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Merry Christmas!

2008-12-16T06:15:00.000-08:00

Hey folks...just stopping by to wish you merry Christmas and leaving a card and a little present for you! Sorry for such a few-liner, we've been taking turns in being sick for the past 3 weeks!

I've been having quite some issues with my store at Divine Digitals. They had changed categories and templates and a BUNCH of my stuff is NOT showing in the store...I've emailed them so many times and it's not fixed yet. Anyway, if you feel like shopping, go ahead - I'm giving out a $5 coupon for everybody. Just use the code merryxmass08 at checkout :) (expires Dec 27th). I'm going to be uploading a new product (a kit that was part of the last Grab Bag) this afternoon...:)

So...MERRY CHRISTMAS to all! (image is clicable for journaling&credits)

PS I'll have a surprise for you after New Year's! (PSSSSSSST....)

GRAB BAG SALE!!!

2008-11-07T01:55:00.000-08:00

Woooohooooo, I've finally MADE IT!!!! I've finally received my FTP access so I'm up for this weekend's GRAB BAG SALE at Divine Digital!!! Yay!!! The sale starts today at 12.01 PM and ends on Sunday 23.59 PM EST. Come over to MY STORE and snatch this baggy full of yumminessssss for $2 only!!!

Sorry for such a brief post but don't have time for more ATM!:) Gonna copy&paste my email to friends for you...just so you know how we're doing now:
wanna know our ordinary day? 8.00 get up&ready for school (=breakfast, washing, dressing, brushing hair - reserve half an hour just for that in Amaia's case), feed the little one in the meantime, 9.00 drop Amaia off at the school bus, back home, finally have coffee, get laundry from the washer to the dryer and load the washer, DON'T forget to actually press the buttons!!!! survive Eneko's tantrum, feed Julen...10.00 drop Eneko off at the nursery, go for a walk (= grocery shopping) with Julen, 11.00 get home. Feed the baby. Start cooking lunch. 12.00-12.30 free time (hahaha), 12.45 pick Eneko from school, 13.15 lunch, 13.45 put him down for a nap (takes about 15 minutes). Feed the baby, put the dishwasher (PRESS THE F.....G BUTTON!!!), prepare dinner (if it requires proper cooking not just frying). free time until Eneko wakes up (around 15.00) - that's what, about 20 minutes? haha...Eneko wakes up - snack time, feed the baby. 16.00 pick up Amaia from the bus stop, give her snack. If she has a music class (twice a week) we go straight there, it starts at 16.45. Usually stay around as it only takes 35 min. If she doesn't we either stay outside (if it doesn' rain, which is about once a week)....and if it does (most of the days) we either a) go home (my wish!) or b) go to my SIL's house so they play with the cousins (the kids win), c) go to my MIL's house so they can bug the grandparents (about the same chance as 'b'). Feed the baby. Get home around 19.00...bath, have dinner, get ready for bed. Oh and FEED the baby! 20.00 story time (usually too tired for reading so it's up to the DVD:-)) Baby falls asleep somewhere in the meantime (thank you, angel!)...20.30 Eneko goes to bed. Some protesting and sobbing. 21.00 Amaia goes to bed. Baby's been asleep for awhile now. Yay FREEEEE TIMEEEE!
22.00 WE go to bed:-)

And in case you want to see some photos, here is SEPTEMBER and here OCTOBER.

TAKE CARE!!! XXX

No access yet...

2008-10-05T03:51:00.000-07:00

...sorry guys, I haven't received my FTP access yet so I haven't been able to upload the kit yet...:-(((

Finally some new stuff!

2008-10-03T05:11:00.000-07:00

Happy Friday, guys! Haven't been here for 2 months...uhhh...but I HAVE been working, LOL! During August we've been getting used to be five:-) and now kids are at school and we have a bit more free time. Eneko only goes 2 hours in the morning but it DOES help. No. 3 keeps being INCREDIBLY good, he hardly cries, sleeps very well and eats like maniac! He's just turned 2 monts and he's 60 cm long (almost 24") and a bit over 6 kg (13,2 lb)! He's so good that we dared going camping for a few days in the end of August. We went to southern France, only about a 3 hour drive. We had a blast! HERE are some photos if you feel like taking a look.
And HERE you can see family pics from this summer:-)

I've only done 2 layouts since Julen was born and I have hundreds of pictures...I'll catch up when I'm old, lol! Done these (click the images for credits):

Buuuuut....I have finished a new kit, yay!!! I had most of it ready before Julen was born but couldn't get myself to finish....so as soon as I get my new ftp access from the store, I'm uploading! And I decided to do an 'introduction' of this beauty so you can grab it for $2,90 only during this weekend!!! It's also a grab bag weekend over at Divine Digitals so you can get great stuff for as little as $2! I'm hoping to upload tonight (I'm GMT+1 so it's gonna be morning for most of you) so then you have until Sunday midnight (EST) to snag it:-) Here's the preview, tadaaaaa:

Yeah, I know, I suck at making previews (and I hate it!), any volunteers....?LOL But it's LOADED with some great and unique stuff, not everyting is shown! Let's go shopping!!!

Gotta run, the little one woke up and is hungry!:-) Have a great weekend!

Happy Birthday!

2008-08-05T13:35:00.001-07:00

Well, belated happy birthday to...ME and to my son who was born on my 33rd birthday, July 30th, 2008! There's no scrapbooking in this post, no freebies, no layouts (haven't had time yet, LOL). THIS post is all about Julen and his way to this world. It was by far the best delivery out of the three, I must say. Started veeeeery slow but in the end we almost didn't make it to the delivery room! So....here's the story (not only for you, Aly:-))

On July 29th I went to hospital and they said they'd induce me the next day. It looked like the baby was coming a little biggie for my tiny shell. I didn't protest, he was already well overdue and the last thing I wanted was for him to get to big to pass. I was scheduled for the next morning at 8. I had been 2 cm dilated for 2 weeks but the cervix was not ripe yet, only 20% effaced. They gave me prostaglandines, connected me to CTG and sent me to bed. After 4 long hours of not much of a progress (2-3 cm&20-30% effaced) they suggested a pitocin drip first but in the end we agreed on breaking waters and see what would happen. They connected an IV with some kind of liquid (to keep you hydrated and with energy since you can't eat or drink) and I got up and started bouncing on a gym ball to help the dilatation. The ball was quite small for me though so I ended up on my feet, with my MP3 plugged in my ears and...dancing! There was not much room to walk because of the IV and cables of the CTG so dancing was the only thing I could do. The midwifes seemed to be quite entertained, LOL! Anyway, after breaking the waters I was having nice, strong, regular contractions but...at 4 pm I was still at the same. So we agreed on including a bit of pitocin in the show. At 6 pm, after another 2 hours of nonstop dancing (twist, salsa, merengue....:-)) there was finally some progress - 4 cm and 50% effaced. The shift had changed and the new midwife, Belen, was quite happy with it. She had said before that once I have effaced completely it would be VERY fast. And she was sooo right....my neigbor in the room had been stuck at 5 cm forever and since the baby was buttocks down they told her they'd give her last chance and if she didn't progress they'd do a C-section. They came to check on us again at 7.15pm and while the other girl was indeed sent to have a CS I marked another little progress - 6 cm and 70% effaced!!! About time after all the dancing...I got up to my feet again after the check, Belen (the MW) doubled the pitocin dosis at that moment and went to prepare things for the CS of the other girl. When she came back after about 10 minutes I was not dancing anymore but resting against the wall and in the middle of the preparations I told her I was feeling the head of the baby coming down! She ordered me to jump to bed and checked, the head was there! She laughed and said we'd not make it to the delivery room! But then she told me to push a bit with the next contraction and then said we still had a bit of time to make it. In the delivery room they gave me the option to choose the position to give birth (very surprising considering local conditions!). I didn't have to think twice and positioned myself almost seated. With the first push the tip of the head came out but I couldn't see it. So Belen grabbed one of the metal trays that was there and gave it to hubby to hold it in front of me as a mirror. It was ABSOLUTELY AMAZING to see it!!! I almost forgot to push! LOL Well, the contractions got somehow weaker and it took me about 10 minutes to get the head out, with the help of Belen massaging and stretching the perineum. No wonder, the head circumference was 37,5 cm! Once the head was out she unwrapped the umbilical cord that was around Julen's neck and caught the rest of the body that came like nothing, at exactly 8.08 pm. She put him on my chest immediately, covered him with blankets and checked him. He only gave a short cry so we could see he was fine (and haven't cried more until today, actually!!!). And then it was over....oh man, I could just live those moments again and again and again...someone got a replay button for those? LOL Sooo....we're both just fine, Julen was 3870 g and 52 cm (ca. 8.6 lb and 20.5 in), quite a big boy! I have some stitching inside (luckily no episiotomy needed) but I'm recovering very quickly, belly's almost flat again and I'm gaining strength, mainly due to the fact that the little one is extremely good, he doesn't cry, he sleeps well so far and eats like a maniac:-) He had his first feed shortly after birth, latched very well and has been gaining weight since. He didn't even lose any of his birth weight!:-) Anyway, it's getting late, hope you liked the birth story:-) I must say it was the BESTEST:-) b-day present I could have got!!!:-) And to finish, some photos:

Update and freebie

2008-07-23T11:52:00.000-07:00

Hi there! I'll be brief today, for change. LOL #3 hasn't made it yet, today I'm 2 days overdue (well, postdate:-)), having a whole lot of BH but very little progress. I was checked on Monday and was 3 cm dilated. So we'll see:-) I'm trying to keep myself busy in the meantime and I finished the freebie I mentioned in my previous post:-)

But first I wanted to share a couple more LOs done with Summer Escapades. This one by Lenka (aka celenka) - images are clicable for credits and leaving some love:-)

And this one by ErikaT.:

Aren't they gorgeous?!? Okay and now the freebie (told you I was gonna be brief!). It's a set of vintage postcards. Perfect for layering or some of them just stand alone. I added a sand ovelay (see bottom of the preview) and one really YUMMY bonus that is a surprise:-)

If you like it, you can download it HERE. Enjoy!

Will keep you posted on the baby too, hugs!

Still pregnant:-)

2008-07-16T12:10:00.000-07:00

Hello! Yes, I'm still in one piece:-) My due date is 5 days away now, nothing extraordinary happened. I've been experiencing a lot of false contractions, sometimes very regular 1-1,5 hrs every 8 minutes first and then every 6 minutes. Then they went away...well, I've been overdue with both my children (12 days with Amaia and 5 days with Eneko) so I guess I'm just too comfy and they don't want to get out!LOL To tell the truth, I've had a few bad days, feeling really low, thinking I'm gonna be pregnant forever...especially hearing news of babies being born 1-2 weeks before due dates...it'll come soon now!

I've been also busy with a new kit (which is not finished yet but will be soon, hopefully) and the 'one-kit CT call'. Belated thanks to all who applied, I got in touch with everybody before 8th which was a challenge because, to my surprise, I got quite a huge response to that call! I was sooooo happy!!! Most of the gals have already made their page and I just want to show off their great work - and I'm linking them so you can leave some love:-) Here's the first batch - pages of Amber, Britt, Andrea and Doti (all of them will be listed clockwise from top left):

Second batch from Jarka, Misa, Kjersti and Lilja :

And third one from Micha, Melissa, Lara and Joselle:

Ladies, thank you so much, you've done a great job!!! I'll post the rest once I put them together!:-)

I've also made a layout for my pregny album - the LAST one!!! (believe me, even if I'm overdue, I'm NOT making Week 41, LOL!):

Credits and journaling here.

I've also been working on a freebie for you, of course:-) But it's not finished yet, sorry...it'll be my priority now, want to have it done before I deliver! Actually, off to work on it now!

See you soon!

2008-07-01T13:07:00.001-07:00

Hi there! Sorry for getting back to you so late today but we've had a really busy day! Haven't stopped all day! Had a doctor check and CTG in the morning and then we went to get presents for the kiddos (the new baby will bring them for them:-)) and we went to choose and get a new coffee machine and also a chest of drawers/changing table. After arriving home I had another pleasant surprise with the arrival of the baby carrier I ordered last weekend. I've already tested it (with a baby-sized doll:-)) and I'm quite happy about it. I mean, nothing beats the sling but it needs some practice to wrap it well...so for short carrying at home and also for my hubby it is quite easier to put on the carrier:-) It's one of those new generation ergonomic carriers (the baby's hip are in the position that is correct for her development) - a German product called Manduca. It looks like this:

I'm really looking forward to carrying the baby already, Eneko used to love it (until he discovered crawling and then walking:-)) Amaia was lazier and still liked to be carried it sometimes when she was already 2,5 years. The fantastic thing about it is that you have your baby close and your hands are free! And they always calm down and fall asleep there! This is a photo of Eneko when he was about 2 weeks old:

So all in all it has been a very successful day:-) And after posting this I'm heading for bed straight away!

Back to business then...WOW!!! So many great names you suggested!!! I must say it has been VERY hard to choose!!! There were 2 names in the 'final' and I just couldn't decide which one to choose! LOL So I asked DH to help but he liked both as well...in the end I asked a few friends and the winner is ....SUMMER ESCAPADES!!! And the prize goes to Ken&Vicky in Japan! Congratulations, Ken&Vicky!!! One important thing - I'm missing your email address, tried to track you back to your blog but there's no addy either. So Ken&Vicky - please, when you read it, send me an email and I'll send you your prize immediately!!!

And all the rest - thank you SO much for helping me out! I have sent you the link to the flower pack already! Well, to most of you - have the same problem as above with a few other people - so - Jenny, Stacy , Wanda, Julie and one anonymous that suggested ' Seaside Elegance' - please let me know your email address ASAP!!! Thank you!

Now...since you've all been so fantastic, I'd like to offer you another chance to get this kit for free:-) .......You might have noticed that I do NOT have any CT yet. I've been postponing it because I didn't feel it'd work, that I'd find time to communicate properly with my team....And now, especially with the arrival of another baby I don't want to get into a lot of 'work' that I simply wouldn't manage. Wouldn't be too fair...So I thought of sort of a one-time thing, you know - like a CT for one kit! Just to help me to promote it a little. So...if you'd like to work with it please send me an email with a link to your gallery....what I want from you, in exchange for the free kit, is to create a page (yes, only 1 page!:-)) using this kit...well, let's say about 80% of the layout would be from this kit...and post it in 3 galleries. One of them would be DST, another one Scrapartist and third of your choice. Feel like it?:-) Then I'll be looking forward to your emails!:-) The deadline is July6th and I'll let you know by July 8th (I have another doctor check on the 7th:-))

Okay guys, I'm seriously dead today, it's almost 11 pm and I'm going to bed. Good night!

2008-06-27T05:03:00.000-07:00

Happy Friday to everyone! Guess what, I've been a busy bee these past weeks! Yep, scrapping addict is slowly coming back, hehehe....Thank you all for your great comments:-) I still have a couple of people left that I want to reply to (including you, Brooke, and Magdalena! - just want to write a proper email and not just a one-liner...:-) And yes, I do have the greatest hubby on Earth (of course, LOL!)

So what have I been up to, you may be asking? Well, I had this kit I had been working on a bit by bit, it was taking me for ever and now I really wanted to get done with it because who know if I'm gonna have the time AND energy after the little one is born...Apart from that I've managed to catch up on my pregny album, have done 2 pages (Week 34 and Week 36):

Credits here.

And I tried to prepare a layout in advance for Julen when he's born...using Eneko's newborn photo instead. In the end I really liked how it came out with his picture so I left it like that:

Credits here.

