A layout and E-bay!

My goal this year is to get a calendar page done every month so I can print out 2009 calendars at Christmas for the grandparents. I'm already running behind but if I can squeeze in my Feb page before the end of the week, I'll be right on schedule. I really never got a decent picture of the boys this month so it may be difficult. They're both in desperate need for a haircut and my 5YO goes into "goofy face" mode whenever I get the camera out.
Credits: Template by Andrea Niehaus: Kit -Win'tree Weather by Linda Walton: Font-Larger Mime
On a non-scrapbooking note, I put my very first auction up on E-bay this week! I found my box of maternity clothes in the basement and thought I would give E-bay a shot. If it doesn't work out, they will go into the donation box :) Until next time...Happy Scrappin'

The "stuff" has found homes

Thanks you all for the wonderful suggestions for donating my quilting, scrapbooking stuff. I've managed to sort through all my quilting stuff and I contacted a lady at Firehouse Quilts that is kind enough to come pick up all 9 boxes this week! This group of ladies make quilts for women and children in crisis. I would also like to thank a blog reader, Julie that lives locally for coming this week to pick up my scrapbooking stuff (at least all but the stuff my boys wanted to keep for art projects). She's going to donate it to her Creative Memory consultant that visits the cancer ward at children's hospital and lets them make cards and have fun with the stuff! I'm going to donate all my books (and there's a lot of them) to the library today. Now onto the baby stuff....that's going to go to the consignment shop :)

Back to the subject of clutter...

A few posts back I mentioned my basement and the fact that we are getting ready to remodel so the clutter needs to be de-cluttered. I decided to take pictures and scrap the way it looks at this moment in time. I can almost hear you saying..."Ack, what a mess!" It has actually looked worse than this before we de-cluttered a couple of years ago. Quite a bit of this mess is leftover quilting supplies from when I had my quilting business. I have boxes and boxes of fabric, and half-started projects, etc that use to fill a room now just fill boxes and space. Another good chunk of this chaos is all my unused paper scrapping and rubber stamping supplies. Then there's all the boxes of outgrown clothes from the boys not to mention carseats, cribs, etc. Finally, a big chunk is also DH's RC hobby stuff that went by the wayside, temporarily after the boys were born. After careful consideration, I have decided to get rid of all my quilting and my paper scrapping supplies. I just figured I haven't felt like making a quilt for about 5 years now so I'm not going to hold onto that stuff anymore. I know for sure I will never go back to paper scrapping again so I may as well let someone have it that's going to use it. The only thing that's stopping me from getting rid of the baby clothes is I wanted to go through them and keep a few sentimental items then they're outta there! Stay tuned...this is not the last time you will see pictures of this basement! BTW if you hav any ideas on good places to donate quilting and scrapbooking supplies other than large donation centers, I'd love to hear them. I want them to go where they will be loved and appreciated!
Credits: April template by Tracyb; Kit-Terre d'Argile by Scrap-shop.fr; Stick-em-up Songbird alpha by Linda Rechtin; Blue chipboard alpha by Tracy King; Frames by me; Font: really bad typewriter

Happy Valentine's Day

Did you have a nice V-day? Mine was wonderful! I had set up little V-day goodybags for the boys last night so they were thrilled with the sweet treats and such this morning! DH and I exchanged cards before he left for work so I was pleasantly surprised when these beautiful 24 long stem roses were delivered from him mid morning! Aren't they beautiful??? I also got a Starbucks gift card from my MIL who loves to feed my addiction! I hope you enjoyed your day of love!!!!

Remembering Dakota.....

My brother and SIL had to say goodbye to their sweet Dakota Rose yesterday :( Dakota was a sweet, spunky, spoiled, mischievous girl that loved bananas and ice cream. They got Dakota when my Candy was about 2 1/2. A few years later, we each got another dog (Kayla and Bailey). All four dogs have grown up together and have had many playdates, hiking trips and camping trips together. Dakota was 12 years old and her health was failing so it was time to let her go. She lived a very full and happy doggy life. She will be missed!!! I just know Candy and Dakota are romping around at the Rainbow Bridge, happy to be together again :)

Credits: Spring Fling Template by Traci Sims; Kit-Down to Earth by Kimberly Stewart; Font-Sweetheart Script.

