SAS Christmas Caroling Blog Hop!!!

I'm so excited to be participating for the first time in this fun Christmas Blog Hop. Every year, the Designers at SAS each pick a Christmas carol to inspire a Christmas mini-kit, and for my 1st year participating, I chose Blue Christmas. (UPDATE-now available for sale at my stores)


Remember to click on the designers below to pick up the other fabulous Christmas minis themed after fun and classic Christmas songs:

Must be Santa – Darlene – http://darlenedesigns.blogspot.com
Away in a Manger – Heidi – http://blackrosedigitals.blogspot.com
Frosty the Snowman – Lightningbug Creations- http://lightningbugcreationskits.blogspot.com
Here Comes Santa Claus – Maurine – http://LetMeScrapbook.blogspot.com
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer – BooLandDesigns http://boolanddesign.blogspot.com
Up on the Rooftop -EllenM http://scrapsationalscraps.blogspot.com
White Christmas – Monika Designs – http://monikadigitaldesigns.blogspot.com
Jingle Bell Rock – mITSYBELLE – http://mitsybelle.com/blog
O Christmas Tree – Veelana – http://veelana.blogspot.com/
Blue Christmas – ShellyMarie http://shellymariescraps.blogspot.com <--U R Here Hark the Herald Angels Sing – Ambowife http://www.ambowife.com/blog/
Deck the Halls – Skrapper Digitals – http://skrapperdigitals.blogspot.com/
O Holy Night -Brenda (CuddleBeez) – http://cuddlebeezscraps.blogspot.com
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas – MoonDesigns – http://moon7×4.blogspot.com
Christmas Alpha/Wordart-Kimberkatt- http://kimberkattscraps.wordpress.com
Rocking Around the Christmas Tree – Toiny http://piggyscraps.blogspot.com/

Merry Christmas!

It's Christmas time!

I finally finished my 1st Christmas kit! It's called Kissing Santa, and I love it's bright reds and greens. It's so perfect for Santa pictures or anything Christmas-y. I scrapped my sweetie and me under the mistletoe. I put it on black cause I liked the blended photo better, but I have a FREE quick page for you in more Christmas-y colors below!

This new kit is on sale now at both my stores: Designs in Digital and Stone Accents Studios
Get it while it's on sale!

And here's your Quick Page, please let me know what you think of my 1st Christmas kit:)
Thank you!

Check back Friday, December 11th for our awesome SAS-y Blog Train where each of us has taken a Christmas song and made a mini for it! I picked Blue Christmas! I'm finishing it tonight:)

It's here! It's here! DSD is here!

I'm so excited to offer this freebie today for Digital Scrapbooking Day. From our Friendship Around the World at SAS, here is Home of the Brave:
Click here for elements or here and here for paper pack one and paper pack two! 3 files:)

And here's a list of SAS Designer Blogs participating in this awesome Blog Hop. Visit each one and get a little mini from many countries around the World! Have fun!

DarleneH - http://darlenedesigns.blogspot.com
mITSYBELLE - http://mitsybelle.com/blog/
Michelle - http://shellymariescraps.blogspot.com (ME:)
Ambowife Designs - http://ambowife.com/blog/
Janice's Scrap - http://janice-scrapbook.blogspot.com
SKrapper Digitals - http://www.skrapperdigitals.blogspot.com/
Lightningbug Creations - http://lightningbugcreationskits.blogspot.com/
BooLanddesigns -http://boolanddesign.blogspot.com/
Moon Designs - http://moon7x4.blogspot.com

And don't forget to check out the HUGE sales going on at Stone Accents Studio (50% off EVERYTHING) and also at Designs in Digital.

DSD Tomorrow!!!

I'm so excited to participate in this year's Digital Scrapbooking Day! Lots of great sales going on! Both my stores are having 40% to 50% off sales. SAS-y's ENTIRE store is 50% off! Talk about bargains. And in addition to that, SAS is having a BLOG HOP with the fun theme of Friendship Around the World. Each designer's blog will have a mini kit from a part of the world. Come back tomorrow to grab my USA kit! Have a great one!

