Free Digi Scrapbooking Blog Train and Giveaway

Stop by Digitals for the free daily download! From December 28-January 4, you can collect these great calendar bookmarks! FREE!

You can also get wonderful downloads from our designers. 14 of Digitals designers have freebies through January 1. Some really great stuff. Enjoy!

New house, New designer

I am very happy to say that my friend Kathy in Michigan who owns The Scrapbook Store dot net found a new house. After 14 years of living with flooding that would last for days into weeks sometimes, she says "her husband" bought her a new house. I get a kick out of that. But I am happy for her. Plus she will carry more crafting goodies now that she will have a dedicated area. I am also happy to announce we have a new designer at Digitals. Her name is Kjerstin and has already begun uploading to her store. So if you have a minute, stop by and check out her designs. Here is the link for Digitals. I completed more challenges than ever at Digitals this month. There was one I had signed up for that I did not complete but I wasn't too excited about it anyway. Don't forget to check out the new posts on my Crafts page. I need sometime to make some smashing layouts for my newest designer Nicecrane. If you click on his name you will get to his blog. He has freebies available once a week I believe. His creations are out of the ordinary, but then who wants to be ordinary? Not me. Ok, time for Jay or David.

Home again, home again, jiggety jog ...

I am in such a state I don't know a word for it. I know I am physically and mentally exhausted. The drive home wasn't as bad as usual. Ayiana and I had a wonderful time together on Saturday. She even made oatmeal and toast for dinner for us, and it was very good! She is such a darling. She fell asleep today while we were meeting. lol with her coat over her face. Got a new picture too. I'll get it posted soon. Soon as I find my camera. I'm trying to catch up on emails. I'm about 3 days behind so I'm not sure I'll make it completely today. I am excited to announce that I have been invited to, and accepted joining Nicecrane ~ a Designer on Digitalscrapbookpages.com ~ his Creative Team. I can't wait to work with his exceptional, original products. Be sure to check out my Crafts blog to see what has been posted recently. I should have some layouts using products by Nicecrane up this week. If you want to see some of his products now, here is a link: Nicecrane Designs. A few weeks ago, no CT, now 3 CT. I'm full. lol Off to ....

Designer Chat and Twitter-free

I'm about to head into a chat at Digitalscrapbookpages, where else. I get to learn about one of our new designers Kristmess. Cute name. I am anxious to learn more as her designs are great, and DeDe is hosting so that will be fun too. About Twitter ... sheesh. I am done. I have tried it several different ways, posting on their site which I find totally inconvenient, posting what I thought would be updates from whomever I chose to follow, but it only posted my updates? What good is that, I know what I said. Then I thought I loaded a blogger widget to post to, read others posts, etc. Picked out a nice look and all. Something happened and I ended up with next to nothing, but again, my own posts. So I am done. Everyone else have a good time with it. I'm busy scrapping pages and enjoying more of the 3-D kind of world. Speaking of which, off to the chat ... enjoy!

Man did I pay ...

I am not used to staying up so late! Combine that with a bit of fibro and arthritis and you're in trouble. Ugh. I'm changing up the routine for the rest of this week and we will start over next. It's all good, as they say. In the meantime I finally completed a really cute layout for Paula, called Artistic Chocolate. Really a cute name, eh? The kit is named Artistic and is at Digitals. lol Leave a comment if you have a minute. I love to get feedback, always working to improve. Okay, bedtime for me. Hope you got to bed at a decent hour. night ...

Pesto and Oscar

After crawling home from Socorro with my car on my back this evening, I don't think I'll be cleaning the windows tomorrow. Okay, yeah, I'm kidding about the crawling with the car on my back, but that's how I feel tonight. I felt like I'd never get home. The highway kept getting longer. I looked around thinking, 'I don't remember seeing this before'. Other than the long drive home, it was a fantabulous weekend. Ayiana and I went to the grocery store then to my hotel for a pass. We ate chips and a new bean/cheese dip that was yummy, then quiche lorraine, then we ate out entrees, then desert candy. Then a little surfing on the computer, pampering Ayiana with a little trim to her hair, some mousse and gentle brushing by mom. I even gave her a mini pedicure, which she really appreciated. We were both bushed by the time she got back for the night. Today was similar. We ate lunch - I'm picking up on a theme here - then we sat outside for a bit, enjoying the breeze, and of course, some rock hunting. Unfortunately I missed the cyber baby shower for Stacey, owner and designer at Digital Scrapbook Pages. She's due in about a week, I believe. And it sounds like they had a great time in the chat. And now, I'm due to finish dinner - yes, eating again - and tuck myself in for a long winter's nap. See you in the morning . . .

Train ** 44 Blogs Long ** Christmas Mini-Kits

Can you believe it! 44 Christmas mini-kits from the designers at Digitalscrapbookpages. Click on the post title or Digitals and you'll be on your way. That will take you to one of the fab designer's blog's, Shawn Walters. Download her mini-kit and then follow the list below it. These designers at Digitals are the most generous I have found. And the most talented! Okay, yes, I'm a First Responder there, but that is why. If you want to work or volunteer somewhere, you want to do it with the best. So get busy, it's going to take a while to download 44 mini-kits. That still blows my mind!

A little closer ...

Well, it's Christmasy. I gave up on installing the one I really wanted. The changes just would not take. So I found another Christmas blog template that I like. Now the header from the first Christmas template is showing up! lol Actually I hope the new template is showing up. I shows in the preview, but not when I just bring up the blog. BTW, I was safe and sound at home all day yesterday. I did my shopping today. I went to WalMart, and 2 of the items I bought were cheaper today, than in the sales flyer for their "big sale" yesterday. If you are looking for some cool Digi Scrapbook kits for Christmas, check out www.Digitalscrapbookpages.com or www.sassydesignz.com. I got the cutest pink Christmas set at Sassy. I'll be posting some layouts when I get my slide show going. And don't forget to check out Bannerwoman's designs at Digitals. Wish me luck on putting this site back together. We are .xml now! (Uh, okay.)

Digital Scrapbooking Day!

I had no idea that November 1 is DSD. I love any excuse to celebrate and party, the internet way. So of course, you have to go over to Digital Scrapbook Pages for the chats and games on Saturday and Sunday with great kits for prizes. Just dropping a quick note about it. I've been working for hours on a challenge layout. I love it to death, my fav so far, but I am tired, especially my eyes. Hope to see you at Digitals!

I am having so much fun!!

Last night at Digitals Chat, we had 62 people, 62!! That is quite a record, and because of it we all got a bonus download!! They are so generous with their prizes: kits, quick pages, etc. And all the designers at Digital Scrapbook Pages are so talented and creative. I'm just having a great time. Look what I found on one of the designers web pages. Give it a try if you like:

The Recipe For Barbara

3 parts Energy 2 parts Class 1 part Charm Splash of Success Serve over ice

What's the Recipe for Your Personality?

Digitals Birthday Bash October 1-8

Birthday Blog Blowout

Many of our designers are offering you free gifts on their blogs each day from Oct. 1-8.

Participants include: Alessandra: http://www.alessandradesigns.blogspot.com/ Amanda: http://flamingo-amanda.blogspot.com/ Beth: http://www.bethscreativechaos.blogspot.com/ Cristina: http://scrap4brains.blogspot.com/ Dea: http://deaspina.blogspot.com/ DeDe: http://designsbydede.blogspot.com/ Diana: http://www.dbdesigns.digitalscrapbookpages.com/ Georgia: http://dreamsinkdesigns.blogspot.com/ Glenda: http://scrapville.blogspot.com/ Jen: http://jenscroppingcreations.blogspot.com/ me: http://www.thejulianablog.com/ Karla: http://karlas-digi-scrappin.blogspot.com/ Kathryn: http://kathrynsdigitaldesigns.blogspot.com/ Katie: http://katiemann.blogspot.com/ Lynne: http://digidigs.blogspot.com/ Sarah: http://sarahbscraps.blogspot.com/ Sharon: http://ninisnews.blogspot.com/ Shawn: http://csuramsrule.blogspot.com/ Silvia: http://www.silviaromeo.blogspot.com/ Spellweaver: http://dizzyb13.blogspot.com/ Tink: www.andikadesigns.blogspot.com

Scavenger Hunt Amanda Thorderson will be hosting her famous treasure hunt with a new twist this year. Watch the forum for clues so you can earn mini-kit and sponsor prizes!

Card-A-Day Download Glenda Ketcham will be offering a free card a day for you to download in the Free Downloads section of our store from Oct. 1-8. Don't miss one!

Birthday Bash Bingo Join Spellweaver as you pick your words and play to win great prizes! Starts on October 4th. DEADLINE TO GET YOUR WORDS IN IS OCTOBER 3RD. Check out the BINGO FORUM HERE.

Challenge Kit Prizes Participate in our October challenges to receive a coordinating mini-kit on our theme The Artistry of Digitals. The mini-kits are also prizes for the Scavenger Hunt.

Crops Join us in the chat room for fun, conversation and prizes from our sponsors!
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1st 9pm EST- Birthday Bash Celebration Crop with DeDe THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2nd 9pm EST - Calendar Crop with Amanda MONDAY, OCTOBER 6th 9pm EST - Multi-Photo Layouts with Shawn WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8th 9pm EST - Over the Hump with DeDe: Designer Spotlight

Free Blinkie for You Download a BB4 blinkie for free here and add it to your forum signatures, email and more!

Digitals Birthday Bash will be Fabulous ! ! !

Check out the cake in the left side bar, it tells a bit of what's going on, and besides it's just cute and I made it. lol There are going to be so many fun games and prizes, and crops and prizes, and challenges and prizes, oh and did I mention PRIZES!! So don't forget, the whole first week of October 1-8. At least stop by and say hi to me. Check out the forum and I bet you can guess what my User name is there, yup, Enchantedcropper, Enchanted for short. It gets a bit long during chats, etc. We'll see you Wednesday for the party!

I almost forgot ....

that I even had a blog. I've been busy with quite a few different projects, but they are all moving ahead. Life keeps improving in many ways. I can't mention most of them right now due to potentially peeping eyes, but I will share one day. I am excited that I finally found the photos I needed for my dear friend Diane's 6yo dd's birthday present that was due like 2 months ago. bad .. bad! But it's going to be so cool, a Bratz shadow box to match her room. She is actually a sophisticated little one (hard to believe at that age, but true) so she will truly appreciate it. I can't wait to get it done. I'm thinking that will be one project for this weekend. Another one is the challenges at Digital Scrapbook Pages. I'm starting to get smoother at creating pages so I signed up for a bunch of them this month. If you create 12 of the 19 or so challenges, you earn a huge mega kit. There's a different kit each month and they are all really well made. Quality control at Digitals is really sharp. (I didn't know such a thing existed in scrapbooking until I learned about how much is done at Digitals.) Here's the link in case you want to check out the challenges. Digitals Forums Scroll down to the challenges category and check them out! They have been a great way for me to practice and learn digi. And it's encouraging because you get a prize of a mini kit or something like it for posting the challenge. And check out the new blog roll down the sidebar. It's all the Digitals Designers blogs. Most are updated frequently, many daily, and many have freebies. So go surfing, dudettes! Ayiana starts 4th grade on Monday. Hard to believe. She is growing up, and I finally know what that really means, maturing. Not only is she taller, she thinks differently, has different needs and interests. But she is still a barrell of fun! Nothing better than a good tickle fight between us. LOL Okay, well maybe a good hug is a bit better. Anyway, dinner time. I'll try and check in more often. Maybe I'll have some layouts to post this weekend.

The Polar Express Blog Train comes to an end

Digital Scrapbook Pages Polar Express Blog Train was wonderful! 23 designers participated for 12 days, making hybrid and quickpages from one of their designer kits for free. Gifts to their customers and others who want to get to know their quality and style. Plus there were the presents in the Store Hunt. I never did find some of those. They were hidden well and the clues were a bit tricky. There will be another big event at Digital Scrapbook Pages again soon. But for now, I get to go play with my new pages! Enjoy the weekend.