It's NDSD- National Digital Scrapbooking Day!!!!

And here I am up before the sun, trying to get in my share of the sales and challenges before I leave to go up north to see the girls!!! Wow, is this gonna be a GREAT day!. I'm gonna keep this short, cuz I'm sure that you'd rather be shopping or chating or celebrating, lol.

Please stop by One of a Kind Scrapz and participate in the challenge I set up. I love doing lyric challenges! And this one is my favorite, because I'm in charge. I choose "Bubbly" by Colbie Caillat. Have you heard this song yet? It's a catchy little song, I can't get enough of it. Check it out here on YouTube. Click the ad below to be taken to where the challenge is. There's also a great scavenger hunt for a beautiful full kit.

Scrapbook bytes is having a QP exchange challenge for DSD too. Wanta see mine? Here it is, it's the first full one I've ever done. Not too bad, if you ask me, but wow there are some awesome! awesome QP's over at SBB. It's a great collab kit. Go check it out.

Don't forget about Heather's grab bag over at Plain Digital Wrapper. Buy $5 worth of her stuff and get the grab bag. It's got this awesome kit in it. You want this kit.

I gotta go shop, hope you all have an enjoyable weekend. Play a few games and chat with everyone for me.

Until next time, scrap happy! Diane

Finally Friday!!!

Yeah, it's Friday. Not only the start of the weekend but the start of the NDSD celebration. Keep an eye out for chats and sales, lots are starting today. The majority of the celebration will be tomorrow. If you missed it yesterday, there's a small list of what's going on at different sites around Digi world, scroll down to yesterdays post. Ok, I'm a little bit behind here due to lots of reasons, some my fault, some not my fault. So lets' get the info out now.

Don't forget to join Kelli - Tallula Moon Designs at 3 Scrapateers tomorrow night for her regularly scheduled "My Favorite Things" chat.

Heather Manning is now selling at Plain Digital Wrapper as well as at her new store. She will have grab bag up at PDW this weekend for NDSD that has this killer winter kit in it in her fab grunge style. I just got my hands on it last night and it is awesome. I can't show you a preview cuz I don't know if it's a closed grab bag or not. But if you're a fan of Heather's (aren't we all) get this grab bag!

Now Yen had this on her blog yesterday, and I may be taking liberties by snagging it, but she said she was passing it on to Diane, so I snagged it. I just like passing them on, but it seems that I keep passing it to the same people. So here goes: Cate, Kristine, Dawne,Heather, Andrea. Ha now you can't pass it on to those people but spread the lovin. Actually there are tons of blogs that I love to read and I forgot quite a few of them.

Check out the One of a Kind Scrapz free with purchase for the first part of the month. It's a gorgeous collab kit. And remember that OAKS is having a 30% off sale storewide that starts today. All sorts of grab bags over there and don't forget about Fantacy's new kit.

Stop by Dawne's blog to find out what is going on at the Garden for NDSD. It's a great deal and they also have a collab. kit.

These were the only 2 freebies that were up when I went a freebie hunting. I'm still working on an idea on how to showcase the freebies better. It will be sometime after I get back from vacation. I'll be gone from next Wed. to the following Tues.

Hope everyone enjoys their weekend! Get lots of scrappin done, lots of shoppin done and have fun! Until next time, scrap happy!

Diane

November 1st - only 55 more days

Say it isn't so....Christmas will be here before we know it. I actually bought my first Christmas gift yesterday. Shhhhh. don't tell BF, it's an Ohio State shirt. hehe I get him at least 1 each year. Well it was 50% off. Can't beat that! Especially if they keep winning.

I got to play around with Fantacy's new kit last night. I love her stuff so much that I get really paranoid about what I turn out with it. I did 3 and this one I really liked. The other 2 will have to be tweaked. That's my niece Addi. I'm so excited I'm going to see them this weekend. That means lots more photos to scrap. Anyway go check out Fantacy's new kit. You can get it in papers, elements or complete kit.



Here's a 2 page set I did for the November Theme- Family, pages over at Scrappers Daily Dose with Nov. sponsor Michelle Pieters Summer Sunset collection. The photos aren't the greatest, but it was a good time and family is all you got sometimes. But I really enjoyed the kit and plan to do a few more pages with it.

Saturday is National Digital Scrapbooking Day. Yeah we got our own day! Now what does that mean???? SHOPPING!!!! And chats, and challenges and freebies!!!!! So I've compliled a list of things going on in the digi world. I won't be at too many of them Sat. since I'm going up north to see the kids (yeah!!!) but I want you all to be there for me (shop for me too! lol)

OAKS (one of a kind scrapz) is going all out all weekend. There will be a storewide 30% off sale running Fri. - Sun. Chats and challenges too. Great prizes and lots of fun to be had.