DSD Sales Galore!!!

So many fun sales tomorrow! I'm afraid I'll have to be on the computer most of the day. LOL Happy DSD, everyone! There's a sale at Sumscrapper with the ENTIRE store 50% off! They hardly ever go that low so go check it out today and also look for all the FREEBIES there!

Halloween Treats-- Two Freebies and 60% off Sale!

My wonderful CT, Amy aka kcsimpson99, has made an Alpha for Black Hats and Scaredy Cats, and you can get it free here or by clicking the image below. I love this Alpha! They are so Halloween! And it coordinates perfectly with my kit! I had to play around with it and ended up making a frame out of it for you, too. Click here for frame or image below for your Frame Freebie, too!

Hope you all have a wonderful Halloween! To celebrate the day, Stone Accents Studio is having a sale now through the weekend! This has to be the biggest sale I've seen since becoming a designer there. The entire store is 50% off!!! Hurry over and check it out.
And as an extra special treat, all Halloween kits (including my Black Hats) will be 60% off Halloween Day! So get on over to SAS for some sweet deals and be sure to grab a couple Halloween kits to scrap those pictures coming up!
Have a great one!

Freebie Links fixed:)

Sorry about the trouble. I guess I can't do everything at once while listening to my husband's stories and kids, too. Click here or click the image for your free quick page! :)

The Grandmother Heritage Collection

I have a freebie today from my new kit, Erma, currently on sale in my stores. I've started a new collection called the Grandmother Heritage Collection. I'm really excited about it. This quick page freebie is from a layout I did with my great-grandparents, one of which the kit is named after:)
Click on the image below to grab it!

Check back as I'll be doing a mini-kit in the colors and styles of each of my grandmothers and call it by their name. This is very special to me because most of my Grandmothers have passed on. Because I am the oldest of an oldest child, I actually KNEW 3 of my 4 great-grandmothers in addition to my two grandmothers. I also have two step-grandmothers who are dear to me, only one of which is still living. So we grew up with grandparents in abundance!

I've started off the collection with ERMA, who was my great-grandmother who lived in the same town as us growing up so I saw her every week for 16+ years of my life until she passed away. And we were quite close. I still remember sitting at her feet as she told stories of growing up which would have been in the early 1900s. Here's my new kit, Erma:)

Friday Freebie Time

Life is so crazy busy this week. But isn't it always? I've been getting ready for my dd 5 yr old bday party which is tomorrow, and I think we've done a little too much. LOL
Here's a layout I did with my kit Country Summer with my sweet baby boy.

I made my layout into a QP freebie for you, but I added lots of sunflowers. I just couldn't put too many flowers with "the boy" as my dh calls him. haha I'm more of a traditionalist than I thought I guess. Click on the QP below to get your freebie! And Saturday and Sunday, pick up the entire Country Summer kit up for 50% off!


Don't miss out on a getting this kit at a super great deal! Have a great day!

A Little Halloween Freebie!

My goodness! I can't believe it's been a month since I last posted. So much for once a week. But... my dh was laid off from his company very unexpectedly, and I've been having to share my computer with him as he searches and hunts for a new job. I was about to get a laptop, too, but now that's on pause for a bit. Anyhow, I do most of my designing late at night now between getting used to a husband at home and the ever demanding sweet children. And I've managed to finish a kit! Just in time for Halloween, too. It's called Black Hats and Scaredy Cats, and I love it! It's on sale for a limited time now at DID. Click image to grab it.

It has more purple than other traditional colors cause I love love love purple, and orange has never been my favorite. But my dh loves Halloween, and is corrupting our children to love it year round as well. So I've learned to actually like orange a little.
I've done a layout of my dd as a witch from 2 yrs ago. She wants to be a witch again this year after taking a break to be Snow White last Halloween. I guess this is good cause witches are less expensive to be. LOL

I've made it into a Quick Page Freebie. Click on image below to download. And please let me know if you like it. I'll try to get going on my weekly Freebie again, too. Have a great week:)

Birthday Bash at SAS!

