Sunday, September 27, 2009

Autumn Breeze

Fall is here - I can smell it in the air. I love fall, the light, and the colors are all so soothing to me. Mel Hains has a stunning new kit out called Autumn Breeze.





It is in the Scrap That Idea Store for $3.00 this week. Gorgeous kit for all those beautiful fall photos and memories.

This layout I did for the Simplicity Challenge on Vera Lim's blog. Focus was on the photo and a very simple layout. I used Vera's Textures 2 to edit the photo, paper from her Being with You kit and a Little Magic Volume 4 on the side. I didn't take the photo but I think it is a beautiful shot!!!


Hope everyone has a wonderful week! Fall tends to make me a little lazy so I may just sit here all day and scrap!!!

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

A Coupon For You

Hurry over to DSO and be one of the first five to receive the darling quick pages from Charlie's new kit, Up, Up and Away.



Mel has a new kit out called Hop, Skip and Jump. Love those little froggies and the greens and blues. So cute and it's on sale this week for $3.00.



Bye.

Monday, September 21, 2009

Up, Up and Away

Charlie’s Digiscraps has a “boy” inspired kit in store today. Boy layouts are rough for me as my boy is 28 and there is no hope in sight for any boy grandchildren...yet anyway, so I borrow adorable Evan from my friend, Emily (a newly converted digital scrapper herself!) and the great photos are taken by her husband. Thanks guys!



Up Up and Away is a fun kit with hues of blue, green and yellow.

Lovely rich textures with cardstock, acrylic and painted textures too!

Perfect to scrap those big and little men in your life.

Though any occasion can be scrapped with this kit!

Matches perfectly with the coordinating Quickpages(also in store).

This kit has 12 textured papers and 36 elements

This kit is on SALE $4.50 $3.15 – 30 % off for ONE WEEK ONLY




You can get the adorable alpha free on Charlie's blog.
And entire kit at DSO including these darling quick pages!


This weekend my little GD (age 5) was entered in a art show to help raise money for a young child with cancer. There were a lot of amazing pictures, all done by children. Each piece was for sale and all the money went to help this young child and her family...what a wonderful thing for young children to participate in! What a great job she did!



My daughter and her husband also had an anniversary this weekend -it's been a tough year but they have gotten through it and remained a strong couple and parents through it all. Happy Anniversary guys!

Here's a photo from their wedding - with a lot of PS actions used on it. I love the vintage look of it.



Have a great week!

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Christmas in September

I bet you are thinking perhaps I have lost my mind (and perhaps I have) but Charlie has a great little Christmas sampler to start you thinking about the upcoming holiday months. It is just adorable.

15 Christmas inspired Commercial Use items at the bargain price of $1.50!

Checked meticulously by the vaults’ Quality Check team and certified Stray and jaggy FREE!

This bag is available at the Digiscrap Vault HERE for a LIMITED TIME only!


You can climb into Santa's bag and pick it up here.

Mel has a new kit out called Yum Yum Bubble Gum - stunning pastels in this kit. It is in the store now at Scrap That Idea.




The photo is a shot of my daughter when she was just a little over 1 and myself - I have always loved this photo and now it has a home in this layout. Thanks Mel for the gorgeous kit!

I attended a little lecture about scrapbooking last night and was really inspired by the presentation. It really put into perspective for me how important scrapbooking is. Being a single Mom for a long time and having a bit of a struggle at times has always made me think that maybe I wasn't the best of mothers because I had to work so hard to keep our life going. But when I first started scraping, looking through old pictures and at all the fun times we had as a family, I know now that even though times were tough, we had a lot of fun as a family, laughed a lot, cried a lot but we are a family and through the years and in the years to come, we will have those memories documented. That is what is important because in the end, those memories, pictures and our journaling will be what we have left of each other.

Now, I just have to work on my journaling and not just creating a pretty page...

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

New stuff and a bowl of ice cream

The fabulous Charlie has another CU bag up for grabs this week. This Grab Bag is jammed packed full of high quality Commercial Use Designer Resources. Five full sized never before released Products (40 items in total).
A bargain at less than $1 per full product! All have been quality checked.

This grab bag will be available for 1 week only!!!! Head on over to DSO and check it out.



Some of the more creative members of Charlie's CT have some great freebies waiting for you made with this CU grab bag. Beautiful stuff ladies! You can find the links on Charlie's blog.






Mel Hains from Scrap That Idea also has two new kits out and a birthday sale! Can't believe it has been six months. Go shopping with this amazing 50% off coupon.


Check out In My Dreams. An absolutely adorable with dreamy papers and elements.




Mel has also gotten together with Stacy for a freebie called "Say Cheese" You can pick up Stacy's part here and Mel's here. These ladies did a great job with this gorgeous kit!




A big bowl of Rocky Road Ice Cream is calling my name and then off to bed!!!!

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Digiscrap Vault

Charlie has a brand new exclusive product in the store HERE at the Digiscrap Vault.

Fancy Flowers contains 11 ornate fabric flowers.

This Commercial Use product contains 11 png files @ 300ppi.
These gorgeous flowers are all Charlie's own photos and her own special touch to make them exceptional products!
They contain no stray pixels.
Credit is appreciated but NOT required

They are 40% off until the end of the Grand Opening Sale at the Vault!





Here is what I have been up to today.


This layout was for the altered photo challenge at DSO - love those PSE actions! I also used Charlie's Template #8 for this layout which you can get if you subscribe to her newsletter here.

and this one...love the fantasy look of this kit - it is by Lily Design - Color Your Birthday Kit.


WooHoo - No work tomorrow!

Saturday, September 5, 2009

Blessings wordart freebie

Just a little blessing for all my blog readers.



Personal use only please. I hope you enjoy it!

Friday, September 4, 2009

Grab Bag from Charlie

Charlie has released a PU Grab Bag today at Digiscrap Obsession. The bag contains five new products - never seen before. The Grab Bag is worth $12 but grab it now and pay only $3. Charlie has outdone herself with these gorgeous products.




All of the designers at DSO have participated in these PU Grab Bags so there is really some fabulous stuff over there and it's all on sale!

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Digiscrap Vault

Bunnie and Kim have opened a new CU shop, Digiscrap Vault. The amazing Charlie is going to be selling her exquisite CU products there as well as other designers. What a great opportunity to buy top quality commercial use products, all in one place. These girls' products are the best - all quality checked from top to bottom!

To celebrate the opening Charlie is having a sale for one week only...a 40% off sale. Check it out HERE!