a WONDERful challenge at DSC

My newest Descriptive Word Challenge is now running at DSC. Woo-Hoo! The word of the moment is WONDER. Just make a LO that showcases that word in one way or another.
Get more info here.

Participate in the challenge and you will receive my "Team Sparky" mini kit when the entire challenge is over. It runs until November 19th.
Team Sparky includes 8 papers (textured smudges & patterns), 1 fiber, 1 ribbon, 2 paperclips, 2 arrow stickers, 3 word arts.


Here is my wonder LO. It features my youngest son, Griffin, at 11 months looking out at our backyard.

journaling: Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. ~Ray Bradbury
Good Times (papers & butterfly doodle) by Michelle Underwood, Doodle Swirl by Megan Leeson,
fonts are initial & levity

now....go Scrap Sassy Silly!!!! so you can grab this great little kit

*****don't forget to scroll down to see if you can grab a freebie here right now ****

new kit, new sampler for you

Doesn't the name "Perfect" just sound so fabulous??? Since I've wanted a great black & white kit for a while, I just decided to make one myself.....and, oh...I just love it (of course!). Why wouldn't I love something I made? I think that lately I believe that each kit I work on is my newest favorite. That's a pretty good sign I think too. As you can tell, it isn't only black & white, just the papers are. Most of the embellishments have sparks of color to liven it up a tad. Isn't it dreamy???? ok ok...enough already......here's my "Perfect" kit

sooooooo.......anyway.........here's a great sample of it for you

download FREEBIE sampler here
...or...download FREEBIE sampler here
purchase the entire kit here
please leave me some lovin' when you grab your FREEBIE, then go Scrap Sassy Silly!

lovin' Ebay even more!......plus another FREEBIE

I don't know why it never dawned on me earlier to try out selling my designs on Ebay. Dang! There is definitely a market there for digiscrap stuff too. I only started with 3 day listings for curiosity sakes & I made my very first sale yesterday! Woo-Hoo! It was for my Spunky Stars Alphas that I gave away on here a couple weeks ago. Here's just a few of my previews:


You can find everything here in my new shop. Most of the listings expire tonight so please hurry fast.

It's been about a week since I've offered a FREEBIE, so here you go....it's a sampler for my "Luminous Life" kit.

download here

I hope I'm making lots of people happy. I know I am. As always, please leave me some lovin' when you grab my FREEBIE. Thanks!

another birthday gift to you!!!!!!

It's my hubby's 40th birthday...well, it's almost midnight so I guess it's a belated birthday present to all of you now. Anyway, here are some fun corners to adorn your pages and photos. I hope you love all 4 of them! I have even allowed 2 opportunities (200 complete downloads) for lots of grabbing.

1st chance download
2nd chance download

***please scroll down to grab some other FREEBIEs that I made available earlier this week...........enjoy!
***I'd also love to get some answers to the questions I have on my last posting...thanks!

"Boo You" mini kit .......and coming soon

I'm so excited! My "Boo You" mini is the very first link available for DSC's October Mega Kit.

Isn't it festive?
Hurry on over there and grab it before the link disappears.

and....coming soon.......a new FREEBIE...a few cute curly corners...it's my hubby's big 40th birthday today, so I have to give you something fun, don't I?

oh! one more thing! .... a little advice please.....I've offered up kits, alphas, frames, wordart, a template, to name a few things.....what would you like to see next? after the curly corners, that is .......would you like something similar to what I've already done, something new, let me have it....I'd really like to hear from you.........................thanks :)

Hooray hooray...it's template time!

I decided to try designing and sharing a template with you. Oh how fun is that! I made one to coordinate with my Spunky Stars kit, but you can use it however you'd like. The download file contains a layered PSD file and a JPG file of it.

and my LO with my son, Griffin

Download here
Please enjoy and leave me some lovin' when you grab it. Thanks :)

*I used one of my Spunky Stars alphas with the LO. Scroll down, it's still available as a freebie.

Griffin's 1st birthday FREEBIES & more LOs from me

It seems like I've been busier than ever lately working on some new LOs (with the help of some challenges at TheDigiChick, rather than designing. 3 of the next 4 LOs were because of those challenges. Before I offer up the great FREEBIEs in honor of Griffin's birthday, I'm going to share some of my LO's with you so I hope you will enjoy.




all details and comments can be found here

Now....time for this great FREEBIE...this is my 3rd FREEBIE day this week....woo-hoo for you! I have 2 Alphas+ and a paper. The Alpha1 has upper & lowercase, numbers and extras and Alpha2 just as lowercase. The paper doesn't quite coordinate, but it's the end result of me working on a smudge page, walking away from the computer for a moment, my 2 year old hitting a few buttons, and wa-la!, this neat striped page with a woody grain to it. It does have a tiny smudge on the bottom right hand corner which adds a little bit of character I guess. He must've hit the gradient button & who knows what else. It definitely doesn't look anything like what I started with. Since the 1st Alpha file was so large, I had to divide this into two separate downloads. Both Alphas coordinate with The Spunky Stars that I offered up earlier, as well as the Dr. Seuss quotes that are still available.

