Sales and Art

David has shopped a couple places for post-zombie sales. Last night he found a pack of a half-dozen Reese's Peanut Butter Pumpkins and a box of Pumpkin Spice K-Cups for half price for me and for himself a 6-pack of mini 7-up cans. This is three goodies and 2 talking points. I’ll address those in just a moment.

This afternoon he found a bigger booty in his cheap-sweets treasure hunting. At Target he scored a big bag of assorted fun-size candies and brought me a bag of mellowreme pumpkins as well as pumpkin spice Hershey’s kisses and M&Ms. I’d forgotten trying the pumpkin spice M&Ms last year and immediately remembered when I tasted on today! I can’t figure out why the kisses are easier to find. They are good, but made with milk confection rather than chocolate; they only sate the pumpkin craving. The M&Ms are a heavenly combination of milk chocolate and pumpkin spice. Next year I’ll get the M&Ms from Target first then look for a bag of kisses in November.

Now the talking points from last night: There is never an issue with Peanut Butter Cups. They are always good at any price and on sale they reach new points of nirvana. But, while I thought the half-price was wonderful, I don’t really understand the K-Cups being on closeout sale yet. Halloween is over but it’s still pumpkin season until the last pumpkin pie dessert plate is washed after Thanksgiving dinner. They’re dissing the turkey for the fat man in the red suit again!

I don’t really hold that against Santa. It’s just something else the evil corporations are doing to kill our traditions and take our money.

Remember to vote Tuesday!

Anyone reading this ever get a can of soda in their treat bag when they were kids? I mean even a little can takes up precious candy space in the bag and it doesn’t take to many cans to weight a TON for a little kid. Who thinks of these things?

We could probably blame that on corporations too, but I’m really not on a political soap box today. Wheelchair lady already voted absentee. But I encourage everyone to exercise their American right to vote. If you don’t take part you give up your right to complain. You don’t deserve the fruits of or protection from our government either.

Just sayin’; Make sure you vote – better to be part of the system than to be helplessly run over by the system.


I have a scrapbook page that I did Saturday to share:

Credits: Pieces from; Bumpershoots and Puddle Makers by Cherekaye Designs and 

Lissykay Designs, Chill In The Air collab by the Designers at Ginger Scraps,Ginger 

Scraps, Autumn Art paint clusters by Day Dreams ‘n Designs, Rain overlay by Miss Edna, 

First Frost by Seatrout Scraps, September Morn by Mandy King, Snowball Fight 

elements by JenC Designs, Snuggle Season by Mandy King and Mye De Leon, 

Winter Blues by Chunlin Kathryn's Digital Designs

Art journaling really is scrapbook poetry. There was a specific emotion I was feeling as I selected the pieces to make this Page, as I searched for just the right “costumed kids” to represents the Halloween beggars. That emotion was strong as I assembled the page. I have that page posted in a few scrapbook galleries and on Facebook. I’ve gotten comments but none that get that same emotion from the page. This picture-book poet has no problem if people don’t feel the same thing looking as I did creating, but the differences in what people get out of ”art” are fascinating to me. I’d love to hear a word or two about what you feel looking at it.

Thanks for sharing…and remember to vote!

Happy Digital Scrapbooking Day!

(*** please remember that scrapbook posts that contain links in the post are the exception to the rule that links in the post mean a compensated post. My only compensation in this post was the free CT kits from designers whose kits I’d buy anyway!)

I was thinking last night that it seems like there was a lot more hoopla in the last two years about this day than there is now. I’ve had things that kept me away from home, but I thought there had been forums games and challenges with cool posting bonuses. This year there are just sales, really good sales, but no community stuff.

I guess we blame the economy? Too bad, because in tough economical times that sense of community and enjoying our “cyber crops” is more important than ever! So, shop the sales today and then stop at the gallery in each store you buy a wonderfully discounted product and comment on three layouts, more if you wish. Let’s remember this as a day to celebrate our hobby and our fellow digiscrappers as well as the great sales!

