Tomorrow is a big day!

Tomorrow is the unveiling of the September ADSD Collaboration called Cornucopia of Color. I took part in this month's collaboration. We have 56 designers participating this month and all will be offering freebies. These freebies will only be available for one month, so grab as many as you can while you have the chance.

See you at midnight with my portion of the kit. ;)

Gift for you

On the Raspberry Road CT Blog, you will find this quick page I made. It is made with a free kit Susan posted on her blog called Annie Collection.

WOW! Look at this Beauty!

Raspberry Road Designs has just posted a new fall kit that is absolutely stunning! I can't wait to get my hands on this one. Fall is my favorite time of year (I know I told you that before, LOL).

Here is the preview.

Goodies, goodies and more goodies

The Raspberry Girls have been extremely busy this week. There are lots of freebies on the RRD CT Blog http://raspberryroaddesignsct.blogspot.com/

The three new quick pages created by Adele will be lovely additions to your photo albums. Then there is the final set of 5 brag book pages by Leigh using the Tailwaters Collection. Cheryl posted a lovely quick page on Friday and I have a few things up too.

If you haven't stopped in this week, you are sure missing a lot of neat stuff.

New QP

I posted a new QP freebie for you on the RRD CT Blog. Here is a preview:

Another Brag Book completed

WOW, I finished two brag books this week! It really makes me feel like I am accomplishing something good. One is already posted on Raspberry Road Designs as a freebie. I used Susan's Nantucket Briar kit for it. Here's a preview.


If you click on the preview, it will take you to Susan's blog so you can download the freebie.

The other one I finished will be released soon on Susan's blog. For it I used her newest kit, released today, County Fair. This kit is loaded with the neatest papers and graphics suitable for all kinds of layouts. There are tractors, farm animals, ribbons, buttons, and other elements. There is even a paper in the kit that has an old pickup truck and images of a ferris wheel. Remember those? I used to love to ride the ferris wheel at the fair!

Where has this week gone? and a freebie

My goodness, time is flying by. Before you know it, it will be Halloween, then Thanksgiving will sneak in and . . . I don't even want to think how fast the C word will get here. Work is taking up a lot of my time, but I'm still spending a lot of my home time designing.

In fact, I am experimenting with some new things. One of the new things is printable photo greeting cards. I would like you to help me decide whether to pursue this venue, so I am offering one as a freebie today.



Click on the preview and you can download it. Only the front is shown. The inside of the card is blank so you can write a message. The file is png, at 300 dpi. Please, if you download it, let me know what you think of the finished product.

Thanks a bunch!

Congratulations, Susan

Susan Darter of Raspberry Road Designs is the Featured Designer at Bella Scraps Magazine http://www.bellascraps.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=11 this month! Congratulations, Susan! If you follow the link, there is a HUGE kit of Susan's that is being given away with the purchase of this month's magazine! The kit is called Higher Learning. It has a fabulous array of school related elements! The preview for the kit is at the link listed. If you get a chance, swing by Susan's store http://raspberryroaddesigns.blogspot.com/ and congratulate her. While you're there, pick up the freebies, Big Boy Elements and Big Boy Papers she posted last week.

Boho Collection

I created another quick page to share with the fans of Raspberry Road Designs. The freebie is posted on the CT blog http://raspberryroaddesignsct.blogspot.com/

This quick page is using the latest kit from RRD, Boho Collection. Here is a preview.

Raspberry Jam Brag Book

I have created another brag book for the fans of Raspberry Road Designs. This time, I used the Raspberry Jam kit that Susan released about 3 weeks ago. Here is a preview:

You can get it by clicking on the title to this post. That will redirect you to the CT blog where you will find the download link.

While you are surfing the net, swing by Susan's store http://raspberryroaddesigns.blogspot.com/ She has posted a new kit this morning and it is lovely. It's called Boho Collection and has some beautiful late summer colors in it. There is also a freebie paper kit called Big Boy Collection that Susan has posted to say thanks to all of her wonderful fans who offered comments and support this past week. The elements to the Big Boy Collection will be posted tomorrow.

There will be lots of great things happening at Raspberry Road Designs over the next few weeks, so check back often.

Back to work for me, and a gift for you

I started my new job today. Not sure how I'm going to like it It's a lot slower paced than what I'm used to working. We'll see.

