Announcements Galore!!

I just found out I won Layout of the Day (LOTD) at 3Scrapateers!! They loved my little LO of sleeping Sasha!! If you are over there, please leave me some love, and you can create your own by picking up the FREEBIE by Lisa Majewski!!

Wow!! That is such a wonderful honor!!

I've got so much info to spread, it's not even funny!!

I just got the card photos from Grodans Scrapgarden in Sweden, and I will be posting those this afternoon so you can see what wonderful work comes from another country!! Sweden is just getting in on the scrapbook hobby and they are rockin' it!! Apparently they LOVE it just as much as Americans do!! So...

On to my next announcement, if you are in Texas and would like to get together and have some fun with some of the best scrapbook girls on the internet (both paper and digi girls are invited)--You've totally got to join http://www.acherryontop.com/ (aka ACOT) and sign up to join us for a fabulous fun filled weekend packed full of cropping, games, and prizes at By Design Scrapbook Boutique in Clear Lake City, TX (Houston--not far from NASA Space Center)!! And if you're not in Texas and you'd like to fly in or drive down or across, I'm pricing local hotels. The wonderful event will be February 29 thru March 1st, and I would like to hold a brunch/breakfast that Sunday Morning the 2nd of March before everyone goes back home or out of town... I'm planning the event with ACOTs very own Amanda 'Mkcdaisy', who is one of the Creative Team members!! Click on her name above to read her bio!! Save the date!! It's going to be a blast, I can guarantee it!! This will NOT be something you'll want to miss--even if you don't scrap and you're thinking about starting...

There is a SALE!! Going on over at DSO--FishinMom Designs is on a roll with new kits!! There are two new Christmas kits!! Right now they are 50-60% off!! But I believe you've only got one week to scoop these up!! Both are different, and I just can't keep up with her!! So, I don't have any LOs to show you right now, but I didn't want you to miss the sale!!

Click on the photos, to buy the kit of your choice!! Or better yet, pick up both kits for less than the cost of ONE kit!!

FishinMom Designs also has a kit she is working on that will go up in the stores some time soon, but she is offering it to all her blog readers for FREE a download a day!! So... run over to her blog and scoop up "Winter Berry" a piece at a time, and collect the whole kit before it's available in the store!! She will only have the links available 48hrs at a time!! Oh yeah, did I say Free?

Card Contest and an Update

Wow, I for sure thought I would have had at least 2 entries from my blog readers and subscribers!! Guess I'll be keeping my $10 Gift Certificates to myself then!! I had 3 to give away!! Maybe next contest...

Well, this has been a really exciting week for me in more than one way! Oh yes, first an update on Marie, she is at home, healing, just a little pain (but not enough to have missed an all day crop yesterday at ScrappeGardens in the south of Sweden! You know how we are... near death, but still croppin'!!) I have made her a get well card, and will be sending it soon!

Now, there are two different pieces of great news, I can only reveal one right now until I get the go ahead for the other one!

I've been selected for my second CT!! Take a look at the official Announcement! I'll also be creating for FishinMom Designs!! She has a blog where she has been designing and loading lots and lots of FREEBIES!! So now she is selling specially designed kits that are sold exclusively at Digital Scrapbooking.Org (aka DSO)... And I was the FIRST one selected to be on her CT!! So I'm officially part of the 'fishpond' ; isn't that a cute play on words? It's all in her blog!! Sign up for her blog updates, she is still giving away freebies, and they come from the actual kits she's selling!! Catch the kits when she first puts them in the store and they're only $2!! Yes, you read correctly, that's 67% off the regular price!!

Here are is my first LO created using her "Hot to Trot" kit!!

Credits:
"Hot to Trot" kit by FishinMom Designs

Chalk overlay designed by me

Professional photo taken at PetCo

Scraplift (Raylene @3S)

Fonts used (most availabe as free downloads at DaFont):

Zallman-Caps (90 and 72pts)

High Tower Text (48 pts)

Tahoma (26 pts)

Punch Label (36 pts)

Crayon (100 pts)

Gigi (48 pts)

“Hot to Trot” kit by FishinMom Designs now on SALE!! Only $2!! Get it now before it goes back to the regular price of $6!! This is practically a steal!! A great fun versatile kit! Don't forget to pick up the matching QP freebie at her blog! BTW, all of her downloads are password protected, but the passwords are listed right above or below the photo of what you're downloading!! Please leave her a huge "Thanks" if you pick up any freebies! She's like me... it makes her heart smile!!

I'll be posting a few more layouts today, I've been so busy creating and creating for both Lisa Majewski Designs and FishinMom Designs, now I just have to get them all uploaded!! Stop by and tell these wonderful ladies you found them through me, Elise, aka NikosMom when you sign up at any of the sites that they sale their designs on!