Love Always Overlays Freebie

Happy Hump Day Everyone!

A lot of you are probably wondering what happened to all the freebies. Well, to sum it up in one word…..life. Christmas was busy for us as for all I am sure, and then we had the boys’ birthday right after. Now Logan has croup and my external hard drive with all of scrapping stuff has started to fail. So, I am here, without my beloved hard drive, as it now sits at my back computer transferring all the files to a new hard drive. I feel so lost without it. LOL!

Something else that has been taking up a bit of my time is setting up my own personal store. This is something I have wanted to do for some time because I can now host my own freebies instead of hosting them on 4shared. My files are now more secure and cannot be shared through groups as has happened in the past with 4 shared.

I haven’t had an official GRAND OPENING yet as I am planning on lots of fun, contests, and a HUGE sale. When I do schedule the grand opening you, my blogging buddies, will be the first to know.

There have been so many changes, all for the better, over here in my little digi scrapping world with the opening of the new store (plus all the stores I now sell in), new logos and blinkies, new previews, and a big change in my TOU's. I have decided all my PU items (excluding albums and QP’s) will now be S4H/S4O OK.

I want to thank you all that are still hanging in there with me. These are all big changes for me that have come quite fast, but I know these changes are needed to grow. I truly appreciate each and every one of you for growing with me.

I have also been playing with some new techniques. One of the new techniques I am trying is creating overlays with brushes and shapes. I know, it sounds so basic but believe it or not, I have never done this before. I have so many gorgeous brushes and shapes that I have yet to use and this is the perfect opportunity to show them off. I think I am going to start offering the new overlays in grayscale CU OK and also recolored as PU/S4H/S4O OK.

Here are previews of the first two overlay sets I have created. The Soft Floral Overlays I created with brushes designed by Stephanie at Obsidian Dawn and the Love Always Overlays were created with shapes designed by Lady Shannon at Memories Made Easy. I should have the Soft Floral Overlays in store by the weekend and the Love Always Overlays …….(drum roll please)…….are my freebie to you today!

I hope you enjoy them and I would love to hear any feedback you have for me.



The Love Always Overlays are on a transparent background. I did not add an additional texture because I wanted to leave that up to you. The colored background behind the overlays is for display purposes only in this preview.

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Country Hollow Scraps February Mega Kit hits stores today. GET IT FREE with any purchase of .01 or more from any of their Fabulous Designers.



February's Valentine's Delight Mega Kit

LINK: http://www.countryhollowscraps.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=190&products_id=594

Instructions: Place this "Mega" kit in cart which is priced at $5.00 and put any other product from the store in your cart. Use the following code to deduct the price of the Mega:

CODE: febmega09

This gorgeous Mega Kit features 97 Papers beautiful papers and 266 Elements.

Contributing Designers:

Crazed Creations
Arty Pharty
Artlor Designs
Country Hollow Creations
Digital Embellishments
Itz A Neet Design
Kalo Designs
Scrappin with lil ole me
S.G.Rowe Designs
Sharon BeckerStephs
Graphxsassy scrap designs
wildcat designs

I'm off for the night and I hope everyone has a wonderful rest of the week!

Happy Scrapping!

Happy Birthday Babies!

Today is the day! Happy Birthday to my handsome boys who turn 3 years old today!

With the party tomorrow, I actually feel like I am caught up on life and can finally breathe. I have everything ready for tomorrow, except picking up the cake of course which is hubby’s job. LOL! The house is already decorated for today (and tomorrow) and I am just waiting for the boys to wake up and see all the Thomas the Tank Engine stuff everywhere. They are going to love it!

I have finally updated all my stores with my newest products and have all my ads have been sent. There are only 2 days left in my $1 Birthday Celebration so be sure to take advantage of this great sale. After Saturday, all my products go back to full price. You can find the sale at my Kalo Designs, adVENturous Scraps, Commercial Duet Scraps, Country Hollow Scraps, Creative Scraps Store and Scrap It Sassy stores.

During the final two days of this sale I am including my newest commercial use products, Floral Flairs Parts 1 & 2. These flairs are so universal they can be used in just about any layout. I made these flairs because it has been so sunny here in California and I am ready for spring and all the beautiful flowers. Until it comes though, I will just have to stare at these beautiful flairs. LOL!





