Flea Market Finds (incl. link to freebie)

I really don't know how to start this post, I feel like gushing, praising, lots of OMG's and AMAZINGS, etc...oh now there's a good start. Etc. by Danyale (a good digiscrapping, online friend) has been designing amazing wordart and alphas for a while now, but she now has released her FIRST EVER kit, and O..M...G!! Check this out! (all images linked to Danyale's store, so you can load up your cart!)

And not only that, to go along with it she has this AMAZING alpha
And this one!
and this BRILLIANT word art
And these GORGEOUS borders and clusters
And EVERYTHING is on offer this weekend, you really DON'T want to miss it!

When I got the bits to play with, I had just been asked by Mum for a Birthday card without a photo on it, I thought the Monogram Alpha was just perfect for the occasion, and once it was finished I sent it over to Danyale so she could give it away to everyone. So click on the image to go to Danyale's blog to pick it up. And don't forget to say thank you!CU soon

Time for a re-release!

Way back in 2008, I took part in a Design Contest! For a little while I actually sold in a store, but soon decided that I preferred scrapping to designing and packed away my kits for good....or did I!

With Halloween right around the corner and people visiting my blog looking for my old Halloween Freebie, I thought it was time to re-release it!

Download Part 1 here
Download Part 2 here

And whilst you are here, why not pop on over to Gotta Pixel for this amazing Freebie by Sweet Digi Scraps

You download a piece each day for the following week, and whilst you are there, browse around Sweet Digi Scraps store, everything is reduced by 30% to celebrate her week in the Spotlight at GottaPixel.

Now I have to find my old posts with the freebie and redirect people to this post....
CU there

Creative Sweeties Favorite Kit Blog Train

That's quite a mouthful isn't it! But soooo worth it! The Creative Sweeties were able to play to their heart was content with Liz's goodies these past two weeks and we have all come up with very different gifts for you all!

Mine is a hybrid, a very easy one for you all, all you need to do is print and then if you want laminate! I have made you a timetable, now that the kids are all back at school, we or they need to keep track of which books they need or which homework needs to be ready.
This is my timetable on our fridge in the kitchen. And every morning my 6-year old asks me to read what subjects he has on that day!

I laminated the sheet, and wrote on it with a wipeable pen, so that if the timetable changes during the term, I can change mine too!

But before you get to get your freebie, let me show you Liz's new releases today:I played with Mister Happy Go Lucky at last weeks Speed Scrap and this is my layout!

OK, now that you have patiently looked at my fridge, the new kits and my layout, here is your freebie (image linked to 4 shared)

Have fun with it, oh and before you go searching for my other freebies, my 4shared account was deactivated and they have all disappeared, sorry!

Oh and don't forget a little THANK YOU can go a LONG way!

And now please continue on your train ride:


Liz: www.sweetdigiscraps.blogspot.com
Team Blog: http://creativesweeties.blogspot.com
Danyale: http://bygonesscrapbooks.blogspot.com
Lei: http://leidee-q.blogspot.com
Kerry: www.kayjaysdays.blogspot.com
Jan: http://intensemagicscraps.blogspot.com
Sheila: www.scrappingmyjourney.blogspot.com
Colie: www.coliescorner.blogspot.com
Cynthia: http://thelatinmrspeel.blogspot.com
Mary: http://texaschicstyle.blogspot.com
Dana: http://www.scrappydoosordonts.blogspot.com
Trista: http://www.busybee-hive.blogspot.com
Simona: http://lightmistress.blogspot.com
LaShawn: http://the3cbears.blogspot.com
Carolyn: http://carolynscommotions.blogspot.com
Barb: http://digi-dallies.blogspot.com
Rachel: http://www.iwishiwasthatcreative.blogspot.com

Where to start...

I've been a bad blogger here sorry about that, I have done loads and loads of layouts, but not one made it to my own blog, shame on me...but it will have to wait, I have other more interesting and fun news.

First off Jennilyn Designs has created a blog for us, her CT to play on, and today Carolyn posted our first challenge over there we would love to come and have you play with us, you could win a $5.oo coupon to Jennilyn Designs store if you are drawn, but everyone who plays along gets a 20% off coupon, so you have nothing to lose!Also if you stop by you can pick up this awesome collection of bragbook pages! (Click the picture to go to the new CT blog!)


