Blog Train at Digitals

Digitals is having a Christmas in July blog train, so hop on over and get your goodies. Amanda has an amazing set of calendars for you.
Amanda Thorderson Designs
Don't forget to get the goodies from the rest of the designers.

New kits, new July wallpaper and other stuff

Here it is another month and I haven't posted in all that time. It sure seems to fly by, and the older I get the faster it goes. I am going to make a better attempt at stopping by here and posting. I have some awesome photos from a short trip we just came back from, so those should be fun to do up and post.

Amanda has gone into high gear and has several new kits. Featured as wallpaper this month is Mermaid Bay, a fantastic kit for all those summer layouts especially those taken at the beach.If you love this there are more extras for it that are free. Check Amanda's blog in my listings and you'll find a goodie or two there. I had a great time making up a set of BB pages to be given away free with the kit for the next few days, plus I did an extra that Amanda is giving out on her blog. Plus, her kit is on sale right now.
Also, if you stop by Digitals forums and take part in the calendar challenge, you'll get another little part free to do your calendar with.
As usual I have done the wallpaper in 3 sizes. Hopefully one of them will fit your monitor.
I hope you enjoy.
Yours of course doesn't come with the cute bear, he is a photo I took at a new Wild Animal park in Williams AZ. It is an awesome park and they are just getting started.
Just click on the preview and download your wallpaper.
Thanks for stopping by.

Ready for your June Wallpaper?

This month we are using Amanda Thorderson's brand new kit Rugged. If you are looking for a great masculine kit and/or one for Fathers Day, this is it.
Go on over to Digitals and get it for a bargain right now as Amanda has it on sale. Also, you might want to join in on the Calendar challenge, it's a lot of fun with neat gifts. Check out the kit HERE

To download the wallpaper, just click on the preview. I have as usual made it in 3 sizes. Hopefully one will work for your monitor.

Death Valley Junction

Last month we took a little trip with friends over to Death Valley. I'm just getting around to scrapping the photos. I found this story very interesting. Marta Becket found the abandon buildings in Death Valley Junction and bought them from the Borax company. She turned them into a cafe, hotel and the Amargosa Opera House where she put on a one woman show.

You can find out more here. I used Rina Kroes new kit Revelry.

What's happening, new kits and your april wallpaper

Let's start with new kits, Amanda has had a lot going on in her life so we haven't had a new kit in a while. She just did 2 new kits for us, I'm so excited! They are just the cutest also and if you buy the bundle pack which is on sale right now you get an adorable alpha with it.
The 2 kits are April Showers and May Flowers. I used April showers for the April wallpaper you will be able to download.









Here are the 2 new kits, cute, huh?
So, here is the wallpaper, I make them in 3 sizes as monitors today are all so different. Because of that they maybe slightly different from each other.
I don't put a calendar on mine because I use a little program called Rainlender, there is a free version and it's such a useful little program.




Now, I told you I was now into the fun of cutting files on Cricut, however soon after, I found out that ProvoCraft was suing the little mom and pop programers who had out 3rd party programs so that you could do more with your cutters.
So, angry person that I was, I sold my cutters, but not to fear, I have purchased an even better one. Problem is, I am having to wait probably several weeks for it. So many people were angry and got rid of their Cricuts and bought other cutters that sales exceded the supply. Not to worry tho, maybe I'll have time to add more cutting files here.
Have a happy day, and I hope you enjoy the wallpaper.

New kit, new layout

Rina over at SBE has a new kit out, and it's is just stunning and so much fun to work with. I have decided to use it to start a new book, one for a friend who's husband recently died. They were members of our FMCA chapter and I thought she might like some reminders of fun times.

It's called Cherished, and makes a great all around kit as well as Valentines day and spring.

Isn't it gorgeous?

So, here is my layout. The page style is a template from SBE's template challenge for Feb.

