Big Fun!!

Lots of fun going to be going on at Deco-Pages in Feb. There is going to be a big contest, lots of challenges, a new club deco kit, and much more. You all gotta come by for a visit. Oh the details for the contest will be announced tomorrow... I will post them on my blog then. But for now here's the ad. Have a great day!! Happy Scrapping!!

PS... thanks for the comments and emails about the kids. Just a quick update...the kids are all doing much better... think it was those first couple days. The mountain pass that my husband has to cross is closed due avalanches... SO.. he wont be home until NEXT weekend... YIKES!! I have to give props to those moms whose husbands are in the military or travel for work... I DONT KNOW HOW YOU GUYS DO IT... I have really had to stay on the ball with the kids in showing them that I have just as much authority as dad. They are finally listening to me and my 13 yr olds... HOLY COW... teens are hard to deal with...lol. I have learned to be a little more lienient with her and that helps keep communication open and she is more helpful that way. But I am still a strict mommy and that will never change :D

HoneyDew - Freebie Kit

Happy Tuesday!! I am SO stressed, through the roof. My husbands office is 4 hours away from our house, therefore, he works from home. (He telecommutes) Anyway, he had to drive to the office to go out in the field. So I am left home alone (first time in 2 years), no car, and 5 WILD kids. Child #3 only goes to kindergarten 2 times a week and child #4 goes to preschool 2 times a week, BUT no preschool because I have no way to get him there... I called the church (he goes to christian preschool) to see if anyone lives near me who could pick Nicky up and take him to school... so far no luck.

Last night was rough, trying to get them all to bed... it is amazing how different they are when dad is around...lol. Why arent they like that with me?? They just ignore everything I say... even my 2 yr old... I thought I was this tough mom who had these well behaved kids but as soon as dad is gone... they are like different kids. They dont listen to me, they are demanding (no please no thank yous), my 2 yr old started yelling at me because Dora wasnt on TV... can you believe that?? She actually screamed in my face. What a stinker!!

I didnt sleep well last night... I was paranoid that someone was going to break in the house or something and what would I protect my kids with?? Scrapbooking supplies?? Pinking shears?? My Cricut machine?? LOL...and we live in this real nice neighborhood, all brand new houses, so i dont know why I was thinking that way. Okay enough of my TOO EXCITING life... hahahaha.

On to the freebie... I found these colors (pink and greens)and I just loved them together... so I just dove in and starting making paper, then came some swirlys, and the elements...the kids were needing me every 2 seconds so I had to keep stopping...and I just decided to offer it to you all as a freebie... just a little stress reliever gift :) Hope you all like it... Oh and if you like, send me your LO's that you do and I will post it here on my blog... have a good day and Happy Scrapping!!



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Here's my LO

2 New Releases & 4 freebies

Good afternoon...my friend and I were sharing color palettes last night and she showed me this one with aqua blue and black in it. I fell in love with it...it is SO unlike all my other kits but I had to make a kit. I did it last night and finished it up this morning. Its called Shabby Chic... also I finally finished the pink kit I was working on, for what seemed FOREVER... I dont know if it was the lack of colors or what but I had a real hard time with this kit, called Lost without You. Hope you all are having a good day!! I have made 4 QP's today as freebies for you... hope you enjoy!!

Oh I totally forgot!! I teamed up with Jenny and Sherry from Scrapping4you2.com and we made a Valentines Collaboration kit called Groovy kind of Love... it was SO much fun. I dont have the preview of all 3 kits yet but here is my preview of my contribution. You will have to stop by their store and check it out!!

Happy Scrapping!!

Shabby Chic



Lost without You



Groovy kind of Love



4 QP Freebies



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CT Call

Attic Treasures

Good Afternoon.... we are having a lazy saturday... well, actually it has been a day of cleaning and getting the house together. But I scrambled some time and released yet another new kit. I changed directions with this one in color palettes... I put the bright colors aside and went with a more earthy tone... hope you all enjoy.

Oh I have exciting news...I am going to be designing for Bits2Kits as well as for Deco-Pages.

