"Buckeye's Fan" Kit

Howdy!

The party went very well this evening. I still can't believe my baby is 3! She made out like a bandit with gifts this year! More kitchen play things, some dress up stuff, a backpack, puzzles, a Leap Frog Scribble and Write, and a Razor Scooter! The scooter has three wheels and the rear wheels are the same as a skate boards. The thing is very heavy! The older kids each have there own scooters and this weighs as much as those two put together and then some. She was riding it all over in the house tonight. Can't wait to see all three kids riding up and down our street.

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I really didn't get any true scrapping done today. I did however scrap /make some party decorations and party hats. She had been wanting a frog theme for months but I was having a hard time finding frog decorations. What few things I did find the stores wanted an arm and a leg for. So we went with plain green plates but she got creative on her own and changed the theme up. green plates and pink napkins. We had green and pink streamers all over the house and I also put together some little frogs sitting on lily pads that had pink flowers! I never would have thought to put pink and green together but it turned out very nice in the end. I also got a good reminder cutting out all the frogs and flowers as to why I don't paper scrap! All that cutting drives me buggy!

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Tonight I am re posting the Freebie "Buckeye's Fan Kit" per request.

Click the preview to be taken to the download area.

Until next time...

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Fan Kit Reminder

Hi everyone!
Just a quick note while I take a mini break from party preparations.
The "Steeler's Fan" Kit and Add-On will both expire tonight and will be flying away to retirement.
If you have not gotten your copy yet please do so now!

The next Fan Kit going up tonight will be the Ohio State Buckeyes! or as I call it the "Buckeye's Fan" Kit
This one will be available until Thursday night.

I have also gotten started on both the Twins and Yankees Fan Kits. Yeah! It's about time I did them!

If you have any Fan Requests please submit them on this post or email them to me. Fan kits can be for Collages, Pro Football, Baseball, Basketball you name it and I will at least try to make it!
I have even done a couple of High School ones on request. For a High School one please email me. I do have a couple of requirements for those.

Until next time...

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Hi Everyone!

It's been a very long day. Tons of stuff still to do on the to do list that needs to be done by about 4pm Tuesday afternoon. I sure hope this rain lets up for a bit, the Birthday girl and I need to go get party decorations and balloons! I still can't believe it 3 years old Tuesday! They grow up so fast!

Speaking of growing up, We had parent teacher conferences tonight with the teenager. Before leaving I asked her if there was any thing she needed to tell us before we went. Her response was "nope doing good all b's and c's". Upon hearing that I had my doubts but I could only assume she was right. She has a special study hall for extra help so it is a possibility that it could be b's and c's. Actually this is what we got. Math B, English A, Orchestra A, Science F, Debate F, Geography D. All the teachers agree she is very bright, A pleasure to have in class and voluntarily participates during class discussions. The only problem is getting the work turned in. Been this way for so long now that I don't even know for sure what grade it started in. We have tryed all sorts of organization and assignment note books to no avail. She comes home from school saying she got it done in study hall and that all she has to do is her nightly reading for English. I'm ready to pull my hair out! I can't do the work for her and I can't turn it in for her. Those are her responsibilities but I can't get through to her.(Three years of summer school has not either) When the teachers say anything to her about it she clams up and starts to cry. (Just another one of her ploys) Which in turn gets her out of class. Over the years I've tried darn near everything. Any one got any good insight or advise on teens? Like I said I'll try just about anything.

OK enough of the downers, You'd think life was just terrible around here! Yes it gets rough at times, but what family don't have a few rough spots along the way? It's just that when you hit that same speed bump over and over it gets awfully old.

OK OK OK It's been one of those days and I feel like venting! But let's get to our Layouts and see if that improves things.

Our first layout to night has come to us from Robin.

Robins fur baby had some baby's of her own! Aren't they cute!

What breed is she Robin? and the pups? They look like they will be big!

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Kit "Beautiful You" by: Digi Designs by Nicole

The kit is no longer available free on her blog but you can get it in her shop. If you hop on over to Nicole's blog you can get some pretty cool QP's made from this kit!
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Simona sent in this next one that she did of her new kitten. Yep Mathilda joined them just a few months ago and then this one turned up hiding in there garage late last month. Her name Pulce translated to English means "Flea"! She was covered in them when they found her! She is a very affectionate little one and today while Simona and I were chatting she walked across Simona's Keyboard and had her computer doing all sorts of weird things. All in an attempt to get some lovin!

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Kit: "Oh Crazy Girl" by Thaliris

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This one I did for the Color Challenge this month at STS.

I snapped this picture looking across the river from our campsite.

Later that night it was so clear we were able to see the lights of the space station for a few minutes! It was a beautiful evening and a gorgeous night for sleeping under the stars.

The kit I used here is my "Autumn's Passion" that will be coming out on Sunday!
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I also made this one awhile back when I was practicing my extracting and shadowing to make things pop up over frames and such. I used a picture of Simona's cat Lulu and then sent the finished LO to her as a small gift.

Oh Rats! I just accidentally deleted the Preview! Now I have to re upload it and my spacing in this post is going to be all messed up. Here goes...

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Kit: "Felty Pet" by Calico Designs

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Tonight's Freebie Template #214

Click the preview to download

No hot linking please.

Thank you to everyone who has left comments and or advice on the Pumkin Time LO.

