Tuesday, November 22, 2011

"gonna wish I had a little heads up, little lee-way, little more time"

I adore that song by the way. So much so that my freak October snowstorm themed kit borrowed it's name.    This mini kit was part of my DSD grab bag, but if you missed out on that, you can now buy it separately.  It includes 12 papers, and 26 storm/emergency themed elements so you can be much more prepared than we were personally for 18 inches of snow and a week without power.


I've made a matching alpha for you all.  You can download it here.


Want to see picture of the storm damage?  I swear our town looked like a war zone.  Driving to my grandparents the day after, you wouldn't believe how many streets were closed.  There were trees on the road every where, and power lines were hanging so low (if not completely on the street) that many places turned into one way roads.  

This was an hour into the storm.  We had  just lost internet and I was pretty grumbly about it, which led to the week long joke, when the power went out an hour later, "and then mother nature decided to teach you what real deprecation is..."


And this is the next morning.  We had to get a neighbor to remove the two trees in the front of our yard because so many of their branches broke.  The house looks so weird now.  



And this was two days later, as we were headed out of dodge.  We're pretty much the antithesis of outdoorsy, roughing it people, and once the gas ran out on the grill and we were no longer able to boil water for coffee, we were so gone.  We ended up holded up in little motel one state over, calling our answering machine every couple of hours to see if we'd gotten power back yet.






I'm all for adventure, but I think I could live without having to go through that anytime soon.  My grandmother had to go back to 1937 to even have a storm to compare it to.  And my sister, who's going to school along the coastline, barely got a couple of inches, and was back in school the next day.  

Monday, November 21, 2011

"i've got a long long way to go"

I spent most of the weekend, you know, when I had a free minute or two, stress scrapping.

Here is step 3:


Yes, that is me.  I was apparently dressing myself at the age of three, and to this day, I ask my mother why she let me leave the house looking like that.  And she only answers, "You'll understand when you have kids."

This is what I needed:  

Add a photo to your round or octagon shaped frame
Something Round (not a paper shape): Delph - Around the World Add-On (it was originally a peacock button/brad type thing that I recolored and added to the scatter)
A piece of cardboard - Tricia Curtis Designs - Natural Feeling Collab (the tag)
Add another frame but this one must be a square or rectangle shaped one (square frame created with fx in photoshop)

I think the most surprising thing about this step was that I was looking for a button in my DDR stash (cause we're pretty much only supposed to use their products) and I couldn't find one. I had no problem finding a pine cone last week, but I had to make my own pink button. I really need to get on fixing that. I love my buttons (remember that layout, lol)

Here's what I was doing over the weekend, while hoping the children wouldn't forget their lines over Thanksgiving break:



Credits: Sugarplum Paperie - Daisy Summer Days



Credits: CatScrap My Life Collab



Credits: Sugarplum Paperie - Every Day of the Year; Erica Zane - Apple A Day, EZ Journals, Silver Lining, Messed Up June, In My Life, Doodle Me Christmas, Happy Homemaker, Smarty Pants, Sultry Summer, All Fall Down, Messed Up May, Sketchy











Friday, November 18, 2011

"every night feet tucked in close to you"

I've been scraping again.  With as much that is going on, with the play and designing, and everything, that statement kind of makes me feel guilty.

Here's step two of the progressive scrap:


I needed to include the following:  

Pine Cones (located on either side of the flower) - Prelestnaya P - CU Freebie
Something Yellow (a ribbon): MCD - Spring Imagination Collab
A Type of Flowe: Delph - Treasure of My Life
A Box: Aurelie - Mothers Daughters Sisters Friends Collab (the heart shape that I scattered)
2 Different Types of Leaves/Branches: Mistica Designs - A Touch of Fall; Delph - Spring Imagination

This is one of those challenges where I see the instructions, and I'm like, there is no way I have a pine cone in my stash, and how in the world am I supposed to use a box and make it look like it should be there.  But I think I like how this is turning out so far.  It's way to early to say that I know.  I'm probably jinxing myself.


Credits: Mistica Designs - Breathe of Fall




Wednesday, November 16, 2011

"i will not let myself cause my heart so much misery"

(ps. I'll have new releases and a freebie for you tomorrow!)

