New releases & a freebie

It's almost Monday and that means new releases. Look at what Kiki Halbert has just released over at Scrapbook Elements. The first preview is a beautiful kit with a name I love. A Breath of Spring. With the artic blast coming through, I could use a glimpse of spring now. But looks at the colors on this kit, aren't they beautiful.


And then she also has 2 wonderful alphas. All previews link to her store. Stop by and check them out. I hope to have some more layouts done with her amazing stuff soon. You can scroll down a few days and see the ones I did yesterday and Wed. night.

I was having issues getting things to go together right. You ever have those days when your pictures just don't go with the kits you've choosen and nothing looks right. I've decided when those days hit to leave everything behind and do something else. When I go back to it, it works just like I thought it would. Anyway, I started to play around with some actions since I finally learned how to load them. And thought I'd play in Kim B's color challenge over at DSO. I give you my first element set (well, it's all one thing) - Hearts a plenty. 24 hearts, different colors, different materials. As always please no hot links, send your friends here to grab their own copy.
You can grab it here. And if you haven't played in Kim's color challenge, you really should. Kim posts a color swatch and so many people play with and make some of the most beautiful kits with them. Last month, I tried my hand at papers and while there were a few people who uploaded them, I wasn't impressed with them. There's a lot more to this than it seems. But it's fun to play and it's fun to give away.

Well, maybe I'll get another layout done tonight. But don't count on it, hehehe. Hope everyone has a good Monday (if that's even possible).

A whole lot today

So much to write about today. Where to start. Ok, life first. We didn't get the doom and gloom snow they predicted overnight. Which is great! However, it did go to the north and I think is going to affect my trip home to see the girls. Yesterday I was quite devesated by the whole thing as they were expecting 8 to 10 inches today, but I've calmed down. I think that I'll just change my travel time a little and leave early tomorrow morning instead. Give the road crews time to clean the area up some. Plus I didn't sleep all that great and still fighting whatever the old lady's trying to give me. So on the bright side, if I don't leave tonight, I'll get to come home and 1) visit all the blogs I don't get to read during the day & 2) scrap! So I'm trying to look at the brightside. It's not easy when you're a glass is half empty type of girl. However, if you don't hear from me today, that means I made a run for it and will have to jump on my mom's computer to catch up on the blogs.

I'm rereleasing my song quotes word art freebie. Why you ask, well that's the next thing to talk about. But if you want the word art click the preview or here.


Ok, now you have some love song word art, you can play along with Heather's CT on their latest challenge. It's an easy one, and perfect for this time of year. Just do a layout with the lyrics from ANY love song. For everyone who participates, they will get free QP's made from Heather's Con Amor kit that was in her grab bag. And there will be a random drawing for 2 gift certs. Check out her CT blog for more information and other CT member's layouts with love songs.
Here's one I did for the challenge, I love the Wings song Maybe I'm Amazed. Ok, I'm a Youtube idiot and can't figure out how to embed the video into my blog. But here's the link. It's a beautiful video for a beautiful lovestory.

Look here, we have a new store to shop at. Kristine (da wench) has opened her own store.
Stop by and browse through Kristine's new store. She's got some gorgeous stuff there. Just click the ad.
And Kiki has an awesome grab bag over at PDW that starts today. I've seen what's in it, unfortunatly I didn't have time to play with anything before the sale so I could show you a sneek peak, but for $2 it's a steal!!

Well I think I've gotten everything. Please hope the weather cooperates for me so I can see those little girls. Cuz if I do, that means I get new pictures and a whole new scrapping mojo. Enjoy your weekend all and stay safe.

No more blogger at work.

So I've been having issues at work with my computer the past few days. When the IT guy called yesterday to go over things and reinstall and remove etc.. stuff, I just happened to have the site for my new blog host up. Well, later this afternoon I found that IT has blocked all Blogger based sites from my access at work. I have a feeling that forums will be next. I tried to clear out my history and stuff, but I know they have an exact printout of where I've been and such. Now I don't know why they feel that scrapping blogs are so dangerous to the server but I'm pretty sure that I've ruined it for everyone else in the company. However I doubt that anyone else is a ticked off about it as I am. I have a boring job and the only thing that makes it even remotely tolerable is my Internet access. So while I'll continue to blog I won't be by to read your during the day. I will however continue to visit my friends, nothing will stop me from my appointed rounds, lol. I just wanted to let everyone know what was up and why I'm not traveling the blog train during the day. (or at least until I figure out a way around this). I did get a domain name and started to set up a new blog. I'll let you know if I can access that one at work, not that it will matter, cuz I won't be able to read yours at work.

