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And a good one.  Posted on theStudio I was sure some of you would enjoy this one.
Also, a post from yesterday with a freebie attached!
Hope you enjoy these. Have a wonderful day.

Vintage Garden

Karen at Snickerdoodle Designs has just been working her little fingers to the bone. Another new kit already, and a very sweet one.   I couldn't help but do a layout right away.  I have been missing my little girl and my grandson who moved to TX last year. So, I used a photo taken just before they left for their new home last May, that I just love and tried something new that has been showing up in my Photoshop group.
This kit is a collab,  here it is:

You can check out the kit and all the beautiful extras, clusters, stacked papers ect HERE

And here is my layout.  

Have a wonderful weekend, and keep your children close, even if they are adults.

Gift cards

One more thing.  Another swap, this time little gift cards. Something I'd never given much thought to, but I really had fun with these. They are in the mail and should be received by my swap partner in a couple days.
So, shhhhhh, don't show them to her.

A new kit

Karen, Snickerdoodle Designs, has a new kit. Not only do I love her kits, but her prices are so good!
For some reason I just have to take photos of spring here in the desert, which means my plants. I haven't taken photos of the cactus yet and they are blooming, but my roses are gorgeous. I have a black thumb, so I don't plant stuff, but the previous owner did and loved them well, so I do keep them up and enjoy them.
Check out the kit

Find the kit and all her other goodies here:

Now, here is my layout using the kit.  

I hope you'll check out the kit and while there check on some of the other kits, I happen to think she is an extraordinary  designer.
So, now I'm off to a friend's to help her learn her Cricut, she's had it for months and been afraid to take it out of the box! Wish me luck.

A birthday card

One of my friends is having her 75th birthday party tomorrow, so I made her a card. It sort of suits her. Probably not the most gorgeous card I've ever done, but as I said, it suits her and I know she will love it.
I got the idea off Pinterest recently, seems like everyone is getting ideas there anymore. Love Pinterest.
So, here it is, normally what I make is very far off from my inspiration card, but that isn't the case here. It just worked up so easy.

I also recently did a card for my Art Haven group, we did a shaped card swap and I choose one of Penny Duncan's shaplie files to make my card from. I was pretty happy with it.

All the pieces except the border, were cut with my Eclips. Love that machine! It cuts like a dream no matter how involved the item is.

Your April Wallpaper

I am so sorry, I am late this month. I had it all done for you, but I have been away.
We had a great Western GM Chapter of FMCA rally. We are now proud members of Western GM Chapter. We had to wait for a bi-law change, but they did and now we are. 
We stayed at the AVI Casino/resort in Laughlin/FT Mohave at the campground for several days. There was a craft show while we were there, so of course all us girls had to go check that out. It was a much better show then I expected and I saw and bought some neat stuff. One of my favorite items is a wine bottle that has been melted. It lays on it's side, the melting creates a crater down the middle of the bottle so you can use it for whatever. I got a gorgeous deep blue one with a bunch of grapes wired on.
Otherwise, we spent our time eating, visiting and of course gambling.

This months wallpaper is from Amanda Thorderson's Sunlight From Heaven and it's such a beautiful kit! I truly think you are going to love the kit and the wallpaper.  Check Amanda's store and I do believe it's on sale right now too. Also be sure to check out the calendar challenge she does at Digitals.
Here is your preview

To download the wallpaper, find it HERE 
As usual, I didn't put a calendar on my wallpaper, I like to enjoy mine sometimes for longer then just one month, plus you can download Rainlender and have a little interactive calendar that will always tell you the date and you can put in your appt and anything else you care to. And you can get the current calendar by doing the calendar challenge.
So, go, enjoy this wonderful spring month and have a great Easter!

A special Easter gift

I have something special I've been working on. I hope you will enjoy it, it's a set of cut files for cutting machines all in .svg format.  There was a gorgeous christmas banner making the rounds at Pinterest, everyone seemed so in love with it. It's past Christmas, but it inspired me to make an Easter Banner.

I did make one mistake, the letters should have been darker, a lot darker, but it shows ok in person. You will find more close up photos in the file.  There are a several different shapes you can mix and match.
You can find the files HERE 

The Studio Hybrid challenge

I am pretty happy with my tag created for the hybrid challenge. We were suppose to make a tag that had to do with our birthdays. Since mine is in may I choose May Flowers, and I used 3 different kits to finish it.
I used Karen Schulz, Artist In Me plus one of her grungy papers to make the base tag.
Then I used Outside My Window for all the flowers and bird.
And for the Alpha title, I used the alpha from Dare To Dream
You can find them all HERE .

And here is what mine turned out like.

Your March Wallpaper

I'm so sorry for being late this month. It's just crazy at home and I haven't had much time to play, but here it is now. This is made using Amanda Thorderson's Denim Dreams kit. It's so rare to find a really good boy kit, I mean one with out a lot of toys and stuff in it. This is a great kit with wonderful denim colors and papers and some grunge. Here is a preview:

   

Find the kit HERE
Now, on to the wallpaper:

Pick up your Wallpaper HERE  

Another freebie, goodie, goodie

Karen had me make up a wallpaper for the new kit, Cheez The One, see preview in previous post.
And today is the day to get it free, so head on over to Snickerdoodle Designs blog and get your wallpaper.
No month or calendar so you can leave it there as long as you want.