Download SpunkyBirthdayGifts1
Download SpunkyBirthdayGifts2
(be sure to grab both - they are two DIFFERENT freebies)

As always, please leave me a love note when you grab my freebies. I'd also love to hear any CC too. Thanks and have a FANTABULOUS weekend!

"Luminous Life" now up in DSC's Scrap Shop.

Yay! My 3rd kit ever up for sale is now available for all.

Here is the full preview along with a little detailed sample of it.



my LO using the kit and one of my Dr. Seuss FREEBIE quotes below (font is initial):


You can grab the full kit here.

I'd love to hear what you think about it.

Also...don't forget there is a great freebie available below. :)

fun WORDART.....Dr. Seuss rules!!!!!!

oh my....I can't wait until Griffin's birthday on Friday to offer another FREEBIE. I have to have at least one FREEBIE available at all times. Since I love Dr. Seuss so much, I decided to make a couple fun wordarts.
Don't these look great?

I have two downloads available so it doesn't run out too fast.
1st download option
2nd download option
Please leave me some luvin' after you grab these goodies. :)

LOs, LOs, LOs...and a little more

I've been busy since I got back from San Diego. I submitted my next kit, "Luminous Life" to DSC's Scrap Shop (hopefully it will be available VERY soon...I'll share it here at that time), made a funch of LOs (most from our little trip), had a tiny 1st birthday party for Griffin, and watched the Cards clinch the NLDS tonight. Griffin's birthday isn't really until the 13th, but this morning worked out best for our family. I'll try to have some of his pics &/or LOs up by his birthday. I'm also going to have one super great FREEBIE then too. It's going to coordinate with Hudson's birthday goodie, "Spunky Stars".

For now, please enjoy my recent LOs...










find all journaling & credits here

I did add some small drop shadows to the ones I forgot about ...AFTER I uploaded to photobucket. ooooops

leave me your lovin! I really enjoy reading it.

OODLES & OODLES of FREEBIES

ok....I have lots of goodies for you. I'm heading to San Diego tomorrow morning to catch the Padres/Cards playoffs. Yay! I'm getting out of town for a little bit and the boys are heading to their grandparents. My hubby is a HUGE Padres fan and I'll be rooting for the Cards.

This was all very spur of the moment.
Soooo, because of my cheery mood, I'm offering plenty of goodies for you.
1) Grandma Quotes ...all new

2) the Manic Martians add-on (since the previous link is already used up)

3) Spunky Stars - because I love this set sooooooo much & it was loved by bunches of fans the first time around...now new people can still enjoy it (plus I rememembered to add the TOU this time)

Please read all TOUs and give credit to me when you use any portions of these.
here are all the downloads (including a few extra links to make sure they last a bit longer)
download Grandma 1
download Grandma 2
download Add-on 1
download add-on 2
download stars 1
download stars 2

a LO of mine using one of Grandma's quotes:

credits and details here

Leave me some lovin' and have a great week!

my poopy week (literally)....

ok...my boys have had fun with me the last few days.......

Wednesday Hudson decided to share his stinky diaper with his little brother (see posting below). Last night while giving them their bath, Griffin decided to poop in the tub. Oh yay! I guess he wanted to share a little with Hudson this time. Then..this morning....we woke up to little tiny feet pattering around on the tile. I walked into the kitchen and saw Hudson walking out in the backyard NAKED. He crawled out the doggie door. So fun. He was obviously having a blast. Well, we brought him back in the house, walked in their bedroom, and found his diaper (stinky diaper) in Griffin's crib. At least this time it wasn't smeared all over the place and Griff only had it on his feet & ankles (he spared his face and hands this time).

Sooo...now we're contemplating duct-taping his diaper on him (at least that's what my hubby wants to do). Doesn't that sound fun? Maybe I'll just have to try some pull-ups at night. He takes his pj's off and then his diaper...then who knows how long he's having fun naked before he lets us know he's raring to go for the day. We also can't leave the doggie door locked so our dog can go outside anytime. Oh..what boys we have.

Since it's time for another blog freebie....I thought it was only fitting to offer up an add-on to my Manic Martians kit. I have two patterned papers and a funtabulous Alpha for you.

download here & enjoy!!!