So it was very nice to see this from Yen yesterday on her blog. I truly adore all my regular readers and am an avid reader myself. It's nice to get to know what it going on in peoples lives. I am so majorly bummed out about this IT issue. Anyway, I would like to once again recognize Heather, Kristine & Cate. These girls are just such a part of my daily life. I can't repeat what Kristine said about my IT issue, but it at least made me chuckle. Which I believe has become her main focus in life. Cate is my lifeline on trying to figure out my Vista and PSE issues. I don't understand something, one email screaming help and the problems fixed. Heather believes in me, even when I don't believe in myself. Love ya girls~Mwah!

I thought I'd play around with Kim B's color challenge over at DSO. I don't know when it started to become a design challenge, but it seems that everyone is trying their hand at that. I think I'll stick to word art. But here is my very first attempt at papers. If you like it, snag em here.

Don't forget to stop by Heather's CT blog & leave a comment to be in the running for her newest grab bag. I'll be randomly drawing a name of everyone who leaves a comment. At least I'm getting all those at my email. lol. Ok, I know shut up and do your job.

Have a great day! I'll be missing you.

Love is in the air?

Hi all,
Pages weren't flowing today. I must have started at least 4 different ones, just to delete them all. Oh well. I decided to get a start on some word art for Valentine's day. The first overlay is an oldie, but I love the quote on it. So I thought I'd go ahead and share it again. Kind of a re-release. I love quotes. And I love word art. I really wish I did it better, but everyone starts somewhere. So here are a few new quotes I've found. If worse comes to worse, download em and rework them to fit your layout. I've done that enough times in my life.



Download the overlay here. Download the word art here.

Who knows, maybe by giving I'll find the missing mojo. Hope you're enjoying your weekend. Check back for more word art.

Only 2 weeks left!!

Hi there,
Do you have all your shopping done? I can't believe that there's only two weeks left til Christmas. That means there's only 3 weeks left til this year is over. "and so this is Christmas, and what have you done? Another year over and a new just begun." One of my favorite lines from Happy Xmas (War is Over) by John Lennon. Really makes ya think. Back to shopping. I've got the bulk of mine done, but I've been bugging my mom since Thanksgiving for a list of what she wants. She's always hard to buy for. So now I'm off to locate a stand mixer. Unfortunately I can't get her one of the Kitchen Aid ones. But thankfully, Kohl's is having another one of their "Biggest Sales of the Season" sales that they have like every 2 weeks and hopefully they'll have em on sale.

So did you hear the news? Heather has her shop opened back up. Not only is it open but it's new and improved. http://digiscrapping.net/shoppe/ is the address. I didn't want to just do a link cuz you're gonna need that address for quite some time to come. To celebrate the reopening and her up coming 29th again (just kidding, she's not shy to tell you her age) birthday; she's having a sale- Everything is 33% off (give you a hint on her age) everything over $2.00 that is. So if you've been eyeing her fab new Christmas kits or maybe you are loving the QP's I did with her Flashy New Year kit, then now's the time.




And in honor of the reopening, I have another QP for you. I was gonna wait until Wednesday to
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put this up, but it's in 4shared already and 3 people have downloaded it. Wow, without really seeing it? Seriously? I just found out that your files aren't all that secure there. Not that my stuff is super terrific and all, but I feel pirated. I know get over myself. So click on the link if you want to join those who already downloaded the final Flashy New Year QP. Many thanks to Heather for her generosity in allowing me to share this with you. All credits go to her.

