Amberpony over at StoneAccentStudio is in the designer contest going on over there. So go on over there & vote for her.Voting going on right now. I made a QP using her entry kit_BestBuds.You can get it here

BestBudsQuickpage

Mother

Mom will celebrate her birthday this month. She will be 93!!!

This month my premier membership at scrappersguide teaches us how to make vintage frames. I made the frames in the LO & it was fun to put on the creases, bent corner, stains & burn the edges etc. I turned the photo to sepia & painted in mom's blue eyes & rosy cheeks --but the blue eyes are not showing up in this LO .Kit is BloomonBeauty by Anja Schernau.QP by LisaBrown with my changes

If you want to see any images in a larger view just click on them

CountryGirl by Amberpony

Jessa & Brandi
went to a horse camp at Bunker Hills this summer.
They were in awe to be riding real horses & not just pony's
Seriously learning to ride properly.
They had to brush their horse, saddle it,walk ,stop, turn & trot

Amberpony over at StoneAccentsStudio has her first kit up in the store. It has two pony's in the kit that are absolutely adorable. I made two quickpages using her kit.If you would like them you can get them HERE.

Life after the closing of Cottagescrapbooks

Well I have not applied to join another CT .I am rather enjoying the break from weekly LO deadlines & posting to 4 different sites every week. My goal now is to digiscrap my heritage photos & scan in photos of my kids & restore them. These photos were taken back in the 70's when the worse film every made in the history of film types was being sold--kodak daisy ?? film. The photos are all turning red etc.
Tomorrow I will have cataract surgery. The hardest part was arranging transportation to & from the eye center for two separate procedures ( they only do one eye at a time). I just hate to bother my kids cause Brent wil loss work time & Sally has 4 kids- the one year old & 3 year old doesn't make driving in very early am too easy.They both have been great about it. The part of doing only one eye at a time is in case it doesn't go well. That is a bit scary.Possible complications can be bleeding,infection, eyesight loss & even loss of eye!!! However the procedure is common with great results so I am keeping that my focus.

CottageScrapbooks is no more

Stella was upgrading the site to get more bandwidth & something went terribly wrong.It is my understanding that GeoCity the host site ran into some problems with CottageScrapBooks during the upgrade & everything EVERYTHING was lost.Stella is heart broken & does not want to start again from scratch due to other things going on in her life.She has just relocated from Australia to Canada & settling in her new home & starting a full time job.
It is unbelievable that such a happy site is florishing one day & gone the next.It was my home the last seven months. I was on the Creative Team for CottageScrapbooks & loved making LO's for the designers . It was fun working with the other CT's on the team & seeing their work. I will miss them,the designers at the Cottage & Stella.

April Cottagescrapbooks Blog Party

You can get these RMP's HERE

I made two RMP's for the party . One I made using papers & frames from the kit Mistybelle made for this party & you can get it on her blog.See blog roll below. The 2nd LO was made using StellarificCreations beautiful kit Spring Song. The rainbow is mine.

Here's the blog roll

Stellarific Creations:http://stellarificcreations.blogspot.comScrapbooking In Australia:http://scrapbookinginaustralia.blogspot.comCottage Scrapbooks blog:http://cottagescrapbooks.blogspot.comThe Cottage Creatives:http://creatives4cottagescrapbooks.blogspot.comStella's other blog:http://creativebystella.blogspot.com/Stella's Cottage Blog ~ Meeting Place:http://cottagescrapbooks.com/forum/blog.php?u=4KayC:http://grandmaspixels.blogspot.com/mITSYBELLE:http://mitsybelle.blogspot.com/Jean Ann:http://jacksscraps.blogspot.com/ JobaScraps:http://joba2hut.blogspot.com/ KDesigns:http://kdesignscreations.blogspot.com/JessicasMahttp://jessicassweetnothings.blogspot.com/Cadaceehttp://cadaceescorner.blogspot.com/
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I've kept my links open for my past quickpages so if you still want any you can still get them.

Wow the months sure go fast.January flew by.Celebrated 3 birthdays this month.Saw Elmo stage show with grandaughters. It was so cold we froze just walking a little way to get in the arena. Struggling with weightwatchers. Too cold to go grocery shopping as often as needed to get healthy fruits & veggies. I haven't joined in on blogging a photo a day like so many are doing but I sure have been thinking about it. A great way to get a album of your life to pass onto future generations.

