It's Time for Christmas Around the (Digiscrapping) World!

Happy Friday!

I hope you have cleaned out your hard drives from the Worldwide Christmas Scrapbooking freebies because here we go again! LOL!

Today is the day Christmas Around the World returns to the digiscrap world! This was such a big event last year and if you can believe it, it is even BIGGER this year with around 120 designers participating. Woo Hoo!

I am honored to have Debbie of Digital Keepsakes make a set of brag book pages from my portion of this wonderful event. Debbie’s talent for making gorgeous QP’s and BB’s is just amazing. These pages are so gorgeous I am using one of them as our Christmas Cards this year.



Here is a preview of the BB pages Debbie created. You can download the set by visiting her blog.

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I also have some wonderful new to share, I am now a designer Scrap It Sassy! I am so happy to be part of such a Sassy team. Scrap It Sassy is having a store wide sale this weekend. Everything in the store will be on sale for 35% or more. There are so many gorgeous items in the store; you won’t want to miss this sale.



Here is my portion of the Christmas Around the World collab. You can find the links to all the designers who participated by visiting the Christmas Around the World.

(These Ladies come from all different time zones, all over the world, so if their part isn't posted yet, please be patient and keep checking back.)

Have a great weekend and...

Happy Scrapping!

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Jolly Old St. Nicholas Freebie

Happy Monday!

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!

The Santa Social this past weekend was so much fun. Kaden was so in to Santa and Logan, still as always, wanted nothing to do with him. (Sigh) Tom, one of the dads, snapped a photo of the boys running from Santa and Mrs. Claus which would be so cute on a Christmas card. Hopefully, I can get that from him. If not, I did get a couple of photos I think might work for Christmas cards. If not, I think I will just use the train photos from the end of last month.

I have been such a bad blogger this past week. I received an award last week from Annie of Annie's Design and I am just now getting around to thanking her for it. I really don’t have any excuse except for life has gotten in the way of designing this week, and I am so sorry I did not mention this earlier. I truly appreciate her giving me this award.

Annie is also a team member at Creative Scraps and has some wonderful tutorials on her blog. Be sure to stop by and check out some of her kits and tuts. You can also find her kits at the Creative Scrap Store.



This morning I have the first in a series of small kits that were to be a part of a bigger collab that was cancelled earlier this month. I was so sad to hear of this collab being cancelled because I loved the basis of the collab, Christmas Carols. Ever since I signed up for this collab, which was before Thanksgiving, I have been signing Christmas carols to the boys. I just love Christmas carols, especially the old original versions.

Instead of just tossing the parts of the collab that I designed, I decided I would offer them as freebies to you in hopes that someone can use them for their holiday memories. I will also have small kits from the carols Twas the Night before Christmas and Away in the Manger later this month for you.

I hope you enjoy them and have a wonderful week!

Happy Scapping!

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ADSD Holidays At Home Collab

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

We enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner at my parents house in the Bay Area. This year was a small dinner with just our family, my parents and great grandma. It was really nice to have a small dinner so great grandma could have some quality time with the boys. I must have gained 5 pounds that day alone (and of course a few more the rest of the weekend eating leftovers. LOL!).



Grandpa bought the boys toy planes to shoot in the air for Thanksgiving. These were the old school thin wooden ones kids used to play with years ago. I’m not sure who had the most fun though, the little boys or the big boys.





Saturday we took the boys to Train Time with Santa. I was a little nervous that Logan wouldn’t want to ride the big train but thankfully he was all for it.

The train was an old ‘classic’ train without any new posh amenities, which was great. I am so happy the boys experienced how trains used to be, not what they are now. Though, I didn’t realize how much trains rock while they are traveling, especially going over an old wooden bridge. LOL! The boys of course thought it fun to ‘stand up and ride the waves’ of the rocking train.

Santa came through towards the end and so hubby and I switched seats so Santa could sit with the boys, boy was that a mistake. I have never seen my boys jump and run as fast as they did when Santa sat next to them. LOL! Oh well, so much for that Christmas card opportunity. Guess we’ll just have to try again later.

We sat in the rear coach car, which later turned in to the first car behind the engine, for the 40 minute ride. There were two folk singers who came through signing Christmas carols and then Santa came through with a gift for all the kids. This ride was so well organized and I can’t believe how much the boys enjoyed their first BIG train ride.







This morning I have for you the December ADSD Collab Holidays at Home. The papers for this kit turned out to be huge, seven downloads huge. I really wanted to get that crinkled Christmas wrapping paper look so I used multiple overlays and, also wanting to keep the files small for those on dial-up, I split the papers into seven downloads.

I hope you enjoy this kit and I wish everyone a happy December!

Happy Scrapping!

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Don't forget to visit all the participating designers to collect this huge kit.

(These Ladies come from all different time zones, all over the world, so if their part isn't posted yet, please be patient and keep checking back.)