I'm drowning in clutter....

...and I must do something about it! It must be the time of year with a hint of spring just around the corner. Spring cleaning and especially de-cluttering needs to be done. I haven't posted, designed or even scrapped anything since my last post because I decided to take a stand against 2 cluttered areas of my life. First, the boys and I started tackling the playroom. I think I've managed to hold on to every toy and every item of clothing since my first son was born (5 years ago). Second, I also decided to face the daunting task of organizing my digital scrapbooking supplies. I've been using Picasa up until this point and although it's a wonderful program for the price(free!) I needed something new, something a little better. I decided to download the trial version of ACDSee Photo Manager. I'm sure I will end up buying it because so far I really like it! I've managed to categorize my previews together, then I further categorized them into themes and then into color schemes. I've also deleted a lot of stuff I know I'll never use. A little at a time, I'd like to go further into tagging everything eventually but for now, I have a good idea of what I own and can easily see it, find it and hopefully use it. As for the playroom, well it's a work in progress. It looked good until I opened the closet, not to mention I still have to bring up all the toys they got for Christmas that are still in the living room, ack...it never ends! I donated 4 boxes of toys with the boys permission of course, since they are keeping watchful eyes on the donation boxes at all times (I would've donated so much more). I've added 4 more boxes of clothes to the basement to donate at a later time. Ah, that brings us to the basement...the cold, unfinished, very full and cluttered catch all of a basement. We will be tackling that soon and will have no choice since we are having someone come next week to give us an estimate to finish the basement and hope to have it complete before summer arrives. I see a lot of donating and E-baying in my future and of course a yard sale!!!! Goodbye clutter! Oh, we also decided to decorate the boys' bedroom into an outer space theme since it's a mishmash of themes right now. I'll post some pictures when it's done. I have to order most of the stuff online so hopefully most of it will get here this next week. Thanks for listening to me babble!!!!!!

First tooth has been lost!

Credits: Template by Racketty Scrappety; Tooth Fairy kit by Amanda Mcgee; Font-Ziggy Zoe

My little guy is growing up! He lost his first tooth Sunday night. He was very excited to put it under his pillow for the tooth fairy. It seems she didn't have any bills smaller than a five so that's what he got! We told him she must've given him so much since it was his first tooth :)

Valentine Freebie!

Last week, I set out to make a free quickcard using my new kit XOXO and Conversation Hearts. Seemed easy enough until I kept changing it and tweaking it, unable to decide which version I liked best. I sat on it for a week and when I re-visited my versions I still couldn't decide, so.....you get to have all 4 cards and the the word art is separate to be used or not! The adorable baby in the picture is my son Riley taken in Feb 2005 when he was 7 month old (now 3 1/2 years old). Font is Really bad typewriter

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I got published in an e-zine!

I was very excited to get an e-mail from Creatively Obsessed stating she had submitted the above layout to an e-zine at 3Scrapateers and got chosen! I think she did a wonderful job using my Doodle Pets kit to scrap this adorable photo, don't you? Scrapstyle is a new e-zine and you can get the Jan/Feb isssue HERE! In honor of this, I've decided to put Doodle pets on sale for 50% off for one week and you can get it HERE!

Conversation Hearts!

I'm on a roll now, LOL! I set out last night to try and create some digital candy hearts and this is what I came up with! Don't you just love conversation hearts and all the cute little sayings? I can almost taste them now. These are available in my store but if you send me a layout with my XOXO page kit, I'll give you these for free!

Painted Doodles Freebie!

Thanks for stopping by to grab this freebie! While you're here, check out my new Valentine kit below :) It will be on sale for 1 week HERE!