Anyway, I have a surprise for you. I have been playing again. Head over to the Raspberry Road CT blog and see what I have cooked up for you using Susan's new kit, Victorian Bliss http://raspberryroaddesignsct.blogspot.com/

Time for bed, that's another reason I'm not sure about this new job......I am SO NOT a morning person.

See ya!

Last QP Freebie from Caribbean Sunset

I have one final QP for you from the Caribbean Sunset Kit. You can download it here:

http://www.4shared.com/dir/8600162/403d2b64/ADD_blog.html

Here is the preview. I hope you enjoy it.

A Freebie for You

Another QP using Caribbean Sunset. Don't you just love the orange colors? You can download it here: http://www.4shared.com/dir/8600162/403d2b64/ADD_blog.html

New layout

I used Susan's Victorian Bliss for this layout. It is my entry into the 8 picture challenge on the Raspberry Road Designs forum. The bright yellow paper and the clustered frames were the perfect setting for pictures of Superman from my vacation trip.






If you would like to take part in the challenge, you can find it here: http://raspberryroaddesigns.myfastforum.org/sutra2016.php#2016

A new brag book

I posted a new brag book on the Raspberry Road Designs CT blog today as a freebie for you. http://raspberryroaddesignsct.blogspot.com/ . I used Susan's new kit Victorian Bliss to design this one. Here is a preview:

This kit is has lots of vintage style papers and elements. You can purchase the kit on Susan's blog http://raspberryroaddesigns.blogspot.com/

Freebie I promised

As promised, here is the second quick page using my Caribbean Sunset kit.


You can download it here: http://www.4shared.com/dir/8600162/403d2b64/ADD_blog.html or by clicking on the title to the post.

What a wonderful week I had!

You know when you go on vacation that the time will fly by too quickly. This past week was a whirlwind of activity . . . traveling, seeing the sites, visiting with family, casinos, and lots of other stuff. I am soooooo glad to be home, but now comes the unpacking, catching up on laundry and getting back into the swing of things at home.

One really neat place we stopped on the way to my sister's house was a little town in Illinois, called Metropolis, just across the Kentucky/Illinois border on Interstate 24. We had pulled off the interstate at the rest area to take pictures of the kids in front of the "Welcome to Illinois" sign for their scrapbooks. When we started to leave the parking lot, we saw a sign that said "Giant Superman Statue" with an arrow pointing to the left. We decided to check it out. This is what we found.

Pretty neat, huh? But that's not all this little town has to offer. There were paintings on the side of the buildings.

This is a painting honoring the men and women who have served and are serving in the armed forces. A plaque beside it commemorates the story of one veteran of World War II, John Steele, from Metropolis.

Metropolis also offers a Superman museum, and other pictures of Clark Kent, and Lois Lane painted on the side of the buildings. We didn't have a whole lot of time to spend, but it is definitely a must see if you are in the area. I plan to spend some time there the next time I travel through the area.

I'll be back later on today to post a freebie for you, another quick page from Caribbean Sunset.

Good Morning

I have a few minutes to post this morning before the grandkids have everyone up and running. It seems we have been in the car most of the week so far. The trip out to Kansas took about 19 hours. The grandkids got really bored driving that far, so we kept stopping along the way to let them run off a little energy. Yesterday, we drove to Kansas City to see my nephew off to Italy, his new duty station. He will be there for the next few years. It was rough watching him leave, but at least this isn't like the last time we sent him off to Iraq.

After his plane left, we went to one of the Casinos to try our luck. Don't even ask! It was my first trip ever to a casino. It was a lot of fun, but not something I would want to do on a regular basis. There was this one little man sitting playing one of the video machines that would play one of the Village People songs when you won. It was so much fun to watch this old fella dancing in his chair when he won. He played the same machine the whole time we were there, and was having a blast with it.

Well the GKs are getting up, so I guess I had better get a move on or they will leave me behind.

How about a little freebie?

I'm in a good mood today. My vacation starts tomorrow. The packing is all done, except last minute stuff like toothbrush. I am dreading the drive (about 17 hours) but it will be so worth it. Three of my grandchildren and their mom are going with me, so there should be lots of photo ops!

Anyway, I mentioned a freebie. Here is a quick page, from a kit I designed. I call it Caribbean Sunset.


