iNSD News from A Fish Design!!!

LilyAnn from A Fish Design has a lot to share. This is what she has to say...
Happy iNSD!  I have TONS to share with you today.

1- iNSD sales
2- iNSD Speed Scrap
3- New Template Pack on Sale
4- iNSD freebies So lets get started...

1- GDS is having a store wide sale with almost everything 50% off!  There are also other events you wouldn't want to miss; challenges, contests, chats, speed scraps, flash sales to name a few.  Click on flier to be taken to forum where challenges are listed.

2- iNSD Speed Scrap

I'm hosting a Speed Scrap on Saturday May 3rd at 9 pm EST.  7 instructions in 60 minutes with additional time to finish your layout.  The chat will be on the GDS FB Fan Page HERE.

And for participating and posting a layout you get this mini kit for free as a participation prize. (If you can't get a layout done, this will be available in my store as well.)

3- New Templates on Sale

My "Stars" did a fabulous job with these, don't you think.  A few Supreme Team 16 members helped too.

4- And now for what you've come for... a freebie.  Go to my blog to download.

If you're following the GDS hop, you've probably come from LissyKay Designs and your next stop would be Blue Butterfly Designs.

Go to my blog for the freebie link.

A Fish Design has a FREEBIE!

Check out the newsletter freebie from A Fish Design.  She has a link to sign up on her FB or blog page.  

fb link: https://www.facebook.com/AFishDesign
blog link: http://afishdesign.blogspot.com

Love and Blessings.

NEW FB page WITH FREEBIES!!!

Check it out!!!
Don't know how many of my friends scrapbook.....or digi-scrap, but I know their are many! 
FIRST! I've launched a new FB page with freebies that I've created.
https://www.facebook.com/coopscustomcreations452
AND BEST OF ALL *** There IS a new freebie there! It is a PRE-hop freebie that uses the palette from the new digihop website below.......

SECOND!
Have you guys heard about the new digihop website!?!
There is a great color palette and theme up for May, and YOU can join in and design some cool stuff to share!
It's a wonderful way to get your name/shop out there and get noticed! Below are the blog address and FB page link.
Check it out!
http://www.digihop.info/
https://www.facebook.com/digihop

Love and Blessings!

A New Template Pack and Two Freebies from LilyAnn.

This is what she has to say... Today is the last day to grab something from my store while I'm still celebrating my Grand Opening. Today I placed a new product in my store. A set of templates featuring curves! And it's on sale for 50% for the first week! Here are some layouts from my fantastic team of "Stars." This one is from Tina using this months collab "My Story." And another one from Tina. This one is from Vanessa. This one is from Carla, my newest CT "Star". Here are a few amazing layouts from Cath, from our Supreme Team. She loved these templates so much that she made one layout with each of the templates. Thanks Cath!!! Today's daily download at goDigitalscrapbooking.com... You can grab this free template in my store (available free for a very limited time).  March 15th-17th. There was a special request from Dorian, a forum member at goDigitalscrapbooking.com. She writes: "This might be a long shot, but I want to do a LO with my kids newborn pictures and clocks that show the time they were born. I got the idea from a Pinterest page, in which someone did this on their living room wall. Does anyone know where I can find a clock that I can set with the time they were born?" So I came up with this simple template and decided others may want this as well.  Click link below to download.

LilyAnn from A Fish Design has a message for you...

LilyAnn from A Fish Design has a message for you... First let me say how excited am I to have my Grand Opening Sale at goDigitalScrapbooking!  I've been working on lots of new ideas and have a sketch book of templates I'd like to design.  I do have a couple of ideas for kits as well, but I'm in the template mood for the last couple of months.  I also will be mailing my first newsletter sometime the first week of March so if you didn't sign up yet and don't want to miss the free template that will be included you only have a couple of days left to sign up. I'm still looking for one or two more CT members so if you are interested let me know. Now on to the good stuff.
1- From March 1st through March 15th everything in my store will be on sale for 50% off. Image is linked to my store.

2- For every layout added to my gallery between March 1st and March 15th, you'll get $1 coupon to my store for a maximum of $3.

3- I'll be giving out RAKs (Random Acts of Kindness) in the gallery and on my Facebook page though out the 2 week period.

4- I'll be giving flash coupons (limited time coupons) on my Facebook page.

If you go to my blog and go to the bottom of this same post, there is a free template for you.

