My Memories Suite & my first digital LO (and a GIVEAWAY)

*be sure to scroll down for the giveaway*

Happy Wednesday!!! It's rainy and it's gloomy but it's Wednesday and that means the week is almost over. Not only have I been busy with school, work, and my family but I have been hard at work getting November's kit ready. Wahooo!!! I am excited about this kit, it will be filled with some great products. Be sure to stop by on the 25th to see the kit reveal!!!

Well I have some more fun stuff for you today!! I was recently contacted by My Memories Suite and asked if I wanted to try out their digital scrapbook software as well as offer a GIVEAWAY. I have worked with digital papers and such to make cards but I can't say that I have ever made a digital LO.

My Memories Suite is super easy to download and access. They have a bunch of free kits! Their kits are inexpensive and packed full of digital goodies.

So my first attempt at making a digital LO last night didn't go very smooth only because the program I was using crashed right before I was ready to save the LO. Oh I was so annoyed. It was late and I didn't have the patience to make another one. I woke this morning and had a LO done in 15 min. I downloaded a free kit, it had about 8 papers and some embellishments.

That is my daughter's freshman picture. She looks so beautiful. This is the first picture where she is smiling pretty, she doesn't have a goofy look on her face, and her hair isn't sticking up.

I like how simple this was to create. Now for my personal scrapbooks that I will keep I will probably stick to traditional scrapbooking but I thought if I wanted to make scrapbooks for family it would be perfect because I can have my LO's printed in to a book. Super simple!!!

Now for the fun stuff. Would you like to try out the My Memories Suite? Well I have a giveaway. My Memories Suite was generous and I have the opportunity to offer a My Memories Suite to one lucky commenter.


All you have to do to enter is head over to My Memories Suite and leave me a comment telling me your favorite paper pack or layout.

For extra entries you can follow them on Facebook, Twitter, or on their blog. (just leave me a comment and let me know you did)

Blog- http://blog.mymemories.com/
Facebook- http://www.facebook.com/mymemoriessuite
Twitter- http://twitter.com/#!/mymemoriessuite

That's it. The giveaway will end on October 25th at 11:59pm EST. :-)

Also you can use this coupon code and save $10 off the price of the suite. STMMMS60430

You're Dandy!

I wanted to say quickly, don't forget to enter my crinkle ribbon giveaway, it ends Aug 22nd at midnight EST. Click here!

I think this card turned out really cute. This card is pretty all digital, the papers and the image. Even the card base. I purchased this digital kit from Two Peas Sugar and Spice by Brandy Buffington. I really love this kit. For one it has a cool Kraft paper and second I love the embellishments. The image is from Squigglefly.

I colored the image with my Prismacolor Pencils and a blender pen. "You're Dandy" is from Practicing Creativity Design's stamp set called You're Dandy which is available at Artfuldelight.com. It has to be one of my favorite stamps sets. Everything else on this card is digital. For the flower pin I added some crystal effects to give it a little dimension.

And that's it. I hope you are all having a great week. I am starting to have a nervous breakdown about school which is starting in 4 days. Tony was doing some practice in his Calculus book yesterday and was working on it for 5 hrs. That was just one class, he has 3 others. How are we going to manage, 4 kids, his full time job and our full time school schedules. I am freakin' out. So thankfully I have been able to craft the last couple days in order to clear my mind a bit.

Happy Crafting!!

Happy Everything!

Ok, so here is what I decided today. See I have lost my mojo, well mostly with card making. I blog hop a lot and it seems like when I see someones card they may say how they are making this card and that card FOR someone. To me it would seem a lot of card makers make cards with a purpose. For me, I don't send cards very often so when I make them I don't have a purpose. It makes it hard to "personalize" them. I am not sure if this makes any sense to anyone but my inspiration and creativity comes from "why I am making the project". I think that is why I will always be a scrapbooker at heart. I have been scrapbooking for 13 yrs and I get such pleasure and satisfaction from making layouts. Does any of this make sense to ANYONE? LOL!

Here is my example, I made 2 projects today to share with you. One was a Bind-it-All project and one was a card. I bought my first digital kit the other day and had to try it out. I had no purpose for the card, no one in mind to send it to.....so I really had no where to go with it. It was simple but cute and somewhere down the line I may find a use for it. The other project I made was using my BIA. I am sort of old fashioned and still prefer my pen and paper to keep track of bills and other important info in my life. I don't use a check register to every month in a Composition book I write down which bills are due, how much I paid, the check number and when the check was sent. Basically just like a register but because it is in the notebook I have more room to make notes and add things and make corrections. Well the book I had been using I have had for 2 years. I was getting old and ragged. Now the BIA book I made is nothing fancy but I made it will a purpose, someone (me) will be using it so while I was making it I saw my vision. Again, does this make any sense? Seriously, or am I just alone in this crazy crafty mind game?

So my point is I am going to start making a variety of projects from cards to BIA projects to scrapbook pages. I hope you will all still join me and continue to check out all that I have to share.

Alright on with my projects, here is the card I made using my new digital kit I got from Two Peas. I think it is called Party Monkey by Holly Jones.

Everything is from the digital kit except the "happy everything" sentiment. That is actually a stamp I got from the dollar bin at Michaels. It was actually super fun making this card. I see more digital kits in my future. LOL!

Next is my BIA project. I used a 7.5x5 Coverall with 3/4in O-wire.
First I used Glimmer Mist from Tattered Angels that I purchased the other day from my local craft store. It's called Pashmina, is has like gold glitter tints to it. Super cool looking when dry, you can't really see that in the picture. I realized that is went very well with the Razzleberry Lemonade DSP from Stampin' UP! I used a piece of that paper to cut out the top note shape which I did with my Cricut. I also cut out "Bills" with my Cricut and my S-CAL program. The lines paper I used on the inside I actually printed off a website, www.printablepaper.net.

I really like the way this turned out. I am super excited to sit down tomorrow and start using the book, writing down all my upcoming bills for August.

Here is one this that I wish that BIA/Zutter would do, I LOVE the Coveralls. Now since I am on this "making my own notebook" kick, I wish they made Coveralls that were big enough to use 10.5x8in notebook paper. I would never buy another store bought notebook again. LOL! Since college isn't strict on what kind of notebooks I use for note taking, I will be using the 7.5x5 Coveralls to make myself notebooks. But for my kids who are in schools that are particular about the size notebooks they use, a 10.5x8in Coverall would be so handy.

Alrighty, there you have it. I am in the process of making a SUPER cool scrapbook LO. I found this cool website with a cool technique for LO's. Ok, I said "cool" way too many times. I will share all the info on this LO and website when I have a picture to post. Hopefully I will have it finished by tomorrow.

Also if you haven't entered in my 2 giveaways, then go check it out. Click here for the Cosmo Cricket candy and here for the box o'goodies candy. These giveaways both end July 30 at midnight EST.

Happy Crafting!!