Color Challenge Freebie for You!

Hello everyone!!! Are you all done with your Christmas shopping yet??? Not ME!! I still have so much to get done, and not much time to do it in. I did get some breads baked. I made some pistachio nut and some lemon poppy seed breads. So I at least have a start on the baking. I still have to make some date nut bread, and almond poppy seed, and maybe some fudge. My DH does all the rest of the baking and candy making. He makes the chocolate covered peanuts, rice crispy bars, cookies, chex mix, chocolate covered pretzels, and whatever else he decides to come up with. And believe me he sure does an awesome job!!

Well I have done it again! I made a kit for Kimb's color challenge at DSO this month. I am having so much fun doing Kim's color challenges and I just love sharing with all of you. There are 10 papers and 17 elements in the kit. Here's the preview for you all.

Here are the downloads.

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I sure hope you enjoy this small part of the color challenge. If you go check it out at digital-scrapbooking.org, you will find that there are soooooo many talented ladies there that also love contributing to the challenge by making mini kits, full size kits, QP's and doing LO's. It is one of the best monthly challenges I have ever been a part of.

Has everyone been hopping on the holiday blog trains??? There are two very awesome ones going on right now. First one started Friday and that is called "Christmas Around the World"-let me tell you, it's beautiful and by the time you get done you will have one super mega kit!! I downloaded the whole thing Friday night. It's gorgeous!!! The next one is called "Holly Jolly Express" and it started today. This is going to be a super mega kit too. They have a different color swatch so you will have two very huge mega kits for all of your holiday photos!! And that's not all!!!!!!

Kim has come out with a new kit today!!! It's gorgeous! It's called "Time Anew" and you should jump on over to her blog to get all the info on it, and she made a QP with it for everyone too. Here is a preview of it so you can see why I am sooooo excited!!

Now isn't it gorgeous!!!! It's perfect for all your holiday and New Years pictures!!! Go check it out if you like it.
Well that's it for today!!! Hope you like my little kit and hope you have time to go check out all the freebies on the blog trains!!
Until next time take care and have fun!!!

Paula

Big Sale!!!

Hi Everyone! This is going to be a short post--but I just want to let you know that Michelle-over at crafty scraps is having a pre-Christmas sale today and tomorrow only!!! All of her Christmas kits are $1.00 each for just the next 48 hours! What a bargain that is!!

Just click on the picture above to go to her store and check out all the awesome kits she has!!! Or you can click here. You should also go to her blog and pick up the awesome freebies that she is offering to everyone. Take a look at this cute frame she is giving away!!!

And that's not all if you sign up for her newsletter you will get all the frame pieces as separate files to use as you want. And to top it off!! If you scroll down a little further you will also get this awesome freebie!!!!

These are just sooooo adorable!! As many of you know Michelle has been dealing with some major medical issues and hasn't been on for a while. But she is coming back with a bang!!! She makes some of the cutest, most adorable things. So please go check out her store Crafty Scraps and her blog for more details!!

Well did everyone get a chance to pop on over to Jazzy's blog yesterday and wish her a Happy Birthday?? Jazz I hope you had a wonderfully happy birthday and I'm sending you wishes for a much happier new Year!!!

Well I am out of time here and I must get to work--till next time have fun and stay safe!!
Paula

My Blog is talking to me!!

Yep! It's true--my blog is talking to me!! I came on to read my comments--as I always do love reading each and every comment--there was one from my blog telling me it's time to update! LMAO!!! Can you just imagine your blog talking to you???! Ummmm! Anonymous I know who you are!!!hahahahaha!

So how is everyone doing with their Christmas shopping?????? I haven't even started yet-not one present bought yet!!! I hate the crowds and prefer to do most of mine online, but I still have to brave the crowds and get into the stores, so I do believe we will be going this weekend. aarrgh! I truly love giving gifts-but I hate the fighting of large crowds at the stores.