Painted Doodles Freebie

New Kit and a layout

WooHoo! I finally got a new Valentine kit in my store called XOXO! I'm actually not a big fan of the colors I used since I have 2 boys but I thought I would design out of my comfort zone and give this a try. I always have the hardest time working with purple, LOL! I wanted to release a freebie with this kit but I haven't made one yet... that is my goal for this weekend so keep checking back! As you can see below, this kit doesn't have to be used just for Valentine's day, it can be used with pictures of boys/men or even pets! I was playing with my new camera and ended up with this adorable picture of my son with his dad :) The font I used is Milk & Cereal. This kit will be ON SALE HERE for one week.

Happy New Year!

I hope the new year finds each and every one of you a year filled with happiness, health and wonderful memories to scrap! My resolutions this year:
-Move my exercise bike out of the basement and start using it
-Spend more time with my 97 year old grandma
-Create a will
-Back up my photos to an off-site location and move all my videotapes to a safety deposit box
-Design some kits
-Drink less coffee
-Try to have less worries and more gratitude
Here is a layout I did of my husband and I. It seems the only time we get our picture taken together is on Chritmas eve...so here is our annual Christmas eve picture :)

Credits: Quickpage by Little Dreamer Desings; Bow by Merkeley Designs; Tag from my Touch of Brass kit; Font-Arcadian.

This is totally off-subject but for all you homeschoolers out there...have you seen this funny video? HOMESCHOOL FAMILY

Christmas Morning Layouts

Credits: Everything from Christmas Around the World Collab kit (Papers & tag by Janniscraps Designs; Frames by Scrapping Garden; Gold bow by Nana's Attic; Gold star by Mary's Scrap Galerie; "believe" by Scrap Professor; Christmas tree by Moo Two designs) Font-Amanda's hand.

I did this two-page layout of a few of the favorites from Santa to my boys this Christmas. I'm just loving all the goodies from Christmas Around the World...some really awesome stuff! Are you all enjoying your Christmas gifts? Greg and I bought ourselves a new point-&-shoot digital camera and printer so I've been having fun with that. The boys got me jammies and a robe. Hubby also surprised me with 2 pairs of Mammoth Crocs yesterday( I couldn't decide what color to get so he got me 2)! I've never been able to bring myself to wear Crocs, just don't like them, but I think these are adorable.

For those of you that asked about the figures on the gingerbread house, they are made fromeither marzapan or fondant (not sure). Edible, yes but not very tasty, lol! I hope to get some designing done in the coming year but I've been in a creative dry spell now for quite some time. I had to dig deep to find some for my contribution to CATW. When I'm on a roll I can create a kit in no time but when it's not there it takes me days just to do a layout. I wish it would come back soon.

Sending Merry wishes (a little late)!

It's been a whirlwind of a Christmas but as the wrapping has settled I finally have a minute to post well wishes to my faithful blog readers (and anyone else stopping by). I hope everyone is enjoying family and friends this holiday season!

Grandpa's Gingerbread House

Credits: Papers & elements from Highland Grunge and Highland Christmas by Misschifis Scraps; Font-Mayfield

This is the second year my dad has made an edible creation for the boys. This year it was a cute gingerbread house equipped with a light so you can see the Santa and Christmas tree inside! I think I inherited my creative side from my dad :). I still need to scrap the pictures of last year's carousal.

I won a contest!!!!

I just found out Monday that my layout above was 1 of 10 winners of the Premiere Holiday Challenge over at Scrapper's Guide. The prize was Photoshop Elements 6.0, Premiere Elements 4.0 and training videos! Is that an awesome prize or what?!?! I'm so darn excited about this because I rarely enter contests and this is the most significant prize I've ever won... for anything! The challenge was to create an ornament using a technique that Linda taught with one of her awesome video tutorials. The contest was for Premiere members only. If you've never visited that sight and are looking for some great video tutorials, I highly recommend the Premiere membership or at least ordering some of her videos from her store. I have learned some wonderful techniques. No affiliation just a very happy customer!!!! For my layout above, I used my Christmas Around the World freebie; Font is Beyond Wonderland

Christmas Around the World Freebie!

