It's been awhile since I've been on here! March was a really busy month for me - not to mention I was sick for two weeks fighting a terrible cold that almost turned into bronchitis!! But it's all better now and I have some great  news. PixelScrapper has sent another train on its way.

The new train is called Earth Day and it has 46 fantastic designers who have created some gorgeous kits - all free!! Be sure to run and catch it...it'll slow down enough for you to climb aboard!

I didn't participate this month since my time was so limited. But May has a great new train getting ready to take off on the first day of May. The theme is "Hello" and the color scheme is beautiful - very colorful and cheerful. Be watching for news about it and looking for a sneak preview of my part.

Now, get on over to the station and catch that train!!! You won't be disappointed. You can find the train and all its contributors HERE.

Ok, so it's been a month since I wrote on this blog! How did the time slip by so fast? Guess I have too many irons in the first - or just can't seem to remember to get over here and write something. :)

But, good news! The Pixel Scrapper blog train is about to leave the station tomorrow - that's March 1 - and I have another contribution just for it. The theme for March is "Country Wedding" and you should see all the wonderful kits waiting for you to download. I think it's one of my favorite themes and color schemes ever. Be sure to head over to Pixel Scrapper to jump on the train. Remember, some of the designers live in other countries so they may not have their links live at the same time. Be sure to check back later. Last time I looked there were 32 designers on this train. However, some of them have two or more kits, so there are a lot more parts than designers.

So here's my part:

Download here  or here

All Aboard!!! The train has left the station!! Run to catch it at Pixel Scrapper. Just click on the Pixel Scrapper name and you'll be on the first page of some glorious kits. We have 50 great designers who have worked really hard to give us some gorgeous pieces for the "Be Mine" theme - some of them contributing more than one part. And it's all FREE!! Just follow the links to all the different blogs and download the kits.

Don't forget to pick up my part below about two posts.

Now I'm off to begin work on the Country Wedding kit we're preparing for the March blog train. It's going to be spectacular!!

The Pixel Scrapper February "Be Mine" Blog Train is about to leave the station. Get on board and d/l all the gorgeous pieces. My part is below; just click on the link. All the participants can be found at the Blog Train link. Start there and just follow through to the end. Some people are in a different time zone so if a link is not live when you click on it, wait a day or two and come back. All the links will be working until March 1 when the next train is ready to go.

In the meantime, here's a sneak peak at the palette for next month's train. 

Isn't it fantastic? I love the muted blues, greens and purples for spring. The Country Wedding theme will be a lot of fun. Be sure to come back at the end of  February to catch the March train!!

Finally getting back in the groove! I just finished my Pixel Scrapper Blog Train contribution for the February "Be Mine" train. I'm not much into Valentine themes, but the kit came together pretty easily and quickly. I was impressed!  haha

Be sure to check out the blog train at Pixel Scrapper. We have an amazing group of designers who just keep putting out gorgeous kits. Every month seems to get better. The train leaves the station on Feb. 1. Hope you get on board. For those of you who do paper scrapping, these pieces can be downloaded and printed off. The best of both worlds - digital and paper all wrapped up into one.

Don't forget to stop by the store at dezines2amaze and see what we have there. I'm in the process of adding more things to my store and the other ladies have been adding more also. I hope to have a freebie on my FB page if I can ever figure out how to get that link to work! Haven't had a lot of free time to work on it with all the Christmas baking I was doing and all the research I've been doing for my family history.

Here's a preview of my part of the blog train with a link below that will be live on Feb. 1. Hope you enjoy it!

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Christmas has come and gone...Had a wonderful day at my sister's house for the gift exchange. The best part was having my grandson with me for the day. I don't get to see him very often since he's going to school in AR, but he's home for Christmas break and he went with us to the family gathering. We had a great time of eating, visiting, playing board games and opening presents. It was pretty cool having all three great grandkids together for the first time. My grandson is 19; one sister's grandson is 7; the other sister's grandson is 6 months. A wide range of ages!! My mom would have loved to spend the time with these boys - her only great grandchildren.

Over the past few weeks I was so busy with Christmas preparations that I didn't spend much time on my scrapping and even less on my blog. Had lots of shopping, baking and researching to do. Now it's New Year's Eve with the start of a new year just a few hours away. I'm not making resolutions - never seem to be able to keep them so no need making them!  :)

However, now I plan to commit more time to my scrapping design. I have so many ideas that I don't know where to start. I hope to create freebies on a regular basis for my blog and my FB page. I want to do another collab with my Dezines2Amaze buddies and hopefully expand to other groups.

I had to skip the January Pixel Scrapper blog train since I was so busy with the holiday preparations; but we have another great one coming up in February and I do plan to join in!! We're voting on the colors this week. As soon as the decision is made I'll update you on the colors to expect in the next train.