Well this is going to be a short post today, but I wanted to get up some more little gifts to go with my Holiday Joy kit. As promised I will be adding to it as I have time to make some new things--I have a couple of other things I'm working on, plus with working full time outside the home it's hard to find the time to do the things I want.hahahaha! So here's your little freebie for now and I promise to get more up soon.

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Just click on the preview to download it. Hope you enjoy it. I know you have heard this many times but All I ask is that you you leave me some love--I love reading each and every comment that I receive.

Till next time take care and have fun!!

Birthday Treats!!

As many of you know yesterday was my birthday! I received so many happy birthday wishes and I just want to thank all of you from the bottom of my heart. It makes a person feel good to have so many share this special day with me. I would love to show everyone the birthday pages that I have received and to offer all of you that visit my blog a gift from me. So let's get started with the birthday pages first!!

This first one is from my SBM friend and blog follower Elle (moonlightpearl). She made this beautiful page from my freebies. Isn't it gorgeous!! It makes me feel good to see what someone has been creating with my creations. Thank you Elle!!

This one is from another SBM friend and fellow CT member Marion!! Marion I love the black and the sparkles, and it sure put a sparkle in my heart. Thank you for this special card!!!

This beautiful, colorful page is from Rosana! She is another good friend I made on SBM. Rosana makes some amazing pages and is always there to wish you a happy birthday. She also makes lots of goodies to share with us on the forums. Thank you Rosana!

This one is sooooo pretty Crops!! This was made by my very good friend Crops, whom I adore. She is another special friend that I met on SBM and who has taught me many new things. We are also on 2 CT teams together. Thank you for this lovely card my friend.

Here is another beauty!! I absolutely love this one too. Sue (sacannon) made this for me yesterday as well. She is another very good friend that I first met on SBM and she is so giving with her freebies and is always there to give you support when you need it. All of you girls rock! Than I received many many birthday wishes and blinkies and such from all of the wonderful, caring, giving ladies at SBM. I have also received many birthday wishes from all the other forums that I visit and I just want to say thankyou from the bottom of my heart to each and everyone of you for being a part of my special day!! And as my thank you to all of you I have a mini kit that I would love to share with you. It goes with the paper and frame that I left you last week, and I sure hope that you can use it for your many Christmas pages, and there are things in the kit that you can use for pages that are not Christmas related, because I do know that not everyone celebrates Christmas.

There are 8 papers and 4 embellishments. I will be adding more to this kit so keep checking back for the add-ons.

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That's all for today. Remember I will be posting more goodies to go with this kit as I get them made. Hope you enjoy it. Take care and be safe.

Family Time

The holidays are upon us and this is the time to put everything else aside and think of family and friends. Thanksgiving is this week and families are coming together for the festivities. Children are coming home from college, siblings are coming home from all over near and far all to be with family and celebrate. It's a good feeling to be surrounded by family and loved ones. This is a time to be happy, but I don't feel the happiness this year because I can't be with all my children. There are circumstances that keep them away. But I will be thinking of them this holiday season and praying that they too will be safe this holiday and always. I would like to wish all of you reading this a very Happy and blessed Thanksgiving.

I have been extremely busy these past weeks and don't get on my blog as often as I would like. But I do try to take time and create something every week, whether it's a LO or a few papers. This is what keeps me going, my love for digi scrapping and all of my cyber friends. I have been given a couple of awards a while back and haven't had the time to share them, so I would like to take the time to do that now. The first award comes from my good friend and fellow digi scrapper Jazzieal. She sent me the Kreative Award.Now I am supposed to name 7 things I love and than pass it on to 7 people.

1. My children are number one. They are my lifeline and I love each of them for thier own personalities and gifts to life.

2. My DH for everything he does for me and being there for me and for especially being my rock.

3. My grandchildren. They are all so special each in thier own way. I love them all and each individually.

4. My Best Friend Laura for always being there for me, and for being my partner in crime. We have laughed, cried, learned, loved and so much more for the past 42 years. She is much more than a best friend, she is my other half.

