Working on housework and CAK

It's getting ready to rain again. Yesterday and day before there were some pretty severe thunderstorms here on the East coast and NC had tornado damage. Hoping tonight's storm won't be as bad. Had appointments yesterday so today have been doing some housework and working on Mother's Day CAK. Here are the latest items:

When I think of Mother's Day, I think of roses - perhaps because my Mom's name was Rose and she loved the flowers. Several Mother's Days way back, I gave her rose bushes for her garden. Since her death, all but one, a Queen Elizabeth, have died. Dad isn't a gardener. And Mom, being of Irish descent, always maintained that a good "cuppa" (cup of tea) could help with anything from a cold to heartbreak, so I had to do a tea treat package:

Now a little something for you - a charm that you can snag right here:

Yes, you may use it as CU4CU. Hugs!

Trying to improve my flow - & freebie!

I've been participating in the free 21 day meditation challenge called Finding Your Flow. It is sponsered by Deepak Chopra and Oprah Winfrey through Chopra Center. I'm enjoying it very much although I got a little behind due to illness. I'm trying to make up sessions by doing one in morning and another at night. It consists of a daily centering thought, a Sanskrit mantra, daily quotation, daily message recited by Oprah, and a meditation led by Deepak. After meditation, you can respond to thought provoking questions in the journal provided (yes, it's private). Meditation does become easier when you consistently practice and has many health benefits. Some of hte questions raised in the journal are especially fitting right now due to things happening to family members. I encourage everyone to go to the Chopra Center link and sign up for messages and updates about special events like this.

My bronchitis is easing up and I'm hoping to find more energy soon. I made a few things for the May CAK at DigiStyleDesigns; the theme is Mother's Day. Here are some previews:

Have at least 2 more packs ready to load tonight. Almost everything is CU4CU, one or two items CU4PU and all priced between $1 - $4.

Also made you a spring paper (PU & S4H) in the Mother's day colors. I used a doodle from my friend, Baby Cakes Scraps, to create the overlay for this. Hope you like it:

Pick it up here: http://www.4shared.com/zip/9vCQn2cCba/ws_springpaper.html? Hugs!

Another weekend gone & a freebie

Here it is almost Monday again! The congestion in my lungs seems to be clearing - finally! But I didn't manage to do many of the things I wanted to. However, I did get two lengthy long distance phone calls. My brother, who lives in FL, called Friday and we had a good talk. He told me about his trip to CO to see his son and his wife. says he thinks he'll be able to get things settled at home inn a couple weeks, then will make that visit here. The other call was from my son, Jeremy. All is well in PA and they might come for a brief visit about mid May on their way to vacation on Outer Banks. Sure looking forward to that. I'm still trying to clean up hard drives and have made some good progress but that means I didn't create anything new today. However, here is the set of full size plaids:

No, didn't change the preview lol other than to say full size. http://www.4shared.com/zip/dRisQZsZba/ss4cu_plaidbg_full.html? I have come across a number of things from when I used D'Ambrosio Arts as trade name and will be putting those up soon. Might not even change trade name on them. After, all how many D'Ambrosio people do you know? Going to do a meditation session, then to bed. Got away with sandwiches and leftovers during weekend, so I'd better cook a real meal tomorrow and need to get some chores done too. Goodnight and sweet dreams.

Tagger Size Plaid BG freebie

Pick up here: http://www.4shared.com/zip/DjLkU6qKba/ss4cu_plaidbg_ts.html?

Beautiful Spring, upcoming sales, and freebie

The last few days have been nice with spring time temperatures. My friend, Stacy, must have pushed some of that LV warmth this way. All the flowering trees are in bloom as are the azaleas and wisteria. I especially love the dogwood trees which look as though nature has thrown lace across those nearly bare branches. Haven't been out much, just to doctor, grocery and pharmacy. Doctor told me to avoid the tree pollen as much as possible while trying to get my lungs clear. And tonight we are expecting some sort of storm front with hail so, sadly, I expect most of those blooming trees will lose their blossoms. Her's a peek at the colors for the upcoming Mother's Day CAK

Digi Style Designs is preparing for International Scrapbooking Day when there will be lots of sales and special offers. I'm going to put everything (except May CAK items which cannot be sale priced) in Wonderland Scraps on special for $1. Instead of a few days, I'm going to run it all the month of May, so if you are interested, check her on May 1st:

http://digistyledesigns.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=86

And I'm running a Buy My Store on commercial use products

http://digistyledesigns.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_207&products_id=6733

A while back I experimented with a plaid generator. I made a set of 8 plaid backgrounds in full size, tagger, and atc sizes and I'm going to give them away. Tonight it's ATC size, where ATC stands for Artist Trading Cards. If you aren't familiar with ATCs let me give you a quick explanation. ATCs are small pieces of art work intended to be traded among friends. They are always sized at 2.5" x 3.5" - the size of baseball cards - but can be made in any medium: paper, painting, fabric, metal, digital - whatever you can think of. the original intention was that ATCs be traded or given away, never sold. However, over time, some have come to sell completed ATCs, only they are supposed to call them artist cards editions and originals (ACEOs). Really, they are the same thing - tiny art works. All that said, here is the preview of the plaid background set:

Also a sample ATC

Pick up the atc backgrounds here: http://www.4shared.com/zip/LAi5PJmZba/ss4cu_plaidbg_atc.html? Tomorrow I'll post link for the tagger size backgrounds which are 800 x 800 pixels. Besides making tags, I've found that you can piece tagger backgrounds and make bragbook pages with them. Off to meditate. Hugs, SherryD

Quick freebie post

I'll make this quick 'cause I should be sleeping. Tonight I've got a CU4CU frame freebie for you. I'm not packaging it up with TOU and all that. If you have any of my other CU freebies, you know the deal. Just right click and save.

Hi, I'm S-H-E-R and I have C-O-P-D & a freebie for you

Spent hours today visiting my pulmonologist: breathing test, exam, breathing treatment, and prescriptions. Can't shake this cough and chest started hurting over weekend, so . . . now on antibiotics, cough suppressent, and nebulizer every 6 hours. Hopefully, this will beat it quick now. So, how about some bokeh papers? If you caught earlier post before this edit, please use link as otherwise blogger turns these into 72dpi and you'd have to resize.

http://www.4shared.com/zip/iCNtP6DJba/ws_BerryPickinBokeh.html?