Here is my contribution to the Feb. blog party at Cottagescrapbooks. I used Demiurgia's kit...I Heart You. Hope you enjoy it & be sure to go to the rest of the sites on the blog roll for wonderful gifts by designers & members at the cottage. Here

February Blog Roll

Stellarific Creations:http://stellarificcreations.blogspot.comScrapbooking In Australia:http://scrapbookinginaustralia.blogspot.comCottage Scrapbooks blog:http://cottagescrapbooks.blogspot.comThe Cottage Creatives:http://creatives4cottagescrapbooks.blogspot.comStella's Cottage Blog ~ Meeting Place:http://cottagescrapbooks.com/forum/blog.php?u=4KayC:http://grandmaspixels.blogspot.com/Jessicasma:http://jessicassweetnothings.blogspot.com/Cadacee:http://cadaceescorner.blogspot.com/Demiurgia Designs:http://demiurgia.blogspot.com/KDesigns:http://kdesignscreations.blogspot.comWildcat Designs:http://wildcatdesigns.blogspot.commITSYBELLE:http://mitsybelle.blogspot.com/JobaScraps:http://joba2hut.blogspot.com/ozsue:http://sue-scrapsoflife.blogspot.com/Jean Ann:http://jacksscraps.blogspot.com/ok, go blog!

Today I am feeling abit nostalgic so I thought I would blog .It has been so cold . I have been wasting alot of time watching movies. I have netflex & not only get two movies in the mail but I have been watching the instant online downloads too!! In addition to that I have read several novels. I buy them by the bag full at rummage sales. And then in addition to that I am playing my pcgames.I'm playing Assassin'sCreed now. I am 2/3's through the game.Should only take me many many more hours to finish!! Needless to say digital scrapbooking is addicting. I renewed my membership at scrappers guide.Linda Sattgast is raising her prices for her premier membership but she had a special that if you renewed now you can always get the old price. I am so glad I wasn't out of town visiting my mom because if I would have missed that email from Linda I think I would have cried. I am learning so much from her & the digiscrappers in her premier membership are some of the best on the entire web. It is awesome to look at their LO's using the lessons Linda teaches. Stella at Cottagescrapbooks is one precious lady.She is so enthusiatic & energetic. It is catching. She always has such kind words to say to her members that submit LO's in the gallery.. I have learnd so much from her. I never went to a digiscrapping yahoo group till Stella introduced them to the Ct's. I never dreamed of sharing a RMP(QP) on a file sharing site or designing a blinkie. I ony went to StoneAccentsStudio digi site. Now I have Lo's on Gotta Pixels,Digitalshoptalk,Scrapnfreestyle ,3Scrapateers, NDIS & others.It has been a true adventure to be a CT for her & her store.Her store is only 5 months old now & growing all the time. I wish her success.She deserve3s it .She works so hard. She gives so many freebies it is unbelievable. Well with all this activity I am starting to get behind in my housework. You can only do 52 pick ups so long. I am due for some deep cleaning. I gotta spend more time on my weightwatchers program,exercise,etc. I gotta get ready for income tax. I am starting to get nervous for all I have to do. Maybe that is why I have been watching movies & reading.Procrastinating. Trying to get up my energy . I just signed up for my medicare supplement.Boy they sure make that confusing. Well i guess I am done rambling. I've been thinking of my brother alot lately who lives in another state & mom with her dementia & too far to visit often. I cried last time I saw her. I think this is what has caused me to feel so nostalgic.

Januay CottageScrapbooks Blog Party

Stella , owner of CottageScrapbooks, is planning to have a blog party the first of every month featuring R-MP's(Qp's) from designers kits in her store. I decided to join in on the fun & made two R-MP 's using StellarificCreations kit...YuleTimeCheer.

You can get it HERE and HERE

Here's the rest of the blog roll

Stellarific Creations:http://stellarificcreations.blogspot.comScrapbooking In Australia:http://scrapbookinginaustralia.blogspot.comCottage Scrapbooks blog:http://cottagescrapbooks.blogspot.comThe Cottage Creatives:http://creatives4cottagescrapbooks.blogspot.comStella's other blog:http://creativebystella.blogspot.com/Stella's Cottage Blog ~ Meeting Place:http://cottagescrapbooks.com/forum/blog.php?u=4ozsue:http://sue-scrapsoflife.blogspot.com/Jessicasma:http://jessicassweetnothings.blogspot.com/KayC:http://grandmaspixels.blogspot.com/Demiurgia Designs:http://demiurgia.blogspot.comScrapTiferet:http://scraptiferet.blogspot.com JobaScraps:http://joba2hut.blogspot.comCadacee: http://cadaceescorner.blogspot.com/Wildcat Designs:http://wildcatdesigns.blogspot.comMoonisgone:http://moonisgone.comScrapBear Designs:http://scrapbeardesigns.blogspot.com