I'll be back tomorrow to plug another challenge...stay tuned!

Creative Sweeties Blog Train

If you are as in love with Liz's designs as I am, then you are going to love this blogtrain. Liz's Sweeties have all put together something unique to share on this blogtrain.

This is what I have for you

this little box is perfect for just a few chocolates for your sweetheart on Valentine's Day.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it (took some trial and error), and I love comments, so if you could leave one, it would make my day!

Download Chocolate Box here

Someone asked what to print it on, I printed it on regular thick paper in my printer, being in Germany I made it for DIN A4 paper, but it will print fine on Letter size paper!
have fun!

And here is the list for the blogtrain, please take into account time differences and weather problems, and stop by again if the posts aren't up yet!

Creative Sweeties: http://creativesweeties.blogspot.com
Liz: http://sweetdigiscraps.blogspot.com
Leilani: http://leidee-q.blogspot.com
Danyale: http://bygonesscrapbooks.blogspot.com
Kerri: http://kayjaysdays.blogspot.com <------------------YOU ARE HERE! Jan: http://intensemagicscraps.blogspot.com
Rylea: http://u-neekcreations.blogspot.com
Kristy: http://scrapglass.blogspot.com
Sheila: http://www.scrappingmyjourney.blogspot.com
Colie: http://coliescorner.blogspot.com

CU again soon

Gotta Pixel Birthday Blog Train

This month, Gotta Pixel is celebrating its 4th birthday. And we have been having a blast with all the exciting events going on, but we are also giving away over $2,000 worth of Prizes! Each week new things are being given, and new events going on, and this week is nothing short of it! We are kicking off this weekend with a HUGE Blog train! And its just for YOU! The entire team has collabed together to bring you an amazing shabby chic collection with something sure for everyone! This just kicks off the events we have listed here, as well as the Grab Bag Event going on, that is packed full of savings.


Here is My Gift to you for our Blog Train:

***Sorry - Download has expired***

This is just one stop on your blog trip. Here is a list of all the participating blogs that have something special waiting for you, The links will remain active on these blogs until 22nd of November at 11:59 pm EST. Should you get lost along your way, you can always visit here, or the Gotta Pixel Blog for complete list of participants:

GottaPixel: http://www.gottapixel.net/blog
Liz : http://www.sweetdigiscraps.blogspot.com
KarenS (Alpha): www.myownfont.blogspot.com
Karen Lewis : http://scrappingmum.blogspot.com/
Kristmess Designs : http://www.kristmessdesigns.blogspot.com/
Sara Ellis: http://scrapsillysara.blogspot.com
Crisdam Designs: www.busyfingers-digiscrap.blogspot.com
Heather T : http://oohlalaartsy.blogspot.com/
Laura Burger: http://digidesignerlaura.blogspot.com/
Sarah : http://blog.sarahbdesigns.net/
Connie Prince: http://scrapinfusions.blogspot.com/
simply.scraps: www.simply-scraps.net
Kathryn Estry: http://kathrynsdigitaldesigns.blogspot.com/
Marta Van Eck : http://www.martavaneck.blogspot.com
Jennifer Barrette : www.jenniferbarrettedesigns.blogspot.com
Colie's Corner: http://coliescorner.blogspot.com/
Elka Romero : http://elkaromero.com/

Julie Marie : http://juliemariedesigns.com/blog

Captivated Visions : http://blog.captivatedvisions.co.uk
Doohikey Designs: http://doohikeydesigns.com
Cherie Shields: http://cshieldsdesigns.blogspot.com/
Creations by Rachael: http://www.creationsbyrachaelb.com/wordpress/
Lorie M : http://digiscrapdesigns-by-lorie.blogspot.com/
Dustybear: http://dustybeardesigns.blogspot.com/
Melinda: http://mindys365project.blogspot.com/
Leigh :http://tricertifiedx2digitalworld.blogspot.com/
Kim: http://time2scrap.blogspot.com/
Danyale: http://bygonesscrapbooks.blogspot.com/
Cindy: http://cindyb-scrappinlikecrazy.blogspot.com/
Wendy: www.inadigitaldaze.blogspot.com
Dana : http://scrappydoosordonts.blogspot.com/
Kerri : www.kayjaysdays.blogspot.com ***YOU ARE HERE***
Chbranch: http://fmndesigns.blogspot.com/
Katie: www.felixfam.blogspot.com
Lisa: http://scrappylisa.blogspot.com/
Leilani: http://leidee-q.blogspot.com/