I won at Card Scraps

So, if you don't already know, besides machine embroidery and digi scraping, I also love to rubber stamp, mostly cards. For whatever reason I don't care for paper scraping, strange, right? Well, I do stamp cards tho, and I have gotten into making cards for the troops. That makes me feel like I am doing something to help someone at least. If you do hand made cards, be sure to google CARDS FOR THE TROOPS, get the short list of rules for them and place to send to. They are not cards for the troops, but rather cards the troops can send home.

Anyway, I got off subject, I entered a contest on the CardScraps blog and won a stamp set. Cool huh?

Here is the site http://www.cardscraps.com/

And here is my winning card.

I'm home and I have a treat for you

I have been gone for the past 6 weeks, so have not been able to post to my blog. But we had a great trip, since we moved last Feb we spent Christmas in Ca near our kids then traveled down the coast to the beach where we watched the surfers and even got a glimpse of dolphins on two days.
Down to the FMCA Indio rally, then Quartzsite for a few days for the big bus rally, before finally coming home.
I have a new free wallpaper for you for Feb, made using Amanda Thorderson's I Remember Love kit, which she has put on sale for the month for you. I hope you enjoy using it. As usual it's made in three sizes, one of which I hope will work for you. Also, I have not put a calendar, you can do that by either participating in Amanda's Calendar Challenge at Digitals where she will give you a little free kit to do that with, or you can use the neat little program Rainlender. It's free and has a lot of neat features.

Free Joy Banner for .svg

Well, I am into yet another new craft. I bought a Cricut Expression and both SCAL2 and MTC. And I am having a great time learning and playing.

I have a little banner I made that I hope you will enjoy. It's the word Joy with a santa hat and star. So, if you click on the preview it will take you to the download.

Time for your Christmas Wallpaper

It's almost December so I have your Christmas wallpaper for you. This time it's made from Amanda Thorderson's Christmas Rhapsody.
Amanda is not only a talented designer, but her kits are so usable. I didn't put a month or calendar on this one. It isn't hard to see what month it's for, LOL. And if you are here for the first time, I use Rainlender. It's a tiny program that won't mess with your computer, but it has the calendar and shows the what day it is at all times. It also has the ability to put in any events you want and you can even have an alarm.
So, here is your wallpaper, in three sizes as usual.Just click on the preview to download. Those are my very sweet youngest grandsons. Aren't they handsome? Of course they won't be on your calendar.

Also, SBE is having a sale and lots of fun during Dec. I hope you will join us.

New Freebie Oct wallpaper

Amanda has a new kit out, and I've used it for this months wallpaper. It's called Superstitions.

First tho, did I tell you all we are building a garage, not just a garage, but one that will have solar panels on the roof. No more electric bills! But I have company coming in on the 11th, then more joining us on the 18th and things are just not moving any where near as quickly as we had been led to belive they would. The guys have been here working hard all week, and at this point we expected it to be done, so the solar would go up next week, but it's not. It's not even ready for the roofing crew.

The problem is I have boxes I need to stash in there so I can get my guest room all done, and hubby has stuff all over the back patio that needs to go there for a work space instead of all over the back patio. It's getting tight time wise. I hope next time I post I can tell you all it's done!

So, now for the wallpaper, I sure hope you like it, as usual it's 3 sizes so should adapt to different monitors. And I did put the month, but I didn't add a calendar in. I use Rainlender, it's a very small program with an interactive calendar and several neat features I love.

But if you want to add on, go on over to Amandas calendar challenge at Digitals and with the free mini kit you get there will be a calendar.

So, here is the preview:

It has been too long

I got an admonishing email from a friend because I hadn't been posting my layouts on my blog. So I guess I had better get to.

While I am at it, I have some new stuff to talk about. I have added a baby Cricut to my toys. And I have purchased the Sure Cuts a Lot software. I wanted to be able to make all those cute shapes to use on my rubber stamped cards, and I just don't want to spend all the money on punches, and I don't have room for all of those. So, I am in process of making a bunch of shapes that I will post in .svg format for anyone who wants them when I'm done. The problem is I find that now I want the Expression as I'm finding all those cute boxes and bags that don't work on the Cricut because it will only do 6 x 12. There really is no end, is there? At any rate check back for that stuff too if you have an interest. Right now I'm working on finally getting all the boxes full of fabric and craft stuff out of what is to become the guest room, because I'm going to have a guest in Oct!

