Kellybell Designs' August Blog Challenge

Nothing is more spectacular than the view of Cinderella Castle as you enter Magic Kingdom, or the view of Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland. It's a must-do photo op on your trip, taken from different angles and taken during both day and night. How many pictures do you have of a Disney castle? The answer is certainly a big number! This month's challenge at Kellybell Designs is all about your castle photos.

Since this is a castle themed challenge, it seems only proper to have a castle themed participation prize. And boy did CT member Jennifer create an awesome one for you. She's got a pack of 6 journal cards that all have a castle on them - sweet! Aren't they beautiful? To get them, you'll need to create a layout for this month's challenge.

Here are the rules and instructions to participation in the Monthly Blog Challenge:

• Scrap a page featuring a Disney castle. Make your castle photo really big as the central focus of the layout. You can use other photos on the page, just make sure that one castle photo is much larger than the rest.
• Use as many elements and papers as you want. Decorate a lot or a little, it's up to you.
• 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 31st. Participation prizes will be sent to the email address you have listed with Kelly's gallery so make sure you're registered and logged in with your User ID before posting your layout.
• A random winner will be selected to win a $6.50 gift certificate to Kelly's store.
• The winner will be announced the first week of September. That's also when the participation prizes will be emailed out.

Make sure you check out all the collections inside the Kellybell Designs Store. If you need some inspiration and scrapping ideas, you can head on over to Kelly's Blog or Kelly's Facebook Page to see all the Creative Team layouts for this challenge. Here is my page of Sleeping Beauty's Castle at Disneyland. I used little bits from Kelly's kits: Sleepy Beauty, Princess Overnight, and Magical Beginning.

Bounding All Your Disney Dreams! New from Kellybell Designs

Scrapping all your Disney photos is a big project. You spend lots of time working through the details of each individual page. Most people save the cover for last. Oddly enough, the cover page of your photo book is the one page that gets the most views. When it sits on your coffee table, the cover page is the layout that everyone stares at. Remember the "good old days" when you purchased a leather bound photo album to place all your pictures in? The leather was thick and padded and it looked so elegant. Kelly was reminiscing about those beautiful leather covers and decided to create a set of album covers for your Disney photo books. These include a front cover, back cover and spine. There's a set of 3 different covers for both Disneyland and Walt Disney World.

The quote on the back cover of Volume1 reads "Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, dreams are forever. Walt Disney".

The quote on the back of Volume2 reads "All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. Walt Disney".

The quote on the back of Volume3 reads "And they lived happily ever after".

Wow, aren't those amazing? Close your eyes and image how those covers will look on your photo book. So elegant! You can find these album covers inside the Kellybell Designs Store priced at 25% off this weekend only. I know your going to love them! Have a great weekend and happy scrapping!

Wanna Cover It?

A Polynesian Dream! New from Kellybell Designs

Aloha friends! Kelly's got a tropical new collection for you today that's certain to get you doing a hula dance. This collection is perfect for scrapping your photos from the Polynesian Resort, dinner at the Spirit of Aloha or breakfast at Ohana's. There's lots of fun tropical luau elements so it has many uses. Take a closer look.

Inside you'll find 15 patterned and solid papers along with 16 sign titles, a hula dancer, volcano, long house, lanterns, ohana sign, tiki torches, turtle, sun umbrella, ukulele, beach chairs, flowers, frames, pineapple, resort sign, umbrella drinks, tiki god statues, 7 word bits, sunglasses, string, stitching and more. There's also a tan full alpha.

Kelly made some expertly clustered page starters and word art titles too. These are gorgeous!

This fabulous new collection can be found at the Kellybell Designs Store priced at 25% off this weekend only. There are so many other collections to browse through inside the store, so take your time and look around while you're there.

If you need some scrapping inspiration, you can check out all the CT layouts over at Kelly's Blog or Kelly's Facebook page. This is my layout made with the new Aloha Polynesia collection.

Kelly's Creative Team gals have 3 matching freebies for you. Here's the path you will take to find them. Give the girls a hugs along the way please. Aloha and have a great weekend!

Charlene's Blog - http://www.thefreckledshamrock.blogspot.com/

Jennifer's Blog - http://ibrakeforthemouse.blogspot.com/

Julie's Blog - http://www.designsbyjul.blogspot.com/

Coming Friday

More Nice to Meet You!

Last week, Kelly introduced 6 new princess mini-kits in the Nice To Meet You new series. Today, she's got 7 more princess kits. You just can't leave out any of the princesses - they all want their own special kit! Today's new releases includes a mini-kit for Anna, Elsa, Merida, Jasmine, Rapunzel, Snow White and Tiana. They are all just spectacular! Inside you'll find 6 papers, 1-2 princess dolls, frames, ribbons, flowers, pixie dust, an authentic signature and a few other unique elements. Take a look at all these fun princess packs.

You can find all of these princess mini-packs inside the Kellybell Designs Store. They are priced at 25% off this weekend only. So go ahead and add a few of them to your shopping cart now.

If you need some scrapping inspiration, you can check out all the CT layouts over at Kelly's Blog or Kelly's Facebook page. Here's one that I made.

Last week, the CT made some awesome matching princess freebies. You're going to love the princess freebies this week too! You'll find them at Jessica's Blog, Linda's Blog and Roxana's Blog. These new Nice To Meet You mini-kits are fabulous. I know you'll love creating princess layouts with them. Hope you have a great weekend and happy princess scrapping!

Click HERE for download.

Coming Friday from Kellybell Designs