5. My brother and sisters for putting up with me all these years!!

6. My cyber friends are ever so special to me--so supportive and caring, and they share a love for my 7th love--Digital Scrapbooking!! To all my cyber friends-thank you all for helping me learn new things, sharing your talents with me and others, thank you for all the support you are so willing to give when needed, and especially for all the laughs we have shared.

Now I must give this award to 7 more people---The thing is I would like to do what I have seen other award recipients do and that is to give this award and my Sweety Award from Renee

to everyone reading my blog. Because if it wasn't for my readers I wouldn't have a reason to blog and share my creations with. Everyone that comes and reads my blog and downloads my freebies and leave wonderful comments are also creative and a bunch of sweeties. Lots of them don't have blogs for me to pass the award onto, so I just want to say thank you and all of you deserve these awards as well. I would also like to share these with some of my dear digi friends who have encouraged me and helped me in so many ways traveling down my digi path. Special heartfelt thanks go to Michelle McCoy, Kim Broedelet, Jazzieal, Crops2dawn, Melanie, Fiona, Deanne, all my special friends at SBM and all my fellow CT members for Wolvsie, Kim, Deanne and Fiona. You ladies mean the world to me and thank you!!

Now I want to show you some new WA that Jazzieal has done.

These are soooo perfect for your Christmas pages and Christmas cards. You can find them exclusively at DSO . The first set of words "Christmas Words" is currently 25% off--so head on over to her store at DSO and pick them up. While you are there check out all the other wordart she has. There is something for everyone!!

And now I have some Lo's to show you. The first one is to celebrate the upcoming Christmas season. It is of our dear granddaughter.

We got this doll for her 2 years ago for Christmas to add to her collection, and she absolutely loves her. This Christmas she is a new mom with a real doll of her own. A beautiful new daughter Alexia. If you remember I did a page of Alexia earlier on my blog.
I used a new kit by Inspiredmommiedesigns called "I Believe in Santa" which can be found at Pretty Scrappy. I also used her WA from her new "We Wish you a Merry Christmas" pack. Other credits: Birthstone ornament by Kitten Scraps-a freebie on her blog, the raindrops are from LouCeeCreations and it is a freebie in her kit for Kimb's color challenge this month at DSO.

I would like to show you Kimb's new CU grab bag which you can find on sale exclusively at DSO. It is soooooo full of the cutest goodies. It's only $6.00 right now and you can't go wrong. If you have ever purchased one of her grab bags you know you get more than your money's worth. It's insane the amount of things you get in one of her grab bags, and this one is no different. I made the papers in this with some of the goodies in her bag. Just look at that adorable Penguin!!!

And here is the LO I did using her new grab bag. This is our dear grandson! I just loved the outfit he was wearing that Christmas, and hanging out with our dalmation in his little santa hat. This is just too cute. I made the papers and frame in this LO using some things from Kim's grab bag.
Now for the freebie!! I would love to share with you the paper and frame from my LO.

So if you would love to have it you can get it here. All I ask is that if you download it please leave me some love. I love reading your comments!!! Well that's it for today!!! Hope you all made it this far. Until next time have fun and stay safe!!

Thank you!!

I want to thank everyone who has been coming to my blog and leaving beautiful, encouraging comments. It means a lot to me to to read all the nice comments-and believe me I read them all. I know how busy everyone's life can get, and to take the time to leave a comment is very kind.