Ok, SBE is having the Brag book calendar challenge. Kim Hollibone is posting the cutest templates complete with 2011 calendars. You can do a lot or a little. I have already done most of my 4x6 family calendars with family photos that I give out to my girls at Christmas, but these I'm making using photos I've taken, places I've been. I'm going to give sets out to friends with a 4x6 lucite frame with a magnet on the back. I hope they enjoy them.

News and Free July Wallpaper

Here I am with your July wallpaper, just a couple days late. What can I saw, it's been busy.

First tho I have to tell you that Amanda is this months Designer of the month, her free daily download starts on the 5th. All I can tell you is that the kit is awesome!

You may want to join in the calendar challenge she has each month as well. You get a free mini kit to use, but she marks the full kit down very reasonable so you might want to buy that.

This month it's Patriotic of course, the Wallpaper was made using one of the 2 kits you can use in the challenge, From Sea to Shining Sea. Here is mine. I do fiddle with the calendar and make it a 2011 instead of the 2010. I make mine 4x6 and use family photos. Each of my kids has a pretty glass stand alone frame with metal corners that I bought them at Walmart. They all get a little bag with goodies in it for Christmas, mostly stuff I made and they really look forward to these calendars. It also serves to remind them to send grandma photos. LOL.

So, without further ado here is a preview of this months wallpaper. As usual it is in 3 sizes.

1680x1050, 1280x1024, 1024x768

Also I need to mention that SBE (Scrapbook Elements) is having a big 4th of July sale this weekend. You'll find lots of bargains from your favorite designers. And if you haven't shopped there, they have some awesome designers!

Layout share

This was done for a challenge at Scrapbookelements, I just love masks, they make layouts more fun and isn't that part of what it's about? Ok, there is that saving memories for our kids and their kids ect too. But it's nice to have fun doing it.

This used Alissa Jones Fish are Friends kit and Saxon Holts painted masks bundle.

On a personal note, we have been really busy with the new place. There is so much to be done. Hubby is putting in a drip system so we can leave home on occasion and not have to worry the trees and roses will die. We are working on the coach trying to get it in better shape for our next trip, and the trim on the house is in very bad shape, so we are painting. Now painting in the desert is a whole different thing. Between the heat and the wind the paint dries before you can even get it on the house. LOL. So, we were up at 4am painting today. No wind as yet, and it cooled down quite nicely last night. But when the sun came up, so did the wind and inside we went. Hubby is also making sun screens for the house. So far he has put on 4 of them and they sure make a difference in the heat coming in.

For my part, I'm looking forward to getting enough boxes unpacked of my crafting items that I can get started on some quilting.

Happy crafting until next time.

Finally, a new wallpaper

I know it's late and I haven't done one in a couple months, but I had requests so here is June's wallpaper.

Be sure to check out Amanda's whole Citrus Crush kit. There are some extra pieces for free in her store for use in the calendar challenge.

We are still getting settled into our new home. Hubby keeps asking me if I'm done, LOL. I keep buying things. The latest and probably the last for quite a while is a set of cabinets. 2 base cabinets, one drawers, one a base with shelves and a tall pantry type cabinet. They go into my sewing room so I will have somewhere to put all my stuff. I know I've got more stuff they they will hold, but it'll help a lot. Also the base cabinets become my cutting table. Sink base cabinets work very well because not only do they have storage inside, but they are just the right height.

I'm working hard at my CT work at Scrapbook Elements as well. Check out the Challenge that Sheryl and I have up. Words From the Heart, we have made some really cute goodies as gifts for participating.

And check out the cute page I made for the BB
challenge at SBE. The template is done by Kim
Hollibone and the kit is just darling. It's Mandy King's I Am Forever Changed.



Click on the layout to be taken to the gallery at SBE and see it larger.

