On SALE this week ONLY for $3!!!

Introducing LuckySun Studio Printable Parties!

This kit is a great way to simplify your Halloween bash prep! Simply print and cut! You can print at home with your own printer and cardstock! This will save you lots of time and money on party supplies and you can reuse it as many times as you need. Print only what you need, and as many pieces without extra or waste!

This listing includes the following:
1 – “Spooky” Banner/Bunting printable pieces- approx. 7.5″ scalloped circles
1- “Happy Halloween” Banner/Bunting printable pieces – triangles approx. 7.25″ wide by 8″ long
3 – 2″ circle tags/labels/cupcake toppers for decorating
4 – 4″ circle tags/labels for decorating
2 – cupcake wrappers
2 – Food Label Tent Cards (customizable with the food labels)
12 – Food Labels for the tent cards
2 – Food Label Tent Cards – 5″ x 7.5″ (folded size is approx. 5″ x 3.75″)
1 – Party Invitation Postcard (**CUSTOMIZABLE! You can edit the text on the pfd files)
3 – Signs for decorating – approx. 7.5″ x 10″
3 – water bottle labels – 2″ x 8″

Easy How To Instructions::

1. You print the files on matte or gloss photo paper or cardstock on your own printer or send them off to a printer (Costco, Walgreen’s, Shutterfly, etc.)

2. Cut or punch out the pieces. Banners will need to be connected either to each other or to a ribbon for hanging. A 2″ circle punch can punch the small labels. Glue the food labels you want to use to a tent card. That’s it! Easy-peasy!

Files are jpg, png, psd, pdf (pdf’s are ready to print from home and  you can edit text on the invitation)

I used Templates No. 5 for all of these pages.  (If you like them use the free blog template for the challenge and whip a page up for yourself!  Then show me what you made!

First Ski Lift Alone!

Made using Templates No. 5 and kit No. 6

Home School P.E.

Some time after Christmas break last year I took an entirely new approach to our home schooling.  I think I had been way OCD with the schedules and lessons, and none of us were really enjoying it.  That made me kind of sad, I had been excited to home school the kids because I had missed them a lot while I was in school teh year before.  So I wanted to just have more fun and quality time with them while they were at home.  So I went with a totally new approach and we ended up having one or two days off each week to just have fun.  So our P.E. classes became “go and do” kind of classes!  It was loads more fun than I had even imagined!

Page made using  Templates No. 5 and kit No. 7

Page made using  Templates No. 5 and kit Frozen

Page made using  Templates No. 5 and kit No. 4

So, anyway- I have some new things to announce!

First, I have two challenges for you!

Challenge #1

My Photo Challenge is up at PlainDigital Wrapper.  Everyone who participates gets a gift certificate to my store! This month is super easy (because I totally am a week late in posting).  So if you want an easy guaranteed gift certificate head over there to PDW and post a layout in my challenge this month!

Theme: Family
Your photo has to show family. Whatever your family consists of (kids, parents, siblings, extended, pets, whatever YOUR family is).

Before you begin here are a few simple guidelines that must be met:
1) Use at least one item (any item is fine) from a Plain Digital Wrapper designer
2) Must be a new layout created for this challenge
3) Can only be entered in one challenge category
4) Post your layout in the correct challenge gallery

Everyone who completes the challenge will get a gift certificate to my store at the end of the month!
This challenge will run from October 1-31st
If you have ANY questions, please feel free to ask me!

Challenge #2

I have had a blog/Facebook Freebie up and wanted to challenge you to use it and SHOW me what you made with it!  I will select one random participant to win a $10 gift certificate at the end of the month!

If you didn’t grab the freebie yet here is your link: Blog Template Challenge No. 1

Rules:

1. Use the Blog Challenge Template

2. Post your layout using the template in one of these Galleries/Pages:

Plain Digital Wrapper

My Facebook Page

DigiShop Talk

3.  Post a comment on my blog linking me to your layout in one of the galleries listed above.

I will select a winner Nov. 1st!!!

