Hallowen QP

Hello all! I hope this week finds you dry and warm. It's been raining here in PA for a couple days and it's getting colder. The leaves are SO beautiful though. We're really in peak season right now. We were outside this weekend with the kids and I took some good photos of them playing in the leaves. I'll try and post them later.


For now, I have a QP for you. It's from Ellie over at Sugar Snap Scraps. I used her Halloween kit to make this. Isn't it great? I especially love the ghost! I hope you can use it for a Halloween pic this year! My son is going to be the EVIL Spiderman and my daughter is going to be that white kitty cat (Marie) from Disney. Trick or Treat is tomorrow here in our town. Mike is going to miss it because he's flying back from Grand Rapids. So, for the first hour I'll be taking Lucas around the neighborhood with Sasha in the stroller and then after that, we'll pass candy out at our house. I'll try and post pics as soon as I can.



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New QP...

Hello all. Just a quick note tonight as I am exhausted and Mike is waiting to watch a movie with me. I have a new quick page for you. I used a kit from Ellie over at http://www.sugarsnapscraps.blogspot.com/. I used her Autumn kit for this freebie! Aren't the colors just gorgeous? So rich. Makes me want to get a beautiful sweater on and go sit on the back porch with a good cup of hot chocolate! Mmmm.... She's got some exciting new news to tell you about but you'll have to go visit her blog to find out! ;)

Our realtor comes tomorrow and the house is all set. Now we just need to get the sign in the yard and SELL THIS THING! :) Sooner we sell, the sooner we move closer to home. YEA! Have a good night everyone!

You can download it HERE

Taking a break from designing....

kits, that is. :) Right now we have too much going on in our lives for me to even think of designing more kits. I have about a billion ideas of what I want to do but with this move, most of my time and energy is being zapped for that. I'm sure you can understand. I will, however, still post daily QP freebies! YEA! My first love anyway. ;) I'll be back to the kit designing after the move (a month or two?).

Things are coming along smoothly with the packing. Mike flies out to GR (Grand Rapids) on Wednesday (EARLY) then will fly home LATE Thursday night (about midnight). He'll miss Trick or Treat with the kids (bummer) and is tore up about it. Then we leave the next morning for Ohio because we have a family wedding to attend on Saturday. Ugh. This driving is going to kill us. Well, after 5 years of living 7 hours away from family, we're kind of used to it but we're also VERY sick of it. It wasn't so bad when it was just the two of us but now that there are 4 of us, it's gotten a bit complicated. That's why we're SO excited to only be 2.5 hours away from family after the move. What a piece of cake drive! :) We can actually drive the ENTIRE way home without stopping if we had to! That's so much easier when you have 2 kids in tow. I'm sure most of you know.

Well, enough babbling about me. Here is the freebie for tonight. I used Carol's (Caz38) kit at Deco-Pages. It's her "My Boy" kit and it's to die for. I LOVE the elements that she has with it and the colors are so, so, so....boy-ish!

I hope you enjoy. Please visit her site above and let her know you found her through me! :)

Here is the preview:

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Sorry about MIA....

Sorry I've been MIA for a bit. We found out on Monday that we're moving! YEA!!! I'm happy to be moving. We've been in PA long enough. We found out we're moving back to Michigan so I'm VERY happy. We're going to be so close to both of our families again.

Needless to say this week has been a whirlwind. As soon as we found out we've been taking all our spare time to prepare the house for the market and to look at homes in the Greater Grand Rapids area. If anyone lives there, please let me know of some good places to look for homes. My brother lives there so I already have a clue but it's nice to get another person's perspective.

Anyway, here is a QP I've had stored away. It's from http://www.nanas-attic.blogspot.com/ and it's from her Old Glory kit. Here is the preview:

I hope you enjoy it.

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I'll try to get on when I can to keep things flowing. It'll probably be spotty for a week or two but I'll do my best! Stick with me!

New QP to start off your weekend right!

Hello all! I have an adorable QP for you today (well, I think so). It's from Ellie over at SugarSnapScraps. I used her newest FREEBIE kit, "Annabelle". Isn't it adorable? I swear, this girl comes up with some awesome stuff. She just added her alpha to this kit but I made the QP before she released that. I couldn't wait to use it! So, if you want to add some alpha to this QP, go snag it now! The entire kit is gorgeous. As always, leave her a little love and let her know I sent you over there. As a designer myself (LOL) I like to know where people heard about my freebies. (Oh and a quick Thank you to Ellie herself for so graciously granting me permission to create QP's with her kits. I'm so excited about this I can't say it enough!). xoxo


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I'm back! (With a freebie too!)

