I have NEWS!!!

Hi ladies,

Wow!!! didn't realise I hadn't visited my own blog in so long. How was everyone's Christmas!! Mine was lovely all family, sun and fun. Went to the beach for little while and laxed out in the sun (while it was shining). Took the grandchildren shopping, for little ones I am surprised but their mother has certainly taught them to shop 'til they drop. lol!!

Now for the fantastic news. I work for an awesome designer Sweet Tomato Designs and at the end of last year she decided to consolidate all her stores and become exclusive at Polka Dot Plum:As you can see she is having an enormous sale of all her gorgeous kits to celebrate her grand opening, which is happening on the 1st of January. So why not pop on over and have a look she has a wide variety of kits and each one is gorgeous. Here are some layouts I have done using them:

This one was made using her Thankful Kit:

The next one uses her I Believe Kit:

and last but by no means least here is one using her Ordinary Moments Kit:
So go one, you know you want to pop over and check her out SWEET TOMATO DESIGNS

That's about it for now, can't wait for the start of the New Year. Hope yours is wonderful and full of happiness and joy.

Until next time
Take Care

Cheers Helen

Hi all,

Just me again, thought I should pop in and let you know, the family is fine again now over all the coughs and colds, I hate change of season colds they seem to last forever. Mind you I think the change of season itself is taking forever as well. Here we are in Spring (waiting expectantly for Summer) and we are still getting snow on the hills, but then we are also getting lots of Spring rain.

Thought I would also let you know about the upcoming Speed Scrap at Designs in Digital. They are always so much fun, so why don't you pop on over on Wednesday the 11th at 9pm EST for some fun and chance to get a gorgeous layout scrapped at the same.

Sweet Tomato Designs in having a Speed Scrap at Designs in Digital. This week she is going to tell you the 7 things she is thankful for. So pop on over on Wednesday the 11th November and have some fun, at the same time scrapping a gorgeous layout:


Oh and I forgot to mention you will receive a beautiful set of journalling tags just for attending.

'Til next time
Keep Safe
Cheers Helen

Hi all,

Here I am back again, with news of the most awesome sale. Sweet Tomato Designs is having an amazing sale at Designs in Digital and Faith Sisters. This weekend only she is having a 40% of sale, that's right everything in her shop is marked down to 40%. Remember THIS WEEKEND ONLY. She has some gorgeous kits, QP's and templates in her stores. Pop on over and check out this awesome sale:


So don't forget to check it out this weekend.

'Til Next Time
Keep Safe
Cheers Helen

RAK at DST

Hi ladies,

Back again. How was your day today, mine was terrible, it has done nothing but rain for 3 days, that along with earthquakes and screaming grandchildren is driving me nuts!!! Both of them will be gone tomorrow, one off the school and the other off to daycare, so even if it is still raining at least it will be quiet and peaceful. Wow!!! I get off the subject very easily.

I am running a RAK at DST until Sunday. It's your chance win this awesome kit by SweetTomatoScrapper:


To win this awesome kit just pop on over to DST in this THREAD and I will be back on Sunday to choose one lucky winner and hint hint.... everyone will get a little something for replying to the thread.

That's it for now. Pop on over and leave a reply, I would love to hear from you all.

'Til next time
Keep Safe

Cheers Helen

Speed Scrap and Brand new kit from SweetTomatoScrapper

Hi ladies,

Back again and this time to let you know of a great speed scrap with a twist. Join SweetTomatoScrapper on Wednesday 14th October at 9pm. The speed scrap will be held at designsindigital. Come along and join in all the fun and games, learn the 7 things she loves to do in Fall:
and for coming along and joining in you will receive this awesome brad set by Kris-Mazy - Scrapwarrior:
Now for the next bit of this post. SweetTomatoScrapper has just realeased this awesome, spooooky, fun halloween kit:
Here is a preview of the papers:

Now this lady has been very busy, she also has these awesome addons available:





This awesome kit and the addons are available at:

designsindigital.
and
prettyscrappy.

Pop on over and check out all her gorgeous kits, you might find something else you would love to have.

