Saturday, December 26, 2009

Seems about right…

I’m not sure who wrote this but I found this online today and she didn’t know where it came from either, so I will share with you.  I’m calling it A Crafter’s Christmas…

Twas the night before Christmas,
I’m glued to the tree.
I’m wondering what Santa brought just for me.
Could it be cardstock or ink pads or lace?
Or some stamps, I said, with a smile on my face.
And that’s when I heard him ... “Hi Santa” I said
He replied, “You know ... good girls should be in their beds”.
“I know I should Santa and now I’ve been caught.
But I was just so excited to see what you brought”
“Well, let’s take a look in this room where you work”.
He shook his head quickly, and left with a jerk.
I heard him exclaim as he put it in gear.
“You’ve got enough crap, I’ll see you next year!”

Haha!  I hope your Christmas was great!
ESS’s 1st Birthday is next month and they are gearing up some super sweet prizes, games and giveaways you’re not going to miss out on!
I’ll be back with more details soon.

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Thursday, December 24, 2009

Melly’s on Facebook

Melly has made a fan page on Facebook!  And if you become a fan before Dec 28th you can get a set of cards made with her new Retro Christmas kit!  (Not saying anything but I may have made one or two or maybe three of them!)  It may be too late to get Christmas cards to our loved one’s in the the mail, but several of the cards have openings for photos would make fantastic Thank You cards for you or the kids!  Here’s a few example I made:

And of course there’s the fantastic kit as the super price of only $1.50!!!  Grab it before it goes off sale.

We’ll be sticking close to home this weekend and we’re expecting 12 – 20 inches of snow, we already got about a foot this morning and after a short break it started up again.  So soon it’ll be time to set out the cookies and milk.  And get a few hours sleep before the action starts!  Merry Christmas to you all, I truly hope all your Christmas wishes come true!  I’ll be talking to you again soon!

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Friday, December 18, 2009

Retro Christmas by Melly Scraps

Hello all!  Can you believe Christmas is almost here?  It must be getting close I started on my Christmas cards this week!  Haha!

Melly has a great new kit out today called: Retro Christmas

And can you believe it Virginia?  Yes, there is a Santa Claus with prices this fantastic!  It’s only $1.50, an intro price that will blow your bobbie socks right off your feet!!!!  
  I played around and made some super cute cards (don’t look sis, I want yours to be a surprise, hehe!)

And I did a layout, these are pix from 1950 something, they are of my Grandparents and my Aunt.  I love working with the old photos, it’s such a challenge to clean them up and then find something that will frame them right without looking unbalanced.  It was my oldest’s idea to put them in the frames like gifts, pretty clever wouldn’t you say?

So rush on over to DSDI and pick up Melly’s kit while the price is still smoking hot!

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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

12 Days of Christmas with Trixie Scraps

Welcome everyone, are you enjoying the treats so far?  These ladies are just the best and it just keeps getting better as we go so please keep coming back to check out what lovelies these ladies have put together just for this special event.

Today I have for you a hybrid project made with Trixie Scrap’s Sparkle of Love.  (Such a great kit!)  I made a little calendar gift set.  Super easy just print, cut and adhere.  Slip them together and you’ve got a great little present for anyone. 
Even yourself, I won’t tell.

Hope you enjoy!  And keep coming back to the Trixie Scraps blog I’ve seen sneaks of what’s coming
and you don’t want to miss them!

And this month Trixie Scraps is the host of ScrapMatter’s Quick Page Exchange with discounts on Yuletide especially for this event.  Check out the details here.

See you again soon, thank you for stopping by! 

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Winter Magic by Scrapper’s Delights

Before we start the layouts I want to show you this, from the Better Homes' and Gardens Christmas Decorations slideshow:
(Image is linked if you’d like to see more.)

My boys and house critters (dogs and cats) would have this thing stripped in minutes!!  I can’t even imagine what torture this must be for the children who live in that house!  Because if you start eating the tree before Christmas, you’ve ruined the decorations, so

you gotta wait till at least Christmas morning after you’ve taken all the pix of opening presents, right?  Well maybe we could start on the backside for now….

Umm with a diabetic in the house I guess it’s best not to even entertain the idea.  I’m seriously debating the Second Annual Gingerbread House display.  We started the tradition last year and I hoped to keep it going, the boys had so much fun decorating their little house I made for them out of graham crackers, and this year my DMIL picked me up some Wilton cookie cutters that cut out the house shape for you so no messing with patterns.  I’m so excited, we picked up buckets of candy at the dollar store yesterday, but now I’m unsure if I should put that much temptation out for the hubs.  Maybe we can make a nice one for each of the boy’s classes Christmas party next week, that will get the bug out of my system, but they won’t get all the fun they had last year, hmmm decisions, there’s always sugar free candies, but I’m not real big fan of the taste or the effects. So we’ll see, I just have to hide them maybe.