Hello all! I'm back from our weekend trip to Toledo. It was very nice and exhausting. I'll tell more about it after I get a good nights rest. I've been on the computer all night trying to finish up my next kit. I think you're going to like it. I think I have the paper making down pretty good, now I've been working on the quality of my elements. I've tried some new things. I hope you enjoy. I'll have it for you PROBABLY tomorrow. I won't promise but I'll try my hardest to get it done. For now, I will leave you with a QP freebie.

This QP I made from Nana's "Monkey Business" kit. I hope you all enjoy it. As always, leave some lovin...it really helps keep me going and makes my day. xoxo

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Great Deal at Deco-Pages

Carol (caz38) has a brand new kit for you called "Shabby Elegance"! It's GORGEOUS! Here is a little preview:

She is selling this gorgeous kit at Deco-Pages for only $2!!! That's a steal! That price is only good for 2 days until Friday. Then it goes up to full price. You can check her designer page HERE to buy the kit. She also has a new freebie on her blog, please check it out HERE.

I also have a freebie for you tonight. This is part of Pillowgirls "Baby's First Steps" kit. Please visit her blog HERE to see all the wonderful freebies she has for us. She's amazing. I used this QP to capture my sons first steps. Here is my QP with it:

Here is the preview (I fixed a typo on my original QP):

You can download it Here.

Creating is such a good outlet.

I love to create. Always have. I've never had such a great platform to do it on though. My introduction to digital scrapbooking has been the best thing for me these last 18 months or so.(husband and children excluded of course). Thanks D! (MUAH)

Today I started working on my newest kit and what do ya know...it's DONE! It's called Baby Bundle and I just LOVE it! There are some really great elements in this one. New things that I've just learned how to do. I think you're really going to like it. At least I hope you do. Here are the colors I've chosen.

I have 10 papers and 23 elements. I might even add more this week if I get a chance. We're heading back to Ohio (like I said earlier) so I've got to make sure the house is in order and the laundry is caught up. So, I might not be around as much. I'll be posting the kit sometime tonight or tomorrow so please check back. I still have to zip and check all the files first. ;)

I do have another QP for you though. This one is using Nana's "Hot Summer Days" kit. Please check her blog out at http://www.nanas-attic.blogspot.com/. Here is the preview:

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Exhausted.

I am pretty much exhausted today. I've been up so late on the computer these last few weeks it's starting to catch up with me. :) It's all good though. I did manage to get a new QP done for you guys using a brand new kit from Carol (Caz38) over at http://www.deco-pages.com/. It's not released yet but it will be soon. She's letting me share this QP with you for a little preview. There are some BEAUTIFUL elements included in this kit. Please visit her at http://caz38.blogspot.com/ to see the new kits. Also, she has a great preview freebie up right now. Grab it quick before it's gone! And give her some love...her doggie Brutus was injured and they're both in need of some lovin'. xoxo

Here is a brand new exclusive sneak peak at her new kit "Summers Dusk". The colors are spectacular and there are a TON of great elements to go with it. Here are just a few that I worked with.

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So Exciting!

Hello everyone, sorry I haven't been on as much lately. For one, I'm still finishing up my 1st ever kit! YEA! And secondly, I have started a new venture with Carol (caz38) over at at http://www.deco-pages.com/ creating some QP's using her beautiful kits! I will do a QP with her kits and post them here. Then if you like, you can venture over to her store to pick them up. Sometimes I'll make QP's out of freebies and sometimes they will be from her kits for sale. She's a wonderful and talented lady who has been generous enough to let me share a QP with all of you. Again, if you like the kit, go to her blog at http://caz38.blogspot.com/ or visit her STORE at Deco-Pages.



Here is a QP from her kit "My Girl" that I did. Aren't the colors wonderful? There are so many good elements and papers in this kit. Please check it out HERE.




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I took the plunge...

Yep, I went and did it. I started to design my FIRST kit last night. OMG...this is so much fun. And TOTALLY overwhelming. I think I spent the first 2 hours trying to figure stuff out and then I was in a rhythm and for the next 2 hours I got some stuff completed. Now, it's a VERY basic kit as I am learning and I will hopefully share it with you in the next few days. I want to make sure I zip it correctly, upload it correctly etc...before I give it out to you guys. Yes, of course it'll be free because well, I'm a beginner. :)

Here are the colors I used. I kind of just chose some bright ones at random. I know I'll have to get more serious about colors but this one was just fun ones.

