Back2School – Not So Bright!

You know, if you have school-age kids, you want them to be “bright”. And when you think of most school-themed digiscrap kits, they tend to be “bright”. Well, with my love of all things shabby and grungy I just had to put my own spin on the wonderful new Back2School digiscrap kit I’m releasing today at PGD – and it is not exactly “bright”! :D

This kit includes 12 shabby-grunge papers, lots of fun “real photo” elements, and a grungy schooltime alpha!

Don’t forget, if you grab these packs *today* you will save 30% off as part of our Fantabulous Friday sale!

Back2School

PLUS: Today I am also offering you the coordinating deluxe tag *freebie* for Back2School – and it has a bonus! I decided the clipboard in my full Back2School kit needed a clamp so you all could clip things to the clipboard more realistically… so I’ve included that with the deluxe tag download!

Back2School Deluxe Tag + BONUS Clipboard Clamp

PW: B2Stag2219

*Please remember a password is required for each tag download – it is located directly under the tag above. Be sure to send your friends here, to my blog, if you think they’d like these tags. Thank you!

And one more bit of exciting news for you …

Tomorrow, August 1st, a huge Back2School Blog Train will be kicking off and you can come HERE to grab my part of the blog train mega kit! It’s a wonderful mini kit full of Back2School goodness and it coordinates with the full kit I’m releasing today! Don’t forget to drop on by! :D

Wishing you a wonderful Friday … toodles!

Travel Organizer Craft Project *Free*

A quick papercrafting freebie to share with you all today! :D

I just found that my Travel Organizer project is still available online! This was a project I created and sold to GiftMaker magazine a while back and they published it to their e-PatternsCentral.com site. It is currently available on their CardMaker magazine site:

Wednesday Indulgence: A New Twist Today!

Breaking news!!

Boy, have we got something new and awesome for today’s Wednesday Indulgence at PGD!

BOGO 50% OFF! :D

Isn’t It Punny? :P

Today I’d thought I’d serve up a little something different… something silly and just for fun. Do you like puns? I do. Somehow, puns just tickle my funny bone like crazy! Even stupid ones still make me laugh. So when I came across a list of them in one of the blogs I follow this week, I got a real good laugh out of it. Then I shared those with the fun gals at PGD, and our wonderful Head Gypsy Girl, Lor, shared a few more that had me rolling on the floor. So today I’m passing along several of these fun puns to my blog readers. And if you have any good puns, feel free to send them to me – I’d love to hear them! (Besides, I may post another Pun For Fun blog next month!) :D

1. Shotgun wedding: A case of wife or death.
2. Acupuncture is a jab well done.
3. A backwards poet writes inverse.
4. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
5. He often broke into song because he couldn’t find the key.
6. The butcher backed up into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his work.
7. One of the first things you’ll notice at the Beijing airport is a whole lot of Chinese checkers.
8. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.
9. To some – marriage is a word … to others – a sentence.
10. The man put his name on the neck of his shirt so he would have collar ID.
11. Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now.
12. There was a sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center that said 'Keep off the Grass'.
13. To write with a broken pencil is pointless.
14. No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.
15. She was only a whisky maker but he loved her still.
16. I wanted to exercise last night but it just didn't work out.

 

Hope today finds you with plenty of laughter in your life! :D

A Couple Layouts Just For Fun!

Thought I’d just share a couple layouts with you that I made recently. These two pages are *completely* different styles, and yet all papers and elements for both came from one kit! No, it’s not one of my kits. This is actually a gorgeous storybook kit I just fell in love with over at ScrapbookGraphics.com - “Ticket To Dragon’s End.” I mean WOW! Beautiful stuff!

Every time my husband, Jim, sees this layout, he laughs out loud at the sight of me in the little airplane. :D I had so much fun with this completely fantasy-style page.

Dream Travel

 

This page is back to a more “reality” page. I so love how it turned out!

La Jolla Adventure

Be sure to click on the images above so you can see them a bit larger!

Happy scrappin’! :D

Tag This! :P

So I’ve got a beautiful journaling tag for you today – it coordinates with my new Journal This! journaling block set. Just click on the preview to get this great freebie! :D

PW: JT1tag1020
*Please remember a password is required for each tag download – it is located directly under the tag above. Be sure to send your friends here, to my blog, if you think they’d like these tags. Thank you!

Enjoy!

If you’d like to take a look at the full Journal This! Set 1 pack, click on the preview below:

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Journal This! … and some inspiring layouts!

I have some wonderfully aged and grungy journaling blocks available today at PGD! As always with new releases, this pack is 30% off today only! With faded hearts, leaves, sunflowers, and butterflies on these crumpled and lined scraps, you can add a charming touch to your journaling on any of your layouts. Don’t miss the free coordinating tag I’ll have on my blog tomorrow!

Journal This! Set 1

Our wonderful PGD Creative Team has come up with some beautiful pages lately using my kits, so I just have to share a few with you all. You can click on each of them to see it larger and to learn which kits were used in the pages.

By Teri

By Deb

By Jenn

  

Happy Scrapping!

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Green With Envy Tag Freebie!