This last month time has passed so fast and I can't believe Thanksgiving is only about 2 weeks away, and than before you know it Christmas will be here!! I know that there has been a lot of talk lately regarding traditions during the holidays-and like a lot of others, I too am a traditionalist. For one, Thanksgiving just isn't Thanksgiving without Turkey and all the fixings! Now the fixings do vary from family to family, but Turkey is what everyone has in common, right!!?? I can't imagine Thanksgiving without turkey. Than as for the fixings, our family has mashed potatoes and gravy, dressing, cauliflower/broccoli salad, a jello salad, cranberry sauce, deviled eggs, corn and hot biscuits. For desserts we always have pumpkin pie, pumpkin bars and apple pie; we will sometimes throw in a chocolate french silk pie too. Christmas is a different story--many families have many different family traditions. We always have a ham for Christmas day and usually we will do a turkey breast or full turkey with it. But Christmas Eve dinner varies. We usually have a beef tenderloin and sometimes lobster. We used to have oyster stew with all the brothers and sisters and their families, but now that the family is so spread out from state to state we have abandoned the oyster stew. We do have a special New Years eve dinner with our children and grandchildren though. Every New Years Eve we get together and have fondue. The kids especially love this tradition. We fondue chicken, beef and pork with about 5 different sauces for dipping. We serve a lettuce salad, baked potatoe and garlic bread with it. We have about 5 different fondue pots and set up at two different tables to fit everyone. What makes it special is we turn off the lights and eat fondue by candlelight. It is soooo much fun, and because you have to cook each piece as you eat it dinner lasts a good 2 hours, and it's a special bonding time. I love to hear about the traditions that other families have too-so if you have a special tradition why not share it with us. I would love to hear about them.

Well this weekend I was working on some LO's and I would like to show you a couple. The first one for the pumpkin season. She really is the cutest pumpkin in the patch!!:)

I made this page using the goodies from the Fall Splendor blog train kit. The wordart used on this page is from Jazzieal's set "Thanksgiving Stamps" which can be found exclusively at DSO. Go check out Jazzy's other wordart sets too. She does some beautiful WA and if you are like me, you can never have enough WA.

This next one I did was for Christmas. I know that it is a little early to be doing Christmas LO's but that is my favorite holiday and I just had to put together a LO to celebrate the upcoming holiday.

I used a freebie kit from WaterLO Project called "Under the Tree" The WA is from Jazzy's WA set Christmas Glam Titles. Found exclusively at DSO (digital-obsession.org)

Well if you made it this far I want to thank you for reading my entire post. I have been given some special awards too--but they will have to wait till next time. I have kept you here long enough. hahahaha! Until next time please have fun and stay safe.:)

My First Color Challenge freebie!

It has been cold and rainy today. We even had some light snow flurries over the weekend. I really dread the thought of winter coming!!! I love a fresh new snow fall, and I love snow on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day--there's nothing more magical than snow on Christmas. But after that I can live without it!!! I hate the cold, snow and ice. Give me some place warm anytime. My DH is really suffering this year with his arthritis. This is the first year that he is dealing with the pains of arthritis during the cold winter months. He suffered some last year, but not like he is this year. It would be great to be able to go south for the winter--but that's really not an option at this time.

I have a message for my good friend Crops regarding traditions.. CROPS!! you want me to come get rid of the evil sisters???LMAO! I have to agree with you 100%-Thanksgiving is not Thanksgiving without turkey!! Clams don't cut it and neither does ribs!! Yo evil sisters of Crops-please wake up from that terrible nightmare you are having and get that turkey and dressing bought!! Nothing else will do ever!!!!LMAO!!


Guess what?? I took the plunge and made a mini kit for Kim's color challenge this month at DSO. I am having so much fun playing with the designing end of scrapping. I really have a problem with thinking that my stuff is good enough---there are soooooo many talented peeps out there designing gorgeous kits I could never measure up to them. But I love learning new things and just having fun, so while I'm having fun you get some new goodies to play with if you want. Plus I love giving freebies away. So here is the preview of what I made.
If you would love to have this mini part of the color challenge you can download it here. Now if you haven't already done so why not head over to DSO and check out Kim's color challenge and Jazz's photo op challenge and all the other wonderful challenges they have to offer.



Now I would like to show you a LO I did using Inspired Mommies new kit "Happy Fall'yall" which you can find at Pretty Scrappy.

Well it's time to say goodbye for today. It's late and I need to get ready for bed-so untill next time take care and be happy.:)

Paula

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU_KIMB!!!

