Tuesday, August 31, 2010

DAD Freebie--Day 31

Here is Day 30 of So Studious by Aimee at Girlboheme Studios, Dora at Dora’s Lemon Love Creations and Chelsea at Caged Bird Designs! Bookmark our blogs because you will surely want to download this collab kit for FREE before it goes into the store!

Download Day 30:

  Download at Girlboheme Studios

This is the last day!  I hope you have a ton of fun scrapping with our kit!  Head to Divinedigital.com for more fabulous scrappy fun!
Divine is back up!  Still, we didn’t want anyone to miss out on an opportunity to download our kit in time for school, so we decided to offer it at our blogs for a limited time. Enjoy!

Monday, August 30, 2010

DAD Freebie--Day 30

Here is Day 30 of So Studious by Aimee at Girlboheme Studios, Dora at Dora’s Lemon Love Creations and Chelsea at Caged Bird Designs! Bookmark our blogs because you will surely want to download this collab kit for FREE before it goes into the store!

Download Day 30:

  Download at Caged Bird Designs

Tomorrow, you will be at Girlboheme Studios!
Divine is back up!  Still, we didn’t want anyone to miss out on an opportunity to download our kit in time for school, so we decided to offer it at our blogs for a limited time. Enjoy!

Sunday, August 29, 2010

DAD Freebie--Day 29

Here is Day 29 of So Studious by Aimee at Girlboheme Studios, Dora at Dora’s Lemon Love Creations and Chelsea at Caged Bird Designs! Bookmark our blogs because you will surely want to download this collab kit for FREE before it goes into the store!

Download Day 29:

 Download [Link Expired]

Tomorrow, you will be at Caged Bird Designs
Divine is back up!  Still, we didn’t want anyone to miss out on an opportunity to download our kit in time for school, so we decided to offer it at our blogs for a limited time. Enjoy!

Saturday, August 28, 2010

DAD Freebie--Day 28

Here is Day 28 of So Studious by Aimee at Girlboheme Studios, Dora at Dora’s Lemon Love Creations and Chelsea at Caged Bird Designs! Bookmark our blogs because you will surely want to download this collab kit for FREE before it goes into the store!

Download Day 28:

  Download at Girlboheme Studios

Tomorrow, you will be back here!
Divine is back up!  Still, we didn’t want anyone to miss out on an opportunity to download our kit in time for school, so we decided to offer it at our blogs for a limited time. Enjoy!

Friday, August 27, 2010

DAD Freebie--Day 27

Here is Day 27 of So Studious by Aimee at Girlboheme Studios, Dora at Dora’s Lemon Love Creations and Chelsea at Caged Bird Designs! Bookmark our blogs because you will surely want to download this collab kit for FREE before it goes into the store!

Download Day 27:

  Download at Caged Bird Designs

Tomorrow, you will be at Girlboheme Studios!
Divine is back up!  Still, we didn’t want anyone to miss out on an opportunity to download our kit in time for school, so we decided to offer it at our blogs for a limited time. Enjoy!

Thursday, August 26, 2010

DAD Freebie--Day 26

Here is Day 26 of So Studious by Aimee at Girlboheme Studios, Dora at Dora’s Lemon Love Creations and Chelsea at Caged Bird Designs! Bookmark our blogs because you will surely want to download this collab kit for FREE before it goes into the store!

Download Day 26:

 Download [Link Expired]

Tomorrow, you will be at Caged Bird Designs
Divine is back up!  Still, we didn’t want anyone to miss out on an opportunity to download our kit in time for school, so we decided to offer it at our blogs for a limited time. Enjoy!

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

School!

As in the first day!  (ok, so my first day was yesterday, but the kids started today)  They were more than just a little excited.  Check out the calendar page:


Allie's alarm went off first.  The Jr. High bus comes at 7:15 and she definitely did not want to miss it on her very first day as a 6th grader.  I thought she would be more nervous, but she was calm and prepared.  She memorized all of her codes and combinations, had her gym clothes bag over one shoulder, and her new backpack over the other.