This week’s deluxe tag freebie coordinates with my newest digiscrap release, Green With Envy.

PW: GWEtag7235
*Please remember a password is required for each tag download – it is located directly under the tag above. Be sure to send your friends here, to my blog, if you think they’d like these tags. Thank you!

Enjoy!

If you’d like to take a look at the full Green With Envy kit, click on the previews below:

 

Green With Envy! – New Release

With my newest kit release today, I am introducing a whole new collection based on COLORS. My new…

This collection was inspired by my lifelong love of color! One of my favorite childhood books was Richard Scarry’s Things To Know, and I always felt the most fantastic section in that book was “COLORS” by Kathleen N. Daly. I still own that book, and I still love to look over the pages where each color is represented on a page of its own, with little bunnies holding their paintbrush and bucket of paint in the featured color. As a childhood artist, I thought it was so wonderful, so magical. With my Paintbox Collection, I am creating my own version of “COLORS” – creating individual kits that focus entirely on a single color. Each kit will be filled with papers and elements in the featured color, and will also have items that represent the symbolic meanings of the color. For instance, my first kit in the series is “Green With Envy.” It is filled with green leaves, green frog, green grass, green turtle, and much more in the color green. It also contains items related to the symbolic meaning of green, like a recycling symbol  and recycling wordart.

Introducing my Paintbox Collection – Green With Envy kit:

Green With Envy Paper Pack

Green With Envy Element Pack

 

This fun set will be 30% off for today only as part of PGD’s Fantabulous Friday! Enjoy!

Get My Herbal Garden Bundle For 2 BUCKS Today!!

That’s right! My Herbal Garden Bundle is the special for today’s Wednesday Indulgence at PGD! So run on over and grab the whole kit and kaboodle for just $2! :D

Get Your Tag Here!

Today’s tag freebie coordinates with my newest outdoor enthusiast kit: Hike And Seek!

PW: HAStag8119
*Please remember to send your friends here, to my blog, if you think they’d like these tags. A password is required for each tag download – it is located directly under the tag above. Enjoy!

Hikers & Geocachers: Scrap With This!

With all the photos I have from wonderful hikes with my husband that also served as geocaching hunts, I decided it was time to have a kit for scrapping those photos! No doubt there are plenty of other hikers, geocachers, scouting families, and outdoor enthusiasts who’d like to scrap their outdoor adventures as well, so my newest release at PGD is HIKE AND SEEK. This fun kit includes everything a hiker and/or geocacher could need for scrapping: binoculars, cedar branch, compass, GPS unit, ammo can & microcache, notepad, pencil, hidden cache, grass, bark frame, small bird, and much more!

 

July Carnival – 1st Challenge Today!

The July Carnival & Blog Train over at DigiTownSquare just kicked off today, and the first challenge is truly an easy one! To learn more, go to this link:

July 6 Challenge

This challenge just asks you to upload any 5 layouts, then post a link to your favorite of those 5 to the above post! This will get you a ticket for the prize drawings going on during the Carnival! woohoo!

Over the next 3 weeks, there will be fun challenges that will earn you more carnival tickets, and there will also be a wonderful Carnival digikit for free to participants!

Here’s what my part of the kit looks like:

So head on over to DigiTownSquare! :D

Happy Independence Day & God Bless America!

Our son Justin in 4th of July parade at/near his US Navy submarine base!

Happy 4th of July & A Freebie!

Well I truly hope you are enjoying the celebration of the birthday of our wonderful country today! (That is, if you are in the USA! :D ) I’m not sure we’ll make it to the parade this year due to hubby’s work & sleep schedule, but we will probably do a bit of bbq this afternoon and maybe head out to Hope for some beautiful fireworks. And speaking of fireworks, you get a bit of those on this wonderful deluxe tag I am giving away! It coordinates with my new Americana Salute kit available in my store at PGD.

pw: AStag119

*Please remember to send your friends here, to my blog, if you think they’d like these tags. A password is required for each tag download – it is located directly under the tag above. Enjoy!

Looking for the Americana Salute kit? It’s in my store now!

Some Great Americana Salute Layouts

I have a couple of beautiful layouts to share with you from the wonderful gals on the PGD Creative Team. They have done some beautiful work using my new Americana Salute collection.

Laura

 

Lor

*Click the layouts to see larger & for credits*

I also want to let you all know that you can now join me on Facebook! Click the icon to see my new Facebook group…

New Kit In Store: Americana Salute!

Today you can get my newest kit at PGD! Americana Salute is a wonderful patriotic kit with a bit of grunge & a bit of prim to it! It’s perfect for scrapping photos of your military heroes or your 4th of July celebration! And because today is Fantabulous Friday at PGD, you get Americana Salute for 30% off for TODAY ONLY!

 

I created this layout of my Navy son using Americana Salute:

(click image above to see larger)

Be sure and check back here tomorrow to get the *freebie* deluxe tag that coordinates with Americana Salute!

Just Two More Days Left – 30% Off!

Just want to remind you that if you want to get in on the 30% off sale I’m offering on my debut products at PGD, you only have through Thursday!