And finally I have a *NEW* Release! My Halloween MEGA kit is a combination of my previous Halloween kits, I pulled out my favorite papers and elements and combined them all into one giant kit!  I have just released it in my store this morning!  It is on sale for ONLY $3!!! It will also be released tomorrow at Plain Digital Wrapper!

Please spread the word to your friends! I appreciate word of mouth (or text or facebook) recommendations for my products!

Have a fabulous weekend!

~April

Simply click “like” on my Facebook page and you will be taken to the download picture (then click on it)!

Super easy-peasy!  I hope you like it.  If you get a chance to use it and want to link me to a layout you made with it I would LOVE to see it!!!

Become a Fan!

Check it out HERE!

I didn’t get a lot of designing done, as you can tell.  And the blog didn’t get updated like I had planned. So I am sorry for that.  I am trying to get some new routines in now that my kids are all back in school.  It *crossing my fingers* will be nice to have a “normal” school year.  After going back to college full time and then needing to home school my son, then adding my youngest daughter to home schooling last year, I am ready for “normal”!

So, that brings me to updating the blog.  I will be back in a little bit to show you my latest.  I have new templates, a challenge in the PDW forums (you can win a gift certificate just by participating-woot!), and a blog freebie!  So stay tuned!

New Release! No. 10!

Just $2 this week at my store or at Plain Digital Wrapper!

This kit is all about summer, and it is HUGE!!!

Seriously, there are 3 Alphas, 18 papers and over 120 elements!

I have noticed, and been disappointed in the trend of much smaller kits since my return to designing.  I don’t feel like following the trend. *wink* So, I just kept adding what I felt like I wanted in a kit for my own pictures, and it just became GINORMOUS!

And then, I felt like I needed more boyish feeling elements so I added more, and then I decided to just make some clusters!

So, the good news is that if you purchase No. 10 from MY store for JUST $2, you will also receive the downloads for the CLUSTERS and EXTRAS for FREE!!!! This offer is only good through July 31st!

(Simply add No. 10 to your cart, and then add then when you add the extras and clusters they will be FREE!)

You will love how it can work for both boys or girls, and you can showcase your photos from any age group!  It is versatile, fresh and lots of fun! I designed it as I was snapping pictures of our summer activities. So there are a lot of summer related elements that work for beach, amusement park, water park, playground and other activities!
These are the elements in the kit. Not all are pictured, but most. I had so much fun creating these! I tried really hard to make sure there were boy and girls options (I have an almost teen boy, so I know how hard it is to find elements for them!)

There are 18 papers in this kit! You can purchase them in the kit or separately.

These are extras I made as I was scrapping and wishing for just this “one” other element. This is a separate add-on pack you can grab.

This cluster pack is a separate add-on. I was having a lot of fun making clusters for my layouts, and figured I may as well make a little pack of them!

This is one of the three alphas I made for the kit! You can purchase it in the kit or separately.

And here are the other two:

Check out these fabulous layouts from my Creative Team!

Sample by Stephanie

Sample by Nicky

Sample by Me (I actually got to scrap one night!)

Last time I mentioned that I will be starting some challenges on my blog and there will be free products for those who participate! So watch for that to start soon! Subscribing to my blog will be the best way to stay up to the minute on that. I have had to start later than I planned due to my mom’s car accident. All of my “free” (as in I do not HAVE to be somewhere else) time has been spent over at her house taking care of her and her yard and gardens. But, I think that situation is getting under control with the family all taking shifts. So I am hoping to make some templates in the next week or so and get the party started!

I hope your week is SUPER FUN, full of family and friends and lots of memories shared or created!

~April

It is truly a miracle she is even alive. The guy that caused the accident took off and they never found him. Her car was plowed off the road and she hit a ramp sort of retaining wall that rocketed her car into the air, and it landed front end first, about 30 feet away, then that launched her another 20 feet or so where she landed on the back end of the car, and then it rolled/slid another 30 feet or so up an embankment. I can not believe she isn’t more damaged. And after the car stopped she smelled gas, panicked and climbed out of the car to get away. She is one wild woman.  We still aren’t sure where she was in the car when it stopped. She thought the dashboard was in front of her, but my brother had the number of the first guy on the scene to help and he said when he got to the car she was climbing out a back window.