Here's wishing you all a Happy New Year and good health in the coming year for you and your families.

Linda

Looks like we're in for a COLD winter in the northeast TX area! We had temps in the 20s and 30s for the past three days. Friday I woke up about 6:45 to no electricity. At least the house was pretty warm and as the day went on it didn't cool down too much until around 4:00. I had ordered pizza for lunch so I could have something hot - no electricity, no stove! With no TV or computer we drug out some games to play to pass the time. By 4:30 we decided we had to get out of the house and find a warm place to be...So after spending about 20 minutes digging my car out from under the ice my son and I went to Lowe's to find flashlights and, hopefully, a battery powered heater. No heater there. Went to Academy - they were closing so nothing there. Ended up at WalMart...they were sold out of the battery powered heaters, no ice scrapers or de-icer. We ended up getting a couple of battery powered lanterns so we could at least have lights in our rooms and tarps to cover the car.

I had been checking the progress of the power restoration all day and still at 6:00 it was unknown when we'd get power; but they did have an estimate of  7:00 pm. We got what we needed at WalMart and headed for Dairy Queen for steak finger baskets - another hot meal!! By the time we finally got home just a little after 7:00 we had electricity - yeaaaa. We unloaded everything; spent about 15-20 minutes getting a new tarp over the car. We got inside, got warm, then the electricity went out - AGAIN - TWICE!! I called and reported the outage - again. But it only stayed out a few seconds both times and has not gone out since.

Today the house is all warm and toasty, no ice on the car, plenty on the ground and in my beautiful trees which are bent over to the ground. But I have electricity; my stove works; my heater works; my electric blanket works!!

Now I'm ready to start my Christmas projects...

Don't forget to grab my part of the Pixel Scrapper blog train, Winter Wonderland, below and click on the link to find all the contributors and their parts of the train.

Happy Holidays,
Linda

At last count we had almost 50 contributors!! What a great train this is - lots of gorgeous kits!! Be sure to check it out...HERE

My part of the train is here...download link is below preview.

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I'm off to start my January blog train contribution now. It's going to be spectacular!!! Put it on your calendar and hop on board.

Just a few more days until the December "Winter Wonderland" train takes off! Lots of gorgeous kits being offered Dec. 1. Be sure to grab a ride at Pixel Scrapper.

Right now I'm getting ready for Thanksgiving! Lots of good eats in my future.  :)

It's finally getting to be winter here...of course in Texas that may not mean much. It could be in the 30s one day and 70s the next. The forecast is for 30s-40s all week, but we'll see. I saw snow forecast for Monday then bright sunshine two days later. Hope the rain clears up at least. Nothing puts a damper on Thanksgiving Day than rain and/or drizzle. If anything is drizzling, I want it to be gravy on my turkey and dressing!!!

Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving.
Linda

OK, I've been a little busy...but wait until you see all the great things coming!! The Pixel Scrapper December Blog Train is about to leave the station. Once again we have close to 40 designers creating some gorgeous kits with the Winter Wonderland theme. With traditional and non-traditional Christmas colors it promises to be one of the best trains yet.

Here's my part:

DOWNLOAD HERE

You'll be able to pick it up here on Dec. 1. Be sure to check back - I'll repost so it will be easy to find - then follow the blog list to get all the other parts of the kit. I'll be creating some add-ons for this one; but you better get them free while you can. After Dec. 31 it will all go in  my store.

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, and Christmas not far off, I need to get busy with my holiday baking! I love to bake for Christmas and give everyone cookies and candies. This year I plan to add a couple of  non-sweet goodies to the mix, and try to personalize each gift rather than give everyone the same things. We'll see how that turns out...depends on my time!!

Happy Holidays,

Linda

I can't believe it's been over a week since I wrote anything!! Well, I guess I can - I've had to work three days this week so that leaves very little time for scrapping. I come home after dealing with little kids all day and I only want to fall into my chair and do nothing! But I'm getting my second wind and have a ton of things to get done - December blog train for Pixel Scrapper, challenges for goDigital Scrapbooking; working on heritage pages for Christmas gifts. Time's running short. On top of that I entered the Supreme Team Contest 16 at goDigital Scrapbooking which requires a lot of work, but is a lot of fun. [BTW, if you try the link to GDS and it gives you an error, try again later. We're moving to a new server and there will be outages off and on until it's finished.]

I had to drop out of the Survivor challenge - just not enough time - and abandon my "Layout a Day" since I had so much on my plate. But I'm hard at work getting elements created for the Winter Wonderland Blog Train at Pixel Scrapper and searching for a color palette and theme for the next collab for Dezines2Amaze. We had so much fun doing the first one that we decided we have to do another. We're collecting ideas right now in preparation for something after the first of the year.

