A little Freebie to Celebrate

Mel of A+ Designs is opening her store at Scrapbook Bytes today!  Now you have two great places to shop for her designs.  To celebrate Mel is having a sale!  Take a look at this ad.

Then some of us from her CT put together a little Freebie Quickpage Blogtrain just for you.  Here is my contribution:

Click Here to Download

Here is the blog roll for the other QP’s from the CT.  If you’re starting with me just click on any of the other links and you’ll be able to pick up the rest of the QP’s.

A+ Designs Blog
Kerry's Scraps
LivyBug
IvoryKeys <-----You are here
Mel
Deej

I hope you enjoy your little gift from Mel’s CT.  If you get to one of the other stops and their QP’s aren’t up yet just check back a little later.  We are all over the world and may just not have gotten it ready yet.   Have a great weekend!

All around the world

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!  I love this time of year, it has to be one of my favorite times of the year even with the craziness and hectic schedules we have for the next 3 weeks.

I haven’t been blogging lately because I keep falling asleep at my computer.  My ankle is a “little” improved but has a long way to go.

Last week and this past weekend I did scrap with a whole bunch of new kits by my favorite designers.  Let me show you a few.

Scraps of Ellay has a new kit in her Stuff to Scrap store called Fall Softly Snow.  It is beautiful!  Perfect for scrapping your winter photos that aren’t necessarily Christmas related but also great of Christmas photos too!

A+ Designs has a new kit lovingly named Christum by one of her girls for sale at her Enchanted Studio Scraps store.  The gorgeous elements blew me away.  I chose to use the blue/sliver side of this kit but am so drawn to the red/green/gold side of the kit I know I’m going to be making some more layouts before long with it.

 

Did you hear that SuzyQ Scraps moved to Scrap Orchard?  I got to use her new holiday kit called Jolly Holiday and let me tell you it is adorable!  I know there is so much more to this kit than I managed to pull together – I worked with it on one of the days when I just wasn’t feeling my best.  But I know you will love this kit too!

 

I have another holiday kit sitting in my EHD that is calling my name to get busy and scrap with it and I’m going to tomorrow night.  When I get done I’ll put it up for you to see.  Oh and a little birdie told me that Scraps of Ellay has one more holiday kit up her sleeve that you aren’t going to want to miss.

I also have insider information about two freebie trains happening right now with the designers and members from Stuff to Scrap.  I started downloading tonight and looking at all the goodies and I think you’ll want to jump on board these two trains!

First there is this great collab blog train called Homespun Christmas that begins on Nibbles Skribbles blog all created by the forum members.  I’ve only gotten through the first few blogs and Wow!  there are some gorgeous pieces out there!

Then beginning tomorrow the designers from Stuff to Scrap are going to be spreading out a Download a Day from now until Christmas.  See the flier below to learn more about it.

 

Check out the Stuff to Scrap blog to get the links each day.

That’s all I have for now.   I need to get busy on a few things but I hope to have more goodies for you all later!

Just a little inspiration

Quick update on my ankle.  One of the ligaments is completely torn so that means I’ll have to have surgery to get it fixed.  Don’t know when yet, still waiting to hear from the doctor’s office.

On a happier note I’ve had some time to scrap and some other things too.  Scraps of Ellay has a new kit out called Just Scrap It available at Stuff to Scrap that is full of fun!  I had a hard time choosing what to use in this layout because there were things I hated to pass up.  I’ll be revisiting this kit soon to create more goodies with it.

You know Ellay can’t go without a freebie on her blog.  For this week only she has a set of coordinating worn papers, so swing by Scraps of Ellay’s Blog and pick up yours before they are gone.

Deals Deals Deals and some inspiration

Wow!  This weekend there are deals all around digi-land in celebration of {Inter}National Digital Scrapbooking Day.  I thought you might be interested in seeing what I’ve found.

This first one is bittersweet for me.  AmyM creates fabulous templates and I hate to see her closing up shop.  But if you love templates this is an amazing deal!

And then STS where Scraps of Ellay is at is having a great sale too!

Need a little inspiration?  Here are a couple of layouts linked to the places where you can pick up the kit I used.  Many of these kits are on sale this weekend.

Plum Silly by A+ Designs Talia’s Girly Girl by Dani Moy Designs and Starry Eyed Designs

Thankful Hearts by SuzyQ Scraps

OH!!!  SuzyQ Scraps has moved!  She is now at Scrap Orchard!  Whoo hoo!  I am so excited for Suzy!  Her Thankful Hearts kit is a brand new kit available only at SO.  I love how that layout turned out.  My husband and I have very few photos of us, more of him than me for a very good reason.  So to have a layout featuring just him is awesome.

That’s all for the moment.  If you find any great deals let me know! 

Looking for a creative outlet?

Scraps of Ellay is having a CT call!  She is an awesome designer and we have a great team.  Come on, join the fun!  Send in your application!

I can’t wait to see who joins the team!

Ouch!

First let me apologize to those of you who have heard this story.  You may skip this post if you would like.  :)  I’m going to make a scrapping related post shortly after this one goes up.

You would think I would know better, show some common sense.  I’ve never been the daredevil type, always hanging back in the background.  Apparently Monday I took leave of my senses all together.

Monday morning I was participating in a behavior reward incentive thing for my 1st and 2nd graders. The school rented this huge inflatable obstacle course thing with a rope/climbing wall at the end that you are suppose to scale and then go down the slide.

Now, I’ve explained that I'm not a spring chicken and but I'm also well known for being one of the world’s clumsiest people  However with that said I'm a team player and thought, come on I can do this. Well, I got all the way to the last two foam square things to go over the wall and ran out of rope to pull myself over. I tried to grab over the wall but there wasn't anything to grab. I then proceeded to fall and landed on my right ankle. This earned me a trip to the ER, an air brace, pain meds, and one very grotesque ankle/foot.

I’ve been home since around noon on Monday.  Trying to behave, man does that hurt.  I won’t post the photos here but if you just have to see what my foot looks like about 48 hours after the fact look HERE and HERE and HERE.

I’ve gotten some scrapping done, so that’s a good use of my time right?  I’ll be back in a few with some scrap stuff.

Speed Scrap now!

There’s a great speed scrap starting in a few minutes at Stuff to Scrap.  I’m sorry for the late notice.  I just got online and saw it.  I’m going to miss the first 30 minutes or so, gotta teach a piano lesson but maybe I can catch up with you all later!  Have fun!