Adele of Blind Sight Designs
Adventures in Scrapland
Amanda of Amandas Scrappy Creations
Amie of Amiebear
Beaconscrap
Beckmoores Scrapalittle
Becky's Scraps
Bits'N'Bobs
Bouquet of Pixels
Brooke at Ahhh Scrap
Busyscrappin
CMB Designs
Creative Digital Scraps by Chiara
Deanna at Flower Scraps
DesignsByAmilyn
Digital Keepsakes
Doodle Designs
Elemental Pixie
EmCee Scraps
Erika {aka PinkuPixie}
HeatherStokes at HSDesigns
Jayden's Mama
Jessie
JIC Creations
Just Another Scrap
Kathy Goldstein
KittenScraps
Lei at Fairydustprincess-Magicmaker
Linda at Linda's Dream Designs
Lynn of Heavenly Crafts
Lynn at TMA
MagsGraphics
Manda at Disaster in Designs
Mariscrap
Merrilee Wheaton Designs
MsBhvin Scraps
My Little Corner of the World
Oase Panda Bear Designs
Pamela Yates at Pammy's Playground
Rachness
Scrapping with Jen
Shabby Tagger
Shel at Shel Belle Scraps
Stacy at Kalo Designs
Teri at Teris Thing-O-My-Jigs
Wendi at Willow Grace Designs
WillowRaven at Purple Dragonfly Creations

Thanksgiving Blessings Day Word Art

Happy Tuesday!

I just wanted to pop in to say I forgot to post the link to the Thanksgiving Blessings word art. I am so sorry about that. With all that was happening last weekend, I just missed it.

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I also wanted to share some new products I just added to my store. I have three sets of overlays from a recent trip the boys and I took up to Coloma along the American River. The first set is of various textures around the river bank. The other two sets are various clouds we saw that day. All these sets are commercial use OK.







I also have two sets of grayscale flowers. The first set consists of some of my roses from my front yard. The second set consists of some of the hibiscus’ we have in our back yard. These sets are commercial use OK as well.





Happy Scrapping!

Thanksgiving Blessings Remaining Links

Happy Sunday!

I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend. I know I don’t normally post on the weekends, but some things have occurred this weekend that I need to focus on and devote my time to.

First off, I want to say ‘Thank you’ to Brandi of Brandi’s Creations for giving me the Kreativ Blogger award. I truly appreciate receiving this award from such a creative designer. Be sure to stop by and check out her kits. She has some of the cutest little characters I've ever seen in some of her kits.



This weekend began with great joy and ended with devastating sadness. Friday, my cousin’s husband died suddenly from a massive heart attack at the age of 34. I couldn’t believe it when I heard the news. Words can’t express how sorry I am for his family and my heart is deeply saddened for what his wife and daughters must be going through.

I also need to spend some time this week uploading my designs to the new DigiScrapDepot store. That’s right, DigiScrapDepot is opening a store and I am going to be selling my designs there. Woo Hoo! I am so excited to be given this opportunity and I am so thankful to Amanda who has been helping me get everything set up.

Enlight of these events, I am going to post the remaining links to my Thanksgiving Blessings kit. I also want to thank everyone who has been leaving me comments. I haven’t had the time to respond to them lately but I do read them and I appreciate everyone who takes the time to leave a comment.

Have a wonderful rest of the weekend!

Happy Scrapping!

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Here is a preview of the entire kit.

Thanksgiving Blessings Day 10

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Thanksgiving Blessings Day 9

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Thanksgiving Blessings Day 8

Happy Wednesday!

I know I have been MIA for a few days but I have decided to embark on a new project, a personal Christmas project for the grandparents and great-grandma of the boys. I know Christmas is still a ways away, but with the changes that are coming I am a bit worried about time.

I still have some wonderfully exciting news to share with y’all, it’s just taking a bit longer than I expected. And trust me; it is killing me holding this in. I can’t wait to share my joy with everyone and I am hope, hope, hoping to do it this weekend.

Some of the mommies asked if I would host a Lunch Bunch play date at the mall playground yesterday since it was Veteran’s Day, and their older kids were out of school. Let me tell you, everyone else in town must have had the same idea. I couldn’t believe how many kids were at the mall having fun.

Then the unimaginable happened. Of course we had all been promising our little ones some good yummy fried food if they behaved on the playground, well low and behold, we get upstairs and the food court had been sealed off by a wall. Yep, that’s right; they build a new wall around the entire food court. No doors, nothing.

I was just there on Sunday and the food court was open and serving all the high calorie yummy’s they serve everyday. Not today though. There was a little sign that said the food court would reopen on Nov. 13th in a new location. What, a mall with no food?!? And on a holiday?!? They had to be kidding. Why wasn’t there a sign as we walked into the mall so we would know NOT to make promises to our little ones we couldn’t keep?!? LOL!

I can tell you who must have been totally thrilled about this whole situation, Nordstrom. Yep, they have food. Food that’s not cheap by the way. So, for over $20 the boys and I had lunch.

Happy Scrapping!

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Thanksgiving Blessings Day 7

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Thanksgiving Blessings Day 6

Happy Monday!

I hope every one had a wonderful weekend.

I played hooky from work all weekend and tried to do my part in boosting our economy by getting some Christmas Shopping done. LOL! I can’t believe I have almost all of my Christmas shopping done. Woo Hoo!

I was also able to get a few more baubles done this weekend. These are all available in my store and I hope you enjoy them.











This morning I have Day 6 of my Thanksgiving Blessings kit.

I hope everyone has a wonderful day!

Happy Scrapping!

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Here is a preview of the entire kit.