Wild Women & Wacky Wednesday Deals are on at TDS!

Every Wednesday at The Daily Scrap we have two chats (Wild Women in the AM and Wacky Wed in the PM) that create coordinating kits based on a swatch that one of the Chat teams chooses. This week we have 2 fabulous kits to offer you from this swatch and for TODAY ONLY you can pick them up on sale!

"For the Love of the Coast" by Dawn's Digital Designs, regularly $4.00 is on sale for today (until 11:59 pm Eastern) at $2.00. You can pick it up here!

"Enchanted Winter" by Tracy King is the featured kit for the Wacky Wed chat (co-hosted by yours truly *G*) and that's also on sale for $3.00 - that's 50% off of it's normal price! You can grab it here!

Just think - you get TWO kits for the price of one with this deal - pick up BOTH "For the Love of the Coast" AND "Enchanted Winter" for $5.00 just for today. Don't wait and miss it!

And if you are looking for something to do - why not stop by the TDS chat room from 9-10 PM eastern for the Wacky Wednesday chat? There is always an attendance gift and more fun that you'll know what to do with - sometimes my sides hurt from laughing so much!

Hope to see you there at The Daily Scrap (http://thedailyscrap.com)!

NEW Personal & Commercial Use products!

Yep..I finally did it! I've been tooling around and playing with these products in creating my own kits and I figured if I enjoyed using them, someone else will too! Exclusively at The Daily Scrap you will find my Border Template Set #1 and sets 1-3 of my Grunge Overlays! Simple to use, they will provide you with endless possibilities for your LO's, altered art projects and your commercial design products. I did the "dull" work for you by creating the templates and overlays, freeing you up to "play"! (Shhhh, don't tell anyone, but I actually ENJOYED creating these sets!) You can pick each of these sets up for the low price of $5.00 per set. Something like this that you will use over and over will pay for itself in no time!

You can pick these items up here at The Daily Scrap!

Wall of Fame Chat Tonight & Mega Kit on Sale NOW @ TDS!

Oh my good god...all sorts of tidbits for you today! Forgive my giddiness - this is the first day since Wednesday that I've felt halfway human. The Flu really, really, and truly sucks!

Tonight at The Daily Scrap (http://thedailyscrap.com) we have our Wall of Fame Chat and featured kit! This week it's "Grunge Love" by Jessica Dixon and it is on sale for a limited time (today and I beleive tomorrow) for 50% off of its normal retail price - that's a fantastic kit for $3.00! If that isn't all - when you attend tonight's chat at 9PM eastern in the TDS chat room, you will get free goodies (love goodies!) and have an opportunity to come up with a LO based on the inspiration give during the crop. If you post this LO to our Wall of Fame Gallery by 11:59 pm THIS Wednesday, then you will be entered into our Wall of Fame Diva Contest! Each LO is voted on and the scrappers with the top three votes will be named the Golden, Silver and Bronze Diva's at TDS for one week! See this ad for more details concerning what you will win:

Click HERE to purchase the Wall of Fame Featured Kit "Grunge Love"

We also have out TDS team Mega Kit released for January 2007 - and believe me when I tell you that even here in Massachusetts, where it's almost 60 degrees F today (yep, you heard me correctly - 60 degrees!), baby it DOES feel cold outside! This kit is chock FULL of wintery items perfect for any occasion or gender! Heck with over 80 papers, 3 alpha sets and OVER 240 elements, how could you not use this kit over, and over, and over???

It's on sale NOW for a limited time in the TDS mall for $3.99! Hurry up and grab it while you can, because once the introductory period is over, it will go up (the normal retail for this kit is $9.99). I know you won't want to miss your opportunity to get in on one of the BEST and most UNBELIEVABLE deals I know of!

Click HERE to purchase the TDS January 2007 Mega Kit "Snowy Winter Dreams"

Merry Christmas and Thank You!

I just wanted to take this opportunity to wish you all a Merry & safe Christmas - no matter what you celebrate - the ideal of wishing the ultimate in goodness and blessings on someone is never wrong. I also wish to extend my thanks to all of you who have supported me in my creative endeavors this year - I have grown by leaps and bounds, yet still have so far to go. I pray that I never hit that "ceiling" because to me, that means my creative drive is gone. As a small token of my appreciation for all of you out there, I have put together a holiday goodie that will not be available anywhere else - just to my blog readers here!

