Well, Hello Scrapland! 

WOW, I can't believe it has been almost a year since my last post! I been going to college and fall term I did 4 very hard medical classes, plus life has just been crazy! Working on my associates degree and the rest of the classes I need to take are not offered until next fall, so with enough Pell Grant left, I am able to take 3 photograph classes. WOO HOO, something I am very passionate about. What I would love to do is photo restoration and other services as well. I am so excited, but one step at a time. Classes first and a new business plan. 

The photo's I have posted, are part of the my digital photography class and we are learning to use CS5 and the tools to edit photos to look their best, and print their best. I know I have found lots of tips through the years of scrapping but I was totally amazed at the things I didn't know it could do. Here is another photo I post on FB too! It was an over cast day, manual setting so if it isn't the most prefect picture, I am learning to correct them to look better. Will let you know when I print them in class.

  The original above and corrected below.

I am sharing with you as you all have been a big part of the encouragement and have gave me the support I need to follow a dream instead of a 9 to 5 job. I can do this, especially with wonderful friends like you in my corner.


I will be sharing all the tips I learn, in hopes it may help you out as well. I miss Scrapland and I am BACK! Will also be updating you on a few other events that have happened over the last year. Here is one of the most important one, please welcome my newest grandson, Mateo!

Happy Scrapping!

Good morning Scrapland!
We are over “hump day” and it is almost to the weekend, WOO HOO. I hope this finds you safe and not snowed in without utilities!  What a snow storm the United States had this week. 30 some states were affected. Seeing some of the videos and news reports made me feel glad I was in one of the few states that didn’t get it. I so remember the snow storm in the 1970’s around Thanksgiving. Kind of the same thing, 20 plus inches dumped over night. Not fun at all as we were visiting our grandma in Auburn Hills, Michigan (was called Auburn Heights back in the day). We lived in Independence, KY and they closed Interstate 75  the day we were to return home. My brother and I had concert tickets to see Electric Light Orchestra in Cincinnati, Ohio. You can only imagine two teenagers falling apart because we couldn’t get home in time for the concert. Funny the things that were important to us back then…(little blast from the past!)


I wanted to share a Blog Goodie with you, but first have some exciting give away I'd like to share with you.  My BFF, Bon Scrapatit Designs aka Linda Walton is offering on her blog.  It is so SWEET!

“ Win a $10.00 Gift Certificate”

to ANY Digital Scrapbooking Store of your Choice

You can find all the details H*E*R*E.

I will share with you the two kits she is asking you to use. I did four layouts using her new kit, “Warm Winter Wishes”. I so love it!!!! My blog goodie are made with “Warm Winter Wishes”, as she was so kind to let me share them with you as scrapatits.  My layouts will not be entered, as I have been doing some taste testing for her and sharing mine as Scrapatits for you.
OK, Here are the two kits:

You can download Warm Winter Wishes H*E*R*E

You can download her Friends, Dreams, Memories  H*E*R*E

Here are the RULES and please read  rest of the details from Linda’s Blog when you visit and/or download the kits.
Rules are as follows:

• You must use pieces from either the kit you download today, *Warm Winter Wishes* or from the *Friends. Dreams. Memories.* kit, which is still available for download on the side bar if you've not already done so 
• You may use templates as long as proper credit is given (you may view my layout HERE for an example of giving proper credit when uploading your layouts to public galleries)
• Upload your layout(s) HERE (membership is open and does not require you to wait for approval)
• Return to Bon Scrapatit Designs blog and post a link to your layout in the Bon Scrapatit Design's Flickr pool in the comment box of the post I establish specifically for your links.  This way I can easily use Random.org to choose a winner and/or winners!  (I will post and link at the very top of my blog for easy access)
• You may create as many layouts as you wish.  This, of course, will increase your chances of winning! Speed scrapping is fine, but out of fairness to all, I ask that you do your best and not just throw a layout together.  In other words, create a page that you would consider print worthy for a photo book or album *wink*
• Have fun and get your scrap on!