Now I'm gonna have to make another one for Julen!:-)

But enough bragging about my family...:-) Here's the deal - this is the preview of my newest kit:

There's something wrong, right? Of course, it's missing a name! And it's exactly what I need your help with. So let's have a little 'contest'!:-) You have until Monday, June 30th, 12:00 GMT to leave a comment here with a name for this kit. Then I'll choose the one I like the best and I'll announce the winner on Tuesday (the only excuse would be if I'm delivering, LOL). The prize for the winner will be nothing less than this kit:-) But none of the participants will come short - all who leave a comment suggesting a name will get this pack of beautiful flowers:

Just don't forget to leave your email so I can send you the link later. If, for some reason, you prefer not to leave your email address in the comment section, send it by email to lemonaid.lucy@gmail.com. So...what do you say? Will you help me?:-)

Looking forward to your entries! Have a great (and creative) weekend! Hugs!

2008-06-06T04:46:00.000-07:00

Hi and a great day to all of you! It seems that I'm back on track and that is all due to my fantastic hubby!:-) I thank you all from the bottom of my heart for your truly wonderful comments and words of compassion and support. It means a world to me!!! I couldn't believe how many people have to deal with depressions though! Not that I thought I was the only one in the world, no:-), but still it was surprising to see how many of you have been in a similar situation. Now I also know well how it feels and admire all of you who have dealt with it and left it behind. And I send my love and positive thoughts to those who haven't managed to superate it yet {HUGS, HUGS, HUGS} To explain finally what was wrong...I'll try to be brief:-) The main problem that caused my depression was LONELINESS. See, I have been on maternity leave for a few years and never had a problem, always had friends to catch up with, go to playgroups, swimming, music and dancing classes with Amaia. Even in Holland (not so much there though) and Scotland we managed to find new friends and meet up with other mums with kids. Unfortunately here, as I already mentioned in one my previous posts, most babies start nursery in early months (if not weeks) of their lives and so 99% of the babies of Eneko's age are scholarized already. We didn't have anybody to hang out with! I used to meet a few grandparents strolling on the streets with buggies but nobody ever went to playgrounds (they're scarce here anyway:-(...) Grandparents usually go out to have a morning coffee in a bar and do some grocery shopping in the mornings and then straight home to prepare lunch. So...since most of the babies are at nurseries (or grocery shopping with grannies:-)) there are no activities for mums with babies at all!!! No playgroups, no music, no swimming...and there's also nowhere to go when it rains (and it has rained a whole lot since last summer). Put it all together plus due to my broken ribs first and then pregnancy I couldn't go horseback riding (which was keeping me 'alive' before)...and there you are...It got really bad and I saw I couldn't handle it alone so I went to a psychologist in the end. I lost all the interest in scrapping, friends and outside world in general. Didn't even check my email for months...We were thinking of moving to Prague to be close to my family at least for a few years but we're staying in the end. My husband quit working and has been at home with me since February and that was what helped me get out of it in the first place. I have my best friend by my side every day and it makes a HUGE difference, I can tell you! And he could also see for himself it's no fun when there're not only no other parents with kids but also very few chances to get friends with someone...and told me he was not surprised I got like that when he himself experienced it. Actually, he said he was surprised I was holding on for so long:-) But it's over now!:-)

Sooo...I hope I'll get here more often now and also to your blogs! Well, at least until the little one is born! LOL I've been doing some shopping lately and also working a little, done a few new LO's, mainly for my pregny diary. And changed the blog too, right:-) Still don't feel too much like scrapping or designing (although I have a lot of material) and I want to create only when I feel like it and not because I 'have to' so I resigned from all my CT's and I'm taking it very easy:-)

The pregnancy is going very well, I haven't had any problems. Lately I'm getting a lot of Braxton-Hicks contractions but that's normal at this stage. It's unbelievable but I'm now 34 weeks, only 6 weeks left. My due date is July 21st and I think it'd be pretty funny if Julen (read 'yulen' for English speaking peeps) decides to come out a little earlier because both Amaia and Eneko are born on the 20th (Sept and Oct respectively)!!! Still seems an eternity until we get to know our youngest one. According to the ultrasounds it's all fine with the little one, seems to be a little bigger than he should be so I hope he won't get too huge in the next 6 weeks!

And I thought it'd be a shame if you got all the way here with me and see no proof of progress:-))) My DD has been painting and I've been cutting. And it's all yours if you want it! Hope you like it...Enjoy:-) Here's the preview:

And you can download here.

And to finish, here are my latest LO's:

Credits here.

Credits here.

Credits here.

I guess that's more than enough for today!:-) Hope you'll have a great weekend and thank you all again for your friendship!:-) See you soon!

2008-03-27T14:21:00.000-07:00

Hello....anybody still there....?:) I'm slowly getting back to normal life, step by step...have to explain you a lot of things though But I won't do it today...only in short - nothing deadly serious, no...I've just been in a very bad shape...mentally...the psychologist called it a 'deep depression':) That's it. Other than that we're all fine, the kids are growing (too fast, especially the little man - Brooke!:)) And, actually, they're gonna get a little brother soon:) I'm glad I finally got the courage to post here, really! That's a big step forward for me. So I'll tell you the details some other day, ok? And I'm really sorry that I've left you without a note of any kind, I completely closed myself out of the digiworld, have not even come to this blog for months...let alone my email....but I'm getting better, as you can see:) Hope you forgive me...love you all!

2007-10-26T09:05:00.000-07:00

Hi everybody, I'm here again! That means it's Friday, right?lol How are you doing and how has your week been? Mine has been LAZY! Yes, believe it or not, I've been very lazy...instead of scrapping or working I spent 2 evenings watching a movie this week! Haven't done it in ages!

Last weekend we had Eneko's first birthday party, it was fun, he didn't really care about the toys and cake but was very happy with all the kids there. I made a layout using a few photos:

Credits here.

And I've only done a couple more pages - one for our vacation album (after a while):

Credits here.

And Another one for DigiDare - the theme was to scrap a PHASE:

Credits here.

And I've just actually found out this afternoon that I WON the DigiDare with this one! Not the random winner but the PICK! WOW! I was so surprised! And HAPPPPYYYYY!!!! Totally made my day!

The kids have had a bit of a tough week. The weather is crazy and they're both with cold and caugh. Eneko has been practicing some walking (he's getting better!) and falling. On Wednesday he tripped close to a bench and he's got a nice bruise under his eye:((( There was a chunk of dry cement and I didn't see it. And I was right next to him....:( Oh well, he's still gonna fall so many times. Sometimes I think he could use a rugby helmet:)

Hey, freebie, right? I have been playing around a lot with a new glitter style. It has a lot of possibilities and it looks great on paper (but not on the flowers I made last week, for instance). For now, I've made this alpha for you:

I couldn't decide on the color and then tried to do each letter different but it didn't look nice. So I made all the same. I realized that I haven't really made any 'fall' stuff. So this is it:) It's kind of golden and it looks great on the rich fall colors. I'm gonna make more colors though because it's not easy to recolor. Some could be for spring, summer, winter...lol! How about adding some wor dart, what do you think? I've done some frames too and they look fab, I'm just working on a layout that I needed it for (can't show you yet, it's not finished:))) I've never been to much into glitter but I find that it can really add some pop to your page. I'm also trying some overlays, you know that kind of subtle glitter that just lightens the LO a bit. Would you like that? Anyway, I always forget to tell you - if you have any ideas, suggestion what you'd like me to make - let me know!!! You know I read your comments:)))

Oh my, almost forgot the DL link, lol!!! HERE you can download the alpha plus bonus paper.

And that's it for today!!! Have a great weekend and see you next week! Oh, no, not next week - we're going to Prague next week so there will be no freebie!!! Do you hate me? lol I'm SOOOO much looking forward to Prague and spending a week with my hubby!!! We're gonna go for walks, eat outside, go salsa dancing...I'm taking the laptop with me but you know how it was with the connection last time...so see you in two weeks! Hugs to you all!

2007-10-19T10:37:00.000-07:00

Good morning, afternoon, evening...or just happy Friday to you!!! First of all I wanted to thank you for your comments, I haven't expected any, lol!! You are SO sweet, guys!!! Patty Anne - yours just made me cry, would you believe that? (no, I'm not pregnant, lol!) THANK YOU ALL!!!

All righty, ready for a long week's resume? lol Or you can skip, there is a freebie at the end:)))
A lot of news this week - the most important one is that my Mr. Man (LOVE that nick, Brooke!:)) who is turning 1 YEAR tomorrow (where the hell the time goes!?!) made his FIRST SOLO STEPS 3 days ago! It was hilarious, we were in the playground and he was holding on a rope and wanted to come to me. So he made 3 steps and then fell on his face before I managed to catch him. He didn't hurt himself because the floor was soft but half of his face was black from the mud. Wish I had a picture. The combination of a surprise and mud on his cheeks was irresistible!!! Tomorrow we'll have a party for him (well, more for all the kids in the family). More pictures to scrap!

Another news is that the page - the ministry of health - I had been doing the banners for has finally gone live. In case you want to check, it's here. All the pictures except for the header and the bottom right (with the heads) are mine. Nothing fancy, I know, I was quite restricted in terms of colors and also the actual banners are much wider than the pictures so I had to kind of 'blend it' to the background. The blinkie pictures were also defined, except for the one with flower. I personally like most the bottom left one with books. Anyway, the owe me, lol! It wouldn't be bad to get a job like that.

Earlier this week I read a series of really nasty articles in Czech tabloids. I normally don't read tabloids at all but my mom sent them to me because one of my best friends is involved. Quite a sad story about three women, three children and one man. It wouldn't be anything too unusual if one of our best Czech sportsmen wasn't involved too. The tabloid stories just made me so sick that I had to get it out and I made a layout, for my friend, to support her. I feel so bad being 1200 miles away from her...thanks God for Skype though:) So I made this layout - it's a two-pager (my first one!) because there was so much journaling that I couldn't possibly fit it on one page!:)

If you care to read the story, it's here: part 1 and part 2. I just wish I was there:(

Onto brighter things now:) I've also made these two layouts that I had sitting in my computer for a while :

Credits here.

Have you had enough yet? No? I'll add one more, lol. I finished it this morning for the new CRD challenge that is up today. You can check this thread for details:) It's been SOOOO much fun!!!

Credits here.

Okay, okay, enough!:) Freebie time!!! Yes, I got it done! Well, at least a part of it:) I'm working on more styles but so far I've done these:

Man, that freaking rhinestone was driving me nuts, couldn't get it the way I wanted. Spent like 2 freaking days on it, lol! Download here if you like them:) Eh, just noticed that the preview kind of sucks, you can't really see it. Should have included a detail. Oh well, you're not buying it so if you don't like them after unzipping, just delete them:)

One more thing - you may have realized that Divine Digital is changing servers and there's been some problems. I haven't managed to upload some products yet:( Just in case you'd be wondering where they are....and last thing - I've been reported some 'lost' emails, not replying to people etc. - some emails just end up in my spam and therefore I don't reply:( Unfortunately I don't have time to check spam so if you email me and I don't get back to you within 3 days, please leave a message here on the blog or PM me at DST!

Okay, off to have dinner, I'm exhausted now!LOL

Thank you and have an awesome evening and weekend!

2007-10-12T13:39:00.001-07:00

Happy Friday to all of you!!! Well, hope you ARE having a happy Friday because today I'm NOT gonna make you happier....I have NO FREEBIE for you! Can you believe it??? I'm so sorry guys but I just HAVEN'T HAD TIME! I've been working on it -last weekend I was up until 5 a.m. both Friday and Saturday (darling hubby got up with the kids in the morning so I could sleep until 10 am...did I say how much I love him???) but then things got crazy and I haven't had time to finish:( I tried last night but it wouldn't come the way I wanted. I got so stressed about it last night and this morning that my hubby thought I had gone nuts, lol. I just hate to disappoint you, guys! But I'd also hate giving out something that is not worth it...freaking perfectionist, lol. I'll have more time to play around next week so I hope I'll get it done. I have a couple of things in works so at least one of them!

***WARNING*** If you have come just for a freebie you don't need to read further. This is not a test. There's REALLY NO FREEBIE at the end of the post!!! LOL

And what have I been doing that I haven't had time? I'll tell you - SCRAPPING my butt off! LOL It all started last weekend when my hubby came from work with yet more 'homeworks'. I spent 4 freaking hours on an animated GIF they wanted for the main page. I said I was not doing anything else for free anymore. It started as a favor and in the end I made almost the whole page! Anyway, they liked it so much that they didn't even want to change anything (pretty surprising for a government org they're always so picky,lol) and said they'd probably contract me for next year, heeehee...and then I've been getting all set up for my new dream gig at Christina's, getting to know each other and stuff. In the meantime I remembered I had promised Angie (Ikea Goddess) to make a layout for Monday's challenge at Weeds&Wildflowers blog hosted by her. It was fun and I finally got to scrap those photos - this was my entry for 'first' theme - first curls of my son:

Credits here.

In between we got an email from our W&W CT captain that Heidi Williams had a new product out - a collab with Saxon Holt (Sophia Sarducci) and that it'd be highly appreciated to have a layout posted by Monday on it's release. Huh....I don't know if I ever told you but I'm usually a very slow scrapper. I have basic ideas of a layout but then it takes me FOREVER to find the right stuff. Sometimes I get stuck for two hours on the right FONT!!! Well, I didn't have a problem with this one because I just used stuff from that collab. But it took me FOREVER to ensemble and layer ALL those leaves (all the different glitter and stitched outlines come in separate png files)!!!

Credits here.

The next day Christina announced a new product and you know how it goes, it's really nice to have the layouts done BEFORE the product goes to the store, lol. So I started to work on this one (that took me 2 days - had everything and got stuck with the placement of the title:))) Love the background - it's Christina's brand new yummy pack of Filthy Canvas:

Credits here.

And again, in the meantime (lol), I found there was supposed to be a blog challenge at CRD this Friday 'High School Love Song' and, of course, I wanted to participate. Mojo was not coming and all I could think of was Wind Of Change by The Scorpions because that WAS our high school antheme. Not a love song though. Anyway, too late and I came up with this (and it took me ONE hour!lol):

Credits here.

After that I went through my CD's, found a love song and scrapped another one that I finished last night - also Filthy Canvas and one of rare photos of my hubby (he usually makes silly faces:)) :

Credits here.

And this one that I finished today because I had to catch up with sweet Antonio's stuff - did I tell you that I'm on his team? I got and invitation shortly after Christina's. He's got fantastic frames (well, and the paper is mine, lol!) and he's fine with using just a few items on a layout:

Credits here.

All right, that's enough, no more LO's! As you can see, I've been seriously scrapping my butt off, lol! I have another two layouts that have to be done by Monday and then I can go designing again. I'm actually gonna have more time now (hopefully) because I decided to resign on Weeds and Wildflowers CT. Well, 'resign'...there have been some changes - each one of the ladies wants to have her own personal CT (which I think is a very good idea) so they were going to split us. In the end they decided to start from scratch and had a public CT call (that ends TONIGHT! - in case you're interested and haven't noticed) . I decided not to continue so I can have more time for designing. (not that Christina doesn't keep us busy, lol!)

And that's about it, guys. Sorry again to disappoint you today! It won't become a habit, I swear, lol! And thanks a lot for all your sweet comments you leave!!! I'm gonna try to leave some love for you too now! (Yeah, Brooke, I know, I've been 'going' to your blog since last weekend!!! going right there!)

Thank you for stopping by and have an awesome weekend!

2007-10-05T08:10:00.000-07:00

Happy Friday again, lol! I don't know how it comes that I never get to post during the week! I've been about to post since Monday and then I was trying to finish the Grab Bag for this weekend and do a layout with the new beautiful kit from Gina Marie Huff - Painting A Dream that is available at Funky Playground Designs for the month of October since she's guesting there.

Credits and journaling here.

It didn't turn out quite as I wanted to but I like it. Especially the ribbon. I had to do quite some work on the photo though because it was my hubby who was shooting and he focused on the cake, lol! Anyway, I loved the photo so the work was worth it.