So without further ado - here is your present from me!


You can download this goodie from You Send It here.

As always, I would love for you to leave comments - let me know what you think of my work, suggestions, constructive criticism, etc. I really and truly love hearing from all of you!

Special 5 Designer Chat 12/23/06 @ DST!

You won't want to miss this 5 designer, 5 featured kit chat this Saturday night (12/23/06) at the DigiShopTalk chatroom!

12 Days of Christmas Festivities ad TDS!

Don't want to miss this - there's a new $1.00 promotional item added each day! The 12 Days promo runs from December 9th -20th 2006 at The Daily Scrap!

If you are sick of turkey, have I got a DEAL for you!

Even if you are one of those people who never gets sick of turkey (I'm not one of them), this is STILL an amazing deal!

Until 11:59 PM eastern tonight you will receive 50% on the products at The Daily Scrap! The only things that are excluded are the CD Club Memberships & the CD Collections (though those are discounted as well), but that means there is a WHOLE LOT of GREAT stuff to buy! I have all of my products on sale as well, and you can view them all here:
http://www.thedailyscrap.com/mall/index.php?manufacturers_id=71&main_page=index

That list includes my brad new kit "Grunge Baby" which is the featured kit for tonight's Sunday Night Swap Crop at TDS:-) You can pick that kit up for $2.50 TODAY ONLY - that's 50% off of the normal price. Here's a copy of the ad for the crop for you to see what the kit looks likes as well as the attendance & posting gifts:

Get all the details here

Join me in the Chatroom

Don't miss out on the great sale and crop tonight with MaryAnne!

BIG News!

I mentioned a couple of posts back that there was BIG news to break - now I can FINALLY tell you!!! (Anyone who knows me, knows how bad I am at keeping a secret!!)

Black Friday is hitting at TDS!!! You won't want to miss this exciting opportunity to get almost everything in the mall ON SALE!! Beginning Friday 12am EST - 4pm EST you will be able to buy anything in the mall for 75% off of it's original price!

If that wasn't exciting enough from 4:01pm EST Friday-11:59pm EST Sunday the entire shop will be 50% off - can you believe it?? What a way to stock up on kits from all of your favorite designers and a great opportunity to introduce yourself to the new faces at TDS

too!

This is a great way to get a good start (or for you early birds, finish up lol) your holiday shopping with amazingly priced, quality products that can be used for any scrap or altered craft project!

Visit us at http://www.thedailyscrap.com/ to take advantage of this insanely amazing sale!

Come see me tonight @ 9pm at the TDS Chatroom!

Yup, that's right...my products are now being shown at The Daily Scrap :-) - and tonight at 9pm my new kit, "Eggnog" is the featured product at the Wacky Wednesday Chat in the TDS chatroom! Take a break from Turkey Day preparations and relax with me and you will get a free gift! This kit is on sale for TODAY only for $2.00 - so pick it up quick!

Here's a preview of the kit!

HA! Thought I was done!

Yep...here I am thinking that I am SO on top of everything and I forgot to mention that I have a special running at The Daily Scrap!

Today, for $2.00, you can grab my new kit "Snowflake Fantasy" - it's one that was really a labor of love for me - and yes, I plan to scrap with it (I know my friends are rolling their eyes...I don't do LO well lol). Here's a preview of the kit for you to peek at:

Here's the sample AD:

Do you want a kit that is perfect for scrapping ALL of your winter pictures? Something that will work for boys and girls, holiday and after? This kit is chock FULL of goodies that will make you want to grab a cup of your favorite hot beverage, sit down in front of your fireplace and start scrapping!

Kit Contains

12Textured papers (Solids and Patterns) 2 AlphaSets6ribbons2Jeweled/Glittered borders 1 Jeweled paper clip 4Felt snow flake patches2Tags3Brads/Pebbles3Enameled eyelets1Glitter overlayAnd a BONUS Paper Overlay!!

It's 50% off for today - a STEAL at only $2!!!!! If this is just the kit you were looking for (I think it would work well for making holiday cards too!), then you can grab it here:

http://www.thedailyscrap.com/mall/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2623

Ooohhhh I have some neat stuff for you!