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Thanks for stopping by to pick up my contribution to the mega collaboration kit "Christmas Around the World" If you haven't heard about it and stumbled across this freebie from some other source, please visit the link below to go to the homepage for all the rest of the links. Special thanks to Atomic Cupcake. Enjoy!

Christmas Around the World Homepage

One year ago today...

...I said goodbye to my sweet pup, Candy. Even though I did a whole book of layouts of her this past year, I just had to do one more today in her memory. I used an overlay by Suzanne C. Walker and the font is Hobbes. Below is the same layout with a photo I took today of my sweet pup Kayla whom I'm thankful to have around this year!

Our Christmas card!

Every November I start to stress about getting a good photo of the boys for our Christmas card. I always breathe a sigh of relief when I get one without having to take them to a professional studio. I took this one in front of our tree and after many takes and some creative editing with Picasa and Photoshop, I like the way it turned out! Phew...we're good for another year! I usually do a little layout with the pic for the card but I thought this one stood well enough on it's own. I used Atomic Cupcake's Gold action on the letters and the font is Black Jack.
I realize I've been posting so infrequently these days but I hope that will change soon. Just a busy time of year and not much inspiration to design anything new. I did however choose to participate in the 'Christmas Around The World' free mega kit that will hit the blogs of many designers on Dec 10th. I will be one of the blogs with a goodie to give away so be sure and check back here on the 10th (or sooner if I get my creative juices flowing before then with something else) Thanks for stopping by and I'll chat with you soon ~C

Let the Christmas season begin!

Credits: Kit-Holiday Magic by Shabby Princess; Journal papers by Tracy Drane; Font-Big fish ensemble; Staples by Royanna Fritschmann

Did you survive the big shopping weekend??? We're done shopping for the boys already. Toys go fast so we have to get them quick! I'm excited to have this picture of my boys with Santa since this is the first time they wanted to sit with him. I have one picture of my oldest son with Santa when he was 4 months old but that's it. Every year I ask and every year they keep a safe distance from the bearded man. We were at the mall Friday night and they spotted Santa from the escalator and exclaimed "Let's go see Santa!" Well, there was no line so we headed over and they hopped right up on his lap for this cute picture!

Bring on the snow!

Credits: Quickpage by Ellie Lash; Fonts-Beyond Wonderland, Angelina

I thought this was an adorable quickpage available for free over at Sugar Snap Scraps . We had unseasonably warm weather yesterday but they say snow in on the way for Thanksgiving. I love warm weather but I'm ready for a Colorado blizzard! These pics were taken last November right around this time. If I don't have time to blog again before Thanksgiving...I wish everyone a happy and safe holiday!

Design challenge layout

Credits:
November Premiere kit Autumn Flowers by Dana Zarling;
Frayed fabric, crumpled, chalked edge actions from Atomic Cupcake;
Brad and Staple by Tracy Collins-Tag Sale;
Font- Angelina

I decided to do the Tip of the Week over at Scrapper's Guide this week. The challenge was to use 6 or more squares of background paper in a layout and they had to be from a Scrapper's Guide kit. I just love that site and her weekly newsletters, lots of great tips! Hope everyone is having a nice Saturday :)

New Kit and Freebie!

Another one for the dog and cat lovers out there called Doodle Pets! This is a happy, playful looking little kit, don't you think? It's hard to really see everything in the preview but I listed the contents in MY STORE. It will be on sale for $3.49 for a few days so grab it now and send me some sample layouts, I love to see them! Apparently a lot of stores are having issues with Paypal so if you encounter problems, please let me know. Hopefully Paypal is working on this. While you are here, grab the freebie below (for personal use only).

Doodle Pets Freebie

Sneak Peek at my next kit

Here is my girl Kayla lounging on the porch...her favorite place to watch the world go by. I'm so close to getting this kit done if I could just get a few minutes to myself!!!!! I need to add some word art because what's a pet kit without all those cute pet phrases, huh? By the way, the name of this kit is 'Doodle Pets'. There will, of course be a freebie to go along with it...stay tuned and have a great friday!!!!

