Friday Fives!

Hello friends and welcome back to my blog!
I'm sad to announce that Dawn has "did away" with Casual Friday *sniff sniff* but no worries here because I'm still going to post 5 fabulous "things" every Friday right here on my blog just to kind of keep up with the goings on in my real life and in my digi life ;) I'm going to call these posts "Friday Fives"!!
And to start off here is my first post!
Friday Fives for February 25, 2011

1. This week not 1 but 2 of my layouts were featured around the digi community! First was my layout titled "Let Love Grow"

it was featured over on the Polka Dot Plum blog as one of the challenge highlights for the last week of February 2011!
The second layout I had featured was my "Michigan" layout which was featured over on the Scrapping With Liz blog for a Product highlight layout.

I'm Super Duper Excited about this!!
2. My new van got a big ol crack in it's windshield how sad :(
3. Last night's dinner was very Yummy!! Pizza and stuffed crazy bread from Little Cesars Pizza!Pizza! LOL
4. I picked up the latest editions of Scrapbooking & Byond and Paper Creations-YAY for more inspiration!!
5. T.G.I.F.!!! Overall it's been an equally good and bad week and I'm SO glad it's over!

Well that's it for Friday Fives! I'll see you next Friday for another 5's post if not before then to share some NEWS and INSPIRATION (layouts) with you!

Happy Scrapping and TTYL
-Kristi

TGIF and Casual Friday

YAY, it's Friday and I am SO excited!!!
A lot of stuff has been going on over here in my Real Life world!!
First of all I had my Birthday on the 6th and got to do a lot of shopping and received a lot of prezzies!!! Had a gorgeous birthday cake made by the local family owned bakery here in town and to top it all off it was Super Bowl Sunday too, so I got to spend some time with lots of family watching the big game as well, tons of junk food, family and fun!!
I got a new van...well new to me anyways...it was used but we finally bought a Pontiac Montana and I LOVE IT!!! Tons of room for the whole family and they love the dvd player so I get stuck listening to Megamind and Despicable me all the time,LOL.
Other than that it's a lot of sitting at home...net was shut off and I could only get online at the library or sitting in the McDonald's parking lot,LOL.

I'm trying to get back on track with all my regular blogging but today I want to start my weekly Friday post titled "Casual Friday" you can learn more about it by visiting the link in my side bar. Basically it's taking five "things" from the week and sharing them whether it be photos, ramblings, recipes, anything!! So without further ado here is my Casual Friday Post.

1. Monday (2/14)- Valentine's Day, hubby and kids took me to dinner, I got a rose and a soft teddy bear to cuddle with while hubby's at work at night.
2. Tuesday (2/15)- Kids 3rd day of school at their new school. They are loving it! I am loving that they love it!!
3. Wednesday (2/16)- Shaun and My 7th wedding anniversary was jam packed with family and "friends" (all I'm saying here) basically it was a bittersweet day for us, but hopefully things will calm down and get better.
4. Thursday (2/17)- Got new cell phone and wireless broadband so I can take laptop everywhere to do all my work. I even got caught up on some ct req's.
5. Friday (2/18)- Spending the day with my sister and our youngest sons and later this evening dinner and a movie with dh for our anniversary celebration.

That's it, I should be back very soon with some new layouts and the goings on in the digi community.

Talk to you later and Happy Scrapping!
-Kristi

Rainbow of Friendship NEW LINKS

Due to the Overwhelming amount of people who want to d/l my Rainbow of Friendship kit and couldn't due to "no bandwidth" error, I've re-uploaded the zip files to box.net and also mediafire in case the box.net links don't work. I'm sorry about the error and not being able to d/l but I wasn't expecting my kit to be d/l'd so many times in such a short period of time that I didn't upgrade my account, nor do I have the funds to do so currently so hopefully these links will work and if not, check back in a week or so for that's when my account will be upgraded and I should have an unlimited amount of space/bandwidth to use.
Good Luck, Happy Scrapping and Thank You So Much!
-Kristi
P.S. I'm holding off on my newest kit just in case I open my shoppe in the next week or so (keeping my fingers crossed!!!) If not it'll definitely be a freebie on here. Who knows I may even offer it up on here for a bit before putting it in the shoppe. I haven't completely made up my mind on that one yet...

