Stuff to Scrap SALE!!

Wow, well, the flier says it all! Click on it to be whisked away to savings galore!!

iDSD Int'l Digi Scrap Day at Stuff to Scrap!

You won't believe all the fabulous stuff going on over at Stuff To Scrap in celebration of {Inter} National Digi-Scrap Day. We aren't just celebrating this Saturday, we are having a party all month long!

We have already kicked off the festivities with a sale in the store and with our challenge a day, but starting Saturday we are going to kick things up a notch. All day Saturday there will be challenges and activities going on in the forum and in our chat room. The best part is that there are prizes to win and everyone will receive participation prizes.

Here is the chat room schedule for Saturday.

Warm Winter Wishes - Gorgeous New Kit!

Check out this BEAUTIFUL new kit by ProjectB of Sunshine Studio Scraps. You have to admit, this is one of the prettiest winter kits EVER! So click on the preview and go pick it up, why don'tcha?

Join Us - Scraps of Ellay CT Call

I've been on the Scraps of Ellay Creative Team for a few months now, and I'm telling you, you couldn't work for a better designer! She is kind and fun! Her designs get better and better with each kit (setting herself a pretty darn high bar, as you can see by looking thru her kits). Click on the flier to head to her blog, just to check out her fabulous creations, and then, if you have any sense at all, apply to be on our team! Can't wait to see you there!

Thanksgiving Weekend (the kit, not time travel!)

This is a FABULOUS new kit by Scraps of Ellay! First, my two layouts (so far) and then you can click on the preview. This woman makes the BEST kits, I'm telling you - the colors on this one are so scrumptious, and the texture, and the little bird! It's just fabulous. Available at stuff to Scrap - click preview. NOW!

Scientific Papa - New Release by Dream Big Designs`

Well the kit is on sale at Divine Digital, but they are having some server problems. Click on the preview to head over to Cheri's blog, and she'll tell you when you can pick up this adorable (and updated, in case you've seen it before) kit!

Autumn Home - My Newest Kit!

If you're here for the blog train freebie, it's in the next post. But first, check out my newest in-store kit!
Here is my newest kit, Autumn Home. It is only $2.99 because it's a bit smaller than most of my kits. But each of the 7 papers and 34 elements are well-made, and perfect for scrapping warm memories of autumn with your family and friends (and even pets!). Click on preview to go to my store.

Morning Solitude - Blog Train Freebie

Papers

Elements

The Stuff to Scrap November Blog Train is here! It's called Morning Solitude. I'm working on making better previews, so even though this preview is not AMAZING, the 4 papers and 10 elements ARE pretty nice, and when you hit all the blogs, you will have one really awesome mega kit! Below the preview are the download links, and here are the rest of the places you can pick up pieces for the MEGA FREEBIE!

Scrap Like Crazy
Manda's Scrappin' Creations
Rainamoon Scraps
Becky aka SAHM Scrapper
Scrappin' Serenity
Life Is Not A Cereal
light's digiscrapworld
Christin's Creations
Scraps 'n Pieces
Midnight Scrapping
Kori's Scraps
Desertgirl Designs
Farrah Smith Designs
Little Red Scraps
Always Be Neighbors Designs
Ányi + a digitális scrapbooking
Grandmas Templates
The Scrappy Kat
Digi-Scrapz by Christi
Jensen Motley Crew Designs
Ginger's House
StashHappy Designs
My Scrappy Heart
Dream Big Designs
Shel Belle Scraps
Adriana's Cafe
Mommy Me Time Scrapper
Mom's World of Unique Possibilities
A Fish Design
Nibbles Skribbles
A valóság tükre (Osli's blog)
Knittinjen
Borsmustár
Saphira's Scrapdesign
CityGurlCreations
ThisLittleMissy
Let Me Scrapbook!
scrapattack
Crafting at Your Special Delivery
Flower Scraps
Every EverAfter Moment
Nita's Things
Craft With Me
Mad Genius Designs
The Latest Scoop, Too
ABC Scraps
JW DigiScraps

Halloween Sale @ STS - Don't Miss!

Head on over to STS and pick up all the fabulous kits you can for 30% off! Just click the flyer and head on over.

Autumn Home - MY new kit!

Well it's been awhile since I've come out with a kit - my designing mojo has been hiding out! Maybe in a leaf pile, I don't know. But I hosted a challenge and had to come up with a prize, thus FORCING myself to do a bit of designing, so HERE IT IS! Autumn Home, and I will have some layouts for you to look at in the next day or two. In the meantime, here is the preview, linked to my store. You can pick this up for only $2.99 over at Bouquet of Pixels.

