April DSOCC - Freebie

Good Morning, All;

Are you all ready for NSBD, May 1st?
I asked Joe to get me an external terabyte drive today and I told him I will need it by the end of the month. If the week long events will be anything like last year I am going to need it. There will be parties going on in every forum and lots of freebies and especially discounts on neat products. I always save 100 dollars for this event and I go everywhere, even the nooks and crannies :)

Tyler is off with his school, to Ottawa! For the whole week :) On the way they are going to visit 1000 islands, an airplane and train museum, 3 noteworthy properties owned by famous historical people, two food companies, two schools where they will sleep at night on the way to Ottawa. When they finally arrive in Ottawa they will be staying at a university dorm near the capital building, visit a war museum and numerous other events the school has planned for them. He was really excited when they left Monday morning and when he called me tonight. He took his camera and has already filled 4 4 gig memory cards. I can't wait to see them.

So with Tyler away on his adventure we are presently going threw boxes trying to get out tax papers in order. I can't seem to remember where the heck I put them. I just had them all out a month ago. If I hadn't re-organized my desk we wouldn't be going through boxes, dang.

Over the last couple of days I was able to catch up on several blogs I follow and also finally finished reading what Reader had in there. Man that Reader can add up to a lot when you don't have the time to read it.

In my free time, which is increasing ever so slow, I was able to get some things done for Kim B's April Color Challenge. This includes....

40 brackets, 9 glass flowers, 6 decorative papers, 6 brad buttons, 6 frames, 5 card stock papers, 9 decorative glass ornaments.
Here's the preview and below it you will find the links.




http://www.mediafire.com/file/hbyt4m0vtty/btmo_apr_dsocc_papers1.zip

http://www.mediafire.com/file/rmw2vjyduzv/btmo_apr_dsocc_papers2.zip

http://www.mediafire.com/file/yqyinrzrght/btmo_apr_dsocc_papers3.zip

http://www.mediafire.com/file/zzjnhgnmn4z/btmo_apr_dsocc_papers4.zip

http://www.mediafire.com/file/dymewtm4jtt/btmo_apr_dsocc_frames.zip

http://www.mediafire.com/file/nd5mojkywje/btmo_apr_dsocc_elements.zip

http://www.mediafire.com/file/ymv5knny0wh/btmo_apr_dsocc_brackets.zip


I am starving so I need to go an eat.
Enjoy your downloads and your day

Huggins
Pat

Cloth Texture - Freebie

Good Early Morning, All;

How was your day? I slept a lot. I am feeling much better.
It's around 1 15 am and I am up for a bit. I dropped in to catch up on stuff and post the comments here when I received a shout from Laser who was very interested in the texture I used on the striped paper from the Easter papers 2 set. Of course I will gladly share it with Laser and anyone who wants it for their stash. No commercial use allowed thou. If anyone sees it being sold or used in products for sale let me know asap.

Okay enough babbling. Here's the preview, up close, and the link below it.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/zyqmuhttzhn/btmo_cloth.zip

So I have a ton of emails and blogs to read so I am going to drink my neocitrian, catch up a bit, and head off back to bed.

Enjoy your download and your day.
Huggins
Pat

Easter Papers 4 - Freebie

Good Evening, All

First: Thank you so very very much, Sara, for the info on who's layout my friend Sara lifted. It has now been added to the post. Now is that a coincidence or what. Two Sara's. LOL mwah

Second: Thank you goes out to all those who commented with their words of thanks. You're all very welcome.

Third: Hack hack cough cough choke choke spit wipe sniffle achoo sneeze wipe scratch snort spit, repeat. No one wants to come near me now LOL like that will keep them safe. Strange, I am the only one sick. I haven't a clue where I got it and why the boys don't have it LOL.

The boys took care of everything today while I slept. Each time I woke up for meds things were done. Woke up tonight at 11:25 pm and it has taken me some time to shake the z's out of my brain and grab some focus. But here I am, if only for a bit, to give you all the last set of papers.

The link is below the preview




http://www.mediafire.com/file/i5anit44yjk/btmo_easter_papers4.zip

Now I really must return to bed. Thank you for dropping in today.
Enjoy your download and your day.

