Surf on over to polkadotpotato and pick up your fresh and juicy summer kit! Links to a special gallery will be made available in about a week so get creating! A winner will be chosen from the uploads and will receive a gift certificate to Polkadot Potato!!
I’m surfing on to Polkadot Potato this week, but before I go…I need to give away some cash!! There’s a special gallery that’s just been set up at scrapgirls so I can pick a winner. If you’ve already grabbed this fun kit, go upload a layout! If not, download this freebie, create a masterpiece and get it in the gallery by June 15th and you’ll be automatically entered to win.
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD FREEBIE
AND…here’s a little preview of what’s coming to Polkadot Potato! Details and links Friday!
Grab your cute suit and surf board and come along for a ride with me this summer. Get fun kits, create great pages and win amazing prizes!
For the next 3 weeks, get “California Girls” ONLY at scrapgirls.com. Upload to their special gallery and be automatically entered to win a $20 gift certificate to their store.
In each kit you’ll find a board sticker. Collect them all and be entered to win over $200 in prizes! So grab a board and surf on over to scrapgirls.com to pick up your kit!
“The California Girls Kit includes 12 digital backgrounds at 12 x 12, Word Art (5) and 11 Embellishments set up as individual digital files; a brush set of 6 brushes (png files and an abr file), an Overlay, and an Easy Page.”
Apparently this has been available in major cities for some time but it has jUST recently become available in my area. This is SUCH a fun feature. Some people think it’s too much, but I tend to live by the mantra that if you don’t want what you do to be public…don’t do it in a public place! Let’s face it…if you’re out in your sweats weeding your garden, any neighbor, stranger or car with a camera on it can drive by and see you AND record you if they so desire. So…either deal with people seeing you in your sweats or don’t leave your front door without makeup and heels on. That simple.
I imagine there will be a few people who get in trouble for being in the wrong place when that little camera car drove by though. For me…it’s just my wheel barrow sitting in my unweeded garden. So far… I LOVE the new feature. 
After walking the floor of the PMA show in Las Vegas, in a sea of boys in black suits, you’d think I’d be posting about all the tech gadgets and cool gear we got to play with at the show. Not So! The most memorable part of this trip was not the HDMI output on new cameras or the WIFI SD cards…Nope! It was a girl we met at the airport…a little crazy perhaps, but a far cry from the business suit type and way more memorable! The REALLY sad part is…she even made meeting Meredith Vieira a little anti-climactic! Here’s the story…(PMA highlights will come later!)
She says she’s not crazy, bi-polar or drunk. In fact, she informs me, she’s vegan?! But she’s certainly full of energy and a little more color than expected. By color, I mean her choice of topics of conversation and some of the ‘colorful’ words I’m not used to hearing here in Utah. Miss (well, Mrs.) Danielle had Kayla (The Legacy Lady) and Lynda Angelastro and me laughing in spite of having walked the Las Vegas convention center floor for days on end.
Minding our own business, falling asleep waiting for our plane home, we hear a not-so-quiet laugh in the row of seats behind us. A girl rushes over to us and has to show us a pen she bought in Vegas for a friend. I looked at the ceiling while she demonstrated the functions of the pen to Kayla. It was a tricky pen. I guess it involved a boy and a trick pair of boxer/briefs. But I wouldn’t know because I wasn’t looking!!
That was just the beginning. Shortly after our pen escapade, Miss Danielle decided to come a little close to us. Like on the floor next to our seats. More colorful language and topics followed including having part of her body signed by a fighter I don’t know the name of but is supposedly very cool. As I was turning my head to avoid the body part show, I spotted a familiar face. Meredith Vieira from the Today show was sitting at the next gate. Just to be sure I was seeing who I thought I was I asked Kayla to double check for me. Miss Danielle heard me and said “I’ll go ask her!!!” And she wasn’t kidding. She bounded across the aisles as Meredith stood up to board the plane and asked if she truly was the Millionaire lady and when Meredith replied to the affirmative, Miss Danielle promptly replied “You look so much thinner in person!!” She then points over to me (quietly sitting in my seat) and says “She’s the one who saw you!” and called me over. I went over and kind of apologized for this girl I had never met before but Meredith was getting an earful about how Danielle had lost her voice the night before ‘PARTYING’!!
Check out the video and you can see Meredith repeating that to the camera. I can assure you that Danielle was much more interesting than I was!
I promised Danielle I’d put her on Youtube so I did a little montage. Enjoy, Danielle!! It was a kick meeting you!
Not really, but being sick the first week of the year can sure give you a bad attitude. We’ve had some sickness or another every week since before Christmas in our house. Stomach bug, the real Flu, a major cold with pink eye and now a lovely sore throat. Will it ever end? I hope so because it’s really sapped my motivation.
Everything on TV these days is about getting organized or losing weight, both things I could stand to do. I think instead of showing a person who has lost hundreds of pounds, they should show one who’s just decided to get healthy. Show them as they begin and show the struggles throughout the year. They should invite the audience to play along. That’s what I want to see. Someone to sympathize with, support and learn from along the way. (Anyone need a cheerleader for your goal for the year??) Of course, I’d be behind already since sickness and treadmills don’t exactly go together.
So…goals for this year for me…
Avoid Type 2 Diabetes for one more year (one meal at a time)
Zero Debt by the end of the year (one shopping trip at a time)
Actually USE my organization system to its potential (one mess at a time)
A couple of other goals are to use this blog more, read Jesus the Christ this year, and go somewhere fun like Italy or Greece. Not sure any of those will get done but they’re worthy goals.
For now, I will keep them in my mind as I go get my cute little time consumer up from his nap!
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So, the girls at pcLayers have been hard at work again and have come up with some great designs for the ever-popular CD case calendars that are floating around the digital world. 12 Designs in all plus a cute cover are yours for the taking! Click on the image below to download November (designed by yours truly using the Arbor Vine kit - recolored). Photo of adorable children not included. Enjoy! And for December’s calendar, hop on over to Natalie’s blog!
In case you’ve missed any…here’s the complete set of links!
SO, this is what I came up with for the challenge from last week’s show. This week will be much harder!! I loved seeing all the inspired layouts and can;t wait to see what you guys come up with now!!
Digital, paper, or both, if you’re up for a challenge, come play here!
Each week choose one of the garment designs from Project Runway and do a layout inspired by the design. Every 4 weeks, I’ll choose a random participant and send them a goodie package full of fun digital and paper stuff!
Here are the details:
Have fun!! (And if you want a chance to win other prize packages, go take the survey for Digital Scrapbooking magazine and enter the pcLayers.com contest too!)
Just had to quickly share a shortcut I learned tonight from an artist and co-worker of my husband’s. Did you know that if you have the brush selected you can hit alt and the color picker will pop up and let you choose a new color??/How cool is that! Thanks Nate! (natebaertsch.blogspot.com)
