This layout was done by Kaytee, one of our Boot Camper members. She used the Scrappy Cocoa kit, Boy Meets Girl.
Congrats Kaytee! Check your PM for your $5.00 Gingerscraps gift certificate!
Keep posting your fabulous layouts in our galleries, ladies, you might be chosen for Layout of the Week!
What is your name and your Digi-scrap blog address?
Misty O’Brien – https://scrappaperie.blogspot.com/
Snag my Blinkie and you might get RAK’d!
Tell us a little bit about your family.
I have been married to Dan for 3 years. We’ve been friends for 11 years but we go all the way back to 1st grade as far as knowing each other. Surprisingly we were not high school sweethearts and didn’t start dating until 5 years after high school. We have two sons, Ian who is 2 and Aidan who is 8 months. We have one large cat (20 lb Russian Blue mix) named Bones.
What other hobbies do you have besides designing and scrapping?
I love to read. I miss it. Lately it’s been more magazines than novels. I also love traveling. We try to get away whenever we can. I really like to swim too.
How did you get started designing and scrapping?
I started scrapping in high school, the old fashioned paper way. I never really got elaborate. I put all my scrap stuff away in college and didn’t even think about doing it again until Ian was born. There was no way I could paper scrap with a baby so I searched for ways to do it online. My husband showed me the ropes of Photoshop and with some freebies, I was off! I started designing in January 2009. It was one of my resolutions to just try it. I didn’t think I would start selling for awhile but Ginger scooped me up and here I am.
How long have you been designing?
4 months and I am exclusively with Gingerscraps
Which programs do you use to design?
I use Photoshop CS with Illustrator. We have a boatload of Adobe Creative Suite products but PS is the only one I know how to use.
Do you draw most of your items with a mouse, hand draw and scan, or do you use your camera?
I use my camera a lot. I just got a Bamboo Fun tablet last month and am experimenting with drawing. I drew a lot of elements in my Woodland Park Zoo kit.
Where does your inspiration usually come from?
Ideas are always coming to me when I’m lying in bed at night. I really need to keep a journal at bedside! Inspiration usually comes from random items. Could be a colorful flower, a design on some fabric, a song, the season, etc
How did you pick your design name?
I’m not creative in naming. I was dilly dallying so Ginger just used my name with Designs and I liked it so it stayed.
Who are your favorite three designers?
Gingerscraps of course. Ginger was the first designer I ever used and I was a religious follower of her blog for months before I applied to be a CT.
Polka Dot Plum is a favorite too. They have some shabby chic stuff that is really versatile.
I also love all of the other designers at Gingerscraps. – Make sure you check out Wyld Web Designs, Scrappy Cocoa, Graham Like the Cracker, Spinky Dink Designs, Miss Erin Scraps, and Statements by Jodi
What is your favorite part of a kit to design?
The papers – I spent a ton of time on the papers in Romantical
What is the weirdest thing you have used as a texture?
Pool Water. I don’t think that’s too weird but it was a spur of the moment shot while watching my son swim
What is your favorite kit that you have designed?
Definitely has to be Romantical – just because of the papers
What is your least favorite?
I don’t have one. Haha
How do you get started on a kit? Palette first? Rough idea on what you want your papers or elements to look like?
I never start with a palette. Ever. Although I bet it would be easier! I start with an idea or a theme.
How long does it typically take you to make a kit?
2 weeks to a month – If I could be at the computer all the time it would probably be 2 days.
If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be?
I am a huge procrastinator so I’d stick to schedule more often if I could!
What is the one word that best describes you?
Compassionate. I always have compassion for other people without judgment. And I always defend the people I have compassion for. I am super loyal 🙂
Who is the most important person in your life?
Person being key word, my husband
What is something that not many people know about you?
I learned how to read when I was just under two and a half.
If you could travel anywhere where would you go?
Ireland again
When you were little what did you dream of being when you grew up?
Anything FBI related
What do you like doing with your family?
