SOMETHING TO SHARE

 

Hello friends hope all of you are well this fine morning. Don't faint because I'm blogging two days in a row!!!!

I received an award from Cautcha Lookin' Images called "This Blog Has A Heart" and it really touched me.  When I started Blogging I had no idea what to say...heck I really didn't even know what a Blog was..my dear friend Kim B. said don't worry about it just yak..and yakking is what I've been doing ever since..I don't lead a very exciting life and I don't have exciting adventures to share..I do however have the world of digital scrap booking..and what a wonderful world it is.  I have made so many wonderful friends thru the years, People I've never talked to, most I've never even seen a picture of but people with the biggest hearts in the world and so full of love.

  I don't know if you all know that my oldest daughter died in her sleep in Feb. she was 39 and left 3 sons...In July her youngest son Andrew passed away.  I've never seen such an outpouring of love and concern as I received.  The designers at DSO had a store wide 50% off sale for one day and the proceeds were astonishing, 2 times my friends at Scrapbook Max took up a collection and sent to me because they loved me..My friend Michelle at Crafty Scraps designed kits and sold them in a section of her store that she named for me and sent me the proceeds from sales. I received flowers, cards from all over the world, and even a very special phone call from a very special friend in South Africa!

I said all of that to say this..I don't deserve the award, ALL OF YOU DO..so I am passing it along to YOU, my readers. Without your love and support there would be no digital scrap booking community..you give us designers and bloggers help, support, inspiration and always make us feel loved.  From the bottom of my heart I want to say thanks and that will never be enough to express my appreciation.  God has blessed me so much by putting you in my life. So here is your award and I hope you accept it with all the love it contains.

I need to go today, have a lot to do, will be back tomorrow with lots of eye candy and surprises..

Be sure and wear your biggest smile today, remember to keep looking up and big much love Jazzy

Granny's Tired

Well folks I've found out this old Granny gets tired now a days being Nana..lol I slept all day yesterday..off and on and a lot of Monday..I slept so much Monday I missed seeing the snow fall...it didn't stick but they said it was beautiful falling..

I don't guess I realized how tired I got over the weekend..I talked to my mother today and she was tired too..but it was such a great weekend it was worth it..we had Kaylen until tonight..I miss her already...I really believe she knows who her Nana is..she cried today when I was holding her and gave her to her Daddy....now that didn't make him feel too good..LOL I told him he used to do the same thing when I would give him back to his mom!  He said you are just a good  Nana and everybody loves you..well-I don't know about that but it sure made me feel good.

Want to see some awesome layouts my CT did!

This is from Maggie Mae and she used Doggie Treats word art .

Sue SACannon sent me this one..I love the cluster work and she used my Thanksgiving Stamps word art..

This awesome layout is from PKDoll and she used my Sweet Baby word art..

This is also from PKDoll..she used my All About Kids word art..and I love how she took one phrase and made it as part of the background paper..great job GF...really pretty.

I have a little freebie for you today

These were made from KimB's beautiful new kit..From Santa with Love  and my Christmas Words word art.you can find them here

http://www.4shared.com/file/74248319/b00db7e7/Brag-Books.html

Visit my store at http://digital-scrapbooking.org/shop/index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=57 for these and many other word art sets.

Gosh its still dark outside so I think I'm going back to sleep for awhile..today is check day so I will have a busy one..You all keep smiling and remember to keep looking up and big much love..Jazzy

There is Always Next Year !!

Good  Morning Everyone..hope you all had great weekends, went to LOTS of Black Friday Sales, got lots of goodies and had fun with your families.

I had a great time with the kids being here..not so great cuz Auburn lost the big game...big time too..but I guess Bama needed bragging rights for a year since they haven't had them in 6 years!!  I have to say when we lose we do a good job of it..we didn't even score a point!!  However there is always next year!