Well, I'm freezing and about to go and crawl back in bed with my dogs for awhile before I head off to work. Did I tell you about my day from hell yesterday, well actually it was just a customer and is probably better off not rehashed. There are way toooo many drama queens in this world. And while I tend to be one of them, I do not take it out on other people (at least that I know of).
Let's hope for a bit of peace and quite today. Until next time, scrap happy!

How was your weekend?

Hope it was a good one. What'd ya do? Me, not much of anything fun. Well, ok some fun. Had lunch with Shan's aunts on Saturday, so it was a good meal and I've had to work the last few holiday get together that they've had. It was good to see everyone and be seen.

How do you do your back ups? Do you back up monthly, weekly or whenever you feel it would majorly mess up your life and scrapping if you *gasp* crash (God forbid). I bought the new computer in August after my old one showed signs of crashing and my CD burner wouldn't burn. I didn't back anything up but hopefully if I get around to getting the right cables transferring the thousands of photos and millions of freebie files. Anyway, I decided that I needed to clean up my current computer and back up my files. The photos only took 3 discs. The files took me 10 discs, 3 hours (at least) and I'm only to the L's. Heather's files alone took up 1 3/4 discs. I'm out of discs for now. I'm sure that I'll end up downloading more files between now and when I remember to get new discs. But at least I've started.

I feel that my mojo's lost somewhere and I'm digging deep to get any layouts done. Actually, I'm attributing my mojo loss to my smoking cessation program. Basically I'm missing the smoking and designing. I'd sit here at the computer, smoke and move stuff around, smoke and put em back, smoke and decide I was done. SBB had an avatar challenge back in September asking what was required for you to scrap and my avatar was a pack of Marlbaro Lights and a Diet Coke. Now it's just diet coke. It's not enough to make me start back up. It's been 6 weeks. But it seems that it's just so much harder for me.

I did a few layouts over the weekend. This one I really liked. My dad just lit up whenever he held Emily. This was from her first Christmas and it was such a blessed day. This year will be the first without him, but it'll be Addi's first so I think we'll be ok.

These 2 were done for challenges over at DSO. The first one is for Andrea's lyric challenge. The other one was for the I can't believe you scrapped that?! challenge. I got to use Heather's Flashy New Year, but I called it the wrong name when I uploaded. Bad CT member!


But I love this kit and have been racking my brain trying to find a picture that will do it justice. I gave up, I don't know where it is. So I did the next best thing, I planned for one that hopefully I'll take this year. (but it won't be flashy cuz we usually stay home - it's safer). Heather, being the generous person she is letting me give to you, FREE, the QP I made with her fab kit. Now I mention it's free, but nothing in life really is, I'm asking you to stop by her blog and thank her for her generosity. Here's the link to her blog.

Link for the QP has expired.

You can get the QP by clicking the preview or here. And make sure you stop by and check out Heather's new and improved store. She's got it up and running again and it looks FABULOUS!

And watch for a sale of some sort from her. And check back tomorrow, there'll be another QP from her kit.

So until next time, scrap happy!!!!

Scrappers Block and a little something for you.

Hi all!

Boy have I hit a brick wall in my scrapping. Nothing seems to turn out the way I want it too and I can't get inspired. I have tons of great new products so that's not the problem. Anyone have any words of wisdsom for me to get my mojo back? I need to find it soon, I'm way behind on CT stuff but I just can't send out layouts I don't like or think that are any good just to get the kits seen. I don't think that does the designer justice.

Ok, I wasn't gonna do the Black Friday shopping thing, I hate crowds not to mention getting up at an awful hour to do so, but I found this website - http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/ yesterday and spent half the afternoon checking out stuff for ME. How sad is that. I have nieces and a nephew to shop for and I'm more interested in getting an EHD. Remind me again that Christmas is for the children.

Speaking of Christmas, I had mentioned last week about doing an exchange of some sort amongst friends here. I don't know if it should be a card, kit or regular secret santa exchange. What do you think? And is it something you may be interested in? Let me know.

Heather Manning's having a chat at DST on Wed. night at 11 pm EST. If you missed the last chat, you gotta try to stop by for the hysterical fun. And though it may be late, you don't have to work the next day. bwhahaha Cookin turkey's not work. I'd love to see ya all there.


