Morning Solitude Train {Freebie}

Whew! It feels good to contribute to the blog train again! I missed last month due to the insanity of life but this month's colors are simply stunning and I loved working with them! Did you know you can get on board the train too? Stuff to Scrap hosts a monthly blog train and anyone can join. Pop over to the forum to see what we have in store for our next train and sign up!

*Freebie Expired - You can find it in my store*

and here's the rest of the train:

Scrap Like Crazy
Manda's Scrappin' Creations
Rainamoon Scraps
Becky aka SAHM Scrapper
Scrappin' Serenity
Life Is Not A Cereal
light's digiscrapworld
Christin's Creations
Scraps 'n Pieces
Midnight Scrapping
Kori's Scraps
Desertgirl Designs
Farrah Smith Designs
Little Red Scraps
Always Be Neighbors Designs
Ányi + a digitális scrapbooking
Grandmas Templates
The Scrappy Kat
Digi-Scrapz by Christi
Jensen Motley Crew Designs
Ginger's House
StashHappy Designs
My Scrappy Heart
Dream Big Designs
Shel Belle Scraps
Adriana's Cafe
Mommy Me Time Scrapper
momsuniquepossiblities
A Fish Design
Nibbles Skribbles *You Are Here*
A valóság tükre (Osli's blog)
Knittinjen
Borsmustár
Saphira's Scrapdesign
CityGurlCreations
ThisLittleMissy
Let Me Scrapbook!
scrapattack
Crafting at Your Special Delivery
Flower Scraps
Every EverAfter Moment
Nita's Things
Craft With Me
Mad Genius Designs
The Latest Scoop, Too
ABC Scraps
JW DigiScraps

Want to get published?

We are preparing our first edition of the Stuff To Scrap Quarterly Newsletter and we are looking for some great layouts, hybrid projects, and tutorials to publish. Show us what you’ve got!

Holiday related layouts (Thanksgiving/Christmas/Chanukah/Kwanzaa/New Years/Etc.)

Hybrid projects (prefer holiday related, but welcome all submissions)

Digi-scrap Tutorials/How-to's for a variety of scrapbooking programs.

Deadline: November 15, 2009

Send submissions to: thescrappykat@gmail.com

Call Guidelines

Please submit your projects with the following guidelines:

* All layouts & hybrid projects must use 100% STS Designer kits (non-STS designer templates are allowed for hybrid projects if proper credits are listed).
* Include designer credits with all your project submissions.
* Layouts can be of any size, i.e. 12"x12", 8"x8", 6"x6"
* Please send images as large as possible and we’ll scale to size.
* You must name your images with the title of the layout or project.
* STS Newsletter Call must be specified in subject line of your e-mail
* We prefer new, never before published projects. Please state if your project/tutorial has been published before; either in another publication, forum, gallery, or blog.
* For hybrid projects, please include a supply list and project photos with your submission(s).
*Please include screenshots with tutorials if appropriate.

1 day Charity FUNdraiser

Purchase anything Nibbles Skribbles today (10-30-09) and 100% of your sale will go to help fight blood cancer! Funds raised will be donated to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Costumed for a Cure campaign!

Click here to shop! - Oh, and remember everything is 30% off too!

Kathy of The Latest Scoop, Too will also be donating all proceeds from today's sales to this great cause! Her store is 50% off. Click here to be taken to her store!

Becky, SAHM Scrapper is donating her sales too! Click here to shop!

A Spook-Tacular Sale!

Click the flyer to be whisked away to my store for some Spooky Savings!

$2 Tuesday

Check it out - One day only! Picking Perfect Pumpkins is in the $2 tuesday sale at stuff to scrap! Click to shop!

New In Store

It's been a long week! I got the dreaded H1N1 and it turned into Pneumonia....I spent most of my week in bed and am finally feeling better a week later. But, before I got sick, I got a bunch of new products in my store. The sale on these new releases is either already over or over tomorrow - but don't worry - I have plans for more sales in the future!

Click Here to shop in my store

Date It - the perfect calendar accent for your layouts!

Template Set's 6 & 7 - I will share some great LOs soon! They are available in both 12x12 and rectangle sizes.

and finally 2010 Calendar Grids for making all your holiday gifts. They are also CU friendly so feel free to create calendar sets to sell!

Nibbles Skribbles Newsletter

It's been a few months since I've sent out my newsletter, but as my life returns to normal I plan to get better at this! If you're not signed up, make sure you are because I've got lots to share with you!

