MellowButterfly Team Blog

Take a peek below at the layouts the ‘Fly Girls did with my newest kit Softly, perfect for all those tender moments - be it a baby, a precious expression on your child’s face, a sweet kiss, and many other special moments! The soft hues are accented by bold green and brushed metal embellishments - including a brushed metal alpha!

And if you’re smitten with these fabulous layouts, ‘Fly Girl Toby will be giving the kit away to a few lucky gals over at DigiShopTalk this weekend!

I’ve been doing some gallery browsing and came across these fabulous layouts using my products and thought you’d like to be inspired too! And hey, if you’ve made a layout with one of my products, I’d LOVE to see it and I bet my visitors would too, so send me a link!

A TOUCH OF JAPAN

See more layouts with this kit by the ‘Fly Girls here!

BLUE VIOLET

See more layouts with this kit by the ‘Fly Girls here!

CITRUS PUNCH

See more layouts with this kit by the ‘Fly Girls here!

Now, I know that this looks like a small team compared to some of the CTs I’ve seen, but since this is my first one I wanted to keep it on the small side. Plus, I am hoping that some of these fabulously talented guests will decide to stick around after they see how lovely I am (no laughing Ren)

These Girls are already impressing me with the layouts they are posting and since I will be out-of-town most of next week, I thought I’d share some of them with you before I go.

Guess what! I’ve got a terrific secret that I am just dying to share with you all…but you are going to have to wait until Sunday..mwhahahah!

In the meantime, I just wanted to share this BEAUTIFUL layout that was done by Armina with the Blue Violet Kit she won a couple weeks ago - isn’t it absolutely gorgeous? I’m so honored that she will be joining us as a Guest CT member in July too!

I also have another big announcement (well, for me it is big, lol) - awhile back I entered a challenge to become one of Christina Renee’s Guest Creative Team members and I got chosen! She’s got a great sale going on in her store right now in celebration of her being DigiShopTalk’s featured designer - lots of great stuff and I’m having fun playing with it. Just thought I’d share some of those layouts with you - well, just because….

hee-hee! I was too excited to wait one more day to release the Blue Violet products, so you get them a day early! Here are a few layouts the team did with these products this past week:

Aren’t they beautiful? You can click on the images to visit the full sized ones in the gallery. I’m sure we’ll be adding more layouts to the Blue Violet Showcase, so stop back in later and check it out!

Now, of course what would a new product release be without a little sale! So, until Sunday, June 1 you can get all these products at 30% off! Buy it as a kit, or as separates - all the previews are linked to the shoppe where there are additional previews.

Oh, what’s that you say? I forgot about the giveaway…… LOL - no, I didn’t. I just thought I’d make you wait a bit - I’m evil aren’t I? My fancy random number generator (my son) chose the number 4 - well, since that post was one of my CT girls who already has the kit, I ended up using an even more scientific method to choose….I picked the person who left the first comment! So, congratulations Armina! You’ve won the Blue Violet Coordinated Kit and Blue Violet Glitter Styles and Patterns - enjoy!

One last new product release before I go - for those of you who emailed me so many wonderful compliments on the Citrus Punch Kit - I’ve created a little Add On Kit! OK, well, it’s not really little as I don’t seem to do little well. But, it is also 30% off through Sunday. This product is no longer available!

So, did everyone survive National Scrapbooking Day? I had lots of fun shopping and managed to get in a couple chats and get some great freebies too. I’ve even managed to scrap with some of my new goodies - I’ll share them with you at the end of the post!

The theme I chose for my May challenge is Motherhood. All of us have a mother, and many of us are mothers, so this should be easy right? And to make it even easier I’ve made two freebies to help you along!

You can use this cute little quick page - just plop your photo in the blank frame and add a title and/or journaling and some extra embellishments to make it your own. OR, if you don’t care for the colors, or want to move things around you can use the layered .psd file. Just drag your digital papers into the .psd and clip them to the template layers. And if you don’t have a program that can open .psd files, I’ve also included a .png of each layer. You can download the FREEBIES in the shoppe - just add to your cart and check out. They’ll be available until the end of the month.

Once you’ve finished your layout, simply upload it to the Motherhood Challenge album in our gallery. For those of you who are new to our gallery: you’ll need to register (its a separate registration from the shoppe), then once you are in the album you’ll see an “Add Items” link in the left sidebar. Just upload the file and enter a description and click the Add Item button on the bottom of the screen. Super easy!

And here is a sample layout I made with the quick page to get your inspiration going:

And last but not least, here are those layouts I promised to show you: