NSD Facebook & Blog Hop!

If you're here, you're probably following the NSD Facebook and Blog Hop from With Love Studio! I've made you a cute piece of the kit, I think! I hope you like it!!

My piece looks like this:


~*~Download the Elements here!! ~*~
~*~Download the Papers here!!~*~
Click them if you want them! Always a direct download!! :D

If you are following the list, you came from my Facebook Page and your next stop is Midnight Owl!
If you are lost and want to find the list of all the participants, it should be Here!!

Huggles!!
~Sarah~

iNSD Facebook & Blog Hop!

Wow! I've been an awful blogger, haven't I?? Every day is a new opportunity, right? And, today I'm here with an awesome opportunity! It's iNSD and the designers at With Love Studio have put together a Facebook and Blog hop for you!!

If you are following the trail, you've already been to My Facebook Page and you came here from KapiScrap & Art!

Here's my piece:

~*~ Download the PAPERS here! ~*~
~*~ Download the ELEMENTS here! ~*~
Your next stop is AnitaW Designs!
 Please keep in mind that we might be in different time zones so if you get to a stop that doesn't have their piece posted yet, give them a few hours and check back!

There's a huge sale going on at WLS so you should check that out!! Of course, I'm participating! Have you seen my newest kit? It's called Rocket Man!



Click it if you want it! I linked it up for you!!
Thanks for stopping by!

Huggles!!

~Sarah~
p.s. how cute is little man these days?

Valentine's Party Sale and a Freebie!! :D

With Love Studio is having a very fun Valentine's Day Party and Sale!! :D



I'm participating in the sale! I have added all the kits already in my shop with the word LOVE in the title to the $1 sale!! This means you could grab 5 great full kits for just $5! Included kits are Birthday Love, Sweet Love, I So Totally Love You, Trunkfull of Love (boy) and Trunkfull of Love (girl)!

I also have a new kit coming out on Friday, Feb 14, called Nerd Love! Here's a sneak peek of it:



And, I made you a bunch of freebies with this kit!! You can snag some papers on my Facebook page! and some really cute bookmarks in the Valentine's Party Section of the forum at With Love Studio!

But, you know I had to give you a freebie here too!! And, I went totally crazy with the papers when I was making this kit, so here's another batch of papers to match your Nerd Love collection!!

Click them if you want them! You know it's always a direct download!!


 
Thanks for stopping by!
Huggles!!
~Sarah~

A Blog Hop?? Definitely!!

I think a good blog hop is a great way to get back into the swing of things, don't you??

So, all of the lovely designers at With Love Studio are putting on a great blog hop this weekend, and I have made some yummy goodies to participate! The kit is called Be Kind, Be Brave, and this is my piece! (As always, click it if you want it! You know it's a direct download, right?)



You came from Sugar Moon Designs
and you are headed off to Anita Wells Designs!

Now, if you know me at all, you know I had to put something up on my facebook for you to grab as well, so feel free to head on over to my AliSarah digiscraps Facebook and like it for an awesome add-on pack of dotted papers!!

And, for those of you who know it's been an awful long time since I posted... I had a baby! He's so cute! His name is Curtis and he is almost 9 months now. Also, we moved! Yep! Hubby bought me a giant house that we are hoping to fill with more kids, but not ones that I'll be delivering, lol. We are hoping to foster and adopt a sibling group! With 6 bedrooms to fill, we definitely have the room and we both have the heart to do what we can for some kids who need us! More on that later!

Here's this year's Christmas Card so you can see how cute our little family looks these days!


So, stay tuned! I'm joining in on February's collab at WLS! And, I'm working on some great stuff for the February Lovely Colors! It's going to be a slow rollout because I also had a hard drive failure while I was away but I'm on my way back!!

Huggles!!
~Sarah~

Red Carpet & A Freebie!!

Well, every month at With Love Studio, we make a collaboration kit for our customers!! This month, the kit is called Red Carpet! It turned out quite lovely!! (Click it if you like it and it will take you to it in the shop!!)



My little piece of the collab kit looks like this:


Also, I made a little paper pack for you that matches the collab!! 
(Click it if you want it! Always a direct download!!)


Anyhow, I hope you'll check out the collab because it turned out super cute!! And, thanks for stopping by!!
Huggles!!
~Sarah~

With Love Studio Blog Hop!

 You are hopping down the With Love Studio Blog Hop!!


Hopefully, you came from Shelly Marie Scraps!  Your next stop is Midnight Owl Art!

My piece for this hop looks like this: (Click it if you want it! Always a direct download!)
 

Also, if you would like my facebook page, you will receive this coordinating alpha on my fan freebie tab:


I am participating in the Lovely Yard Sale at With Love Studio!! (click the image to be taken to the sale category!!)

SO, you'll find 5 of my kits on sale for a $1!! Some of them are regularly priced at $8 so getting them for a dollar is a STEAL!! :D

Huggles!!
~Sarah~

Birthday Love & a Freebie!!

So, I've put my kit Birthday Love in my shop at With Love Studio!


This link won't work until after midnight on With Love Studio Time! It will be on sale when it turns on!!


And, I've been scrapping some pages with it!!



As usual, I can't help but make quickpages out of my layouts! The first one is in the With Love Studio Newsletter that will come in your mail box today (Friday, Jan 18) if you are signed up for it!! 

The second one, you can snag right here: (Click it if you like it! Always a direct download!!)


I hope you like it!!
Huggles!!
~Sarah~

p.s. the baby is kicking like a wild man today, I think he's excited that I'm getting back into a decent designing groove again!! ;)

Birthday Love Glitter Freebie!

I made a darling new kit, Birthday Love! I think it's adorable! It looks like this:

You can snag it for free by liking the With Love Studio Facebook Page!!

If you'd like some matching solids, you can snag those babies at my Facebook Page!! (linked on the right)... If you're into alphas, you'll need to sign up for the WLS newsletter or start reading the WLS blog!!

Either way, this whole kit will be shared and can be snagged during November (my birthday month) only! Because it will go into my shop in December!! :D

Here's some glitters for you!!  ** Sorry, Links Expired! This kit is available in my shop now! **


Enjoy!!

Huggles!!
~Sarah~

Autumn Basics & A Quickpage Freebie!!

For October Lovely Colors, I released my pieces called Autumn Basics! They turned out just lovely, I think! I hope you'll like them too! Click them if you like them, the links will take you to the products in the shop!! :D

Papers:



Elements:



Alphas:


Glitters:


As always, I made a layout with Autumn Basics!!


And, I made a quickpage out of my layout for you!! (Click it if you want it! Always a direct download!!)


Enjoy!!
Huggles!!
~Sarah~

A little different thing for me... (& a freebie!)

So, this week for New Releases Day, I decided to go in a different kind of direction than I usually go in. With Love Studio is going to be a stop on a designer's contest and they asked us to all make some Commercial Use Prize type stuff. I have a whole bunch of stuff laying around that I've been using in my own kits! So, I packaged some of it up for the prize and had a lot leftover. I've always thought that someday I would release some CU stuff.

Today, I guess is that day!! :D

So, my new release today is a pack of CU Overlays!


And, my freebie for you today is another overlay that you can give a shot in your own kits!!


I hope you like it! And, I hope you enjoy the items I have for you in this whole new area!!

Huggles!!
~Sarah~

Bohemian Chic & a Freebie!!

Ok, so yes, I've been dropping the ball like a crazy woman around here lately. But, I have a reason, I promise!! And, here it is:


See, my hubby and I have been married for almost 7 years now, and we have been wanting more kids this whole time. We've been to a lot of doctors and tried a lot of different things to get to where we are now, which is pregnant!! I have been pregnant before, I have a 17 year old daughter. But, it's been an awfully long time, and I remember being tire, but not like I am this time. Sleep is my friend!! :D

Anyhow, last week, I released the Bohemian Chic Bundle!!

and I totally slept through my scheduled time to tell you about it!! SO, I've decided to do a bit of a flash sale on it! I gave it a special price even lower than the New Releases price so head on over and give it a peek!! This new and super low price is good for the rest of today and tomorrow only!! Once it's Sunday, the super low price will disappear!!

Meanwhile, of course I have a freebie for you, it's another alpha to match! If you check out HERE and HERE, you'll find even more freebies that match this super cute kit!! :D

Here's today's alpha freebie: (Click it if you want it, always a direct download!!)


I hope you like it and I hope you will bear with me on the whole sleeping my life away thing! I did get it together a little bit so I will have some awesome offerings for you in October's Lovely Colors section so be on the lookout for those on October 1st!! :D

Huggles!!
~Sarah~

This Week's Contest Entry!!

I finished this week's entry for the contest!! The links are up and it's ready for downloading!!

Click it if you want it, but per the contest rules, this image will take you to the gallery, which is the only place I'm allowed to post the links!! But, hey, while you are there, you can pick up all the great entries!! :D


Huggles!!
~Sarah~

Friday Freebie! I will catch up!! :D

Woohoo!! So I woke up this morning to awesome news, which is that I made it to the second round of the Designer Contest at theStudio!! So, I'm pretty excited, especially since that little kit I made is the first thing I've designed in CS6... Now, I have to get cracking on my kit for next week, which is to be much bigger than the one for last week! So, that's a big YAY for you because it means an external force will be forcing me to get my freebies done, and you know that it will be posted before Wednesday night, which is not to shabby for a Tuesday freebie these days, lol...

Anyhow, I have also been making scrapbook pages in my CS6. I'm trying to tackle one job at a time and getting it all set up how I like it for each of the different tasks I do regularly! I used Notes In Class to scrap a picture I took of my daughter Rachel the other day, when she had her appointment for senior photos. I can't believe she is a senior this year, the time has just passed so quickly!!

Here's my layout:


And, to fully complete my CS6 layout making skill set, here's a quickpage for you!!  Click it if you want it! Always a direct download!!


CS6 has a very cool png compression option, which means that this quickpage file came out smaller in MB than some that come before it. But, don't worry, it's still the same pixel and inches size as the others and should print beautifully!!

Have a great weekend! I'll see you next week with my Round 2 entry for the design contest!!
Huggles!!
~Sarah~

Your Tuesday Freebie, lol...

So, as you may or may not know, my husband recently (like over the weekend recently) built me a new computer. It has upgrades in a LOT of programs, including the operating system and in my Photoshop as well as Illustrator and ACDSee... This has left me in an interesting situation because I know how to do a lot of things with these programs, but I also have no idea how to work within the confines of the new systems in any way that they have made changes to them. Needless to say, I've been bumbling around with it.

I wanted to join the design contest at the Studio, it looked like fun. The only scary part is that the deadline was super fast after the challenge was posted. It was posted on the 1st of September, with entries due at midnight, EST on the 5th. That's not a lot of time anyway, and then to add I didn't know how to get around on my new rig... Well, it was slower process than I would have figured.

But, I did it!! I got my piece done!! And, here it is for you to enjoy:


Contest rules say I am only allowed to put the link in the gallery where the preview is posted!! So, CLICK HERE TO HEAD ON OVER TO MY PREVIEW to grab the download! It's still a direct download for you! I've been enjoying looking at and downloading all the other entries! I'm finished with the first two pages and all the links are working like a charm. A few are direct downloads but the rest are 4shared, mediafire, and box... But, those sites are all cooperating nicely with me today, and I've been able to get all the pieces on the first two pages so far! I'll be getting the rest before the links go away too.

Contest requirement is that the links stay up until Sept 9, but the request is that they be up for all of September. So, I'll leave mine up for you to grab it any time!! :D

I hope you are having a great day and such! I am going to be out of the office tomorrow, but I will post a freebie (maybe a quickpage or alpha or something) before I go!!