Here's a layout that I made with the free template!  Scoot on over and grab it now!

Love and Blessings!

34 Things I Want You to Know About ME!

34 Things, huh?  Wow, this could be tough.  I'm kind of an open book, but I want to do this to prepare for a new project.  My story about me, before kids.........  I've joined an online scrapping class called Before Your Story and I've been following the leader's blog for quite awhile.  Well, this woman, Jennifer Wilson, is amazing and so generous with her scrapbooking ideas and prompts and THIS is one of them.  34 Things I Want You to Know About Me.  I really have to get back into this blogging thing, so what better way than to tell you, me, my girls, hubby, whomever more about me.  

I adore my girls.  It's definitely a chore sometimes.  I love them always, but there have been plenty of times that I haven't liked them.  That's something my mom taught me.  "I'll always love you, but sometimes I don't like you."  Well, thanks Mom, but I've had those words turned back on me.  Kinda stings when your words come hurling back at you.  I guess maybe it comes from a different generation.  I would never have spoken to my mom the way I've been spoken to, by my girls, at times.  But I wouldn't trade them for the world.  I love my girls.  They've grown into such amazing adults.  Sure, we're proud beyond words that our baby girl chose to enlist in the United States Marine Corps.  It's an incredibly hard job, but even more difficult for a female.  And now she's a mom.  She's a single mom, 1200 miles away from her family, doing it completely on her own and truly ROCKIN' IT!!!  And our oldest?!?  She's our first COLLEGE GRADUATE!!!  She did it on her own and with a baby the last two years.  Now she's decided that office work is not for her so she's going back to school to become a nurse.  An honorable profession, that not everyone is cut out for.  We're so very proud of both of them.  I don't think they know that all the time.  I hope they know that we're always here for them, no matter what.  It's what parents do.  

The concept of this new album is about me, before we (Freddy and I) had kids.  Remember, it's called Before Your Story.  So, it's going to be about me, before Freddy too.  The 34 things here is just a list of 34 things I want "you" to know about me that may or may not make it into the book.  Now, whether my girls will ever read these?  Who knows.  But this is some cool stuff.

1. I was born in Duluth, MN, but almost immediately moved to St Paul Children's Home to be adopted.
2. Duluth, MN is still one of my most favorite places on EARTH!
3. I made secret forts in the pine trees at the lake.
4. I could sleep in a hammock any time, anywhere.
5. Floating in the lake is still one of my favorite activities.
6. I find sunfish nibbling at my toes relaxing.
7. Music is my getaway.
8. I've read over 600 books, not that I'm keeping track.
9. I would love to be an artist.
10. I'd intended on being a social worker.
11. I was in 4-H for 10 years, as a member, a 2 as an adult ambassador.
12. I loved being 16 and hated being 17.
13. I can't wait to open the windows and doors the first time in the Spring.
14. I actually enjoy being alone and sometimes need to be.
15. I kept a journal from the time I was 10 until 20....I have no idea where it is or if it is still somewhere.
16. I sing.  ALL THE TIME.
17. I wanted to be in a band, or on stage, or in a show.
18. I played guitar and learned piano, sorta (thanks, Melanie)
19. Freddy and I were at the same concert, Eagles, Steve Miller, Pablo Cruise at the Met Stadium, before we met.
20. I hate shoes and would prefer not to wear socks either.......
21. I married my best friend.
22. I remember exactly where I was when I heard that Jim Croce died.
23. I love Easter...more than any other "holiday".
24. I wish I could any number of the woodworking tools in my garage.
25. I was taught to be a confident driver, although my children think it's aggressive.
26. I cry at Hallmark commercials.
27. I cry when our National Anthem is played.
28. I sang our National Anthem at the 2013 Relay for Life of Lakeville.
29. Reveille is my morning alarm.
30. And I listen to Taps every night at 2100 before saying my prayers.
31. I am SO grateful that my job allows me to work with kids part-time and do a lot of anal-retentive book-keeping part-time.
32. I talk too much.
33. I have a collection of goofy, fun desk toys.
34. I'd move to somewhere warmer, like South Carolina/Georgia, if I could take "Minnesota" with me.