Links to Rainbow of Friendship on Box.net
alpha: http://www.box.net/shared/5333u0f5o2
ellies 1: http://www.box.net/shared/ropexejtz6
ellies 2: http://www.box.net/shared/jfk6f9zsqv
Solids: http://www.box.net/shared/iq9sc2e1hk
Patts: http://www.box.net/shared/15r5usbtqa

Links to Rainbow of Friendship on Mediafire
alpha: http://www.mediafire.com/?5f1osgc4dgikes2
ellies 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?32a3jree4h95o83
ellies 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?x61sivsct2q1g7j
Solids: http://www.mediafire.com/?irakw77wakh571r
Patts: http://www.mediafire.com/?avbncgzc226uno7

Back Again with a Grab Bag Release by Nanie's Designs

Hello again friends, I'm so excited to be sharing with you today the release of Stephanie's very first Grab Bag, YAY!!! It's chock full of yummyliciousness!! She's got a new template pack to add to her Sassy Starters line but she's also started two new lines to her designs...Cute Clusters and Sassy Starters Singles!

This fantastic Grab Bag has 4 sets: Sassy Starters Vol.9, Sassy Starters Singles Vol.1 and Cute Clusters Vol. 1 & 2. All for One low price and it's only available at the Scrap Orchard Market! I had the pleasure of playing with 3 of the sets this week so far.
Here's one using Cute Clusters Vol.1 and I also used Coastal Holiday by Tracie Stroud (also available at Scrap Orchard). The photos in the layout are originals that were taken by my father, whom I created this page for.

Here is one using Cute Clusters Vol.2 and Goodnight Moon kit and Stacked Papers add on by Captivated Visions also available @ Scrap Orchard.

And finally here is my page using Sassy Starters Singles Vol.1 with the January Mega collab kit Picture Perfect by the Scrap Orchard Design Team.

Well that's it from me for today folks. Stop back by tomorrow when I start my weekly Casual Friday posts. If you want to know more about Casual Friday just click on the "Casual Friday" link in the side bar on the right. ----->
Have a great day. Happy Scrapping and TTYL.
-Kristi

Beautiful Disaster and other News

Hello friends I'm back again, this time to share with you the new V-Day release by Sunflowers Studio, YAY!!! It's a kit full of bright happy colors like a brilliant blue, passionate purple and pretty awesome pink. With lots of greys and black too. It's also perfect for scrappin' those photos of your lil heartbreakers or that special someone in your life. Without the use of the traditional reds and light pinks usually associated with Valentine's Day. So without further ado here is Beautiful Disaster.

and I used it (and a 'Just my Style template' by NeeNee designs) to scrap a photo of my dh and myself on his birthday a couple years ago (though it doesn't seem that long ago already).

It's available at their Polka Dot Plum shoppe (Link in sidebar) and if you hurry you can snag this lil sweetie for 20% off!

Ok, now on to the "other" news. I'm sure by now you've all seen the added blinkie in my creative teams spot over there ------- >
That's right folks; I'm a Sugar Plum over at Polka Dot Plum. My friend Angela convinced me that I needed to apply and I got it!! I'm So Excited!!! I can't wait to start creating with the different designers at PDP and start chatting it up in the forum and even participate in more challenges (I even get to host one a month)! How cool is that?!
Well that's the goings on for me in digi land for today, but I'll be back Friday with a new release by Nanie's Designs of Scrap Orchard. Lots of gorgeous eye candy coming your way with that release!! Til then...
Happy Scrappin' and TTYL
-Kristi

Boyish Charm {FWP: Charming Templates}

Good afternoon friends, I'm back today to share with you a sweat deal that's going on over at Sunflowers Studio's shop at Polka Dot Plum. Their new kit Boyish Charm was released today!!!

I LOVE the colors in this kit!! The ellies are awesome too, perfect for scrapping this layout of my 3 sons...

...and from today until whenever ;) there's a Free With Purchase offer. That's right if you buy the full kit you'll receive the Charming template pack for FREE!! Who doesn't love templates?!

Here are a couple pages I created using two of the Charming templates.

I used the kit April by Lauraskathi to create my layout.

and for this one I used the kit Butterfly Kisses by Pixel Perfect Designs and a freebie word art from Elegant Word Art by Bethany.
Well I hope you head on over to Polka Dot Plum and pick up this awesome kit and set of templates and I can't wait to see what you all create!
Happy Scrapping and TTYL
-Kristi

Over 100 d/l's Thank You!! and a Sneak Peek

Just a quick short post to let you all know that I've already had over 100 downloads on my Rainbow of Friendship kit!! That makes me feel REALLY good. So to show you just how much I appreciate all the downloads and all the wonderful comments I've received I've made a new kit that will be posted in a couple days but til then how about a lil sneaky peek??

Stop by tomorrow for a look at the new release from Sunflowers Studio with a Free With Purchase offer!!! Don't want to miss it!
Happy Scrapping and TTYL
-Kristi