Huggles!!
~Sarah~

September Blog Train!! :D

Good Morning Saturday!! It's Blog Train Time, Woohoo!! :D

This month's theme is Inspire Me!! So, I got to thinking about what inspires me most, which generally is a big mess, or art supplies!! I see both these things as opportunities for amazement, which is why I filled my piece of this blog train with splatters, and art supplies!! I hope you like it!!

Here's my piece, click it if you want it, always a direct download!!


You came from: Word Art World and your next stop is Note-able Scraps! If you get lost, you can find the full list at The Blog Train Blog!

Also, if you like glitters, my Facebook Fan Freebie is matching glitters for this blog train, they look like this:

So, head on over to my Facebook Fan Page and Click the Fan Freebie tag, like me if you haven't and grab those too!!

Have a great Saturday and rest of the weekend!!
huggles!!
~Sarah~

At your request...

So, it seems like quite a few of you like my glitter hearts that I use for my glitter pack displays. I like them too, but they were made just for the displays, so they are super small, especially when you put them on a 12x12 scrap page. But, quite a few of you asked for them when I posted them up with the Notes in Class Glitters, and I always aim to please...

So, here is what I did. I zipped up the little glitter hearts that you've all seen, but since I know they are super small and will barely show at all on your layouts, I also created a bigger one and made that one into glitter hearts for you. Finally, I included the blank hearts in both sizes so you can use any glitter sheets you like to make glitter hearts in any colors you want!! There are no shadows on these, and no glitters included in this download. It's all hearts that are glittered, and a couple hearts you can glitter on your own with any other glitters you might have!! 



I hope you will enjoy it!! :D

Huggles!!
~Sarah~

p.s. Friday, Notes In Class will hit the store:

Friday Freebie!! :D

Hopefully this means I'm back on schedule. Things have been a tiny bit crazy around here, with winding down from vacation, continuing to take college tours but closer to home, hitting all the before school starts drs appointments, as well as preparing for Senior Photos for Rachel, and having Ashley come for a visit... Well, it's been a pretty busy time!!

Anyhow, yesterday, I figured out how to put up a Fan Freebie on Facebook. So, if you are interested in having these alphas:

You should head on over to my facebook page and check it out! :D

So, the Notes In Class alphas match a mini kit that I will be releasing next Friday, August 31. I also thought it might be fun to share the glitters with you! So, the glitters will be your Friday Freebie for this week!! (Click them if you want them, always a direct download!!)


I hope you like them! I love putting glitters on things all the time!! :D

Have a great Friday and Weekend and I'll see you on Tuesday!! :D

Huggles!!
~Sarah~

Seaside Holiday Blog Train!!

I should warn you in advance that this is middle of the night groggy blogging, lol... See, I got an email that asked for my blog train to be up and ready by 7 am EST... I live in the PST and I'm a night owl (usually), so if I were at home and not on vacation, that wouldn't have been a problem, cuz I could have posted it at midnight my time and made the deadline. No way would I ever be awake early enough in the morning to post it. Many would suggest a scheduled post, but I have never been able to get one of those to do what I wanted. So, hear we are- me totally tired and wiped out from a long day of touring Cal State Chico, visiting a Brewery for lunch (and no tasting, lol), and hanging with family. Tomorrow, we have our last tour of this trip at San Jose State University. I think the teenager is starting to get a little scared about the idea of moving so far from Me/Home... I'm undecided on how I feel about that, but for the most part, I'm excited and hope she will choose someplace closer to home, and not just because it's cheaper!! :D

Anyhow, as promised yesterday (or this morning if you are still up and running on fumes like I am), here is my piece of the DigiScrap Connect Blog Train, which is called Seaside Holiday!! (Click it if you want it! Always a direct download!!)

I apologize for not putting the big preview here, but I'm not great at hubby's laptop and I can't find where I saved it...

You came from Aimee Harrison and you are headed off to Blue Flower Art!!

If you get lost, you can find the whole list at Digi Scrap Connect!!

I hope you like this piece. If you missed my solids and glitters, just slide on down one more post and snag them up, the links are still active!
Thanks for stopping by!
Huggles!!
~Sarah~

Crazy early morning blogging!!