Rainbows of Hope Charity Kit

Hey all! I have a charity kit to tell you about:

This kit is a collaborative effort by several Stuff to Scrap designers for the benefit of the American Cancer Society. Although I wasn't able to find the time to contribute, I thought I would tell you all about this great effort! The rainbow pallette includes colors to promote awareness for all types of cancer. So whether you have lost someone to this disease, love someone fighting the disease, are fighting yourself, or are a cancer survivor, there are colors and awareness ribbons for you.

All proceeds will be donated to the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life.

And, there’s a set of quickpages to go along with it. All proceeds from the sale of these QP's will be donated to the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life as well.

Wanna Win Picking Perfect Pumpkins?

(Terri M from Hawaii.....email me when you see this! I have a coupon waiting for you!)

First, I want to thank all of you who have left comments since my last post. It's much appreciated. As soon as this post is made, I'm off to check and see if love was left for my lovely team as well :). I truly love designing and sharing with everyone, but as you often hear, it's hard to put all the work in without a single thanks. I didn't realize how far a Thank You went until I started designing and giving freebies. I've gotten much better, but I'm not perfect either (especially when I use my google reader! Bad Manda!)

Reminder: The kit, Quick Pages and Cardstock are all on sale for 30% off through Sunday, and if you scroll down you can grab the Add-On free until then too!



Anyways, this post isn't about all that - this post is abotu WINNING my new kit Picking Perfect Pumpkins. All you have to do is Blog about it! Click here for more details!

Picking Perfect Pumpkins CT Freebies

I hate to have to post this, but I was really disappointed today. The sheer number of downloads to comments on this Add-On is the worst I have ever seen. I received 2 whole comments and almost 600 downloads....that math doesn't add up. So, TerriM (from HI) and Cherbear - email me so I can hook you up with the entire Picking Perfect Pumkins kit! Thanks for your sweet comments today!

Sometime in the next day or so my CT will have some additional freebies for this kit for you, please be sure to thank them for their time. Click their previews to get their great freebies!

Steph has a Quick Page - but I don't have a preview for you... :D

It's Here! Picking Perfect Pumpkins {Freebie}

The wait is over, you can stop looking for the perfect fall kit because I have it for you! It's called Picking Perfect Pumpkins and it's jam packed with 37 elements (and only a couple of re-colored ribbons), 12 unique papers and a full alpha. Pick up the cardstock Add On to complete your set and you'll be ready to scrap all your fall pictures!

Here's a peek at the kit, the cardstock add-on and the quick page album!

All Picking Perfect Pumpkins Products (say that 10 times fast!) are on sale for 30% off until Sunday.

Quick Pages Available in 12x12 or Rectangle sizes

My Team went CRAZY with this kit and I have a ton of great layouts to show you, so I'll post them all small and you can click to enlarge!

and a couple of the girls did desktop calendars too, check them out!

And of course I have a freebie for you, this time around I did an Add-On! But you'll need to hurry - because this will only be free until Sunday! (Click to download)

*Freebie Expired*

Sunshine Playground

This month, the STS Collab "Sunshine Playground" is a charity kit. You can read more about it here:

Click Here to shop

Help A Girl Out!

For the past years and years I have hosted my photos at Kodak Gallery, and pay for their Gallery Premiere site, which provides me with a free photo site. What I love most about it is how userfriendly it is on both ends. Uploading and publishing are a snap, and for my friends and family checking out the photos it's just as easy.

These two things are very important to me. Many of the people visiting and looking at our photos are grandparents and other people who are not computer people at all. So a very easy to navigate site is important.

Here's my problem. Starting October 17 - Kodak will no longer be offering their Gallery Web sites. They have changed a lot of things on their site, and removing this option was one of them. I spent an hour on hold this morning to talk to someone about this, and voiced my opinion - but it seems like nothing is in the works to reinstate this service.

This leads me to the real point of this post - I am looking for a new site to host and share my photos. I am willing to pay a reasonable amount to do so. It needs to be user friendly on both ends, have lots of storage space (at least 25 GBs - as that's what I currently have at Kodak) and allow my friends and family to either download the photos or order them. I would like it to be easy to organize the pictures chronologically too, since that's the easiest way for people to see what's out there. Here is the link to my Kodak site so you can see how it looks - please share what you use - pros and cons, prices, links etc. I'll share what I learn with all of you when I figure it out!

Been Busy

I ended up with a "sick day" today, home with my son who is out of daycare for the week because of a fever. So, I spent the day scrapping! It felt so good to sit and scrap, it's honestly been months since I've just scrapped - I wanted to most of the NINE layouts I got done today (I count a 2 pager as 2 LOS). Click LOs for credits