If you would love to win this kit, check back here on Friday when I will be doing a RAK to give one kit away free.

Cheers Helen

Freebie Alert

Wow!!! Where have I been, did not realise it has been so long since I was last here. Well today I have a new freebie for you called Autumn Day, this was done for the colors challenge at DigiScrapStation.
I have also joined a new contest at DesignsinDigital called Project Gallery and I have a request for anyone who happens to pass by my blog. Could be darlings and go and vote for my layout, it is called First Pony Ride. We were given a paper pack and had to create a layout using only the pack to make our elements. Here is the layout and a link to the voting:
LINK TO VOTE

Now for the freebie:
and here is the link to DOWNLOAD

Hope you enjoy it.

Til next time
Keep Safe
Cheers Helen

NEW FREEBIE ALERT

Hi there people,

Back again. I have been so busy working on this weeks kit for NDIDDS, that I forgot everything. Here is my latest effort for the challenge:

I have to tell you that there are a lot of awesome kits at both DesignsinDigital and JustDigiLayouts for you to check out. Just to let you know and ask for your help, we are judged partially on the amount of downloads we get each week, so I am asking for your help to get my downloads up, as well as the rest of the contestants. We all need your help!!

So pop on over to these 2 stores and download all these gorgeous freebies. FREEBIE HEAVEN is on again this week.

Here is the download link for my kit: Best Friends

'Til next time

Keep Safe

Cheers Helen

Freebies for you

Hi, just a very quick post tonight. I am feeling very tired and am off to bed as soon as this is done.
It is week 1 of NDDIDS challenges and there are 50 odd minikits waiting for you to download. Here is the preview of what I have done this week:

You can head over to the DesigninDigital store and check out the kits in the NDDIDS 2009 area.There are also half of them posted at JustDigiLayouts so don't forget to check those out as well.

Well thats it for now.

'Til next time.

Keep safe

Cheers Helen

NDIDDS FREEBIE KIT

Hi all,
Back again this time with the link to my entry in the Warm Up challenge for the NDIDDS competition at Designs in Digital. Here is the preview again, just to remind you what you will be getting. This competition is judged on how many downloads we get, so I am hoping many of you will download it:

There are many more kits also at Design in Digital and at JustDigiLayouts, so please check them all out. These two sites are going to be FREEBIE heaven for the next month, as there are over 60 people entered, so that means 60 minikits each week for you to choose from.

Here is the link to check mine out, but don't forget to download all you like from both sites:

Delicate Blooms

That's it for now.

'Til next time Keep Safe

Cheers Helen

Mother's Day Collab Blog Train FREEBIE

Hi there all,




Here I am back again with a Collab by the Half-baked girls at Browniescraps.com. This one is a Mother's Day collab and the links will only be available for 1 week, then the kit will be taken down and will be put into the shop at Browniescraps and sold for charity. Here is a preview of my part of the collab:

*** Link Expired****

and the links to pick up the other parts of this gorgeous kit:


Flutterbyfairy Designs

Designs by Ramona

Wyld Web Designs

Remember ME Digitals >>>MARNI DESIGNS HAS HER PART HERE AS WELL SO PLEASE LOOK FOR 2 PARTS.

MrsJayBob Designs

JayaPrem's Hangout

Tinkay Designs

Scraps By Helen <>

Merchi Makes It

Get Designs

Elises Pieces Designs

Mad Genius Designs

Inspiredbyd ominic Designs

If you find a part that is not up yet, don't forget to keep checking back as we are all in different time zones, so some will be later than others.


Hope you enjoy this beautiful kit.


'Til next time
Keep Safe


Cheers Helen

Freebie Alert

Hi, back again as promised with the link to the first freebie of the week:

You can download it from > HERE <

That's it for today.

'Til next time
Keep Safe

Cheers Helen

Next Designs in Digital Design Star

Hello, back again. I will have another freebie available for you tomorrow this one is called Romantic Getaway and is for the Browniescraps unbaked challenge, here is a preview of it:

This will be available tomorrow and I will pop back with the link to download then.

