Matt & Me / More Than Love

Scraplifted from Lill-B at Digishoptalk
KIT: More Than Love, More Than Love Add-On
DESIGNER: Veronica Spriggs
PROGRAM: PSP-9

KIT: More Than Love, More Than Love Add-On
DESIGNER: Veronica Spriggs
LAYOUT: Jay Elliott (ASTC)
PROGRAM: PSP-9

And The Winner Is...

The winners have been chosen, the announcement was just made...

FOR VIDEO GO HERE...

*sighs*

Our team didn't win...but congratulations to those that were chosen!! It was an awesome 6 weeks, and can't wait for season 4 to begin!!

Though I didn't win any of the major prizes, I did not leave the race empty-handed!! Just take a look at what I earned for completing each challenge...

Waiting For ADSR3 Grand Prize Winner...

The ADSR3 ended this past Sunday. It was an awesome 6 weeks that challenged me out of my comfort zone, taught me new ways to scrap, and gave me the opportunity to meet some incredible ladies that share my scrapping passion.

THE NUMBERS: (taken from the ADSR blog)
1 - team given two numbers (see, even we screw up sometimes!)
2 - babies born (that we know of)
4 - Phoenix teams (teams created from the ashes of former teams)
6 - weeks of ADSR3
33 - teams that were not able to complete the race
186 - teams left standing at the end
216 - number of teams that started the race
220 - total team numbers assigned
4,047 - challenge layouts uploaded
13,323 - comments left (and counting)
Unknown - number of those comments left by frani_54 (Thanks Fran!)
Also, number of hours logged by mummakat and Susan – s3js helping us verify layouts (Thanks Kat and Susan!)
Unknowable - number of elements used in Challenges 7 and 10!
Countless - Questions asked and (hopefully) answered
Still counting - Contributions to the Grand Prize and runner-up prizes

So now is the hard part...waiting for the announcement of the Grand Prize Winner, 1st & 2nd Runners Up. This year they've outdone themselves on the prizes...

GRAND PRIZE: (to each member of the team)
Gina Miller Designs is offering a $30 gift certificate
Strawberry Wine Designs is offering a 1-year subscription to her site ($120 value EACH)
Digital Scrapbooking Magazine is offering a 1-year subscription to Digital Scrapbooking Magazine AND a copy of Digital Designs 2 by Renee Pearson
Monica McLain is offering two small Memory Purses
Digital Scrapbook Artisan Guild is donating a 3-month Guild memberships
Sweet Shoppe Designs is offering a $50 gift certificate
Elemental Scraps is offering a $25 gift certificate to their store
Natural Designs in Scrapbooking, your fabulous host of this most amazing of digital scrapbooking races, is offering a $25 gift certificate
TumaSoft software is offering a Preset Viewer (a fabulous little utility that allows you to preview all of your Photoshop brushes, patterns, shapes and color swatches without loading them into your application)
Plain Digital Wrapper is offering a $20 gift certificate
Bella Scraps Magazine is offering a 1-year subscriptions to their magazine (a $45 value)
Kaye Winiecki Designs is offering a $10AUD gift certificate to her Pickleberrypop store
Tangie Baxter is offering a $30 gift certificate
Scrapbook MAX! is offering a copy of their Scrapbook MAX software


FIRST RUNNERS UP: (to each member of the team)
Gotta Pixel is offering a $20 gift certificate
Deco-Pages is offering two 1-year Club Deco memberships, ($36 value each)
Bree Clarkson is offering two $10 gift certificates to her Sweet Shoppe Designs store
{we are} storytellers is offering two $10 gift certificates to their store
Digital Scrapbook Artisan Guild is donating a 1-month Guild memberships
Sweet Shoppe Designs is offering a $15 gift certificate
Traci Reed is offering a $20 gift certificate to her store
Kelley Mickus is giving a $20 gift certificate to the All Things Visual store
Kelly Michales is giving a $20 gift certificate to Inked Edges
Natural Designs in Scrapbooking, your fabulous host of this most amazing of digital scrapbooking races, is offering a $15 gift certificate
Plain Digital Wrapper is offering a $15 gift certificate
Kaye Winiecki Designs is offering a $5AUD gift certificate to her Pickleberrypop store
Tangie Baxter is offering a $15 gift certificate
Divine Digital is offering a gift certificate to their store
Tracy Ann Digital Art is offering a $25 gift certificate
Aimee Designs is offering a $20 gift certificate