Sad, but true...

My son has received 2 ant farms as gift so far and I quickly stuffed them into the back of the closet hoping he would forget about them. It was inevitable, though...I finally had to mail-order some ants for him. I'm not extremely squeamish when it comes to things like that but I was kinda dreading having an ant farm in my house because I really didn't know what to expect. We are currently using the Gel Ant Farm that is maintenance free so all we had to do was put the ants in and watch. I have to admit, I'm hooked! I really love to watch the little guys feverishly go to town digging and working from dusk till dawn. I've spent more time watching them than the boys have! I even go in right before I go to bed to check on them and they look so cute curled up next to each other sleeping. I think I'm getting rather attached and will probably be very sad when they die in a month or two :(. Seems like a sad little existence. If I could tell them apart, I probably would've named each one of them! I must do a layout soon :)
Thank you to all that answered my QP question. The conclusion I'm coming to is there are more out there that dislike them than like them. However, those that do like them would like the 8.5x11 size. I've decided that my next freebie will NOT be a quickpage (unless I throw one in as an extra) but if I do any in the future I will add additional ones in 8.5x11sizes! Off to work on my kit and watch Desperate Housewives :)

Happy Digital Scrapbooking Day!

I hope you are all busy doing challenges, shopping the sales, gathering freebies and getting layouts done! I REALLY wanted to have a freebie to give out today but no such luck. I've been formulating ideas for a new kit all week and last night I finally started creating something I like. I should have it done next week with freebie to go along with it. Hint...it's another one for the dog/cat lovers! I know everybody is busy shop/blog hopping today but if you have a moment can you please drop me a note and let me know if you like quickpages as freebies or would you rather have something else. I really like to make them but I don't know if people really like to use them. Have fun today!

Happy Halloween!

My boys are getting all geared up to head out and do some Trick-or-Treating this evening and I'm ready to get ill trying not to eat too much candy...but I always do,LOL! I need to have lots of great candy on hand for our busy neighborhood of kids and because my 5-year old has a severe peanut allergy. When he gets back from T-or-T-ing we have to take out all the 'peanut contaminated' candy (which ends up being most of it) and replace it with really interesting 'non-peanut contaminated' candy so he doesn't feel gypped. I did another layout yesterday after the boys played in the leaves.

Credits: Template by Heather Benson; Falling for Fall kit by Calico Designs; Fonts-28 days later and Angelina

I should be watching a ROCKIES game....

but unfortunately, the World series is over after 4 straight losses against the Red Sox :( . I've never been much of a baseball fan but I think everyone in Colorado had Rockies fever being the first time ever our team was in the World Series! There's always next year. I do love football, though and I am watching the Broncos game right now so I'm happy :) I haven't really been working on much but I did manage to get a layout done of the boys in their costumes.

Credits: Template by Misty Cato; Paper and ribbon from Pumpkin Patch freebie by Bannerwoman; Tag from Candy Corn Carnival-Elemental Scraps; Font-Angelina

Freebie, new kit & layouts!

Well it's our first snowstorm of the season here in Colorado and it's cold. We had a beautiful day in the upper 70's yesterday which allowed us to get our pop-up winterized, sprinklers blown out and lawn mowed one last time. I'm sure we'll still have some nice days to enjoy before real winter sets in.
I just released a new kit called "Touch of Brass" available here. I did a couple of layouts with it below and if you like them you can grab the free quickpages at the bottom of this post.
My sweet Kayla celebrated her 10th birthday on the 14th! She looks like she could care less. At least I spared her the humiliation of wearing a birthday hat, lol! Font-Beyond Wonderland; Kit- Touch of Brass-Calico's Digital Designs.

This is my son Hunter when he was 2 years old. He was spending the day at grandma's house and playing at her desk. Font-Beyond Wonderland; Kit-Touch of Brass by Calico's Digital Designs.