So I HAVE to show you this super fun kit from Scrapper’s Delights, it’s new this month and I got to play with it, I had so much fun!!  I’ve said it before and I know I will say it again I’ve very nervous of fantasy kits, but in the end I have soooo much fun with them that I don’t know why I get so nervous, it’s kind of freeing to have an imaginary world where you can do what you want.  So here’s what I came up with for Winter Magic, the little fairies in the kit are sooo stinkin’ cute (and kinda hot too!) that I couldn’t resist.  I’m gonna make The Hubs a new backdrop for his computer with these pretty girlies too! ;o)


(Image is linked to ESS store)

And here are my layouts:

 
This is our house this year, we switched to LED icicle lights last year, this year I found the blue so we mixed them up, let me tell you what, there isn’t a spot in the front yard you can’t see, these suckers light up the place!  And with all those penguins in the front yard, you gotta make sure they are seen.  (LOVE penguins!)


This is my oldest boy over his first four Christmases, I love the bow on the top of his head and the crazy hair as he rips wrapping paper apart in front of the tree, and that is our tree actually.  Janice put some gorgeous trees in the kit, but to keep it realistic (ha!) I added ours.  Best tree I’ve ever had, it’s fiber optic so no lights to string!!  I rarely put ornaments on, with little hands, inquisitive kitty paws, and lab’s tails, there’s just no keeping ornaments safe.  So I hang a garland of green on the wall or across the curtain rod and hang them from that.  Keeps them safe because you never want to find your dog eating the kid’s macaroni art ornament.

Well, that’s about it for today, tomorrow I am the bearer of Trixie Scrap’s present for her 4th day of The Twelve Days Of Christmas.  I can’t wait to show you!  But run over to Trixie’s today and get caught up on all the lovelies the ladies have made so far.

Oh and one last thing, the brilliant Melly has a new Retro Christmas kit coming out I just can’t wait to show you what I made…. but you have to wait till Friday!

See you tomorrow!

Monday, December 7, 2009

Redju’s Golden Glow

A new kit from Redju today, released last Friday at Digital-Crea.  I really love the way this kit looks with my heritage photos.  I think it would be lovely for any December holiday, especially Hanukah layouts and New Year’s parties.

Kit includes: 10 papers and 47 elements.

And here are my layouts:

 

Thanks for stopping by!

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Saturday, December 5, 2009

Trixie Scraps – Yuletide

Christmas season is definitely here and it’s cold outside! Nothing better than snuggling down with the laptop and my snuggie and making some pages of those sweet Christmas memories to get into the holiday spirit.  Tracy’s created a beautiful kit called Yuletide, formerly her Black Friday Grab Bag, we can now reveal the contents.


(All images linked)

Using Yuletide and the pieces above I made these:

I just love the look on my little guy’s face in this one as he spots the presents underneath the tree.


And oh my, my oldest one so handsome here, he’s 10 now!!!!
Where does the time go??

Thanks for stopping by!!

Friday, December 4, 2009

Redju’s Dreamy Winter & Free QP

I told you about Redju’s new kit Dream Winter kit and it’s a beauty!

(image linked to store)

 

I have a freebie for you, the lovely Redju was kind enough to let me make my Quickpage debut with her kit. 

To make things easy in this busy holiday season I made both 8x8 & 12x12. (Both sets have the same pages.)

Click here to Download 8 x 8 Quickpages

Click here to Download 12 x 12 Quickpages

Thank you for stopping by!
Next post: Trixie Scraps Yuletide

Friday, November 27, 2009

Dreamy Winter by Redju Designs

Redju Designs has a new kit out today called Dreamy Winter.

Here are the layouts I made (even though my layouts don’t do the kit justice):

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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Muppet Bohemian Rhapsody

I do love me some muppets!  And when I saw this on The Muppet Newflash I knew I needed to share it with you all.  Enjoy!

Saturday, November 21, 2009

I’m sorry…. so sorry…. but wait!!

Hi all, I’m so sorry I’m so behind on getting my add on done.  As with all families life has been a little crazy lately and I’ve fallen behind.  I am working on it.  And few other great things, in the mean time check out my CT Blog for some pretty stuff and I will be back with you soon!  Promise.

Friday, November 20, 2009

This Is Me by Melly Scraps

Had a great time working with this one.  Melly nailed it perfectly:

"This HUGE "all about me" kit contains everything you need to scrap YOU - perfect for keeping a personal journal."

And so that’s exactly what I did….

Okay how about one more, tonight Melly hosted a speed scrap, unfortunately I forgot to post the ad, but here’s the result of tonight’s fun:

Click on pictures for full credits.

