Happy Mother’s Day to all the Mothers out there and to all those who are stand-in Moms and play an important role in the life and development of any children. Thank you for all you do!

I have another add-on for Sweet Birthday new in the store this week. Sweet Birthday Add-on Bundle 3 highlights the more neutral colors from the palette making it perfect for birthday or celebration layouts for any age or gender. It includes seven papers, 16 unique elements, four clusters, and two sets of number candles and is currently on sale for $4.85.

If you stop by my Facebook page you can pick up some Quick Cards made with Sweet Birthday Add-on Bundle 3.

I also have a Mother’s Day themed card made from Sweet Birthday Add-on 3 that will be coming out in my newsletter this evening so make sure you are signed up.

I made some Mother’s Day clusters just for my blog readers too.

Happy Scrapping!

Make sure you stop by my Facebook page for this gift . . .

and are signed up for my newsletter. I will sending this out later today.

If you stopped by for the PDW Blog train, you can find your gift in the previous post here.

Happy Scrapping!

Is it really time for another iNSD already? If you came here from the PDW blog train, please keep reading, your gift is below.

Be sure to stop by my store for my iNSD Sale this weekend. All template sets (including S4H and CT/DT License versions) and alphas are only $2.00 each. Everything else is 40 to 50 percent off too.

I have teamed up with the super talented SKrapper Digitals once again to bring you the sugary sweet and massive Sweet Birthday Collection. The wide range of colors makes it the perfect choice for any birthday and so versatile you’ll be turning to it again and again.

Sweet Birthday includes 105 elements, 30 patterned papers and 24 solid textured card stock papers. Also included with the kit is this set of Birthday Girl elements to help add a special touch to those layouts for your little birthday princess.

We also have two add-on packs to give you even more birthday goodness.

Sweet Birthday Add-on Bundle 1 includes a 37 pc. sweet icing set, 10 pc. whimsy cakes set, 12 pc. ribbons and bows set and a number candle element set. This add-on bundle is currently on sale for $6.25.

Sweet Birthday Add-on Bundle 2 includes a 16 pc. glitters set (in both seamless jpg and asl), 18 pc. slightly crumpled kraft paper set, 8 pc. candy striped papers set and a purple balloon upper/lower case and numerical alpha set. It is on sale for $4.50.

Or can you get the entire Sweet Birthday Collection all for only $13.50. (Includes everything above. Not all shown in preview.)

Make sure you are subscribed to my newsletter and Facebook page. I will have a few gifts that coordinate with the Sweet Birthday Collection there later this weekend. Since it is iNSD, there is a good chance I may be handing out a few store coupons or other goodies too.

Welcome to the Plain Digital Wrapper iNSD Blog Hop!  The Blog Hop kit is called Rough and Tumble and by the time you finish you should have a beautiful full sized kit to play with.  If one of the designers does not yet have their piece up, don’t fret, try back again.  These should be up all weekend!

Here is a preview of my gift:

In order to download this, answer the question.  The correct answer will take you to the download, the incorrect answer will give you an error page:

How long have I been a designer at Plain Digital Wrapper?

a. One Year

b. Two Years

c. Three Years

d. Five Years

Our train will include these stops.  Remember if the designer hasn’t gotten their spot up yet, don’t fret, just check back later!

If you get lost you can come back to this thread and find out where you should be:

Blog Hop Order:
1. Plain Digital Wrapper Blog

2. Southern Creek Designs Blog

3. Plain Digital Wrapper Forum Happy Place

4. Scrpncrzy’s Blog

5. Southern Creek Designs Facebook Page

6. Linda Alexis Blog

7. Plain Digital Wrapper Facebook page

8. Paste Optional Designs

9. Digital Gator

10. Designs by Xandra

11. Scraps of Candy <—— You are here now.

12. PDW Newsletter (be sure to have signed up to receive the last fun freebie!) You can sign up for the newsletter in the top left hand corner of the store.

Happy International Scrapping Day and Happy Scrapping!

