The Fun is Almost Here!

Tomorrow the National Scrapbooking Day celebration at Scrapper's Zone begins. I am hosting the Alpha Challenge & this is the alpha I created for day one. You can pick this up for free and participate in the challenges starting tomorrow. Each day, for 7 days, there will be a new alpha to work with and you'll get a $2 coupon for each day that you participate! Talk about a steal...I mean deal. ;-P
Hope to see you all there!

Blue & Purple Grunge mini kit – Sneak Peek!

National Scrapbooking Day is fast approaching! At Scrapper’s Zone, we’re going to run our National Scrapbooking Celebrations for a whole week – from May 1 to May 7. As part of the fun, I’ll be giving away a piece of this kit each day, so by the end of the week you’ll have the whole thing for free! We’re planning all sorts of fun stuff including challenges and freebies on the website so don’t forget to check back for more details.

Reunion photo

This picture is from my reunion a few years ago. We had such a great time and I really enjoyed seeing so many people that I had not seen since graduation! I scrapped this page with my Fiesta kit available at scrapper’s zone. Have a great weekend!

Girl's Night Out

I created this LO with my brand new Fiesta kit available at scrapper’s zone. These pics are from a “girl’s night out” with two if my favorite gal pals!

'Viva Fiesta" and a new kit!

Its Fiesta time in San Antonio – 10 days full of parties, parades, celebrations and plenty of fun! The whole town is covered in colorful decorations and it seems like everybody is in a party mood. Everyone (from news reporters to strangers on the street) is shouting "Viva Fiesta!" and all this festive fun inspired me to create a new digiscrap kit that’s now available in my store at scrapper’s zone.

You can’t have a Fiesta without cascarones (confetti eggs) and this kit has plenty of them! You’ll also find lots of bright colors and unique elements that make the Fiesta kit perfect for all your party photos!

Fiesta contains 15 heavily textured, colorful papers and 23 elements including: 6 paper flowers, 4 flower eyelets, 4 glitter brads, 4 photo realistic stickers, 2 confetti frames, 1 set of cut out banners on rope, 1 beaded wire, and 1 red bow on ribbon. All created at 300 dpi.

Preview of my newest kit

My newest digiscrap kit will be in stores VERY soon! Here's a little sneak preview. It's Fiesta time in San Antonio and I was inspired to create a kit for Fiesta party photos. Check back soon to find out more about this bright, colorful kit!
Viva Fiesta!

Decorating a Pumpkin

Well, I’m back. My grandmother has been moved into a nursing home that provides rehabilitation. As soon as her back starts to feel better, they’re going work with her so she can start walking again - then she'll be able to go home. She is going to be on oxygen from now on and we’ll have to take extra care to protect her from the flue and/or pneumonia since she only has one working lung. Getting all that sorted out last week, making up the time I missed from work and finishing my homework took up so much time that I wasn’t able to scrap or blog.

Here are some pics of my sister and her youngest son taken just before this past Halloween. He was too young to carve the pumpkin like the rest of us. But that was fine because he had such a great time painting, gluing, etc…on this pumpkin! I used a kit called Harvest Spice by Shabby Princess.

MIA

Just wanted to drop a quick note to say I'm sorry I've been MIA the past few days. My grandmother fell on Monday morning and hurt her back. Since my father passed away 10 months ago, I'm the only family she has left (except my sister but she lives in another state) so that leaves all grandma's care up to me. I've been with her in the hospital for a couple days as they've been trying to figure out why she keeps falling - this is fall number 4 (or 5, I’ve lost count) in the past 2 years. Luckily there are no broken bones but she has a lot of back pain. They ran a bunch of test looking for blood clots that may have been cutting off her oxygen (her blood pressure and oxygen levels were very low) and discovered something else entirely. She has a whole in her diaphragm and a large amount of her internal organs have migrated up into her left lung cavity - the organs are restricting her lung so it can’t inflate and she’s not getting enough oxygen. She’s going to be 94 in August so the doctors are hesitant to do any major surgery but they’re trying to come up with a course of action. Meanwhile, I’m not getting a lot of time for personal interests and only came back to work for a few hours today. I’ll be in touch as soon as I can.

~KJ

Free to Live

Here’s a picture I took of our nieces playing in the back of SD’s truck - they were watching their brother and SD practice football. It was impossible to get a good picture of these to active girls together! I’ve got some great individual shots that I’ll be scrapping soon. {I used a kit called “Free to Live” by Vera Lim of www.veralimdesign.com}

SD and I are going to tackle the exciting job of planting a new tree this weekend. Wish us luck as I am sure this is going to be one mighty endeavor! ;o)

Juicy Again!

I’ve had to so much fun scrapping with “Juicy” I just had to post another LO I made with this kit! Doesn’t that apple look yummy? That’s what “Juicy” is all about – delicious, can’t wait to bite into it, fruit! It's about fun with your friends and family and enjoying the sweat life.

