Summer Afternoon

Have a look at this lovely new kit from my friend, Liv (Country Liv's Graphics):

Love these colors! I am so ready for warm weather. Check Liv's blog http://countrylivs.blogspot.com/ to see more of her designs and where you can purchase them. Sign up for her newsletter too.

What's new and belated freebie

All best laid plans . . . fail when a migraine takes over. Just today managed to get my Valentine kit and related items in the store. Here is what is new:

This is a big kit so here are some additional previews to show what is included:

I used some of my own (Sher Scraps) CU items in the kit and am offering some of them in that shop:

and these haven't been loaded to store yet as I can't stand too much of this light on PC:

And another pack added to the Feb CAK:

You know where you can find them all: digistyledesigns And here are the freebies I intended to load yesterday:

download here: http://www.4shared.com/zip/Nct7t-BIce/ws_freebie215.html?

Just right click & save Hugs!

New for Valentine Romance

Hmm started post without checking to see what I've already shown you. Silly me. Guess I'll just show all of CU4CU stuff for this CAK.

BTW the page border I gave as a freebie is Not included in the set in store.

Heard from my dear friend, Liv aka Country Liv's Graphics, who is in NC and bracing for the winter storm starting there. The one that knocked out power for so many in GA. They (NC) have been told that they may lose power soon so Liv is getting prepared and sent me a warning saying that it's sleeting and visibility is about 10 feet! Sounds a lot like the last storm we had here that gave us 10 inches of snow! Last thing I heard before heading to bed last night was we'd start getting precipitation here about 6pm today - rain mixed with snow and no expectation of accumulation. Haven't checked weather channel yet to see if that has changed for my area. Did put my beef stew on to start cooking early just in case icy weather causes problems. Liv is taking a design break this month but why don't you stop by her blog and say Hi and leave some warm thoughts? Her designs are lovely and if you aren't familiar with them, I'm sure you will be pleased to discover them. http://countrylivs.blogspot.com/ I did not get back to desktop PC last night for any length of time but here is a free qqp for you made with some of the above Valentine Romance products.

pick it up here: http://www.4shared.com/zip/_J_M1XfBba/ss4cu_ValRomance_freebie212.html? And despite migraine and backache, I'm a smidge ahead with another freebie ready for tomorrow. While it uses one thing from my CU packs above, this item will not be included in any packages for sale. It's just for you and coordinates with the Valentine Romance colors. Heading in the kitchen now to stir the stew and make another cup of that chai tea. Stay warm and healthy!

New page borders & freebie

I know, I know. My blog header needs replacing and I promised a freebie I didn't manage to put up. Starting going to PT and by the time I got home didn't want to do much else. Also taking my father to doctor. And next week will be busier: 2 PT sessions plus take Dad for eye surgery (a minor thing overall) etc. etc. On the plus side, if I cut back on the frequency of the exercises prescribed to where it's only a little uncomfortable, they are helping. And June is recovering from her pneumonia finally. Only made it through one of my January goals, that of getting financial papers etc in better order and gathering materials for taxes. My husband was pleasantly surprised when I handed him all the info without him having to ask! He's already sent federal tax forms off and will get state done in about two weeks when he is off work to go to a Bluegrass party. For some reason, we've had no trouble with federal taxes but when we do our own state, it always comes back as in error. So we started going downtown and getting the state tax people to do it and all is well. Did get some potentially bad news tonight. My son called, saying he'd been putting off calling until he knew more about a health issue he'd been having last couple weeks. He's getting some kind of heart palpations or unuusal heart beat and been to see a cardiologist. Of course, as these things go, it wasn't happening while he was in the office, so they sent him a heart monitor to try and capture such events. The monitor arrived as planned but had some sort of kink in the lead wires so wouldn't record anything. He's got another now and will be monitoring for next couple weeks. Would appreciate any prayers on his behalf. I put together some page borders for the Valentine Romance CAK at DigiStyleDesigns. It's a full size set of 6 and they are CU4CU.

And here is a free page border for you:

http://www.4shared.com/zip/_zMMWYEQce/ss4cu_ValRomance_pdborder_free.html?

Valentine's Romance at Digi Style Designs

Have you seen the new Create_A_Kit at Digi Style Designs? It's called Valentines Romance. Check it out here: http://digistyledesigns.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=268 Every product in this category is priced from $1 to $4 and all coordinate with the color swatch you see here:

I'm usually ready with new CAK stuff before the first of the month but between unusual weather woes (snow!) and back pain, I was slow getting going. Got my Mardi Gras contribution finished first and am working on a PU Valentine's day kit so the CAk stuff came later. Just got back from physical therapy and loaded a set of overlays from Sher Scraps:

and from Wonderland some PU papers made from above overlays:

and two sets of page templates:

Am only supposed to be at PC for 30 minutes at a time, then break and do exercise for my back, so I haven't made a freebie for you yet today. Hope to add a little something before I go to bed tonight.

A Little Romance Tagger Kit

Haven't done a tagger kit in ages but had some items I thought might work together, so here goes.

There are 12 tagger size backgrounds (800 x 800 pixels) and 32 tagger elements in Valentine/romance theme. All are saved at 300 dpi in case you want to print something. (Okay, it's also my habit to save at 300 dpi because I usually do full size kits and artist trading cards which I may want to print to include in lunches, letters, etc. I found that if tagger stuff is "standard" tagger size but saved at 300 dpi, you can stretch the backgrounds a bit to make the 2.5 inches x 3.5 inch ATC size.) Here's an example of a tag I made for myself with the kit.

I'm not a great tag maker and seldom use them since I don't use the mail program that supports tags. Still, it's fun to play around with. Here's a basic Valentine's tag that you may snag if you wish.

Doing the crazy weather thing here in Tidewater - was about 60 yesterday, colder today and dropping more overnight. And the weather people are talking possibility of snow again. My sinuses are going crazy! Saw my rheumatologist yesterday. After discussing the severe pain I had following our vacation trip in September and my PCP's diagnosis of degenerating discs in lower back plus arthritis, she checked a few things herself. She thinks I may have Piriformis Syndrome and is going to send me for physical therapy in hopes they can teach me some exercises that might help when the problem reoccurs. Otherwise, she said I'd done everything I reasonably could for myself. Just can't get motivated to do work that needs doing. Have gone through a couple novels my Dad brought me (Kay Scarpetta mysteries) and finished the 6th book of the Games Of Thrones series. I was hoping that would be the end of that and only reading it because I wanted to know what happened to a couple characters I'd found interesting. But no, it appears that the author is going to continue with this series forever! Oh well, that's probably it for me. Passed it along to my nieces who have the other 5. ***In one good piece of news, my niece and God-daughter, Rachel B, has been accepted to Old Dominion University! Congratulations Rachel! Love you and hope you will fulfill your dream of becoming a marine biologist.