Are you ready for Valentine’s Day? I decided to spoil my husband a little this year with 14 Days of Valentine’s. Since February 1, I have been leaving him little sweet treats of his favorite candies and notes on his car on days he is at work or e-mailing him fun and flirty cards on his days off.

Inspired by the 14 Days of Valentine’s going on at my house, I have made some 5×7 Photo Card Template Sets and have them available in my store this weekend for only $1.50 each. I even made some anti-valentine’s card templates too just for the fun of it. On Tuesday, they will go up to $2 for the one-day-only Valentine sale at Plain Digital Wrapper where everything in my store will be $2 for the day. So if you want to grab them at 50 percent off, grab them now before they go up.

Sweet Hearts Card Templates Set 1

Card by me.

Card by me using Nature’s Beauty by Southern Creek Designs.

Card by Linda using Kiss Me by ScrapDZines.

Card by Sandie using X’s and O’s by Digital Ink.

Sweet Hearts Photo Card Templates Set 2

Card by Casey. (Credits in Gallery).

Card by Casey using Kiss Me by ScrapDZines.

Card by Chris using Kiss Me by ScrapDZines.

Not-So-Sweet Hearts Card Template Set

Here is a little Valentine Treat for you too!

Be sure to sign up for my newsletter and check out my Facebook page for more Valentine’s gifts this weekend.

For those of us in the US, we celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday. I was thankful to be able to spend Thanksgiving with my brother who hasn’t been “home” for almost five years.

In honor of Thanksgiving, I made a turkey template as a thank you gift for YOU which you can download on my Facebook Page.

I am also having a Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale this weekend and everything in my store is 35 percent off all weekend long.

I am spending the next few weeks helping out the local Salvation Army by organizing their Red Kettle Fundraising Campaign so don’t expect to have much time for designing or blogging until after Christmas but should be back to my usual irregular schedule in January.

Happy Scrapping and Memory Making!

 Join in the fun on Saturday, November 5.

OK, well, technically we are moving and my husband has set aside that day as one of two move stuff from one house to another days, so I am not sure how much fun I will be having, but I hope YOU get a chance to participate in the DSD fun that will be happening throughout digiland.

Be sure to stop by my store for these great deals:

• All personal use page templates and alphas will be on sale Saturday and Sunday for $1.50
• All Commercial Use Products will be on Sale for $2.50 Saturday and Sunday.

• PLUS I will be doing a “Buy One Get One” special for Digital Scrapbooking Day. For any purchase you make in my store during the weekend sale, I will send you a coupon in the same amount as your purchase the following week. So if you spend $5, you will get a $5 coupon, spend $1.50, get a $1.50 coupon.

Last week I released a set of Stained Glass Backgrounds and Texture which were inspired by the chapel windows at my church. Included in the purchase are 9 JPG files both full color and gray scale versions. Since I didn’t get to post a blog last week, I will leave these on sale at the 30 percent off introductory price a few more days.

This week I have a Build a Jack-o-Lantern Shape Collection in my store for you. Mix the 4 pumpkins in this set with the huge selection of eyes, noses and mouths to create your own Jack-O-Lantern. This collection includes 92 pieces in .png, .csh, and printable formats. You can create your own elements for your scrapbook pages, use them as photo masks, make the perfect card, entertain your kids with the included printables or add these fun pumpkins to your craft projects, the possibilities are numerous!

The Build a Jack-o-Lantern Shapes and Printables are on sale for 50 percent off through Monday.

One of my favorite designers is giving away her entire store! Southern Creek Designs is going to give one lucky person everything in her store when she reaches 300 Page Likes on Facebook. Head on over to her Facebook page and click that like button so you have a chance to win too.

My last two two layouts were actually made with kits by Southern Creek Designs.

Created Using Chic Memories by Southern Creek Designs.

This one was done for some scrap therapy for my great aunt who found out a couple of weeks ago that she has cancer.

Created using Pink by Southern Creek Designs.