Deadline for posting layouts to the group pool and linking back here is 12:00 pm PST on Valentine's Day, February 14th!

I would like to  share the layouts I created with WARM WINTER WISHES. I had so much fun playing with this kit. And it is funny, my first reaction to seeing the preview was “this one is going to be a real challenge for me”. SURPRISE….I did two layouts the night Linda shared it with me. Got up the next morning and did two more. I think WARM WINTER WISHES helped me get my MOJO back, that is for sure! Thank YOU Girlfriend…tee hee! Please note that my layouts will not be entered in the give away, as I have been doing some taste testing for her before she released the kit, but here they are.

Everything in my layouts are from the kit except the stitching, which  is not included in Warm Winter Wishes,

(Credit goes to Redju for her CU Stitching)

I hope you enjoy Warm Winter Wishes as much as I do. It is an awesome digital scrap kit to work with. A very good addition to the Menu at Bon Scrapatit Designs.  Please remember to thank Linda for her hard work by sharing your layouts with her. One of the best rewards a designer can receive, to see what people have created their special memories with  their designs. Thank you so much, Linda!

Here are two of the Scrapatits  I would share.  I hope you enjoy them.

Download your Blog Goodies HERE!

I will be back in a day or two to share more photos of another couple of events I attended during the holiday and my mini vacation. I have to  go through them to resize and pick out the best ones. I have a tendency to take “too many” as my kids say.…he he!
Happy Scrapping,

Happy New Year, Blog Friends!!!!

I can’t believe it has been so long since I have posted to my blog. To sum it up an one sentence, I had been very burnt out and lost my creative flow. Life has been a big contributor to that for me. BUT it is time to, “Pick myself up, dust my self off and START all over again!”

SO with that said, I will take baby steps here, and post a little about a few things I would like to share with Scrapland and my friends/followers. Plus I have been doing some sewing and quilting. Something I haven’t done in a long time. I so enjoyed it. Can’t wait to share with you!

I did say before I became MIA, that I was working on some rag quilts, lap size throws for my little guys and I can now show them to you, now that Christmas has come and gone and they have them.

The first one is the one I made Javier. He was the one who was at Wal-mart with me one day as I was getting some fabric for the baby quilt I made for Linda Walton’s Granddaughter, BABY Girl! (humm, did I share the final pictures with you. I will have to look). Funny we were in Wal-mart with the boys yesterday and Dusty got some fabric to make a laptop cover out of and as we were standing, waiting for the clerk to cut the fabric, Javier came walking up to us with two more bolts of fabric (one with Curious George, which he said was for him and the other was from the Disney movie, Cars for his brother Xander). Dusty and I looked at each other and started laughing before he even said a word about them. I asked him, “Baby Javi, are you going to start sewing too?” He replied,”NO! These are for you to make another quilt for us.” (remember, he is only 6 years old. Smart as a whip, he thinks!). Of course, Xander who was with us too, says, “Yes Grandma, Yes. We want you to make us another quilt because it has been REALLY cold!”  But no, they did not sucker Grandma this time, as that is how I got started one these! They did turn out really CUTE, don’t you think? I made a pillow and personalized sham (pillow case), with opening in the back with room enough to keep the quilt in it when they are not using it. THEY love them!!!! But Poor Mikey, I still don’t have his done. He is the oldest and I am making his bigger. That is what I am working on now!

(this picture is from my cell phone, can’t find the one I took with my camera. Sorry it isn’t better)

I started making these around the same time of my last post, my vacation to visit my parents, getting back it was Thanksgiving, then my daughter and the boys were moving and they had come to stay with me for two weeks until the apartment was ready. Then of course Christmas was just around the corner ect ect… There were two events in the middle of all that I went to for my older grandkids had . . . SOOOO I have a lot to share with you over the next few weeks.

So miss this form of communication. Our personal blogs seems to be falling by the wayside since the newer social networking have become so popular. FaceBook and Twitter are fun and a quick way to share and keep up with each other, BUT…blogging is much more personable, don’t you think? Don’t get me wrong, if you have a facebook account, you know that I am on it A LOT…but I still like visting my digi-scrap and designer friends on their personal blogs.