Zack just could not stay in bed, so he popped up and joined us for breakfast.  And then grabbed Wolfie for the walk to the bus stop.  This is the ONLY day I was allowed to go with Allie. (gee, twist my arm and force me to stay inside on those frigid winter days). 


Once she was safely on the bus, we had half an hour to kill before Zack's bus.  He posed for plenty of pictures of his new shoes and of his old backpack.  Yep.  Third year of the same pack.  Boys are SO different from girls.  He just says, "it is still my favorite color."  Exciting favorite colors--black and gray.  *rolls eyes*


At 7:45, he was on the bus and I was in my truck dashing to the elementary school.  As he exited the bus, we walked together to the playground to find his teacher for the first time.  It is madness!  800 kids and many parents all milling around together.  Finally, he was in line and marching in and I was off to grab a coke and celebrate with some back to school scrapping.  Ahhh a quiet house.

*looks over at Wolfie*  mostly quiet.

I know that I should say that I sniffed back a few tears, but I refuse to lie to you.  I love the routine of school and seeing the kids challenged. 

Someone remind me of that when I sit down to do Algebra homework with Allie, ok?

DAD Freebie--Day 25

Here is Day 25 of So Studious by Aimee at Girlboheme Studios, Dora at Dora’s Lemon Love Creations and Chelsea at Caged Bird Designs! Bookmark our blogs because you will surely want to download this collab kit for FREE before it goes into the store!

Download Day 25:

 Download at Girlboheme Studios

Tomorrow, you will be back here!
Divine is back up!  Still, we didn’t want anyone to miss out on an opportunity to download our kit in time for school, so we decided to offer it at our blogs for a limited time. Enjoy!

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Divine DAD freebie day 24

Here is Day 24 of So Studious by Aimee at Girlboheme Studios, Dora at Dora’s Lemon Love Creations and Chelsea at Caged Bird Designs! Bookmark our blogs because you will surely want to download this collab kit for FREE before it goes into the store!

Download Day 24:

 Download [HERE] at Caged Bird Designs

Tomorrow, you will be at Girlboheme Studios
Divine is back up!  Still, we didn’t want anyone to miss out on an opportunity to download our kit in time for school, so we decided to offer it at our blogs for a limited time. Enjoy!

Monday, August 23, 2010

freebie here today!

Here is Day 23 of So Studious by Aimee at Girlboheme Studios, Dora at Dora’s Lemon Love Creations and Chelsea at Caged Bird Designs! Bookmark our blogs because you will surely want to download this collab kit for FREE before it goes into the store!

Download Day 23:



Download [Link Expired]


Tomorrow, you will be {here} at caged bird designs
Unfortunately, Divine is still down. We didn’t want anyone to miss out on an opportunity to download our kit in time for school, so we decided to offer it at our blogs for a limited time. The links will only be active for a short time, so tell your friends!

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Another freebie day!

Here is Day 22 of So Studious by Aimee at Girlboheme Studios, Dora at Dora’s Lemon Love Creations and Chelsea at Caged Bird Designs! Bookmark our blogs because you will surely want to download this collab kit for FREE before it goes into the store!

Here is a link to the next download:




Download [HERE] at Girlboheme Studios


Tomorrow, you will be back here for day 23!
Unfortunately, Divine is still down. We didn’t want anyone to miss out on an opportunity to download our kit in time for school, so we decided to offer it at our blogs for a limited time. The links will only be active for a short time, so tell your friends!

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Free Download of the Day! Day 21

Here is Day 21 of So Studious by Aimee at Girlboheme Studios, Dora at Dora’s Lemon Love Creations and Chelsea at Caged Bird Designs! Bookmark our blogs because you will surely want to download this collab kit for FREE before it goes into the store!