Okay, the layout I have finished...What I HAVEN'T finished is the Grab Bag. I had two things ready and didn't manage to finish the third one. Plus the freebie for today was not complete either. So instead of stressing myself (I've been quite lazy this week, I admit. Well, not lazy but kind of without drive and home-Praguesick) I was just like 'oh screw the grab bag, I'll put it as a freebie':) But then it was way too big (again, hehe) so here's what I decided to do (to save something for the store this time, lol!) - a sampler from the two things I had prepared for the GB. It was a paper pack called Simply Fall and a set of three satin wrappers. This is the preview of the pack:

I really like how it turned out. I don't have the preview of the ribbons yet but they're those you'll get today - I put one from each set for you. In the pack there're 20 different colors of each type. I'll work on the preview tonight and upload it in the store as well.

I've also put up another pack this week - Worn Out Polkas (one of them you can fully see on this LO - see, I'm finally CTing for myself to, anybody wants to join?lol). This one has turned out beautifully too! I feel I'm getting better!:) No, really, what do you think guys?

Enough 'business talk' and let's show you the freebie:

It contains two papers from the Simply Fall pack, three wrappers (with drop shadows included in a separate .png file) and since I love making frames I also added two vintage paper frames as a bonus:) And HERE is the link. Hope you like it, enjoy!

Thank you all for your awesome comments on the wooden blocks, I'm SOOOOO happy you liked them!!! It was way worth the effort! BTW, the blisters are gone:) And remember today is the last day you can get them, I'll be removing the link tomorrow morning!

Oh, and I actually have a news for you. Guess who I'll be CTing for??? Hint? Ok - C....R....D!!! Yes, Christina Renee!!! I got a PM from her on Monday that she'd love to have me on her team. Well, I'm kinda busy but...who could tell NO to this awesome lady, lol! I own most of the stuff in her store anyway, lol.

Other than that nothing new. Oh, my little man gave me a surprise today. He was sleeping in the stroller in his room. We came from outside and he was sleeping, so I put him there and had a chance to work a bit. So he's sleeping, right. When he wakes up he usually talks to his teddy for a bit and then when he gets bored he starts to scream 'mama', 'mama'! Then it's time for me to go. Today I heard him wake up and then all of a sudden he started to cry. So I ran there and he was HANGING HEAD DOWN from the side of the buggy! I mean he was TIED! And somehow he managed to get out and crawl over the side and fall. He didn't hit himself because his head was way above the floor but one of his feet got stuck in the straps....uffff, what a shock. I remember Amaia ended up hanging once too. She hated to be strapped in the pushchair so I bought walking reins for her. You know, those you put on the kid and you have a 'leash' on the other side. I used to strap her in that one in the pushchair so she wouldn't fall (coz she loved to go standing up!) and once she lost balance and fell over the side but the reins saved her from hitting the floor, of course. She used to be such a pain sometimes because she just couldn't sit still for a second. Well, she still can't! She has to be moving all the time, little thingy.

Okay, guys, better get started with preparing dinner now. Have an awesome week (I'm not expecting to see you before next Friday, hehe) and please leave me some love if you download:) Luv ya!

2007-09-28T11:39:00.000-07:00

Good Friday to everyone! Here I am again and today with a treat. Ehhhmmm, I think I've overdone it a bit this time, guys. lol I was so excited about it that I realized the size of it when I wanted to zip it....it's yummy and different, see if you like it:

I was inspired by my daughter's wooden blocks and I thought it would be fun and unique. I love the result, it looks so cool with the peeled paint and bumpy edges! There's a whole lot of love in it, each letter took me about 20 minutes to extract so count how many hours I've been extracting..got blisters on my butt, lol! That's why it wasn't finished last week... The set contains upper and lower case and numbers - those have different texture. And I also added that cute trolley for you and a paper made of those blocks. I have to warn you though - this alpha, unlike my other stuff - is not versatile at all! It comes in red, green, blue and yellow and since it's texture is so unique (see the details) it's impossible to recolor. But I'm sure it'd be great on kids layouts. I've actually used the alpha for my new header (you can find full credits for the header in the bottom of the left column). Now, since each letter is about 4 MB, the whole thing came out HUGE!!! I had to split it in SEVEN parts! So if you dare and have the patience (LOL) here are the links (the 'extras' contain the trolley and paper). SORRY, THE LINKS HAVE BEEN REMOVED! ON TO THE STORE THEY GO NOW:)

Woohooo! Okay, I promise I won't do it again! lol

Have a great weekend and please leave me some love if you DL, need to recharge (once per seven downloads is enough:))

2007-09-27T13:40:00.000-07:00

Hey there! Wow, two in a row today:) I was gonna post today anyway (no kidding!) but after Brooke's comment I realized you might feel lost here, hehe. Well, I've been wanting to redesign this since the beginning, that's almost a year (changed blogs) but have been putting it off. The previous I did in a rush...anyway, time for change. It looks more cheerful here, don't you think? I'm still gonna play a bit with the colors and stuff but that's not going to be today. Have to finish the freebie for you for tomorrow!:) Well, I only have the preview left but I've just spent 2 hours making a bonus paper because it was just not coming the way I wanted...And what else have I been up to? Not much, really. I have about hour or hour and a half during the day when No.2 (my DS) sleeps and the rest has to be done at night. Still not in shape though and my DH is sick now too, ufff! Oh and I finished two layouts - one is Eneko's monthly journal - not too happy with it but the mojo was just not coming, lol:

Credits and journaling here.

And this one I finished last night for this week's Digi Dare. And that one I really like:

Credits and journaling here.

Apart from that I've been saving my hubby's butt, hehe, not only his but his colleagues too!:) He works on a project for a government organization, they are rebuilding their internet portal. And on Friday he came with a question if I could take a look at the logo they gave him for one of the pages. The problem was they got a JPEG file from the government dept. how it should look like and it was tall and they needed landscape. No rush, hubby said but I was like ok, no problem, extracted what was needed and made a brand new banner over the weekend. And you know what? They loved it! lol They published it straight away because the government called on Monday morning to go live immediately. If I didn't do it they wouldn't have had anything - the company that is responsible for creating the banner didn't do ANYTHING! I was asked to do another one in different color. And the same day Iñaki came home with a question if I could make another banner for another page because the current one sucked...I did it the same evening and again it was approved and will be published next week! And today I got 4 more 'homeworks'. One of them is to design the header banner for their main page! lol. Getting quite popular over there, see if they start to pay me, hehe...

Okay, bed time for me already, I'll see you tomorrow and I'll have your weekly treat for you!

Have a great rest of the day/night!

PS Again - thank you SO much for your comments. It's one of the things I love about designing - your appreciation!

Don't freak out:)

2007-09-27T09:00:00.000-07:00

Please don't freak out, I'm just redesigning the blog:))) This is not the final version so if you see things appearing and disappearing, don't worry, lol! More tonight!

Sorry and fix!!!

2007-09-21T12:47:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, sweet Pamela just found out there's no bonus lace in the zip file....ggggaaaaahhh, my brain is just completely sucked out from breastfeeding, lol! Sorry guys!!! First time it happens (but surely not the last one:)) Instead of re-zipping and reloading the whole file I've just zipped the lace separately and the link is here. Thanks so much, Pamela and sorry again! Better go to bed, lol.

2007-09-21T08:58:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, how are you doing? Hope everything is fine with you! I really wanted to post during the week but haven't managed...again...lol. I was not feeling all that well, some kind of flu and have been very lazy the first part of the week. The little ones have also been with cold but getting better now. And then yesterday I didn't touch the computer until late at night because my DD had a birthday party and I was running up and down all day. Can't believe she's 4!!! She was so excited and the first thing she said when she woke up yesterday morning was: I'm four!!! hen she went to school and had a bit of a party there and when she came home she fell asleep on the couch while I was preparing stuff for her home celebration, lol! She didn't wake up until the first kids came! She got a bunch of presents, of course:) and what she enjoyed the most was a new bike and earrings. And then a chocolate cake, that was by far the best part, lol. I've taken a whole lot of pictures. Now I only have to scrap them. Ufff, my mojo hasn't returned from vacation yet. I haven't even finished my son's monthly journal yet - I wanted to have it done by yesterday....yes, my kids are both on the 20th and exactly 3 years and 1 month apart. So in a month we're gonna have the FIRST b-day party for him! More photos, hehe. I've taken a lot this morning too when we were walking in the park. The weather was beautiful and he was happily crawling in the grass.

Oh, I know what you wanted to ask, hehe - yes, I HAVE managed to prepare a freebie for you! Originally I was gonna have something else ready (really yummy!) but it'll have to wait until next Friday because although I've been working on it for over a week, I haven't finished yet. So today you're getting some frames (8 in total) and since I kind of like the idea of bonuses you'll also get this COOOOL wrapper made of a shoe lace (from my Sketchers, lol!) The frames are grungy so the shoe lace will go very well with them. See if you like it! Here's the preview:

I doesn't look bad, does it? So if you like it, you know what to do:) Here is the link. SORRY, THE LINK HAS BEEN REMOVED. And, as usual, I'm removing the link for the star overlays. Off to the store they go! I'm so happy that you liked them and thank you so much for your comments. They really warm up my heart!

Thank you again and have a great weekend!

PS I'm not saying again that I'm gonna try to post before next Friday! lol (but I WILL try:))

Is it really Friday again???

2007-09-14T06:41:00.000-07:00

Can't believe it's Friday again! Don't laugh, you know what I'm talking about. Life with kids flies... and you wish it'd slow down to be able to cherish every moment...How has your week been? Mine's been busy. Amaia started her preschool on Monday. She couldn't wait. She woke up early and she was so happy to hear that it is THE DAY (wasn't she happy at home, lol?!) Throughout September they only have classes in the mornings but still, she comes so tired that yesterday we even took her pulse to check if her heart was fine. She passed out before 7.30 pm and didn't wake up until 8 am! Wish I could sleep like that now! lol And then she's also started music classes twice a week, not playing an instrument but just getting to know music. I thought she'd like it because she's always liked me singing to her and playing guitar. She learns quick and know a LOT of songs by heart by now. She's only had two classes but wants to go again!

And my younger one is trying to stand up without holding, a whole lot of fun:) he's grown another 2 teeth the past week so now he's with 7. And he's behaving, trying not to bite me coz I told him I'd cut him off the breast if he does, lol. We had his monthly check on Wednesday and he's doing just great, 10 kg and 76 cm (22 lb and 2.5 ft). He's pointing at everything with his index finger and 'talking' a lot. Isn't it funny, when they start talking and say the first words we're all excited and happy and when they're older we're happy when they're quiet for a moment:)

I've finished 2 full LO this week (pretty good considering my mojo is on vacation, lol). This one for our vacation album:

Credits and journaling here.

And this one for the Digi Dare:

Credits and journaling here.

Alright, enough chit chat and straight to action:) I noticed that you liked the star overlay last time (see, I DO read your comments:)) so I've made a few more for you! I've been playing a lot with styles and stuff so they come much better this time!:) Hope you like them too! Here's the preview:

There're 10 overlays in total, not all are shown in the preview. And the preview looked kind of sad so I added 2 papers for you too. If you like it you can download it here. SORRY, THE LINK HAS BEEN REMOVED!

I also wanted to thank you for your comments on the last freebie (now you know I read them, right?lol) They mean a lot to me and I appreciate them so much. I reply or leave comments to some of you but it's impossible to reply to all, no mater how I'd love to:(

I wish you a great weekend and hope to post sooner than next Friday;) Love to you all!

Wohoo, freebie time!

2007-09-07T07:35:00.000-07:00

Happy Friday everyone! Today I'm gonna keep it REALLY short:) It's beautiful outside and I posted a long one yesterday, lol! So today freebie is a sampler of my new paper pack. Well, 3 paper packs, actually:) It's called Painted Cardboard. Yeah, I just had a piece of cardboard and was playing with my daughter's finger paints:) And I was extremely pleased with the result! Each pack contains 1 beautiful and unique texture in 10 different colors so in total it's 30 papers. For your freebie I included a sampler of each of the textures and as a bonus I added a star overlay. Here's the preview:

And the download link is here. Enjoy! And if you'd like to purchase any of the pack or the whole set (which will be for a discounted price, of course:)) then write down that the creamy yellow paper is from Vol. 1, the orange one from Vol. 2 and the chocolate one from Vol. 3. That's just in case you like any of them. The texture is not all that visible on the previews:( So just make sure it's the right pack. I'm already uploading them in the store as I type:-) Ok, finito for today!

Again I'd like to thank you for your comments and love you leave here, at 4shared and in the forums! Thanks for popping in today and have a great weekend!

HOLY COW!!!...

2007-09-06T15:32:00.000-07:00

...lol, no, really, that's exactly what I thought when I saw your response to the ribbon wrap from last week!!! No way I was expecting it..was just playing with a ribbon, lol! I'm so happy that you liked them and thank you SO MUCH for all your comments! Believe it or not, I've read them all!:) No matter how bad my day has been, your *love* always warms my heart! THANK YOU AGAIN! Sending *LOVE* to you all!!!

P.S. Remember tomorrow is the last day you can grab them! After that they'll go to my store @ DD and you'll have to pay for them, lol. But guessing from the amount of downloads I believe most of you are set, aren't you?! lol

Some of you reacted to my 'complaint' about young babies going to daycare. Huh, I know it's quite complicated. Sometimes you just have to even if you don't want to...Brooke, I can't even imagine your situation and how sad you must have been!!! I was crying even when I was putting Amaia to preschool at three years...I didn't have much of a choice either at that time. She has always been a little advanced mentally and at 3 years (even earlier) I could tell she NEEDED to be with other kids. And the sad thing is that there are NO other kids her age (or a little younger) on the street!!! I don't have a clue what I'm going to do with Eneko in a year or so when he'll be more interested in being with other children....sometimes I just feel like going back to Prague or to Edinburgh where you can go to 'playgroups'. I've been even thinking of setting up something like that here but then I realized that it was not such a great idea since almost all kids are at daycares...:( We'll see...maybe we won't be here then! Ok, back to the topic - I know that some women just don't feel that staying at home with their children fulfills their needs and ambitions. That's ok too, I mean, I think that for the child is better to have a happy mom/dad for a few hours a day than a full day of an unhappy parent. The reason for my 'sigh' was coming from the local situation. Here, I hear all the time: 'Oh, you're SO lucky that you can stay at home with your children for so long.' And then either: 1) 'I wish we also had such a long maternity leave!' or 2) 'We can't afford it. We both have to work to pay the mortgage. Housing is so expensive here!' My point is - Ad 1) The ML in Spain is 16 weeks right now, and 28 in the Czech Republic (quite a difference...) BUT in both countries you can enjoy a 'leave of absence' up to 3 years of age of the child with almost the same conditions (keeping the job and monthly contribution from the state/social security). Ad 2) Housing is VERY expensive here, that's true BUT it's not only that, it's the lifestyle people have here. People have a house (or two), two cars, the newest electronic gadgets (not everybody, I know!!!:))...Plus Bilbao is famous for how well people are dressed here. So add designers' clothes...plus paying for the daycare and often somebody to drop off/pick up the kids and do some house cleaning....That's all fine with me, I'm not envious or anything, we live quite well...what upsets me is that these people DO complain that they can't afford enjoying their kids for the first few years! WHY??? Ahhhh, sorry for the rant...it's just one of the things that makes me 'boiling' every time I hear that...ok, on to less deep things:)

You might have noticed that I added a subscription button in the left column so if you don't want to miss a freebie, it's a good idea that you put your email addy there...You know I'm not posting THAT often so don't worry about getting tons of alerts, lol!

And other than that there's not much new over here. My ribs are almost fully recovered (after 6 weeks!) and I'm already thinking when to go horseback riding again:) My two little angels are keeping me quite busy so I haven't managed to prepare stuff for this weekend's GRAB BAG sale @ DD...:( Oh well, next month for sure! Be sure to check it out though!
I've only done two new LO's this week (and you can tell I'm in minimalist mood:)) I've done this one with the fantastic new collab between Gina Marie Huff and Gina Miller - Shabby Fall Garden:

Credits and journaling here.

