Valentine QP 2

Happy Friday!

I hope everyone is having a great week!

It has been such a busy week over here. I am now it two more stores, Country Hollow Scraps and adVENturous Scraps. Woo Hoo! I am so excited, and tired! LOL! It has been a bit overwhelming this week getting set up in both stores, but I know it was well worth it. I plan on having a sale in both stores beginning next week so be sure to keep an eye out for the ad.

I can’t believe how many suggestions I have received for the ‘Name My Kit’ contest. You ladies are truly amazing. I started an excel sheet with all the suggestions and gave hubby a sneak peak and he just about fell over. LOL! Hubby has definitely got his work cut out for him. Don’t forget, today is the last day to send in your suggestions and yes, you can submit more than one. Beginning Monday, the kit and album will be moved into my stores.

I know I had more to talk about tonight, but quite frankly I am just too darn tired to remember what it was. LOL! As soon as I remember though, you can be sure you’ll hear from me again.

This morning, for you, I have another QP from my nameless Valentine kit. I hope you like it.

Have an amazing weekend and…

Happy Scrapping!

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The password is love.

Name My Kit Contest

Happy Monday!

I hope everyone had a wonderful and safe New Years!

Me, I am having a serious designer block. LOL! I just finished a Valentine Kit and I have no idea what to name it. So, I have decided to hold a ‘Name My Kit’ contest! Just send me an e-mail at kalo@surewest.net with your suggestion for a name of my kit and, after the close of the contest, my hubby will choose the winner. The contest will run from today, Jan. 5th through Friday, Jan. 9th. I will post the winner on Monday, Jan. 12th.

Now I bet you are wondering what the prizes are? LOL! Well, of course you will get the Valentine Kit for free, but I have also included the Valentine 'Kate' Album and some coupons for the winners. The coupons will be valid from Monday Jan. 12th until Jan. 31st and good towards your entire purchase at my Creative Scraps Store.

The prizes are as follows:

Winner – 50% Off Coupon at my Creative Scraps Store plus the Valentine Kit and Valentine 'Kate' Album for Free
1st Runner Up – 30% Off Coupon at my Creative Scraps Store plus the Valentine Kit and Valentine 'Kate' Album for Free
2nd Runner Up – 20% Off Coupon at my Creative Scraps Store plus the Valentine Kit and Valentine 'Kate' Album for Free

Here is a preview of my nameless Valentine Kit and my Valentine's 'Kate' Album. There are 8 papers and over 30 elements (not all elements are shown). This kit is so versatile, I have already made the 'Kate' album and two QP’s from it.





And, to help get you in the spirit of Valentine’s even though it’s still a month away, I have a QP freebie for you this morning.

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The password is love.



Today is also the beginning of Digi Scrap Shop’s first sale. Digi Scrap Shop opened this past weekend and to celebrate, we are having a sale! From today until January 12th, you can save 20% off your purchase when you buy $10 or more.

Christ is Born Kit QP Freebie

Happy Friday All!

Just popping in with a little gift for everyone, a QP from my Christ is Born kit.

Tomorrow is our Santa Social with the MoM’s club which means two hours with Santa. Hopefully, hopefully, hopefully I can get a picture of the boys with Santa.

I always have my Christmas cards out by December 1st and it is just killing me I have not done them yet this year. I really want to send a photo of the boys with Santa, but if things don’t work out tomorrow I may have to use of the train photos we took last weekend. Maybe I’ll get creative and draw Santa hats on the boys’ heads to make them look festive. LOL! Oh wait, now that may actually be a good idea!

Here is the QP for everyone. I hope you like it and can use it to scrap some of your favorite holiday memories. Don't forget, you can find the entire kit at my Creative Scraps Store.

Have a great weekend and…

Happy Scrapping!

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November Challenge QP

Happy Monday!

I hope everyone had a great weekend!

I have officially embarked on a mission to get a good photo of the boys with Santa. I figure, the more they are exposed to Santa, the better chance I have at getting a good Santa picture. I’m not trying to get that perfect photo of the boys sitting on Santa’s lap smiling, because quite frankly I know there in no way that is going to happen. But, I do have a few ideas that I think would be so cute.

Train Time with Santa begins this weekend at the Sacramento Railroad Museum. Children and their parents can go for a train ride with Santa and get to know him a bit more. I even think Santa gives the kids a small gift. I would be so happy to get a photo of Santa handing the boys a gift and the boys gazing up at him. That would be so cute. I would even love for this to be an annual family event each year with Santa, and the photos with Santa can be our pictures for Christmas cards.

The other ‘Santa’ event we have on our schedule is our MoM’s Santa Social the first weekend in December. The children get to spend two hours with Santa and Mrs. Claus and I’m hoping to get some good photos here too.

Kaden loves Santa and asks to see him every day. Logan, not so much. LOL! He could really do without seeing Santa, ever. I am crossing my fingers this changes as we Santa a bit more over the next month.