I have some neat news I can't share with you yet - but it's exciting!!!

What I CAN tell you is that tonight is our Croppers Anonymous chat - which is an all request buffet! I want you to tell me what YOU want to see for products from me in the future! Is it a kit theme you've been looking for? A certain type of element that drives you wild? Oh, I KNOW - its gotta be templates right??? All you have to do is show up and "tell me what to do" (LOL had to put that there!) and you will get a neat attendance gift! I'll have the pictures of both the attendance and posting gifts posted tonight for you peek at - so keep your eyes peeled!!!

*hugs* Have a fantastic day (and someone please leave me some love, will ya???)

Croppers Anonymous Chat on 11/2/06 & a BIG BIG Sale!

Yep...tomorrow night at 9pm in the chat room at the Candie Shoppe it's the next exciting installment of Croppers Anonymous! Stop by to chat with Athena and the "regulars" and receive this neat gift:


Don't miss out on these felt holiday goodies - stop by the chat room at the Digital Candie Shoppe!

Ohhhhh riiiight...I said there was a BIG BIG sale didn't I? Well there is!
At the Candie Shoppe there are more things on special than you can shake your halloween trick or treat bag at!! All sorts of items from 25 - 67% off in the shoppe for you to grab.

http://www.candieshoppe.com/shoppe/index.php?main_page=specials

That's it for now...hope to see you at chat!

Thursday Night Crop Goodies!

I just wanted to pop in an show you what's in store for tonight's Croppers Anonymous chat!

Our attendance gift is a layered pumpkin template that will be on sale in the shop, but for TONIGHT'S crop ONLY you can get it for free! Limited only by your imagination, you can use this template over and over and create your very own pumpkin patch:-)

I've included a free sample completed pumpkin (as shown in the preview) created by me just to get you going.

And I have a posting bonus for you this week too!

If you post a copy of your pumpkin creation using this template kit in our Croppers Anonymous Gallery by Midnight Thursday October 26th, 2006, you will receive a copy of my NEW Halloween Sampler Mini Kit! Just like the Pumpkin template, it is NOT in the store yet, but it will be SOON - so this is YOUR chance to get a copy of it absolutely FREE!

You won't want to miss out on all of these great gifts! Come on by the Candie Shoppe Chat room at 9pm eastern daylight savings time (8pm central, 7pm mountain, 6pm pacific) and be prepared to have a great time and get rewarded for it!

Got a Freebie for you...and...my name is 'Grace'

I've been a really terrible blog hostess....and I know it. I'm really going to try harder to post more often and offer you all more freebies because you all are the best! I'll have the freebie listed at the end of the post :-)


I neat little journal block from my Autumn Apples kit at the Candie Shoppe!

Don't forget...every Thursday night at 9pm eastern standard time I am the crazy hostess of the Croppers Anonymous Chat in the DCS chatroom! If you want an hour packed full of fun, chatting, prizes and inspiration then come on down!

I took some pictures over the weekend of my dog (lol...she just ADORES the camera, shows me her butt every chance she gets), and some neat foliage shots. I'll have those up tomorrow when I download them from my camera.

Now...the reason why my name is ahem, 'Grace'.

I am not by nature a person who has an abundance of coordination - if there's a doorjamb to clip, a crate to trip over, a cabinet door that I can bang my forehead into - rest assured, I'll do it. You've already seen my adventure with the Xacto knife, so you'd think by NOW, I'd have caught on right?

Nope.

I was making pork ribs for dinner the other night in the oven because it was just too cold and rainy to do it out on the grill. (Believe it or not, the grill is a MUCH safer method of preparing dinner lol.) I saw that the ribs were a little more brown than I wanted them, and in my haste, I pulled the pan out waaaay too fast.

Yep, I splashed hot pork grease/juice all over my right forearm. Ouch.

Now, that day I had worn 3/4 sleeves, so I had nothing covering my forearm at all.

