BIG weekend of Sales....

Oh my.... I just LOVE 4 day weekends for 1 reason only..... SALES! Especially Digiscrap Sales! With that being said I decided to holler out to my Facebook and Twitter friends to see what sales they had going on.... Its all about promoting friends and fun places! Load up your PayPal account and scroll thru to see what catches your eye. All the images are linked to the shops.

Digiridoo Scraps
Heart of the Matter is the monthly collab for February at Digiridoo Scraps. With 80 papers, 100+ elements, 10+ word-arts and 2 alphas, this kit is a whopping 430+MG!! And you get the entire collab for FREE with a purchase of ANY AMOUNT. Yea... that's right. Go in, find something you've been wishing for, buy it and get this incredible kit for FREE.
Also at Digiridoo Scraps are a couple of notable items. Sarah Barber has a great deal on her kit - Flirtation and Fidelity. I also heard from a little hybrid birdie (Hi Sharon!) that there is a coupon for some dollars off on her CT blog.




Also at Digiridoo Scraps, Caffeine Created Designs has her shop on sale - 50% off - for the ENTIRE MONTH of FEBRUARY.


For more NEW RELEASES, check this thread out in the forum. Did you know that you can follow Digiridoo Scraps on Facebook and Twitter ? Follow and you will be the first to know of new releases, receive exclusive coupons and be entered in random drawings for our followers. Plus Digiridoo Scraps has an open gallery (just no linking) and you will receive a TON of comments on your layouts.

Digitals
Sarah Meyer is going to have her shop on sale - 30% off, Sunday and Monday Only. Also, I suggest stopping by her blog for a lookee, and while you are there, join her Facebook Fanpage for a coupon.

Elemental Scraps
The awesome Katherine of Flutter Expressions is the Featured Designer this month at Elemental Scraps. You can get 35% off all her products this month so don't wait. She has some adorable kits out. Plus she created a fun challenge - Inspired By - with a super adorable mini kit.

Gotta Pixel - the ENTIRE shop is 30% off this weekend plus the March GOTTA GRAB IT items will be released tomorrow so keep some money in your account. LOL.

A few shops I recommend you visit while at Gotta Pixel
Captivated Visions
Connie Prince
LorieM Designs


Scrapbook Bytes
Another great sale is over at Scrapbook Bytes. Kalo Designs is celebrating by giving 50% off Valentine releases and 25% off all other products. There are adorable hybrid boxes in her shop as well, which would perfect to hold Valentine candy or a gift card.



Scrappity - Doo - Dah
Its the monthly Birds of a Feather time at Scrappity - Doo - Dah. This month's theme is Pitter Patter, as in on your heart. You get to pick the items you like to create your own kit and each pack is only $1. What a deal this is! Look at all these items. You can click the image to see all the packs in the store but let me tell you who some of the contributing designers are.
Sara Ellis, Connie Prince, LiseteScrap, Victoria Feemster and Project B Designs.

In other news at Scrappity - Doo - Dah, Sara Ellis is having a CT Call. You can read all about it by clicking the image. If you like to play with bright and fun kits, then this is the team for you.


Stuff to Scrap
Almost everything at Stuff to Scrap is on sale this weekend - 30% off. How awesome is that? A couple stores to check out while you are there are those of Designs by Sweet Mesquite, Digi-Designs by Nicole and Nibbles Skribbles.



SunShine Studios - just had a blog train. Did you ride it? If not, you can jump on HERE. Not sure what other sales are going on but NEW RELEASES are 30% off this weekend. A few designers to take a look at while you are there are Chris Greiser Designs, Flutter Expressions and Project B Designs.

Well, that's it for now! I need to go check the balance in my PayPal account so I can get busy... shopping that is! If you find any other good deals, feel free to share them with me by leaving a comment here, on Facebook or tweet me!

