Sharon got LOTM with her Happily LO - and she's GIVING it to YOU (again) !

Sharon got LOTM at ESS! We all knew this one was a gorgeous LO, didn't we? ;)

And...to top it off, this lovely lady has GIVEN you all her LO as a QP! I had it on my blog on April 8th, but I figured I'd put it up again for those of you who missed it. The image is linked for you to go leave her some love in her gallery...

And here's the QP for you....She has done two versions (both pictured below) and they're both included in the download.

And this is her original version where the photos extend out from behind the frame.

Download both of them here (direct download) or here (4shared)

Please head to Sharon's blog after you've downloaded ang give her a HUGE thank you!

"Sweet Pea" by Scrappy Weiss Designs and a QP Freebie for you...

Well, the lovely Miss Erin of Scrappy Weiss Designs fame has done it again with a LOVELY kit for you all, which she's giving away on her blog! It's called "Sweet Pea" and the colors are just lovely!

Click on the preview to go to her blog to download it!

I had such fun playing with it, and then made a QP for you all.

Click the preview or here to download

Make sure you head over to Erin's blog to pick up the whole kit, and leave her some love for a job very well done!

Charlie's new kit "Forever" + a QP freebie

I just wanted to pop on quickly to tell you about Charlie's kit "Forever." It's in her stores at Stone Accents Studio and Snap and Scrap now. With her ENTIRE STORE at Snap and Scrap being 50% off for the rest of the month, you can get some real bargains!

When I looked at it I thought it might be a girlie kit. But, ya know, it really is a neutral kit. I made a LO for a friend of mine with pics of her baby boy. Isn't her baby GORGEOUS!? I made a QP for you too...allll the way at the bottom ;)

Credits here

I'm trying to learn PSE7 (trial version - blegh) so I was playing around a bit, and made a QP for you. Click on the preview to download!

Don't forget to come back on Monday to snag the collab kit I made with Mel and Erin ;)

Gorgeous new kit & QP freebie

Charlie has got a fab new kit out called "Jaimee's Little Garden." It's a fun and yet still pretty kit and I just LOVE LOVE LOVE the doodled flowers in it. Ah they're GORGEOUS. I'm a little doodled flower girl at heart, I think. That, and little doodled hearts ;)

My daughter had been out smelling the flowers, and when she came in her nose was covered in pollen. When I told her to go check the mirror, she came back looking thrilled at the fact that her nose was yellow!

Credits here

The kit is gorgeous and available here, and right now it's on sale for 30% off! GO SNAG IT!

I created a QP from my LO - I hope you like it!

Download here

I am also really excited about doing Project 365 with Vicki, Erin, Lou Ann and Charlie. I meant to do it last year and it just never happened. We all plan on taking one photo a day, and scrapping it. Woohoo - here's to at least 365 LO's this year! LOL!

Anyway, I hope your first day of 2009 has been fabulous. Please come back and visit often. And TALK to me - I'd love to get to know you better.

Don't you just love this time of year!? A freebie for you too!

I am an extremely social person, and I have missed that aspect of South Africa. Showing up unannounced or organizing last minute to have coffee with someone is not uncommon. I find it difficult to find time to schedule social things in here in the US, since life is just busy busy busy! So I am working hard and not letting the busyness of the Christmas season steal away the joy that comes with seeing so many wonderful friends at different parties and occasions, and remembering the birth of Christ our Savior! I try to plan in advance for what I have to do, and not panic when I have to do something at the last minute

Anyway, my wonderful designer bosses (as Anne likes to call them - ha ha ha) have been hard at work creating some gorgeous kits for me to play with! Yippee - I'm like a kid in a candy store.

First, Charlie has created a fun kit called "Hip Hip Hooray!" and it will be available in her store at Snap and Scrap tomorrow (HOPEFULLY I'm not jumping the gun here!!!!!) and Stone Accents Studio by the end of the weekend.

I did a LO using photos that we took of each of us as we left on our family vacation this year... and I made a QP freebie for you from it, so scroll all the way to the end to get that.

credits here

This is such a versatile kit that I'm pretty sure I'll be scrapping more LO's with it soon.

Next is another work of art from the lovely Mel :) It's a boy kit called "A Little Baby Boy" and it's really cute... it will be available at iScrapbook.com soon!

And here's my little baby boy :)

credits here

Now for your QP freebie! I left the words "Road Trip" on it and I hope that you will be able to use it :) If you would like me to do it without the title so you can put your own in, just let me know...

Click here to download

Thank you, Charlie, for a great kit!

I wish you all a Merry Christmas - travel safely, enjoy family, and most importantly, remember Jesus Christ, the son of God and our Lord and Savior!

Charlie's lovely Fantasy Dreams brag book freebie

Charlie is giving away a lovely 13-page brag book from her Fantasy Dreams kit - it's LOVELY!

I have a 14th page for you all :) Download here and then head of to Charlie's blog to get the rest!

iScrapbook.com & a freebie QP with Flower Power!

Wow! I'm completely blown away that my little Christmas kit has had 645 downloads. Wow. I'm speechless!

On to some exciting news! There is a brand new scrapping website called iScrapbook.com and it looks like it's going to be a LOT of fun! The wonderful Mel Hains was invited to be a designer for them, so she has a store and three fabulous new kits!