Through the Patch Blogtrain

I told you I had a surprise for you! ;o)
Sweet Digi Scraps (Liz) and Valarie Ostrom Designs have collabed again (remember the great Project 365 kit - Life is Good or Growing Up Boy or Growing Up Girl) and they have come up with this cute Kit "Through the Patch".
The Sweeties (also known by our "boss lady" as Mushy Taters, but that's a LONG story that Danyale can tell better than me!) got to play with the kit and make some presents for our blog readers!!

here is what I am giving away - one multi-photo Quickpage.

Click here to download

I hope you like it, I also used one of Liz's awesome templates for it. It's from this pack (image linked to store).

Liz - Sweet Digi Scraps: http://sweetdigiscraps.blogspot.com
Valarie - Valarie Ostrom Designs: http://valarieostromdesigns.blogspot.com
Sherry(Rylea): www.u-neekcreations.blogspot.com
KayJay : ***You are here***
Leigh's: http://tricertifiedx2digitalworld.blogspot.com/
Danyale's : http://bygonesscrapbooks.blogspot.com/
Sugar & Spice : http://picarook.blogspot.com/
Back soon...

New Kit - and it's FREE for 48 hours!

Yep, you read right, I have a new kit out and it is free from NOW until Thursday June 25 (12pm US Central Time!) Click on the image to go and pick it up at DigitalArts Cafe, but don't rush off too quick, I have something else to show you before you click and run


Here are a couple of the layouts my CT has created with the kit
The first two are by Benita, thank you so much! Check out the extraction on them both, awesome!




And these three are by Dinphy! (btw, she has a special offer on you might want to check out on her blog), where today she also has featured her layouts, with a bit more background about them, check it out! Thank you Dinphy, I love them all!


But that is not all! I put together these bragbook pages, which also have gone in the store today, and for just $1.99 you get 9 bragbook pages (7x5 in), and if you hurry they are on offer with 20% off until Friday 26th June. Again, I have linked the image for you!
CU soon (oh and a little love can go a long way, you know where the comments button is, don't be shy!)

B-day, Sale and a Freebie

Can you believe it? I can't - I don't feel a day over 21 and yet today I turned 40!! And I am loving it, great presents, great songs, yep, the boys sung to me this morning, without any help from me! So cute! All in all, a great way to turn 40. We had a joint party last Sunday when Florian turned 40, so no real celebrating today, but boy the party was great on Sunday!

Anyhow since then I have been working hard to get a new kit in the store to kick off my birthday celebrations with my Digi-Scrapping-Friends.
What do you think? This is "Garden Romance" Thanks to my lovely CT it actually has a name, up until last night the poor kit was sat on my harddrive under the name "nonameyet" poor thing!And I even managed to put together some clusterframes:


And as it is my birthday and 40 is such a great number, everything in my store is 40% off for the week! Click on the ad to go shopping!

BUT that isn't all, I put together this great freebie for you all, it coordinates with "Garden Romance" and you can pick it up free at DigitalArts-Cafe, you will have to register, but if you look around, this isn't the only freebie you will find over there! ;o)Download here

I'll be back tomorrow, with a couple of layouts to show you, and maybe I might find the time to make a quickpage for you all, so keep checking back!
CU soon (ooh and I love Birthday Wishes, so if you like my freebie, drop me a line here as there is nowhere at the store to do so! Thanks!)

A Sale, News and a Freebie

It's been a while again on this blog, but I do keep you all up to date on my life on my project 365 blog, so I hope I am forgiven!
Anyway, I was quite busy these past weeks (my CT will be surprised to hear, as they haven't had the links yet, sorry ladies)
Anyhow let me start of the post with the News that I have put all of my stuff at both stores at

30% off

to celebrate Inter-National Scrapbooking Day!
So click here (BTST) or here (DAC) to go shopping!

So and whilst you are at DigitalArts Cafe you might want to pick this up - my freebie!
When I first got the colour swatch and name of the kit I was a bit stumped, but I really, really like what I made of it! It is part of the MEGA (and I mean really MEGA) freebie that all of the DAC designers have put together for you. Melo will be releasing them one at a time, but they will all be available for the whole month of May.

