It's not too late to get your Customized Holidays cards!!

Hope that you are on target with all of your holiday shopping and festivity planning. If you haven't had a chance to get your holiday cards, it's not too late. I've uploaded a ton more designs in my Etsy shop, so when you get the chance, check them out. I do my best to design unique custom cards to make your Holiday card stand out. If you are interested in getting custom work, feel free to email. I can easily customize your cards to COSTCO which allows you to easily upload your custom card and pick up your prints in an HOUR! Can you believe it! No more paying for shipping & handeling of customized cards. God I love the digital age!

Here are some of the latest cards from my shop:

Hope you are having as stress free of a time as you can possibly have this time of the year. Check back again soon, because I am a designing mad woman these days. My next plan is to roll out a bunch of Hawaii themed Holiday cards for all my 'ohana and peeps back home.

I've launched my Etsy Shop!!

I've been wanting to do this for a really, really, really long time. I finally have the motiviation, and am making the time, to get this off the ground. I am making customized birth announcements, holiday photo cards, invitations, and eventually much more.

I offer a varied selection of designs in hopes to capture a wider audience. Feel free to check out my designs here. In celebration of the opening of my shop, all week long, I will be posting more designs into my shops, doing a random drawing giveaway for a customized Christmas card, and posting a couple freebies to entice you to come back for more. Check back tomorrow for the first of many fun surprises to promote my new store!!

Here are some peeks at what I'll be adding to my etsy store in the coming weeks...

Thank you so much to my friend Jodie for allowing me to use her photos in my cards. You can check her out here. She is a photographer for Central and Northern California.

ScrapMatters is having a blog train and I'm on it!!

Welcome fellow ScrapMatters fans. We are celebrating yet another wonderful year at the SM home. Yipee!! I'm so excited. Aren't you? We've come a long way baby.

It's so great to see here you. You've probably journeyed from afar to get here. Did you get the chance to pick up a bunch of goodies along the way? Can you believe how many different freebies we're giving away today?!? You must have come from Christine's site. Well, lucky for you, there is more to come...

But first, let's talk about me. Haha. Yes, I'm going to share my best picnic memory too. It would have to be my most recent trip with my family. My son asked if we could go on a picnic and we couldn't resist. So we went to the local lake, parked our butts near the lake's edge, and ate our wonderful meal. My son loved watching the ducks swim by and waved to the people on the canoes. Then, we spent the rest of the day riding bikes around the lake. Sigh. Don't you just love summer? I'm sure going to miss it when it's gone.

Here is the pic of my son and neice sitting by the lakeside.

So now, on to the fun part. As a token of gratitude for stopping by my blog, I am giving you this:

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You not only get a fun element cluster from the Perfect Picnic kit, but you also get a wooden frame and flower stickers created by me. Woohoo!! So make sure to tell all of your friends to jump on the ScrapMatters blog train because you never know what goodies you will find! In case you forgot where the starting point is, it is at Andilynn Design's blog.

Your next stop will be the lovely Designer Mickey B. Make sure to tell her I said hello.

Don't forget to stop by the Scrapmatters.com website for more fun, games, speed scraps and prizes. I hear they are doing giveaways like crazy. Well, it wouldn't be a party without a bunch of treats!

Have Fun!! 

Gravity

I had seen these two birds fly into my little yard today. I was drawn to how close they were to each other. It was not only a proximation, but an unspoken connection. I had to take a picture of them and scrap about it, of course. It also reminded me of the two little souls we've lost in the last couple of years. I imagined that it was the two of them who came back to visit me. In that moment, I felt blessed.

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Here are the entire words to this beautiful song...

Gravity by Sara Bareilles

Something always brings me back to you.

It never takes too long.

No matter what I say or do I’ll still feel you here ’til the moment I’m gone.


You hold me without touch.

You keep me without chains.

I never wanted anything so much than to drown in your love and not feel your rain.


[CHORUS]

Set me free, leave me be. I don’t want to fall another moment into your gravity.

Here I am and I stand so tall, just the way I’m supposed to be.

But you’re on to me and all over me.


You loved me ’cause I’m fragile.

When I thought that I was strong.

But you touch me for a little while and all my fragile strength is gone.

[CHORUS]

Set me free, leave me be. I don’t want to fall another moment into your gravity.

Here I am and I stand so tall, just the way I’m supposed to be.

But you’re on to me and all over me.


I live here on my knees as I try to make you see that you’re everything I think I need here on the ground.

But you’re neither friend nor foe though I can’t seem to let you go.

The one thing that I still know is that you’re keeping me down


Your keeping me down,

Your on to me, your on to me and all over

Something always brings me back to you

It never takes to long…

Sneak Peeks of my Renegade Fair Excursion

I went to San Francisco over the weekend to check out the Renegade Fair. Here are some teasers of all the cool things I took pictures of while at the fair. The stuff they had there was amazing. It felt like I was walking through the halls of Etsy in person. It was AWESOME!!!

Here is my little monster holding the bini monster named Belvadiere, which i bought for him at the fair. He LOVES it!

I've been crafty

Here are some pics of hair clips I've made.

I threw in the wine for affect. Yes, that's my glass and I'm proud of it :)

Fun owls I made for the bathroom decor. I love it!!

I made one for each one of us in the family. I used Kenner Road for the yellow paper and brown alphas. The light blue paper is American crafts. The owls are photoshop brushes. Not my own but they were a freebie. Hope you like it!

Designs Designs and more Designs

Hey My Few Fellow Readers. It's been awhile since I posted something. Today my family and I decided to play at a "park" and capture some great shots of our adorable 3 year old. Here are some pictures from our "session" taken with our fancy camera (Canon 40D). Overlays were purchased from We are Storytellers.com.

I also recently did so one layout (woohoo) created with the Scrapbookgraphics site collab Impressions of Travel.

I'm working on the Scrapmatters newsletter, as usual, this time of the month. But more importantly, I've been working on my own designs. I made some digital thank you cards that I'm hoping my friend will like and I am working on an alpha pack to giveaway. I've also got tons of projects in the works, so I hope to post final pictures here. Did I mention how obsessed I am with Kenner Road? Their stuff is totally adorable and I love the goodies I get from them. I recently made some items which I need to take pictures of so I can post them. Stay tuned!