Week 4 Kit Is Up!

Just wanted to let everyone know that my week 4, the final week of the Next Best Thing, entry is up for download. You can go here to snag my kit plus everyone else's. You will have to sign up in order to get the kits.

For this week's entry, I used a ton of items by Tiffany, including some new, not-yet-released products. The fruits (and the glass as well) will be a set of templates and doodles in a future grab bag, and I also used an overlay from her current July grab bag. I also used some overlays by Spinky Dink Scraps, which you can get at Scrapable.net.

We rearranged our living room this week...oh what a chore! We moved everything around including the TV stand, couch, chair, scrapbook desk, and computer desk. I'm so tired, and I still have more left to do. Fortunately, our house is very clean now, and all I have left to do is keep it clean, and get laundry done. (Our laundry was so piled up!) Now if I didn't have to follow Isaac around with a broom and dust pan in order to keep things tidy, life would be great. I plan on taking some pictures once everything's looking spiffy again, and maybe doing a layout. I have a great kit and a perfect title and stuff for it. That will have to come later though.

I might get some scrapping done tonight or tomorrow, since my last entry for NBT is done and the contest ends Saturday. What an experience! It was fun, but I'm so glad it's over. I can't even imagine how the participants of SYTYCD felt!

I also have to start working on some designs for t-shirts for a member over at K-Joi Studios, I'm making some designs she can print on t-shirts to let babysitters, etc. know that her son is allergic to peanuts. Probably start working on some of those tonight in between loads of laundry.

Remember, my sale is still going on over at K-Joi Studios, 25% off all my products (except the Summer Garden glitter styles) until July 5th. I might have a surprise in store for all of you later, so keep my sale in mind!

Fourth of July sale!

Happy weekend everyone! Well, we're officially a week away from July 4th. I've already started seeing the posters and radio ads fly up for fireworks...it really gets me excited. I just love Fourth of July...not too big of a fan of fireworks, lol, but I just love the look of them and going to the city fireworks show is always exciting for me. Hopefully this year, we can find a good place with good view of the fireworks. I found out last year that my camera takes pretty decent shots of fireworks, so I'm pretty excited to get some.

Since I love the BBQ's and the fireworks and all that so much, I'm having a sale. 25% off my entire store - which makes some of my items only $0.75. If you missed my Daditude QP when it was a freebie at KJoi, you can now pick it up for only $0.75, as well as some other Daditude items if you don't have the whole collection. If you're more interested in the whole thing, my Daditude bundle is only $3.50 with this sale! You can also pick up Love By The Lakeside, my newest kit, for only $3.50 as well. And while you're there, you can pick up the word art to match Love By The Lakeside for only $0.75.

We hear whether we go to the next round of DSI's The Next Best Thing very soon. In less than an hour, I believe. I'm so nervous. I had a whole kit planned, the idea was fantastic, and then at the eleventh hour the entire idea just caved on me. The items that I was planning to extract wouldn't scan or photograph at good enough quality and I just didn't have time to mess around with them, but they were what made the kit so charming, so I had to start over with a different theme. I'm disappointed, but that's the way life goes right? So hopefully what I came up with is good enough to make it. I'll let you guys know.

Well I have a ton of things on my to-do list today and some really need to get done before 4:00 (5 hours away!) including cleaning, so I better go and get started! I'll have a few new things coming out very soon, including a blog train scheduled to take off on the 1st, my first blog train!

Next Best Thing Week 2!

Well I made it into week 2 of the Next Best Thing contest over at Digital Scrap Ink. This week the theme was 25+. We were given free reign on colors, amount of elements, and everything else as long as the subject could be used to scrap anything important to 25 years and up. I took something very close to us this week for my theme - Heath is trying to lose weight, as he has been overweight for most of his life. I noticed this has become increasingly important to an older generation, but not so much in the younger generation (which is sad, really). So I designed a kit called Making Progress, in hopes that all those who are trying to lose weight will scrap their progress. I believe scrapping the progress you're making could be taking a step in a great direction. If you see how good you're looking in pictures, you're more willing to make the sacrifices in eating healthy and exercising because you're seeing the payoff. Plus, scrapbooking is a form of therapy for many. Besides, it's a great way to see how you're progressing and capture the memory of how you got there once you meet your goal!

Making Progress has 8 papers and 24 elements and includes a chart for tracking weight loss, exercising, or anything you'd like. I've made 7 day of the week flair to match the chart, but they are also full size flair so you can use them just like you would regular flair, for an accent on your page or to help tell the story. It also includes a menu paper, which you can use for tracking what you're eating, or you can just use it for regular journaling as well. There's also a notepad paper for journaling, 3 word flair, 3 stitched heart frames, 2 curled ribbons, 2 bows, and some other great elements.

I'm not allowed to post the direct download link but I am allowed to post the link to the gallery to get my kit. You will have to register to get it, but it is worth it because while you're there you can download all the week 2 kits (some are not up yet, deadline is not until Thursday), and check out the week 1 kits as well. This kit will not be available for that long, as after the contest I intend to either put it in my store as-is or expand on it and put it in my store. So grab it while you can!

Week 2 Gallery

Also I forgot to mention before I hit post...I made a QP out of Daditude for the June 15th Blog Freebie at K-Joi. I just love the way it turned out and I hope you will too! Here is the link to K-Joi's blog, where you can grab the link to the QP!

K-Joi Blog

This will probably be the last post from me until Wednesday or most likely Thursday. Heath and I have a little outing planned for Wednesday (the lake and the picnic lunch I told you about) and it seems the weather is going to cooperate :D ... and then we also have a date night that night - without the kiddo. :D So I will probably be back after that. Hope you all like the kit!