Dont' forget, you can pick up "Juicy" from my scrapper's zone store.

Seven Random Things

Nancy tagged me with this tag game nad I'm behind on getting it up here! I am to list seven random things about me and then tag seven other people - or as many other people as I can - but here is how it works:

1. Link to the person that tagged you and leave a comment on their blog, so that their readers can visit yours.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Share 7 Random facts about yourself on your blog.
4. Tag 7 random people at the bottom of your post, linking to their blog. Let each person know by leaving a comment on their blog.

Seven things about me:

1. I’m back in school and OMG does it take a lot of time. How did I do this before?
2. I absolutely love to take pretty pictures and share them with family and friends.
3. My favorite sandwich from “Which Wich” is the egg salad on wheat with cheddar, garlic and pickles. But don’t get to close after I’ve had one or your nose will run off your face! ;o)
4. I love to sit outside and watch the rain.
5. My hubby and I have a big DVD collection - over 300 the last time I checked.
6. I love to buy new shoes and I keep them all in plastic boxes (with pictures) in the top (and bottom and anywhere else I can cram them) of my closet.
7. I love to cuddle but when it’s time to sleep, I need my space so please don’t crowd me.

I'm tagging some of my new friends from scrapper’s zone so they can get to know me a little better: Echo, Jody, Patricia, Imanita, Nicole, Sherry, Melissa, Susan, Adeyeo, Cherrie, Eirene, Roxanna, and Rose

*I know this is more than 7 and some of you have been tagged already, but I thought this would be a great way for us to get to know each other – no need to repost the tag if you’ve been tagged – just thought I’d share the fun!

Pics of Mia and Neomi

I hope you all had a great weekend. Mine was very busy with a bunch of homework, a baby shower and dinner with friends on Saturday - followed by more homework, and housework on Sunday. Boy, am I glad to get back to work! ;o)

Here are some pictures from our 2007 Christmas celebration with SD’s family. I had so much fun scrapping this page with my Juicy Kit available at scrapper’s zone (there’s also a freebie available that matches the kit perfectly!)

Celebrating with a Free Gift for You!

Today I am celebrating! Not only is today FRIDAY, but I logged into scrapper’s zone this morning and to my great surprise a beautiful set of layouts using one of my kits was right there, before my eyes. I wanted to shout “whoo hoo” but everyone would have looked at me like I was crazy so I just did a little happy dance in my seat. I can’t tell you how proud I felt to see someone else make a LO with the very first digiscrap kit I ever designed. I’m not a mother, but this sense of pride must be close to what it feels like to see your kiddo accomplish something new.

Deborah Sparks’ LOs created using my fuzzy sweater kit are bright and fun!

Emme
Pink Sweater

I honor of this special occasion, I’ve created a freebie for you that coordinates perfectly with my Juicy kit; click here to pick up this free photo mat at scrapper’s zone.

I've Been Tagged

by Rose of RoseMCDigital Designs, but all are invited to join in the Links fun! PLEASE just follow the rules!

Just copy paste THIS and everything below up until my Five links.
I thought it would be cool to have a meme where we post links. We can post up to five.
Then we tell five more people to share their links. If we all share who tagged us, our links are sure to be seen!
They can be business links, favorite sites, affiliate links, whatever you want…

There are Five Rules:
1. MUST be clean. No R rated sites.
2. Only FIVE links.
3. MUST tell 5 people.
4. A link back to the person who tagged you
5. Lara’s Place is the meme originator. (an active link is appreciated)

Here are my 5 Links
1. Scrapper’s Zone – I’m here EVERYDAY! I can’t help myself…I’m addicted!
2. Grey Matter – I love Grey’s Anatomy so I check out this page for all the recent scoop!
3. Where’s George – this is just a fun thing to do…I love tracking my bills.
4. Woot! – Great new deals everyday!
5. Beloved Mama – Prayer is happening…right here…right now

I am tagging, Ali, Adeyeo, Steph, Roxanne, and Nancy

Baby Mark - Page 2

I like to scrap 2 pages with every kit and subject so that when I print my layouts and put them in a scrapbook, the facing pages coordinate. Here’s page two of my Baby Mark LO made with my free “thank you” kit from the Sunshine girls!

Mark Delgado

Here’s a picture of SD’s nephew. This picture is almost 2 years old so it’s about time I scrapped it. I have SO many pictures to get scrapped and since I discovered digiscrapping, things are going much faster!

I used the “sunshine thank you” kit by the Sunshine Girls to scrap this page. I recently applied for their creative team but they’ve got a huge following of outstanding, experienced digiscrappers, so I didn’t make it. But, they sent me this freebie kit just to say thanks for applying…talk about a sweet bunch of ladies.