Now for the reason for the title of this blog. I have joined this design challenge at Designs in Digital. It runs from the 1st of May and starts with a warm up challenge. Here is the preview of my Warm up challenge kit called Delicate Blooms:

This will be available for download from the Designs in Digital store on the 1st of May and I will post the link then. There are 60 of us in this design challenge, so they have split us into 2 groups one uploading to the Designs in Digital store and one to the Just Digi Layouts store, you will have to be registered at both places if you want all the kits. Just imagine 60 free mini kits each week for 6 weeks. Wow!!! Freebie heaven here I come.

So please pop back on the 1st and I will have all the links for you.

One more bit of information. I am also doing another blog train for The Halfbaked Girls at Brownies Scraps starting on the 1st of May, so there will be a lot of links and freebies for you at the beginning of the month. This blog train is a Mother's Day one and has a lot of gorgeous kits.

Well I think I have covered everything.

'Til next time

Keep Safe

Cheers Helen

Mini Kit Freebie

Hi,

Just a very quick post this time as I am looking after the grandchildren and it is almost nap time for the youngest. Here is a mini kit I have made for the Unbaked Brownie Challenge at BrowniesScraps:

You can download it > HERE <

Hope you enjoy it, slowly getting better at making my own things and not relying on Commercial Use stuff.

'Til next time

Keep Safe

Cheers Helen

New Layouts

Hi, back again, this blog is going to have a heart attack soon, it is seeing me a lot more than usual. Nothing much has been going on around the place, very quiet for a change and I am trying to get caught up on CT things and finishing up a kit for the Unbaked Brownie Challenge, so I will have another Freebie for you very soon.

Now the reason for this post is to show you some layouts I have been doing using a kit called BonVoyage by WildCat Designs at Country Hollow Scraps:

Here are the layouts I have created:

Australia Bound

Meeting New FriendsHardRockCafe
This is a cool kit for all your travel photos. Pop on over and a look. Check out the rest of the site as well, you might find something of interest for you. Lots of cool designers.

Thats it for now

'Til next time

Keep Safe

Cheers Helen

News and a FREEBIE

Hi, back again. This time I have some news, I have decided to join the designer contest at Funky Playground Designs, so for you it means more freebies and for me a lot of experience in learning to make my own stuff.

This week is the first week and our assignment was to make 5 patterned papers and 8 elements, now what is a kit without solid papers, so I have gone ahead and made up some solid papers and a few more elements to match the kit, which will be available for download as soon as I have uploaded it to the Catch the Flag gallery.

Here is a preview of the challenge part of the kit:

Which you can download HERE
and now for the AddOn:

Which you can download HERE

Hope you enjoy it.

Til next time
Keep Safe!

Cheers Helen

Hi, I have some layouts to share with you today. I made these using the gorgeous kit Moondance by Ivana at Country Hollow Scraps

I will be back later on with a Freebie I have been working on.

Til next time

Keep Well

Cheers Helen

BLOG TRAIN FREEBIE - BY THE HALFBAKED GIRLS

Hi, back again, a bit quicker this time.

Do you remember the challenges I was doing over at Brownie Scraps?

Well, that's all done, but we all became friends. We decided to have our own blog train!

How much fun is this going to be?

The blog train doesn't officially start until tomorrow - Arpil 1st...so not all the links below the preview will have the blog train freebie yet...it starts tomorrow - April 1st.

Here's my portion at this stop on the train:

You can download it here

Password: halfbaked

In case you missed a stop along the way, or you got on somewhere in the middle...here's a list of the stations:

Scrapper Girl Designs
Jaya-Prem's Hangout
MERCHi makes it!
groovygranny'splace <-------- YOU ARE HERE!
Sava Scraps
Mad GeniusDesigns
Flutterbye Faery
Brownie Scraps
Inspired by Dominic Designs
Mommy Time Plus
Girlfriend Designz
Elise's Pieces
Tinkay2
Wylde Web Designs
Jewel Scraps
Get Designs
Mrs. JayBob

Enjoy this gorgeous kit. Hope you like it as much as we enjoyed making it for you.