No Ordinary Girl - AWESOME by Scraps of Ellay

This kit is so great! Here's a little story about why Ellay is also so great. I got the original kit (being on her CT) and loved it, but she had these 2 doodle girls who were adorable, but pretty white. My daughter is pretty brown, so I inexpertly changed the tone of one of the girls to brown, and sent to Ellay and said she could include it in her kit. Not ONLY did she love the idea, she improved my version of the recoloring to make the adorable brown girl you see on my layout (see below), but she also decided to do a red-headed girl, too (matching one of her relatives, and also used on my layout below to match my little cousin). Don't you wish EVERYBODY could work for a designer as awesome as Ellay!?!? I'm so glad I DO! So without further interruption from ME, here is the fabulous kit, No Ordinary Girl. (okay, wait, one more thing, did I mention - it's FREE! Click preview to head to her blog to pick it up. After Halloween, I do believe you will have to head to her STORE to pick it up for not-so-free, so go NOW!)

Harvest Thanks by Dream Big Designs

Cheri has this AWESOME kit in her store now (at Divine Digital) so you probably wanna go check it out! Click on preview to be whisked away to DD and see this kit along with all her other fabulous work!

And here's one layout I made with this adorable kit!

Blog Prompt for Lisa at Sunshine Studios

Hi, I am posting this for a blog prompt challenge Lisa at Sunshine Studios is hosting this week. The prompt question is: When and Why Did You Get Into Digital Scrapping? (okay if you've already heard my great long saga, you might wanna skim this quick!)

I began digital scrapping in 2005. I worked for a company that bought me Photoshop CS (the 1st one, so no number yet) to make a map. 1 map. $800 for 1 map. SOOOO....I thought perhaps I ought to put it to more use, even if not for my company. I can't remember how I heard about digiscrapping, but I got into it right away with my Photoshop! There wasn't NEARLY as much on the internet then as there is now, so I mostly made my own stuff, and very boring pages. I did get excited about beveling and drop shadowing, but the cool clusters and glitters and stuff we have now - I don't think they existed anywhere! Sadly, I left that job - well, the sad part was leaving the Photoshop. I couldn't afford $800, and hadn't yet heard of PS Elements.

Fast Forward to fall 2008, I was in a job where I had Photoshop Elements and learned that it was really nearly as good as Photoshop CS for digiscrapping, especially considering all the free stuff online! This whole blog train thing BLEW MY MIND and before I knew it, I had collected about 25gb of free digiscrap stuff (hadn't made a page yet though!). Finally in March 2009, I had begun to recognize the higher quality digi products, designers, etc. And learned that without spending money, I just wasn't going to get such high quality stuff. So the digi-scrap budget was born (but I still watch out for awesome, high-quality freebies!) and I've spent about $500 (PLEASE don't tell my mom!!) on digi-scrap stuff since then. I finally began making pages because I bought a charity kit and wanted to use it. I also began making pages because I am making this great big huge book for my daughter's 10th birthday (coming up in November) and now I have to actually pare the book DOWN from over 400 pages I've made, to pick all the perfect ones for her. I'm having it printed by Blurb.

I'm learning about my family history and want to be able to provide something for my descendants to find out more easily the way that we lived, the things we did. The oral histories and available records for my family have brought me back to France in the 1600's. Interesting fact: the first person killed by the modern-day guillotine was my ancestor, Charles Pelletier! It's true! I'm sure he was innocent, though (actually, knowing French history, he really probably was). Anyway, I hope that generations who come after me will enjoy my scrapbooks and will continue to create similar things so that it will be less difficult to find out information in future times!

The exciting scrap thing that has happened to me today is - I won a free kit! It is called Me, Myself by Janice's Scraps at Sunshine Studio - see the preview below. Click on the preview to pick it up for yourself. But nyah, nyah, you can't have it free like me! BUT if you DO want a free kit, also see the post below this one and join in my Bingo game at Sunshine Studios - you can win a free kit by ME! I admit, I'm not as great a designer as Janice, but I'm okay, and it is free, so what're you waiting for?

I'm Hosting a Bingo Game!

Hey, I'm working on trying to become a Sunshine Sweetie (member of Sunshine Studios Creative Team) and one of the things I get to do towards that end is host a challenge - so I am! I am hosting a Bingo challenge that begins Thursday morning (October 22) at 9 am CST. Click here to head over to Sunshine and sign up! I'll be giving away a free mini kit to the lucky winner, and a small pack of quick pages to all who participate. Don't miss it!

091020 Fallin For You

091020 Fallin For You, originally uploaded by knittinjen.

Created using my own quick page with Fallin For You by Simply Scraps of Sunshine Studio Scraps. If you are a scrapper, you can join this quick page challenge, and get all the pages everybody made at the end of the month. Click on layout to see the kit, and click here to see the quick page forum instructions.