And this one for the last week's Hodge Podge - scrapping somebody new (=not our children):

Credits here.

I have another two in works but my mojo seems to be on vacation lately, hehe...Haven't even touched the new gorgeous stuff from Heidi - Seeing Stars! Shame on me...Would you believe that until tonight I haven't even had an idea for a freebie for you...?lol But now it's uploaded and waiting until tomorrow:) Have been playing again...no ribbon but it turned out excellent! Be sure to stay tuned!

Ufff, it's been a long one again:) And it's way too late here (or too early, it depends:)) and I better go to bed. Have a great evening and see you tomorrow! *LOVE*

Happy Friday!

2007-08-31T04:14:00.000-07:00

Good morning and happy Friday everyone! Today I'm posting early and it's gonna be rather short for change:) Amaia's still vacationing but she only has one week left, they start on the 10th of September. Well, and all of September she only has school in the mornings and she comes home at 1 pm. On one hand I'm glad the school is starting since she'll be with her friends again and more entertained than at home. And I'll have a little more time to scrap:) On the other hand it's been great to have her home all day although I haven't had much time for anything else...My little man stays home until next year at least, wouldn't put him in a nursery for a world now. A lot of people here do it though. At around 9 months, more often than not earlier, most of the babies go to day care. I think it's quite sad...

I've also scrapped some more photos from our vacation. Apart from the LO Slide that I mentioned in my previous post (and now I have time to post it here:)) I've done another very simple one with our friend Humberto and his daughter Ines. I adore that photo!

Credits and journaling here.

Credits here.

Have I said it was going to be short?lol Ok, on to today's point. This time the freebie's story was the other way round. I didn't need anything for a layout as usual. I was working on the freebie and then I though it'd be nice to add a frame to show you how it looks like and then also a picture. And then I immediately thought of the perfect background for it. Added a few more things and I had a layout!

Credits here.

So, what's your guess? Right, today you're getting the ribbon wrap in 20 different colors and a frame (with DS) as a bonus! Here's the preview (not all colors shown):

I had to split it in two parts, since it was a bit more than 50 MB...If you like it, download it here:

part 1
part 2
SORRY, THE LINKS HAVE BEEN REMOVED!

I love reading your comments so please don't forget to leave one:)))

Thank you for stopping by and wish you a great weekend!!!

So excited!!!

2007-08-29T12:05:00.000-07:00

Hello there!!! So excited, I have to share! My LO Slide has been picked as layout of the week at Scrapbookgraphics!!! Yay! Find the LO here and my 'interview' here.

I also want to thank you for all your lovely comments here and on 4shared. I appreciate them very much:)))

Oh, and last but not least, I have a tip for you - if you plan to make calendars for next year, my friend Ramalka has great templates for you. She's made them in different languages, how thoughtful is that? Find them here (scroll down to July 7th post).

Have a great week and stay tuned for Friday's freebie!

Stopping by to leave you a treat:)

2007-08-24T08:46:00.000-07:00

Hello peeps! How are you doing? Can't believe it's again been two weeks since I posted the last time! Time flies...We've spent a wonderful vacation in Normandy! The weather was crappy, most of the days rained but the place had a climatised pool and that was saving the days:) Even if it was raining the kids could play there. We only did one trip while there because Amaia was sick and tired of the car after the long drive that we didn't want to punish her with yet more hours in the car seat. So we only did a one hour drive trip to Utah Beach which is known from the WWII (the U.S. forces landed there as a part of Operation Overlord). The rest of the time we were just hanging around the house. Well, house...a castle! We had a big backyard for the kids to play (when it wasn't raining or wet:)) Anyway, they were quite entertained indoors as well. There were 6 kids in total. We were lucky with the ages - a boy not even one year older than Amaia and another girl just over a year younger than her. Then a boy of 14 months that was playing with our Eneko of 10 months. And the youngest one was just 11 weeks. The older kids we competing in taking care of her:) And surprisingly the older kids didn't have any problems in understanding each other. Two of them spoke Spanish and Amaia picked up very quick. And since she was most of the time with the older boy whose father is Argentinian she ended up with a very cute accent:))) I've got SO many beautiful photos that I decided to make a full album for us and our friends. I've already made a cover page that shows the house:

Credits here.

And first two pages (3rd one almost finished) - one of Ines and her dad in the pool (I just adore that picture of her, don't you?!) and one of me and Eneko on the Utah Beach:

Credits here.

And I've also made a monthly report of my little man this week. He's learned quite a lot and during ONE week he's grown THREE teeth!

Credits here.

Been busy this week:) Although I didn't quite feel like doing anything because it's been raining for 5 days in a row and I haven't managed to get the kids out of the house at all!!! This afternoon it's finally started to pick up!

On to today's freebie! I've seen a lot of bugs lately:)

The set contains 10 different bugs-stamps. Download here. SORRY, THE LINK HAS BEEN REMOVED! Enjoy and don't forget to leave some love!:) Thanks for stopping by, have a great weekend and see you soon and I promise I'll be a better blogger from now on (the vacation is over, lucky you, lol!)

I'm back!!! And I have a FREEBIE for you:-)

2007-08-09T12:50:00.000-07:00

Hello my neglected bloggers:-) How are you doing? I'm sorry for not being in touch for so long. What happened? Well, following your advice I finally began enjoying my vacation, LOL! My hubby came over to Prague and we had a great time. Would you believe that I didn't touch my laptop for 4 days in a row??? I wouldn't but it happened!:-) And then if I opened it it was just to check my email and eventually upload a layout. Couldn't do much more due to the connection anyway. The neighbor used to be connected in very weird hours...What's new here. Hmmm, got a new camera, a Cannon S3IS and I'm VERY pleased with it. Our DD refreshed her Czech and enjoyed a lot of granny's attention so now she's a little demanding, lol. Our son started to crawl and stand up holding whatever he has the closest. And he's got first two teeth out (the second one actually came out today). I'm recovering from a bad fall off a horse (yes, again, lol! And - Brooke - I was thinking a lot of your son:-)). This time it was really bad, the helmet ended up totally broken (went head down and flipped due to the fact that the cute horse pulled the head all the way down and fired her hinders up) and my ribs almost followed. They are so so but the doc told me they can break any time, huh, so I should rest. (yeah, right, with 2 offsprings at home...lol). My eye surgery went perfectly fine, the day after I was already driving! But it took a while to get used to it. The first few days I was still looking for my glasses in the mornings, lol. It doesn't stop amazing me though... Anyway, I guess that's it from here, no more news. We've been back for a week now but I've been mostly catching up on my CT duties, lol. And I spent two evenings recovering data from my HD...I've made a few new LO's, you can check them in my gallery. Haven't done any of Prague yet although I've taken a LOT of pictures...over a thousand!

And I have a freebie for you! I know that it's Thursday but we're going to spend another week of vacation in France with some friends and will be leaving tomorrow late afternoon. So I figured out I'm not going to have time to post:-) So here it is - it's a sampler of my new store release:

It contains key ring tags in 10 different colors plus 3 paper strips. The whole set that is for sale in the store contains 18 colors and 8 paper strips plus two extra .png files with tag and ring separated so you can customize it to your liking. If you think you can use them you can download them here. I made those yesterday because I needed them for this layout (the usual, lol!). It's looking pretty good, couldn't find them anywhere:

Credits and journaling here.

Oooh, and my DH has just showed me that I made it LOTD at Divine Digital with this LO I posted yesterday! I really like it too:-):

Credits here.

Okay and now I'm really going to bed! Have a 10 hour drive tomorrow night! I won't have internet connection there so there will be no freebie next Friday:-( I'll make it up to you, I promise! Have a great week!

Guess what? FREEBIE!!!

2007-07-18T11:52:00.000-07:00

Yep, guys, I've got a freebie for you today! I know it's not Friday but you've been patient enough, lol! And I've managed to upload it from MY computer! How come? Well, my hubby came for the weekend and he brought his laptop. After spending the whole Saturday afternoon in 3 different internet cafes trying to upload and download at the speed of 5 KB/sec we came home totally exhausted and frustrated. He turned his laptop on and we found out that he had an excellent connection to our neighbor's wi-fi (only at the edge of our kitchen window though at around 60 KB/sec)! So we spent a wonderful romantic evening downloading new stuff from Weeds&Wildflowers. I decided to scrap it as a b-day card for Gina Marie and Heidi because it was their birthday yesterday:

Journaling and credits here.

Then we found out that it was his software that could find and keep a nice connection, much better than the standard Windows one I have. So we installed it in my laptop and here I am, up and running. Depending only on the times when my neighbor is connected, hehe.

And I actually managed to upload before that (but it took me half an hour...!). Going through the photos I have here in Prague from the pre-digital era I found this one and it reminded me the whole story:

Journaling and credits here.

So on to the freebie! I've been playing around with brushes and filters and I made these frames for you (I love making frames!):

You can download these babies here. They are .psd files with templates so it's really easy to use them. Hope you like them! I'm not telling you anymore to leave comments because I know you do and I just LOVE them! While I was at it I made a few more stacks and put them up to my store:

So if you like the freebie ones you can still grab more there!:-) And I've also added a few more products to the store. Haven't managed to reload the whole July Grab Bag yet but it's coming soon! One of the items was a 10 paper pack in pastel tones, a little grungy:

So, following the trends, I added these two packs, that are 12 PP each- Bolds:

And Brights:

I've also made a collection out of them so you can get all three packs at a bargain price, basically you get a pack for free, isn't that great? Have I said I'm on vacation???? No, really, I'm enjoying my vacation. Going for long walks and trips with the kids and SHOPPING:-)

There'll be no freebie this Friday though because I'm gonna have my eyes operated tomorrow (myopia, just wanna be able to wear my shades all year without the hassle of putting my contacts, lol!) and I'll be just RESTING with my feet up on Friday:-)

Thanks for your patience and supportive comments, love ya guys!!!

Checking in:-)

2007-07-14T07:46:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, checking in quickly. Thank you you so much for your comments, I know I should enjoy vacation but I can't help it, I feel totally cut off, lol:-) I managed to fix the laptop connection, the problem was in the settings....you're gonna laugh at me...the MOST STUPID thing on earth. The guy who set up our home connection made the DNS fixed so it didn't allow to look for other servers. So I could connect to the wi-fi, no problem but couldn't get anywhere. I thought of it before but what puzzled me was that I could get to my gmail and post on the blog. Anyway, I thought I'd now be able to download some new fantastic W&W stuff to work with but I can't manage. It always gives me a corrupted file (that's if it tries to download at all. The connection really sucks here). Right now I'm in an internet cafe, I was gonna upload a freebie for you, even bought a pen drive to try through a public computer but don't get anywhere. It's so frustrating! The only bright thing these days is that my hubby came to Prague for the weekend because we just couldn't survive one more week separated, lol. So I guess I'll just save it to my brand new pen drive and he'll upload it for me to 4 shared when he comes back home. And I'll just post the link for you then, can't leave you without a freebie for next three weeks, can I:-)
So stay tuned for news! Thank you!

So sorry:-(

2007-07-05T11:36:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, I managed to get somebody's unsecured wireless connection here at home:-) It still doesn't let me go to any pages though. Don't know where the problem is. I can post but only if I go through Blogger's main dashboard and it doesn't let me go to the blog...I can log on to 4shared but it doesn't let me upload files. Going crazy here...if anybody can think of what might be the problem please advice but send it to my email, that is the only one I can get to. So sorry guys but unless a miracle happens, there will be no freebie tomorrow:-( I'll try next week, different places but can't promise anything...I hope you're having a good week. I'll try to keep you posted whenever I can!

Hate this!

2007-07-04T07:56:00.000-07:00

Again the same problem that I had the last time here. Can't connect anywhere. Right now it let me to the blogger so I posted but I can't view it! can't get anywhere but gmail...let's see if I can somehow manage to upload your freebie...cross your fingers! Love ya!

Survivor here!

2007-07-04T07:55:00.000-07:00

Survived!:-) Oh boy, what an adventure I had! I ended up totally beaten up! I’m quite used to flying with one kid, we used to fly to Prague with Amaia every 4-6 weeks from wherever we were. She’s always been very good on planes, except for a nasty habit of being awake all the time and falling asleep while landing. I still remember how I put a lady sitting in front of us to sleep by my singing and Amaia was as fresh as a rose and then she fell asleep exactly at the moment we touched the ground. I carried her in my arms to the baggage claim and everybody was saying ‘oh, she’s so cute, look at her how she’s sleeping. But nobody offered help when I had to get the suitcase from the belt. I put her down on some benches there and then picked her up again. She was flat. I passed the passport control and the customs with her in one arm, leaning on my shoulder and suitcase in the other hand. Then my hubby took over and she woke up at the moment we put her in the car seat….Anyway, last year we took her to Mexico with us, it was a 10 hour flight (and before a 3,5 hour drive from Bilbao to Madrid and another 4 hours waiting at the airport) and she was just amazingly GOOD! She slept only 2 hours on the plane (it was a day flight) and the rest we were just painting, playing with toys etc. When we got there we still had to get on a bus and go from Cancun to our hotel close to Tulum. And she was still awake when we arrived!

Back to our last trip – again, thanks God she’s so good and used to flying because if not I would probably not be posting today, lol! There’re no direct flights from Bilbao to Prague (charters in summer but you can only stay 2 weeks max) so we always have to change planes. There’re several options. Frankfurt (that we usually do) but it’s massive and I didn’t feel like walking a marathon to change terminals:-) Paris (famous Charles de Gaulle) – I knew they wouldn’t give me the stroller, it had happened to me before (security reasons, ha!) Apart from that they happen to confuse the routes from time to time – the airport buses take you to a plane that goes completely somewhere else than your ticket says. Madrid – forget it if you want your luggage to arrive to the same airport as you do. So it was either Brussels or Munich. Munich had better connection time wise; although there were almost 5 hours waiting for the connection flight to Prague. I chose Munich.

So our odyssey started in Bilbao. We had to take a bus to get to the plane (that had never happened before!). The buses are quite old fashioned since they never use them so imagine getting a stroller to a double decker:-) Once happily boarded on the plane we had to wait for almost one hour for the crew to find two suitcases of some people who had checked them in but never showed up on the plane (security reasons again, what if there were ETA bombs!?! Luckily enough we had a priest sitting next to us, lol!) Then we finally took off. Both kids were just darlings! Well, with Amaia I kind of take it for granted, hehe. The shocking thing was that my dear little man did not cry a single time along the whole journey (I mean the whole day since 8 am when we started off until 6 pm when we arrived!!!) Can you imagine that? An 8 months old just either quiet or cracking up??? I wouldn’t…but I’ve just experienced it! SO LUCKY! Okay, back to our trip – so we arrived in Munich and I asked for the stroller. They wouldn’t give it to me! Damn the security reasons….So I had 4 hours (arrived with delay) to spend with a 9,5 kg baby in my arms and a huge backpack stuffed with laptop plus accessories and all the kids’ stuff…say another 9 kg. Baaaah! Additionally I found out that none of my phone cards was working for calls abroad (should have!) and I couldn’t call my DH…had to call from a phone booth in the end (after ??? years, lol!) Eneko quietly fell asleep in my arms after half an hour of walking around, finding a place to sit. And, eventually, eat. We found it and I put him down on a cushioned corner bench and me and Amaia had lunch in peace. She got French fries and ice cream after, yum! I’m usually quite strict with her diet (you know, don’t let her eat junk food, munchies etc.) but man, for how well she behaved I’d just let her eat French fries and ice cream for a month! We did some reward shopping after too:-) We made it to our second plane of the day (by bus:-)) and Amaia fell asleep before we got up. Sitting straight, with her head to the side, poor thingy. There was enough room so I moved across the isle with Eneko and made a comfy bed for her from two seats. The crew was nice enough to let her laying down (with the seatbelt fastened) even for the landing (usually they bug you to put the kids seated). We made it fine to the terminal (by bus, off course….) And the suitcases were out quick too. We had to wait quite some time after for the stroller and car seat though. Like if it didn’t arrive on the same plane…My mom and her hubby were waiting outside and took us home (a few wrong turns but that was ok:-)) The last bit was get the suitcases to our 4^th floor (no elevator, sorry…) Our apartment is in one of those beautiful old buildings in the center, with high ceilings….that means…103 stairs up. My mom’s hubby has just passed very nasty herpes and can’t hold a cup of coffee so it was me who had to bring the luggage up. Nice work out, that I can tell you! But now we are HOME…safely, happily, home sweet home! Oh, did I tell you about the hole our neighbor did in our living room while fixing his water pipes…..?......