Angie fixed the most awesome lunch for us...we had 5 dips, a bean one that is homemade and out of this world..I'm going to have to get the recipe and share with you all..all kinds of chips...2 kinds of potato salad...deviled eggs..barbeque pork and sauce...sliced ham and roast beef...wings..one hot one not...homemade peanut butter cookies...and drinks...beer, wine, diet coke..coke..and more..I ate way too much and was miserable but it was so good..if I didn't have to take so much medicine everyday I might have drowned my sorrow in too much beer..LOL

Angie got the bright idea to put mothers Christmas Tree up..its been a long long time since she got to help and we had a great time just reminiscing about past Christmas's and Angie had a great time looking at all Mothers old ornaments...some that belonged to my Granny. Dave put on the lights, Angie and I put hangers on the ornaments and the boys put them on the tree..mother just watched..

We had a few bad times over the weekend thinking about Lori but most of the time we talked about her it was remembering something funny she did on the holidays or how she loved this or that..I'm sure all your prayers were answered for us to get by so easily.

It's December and you know what that means...New challenges are up at DSO with some awesome posting gifts..my challenge is the Photo Op and here's is a preview of my gift.

Since so many of you like to do heritage layouts, I thought these might be something you could use as a bit different sort of word art..

Have you checked out Kims newest CU Bag

Jenni at Chaos Lounge has a new kit out and it's beautiful as always..Its also on sale for $2.99..WOW can't beat that price.Jen has a wonderful freebie for you to download its her Candyjar kit which is an add on to this one..

Here's a layout I made with it..

This is Kendra, my oldest GS girlfriend, she will graduate this year..the word art is from my Teenagers set.

I have a lot of eye candy to show you today...so on to the really good stuff!!

This awesome layout is from Kim B..its her niece and she is a little doll..love the squares..

From Renee love this adorable picture..

From Jenni at Chaos Lounge

From Marion and she used my new word art set All About Kids

You can check out all of my word art at http://digital-scrapbooking.org/shop/index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=57

I have a freebie for you today made from Jen's new kit..

You can find it here 

http://www.4shared.com/file/74100981/d423fdcb/LR_Beauty_QP.html 

Hope all of you have a great day..wear that big ole smile on your face, keep looking up and big much love...Jazzy

 

Happy Thanksgiving and New Goodies

Good Wednesday morning to you all..

I'm taking the weekend off so this will be my last post until Monday.  I imagine a lot of you here in the states are already starting to prepare for Thanksgiving..I think my friend Carol (Crops2dawn) is knee high in potatoes since she is fixing 25 lbs of twice cooked potatoes for her family dinner tomorrow..oh and she won the war...they are having the traditional dinner instead of Clams..LOL

It will be a quiet day here tomorrow..The boys are going to their dads for lunch and my cousin is taking my mom and I out to eat.  Angie and her family are coming down Friday for the weekend.  We will be at my Moms Saturday for Thanksgiving and we are having finger foods.. all kinds of goodies.. and we are all watching the big game..Auburn vs Alabama..the BIGGEST GAME of the year for most people in Alabama and a lot of other places too!

It should be a loud fun day and a sad one for some, joyous for others..Auburn has a 6 year winning streak going but our season has not been a good one...Alabama is undefeated..sooooo---I'm not doing any braggin..just a lot of prayin..but you never know with that game..victory goes to the one who wants the win the most..we have 6 Auburn fans and 3 Bama fans watching..guess who will be the loudest..LOL..can't wait its going to be so much fun..Hoping it will help take our minds off missing Lori so much..this is going to be our first holiday without her,if you think of it, say a little prayer for us, and all those others out there like us.

Here's a preview of the new word art I have in the store today.."All About Kids"

Save: 25% off

Made by request..All About Kids has 20 individual pieces of word art. Some are humorous some are more serious All are on their own png file at 300DPI and can easily be re-sized without losing clarity, or re-colored. All About kids can be the inspiration for many pages,and other craft projects and even those cards which are so popular today

You can find them here

KimB also has a new kit today  From Santa with Love

A fun,whimsy and Funky cheerful Christmas kit. A little eclectic, with tons of realistic, handrawn doodles and wrapping paper styled patterned papers. 
Create endless pages with this large fun kit.  You just have to see this to know how cute and how BIG it is..

I have a page I made with it..and its not Christmas so you can use it for lots of other theme layouts.

I used Kims new kit and my new word art All About Kids on this one..and boy are they double trouble when they want to be LOL..

Since I won't be here tomorrow I want to remind you of my Black Friday Sale..great Black Friday shopping without the hassle-and-no waiting in lines..just scroll, click add to cart, and check out..simple and fun too!  There are more DSO designers having Black Friday Sales so check them out also..

I have a few pages from my CT to show you today

This cutie was done by crops2dawn and she used Kims new kit From Santa with Love and my Christmas Words set. That's is one of crops daughters when she was young..

This beauty is also from Crops she used my Smiles Word Art Bundle for this one

PK Doll send this Christmas page..love the picture of her grandson..she used my Christmas Glam word art and things from Kims CU Christmas Bag.Paula also has a QP of this layout on her Blog  so hope on over and grab it and leave her some love.

I have a little freebie for you today..I know its Thanksgiving but this is Christmas word art..LOL

If you would like to have it grab it here

http://www.4shared.com/file/73239644/7a3b780f/Joys_of_Christmas.html

I must close for now..have a Dr's appointment  in a few..wish me luck..I hope each and everyone of you have a Blessed and Safe Thanksgiving, be thankful for family and friends and those less fortunate that ourselves..be sure and eat too much or else it won't really be Thanksgiving..LOL

For those friends who don't celebrate the day..I hope you have a wonderful day and are blessed with something good.

Remember to smile, keep looking up and big much love Jazzy

A NEW DAY A NEW WEEK

Good Monday morning gang...hope all of you had a great weekend..I sure did..we had the baby for the weekend and Angie and the boys came down on Sunday and spent the day so I had all my grandkids and my great granddaughter and my daughter with me..it was such fun..The boys have grown since I saw them last and the baby grows and gets prettier everytime I see her.

I got so tickled at Josh this weekend I have to share this..Now I know we all remember when we were young parents and especially with our first, there were times when we got scared and frustrated and just didn't know what to with a crying screaming baby that wouldn't hush!

Kaylen had a cold this weekend and didn't feel good..seemed like every time we put her down she cried..especially when it was time for a diaper change..except she was really BAD with her dad. I watched him struggle with those one piece outfits, you know the ones with all the snaps, and her SCREAMING her head off..he would finally get it on her and pick her up and she still screamed..he walked with her and talked to her and she's till screaming..finally he would say take her Nana..and when I did she immediately got quiet..and start smiling at me..Josh got so upset and I explained to him that babies are so smart they sense when the one holding them is scared or nervous and they get that way too..and they cry.

I wasn't sure he believed me until Angie shared a similar story with him about when Gage was a baby...and then he seemed to see the light..oh new parents gotta love em..

I have some new word art in the store today..they are called Christmas words..

 

Christmas Words is just that! Each individual piece is a variety of words associated with a different Christmas theme..Each word has a different font. All are in png format and can easily be re-sized and re-colored. At 300 dpi they can be printed with clarity. These will really make you Christmas pages pop and they will be something different for a card sentiment. Package contains 15 word sets.  They are ON SALE NOW AT 25 % OFF.. you can find them here

http://digital-scrapbooking.org/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2058&zenid=3fa45ae2c1901fe492cda48b7a77ac59

I used things from KimBs new Christmas CU kit, greenery from her Glam Tidings kit, I made the frame with things from the Christmas CU Bag..word art is from the new set Christmas Words..

Sue sent me this one..love the old picture and the blue frame..She used Christmas Glam word art.

Renee from By Dezign made this adorable page..she also used Kims CU bag goodies..and the word art is from Christmas Glam..

Renee also did this QP using more of Kims Christmas CU Bag and my Christmas Glam word art.

Now for some BIG NEWS..Thursday is Thanksgiving as you all know..and do you know what the Friday after is?  Black Friday and do you know what Black Friday is?   Well briefly Black Friday is  a day you have to LOVE shopping and MASSIVE CROWDS and PUSHING AND SHOVING and CHAOS..to go shopping that day! For some families shopping on this day is as much a tradition as Thanksgiving Dinner.

