I was in a flower swap at LSH hosted by the awesome Cynthialoowho and our theme was Fairy Flowers.
Here is a vid of the flowers I created for this swap:
Here is the vid of the flowers I received (and a sneak of my current project LOL):
Thanks so much for watching! I love sharing these vids and love LOVE all the feedback. Thanks so much all!
This is my lovely dog Kayla, these photos are from 2006 way before I had the camera that I have now, but I think they are my favorite pics I have of her. We have had her in our lives since August 2000. She was an adult when we found her at the Tupelo-Lee County Humane Society. She is my constant companion.
This layout was made using a free kit from My Memories Suite. The lovely folks are letting me share this awesome and really, it's easy to use software with one of my lucky blog followers. This is really exciting for me, because I've had another program that I have been trying to learn to use for almost 2 years and I just downloaded My Memories Suite, watched a couple of tutorial videos that can be found on their blog and after throwing my quick pages together, I made this LO which I am SO happy about!
If you want to be sure and get this software just go to their website and put the software into your shopping cart. Be sure to use my PROMO CODE: STMMMS85219
This code gives you $10.00 off the already awesome price of 39.97 (really, check the online prices of Photoshop, Photoshop Creative Suites, Elements or any other software digi people use) as well as gives you $10.00 to spend on digital supplies at their store.
Reasons to try out My Memories Suite
This software is easy, I am not a computer guru, other than being able to surf the internet at will.
This software is at an AWESOME price point (trust me I spent over twice that on software that is installed on my computer that I almost never even open because it blows my mind trying to use it).
The promo code gives you $10.00 off.
The promo code gives you $10.00 to spend in the store.
Digital supplies are cheaper and you don't have to totally convert, but you can take your laptop way more places you can drag all your paper supplies.
You can print photobooks to give to people who may not appreciate the work that when into a paper scrapbook.
You can get digital supplies from anyone you like on the web and use them with My Memories Suite.
So those are some reasons for you to try this out. Here's how you win the giveaway.
Become a follower of my blog and comment on this post.
Go to My Memories Suite and look at their kits in the store and leave me a seperate comment to let me know which kit you like best.
Ok, so I was invited to try out the My Memories Suite Software and after almost pulling my hair out, and THEN paying attention to the fact that you are supposed to be closed out of the software before you try installing new stuff into it, and it works GREAT!! I love the software I have been using, but this seems to do all I would ever want to do as a digi scrapper, it even drops shadows and it is REALLY inexpensive as well as user friendly. (if I can throw out a quickpage in just a couple of minutes, it really is FRIENDLY). Here's my first page:
This is our precious Sayuri, on the staircase. Isn't she cute! Anyways check out My Memories Suite if you are at all interested in digi, even if you think you might be, and check out their awesome freebies! This quickpage was a freebie...get it under the Free Kit tab! For a $10.00 discount and $10.00 worth of kits just use the following coupon code:
Oh, by the way, the My Memories Suite Version 2 (which is what I have used here, only costs 39.97 and that code above gives you ten dollars off and 10 dollars to spend in the kit store.
I will share more later,
Thanks for looking!
This second LO took me only 8 minutes, start to finish!
I've had a really long month lately, including getting a pretty bad hand injury at work, having a fun trip to Six Flags over Georgia, an AWESOME girls weekend at CKC Nashville, and most recently a severe illness in the family that is not looking very good. I was supposed to participate in an awesome Unusual Mini Album blog hop but because of the family illness I was unable to participate. It just started today so please follow this link to the beginning of the hop...and enjoy!
I have also discovered that I can conquer some digi stuff. I've started making tags for all of my swaps at LSH digitally so that I can just type in my contact/blog/youtube info and hit print. Then I cut them out. It's not super fancy, but I've been happy with them.
I am currently using PSE6 but am in the process of downloading something easier to try out and share with some friends who are interested, but don't want to buy a more expensive software. So stay tuned everyone, and say a prayer for me and my family because the game of just waiting around for something to happen is just exhausting, physically and mentally.
I know it's only Thursday, but due to the fact that I worked every day from last Thursday to this Wednesday (it was my holiday to work), I actually got off two days in a row! It's a good thing too because apparently I wrenched my back on Saturday at some point and I spent Sunday, Monday and Tuesday in various degrees of PAIN!! (Backpain is no joke, I humbly apologize if I was ever not sympathetic or understanding enough to anyone I have ever met about some sort of pain, I have never, ever, ever hurt so much in my whole life and not known from whence the pain came or how long it was going to be around.)
The worst part about it was that I wanted to be cleaning my scrap area....it look like a bomb went off...really.
(I actually have a friend at work who made the comment that I must be trying to overcome not getting to have toys with tons of pieces or not being able to have paints or playdoh because they were too messy as a kid LOL!) Oh well.
I have TONS of ideas for my TC stampmaker so my goal for today is to CLEAN my space because I WANT TO MAKE SOME STAMPS. (Now I have to figure out HOW to draw).
I have been awarded a couple of blog awards since I have been unable to sit up and type...so let me tell you about them now (They are both from Debra over at Arty Crafty I've been following her for a few years now and WOW can she make some cool stuff!)
Thanks so much Debra for the :
The rules of this award are as follows: There are no rules.
Just pass it on!! So I will pass it on to some wonderful bloggers! THANK YOU!!
1. Crafty Jo : Jo was my purse swap partner at LSH for the AWESOME purse swap (video to follow below). She is so sweet and talented, go check her out!
2. EvilScrapper : She has just started her blog and it's already loaded with tons of pics of her craftiness. I get loads of inspiration from her!
3.My Paper Stash : Carol was also a swap partner of mine from LSH, now go show her some love, she makes some of the coolest stuff!
Here's the vid of me showing my box from Jo, it is AWESOME!!
The second blog award from this week to follow, although I am not working, working I do have a pet sitting gig and I'm sure those kitties are ready for me to pay a visit to their home. Hugs everyone and feel special, there will be another post today LOL!
I think it's really funny how terrified of technology I used to be. I was scared to mess with pretty much anything that wasn't just searching the internet until I found scrapbooking. It all started with my first membership to a kit club that had me spending hours on the forum making friends and trying to read every single post. It seems funny now that I desperately tried to read each and every one even if it didn't apply to me, or I wasn't playing the game for that section or whatever.
Now the internet is like a second home, full of wonderful people. I have this blog (and have had it for quite a while), I have dabbled in digi and I have my YouTube channel which seems to get all the attention lately.
It's funny but if you'd asked me just a few years ago I would have told you that you were crazy if you suggested that I'd be on Facebook (along with my parents) and filming YouTube videos of my crafting (not too crazy about my own voice when it's recorded, but I'm getting over that, the vids are super easy). I also wouldn't have thought I would have been able to master the editing or posting of a video. Go figure.
I have recently passed my own 100 subbies at YouTube and it was a very exciting time! It DOES seem to be a tradition that you have a giveaway at this milestone and I'd have to say I felt wonderful about mine. I just made my first response video today to let people know about another crafty soul who's almost at 100. I'm going to share it with you because I think she is SO talented.
I know she's going to make REALLY soon because as I subscribed she only needed two more to get there. I don't always post my vids here because I'm not sure how you all feel about them and so if I don't have anything to say I haven't really been letting you know.
Would you give me your opinion on that...would you like every vid posted here so you don't have to sub at yt. I know some people aren't into subbing at yt (I used to be of that ilk LOL!)