New stuff (a bit late, as usual)

Lots and lots to share.... I had meant to post most of this last week but ended up going to the Emergency Room TWICE during the week. What an ordeal... I am fine now and was after the visits but it was scary nonetheless. All I can say is Kaiser Hospitals need to re-evaluate their staff. WOW.... ok, enough about crappy hospitals in San Diego County.

Sara Ellis is sooooo fun to chat with online and so joining her CT was something I didn't think twice about. Her kits have a bright electric and fun vibration to them. This kit below is called Miss Sassy Heart. Even the names of her kits are super fun! She released this kit last week but you can still grab it for a steal because she is having a sale at Scrappity-Doo-Dah.... everything is $1.23 (until Feb 7th)
Here is the layout I created with her kit! For full credits, click on the image!
Oh yea, Sara is having another CT call to gather up some more fun girls. Check out the details HERE.

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Do you like vintage inspired kit? Well, then you should definitely check out these kits by Michelle Underwood. She sells at 2 Peas in a Bucket, which is a paper and digital shop and community. The kit below is called Sunday kind of love and I love how fun it was to use.
My layout I created using Sunday Kind of Love kit... for full credits, click the image below.

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Looking for a fun baby kit that can be used for a boy or girl? Look no farther than this adorable kit called Oh Baby... a collab by Flutter Expressions and Kandy Kane Creations. It is sold at Elemental Scraps (and if you are heading over to look for it and it isnt there yet... come back)
Here is the layout I created with this kit. I also used some other bits and pieces from Flutter Expressions. For full credits, click on the image below.

Flutter Expressions also released another super cute kit and this time its a BOY BOY kit. YEA! Masculine Edge is a fun kit with metal, bright colors, and a grungy attitude.
Below is the layout I created with this kit... very simple layout but I love it. For full credits, please click the image.

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Being on Digi-Designs by Nicole's CT for a long time now, I have watched her style grow. This is by far my favorite kit ever from her. Its called From the Heart and is jammed packed with goodies. I loved the colors so much. I actually had a hard time deciding on the background paper.
Here is the layout I created with From the Heart (yes, I finally picked a paper). Click on the image to see the full credits.

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I love love Connie Prince's kits. She cranks them out like crazy but each one has a unique theme to it. I used this kit, Party On to create the fun layout below.
Here is the layout I made using this kit. I had to borrow white papers from other designers (cuz Connie never puts them in her kit). For full credits, click the image below.
Oh, BTW... Connie now has a paper pack of WHITE papers in the shop.... WHOHOOO!!

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Color with Caryn is no longer sellling kits at ESS so not sure where you can buy this kit if you are interested in it. I would say probably hit her up on her blog and ask about it. :) But I used this kit to make the best layout ever.... an Edward layout!


OH my... do I love my men sparkly!!!! YES.... Click on the hottie below for full credits.

And Color with Caryn is the Featured Designer this week at DSW (yes, slacker CT gal and barely posting this... but then again, its payday, right?). So look at the deal you can get...

And come back tomorrow for a freebie from me made with some of the awesome CU stuff in the bag...

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Last but not least and nor in any order.... Danielle Corbitt is designing again. Whoohooo! And she is at a new store - Polka Dot Plum. And check out this new release - Close to my Heart (look below), which is part of the PDP's February Plum Pickins.

And of course, I cannot leave you without one more glimpse of a shiny man.... oh edward... beat still my heart... how I love thee.... Click on the image above for full credits!!!

belated Nov news...

Yep... its December. I know. Thanks for the heads up. Goes to show you how far behind I am on just about everything. Seems to me that life just stopped around the, oh, I guess the 23rd or so of October. Yea, a while ago. Wanna know what happened? Well, I wont bore you completely.