What do you think? I hope you all will enjoy it. LOL. I know I am enjoying making it.

Well, here is the freebie for tonight/well...I guess it's morning now (YAWN)....It's from http://pillowgirlscraps.blogspot.com/. It's from her Modern Girl freebie kit. I just love that kit. Great colors (wish I could think up such cool colors) :) I'm sure most of you are familiar with her site. It's awesome! She's a great designer. Such fun themes all the time. Check it out!

You can find the download Here.

Long day...

Before I forget, thank you to all of you who sent me emails about my header issue. I think I have it figured out and will have a "new look" soon. THANKS FOR HELPING A SISTER OUT! :)

Today was a long day for some reason. I am bushed. We had that birthday party from 11-1 then it was quiet/nap time for everyone. I played around with some new filters I downloaded to PSP. I think they're going to be VERY helpful for making my own kits. Oh, that's another thing...I just discovered http://www.atomiccupcake.com/ and was all excited for all that they offer. Then I was disappointed to find that their actions only work in Photoshop and such, not in PSP. Does anybody know where I can find something comperable for PSP? AGHAGHAGH!!! Now, I do have Filters Unlimited and wondered if those files form atomic cupcake would work through that. Anyone know? As you can tell I'm in the very early stages of kit making and am trying to find enough things to help me through it. Any help would be appreciated.

Okay, now for the REAL reason you're all here...the freebie. I think I'll offer 2 tonight since I didn't get a chance to post yesterday. The first one is a Halloween freebie. It's from Caz (http://caz38.blogspot.com/) and she has a great Halloween freebie for you and a couple more that she just posted.

Here is the QP preview:

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This next one is from Nana again. It's from her "Over the Rainbow" kit. Hope you like it.

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Comments...(Cathy)

Some of the comments you guys leave are quite funny. I enjoy every one of them. Thank you so much! Cathy left a message on my 4shared file (Road Trip QP) about long trips with her husband and their kids. Her husband used to get so tired of hearing the kids ask "are we there yet" and their fighting that he made them put their hands on their heads until they settled down. :) I think that is SUCH a good idea. After 10-15 minutes of having their hands on their heads, I'm sure they'd get the point. Great tip! TFS Cathy!



Today is a nice day. Better than last night. I woke this morning at 4:30 AM with a HUGE headache that turned into a migraine (I think). It was so bad I was pacing around our bedroom. Every time I would lie down, it would hurt 10 times worse. So I sat on the bed, then paced and sat and paced. It took about an hour for the meds to kick in and after that I went to sleep and woke up to my son saying "Mommy, can I watch TV in your room?". He's my little alarm clock. It was 7am on the dot. His usual time to wake up and get in our bed to watch 1 show before we get his sissy and go down for breakfast. My headache was gone though. I have this little feeling that it might come back though. We'll see. For now, it's gone.



Not much going on today. DH left this morning at 6am for a work golf outing (I'm still waiting for my Stay at Home mom golf outing invite to arrive). He won't be home until 6pm (the outing is in WV...3 hours away) so I think I'm taking Lucas to get his hair cut and then for a pizza buffet at Ci-Ci's. Do you guys have Ci-Ci's? It's not bad for the price. I like the fact that I can get 10 different kinds of pizza at one time if I wanted. I especially love their buffalo chicken pizza. Mmmm... Anyway, that's us for today. I hope your week is going well. On to the freebie.



I have about 10 in the arsenal that I want to give to you guys but I don't know what to choose. Don't be alarmed if the #'s are out of order. I name them as I go and I just do it numerically. Here is the one for today:





It's from http://www.nanas-attic.blogspot.com/ and it's from her Soft N Bright kit. I think Anita creates some of the best little doodles and elements around. I mean the possibilities are endless. I especially love this green ribbon. You can download the QP Here. Enjoy! And as always, let me know if you like it. Thanks!

Bad mommy...oh and another QP for you.

371 unique users visited my blog yesterday! THANK YOU!!!