I would be really grateful for the prayers in her behalf, I know they are heard. She is in so much pain, they are saying three months flat on her back is what she is headed for at home (which may kill her faster than any other injury could). We don’t know when they will release her, they can’t cast her ankle or hand due to swelling. But she is going to go so crazy laying flat, please pray she heals faster!

And with that, I will be MIA for a little while so we can make sure she isn’t alone at the hospital and then I don’t know what we’ll do when she is at home. I kinda feel like a crazy lady.  I have a kit that is almost ready to be released, I was just finishing up a fun add-on pack for it when this happened.  I wish I could take this computer to the hospital and work on it while I sit there.  So, hopefully I can release it next week.  But I will give you a peek at it and some pics of what is left of my mom’s car.

Wear your seat belts and be safe!  Thank you!

No. 10

Something wonky happened to the coding in one of my software files, and so I just disabled that for now.  The developer is looking into it for me for a real fix.  Whatever it was doing was corrupting the links and causing all sorts of havoc in there.

So, I have it fixed, and I will work on getting the download links reset for everyone (which may take me a little while).  But you can go try again in your account history or if you have the e-mail with the links.

I promise there was no virus issue (I had someone tell me they thought it was), but no, it wasn’t.  I know exactly what it is, I just don’t know enough about coding to fix it.   I’d rather create stuff… hahahaha

Okay, thanks for all of your patience!  When I reset the link you may get an email, I really don’t know.  So if you do, or if you don’t, don’t panic!

Freedom Rings Freebie

Thank you to all of our military and their families for being willing to serve and protect America!

Random Integer Generator
Here are your random numbers:
118 95 74 56
…Timestamp: 2011-07-01 14:06:29 UTC

Petra Losbichner
Vickie Fernandez
Nancy Lambert
Tracy Roberts-Burns

Congratulations!

I will try to get more going next week on the blog.  I had a very eventful week with my kids and didn’t have much time at home.  My two oldest had camps, the oldest was at Heber Valley Girl’s Camp, and for the first time in 5 years I wasn’t involved.  It was so weird to be in the position of not knowing what was going on.  But she went, had an awesome time, and is now safely home!

My son had karate camp.  He spent 7 hours a day all week learning and practicing karate.  He almost got his orange belt, but got nervous in the very last part of the testing.  So he is all striped to test, and Hanshi says he will retest him when he is ready.  BUT, he did win first in board breaking (and that was against ranks of white through red belt!).  His team also came in first in the team competitions!  So he really did awesome!!!

And my youngest and I spent the week hanging out together.  I really don’t think she and I have had one on one time like that in her entire life.  It was so much fun!  We went to lunch, visited the zoo (she is an animal whisperer,  so we had to go), visited the petting zoo, saw a couple of movies, and played in the pool.  And then last night while I was out with a friend she took our Saint Bernard (Bear @ 140ish pounds, dd @59 pounds) for a walk while her sister (the babysitter) was in the shower.  DD is almost 10, and she and her friend decided to just take Bear out, no big deal. But, when they got a few houses away there was a cat out… What I have been told is that Bear started chasing the cat, dd held on trying to stop him (with her mighty 59 pounds), and he went around the corner of a house and the house stopped dd.  She was slammed into the house and knocked out.  Her friend got help fro the neighbor, and they treated her cuts and scrapes and checked her eyes for a concussion (he is in the medical field, thankfully).  And I came home to a purple faced, bleeding girl.  It was so sad.

She can’t remember what happened.  And her biggest concern is having to go out in public.  (Naturally, she is my child) I am going to have to see if we need stitches in her knee, and have them double check her head this morning.  What a night!

And today is my 17th anniversary to my hubby!  So, I guess what I am saying is sorry for the lapse in posts on the blog.  I’ve been busy and it isn’t over yet!  But I am finishing up a new kit, inspired by the fun with my kids so far this summer!  And I will have new releases at PDW next week!

Go enjoy your family!!!

*heart* April