I hope you enjoy it. Oh, and click on the title to this post to take you to where you can download it. : )
Edited to say:
As an anonymous poster pointed out in a comment, you need a password (don't know what's up with that as I did not assign one to it). But the password is orange, the same as the other freebie quick page I offered before.


Toodles for now.

WOOO HOOOOO Another layout finished

I am a haphazard scrapper, to say the least. When I decide I want to scrap a layout, it's kind of like playing Russian Roulette only with photos. I look through a gazillion photos until one of them kind of jumps out at me. Then, I have to hunt through my stash of goodies to find a kit that will go with the photo. With the new Raspberry Jam kit from Raspberry Road Designs, http://raspberryroaddesigns.blogspot.com/ I have the option of doing everyday layouts, Christmas layouts (because the colors work marvelously for that), spring layouts or whatever.

I used the kit for this photo of my son and his fiancee taken at her high school graduation two years ago. It was taken in May, so everything was green and fresh. This kit worked perfectly for it. What do you think?

Any and all comments are welcome. Be sure to go by Susan's store and pick up this versatile kit, you won't be sorry.

Toodles!

RASPBERRY JAM

Doesn't that sound yummy? The colors in Susan's new kit are just as yummy. I just posted a layout I did using this new kit and a freebie quick page on the CT blog. Head on over and pick it up http://raspberryroaddesignsct.blogspot.com/, then head over to Susan's blog to pick up the kit.http://raspberryroaddesigns.blogspot.com/

Here is my layout:



Check back this week, you never know what kind of freebies you might find!



TTFN, it's bedtime.

I am sooo Excited!

Did I mention I was excited? Only three more days and it's VACATION TIME! I have looked forward to this all year. I am going to visit my sister. The last time I saw her was two years ago. Here is a layout I finished last night. That's my SIS!







I'm also excited about a new kit that Susan is debuting tomorrow. http://raspberryroaddesigns.blogspot.com/search/label/Freebies?max-results=20 It's called Raspberry Jam. I have been working on a layout using the kit today. You'll have to come back tomorrow and check it out.

Did you have a good Monday?

Monday's always seem to get a bum rap. Nobody likes Mondays. I guess because they signal the end of the weekend, time to hit the road back to work.

I must be a strange duck then, because I love Mondays. They signal a new week to conquer new things. The weekend is over, fun and games time is at an end, and it's time to get creative. I have about a week before I leave for vacation. I have so many things started that I need to get finished before I leave. I have a new kit in the works for the store: http://www.treasuredscrapdesigns.com/ Lots of new style elements in this kit. I need to finish up a couple things for it and get the preview ready. That's tomorrow's assignment. I worked all day on elements for the papers I designed last week. I'm really excited about this kit. I will put up a freebie bonus later in the week that was made from the kit.

Have a good night. See you tomorrow.

The surprise I promised

As I promised earlier, I have a surprise for you today. It is my latest brag book using Raspberry Road Designs "Mystical Sky." Here is the preview:





You can pick it up on the Raspberry Road CT Blog http://raspberryroaddesignsct.blogspot.com/ . If you download it, please be sure to tell Susan thank you!

Toodles!

My how time flies. . .

I've been busier than a flea in a pack of dogs lately. It seems there just aren't enough hours in a day. That is still no excuse for me to forget my only sister's birthday yesterday. I didn't even think about it until some where around midnight last night and there was noooooo way I was going to call her at that time. I did eventually call her though, and she had a pretty good birthday even without me. I'm so sorry, Sis! I love you .

I hope your weekend is going good. Did you do anything fun? Did you get a little "me" time for yourself? I hope so. Life is too short to not allow yourself some "me" time once in a while. I allowed myself some "me" time yesterday. I went out in the woods and picked some wild blackberries. Yep, you guessed it, I made myself a blackberry cobbler, just a small one though.

There's no one home but me this week. (Yay, no fighting with my son over MY computer!) He went camping with his fiancee's family. They go about this time every year and for the last three years, he has gone with them.

Good grief, it's after midnight again. Guess it's time for this old granny to hit the sack. I hope you have a great night or day, depending on what time zone you're in. Come back later today and I hope to have a nice little surprise for you up on the blog.

Nightie, Night.