YIPPPEEEE! Today is Kimb's birthday and I want to wish you the happiest birthday ever Kimmie!!!!! I sooo love being a part of your CT team and I want to thank you for everything you do for us, and for allowing me to be a part of your great team!! I am happy that you were able to spend your birthday weekend with those that you love the most, and whom love you the most. It has been an honor to get to know you through cyber space and to be a part of your "inner circle", so to say. All of us on your CT team truly think a lot of you and love you not only as a designer, but as a person. So we all got together to make you something special to show our "Gratitude" for all that you are, and all that you do for us. You are da bomb!! I actually tried my hand at a little designing just so I could contribute to the kit. It's not much, but I had a blast doing it. So without any further delay I would like to show everyone the kit.It's absoultely gorgeous, and so much wonderful talent went into this kit to show you our gratitude Kim. Below is a preview of my portion and the links to get it.

And here are the links:

Papers

Papers 2

Papers 3

Elements

Elements 2

I have also made a few QP's to add to the kit.

You can pick them up here. Whew! Finally finished for today. So many goodies and I hope that you all love what you get. All I ask is if you download you leave some love. And be sure you stop by Kimb's and wish her a Happy Birthday. Here are the links to all the other parts of the kit. Have fun!!

Andrea : http://boyervillescraps.wordpress.com/

Beth : http://bethbydesign.blogspot.com/

Carol (Crops) : http://crops2dawn.blogspot.com/

Jenni (Chaos Lounge) : http://jen-at-chaos-lounge.blogspot.com/

Kristine (Wench'd Grafix) : http://wenchdgrafix.com/yakkin/

LeAndrea (Doodle) : http://doodlelt.blogspot.com/

Linda (Jazzy) : http://wordstodelite.blogspot.com/

Nett (Lady Grundlefunk) : http://www.skwerlicious.com/blog/

Pamela (Luna) : http://midnightcharms.blogspot.com/

Paula (PKDoll) : http://pksbragbook.blogspot.com/ **You are here now**

Renee : http://bydezign.blogspot.com/

Silvia (Phillsboo) : http://phillsboo.blogspot.com/

Now please don't forget to stop by Kim's blog and wish her a Happy Birthday!!!

Kimb's Birthday Bash!!

Today is the start of an awesome weeklong birthday bash over at Kimb's Designs!! She has a week full of surprises for everyone. It starts out with her new PU and CU grab bags on sale for one week only.

The previews below are for her new grab bags!! Go check it out at DSO. Please make sure you go to Kims blog everyday from now until November 4th, you will be sooooo happy that you did. She has so many wonderful surprises for everyone. Just click on the previews to go to her store at DSO to take advantage of this special birthday celebration.

WOW!! They are so packed full of goodies!! Anyone who has purchased her grab bags in the past will certainly be very happy with these!! You can't go wrong! Not only that but most of her store is on sale for 45% off plus a bonus discount with coupon from her One Million thank you freebie on her blog. BUT the bonus coupon is only good for today!! And if you purchase both bags you get a free 30 page brag book included. What a great deal!!!! That's 30 Pages!! I want to show you 2 of the pages below. They are soooo beautiful!!
As a lot of you know I just went to Iowa to see my new great-granddaughter. She is so precious and beautiful. I couldn't wait to show you some pictures of her--and the bundled brag book pages were the perfect opportunity to show her off. She's 5 weeks old already. I was so excited to finally get to meet her, and she is such a good baby. I would love to stay and chat some more, but I gotta get to work. So until next time have fun and stay safe.

Awesome New Kit!!

Well people Kim has done it again!! She has a brand new gorgeous kit in the store at DSO called "Loryn". It's the first one of a series she is working on for her good friends. If this first one is any indication of how the rest of the series is going to look I can't wait to see them all!!! Just look at the preview of this kit. I love the colors and everything else about this kit. It's on sale for a short time at 25% off, so head on over to DSO and pick it up for a great price!!

Here's a couple of pages I made using this gorgeous kit.