You can enjoy the full kit at Scrapbook-Bytes. Just click here.

my lovely morning.....

Hudson decided to have some fun....AGAIN....with Griffin. He acted like he wanted an early nap this morning, so I put both of them in their room. Wellll, about 30 minutes later Hudson started roaming around the house. I walked the boys room and smelled one BEAUTIFUL aroma, found a naked little Hudson, and then went into their room to a scene that I expected. A stinky diaper was shared with Griffin and it appeared like Griff thought it was a great toy to play with. After 1.5 hours of giving them a bath and cleaning their room, it was their regular naptime. Yippee! During their nap, I just HAD to work on this LO. (I, of course, had to snap some pics before any of the clean-up began.)


credits: Rockin' Ransom kit by me, Sara Ellis...and fonts are Valium & Tuesday (my husband saw my note with the font names & he thought I was reminding myself to take some valium on Tuesday....sooo funny)

poor neglected Griffin.....

I just went through all of my postings looking for a LO of Griffin, my 1 yr old, and I just realized that I never posted a single one of him. If I did, somehow I missed them. I'm so bad. He is definitely up at some galleries.

It's show & tell time for him now.

credits & details here


credits and details here

ok....gotta run now & play with the little ones..........I'll share a couple more LOs tomorrow, including one of Cooper, my oldest, later tonight or tomorrow sometime

a few LOs to share with you...

I thought it was time to add a couple more LOs that I've recently completed. I'd love to see some comments.

***(The 2 Ta-Da's below are still available as freebies...just scroll down & enjoy!)***


credits & details here


credits & details here


In October my DSC challenge freebie is this fun little kit that I designed, "Team Sparky". I was given these colors to work with and they just happened to fit so perfectly into an ASU inspired one. Something that my husband definitely adores. I hope you all will too. You'll just have to participate in an October Descriptive Word Challenge at DSC to grab it.

Life....live it the best you can!

ok....non-scrappy stuff for me right now......

I happened to read a blog earlier today...one from a "Momma" named Gina. She couldn't sleep last night because she just lost her oldest son to a "horrific skateboarding accident". About an hour and a half later I found out about Jon Moss. Jon finally lost his huge battle with Cancer. He had a beautiful spirit and I'm sure he is finally at peace now. We walked in the Climb to Conquer Cancer every year on Team Moss (except this year since we had two boys under 18 months at that time). Anyway, all day I have been at home with my two youngest sons, but my oldest one, Cooper, is 16 and he lives with his dad full-time in St. Louis. Since I can't call him when he's in school, I texted him that I love him. I know it caught him off guard and he called me as soon as he got off of his schoolbus. He does that most any day anyways, but I just wanted him to get a little virtual hug from me earlier today. Only two more weeks until he's back here again for his next long weekend from school. I can't wait!

Ugh....my little ones are napping right now...I feel like we need to go out and do something ...not just sit here & do something "tomorrow". Sometimes it's a bit difficult to remember to live for the moment because you never really know what is around the corner in your life.

I have a beautiful kit I'm working on. The papers are so smudged and so beautiful, but I wasn't really sure about the direction to take this kit. Now I know. It will be called "Luminous Life". Here's one quote that I will be including as talk (a/k/a word art): Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever...-- Isak Dinesen

Smiles everyone...and PLEASE have a beautiful day!

Two Ta-Da freebies...from me to you...

I decided to make a couple of Ta-Da's ...or as you might recognize them as QPs, quickpages, ploppers...but, to me, they are Ta-Da's...as in 1 or 2 little steps and "Ta-Da" it's done ...just like little kids like to throw their little arms up in the air and say "Ta-Da" when they are so proud of something they've accomplished

both of these are add-ons for my "Hudson & his Airplanes" kit, that is available at DigiScrap Central's Scrap Shop


download 1
download 2

A Brand Spankin' New Challenge...

Time for a new type of challenge, a Descriptive Word Challenge. I will be hosting a new word challenge every couple weeks at DSC.

Our first descriptive word - SPIRIT

What kind of spirit would you like to celebrate? A child's free spirit? your favorite sport's team? pride in your country? a horse named Spirit? your daughter's cheerleading squad?

Let's see how many interpretations there are.

Please upload your LO in DSC's challenge gallery & then post the link in DSC's Descriptive Word Challenge thread so you can get your prize kit when the challenge is over.

my LO, Sundevil Spirit

credits here
the beautiful freebie kit, "Autumn Butterflies" (designed by me) will be given to all that participate in this marvelous challenge



****my "Spunky Stars" freebie below is still available...scroll down to grab it :)

update time!!!

wow!!!!!! my "Spunky Stars" sure are popular! thank you soooo much for loving them! Let's see how fast the next 100 links fly away. I updated the link below (it's below the stars preview, you can't miss it).