Travel Fever:-)

2007-07-02T13:17:00.000-07:00

Happy Monday to you, how are you? I'm just checking in quickly before I leave. I've got my suitcases packed and everything else ready to go to...Prague! Except for me. I'm depressed and don't feel like going anywhere...why? Well, the reason is my hubby. We're addicted to each other, lol! Since we are together we've never been apart more than one week and that was once. Other times it's never been more than 3 days! Call us weird, we just hate the time we have to spend apart! The only reason why I'm going there for so long is Amaia who's loosing the language a bit and I'd love her to spend some time with my mom too. She sees her so little! Adn then we also have a wedding there, my cousin (well, second cousin) who lives in Boston is getting married and her family hasn't managed to get the U.S. visa so she's getting married in the Czech Republic. They're going to have a romantic wedding in a castle...wooohooo! I'll take pictures, don't worry:-) Her hubby-to-be is half Argentinian, speaks fluent Spanish and I'm doubting now if to take Amaia to the wedding since she's learned to say 'americano tonto' (= stupid american) at school and she just can't stop repeating it....I guess it wouldn't be the best entree for the wedding...lol! Well, she's also learned a bunch of other nasty things, lots of swear words that just drive me nuts. She has no clue what they mean, just likes how they sound! Hey, you experienced moms, how do you deal with it? Tell them that it's bad once and then ignore? Any advice welcome...:-)

Anyway, I have the freebie almost ready for you for Friday, let's see if the high-tech is friendly to me this time! Hope I'll be able to upload it and post. If not, please be patient:-)

Have a great week and see you on Friday (hopefully)!

Friday again?

2007-06-29T05:50:00.001-07:00

Hello my bloggers! Can't believe it's Friday again, his week has flown by! I was going to post on Wednesday but I completely collapsed. My poor body decided not to cooperate anymore. I've rested a couple of days and I'm better again. It had to come, last few months I've been sleeping maximum 4 hours a day...anyway, I'm much better now, slept most of the past two days! I wanted to share with you that my layout Star (scroll down) was chosen as a featured LO of the week at Scrapartist (last week). I've got a few new ones, one is my DD being potty trained, well, not really trained because she never went. She skipped potty completely and started going straight to the normal loo. I love this photo of her and the Shakespeare was just perfect for it:

Credits here.

And this is my first LO for Rachel Young with her Shine papers and ShangriLa elements:

Credits here.

And another one that I've done for our team challenge at Weeds&Wildflowers. It was about scrapping a page about our favorite place. Bet you love mine:-):

Credits here.

And in the meantime I managed to finish a new kit American Dreamer, especially for the celebration of 4th of July! I'm gonna be leaving to Prague on the 3rd and I won't have connection at home. Last time I tried quite a few internet cafes with wi-fi but it wasn't working properly, I couldn't connect to a lot of pages. Still don't know the reason why. So I just wanted to have everything ready before. I've already uploaded it in the store! Here's the preview:

Not all the elements are shown here. The detailed description of what you get is in the store:-) Next weekend there's going to be another GRAB BAG SALE at Divine Digitals and I'm gonna have mine ready for you for sure! I'll finish it before I leave so I don't get all stressed, lol! It'll be enough of stressing on the way to Prague because I'm flying alone with the two little ones and it's not a direct flight:-( At least we're going via Munich which is quite a small airport so there's no danger we'd have to run from terminal to terminal. And we'll have 3 hours waiting there, uffff. Think of me, hopefully I'll survive in a decent state of sanity!

On to your today's freebie, ready? GO! Here's the preview, have been stamping:-) I love Michelle Coleman's stamped alpha and I found myself using it again and again because it's so versatile. So just to have a little different alpha at least sometimes I've done this (not Michelle, I know, hers is just genius!)...

It contains capitals and a few symbols and you can grab it here. SORRY THE LINK HAS EXPIRED. Tips for recoloring: color overlay doesn't work all that nice on this one. Try different blend modes, i.e. hard light, linear light...got really nice results with them! Have fun and please leave me a comment if you DL, you know how much I love them! Have a great Friday!

2007-06-22T12:06:00.000-07:00

Happy Friday! Yep, it's here again, time flies! Especially now for me when my DD is out of school. We spend most of the time outdoors, there goes my scrapping, let alone the designing, lol! It's rare for me lately to make a non CT layout but I've done one the other day, killed two challenges at once. I love Christina Renee's stuff and although I don't get many chances to scrap with it I keep buying:-) Anyway, this LO is almost exclusively of Christina's goodies:

Credits here.

I've always loved this photo of my DD when she stood up for the first time. I've started a layout with it a long tome ago but then never finished because I couldn't find the right BG paper:-) So I've started from scratch this time!

And one that I finished today, tried something different again. I just love Gina Marie's new Super Stars! They are so versatile and fun to work with!

Credits here.

Okay! Since I posted a lot yesterday I'm gonna go straight to the point! (I bet you're happy you don't have to go through a never ending post and scroll down like crazy, lol!). So I've been thinking that I haven't made any papers for a long time and summer is here....and here's your preview:

It's a six pack of summery pastel colors (not quite my cup of tea, hehe), 4 worn and sanded solids and two patterned. So if you think you can use them here's the link.

Enjoy and if you remember to send me a link to your LO I'd be very happy. I love reading your comments and I'd love to comment on your work too!

Thanks and have a great Friday!

School's over!

2007-06-21T15:20:00.001-07:00

Yay! The term is over and my DD is hanging out with me again! Bad for you though, lol, because I have much less time to blog, haha. Not that I've been a good blogger, but...First of all I want to thank you all for your AWESOME comments, they really make my days, I read them and I just find myself smiling....! It's so great to see that I can make you peeps happy!!! THANK YOU!

So, what's new over here? I have another blinkie in the right column! I've been offered a CT spot by a talented new designer who happens to be my mate at the W&W team - Rachel Young! If you don't know her designs, you can check them here. She's currently selling from her blog but soon joining one of my favorite stores, yay! (not telling ya cause it's a BIG secret!:-)) You'll know soon:-)

And guess what? Have you seen that yet? I won the Hodge Podge challenge last week!!! Sooooo thrilled! And the same layout I won with made it to the LOTD at DigiScrapDivas that day. Shining twice, how great is that?!? Here it is:

Credits here.

And this week my son also turned 8 months and this is his monthly journal:

Credits here.

And last but not least (I've been a busy bee!) I've made a layout for Father's Day. This has been a tough one for me but I'm feeling really good to put all those emotions on the 'paper':

Credits and journaling here.

Back to reality....yesterday my daughter finished her first preschool year, YESSSS!! I'm SOOO proud of her! She's learned so much and I don't stop being amazed how fast she grows every day...she can write in capitals, count to 30 (both in Basque and Czech), she tells stories, doesn' stop singing new songs...and, man, she's learned so many swear words...!!! She's improved a lot physically too...you know she's always been very careful playing and usually skipping the dangerous stuff. And now I find her climbing the most impossible angles, hanging head down...every time I see it my heart stops, I'm sure you know what I mean...but I know I HAVE to let her do it...it's hard but it feels so freaking great to see her proud of herself when she succeeds!!! Oh, man, gotta tell you - I had to laugh so much yesterday - we went to pick her up at school, almost all parents were there and we stayed for a while to chat and let the children play. And Amaia was showing me what she had learned - she could shimmy!!! And all of a sudden I got so touched and told her how much I was proud of her...she looked at me with her innocent (innocent???) eyes and said: 'And what are you gonna buy me?' OMG, I just couldn't stop laughing...we had been telling her before that we were proud of her and that at the end of the term we're gonna go shopping and get her something nice...how wouldn't she remember it, right? Wanna know what she wanted? Rollerblades! So she got them, all right (plus all possible protection, lol!)

That's it from me today and I'll be back tomorrow for your freebie!

Have a great day and THANK YOU so much for your friendship!

FF and a bit of chatter

2007-06-15T11:47:00.000-07:00

Happy Friday to yall! Hope you've had a great week! I've been catching up on work these past days because I was going to bed early, needed some sleep!

Oh, you know what happened to me the other day? I was RAK'd by Corina Nielsen! I went to DST (first thing in the morning, lol!) and saw a new private message and there it was, a wonderful gift. From my favorite designer! Man, she really really made my day with that! She's such a sweetheart, some time ago I left a comment on her blog and she responded to me by email. Now, how many people do that, huh? And also, I did some shopping over at FPD, they had this gorgeous collab kit free with purchase and screwed up at check out. And she was so nice to send me the links for the kit through email asap despite her family situation (she was attending a family funeral). How sweet is that!?

Talking of favorite designers - have you noticed that Christina Renee has a new store up? Her VERY OWN store? No? Then go HERE to check it out, it looks great! I wanted to have a peek in the gallery but it's not working yet:-( I'm such a sucker for her stuff....Unfortunately I haven't had a chance to use much yet because I'm busy with my two CT's but I keep buying...who knows...:-) (yes, I'd LOVE to be on her CT!!!)

I've got some new LO's, I'm in a row now, making one a day. You may laugh and say, yeah, I'm making at least one a day too, but for me it's quite an achievement because I'm a VERY slow scrapper. Sometimes I already have an idea what, how, where and then it goes faster but usually it takes me about 4+ hours to make a layout. And even if IDO have it organized in my head already, I usually get stuck on some detail. Like fonts. I have the LO done but I'm looking for the right font for 2 freaking hours, can you believe that?! Anyway, yesterday I broke my record and made TWO layouts! Actually, I broke two records because the second one took me about 2.5 hours which has been the shortest time so far. And that was under certain pressure because I remembered at 8 pm that it was my mother-in-law birthday today, lol! Well, she is very traditional and she likes plain photos but I though it'd be nice to make it anyway:

Credits here.

And this is the other one, I really like how it turned out:

Credits and journaling here.

The last thing, as always, is a freebie. I promised you something that is really IN now so here you are:

It's a bunch of splotches in different colors and shapes. There are 12 and each of them is in glitter and no-glitter version so 24 in total. You can download them here. SORRY, THE LINK IS EXPIRED. If you like them. Enjoy!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great Friday!

Do babies have sense of humor?

2007-06-13T13:18:00.000-07:00

I don't know, I guess they do! I've just found some first signs of sense of humor in my almost 8 months old son today. At least I think so - I was feeding him lunch and he spattered a spoonful of lentils (he loves lentils!) looking at me like 'what are you going to do, mum, huh?' I put an 'angry' face - you know that one that you're just trying hard to protect yourself from bursting out laughing, right? So that one I put, trying hard to stay as serious as possible. You know what he did? He was examining my face and - God knows what's going on in that tiny brain - he put that half guilty face like that he should feel guilty but not quite there, and slowly the corners of his mouth started to raise...higher and higher...until he finally began to crack up! And me, of course, with him! Oh man, it was so hilarious, I couldn't stop. And he found it so funny that he repeated it with every single spoonful...same face, watching me and finally cracking up. We were both one big mess and the kitchen too...oh well, a bit of extra cleaning, lol, wouldn't change those moments for anything!

Talking of feeding, I've made a layout with that new gorgeous kit from Gina - Being Me. I had those hilarious photos of my DD at her 10 months falling asleep during dinner. The colors from the kit were just perfect for this occasion:

Credits here.

And this photo I've been wanting to scrap for a long time!

Credits here.

I mentioned in the previous post that I had this idea of scrapping the resemblance of my two kids. But I just couldn't find the right pictures! The thing is that there are moments when Eneko looks EXACTLY like his older sister but...I just can't seem to catch these moments:-( In the end I made it with these photos:

Credits and journaling here.

It's turned out quite ok despite the 'not perfect' photos:-)

Hey, thank you all for your lovely comments on the zodiac charms!!! I thought they might be useful for some layouts:-) Some of you revealed their sign too, I've counted a Scorpio, Gemini, Aquarius....and a Leo, my all time favorite!!! Yeah, you're getting it right, I'm a Leo myself, lol! My DH is a Sagittarius and although I don't quite believe in those things, it seems that stars work very well for us!!!

Off to finish some stuff now and bed time for me. Stay tuned for Friday's treat! This time it's gonna be something that is totally IN now:-) Take care and see you on Friday!

What do I have in my sleeve?

2007-06-08T12:02:00.002-07:00

Happy Friday to you and welcome to my blog! Thank you for all your beautiful comments, I so appreciate them! How has your week been? Mine's been pretty much the usual - having fun scrapping, playing with kids, some shopping...I've done another challenge LO, actually made 2 in 1, how smart is that, huh?:-) It was for this week's Hodge Podge and a team challenge at WW:

Credits here.

My sweet DD at 10 months eating flowers....funny thing happened to me with this one - I sent it over to a friend of mine and she commented on it: 'Oh, he's such a cutie, he must smelled like flowers!' She thought it was my son on the pictures! LOL! The truth is that they DO look pretty much alike. Have to scrap it one day! Anyway, I love how it turned out and it even got picked as the LO of the day at Gotta Pixel!:-)

And I also tried my hand on something completely different. I had this beautiful paper from Patricia's kit Sunflower and I really wanted to show it off because it's gorgeous. Not an easy thing to do...so I tried with altered art and I'm quite pleased with the result:

Credits here.

Oh, have you noticed? Gina has a new kit out and it has made it to the Digi Pick of the Day, no wonder, it's gorgeous! And guess what, this extremely talented young lady has done a coordinating freebie to go with the kit! Well, it's not completely for free, lol, you have to do something in return! Check the blog of W&W for details, it's definitely worth it!

That's about news from here. Oh, one more - what do I have in my sleeve? What, what did you say? can't hear you....! YES! Freebie! It's the day, isn't it? This time it's something I needed and couldn't find (again!). So I made it. And I made the whole set of....silver zoodiac charms!!!In case you're not familiar with the signs, don't worry - each png file is named according to it's meaning! I've also added 3 bows for tying them and since I think you'd probably mostly use them on baby or heritage pages, I made them pink, blue and light cream that can easily be recolored. Hope you like them! You can download them here. SORRY, THE LINK IS NO LONGER VALID.
Okay, now it's complete and I'm off to have dinner! Have a great afternoon/evening/morning...wherever you are!

Live and laugh

2007-06-05T12:59:00.000-07:00

Hey people, how are you? Today I want you to laugh, just laugh! And how do we do it, you're asking? Well, just read on, I have two funny stories here for you that happened to me last week...well, you might not find it so funny but on both occasions I was just cracking so much that I started to cry! Adn that had not happened to me in a long time!

Okay, so first one: The other day I was uploading a layout to the galleries, the blue one with my grandparents (scroll down to see it) and I was doing it really quick, kind of automatically. I finished and then later that day I went to check on the comments (just love reading them...and leaving them too!) and suddenly in one of the galleries I saw that the title I entered for the LO was (instead of Family) - Fun In The Bath!!! Oh man, I couldn't believe it! That title with the heritage layout looked just hilarious and I couldn't help it but laugh...you know how when you're entering the title and you type the first letter a list pops up with the previous titles? So I just clicked and there it was! I changed it immediately but I was laughing long after....