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New Kit and a Freebie!

Here is a preview of my latest kit called My Favorite Star! It will be on sale in my store for 30% off for 1 week...grab it HERE! I'm always in need of kits that compliment boy photos so that was my inspiration for this kit. Scroll down a bit to get a freebie for stopping by!

Here is a layout I did of Hunter playing in the mud. I usually plant flowers in this dirt area in my front yard but this past summer I left it for the boys to play in. Of course when they dig really deep they reach my tulip and daffodil bulbs. What can ya do??? It makes for some good fun for them and good pictures for me :). Font-Amanda's Hand

Here are two Quickpages I made for you to test drive my latest product...Enjoy!

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It's been awhile since I last posted...

I thought I should get on here and post an update and to say...Go Colorado Rockies!!!. I'm fine, just busy with life. Homeschooling is going well now that we have a bit of a routine but some days go better than others, that's for sure. I'm still in a designing dry spell but as soon as I get together a freebie to go with my new kit, I'll put it up. I've just been enjoying my favorite time of year. We took the boys (and two nephews) to Miller Farms and we took a hayride out into the fields to pick our own veggies/pumpkins. We then cooked them up in some tasty recipes. The boys couldn't wait to get home to eat their veggies!!! Here are some pictures of you care to see! I hope you're all getting some scrappin done! Here's a preview of my new soon-to-be-released kit:

Credits: My Favorite Star by me; Fonts-Edible Pet and Snidley

Ok, here's the deal on the 24-hour freebie...

I just tried to download the kit myself and I see it's still having issues, so....I'm just going to leave this freebie up for awhile! I really had no idea that this kit was going to go over as well as it did. You have all left the kindest comments and it's soooo appreciated!!!! I guess the time limit and the amount of downloads was just too much for 4 shared to handle. I was going to make this "24-hour freebie" my thing but I'm going to have to look into a different means for downloading. Anyway, for now.....relax and grab the download at your leisure. Happy Fall, Y'all!!!!!

Download blues :(

I see 4-shared is giving y'all fits over this kit, huh? Well I guess I should say that makes me feel good knowing the traffic is so high to get this kit, lol!. Not to worry, I will extend the download maybe 12 more hours than originally planned to help you out, how's that? I'll end it Tues evening at 8:45pm MDT. Good luck ;)

Falling For Fall - 24 hour Freebie!

This kit will be free on my blog for the next 24 hours so grab it quick! If you miss it, it will be available in my store for a very reasonable price :). Special Thanks to Atomic Cupcake. Scroll down if you would like to see a sample layout. I did this one using a picture of my son Riley, taken 2 years ago.

This download has expired. This product is now available in my store.

Credits: Falling For Fall kit by me; Font-Really bad typewriter

PumkinPatch Freebie

Credits: Special Thanks to Atomic Cupcake!
Finally I had a minute to post this freebie for you all! I'm getting ready to head to the pumpkin patch in the next week or so with my boys so I made some.....pumpkins :) I still need to finish scrapping my pumpkin patch pics from last year cause I got some cute ones. As you grab this freebie, take this time and PLEASE NOTE: I have two kits I'm getting very close to releasing and I decided I'm going to give them away FREE on my blog for 24 HOURS ONLY before they go in my store. I miss the days when I gave out mega freebies but I still want to support my store so I decided this is a good compromise. The first one will have the theme....Autumn, of course! I have a few finishing touches but it will be released within the next few days. You can subscribe to my blog so you wont miss it but once the 24 hours have passed, that will be it...no exceptions :) For now, grab this freebie and get out to that pumpkin patch!!!!!!

Pumkin Patch Freebie

I did another layout, WooHoo!