I didn't swear (really I didn't!), I just put the pan on top of the stove, turned to the sink, and ran my arm under the cold water. Wow, did it hurt! After I'd done that for a few minutes, I decided to call and tell my tale of woe to my sister and my husband. I called my sister first, because she'd laugh at me a little less (she's a lot like me hehehe). She yells at me to keep cold, wet cloths on it, and to go to the ER if it blisters. No problem. I call my husband, and his first question is if he has to race home from work to get me to the ER LMAO. I tell him I am fine and to not worry. He waited about an hour and called back to tell me that based on my track record, he'd like me to just go sit on our bed and watch television until he gets home. I can't possibly get into any trouble that way.

He forgets that our mattress is REALLY high - the top of it is up over my waist. I could fall off and hurt myself. I remind him, and he tells me it's better than falling down the stairs. *Sigh* he's right....but I'd still hurt myself lol.

So, my arm is fine - it never developed blisters, and was only slightly red - boy was I lucky! I have to cook dinner tonight again though, so I am going to have to be extra careful ROTFL.

Now that you've listened to my crazy story, and you know that I am a disaster waiting to happen - here's the preview & download link for the journal block!

::Download::

O.K. - here are the pictures!

Just as I promised, here are the previews having to do with not ONLY the crop tonight, but new items that were JUST added to the Candie Shoppe today!

Here's this week's Croppers Anonymous Poster:


The poster shows the new products that are featured at the crop tonight as well as the attendance gift:

"What I Want" Full and Mini kits (the Mini Kit will be added soon!) - my contribution to Breast Cancer Awareness Month. These kits coordinate with the P4D "What I Want" Mega Kit that was featured in the October 2006 issue of Scrapbook Answers. I am honored to have contributed to the project, and I beleive that no matter how small YOU think your effort is, it will speak VOLUMES to someone else! You can pre-order the hard copy CD here.

Hope to see you in the chat room at 9pm EST!

Don't forget - Croppers Anonymous Chat Tonight @ 9pm est!

Yep...I survived my first crop ever. In fact, I not only survived it, but I LOVED IT! The ladies that attended were fantastic, Tanya & Michelle kept me rolling with laughter the entire time, and I got some neat ideas out of it (more on that in a future post *weg*).

Tonight we're having another crop - and there will be a prize for attending (I'll post that when I get home from work tonight), as well as prizes for a game we'll be playing. All I can say is....make sure you read up on ME, because that's what this game has to do with *G*

I'm so sorry I don't have previews of the prizes up (actually, I'm only going to post the attendee prize preview here - the other will be a surprise until the crop starts!), but I'm doing this "on the fly" from work. I PROMISE to get you pictures! I also have a few new products up in the shop, but those previews are also going to be posted later on.

So, if you dare...meet me in the candieshoppe chat room at 9pm eastern standard time (8 pm central, 7 pm mtn, 6 pm pacific) and I promise to show you a good time!

Just a quickie post from work while I'm eating lunch (Lol...multi-tasking...me??) - don't forget that TONIGHT (Thursday, October 5, 2006) is the "maiden voyage" of the "Cropper's Anonymous" crop with me in the DCS chatroom! I've included an abbreviated version of the advertisment below for you. I'd love to see a nice turn out - I think it would be really neat to be able to sit down and chat with ya!

Anyhow, here it is!!!
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Come and "break me in" at my first Crop this Thursday, October 5th, 9:00pm - 10:00 est in our Chat Room!This week's featured kit is my "Autumn Apples" kit that's brand new THIS week! You can grab it for 50% off using our Grand Opening coupon (coupon code DCS17GO) - that's an entire kit for $2.21! Just for attending the crop - which will be about "Fall-ing for you" - scrapping your favorite Autumn/Fall memories - you will receive an exclusive attendance gift that coordinates with the Autumn Apples kit. Use this attendance bonus and/or the Autumn Apples kit to create a LO that describes one thing you love about this time of the year, post it in the designated gallery (more information on that to come!) by 12:00 midnight EST, Thursday, October 12, 2006, and you will receive another exclusive add-on to the kit! That's two freebies - how can you beat that?Here's where you can take a peek at the crop add-on prizes for this week:Attendance BonusPosting BonusFeel free to post any questions concerning the Crop in this thread - I'll be happy to get you whatever information you need!
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Hope to see you there!

Are the pigs flying???

LOL I had to think of something crazy for the post title! I was the girl who would never go to a crop, much less host one, and here I am - hosting my VERY FIRST crop!!! Come on down and break in the "new girl" on the block - I'd love to meet you!!!!