We like traveling, hanging out with extended family, being outside, anything that keeps us together.
Where is your favorite place to be?
Anywhere my kids are.
Edward or Jacob?
Oh Jen, lol. I have never read nor have I seen anything Twilight. Maybe someday.
CU or do it your self?
Both. There are just some things I can’t draw yet and I am thankful for CU.
Here are 3 of Misty’s Kits! Click on them to be taken to her store at Gingerscraps
And here’s a QP freebie Misty made from her kit, Romantical. Click on the image to download from 4shared!
Thanks for reading and come back for more kit releases on Wednesday!
Wow! What a week we have had in the gallery. Seven days of speed scraps in row gave us a lot to choose from!
Here are some of the very best! The first five layouts belong to Jenn, BeckaG, Laura, Ginger, and Prinzess
SHARON
JEN
JENN
JULIE
CHARMAINE
MISTY
Congrats Prinzess! Keep an eye on your PM at the GingerScraps forum for your $5.00 off coupon 🙂
And Keep thoese LO’s coming 🙂 You could be the next GS LOTW winner!!
Here is my submission for the contest. You can go and download it for free from DSA. Click on the preview to go to DSA to download it.
If you head over to my blog, you can get this add-on to the kit. Click on the preview to go to her blog.
And don’t forget Char’s 
and another freebie for you from Jenn of the Wyld Graham Cracker CT
If you do a layout with any of these kits, make sure to post them in the Gingerscraps gallery. 🙂
Happy Scrapping!
First up is Miss Erin’s Scraps Equilibrium
Enjoy a relaxing afternoon scrapping with this kit, Equilibrium. Loaded with serenity and a touch of whimsy, this kit is a wonderful way to showcase some of your favorite photos.
$4.00 regular price, 25% off till May 13.
18 papers
43 elements
3 hot air balloons
1 beaded wire
1 birdhouse
2 birdies
1 circle border
1 stained glass border
2 bracket frames
2 glittery butterflies
1 clock
2 clouds clustered with whimsical stars
1 fern
8 various flowers
1 scalloped frame
1 torn frame with ricrac and flowers
1 notebook frame
3 glitter swirls
1 glitterdrops
1 glitter scattering
1 grass
4 various realistic leaves
3 torn paper borders
1 rainbow
1 raindrops
4 folded ribbons
1 lightrays with scattered stars
4 curly ribbons
4 straight ribbons
2 ricracs
3 glass stars
1 star swirly design
1 sparkle
3 ribbon wraps
9 solid papers
9 patterned papers
CT Layouts:
By Godena
By Tammy
By Jessica
By Julie
And next by Wyld Web Designs
We all have those crazy, zany, oddball members of our family, and now you have the perfect kit to scrap their pictures! This colorful kit full of whimsy is hand drawn and ready to decorate those pictures of your nutty family! This kit includes:
6 plain papers
2 worn papers
6 patterned papers
8 fruit and nut doodles
1 basket
2 trees
2 wordart
2 string
2 ribbon
4 page borders
2 buttons
2 bows
2 frames
All of the doodles also come in sticker format.
Jenn:
Not only is this $5 kit 25% off for the first week, but you also get a coupon for the matching glitter styles free the first week as well!
and finally we have Scrappy Cocoa’s Favorite Things
This kit is $3.99.
AND finally… a freebie!!
Scrappy cocoa has this freebie for you 🙂 A mini Add-on to the full size kit Favorite Things.
Happy Scrapping!
So have you heard about the new site, Digiscrapaddicts? Its a new open forum gallery digiscrap site and it is hosting the “So You Think You Can Design” contest this year! Well Char, Ginger and Jen made it past the first round of cuts! Charmaine completed her week 1 submission, and you can download it for free! Here is the preview of “Sunset on the Beach”:
Go check it out, download it and then link her up to a layout you’ve made with it! Who knows, maybe you’ll get her newest kit release for FREE! 
Stop by her blog and say hi!