I had planned on working on it a bit today but I will have to put that off to Wednesday now. So if you have any more suggestions keep them coming!

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llaxton ~ I would love to try out one of your textures! If you don't mind, send me a link.
I took a peak at both of your blogs but didn't really know which would be best to contact you on .

Alright everyone thanks for listening I'm in a much better mood now.

Have a good night and of course...

Until next time...

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Help Please and a Revived Freebie!

Evening Everyone!

Wow what a busy day! The kids all spent the night at Grandpa's last night so we took the opportunity to do the Birthday shopping for the little one bright and early this morning. This afternoon Grandpa and I took the kids out to a pick your own pumpkin patch! On the way home we stopped and let the kids run some more at the playground. Must have wore the two youngest one out though. They were both sound asleep before 8 tonight!

Tonight though I need your help and or advice.

I started the below layout(s) of our trip to the pumpkin patch this evening. The problem is neither version really sets right with me in my gut.

Something is wrong, but I can't put my finger on it.

Is it the frames/mats?

Which version is better? I'm leaning toward the first one.

Should the stitches be darker? Or should they just go?

Things I do like:

The template,

The layout of the photos,

the colors and or theme

Why the colors and theme you ask? Well this is a mixture of two of my new kits that are coming out soon. ;)

Any helpful advice would be very much appreciated, I'm about to toss the whole layout out!

I like it but I don't grrr....

Maybe a mat under the whole thing?

HELP!!!

Also I have been receiving a number of requests for the Fan Kits that I did last year. I have been sending the kits out on a per request basis since I took them down last... umm was it February?

Well that part don't matter, but this does!!
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Starting tonight I will be re-releasing the fan kits!

One at a time and each one will only be available until I put the next one up.

I will post these for 2-3 days each then they will be gone!

I also hope that by doing this I get back into the "Groove" and get some new Fan Kits made for you all! I promised a Twins Fan Kit and a Yankees Fan Kit awhile back but just have not been able to settle down and do them.

IF I get back back into the "groove" the new ones will be available for 1 week. But don't worry I'll remind you on those kits when the time comes. Now if you want to put in a request we will re-release in that order. If I don't have one that's been requested I will add it to my to do list, but I make no promise at this time of when or if I will get to it.

My latest request came in from Amanda asking for the "Steeler's Fan" Kit so we will start off with that tonight. Since the Steeler's won the super bowl this past year I also made a Super Bowl Add-On for them.

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"Steeler's Fan" Kit Freebie

(include: 7 papers and 23 elements)

Remember there are 2 downloads for this kit!

Steeler's Super Bowl Add-On Freebie

(includes: 10 papers and 22 elements)

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Make sure you get all three of the downloads.

This will come down on Tuesday and another will go up!

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Thank you for all the wonderful comments.

I couldn't do this with out you!

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Amanda ~ I will look into the Ohio State kit for you.

Until next time...

PS.. One last question.. How do you force a link to open in a new window? (other then right clicking and then open in new window) Is there an adjustment to the code or something? For example my layouts for this post.

Double template #48

Good Morning!

Are you all enjoying your weekend?

I hope you guys are not to mad at me. I sent out the September gifts about an hour ago and I now have your Friday Double ready for you also. I'm sorry that I'm running late with all of this. Things have been a bit chaotic for Michele and me this last week or so. Michele was sick for awhile and then just as she started feeling better it was time for them to move! Things are settling down a bit now and she finally got her Internet back. That's primarily why the gifts were sent out late this month. Kind of hard to send a file with out some sort of Internet connection and our phone plans just don't cut it for that!

While we are on the topic of the monthly gift. Should we do another double one for this month? Out of all the double template votes last month less then half actually submitted a Lo. Is this due to school starting and there was just no time or was it that the template was not that great? You tell me what you want and I will get started on it. I have not created this months gift as of yet.

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On the other hand, have been designing like a mad person! I never made it to bed before 3 am this past week. Last night I was working on a kit and lost all track of time. It was 5am before I looked at the clock! But if you take a peak at the right side of the blog you will now see a list of up and coming Kits. I hope you will forgive me for running late. I have the mojo flowing and hate to stop when it visits. I never know how long it's going to stick around! Unfortunately I have also been neglecting the house work and now have my work cut out for me. Our little one turns 3 on Tuesday and her birthday party is here on Tuesday night!

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Alright let's get to the fun stuff!

Today I have the last of the September Layouts for you all to enjoy.

Simona sent this one in just in the nick of time! This is for the Animal Kingdom Challenge over at DSO (Digital Scrap Obsession). She did one of a turkey last month and now this Hippo.

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Kit: "Indian Terrain" by: Keyr Arun

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Our next layout is sent to us from Connie
Birthday Parties for little ones is so much fun!

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For this LO Connie used Deanna Jones part of the "It's My Party" Callab kit.

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I created this next one for the Sept Color challenge at STS (Stuff to Scrap).

We had to use Purple, Yellow and White for our three colors.

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Kit: "Vikings Fan" (retired) by Me
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I would like to take the time to say thank you to all of you! You all leave me such sweet and wonderful comments! I'm so glad you like the new kits that I have put out the last couple of months. I have really been enjoying myself participating in the blog trains. I have even completed the STS Blog train for November 1st already!

And now since you have made it all the way down here, I do have that Friday Double for you!

Freebie Double Template #48

Click the preview to download

No hot linking please

Until next time...

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