Azraelle's Bon Voyage Party

The party is over and done with! Thanks goodness. It was so much work getting everything together...but it turned out beautiful. A few minor upsets....guest of honor was over an hour and half late. The pastor and his wife came and he wanted to bless her and the event and she was still getting dressed across town. The wind kept blowing at the decorations but they still looked gorgeous. I was a wee bit upset when I found that instead saying Grambling Bound.....the cake said Gambling bound and was decorated with playing cards and coins.....A lot of people who were supposed to come...did not...oh well. We had plenty of food...good music...and she had a great time. And my second eldest, Dee said she DEFINITELY does not want a party. She would rather have a gift. Here are a few pictures...more on flickr

Quickpages, Minikit and freebies!

This will be SECOND time I have written today's blog entry. I keep getting sidetracked by FB...and those farming apps. I need Farm intervention yall!

I have been designing some inbetween getting my daughter ready to go off to college, planning her Au Revoir party, and adopting a new stray kitty named Meatball! He is such a cutie pie!

I used Microferk Mardi Gras kit to design my daughter's party invites...since she is going to school in LA..I thought it was a good fit.

Anywho back to design news....I have a set of Quickpages made from my latest kit, My Americana. Since my qp skills majorly suck, I bought some commercial use templates from Kissed Studios based on layouts by some of the most awesome layout artists in digiscrapping community. These gals create great pages. So if you are like me and have tons of 4th photos (from this year and past years) to scrap, you can jumpstart your scrapping. Single photo and multiphoto pages included. Exclusive to my SOTB store for only $4.99 and its 25% for the next week!.

I have new kit in my DoItDigi store: Bedazzle...based on my daughter's prom photo this kit is full of soft colors, gorgeous mauve, lush green, rich chocolate brown and ever elegant black are all present in this beautiful formal inspired kit. Gems, silky bows, shabby textured papers, clustered frames and other elements make this kit a joy to work with. $3.99 at DoItDigi.

I did say something about freebies right? well here are two qp's from both of my latest kits...This is not included in the QP set for sale so make sure you grab it as well as the set!

Win My Americana kit BEFORE

it even hit the store! Leave a comment on this post and one random winner will be picked Sunday at 8 pm EST to win it. This kit is JAM PACKED with papers and elements perfect for all those 4th of July photos...this yea rand years gone past.....Vintage without being overwhelming this kit will definitely work for parade photos, military pics..any time you want to show your American Pride!
Textured Grungy Papers, beads, sequins, bows, cardboard elements, newsprint, glitter, polka dots, chipboard, stars, stripes...you name it and this kit probably has a bit of it. And all you have to do to win is post a comment! Good Deal huh???

RIP, Congrats, DigiNews and Freebies!

AAARgh...I had a blog all written about the 80s Icons that died this week....and blogger ATE it...UGH...I am not rewriting it . On that note RIP Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett & King of Pop, Michael Jackson. You will be sorely missed.

On to other news..... She finally did it! My Precious First Born graduated from high school on June 11, 2009! WOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!



There she is recieving her diploma and here she is with me and my mom!


She received 60k scholarship to Grambling University....Go Tigers!!!!!

On to Digi News....

I am participating in SOTB Kuler Challenge.....My first kit will be released on Monday 6/29! Here is a sneak Peak...it will be on sale for $2.50...


there will be freebie sampler there...be sure to check it out and check out the other designers kits as well.

I also have a new release at DoItDigi: BEDAZZLE...based on my daughters prom pic

Gorgeous Mauve, Lush Green, Rich Chocolate Brown and ever Elegant Black hues are all present in this beautiful formal inspired kit. Based on my daughter and her date's prom pic, this kit is perfect for formal photos. Gems, silky bows, shabby textured papers, clustered frames and other elements make this kit a joy to work with. And its only 3.99 regularly priced!!! But as all new releases, it will be only 25%. Be sure to check out the July DoItDigi newsletter to get a Freebie QP made from this kit.

My Favorite Guy Blog Train Freebie

Slide Show

This month, our blog Train will give you a fantastic mega kit.

My Favorite Guy!
Check Out All Those Awesome Previews in the Slide Show!

Here is my part:

3 Patterned Textured 12X12 papers

1 Chipboard Star

1 Star Sticker cluster

1 Wrapped Wooden Frame

1 Flat Ribbon

Download Here

You Came from:
JIC Creations http://jiccreations.blogspot.com/

Next Stop
Simple Girl Designs https://simplegirldesigns.squarespace.com/

Main Blog Train Link
http://www.blogtrainblog.blogspot.com/

Happy {early} Birthday Mommy

My mom will be celebrating her 55th birthday in about five days. So I took her out for a just us girls dinner and a movie. We went to Carrabbas!Superyumaliciousness! I ate the most delicious shrimp scampi I have EVER tasted. I must look up the recipe. Mom had calamari…I have tried before and it was ok. But these were the actual shapes of little deep fried octopi…too gross for me!!! We both had drinks…she had a razzamatini and I had a pomegranate margarita. Both were WAY heavy on the alcohol.  Then I had the Johnny which was

Sirloin Marsala
10 oz. USDA Choice center-cut sirloin grilled and topped with mushrooms, prosciutto and our Lombardo Marsala wine sauce

and

Chicken Bryan
Grilled chicken breast topped with goat cheese, sundried tomatoes and a basil lemon butter sauce

and

Mezzaluna
Delicate half moon ravioli stuffed with chicken, ricotta and spinach in a tomato cream sauce

I am not a ravioli fan so the Mezzaluna did not impress me but everything else was soooooo good!.

Then we went to see Wolverine…great movie. My mom is not really a big Marvel fan (unlike me) so I had to keep giving her back story. All in all we had a great time and it was a great day so we got to ride in her Mercedes Coupe with the top down.

in scrapping news, AliSarah Designs picked me for her one kit call for Brace Face (YAY me!)…I already did one LO…

Details (and if you wanna leave me love) can be found

Scrapable

DesignsInDigital

Digishoptalk

DoItDigi

Poor neglected blog

I havent blogged in forever….many days I say I gotta do it today and time just gets away from me. My eldest dd is graduating this year. She turned 18 in  February and each month gets closer to her leaving the nest. May 2 she went to her senior prom.

This is her and her date (and best friend) Lamar. They looked so gorgeous. Its a bittersweet feeling to see her growing older…what happened to my baby….

She always did look gorgeous in pink!

With all of that going on and my grandma passing away, I haven’t really been in mood to design. No creative spark at all. So I think I am just going to concentrate on forum participation at the sites I sell at and scrapping some of these  gazillion pictures I have. Now if I could just stay off of FB