NOW I have to add stuff........  I'm reading other people's lists and I find there are things there that I'd like to have here!  Maybe I'll get up to 54 for MY birthday this year.  So..........
35. My first car was a neon blue, 73 Ford Maverick.
36. My phone number growing up was 890-4009.....the area code changed three times while my parents lived there.
37. Mom and I were the only women who could dance the Lindy-Hop with Daddy......cuz he added an extra, little skip in there.....  I can't dance the Lindy with anyone else.  
38. I'm a closet motor-head.  LOVE muscle-cars.
39. I loved Gram's beer salami sandwiches and they don't taste the same when I make them now.
40. Pink, Wintergreen lozenges still remind me of Papa. 
41. I went to Kindergarten at Mrs. Minerich's house, with most of my life-long friends.
42. I'm a fonts whore.
43. 


WOW.  That took a bit of thinking!  I'm very excited about starting this new project.  
Love and Blessings!

Winter Wish Collab Freebie

Our Facebook Group has made a wonderful Winter Wish Collaboration for you. There are 36 papers, 67 elements, one alpha and a template. Please leave a comment. 

Hope you enjoy our gift

 

Please Download On Our Groups blog

Digi Blog Train List

Pixel Scrapper Winter Wonderland Blog Train!!!

WooHoo!  Another Train and I'm in.  This is so much fun, when I have the time...(eh'hem! make the time)  I'm rather excited about this one.  There are 6 papers and 10 accents, including 3 wordarts, which are my favorite.  Please don't forget that the train designers are all over the world, so some links may not be active all at the same time.  Enjoy!

DOWNLOAD HERE

Here's the link to the PS Blog Train Forum, where all of the participating designers have links to their kits.  You will have to become a member to get in, but it's free and the people are amazing!  And maybe someday, you to will be participating in a blog train!
PixelScrapper Blog Train Forum....Pick up all your kits here!!!
Love and Blessings!

Virtual Crop!

(thanks to Shelly, for the words below, blatantly copied from her post!!!)
Just One Piece

For the past couple of days I've been participating in something called a Virtual Crop. Thanks to the World Wide Web scrapbook creators can stay home surrounded by all of their stuff AND be together as they create. Basically it works like this …

1 - Someone is in charge (I'm always happy about that as long it's not me.)
2 - That someone puts together an event and invites people no matter where they live. The event I was at happened on Facebook.
3 - That someone also puts up a challenge or a question every hour or so.
4 - People at home create according to the challenges and answer the questions. Then photos are posted showing each interpretation of any given challenge. That's where it really gets to be fun.
5 - There's "conversation" through the comments on FB and various postings along the way. It's as busy as an actual room full of chatty paper creating girls.

I'm looking forward to "attending" again next month.  Let me know if you'd like an invite!


Here's some of my favorite layouts from this weekend.

 A wedding that we didn't get to attend led to a blow-out reception where we all got our groove on!

 Some fun stuff from the fall of 2008.

Next FB Virtual Crop is December 20-21.  Should be good times with friends right up until our Marine arrives home for Christmas.  Then I guess I'll just have to hang with her and our granddaughter and take pix to put in new layouts for the JANUARY crop!!!  

Hope and pray that everyone has a wonderful, safe Thanksgiving with family and/or friends.  
Love and Blessings!

Born to scrap...forced to work.

I can't believe it!  I just cannot believe it.  I achieved my goal of completing 213 layouts in 2013.  

Now, mind you, this isn't my 213th layout.  NO!  This is so much more important!  THIS is Caddie!!!  Is she just the cutest thing you've ever seen?!?  Our granddaughter is 1 year old as of last Saturday, November 2, 2013.  LOOK at that face!  LOOK at those dimples!  Her mom's pretty cute too. (upper left, Anna, with bestie, Christy)

We were so Blessed to be able to visit them, in NJ, in August.  We're so very proud of Anne, serving in the United States Marine Corps.  We know it's hard to be so far away from us, but it's really hard for us to be so far away from them too.  Caddie has the greatest personality.  Sometimes, I actually feel sorry for Anne.  I mean, just look at those eyes.  There's definitely some mischief in those eyes.  

 

We got to go out to the beach twice while we were there.  The wonderful part?  We got to go and enjoy the sun, sand, surf and we got to spend money in Seaside Heights to help Restore the Shore!!! and we met some GREAT people.  The horrible part?  Yeah, most of where we visited went up in flames a week later.  SO sad.  But they WILL come back again!  They're fighters out there.  No doubt.
Love and Blessings!