This morning my gift to you is a flair from my Floral Flairs collection. This will only be available for a limited time.

Have a great weekend and…

Happy Scrapping!!!

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$1 Birthday Celebration Sale

Happy Monday Everyone!

You might want to grab another cup of coffee for this one. LOL!

It has been a wild and crazy week. I have just about everything ready for the boys’ 3rd birthday party this weekend. The boys LOVE everything trains so of course we are having a Thomas the Tank Engine party. A couple of weeks ago we bought the boys a family pass at the local train museum so they can visit anytime and have unlimited train rides on the vintage steam engines here and at Railtown 1897 State Historic Park, and they love it! I can’t believe how much the love trains.

I can’t believe the boys are going to be three already either. It seems like just yesterday our crazy little boys entered our lives. The boys’ births were a bitter sweet moment for me and their birthday always reminds me of how lucky and blessed we are to have them.

The boys were born at 29weeks, 11 weeks premature. They both weighed 3# 4 oz which is great for 29 weeks gestation but it was not what we were expecting. They spent seven week in the NICU, had the typical preemie issues, and thankfully came home happy, healthy and thriving. Their 3rd birthday this Friday marks a big milestone because this the year the graduate from the preemie charts to the ‘normal’ child charts.

Happy Birthday Boys! Mommy and Daddy LOVE you both so much!

I am also excited to announce that I now sell at Commercial Duet Scraps. I have been looking for a commercial use only store for a time now and I am so happy to plant my feet at CDS.



Some more exciting news is that I am opening my own store. I have my own domain, www.kalodesigns.com and you can visit www.kalodesigns.com/store to shop directly with me. I'm going to leave my blog address the same so don't worry, you will always be able to find me here. LOL!

I am still setting up the design of my store, but all my products are there. If you stop by you’ll see the default zen cart template. LOL! It’s taking me a bit longer setting up the design than expected, but I don’t know css and I only know self taught basic html so I am learning as I go. Once I do have everything set up, I will have a grand opening sale so keep your eyes out.



To celebrate my boys’ birthday, everything in my stores at Kalo Designs, adVENturous Scraps, Commercial Duet Scrap, Country Hollow Scraps, Creative Scraps Store and Scrap It Sassy is on sale for $1 this week.

Included in the sale are my latest commercial use items from the railyards I’ve been visiting with the boys. Fittingly called At The Railyards, you can purchase the elements and overlays separately this week for just $1.





This morning I have a freebie for you from my new At The Railyards overlays. I hope you like it. It will only be available for a limited time so be sure to grab it while you can.

Happy Scrapping!

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Lily Pad Doodles & Grab Bag #1

Happy New Year's!

A New Year is here and so is a New Sale!

I have created my first CU Grab Bag. This bag contains 5 brand new CU products! As always, No Credit Required on any of my CU products! Valued at $17.00, this grab bag is packed with over 40 MB of CU products, all items 300 dpi and up! Hurry on over to my Creative Scraps Store to pick this up because this bag will be separated and go back to the normal prices on January 15th.

Your Price: $3.00



How about a commercial use freebie to kick off the New Year? This is a cute little frog from my first doodle kit, Lily Pad Doodles. My sweet hubby gave me a Bamboo tablet for Christmas (Woo Hoo!) and I couldn’t resist playing with it. I had so much fun doodling on the computer there will definitely be more doodles to come. If you have any doodle requests, just let me know and I see what I can do.

You can pick up the entire collection of Lily Pad Doodles at my Creative Scraps Store or Scrap It Sassy Store.



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CU Yellow Rose Freebie

Happy Friday!

I am amazed at how much fun throwing rocks in a river is for little boys. Wednesday I took the boys to a local dam to throw some rocks and they were at it for almost 2 hours. I thought they’d be tired after that, but oh no. There were so mad when I told them it was time to leave to go have lunch. LOL! Boys will be boys. I guess this will have to be a regular trip for us. The dam is so close to the house and the best part is, it’s free.





Amongst the all the rock throwing, I was able to get a few more CU items done and uploaded to my store. Two of the products are CU roses from my garden. It’s still averaging around 75 degrees here and the roses love it, and I love how beautiful they look. My favorite by far is my yellow rose. I must say, it is such a lovely shade of yellow





The third item are some CU leaves the boys and I picked up on a nature walk around the neighborhood recently. They love to search for their favorite leaves to bring home and play with. Of course, these dried leaves make quite the mess for mom to have to clean, but I don’t mind when I see them collecting, sorting and organizing all their new treasures.