Here is the Day 21 download:

 http://www.scrapstreet.com/divine/Aug10DAD_cagedbird_prevday21.jpg

Download at Caged Bird Designs {HERE}

Tomorrow, you will want to download Day 22 at Girlboheme Studios HERE!
Unfortunately, Divine is still down. We didn’t want anyone to miss out on an opportunity to download our kit in time for school, so we decided to offer it at our blogs for a limited time. The links will only be active for a short time, so tell your friends!

Friday, August 20, 2010

Giving away!

Today I have the next piece in our Divine Digiatl Download A Day and I have a chance to win more than $100 worth of paper scrapping goodness!  Are you ready?

ScrapStreet.com Magazine is celebrating 10,000 subscribers with a HUGE prize.  Here it is:


How to win?  Head on over to the ScrapStreet Blog to enter!  It is a drawing with 5 chances to win.

AND

Today I am the download for Day 20!  So Studious by Aimee at Girlboheme Studios, Dora at Dora’s Lemon Love Creations and Chelsea at Caged Bird Designs! Bookmark our blogs because you will surely want to download this collab kit for FREE before it goes into the store!

Here is the Day 20 download:

Download { Link Expired}

Tomorrow, you will want to download Day 21 at Caged Bird Designs!
Unfortunately, Divine is still down. We didn’t want anyone to miss out on an opportunity to download our kit in time for school, so we decided to offer it at our blogs for a limited time. The links will only be active for a short time, so tell your friends!

Thursday, August 19, 2010

More DAD fun!

Here is the fourth day of So Studious by Aimee at Girlboheme Studios, Dora at Dora’s Lemon Love Creations and Chelsea at Caged Bird Designs! Bookmark our blogs because you will surely want to download this collab kit for FREE before it goes into the store!

Today's Download: Day 19:


Download at Girlboheme Studios {Here}
Tomorrow you come back here for the next download!

Unfortunately, Divine is still down. We didn’t want anyone to miss out on an opportunity to download our kit in time for school, so we decided to offer it at our blogs for a limited time. The links will only be active for a short time, so tell your friends!

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Free Digital Fun!

Here is the third day of So Studious by Aimee at Girlboheme Studios, Dora at Dora’s Lemon Love Creations and Chelsea at Caged Bird Designs! Bookmark our blogs because you will surely want to download this collab kit for FREE before it goes into the store!

Today's Download: Day 18:


Download at Caged Bird Designs {Here}
Tomorrow you head to Girlboheme Studios for the next download.

Unfortunately, Divine is still down. We didn’t want anyone to miss out on an opportunity to download our kit in time for school, so we decided to offer it at our blogs for a limited time. The links will only be active for a short time, so tell your friends!

Today is also Freebie Wednesday for ScrapStreet!  Head on over to the blog to pick up 2 alphabets to go with the papers from last week.  Next Wednesday, we will offer the embellishments for this fun Cocktail kit!

 This Week's Download:


Download at ScrapStreet.com Blog {Here}

Tune in tomorrow for more fun!  Smooches!

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Summertime Sketch

I took way more pictures than I had time to scrap this summer.  Now that I am getting back into the school grove, I actually have more time to scrap.  I know that the math does not seem to work out--back to work=more time, but it does.

I love using a sketch or challenge to jump start the mojo and this one from My Mind's Eye is the perfect combination of both.  The sketch is bold and fun and I always love working with MME products.  Yummy!



I used a few shots of Lauren with her favorite summertime buddy--new baby Rachel.  Even though these two of my nieces are not related with each other, they bonded instantly.  Rachel giggled and bubbled every time Lauren came within eyesight.


Best Baby Ever.  Supplies: Paper, Rub Ons: My Mind's Eye, Chipboard Alphabet: American Crafts, Other: stitching.  Journaling:  Lauren took one look at Rachel and fell in love.  She is such an easy baby, but for Lauren she just radiated joy.  They were inseparable at every event this summer.

