HEART LIGHT QUICK PAGE FREEBIE

Greetings!  I'm on a good two-day roll here!  I finished up another Quick Page last night for my entry in the free monthly QP contest in the forum over at Ivy Scraps.  The kit is free for all who enter and make one page.  This time we got to play with "Heart Light" by Raymonde Savoie, and here is her kit preview . . .

Isn't that a pretty kit?  I designed a 12x12-inch png Quick Page at 300 dpi from it, so here is a look at that . . .

DOWNLOAD HERE or HERE

Just a reminder; if you would like to collect the rest of these free QPs for an easy album, skip on over to the April Quick Page Contest thread in the forum at Ivy Scraps.  Each contestant will have a free direct download link posted in that thread.  If you are not registered in that forum, you will need to register to be able to see all the posts in that thread.  You can get a quick look at all the pages by looking in the QP Contest Gallery, but the download links are in the forum thread.  This contest is open until the end of around May 10th this time; downloads are available for 30 days following the end of the contest.

Leave some love if you download, I notice comments are currently lacking.  Comments equal motivation for me!!

I will try to have the April and May calendar grids up for you in the next couple of days, so tune in frequently. 

For now,

TOOTLES!!

FREE QP - VOLE AU VENT

Happy end of April, everybody!  Ouch!  It's been awhile since I posted; sorry for absences of this length.  Real life just keeps getting busier and busier these days, or so it seems; and working a 40-hr. week again has really put a skid on my creative time.  Rats!  If I can find any free time, I'm  usually falling asleep in the middle of it.  - - April has seen my parents married for 66 years, and my dad just celebrated his 90th birthday.  My only brother flew across the country to spend dad's birthday week with my folks in a ski resort in the mountains of Virginia.  Dad had so much fun he wants to turn 90 every day!  - - - My grandchildren have begun their spring sports; baseball, softball, and gymnastics. 

I've participated in two Quick Page challenges this month, and I have the first one ready as a freebie for you.  Digi Scrap Station offered us Lily Kay's kit, Vole Au Vent, to play with.  We all made an 8-inch QP for the contest, but I always scrap in 12-inch size, so I'm offering both sizes for download below.  These are png files at 300 dpi.  Here is the kit preview . . .

And here is a look at the QP I designed with it . . .

DOWNLOADS

8-inch size, HERE or HERE

12-inch size, HERE or HERE

I hope you can use this in your digi-scrapping.  If you would like to collect all the free QPs from this month's contest at DSS, just visit their forum under the April QP Game thread where all the contestants provide direct download links to their pages.

I'll be back soon with a second QP for you from the other contest I play in, and I also just realized I need to ge the April calendar grid up for you, as well as the one for May. 

Don't forget to leave some love if you download and like my freebies! 

Until next time,

TOOTLES!!

HIP HOP TIME QP FREEBIE

Morning Peeps!  It's Sunday, but I still have to work a 4-hour shift this afternoon, and it's pooring rain in my neck of the woods; a very glooming type day.  I'm wondering if we will have any customers willing to brave the wetness.  I'm always amazed by people's determination to "SHOP"!

To update my last post, I got sick days after my hubby came down with whatever viral thing he drug home from work.  So, it wasn't food poisoning that made him so sick.  Turned out to be some type of "super-bug" after all.  Whew, I haven't been that sick in years!  I laid about for at least 4 days doing nothing but trying to keep the fluids down.  Yuck!

I'm well now and back up on my feet running.  Hate losing time like that. 

Today I have a pre-Easter FREEBIE Quick Page for you.  I participated in the monthly QP challenge over in the forum at Ivy Scraps.  This month we got to play with with the cute kit, "Hip Hop Time" by Mizfit Mania which is available in the Ivy Scraps shop.  You can collect all the Quick Pages for free by visiting their forum under the March Quick Page Contest thread.  All the participants will get their free pages posted with direct download links there by the end of this month.  You can also visit the Quick Page Contest Gallery at Ivy Scraps to view what's available as the month progresses.  Here is a preview of the kit we all used . . .

and here's a more detailed look at all the papers included in this kit,

and here is a look at the QP I designed from this kit . . .

My Quick Page is a 12-inch size png file at 300 dpi, ready to slip your photos underneath.

DOWNLOAD HERE or HERE

Working full time again is definitely cutting into my designing and blogging time.  I'm so tired at night that I don't seem to get much else done other than consuming whatever for dinner on the late side and chatting with the hubby a little.  But alas, it's not forever.  I can vaguely see a light at the end of my work tunnel.  When I get to that light, I will have more time for the things I like to do.