Here are a few others I made but hadn’t had time to share yet.

Created with Just the Two of Us by Sherwood Studio.

Created with Just the Two of Us by Sherwood Studio.

Created with Haunting by Sherwood Studio.

Oh, I almost forgot . . . Plain Digital Wrapper is having a Designer Call. If you are looking for fabulous store to call home, be sure to check it out in the forum!

If you haven’t picked up my Splish Splash Collaboration Kit, there is also a chance to win this both at DST and at PDW. You can enter both places to increase your chances of winning. But hurry and enter because the contest will be ending soon.

Happy Scrapping!

Calendars make such great Christmas present for Grandparents, other family, friends or even for ourselves. I had great intentions of doing one calendar page a month this year and being all ready in time for Christmas but alas I got two months done and got sidetracked. I even sponsored a calendar challenge thinking that would keep me motivated. If you still need to get your calendars done too, I have some 2012 Calendar Grids available to help you out.

Whether you prefer landscape or square or your calendar starts on Sunday or Monday, these calendar grids will help you get a jump start on your 2012 Calendars and they are on sale through Thursday.

These are available in the following formats.

Landscape Monday or Sunday – Whether you are looking to make a calendar page for your landscape style scrapbook, an 11×17 center fold wall calender or 4×6 mini calendars, these classic lined grids sized for pages up to 11×8.5 are a perfect start.

Square Monday or Sunday – Whether you are looking to make a calendar page for your 12×12 or 8×8 scrapbook, an 8×16 center fold wall calender, an 8.5×11 Calendar or a CD case calender, these classic lined grids sized for pages up to 12×12 are a perfect to get you started.

The Sunday Bundle – includes both landscape and square calendars with a Sunday start day.

The Monday Bundle - includes both landscape and square calendars with a Monday start day.

I found some great calendar inspiration in the Plain Digital Wrapper Gallery.

Layout by mrscwooddell using It’s Your Birthday Collab by Paste Optional Designs.

Layout by mscrafts8 using You Gotta Have Friends by Dani’s Delusions (retired).

Desktop by mrscwooddell using the Baby of Mine Collab from the PDW Design Team.

Calendar by ldhoriginals using the Animal Crackers in My Soup Collab by the PDW Design Team.

Layout by dj using Sky Blue Pink and Soft Silver Alpha both by Kimeric Kreations.

Calendar by ldhoriginals using Little Miss Superstar by Dragonfly Beach Designs.

This one is by me using Silver Peony by Sherwood Studio.

To give you even more of a jump start on your calendars, I am re-releasing some Calendar Month Titles from a retired Plain Digital Wrapper Collab and have them as a gift for you. Grab them quick though because they will only be free for a limited time. You can also pick up another set of titles on my Facebook page now and in my newsletter later this week.

You can download them here: Calendar Month Titles Set 2 (178)

Happy Scrapping!

Some how summer didn’t end quite like I had planned.

Since I have last blogged about scraps of my life:

I started physical therapy because my foot is, unfortunately, still not healed from my fall the end of July. Today for the second time in two weeks they have had to put a bone in my foot back in place. Ouch!

My daughter missed the cut off for kindergarten by nine days so we started her in preschool instead. She loves it most days. She had a few days when she finally realized she was no longer in charge of her daily routine and had to submit to the schedule of someone else and thus didn’t want to got, but she seems to be doing fine now.

My son broke his arm on the playground at school (30 minutes before I was supposed to pick him up to head out of town for a weekend camping trip and church retreat).

As you can see, not only was it broken, but displaced. Four ER doctors and four support staff couldn’t get it to move back in place and they ended up having to call someone from orthopedics to set it. Thank goodness for conscious sedation which made it a whole lot less painful of a process for him than it could have been. He got his cast off  yesterday. It isn’t completely healed (the doctor said 85 percent), but at least he doesn’t have to wear a cast any longer.