This is my grandson Braxtin with his Aunt Victoria and his Grandpa Larry. I used Jazzy's wordart from her smile set which you can find exclusively at DSO. My dear friend Jazzy has been having some major computer problems and I'm hoping she gets that all resolved soon. I miss seeing her online giving inspiration to so many. Smiles are contagious and I love this set by Jazzy. Here's my second LO using Kim's new kit.This is one of our granddaughters that live in Iowa. She's going through the teenage stage trying to figure out who she is. I really love how this turned out. The wordart was a freebie from Bethany. The wordart says "Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience."
I will be heading for Iowa myself Thursday early AM to spend some time with our family and grandkids so I won't be on again until sometime next week. We also get to see our great-granddaughter for the first time and I can't wait!! So until next week you all have fun and stay safe.

New WA Set

Hi everyone! Well if you follow my blog you will see that I gave Crops an award last week and she has done me the honor of giving it back to me. She's a real card and you gotta love her!! Thanks Crops--I feel honored to have received the heart award twice!

Well I have a new LO for you showcasing a new wordart set by Inspired Mommie Designs called Love Song Overlays. There are 4 overlays to the set. You can find the set at Pretty Scrappy. Go check it out and look at some of her other wordart too while you are there. Everything else on the LO is from Kim Broedelet. I used a paper from her stone accents paper set, and embellishments from her kit heartfelt and the frame is from her Leafy Cluster set. You can get all of these exclusively at DSO.

This is my dear sweet honey. He sure does clean up good don't he!!hahahaha! I really love that crooked smile of his.

I was also playing a bit this weekend and I have a freebie frame for everyone--if you want it that is. You can get it here.

Well that's it for today. Short post and I am not sure that I will get back on here again this week. I have to work some overtime at work to make sure that I have things done so I can go to Iowa and see our new great-granddaughter on Thurs. So I will be gone from Thursday-Sunday or Monday spending time with the grandkids and our new great granddaughter! I will be sure to get lots of pictures too. So till next time take care and have fun!!

Happy to Announce New Blogger!

Wooohoooo! I'd like to congratulate a fellow CT member and scrapper Melanie (O2BNGdHope) who has started her own blog!!! I was soooo surprised to find her blog today and I am soooo excited for her. Melanie I love your blog and I can't wait to see what you start designing. You see Melanie dreams of becoming a digital designer and we all get to see her realize her dreams. If you have had the priviledge to see her LO's you can see she has a real talent for digital scrapbooking--so I know any designs she comes up with are going to be equally gorgeous and amazing!!! I am so happy for you Melanie. I have added you to my favorite blogs and will be visiting you often. You can check Melanie's LO's in several different galleries, but I will point you to her SBM gallery here.

This is a day full of surprises and good things. I have received another blog award!!

This is from my dear friend and awesome designer Michelle McCoy at craftscraps. Thank you so much Michelle for this beautiful award. I love it! Now I need to pass the award on. This is the hard part, because there are so many I can give this to. But I can only pick a few-so here are my choices for the award:

Carol (Crops2Dawn)

Jazzy (words to delite)

Kim Broedelet

Now it's time to show you my latest LO. I used a kit from WaterLO Project called "on the Autumn Meadow" and I used Jazzy's Halloween titles and wordart which can be found exclusively at DSO. My neighbor's daughter was dressed like groooovy from the 60's. She was soooooo cute I just had to scrap it. Sure hope she likes it.

Well that's it for today. Until next time take care and have fun.

Some New Things...

Life sure has been busy these days. Too many things going on at the same time all around me. Life sure does seem to take over at times. But I do have a few new things to share with you today. There is a new festive blog train in the works. They are looking for as many designers, new or seasoned, to join in the holiday blog train. For more information just go to the addy that is listed in the banner below. My good friend and a designer that I CT for is going to be a part of this blog train-MICHELLE MCCOY at craftyscraps. She is really excited about this and hoping to get more designers on board for this very festive giveaway!!

I haven't had much time to play lately-but I do have a LO that I was able to finish to show you a brand new product that is in the store and on sale right now at DSO from Jazzieal at wordstodelite. It's called "Heritage Cards" and it is on sale for a short time-so go check it out.