Click the image to go to the store to pick up the freebie (and maybe go shopping)
I have made anything with the word Mum on in my kit in various international versions, and for my blog readers, if you would like it with even another spelling, drop me a line and I will see what I can do for you!

Now if you go shopping at BTST (any designer) and spend more than $5.00 there this weekend, you get the May Mega Collab free, and this is what I put in it for you! Inspired by the BBC programme "Mr. Maker" which the kids love watching. On there are these shape characters, which I based my little guys here on!so with all these things I am giving away, I think it is probably time that I made a kit to sell, so it might be quiet here again, but I'll be busy working away!
No, tell a lie, I'll be back soon, with some layouts - Dinphy has a new kit out that I'll want to show you too!
Bye 4 now

Chirpy Chirpy Hop Hop - and a Birthday Celebration

Well, I promised a surprise on April 1st, and NO it is NOT an April Fool's joke! Been There Scrapped That is turning ONE and has some new designers on board, and

YESSSSSS
I AM ONE OF THEM!!!

Can you hear me shouting it from the roof top, I am that excited!
And not only that, I have two new kits hitting my stores - First of all, I got to do a collab with Liz (Sweet Digi Scraps) imagine that, when I started "stalking" poor Liz in December 2007, who would have thought that one day I would be making a kit with her. Certainly not me! I am still so in awe. And look how cute it turned out!


You can get it here at Been there Scrapped That and it is 35% off for a little while, so grab it while you can!

But that wasn't all that I have been busy with, I also made a great Easter kit. A bit different, cause I didn't use any pastels, I wanted a kit with cute things that you can use for boys as well as girls, and this is what I came up with! (available here at BTST and here at DigitalArts-Cafe)

I love it and I hope you do too. And I got a bit carried away, so it is packed full of all sorts of fun things, and I didn't stop there, I made a freebie for you too!

5 papers, 6 elements and 1 wordart!Download from Mediafire here

There is nowhere to comment at Mediafire and although I appreciate the numbers rising, it does make my day to get a comment or two! So leave some loving here, and I'll be back in a week and will pick a random winner to get another of my kits! How does that sound!? -- I hope it doesn't sound like I am fishing for compliments (although who doesn't love a compliment or two), I just feel like RAKing someone!

now do pop over to BTST and join in all the fun. We have some great challenges going on. I'll be back often to show you all the layouts I create for the challenge.

Bye 4 now

Happy St. Patrick's Day

I have another couple of Quickpages for you, one with a mug of green beer, incase you have pictures from a parade or Irish pub ;)

Download here from my Mediafire account

And if you are interested the matching kit is still on offer for only $2.99 at DigitalArts Cafe (image linked to store)

Bye 4 now

Lucky Day Free Quickpages

I had a great weekend if anyone is interested. Mum and Dad babysat the kids, whilst Florian and I had a GREAT time at my brothers concert. this time it was 80s music, it was like timetravelling. And seeing as we both turn 40 this year it was great to feel like a teenager again!

When we came back home we brought my Mum with us. So for the last couple of days I got a little bit of a lay in, as the boys went and got Nanna up rather than me! Thanks for that Mum, most appreciated! Mum was here as I had a doctors checkup at a silly time. 11.15am, now if doctors were any good at time management, I wouldn't have needed Mum to be here, but mine aren't!! I have to pick the boys up at the latest by 12.30pm and I couldn't be sure of that happening, so Mum came to help out. And a good thing to - I was home at about 1.15pm!! I got there at 11am and already they were running late and let me go shopping til 12!
But enough about that, some of you are here for a freebie! But let me show you my layouts first:
This is Richard at the weekend having some green juice - just perfect for my Lucky Day kit, don't you think!Then there is this one I made for the Font Challenge at DAC, the font is Kiralynn btw. And don't you just love the alpha - Dinphy has that as a freebie on her blog, so you might want to stop by there, after you have picked up your freebie here!
I decided to treat you all and turn these pages into Quickpages, there is plenty of room to add a title (possibly with Dinphy's alpha) and journalling on both of them.
You can download the Quickpages at the store (safer than 4shared, maybe, although I haven't had any problems!)