And then this big family lunch we had on Sunday after the first communion of my nephew...one of the appetizers were shrimps. They brought them and the waitress came to the table to ask if we wanted anything else. I just cracked one shrimp open to peel it. Well, they were really juicy...so you can already guess what happened. Yep, right, the juice splashed and right into her eye...she winked and didn't say a word!!! I apologized, of course, but after she left, man, we just couldn't stop laughing...for once in my life I felt like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman (that famous scene from the restaurant) lol! And imagine that the same waitress had the guts to come again and ask how the shrimps were, if they were good. And my brother-in-law replied that they were delicious, really juicy...oh my, everybody was cracking there...including that waitress! Okay, sooo, have you laughed? A little bit at least? If so, my today's goal has been achieved!!!

hey, any of you participated in that 'Sweet Kiss' challenge at Scrappicnic? The kit is gorgeous I can tell you! I 've already got it - finished my LO for them today:

Credits here.

That's it for today! Off to start preparing a freebie for Friday! Have a great day and - remember - SMILE!

More layouts:-) and challenge at Scrappicnic

2007-06-03T11:11:00.000-07:00

Hi there! How's your weekend? Busy shopping?:-) I now there were problems on Friday since the PayPal site was down but I hope you've all managed to get your grab bags! You might have noticed that I removed the preview of the free add on of the Tango kit from the store. Why? Well, there were a few people trying to download that one without actually buying the kit although it clearly says that it's only free with the purchase of the kit:-( So if you buy it, you still get it, don't worry, the download link is there together with the kit. But the preview you can only see here on my blog or in this gallery. Sorry for the inconvenience but I'm sure you understand!

Thank you for all your lovely comments on the minikit! And since it's almost over I can tell you that the blue one was in my Grab Bag:-)

We've had a busy weekend over here, especially today because my oldest nephew had his first communion and here it's really big, it's almost like a wedding! He looked so stinkin' cute in his sailor's outfit! Got quite some photos to scrap:-) We had a huge family lunch after, a six-course that lasted until 6 p.m. and man, I've eaten! Can't move now!

Anyway, today I'm posting mainly because I wanted to show you two beautiful LO's made with my frame cluster. They're made by Dorreen: Oooops, okay, it seems that the Scrapbook Elements don't allow linking an image....so you can find them here and here. I love the 'office' one!

And when I'm at it, I'll show you my latest one that I finished last night. It's my first LO for Pocket Pearls (where I'm a guest CT member in June) and at the same time I made it my entry for this week's DigiDare. We were to scrap some dorky photos of ourselves:

Credits here.

Oh, before I forget - my friends Pett and Annie over at Scrappicnic are running a challenge! Be sure to check it out because for all participants they have a gorgeous KIT for free!!!

I'm thinking it might not be a bad idea to have chellenge here too....hmmmm...have to think it over! IN the meantime have a great Sunday and I'll see you soon!

Grab Bag sale! (and freebie)

2007-06-01T10:55:00.000-07:00

Happy Friday everyone! Hope you've had a wonderful week and are getting ready for the weekend! Lots of things today from me! You know me already....either I post nothing or a post that is equivalent to a novel, lol! Better go straight to the point(s)!

First of all thanks again for all your wonderful comments! And you know what, next time I'll also do some frames/cluster for tall picture because this one doesn't work well for them.

NOW - Divine Digital is having another Grab Bag sale this weekend! Actually, it has started already! And, off course my Grab Bag is there too!:-)

Additionally, the store is running a 20% off all weekend to celebrate Royanna and David's 10 years anniversary! So hurry up over there, can't get a better deal! And you'll also see that I finally have A NEW KIT up! Yeah, it's already in the store. It's called Tango and it's the first one of my new Let's Dance collection. Yep, that's right - a dancing collection! There's gonna be salsa too, don't worry:-) Oh, actually, yesterday I made it to the LOTD at Gotta Pixel with my layout Getting Ready for a Show (the red one in the previous post)! So thrilled!
Okay, back to the kit - the best thing is that I also made an add-on too and that one is for free for everybody who buys that kit. An extra bonus with the purchase! Here are the previews:

See, I've been a busy bee!:-) I've also made another LO, with Patricia's Morning Glory. I found those pictures when we were moving from Prague and I knew I had to scrap them (they are from 1976, it was my first birthday that day).

Credits here.

It's not so visible on these but I looked a lot like my grandpa! And when I look at my kids they are the same! Have to scrap that one day too! So, when I saw this kit of Patricia I thought those pictures would just go well with it. To be honest, those colors are not quite my cup of tea....but I'm pleased with the result.

Oh, and have you seen Patricia's new one? Its made it to the Digi Pick of The Day at Melissa's blog!

I love the colors and I love sunflowers! I'm really looking forward to working with this one.

Are you bored yet? Okay, I get it! Here it is, this time I've done a minikit:

I've also made a pink version which is going to be for free in the Divine Digital's newsletter. The newsletter will be sent to all who sign up and become members there. And I've made a blue one too. And that one is, guess where....? Download here if you like it and please leave some love for me!

That's it for today, I'll pop in again this weekend to show you some LO's using my freebies. No more pictures today!

Thank you for stopping by and have a great Friday!

Oh, those challenges, they keep me busy!

2007-05-30T15:44:00.000-07:00

Hello hello! It's me here again! How're you doing? Thank you SO MUCH for all the fantastic comments and also for your concerns! I'm fine now, fully recovered and went riding last weekend. I took a different horse while mine is up for some tests. Let's see what comes out.

I'm glad you like the cluster and also the LO I made with it. You know, Prague is such a beautiful city and I have a lot of pictures of it but for some reason I haven't got to scrap those until now. Later it occurred to me that I could have put names on the photos...oh well...next time! Ramalka - the photo you're asking about IS a human being, it's a beggar:-) There're quite a few in the
center. Some of them are real and for some it's just a profitable job (no kidding here!). Anyway, Prague is not just those gorgeous churches, there's a lot of truly beautiful buildings! If you ever want to visit feel free to email me for tips:-)

I've been all challenges this week, made one for our CT challenge at Weeds and Wildflowers:

Journaling and credits here.

Another one for Hodge Podge (deadline was Monday, there's a new one now):

Journaling and credits here.

And yet another one for this week's DigiDare (deadline is on Friday):

And this is my newest LO, a sort of a flashback to the past, lol! I really like
how it turned out:

Journaling and credits here.

Last but not least I wanted to show you today what my friend Katka (aka
Dypecek) made for Carla Gibson. I think it's just wonderful:

You can check it also her blog (she has some gorgeous freebies too - just scroll down a bit!).

Wish you all happy Wednesday and Thursday and I'll see you on Friday...to post....guess whaaat?

Hugs to you all!

What do you think I have for you today?

2007-05-25T12:13:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, how are you doing? Long time no post...bad, bad blogger:-) I haven't been in too much of a good shape this week, had a bad fall from a horse last Sunday...glad I had made an appointment with my physiotherapist before, like if I had expected it, lol! Well, I had, kind of...since my horse had been behaving really strange lately. He gets scared with anything and just freaks out, starts running like a maniac! Gotta have him checked. And in the meantime I'll ride another one. And I'm really looking forward to tomorrow because we'll have a group of children with the Down syndrome coming and it's always so great too see how they relate with animals!

And, wow, guess what, almost forgot to tell you - I've met another Czech mom here! Well, might not be a big thing if it wasn't such a small city here.... And chatting with her I found out that she's a cousin of a very good friend of mine from Prague! World is a small place...or as they say here: El mundo es un pañuelo:-)

I've made quite some new layouts this week, you can check them out here. I'm especially proud of the one with my daughter's art:-) It's been sitting in my virtual drawer for 2 months (!!!), I've redone it completely in the end! And that leads me to another news (if you cared to check the gallery you surely noticed:-)) - one of my LO's is going to be PUBLISHED, wooohooo! It's gonna be in the June issue of the Digital Artist Magazine, how about that?!? I' sooo honored!

As always, it takes me some time to get to Friday's posting point:-) which is...a freebie! I promised you a cluster the other day to compensate the one you had to delete. So here it is! Actually, I've made it quite similar to the first one...hope you won't be disappointed! (I've made the frames myself I swear!:-))

The ZIP file includes a single .png with the cluster as well as a .psd file with numbered templates and also a .psd file with layered frames AND numbered templates. Pick the one that suits you the best!:-) Anyway, the instructions are included in the TOU's. You can download it here. SORRY, THE LINK HAS BEEN DISABLED. Have fun with it and please leave some love if you DL. For inspiration - this is the LO I've made with it:

Credits here.

Have a great evening, take care and see you soon!

Sale at Weeds&Wildflowers!

2007-05-19T12:41:00.000-07:00

A little bird just told me that....there's a SALE today and tomorrow over at Weeds&Wildflowers!!! So if you like their designs, run over there, they're all 20% off!!! Happy shopping!:-)

And I wanted to show you two LO's I received today from Amanda (using my sloppy paint alpha):

What a fun layout, you can tell the little one really likes the bike, lol! But I TOTALLY love this one:

Look at all the different hats and how they represent Amanda's different roles! That is such a CLEVER idea! LOVE IT! Thank you, Amanda, I've already sent you a link to a goodie!:-)

Have a great afternoon/evening!

Frrrriday Frrrreeeebie! And a few LO's too:-)

2007-05-18T01:38:00.000-07:00

Hi! Hope you've had a great week! I've been quite busy with LO's these days, this new collection from Gina Marie is so great and there are endless possibilities for mixing&matching!

Thank you so much for your comments on the overlays, I'm happy you liked them! Kim, I think that you must have had some problem with your browser because I could see all the images just fine! Is it all right now? Thanks for letting me know anyway!

Sooo, wanna show you a couple of LO's made with my stuff - first one is from Rebecca who used the sloppy paint alpha to make a page about her sloppy boys:

I love the series of photos and the bright colors! Great job, Rebecca!

Second one is from TNChick (using scalloped frames):

Soooo, sweet! I love the colors you used, it goes perfectly with the mood!

And when we are at it I'm adding one of mine that I finished last night, it was our W&W creative team challenge (I fell asleep 3 times while uploading it to the galleries at 2 a.m.:-)):

Credits and journaling here.

Okay, I know you're getting impatient:-) But you know me, right? Always waiting until the end, teasing you! I've made these beautiful sparkle borders for you, they scream: glitter, glitter, I'm here! LOL Actually making them was a coincidence because I was making an LO and I just needed a little subtle touch and I couldn't find anything so I made it (as always, lol!). And when I was at it, I just made a few more to share!

There are 18 borders made for 12x12 layouts (not all shown in the preview), some of them mono color some have glimpses of other color, one is metallic and one multicolor. You can download this beauty here (don't forget that the link is gonna be active for one week only!) SORRY, THE LINK HAS BEEN DISABLED. Hope you like them! I used one in this LO:

Credits and journaling here.

And that's it for today! Have a great Friday and please leave a bit of love if you download!

Cheers!

Quickie...

2007-05-14T16:24:00.000-07:00

Hi! Another quickie today, it's 1.30 AM here and I'm off to bed! Just wanted to share my first LO I made for Weeds&Wildflowers! I finished it last night (uhhhm, well, better say early morning since it was almost 4 AM, lol!). I've been wanting to scrap those photos for a long time but I found it quite difficult...and I just couldn't find the right stuff. Now I got it, the new collection by Gina is gorgeous!

Full credits here.

Good day to you and thanks for stopping by!

Have you heard the fabulous news??? Weeds&Wildflowers are at Scrapartist!!!

2007-05-13T11:47:00.000-07:00

A very short post today but I had to pop in to say: Happy Mother's Day to you!!! I almost forgot because we celebrated here last Sunday:-)

Have you heard the GREAT news? Weeds&Wildflowers are debuting at Scrapartist!!! Those wonderfully talented ladies have made it this far in a record time! And they have a WHOLE NEW COLLECTION up! It's called Celebrating Color and it's FABULOUS! Go and check it out, they're running a sale! BIG congratulations, Gina, Heidi and Patricia, you rock!

Thanks for visiting and good day to you!

Something for Lynn and my beach experience

2007-05-12T13:00:00.000-07:00

First of all, guys, I wanted to THANK YOU for all your words, your wonderful comments and for your understanding. I truly appreciate it!! (And also for the comments on the overlays, lol!). And you're right - I should have posted a picture so you know which one it is (well, there has only been one...). It was this one:
So, Nancy, don't worry, you don't need to delete anything!:-)

One last thing regarding the issue - there's one BIG person (among others, lol!) over at Divine Digital. Her name is Lynn Judge and she has been a great support to me these past hard days. Yesterday I got an email from her that contained a gem, a wisdom that I couldn't but agree with and it inspired me to SCRAP the whole thing, why not?!? I used her quote on that page (with her permission, of course, lol!) and I dedicated it to her.
For you, Lynn:

For full credits go here.

Quotation: To admit your mistake is the high road and you will feel much better
in the long run. You hold you head high, admit an honest mistake, beg forgiveness
and then move on. THAT is the high road and it takes a big person to follow that
road. (Lynn Judge)

Journaling: There are times in your life when you make mistakes and sometimes it
feels really difficult to admit them. But it's the right thing to do and it makes
you a better person. It feels easier if you make a mistake that doesn't hurt
anybody else than yourself. But that's very rare. Usually there are other people
involved and it gets much worse. I've just lived a situation like this and
decided to scrap it as a reminder; to me and to other people who care. Not only
I have hurt a person but I have also endangered the business of others. And
believe me, it is a HARD lesson to learn. But sometimes it’s good to learn
the hard way - you will never forget it! Everything has it's bright side and
this one too; I have found out that there ARE people out there who care! They
can't go with you all the way though. In the end it's up to you only how you
handle it. It's all about your attitude. I have admitted commiting a mistake.
I have apologized. and I’ve been forgiven. I have learned. It feels just right.
Time to move on.

And now it IS time to move on!:-)

How's your weekend? I've had no horseback riding classes today since there was a competition. We went to a nearby beach town instead and rented a horse for me and a pony for Amaia (my daughter) and went for a ride to a beach. I've always dreamt of riding a horse on a beach, you know, like in one of those movies...:-) Free as a bird, galloping, splashing water and stuff....So today it's been my first time doing that. Until now there was either no horse or no beach or either of them; or there was a horse and also a beach but it was forbidden to ride there:-) Okay, so I FINALLY made my dream come true this morning! The beach was full of crap, broken branches, empty plastic bottles and stuff so you had to be careful where to step; a lot of fishermen throwing in their fishing rods with baits, which was scarring the horse...the horse (BTW, her name was Lucy:-)) was one of those tourist horses that are used to follow the guide (there was no guide so she didn't want to go alone). It took quite some effort to make her WALK! Eventually I made her trot (my biggest achievement today, lol!) and then, when we arrived to the end of the beach, she decided it was time to go home (those horses know their routes well, don't they?) and there was no way I could turn her around! No matter how hard I was pulling the reigns or pressing her with my feet, she would still go straight, towards the stables! Oh well, home we went then, it was too hot anyway, lol!...So far my beach riding experience (dreams and movies are so much better, right?). But we've had a wonderful time!!!

Thanks for visiting and leaving some love! Hope you have a great Sunday and see you soon!

Dare you?

2007-05-11T13:08:00.000-07:00

Hello everybody and happy Friday! More cheered today, huh, what a hit! Oh well, up to my feet I go again, a little wiser. Thank you for reading the previous post and your comments on that one. Somebody asked if I was able to track back the person who posted it – nope (and I don’t think I ever will…). I downloaded it in my early scrapbooking days which was a few months ago and if I tried to search for it yesterday, based on the file name it wasn’t there anymore. The problem is that there are obviously so many pirate files out there that it is impossible to trace them:-( Also, I wanted to assure you that this was the ONLY case when I used external source. Any other freebie you’ve downloaded is done exclusively with my stuff. Yes, Debra, the scalloped frames too, even the text showing through is handwritten by me:-)

Okay, on to more cheerful things, weekend ahead of us! And do you know what’s going on this weekend at Divine Digital? It’s a Digital Restoration weekend to celebrate Mother’s Day!!! There are challenges, crops, classes, prizes and also a new megakit with a lot of designers contributing will be released! Come and play with us, it’ll be fun!!!

