Presidents Day Sale at SNP

In the U.S., Presidents' Day is celebrated to honor the birth of two of our greatest presidents, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.  What a better way to celebrate than preserving our own history through scrapbooking.  Scraps N' Pieces is having a one day Presidents' Day sale - the whole store is 30% off.

Want another way to celebrate?  How about a speed scrap?  Join Memories by Digital Design on Monday, February 18th at 7pm CST!

Here's your participation prize!!

Enjoy!!

Announcing A Speed Scrap on 2/18/13

Title: Announcing Speed Scrap 2/18 9pm EST

Karen Diamond Designs is hosting a Speed Scrap in her Facebook Page Chatroom on Monday night at 9pm EST. This Speed Scrap we will be applying a few different techniques using Brushes in our layouts. If you are up for a challenge, won't you join me?

With the technique, 7 steps in 60 minutes and 24 hours to learn the technique and post your layout you will have one beautiful layout! I hear she is doing product giveaways and there will be a participation prize for completing the Speed Scrap $5.00 to her store at Scraps-N-Pieces.com

Hide, Find, Design 28 At Crafty Scraps Forum

Well hello again....It is the 15th of the month again already.  That means time for a new HFD Challenge at the Crafty Scraps Forum.  This Month's Theme is Tree Trimming. It's a great way to start those holiday layouts. Start at Michelle's Blog . You will Buzz around to her Creative Teams Blogs.  At each Blog you will collect pieces that will be required for the Challenge.  The Last Blog will direct you to the Forum where you get the Rules for the Challenge.  Follow the Rules, make sure you have collected all of the required pieces and post your Entry in that Thread by hitting Reply.  Every participant will receive the gorgeous Mega Kit created by Michelle and her Creative Team as a Freebie Gift. You do not want to miss out on this Kit. It is perfect for the Christmas season, will even be great for the pictures you may have already or will be taking very soon of the Christmas Season.

Here are the previews for this awesome kit that you will receive for playing along.

Gorgeous Isn't it? Just wait and see all the beautiful layouts you can make using this mega kit. Don't forget to collect all 14 pieces, make and upload a layout following the Challenge Rules and collect the Mega Kit. 


You should've come from Heidi's Blog. You can get my pieces by clicking on the download below.

                                                          


 Now head back to the Crafty Scraps Forum to get your instructions for the HFD and above anything else, have fun scrapping. I can't wait to see what you've made.

New Hide, Find and Design 27 at Crafty Scraps Forum

Hi everyone.  It is the 15th of the month again already.  That means time for a new HFD Challenge at the Crafty Scraps Forum.  This Month's Theme is a general Scrapbooking theme once again.  Start at Michelle's Blog . You will Buzz around to her Creative Teams Blogs.  At each Blog you will collect pieces that will be required for the Challenge.  The Last Blog will direct you to the Forum where you get the Rules for the Challenge.  Follow the Rules, make sure you have collected all of the required pieces and post your Entry in that Thread by hitting Reply.  Every participant will receive the gorgeous Mega Kit created by Michelle and her Creative Team as a Freebie Gift..  You do not want to miss out on this Kit. It is perfect for the Fall Season, might even be useful for the Spooks and Gobblin pictures you may have or will be taking very soon.

Here are the previews of this gorgeous Kit you will receive free for participating.

 

Gorgeous Isn't it? Just wait and see all the beautiful layouts you can make using this mega kit. Don't forget to collect all 12 pieces, make and upload a layout following the Challenge Rules and collect the Mega Kit. 


You should've come from Linda's Blog. You can get my piece HERE . Now head back to the Crafty Scraps Forum to get your instructions for the HFD and above anything else, have fun scrapping. I can't wait to see what you've made.

New Hide, Find, Design at Crafty Scraps

 






Hi everyone.  It is the 15th of the month again already.  That means time for a new HFD Challenge at the Crafty Scraps Forum.  This Month's Theme is Scrapbooking.  Start at Michelle's Blog.  Follow the directions buzzing from one CT Blog to another until you have collected all 12 pieces.  The last stop will direct you to Michelle's Forum where you will get the Challenge Rules.  Post a layout that meets the Rules and collect this gorgeous Mega Kit for Free.  Everyone loves collecting Freebies.  Don't miss out on this one. Here are the Previews of the Mega Kit you will receive for participating.

Gorgeous Isn't it? Just wait and see all the beautiful layouts you can make using this mega kit. Don't forget to collect all 12 pieces, make and upload a layout following the Challenge Rules and collect the Mega Kit.  Get buzzing, get scrapping, and have fun.  I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with this month.


You should've come from Kathie's Blog ~ . You can get my piece HERE. Now head back to the Crafty Scraps Forum to get your instructions for the HFD and above anything else, have fun scrapping.


Please remember to leave love along the way in the search because everyone has worked very hard on putting this HFD together.

New Hide Find Design at Crafty Scraps Forum

Hi everyone.  It is the 15th of the month again already.  That means time for a new HFD Challenge at the Crafty Scraps Forum.  This Month's Theme is Back To School.  Start at Michelle's Blog.  Follow the directions buzzing from one CT Blog to another until you have collected all 14 pieces.  The last stop will direct you to Michelle's Forum where you will get the Challenge Rules.  Post a layout that meets the Rules and collect this gorgeous Mega Kit for Free.  Everyone loves collecting Freebies.  Don't miss out on this one. Here are the Previews of the Mega Kit you will receive for participating.

Gorgeous aren't they? Collect all 13 pieces, upload a layout following the Challenge Rules and collect the Mega Kit.  Get buzzing, get scrapping, and have fun.  I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with this month.