As always...I love it when you "love me" - give me a holler and tell me what's new with you!

Can you beleive it??

I am hosting my very FIRST crop this Thursday night! I've posted a copy of the ad below for anyone who might be interested. I'd love to see you there - break me in, will ya???
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You KNOW you have an addiction.

You want so many of the shiny pretty scrappy things you see in the shops.

But what do you do when you get them "home" to your hard drive??

This Thursday night I am embarking on my "maiden voyage" as a crop hostess - that's right, I've NEVER done this before! I want to meet up with scrappers like myself who sometimes get stymied when they have a kit to work with - how do you take that first step in creating the LO that will say what YOU want it to?

Come and "break me in" at my first Crop this Thursday, October 5th, 9:00pm - 10:00 est in our Chat Room!

This week's featured kit is my "Autumn Apples" kit that's brand new THIS week! You can grab it for 50% off using our Grand Opening coupon (coupon code DCS17GO) - that's an entire kit for $2.21!

Just for attending the crop - which will be about "Fall-ing for you" - scrapping your favorite Autumn/Fall memories - you will receive an exclusive attendance gift that coordinates with the Autumn Apples kit. Use this attendance bonus and/or the Autumn Apples kit to create a LO that describes one thing you love about this time of the year, post it in the designated gallery (more information on that to come!) by 12:00 midnight EST, Thursday, October 12, 2006, and you will receive another exclusive add-on to the kit! That's two freebies - how can you beat that?

Here's where you can take a peek at the crop add-on prizes for this week:
Attendance Bonus
Posting Bonus

Feel free to post any questions concerning the Crop in this thread - I'll be happy to get you whatever information you need!

Hope to see you there!

*hugs*
Athena

Lots of GREAT News!!!

You know, if I posted more often, then it wouldn't have to be so packed with news - but life is what it is, right?

Before I forget...the second part of my blog being "tagged" was a list of 7 favorite songs. You have to understand, being the true Gemini that I am, the list is in a constant state of flux, but as of today, these are the favorites (in no particular order):

1. Mockingbird (version by Toby Keith & Krystal Covell)
2. Ain't No Other Man by Christina Aguilera
3. Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder
4. Beast on the Mic by Cowboy Troy
5. Flirting by Jess Klein
6. Not That Kind by Anastacia
7. Eat the Rich by Aerosmith


There...it's done Michelle :P:P

O.K. BIG doings on the DigiScrapping front for me. First of all, the site, Creative Chicas, has re-opened today under the name "Digital Candie Shoppe" (http://candieshoppe.com). It is the same great store, wonderful designers, freebies, challenges, etc. just the name's changed. Actually..that's a little lie (rotfl) - we are ALWAYS striving to give you something new, and if you wander on over, you just might see some fun festivities to join in. I heard through the grapevine, that some crazy DCS Girl (that's what our designers are called) named Athena (have no CLUE who she is hehehe) is going to be hosting a crop, and in fact will make it a regular event.

The store is holding a fantastic Grand Opening sale with a 50% off coupon - here's a copy of the ad with the coupon:


It's only good from October 1st through the 7th, so don't miss it!

The second exciting thing is that I have been accepted as a member of the Element Team at Elemental Scraps! This team is responsible for working with the designers to create the great Mega Kits they offer every month, as well as all sorts of goodies that are given away as prized throughout the month. I'm in some amazing company there and I am excited to work with them.

And the last, but certainly not least in way of news - I have the honor of being one of the designers featured on the P4D (http://promos4digiscrappers.com) 2007 Breast Cancer Awareness Kit! Again, I am in some amazing company - a lot of the designers that I highly respect (lol..and buy from) are part of this - and it is for a VERY worthy cause! This will be a hard copy product, due to the overwhelming response from last year's Mega Kit, and if you read this month's ScrapBook Answers Magazine (http://www.scrapbookanswers.com/current_issue.html) there is an Ad for the P4D BCA fundraising kit. The magazine is sold in Barnes & Noble for sure (that's where I've been buying it), but you can also subscribe at the SA site itself.

That's all the news I have for now! Take care of yourselves, and thank you for reading!