Every once in a while I get inspired to scrap. It happens when everything falls into place just right:

• I have photos all ready to be scrapped (chosen, cropped or whatever).
• I have my own new releases in the store so I don’t have to stress about that.
• My house is decent looking, and I know that if my husband catches me on the computer in the middle of the day he won’t care (because the floor isn’t crunchy).
• My favorite digital designers have released kits that are SCREAMING at me.  They just BEG me to use them.

So I do.

Remember the photo gifts I gave to my family members? Well, I made some for my sister-in-law with photos of her children on them.  CUTE kids.  Three cute kids (although I only got to two of them this week).  Ah, yes, we do produce gorgeous children in this Ratzlaff family!  Hee, hee!  Just doing our part!

The photos were ready, so I knocked out 2 layouts in no time at all using two new releases by my friend Elise Hansen.  Elise is the mother of boys, and she has an excellent selection of boy kits (wahoo!), but she also ROCKS the girl kits!  Check it out:

Credits: Resolution digital kit by Elise Hansen and Nikki Epperson, bling bling-bet alpha by Michelle Batton, Tag and staples from Digi Essentials #3 by Karla Dudley. Shadow actions by Kristin Rice and Traci Murphy.

And look what I did with her newest boy kit!!  I LOVE THIS KIT! I can’t wait to use it over and over and over.  I can’t get enough of blue and orange!!  Wish I could paint my walls blue and orange, but my hubby might freak on me.

Credits:  Imagine That digital kit by Elise Hansen.  Font by Darcy Baldwin. Shadow actions by Kristin Rice and Traci Murphy.

I think this Logan layout took me 20 minutes start-to-finish, and I LOVE it!! (And, isn’t he the cutest thing!?!  He’s like that ALL the time, people. Such a doll!)

Then, I tapped into my minimalist side and created this little number using several items by a new-to-me designer Karla Dudley.  If you like Designer Digitals style, you will love Karla!  AND, she’s at The Digichick!  We are so lucky!

Spring Anticipation digital kit, Digi Essentials #3, Digi Essentials #4 by Karla Dudley.  Shadow Actions by Traci Murphy.

(I posted this on Facebook earlier this week.  The caption said Salzburg, but this was actually Prague!  Oops!  I fixed it!  I just didn’t want my FB friends to think they were going crazy.  It’s not you. It’s me.)

IF I had a girl (or if my sister would send me photos of her gorgeous daughters), I would LOVE to use some of the new Girl Friday kits.  They make me all fluttery inside, and yet I think my boys would kill me if I used flowers and butterflies on their pictures.  REALLY, you have to see the Girl Friday kits!  (Shhh . . . Girl Friday is Nicole Seitler’s other personality.  Sometimes she’s all sugary sweet Sugarplum Paperie, and sometimes she gets a little sassy Girl Friday thing going on! I LOVE IT! We just need to show her what blue looks like. I want her to collaborate with Elise.  I think it would be a match made in heaven!!)

By the way, I completed all 3 of these layouts in about 2 hours, total.  Well, but then I had to fix the dates on the top two and the caption on the bottom one the next day because I’m nuts.

Are you interested in this digital stuff, but don’t know where to start? Then, you MUST check out Jessica Sprague’s classes.  She taught me everything I know about digital scrapbooking, starting with her Up and Running with Photoshop class, all the way through . . . well, everything else.  I’m starting a new class about using my Wacom Bamboo tablet in February! I’m so excited!  Jessica’s video tutorials are easy to follow and totally fun.  You will learn more in a single session of one of her classes than in months of trying to figure out Photoshop by yourself.  I highly (HIGHLY) recommend her!  Plus, if you ever have a problem, the ladies in her forum are so helpful and will make sure you get things straightened out right away.  Jessica will even email you personally if you need help!  She’s THAT awesome!

Have you scrapped lately? I’d love to see what you’ve been up to!  REALLY!  Link us up in the comments!