Wow, it’s awkward to interview myself… good thing I like to talk a lot….
What is your name and your Digi-scrap blog address? My name is Jen. My mom named me Jennifer, because she wanted to call me Jenny, like King Arthur called Princess Guinivere, Jenny in that 70’s version of Camelot. But I have NEVER been Jenny. My blinkie explains my last name. 
I always thought that Graham was a very common word, and couldn’t be mispronounced. I laughed when I heard my husband say, “No; Graham, like the cracker” when someone pronounced his last name incorrectly. Then I became a Graham…
My digi-scrap blog is https://grahamlikethecracker.blogspot.com.
Tell us a little bit about your family. My husband and I live in Southern California with our almost two year old son Alton. Most of our family lives near by. We are very active in our church, and I drag myself away from scrapping and designing to go to MOPS every other week. Alton is the light of our lives and I can’t imagine life without him!
Tell us a little about you. I am left handed, I bake like an angel, and I am a speed scrap rebel! Oh, and I am slightly obsessed with Twilight. I was even the community leader for a Twilight community for a while. (There are blinkies on my blog if you need some. 🙂 )
What other hobbies do you have besides designing and scrapping? There are others? I used to love to read. But now I scrap instead. Also, I haven’t read anything that has captured my interest as much as Twilight did. I am not going to tell you how many times I have read those books!
How did you get started designing and scrapping? Charmaine (Wyld Web Designs) helped my make my first page at the end of July last year. I joined the Brownie Scraps design training this last March and have been gun ho ever since!
How long have you been designing? I started selling this April.
Which programs do you use to design? I use Photoshop CS4.
Do you draw most of your items with a mouse, hand draw and scan, or do you use your camera? I can’t draw to save my life! I use the shape and pen tools in photoshop to make most of my elements. I occasionally take photographs and extract things, but I don’t like extracting! About 1/3 of my elements are extracted though.
Where does your inspiration usually come from? Would it be bad to say Gymboree and Disneyland? We have annual passes, so we go there A LOT! I love bright colors, so anything that catches my eye gets filed away for later. I have 3 or 4 palettes filed away right now for later use.
How did you pick your design name? I mentioned my husband saying, “Graham; like the Cracker.” I wanted something that was fun and not very common. You might be shocked to hear this, but Jennifer is a very common name. So alas, no Designs by Jen or Jen Graham Designs for me.
Who are your favorite three designers? It fluctuates, but currently Amanda Heimann, Ziggle Designs, and Wyld Web Designs have the most space on my EHD. I got some kits by Britt-ish Designs on NSD that I can wait to try, so I might have a new top three next week. 🙂
What is your favorite part of a kit to design? Papers. I usually make 30+ papers per kit. Extracted elements drive me insane.
What is the weirdest thing you have used as a texture? I am not suppossed to say this, so don’t tell my husband, but I once used my husband’s chest hair…. Shhh!
What is your favorite kit that you have designed? My current newest one is usually my favorite… I am doing one for the So You Think You Can Design Contest over at DigiScrap Addicts… I swear I would marry the kit if I could! (Make sure to keep an eye on my blog… there will be freebies every day as soon as I finish my kit!)
What is your least favorite? My first kit was so awful I think I even deleted it from my blog… OMG! I didn’t know how to use textures and well, the less said about it the better. For the record, Char’s first kit was WAY better than mine.
How do you get started on a kit? Palette first? Rough idea on what you want your papers or elements to look like? I usually have a theme first. Then I start with my papers after I get a palette because most of my elements that I make myself are made with my papers.
How long does it typically take you to make a kit? AGES. For the sake of my marriage I hope I get quicker soon! Making the stuff myself takes FOREVER!
If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be? I know most people say their middle, but even though mine does need changing, I would say my singing voice. I can’t even carry a tune in a bucket. But I have been known to Rock the Itsy Bitsy Spider and I am a Little Teapot.
What is the one word that best describes you? Tenacious.