New Kit, and a Sweet Freebie

Karen of Snickerdoodle designs has the cutest new Valentine kit out. Cheez The One.  For today Feb 17 only, there is a cute freebie on her blog using the new kit.   Here is the preview of the kit?:

And, if you hurry on over, you can down load this:

Find Snickerdoodle Designs blog here

Feb 2012 wallpaper

Made using Amanda Thorderson's Celebrate Love kit, available in the store at Digital Scrap book pages.
Second in her series of Celebrate kits for 2012, I hope you'll take a peek in her store.

Also, her kit is on sale right now, and if you join in her Calendar challenge in the Digitals forums,
you will get a cute calendar add on.  I didn't put a calendar on this, as I use a little interactive little calendar program called Rainlender. You can get a calendar to plop on here from the calendar challenge if you so desire.

Download your free calendar here.

Very special freebie

Karen at Snickerdoodle Designs is the featured designer at Digital Scrapbooking Studio and is giving away an add on to her Artist In Me Kit. She also has a very nice sale for this event.
This is my favorite kit of hers, I hope you like it as much, and be sure to check out the rest of her kits, she is an amazing designer.

A very happy 2012

And I know this is a late posting, but I think you will love this wallpaper. Amanda has a new concept for her monthly kits and challenge, and this is the first new one, Celebrate Winter .
Amanda hosts a calendar challenge at Digitals , and if you check that out, there is an extra small kit that matches Celebrate Winter. Besides that the Challenge is just plain fun and there is yet another good to be had if you join in.
So, here comes the preview of this months wallpaper:

 

You will run into me over there doing up my calendars. I do it every month and by the time next Christmas rolls around I have a whole year of calendars for my family.  I love easy. 

Enjoy!

Click on the preview to start your download.

We have gotten through Christmas

And now are moving on to New Years.  Mine was not so memorable, didn't spend time with family, we did that at Thanksgiving and now we live a bit far from them.  We didn't take the coach out this year so it was just us.  Also, hubby is very sick, will be trying to see the dr today.
Meanwhile I had plenty of time to play and scrap. I got a challenge done that I had been meaning to do. the Studio had one called Surprise me challenge, the surprise is the challenge is different each month, this time we were suppose to do a layout showing more then one generation. I had the perfect photo, taken when I was 3 and my grandmother had a family reunion at her house. Since she had 12 brother and sisters we were a pretty big family, but  they are not all in this one, some of the SD/Iowa family were not there, we lived in Los Angeles at the time where some of the family had migrated.
I used Snickerdoodle Designs kit, Outside My Window .

And there I am, over on the left bottom. If you are interested, you can find the challege here . I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, and if I don't post before, have a safe and sane new years.

Last minute Christmas gifts

Snickerdoodle Designs has 3 sets of printables that can help. So cute! Put them together with a few goodies and you'll have some cute, quick gifts. Large candy bar wrappers, mini wrappers and Kiss dots.

Jar wrappers, just fill with Home make cocoa, or candy or some of the mini candy bars.

And the cutest little tags, use on the jars to other gifts.

Find them all HERE and all on sale right now.

Better late then never

Boy am I late, but there has just been so much going on I lost track of time.  We had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend. We had 2 of our girls with their families here for Thanksgiving and the 3rd daughter and grandson flew up from Texas where they moved recently and we all spent the weekend in Las Vegas.
Anyway, sooo much going on with everyone right now. All the scrapbooking designers and stores are giving away goodies for Christmas and designing great new kits for Christmas, the ones I work for are no different.
Karen (Snickerdoodle Designs)  is giving an advent item away each day until the 25th. You might want to check that out, they sure are cute. She has a new kit on sale every day that matches up with the goodie and it stays for 2 days.

Amanda Thorderson has a new Christmas kit out called Christmas Tea, as usually, it's gorgeous.
She has that on sale right now.. Here is the preview of this months wallpaper.

Just click on the preview to download. You will notice I don't put a calendar on my wallpaper, that is because I use Rainlender, it's an awesome interactive calendar that sits on your desktop. If you'd like a calendar or even if you would just like to play, please visit Amanda's Calendar challenge at Digitals.
Her mini kit includes this months calendar and it's easy to put on the wallpaper.
As usual, I made this in 3 sizes, hopefully one will work for you. 
If I don't post again this month, please have a wonderful Holiday.

Snickerdoodle Designs, New kit

Karen has an adorable Christmas kit that is just out in her stores.

You can find it HERE  

And here is my layout using it.

Making Snowflakes

I thought I'd show off my snowflakes.  Now I didn't make the files, but a lady named Monica did and she has the neatest cut files!  You can check them out for yourself HERE  .
I've been trying out different papers for them. I'm doing them double sided and that seems to be what was intended. But you don't have to if you just want them for cards or added to the top of a box. I'm going to put mine together and put one each on my girls Christmas bags to be used as a tree ornament.

I found that I loved the double sided pearl paper from Walmart, it comes in a pad with 4 or 5 colors. I also loved the blue paper and I tried a heavy paper with raised shiny silver pattern on it.

New Month, new wallpaper

It's nov and I have a new wallpaper for you from Amanda's kit Sew Funky. It's an adorable kit and I hope you enjoy this little piece of it. I know I'm just a little late, but we are having busy lives right now. We are doing some kitchen remodeling and you know how that goes, or doesn't go, right now a company that deals with water damage is drying out my kitchen, seems in the process of putting in my granite, the dishwasher was taken out and put back, and started leaking. It got pretty bad before we realized it.
But on to the wallpaper, here is your preview.

And you can download it from here.   As usual I didn't put a calendar on it, I use rainlender, an interactive calendar that is free. But Amanda has a fun calendar challenge at Digitals.  She gives you a little mini kit and I just know you won't be able to help yourself, since the full kit is on sale you will just have to buy it. But there is your calendar.
You will find it here