A couple MORE Valentines....

Happy Valentine's Day! I don't know how I did it, but I missed posting my day 3 Valentine! I love this kit by Fraisinette.... called Mon coeur est à toi (My heart is yours in English).

Credits:
Kit - Mon couer est à toi by Fraisinette
"Happy Valentine Day" graphic found on Google image search, no credits listed

And today's Valentine!! I used Osten "The Dude" Wilkin's BRAND NEW kit called Tortured Love. You can get it in his store today HERE. AND if you join his forum and participate in the Embellish It! Challenge, you can get soooooo much more of Tortured Love for free... just for participating! Here are some previews of Tortured Love:

And here's my Valentine using his kit:

Credits:
Kit - Tortured Love by Osten "The Dude" Wilkins
Fonts - TXT Sloppy Script
Poem - Ben Jonson, The Forest--Song to Celia

I'm a CT!!!... not sure what I'm in for (yet)

WOW! I never even considered it before, but I was asked to be on Scrappin' Brat's creative team!! I have mixed feelings here... excitement that someone actually LIKES my layouts, but then I'm not sure I really want to make a commitment to "scrapping on demand". This is so new to me but I thought I'd give it a try on a TRIAL basis. I recieved my first kit today SO you'll be seeing a lot of her kits shown off here. First things first.... she has a SALE going on right now... February 13th - 28th!! Go check it out! Her links are under the ad below.

Scrappin Brat's Scrappin Digi Kreations store

Scrappin Brat's Scraps blog

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And here's another Valentine I created for the Valentine challenge at OWD. Have a great day!

Kit - Olde Tyme Rose collab from Heritage Scraps - Kate McClellan, DigiZines by Teri, Jean Daugherty Designs & Designs by BubblyKori
Fonts - Beyond Wonderland, Ellida

Introducing....

I FINALLY got to see my new grandson, Arty Jr, last night! Boy oh boy, is he a little chunker, haha! He was born almost a month early and still weighed over 9 pounds! He was in an incubator for the first 20 hours or so "just in case" but now he's hanging out with with his fellow baby friends in the "gallery"!!! I got to hold him for 20 minutes last night and fell in love... how can a Grandma not love such a darling!?! I haven't gotten the pictures off my camera or memory stick yet, but this is one that my son gave me that's ONE HOUR after his birth. You can be sure you'll be seeing more picture of him in the coming days!

Credits:
Kit - Tout Simplement by Fran at Imagine by Fran
Fonts- NipAndTuck, Bradley Hand ITC, Missy BT, Morning Limerick BT

And... I just wanted to show you another Valentine I created for Osten "The Dude" Wilkins. He has a challenge in the forum to get his hearts (scrap hearts!) if we "torture" him with lovin', haha! Anyway, he's my DAY TWO Valentine! A POET I AM NOT!!! Hahaha!

Credits:
Kit - My Grungy Valentine kit by Scrap U
Lips - from Sweet Valentine Kit by Tempus Fugit
Envelope w/ paper - Vintage Floral Bonus Envelope by KylieM Designs
Font - Liorah BT

See ya later!

Freebie papers... catching up finally!!!

Anybody want a freebie??? Is anyone interested in my failed attempt to create digital papers? Hahaha... yes, I mean failed. I was playing around with different settings and commercial use overlays and here are my results.... THIRTY-THREE digital papers... all 12x12 inch... all 300 dpi! If you want them, click the links below the preview. And please leave a comment if you snag?! Thank you.

KHG_33experiments-1.zip
KHG_33experiments-2.zip
KHG_33experiments-3.zip

Soooooo... what have I been doing? GOING CRAZY, ahahahaha! No, not really. December was a very long month for me. Hubby lost his license temporarily because the meds he was on gave him a bad reaction. He passed out while driving and hit a tree! All is well now (and the state decided to let him drive again!) but everything took soooo long to do because we had to rely on other people for transportation. The Friday after Christmas we were finally mobile again.

New Year's Eve was anything but eventful. DH and I rented a movie, watched a bit of TV afterward, then at 11 p.m. we watched the ball drop in New York, haha. How exciting, huh? I actually stayed up past midnight to toast in the New Year with my Sparkling Spring Mineral Water and listened to all the fireworks going off in the area.

After the 1st, I decided to do some "spring cleaning" in January... closets cleaned, furniture moved, and lots of Purple Heart donations. I'm not even close to being finished! Every day is another corner.

I even DELETED my favs folder!!! ... on purpose of course. I was spending wayyyy too much time browsing blogs and forums. So here I am starting from scratch with only 4 of my favorite blogs and 2 forums in my favorite places! This gives me so much more time to do other things.

Somewhere in all that time, I found this AWESOME forum at Osten Wilkins Designs (OWD). I have to admit that I'm addicted! It's still a fairly small group of scrappers and/or designers, but every day I see more. I even decided that will be my future gallery home for all my LOs (plus here). Below are a few of the LOs I've done with The Dude's kits. (The Dude = Osten Wilkins... he calls himself that, as does everyone else there!)

First is one I did using Winter Wonderland. This is the Christmas tree at my son Bob's house.

Kit - Winter Wonderland Jan09 "Club Dude" kit by Osten Wilkins Designs aka "The Dude" (some pieces recolored)
Fonts - Formal436 BT, Kingthings Calligraphica and CU glitter

This one I created for the Embellish It! Challenge at OWD. It's my granddaughter Tayli building a snowman.

Kit - Winter Wonderland by Osten Wilkins Designs aka The Dude
Date Box by Jillybean Designs
Fonts - vtks untitled, Lucida Caligraphy

Here are my boys and their families... and no crying or whining kids! This was done for the Font Challenge at OWD.

Kit - Happy Holidays by Monna Lainson and Osten Wilkins Designs
Glitter - CU glitter by megadoodle
Font - Exmouth and Broadway

And this was done for the Download-a-Day Challenge with Kimmy at OWD. The pictures are of me and my sister in 1963 at my maternal grandparents house. I miss them all!

Kit - Winter Wonderland by Osten Wilkins Designs aka The Dude
Sketch by kimsmith designs aka vkimmycat
Fonts - MeaCulpa & Curlz MT
Frame created using sketch and papers from OWD's Winter Wonderland kit

Next up... I WON A KIT!!!! Ziggle Designs and Amanda Heimann created this gorgeous Valentine kit called Smooches (available HERE at Scrap Orchard). She chose a random reply on her CT blog and it was mine, wooohooo! Here's what the kit looks like:

And below is what I did with it! It's my darling granddaughter Emma playing in the tub. Check out how she dressed!!! Hahahaha! And the Ziggle CT blog even spotlighted it in today's post! NEVER BEFORE! You really have to check out some of the beautiful designs!

Kit - Smooches by Ziggle Scraps (Kami Leonard) & Amanda Heimann
Crumpled Mat Template by Helena Jole
Font - Austins Hand
Pics - my granddaughter, Emma (isn't she cute!)

I've done quite a bit more scrapping but I think that's enough for today. I'm going to try to keep up with posting.... Have a great day!