Today I also wanted to share a layout made by Lisa (she used Memories kit):

Thank you Lisa, it's beautiful!!! I have a similar photo with my little one too:-)

BTW, people, I know that Lisa's just started designing too so be sure to check her blog for goodies!

These days I’ve been more scrapping than designing, shame on me, lol! I finished a tribute to my dear friend, a thing I wanted to do long time ago. He is like my second father:

Full credits here.

And I also found this fun challenge called Hodge Podge by Traci Murphy and Gina Miller here. So my next LO this week was for them:

Full credits here.

What a great challenge, I absolutely LOVE the LO by Traci!

And I'm working on another two! This time for my sweet ladies over at Weeds&Wildflowers!

Uhhhmmm, what else...? Oh yes, freebie! Almost forgot! (kidding!) This time I haven’t been too creative, lol! I have zipped up a few overlays for you. I save those when I make papers. When I like the result I just save them as .png’s so I can use them in the future. Here is the preview:

There are 6 overlays, therefore the download is split in two parts (all together it’s 66 MB). You can pick them up here (if you dare, lol!):

part 1

part2

Sorry, the links have been disabled!

Have a great evening and looking forward to see you playing along at Divine Digital! (by clicking on this link you get directly to the event forum).

And thank you again!

IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ!

2007-05-10T13:59:00.000-07:00

Hi people! Today I’m posting an announcement of TOP IMPORTANCE so please read it all!

Remember my first freebie, that frame cluster? To make this cluster I used a frame that I had downloaded from internet (the only time I’ve ever used an unknown external source). Now the WARNING for all of you – I’m sharing this experience with you so it doesn’t ever happen to you too! – It contained a bunch of other frames and embellies and there was no restriction on using them whatsoever, it just said ‘free use’ so I used it to create the cluster (well, first I created a layout and since I liked how it turned out I made the cluster out of it). Since I also have some files out there for free use, even without TOU’s it did not even cross my mind that I’d be doing something bad. Hmmm…wrong…I was! It must have been a pirate file because…yesterday I got an email from Katie Pertiet, the owner of DesignerDigitals that she thinks it was her vintage frame freebie in that cluster. The funny thing (well, the whole thing is not too funny but…) was that I had that freebie frame from her too! But since I acquired it much later and had it in different folders (have one for personal use only and another one for free use) I didn’t even notice that they were the same! So far for the background of this issue…SO:

I sincerely admit here that I’ve made a mistake using that ‘anonymous’ frame which happened to be the frame of Katie. I’ve learned and I appall to all of you do NOT do the same mistake, do NOT ever use anything that comes from an unknown source no matter how free it is!!!

(A note for you: whatever you grab from me that doesn´t have TOU’s feel free to use it, even commercially. I promise I won’t pursue you for that, lol!)

I also wanted to apologize here to Katie that I used her frame which she has copyright for. I’m truly sorry, Katie!!! And I must ask a BIG FAVOR from you to justify her rights – for those who have already used the cluster please go back and credit Katie properly. For those who have not used it yet please DON’T use it and DELETE it! I promise I’ll make it up for you and make another free cluster soon, this time with MY frames. Thank you so much for your help and understanding!

One more thing - if, by any chance, the person who shared the pirate file is reading this (how naïve of me, right?) – please join my apology to Katie and STOP the piracy!!!

That's all I wanted to say. O to brighter things tomorrow - don’t forget to check for a freebie! (I assure you it’s ‘clean’, lol! And all the rest too, don’t worry!)

Have a great day and see you tomorrow!

Tuesday or Wednesday?

2007-05-08T15:49:00.000-07:00

Hi - and I don't know if to say 'happy Tuesday' or 'happy Wednesday':-) It's certainly Wednesday here, it's 2 a.m. but for most of you it's probably still Tuesday. Anyway - welcome!

Today it's gonna be a short one - I wanted to share a gorgeous layout made by Patty Anne who is one of the CT members at Divine Digital (using my scalloped frames freebie):

Doesn't it just make you feel like going there?!? It does make me for sure, lol! Never been to the west coast... but this girl rocks, she's got some amazing layouts, I'm telling you, she's a lot into traveling! This is another favorite of mine from her:

I love the lines crossing the photos making them stand out! And I could go on and on...hey, you know what? I got another invitation on Monday and it is to be a guest CT for Pocket Pearls in June!!! Woohooo, love Mel!:-) Yeah, it was a day full of good news...keep them coming:-)

Enough for today and I think I'm going to bed straight, it's been a loooong day! G'd night and see you!...and thanks for stopping by:-)

Happy Monday!

2007-05-07T04:15:00.000-07:00

Happy Monday to everyone! Happy indeed 'cause I have a news for you - I've found out this morning and wanted to share my joy with you - I've been chosen to be on the CT for the incredibly talented Weeds&Wildflowers!!! Isn´t that just great?? WOW! I'm SOOO excited about it, I love their designs! And now I'm gonna get all their stuff for free, LOL!

Okay so busy shopping weekend is over and I just wanted to show you what was in my SPECIAL Grab Bag - a pack of beautiful papers:

A set of very versatile alpha:
And my very unique and special treat I've been talking so much about:

I love how it came out! So for those who have bought the grab bag - I hope you're happy with what you've found inside and for those who haven't - all 3 products are now available for sale in my store (separately).
I've also added a pack of templates:

And a set of highlighters to lift your journaling:
I've already used those in one of my layouts:

Full credits here.

And one final thing that I wanted to share was my entry for this week's DigiDare which was about weather. It's actually made of 3 photos using blending and gradient masking. I just love how it turned out, don´t you?

Find full credits here.

Thanks for popping in today and have a good day!

One gorgeous LO made by a friend

2007-05-05T11:53:00.000-07:00

Hello everybody! How's your weekend? Shopping at Divine Digital?:-) Kidding...thanks to all of you who have bought my special bag, I hope you like the content and especially the spicy special! And thank you for your lovely comments on the freebie!!! Hey and why don't YOU tell me what would you want next?

Thank you also for the replies on my grammar question. Although I think I haven't put it all that clear - I know the rules about vowels and consonants etc., the problem I had was if I use an abbreviation where the first letter is consonant (as in LO) BUT some read it 'el oh' in which case a vowel goes first and there should be 'an' in front and some read it 'layout' in which case should the article should be 'a' - only 'anonymous' actually understood what I meant - thank you, anonymous:-) And sorry for the misunderstanding....

Anyway, today I wanted to share a very special layout made by my friend Pett. She made it for us, for our little scrapping gang (although she didn´t include herself:-().

Isn´t it gorgeous??? I love everything about it The top picture is obviously me, LOL! Annie is a fellow designer, they have just put up a new blog together with Pett and they're offering fabulous freebies, check them out here! (the link is also in my left column The Blogs I Visit - Scrappicnic by Pett and Annie).
And the bottom picture is a very talented scrapper, she participates now in the huge Scrapping Queen contest over at Scrapbookgraphic. She's made this wonderful LO for the First Week of the contest:

You can check her gallery here.

Oh and I almost forgot - remember the LO I made with the belly shot? I found out only yesterday by accident that it was picked as a layout of the day over at DigiScrapDivas! That's my third one, wooohooo!

That's it for today, hope you have a wonderful weekend and see you soon!

Grammar Question, GRAB BAG Sale, Important Decision and a Freebie

2007-05-04T04:51:00.000-07:00

Good day to all of you, it’s Friday! Today we have a busy day so I better get straight to the point (well, there’s a few points, actually, LOL!)

First of all I’d like to show you another LO from Brooke using my newspaper swirls:

Thank you so much Brooke, it’s lovely! What a wonderful keepsake! I'm gonna go through this phase with our little man very soon, LOL!

On to my grammar question - you know, I was wondering the other day if the post title was correct..? Since I used an abbreviation where you actually spell the first letter I wasn´t sure if to use ‘an LO day’ (as for an el o day) or ‘a LO day’ (as for a layout day)….I’m not a native speaker… anybody who can help me out with this one??? Thanks a lot in advance!

Next issue….wow, we’re rolling today!!! To celebrate the National Scrapbooking Day we’re having a GRAB BAG sale over at Divine Digital! It starts TODAY and runs through Sunday. Come and check it out! I’ve made my bag for you with lots of LOVE of course, and, well, I’m not supposed to reveal what’s inside but just a little hint, LOL!… the Grab Bag contains 3 new products which are all together for $2 this weekend. After that they’ll be separated and put for a normal sale. And as I mentioned before there’s a very special and unique set included:-), I had so much fun creating it!

You may have noticed that I’ve removed the link to my old blog. The reason is that after a couple of months I’ve removed the links for the last freebies that were there so it’s of no use anymore. Doing that I’ve actually made an important decision about the freebies. I’ve figured out that most of the downloads happen within one week from releasing the freebie so I’ve decided that as of today each of the freebies is going to be available for ONE WEEK and then I’ll move it on to the store. WHY, you’re asking? Well, first - it seems a little idle to me to have good stuff just lying around after I’ve disabled the links, don’t you agree? (of course not, LOL!) ; and second is – and that’s being absolutely honest with you – that I put more hours making the freebies for you than making the stuff for the store (no kidding here!!!). I love it but it's just if I put so much love and effort in it I don't like it laying around:-) Anyway, one week is a long time and I’m not worried about you not having the freebie downloaded before it’s removed, LOL! So, after I’ve disabled the link you can always find it in the store (link is in the right column). For now I'm going to add the Memories kit, it's uploading right now!

And for all who’s made it this far I have a prize….freebie! I just can’t stop playing around with painting so I’ve made these painted butterflies for you. I’ve added a bit of glitter which is always good:-)

Here is a detail:

The set contains 31 pre-made painted butterflies with two different glitter outlines PLUS, what is the best of all, 3 separate .png files – one with the painting and 2 with glitter - to make YOUR OWN customized butterfly to suit your LO’s! This time, the best method for colorizing it to suit your LO’s is via Image>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation (in PS CS2). Anyway, the instructions are included in the TOU so be sure to read it!:-) And you can snag it here. SORRY, THE LINK HAS BEEN REMOVED. YOU CAN NOW FIND IT IN MY STORE.

Whatever question or problem you may have please email me (addy is in the left column under My Profile). And, as always, I’d really appreciate to get some love from you if you download:-)

Thank you for visiting and come back soon! Have a great day!

Today is a LO day:-)

2007-05-02T13:05:00.000-07:00

Hi to all, how are you today? I've taken a break from blogging and have been finishing up stuff for my VERY special grab bag and also managed to make a layout for this week's DigiDare.

First things first - today I'm going to be shining more LO's here! I've got one from Bao using my scalloped frames:

Beautiful arrangement of photos, I like the empty space and what a cute little boy!

Another two are from Kate, using the newspaper swirls here:

She's made it for Outside-Of-The-Box challenge over at Divine Digital and all I can say is - WOW!!!! What a wonderful take on the challenge!!! This is absolutely GORGEOUS!
And second one from Kate using the scalloped frames:

I love the soft pretty colors in this LO, they go so well with the little girls' dresses! Great composition too!
Thank you so much, ladies and don´t forget to check your emails:-)

Oh well, and I've just been over at DigiDare to put the link for my entry and I've been checking on the other people's LO's. Coincidentally bumped into this fantastic one by Jennie75 (well, like she'd have any that wouldn´t be, LOL!) using my last freebie, the Sloppy Paint Alpha:

Way too cute!!!

Okay so here is my contribution for this week's DigiDare which was all about funky, bright colors etc. And as I mentioned the other day I had those photos of my two kiddos in the bathtub, together for the first time. So it was just perfect for this dare. As you can see, I used the curtain template (shaped the top part):

For full credits go here.

I must say I had so much fun with this LO, haven't used bright colors in ages!

So, that's it for today, stay tuned for the information about the Grab Bag sale!

Thanks for visiting and see you tomorrow!

Thank you, more LO's and a little explanation re my tutorial

2007-04-29T12:23:00.000-07:00

Thank you, thank you, thank you! It's so great reading your nice comments, I'm glad you liked it! Some of you asking where I find the time to do this...well, I work mainly at nights and I hardly go to sleep before 3 am. I live on coke and chocolate, LOL! Then once in a while I catch up on some sleep and continue:-)

I'd like to post a couple of LO's today too. Magdalena, thank you for sending the link again, I found where the problem was - the comment section was not showing the full link so it was not your fault! I'm sorry...Anyway, after some digging in the gallery I found your LO and here it is:

I love the green border with the flowers and buttons, great LO! Please let me know your email addy so I can send you a little thank you!

And another one came to me from Karen Pereira:

What a cute baby! I love the soft colors used in this LO!

A couple of you have asked me about the tutorial I posted the other day, to be specific - why to use so many copies when using patterned paper. Okay, I'll show you the difference here. If you place the paper under the curtain and set the blend mode of the curtain layer to multiply, you'll get this:

It looks good, it shows the shading and the highlights....however, there's something wrong here, don't you think? Look at your curtain at home, do it! What do you see? Do you see how where the fold begins you can´t see the rest of the pattern because it's hidden behind the fold? And then on the next fold you can see the pattern again but NOT the continuation of the previous fold? If you copy, move and cut you'll get a realistic effect of discontinued pattern:

Do you see the difference already (Ruby:-))? Anyway, I have to credit my DH for this one because I did it first as it's shown on the first picture and couldn´t figure out what was it that I didn´t like about it. I showed it to Iñaki and he told me: 'Oh, that's cool, but it doesn´t look real because the pattern is not discontinued where the folds are.' My clever hubby!:-)

Gonna go back to working now because my grab bag is not finished yet!

Thanks for all your support and love! See you soon!

New products in the store!!!! And how about a freebie? Yesss!

2007-04-28T12:50:00.000-07:00

Happy Saturday to you! Enjoying the weekend? We've had quite a busy sporty day, I went horseback riding in the morning and my DH had a soccer match in the afternoon, he hasn't played in...15 years? And guess what, yes, he's already in bed and let's see if he gets up tomorrow, LOL! I think I'll have not two but three children to take care of tomorrow:-) I've got some work done two, just uploaded two new products to the store:Today I aslo wanted to share LO's made of my freebies. The first one is made by yette (sweetmisery):

Magdalena (m2m) also sent me a link to her LO but I think it's wrong because it takes me to this (made by plucky):
So, Magdalena, if you read this, please send me the correct link so I can post it:-) Thank you!

On to the freebie, that's why you're here, right?:-) I so much liked the Sloppy Paint Alpha by Ashley Olson that I decided to try to make my own. It's been so much fun! Here's the result:

If you like it, you can download it here. SORRY, THE LINK HAS BEEN REMOVED. YOU CAN NOW FIND IT IN MY STORE. Don't forget to leave some love if you do:-) It contains lowercase alpha and common symbols. All letters are black but easily recolored (the best result you get if you apply a layer style 'Color Overlay'). And one more thing - if you haven´t noticed the tutorial I posted yesterday, be sure to check the post below!

Thanks for visiting and have a great Sunday!

Friday freeeeebie....? Nonono, mini tutorial!

2007-04-27T12:56:00.000-07:00

Hi! How are you doing? We're going to have a long weekend over here, there's bank holiday on Tuesday and my DH takes Monday off, hurrrayyyy!