I also have a CU freebie for you this morning. This is one of the yellow flowers from my latest additions to my store, Yellow Rose. I hope you enjoy it.

Happy Scrapping!

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CU Stock Photo

Happy Friday!

I am so happy to see so many of you enjoyed the “as-is, unfinished” brag book pages. I wasn’t sure if they’d be of use to anyone so I am pleasantly surprised at the amount of downloads they have received.

This week I found out there is something wrong with my newsletter, basically I don’t think it is going out anymore. Yesterday I had a small amount of time and tried to resolve the problem with FeedBlitz, but I guess what I did really didn’t do anything since I still didn’t receive a newsletter this morning. I will try this weekend to see if I can figure out what is wrong. I may just need to delete this newsletter and create a whole new one. If that doesn’t work, I may switch my newsletter over to Feedburner and give that a try. *sigh*

I am happy to announce I just added 31 CU Stock Photos to my store. The photos can be used for pretty much anything you want. Feel free to create elements, overlays, papers or anything else you can think of. The only thing I ask in my TOU’s is that you do not distribute my files as-is. All photos are sized approximately 3000 x 2000 px and 300 or 500 ppi. I will be adding new photos frequently since I love to take pictures when I am out with the boys, so be sure to stop by my store and see what is new.

This morning I have another CU freebie. It is a photograph my hubby took while the boys and I were riding a train at the pumpkin patch. I didn’t know he took this until we got home and downloaded my camera.

Hubby is so funny sometimes. He knew I was taking photo’s to make CU items and for some stock photos (this photo is from the same trip as last week’s CU Pumpkins Overlay), so while the boys and I were off having some fun he took a bunch of photos around the pumpkin patch for me. He is such a sweetie. I hope you enjoy this photo and I would love to see what you create with it.

Trish – I am so happy you found my blog and are enjoying the freebies, I’m curious how old your twins boys are? Mine will be 3 in January. I can’t believe how fast the time has gone by. Everyone said it would, but I wasn’t expecting this.

Have a great weekend!

Happy scrapping!

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CU Pumpkin Overlay Freebie

Happy Friday!!!

I have been having the most wonderful conversation tonight with Linda at Bon Scrapatit on her new Pingbox. I can’t believe how much we have in common. She is such a neat Lady and I am so blessed to have the opportunity to get to know her a bit more.

She even got me addicted to this Pingbox thing. I’ve never really IM’d with anyone before so to me, this thing is pretty cool. So look what I now have (to the right) right above my cbox. That’s right, I have a Pingbox.

So since it’s late and I have a restless little one tonight, I’m going to borrow the instructions for the Pingbox from Linda (thank you sunshine, I owe you one). I will type up my own little blurb in the morning.

Some good news tonight, my boss’s mother has been released from the hospital. She is being moved to an assisted living apartment for the time being until she is strong enough to live in her own house. Good news is they believe they did in fact remove all the cancer. Thank you to everyone who sent prayers her direction. I know the family is forever grateful.

So this means I begin work on Saturday. I’m excited but still a bit nervous. I got side tracked tonight talking with Linda so I didn’t finish the Halloween brag book pages I started. Also, I just realized the 25th is our MoM’s Halloween Carnival (boy how time flies) which I am hosting so I have a few things to finish up with that in the next few days. I am still hoping to finish the brag book pages this weekend to have ready for Monday, but we’ll have to see how much I work this weekend and next week. I’ll have something for you next week; I’m just not sure what yet. (*smiles*)

Today I have for you my first commercial use freebie! (Yippie!) It is a pumpkin overlay from the recent trip the boys and I took to the pumpkin patch. I would love to hear you comments about this overlay, if you like it (...or not, sniff sniff). LOL!

This overlay is from my Pumpkin Patch Overlays set. The set includes corn, hay, sunflowers, pumpkin texture and pumpkins. All pages are saved in .png format, sized 12 x 12, and 300 dpi. You can purchase my Pumpkin Patch Overlay set in my store.

Have a great weekend and…

Happy Scrapping!



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