This morning I have a QP I made for the monthly challenge at CU Freebie Only Forum (the QP itself is PU only). I tried to do something a bit out of the box for me by using multiple layers of papers with various prints. I (think) I like the way it turned out. LOL! Winners are chosen by the number of downloads, so if you like my QP please be sure to grab it.

One of the rules of the challenge is to create a QP or brag book page with only CU freebies. To give credit where credit is due, here is the list of CU freebies I used:

Textured Paper - Farrah's Creations,
Tartan Paper - Delicious Scraps, www.DeliciousScraps.com
Leaf Paper - Cindy Ritter, Cindy Ritter Digi Scrap
Dotted Paper - Scrappin' Cop, http://thescrappincop.blogspot.com
Striped Paper - Scrappin' Cop, http://thescrappincop.blogspot.com
Flowers - June Schutrups aka Cen'Stuff, http://censloft.blogspot.com
Ribbon - Farrah's Creation,
Flourish - Delicious Scraps, www.DeliciousScraps.com
Tag - Gloria Val Verde, www.mootwodesigns.com
Charm Frame - Becky, http://beckysscrap.blogspot.com
Thanksgiving Photo (inside charm) - DIP, http://digitalimageryplus.blogspot.com
Pin - Alice @ AloDesigns, AloDezigns.blogspot.com

Thanks and have a wonderful week!

Happy Scrapping!

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Thanksgiving Blessings QP and Day 1

Good Morning Everyone!

I have a lot to cover in this post so it is going to be a bit busy and long winded. But don't fret, this morning I have not one but two goodies for you.

First off, I want to thank Nani from the Chronicles of Nani for an award she gave me last week.



This award calls for seven things I love and to pass it on to seven people.

Seven things I love are:

1) My family
2) Coffee, coffee and more coffee (to try to come close to the energy level of my boys. LOL!)
3) The sound of my boys laughing
4) Photography (I’ve taken over 15,000 photos on my camera that I received two Christmas’ ago. Since the count reset on April 28th, 2008, I have taken 5232 photos. Look like I’m shooting for a new record this year. LOL!)
5) Shopping (what girl doesn’t?)
6) Sushi (which I do not get enough of)
7) Cooking and trying new recipes

I totally APPRECIATE the awards that go around on the blogs and from the bottom of my heart I thank Nani for giving this to me. I have pondered and pondered and there is no way I can pick just a few special designers to pass this to. I feel that every designer has their own specialty and I know that each of us put our heart and soul into our work.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween! The boys had so much fun trick or treating for the first time and let me tell you, they had it down after the first house.

Before we went out, I asked the boys if I could paint a Superman emblem on their face. The boys hate to have their hands stamped or wear tattoos so I figured the make-up I bought was going to head straight for the trash. I couldn’t believe after I asked them if I could paint Superman on their faces and gave them a mirror to watch, they sat there quietly the whole time. I am so proud of them, and they were so proud to have Superman painted on their face. This is the only time the boys willingly came to me to have the pictures taken. LOL!

We are REALLY big on manners in our house, so the ‘rule’ was they would go up to a house, knock (or ring the door bell), say trick or treat, hold their bag up for candy, then say thank you, and happy halloween. These were big phrases for my little supermen and it was so cute to hear them stumble and blur all the phrases together. All the treaters who gave us candy just laughed every time the boys talked.

The boys had so much fun this Halloween I just had to scrap some photos. The papers and elements in my layout are from my Thanksgiving Blessings kit. I know these are Halloween photos but I am just in the mood for some of my favorite fall colors. And since ‘pumpkin’ pie is one of my all time favorite Thanksgiving treats, this page will perfect to scrap some of those Thanksgiving memories with too.



Isn't that the cutest little pumpkin collage you have ever seen? I picked that up from Pam @ The Ladybug Pages blog back in the beginning of October. She offered it as a CU freebie template and when I saw it I just knew I had to have it. She still has it available on her blog for download and you can go directly to it by clicking here.

You must be thinking by now, when in the world is she going to get to the freebies?!? How about right now!?! The first freebie is a QP from my Thanksgiving Blessings kit. That’s right, you guessed it, the same LO I used to scrap my boys photos.

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If you like the QP above, be sure to grab my Thanksgiving Blessings kit before it goes to my store. I am offering the kits in bits and pieces over the next couple of weeks. I will periodically expire some of the links so remember to check back often.

Once you grab all the parts of this kit, you will have 15 papers, 40 elements and a page of word art to scrap all your Thanksgiving memories with. Here is a preview of the entire kit.









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Fall Splendor QP #2

Happy Friday!

I have decided to combine my personal blog with this one. With the boys, the multiples club, me hopefully going back to work soon, designing and this blog I just don’t have enough time to keep up on both blogs. Don’t worry, I’ll still have lots of freebies for everyone, I’m not giving that up anytime soon.

Actually, not much should change here. Once in a while I may ramble a bit more about personal life (yes, that is possible. LOL!), you’ll get to see some of my personal photos, and you’ll all get to know me a bit more. I know you are excited now (wink, wink). ROTFL!