Click here to download

Thanks for stopping by and like Dinphy always says, if you leave a comment, you'll make me happy!

DAC Blogtrain - A Bye Bye Winter Quickpage

Like I promised I have another freebie for you. This is a Quickpage made by on of my new CT Members Breanne (you can visit her Blog here )

But without further ado, here her beautiful Quickpage:Download here

Please don't forget to leave Breanne some love, we all love comments!
Bye 4 now

All aboard the DIGITALARTS-CAFE BLOGTRAIN

and we're off!
Finally it has come around, the blogtrain, I have a little mini kit for you all, which coordinates with all the other kits on the blogtrain! It was great fun not having to think winter (everything is snowy white here). Anyhow without further chit chat (be back later with more of that!) here is your freebie

Sorry link has expired!

And if you like my kit, you LOVE Dinphy's Bragbook Pages using it! (image linked) to Dinphy's blog.

So and now where to go from here, well, back to the DigitalArts Cafe forum, where all the participating blogs are listed. But do come back tomorrow, when I'll have a Quickpage for you made by Breanne.
CU later or tomorrow

A Freebie, a CT Call and an update

so first of all, I owe everyone an account of my first day back in the working world. It was OK I suppose, walking back into the offices was like stepping back in time, nothing had really changed in the 4.5 years that I was away. Living proof I was away was waiting for me when I got home though ;o)
I will be helping out there with translating German to English and vice versa. So far it looks as though I won't be too busy, there was no translating today anyway. I hope it picks up a little bit, but the woman I will be working with seems nice.

OK, now what else do I have for you today. Seeing as I started out with the update, I will continue with my CT call - I am linking the image to my store, so you can all see, what you would be letting yourselves in for!

Text, in case the picture doesn't show up:

I have just opened my store at
DigitalArts-Cafe and am now looking
for some fun-loving scrappers to be
on my creative team

Requirements:
Make 2 or more layouts per kit
Post the layouts to 3 galleries
Give away Quickpages or kit related
freebies on your own blog
Promote new releases on your blog
CTM enabling at DST when possible

If you are interested, email me at
kayjaydo (at) yahoo (dot) com with
a short bio, a link to your blog and
a link to your favourite gallery

I look forward to hearing from you

Bye 4 now
Kerri (aka KayJay)

and if you made it this far, you deserve the freebie. I made you two matching Quickpages with my new kit! I hope you like them. Sorry the freebie has expired!
Thanks for stopping by, I look forward to hearing from you all! Whether it be an application or a comment!
And tomorrow I'll be back with some awesome layouts using my kit!
Bye 4 now

A Sale and a freebie

I'm here a bit early today, I nearly forgot to tell you about the GREAT sale happening at DigitalArts Cafe.And on the subject of DigitalArts Cafe, Mozz (Forever More Creations) has a new challenge up. It's a template challenge with a difference. For the first half of the month you can pick up shapes and create you own template. Then for the second half of the month, you get to scrap with the "Chosen template" to get an awesome Mini Kit prize.
so what does that mean for you... well, this month we are working on a CD brag book, and I have created this template for you with Mozz's shapes!I hope you enjoy it (it is my very first template, so constructive criticism is welcome).

Download here (.psd file)

I'll be back tonight to update with my everyday life!

Well, here I am back again. Although not a very exciting day. I was picked up this morning by the repair shop to get my car back. I have no idea what damage was done and how much it cost, the girl at the desk was busy on the phone and just handed me the car key. So it does mean that the cost was over €300 as under that price we would have had to pay and not the insurance. Ooops! We will get the bill for the €300 from the insurance soon!

Isn't it amazing that after just one day of REALLY cold weather, when it warms up to -10°C (14°F) it feels "warm" - funny that! The walk to Kindergarden this morning was much more pleasant than yesterday!
I still didn't take the boys out in the afternoon, we kept the fire going again and played in the lounge, let me think, today we did Lego, played pairs and played with the self timer on the camera - want to see?!Ignore my "hat hair" in this weather I won't go out with out one, and that puts pay to any of my curls! Robert was intent on pulling silly faces! But they did have fun running back and forth to push the button. And I have to show you this one, this was Mummy's idea and they actually did it!!
My boys "they love me lots and lots"!

Bye 4 now