Who is the most important person in your life? God. I can’t do anything without Him.
What is something that not many people know about you? I used to run track in high school. I was decent and I really enjoyed it. I would run bleachers for fun. Oh to have that kind of energy and stamina these days, not to mention that tushie!
If you could travel anywhere where would you go? Ireland. All of Western Europe really, but if I had to choose, it would be Ireland for sure.
When you were little what did you dream of being when you grew up? I always thought I would be a mommy or a teacher. Now that I am a mommy, I want to be on the Food Network when I grow up.
What do you like doing with your family? Hiking in the local mountains and traveling. I LOVE to travel. (The best place to take pictures for digi-scrapping of course!) Alton and I go to Disneyland once a week for the exercise (I swear!) because we have Disneyland annual passports.
Where is your favorite place to be? With my husband and son. They are the lights of my life.
CU or do it your self? My kits are about 90% “organic”. I make most of my stuff my self, but I will on occasion use a pattern overlay for my papers or a string or ribbon that someone else extracted. I don’t feel like the kit is really mine if I use too much CU.
Edward or Jacob? I will let my blinkies blink for themselves. 
Here are three of my favorite complete kits:
This kit is my collab with Charmaine!
and a freebie for you! You deserve it after making your way through this whole post! Click on the preview to download from 4Shared!
And as a thank to you all of you wonderful blog readers, you can get 20% off of anything in Jen’s store. Use coupon code e48899434a. It is good through this weekend.
I am interrupting scrappy goodness to let you all know, that Ginger has finally caved. SHE IS READING TWILIGHT FOR THE FIRST TIME!
Let’s place bets… Will she stay up all night and read it?
A super fun game of Truth or Dare!
Tonight May 3! After the Speed Scrap! Click Here!
9 pst
10 mst
11 cst
12 est
Okay, the last one was an absolute hoot. I think my other blog still says “I am am a fluffy bunny and I have fluff in funny places.” or something like that. I think Steph has that highly unflattering picture of me doing yoga somewhere too… which reminds me, “Do something nice for Steph today….”
Join us! It will be an awesome time. Just wait to see what we have planned for Ginger.
“Oh Ginger!”
Oh and make sure you hit all the stops on the blog train… the links come down tomorrow night!
Ya hoooo.. Are you ready for a great weekend?? I know I am 🙂
To start it off right all of the wonderful GingerScraps Family has this amazing freebie for you!!
There is sooo much goodness!! I want to say a BIG thank you to all my GingerBread Ladies and my GingerSnaps!! Without you this NEVER would have happened!!!! THANK YOU!!!
So here it is.. in honer of all of you… I present ….
This is the beginning of the Gingerscraps Modern Mommy Blog train. If you get lost along the way, come back here because I have the map!
While you are waiting for 4shared to let you download, why not check out the Gingerscrap’s forum? We are starting a Digi-scrap Boot Camp on Sunday. Saturday is the last day to sign up and the challenges start Sunday! It’s free, but you need to sign up to have access to the training and tutorials!
We are also hosting a speed scrap every day in the month of May! Did you know that a speed scrap a day will keep the bad mojo away? Check the Gingerscraps Blog for the Speed Scrap Calendar. Tonight we even have a “Who needs sleep? Night Owl Speed Scrap” hosted by Jen!
The next stop on the trip is Jen’s blog.
Happy Scrapping and downloading!
And just in case you get lost along the way- here is a full map of all the stops 🙂 Make sure you visit all of them, there are even some really cute hybrid items!
Ginger to Jen
Jen to Charmaine
Charmaine to Jodi
Jodi to Ashlee
Ashlee to Barbara
Barbara to Stephanie
Stephanie to Misty
Misty to Rachel
Rachel to Lindsay
Lindsay to Christie
Christie to Tara
Tara to Laura
Laura to Jenn
Jenn to Jill
Jill to Julie
Julie to Marie
Marie to Mary
Mary to the caboose in the forum.