There haven’t been as many comments in the galleries where I post. I blame that on points. So many forums have quit offering posing bonuses and challenges are all worth points to eventually get an, often nominal, coupon for the store. That’s great if you have the funds to complete the purchase at each store, but if not, it’s not really inspiring to go “out of the box” to create for a challenge when all you’re doing is advertising for the site for free when you upload. I miss the real posting bonuses for challenges. I find I personally do fewer challenges when it’s just a points system. Maybe that’s just me, but I’m a lot less enthusiastic about what the new challenges are.

Ah, but I’m fortunate! I CT for a couple of great designers whose work I’d use those coupons to help afford anyway! And there are great sales at the stores they sell at today! Both Veelana and Darlene sell at Scrap Bird and Stone Accents Studio. (How easy is that for me?)

At Scrap Bird, everything is 45% off for DSD! You’ll also find that Darlene has a number of mini kits, former posting bonuses, in the retiring section. Those ones are an additional 45% off of the already reduced clearance prices! There are mini kits of hers for less than a dollar! In addition to the products from the fabulous designers I’m privileged to create for, there are other great designers that are certainly worth checking out at Scrap Bird and this month, if you purchase $10 or more, you earn the collab mega kit, Cozy November, free with the purchase! That was the last kit I contributed to, but I don’t know if the Digitalegacies papers and elements are in it. If someone spends the $10 to earn it, you’ll have to let me know! With or without my contributions, the previews are so wonderful, it’s definitely worth a visit to Scrap Bird!

I did this layout for my 40th birthday with Darlene’s Shelle Belle kit and All The Way Across template from Listgirl’s Blog.



At Stone Accents Studio, the whole store is 50% off for DSD. They have old mega kits in their clearance bin for 60% off too! There is also an SAS blog train this weekend! Some of the SAS designers did mini kits in a series called Friendship Around The World! I’ll send you to start at Darlene’s blog! She chose Italy and used the swatch from her Ciao Italia kit to make her freebie a possible add-on to her great kit!

I’ll also mention that the super Halloween sale was extended at SAS! They were having some technical issues in the store and to make sure everyone had a fair chance to get in on the sale, they extended it until November 9! Everything Halloween is on sale right now for 60% off including Veelana Designs’ A Tale of Magic and Monsters!

Here are a couple of layouts I did for Halloween this year using that kit

Credits: A Tale of Magic and Monsters by Veelana's Designs

Before I get back to my homework for a few more hours, I want to share a quick page I made with Vee’s Halloween kit. While there are plenty of spiders in the kit, those would be the monsters, not the cute Frankenstein doodle, there’s plenty to make sweet non-arachnid pages like I did, or like today’s freebie!

Click preview to download. Password is: batty

Rounding Out The Week

Nani and Popsie through the years

I missed Photoblog Wednesday this week, but I really am trying to get myself organized! The good news is that I think it’s finally working! as of yesterday afternoon, my homework for Monday is completed and I’m working on reading ahead the chapters for next week! YAY, NANI!!

We woke up to TONS of rain this morning, complete with thunder and lighting. I had therapy at 8:30 and the barometric effects on everything we’ve been working on in therapy made my shoes feel like 50-pound weights! That was BEFORE I went! I’m actually doing better, more reps than Wednesday and better at keeping my foot straight. That knee is what we’re working on. My right foot tends to fall sideways to the right when it’s relaxed and the normal muscles became weak as a result. Part of strengthening the knee is retraining the right muscles to work. The therapist says he can see by the way I walk that I’ve been using the wrong muscles for a long time! So, while I’m really not doing much, it kinda knocks me out. This afternoon I’ve been especially lethargic. I’m going to grab a B12 after I finish this. The extra oxygen in my blood will perk me up and will help the muscles heal up so I can attack them again Monday afternoon!

David and I will be making a trip to Indianapolis to have Father’s Day barbecue with Dad at my brother’s. Dave called me last night to find out when we’d be there and to let me know what Pop’s plans are. My Dad will get to Indy around noon-thirty and he’s going to barbecue dinner. That’s his thing for Fathers Day. Let him cook for both his kids, their spouses and granddaughters and he is the king of the wold. Bonus for us that Pop is an incredible artisan at the grill!