I guess I shall never get very good at posting here, but I think I'll try to post the monthly wallpapers again and some of the layouts I do with kits from the awesome designers at SBE and by Amanda at Digitals.

Here we are with March's freebie Wallpaper

Feb just flew by we were so busy. So, now we are in our new home in AZ and loving it. The boxes still are not all unpacked but there is plenty of time for that. We can see the sun coming up over the mountains from our front porch and see the sun set over the mountains from the back porch. We've had a couple bunny rabbits around in the yard the past few days, and the other day a Road runner ran across the street right in front of my car. The kitties are loving it. Unfortunatly one of my babies was just diagnosed with diabetes, so some changes are afoot. Who knew, even the best well known brand dry food is not good for them.


This month I used Amanda's The Front Porch for the March wallpaper. Click on the preview.

To see the full kit, click on the Digitals link and check out Amanda's store.

I hope you enjoy the wallpaper.

Feb 2010 wallpaper

And other stuff. Still getting ready to move, truck is mostly loaded so by my next months post, I should be in my new home.




For now, I have a feb wallpaper for you, it's a tiny bit late as I've been so busy with all the new house stuff and the packing ect, that time just got away from me. This month we are featuring Amanda's Remembering You kit. And it's quite the awesome kit.

I hope you like what I have created for you from it. As has been my habit lately I've done it in three sizes, so there should be one that will work for you.

Jan 2010 Wallpaper

I keep meaning to get here during the month and it just does not happen. It's been a crazy year. My hubby had a heart attack last summer and then a quad by pass, then pneumonia ect. then we ended up working on the house and now we seem to be buying a home in another state and moving soon. I hope after that things settle down some.

Ok, on to all things Digi. Amanda Thorderson at Digitals has a new kit out called Victorian Garden.

Just click on the link to Digitals on the side to check her store out.

Also, some of the digitals girls are having a Blog train, some great goodies for free if you hurry over. You can start at Amanda's blog and there will be a list to use from there.

SBE is having some great sales. It isn't often you get some of these ladies kits so cheap, so you might want to check that out.

Now, here is this months Wallpaper, I made it using Amanda's kit Snowbird.

As usual it comes in three sizes so you should find one that works for you.

Happy Digi scrapping.

Dec wallpaper and stuff

Merry Christmas everyone. I keep vowing to post here lots more and give you guys more goodies but life keeps getting in the way. Right now we were gone for 2 weeks over Thanksgiving looking for a new home in another state. But back just in time to give you your dec wallpaper, and it's from Amanda's It's a Wrap kit, a fun combo of Peppermint candy, and bows and cute wrapped gifts.

But first, I want to tell you about the challenge at SBE. It's a card exchange challenge, but until Dec 5th we are making holiday cards to send to our troops, I know we would love it if lots of people joined in. You'll find it Here at SBE.

Here is a preview of mine.

Ok, now for the wallpaper, first take a look at Amanda's It's a Wrap kit. Click on the preview to go to her store. While there, take a look at the It's a Wrap recipe cards.

As I did last month, I put this wallpaper into 3 sizes, so you should be able to find a usable one for your monitor.

Get it here.

A new month, a new Freebie wallpaper

Amanda has out a new kit that is just too cute. This months wallpaper is made using that kit. You can get a mini matching kit at Digitals by signing up for the Nov calendar challenge, and her kit as always will be at a great sale price for now.

I keep meaning to post more and give out more goodies, but life has just been too busy. I am now on the CT at SBE which has kept me very busy and we have been painting inside the house and putting down new carpet. Sure looks nice and fresh and my rooms for sewing and computer are being redone.

You are just going to love this new kit, Harvest Blessings, check out the preview:

I have included 3 sizes this month as I got a new monitor and I know so many of us are getting nice big ones, the new size is 1680x1050, for the wide screen. One size is slightly different as it has a second background so it wasn't distorted. I just hate distorted images, don't you?

So, be sure to hop on over to Digitals and join in the calendar challenge, and don't forget to grab up Amanda's new kit.