If you enjoy progressive scraps, check out Digital Scrapbooking Studio on Nov. 10. This month's scrap begins that day. Just go to the forums and look for the challenges. goDigital has one going also and it's not too late to jump in. Again, just go to the forums and find the challenges.

I'm headed off to create a couple of freebies for you, so check back in a day or two to see what's here!

Happy scrapping,
Linda

Now that the November train is underway I'm working on the December train and about to start a new collaboration with my designer buddies at Dezines2Amaze. Be sure to check out the great kits in our stores!! The new collab, Fall Fiesta, is there! You don't want to miss it!!

We're talking about a second collab for after the first of the year...can't wait to see what we come up with. In the meantime, hop on board the Vintage blog train and keep an eye out for the December train, Winter Wonderland.  The colors are awesome - a non-traditional Christmas palette. I'll have a preview of my part to show you soon.

If you are wanting to pick up some of my freebies, do it soon. I'll be putting many of them in my store in the next couple of weeks. Have to make room for more freebies and don't want these to get lost in the blog, never to be seen again. :)

Happy Scrapping,
LadyBug aka Linda

GOOD NEWS!! The Fall Fiesta Collab is in the store! Check it out...bright colors, lots of fun...great for scrapping parties, celebrations, special events, and just about anything else. We have freebies as well. Click on the preview to get to the store, then on the freebie previews to snag those.  By the way - the collab is on sale through the month of November, so grab it before the price goes up!!

Here are the previews of our freebies:

Scroll down to Oct. 17 post for my part of the blog train. Then click HERE to return to the list.

I just completed my first template pack!! It was a lot of fun and much easier than I thought it would be. I hope you enjoy them. Get them free now before I put them in my store. Just click on the link below. Please leave some love when you grab them. :)

Download here

Pixel Scrapper November Blog Train - Vintage - is going live November 1. Scroll down for my part. Here's a little freebie for you to get started. Click here

"Giving Thanks" is my latest mini! It's a freebie I created for a challenge at Pixel Scrapper and offer here for all my fans. I hope you enjoy it. Just click on the link to download at 4shared.com.

Download here

Don't forget to catch the November Blog Train, Vintage, at Pixel Scrapper!! It leaves the station on November 1 and will run all month. If some of the parts aren't posted check back later. Remember some of the designers live in other parts of the world and they may not be on the same time as the US.

I've been thinking about Christmas kits - colors - themes - ideas for elements. We're getting ready to do a holiday kit for the December blog train at Pixel Scrapper and trying to decide on which direction to go. I'd love to do a vintage Christmas which would probably fit in with whatever palette we decide to use. Here are some of my color ideas:

I like all three! Maybe I'll create a few little mini kits using each palette. And maybe I'll end up biting off more than I can chew!!  

Stay tuned for updates. In the meantime, don't forget to hop on the November train. It promises to be another huge FREEBIE with gorgeous kits and extremely talented designers.

All Aboard!!! November 1 the Pixel Scrapper Blog Train will be pulling out of the station. This month our theme is Vintage so you'll see kits from all eras. We have 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's [for some people those are vintage. For me - they're memories!!] We even have kits from earlier times. I created a mini all about Grandma's Attic focusing on turn-of-the century items. Eventually I'll develop it into a full kit; but for now it's a mini on the blog train. Here's a preview:

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Click HERE to return to the blog train master list.

The link will be live Nov 1. Be sure to check back and grab the kit and don't forget to follow the blog train. Once again we have lots of designers contributing and absolutely gorgeous kits!

I'm working on a freebie to coordinate with this kit and a few other surprises are in the works. 

Interesting things are going on around the scrapbooking world. Pixel Scrapper is hosting Scrapbook Survivor patterned after the TV show. I signed up...maybe a crazy thing to do with all I have going on, but what do I have to lose? It sounds like a lot of fun and there are great prizes. Finding time to do the challenges isn't too difficult so far, but chatting with other participants to create alliances has proven to be a bit challenging. Have to find some time to really focus on that or it's goodbye LadyBug!!

Dezines2amaze is about to release a collaboration - my first! I can't wait to point you in that direction. It's called "Fall Fiesta" and has lots of bright colors and interesting elements. More info will be posted about the when, where, and who as soon as it's ready for release.

Until then,

Happy Scrapping

I got my mini kit finished and up at Pixel Scrapper! It was so much fun and quite challenging for me. I tend to create large kits and this one was restricted to a minimum number of elements and papers...whoa! I may have to go back and make an add-on for it!  Here's a preview

Click here to d/l it.

I'm about to see just how much I can stretch myself...I signed up for a contest that offers the opportunity to join the Creative Team at goDigitalscrapbooking. I guess I might as well just jump in with all four feet! :)

Wish me luck,
Linda