OK, that catches you up. I did want to share photos from my daughters 5th birthday party a few weeks ago because my friend made a really awesome cake and I just have to show it off.

My daughter requested a Tangled themed party.

The welcoming activity was a craft I found on the Disney Family Fun website to make your own 3-D Pascal. My idea was to have the kids color and assemble two each for a game later on in the party. This took much, much longer than it should have and ate up a great deal of our party time. The kids (who ranged in age from 4 to 11) found them difficult to cut out and assemble so a few of the parents ended up having to assemble them for them. If you are going to try this craft, I recommend cutting them out ahead of time to save time.

By the time we finished this activity, the pizza had arrived so we took a break to eat. We had the usual pizza and chips but I also made a Caramel Apple Cheesecake Dip from the Half Baked Blog I found through Pinterest and called it Maximus’s Apple Treat. I confess to modifying the recipe by using the Kraft Philadelphia Ready to Eat Cheesecake Filling. Oh my, is that stuff good! We had some graham crackers left over from our camping trip so I paired the remaining filling with those a few days later for a quick and easy (and yummy) snack.

While everyone ate, two of my awesome friends added a piece of candy to the 3D Pascals  (I used a bag of Tangled Pinata filler I picked up from Wal-mart) and hid them throughout the house.

After we ate, we played Pin the Nose on Flynn. (Poster Board drawing based on a picture of Flynn from the Wanted Poster in the Tangled Activity Kit, also from Disney Family Fun). I gave each child a small square of paper and had them draw Flynn’s nose for the poster. I had a “duh” moment when one of the children asked why the paper wasn’t sticky. It didn’t occur to me to use Post-it Notes! (I just gave them a piece of tape.)

After that, we painted salt dough ornaments, which I had made ahead of time and glued a magnet to the back of, shaped like the sun image from the movie. I used the bottom layer of the sun from this Golden Sun Medallion Craft and enlarged them a little in Photoshop. I originally thought of doing all three layers from the craft and made a few to test but they didn’t fit all that well together after they were baked (because this was only the second time I had made salt dough ornaments and am not all that great at figuring out the right thickness) so just made some small and large suns.

I was going to hang up my test suns that I had layered as decorations from the chandelier, but I forgot so just laid them on the cake table.

After painting we hunted for the hidden pascals. To make it more challenging since there were only two per child, each child had to try to find the one they had colored.

Then it was time for presents followed by the amazing Tangled cake my friend made.

I think everyone at the party was totally blown away by this cake. Thank you, Sherah! Except for a plastic cup to support the weight of the tower on top of the cupcakes (which was covered with marshmallows), the tower was completely edible. It was made using ice cream cones with cake baked in them (two  turned with the bottoms facing each other), two cupcakes for the house part on top of the cones, then an upside waffle cone for the roof.

I was planning to do a crazy hair activity with toy hair extensions (Wal-mart, 97 cents for four in the party aisle), hair clips, and pipe cleaners, but because the first activity took too long we ran out of time so just divided up the supplies for this and put them in the favor bag along with the rest of the pinata filler candy.

If you are looking for more ideas for your own Tangled themed party, be sure to also check out the Paging SuperMom blog.

I was honored to join up with the very talented SKrapper Digitals and Aimee Harrison Designs to step out of the proverbial box and create something a little out of the ordinary for me. I must say my fellow collaborators were a pleasure to work with and having never really done a collab before, I was utterly amazed as to how well and quickly everything came together.

The Splish Splash Mega Collaboration Kit and all the fabulous add-ons are available in my store for 50 percent off through the weekend. Whether its fun at the beach, the pool, swim team, water balloon fights, slip & slides or those adorable baby bath photos we’ve got everything you’ll need to make your water fun layouts just perfect for your scrapbook.

You can also pick up these add-ons for 50 percent off through Sunday. (Images are linked.)

Or just grab it all in the bundle for only $10.88.

I made a bonus upper case alpha for you that coordinates with Splish Splash.  You can download it here: Splish Splash Bonus Alpha (370)

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