Which brings me to my BFF’s blog, Bon Scrapatits Designs aka Linda Walton who just posted an adorable sneak preview of her new release called, “Warm Winter Wishes”.

SNEAK PEAK….COMING SOON TO

 BON SCRAPATITS DESIGN

“WARM WINTER WISHES”

AND she has also a little TASTE of her “Scrapatit “ for you.

 

Check Linda’s blog out and a Taste of her designing we all Love! 

Will be posting more as soon as she releases her kit and I get the photos together of my trip to Bloomfield MO!

Happy SCRAPPING!

MY New ETSY Shop is OPENED!

It has been so long since I have blogged and I have so much to share so I will start by adding a couple of things to each post over the next few days. Tonight I just wanted to share with you that are paper scrappers, that I have decided to open an Etsy store and begin by selling A LOT of paper scrapping items that I have bought with those "GOOD" intentions of starting a paper scrapped album, well I have tried and really not to happy with it. I have digitally scrapped for so long that it is just too over whelming to create a paper page as well as the ones I do digitally. The supplies you need, tools and it seems you are always missing that one more items to make your creation complete.

Here is the link to my Etsy store: Snowsmoon's Etsy Store  (I will also be adding it to my side bar as well).
Here is a great gift for the paper scrapper in your family who likes to work with Heritage pages:

The reason I am cleaning out and selling these items is to make room to get back to piecing and quilting along with sew projects. Also trying to make enough to get my NEW sewing machine I would love to have. I sent a letter to Santa, have been really good all year and so hoping He can come up with the money for it.

After I get thing cleaned out, set up my sewing area in my office,  I will be making craft items handmade on my Etsy store too. It is so funny after looking through all the stuff I have collected over the years, I can't just buy one to try it and see if I would like it, so have have hundreds of dollars wrapped up in paper scrapping that in the last 4 years have never opened most of them, crazy isn't it! I only hope to find someone like me, who loves a GREAT deal on this stuff.

I have a few events I have been to lately that I am editing the photos so that I can post them so that you can see what a crazy my last couple of months has been. As soon as I finish up a mini kit I would like to share with you for the Christmas Around the World event that will be posted Dec 1, 2010 and run through the end of the year. I have saw the list and there are a tons AWESOME designers so get you hard drives cleaned up and backed up as  Santa will be releasing his goodies for the world wide web of digital scrapper.

WOO HOO, Vacation Starts Tomorrow and Cyber Friends Freebie

VACATIONS TIME….woo hoo! FREEBIE for YOU!

I am getting so excited, I am going to leave tomorrow for a two week vacation to visit my parents and get some much needed REST, RELAX and REJUVIATE! I can’t believe what my family has been through in the past few months and it is time for me to take some time for myself. So…I will be MIA for the two weeks as I am going to visit, read a couple of books and find my inter-self and maybe a few nature photograph trips would be great too, it is fall and I am hoping to see some fall colorful leaves in the country side.

Although I haven’t done much scrapping the past couple of weeks I would like to share a few new things the designers have release lately and as I was cleaning, I found and finished a freebie kit for you to work with while I am gone.

First, I want to say I hope Vicki aka A Work In Progress a very HAPPY Birthday, which was today, so I am sure she is fast a sleep by now. I so hope you had a very special day to remember sweetie!

So lets start with Scrap That Idea:

Here is one by all the gals, AWESOME kit!  

Vicki released this cute one called, “Giggles”

Here is one from Stacey, a cute Halloween kit:

And here is a nice bundle by Artgal Style aka Laramie

 Ok, now we are going to Digiridoo Scraps for my gals new releases from there too:

Loucee’s Creations had some new Commercial Use products in her store, images are link to the product in the store. These CU ideas are all 50% off sales, too!

Next is DigiDesigns By Denise… A boy and Girl Skater kits.

She also had a FREEBIE in the store to go with these.