Although Black Friday, as the first shopping day after Thanksgiving, has served as the unofficial beginning of the Christmas season at least since the start of the modern Macys Thanksgiving Parade  in 1924, the term "Black Friday" has been traced back only to the 1960s.

The term "Black Friday" originated in Philadelphia in reference to the heavy traffic on that day."Black Friday" is the name which the Philadelphia Police Department has given to the Friday following Thanksgiving Day. It is not a term of endearment to them. "Black Friday" officially opens the Christmas shopping season in center city, and it usually brings massive traffic jams and over-crowded sidewalks as the downtown stores are mobbed from opening to closing.

This year some of the designers at DSO are having Black Friday SALES the entire day after Thanksgiving.  EVERYTHING in MY store will be on sale for 40% off. Its a one day only sale that ends Midnight Friday November 28th. You get all the benefits of a Black Friday Sale with none of the hassle. So mark your calendar and get ready for some great savings and lots of fun..

For your freebie today I have the frame from the layout I did

I hope you like this little gift and can find some use for it.. you can grab it here if you want..http://www.4shared.com/file/72958117/6046a2c7/LR_Waiting_for_Christmas.html

Gotta go gang...keep smiling, keep looking up and big much love Jazzy

Friday ALREADY!!!

Good Morning Everyone..

Are you freezing this morning..my feet are!! I think it got down in the teens here last night. We have Kaylen and I kept waking up to make sure she was covered up..she hates covers.. the minute the blanket touches her she starts kicking it off..Thank goodness for sleepers!!  Do you have big plans for the weekend..I don't have any except to spend all the time I have playing with Kaylen...in case some of you don't know, she is my first great grandchild..she will be 5 months old the 25th gosh it doesn't seem like she should be that old...

Guess what...I have more new word art in my store today.

This set is the first of several more to come. Ten Christmas titles done in traditional Christmas Colors and Ten Christmas word art phrases. These can be used for your scrapbook pages or your Christmas cards. All done in png format and can easily be re-sized or re-colored. This set will definitely be one you want to add to your collection.

You can find it here

Kim has that wonderful Christmas Grab Bag at her store..it has some awesome goodies..

Kim also has all of her Christmas products on sale..wow what a sale..

My friend Renee has an awesome Quick Page and a Beautiful Rose kit on her blog pop on over and grab these and leave her some love..she is working on a Memorial Service for her fallen biker friends and shes been really down..so go cheer her up..

My CT has been sending me some beautiful pages and you know I have to show them off...

This adorable page was made by Crops2dawn..isn't that little guy precious..its her nephew..she used part of Kims grab bag and my Christmas Glam word art.

Isn't this page awesome...Marion made it..it looks like the background was painted on a piece o denim to me, this is great Marion..her grandsons are having a fun time looking thru Marions scrapbooks! She used WA from my new kit Scrapbooking Delites

Pkdoll did this great page..she used Kims kit Loryn and my new family joy overlays

Sue did this lovely page..love the colors and how she tinted the picture to match..she used my Teenagers set.

 

Sue also made this one..love the old picture..she used Family Joy word art

I have a little freebie for you today..another Christmas QP made with Kims Glam Tidings kit and word art from Christmas Glam. Hope you like it..

Hope you can use and enjoy..you can grab it here, oh and I doubled checked today and it's in there !!! LOL

Hope you all have a great weekend..stay safe.  Remember to wear that smile, keep looking up and big much love Jazzy.

UH_OH I GOOFED AGAIN

Morning Folks

Hope all of you are doing well today..I'm feeling a bit under the weather today so this is going to be a very short post..more tomorrow and a lot of eye candy!

I goofed on yesterdays freebie..I forgot to put the file in the zip folder..I really can't believe I did that as that is ALWAYS the first thing I do then rename it..buttttt..thanks to some of my faithful readers I found out..so I re-uped to 4 share and here is the new url..Thanks muchly for telling me.

http://www.4shared.com/file/72311207/5208e7f3/LR_Joy_Freebie.html

I'm so sorry...its in there this time!!

So keep that smile on your face today, keep looking up..and big much love Jazzy