New collab kit from Bean Bunny Designs

Ch-ch-check out this totes adorbs kit by Bean Bunny Designs and Studio Demo!

 

Awwww! If you have a little mermaid like I do, this is just perfect! Beach pics, bath pics, pool pics, sprinkler pics. It so cute! Here's a LO I did of my Mermaid Princess:

And if you don't have any of those kinds of pics, you can still use it for a beautiful LO! Look at this one:

 Go grab it up now right here at PDP!!

And look at what Bean Bunny designs is offering! What a chance!

My first blog hop!! Sugar Pie Scraps Designiversary!!

   Welcome Sugar Pie blog hoppers!! I'm so happy to have you on my site... this is my first ever blog hop! Well, I've gotten goodies from lots of great blog hops, but this is my first time every offering something on my very own blog.

   I'm so excited to share these cluster frames with you because they are made with my all-time favorite kit from Sugar Pie Scraps, "A Fresh Start." I just love the charcoal and blues together. I think it's gorgeous!! So please, click the link below and enjoy!

http://www.mediafire.com/?rjucokt3s2axn

Sorry, I'm not too savvy at this yet, so it's 2 separate files to download. Hopefully, I'll get better at this before next time!! LOL

If you get lost, here's a map of all the great chefs on the train!

Sugar Pie Scraps

Sugar Pie Chef Bobbie

Sugar Pie Guest Chef Kate**You are here!

Sugar Pie Chef Blogger Casey

Sugar Pie Chef Mira

Sugar Pie Chef Jessica

Sugar Pie Chef Becky

   Thanks so much for stopping by! Have fun hopping to the next spot!

Whoa! Check this out!

  **Disclaimer-- This whole post needs to be read in your best infomercial-announcer-guy voice. These deals are seriously so unbelievable that that's what it reminds me of!**

Jumbbumble Designs is going wild and crazy! Melanie is set to potentially give away hundreds of prizes!! No kidding! The more fans she gets on her Facebook, Twitter and followers on her blog, the more you win! Get this:

For Facebook and Twitter:

100 likes everyone gets 1 free template
500 likes everyone gets 2 free templates
1000 likes everyone gets 3 free templates
More than 1000 likes everyone gets 4 free templates

Yes, you read that right. ALL THE FANS will get this prize. She's not picking one or two from the hundreds fans, she's giving templates to everyone! Isn't that amazing?! I've seriously never heard of any designer doing something on this scale.

AND!!

If she gets 25 new blog followers, she'll give out a discount coupon for anything in her store or a freebie. And since she's being so generous, I'm gonna bet it's a freebie LOL!

Oh, and that's not all!!

For one lucky follower/liker, she's going to give away:
1 week full access to her store 
ALL templates for free
1 time new release Sweet Spring templates

This is going on for the whole month of April, so spread the word! You won't be getting all these amazing prizes if she doesn't get the followers! Tell your friends! Tell your friends' friends! Go tell it on the mountain!

Good luck and love to all!

New Release and a blog hop! (That means FREEBIES!!)

   Hi everyone! Hope you've been having a good week. Wednesday, otherwise know as HUMP DAY is here!! I've been having a great and bad week all at the same time. I woke up Monday morning sick. Just like that...BAM, you're sick! I was fine Sunday and Monday was feeling bad, which got worse throughout the day and got even worse by Tuesday. Sigh. Stupid sinuses. On a much, much brighter note, I started working out yesterday and it felt great! I'll be going at least 3 times a week, if not more. I really worked hard and because of the type of machines at Curves, resistance machines versus high-impact machines, I'm not one bit sore. And that's saying something because I know I worked my hiney off. I'm not kidding around here with this working out stuff! I actually enjoy exercise and when I do it I go at it guns blazing. It's finding the time to work out, and I just decided I HAVE to make the time, because Maylee will appreciate a healthier Mommy in exchange for me being gone from the workday an extra 45 minutes.

   Anyway, on to the good stuff! Melanie, or Jumbbumble Designs, has a new release today! Look at this beautiful kit she designed:

Check it out here! 