She has Chocolate Butterfly, Summer Melon, and finally Another Kind of Holiday. All three are completely different, and although Another Kind of Holiday is a Christmassy kit, I can see it being used for so much more.

Chocolate Butterfly

Summer Melon

Another Kind of Holiday

Head on over to iscrapbook.com and have a look around!

Also, Erin created the fun "Flower Power" kit, and here is a QP from my LO:

Download hereDon't forget to stop by Erin's blog to snag her kit, and I know she'd love to hear some encouragement on her first fabulous kit!

I hope you have a wonderful week!

I made our Christmas Card! (and a freebie QP)

I am so enamored with the lovely Vicki's "Merry Mistletoe" kit (only available through the Scrap 'n Art online 'zine) that I decided to use it for our family's Christmas card this year. Now I just have to make sure I actually print them and send them! If anyone didn't get a card from me last year, it's because it's sitting in my desk drawer. Still. *blush*
(I smudged out our name to the left of the tree - hope you don't mind ;)

It's been a long time since I posted any LO's from Snap and Scrap - bad me!
Marcee's kit "Leaf Pile" is really lovely - I enjoyed making this LO my dd just LOVES hats, and she can pull it off too! It looks like she's meant to be wearing it. I put on a hat and it just looks all wrong. We were at the store the other day, and I'd already finished making my purchase when she popped out from behind a display wearing this hat. I couldn't resist - it's just so cute!

And then this week, I couldn't help but do another LO with Mel's "Erin's Pinwheels and Polkadots" - such a fun and versatile kit!

And I made a QP for you from my LO -all you have to do is add in your own Title, subtitle and journalling. Don't be afraid to journal! Practice makes perfect (right!?)

Download the QP here

I would love to know what you think of my QP's - over 50 of you have downloaded the Frogs and Mudcakes QP and no one has left a comment :(

Well, that's it for tonight! Have a wonderful week...

Gorgeous freebie collab kit, and a QP freebie from me!

Three of my most favorite designers on the planet (and not only are they fab designers, but they are the most wonderful people too!) have gotten together and created a super collab freebie for us all. It's called "Putting on the Glitz" and is a big one! Mel Hains, Charlie Hudson and Vicki Parker have really done a great job and this kit is perfect for everything from those little girl dress-up moments to scrapping those photies of a bride getting ready. It's a FREEBIE so go grab the parts from each of their blogs!

Here's my LO:

I love this photo of my dd when she was 3. It's just one that will remain a favorite amongst the thousands I take of my kids, because it captures her vivacious personality, her childlike innocence, her beautiful blue eyes... And just to show how well they all work together, I finished my LO, and only then realized that I had used one part from each of the designers - the paper from Mel, the frame from Vicki, and the flowers (one recolored) from Charlie!

Created with this lovely kit:

Here's a QP for you :) You can download it here!

I posted this weekend that there was a CyberCrop at Snap and Scrap. Oops. I didn't realize it has been moved to this coming weekend, as part of the Digital Scrapbooking Day. So head on over there and register on the forum because it's bound to be a blast. They really are a wonderful group of people. And don't forget to introduce yourself - I'd love to say hi!

And...TADA! I got an award! I will be posting about that a little later, since I want to do my part, and right now I have to run and tend to my kids. I have spent FAR too much time here today ;)

A Fall QP Freebie for you

I forgot to post the freebie for Mel's kit "Julie's Frolicksome Fall" - oops! I did a QP from my LO and you can grab it here.

Hope you enjoy it!

FAB stuff, FUN stuff and FREE stuff!

This is going to be one loaded post ;) Of course, you're going to have to go all the way to the end for the freebie!

Firstly for the fab stuff! The lovely Mel has some new kits in her shoppe. They are all kits named for CT members, they are all lovely...and each one has a free sampler (pretty much a mini kit) that you can pick up at Snap and Scrap!

This is my LO with "Julie's Frolicsome Fall"

This is "Theresa's Japanese Garden"

And "Vicki's Carnival"

And now for some fun stuff!!!

Snap and Scrap has a fun CyberCrop going on this weekend, with all kinds of Challenges and other events. Be sure to join them at the forum any time you can make it - just pop in and out from today until Sunday...

And while we're talking about Snap and Scrap, their newsletter is really fabulous with tutorials, ideas, freebies - it's really worth the read and not filled with fluff etc. I highly recommend that you subscribe to it. The bonus is that if you subscribe to the newsletter you will go into a drawing to win a $5 shoppe gift certificate! The draw will take place next week (so hurry - don't forget and then remember when it's over like I would!) and the winner will be notified by email. Subscribe HERE!

...and some FREE stuff!

He he he - we all love freebies ;) As I promised earlier, here is my QP for Charlie's "Shabby Old Blues" kit. While I was making it, I placed some black frames for you to place your photos (which really can go anywhere on the page) and then you can delete them. However, after I put my photos in them, I thought they look rather nice framed in the simple black line on this page, and you might want to keep them. Anyway, the QP is layered, so you can choose to keep them or delete them as you want!

Download

Well, I hope I haven't forgotten anything - I tend to do that far too often ;) Since this was SUCH a long post, I'm going to save zoo school and zoo school photos for tomorrow.

Have a blessed weekend!