D'Ambrosio Arts (formerly Ambrosia Arts Of Virginia)

Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Freebie time! Beach Weather zip 2

Today is not quite as hot as it's been being - only 85 and the humidity seems a little lower. Of course, I was only outside long enough to check mail and bring in the trash can lol. Trying to get a few things done around the house as husband and SIL will be back tomorrow from their visit with friends and family in NJ and NY. He e-mailed this morning that the heat in NY is oppressive - big surprise! - and he is eager to get home. Hoping he can find someplace on I-95 coming home to stop and bring me a box of CinnaBuns. We no longer have any locally and I miss them. Not that I should be eating them, of course, but an occasional indulgence isn't bad.

Today's zip contains a paper and a couple of items one would need to relax in the sun.

Link: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/57614067/2016%20freebies/BeachWeather/ws_BeachWeather_2.zip

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

New freebie begins: Beach Weather

Over the years I've made and started a number of beach themed kits. Not unusual since I live near the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean at nearby Virginia Beach. Plus, most people think "Summer = beach." It sure did when I was a child. Anyway, looking through my files I discovered a lot of beach related things including papers and elements I made for a store I used to sell in and various odds and ends from kits I started but didn't complete. I went with this bright color swatch:

and pulled various things together to put together a kit we will call Beach Weather. Here is your first zip:

Link: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/57614067/2016%20freebies/BeachWeather/ws_BeachWeather_1.zip

Accomplished nothing much today except quick trip to grocery store and gathering up trash and getting can out to street for tomorrow's pick-up. Also realized that a possible reason I've been so exhausted and sleeping weird hours is that I got dehydrated during recent virus. It doesn't take much for that to happen to me. Got to thinking about what I'd been having recently to eat and drink since virus left me with no appetite and that's how I came to see my fluid intake has been way down. So I'm focused on getting that back to normal and expect as it does my sleep will regulate more and I'll feel better overall. Plan to buckle down to some housework tomorrow no matter what!

Quick note

Major thunderstorm is about here with heavy winds, lightening and hail. Will try to get on later and start posts of a beach kt.

Monday, July 18, 2016

Vacation Blues, Illness, and finally a freebie!

Our vacation was a disaster! Missed flight connections, crowded planes, vast airports, extreme heat, old age! I'll spare you the details but it was no fun! We stayed exhausted, stress triggered the healing shingles to flare up, the extent of our COPD became evident, and to make matters worse, we picked up a virus of some kind and were sick after we got home! All last week we felt awful and mostly slept. Now there is a mess to clear up. My husband and his sister are visiting with family and running into complications with their plans. A dear friend had a death in her family and one of husband's co-workers just died. I think Jeremy and Berkeley's bad luck has rubbed off on us!

Because I haven't been busy making a new kit, I'm going to give you a summer tagger kit I made a while back. I don't often make tagger kits and when I do I create them at 300 dpi instead of the more typical 72 dpi and I size the papers at 800 x 800 pixels. I do this because then they are usable (with a tiny bit of stretching perhaps) by people who create Artist Trading Cards which are sized at 2.5" x 3.5" and usually at 300 dpi for printing. I hope you will find this kit useful whether you tag, make ATCs or create journal pages. Will try to get back on track real soon.

Hugs,
Sher