Okay, so I am a bad mommy. Last night after a little TV with Lucas he said that since he was a good boy today he gets to have a caramel apple. This is something I promised him like a week ago but we both kind of forgot about it. Well, I got hungry yesterday and ate the caramel apple. I thought I could just throw that package away and he wouldn't remember. Heck, it's been a week since he said anything about it, right? Wrong. Last night when he said what he did about getting the caramel apple for being good I had to fess up and say I ate it. Gulp. Darn! That kid sure has a good memory and he sure does know when to use it. So, after he threw a huge fit and I apologized 1,000 times, I told him we'd get more today and he could have one. The kid is smart too...he asked for some donuts (a rare treat here) and I think he knew I would give in because of the guilt for eating his apple. I couldn't help it though, those caramel apples are so stinkin' good! :)

So, on to the freebie. This is a simple one I created using enableem's (Irene Brown)freebie. It's called "Gifts" You can visit her blog HERE to get the full freebie kit. It was part of the Mega Kit for members they give out at http://www.rakscraps.com/

You can download the QP Here.

I need a bit of help and a QP for you!

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Hello all! Well, I'm back with a new QP for you. This is from http://www.nanas-attic.blogspot.com/ and it's from her Muddled kit. I just love that kit. The colors are so perfect for fall. Can you believe it's going to be fall this week? I'm so excited. My favorite time of year. Oh, and I also have that Caramel Apple Pie recipe for you. Yummy!!!!

I emailed Anita this weekend about how to get started making kits. I think I'm going to try and start with papers (obvious choice) and then venture out. She had some great tips for me so I'm starting there. It's irritating that I can't make my own kits. I have the imagination for them and the vision...just not the know how. I'd love to offer up some free kits to everyone but need a little guidance on where to start. If anybody has any good websites on tuts for making elements, ribbons, kits etc....could you please either post them or email me? I'd sure appreciate it. Also, if you kit makers use anything else besides PSP or Photoshop and the program is FREE, please post that as well. I'm trying my best to find stuff but sometimes it's a slow go. And I'm not trying to be cheap at the moment, I just want to get my feet wet before I go and spend a ton of money on programs to make kits. I use PSP and so far, that's been good enough. Thank you Thank you!

Here is the recipe I promised:

Caramel Apple Pie

INGREDIENTS:

1 refrigerated 9 inch double crust deep dish pie

1/2 cup packed brown sugar

1/4 cup butter, melted

1/3 cup all-purpose flour

5 cups thinly sliced apples (About 5 medium apples) I used 2 Fuji and 3 Granny Smith.

1/4 cup white sugar

3 tablespoons all-purpose flour

2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon lemon juice

20 caramels, cut into quarters

2 tablespoons milk

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------DIRECTIONS:Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).

To Make Taffy: In a small bowl combine brown sugar, melted butter or margarine, and 1/3 cup flour. Mix well and set aside.

To Make Apple Filling: Place apples in a large bowl. Add white sugar, 3 tablespoons flour, cinnamon, and lemon juice. Toss until all ingredients are mixed well and apples are thoroughly coated.

Spoon half of apple filling into pastry-lined deep-dish pan. Top with half of caramels and half of taffy mixture. Repeat process with remaining apple filling, caramels and taffy mixture.

Place top pastry over filling and seal well (this is very important--if edges are not sealed, caramel will leak out all over). Cut steam vents and brush top crust with milk or light cream.

Cover pie with foil and place on a baking sheet. Bake in preheated oven for 25 minutes. Remove foil and baking sheet from under pie and bake for another 20 to 25 minutes, until crust is golden. Turn off the oven and cover pie back up and let it sit in the warm oven another 2 hours to ensure the caramels have completely melted. Serve warm with a bit of ice cream on the side. Yummy!.

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Okay now my mouth is watering....

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Toilet Seats...what a pain..oh a freebie too!

LOL! Thought you were at the wrong blog, huh? Not many bloggers talk about toilet seats I suspect. Today DH, the kids and I ran up to Home Depot to get a new toilet seat for the master bathroom. What a pain. Why in the world do there have to be so many colors and styles and sizes? I can TOTALLY understand different colors but come on...it's a place to put your bum! Don't we all pretty much have the same shape bum? I think one size would fit all, don't ya think? Anyway, we wound up getting a size or shape or whatever that wasn't 100% right and with my husband who is anal, it's wasn't going to do. So, right now he is back at Home Depot to get another one. He took Lucas so it's just Sasha and I right now. We're chilling out and enjoying some Baby Einstein. LOVE the BE. It has saved my sanity many a time.

Okay, on to the freebie. Here is the one I did with a kit from Nana's. It's from her "Going to Nana's" kit. I hope you enjoy it.

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My poor husband...