I stayed pretty true to the exact sketch, shifting the main stip over just a smidge.  I also used a stitched block instead of a paper one.  I do so love stitching and I love letting the fabulous MME rubons decorate the square.  What a fun challenge to kick off my scrapping!

More Freebie Fun!

I have double the freebie fun for you today!

Here is the second day of So Studious by Aimee at Girlboheme Studios, Dora at Dora’s Lemon Love Creations and Chelsea at Caged Bird Designs! Bookmark our blogs because you will surely want to download this collab kit for FREE before it goes into the store!

Today's Download:  Day 17: 


Download {Link Expired}

Tomorrow, you will want to download Day 18 HERE at Caged Bird Designs!

Unfortunately, Divine is still down. We didn’t want anyone to miss out on an opportunity to download our kit in time for school, so we decided to offer it at our blogs for a limited time. The links will only be active for a short time, so tell your friends!

My second freebie is in celebration of the countdown to the 5th Anniversary of ScrapStreet!  I created a fun kit called Cocktails Anyone? so we can all lift a glass together.  The download is available in three pieces released every Wednesday on the ScrapStreet Blog.  Today is the LAST DAY for the papers.  Tomorrow, the alphabets will be available and next week the embellies.  

Here is a peek at the papers:

Download them from ScrapStreet {Here}

Remember each link is good for one week only!  Head on in and grab yours today and check back for a new freebie every Wednesday.

I will be back tomorrow with more fabulous freebies!  Have a super day!

Monday, August 16, 2010

Free Download of the Day! Day 16

Introducing So Studious by Aimee at Girlboheme Studios, Dora at Dora’s Lemon Love Creations (me) and Chelsea at Caged Bird Designs! Bookmark our blogs because you will surely want to download this collab kit for FREE before it goes into the store!
 


Those of you who are familiar with Divine Digital know that we do a download of the day each and every day.  Aimee, Chelsea, and I were so excited to work together on a back to school kit that works as well for teens as for tots.  

Unfortunately, Divine is still down. We didn’t want anyone to miss out on an opportunity to download our kit in time for school, so we decided to offer it at our blogs for a limited time. The links will only be active for a short time, so tell your friends!

Here is the first download:


Today's download is at {HERE} at Girlboheme Studios

The kit will be available one piece each day so be sure to keep a close eye on us!  Tomorrow you will be back here to download Day 17!

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Mini CHA

We had a mini-CHA weekend at my house.  Allie and Samantha did not get to join the older girls at CHA this year, so we decided to have one at my house.  We started with the Silhouette and made some adorable tshirts.  The girls decided on "Freebird" as their weekend theme.  Not sure what sparked it, but they were in a very birdy place.

Here is a close up of the design. 


We had such fun trying out the rhinestone treatment.  It is soooooooo easy!  Transfer tape is your friend.  Here are the girls during their photo shoot:


And another shot:


We took the photos from their shoot and made a clear acrylic book--6 pages--using a favorite Crate Paper line.  So fabulous that even Mom thought she might want to make one another time and she has avoided scrapping for five years!

Next up was giggling over the newer version of Annie and then a sleepover in the living room.  The next day, after a picnic lunch, we made some cute cards and then put together a gift bag to take home.  Allie has her own stash of supplies that she added to with some new goodies.  It was a totally fun weekend filled with giggles and scrapping!

Saturday, August 14, 2010

4 simple goals

Elsie's blog has long been a fave of mine.  I love her retro mixed with fun style and her upbeat attitude always makes me smile.  A couple of days ago, she posted a bit of a challenge that was JUST what I needed.  4 simple goal for the end of the year.  Perfect!

I need a little something to get me motivated along with back to school (and back to work for me) time.  I took a couple of days to think of just what I really could commit to strongly.  Here they are--my goals:

1.  Drink water daily. 

Although I prefer Coke at all times, I will drink water with lemon, but I have to remember to make it.  And to make it EVERY day.