Scrapbook-Bytes is having chats starting at 6 and running til midnight. They will have challenges and freebies too. Plus they will have great sales in their store.

Digiscrapinfo is running a contest with Kodal & ACDSee where you can win a printer or software.

Digital Freebies is having a sale, running chats and contests and some giveaways.

A Cherry on Top will be running chats and challenges from 8 am to 8 pm. And they are having a pre-party chat on Friday at 8 pm.


KB & Friends has chats going on from noon to 7 pm along with challenges.


PolkadotPotato will have challenges running with great prizes.

The DigiChick will have chats and challenges all day along with prizes given out.


Nuts4Digi will have chats and challenges- looks like they're giving away a camera too.

Scrapbookgraphics is having an all day festival. Chats, freebies and "scrapbook tennis" (someone's gotta tell me what this is).


PlainDigitalWrapper will have 3 promotions running Nov. 1 - 3 - Dollar Days, Calendar Creator release and a spend $10 drawing.


Scrapbook Elements is having a pizza party challenge, you have to sign up for this by Friday.

I'm sure there's more going on. Check you favorite site to see what they're doing and then pop into a site you're not familiar with and do something new and different. It's a great way to meet new friends.

No one had freebies up yet and it's getting close to the time I need to leave for work. I have to figure out this freebie thing and how I can make it work for everyone.

Until next time, scrap happy!
Diane

Happy Halloween

Hope your hauntings are fun today!

I'm in a different office than normal and the server here is the worse and it takes forever to download, upload or even process much of anything so this will be a short entry today. Here's a quiz I found about Halloween. I thought I knew a lot about it, but I bombed this quiz.

Halloween Quiz
by Myriam Gabriel-Pollock Halloween originated as an autumn harvest festival among the ancient Celts of Europe. Thousands of years later, Halloween is celebrated in many parts of the world as a festive and lighthearted holiday, especially for children. Learn more about this fascinating tradition by taking our quiz.
1
Halloween traditionally falls on the eve of which holiday?
a)
All Saints' Day
b)
Allhallows
c)
Hallowmas
d)
All of the above

2 According to the National Confectioners Association (NCA), children's least favorite items to get in their trick-or-treat bags are:
a)
Baked goods
b)
Packs of gum
c)
Fruit and salty snacks
d)
Toys

3 Modern Halloween customs are derived from ancient Celtic celebrations that involved human and animal sacrifice.
a)
True
b)
False

4 The jack-o'-lantern, a hollowed-out turnip or pumpkin with a wicked face carved onto it and a candle lighting it from the inside, is the most recognized symbol of Halloween. Its name came from:
a)
Captain Jack Sparrow, an 18th-century pirate
b)
A character from British folktales
c)
"The Raven," by Edgar Allan Poe
d)
The very poisonous jack-o'-lantern mushroom

5Trick-or-treating, the tradition of wearing costumes and going door to door to collect candy from your neighbors, is now the most popular Halloween activity in the United States, Canada, and Ireland (where they call it "guising"). When was the term "trick-or-treating" first used in print form?
a)
1897
b)
1919
c)
1934
d)
1951

6 Where does the largest public Halloween celebration in the United States take place?
a)
New York, New York
b)
Boston, Massachusetts
c)
Miami, Florida
d)
San Francisco, California

7 In Ireland, a barmbrack is a significant part of the Halloween tradition. It is:
a)
A seance held at the village square, followed by a midnight march through the cemetery
b)
A fruitcake-like flat, round bread full of sultanas, raisins, and a fortune-telling object
c)
A ghoulish costume festival taking place at midnight on October 31, to honor all the lost souls
d)
An enormous black iron cauldron filled with pumpkin soup, symbolizing the lost art of Wicca (paganism)

8 According to the National Retail Federation, in the United States the most popular children's Halloween costume for the year 2005 was:
a)
A pirate costume
b)
A ghost costume
c)
A princess costume
d)
A Harry Potter costume

9 In the 1978 horror film Halloween, the trademark white mask worn by the murderous Michael Myers originally had whose face on it?
a)
William Shatner, as Star Trek's Captain Kirk
b)
President Richard M. Nixon
c)
Charlie Brown, of "Peanuts"
d)
Gene Simmons, of the rock band KISS

10 What 56-year-old American trick-or-treating tradition has earned more than $127 million to help children worldwide?
a)
Costumed for a Cure
b)
Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF
c)
Halloween Philanthropy
d)
Chicago Dream Halloween Fundraiser

Ok quiz answers

1) D all of the above

2) C Fruit & salty snacks

3) True

4) B a character from British Folklore

5) 1934

6) New York, NY

7) B

8) C Princess

9) A William Shatner's Capt. Kirk

10) B Trick or Treat for UNICEF

Sorry no freebie list today. Tomorrow there will be and a list of things going on for NDSD.