(Remember you must be logged in to the store to download it.)

 

Charlie’s DigiScaps has been busy with her photography business and I couldn’t find anything new released in her store this month yet. But as soon as she does, I will surely share with you!

 

 OK now for my new Freebie. I called it Cyber Friends as I will miss you all while I am away and wanted to thank you all for your wonderful comments and support of the last 3 years with another kit, as I know not everyone has use for a Halloween kit. This is the kit I started for my blogoverary, but got stuck as I just couldn’t get the elements going. This last week I worked away at them and here they are for you. I hope you like it. A Special thanks for LINDA!

“ THANK YOU so much Linda for being a second set of eyes for me!”

Alpha download

Elements download

Papers 01 download

Papers 02 download

So, I will see you all in a couple of weeks. I hope to come back with a fresh mind and some focus, so I can get back on track with the things that mean most to me and you being one of them. Happy Scrapping and Enjoy your Day!

(I will check this in the morning to make sure nobody is having trouble with downloading.)

New kits and CT work Catch up

Happy FRIDAY and I am very excited to to say that I got good news from the doctor today, well mostly. Other than what I already knew, my blood pressure is been running on the high side, all my other tests came back good. She said most of what has been making me feel bad is two things, One and most of all, STRESS. and Two I have carpultonal (not sure it is spelled right and spell check in Live Writer didn’t know either…LOL. TOO much (trackball) sitting at the computer. This may be also caused by a pinched nerve in my neck or the tension in my neck again, caused by STRESS.

So, it was a good thing I had already planned a trip away from everything and everyone that is causing the STRESS in my life at the moment. I am excited to be going to visit my mom for two week (Oct 6 through Oct 20). I have been doing a lot of thinking the last few days and I am trying very hard to stop ignoring my self and health because most of what has got me this way are things I can’t control or want to.

Between now and Oct 6, I will be getting caught up on a few things my designers have coming up or have already released and while I am gone I am going to try to stay off the computer as my laptop bite the dust a while ago and I don’t like using other peoples computer, especial if they don't have PSCS4 or the tools I use to scrap. Should give my arm and hand a rest too. I have a couple of books I am taking so I have something to do on the plane and the evenings. I am so ready to sit around and do NOTHING and relax with a book or two!

A WORK IN PROGRESS New RELEASE

AT Scrap That Idea

OK, enough about me…the first kit I would like to share with you is one that a very dear friend from across the BIG pond made for me as her CT Appreciation. A WORK IN PROGRESS aka Vicki made a beautiful kit call, “New Day” for Dawn. She had each of her CT give her a color palette and she made a kit from it. I so love it, I got one layout done and have been finding more pictures I want to use it for.

 

You can find “New DAY” for Dawn in her store here… on new release sale price of $3.00.

DIGIDESIGNS BY DENISE

at Digiridoo Scraps

I also used DigiDesigns by Denise New Template set called, “Slightly Askew” Templates (CU friendly).

 Denise has her whole store on sale for 50% off until the end of the month. You can check out her store here. You should check it out.

STACEY’S SCRAPS @ Scrap That Idea

Here is the kit that I had posted a preview for that Stacey had her Facebook Fans try to guess what kind of kit it was….

Credits: Template by Kim B (Freebie)

The kit is called,

“ FANGS or FUR”

in here store here.

Here is another New release Stacey has in her store called,

“ Shabby Chic”

I think this kit is adorable!

Lou Cee’s CReations at Digirioo Scraps

OK, I have one more to share and I will be back in a couple of days with a few Commercial Use Products Loucee and Charlie have out this month.

This kit is called,

“Dandy Dogs”.

You can find it in her store HERE.

I hope I haven’t forgot any but I will go through and check for anything else new my awesome designers have released or I have a kit to use next week.  But before I go I have another Layout I did with my new freebie called “No Tricks, Just Treats 2”.

Credit: Scarppy0510 Templates-Freebie Template but there was no other TOU or preview to credit better than this, but thank you for the inspirations.

Happy Scrapping and I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.