Huggins
Pat

Easter Papers Set 3 - Freebie

Good Evening All;

I hope your day went better then mine :) I zonked out again, after Tyler went to school LOL Woke up 10 minutes before he walked in the door for lunch :) Zonked back out for the afternoon and woke up about a 1/2 hour before Tyler came home. I literally dragged myself making dinner, time was so slow, I didn't eat, no appetite. Joe and Tyler walked Lady before Joe headed off to work, after putting me to bed half way through dinner, woke up 11:30 to potty & take more meds. And here I be getting this out to you before I zonked out for the rest of the night. Of course I don't trust blogger so I'm wasting extra z time with notepad first LOL. So let's get this third set out to you asap.
Here's the preview and the link is below it.




http://www.mediafire.com/file/yjf0bmfgi5u/btmo_easter_papers3.zip

Now I must bid you all a goodnight and....
Enjoy your download and your day.

Huggins
Pat

Easter Papers Set 2 - Freebie

Morning All;

Just before 2 am I began posting and at 2 am I was finished but Blogger had other thoughts and decided to crash. I haven't checked if Blogger is having issues but something was going on with linking the preview image to the download and it began eating my dialogue, then itself and before I knew it Blogger had gone savage LOL Then I had a bit of work to do in Picasso tossing the images, then in the browser deleting all cookies, then cleaning up, etc...

So I'll begin again....

I woke up coughing, it's so dry, it feels like I have dust particles like every where in me, on me. I actually felt and feel these things biting me and go up my nose and such. So I got up and downed some night quill.
I know I am going to be sick with a cold, or worse, the spring flu. So I better get the second set out to you now while I am still able. LOL

You can download these at

http://www.mediafire.com/file/2vnj1o3om3n/btmo_easter_papers2.zip

The preview is up there. Again I had issues. Gees.
Also I went to media fire to upload set 2 and seen no one had downloaded the Doodle Frames. So when I came to the blog I read several people had left me comments that there was no link to them. Thank you very much for letting me know. *HUGS* for your help. I checked the post and sure enough the link had vanished. No wonder there were 0 downloads. duh LOL. So I re-posted the entire post. Terribly sorry about that folks. I'll put the link under the preview in the future. Live and learn :)

I have to go to the potty so I will let you all go, till tomorrow, with set 3.

Enjoy your download and your day.
Huggins
Pat

Doodle Frames - Freebie

This is a re-posting of a post that has now been deleted due to errors :)

Good Afternoon, All;

Can you believe it's April already. And Easter is this weekend. Time just flies right on by when you're having fun, and I hope you are all having loads of fun.
What a gorgeous day it is. I hope you are all having wonderful weather and are enjoying the day.
Lunch is over and Tyler is back in school for the afternoon and Joe is fast asleep. Carrie is coming over at two so this gives me some time to get these out to you.
These frames were drawn on the tablet and I wanted them to have 'jagged style' lines instead of clean cut ones. Then I filled them in and for some I applied a stone texture and others I applied a cloth texture. In the preview below some have 5 frames while others have 10. With the 10's they have both rock and cloth effects. There are 5 colors of each. They are all in the same zip file (66mb). If you're interested the link is below this preview.



http://www.mediafire.com/file/mmznld22mmj/btmo_scribble_frames.zip


It's 1:30 pm now and I have a few things to do before Carrie arrives. I'll have some papers for you all on Saturday so I'll chat you up then.

Oh, the stage is set, we finished everything this morning, and tonight is the show. I am so excited. Tomorrow is Good Friday, no school and no work just loads of fun fun fun.

Oh, its 145 now, I have to go LOL ;) Thanks for stopping in.
Enjoy your download and your day.
Huggins
Pat

Easter Papers Set 1 - Freebie

Good Afternoon, All;

How's your day going? It's drop dead gorgeous outside here.
We just popped in for some lunch before we head back out so I won't keep you too long.

Today I have some papers for you. You can download set 1 of 4 which contains 3 painted canvas papers. On Tuesday you can download set 2, Wed set 3 and Thurs set 4. Sound good.

Click on the preview to download.