Cheers Helen

More Layouts to share

Hi, I have been MIA for a little bit, put my back out and have been in agony for the last week. I can only spend limited time sitting at the computer. Feeling a little better, so hopefully things will return to normal soon.

I have been working with an awesome kit called Lucky Leprechaun by Crazed Creationz at Country Hollow Scraps This is a cool site, with lots of fantastic designers and gorgeous kits. Pop on over and take a look, you may find something you love.

Now here are the layouts I have made using the kit:

Running Away:

Party Time:

Lucky Me!!:

This is a very versatile kit. I love working with it, has some awesome elements and papers.

Keep an eye out as in a couple of days I will have some more freebies from the design contest at Brownies Scraps uploaded and ready to go.

That's about it for now.

Until next time

Be Safe!

Cheers Helen

Layouts to Share

Hi, back again with some more layouts I have done using an awesome kit called Kiss of Romance by BabycakesScraps. This is such a versatile kit. I have enjoyed working with it.

Next is Time for Bed:

and lastly is Hard at Work:

While you are over at CountryHollowScraps why not check out the rest of the shop. There are some awesome designers and gorgeous kits available.

That's it for now. I'll be back later in the week with another freebie for you.

Cheers Helen

Layouts to share

Hi,

I'm back and today I have some layouts to share with you. I have just started on the Creative Team at County Hollow Scraps and this is the first kit I had to work with, it is called Welcome Spring by S.G.Rowe. Here are the layouts I have created using the kit:

Spring Arrives:

Daydreaming:
Bush Walk:
Pop on over and check out the shop and while you are there why not have a look around. There are some awesome designers and gorgeous kits available.

That's it for now.

Cheers Helen

2nd Week Freebie

Hi, just finished my second week doing the unbaked brownie mix at Brownie's Scraps. Here is the kit I have done:

Step One: Go to the Forum and down load my kit here. (You must be a registered member of Brownie Scraps to download the kits, but its a great community with friendly people, good challenges and lots of learning opportunities!) Plus, they are great about leaving love!
Step Two: Make a gorgeous Layout and post it here.
Step Three: If your layout is chosen as the best LO, we each get a $5 Brownie Scraps Gift Certificate!If you do download my kit and do a layout, PLEASE comment and leave me a link to your layout so I can leave you some love.
There are 35 designers, which means 35 free mini kits for you!!

That's it for now. See you next week with another mini kit.

Cheers Helen

Freebie Alert

Hi,
I just had to share with you. I recently decided that if I was going to make things, I wanted to learn from scratch. So I joined a learn to design course at www.browniescraps.com . Our first assignment was to design a mini kit using no Commercial Use items.

Step One: Go to the Forum and down load my kit here. (You must be a registered member of Brownie Scraps to download the kits, but its a great community with friendly people, good challenges and lots of learning opportunities!) Plus, they are great about leaving love!

Step Two: Make a gorgeous Layout and post it here.

Step Three: If your layout is chosen as the best LO, we each get a $5 Brownie Scraps Gift Certificate!
If you do download my kit and do a layout, PLEASE comment and leave me a link to your layout so I can leave you some love.

There are 35 designers, which means 35 free mini kits for you!!

Here is a preview of what I have so far for next weeks mini. I will post the link once they become available for download.

Well that's about it for now. I am having fun with the course, but finding it so hard to think outside the Commercial Use box.

Cheers Helen

Layouts

Hi, back again with some more layouts and a simply gorgeous kit that I have been working with. The kit is Casual Sophistication by Miss Foxy's Designs at CoolScrapsDigital:

Here are the layouts I have done using this awesome kit:

Resting in the Flowers

Mud:

Sisters:

Pop on over to CoolScrapDigital and check out the store, there are some awesome designers and gorgeous kits.

Life is still very hectic, everything seems to moving way to fast and I am running very hard to keep up with everything.

While I have your attention. We are having a Creative Team Call at DesignsinDigital:

It's an awesome place to be, everyone is so much fun. If you thought about being on a CT, just send Meg an email. I hope I see some of you on the CT in the near future.

That's it for now.

Cheers Helen