For all of you new fans, I wanted to share my other available goodies with you. I have 3 freebie kits available at SBB (find them here) and 2 kits for sale at DSC (find them here).

You can also scroll down a bit to find my freebie "Susie Sorority" kit. I think it's still available for a couple more days (unless the 100 downloads disappear faster).

And...... Hudson is back to his usual goofy self now. Yay! It was so scary for all of us (especially him) whenever he threw up. I'm so glad we're through that terrible rough week.

Hudson's 2nd birthday ...freebie for you

My son, Hudson, turned 2 on the 14th so I want to celebrate with all of you. Unfortunately he has been sick for a week now (not a fun b-day week) with Strep. If you don't already know, little kid strep wreaks havoc with the whole body. Today was the first time in a week that he didn't throw up. So, yay to that.

Anyway...back to your freebie ...."Spunky Stars"....I have 30 patterned or smudgy stars in this package, including 16 textured ones....oh, they are all so fun ...as you can tell, half of them are star shaped frames so there is so much you can do with these goodies.

Please leave me some lovin' when you grab this treat (&/or about my LOs or anything else you feel like gabbing about)....I also always love seeing your creative work too.
download "spunky stars"

UPDATED LINK

here's my birthday boy...

credits here


credits here

"Spunky Stars" Freebie coming soon...

Hopefully by Saturday night I'll have up this fabulous stars package. I was hoping to have it up by now, but it just keeps growing by more stars. Thursday, the 14th, was Hudson's 2nd birthday so I've been working on this in honor of him.

Stay tuned!

****Also....I corrected the "Susie Sorority" link below. Look for the link that says CORRECTED.

"Rockin' Ransom" is now available...

Yay! It's my fabulous, hip, rocker, baby kit. I offered up a tattoo and a paper in the last couple of weeks as sneak peek freebies. Now you can get the full kit in DSC's Scrap Shop. Hurry! I think it will only be available for a month.

Go Scrap Sassy Silly!

***please leave me your thoughts, wisdoms, or just some fun

it's FREEBIE time again...

I'm so sorry! I just realized that I don't have a freebie available anymore since my last one just expired. I just cna't have that happen, can I? hmmmmmmm, nope! Sooooo, I'm offering up my "Susie Sorority" kit. It hasn't been seen anywhere before yet. You get it before anyone else. Don't you feel special??? It's the kit that I used to make my blog header. Isn't it a little obvious? "Susie Sorority" has 12 papers (my favorite is the plaid), a Greek Alpha+, lots of tags, & a few other great embellishments.
Please enjoy and leave me a little love note when you grab it.

CORRECTED LINK for Susie Sorority

Now...go Scrap Sassy Silly!

****but before you do, you can take a gander at a couple of my recent LOs of my son, Hudson (he'll be two tomorrow)....I'll post a few more within the next couple of days for you to enjoy too

credits here

credits here

ok....now you can really go Scrap Sassy Silly :)

wow....I actually completed a couple LOs

This is the first time that I have made an LO in a couple months.
This first one is with my husband and son, Hudson, sitting in my hubby's old high school Camaro from the early 80s. Right now it sits over at his dads house with a tarp over it and it hasn't been able to run in several years. Jeff can't wait for the day when he can bring it back to life with our two little guys. As for now, every time we are over at their house, Hudson is obsessed with "driving" it with his Daaaa.

Credits: Kit, my Mini kit contribution for DSC's September Mega Kit....the fonts are Rostrum Two and Hockey is Lif

This adorable "sisters" one is of our friend's little girls. The newborn, Lily Claire, was the inspiration for this kit. All of the colors were taken from the original photo.

Credit: "Lily Claire" available as a freebie at SBB and "Lily Claire Blog Only Add-on" kit available here ...I actually offered up this add-on freebie a few weeks ago so the preview is in a previous post, it includes three papers & a cute frame

***Please leave me a little love note when you grab my freebie....or just leave me a love note for the fun of it........thanks!

another sneak peek FREEBIE


I submitted my newest kit, "Rockin' Ransom" to Digiscrap Central for sale. Oh, it's soooo fun! My last posting on here was all about my inspiration. Anyway, it probably won't officially be up for sale for another couple of days....soooooo, in the meantime, please enjoy another sneak peak at this great kit.

This is 1 of 4 tattoos that I have included in the kit.

As always, please leave me a little love note when you grab any of my freebies.

Smiles!