And that's it from me today.
Enjoy your download and your day
Huggins
Pat

Decals - Freebies

Good Afternoon, All;

I am running out of time so I won't keep you but a minute.
As promised, here are those decals that Sara made.






Download them all in one file HERE

Tomorrow I will have some doodle frames for you and the following days I will have some papers for you.

I have to go, time keeps on ticking LOL
Enjoy your download and your day.
Huggins
Pat

Ella Lifted - Freebie

Howdy, All;

Whew, are we all having a wonderful week? I hope you are. Today I was home taking a rest from all the who ha when Sara came by for a visit. Sara is the lady who use to live in the building several blocks away from me and had the issue with the noise and moved out. She dropped by to give me some good news; they will be moving back into that building in July. The building was sold to new owners after the Super was sued in a class action suit by the tenants and won.

After Sara filled me in on all that news she then asked me to show her some computer and scrapbooking tips. We then spent the better part of the day having fun. From that fun, Sara made some things she wanted me to pass along to you. She said to tell you she is no pro and just likes to have fun.
These are a few of the things she wanted to do: make decals that had jelly like edges (see thru), how to make a template she could use over again, and how to make a quick pages. I showed her a couple of techniques for each of these and she went off like a whiz.
The day is never as long as we want it to be LOL so she didn't have the chance to get everything completely finished so I told her I would get what she did finish out tonight and the rest I will finish up and share tomorrow. Sound good, all? Okay!

One of the easiest ways to learn to make a layout is....scrap lifting. So Sara went online to some place, sorry I haven't a clue where, and saved an image to lift. I have the image....Do you know where it's from, who it belongs to? Please, leave a note so I can credit and link back. It's beautiful. I can see why Sara choose it.

Update: The follow layout was created by Nikki Hawkins @ Sweet Shoppe Designs Gallery.
The gallery link is http://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=128280&cat=500&ppuser=1012

Thank you Sara for this info *mwah*

From it Sara made this layout...

And this quick page for you.
Click on the image to download.

A lot of teaching hours went into it. She made the flowers and the curly stems and used Corel's patterns and textures. She also made the pattern for the back paper from two paisley brushes. She did fairly well on it all for only her third try at digital designing. Now she knows how to make a template and a quick page. And she realizes it takes a lot of hours to do things from scratch :)

We did the decals first which is why she didn't finish them up for uploading. The lift took us the longest LOL In the time Sara was making the decals I was working on some papers. When I took a break I noticed Sara was making all these decals in the same colors LOL She forgot all about changing colors. We cracked up about that then took a break, came back and did the lift.

It was a fun day for sure. And I think she is just a bit hooked too so she will probably be back, lots LOL

Well I best let you all get on with your time. Thanks for dropping in today.
Enjoy your download and your day.
Huggins
Pat

DSO Sprout Mini - Freebie

After I kissed Joe off to work (hahaha) I was thinking about all the stuff coming up I still have to do, and it being Friday, and I probably won't be around for the weekend, and it being The First Day of Spring tomorrow........I have been slowly putting together a mini for the DSO cc called Sprout.....I might as well get it out to you today.
So I sat down, looked over what I had made already and put it all together for you. Then I noticed I forgot the eggs and did them after creating the preview LOL. I was just not up to doing the fences and baskets. Yup, I need me some sleep.
Jason will be here in 40 30 20 10 minutes to pick up Tyler and then they are going Sugar Maple Tapping, Hiking, and having an outdoor b.b.q. at a conservation area with the rest of his team mates. All boys/men. :)

Well I'm starting to fade so here's the preview to Sprout using Kim B's DSO CC for March.




Sprout consists of the following (for now)

10 ribbons, 10 eggs
6 canvas papers, 6 frames, 6 brads, 6 swirls, 6 bows, 6 butterflies
4 floral swags, 4 bunnies
3 leaf stems, 3 flowers
2 clovers
1 bird, 1 tree

Sprout comes in 2 parts....
Part 1 and Part 2

Well folks, I am going to bid you all a good day, enjoy your downloads and again Happy Spring.
Enjoy
Huggins
Pat

St. Pat's Mini 'n' QP - Freebie

Top of the morning, All!

Yes, I am a bit late with getting that out to you all. It has been a pretty busy week with loads of fun and we haven't even gone to the movies yet. LOL Hope you all had a Green St. Pat's Day.
I was online this morning, popping in and out while getting some house stuff done before heading out to Playdium for the day and I was able to read a few blogs and make equal thank you's to a few peeps. I am, of course, so behind. I finally finished burning 10 disc, kits for my auntie that she bought and photos, in the meantime trying to create and finish off a mini/quick page. Multitasking was my forte this week.
Last night I fell asleep during the last 5 minutes of the hockey game, can't remember what time that was, and woke up at 12:30 and couldn't for the life of me fall back to sleep. I think it was because my brain knew I had a project to complete LOL. So that's what I did. And the result is what you can take home with you today, if you like. Just click on the images to download.

Quick Page

Create your own pages with this Mini.

It took me awhile but its done and now it's just after 4 am and Joe will be getting up within the 1/2 hours so I must get breakfast started and start the day day hahaha. Will I make it is another story. Tomorrow we go see Alice. I am excited.
Oh, yes, before I forget and don't come back till next week LOL :) Tomorrow is..........

Happy Spring, All!

Huggins
Pat

March Break

Hello, Peeps!

It's just a bit past 10:30 pm and my Auntie just left after staying at our house for the week while her kitchen was being renovated. How I have missed MY computer these last few days. Every time she is here she totally hogs it and goes around buying stuff. Thank goodness she has no internet at home or she would be broke. Seriously. I have received 22 emails so far and I am waiting for 3 more. That is a lot of downloading and burning to disc, yah know! So next week, while Tyler is off for March break, I get to spent time doing that while my Auntie is off to the Bahamas to see her daughter for 2 weeks. Thank goodness Tyler has plans for the first part of the week. I would feel so bad burning disc while he vegged around waiting for me to do things with him during the day.
Joe is on days next week too so that gives us all the evenings to be together and go to hockey finals, and hopefully, I am crossing my fingers, we will go see 2 movies, Alice in Wonderland in I MAX 3D and Where the Wild Things Are (I remember reading that book as a kid). And of course we have to go to Playdium cause for 30 bucks the kids can have a lot of fun. I personally find it boring cause I am not into it. All I do is sit around most of the time. I was never an arcade or pool hall kinda girl. I play a few games but to me I would rather waste money on skiing (no snow, lots of rain thou) or a movie(see above) or (going to Micheal's and buying useful craft stuff LOL) then pluging it into some machine. It's not cheap either, some of these machines can start at 3 bucks a pop, for 1 game. Well at least the kids can have fun, kids can have fun just about anywhere, it's when they grow up into adults the fun changes LOL.
So again I am way behind on blog reading and getting any projects done for you all. My 365 pages are sorely lagging behind too; got all the photos thou LOL. Of course I do my art journal book every night before I go to bed, I would have to be so far out of it to miss doing that, like comatose or my hand isn't working, but it too is seriously lacking my creativity.
Hopefully this week I will visit some places that will peek some inspirations and creativity. Lets hope it doesn't rain all week either cause I sure could use some by the beach time to bring everything back into proper perspective.
Gees, time sure flies when your talking to yourself LOL, its nearing 11:30 pm. I best mosey on to bed. Time waits for no one.

Enjoy your day and March Break.
Huggins
Pat

Full 2010 Calender - Freebie

Hoot to all.

Just popping in real quick to reply to Jody.

I got ahead on that already when you asked before LOL
> see post 2010-calendar-freebie

Here's the download link to the Full 2010 Calender.

No preview image, sorry.

Enjoy your day.
Huggins
Pat

Feb DSO CC 2 - Freebie

Good Morning, All;

I am a bit rushed today. I woke up at 4 am with nothing to do but finish some of the items for the other 3 colours in the DSO Feb CC. So Here is part 2 of the DSO CC for February. Click on the image to download.



Now I have to head on over to DSO and post in the gallery and on the new forum before I head out. So I must bid you all a good day and enjoy your download.

Huggins
Pat

Feb DSO CC - Freebie

Good Afternoon, All;

It's been a while. I have been so busy with other things lately that I haven't had the time to do any designing. The boys went away this weekend and I thought I would have some time to catch up and actually play with my tablet and get my 365 pages done but Brenda showed up and my plans flew right out the window. The boys were suppose to come back tomorrow so I took some me time this afternoon to get a couple of pages done while I cook up a duck. At 3:30 Joe called to say they were heading back asap. I hope they make it. It's a snow storm out there right now. And we've got about 2 inches on the ground so far and it isn't letting up any time soon so snow, snow, snow.
So I made two pages, sort of. They are not complete and need some more work but from them I created a very small kit for the Feb DSO CC. Mind you I used 3 colors but it sure doesn't look like I did so i don't know if it will pass but its fun sharing.
This very small mini contains 2 papers, 2 frames, 2 snowflakes, 1 tree, 1 ribbon/band, and 1 alpha (no lower case lettering).
I read that a few of you wish winter was over already so I named it Winter Blues.
Click on the image to grab the link.



It's time to turn the duck so I will bid you all a wonderful day.
Enjoy.
Huggins
Pat

Happy Valentine's Day

Good Evening, Everyone.

How was your Valentine's Day? I hope the love was abundant throughout your day. We had a grand time strolling along the beach at sunset, dining, dancing, came home and watched Fast and Furious on ROD, now Joe is fast asleep. Me, I am just too excited. See I got a surprise from Joe and Tyler for Valentines. Totally unexpected. I am over the top. I draw, a lot LOL and they thought it would be really cool if the got me the package you see below. It's an HP Tablet PC. I can draw on it. I am thrilled I got it but as I think of the endless possibilities I wonder if I will stop doing my art books on paper? Will I toss my art brushes, oils, inks, watercolors, charcoals, chalks, pastels, easel, etc? What about my present 6x9 Wacom tablet? It's still in mint condition. Will it eventually collect dusk? LOL It's a bit bewildering. I've put a few programs on it already. I had PSP 11 laying around so I installed it and drew you all a very simple quick image. Nothing spectacular cause I am just learning to use the pen as a brush. It's going to be fun.

Here I have it all set up on the docking station.

It's portable so I can take it to the park and draw my little heart out :)

It's just after 11 pm now and I am yawning here so I best get my self to bed. Tomorrow is Family Day and I haven't a clue what the boys have planned but they tell me I will have a great time. How could I not. These two think out the wildest things to put me through and I always have a great time too.

Have a super Family Day.
Huggins
Pat

2010 Calendar - Freebie

Good Afternoon, All;

I am popping in real quick. I have to pick up Tyler shortly.

Jody commented that she hoped the rest of the monthly templates would follow. Well I was going to hold off and give them to you all one at a time, but why put off tomorrow what can be done today. So I converted them all into p.s.d files, zipped and uploaded them all.
I don't have a preview, no time, sorry, but they look similar to the Jan & Feb ones posted below. Oh, and I put them in the zip file too, so you can have the entire calendar in one place. Toss the others. The font I used was Black Jack. You can delete the text. I forgot to add that to the t.o.u.s.

Here's the link to the Full 2010 Calender.

Now I hate to run but the bell just rang.
Enjoy your download and your day.

Huggins
Pat

Layout and Templates - Freebies

Well I finally got my plain paper. Thank you Mandy. It's good to know I am not alone in my addiction and collection.

I am posting quickly as I have a plumber coming in to fix a leak in my sink drain.

This morning I upload the rest of the January templates and I uploaded a template for the months of January and February.

Click on the previews to download.





Okay, that's it from me for now.
Enjoy your downloads and your day.
Huggins
Pat

Ginger Scraps Party

Oh my goodness, I totally forgot... Ginger Scraps is having a Ginger Bread Ladies party!
...till Feb 4th. Talk about more fun then you can shake a stick at. And sales....loads. Check it out.

Huggins
Pat

Happy Birthday SSD

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEET SHOPPE DESIGNS.

Sweet Shoppe Designs is 4 years old today and they are having
1. a big sale in celebration. 34% off until Feb 4th,
2. a ton of fun to be had in the forum....all month long.
Check it out and have a blast.

http://sweetshoppedesigns.com/


I feel better after my long bath. The boys are still watching hockey. I am off to catch up. Hopefully I can make it through without craving .....you know.

Huggins
Pat