You can get my piece HERE:  Now, head on over to Kathie's Blog to collect her piece(s).

Butterfly's In Bloom by Kathy Winters Designs

Hello,

Here is a kit called Butterfly's In Bloom by Kathy Winters Designs. It is a gorgeous kit consisting of very beautiful papers and elements. The pinks, greens and blues in this kit go so well together. The elements consist of flowers, butterflies, buttons, strings and so on. The papers are so versatile that they can virtually go with anything.

Here is the preview to this gorgeous kit. Kathy really outdid herself on this one.

 See what I mean about this kit being gorgeous? I just fell in love with all the different colors. You can find Butterfly's In Bloom in Kathy's store at GingerScraps. Here is a link for this kit. Click here to be taken to Kathy Winters Designs Store.

Here are a few layouts I made using this kit. I hope you enjoy them.

For this layout, I also used a template by Connie Prince called The Big Picture. Thank you Connie for allowing me to use your templates for my CT work.

Well, this is all I have for this post. I hope you enjoyed looking at my layouts and Kathy Winters Designs work. 

Remember, tell those you love what they mean to you because tomorrow is never promised. Blessings ~

A Long Time

Oh boy its been a long time. I really have to get my head back in the scheme of things. I have so totally slacked on everything, including my scraping. I have managed to keep up with the teams I create for, but that's about it as far as the scraping world.

After my dad passed about a month and a half ago, I felt like the life was sucked out of me. Sure, I got up and get up each and every day and take care of my lil ones, play with them, feed them, bathe them and all of the day to day things involved with them. Every part of their lives I am on top of and love being with them, taking care of them and most importantly showering them with love. They are not aware of the ongoing and continuing pain I am feeling inside of me. They are only aware that they have a momma with them that loves them more than anything in the world and that I do my best to make sure they are happy each and every day of their life.

I contacted the awesome designers that I CT for when my dad passed away and told them what happened. Each of them told me to take my time and all the time I needed to work through this. I took them up on their offers and took a few days to a week or so off. I have to tell you that during that time, I didn't and couldn't do anything scrapping wise. Then one day it hit me. The longer I sat here doing nothing, the worse I felt, so I jumped back into my scrapping. I started back doing my CT duties and at times it was a hard thing to do. There were and still are times when I get the gumption back going to work on a layout (LO) then come to my computer and open everything up to start then just sit here looking at the monitor and closing everything out again.

I knew it was bad when mom passed just a little over 2 years ago. When dad passed I didn't know which end was up. I honestly felt like a little girl again who lost both her parents and didn't know what I was going to do anymore. The knowing that I can never pick up a phone again and call them just to say hi and I love just crushed me to the core. It is a finality that sucks the life out of you. No more calling them to tell them something funny that happened. No more calling them to tell them that it so flippin hot outside. No more calling them and telling them we are having 70 degree weather outside when they have several inches of snow on the ground. No more calling them to tell them something funny that one of the kids did. Nothing. It totally devastated me. It's hard to work through the grief and the pain.

I can remember "chatting" online with someone who was having a bad day and trying to cheer them up and making them laugh, all the while having tears running down my face because I miss my parents so much. I can remember the feeling of wanting to move back to the Pacific Northwest to be closer to my family there. I can remember the feeling of being so totally alone and no one to really explain how I was feeling. I mean yes, I have people I can and do talk to, but in THAT moment, you feel so totally alone. I guess what I am and was feeling was completely and utterly overwhelmed with my emotions and things I needed to do.

I guess what I am saying is that I am sorry for neglecting my blog and the things that I enjoy putting here. I am taking the steps to not feel so overwhelmed again and am going to be posting the work I've done with the awesome designers' kits I've used. I have to remember to take care of myself as well as treating myself well. This is what I am doing now.

So, to end this post, please be good to yourself, treat yourself well and remember to tell those you love how you feel about them and what they mean to you because tomorrow isn't always promised.

God Bless
Lori

Speed Scrap at Scraps-N-Pieces

Hi there,

Here is some information about a Speed Scrap that will take place on May 10th over at Scraps-N-Pieces. Hope to see you there.

On May 10th at 4pm EST (3pm CST, 2pm MST, 1pm PST) I want to invite you to another fun-filled excited Speed Scrap that Karen Diamond Designs will be hosting at Scraps-N-Pieces.com Forum and Chat Room. Participation Prize will be:

Pure Innocense and a freebie.

Hello again.

I hope everyone is doing well. As for me, I am inching along day by day. I still struggle at times, with my parents passing (posted a few posts below) but I fell I have to keep busy so my grief doesn't totally consume me.

Any way, I am going to show you yet another AWESOME kit by Katybug Scraps. It's called Pure Innocence. I feel so blessed to be on Katybug Scraps' Creative Team. She makes so many beautiful treasures to scrap your blessed photos. This kit is jammed packed with awesome papers, elements and alpha's. The kit is on sale right now for 30% off. However, if you purchase the Pure Innocence bundle which includes the full size kit, a pack of quick pages and titles, it is on sale for 45% off. Here is a preview of the kit. You can head on over to Katybug Scraps' store to purchase this awesome kit HERE:

Here is a layout that I made using this adorable kit. I used a template by AK Designs and tweaked it just a bit.

See what I mean about making so many different things with this beautiful kit?

Now, it's time for me to share with you, a freebie I make. It is a cluster frame. I really hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it. 

You can download this cluster frame HERE:

Well, that's all I have right at the moment for you. I hope you enjoy your freebie. Please remember to tell those you love what they mean to you today and every day.

Have a blessed day.