2.  Take pics of ME.

I am doing a great job of documenting my kids' lives, but I realize that I would love to know what my own mom was thinking/doing/feeling when she was raising us.  I look at my books and realize that I am missing from so many of them.  I can do this!  To start, I am taking this photography class.  Looks so cool!

3. Play more.

With the kids, with the husband, with my scrapping--I want to be a bit more free and a little less structured.  No, not abandon the schedule entirely as that would kill me, but make room for some more time to just play.

4.  Blog better.

Ok, I know that "better" is not a measurable term.  I want to blog at least 4x per week.  And have the blogs share more of me than just the pretties I make.  I need to add my digi in more and stories from my life, too.

Thanks for the inspiration, Elsie!

Monday, August 9, 2010

3 months later . . .

I have now used my Silhouette!

I resisted buying a cutter for a long, long time.  I knew that I did not want something that would use cartridges since I am not great about using the same images over and over.  Wanting a true work with the computer digital cutter, I waited and waited.

For Mother's Day/National Scrapbooking Day (it is TOO a holiday worthy of gifts) I got the fabulous Silhoette SD.  And loaded the software in it the same day.  Unfortunately, I also downloaded a free digi kit with bonus virus the same day.  A week later, the puter was clean, but the software needed reloading.  And life got busy.

So I put it off. 

Until CHA when I eagerly headed to the booth to figure out how to work the darling machine.  Oh, and to order more supplies, of course.  I had Lauren with me and she went nuts over the tshirts they had on display.  Apparently, the heat transfer and bling applications were totally teen approved.

I loaded the software.  Peeked around the site.  Purchased some red vinyl and made letters for the magnet boards in my office.  Cute and easy.  Yay!

So I showed the kids the images and let each pick 2 along with 2 colors of heat transfer.  And I made tshirts.  And yes, dear friends, that means I ironed.  Shhh! Don't tell Drew that I know how.

Zack, in typical boy fashion, chose a shield and a mythical creature.  In total Zack fashion, he also wanted bling.


Allie created this darling caged heart design.  I totally need to print this in paper for a card!


It is hard to see in this shot, but I added bling to the heart.  She loves it!  I cannot wait to start designing more! 

Sunday, August 8, 2010

where have I been?

Ever have one of those "living under a rock" moments?

I was sitting at my computer, happily typing out a story on the ScrapStreet boards, the morning after my kids' joint birthday party.  Sitting across the room was my friend Bri in for the CHA Show.  We were having a bit of computer time before heading to the airport to begin picking up more scrappy friends.

She suddenly exclaimed, "I have 221 new items in my google reader!"

I turned and gave her my best blond look.  "What is a google reader?"  And she laughed, certain that I was kidding.  Sadly, I was not, so I kept looking at her.

Realization dawned.  I really did not know.  Her jaw dropped open, "giiirrrlll."

And so she showed me.  One spot for all the blogs you love.  No more adding to favorites and popping in and out to all of them.  It shows you when there are new posts.  You can read it without going or link out to it.  You can sort them all into lovely folders.  With google reader, you can easily keep track of a hundred or more blogs.

Pretty sure I heard angels begin to sing. 

I was the definition of short attention span blogging.  I would go to a fave.  Read it, then hit one of her favorite links.  Or one of the links in her post.  And I was off.  An hour later, I would have found cool things, added a few new favorites, and would still have only visited my first on my own favorites list.  I was hopeless.

Thanks, Bri, for lifting the rock off of me!

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Do not resist!

The new line from Pink Paislee and the House of Three--Parisian Anthology!  It is positively gorgeous, but even better than that--it is fun!

Pink Paislee was one of the first booths we visited at the CHA Summer Show.  When we approached, we instantly saw this collection.