Credits: Template by Tami-Scraprallye; Kit-Birthday bliss by me; Fonts-A little Pot, Nueva

Although my schedule lately has been a bit busy, I managed to do this layout last night. My son's 5th birthday was Sunday and I wanted to show you his "Dirt Cake" with gummy worms (recipe here )! The recipe calls for you to layer this dessert in a flower pot and serve it with a garden shovel (or a sand pail and shovel). Since Hunter loves trucks, DH had this great idea to serve in in the back of a dump truck! It was a big hit with all nine boys at the party ...and the adults :)
I started homeschooling kindergarten with Hunter this week. He seems to enjoy it so far and I realize I need to improve my organizational skill if I have any hope of being successful with this! It seems like there's a lot to do in a day but I think it's just because we are new to it and haven't found our rhythm yet. When I get settled with this new schedule, I'll try to make a nice big freebie for you all! Until then, I may be a little scarce :)

3 new Products and 2 Freebies!

I finally finished making these 3 element packs to coordinate with my Quilter's stash paper packs! Buttons, pins, stitches and trims to "quilt" some cute layouts. You can grab these in MY STORE right now. Special Thanks to Atomic Cupcake!
I used my Quilter's Stash- Country Comfort paper and elements to make this layout of my two boys and their cousins. I also used my 3-in-1 Chipboard alpha template for the title. This Alpha is on sale in my store for 50% off so grab it quick and customize it fit any layout! I made a quickpage based on this layout to give as a freebie or you can just grab the frame and tag if you prefer. Grab them below...Enjoy!

Quilter's Stash Quickpage Freebie(png format)

Frame and Tag Freebie

If you haven't already visited...

Be sure to check out the fun stuff over at Seaside Scraps! Notice my name up there on that ad???? That's pretty darn exciting for me :) Well, DH had a birthday so I had a good excuse to make and eat some chocolate cake, YUM! He loves to cook so he made his birthday brunch and that was yummy, too!

By request...

LVMommy22 said...

i love this tag chris! (i can't wait to see what else goes with it, lol!) it's so cute, i could see it as a journaling block for a variety of types of pages: christmas, country, shabby chic, school days - and it would be darling with your quilt/calico papers! do you have a plain one handy? please please please?
:) M

Since I usually keep my original layered files, I was easily able to fill this request. If anybody else wants a blank one, you can grab it rght below the link for the autumn tag. Enjoy!

Low Tide sale at Seaside Scraps!

Hurry, it's only today and tomorrow! Click on the link for a preview of what's on sale. I have my Birthday Bliss kit marked down 35% so head on over...

Seaside Scraps Low Tide Sale

Autumn Tag Freebie!

It's been awhile since I've given out a freebie so here's a little something I had in my stash. It was made last autumn but I updated the bow since my other one looked cheesy,lol! I made a whole kit to match this but only about half of it still looks good to me so I may give the good pieces of it out in parts for free over the next month.
Thanks for thi input about quickbooks...I put them on my list of things to make and I will eventually get around to it. All the admin stuff that goes along with selling is eating up my designing time and that's not good! I need 48 hours in a day but then again, who doesn't. Enjoy the freebie. It's a little early for Autumn but it is my absolute favorite time of year and I like to get the most out of it. I go crazy with the fall decor in my house! Special thanks to Atomic Cupcake! By requst, I added a blank version of this tag, too (no preview).

Get the tag here
Autumn Tag
Blank tag

New Product and Another Store!

I created this alpha template the other day and I think it's pretty cool! I always like versatile elements that can be customized to fit any layout. You just grab two coordinating papers from your own stash for a customized alpha you can save and use over and over. Create as many alphas as you like and use your creativity to alter them even more to your liking. I created it in photoshop so right now it's only available as a layered .psd file. You use it the same way you use all the other templates you see around the scrappin town. If you're not familiar with using templates, I've included instruction with the download and Misty Cato has a tutorial here.

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Do you remember a while back I said I was invited to be a designer at a few stores. I decided to try doing my own store due to time limitations and such, well I changed my mind,LOL! I'm now selling my designs at Seaside Scraps as well as my own store! This is a super cute site with wonderful members and team! I have more products in my own store at the moment but from now on, I will put the same products in both stores at the same prices.