BLUE MOON SALE

SALE! SALE! SALE! Here's a doozy of a sale! Take advantage while you can....who knows when the next one will be. It only lasts until Sunday October 4th, so hurry, hurry, hurry!

Beautiful Memories

After making the previous post and seeing that there is only 87 days left before Christmas (can you believe that?!), I started feeling guilty for not sharing some of the gifts I am making with you! I thought I better start posting a few so you all do not think I am a lazy couch-potato, although I must admit my place on the couch is broken in pretty good!

One of my Christmas goals is to have a twenty page album for all seven of Hubby's siblings. I have several of them finished, although I still have to print them. I must start on that process soon!! This morning I just finished one for his older sister. Agathalene's album is made entirely with the Beautiful Memories Collection by Kimberly Stewart. This collection has a lot of elegance and worked equally well for both my heritage and newer photos. This collection done in a lovely color scheme of purple and green includes not only a large page kit with tons of elements but also available are two Quick Page Bundles and two cluster embellishments sets so creating an album can be done super fast!!!



Here's a little tip for you to really extend those Quick Pages as well. Just flip or rotate the quick pages to make a two page spread! You can also add additional elements or frames to a quick page so that each of your pages are unique. I do this quite a bit as I have many albums to make but I want each page to be a little different so each person's album is unique and one-of-a-kind!
Here are the twenty pages for my SIL Agathalene...

I will probably print these pages out at 8x8 myself and then find a nice little album in a coordinating color. I search out the Dollar Stores and Big Lots and have found nice albums there before, and I have also bought several nice albums on E-bay the past few weeks.

I will be back in a few days, and show you another gift or two I am making, and don't forget, today is the last day you can get Kimmi's Beautiful Memories Quick Pages at their introductory price! Happy Scrappin!

Bad Blogger!

I have been neglecting the blogging as of late! Sorry about that! I have no real excuses so there is nothing more to say - lol! As the Christmas counter is ticking off the days, I have been scrapping like a bad woman trying to get some Christmas gifts done, and since they are gifts, I can't really show them to you for fear the "giftee" (is that a real word?) will see them but I will try to be back soon!

New Releases at SBE

Sunday is NEW RELEASES day at Scrapbook-Elements and the designers have been so busy!
Kimberly Stewart has bunches of pretty releases, including some lovely Coffee Time Albums and Embellishments. She has two new adorable Snowmen kits and I love the new Don't Forget About me Kit!


Rina's new releases include some lovely add-on sets for her Summer Garden Page Kit including tag clusters, word art and stacked papers!



Don't forget the new releases are all on sale for Sunday and Monday only! Just click on any above image to be taken to the store. And because you came to check everything out with me today, I have you a neat little freebie, a frame cluster from Rina's Summer Garden Page Set!
ENJOY and Happy Scrappin!

***SORRY-NO LONGER AVAILABLE****

Freebie Day!

I hope everyone in the US enjoyed a nice holiday weekend. We had a great time. On Thursday night, Gary and I went to the Grayson County Fair for the first night's Demolition Derby. The Derby itself was not very good but I did see a lot of old faces from my home town so that made up for the fair being such a bomb! It really has gone down hill! The carnival itself was filled with rides and games that looked as if they had seen better days, and then, I was really bombed went I went through the Women's Building! Very few exhibits there. Back in the day, when I took my craft projects, and cooking and sewing, and what-have-you, the building could barely hold all the local homemakers submissions. This year, I could have displayed EVERYTHING quite nicely in my livingroom! The Merchants Building was the same way, all of three or four displays were all that was set up. It really was disappointing but on Friday night we returned none-the-less with my youngest son, his wife and their two children. Of course, the kids loved it and the Feature Demolition Derby was much better. Isaac came home with us after the fair, and we had planned on going back for the Tractor Pull on Saturday but rain changed our plans.

Poor little Isaac went out to play on the swing set before supper, and got stung on the arm by one of those nasty ole red wasps! When he screamed, I look up and saw several of them swarming around his head, so I went running to him and scooped him up in my arms thinking he had been stung several times. Fortunately, there was only one sting on his little arm. I immediately tore up a cigarette, got the tobacco wet and stuck it directly on the sting. (Yes, it really does work!) Bless his heart, he was trying not to cry, and he kept saying that he could not understand why they had stung him for he was doing nothing to them. We called his Daddy because Mommy and Daddy are really needed at such a time, and since it was raining anyway, Isaac decided he wanted to go home. As we got closer to his home, he was still upset over the wasper sting, and we decided a strawberry milkshake would make it feel better so we drove by the Dairy Barn and got him and Sissy Ava milkshakes. He was fine by the time we got to his house, and when I left to go home, I could barely tell where he was stung.