He's really gonna think I've gone off the deep end now. I can't seem to tear myself away from doing these QP's. I mean, when I started this last week, I didn't know how addicted I was going to be. I've COMPLETELY forgetten about doing any personal scrapping. All I seem to think about now is getting QP's out for you guys! LOL! I know it'll die down but for now....this sure is fun. I hope you're all enjoying these QP's as much as I enjoy making them. I seem to be getting better and better at it as I go. It helps that I work with a good amount of awesome designers as well. When you've got great product, how can you go wrong, huh? Well, it's 12:34 and I just finished 3 QP's to distribute this weekend. Here is another I couldn't wait to give you. It's from a kit called "Sunny Days" from http://www.nanas-attic.blogspot.com/ Again, if you haven't joined Nana's as a member, I highly recommend it. Best deal I've seen in a LONG time. As for this freebie, I haven't even put my own picture in here yet. This one is hot off the presses. Enjoy!

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Friday's Freebie!

Before I forget...please vote in my new poll (to the left). I usually do QP's that have more than one picture to them but realize that everyone is different. So, I was wondering how you like your QP's. 1 pic..2-3 pics, multiple pics ...etc. Please vote to help me decide where I'll steer my QP's. Thank you!

Hello! New freebie tonight! It's from a kit from Carol at http://www.caz38.blogspot.com/ and it's GORGEOUS! I LOVE the funky polariod frame. She's got some pretty cool kits. You can go to her blog or you can visit her gallery at Deco-Pages. She exclusively designs for them. Here is her gallery link:
http://board.deco-pages.com/showgallery.php/cat/520


I hope you enjoy the freebie tonight! You can download it Here.

Wonderful Wednesday

Today was a good day. Sasha took 2 great naps today (like always), Lucas was in school for 3 hours (time to myself) and then he had a buddy come back home with us. So, Lucas played with his buddy, I got some one on one time with Sasha and get this, I got an almost 4 year old, a 3.5 year old and a 7 month old to take a nap at the exact same time! It was HEAVEN!!! Lucas and Sasha usually nap at the same time in the afternoon (1:30-3:15) but with his friend here, I didn't know what would happen. To my delight nobody put up a fight and went straight to bed at the appropriate time. Then they ALL woke at 3:30! Can you believe it? I was on cloud 9. I got some laundry done, the house 1/2 picked up, the dishes done and got in a little free time for myself (AKA....catching up on reality TV). ;)

The only bad part to today was when Lucas got his 3 fingers crushed underneath a VERY heavy vase that was falling. He ran into a table while he was playing with his buddy and the vase fell (filled with beads) and I think landed on his fingers which were on the floor. OUCH! Poor baby. His one nail is black and blue and he's still hurting tonight. If he's not better tomorrow I'm going to take him to the doc to make sure nothing is broken. I don't really think it is but I don't want to assume that they aren't. Anyway, he's okay just a little bruised. Okay, VERY bruised.



Anyway, here is the freebie #4 I was talking about yesterday.

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It's another QP using a kit from http://www.nanas-attic.blogspot.com/ If you haven't been to her site, please pay her a visit. She has the most gorgeous kits. I think she's my favorite designer. Her kits are SO versatile. She only charges $6 for a 3 month membership. Can you believe that? I think if you sign up before the end of September she'll add a month in for free! That's 4 months of kits for $6! She designs 3-5 kits per month for her members. So let me do the math... 9-15 COMPLETE kits for $6. What a steal! And if you join now...an extra 3-5 MORE kits! WOW. Can anyone beat that? Doubt it. Please go check her site out. It's amazing! http://www.nanas-attic.blogspot.com/

Edited to add...this is her "Color Splurge" kit. (Thanks Lisa!)


Here is my layout with it. Just another day at the park with my son and my husband. The love!

I chalk it up to PMS

Okay, I had a HUGE post that somehow got deleted. So here is the jist...yesterdays QP didn't turn out correctly so I fixed the link. If you downloaded QPL#2....redownload please. Sorry. I chalk it up to being a newbie and PMS! GRRRRR! LOL.

Here is todays freebie. It is a QP I made with a design from http://www.nanas-attic.blogspot.com/. The kit is called Tropical Paradise. LOVE IT!


Here is the preview:

You can download it Here.

This is what I did with it. Since my son was born in April, he was too young to go to the park that first summer. So, we had to wait until spring. This was his first park trip. He loved it. He was 11 months old and walked around the place like he owned it.