Ok, here's a few freebies that have been in my computer for awhile. Thought I'd go ahead and bring em out to see if anyone one them.
You can get this Thanksgiving word art here.

And the butterfly overlay here. Special thanks to AfriDigiDiva for use of her butterfly. Please don't share the links with your friends, send them here to get it themselves.

Well, I guess that's about it for today. Don't forget to check out the challenges over at OAKS, Digital Scrap Garden and DSO.

Until next time, scrap happy!
Diane

A Freebie from me today!

Hi there!
It's Friday! Doing the dork dance in my chair. Finally, it's here. Got a few layouts done last night, but can't show them to you til the 1st. Got to chat on Hello with Cate, which was really nice. Watched the last half of Survivor and first half of Greys. Have them both Tivo'd so I won't miss anything. Isn't Tivo the best invention ever?? Well, maybe not ever but it's tops in my book.

There's a BIG night game tomorrow night in Happy Valley. We're hoping that Penn State won't be so happy after it's over. So root for the #1 Buckeyes tomorrow night. Once again, it's a test for us and we know that we control our own destiney. Ok, enough football talk, that's not why your here anyway. lol.

Look at what Yen sent me. She is so wonderful and always gets these neat little awards. And she picked me to pass it on to (along with some other very deserving ladies!) I just love to read Yen's blog every morning. She takes the most amazing pictures of everyday things and makes them interesting. I love to hear her stories about her DH and her little boy and of course her little peanut. Can't wait to see her photos of her baby once he's here! Yenny Girl, you make me smile! Thank you for that and this award. Now to pass it on. Well, I love to read a lot of blogs everyday now. I guess I would say Im totally addicted to blogs. I nominate the following ladies (in no particular order):

1.) Kristine - da Wench! She's funny, has great info on her blog and terrific freebies. Plus I love the dork dance.

2.) Kim B - Have you read her blog lately? I swear I'm gonna end up pimp one of these days. I imagine her as the friend what would be sitting there beside you in jail saying "damn that was fun." Even half way around the world, I can tell that this lady knows how to enjoy life. And I get that all from her blog. And her freebies are to kill for too.

3.) Cate - Cate is superwoman in my eyes. The things she gets done before 10 am amazes me. She does more in 1 morning than I do all day, no wait, all week. She's a sweetie and becoming a good friend.

4.) Traci - She, Dawne & Nita are trying to get the Garden planted into a blooming community. I love her freebies and reading her exploits.

There are others, but Yen got them when she got me and if I list everyone, no one else will be able to pay it forward. I'd give it to everyone who blogs and who reads my blog. So consider yourself nominated for this wonderful award.

Here's my freebie for today. A special thanks goes out to AfriDigiDiva for her RAK earlier this week. Please leave a little lovin and if you use it, let me know, I'll feature your layout here.

You can get today's freebie here.

Here's the fab Friday freebies I found.

I'm off to close up the camper this weekend. I can't believe another camping season is coming to an end. It's gonna be a long 5 months. Enjoy your weekend.

I'm off to work, as always, I'll check to see what freebies I missed and try to add them. I'm working on a new system to expand the freebie listings to include more. We'll see how that goes.

Until next time, scrap happy!

Diane

Today is Blog Action Day and bloggers all around the world are uniting to speak on 1 common theme. The enviornment. We all know the figures, heard the statsitics but how many of us truly pay attention to them? When I first saw the info on this day, I thought yeah great I can put it on my blog and say a few things about how digiscrapping is saving trees because there's not much paper output. Well I did some checking and listening to the news. Yeah, we're not killing trees with digiscrapping, we'rehelping to quickly fill up the Earth's unused spaces. Did you know that there are an estimated 55 million computer monitors in landfills? These don't breakdown, they'll be there forever. There's lead and other minerals in monitors that is leading several states like California and New Hampshire into looking at banning them from regular landfills. So think about it when you upgrade next time. Do you really need a new monitor? What can you do with the old one? Is there a charity that can make use of it? Is there a recycle center that is capable of proper disposal? Don't just dump the monitor in the trash, think about the enviornment and the generations to come. For more on recyling please click Recycle Now

Ok, on the freebies. Here's a little word art I did. It's quotes from songs about love.
You can download it by clicking on preview or here. If you download it, please leave me a little love and if you should find an opportunity to use it, I would love to see the results, email me a link.