On Sunday, my oldest son Michael came down with his wife and three youngest sons. The boys were excited to know that turkeys have been coming into the yard every evening to feed. They filled a bucket with the corn and birdseed mixture we have been feeding them with, and scattered it all along the creek bank but all the activity caused the birds to stay in the woods and they did not get to see them. I cooked supper for us all, and then Carolyn and I beat Michael and Gary in a game of spades while the kids watched a Harry Potter movie on tv. And, then on Monday, we just laid around the house watching television.

Well, I have been working on another family album for a Christmas gift and I discovered a quick page that I had never been posted so I have a nice little freebie for you today!!! I made it using
TODAY'S MOMENTS by Kimberly Stewart. I hope you enjoy it!


***SORRY-NO LONGER AVAILABLE***

Happy Scrappin!

New Releases!

I just wanted to come back and show you a few of the new releases at Creative Victorian Designs today. Remember, I told you I had been creating some albums...well the first are on the store shelves now and they are on sale for 25% off the regular price until Sunday, Sept 6th.
Just click on the images to be taken to the store.


Just click here to check out all the -------->NEW RELEASES

Here is a page I created with CVD's Lodestone Kit and a photo of my oldest step-son with his girlfriend. This kit is perfect for all you Twilight fans!!! It is a beautiful, darkly romantic kit!

Well, we are going to the local fair tonight with the grandkids! I sure am looking forward to that for I haven't seen some of them in several months! I hope you enjoy your holiday weekend!
Happy Scrappin'!

Happy Friday

SBE is celebrating the End of Summer with a big sale so run over and get all those favorites you have had on your wish list!

Creative Victorian Designs

I have been having so much fun playing with the wonderful designs by CREATIVE VICTORIAN DESIGNS. If you are not familiar with Netta's products, you really must go over and take a look at HER BOUTIQUE. I know you will fall in love with them too! She has so many wonderful products, and during the month of September, spend $20 and you get her wonderful new kit LODESTONE for free!

I can not wait to find the perfect pictures to use with this beauty! Lodestone was inspired by the "Dark" Carpathian book series by Christine Feehan. This kit is rich in color and feeling! The kit includes: 12 patterned and textured papers, 9 frames, 3 word arts + embellishments, 4 acrylic motifs, 5 pieces of foliage, 5 flowers, 1 doodle hearts, 1 leafy doodle, 1 swirly doodle, 1 spiral motif, 1 floral doodle, 1 doodle border, 1 note paper, 1 journal block, 1 bloody screw, 1 keyplate/key, 1 stitches, 1 satin ribbon, 1 beaded string, 1 satin wrap, 1 studded ribbon, 1 folded satin ribbon, 1 elegant trim, 1 blood spill, 1 charm dangles, 1 dot scatter, 1 paper tabs, 1 jewelry charm, 1 chain fastener, 1 sticky dots, 1 sticky squares, 1 drips, 1 lace, 1 cracked glass, 1 shattered glass, 1 water droplets, 1 washer scatter, 1 steam, 1 petal scatter, & 1 hook tie.
Elements also come in a pre-shadowed version for ease of choice.

A new month brings with it fun NEW CHALLENGES as well at CVD! They are sure to inspire to create beautiful pages and if you complete just six challenges and here is what you get!! Isn't it beautiful!

Last month, I completed the challenges and received CVD's LOGAN Kit, a light boyish kit that is great for all sorts of layouts, and it is now available for purchase. I used it to complete the page "This is wonderful!" below.


As I said previously, I am having a ball playing with all of Netta's wonderful designs! I have been making brag books, cd albums and all sorts of sets for her wonderful collections! With every major kit/collection at Creative Victorian Designs, there are frame clusters, elements clusters, badge albums, cd albums, keyplate albums, greeting cards...just all sorts of goodies available for purchase! Its a one-stop shop!!!! lol I hope to see you there in the FORUM soon.
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Happy Scrappin!