It's progressive scrap time again at DigiDesign Resort. I have such a love/hate relationship with this challenge. It's really fun, and always super challenging, but then again some of the directions just drive me right up the wall. Let's be honest, being more than a bit neurotic probably doesn't do me any favors here. Let's see how much of a problem child I end up being this month, huh.

Here's my step one -


Step 1 Credits:
Three Papers: JanetB - CU Crumpled Bag Freebie; Silke - Gift Box Add-on; Because of You Collab
One Frame - (created with fx in photoshop)
A piece of wood - (took photo of wood plank)

(pps. someone tell the radio people to stop playing such depressing songs!)

Friday, November 11, 2011

"it's been so long that I forget"

I should be doing something else right now, I'm sure of it. Problem is, I can't remember what that is. I pretty sure it has nothing to do with stalking pretty picture of cookies on Pintrest, but that may just be me. I'll try to figure it out, keep me away from the left over Halloween candy in the mean time.




Thursday, November 10, 2011

Dear Microsoft...

STOP IT!!!

Stop automatically updating my computer without my permission!

Stop losing my work on me!

Stop turning automatic updates on, after I have turned them OFF!

Whatever you are trying to install is not more important than whatever I am working on at any given moment. So stop it!



Dear Adobe,

When is some kind of auto restore function coming?

Please and Thank you!


Monday, November 7, 2011

"what am i supposed to do when you play it so cool"

I did some actual scrapping over the weekend, imagine that. I almost never have time for that anymore. It felt like it was such a luxury that I was able to.







Saturday, November 5, 2011

"life too easy to be so damned complicated"

Happy DSD everyone! (Happy shopping!)

I've got a grab bag for you. It includes two mini kits, one for my kitties, and one that ended up designing holed up in a motel a state away while our power was out for an entire week (grumble!) There is also a fun paper pack with a matching alpha. You can get the whole thing over at my store for just $5.


And if that's not enough: my entire store is going to be 50% off for the weekend.



Wednesday, October 26, 2011

"...and many more"

Happy Sixth Birthday NDISB!

We're having a blog train to celebrate.  Want to pick up all the pieces found in making all these lovely pieces - just go to the forum and play our cupcake treasure hunt!





Download here - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0VD0S506

NDISB - Starting point
Pamla Klenczar
BrownEyedSusan
JellyBean
ScrapDragon
aneczkaw
Willy Designs
NDISB Forum
A Little Birdie
SnackPackGu
Designs by Marcie - you came from here
Midnight Owl - - You are HERE!
Grandma K - - you are going here
Nanas Dinkys Scraps
Chunlin
NDISB- Ending Stop

Monday, October 24, 2011

"happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear NDISB"



We have a week full of fun and prizes for you all, this thread will give you the run down of what's in store, check out the other threads in this section for games, challenges and FUN!

Every time you play a game or enter a challenge, you will be entered into a random prize draw to win one of lots and lots of fun prizes.
The prizes range from Gift Certificates to Quick Pages, Cluster Packs to Albums

Our designers have worked tirelessly over the last few weeks to make sure there are plenty of goodies lined up for you to win,, so participate as much as you can because each challenge layout and game you play will qualify you to go in a draw to win a prize.

To qualify, you must post your layouts in the special birthday gallery we have created, and post in the relevan threads.

At the end of our week, we will enter every single name of those who participated in our celebrations into a random prize draw for some huge prizes. Here is what we have in the kitty for you to win,,,

A full copy of Paint Shop Pro X4, provided by COREL

Full yearly memberships to DigScrap Connect which include access to the monthly sponsor kits.

A 1 month, 2 month and 3 month membership to Digital Scrapbook Artisan Guild

We also have some fab prizes lined up from Cassel of Creation Cassel, including lessons for the Scrapbook Campus

and yet more Gift Certificates and coupons from our fab designers!

These are truly awesome prizes, don't miss out!

I've got two new kits out for our birthday celebration, For All My Ghoul Friends, a happy hand-drawn Halloween kit, and Shower You In Love, a baby/wedding shower kit.







Saturday, October 8, 2011

"i'd be a fool to let you go with someone else"

I was doing some scrapbooking last night...I know, it has been awhile.


