A Special Kind of Love

I forgot to come and post here last week that I was moving my store to ScrapMatters. I had a great time while I was at Funky Playground Designs, but it was time to follow my heart and move back "home". All of my releases during my guest spot are in my store there along with my recent releases. Today I'm bringing you the new mini kit for my A Year in Pictures series. Can't wait to show it to you!

First up though if you haven't been to ScrapMatters in the last week, you are missing out on the fun coming your way for the month of March! Do you have what it takes to be the next Queen of Scrap? If you answered yes to that question than make sure to get over to ScrapMatters and sign up to play along.



Queen of Scrap at ScrapMatters is so much fun! I participated in it the last 2 years and was able to scrap over 60 pages in a month. Don't worry you don't have to scrap that many to get some really awesome prizes. Not only is it a fun time scrapping pages to earn prizes, it's also a great time to get to know more people in the ScrapMatters community.

And now on to my new release for today. This one is themed for all those loving moments you have throughout the year. It's the perfect kit to use to scrap your loved ones. It is 20% off through Sunday. Don't forget it also coordinates with all my other A Year in Pictures items.



Until next time...Happy Scrapping!

A Year in Pictures series

Another birthday... another cake done! :) Actually it was 2 birthdays, 2 cakes and 7 dozen cupcakes. Michaella was born on my mom's birthday. So that meant a cake for each of them, 3 dozen cupcakes for my mom and aunt (who also has her birthday the same day) to take to work, a dozen for Michaella's friend party and 3 dozen extra to put in the freezer for later. I had been asking Michaella since December what kind of cake she wanted for her birthday, but she didn't give me any ideas until about a week before her birthday. She handed me a post-it note with several ideas. One of them just happened to match with what I had been planning on making for her, so that worked out great.



Not have only have I been busy making cakes this past month, I've been working on getting the first kit and other starter items for my A Year in Pictures series finished. When I first started digi-scrapping in 2006, I was only going to do it to create photobooks for my parents and in-laws of the kids each year for Christmas because I was a die hard paper scrapper. Little did I know at that time what it would eventually lead to becoming basically digi exclusive. :) I did great the first 3 years getting them done and printed in time. Then I had Kailee, and I haven't been able to get another one done since. My plan this year is to change that and surprise them with another photobook at Christmas. That is how the idea for A Year in Pictures was born. I came up with a palette in a full rainbow of colors and decided to use that as my base for all the kits and pieces. What's great about this is if you are working on a yearly album or calendar when you are finished it will all be coordinated! The pieces all mix and match, too, giving you numerous options with what you can create. This series would also work great for all of you doing P365, P52 or P12 this year. And with that I reveal to you my new releases for this week.









Also if you are a Disney fan and haven't checked out MouseScrappers yet make sure to head over there on Monday and check out the weekly scraplift challenge hosted by Aussiegirl. The participation prize is by none other than yours truly. :) Hope you like it.

Until next time...Happy Scrapping! :)

Facebook Fan Freebie

It's freebie time! Funky Playground Designs is having a Facebook Train. Head over to my Facebook fan page and click the "like" button to get this alpha free. Make sure to follow the entire train and pick up the grab bag  from the Funky Playground Designs page there is a coupon in there from me too.

My New Store

Happy New Year everyone! Hope your year has started off great. My husband and I rang in the New Year with one of best friends from college. It was nice to have an adult evening. My kids had their own little party at my in-laws that night. lol. Grandpa and grandma took them out for pizza and then they got to go to the video store and pick out a bunch of movies to watch. Something they don't get to do very often now that we have been getting our rental movies through Netflix.

We also had Kailee's 3rd birthday this past week. She was so excited that morning when she woke up. She spent a good part of the day going around the house singing "Happy Birthday to me". She has come such a long way in the last year with her speech and I am so proud of what a hard little worker she is when we go in for her speech therapy each week. She has gone from only being able to say "ma" last Thanksgiving to singing "Happy Birthday" and a whole lot more this year. Her speech therapist is absolutely awesome and Kailee just loves going in to see her each week.

This year she has fallen in love with Rapunzel from Disney's Tangled. Though The Princess and the Frog still holds a very high place in the line up. So of course I had to make her cake for her birthday Rapunzel themed. When my mother-in-law went to the Mall of America in the beginning of December I had her pick up the Rapunzel play set from the Disney Store for Kailee's cake. Kailee was so excited when she seen the finished cake.



Sorry I didn't get this announcement posted earlier. We had a death in the family this weekend and so my computer time has been minimal.

And now for my big news...



It's official! I am now exclusively at Funky Playground Designs. My store opened there on Sunday. So excited to work with the great designers there.

I will be working on getting things moved into my store there in the coming weeks. This week I have my Tea for Two kit and coordinating cardstock in my store. Click on the images to be taken to the store.





Look at this adorable layout that Dawn made using Tea for Two.



I have also moved my Gingerbread Lane collection to Funky Playground Designs.











And now to announce the winner of the $5.00 coupon for my new store...

Ghislaine

Congrats! Please email me your email address so I can get you your code.

Until next time...Happy Scrapping!

Birthday Sale

Wow where has the month of December gone? We normally have a busy Christmas season but this years seems to have been a bit more crazy than usual. We haven't had a quiet night at home all month yet and we won't until at least Tuesday. Besides the normal Taekwondo practice, dance practice, Wednesday night church and choir, we have had several Christmas programs, Snowball Dance, Taekwondo testing, multiple Christmas parties and 2 birthdays. Today was my birthday and my husband surprised me by taking me out for breakfast and then I spent the day doing my baking for tonight, tomorrow and Monday. On Monday my baby turns 3! Where have the last 3 years gone? She is getting to be so big.

To celebrate my birthday I've decided to put my ScrapMatters shop on sale!



From now until December 31, enjoy 25% everything in my shop (excluding collabs). 

That's not all...

How would you like to get $5 to spend in my store? On Jan. 1, I will be opening up my new permanent store! I'm so excited to get started there. Leave a comment with where you think I'll be moving to by midnight EST Dec. 31 and I will randomly pick someone from the correct answers to receive a $5.00 coupon to spend in my new store!

Until next time...Happy Scrapping!

New Release & Grab Bag Reveal

It's Friday once again and that means new goodies! If you are here for the blog train it in the previous post, so just scroll down. :)

First up today I have my Grab Bag Reveal. If you didn't get a chance to grab it last week you can now get each item individually or at a discounted price by picking up the bundle.











I also have in the store my Gingerbread Lane Icing pack.



Until next time...Happy Scrapping! :)

Dec Blog Train

Welcome to the next stop on this month's blog train!

 

Download here or here.

You should have come from Hot Flash Designs and will be continuing on to to KS Designs.

I also have a coordinating alpha for you when you sign up for my newsletter. (Link in the sidebar) All current subscribers will also receive the freebie.v



Don't forget today is the last day to pick up my Black Friday Grab Bag before it gets broken apart tomorrow. (The reveal pictures in the previous post.)



Check out this adorable page that Dawn made using the grab bag!



Until next time...Happy Scrapping!