Basically, had a school function that required ALOT of prep work from me and the one other parent volunteer I could wrangle... plus lots of nights working late and then being at the school working on stuff all day... etc etc.. ya get the picture right? So, day after Halloween, I wake up sick. Yucky sore throat and stuff... just a cold but annoying. Then the kids get it and the hubby and for those of you with kids and hubbies, ya know how bad this is. Right, right. Moving on... finally get better and then we have several store visits (for work) in a row, leading up to the President (of the company, not the USA) stopping by which results in one really long shift... like till 5am. Yea... long long night. But we were great and the next week is the dreaded BLACK FRIDAY... OH... FYI - if I am moving really fast, its because that's how my life moves.... zoom zoom zoom - so Black Friday.... {insert evil laugh}... I get the 8:30pm Thursday night to 5:30am Friday morning shift. Its crazy crowded, its hot (because the A/C shut off thinking we were all in bed), half the people don't understand me (I don't speak Spanish), it goes on and on. But in the end, I stumbled home tired... but happy. I managed to get an awesome jacket at PacSun for 50% off... it was my size and the ONLY one there... I had been eyeballing it a few weeks prior but they didnt have my size. Destiny, I think. Went home and pretty much crashed because by now its after 7am and I have been awake a very very long time and those two Monster Loca Moca Energy drinks have long worn off. My MIL very generously had volunteered to watch my kids since she knew I would need sleep and hubby had to work - who knew the the day after Thanksgiving was a busy golfing day. Not me... Anyways, so hubby took the little devils to gramma's and my eyes were shut solid long before they walked out the door.... and they stayed shut.... until 5pm that night. Yep... I slept a long long time! Got up for a bit, ate, etc and pretty much went back to bed. I had to work the next 2 night so I need the energy. Skip past those two work days and you have Monday, Nov 30. I am feeling the need to scrap and stay up till 4am scrapping. 3 layouts done but I wake up in the morning sick... again! By Tuesday afternoon, I am running a fever of 102, so I lay on the couch with my BUG until hubby comes home and then I pretty much pass out... until Thursday night... yep! When I get a fever, I go out for the count. I am feeling alot better now, well rested. Just full of snot like you couldn't believe. But guess what I got a few hours after rising from the depths of my comfy bed... a little BUG with a temp of 101.7 and the sniffles. Ugh... yea, that means he cant go to school. So my one day home that I feel kinda decent, I have a sick kid with me. And of course this story cant end like that... nope. The other kid comes home from school sick... coughing up a small lung and spewing germs all over me.... again. I love being a mom. Yep. germs too.

Ok... was that alot? That is exactly how things go for me. Does it go like that for you? Well, if you made it thru all that then I want to share some recent layouts. Of course, these layouts are created with kits that I got for free - in exchange for working with and promoting the kit - blah blah... don't like it, don't read my blog .

So these first two layouts are created with a kit from CONNIE PRINCE called HEY SANTA. If you haven't seen Connie's stuff yet, then you are missing something. Plus, the girl is a kit machine. I think she cranks out a new kit every day. If you click on the layouts, it will take you to the Gotta Pixel Gallery and you can get more info on the kit there in the layout credits (and you could leave me some lovin'). Ok. Connie sells at Gotta Pixel and Elemental Scraps so click on either store name to check out her shop! She always has great deals and kits for $1 or $2... cant beat that.



This next layout was created just tonight during a speed scrap at Gotta Pixel hosted by Connie herself. I love her speed scraps! So much fun. Well, I used another of Connie Prince's kits, this one is called Deck the Halls. Isn't it cute? Click on the layout for the full credits because I used a couple of things that weren't Connie's.



This next layout is one of my favorite one's lately. First, I just love the photo! I used one of My Four Hens Photography Actions on it... can't remember which one off the top of my head but its one of the almost sepia ones. If you havent checked out Sarah's shop with all her amazing actions, do! And then follow her for great sales. I NEVER EVER used an action and then bought some and and now I use them each time.

Ok, back to the layout... hehe... this one is created from a new kit by Michelle Underwood Designs called Vintage Holiday Memories. Michelle sells at 2 Peas in a Bucket, which is a fun place that is both paper and digi!!!.


And that's it. I had 2 more layouts lined up but then realized they aren't released until Monday... so confusing for me to be early on a layout. hehe So come back to see 2 more adorable Christmas layouts.... from Digi-Designs by Nicole.