cuppycakes, rereleased today for 20% off) 

Here is a page i made with her new kit (My Birthday Boy, also 20% off today)

All of Jennifer's designs can be found at www.thedigichik.com