Can I just show you a few more of the fantastic things Melly has?? Good!

Here’s ICING, my favorite the one that got me hooked on Melly’s work.

Candy Cornucopia, a great Halloween kit.

Army Brats, let me just tell you not just for Army Brats, being an Air Force Brat myself and my son too, I had no problem using this for AF.

And last but not least, I’ll be using this one a lot, Ante Up.

Well I think that’s all the Melly I have for now, hope you enjoyed them and you’ll go check her out, all the products are linked to her store.  The ladies at Digi Scraps Drive-In are hosting some new great challenges if you have some time check those out too!

I’ll see you again soon with Redju’s new kits, Golden Glow and Dreamy Winter.  Thank you for stopping by.

Oh my, what great things have been happening to me…

First, let me say I’m sorry it’s been so long since I’ve posted.  Time just slips through my finger and I don’t know where it gets to.  New boy appointments and me appointments and housework and all those things I should be doing but I’m just to worn out to do start stacking up and you just don’t know where to start…..

But in the time since I’ve been here I’ve added TWO new CT responsibilities!!!!  (And dropped one but it’s all good.)

I am now a member of Melly Scraps CT and it’s so great!  I fell in love with her Icing kit way many moons ago but hesitated on buying it and then all that stuff went down that eventually took down Digital Candy (still a little sad and confused about all that) and so bye-bye when Melly’s shop.  Well, she is back and set up at Digi Scraps Drive-In and has some fabulous things!!  Her CT is a little small right now but we’ll take care of her while she climbs to the top. (I will follow this post with some fabulousness from Melly.)

And just this week I was picked to join Trixie Scraps fabulous team too!!!  Wow how much better can it get than to get to work with either of these great ladies?!?!?!  I also loved Tracy’s work from DC and followed her around after she took up at Scrap Matters (a really nice shop too) and voila, a few months later here I am a new CT member on a great team.

Add that to Redju and the combined talents of the Designers at Enchanted Studio Scraps (who can I mention now is planning and all out super shindig for their birthday in January!!!) any way, I have a FULL plate of super kits to work with and I am going to try harder to get everything up here in a more timely manner.  So watch for my little site to under a little makeover, I just had a thought for a fabulous new look so I better get to getting my blogging done so I can get to making!

Thanks for your patience and hold on to your mouse because (hopefully) the updates will come streaming through fast and furious till I get caught up!  Thank you again!!

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Enchanted Studio Scraps Freebie – Today Only

Today (Oct 1) only you can get in on ESS’s new monthly freebie, but it’s only available till tomorrow, Oct 2 10am EST, Fall Playtime.

After that it will be available in the exclusive subscriber’s area.

Run over now and grab it while you can!!

HalloweenTown Ghost Blog Train Time

Hello again!!  Thank you for stopping by!  It’s finally time, so sorry I didn’t have these up at midnight, but I’ve been sick as a dog (as always happens when you need to be doing something else) but here we are now. 

I hope you all are enjoying the train so far, so much good stuff, the biggest blog train I’ve ever seen!

Make sure to stop back again next week I’m having so much fun with this (I love Halloween) that I’m putting together more goodies for an add-on!!

So here starts the fun!!

**updated preview & link**

Click on preview to go to 4shared.
Please leave me a comment and let me know what you thought, or email me SandyPieCreation (at) gmail (dot) com,
so I can post your layouts here!
Thank you again, see you next week for more!

And here’s the whole train, if you are lost and need to start over here’s the link back to the depot.

