Life’s Everyday Moments New Releases and freebie

Tammy (Polka Dot Chicks) and I released the next installment in the Life’s Everyday Moments Collection today which covers the Elementary School years. 

As a bonus we are including these extra elements

So look for THIS

Available at the store HERE

Also Added today were the Basic School Tags which coordinate with all of the school kits.

Available HERE

These and all the other new releases are 30% off this weekend only.

Don’t forget to pick up my Halloween kits and be on the lookout for a new one next week.

Available HERE

And if you are still here, here is a preview of next week’s LEM kit…and your freebie

DOWNLOAD HERE

** If you want yet ANOTHER freebie, head over to Tammy’s blog for a new QP

New Release…Happy Halloween

I am releasing a new – actually old kit – in my store tomorrow and it is one that you have seen before if you have followed this blog for any period of time.  I had to redo the preview because I realized that my style has changed a lot over the last year.

You can find Happy Haunting and the Happy Haunting Cardstock in my store HERE.  It is on sale for 30% off until Monday.

Things have been abnormally busy around here and I can’t believe all of the tasks that keep piling up on my calendar.  One of my newest things is a cake decorating class that my bff Terry and I are taking and I have actually had a lot of fun.  She knows a lot about me if  she takes me to classes where I can be both creative and messy!!  We are working on flowers and I am finally going to learn how to do the basket weave.  I know, it is crazy but I am actually kind of excited.

Terry, Cherry and I are also working on a really RELEVANT bible study that while it was taped around 10 years ago, God is showing his perfect timing in all of our lives.  We are working on Beth Moore’s Living Beyond Yourself, which is about living in the Spirit and man is the Lord letting me know that I haven’t been doing what I am supposed to be doing.  I love it when He shows me that He loves me.

Oh, if I didn’t tell you…THE CONTRACTORS ARE GONE…FOR GOOD!!!  They finished up last Friday, got their final payment and I don’t have to worry about them waking me up early anymore.  Also the house looks remarkably nice and I am really enjoying spending my time in it. 

We picked up the kitten from the vet’s on Friday.  We finally got him clipped, snipped and shot and it is amazing how much his behavior has changed.  He has settled down so much, doesn’t go out of his way to pick on the other cats and stopped climbing on the curtains.  We also got Nala taken to the vet and her ear mites are now gone.  She is also a much happier cat.

The rest of last weekend was spent painting, sorting through the mess the painter left for us, cleaning up all the laundry in the bedroom and running errands.  So much for a nice relaxing weekend.

Another thing that happened was that Tammy and I released quite a few new items in the Life’s Everyday Moments collection.  Look:

   

You can find it…and all of the other LEM kits HERE.  Tomorrow is also new release day at Enchanted Studio Scraps and there will be more LEM items added.

Exciting News and a new kit

I have news that I haven’t shared with you yet, and primarily because while my head knows this, there are issues keeping it from hitting my heart…Yet.

Wayne and I are grandparents!! 

One of Wayne’s twins let us know several weeks ago that he was notified that he was a father.  Ummmmm, ok.  It seems as though he was playing around with someone who was in a live in relationship and she got pregnant.  The baby was born May 5, 2010 and James was told of her existence right around his birthday at the end of July.  Wayne and I found out about it during dinner one night in the middle of August.  

This is the reason it isn’t quite hitting my heart yet…she isn’t quite real to us yet.  This little girl is almost 4 months old and we have never met her.  I have gotten a couple of pictures forwarded to me on my phone but that just doesn’t make her “real”.

    Seriously ADORABLE.

So now we are all waiting for the baby’s mom to move down closer to James, and while they are not going to be romantically involved, they are going to raise this little girl together, and the rest of us are supposed to be able to do the same. 

I didn’t realize just how much I wanted to be a grandma until the opportunity arose…now I just want to hold her, cuddle her and be “that grandma”.

Since I have not been able to do that yet, I decided to design a digi-kit to celebrate her and capture her introduction to our family.

Here are the papers:

 

If you want to pick it up, you can get it at my store in Enchanted Studio Scraps HERE.  And so that you can celebrate with me, I am giving away a quickpage (without the pictures of my adorable new grand-daughter)

Click HERE to get it

And look for new releases for both Life’s Everyday Moments as well as my personal fall kits this month.

Traditions

This year (all 18 days of it) my mind has been taken to the word TRADITIONS.  I have spent a lot of time looking at the traditions and wondered such things as:

- why does my family have to have Thanksgiving at my mom’s house?

-why does our family celebrate Christmas on the 24th every year instead of the 25th?

- why do I always take down the Christmas tree on the 7th of January?

- why do we always stay at home on New Years Eve just to watch the ball drop?

One of my “get organized” goals this year is to spend time daily tooking at my pictures and come up with scrapbook stories. (This is a hint for the upcoming series of kit coming 2/15 if you are looking for one). To that end, I put together this template and page to show off just one of our many traditions that we need to know why do we…

You can find the template HERE

New Kit, Freebie and Coupon

So, I have figured out that designing can be completely addicting and I was so inspired by so many things this coming up season. Since I live in Texas, I miss the colors of fall, the change in the weather and attending football games in something warmer than tank tops and shorts. This kit reminds me of everything I miss from up north.

Crisp cool nights and colors exploding from the trees can only mean that a Happy Harvest is just around the corner. But you don't need to wait around, a Happy Harvest has already arrived! Filled with rich, warm colors and textures that you can almost feel, along with just enough variety in the elements, makes this kit one that you can use over and over all season long. From the little felt mushroom, to the apples picked fresh from the tree, you can almost smell the scent of fall. Happy Harvest contains 18 perfectly textured papers and 77 elements. Happy Harvest Add On Paper Pack contains 12 plain pieces of textured card stock and the alpha contains 26 Upper Case Letters, 26 Lower Case Letters, 10 numbers and 32 symbols

In celebration of completing my second kit, I am giving away this template as well as a coupon for $2 off of the purchase of the bundle kit. Since the coupon thing didn’t work so well with the leaving the comments thing, I am doing it this way. I hope you can find some use for it.

Template HERE

You can find this, and all my other kits HERE

New Kit and Freebie

I know that my last freebie was quite a while ago and I did say that I was going to give away a freebie every week but that was before I jumped into the designer’s ring and finished my first kit. Yes, I said I designed my first kit!!! And yes, I am excited.

I started this kit using commercial use Vectors that I got from Polka Dot Pixels over at Polka Dot Plum and it inspired me to run with it and create what I think is a really cute kit.

Not all items are shown in this kit but you can find the kit at Pretty Scrappy HERE.

Here are some of the layouts using this kit so far. I would love for you to email me or upload to your gallery a layout with this kit and let me see what you do with it.

Liz

Tammy

Teri

Also available in my store is my Atomic Alpha which coordinates with the Polka Dot Chicks Atomic Kit. (I sure know a lot of polka dot people don’t I?)

You can find my alpha HERE

and her kit HERE

Teri provided this week’s freebie (thank you so very much Teri) and I am pleased to be able to offer it to you.

Download Here (automatic download at ftp since 4shared was hyjacked)

As an added bonus, the first five people to leave a comment on my blog will receive a 40% off coupon for the Happy Haunting kit so make sure you leave an email address where I can find you.