Ok let's see who else has freebies up today. Ok so Blogger's down and wont' let me upload any previews. But go check out LadyBug Graphix and PurpleFrog Pizzazz to pick up their freebies.

Click on the preview to go to Andrea's blog to grab her great freebie. Megan has a wonderful glitter style (it's too bad I can't get the preview) that shouldn't be missed. I'll try to update more once I get to work. I hope that blogger get's it's act together.

Until next time-scrap happy!

Diane

I can't believe I forgot the title-

Hi ya'll!

Well I didn't get any time on the computer last night to create anything or play with any kits or freebies. I was watching my cousin's son while she was at the hospital. Things are starting to look more encouraging for her boyfriend, but it's going to be a long, painful road to recovery. Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers.

I'm beginning to think it's time for me to go to Vegas. Yesterday, I won another little contest. Yen, being the incredible sweetheart she is picked 2 random commenter's on her blog and sent us a GC. It was to be to the shop of our choice, but I am really trying to spread my "wings" and check out other shops, designers, boards etc. in order to grow in my knowledge and inspiration. So Yen choose the DigiShoppe. I haven't been there yet and am actually excited to get to work so I can go shop. Thank you so much Yen!!! It's very appreciated, but more so, I appreciate you. If you haven't see this incredible lady's blog yet, go check it out. She takes the most amazing pictures and does the most incredible layouts.

I just thought I'd throw this in again in case anyone missed it the first time. It's my first freebie. You can grab it here.

Kristine over at Wenchd Graphix get my Humpday Hunnies early bird award. She's the only one who has her freebie up at the moment. I will edit my blog to get the other up as they come in. Check back for them. Also Tomorrow is Kristine's Birthday, so please stop by her blog and leave birthday wishes. Heather Manning will have her freebie up shortly, but for some reason the filter at work doesn't let me ever see her pictures, so I won't get a preview of hers unless she emails it to me (and I forgot to remind her) so go check out her blog here for her freebie. Well, thankfully Heather read my blog this morning and sent me the preview. Here is her Autumn Leaves sampler.
Also check out this cool freebie from KimB Designs new kit. Great for your boys or tomboys if that's the case.

Since I'm on a few CT's I frequently am enabling my designers, like every good CT'er should. But today I wanted to spotlight 2 charity kits that I found while searching DST for ideas for my blog. I have no connection to either of these kits, but am always saddened by any tragedy that occurs and I have seen in the short time I've been involved in digiscrapping that we always rise to the occasion and help take care of our own. It makes me proud to be a part of this community. Here are 2 of them.

1HourScrap.com is promoting its first Donation Kit & QuickPage Album. A little less than a year ago, Amy Clarke had an ear ache that wouldn't go away, and after a series of tests and doctor visits, the source was found to be stage IV Metastatic Melanoma that had spread to her brain, spleen, ovaries, lung, and lymph nodes. Amy's struggle against cancer came to an end on October 3rd, 2007. Amy leaves two daughters, Reagan (9) and Savannah (3), and husband, Michael. More details about Amy Clarke are in this forum post.

The Sweet Shoppe Team is so proud to have teamed up to create a gorgeous kit for the benefit of Laura Wolff and her family. Earlier this month the Wolff family was devastated when a fire tore through their home and took with it all of their worldly possessions. While they'll never be able to get those items back, we can help! For the remainder of 2007, For Laura will be available here at Sweet Shoppe Designs and 100% of the profits from the sale of this gorgeous kit will be deposited into the family's paypal account every two weeks.


And lastly, a few of the other freebies from blogs I frequent often. Click on the preview to be taken to their blogs.

If you do freebies on a regular basis and would like to be added to my blog lists, shoot me an email at carjaziscraps "at" gmail "dot" com. Link me to your site and I will be more than happy to add you to mine.

Hopefully tomorrow I will have a few of my own layouts to show you. Until next time, scrap happy!

**-Diane