Cottagescrapbooks Dec.Blog Party

The national digital day blog party at Cottagescrapbooks was successful & alot of fun. I got 344 downloads of my R-MP's(QP's)as of this date! So Stella of Cottagescrapbooks has decided to do it the first of every month.For December I have made two R-MP's using Cen's Stuff from the shoppe.Her kits I used are Flora's Dream & Forgotten Dreams. ( I must be in a dreamy mood)

You can get the R-MP's Here for Flora's Dream

and Here for forgottenDreams

And here is the list of Cottagescrapbookers joining in the Dec. blog party :

Jessicasmahttp://jessicassweetnothings.blogspot.com/Stellarific Creationshttp://stellarificcreations.blogspot.com/Scrapbooking In Australiahttp://scrapbookinginaustralia.blogspot.com/Creatives4CottageScrapbooks Bloghttp://creatives4cottagescrapbooks.blogspot.com/Cottage Scrapbooks Internet Bloghttp://cottagescrapbooks.blogspot.com/Cottage Stellahttp://cottagescrapbooks.com/forum/blog.php?u=4CanDesignshttp://mermaidshaven.blogspot.com/Sillyscrapper Tracyhttp://www.wildcatdesigns.blogspot.com/ScrapBear Designshttp://scrapbeardesigns.blogspot.com/ScrapTiferethttp://scraptiferet.blogspot.com/JobaScrapshttp://joba2hut.blogspot.com/Ozsuehttp://sue-scrapsoflife.blogspot.com/KayChttp://grandmaspixels.blogspot.com/

Stories in Hand

I participated in an online class given by JessicaSprague called Stories in Hand. A 6x6 album was decorated with downlads from Jessica & filled with hundreds of memory prompts in different catagories.It took me a few hours to make the album. It is to be kept near my work area and when a blank is drawn on what to scrap or journal etc. waalla _the memory prompt book is right there! We are to dive deep or shallow in the prompts & journal the memories. I am going to use google docs to do my journaling. The prompts she gives are things that you would want to know about the past in photos but no one wrote them.They are prompts to help you tell your story for future generations & questions they might have in the future.We can scrap 100 layouts about birthday parties or scrap stories with photos for future generations to know about our lives & heritage. I made a second book for my daughter but she says she doesn't have time in her life right now to journal.But I bet sometime in the future this little book will be a great help to her to remember & to know what stories are important to past on.

Old Home Style Quickpage

CottageScrapbooks.com is celebrating the national DigitalScraping event starting Nov.1st by hosting a blog party & I have joined in on the fun. I made two quickpages to share with you using StellarificCreations kit...Old Homestyle.It is a beautiful kit for those vintage & heritage photos but of course can be used for other photos too; like weddings etc. Quickpages are great when you want to get alot of layouts done for an album.Just add a photo & journaling & your are done.

HERE is link for quickpage.

And HERE for second quickpage

Here are the other bloggers joining in the fun

Cottage Scrapbooks Internet Blog (Jessicasma - Donna is Blog Keeper)http://cottagescrapbooks.blogspot.com/Creatives4CottageScrapbooks Bloghttp://creatives4cottagescrapbooks.blogspot.com/Cottage Stellahttp://cottagescrapbooks.com/forum/blog.php?u=4Stellarific Creationshttp://stellarificcreations.blogspot.com/CanDesignshttp://mermaidshaven.blogspot.com/KayChttp://grandmaspixels.blogspot.com/Ozsuehttp://sue-scrapsoflife.blogspot.com/Sillyscrapperhttp://www.scrappinsilly.blogspot.com/Jessicasmahttp://jessicassweetnothings.blogspot.com/JobaScrapshttp://joba2hut.blogspot.com/Jennifer18http://scraptiferet.blogspot.com/Christihttp://scrappymama.ourfamilyblogs.com/Amberponyhttp://amberpony.blogspot.com/ScrapBear Designshttp://scrapbeardesigns.blogspot.com/

Come join Stella & all the other designers at the Cottage . You won't want to miss all the fun for the national digiscrapping celebration starting Nov.1st

National Digital Scrapbooking Day

CottageScrapbooks

is celebrating the whole week end!

click on the image & go to CottageScrapbooks for all the fun

DigitalScrappers Premier Showcase

"_putting a good background paper to work"&

"little else needed to make a warm inviting page" by Linda Sattgast

Blinkie & Template

I'm learning to make templates & blinkies.
Now I have to learn how to post my blinkie in my blog so it blinks!!

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CottageScrapbooks

Stella has her own Scrapbooking site!

CottageScrapbooks .com

Grand Opening Sept.1st

It's a beautiful site with forum,gallery,boutique & your own blog.

Stella is having a big sale on her products

Go on over to her stores ,blog,or Stoneaccentsstudio to get the sales.She feautured this LO in the Aug. SAS newsletter