Attic Treasures


My Layout... (My darling daughter, Bella)

Ice Cream Sundae

Good Afternoon, hope you all are doing well. I have had one heck of a week. My husbands work has been real slow lately... winter months... so times have been real hard for us. And to add to all the stress, our oven went out. It is only 2 yrs old...LOL...I think it is the heating element... and its about 60$ to buy a new one.... so it has been on hold for a week or so. I have been cooking in our pressure cooker...we have had SO many roasts its not even funny...lol. Payday is coming so and I just cant wait...think I am just going to cook Kraft macaroni and cheese tonight for dinner...hehehe. I dont feel much like cooking anyway.

Well, I finally finished this kit... I love it... its called Ice cream sundae and is loaded with yummy elements and beautiful papers. You can find it at deco-pages.com.
You have a great day!! and Happy Scrapping!!

Ice Cream Sundae



Layout by Me

New Kit and Freebie

Good afternoon....we have had a lazy Sunday...me and 13 yr old daughter have been doing laundry...oh fun... I know... hubby has been in his office doing work....2 yr old daughter has been taking a 3 hour nap.... and the 3 boys are playing video games. I finally finished up my new kit. I call it French Kiss....this is my biggest kit so far... it is jammed packed with elements and lots of backgrounds, I also included 2 sample LO's and a QP :) You can find it at Deco-Pages.com.

French Kiss



Now on to the freebie... I made this QP freebie using French Kiss... it was inspired by a template by Leslie Hasenkamp... (thank you!!)

Download QP here

New Kit @ Deco-Pages

Hi everyone!! First I would like to thank you all for your support and understanding through my time of hardship... by losing all my stuff. I was not able to recover any of my kits or commercial use products that I had. But I did recover my photos, so that was good.

I have added a new kit called Rain, at Deco-Pages... please stop by for a visit and check it out. It is FULL of goodies and I am very excited about this kit.

Happy Scrapping
~Becky

IT'S A SAD SAD DAY....

I am totally freaking out right now...I work on a laptop... and I have used up almost ALL my space. My husband is a computer geek... well he finished building our server last night and he told me that he created a drive just for all my scrapbooking stuff so I can take it off my machine and keep it on the server. I was like great!! SO, I copied and pasted my entire "my documents" folder, which contained ALL my scrapbooking stuff. After it was finished copying I went into my C drive and started deleting all my stuff. Well, I got a window that popped up that said files too big for recycle bin do you want to delete permantely ... so i clicked ok thinking... i dont need this stuff anymore.

After that was finished I logged onto the server and clicked on my scrapbooking stuff and NOTHING WAS THERE. ALL my stuff was gone... it had not copied. So I went back to my machine and there was nothing there of course, I just deleted it.

I have LOST EVERYTHING that I had... all my scrap pages I made of my kids, their photos, my scrap designs, MY NEW KIT I WAS GOING TO PUT UP TODAY, ALL my purchased graphics, ALL my purchased commercial use products and the ones I have collected... EVERYTHING... I just want to cry... I can not believe that I have nothing... I am at ground zero... all I have left is whatever plug ins, brushes, actions I have installed in Photoshop...

I am using PC Inspector File Recovery and it recovered ALL of it... I was like YES.. thank you GOD. Well, after I restored it only recovered the folder and none of the files in the folders... so I am back to square one... I am so livid and I dont know what to do.... any suggestions would help...

News

Happy New Year!! WOO HOO 2008!! Hope you all had a wonderful holiday, ate lots of food, stayed warm, spent time with the family and most of all enjoyed yourselves. Well, me, hubby, and the 5 kids packed up and went to mother in laws house... oh what fun that was... no kidding... it wasnt that bad. We drove 4 hours to get there and stopped and played in the snow over the mountain pass... that was definitely a highlight of the trip.

I have some exciting news... I will be selling my kits at Deco-Pages.com . You can click on products and see the beautiful designs by all the great designers there at deco-pages or below that you can click on the designers name and you would click on Becky Smith of course. I will also be selling at Scrap Garden and the prices will all be the same, the only difference is you will be able to download directly after your purchase instead of waiting for me to get your email and sending you the link. Either way, its all good!!

Heres a layout I did of Bella... she got a ballerina dress up outfit for christmas ... I used a freebie from AmelieScrap :)


Also played with a QP by Sugar Snap Scraps... that was a freebie too :)