It formed the centerpiece of the booth and deserved it!  Although we loved (and ordered) a bunch of Pink Paislee (as always), the Parisian Anthology was especially yummy.  A closer look at the papers showed them as white with a bit of cream and silver accents.  My personal scrapping style almost always starts on a white or almost white base so I was already sold.



Then Therese took me for a walk to show me that there was more!  The papers have special glossy resist quality to them.  Intreguing, right?  But I am not the "artsy" type of scrapper.  I am more of a storyteller.  In the past, I have tried "messy" scrappy techniques, but they are hard for me.  Go ahead and call me a control freak--I can take it.  I am the only one of my friends that does not go gaga for mists.

I received a sample pack of the papers after placing my order.  Took them out today intending to scrap my usual way, it seemed wrong to not let the papers live up to their full potential.  *Word of warning, friends.*  Go ink shopping now.  You will want and need extra to play with these papers.

I started out with a copic marker.  Great resist!  But not enough ink for the whole sheet.  I will be ordering a refill for my Ice Ocean marker.  After that, I grabbed a cat eye ink pad.  And used the entire thing, too.  I will definitely be grabbing more!  In the end, I blended 1 copic with 2 shades of turquoise ink and some touches of a lime green ink to create the background.  I am so jazzed by it, that I might even try some paint next!

Look.  Papers: Pink Paislee, Diecuts, Brads, Letters: Pink Paislee, Rub Ons: Maya Road, Markers: Copic, Ink: Colorbox, Font: Teen, Other: Machine, Thread.


Journaling: What are you peeking at out of the corner of your eye, Sidney?  Is someone coming?  Is something going to happen? I guess I will never know.

I cannot wait for my big box of goodies from Pink Paislee to arrive!  I need more!

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Ready to scrap again

Almost!

I had the bestest time with all of my ScrapStreet girls during CHA.  I was super excited to get to meet 3 of our newer staffers:  Pamela, Melissa, and Diana.  It is always soooooo much fun to get real hugs from people I get to know online.  Or "imaginary friends" as my family calls them.  Stacey, Bri, Terry, Heather, and Janice all zipped on over to Hotel Dora for another go around.  It is always such fun when we are together.  I swear we go from giggles to naughty to scrapping to mommyhood in the blink of an eye during conversations.  To anyone else, it would make no sense at all.

Now they are all back home and it is time to get my mojo up and running again.  I HAVE scrapped this summer, but with the nieces in for 7 weeks and my own kids home, I only just met my commitments instead of getting to play.  Today, I will put my scrap desk back together.  It is actually a twin bed, but I built a wooden cover for it giving me LOTS of scrappy space.  Love it!

I got a new tv for my scrappy room for my birthday present.  Early.  It is all installed and will save me a bunch of room on my desk since it is wall mounted.  Which means I will spend some of today reconfiguring my desktop.  I love organizing scrappy goodies!

Off I go to organize and then scrap!

Monday, August 2, 2010

Happy Anniversary to us!

Today is 13 years with my sweet and handsome husband!  We have dinner plans tonight, but I thought I would share a layout from the July issue.  It is one of the rare ones with both of us.  I really am making an effort to have more pics with us together.


Enjoying Life
Supplies: Paper: BasicGrey, Die Cuts: My Mind's Eye, Making Memories, Rub-Ons: My Mind's Eye, Bling: Heidi Swapp, Alphabet: American Crafts, Fonts: Veteran Typewriter, Other: thread. Tools: Other: sewing machine.
Journaling: What a perfect afternoon at the ball park! Triple A games are far more relaxing and low key than heading to a big game. The park is small with activities for the kids. We can sit right along the dugout and chat with the players. The margaritas are cold and affordable. I have so few pictures of the two of us enjoying life together--even though we do it all the time! I am making a better effort to capture us this summer. Here we are . .

Have you looked at the new issue

It is so full of fabulous work!  I am always so inspired by our team and the wonderfully talented designers who submit to us.  Yummy!
designed with love by beautiful dawn designs