This is my father (right) and his brother as boys.I used Kim Broedelet's kit "By gone Gents", and Jazzie's new WA cards-which you can find both exclusively at Digital_scrapbooking.org--Also used the letter H from katie pertiet at designer digitals. Well this is all I have today. I hope to have more next time.

Till next time take care and have fun.

Fall Splendor Blog Party!!

There is a super blog party going on right now!!! It's called the Fall Splendor Blog Party and over 70 different designers have put together a MEGA!! collaboration kit for everyone for free!!! I have to show you Kim Broedelet's portion of the kit.

To get Kim's portion of the collab kit you need to go to her blog and than you can get some more details on how to get the whole kit!! This is one super MEGA kit--don't miss out!! Kim's portion is gorgeous.

Jazzieal has been hit with the flu bug so I thought that I would share with you all my LO I did using her new WA.

I used Michelle McCoy's freebie kit "A Little Spooky" which you can find on her blog here. I also used elements from MA3 which she gave as freebies at ScrapbookMax! The WA used is from Jazzieal's new Halloween sets in the store at DSO. One is called Halloween Titles and the other set is called Halloween Bundle. Here are the previews.

They are currently on sale for 25% off so if you are looking for some good Halloween WA head on over there and take advantage of the sale.

Well that's about all that I have for you today. So until next time take care and have fun!

BACK UP! BACK UP! BACK UP!

I bet that got your attention! At least I hope it did. My good friend and awesome designer Kim Broedelet EHD (external hard drive) has failed her. She unplugged it to plug it in to her DH computer so she could back it up to disks and when she plugged it back in she couldn't find anything on it. Her DH took a look too and he couldn't find anything either. So now she sent it into a recovery service where they try to recover as much data as they can. She said she lost about 3 months of work. You can go here to her blog and read about it. I know how devastated I would be if that happened to me. I can't emphasize enough how important it is to burn your stuff to disks for safe keeping. Kim does burn it to disks, but life gets so busy you don't always do it as often as you should and before you know it 3 months have passed. I know that I will be very busy burning to disks for the next few days. I know that it is time consuming, but it is oh sooo worth it.

I have been working on some LO's this week and I made a couple that are not my usual style, but I loved making them and I think they turned out pretty good. This first one is our granddaughter and great-grandson getting set for the first kiss-with sippy cup in hand and everything. This was such a cute picture and I couldn't wait to scrap it. Than Michelle McCoy (Wolvsie) came out with this new kit named "Joy"-it was perfect for this photo. You can find the kit at Crafty Scraps store. She also has a freebie QP using this kit on her blog. The wordart Adorable was a freebie from Jazzieal.

This next one is my grandson. I used an Illuminated brush and a heart brush, I made the BG paper, and the leafy cluster frame was a freebie from Kim Broedelet which you can find on her blog. And you can get the kit of 5 leafy clusters in her store at DSO. I can't remember where I got the WA so if anyone recognizes it please let me know so I can give proper credit.

My sister had sent me some pictures of her baby too. It's her Border Terrier and she is her spoiled baby.

She so loves her doggie-so I decided to make a page for her. Credits: Paper is from Kimb's CU grab bag on sale at DSO, I blended the first picture into the paper to give it some texture, the frame is a freebie from Jen at Chaos Lounge using Kims new grab bag, the "counting trash" alpha is by Katie Pertiet at designer digitals and the the wordart is from Jazzy's "Doggy Treats" set on sale at DSO.

Now I have one more I would like to show you. I made this one using a challenge freebie kit from Fiona Storey at ScrapbookMax. This was given to those of us who made or commented on the Guess Who contest last week. I took the picture at a mini waterfall I passed when I was taking my GS home to Iowa this summer. There were two swans and I just think they are beautiful birds and I was lucky enough to get a couple pictures of them.

Well that's all I have for today. Remember Backup! Backup! Backup!

Till next time take care and have fun!!