Here's a bit of inspiration - I scrapped this page from a great template by Lindsay Jane which is free at Gotta Pixel under the March challenges in the forum.  I had gotton a new kitchen appliance to make delicious Belgian waffles, and was so excited using it the first time that I took some photos.  I had gotten my Dad one of these for Christmas, and he loves using it himself, so I finally got myself one off Amazon.  It works like a charm in only minutes.  It's a Flip Belgian Waffle Maker by Hamilton Beach, and I even ordered the malted waffle mix when I ordered the waffle maker.  Yumo!  Here's the page I made of my happy meal . . .

I used a kit from Gotta Pixel called "Citrus Crush" by Twin Mom Scraps for this page.  Here's a look at the free challenge template you can still pick up during the month of March by Lindsay Jane under the Tempting Templates thread in the forum under March Challenges . . .

Very cute, right?!  I love using templates, one of my favorite ways to digi-scrap! 

Okay, gotta jump off here and get ready for the old work shift for today!  Hope I get back here soon.  I plan to get my free April 2013 calendar template posted here in the next few days, plus I still need to load my Etsy store.  Still haven't had time to focus on that.  Rats!

You all take care and have a great week ahead!

TOOTLES!

WILD & WACKY QP FREEBIE

Welcome March and Daylight Savings Time!  Things are warming up nicely here at the beach, and I absolutely LOVE having the extra hour of daylight on the evening side of my days!  I get more done!  It would be fine with me if we kept it year-round.  I have cute little birds already tending their eggs in a nest made years ago in my two hanging floral baskets on my front porch.  They have to be pretty domesticated to put up with us coming and going so closely every day!  Bless their hearts; they seem to love the home they have chosen.  The spring flowers are in bloom here, and the ornamental pear trees are popping their gorgeous white blooms.  Our pollen season began early in the middle of February, and it usually lasts for 4-6 weeks until everything has bloomed out full.  A good rain at the end of blooming season will wash all that stuff away proper.  I love this time of year!

I've just finished my participation in the March Quick Page Game over at Digi Scrap Station, and I'm early with it this month.  Yeah for me!  We got to use a cutsie kit, "Wild & Wacky", by Throwing Some Scraps Around.  Here is the kit preview . . .

 
I made my Quick Page in both the 8-inch and 12-inch sizes, so you can take your pick or take both.  We do the 8-inch size for the contest so our albums are uniform.  They are png files at 300 dpi, ready to load your photos underneath.  If you wish to collect the rest of the album, just visit the Quick Page Contest thread in the forum at DSS.  The direct download links will be in each contestant's post there and should be available through April.  If you have never visited that forum, you will need to register which is free, of course, to enable complete viewing of the forum threads.  You can also look at all the previews by checking out the Quick Page Game previews in the gallery.  Here is the preview of the page I designed . . .

DOWNLOADS:

8-INCH SIZE:  HERE or HERE

12-INCH SIZE:  HERE or HERE

These will be whimsical fun pages, so I hope you can use them in your digital scrapping!

Since we last chatted my DD was in a wreck, and I sensed it before she ever told me about it.  She is okay, not hurt; and it wasn't her fault.  She was broadsided by someone running a sign at an intersection.  Luckily, she drives a huge Avalanche and likes it because she totes her two children to and from school, all their sports and practices, etc.  She inherited this vehicle from her older sister who passed in 2009, and she has told me she feels connected to her sis when she is driving it.  The vehicle that hit her was not so small itself, a Yukon, so at least they were on equal turf size-wise.  The truck repair went rather quickly, a week and a half, so that's not too bad.  She's back on the road again.  The females in my family all have a 6th or 7th sense about things that are about to happen; we get the pretty accurate mental picture some time in advance.  It sounds weird, but it never fails; my mother, me, and my second daughter all have it.  We live in a very busy tourist town where traffic is always heavier on weekends, so we all feel fortunate that we've made it for so long without incidents like this. 

My DH came down sick this weekend, sick enough to head home early from work (which told me how seriously bad he was feeling).  We thought at first it may have been flu, but after watching him for 3 days, I am convinced he had a dose of food poisoning.  He was sicker than I've ever seen him be in our lifetime together; yet no fever to speak of.  The last thing he had ingested before fallng ill was a salad from a fast food place the evening before.  It was a zesty SW concoction with chili poured over it.  Aparently the chili pot may have been left at room temperature too long; nothing else in that salad could have been the culprit.  I don't think he will want any fast food for quite some time.  Be careful out there, peeps!!