Credits: EZane - All Fall Down, Bluebird, Happy Snapper, Informal, Moment in Time, Perfect Moments, Silver Linings, Amused, Cute Little Kaylee, Early Bird, First Time Ever, Love Happens, Sketchy

Yeah, that's me as a little little baby. I'm like three weeks old, according to what my grandma wrote on the back. The original picture was pretty horrible, I mean, the whole middle of the picture was pretty much washed out. Blending it like this, I could still save that memory, even with the picture is horrible.


Credits: EZane - Perfect Memories and Perfect Beach Memories

Me again, playing in my grandmother's backyard in a giant tub - well, it's not all that giant except compared to me at that age (about 10 months).

I'll have to make double pages for these eventually, cause they'd be great for my baby album, but that will have to wait for another day. At least I got my creative stride back.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

"drowning worm and killing time, nothing too ambitious"

I was shown a version of Windows 8 (my desktop now dual boots to the developers preview, aren't I a lucky girl), and after my initial shock of 'why do you want to turn my computer into a 22'' phone?" I'll agree I am rather intrigued. It's super fast and very modern looking, and while it waits to be seen how I can do my extreme multitasking,



An excuse to buy another laptop next year, a touch screen maybe? We shall see.
I feel like I never get anything done on Wednesdays, I wonder why that is?

Monday, September 12, 2011

"don't think for a minute I'm gonna sit around and sing some old sad song"

Have you signed up for our newsletter at NDISB yet? I'm giving away a really fun mini in the issue coming out this 15th.

Thursday, September 8, 2011

"drop everything now and meet me in the pouring rain,"

I've got a new kit out...or well, the expansion of a mini kit into a new kit. I'm really excited this one is finished (I lost most of it in the Great August Computer Meltdown of 2011) and I've got some really fun things in the works for the coming weeks.



Here's what it looks like scraped with; see, I am still chipping away at my vacation pictures. If I'm lucky I'll get them all done by the time we can go on our next one (hahaha)



And don't forget the freebie!


Download it here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FNQURJKB

And for an extra freebie, sign up for the newletter at NDISB. I've contributed a free mini kit that going to be coming out the 15th.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

'the new is in, the new is in, and i'm feeling better already'

Enough dawdling, my store at NDISB.com is finally open!  And we're starting it off with an expanded version of Fish Food.  I love the colors of this kit, and drawing all those fish was so much fun. Remember to scroll down to the bottom for the matching freebie!



And some examples of how it looks like scraped with...


Thursday, July 28, 2011

"people all round the world, join hands, start a love train,"



Welcome to the First Digi Scrap Connect Blog Train. This blog train is comprised of 24 fabulous designers who have been participating in the Design Factor Challenge the last 5 weeks. We decided to have fun with it and turn it into a great Blog Train and thus Flowers, Ribbons, and Strings Oh My!! the blog train was born. We hope you have fun collecting the great mini kits. If you get lost along the blog train, just return to Digi Scrap Connect to find the list of all participants.

Here's my mini kit Ship Shoes. Grab it now, before I expand it into a full kit and put it in my very first store (I'm a bit excited about this, can you tell.)



Here's the list of all the participants if you've gotten lost, or like me, you like to start at the bottom, ;)

DigiScrap Connect
{Home Station}

Piccolina Designs
JDK
Skrapz

Dancing
Princess Designs

Inspired By
Dominic Designs

Dana's
Footprints Designs

Milly Dee Designs
Amanda and Millie
Designs

Rose Thorn
Designs

NanaScraps
Kim
Hackworth Creations

Scraps by Mara
Digital Gator
Designs

Snackpackgu's
Designs

Rumki Designs
Designs by
Angel

Scrapdragon
Designs

ScrapN2Nspire
Rebecca
Meyers Designs

Ramona
Memories

Binty
Designs

Lizard Dau
Designs

Digital
Harmony

Foosa Moon
Creations

PamlaKlenczar
Midnight Owl <-- You Are Here!

Monday, July 25, 2011

"how hard it is to make it look so easy"

I've got Rascal Flatts stuck in my head.  It's pretty funny cause J is going to Flatts Fest next month, but she hates country music.  I've been playing them ever since I heard she and her friends got tickets.

I've actually started a new album, Songbirds to both record the little things this year and show off my complete obsession with music.  Here's what I got so far: