Have You Got Your Challenges On?

Howdy All;

Happy Canada Day & Independence Day to all in North America.

Ah, summer. So relaxing. I am really soaking it up.

I even did four challenges. Yeah, knocked me for a loop too.

Have you got your Challenges On?

Here's the fun I had.

Digital Scrap Obsession Challenges:

Card Sketch with Bunny - Simplicity



Surprise Challenge with Moni - Blending



Divine Digital Challenges:

Use It or Lose It with Joli



Divine Diva Challenge with Scrap-A-Latte



So go on...Get Your Challenges On.
:)

Huggins
Pat

June DSO Freebie

Hello Scrap Land


*So true, Linda.' Color - Colour for example' Thanks for the comment :)

Summer is almost officially here. Yeah! After a few storms went through, the weather here has been great so far.
I am just finishing up a few things here in the city and then we're off to the cottage and the Summer Solstice Party on Tuesday.
Other then painting the cottage a different colour, which we haven't decided upon yet, it's going to be one relaxing summer.
What color do you think we should paint our cottage?
It's Cobalt Blue right now. My idea was Lime Green, Joe's was Chocolate Brown, Tyler's was Aquamarine. Here are a few pix.

Lady

part of Joe

the rear view

the front view

looking out from the deck

Before I go I wanted to give you a little something to decorate your pages with.
I used the DSO colours for June.
24 papers, 4 frames, 4 buttons, 4 brads, 10 flowers and 2 templates.



Here are your download links

templates

http://www.mediafire.com/?y8aw47h4m7zi478

ellies

http://www.mediafire.com/?9mj9uh224cfb4x4

papers

http://www.mediafire.com/?xzp33x2hm104i4d

http://www.mediafire.com/?y5eix34m6wjqmyq

http://www.mediafire.com/?s3cxam958qynlhv

http://www.mediafire.com/?99oymjn0zs0njw6

http://www.mediafire.com/?ak9ah1whkjja1a3

I won't be up at the cottage the entire summer break. Joe is still working most of it and there are some home things to take care of. Tyler will be staying up there all summer. He joined the summer Rangers. He met this group last year while doing his Nature Journal. He just may become another Ontario Park Ranger. Such a cool job too. Well it's time to hit the hay.

Enjoy.

Have a Safe & Happy Season wherever you are.

Huggins
Pat

October DSO CC - Freebie

Howdy Peeps;

How are you all? Has the cold/flu virus finished in your household yet? LOL I laugh because its so predictable isn't it. I swear if the boys didn't get it from work and school we'd all be viral free. I always get sick from Joe. Joe just has to kiss me before leaving for work. dang.

Autumn is my second favorite season, spring being my first. I'm guessing most people love the change in leaf color which can be seen for miles standing on a hilltop. We have some amazing scenic hilltops here in Ontario and if you go north, wow, totally awesome. We are heading up north next weekend to winterize the cottage and definitely taking pictures.

How was your Thanksgiving weekend? Tasty? Lip smacking good? Joe bought a Presidents Choice turkey this year with all the fixing already done. Stuffed and buttered. I was so looking forward to our yearly roast but what the hey. Yes, I know it's turkey time, but I like to steer away from BIRD in cold and flu season, call me silly. So since I made the bird we've have turkey dinners, turkey stews and stuffing up to our eye balls. I swear if he brings home a BIRD for Christmas I'll cook it until it's burnt then we'll have to go out for dinner LOL. Turkeys are so big and with most of our family sick and staying home I am left with massive amounts of turkey to dish out in a million different ways. Even Lady is sick of it. LOL
But anyway I am babbling on and on when I should be getting to the point of this post...Kim B's DSO Color Challenge.
As you know I don't have a lot of time on my hands these days but when I could I sat for a bit and tried to think up something to do with these colors. All I got was papers so far. See I am not even doing it right this month. Usually I like to make a layout with a photo and go from there but I am in Autumn mode and these colors just didn't speak Autumn to me while all my photos do LOL. But there I go again, babbling. So I'll get to it cause time is creeping up and we have a hockey game at 7 pm to attend which means we leave at 6 pm.
If you would like these papers you can get them here, here and here.





Thanks for stopping by and reading my post today. If you have any problems with the downloads Shout at me in the Shout box. It's way easier then commenting. K
Enjoy your downloads and your day.
Huggins
Pat

DSO Quick Page Mini Freebie

Good Evening, Folks;

When the kids are away, Mom will play, LOL, and that's what I did today. Tammy came over and we were making scrap stuff and in between helping her and doing my own thing I was able to get a page done. If you would like this quick page, it's yours for the taking. And you can create your own quick pages to as I've included each piece separately, (flower, frame and paper) and a bonus paper too. All made with Kim B's DSO September Swatch.



Enjoy and Have a funtastic day.
Huggins
Pat

Sept DSO CC - Freebie

Howdy Folks;

Is it cold where you are? Up here in Southern Ontario it's like the end of fall. We had to put the heat on a few days ago and last night was freezing outside. I swear the seasons are all messed up. We had the least amount of rain for summer this year and the end of Autumn came in before the end of summer went out. The butterflies are confused. They need the warm Mexican wind to take flight and it's no where to be found. Mexico is flooded with rain and there's not one but 2 hurricanes playing in the gulf.

Yesterday I went shopping for some winter boots with my girlfriend and as we wandered around the stores looking at things we noticed 95% of the stuff was made in China. I can't even find a pair of underwear that isn't made in China. Where the heck does the things Made in Canada go? Doesn't Canadians make anything anymore or does the entire planet get there stuff from China? That really freaks me out. No offense to China but I still haven't gotten over the wheat gluten pesticide that killed a lot of pets or the embalming fluid found in Victoria Secret bras or the lead found in the paint on children's toys, all coming from China. Or the milk that killed lots of Chinese children made in their own country.
I didn't get the boots so tomorrow I will try some other stores like Mark's Work Warehouse. Maybe I can find some boots that actually keep my feet warm cause that thinsulate stuff sucks big time. Last year I had to wear those thick wool work socks over my regular socks in ski do boots, of all things.

Anyways, I am going to be pretty busy over the next several weeks with Thanksgiving coming up and then Hollow's Eve and we still have to get the cottage set up for winter. Stages have to be made, painted and set up, rehearsals, parties, dinners, etc. so I am booked solid. And Tyler decided he wants to play hockey this year so my weekends and nights are gone too.

I was able to get a few papers done and some round frames for September's DSO CC but that's all I will be able to get done for this month. I won't have any time available in October so it's best that I get what I've made out to you now before I get so wrapped up in things that I forget to even get them to you at all. I so wanted to make something to do with wine and grapes cause that's what these colors told me they were but time just wasn't on my side :) So enough of my blabbing. Here is the preview and below it the links.


http://www.mediafire.com/file/w5h111qrueewoh7/btmo-Sept10-DSOCC-1.zip

http://www.mediafire.com/file/o7bfv5lo0uuo2vw/btmo-Sept10-DSOCC-2.zip

http://www.mediafire.com/file/nauk6yb8ytbckag/btmo-Sept10-DSOCC-3.zip


When I can, if I can, I'll pop in. However before I go to bed for the next few days I'll check in to make sure you all are not having any issues in downloading.

Enjoy and have a funtastic Autumn.
Huggins to you all.
Pat

We're Back

Well Hello Everyone;

Has it been ages or what LOL

What a busy 1st week back to school. PTA meetings, Library Meetings, Social Meetings, well you get the picture. But today is Saturday and I can finally sit down and catch up. I opened reader first thing when I finally got online and man, over 5000 posts to read, NOT. Sorry girls and guys but I just hit the Read All button. I couldn't possible handle it. I opened my email and wow, there are over 200 emails in there.
I know I missed a lot in digiland but I had a fantastic summer. How about you?
I really missed you peeps personally and I thought about you quite often. I talked about you all quiet often too. Some of the girls and I went to a few country sales. These are like Garage sales but when in the country we go from farm to farm not house to house LOL.
More times then I can count I would spy something and think of one or many of you. So even though I wasn't online with you you sure were spending your summer with me.

This morning was the first time I turned on the computer too and I had several updates to do first. After that I went to look in my folder to see where I left off and there was sitting a layout I was suppose to get up before I left. I must have blanked it out or thought I did it but either way there it sat. Poor Loucee must think I forgot all about her and her challenge. Well I did didn't I. And I forgot to let Kim know I posted that little gift using the August CC. So I've done that now too. The Cars were right. Summer turns me upside down. It's my excuse and I'm sticking to it :)
Here is the layout I did for Loucee's Animal Challenge over at DSO...


Give me a few days to catch up on all the past and recent news and I'll get started on some new challenges and free gifts for all. Now where is my mojo bag...umm :)

Huggins
Pat

Edit: Now there goes my brains again leaving me behind. Today is Sept 11 isn't it. Let us pray for the lives lost in 2001. I don't think any of us will forget that day as long as we live.

Thank U Gift - Freebie

Hello Fellow Scrappers...............

I hope the links have worked for you.
Again, my sincere apologizes.

I am pooped.
Spent what time I could this evening making a small gift for your kindness. And patience.
It was well worth the time.
I hope you like it.
I picked up the palette from Kim's Color Challenge over at the DSO when I came back and they are marvelous.
I created a layout of Lady, seen below, which I turned into a quick page for you and
I also split everything up so you could make your own pages with the paper, butterfly, frame and rose. All in 1 download (47mb) :)

Here is the page I created of Lady. She truly is. A Lady.

Totally not finished but I am pooped LOL

And here is your small gift.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/eberqjah8hzeqcj/btmo_thankU_gift1.zip

Again, thank U all for your kindness. I must get some zees before I bang my head off the table LOL.
Oh I leave this evening. I will check back before I go to make sure everything is okay with this download. I will check several times throughout the day too.

Enjoy your day and your download.

Huggins
Pat

Humble Apologizes - Freebie

My Humblest Apologizes to All.

Media Fire Uploaded it, gave me a link for it, and then off the file went disappearing into the great white open. It's the only logical explanation I can give since I did get a link and I saw it there LOL

Thank goodness I was browsing and nosing this afternoon before heading up North for the remainder of the summer tomorrow.

So let's get you those links asap...

http://www.mediafire.com/file/0aahx3juva7d6n9/btmo_kb_july_dsocc_p1.zip

http://www.mediafire.com/file/86474vdkc2zvao9/btmo_kb_july_dsocc_p2.zip

http://www.mediafire.com/file/n82g69mm3nacyb9/btmo_kb_july_dsocc_p3.zip

I'll post again later, with a gift for everyone for the kindness of letting me know of this malfunction. mwah :)

Huggins
Pat

July DSO CC - Freebie

Howdy again, Folks;

Well it's been a nightmare trying to upload anything to DSO this evening. Connection keeps timing out. 1 hour of attempting this has left me frazzled. I gave up. Maybe tomorrow will be better.

Anyways, I was able to create a little something for the DSO CC this month. Just papers and a little surprise not shown in the preview. With all I have been doing up north these colors just didn't want to play with me this month LOL. Ah, my mojo needs to be kicked up a notch. I don't have much on the laptop to work with either and I just didn't have the time to sit and get into creating things from scratch. It's my excuse and I'm sticking to it :)

So it's like 1:30 ish here and I really need to get my head on the pillow as morning waits not for me to rise. So without further babble here is the preview and below it the links.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/n82g69mm3nacyb9/btmo_kb_july_dsocc_p1.zip

http://www.mediafire.com/file/86474vdkc2zvao9/btmo_kb_july_dsocc_p2.zip

http://www.mediafire.com/file/n82g69mm3nacyb9/btmo_kb_july_dsocc_p3.zip


Okay folks, hello, I must be going hehehe
I'll chat with you later.
Enjoy your downloads and your day.
Huggins
Pat

DSO Template Challenge

Howdy Folks;

How is your summer coming along? Enjoying and loving every minute of it I hope.
I am in the city for a few days to pay some bills & visit my sister for her birthday. She is not a party type person so no big event to go to. I am just going to take her shopping; she loves doing that :)

I needed to fill in some extra time I had today so I grabbed the template challenge over at DSO that Caryn is hosting this month. It's my first attempt at trying this new challenge so this is how it turned out....

It was fun. I don't usually put so much writing in my layouts and it was the hardest part to think about LOL. I tried to upload it to the gallery this evening but it kept failing on me so I thought it best to post it here. Thanks, Caryn, for a fun challenge.

I've got a little gift for you all too which I will post in a few minutes.

See you then LOL
Huggins
Pat