I'm keeping my grandkids this evening so their parents can go out to the movies to see "OZ".  I can wait until it comes to Netflix.  Wow, love my Netflix!  Get to watch all the stuff I've missed without commercials!  Can hook into all the series I never bothered to watch, etc.

Will cut my chatter here and get busy on the chores for today.  Have a great week!  Check back soon to see what else is coming your way.

TOOTLES!!

EVENING SKY QUICK PAGE FREEBIE

Greetings again as we draw near to the end of February!  For some reason (must be winter blaahs), this has never been one of my favorites in the 12-month cycle, even here at the beach.  Our current weather is variable, warm and then chilly, and lots of folks are running around with sniffles, etc. 

I've participated this month in the Quick Page contest held at Ivy Scraps.  Donna W let us play with her lovely kit, "EVENING SKY".  I designed a 12 x 12", 300 dpi png QP using only a small portion of the kit's contents.  If you would like to collect the entire free QP album of matching pages, just visit the forum at Ivy Scraps and check out the Quick Page Contest Thread for February.  Each contestant will post a direct download link to their page in that forum thread.  For a quick look at what is available, you can check out the gallery at Ivy Scraps, specifically the Quick Page Contest gallery. 

Here is a preview of the kit, "EVENING SKY" . . .

and here is my Quick Page preview . . .

DOWNLOAD HERE OR HERE

I hope you can use and enjoy this in your digital scrapbooking!  Let me know in the comment section if you like it and, of course, let me know if you find any of my links not working so I can fix them.

I hope to get my Etsy store reloaded within the next two days.  I've absolutely neglected it for a whole month, shame on me!  February turned out busier than I had hoped or planned for.  My mom just celebrated her 85th birthday on the 24th, and my brother flew in from Phoenix just to be with the folks for a few days.  Wasn't that a nice surprise!  He called me immediately upon his plane landing to tell me how freezing cold it was back in the mountains.  Guess he has forgotten since he is now used to the arrid deserts of AZ.  I had to snicker, and I suppose he will be happy to get back home.

I'll be working on getting the rest of my 2013 calendar grids uploaded real soon for you. 

Until then, keep on scrapping!

TOOTLES!!

NEWS BITS & FREEBIE QUICK PAGE

Hello my PEEPS!  I'm way behind on my posting since the funeral, but WOW it's been super-busy here, and I'm mentally and physically exhausted as of late.  Our trip North up and back took 5 days, 2 of which were full driving days.  We hit snow going in, all the time there, and drove out of it on the way home southward.  The funeral day was a total freezing blizzard, low visability, freezing roads, howling winds, snowflakes flying.  The funeral home was warm and filled with flowers, family, good conversations, and a wonderful service by a pastor that my hubby's family practically raised and considered "family", so he knew my mother-in-law very well.  His words were from his heart, and it warmed us all.  We managed to motor on to the internment service, and from it onward to the church where a big dinner awaited all who attended.  Again, the warmth, love, and generosity of their church made the day not seem so sad.  Over food, family stories and memories were revisited.  After food, new pictures of family groups were taken by the pastor's wife and family members to share with all later on.  Honestly, it was one of the nicest and warmest funerals I have ever attended.  I suppose that's some of the reason I married my husband; I knew he came from a family that knew the meaning of the word, and the WORD.  My hubby is the man with lots of silver hair in the photo below.

When we returned home, two of our family friends were having personal crisis, so we pitched in for the last two weeks helping them to sort out their lives; this while we worked our normal jobs.  I did manage to get Valentine remembrances to my grandkids and parents, but that's the extent of what I've managed to get done for myself, other than the freebie I have for  you today.

Surprisingly, we had some snowfall here at the beach this week, three days ago!  The morning started out gorgeous and sunny.  As the day wore on, the sky became gray, the temperature dropped rapidly, the rain began and then turned to snowflakes during the night.  We awoke the next morning to white covering our spring green!  Such an event causes a freakous this far south!  Here's a peek at beach snow . . .

Ok, that's enough of an update on things around here for now.  On to your freebie!

I've designed a Quick Page for the February 2013 Quick Page Game over at Digi Scrap Station using a kit called "My Daughter's Wedding" by Karen's Scraps & Graphics.  Remember, if you want to gather all the contestants' QPs, just head over to the forum there where you'll find a direct link to all the free QPs from this kit.  Look for the thread about the February Quick Page game, and scroll down through it to gather all the downloads.  We make one 8x8" page for the contest so the total album will be uniform.  But, here on my blog I provide both the 8x8" and the 12x12" size, both png files at 300 dpi for printing quality.  Here is the kit preview . . .