Have fun trick or treating tonight!

Scrap happy!

Diane

Blah Tuesday

Blah, blah,blah that's what today is. Frost on the windows, but I knew about it early enough that I ran out to warm up the car so I wouldn't have to scrap windows. Tried to get blogger to work faster, while the car heated up. Should have known better. The car ran for 15 minutes while I tried to get the freebies for those who requested it. Now I'm on empty and the price of gas skyrocketed to almost $3.00. WHY???? The fluctuation in gas prices is the one great mystery I'll never understand. Don't get me started.

Here are some layouts I've been working on lately.
Credits: Daddy Long Johns papers by Blythe Evans from Oct. Grab Bag; Frame by Victoria Feemster Ribbons & Raffia from Oct. Grab Bag; Out of the box template by Ann Marie from Oct. Grab Bag; Flowers by Michelle Pieters from Summer Sunset; Flowers by Diamante Designs from Schones Blumen III; Yesterday News Alpha by Blythe Evans from Oct. Grab Bag; Swirls by AfriDigiDiva

Credits: Alicia by Lauraskathi

Credits: Isabel by Lauraskathi

Credits: Alicia papers by Lauraskathi; template Bling by KimB Designs; Bling by Sarah Van Dyke; Swirls by Dani B; Twinkle overlay by Dawn Wilson.


Well I asked about freebies and some of you wanted them. So here they are. If they are not up by the time I post my blog, they will be added the next day. However, the links will still take you to the blog and you can see what the have that's new.





Tomorrow I'm working at the office up north and the computer connection there is horrible. If I have time I'm gonna try to pull together a NDSD schedule, even though I'm gonna miss it.

Until next time, scrap happy!
Diane

Monday already?????

Ugh, there was frost on the car windows this morning. Summer is offically gone. Wow, I can't believe how the weekend flew by! And what a sad, sad weekend it was. The end of camping season is always a bummer, but I had a migrane Sat. night and didn't really get to enjoy the last night. I did manage to get rid of it in time to watch my Buckeyes beat the pants off of Penn State. Only 3 more critical games to do. Each one will be a doozy.

I got some good news right before I left work on Friday night. I was chosen to be a part of the Scrapz Pack over at One of A Kind Scrapz. It's gonna be a great gig, lots of fab people hanging out over there. All new challenges are coming up starting in Nov. And there are a lot of wonderful designers over there that I'm looking forward to getting to know. You'll get to see some of them here. So now I'm stretched to my limit with my 3 CTs, Heather, Kelli & Fantacy- posting at OAKS and Scrappers Daily Dose. But I'm a happy scrapper!

Speaking of designers, I want you to be the first to get a peek at Fantacy's newest kit!

Feral Faeries will be available at One of a Kind Scrapz soon. Keep an eye out for it. That adorable girl in the photos is her daughter, Chloe or Tink as she's called. I've seen some of this kit and can't wait to get my hands on it!

Here are 2 layouts I did with Fantacy's Hallow-Tween and Fraidy Cat kits. These pictures were taken at the Halloween party we went to on Friday night. It was a costume party (as you can tell) but we didn't have a chance to pull together anything good, so we went as "Happy Campers" lol. It was a lame excuse.


Congrats to Andrea (Boyerville Scraps) for getting her first designing gig. She's selling over at Art & Scrap Designs. Click on the preview to be taken to her store.

So I'm curious. Do any of you go and download the freebies I post from here or do you go to the bigger sites and get them all at once? I'm thinking I may end up with 2 posts, one personal and the other one the list of freebies. I like to promote my friends and other designers but I wonder if there's really a need for them with the main bloggers out there with 100s in their blog roll. I just added a blogroll to expand my listings, but now I'm thinking twice. Tell me how you feel about it. It seems that blogger is having issues this morning, so until they get it so I can upload previews, there will be no freebie list. Let me know if you miss it.

It's freezing here! The heat was off in the office all weekend so I've got my little space heater cranked full blast. I'm not a good winter person. But I'm lovin the leaves and the colors they are now. The fall viewing season is in full blast here.

Until next time, scrap happy!

Diane