Since we’re celebrating Fathers Day tomorrow and David is working on Sunday, AND that y homework is done, I’m hoping to get some things done in designing. I have three kits in different stages of done on my Apple’s hard drive and my plan uis to have at least one of them done and in the store next week! In the mean time, there is a great Fathers Day weekend sale going on at Scrap Bird right now! As part of that sale, ALL of Digitalegacies Designs’ products are 30% off all weekend long! Make sure you check it out!

A special wish to Seamhead Gypsy, South Shore Billy and the Dads reading for a
VERY HAPPY FATHERS DAY!!

Digitalegacies Designs Sale Paper

Oh, it’s a good time to shop the Digitalegacies Designs sales!

First off, HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID!!! That’ right, my hubby is 43 today an in honor for his 43rd birthday, I’ve put all the Talkin Baseball stuff on sale for 43% off for one week! That’s right, in honor of the wonderful man who makes my world even better who took me to a baseball game for our first TWO dates, Talkin Baseball, The Talkin Baseball Word Art or the combo pack are all 43% off until June 17!

Talkin Baseball, 43% off for David's Birthday!

While we’re talking sale, today is Crazy Price Thursday at Scrap Bird! I put making it quick and simple half off this week, with my quick page sets for half off! You can get Crimson and Clover Quick Pages, Eight Days a Week Quick Pages, Laura Favors and The Look of Love Quick Page Set any or all of them for half off, Thursday, June 11 only!

Crimson and Clover Quick Pages, Half-off Today!

While you’re checking out the baseball kit to celebrate David's birthday or any of the quick pages sets for half off, check out my Wedding Party!

The Look of Love Quick Page Set, $2.40 until July 13

Our reception is just over a half year after we eloped and I’m swimming in the final preparation! In honor of the fun and romantic, to us anyway, weekend we have planned, I’m putting all of the Digitalegacies Romance on sale for 20% off until after the reception! You can have your choices of any or all of the Digitalegacies Designs Love kits: Your Own Special Way, Because of You, Laura and My Blue Heaven, the kit I did to celebrate our marriage plus The Look of Love Quick Pages after today will stay on sale for 20% off until July 13!

Come check out all of the great designers at Scrap Bird - Crazy Prices Thursday is a great opportunity to try out a designer you haven’t tried before!

Digitalegacies Designs Sale Paper

Happy Thursday everybody!

Just a quick stop in to remind everyone about Crazy Thursday at Scrap Bird. This week there are 22 products at half off, including Eight Days a Week by Digitalegacies Designs!


If you need happy colors and a lot of room for inspired journaling, consider Eight Days A Week! This kit was made with Project 365 layouts in mind, but it’s super versatile!


The kit comes with 3 full alphas and the Project 365 Templates set 1, a $1.99 value, as a free bonus! Today the kit with bonus is $2.50!



Or if you want some quick and easy Project 365 or any multi-photo pages, try the Project 365 Quick Page set!


Four ready to go pages, just slip your photo behind, resize as necessary and there you have it. Now you are ready to spend some quality time with the journaling, or to add your own extras. Those are $1.38 today!


Also, as April is wrapping up, this is the last day for the Add It On For Free special from Digitalegacies Designs! Buy the kit, get the add-on free!


Coupon codes for the free add-ons:

One Step at a Time - kjad4365
Homemade Love - lknd856hn
Because Of You - dkrj25jdh
Your Own Special Way - lknrj37hdn

Just put both items in your cart and enter the code, the price for add-on will disappear!



Tomorrow will start the NSD weekend sale at Scrap Bird! 40% off the entire store all weekend plus see the Scrap Bird blog for more specials and the freebies announcements! There is a special NSD freebie from each Scrap Bird designer this weekend AND the second part of our fabulous Flowers Blooming collab is free for three days too!! Most of the freebies will go into the stores after the weekend, so make sure you check out Scrap Bird while everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, is on sale or free!

