from little things...

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precious gift

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long time no post

Since my last post I have finished my term with the ScrapMatters (hybrid) creative team.  It was a great experience and I thank Andrea, Britt, Heather and the other SM girls for their support and encouragement I had a blast!  However being on the Hybrid CT brought with it a lot of hours 'on the job' so I was unable to continue my term on, even though it was offered.

Hybrid takes TIME!!

Since the beginning of the year I have been engrossed in my new "baby"!  Project 365 that is!  I am proud to say that 100 days in I am still doing it and keeping up to date.  I am even scrapping each week with a two page layout!

You can see the photos each day here and the layouts are here and in my Weeds & Wildflowers gallery here.

I hope to get some more scrapping done - more regularly now.  I feel like my mojo is back!
Woohoo!

Black Friday Blog Train - Stop #20

Hi all! Welcome to Melbourne, Australia!

Hopefully the blog train is working well and you should have arrived here via Sya's blog.

If you're visiting me from the US today, I hope you had a great Thanksgiving yesterday and are enjoying the Black Friday sales! Be sure to go and snag 40% off most of the digi-goodies at the ScrapMatters shop today!

One of my favourite Christmas Traditions is to make a pavlova for dessert! I have been making one every year since I was a young teenager. From a very young age, I used to always help my grandmother make the traditional plum (Christmas) pudding, but now that she is beyond cooking, the dessert is left up to me :) I really love pavlova and it is something we only have once a year, so I look forward to it! I always do strawberries and cream on top! YUM! Here's a pic of my one from last year...
Now, where are the freebies I hear you ask? Well I have some cute little hybrid candle decorations (or napkin holders!) for you to create. They were made with the great new holiday kit called "comfort & joy". It is a ScrapMatters design team collaboration and is available to you for FREE over this holiday weekend with purchases over $10 in the shop! Woohoo :)

click the image above to download

... and here's how they turned out! Cute huh? They can be stretched or shrunk to suit your candle or napkin size. You can even personalise them with some names if you want!
I didn't mention it on the preview but the .png's ARE included.

Now the train is departing! Please move on to Denise's blog for your next bit of FREE holiday goodness!

Oh, and if you missed the start of the blog train, you can head back to Andrea's blog and start from the beginning!

Happy Holidays!
(scrappy)KATE

I've been slack...

but there's so much coming up to make up for me being so slack! I have completed lots of projects which I still need to blog about. Maybe after this Friday, I can get caught up!

Up until a few weeks ago, I had never even heard of "Black Friday"... but is HUGE in the US and is all about having a big sale and boy - ScrapMatters is doing just that! Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving and is all about getting a bargin at the stores, sort of like our Boxing Day sales, yet more impressive! So they are doing no less at ScrapMatters, wait for it... 40% the whole store on Black Friday (THIS Friday, 28th November) and then further (not as impressive!) discounts across the weekend.

The best thing is, spend just $10 and receive the new "Comfort & Joy" holiday kit - FOR FREE!!

So be sure to pop back on Friday to jump on the blog train with me again for a sweet little hybrid holiday freebie!

Then once you're done filling your carts at the sale, make sure you drop past the forum each day to pick up another kit - FOR FREE! The newest "Daily Download" starts on Friday too and runs right up to the week before Christmas.

See you back here soon!
K :)

world card making day - mini blog train

Happy World Card Making Day to all on the blog train!

ooops, I'm late, so sorry if you were waiting on me!

Hopefully you've just come from Dawn's blog and now here's my freebie for you too...

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and here's a closer look...

Please move on to Kim's blog for the second last freebie! And if you missed the others, head back to the start at ScrapMatters

CHOO CHOO!

Have a great weekend all and make a card for some one you love! :)

a new HYBRID challenge!

Check out the forum for more information and come and play!!!

I'll be sharing one hybrid card template with you per month, along with my fellow hybrid ct team members. What a great idea huh? You could have a whole collection of gorgeous homemade cards by christmas!

notes by... mum

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Blog Train - Stop #9

All Aboard!

So you've just been to see Stacy in Sydney? Now welcome to Melbourne, my home town! :)

Here we are my blog for stop number 9 on the ScrapMatters 1st Birthday blog train for you to pick up another bit of the "you say it's your birthday" 5x7 brag book.

What's your family birthday tradition? I never really had any special family birthday traditions growing up, which is why I decided to make a special cake for my kids' birthdays each year... here was my first effort:

Now, it's your lucky day, because I'm on the hybrid creative team, you'll get a special extra! An avery label template and .png files for three different styles of gift tags to be printed on adhesive paper.

Here it is...

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Enjoy!

Please be mindful that this train is stopping at scrappers blogs, all across the world, so if one stop isn't quite ready yet, please be patient check back later. These freebies will be available for a while, rest assured, you wont miss out!

CHOO CHOO!

Now, it's time to move on, please head over to Sya's blog for your next freebie!

NEXT STOP:
#10 - Sya's Blueprints

Now, if you didn't hop on the train at the beginning, be sure to go back to the start and get all the other brag book pages too (and other random hybrid goodies!) before moving on...

ScrapMatters.com

Have a great weekend and be sure to pop by the ScrapMatters forums for the celebrations and sale in the shop and don't forget the great kit - "you say it's your birthday" is FREE with purchases over $10 this weekend, so go grab it!

Kate :)

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ps... the stop after Sya's is at Kim's blog

(as Sya doesn't seem to have her brag book bits up as yet!)

Happy 1st Birthday ScrapMatters!!

Happy Birthday ScrapMatters... there will be so many exciting things happening over at their forum this weekend and a huge sale storewide at their shop, so be sure to check it all out!!I will be stop #9 on the freebie blog train, so be sure to pop back here after midnight (AEST) on Friday night (7am pacific/8am mountain/9am central/10am eastern US).

I will have a cute 5x7 brag book quickpage and and hybrid goodie for my readers! The kit used to make the above sneak peak and my blog train freebies will be FREE with purchases from the store over $10... how cool is that? It is a MASSIVE kit and perfect for scrapping birthdays and celebrations!

See you back here tomorrow night! :P