And here is my Quick Page . . .

DOWNLOADS FOR THE 8-INCH QP:

HERE OR HERE

DOWNLOADS FOR THE 12-INCH QP:

HERE OR HERE

I hope you can use this in your scrapping!  I'll be working up another QP for the February QP Contest at Ivy Scraps, so I'll be back with that in the next couple of days!  If you like to scrap at all, you should get involved in the monthly QP games as the kits to work with are free!  Then there are all the finished pages to collect for the next 30 days following the game.  It's a neat way to build an album in a flash, and QPs enable faster scrapping! 

That's it for me for now.  I have a world of plans for the next two days which include house-cleaning, laundry, groceries, paying bills, taking in a movie, baking, and taking my puppy to his second vet appointment!  Whew!  Wonder if I'll finish that list??

Check back in soon!

TOOTLES!!

FREE SNOWY SKIES QUICK PAGE

I'm in such a rush, so I hope Blogger feels like cooperating for this post.  I've had two grandsons with birthdays this month, one 7 and one 11.  Whew!  Being creative with their gifts so close after having Christmas is always a challenge.  For the older one whose birthday was yesterday, we had an at-home taco bar birthday dinner, cake and ice cream with family and a few of his close friends in.  We were under a tornado watch along the coast here, so it was good that we stayed home.  Weather has been in the 70's, but the wind, moisture in the air, barometric pressure and clouds have been kooky in the last 24 hours. 

My mother-in-law passed away at age 75 in the early morning hours of Tuesday, the 29th.  My hubby and step-son packed a quick duffle and headed north 6-1/2 hours to her hospital Sunday night at 9 p.m. when it became apparent that her condition was failing.  She was lucid to the end and had her final conversational connection with each member of their very large family which is very Christian and very strong in mind and spirit.  She wouldn't accept any morphine for pain until after those family conversations.  When the doctor asked what the Hospice plan would be, she told him she wouldn't need one.  She told us she had seen the angels already, they were there with her; the same ones her husband had seen just before he passed several years ago.  She had thought he was out of it when he told her about the angels, but she now told us they are very real and we needed to know that.  She had signed a DNR order.  She was ready, and she decided when to go.  She said her work was done, she had had enough, and she removed her own oxygen mask and slipped away. 

Everybody called her Nanny.  She was country, sweet, sensitive, loving, forgiving, kind, and generous.  She was very feminine, dressed well, loved silk pajamas, painted her nails, wore scarves and bows and flowers in her pretty hair, and her favorite color was pink.  She sang and played a guitar.  She loved to read books, watch good movies, make quilts, sew, knit and crochet.  She loved a good jigsaw puzzle, and there was always one in progress somewhere in the house.  She loved her houseplants and tended her outdoor flowers.  She liked to shop and loved Christmas-time because she was a giver.  She loved coming to the beaches on vacation and gathering seashells and getting a tan.  She loved her life, her home, her family, and her man.  She missed him dearly in the last few years.  RIP you two lovebirds!  We will miss you!

We will be traveling to attend her funeral and be with the family for a few days afterwards.  The weather forecast is not looking good up North, we will take extra time to be extra cautious on the roads.

I didn't want to disappear on you without checking in here and finalizing my Quick Page entry for the January QP game I did at Digi Scrap Station.  We worked with a kit by Scrappy Cats called "Snowy Skies".  I'm offering both the 8-inch and 12-inch sizes here on my blog.  They are png format at 300 dpi.  You can collect all of them in the forum at Digi Scrap Station in the January QP Game thread.  Each QP entry has posted a direct download link for their page.  Here is the full kit preview . . .

and here is my Quick Page . . .

DOWNLOADS FOR 8-INCH QP

HERE or HERE

DOWNLOADS FOR 12-INCH QP

HERE or HERE

I hope to post again before too much of February gets away from me.  I'd like to get the rest of those 2012 calendar templates out to you soon. 

It was with a sad face and heavy heart I read in the Divine Digital forum that Royanna is closing the site on Feb. 28th due to her poor health.  I totally understand her decision but will miss that scrapping site so much.  I've hung out there for years and years.  There was always so much inspiration oozing there! 

And if you can answer these two questions, please do so for me in the comments.  Where in the world did Berry Sweet Scraps go?  And what has happened to the site at Scrappity-doo-dah?  Does anybody know what's going on???

Okay, I've gotta jump off here.  So much to do, so little time.  I still haven't gotten around to reloading all my listings in my Etsy shop, so I will focus on that when I return from this trip.  Take care till we can chat again. 

TOOTLES!!