SAS is having a HUGE Birthday Bash the month of September, and there are just too many fun games and challenges to list them all! There is the Birthday Bash Template Exchange that I am so excited about!

You can enter one template or more, but all it takes is one entry, and you get ALL the templates for free. Last year it was 50+ and we have even more players this year so you don't want to miss it! Here's my 1st try EVER at making a template:

And Designer Clue starts today! Remember that fun game, Clue, we used to play? Well it's a scrapbooking twist that you have got to go check out!

Speed Scrap! - Top 7 Reasons I Love Back to School

Don't forget DID's super fun speed scrap tonight!!! Cara has a unique spin on them that makes it so much more entertaining. And check out the fun prizes for it, too:) I am so into templates lately!

Two Year Old Princess & a Freebie:)

I finally had time to get another layout done. This is my sweet daughter who loves tiaras and looking pretty. It's made with my new kit Belle of the Ball.



This kit is on sale now at Stone Accents Studio. And it will be on sale again at Designs in Digital Labor Day weekend if you miss it this week!

And I made a Quick Page of it for you! Click on image below to grab it for a limited time!

Can you make the cut?

Project Gallery... Are you ready to play??

Designs in Digital is getting ready for a fabulous time starting next week! Wednesday, September 9th, Project Gallery will begin. From the popular Project Runway reality show, it is sure to be a hit!!! You're not going to want to miss this one:)

Fanciful Freebie from My New Kit!

Here's a layout of my dd who loves to dress up. And my new kit, Belle of the Ball, is perfect for her! This kit was inspired by little girls playing dress up as well as bigger girls dressing up for the Prom.

This super colorful kit, Belle of the Ball, is now in stores, and I am offering a freebie made from it! Click on image below to grab it now!

This pretty kit is now on sale for a limited time at Stone Accents Studios. Click on kit image below to check it out!

I forgot to mention... I am now a Designer at Stone Accents Studio! Yeah! I'm so excited. All the ladies there are so nice. And they are getting ready to have a huge Celebration in September in honor of their anniversary.

There will be tons of freebies daily as well as a lot of games and fun challenges! Be sure to swing over and sign up for the Designer "Clue" game they'll have going. It should be so fun trying to figure out which Designer did it with what ... staple? LOL Should be very fun and original. And check back here for more freebies in the meantime:)

A New Look;)

So I finally took the time to try to figure out how to use my own designs for my blogware. It took some time, especially with all the many usual interruptions and distractions that come with being a SAHM of 3 little cuties. But here it is finally in all it's glory. I'll be back with more later, but for those interested, the designs on this page are from my new kit, Belle of the Ball, which will be released shortly. Stay tuned:)

Another Quick Page Freebie:)

My oh so pretty little 2 yr old.

As promised, I am back with another freebie. And I have another quick page for you that coordinates with last week's freebie QP. It is also from my kit, Oh So Pretty, on sale now at Stone Accents Studio.

Click me for Freebie or click on image above:) Let me know what you all think as I am very new at this designer side of things! :)

Check back for more freebies in the next couple of days, and I'll be posting information on another upcoming sale at my store at SumScrapper!

Oh So Pretty Freebie!

Here's a Quick Page Freebie for you. It is created from my kit, Oh So Pretty. For a limited time you can get this pretty kit for just over a dollar only at Stone Accents Studio under the New Designer Program they have there. Click here or click kit image below for a beautiful kit at a hugely discounted price! (With the current sale, only $1.33!)

My poor neglected blog...

Okay, I know it's not New Years or anything, but time for a new resolution just the same! Because I really want to pursue designing, I must update and utilize my blog more often! So, my new resolution is that I blog at least once a week.

I need to pick a day of the week that will be best for me to blog on so that I for sure get it done. Wish me luck in this new endeavor...

And I also will offer a freebie each week as well. So I will be back tomorrow with a freebie and a plan of a weekly update day:)