We've Been Warned...

Our area is under a winter storm warning from 2 o'clock this afternoon through 6 pm tomorrow evening and the snow has already been pouring down. The kids were so excited when I told them this morning. Of course they're hoping for the first snow day of the year tomorrow. We'll see!!
So, I mentioned in my last post that I had some exciting news to share so I probably should spill it already, right?? Here it is...I am the newest member of the Traci Murphy Designs Creative Team!! I'm a Rockstar!! (hehe...that's what her CT blinkies say...always wanted to be a rockstar!! ) My friend, Leah totally hooked me up with the gig so a big ol' THANK YOU to Leah!! And I'm still on Jodie's team even though my term was supposed to be up at the end of October...she extended it for us through the end of November. I can't believe that it's almost over! It just flew by! I have another LO for her team to share but I have to wait until tomorrow. But...I made my first layouts for Traci and wanted to share those!! My first one was made with Traci's part of the November Collaboration Kit at Funky Playground Designs:

And for the second one, I used the "Wishes and Wonders" kit that she designed with Kathyrn Wilson.

So there you have it...my big debut for Traci's team!! And can you tell I'm lovin' those brushes from Obsidian Dawn?? Sydney just loved seeing herself with those wings. Fun, fun!!I do have a layout that I made for Jodie that I can share...I used the Oscraps Parsian Holiday kit which features Jodie's fabulous word art for this one:

I'll be back later to upload my other layout and hopefully I'll have some pictures of some big, fluffy snow to share, too!! {hehe!} That's all for now...thanks for letting me share!! And thanks for stopping by!!!

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cold. It's just cold.

Ever have one of those days where you just seem to be chilled through for no reason?? It's cold outside but it's not one of those bitter cold days but for some reason, I have been cold all day. I had my fireplace on briefly while the kids were getting ready for school but that's the only time I've actually felt nice and toasty today. Oh well...just wanted to whine a little. {hehe!}

So...I've been doing a little playing with some new, fun digital goodies. I downloaded a really lovely kit from Dianne Rigdon called "In the Gloaming" the other night. I honestly had just planned on downloading it, unzipping it, and heading for bed. But...once I got a good luck at everything...oh dear. I just had to play before I shut my computer down!! So I put together this layout of my niece, Maddie.

(I should mention that the wing brushes were downloaded from Obsidian Dawn.) And, as part of my design team responsibilities at AC Bailey, I used a sketch that fellow DT member, Brandy, whipped up for us to make this card (I made the card digitally using Digital Scrapbook Memories "Family Ties" CD and then printed it out):

And earlier this year, I took part in a photo-a-day challenge and I've been thinking about creating a photobook using some of the pictures that I snapped during that month. Jodie McNally has some really fun photography word art in her store and I thought they would be perfect for the book. So I made this layout and I'm thinking it's probably going to be the cover of the book:

And finally, I bought a wonderful new collaboration kit by Corina Nielsen and Krystal Hartley (what a pairing, right?!) and I just had to make a layout just for me:

I snapped that picture of our yard this summer and I just came across it and decided to put together a LO about it...is that weird?? I'm looking forward to some pretty snowfalls this winter but I always miss my summertime and the green lushness that goes with it.

So that's what I've been up to lately. And...I have some news to share as soon as I get the okay to do so...stay tuned!! (I'm so excited!!) I hope everyone's having a great evening!! Thanks for stopping by!! Ta for now!!

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Yay! I'm Back!!

Our ISP is hughes.net because we have zero options when it comes to high speed internet in my neck of the woods. Well...Saturday morning, my sister-in-law came down to visit and do a little online shopping. I was browsing through the AC Bailey store showing her some of the fabulous new goodies that I was going to buy and all of a sudden, no more internet. It just stopped. We have problems with it sometimes and I just figured I'd give it a break and everything would be dandy. I was wrong. DH came home that evening and called Hughes and they really didn't know what was happening but they thought that our equipment was bad so they said they would send us a new one. It arrived yesterday, DH hooked it up last night, and woohoo!! We're connected again!! Yay!! Soooo....I was able to post my DT projects today so I thought I'd share a few. Here's a digital layout that I made using the Digital Scrapbook Memories CD, "In the Mood" from the AC Bailey store.

That's me and hubby back in the day when we first started dating. {hehe!!} I seem to be on a white space kick these days, especially with my digital stuff. But not so much with this layout....this is a hybrid page that I did. I printed the postcard, orange paper, circle journaling spot, and bracket-shaped journaling spot from the Digital Scrapbook Memories "Family Ties" cd. And I used some fabulous Basic Grey "Offbeat" papers, Fancy Pants glitter overlay, Primas...lots of goodies from Erica's October KOTM.

It's pretty busy...not a lot of white-space happening on that one. Okay...let's see what else I have. Oh yeh! I made a super simple little mini album from a sheet of Creative Imaginations cardstock journaling stickers. There were eight stickers on the sheet so I stuck two back-to-back to make a page which gave me four little pages. It's all about Syd and her Halloween costume for this year. So easy. Here's the cover:

And here are a few shots of the inside pages:

I should mention...those journaling stickers are super sticky!! Make sure you have them nice and lined up 'cause once they touch...they are stuck. There's no pulling them apart! At least not without injuring one or both of them. So anyway, that was just a fun and simple little idea and my daughter just loves it! Okay...what else?? Hmmm....ooo...I did a fun little hybrid layout for Dianne Rigdon's creative team using her super gorgeous "Well Worn" kit from ScrapArtist.

I printed my digital page and added some real sequins (and Stickles glitter) to the frame for some added realism. And I just made some wings out of plain white cardstock, colored them brown (just in case the glitter had some bare spots), and covered them in copper Stickles. And then I just added some letter stickers and used my Dymo label maker to make the "isn't she" letters. Again...lovin' the white space. :-)

And finally, Jodie McNally has some really cool new photography word art over at Oscraps so I whipped up a layout using the "Trust me! I'm a photographer" word art. {hehe!!}

Whew!! Too much??? Hey...I warned you...I've been without the internet for a week so you knew it was going to be a chatty one, right?? :-) So there you have it...those are some of the things that I've been working on. And now that I'm connected again, I'll be heading over to Jodie's shop and Dianne's store so that I can grab some new goodies and start playing again!! YAY!!! It's good to be back!!

Thanks for stopping by!! Have a good evening!!

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I'm a McDude!!

{hehe!} It's true!! I'm a McDude and it has nothing to do with my love of McDonald's Cokes! I tried out for Jodie McNally's CT and....I made it!!! Woohoo!! She rawks the word art!!! If you haven't checked out her designs, I highly recommend giving them a look at Oscraps!! Technically my term doesn't start until September 1st but Jodie said we could start anytime so I'm going to fly over there tonight and grab some goodies to play with...weeeeee!!!

And...I just won a gorgeous quick page album from the awesome Queen of Quirk!!! It is so darn cute!! I can't wait to get that one finished so I can share it with you! Here's the preview of the album that I won...

Isn't it adorable!? And she included some extras goodies in the kit so that you can really make it your own. And...it's Shutterfly ready!! Woohoo!!

AND...in case you were all wondering about the "Pass the Torch" picture on the side of my blog, I posted it there for a chance to win a new CD from Digital Scrapbook Memories... and I did!! Woohoo! I won the "Family Ties" cd and it just arrived today! It looks like a really fun one and I can't wait to bust it out and play!!

How lucky have I been?!?!? I'm a lucky girl. Thanks for letting me ramble!!! Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!!

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