Have fun shopping the sales!

Scrap Stuff and a Freebie!

Are you getting geared up for National Scrapbook Day? I’m doing as much as I can ahead of time since, as usual, I won’t be in town on NSD weekend. I always end up someplace else. NSD this year is May 2, the four year anniversary of our first date and the weekend of the convention where we first met in person. I love my occasional scrapping days, but for that weekend, there is really no place else I’d rather be than with David Scrapbook holiday or not!

The April Collab kit, Flowers Blooming, is in the store at Scrap Bird!


It’s amazing how so many talented designers with such a variety of designing styles can work with a common theme and palette and come up with a huge kit that works so well together, yet still reflects all of our individual styles. I credit Marzena with just knowing what to do to bring the best out of us as a team!

Part 1 of this terrific mega kit is in the store now for %25 off with a great sampler available for free on the Scrap Bird Blog!


Make a point of bookmarking our blog! There will be more great freebies to come! :)


New from Darlene!

I’ve been on Darlene's CT for a year now and I’m a designer too, but she still blows me away with her designs. I’d say for every three pages in my personal books, there is one done with a Darlene Haughin kit.

I just did a couple of layouts with her newest kit, One Spring Morning.




Here’s one of my layouts:

Credits: One Spring Morning by Darlene Haughin

This is from spring of 2006, when Kaline was less than a year old and about half the size she is now!

Darlene’s mini kit, Mysteria is on sale at her stores this month.


That’s next on my scrapping list. I told Darlene she was enabling my green and purple addiction. But come on, green-purple and blue in various combinations are just so Nani! With the exception of cars, I could live if those were the only colors in the world.

After I finish up the pages in my priority folder, I’m going to work with the newest kit in Darlene’s store, Chocolate Bunny!


I bet you can guess one photo that is perfect for this kit! (Think Photoblog this week!)


Add It On For FREE

If you visit the Scrap Bird blog, you’ll see my ad for the April Digitalegacies Designs sale. Buy One Step at a Time, Homemade Love , Your Own Special Way or Because of You and enter in the coupon code for the add-on for free!

Remember Because Of You?

Put the kit and the add-on in your cart and enter coupon code dkrj25jdh. The price for the add-on will be removed!

Stop back a couple times if you have your eye on more than one of these kit and bonus pairs!

Add It On For FREE coupon codes:
One Step at a Time - kjad4365
Homemade Love - lknd856hn
Because Of You - dkrj25jdh
Your Own Special Way - lknrj37hdn


Treasure Map

If you came here looking for a freebie, you’re sorta at the right place! I’m here to tell you about the freebie rather than give it today!

First, check out this page done by my CT member, Fenny:

Credits: quick page by Fenny with Laura by Digitalegacies Designs

I just love the way she used the flower and ribbons in the kit with the gemmed frame! We traded a few emails and I coaxed her into trying to do it as a quick page and voila!


You can have a great quick page for making a quick and gorgeous page and also some inspiration for the many things you can do with Laura!

Click the preview to stop by Fenny’s blog and get this beautiful quick page. When you’re there be sure to leave her some love and check out all of the sweet layouts she’s done of her family with my kits and other great designers’ kits too!

Digitalegacies Designs Sale Paper

TODAY ONLY!!



APRIL DEALS!!


Use the coupon codes for your freebie add-ons! (One coupon per order)

One Step at a Time - kjad4365
Homemade Love - lknd856hn
Because Of You - dkrj25jdh
Your Own Special Way - lknrj37hdn

There’s Still Time!

There’s still time to save so big you’ll almost feel guilty about it, almost!

I’m sending out a reminder about the incredible deals at Sears on their entire fall apparel line. Remember, 75-80% off the original prices on some great stuff!

Last time I told you about this great sale, I was looking at a great transitional piece that would be great for work. Now I’m feeling very weekend and very night out!