Yesterday morning was so cool and overcast I decided to take the boys to the Effie Yeaw Nature Center. It was so peaceful to step into nature and away from the daily hussle and bussle. I didn’t realize until after we were there for about half an hour how much I needed to just take a break from everything (phones, computer, driving, people, etc.). I felt a calm come over me as we were walking down the different trails. It was so peaceful.

Can you believe I took more photos of the deer than I did of the boys? LOL! The deer cooperated so much better than the boys did. They seemed to just stop and pose for every shot. One deer even let us get within a couple of feet of it. The boys loved watching all the deer, turkey’s, duck’s and squirrels.

These are two of my favorite deer photos from today.





We did have a tense moment after all the calm as we were heading home on one of the trails. All of a sudden I heard a steady pattern of hooves in the fallen leaves. I turned and a couple dozen deer were in full sprint and headed straight towards us. We didn’t have time to run so I just grabbed the stroller, turned it facing away for the oncoming deer and held on. We were stuck in the smack dab in the middle of a deer stampede. The boys of course thought this was great and were laughing so hard as the deer ran passed both sides of us. Mommy was just standing still praying one of the darns things didn’t run the stroller over.

Hindsight, it was pretty cool and I wish I had my camcorder to catch the moment. Not that I would want to do it again with the boys since it could have turned out differently, but since all was OK it was pretty neat. I did get a couple of photos of the last deer’s that passed us as they were leaping in the air.



This was also the first time I have ever been to the river while no one else was there. Just beautiful isn't it.



The boys had the best time playing in the dirt and throwing rocks by the river. Hey what can I say, they're boys. LOL!





Tomorrow we are meeting my parents at a pumpkin patch in my home town. Hopefully it’s not raining because I would really love to dress the boys in their Halloween costumes and try to get some cute photos for Halloween this year. We’ll see if Mother Nature is on my side or not. If not, then I’ll be taking pictures of little muddy boys in their old play clothes. Either way, I’m sure I’ll get come cute photos.

Enough of my rambling. LOL! I have another QP I made with my Fall Splendor kit. Beginning next week, I will have four brag book pages from this kit as well.

Have a great weekend and…

Happy Scrapping!

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Fall Splendor QP #1

Good Morning All!

Well, did you blow up those hard drives yesterday? LOL!

Can you believe how awesome all the kits looked? Thank you again to all the fabulous designers who contributed to both collabs. Everyone went above and beyond to bring you a couple of killer mega-kits.

I want to say thank you to everyone who has left me comments. You all are so sweet and I do appreciate the time you take to drop me a little note.

Jesse7 – (I know this may be a bit late) Potty training is still a no go, partially because of them and partially because of me. It’s still a big game with them so I’m hoping another month will ease that issue a bit. Also, we have been so darn busy out and about the past month I haven’t wanted to put potty training on them in public. I figure after Halloween will be a great time to do it. The rain will have started so we will be home a lot more and then they can learn in the comfort of their own home. We are still watching ‘Once Upon A Potty – For Boys’, they love this movie. We’re going to a potty party, (come on and sing) we’re going to a potty party…LOL!

This morning I have a QP from my portion of the Fall Splendor collab. Remember, all the links for the collabs will be up until Halloween so you’ll have plenty of time to grab everything.

Happy Scrapping!

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P.S. I'll be taking down my links from last month's collab, Cornucopia of Colors, on Oct. 5th so if you still need to grab it be sure to do so before then.

Cornucopia of Colors QP 2

Happy Friday!

This is going to be a quick post since Logan still has a low grade fever. He is such a snuggle bug when he isn’t feeling well, which of course is one of the benefits of him not feeling well that I love.

Here is the second QP I made from my Cornucopia of Colors kit. Thank you to everyone who has left wonderful comments. I am so happy to hear you are enjoying all the kits from this collab and I hope you enjoy this QP too.

Have a great weekend and…

Happy Scrapping!

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Cornucopia of Colors QP

Happy Wednesday Everyone!

I’ve decided to remove the links for last month’s collab, Zoo Spirit, by the end of the week. If you still would like to grab my portion of the collab be sure to do so before Friday.

My poor little Logan had a fever again this afternoon. I feel so bad for him since it has only been about a week since he had croup.

We had another fiesta last Saturday with a friend of mine from out of state and a mutual friend of ours brought her daughter and they both had runny noses. (Sigh) You know, I wish people would sometimes think of others and just opt to miss an event. We’ve missed plenty of things when the boys have been sick, it’s just something you have to suck up as a parent. Oh well, I guess what’s done is done.

Since this is the first day, I’m not sure what he has yet. His fever has only hit 101 degrees (I say only because I will let a fever run to 103 since a fever is how your body fights an infection) so I’m not too concerned. It’s just a bummer he has to feel crappy again for another 7-10 days.

This morning I have a QP from my Cornucopia of Colors kit. This one is filled with a picnic full of tasty treats. I will have one more QP on Friday and that is all that I am doing for the collab this month. I will have a new surprise for everyone next Monday.

Happy Scrapping!

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