Oh! It's so early in the morning for me!! Yesterday, we took a college tour at Cal State East Bay, which was just lovely!! Today, we are up even earlier than yesterday and headed off to Cal State Chico... So, I don't have a lot of time for blogging, but I will make time to check my links to avoid another Friday Fiasco, lol... I hope you are having as great a week as we are. Even though I am SUPER tired, I feel like we are accomplishing much, and having a really fun time with my hubby's family!! Yesterday, it was FIL's birthday, so we had cheesecake and banana cream pie both from scratch, both made by yours truly! It was kind of a sugar overload, and don't even get me started on the chocolate haul we are bringing home from the ghirardelli outlet we stopped at yesterday, lol...

Anyway, on to the freebies!! Tomorrow, The DigiScrapConnect Blog Train will go live!! So, I decided to make you some advance freebies for that train... (Click them if you want them, always a direct download!!)
Solids:


and Glitters:

Come back tomorrow for my actual piece of this blog train! It should be posted nice and early as well because we have another tour scheduled tomorrow!!

Huggles!!
~Sarah~

Vacation Blogging is always late, lol...

So, I'm on vacation, visiting my in-laws in beautiful Sacramento, CA... The weather is HOT but they have air conditioning and so does almost every place we've been since we got here. Where we live, the weather is not as hot as it is here, because we live near the beach. But, since we are so close to the beach, nobody has air conditioning in their houses, and you have to go to the mall for the A/C when it gets warm, which is about 5 days a year, lol... SO, it's kind of weird to us to be so hot, but we are having a good time.

We drove up here and found a lot of cool places on the drive, so that a drive which takes 6-7 hours ended up taking us almost 11, lol... My favorite place was the Cheese Factory, which was near to Fresno. They had 6 kinds of cheese out for us to try, a kitchen surrounded by windows where had we been there at the right time, we could have seen them making cheese (something I would have enjoyed immensely), a ton of cheeses for us to buy (I picked garlic jack and it is YUMMY!!), and all kinds of kitschy gift type items, of which we bought one for my Father in Law's birthday, and then it fell out of the back of the car and broke into 3 pieces, but hubby thinks he'll still be able to hang it... We'll have to see on that one. I was quite disappointed.

Anyhow, I brought all the preview and freebie links with me so you won't have to miss out on freebies even though we are off gallivanting. We are planning some fun stuff while we are here, mostly spending time with family and looking at colleges for Rachel. She's narrowed it down to 13 choices, but of course it will have to slim down even more eventually!!

Yesterday, when I was supposed to blog, Happy was released at With Love Studio. Here's the bundle:


If you got Happy in the daily download last month, you'll be interested in the Happy Extras, which I created just for you. It's a bundle of the alphas and the glitter, with a little discount for buying them together!!


Of course, as always, you can get all the pieces separately from the bundle if you only like papers, or what not, but since I'm on vacation, I'm going to let you head over to WLS and find them if you want them! I know you can do it!! And, as always, for the first week, they are on sale at 20% off!! :D

I made a layout with this kit, which I love. It is of my two daughters, one is Rachel and the other is Ashley, who is my step daughter from my first marriage. This photo was taken right around when Ashley moved in with us. It was fun for Rachel to have a live in our house sister, and we had gone to a concert of Bryan Duncan, who is a great singer.



And, here's a quickpage to match for you!! (Click it if you want it, always a direct download!!) 
** Oops!! I had the link slightly wrong when I typed it in, it should be working better now, I'm sorry for the inconvenience! I am on vacation and this key board is a tiny bit smaller than the one I use at home :( Thanks to all who let me know politely and even the one who chose to scream and cuss at me over email for letting me know so I could get it fixed... **


Tuesday, I will be blogging early, because we have a college tour that day, so I will definitely have something for you then. It's some awesome solids and glitters to go with a blog train that releases on Wednesday, so you will get LOTS of freebies from me this next week! By Friday, I'll be back at home, so you'll get your regular freebie that day!!

I hope you are having a great weekend!!
Huggles!!
~Sarah~