I'm LOVING the blue and orange! The blue is, well, soft (like the title indicates! Haha), and that orange makes a great POP! I have another one in the works, but here's a LOs I did with this kit:

   So pretty! (The LO, and my dear friends Val and Carrie, too!)

   Now let's move on to the FREEBIES! Yay! Polkadotplum is having a great blog train!

   Check out what Jumbbumble Designs is offering! Oooh, I love her templates!

   You can download this awesome template pack >>here<<

   Here's a LO I did with one of these great templates:

Check out what the rest of the Polkadotplum ladies have for you!

Farynar's Wings

Sweet Tomato Designs

Laughing Sun Designs

Designs by Sweet Mesquite

Sugar Pie Scraps

Rhonda Sunflower Designs

Tree City Studio

Kat's Creations

Pixie Keepsakes

Polka Dot Plum Designs

  GO! Go now! Come on ride that train!!

   Enjoy everybody! Have a great week! Love to all!

Multiple Sclerosis Charity Collab

   March 14-20, 2011 is National Multiple Sclerosis Awareness week, and in honor of that, 34 designers got together to create a mega-kit called "Movement." MS stops people from moving, and we're raising money to make sure that doesn't happen.

This HUGE kit includes 190 Papers, 419 Elements, 3 Alphas, and there is a matching set of QPs sold separately.

100% of the proceeds from the sale of this kit and the matching set of QPs go to the National MS Society, more specifically, Mandy's BikeMS ride.

Go get this kit at GingerScraps!

 

The QP/Template pack includes 42 QPs, 1 Brag book, and 6 templates. Get it here!

 Ooooor, you can buy them both in a bundle for a great $15 (for MS Charity!!) here!

 

And look at this kit in action. This is a layout done by my friend, Star. Isn't is just adorable?!

   This is something I just love about the digiscrap community. The way we all come together for a greater cause is just amazing. This isn't the first charity collab I've bought and I'm sure it won't be the last. Designers donate their talents for charity all the time, and that's just awesome!

Inspirations by Day

 So the other day, I got a freebie from one of my favorite sites, Hand Picked Freebies (under new ownership! It's back pretty regularly, now!), and I saw a freebie that I wanted. I've been very picky about my freebies for a while now. I used to just download ANYTHING if it was free. Now that I actually know what I'm doing (LOL), I don't do that anymore! So anyway, this was a few elements from the kit Spring Kissed by Inspirations by Day.
In the freebie download was a coupon for $2 off the whole kit. Now that was nice to begin with, so we'll call this 'Nice Thing from Day # 1." So I decided to buy said kit. I really liked it! Here's a preview of the kit:

Pretty, huh? I have scrapped with it yet, but I can't wait! The colors are just so vibrant!

So when I bought this kit, I liked the alpha that went with it, so I bought it, too. After I had paid and had the downloads going, I realized that I bought the alpha, but the alpha came WITH the kit, as well. What a duh!! moment for me! It's pretty unlike me not to notice something like that. So I was bummed, but just chalked it up to "Oh well. It was your stupid mistake!"
   So a couple days later, I got an e-mail from the designer herself, Day! How often does that happen? We'll call this "Nice Thing from Day #2." This is what her e-mail said:

"Hi Kate, I saw that you liked my kit Spring Kissed, thank you for supporting my store! I also noticed that you purchased the alpha in addition to the kit. However, the kit comes with the alpha so now you have it twice! Since I know how hard we all work for our fun $ I hate to see it wasted, so here's a $2 coupon to my store so you can buy something other than the alpha that you already had :)"

Now, how nice is that? And thus, the coupon is "Nice Thing from Day #3." And with that coupon, I got a lovely set of templates. Love me some templates!!

I wanted to share this story with you guys. Day in no way asked me to post this on my blog, but when you receive such care from a vendor, you need to share that! Word of mouth speaks volumes, my peeps! So, go visit Day's blog and shop. As we've established, she's REALLY nice!