R&M Richards side slit pants

I found R&M Richards side slit pants in the closeouts plus size section. What great black dress pants! They are poly-lined chiffon, flouncy and elegant. They’ll still dress up an after hours work function, make the start of a great suit for an evening wedding or a jazz up a night out with your hubby. Original price on these pants is $68.00, the sale price is $11.99 while supplies last on the close out. My size and the next one down are left and I’m wondering if one of each would be a good incentive program in my dieting goals.

There are closeouts that great on fall and winter apparel for women, men, kids and I saw some tops in the juniors section that looked perfect teenage niece-style to me, blouses, hoodies and tanks that scream “I feel pretty!”

The close out prices will be in effect until April 18, but don’t wait to check out their website. Everything in the sale is while supplies last and you don’t want to just miss the sizes you need at incredible prices.

If you like to save money, if you like to save LOTS of money, click now!!

It’s Transitional Wardrobe Season!

It’s that time of year when you put on a coat in the morning because it’s chilly, arrive at work where the heating and cooling hasn’t adjusted for the change of seasons and it’s hot and end up wishing you had a sweater because the air conditioning kicks on when the suns shines through the windows, forget your coat at the restaurant at lunch because it’s a beautiful spring afternoon and wish you had it at 5:00 because the rain has started and it’s COLD again!

Oh, you all know I really do love spring, but it does take a good transitional wardrobe to get through it! In steps Sears with 75-80% off original prices on fall and winter apparel. Here is one that totally grabbed me. I love versatile pieces in my closet.


This Studio One Women’s Plus Short Sleeve Shirtdress was originally priced at $78.00. You can get it for $19.99! It’s a cute, simple dress that’s fine for a relaxed professional look. Dress it up with a blazer, warm it up with a sweater, or for more looks, wear it unbuttoned with dress slacks and a blouse or a a simple solid dress. Using it as a duster, you can lighten up the look as we swing into spring. The dress is a poly-knit, machine washable, multifunctional and only a quarter of the original price with plenty of season left in it as we transition into spring!

See this dress and many more deals for women, men and kids at Sears! It’s while supplies last at the discounted prices until April 18, so click now!

Scrap Bird Crazy Prices Thursday!

It’s bedtime Wednesday here, but in the Scrap Bird homeland it’s been Thursday for a few hours already and the craziness has begun for this week!

There are some great deals on new and old products at Scrap Bird, including Anything by Digitalegacies Designs that’s over $2.00 regular price is slashed in half until 6:00 PM EDT. Stop by the gallery and see some of the new layouts from my CT with “I Feel Lucky” and “My Blue Heaven!”

Also while you’re at the store, check out all of the new designers! In the last week we’ve added some wonderful new talent! Pick up some of their sample and sale items to go with your deals from Digitalegacies Designs!

Nani's Scrappin' Sale-Paper

Welcome to a crazy, insane Thursday!

Why crazy and insane? It’s a crazy insane sale at Scrap Bird! This week is the start of Crazy Prices Thursday at Scrap Bird. You’ll find half off deals all over the store! That includes half off all Digitalegacies products that are regular priced over $2.00!



That means you save more than the price of the add-on for “Because of You,” “Your Own Special Way” and “Homemade Love!” They’re all $2.50 today! If you have Valentine pictures to scrap or those shots of the kids making cupcakes, today is definitely the day to outfit your craft folder on your HD and get ready for some serious crop time!

“My Blue Heaven?” regular $5.00, today $2.50. Pick up the brag book pages and still have enough for a cup of coffee left from your savings! “Eight Days A Week” is $2.50 today. That saves enough for a set of Project 365 templates or pick up the Project 365 quick pages with “Eight Days A Week” for half off today too!

If you have some spending cash earmarked for digi scrapping supplies, today is the day to stop by Scrap Bird! Stock up that digital craft drawer! It’s not just Digitalegacies Designs products, there are tons of products at half off. Of course, I’d appreciate it if there were some DD items in your cart too!

** Scrap Bird is based in Poland, so be sure to get in before midnight there to get the half-off deals. (6PM eastern in the US)