Here are all the stops:
**10/1/09 12:40pm CST list updated**

http://www.pimpyourscrapbook.com/
http://designedbystinaagain.blogspot.com/
http://alyssas-scrapsnsuch.blogspot.com/
http://amysscrapplace.blogspot.com/
http://antisocialdistortions.blogspot.com/
http://artlorsdesignshoppe.blogspot.com/
http://babycakesscraps.blogspot.com/
http://barkingpenguinscraps.blogspot.com/
http://scrappingbits.blogspot.com/
http://blind-sight.org/blog/
http://bluebird-ddu.blogspot.com/
http://cccreationz.blogspot.com/
http://caravan-gypsy.blogspot.com/
http://caysdesigns.blogspot.com/
http://www.charlieonline.it/TheGoodieTrain.htm
http://creative-scraps.blogspot.com/
http://www.coquettasdesignz.blogspot.com/
http://thecountrygirlcreationscabin.blogspot.com/
http://countryhollowcreations.blogspot.com/
http://crazedscreations.blogspot.com/
http://jeanniescreations.blogspot.com/
http://creationzbyjo.blogspot.com/
http://crystalsscrapcreations.blogspot.com/
http://dlitefulaccents-gina.blogspot.com/
http://debscrapbooks.blogspot.com/
http://www.darkpheonixquietcorner.blogspot.com/
http://www.darksistersstore.blogspot.com/
http://www.dazzlingscraps.blogspot.com/
http://pimpmytagswithscraps.com/blog/
http://dolphinlover09.blogspot.com/
http://digiscrapsdezines.blogspot.com/
http://digicats.blogspot.com/
http://digifoxsstudio.blogspot.com/
http://digiscrapations.blogspot.com/
http://digitalblueprint.blogspot.com/
http://digitalcreationsfrommillstreamcottage.blogspot.com/
http://dorthi.blogspot.com/
http://www.dreambigdigi.blogspot.com/
http://ellanoir.blogspot.com/
http://enviedadmiredscraps.blogspot.com/
http://funky-fever.blogspot.com/
http://girlfrienddesignz.blogspot.com/
http://gothicinspirations.blogspot.com/
http://graphicsbypokadot.blogspot.com/
http://heartfeltperfections.blogspot.com/
http://heavensdesignz.blogspot.com/
http://hippiedazescrappinstuff.blogspot.com/
http://hbsfaithinchristscraps.blogspot.com/
http://i-dont-give-a-scrap.blogspot.com/
http://ladyannesscraps.blogspot.com/
http://jbs2designs.blogspot.com/
http://www.jenssweettemptations.blogspot.com/
http://josdzigns.blogspot.com/
http://blueridgemeadows.blogspot.com/
http://saphirasworld.de/scrapdesign/
http://intoxxikatedintentionz.blogspot.com/?zx=d3dfb6da6625ca82
http://www.melindasdesigns.com/
http://melissadanieldesigns.zervona.net/blog/
http://pinkquixotic.blogspot.com/
http://missylynnscrapsandtuts.blogspot.com/
http://momparadisedesigns.blogspot.com/
http://munchkynscraps.com/
http://oceanmystdesigns.blogspot.com/
http://netteandsherrasscraps.blogspot.com/
http://nettesnightowlworks.blogspot.com/
http://turtlesrainbow.blogspot.com/
http://pimp-your-tags.blogspot.com/
http://pspgirlplace.blogspot.com/
http://bitsnpiecesofqbd.blogspot.com/
http://scrappersville.blogspot.com/
http://rosemadedesigns.blogspot.com/
http://sassysimagination.blogspot.com/
http://scrapintimenfun.blogspot.com/
http://hornyroo.blogspot.com/
http://scrapswithattitude.blogspot.com/
http://scrapzbysashi.blogspot.com/
http://sensualposers.blogspot.com/
http://sevens-scraps.blogspot.com/
http://lifewithshal.blogspot.com/
http://irresistiblescraps.blogspot.com/
http://snackpackgu.blogspot.com/
http://staceysdesigns.blogspot.com/
http://stargazer-musings.blogspot.com/
http://freebiefriendsscrapsandmore.blogspot.com/
http://stickykissesdesigns.blogspot.com/
http://sunflower-scraps.blogspot.com/
http://snsdigiscrappers.blogspot.com/
http://tootypupscraps.blogspot.com/
http://www.tracydidit.com/
http://twinkydezines.blogspot.com/
http://tygerstidbits.blogspot.com/
http://whisprddreamz.blogspot.com/
http://whisprddesignz.blogspot.com/
http://wenchdesigns.blogspot.com/
http://www.wickedprincessscraps.blogspot.com/
http://yourscrapaddiction.blogspot.com/
http://yummiedesigns.blogspot.com/
http://scrapu.blogspot.com
http://scrappybitoffun.blogspot.com
http://www.michelles-angels.blogspot.com
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

HalloweenTown Blog Train

Hello all, if you are here for the Halloween Blog Train, please bear with me…. I will have my addition up on the 1st, it just might after lunchtime (central time.)  Thank you so much, please come back.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Have you gotten my freebies yet?

Well, sad to say, but I didn’t make it to round 3 of the Next SAS-y Lady at Stone Accent Studios, but it’s ok.  I first want to thank everyone who did download any of my kits, what a rush to see all those downloads, and they are still being downloaded!!  I’m so excited that ya’ll took the time to check out my work.  I hope the kit is working well for you, I’d love to see what you make with them!

Your comments and well wishes were lovely and I truly appreciate them.   I’ve whet my appetite for designing and I excited to keep going.  But in the mean time I wanted to make sure everyone had a chance to get what I’ve made so far. 

Autumn Blues

Friends Across the Miles part 1 of 2

Friends Across the Miles part 2 of 2

Friends Across the Miles Add-On

If you have layouts you’d like to share please email me at:

SandyPieCreations  (at) gmail (dot) com.

Thank you so much for stopping by, check back soon for more goodies.  Also don’t forget to check out my CT blog for more beautiful kits from fantastic designers.