Hope you're not disappointed that there's no freebie today! I've decided to post it tomorrow since I have another thing I want to share. I've discovered this by accident, just playing around (which is how things usually come in digi LOL!) and I think it's really cool! I've been working on a layout for the gals over at DigiDareYa (if you haven´t checked them out yet, do it as they have some amazing dares! Link is in the left column – The Blogs I Visit). This week is all about funky and I had those cute pics of my two kiddos in the bathtub from couple of days ago, it was the first time they bathed together. So I thought it’d be just perfect for this LO. And I had this idea to include a kind of a shower curtain. Easy to say but….HOW? First I tried luck with drapery folds by Fhung Lie which I had in my files but I didn´t like the effect and decided to make my own. First attempt was purely digi but it didn´t work... So, (okay, I’ll cut the crap:-)) I took a pic of our curtain and started to play around. And here comes my little tutorial about a realistic fold using a photo in PS CS2 (my first tut ever!). The important thing is that the curtain is WHITE (or almost white). If you don’t have any or don’t feel like extracting, feel free to use mine here. It’s a .png file and the extraction is already done in that one. Also, the effect will only work well on light to medium colored papers.
First of all, you need to extract your curtain (if you’re not using the sample above). Here’s how mine looks after the extraction:

I also added a slight drop shadow for the effect but we’re going to do it in the very end. Now open the paper you want to use and place it UNDER the curtain layer. Set the blend mode of the curtain layer to ‘multiply’. Now you should see the paper showing through the curtain with all the shades and highlights. Cool isn’t it? If the shades and highlights are not too visible, increase the contrast of the curtain layer. I increased mine to 45%. Now it looks ok but we’re not done yet. Solids should work fine with just one layer of paper. But if it’s a patterned paper you’ll need to make as many copies as there are folds. Why? Because the pattern ‘ends’ where the fold/shade is and the rest is folded hence you can´t see it, the pattern doesn´t continue, right? So copy the layer with your paper and move the copy on to the next fold. It looks better if you shuffle the paper up or down a little to create an effect of discontinued pattern. And you may also need to rotate the paper a little to adjust it to the folded line. Be careful not to cover the shading. Copy again and move to the next one. Continue until you have all the folds covered. I ended up with 7 copies. Now we need to do some cutting. If you're using a solid paper you can skip the previous steps and go from here. Ctrl+click on the icon of the curtain layer. You should see the ants marching around your selection. Invert the selection by either pressing ctrl+shift+I or from the menu bar Select>Inverse. Select the first layer with the paper and press Delete. Do the same for all the copies (for solids only once of course:-)). When you’re done you should have only the part of the curtain covered by the paper and it should look similar to mine below - I’m using a paper from Funky Funky by Sausan Designs:

Isn´t it cool, huh?:-) If you don’t understand anything please feel free to contact me – either leave a comment here or, which is easier for me, send me an email (left column under My profile).

Thanks for poppin' in and see you tomorrow at FREEBIE TIME!

Finally the invitation!

2007-04-26T01:39:00.000-07:00

Man I'm bloggin' like crazy these days! When I started I didn´t quite know what to write but now I'm truly enjoying it! So sorry I didn´t make it yesterday...the little one refused to nap and then at night I got completely carried away by working on some absolutely unique elements! Which finally leads me to the invitation I've advertised:-) Actually, I have two invitations for you! The first one is another GRAB BAG SALE at Divine Digital taking place on the weekend 4-6th of May. It'll be our celebration of the National Scrapbooking Day and each bag will be sold for $2 only. Like the previous time, the bag contains 3 different products. I don´t have everything ready yet, I'm working hard on that special set of elements I've mentioned above, I had not seen anything similar before! It'll be a nice surprise for you!

The second event is going to be the week after, for Mother's Day, May 11th through 13th:
There will be crops, challenges, tips and classes....AND release of our TEAM DIVINE MEGA Collaboration Kit!!! There's some really yummy stuff from the designers in our team! Curious yet? Be sure to stop by and check it out! Here's a little sneak peek (my contribution to the megakit):

Okay now, I know, I suck at making previews! Maybe it's because I hate making them, LOL! Anybody out there willing to help in exchange for free access to my stuff? Rachel? (BTW, Rachel, I've finally sent you an email:-)) Gosh, I think I'm soon going to need a CT! One position will definitely be a preview maker, LOL!

That's it for today. I have a freebie ready for you but I'll post it either tomorrow or on Saturday so you have something to look forward to!:-)

Thanks for visiting and stay tuned not to miss the freebie!

More LO's, DigiDare # 32, sneak peek and an invitation

2007-04-25T01:18:00.000-07:00

Hi there, how are you today? I'm posting 2 days in a row, wohooo! This hasn´t happened since I started blogging:-) Lots of things to share these days, I'm gonna flood you with pictures! First - more LO's from my fans (LOL!). This one is from LuAnn:

I love how she arranged the stars! And isn´t her little princess just gorgeous?:-)

Another link came to me from Brooke (in Oregon:-)) who has used my frames on her blog to frame the family pictures:

Beautiful children, Brooke!!! I'm glad you had a good time in Prague despite the weather. I love that city, you know I grew up there...and I love going back from time to time.

Thank you, ladies and don´t forget to check your email for the treat!

This week I've finally made time to play along with the DigiDares again. This time we were to scrap a wish/wishes we have for our loved ones. I came up with this last night, I like how it turned out (considering that I didn´t have a slightest idea when I started, LOL!):

Credits can be seen here.

Okay, we're in a row here! I hope you're not bored...no? Not yet? Here we go then...oooops, my little man just woke up, off I go! I'll continue later on (if he lets me, he's getting jealous of my laptop, LOL!). See ya later!

Lots of LO's today :-)

2007-04-24T00:48:00.000-07:00

Good morning and happy Tuesday! First of all I want to thank you for all the wonderful comments left here and at 4 shared, it's truly appreciated! Today I also wanted to post some LO's I've received from you (the little incentive works, huh?:-)). It may seem a little vain:-) but it feels really satisfying to see my work in 'action'! So - the first one is from Anne, using actually two of my freebies (Anne, I left a comment on your blog because I can't seem to find a contact to send you your well deserved prize. So pls send me an email so I can fix you!):

Another one is from Dara:

And yet another one from Holly aka hluebner:

And this is using one of my older freebies also made by Holly (the frame cluster):

I absolutely love the picture of her DH in the kitchen, lol!!! Be sure to check her BLOG as she's offering tons of beautiful freebies too!!!

Thank you so much ladies, great work! Don't forger to check your email!

I've managed to finish the LO of my little man (finally!) for his monthly 'report':

For credits go here.

I really like the bottom right picture and I'll probably scrap it standalone too. I treated the photo with a cool technique learned from Jessica Sprague.

Last thing today - I've received an email from Jenny that she can´t download the scalloped frames. I've checked and 4 shared seems to be working just fine. Anybody else with a similar problem? If so, let me know, please.

Okay I think that's enough for today. But I'll be back tomorrow with a little sneak peek and an invitation for you so be sure to stay tuned!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Thank you, news and freebie (of course.-))

2007-04-21T11:11:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, how are you doin'? Thank you SO MUCH for your awesome comments! I'm really happy that you liked the frames and, what is more important, that you can find use for them! Actually, one of you (only one!:-( ooooh, what am I gonna do about it?) has sent me a link to the LO she made with the frames. Thank you, tnchick!

I know what!I'm gonna give you a little incentive, how about that? Whoever sends me a link to the LO he/she has made using my freebies gets a little thank you from me - like another little freebie, lol! Starting TODAY, that's it - tnchick, can you please send me an email so I can send you a link to one of my goodies? Thank you! Oh, and before I forget, Rachel, thank you so much for your super-long comment:o) Reply is on the way!

So what's new? Well, nothing, really, this past week I've been recovering from my trip to Prague (vacation, huh?) Not really, alone with two kids:-) I've been sleeping like a maniak this past week! And I've been working on new stuff for the store and also for you (yes, freebie! - at the end of the post as usual, lol!). And I've been enjoying the beautiful weather we have over here. It's amazing, like in summer! Actually, one news - my little man turned 6 months yesterday, one of the many milestones in his life. I can hardly believe it, it seems like he was born yesterday! I've also been working on his monthly LO but it's not finished yet.

I'll stop teasing you now, okay....so tadaaaa, here it is - this weekend´s freebie:

The pack contains 14 hand-drawn swirls (God bless the tablet, lol) - not all are shown in the preview. And the swirls are cut out from aged newspaper. Hope you like it. You can download it here. SORRY, THE LINK HAS BEEN REMOVED. Please leave a comment if you DL, I always like to know what you think! Sort of market research for me - 'this is great, I'll use it, gimme more of those' or 'yeah, it's neat but....'. Thank you!

Have a great rest of the weekend and see you soon!

Alive and kickin' (and a FREEBIE!)

2007-04-16T10:45:00.000-07:00

I'm back!!! Finally...I've had a great time, thanks for your wishes! The only thing which was driving me crazy was the internet connection. My second day in Prague I went to an internet cafe and what a surprise - I couldn't get neither to my blog nor to any of the galleries, nor to my store...the only pages that were loading without problems were Gmail and Photobucket! Any other was giving me an error. Eventually it connected for a bit about half an hour later and I managed to get to the blog but from there it didn´t let me go anywhere. And it also let me put a couple of products in the store. I kept trying the following days from different locations and it was always the same story. Except that the other locations only let me go to Gmail. And the weirdest thing ever - I could get to the blogger - to the dashboard, I could even write a post and publish it (that's how I got to post the previous message) BUT it didn´t let me view the actual blog!!! Anyway, taking it from the bright side - being without the internet for a week (whooohooo, that's almost unbelievable, lol!) I've done a lot of work! I've just finished uploading two new products to the store - a frame cluster (both in layered .psd format and a one-layer .png, lol!):

And a paper pack:

Okay, okay, I know what ya'll asking - 'oh, that's great but does she have the freebie she has promised for us?' What do ya think, huh? Of course I do! And sorry again that I haven´t made it earlier:-( So this time it's a pack of 4 aged scalloped frames - 2 square and 2 rectangular, slightly bent with a realistic shadow under. Here is the preview:

If you think you can use it, you can download it here. SORRY THE LINK HAS BEEN DISABLED! Please leave me some love if you DL! Thank you and have a great day!

Connection problems

2007-04-12T08:19:00.000-07:00

Hi guys, haven´t heard from me in ages, right? Well, I'm vacationing in Prague and I'm having connection problems, can´t connect to some pages...have a freebie for you but don´t know if I manage to upload it so please be patient:-) Latest on Monday as I'll be back home. See ya!

Here again:o)

2007-04-07T13:29:00.000-07:00

Hi! I just wanted to thank you for all your nice comments and congrats! Erin and Leslie: your comment made me laugh so much! Glad that you don´t have to look for tassels anymore! And I've finally got my FTP all set up at DivineDigital so I have added 2 products! You can check them out here!

Thanks for stopping by and wish you all Happy Easter!

The BIG news is finally here!

2007-04-06T13:11:00.001-07:00

Hi there, I'm here again! Two days in a row, that's something, huh? I just wanted to finally tell you the BIG news, toot toot!: I've accepted an offer and will be selling my designs at DivineDigital!!! Isn´t that great?!? Got another offer at the same time but decided to go with only one for now. I'm so excited about it!!! This past week I've been busy sorting out things, contract, set up, finishing my products etc. My entree to the store coincides with one year anniversary of the site so there's gonna be a big Grab Bag sale which you don´t want to miss!

Be sure to stop by because my Grab Bag is gonna be there too and it's gonna be full of goodies!

Hey, but it doesn´t mean that I won´t give away freebies anymore, okay, I WILL! Actually I've just made one for you to celebrate with me! It's a set of 12 tassels which are gonna be a perfect finish to your heritage or vintage pages! Here is the preview:

And you can download it here. SORRY, THE LINK HAS BEEN DISABLED. Please don´t forget to leave some love if you DL, you know I love reading your comments!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Happy Easter!

2007-04-05T16:24:00.000-07:00

Hi and Happy Easter to you! I'm just popping in today to share a couple of LO's done using my freebies. Hey, thank you again for your awesome comments, I love reading them! BTW, Anuska, I'm quite surprised there's somebody else scrapping in the Basque country, lol!

So, these are both using my kit Memories. I received this link from Jenny79 (thanks again, Jenny!):

And another one from Pett:

And the news I had for you? Yes, I'll tell you, don´t worry...don't forget to stop by on Saturday because you know it's FREEBIE time!!! Good night or good day to you!

You know what Saturday means, right?

2007-03-31T14:47:00.000-07:00

Hello and welcome to my blog this happy Saturday! Why happy? Well, because...the weather has finally picked up, I've gone horseback riding in the morning which is the best relax I can imagine, and I've also got a very good news this morning (which I can´t share yet, you know what happened last time, right?, LOL!). And I've been reading all your lovely comments on my last freebie. I think most people liked the 'stubborn' one the best which was actually the one I created originally only for my LO! That one applies to me too! LOL! So thank you bunches for your awesome comments, they always warm me up!

Today I also wanted to post a few more LO's done with my freebies, it's so nice to see what comes out of it, what people do with your stuff! This one is from DonnaG. using my frames cluster (yes it's the same DonnaG. who is a CT for the fabulous Doris Castle and who won a pick of the week with her LO 'A Mom's Fear' at Designer Digitals last week):

This one is from Hanka (isn´t it super cute?):

And this one is from Veverka, using one of my older freebies (Grunge Delight). It makes me feel like going on vacation:

All right, I know what y'all waiting for...freebie time's here! I've remembered the other day that I had not done anything for Easter for you so here it is (maybe too late!?). But I had so much fun creating it - I got a new tablet last week (one of those Wacom Intuos3, yummy stuff, I can tell you) and I just can´t get enough of playing around with it! Here's the preview:

The little set includes some chicks, eggs and an Easter Bunny, all hand painted (had a model picture though, lol!), some of them are stickers, some of them sparkly and as a bonus I've included a 'template' egg which you can color yourself to your liking! It also contains 2 word arts and the backgroung paper is included too. Hope you enjoy it, here is the download link. SORRY, THE LINK HAS BEEN DISABLED! Please leave a bit of love there if you DL! Thanks for popping in and have a great Sunday!

Back again!

2007-03-28T12:52:00.000-07:00

Hiya'll , I have moved and I'm back again! Have you missed me?:-) And guess what, I have a freebie for you! Yes, again! It's just a little thank you for all your lovely comments! I even got one 'thank you' in Basque! (Tape, your guess is correct, I do know some Basque - ez dago zergaitik:o)) I've noticed a lot of you left a comment at each part of the kit, that's the sweetest thing to do! I really really appreciate it but next time you can leave just one:o))) So thanks a lot, it´s great to know you like it and you have fun with it! A friend of mine sent me this link the day after I put out the memories kit (LO by Jenny79):

Another link I was sent by Fryske who used some elements (thank you and hello to The Netherlands, I love that country, lived there for some time a few years back):

Okay, first things first (God, today it's gonna be a long one!). Once more back to the freebie from last week which was the frame cluster. Thank you all for the feedback and since I've got votes both pro and con one layer, I've decided to make both alternatives next time. And I have a question for you - I've got an email that the file was actually a .psd. I was pretty sure that I saved it as a .png and I went to check the ZIP file and it also says .png. But the lady claims she has a .psd. Isn´t it the weirdest thing, I'm totally confused!? How about you guys, do you have a .psd or a .png???

Now, if you've made it to here, you DO deserve a freebie, LOL! It's a smallie, really, but it can add a nice touch to the LO. I've been working on one of mine and I couldn´t find the right stuff so I just made it! And when I was at it I decided to make a few more and wrap it up for you! So here is the preview:

It´s separate .png and .abr files and you can grab it here. SORRY, THE LINK HAS BEEN DISABLED! I'm sure you'll find a use for it!
Please keep leaving all those fabulous comments!:o)

And this is the LO I used it for:

For credits go here.

Oh, one more thing - I've decided to leave the stuff on the old blog so if you want to snag the older freebies, pls go there!

Thanks for visiting and see you soon!

Bringing over stuff from my old blog

2007-03-27T03:13:00.000-07:00

Hi and welcome to my new blog! I've decided to change because the name of the old blog (you know, the one that appears in the browser) was completely different and confusing. I chose it long time ago when I still didn´t know what I'd be using the blog for, LOL! I`ll try to bring stuff over from the old blog but I don´t know if it´s possible without loosing comments etc. Probably not and then I'll just post a link in the old blog which will direct you here. Please have a bit of patience with me!:-) Happy Tuesday!