SECOND RUNNERS UP: (to each member of the team)
Scrapping Whispers is offering any one of their team mega kits (a value of $15 each)
Darlene Haughin is offering a kit from her Stone Accents Studio store (a $5 value)
Jill D-Zines is offering up two $10 gift certificates to her Scrap Dish store
Kim Hill is offering two $6 gift certificates to her CG Essentials store
Digital Scrapbook Artisan Guild is donating a 1-month Guild memberships
Sweet Shoppe Designs is offering a $15 gift certificate
Grace Bennett Designs is offering a gift certificates to her store
Nuts4Digi is offering a $10 gift certificate
The fabulous Amanda Rockwell is offering up a gift certificate to her personal store
Natural Designs in Scrapbooking, your fabulous host of this most amazing of digital scrapbooking races, is offering a $10 gift certificate
Plain Digital Wrapper is offering a $15 gift certificate
Kaye Winiecki Designs is offering a $5AUD gift certificate to her Pickleberrypop store
Sherrie Piegdon of Pixel Gypsy Designs is offering a gift certificate
lauraskathi is offering a $5 gift certificate
Purple Paper Flowers is offering a gift certificate to their store

Textin' Template Layout: 01-Love

It's only been recently that I started using templates. (Since winning a bunch for completing an ADSR3 challenge.) I'm so used to my artistic/freehand style of scrapbooking, and the templates offer a bit more structure...not a natural gift for me...LOL!! However, Veronica just created new templates that are right up my ally overflowing with artistic flair!! They're called Textin' Templates and are absolutely amazing. (Now if I can learn how to twist my text into swirls in PSP like she did in PS...hehehe)

FULL CREDITS:
TEMPLATE: Textin' Templates (#1)
FOUND: HERE
KIT: Cherry Crushed Denim
DESIGNER: Both by Veronica Spriggs
PROGRAM: PSP-9 FONT: Occidental

New Layout...Easter 2008

Top photo: Kat & Me
Middle photo: Dara & Me
Bottom photo: Breanna, Kat, Anthony, Asa, Dara & Brian

All photos taken on Easter 2008 just after church services.

FULL CREDITS:
KIT: Charity
DESIGNER: Tina Williams
Found: HERE
TEMPLATE: Christy Haig
PROGRAM: PSP-9
FONT: DayDream

I've Been Tagged...

My friend Faye of angelfaye designs tagged me.
1. Four jobs I have held:

• Frontline worker at local Steakhouse
  
• Steam press operator at local Dry Cleaner
• Cashier at 3 convenient stores, 2 grocery stores, 1 dept store & 1 fast food restaurant
  
• Asst. manager at credit union service center
  

2. Four movies I could watch over and over:

• Memoirs Of A Geisha
  
• LOTR's Trilogy
• Secondhand Lions
• What Dreams May Come
  

3. Four places I have lived:

• Alabama
• Arkansas
• Mississippi
• Michigan

4. Four TV shows I like:

• House
• Medium
• New Amsterdam
• Grey's Anatomy
• Ugly Betty (I couldn't stop at 4...lol)

5. Four people who email me regularly:

• My friend Jenny (from 360/Multiply)
• My friend Kathy (from 360/Multiply)
• My friend Faye (from Scrapbook Flair)
• My friend Hutch (from AOL-Scottish Chat Room)

6. Four favorite foods:

• Tommy's Burritos (my hubby makes the best!)
• Tommy's Hot Green Bean Salad (making mouth water thinking about it!)
  
• Tommy's Overstuffed Spinach Pie (now I'm hungry)
  
• Anything at favorite Chinese Restaurant!

7. Four places I’d rather be:

• Smokey Mountains
• Alaskan Cruise
  
• Australia
  
• Ireland
• Scotland

8. Four people I’m tagging:

• Don't know of anyone who hasn't already done this one...
  

IT'S SPRING!!

I took these photos last week when Asa, Kat & I were walking through Aldridge Gardens.

FULL CREDITS:
KIT: I See Spring Papers, Beautiful Botanicals, Blooms N Doodles, Fancy Border Stitches
TEMPLATE: Christy Haig
PROGRAM: PSP-9
TITLE FONT: DJ Garden
JOURNAL FONT: AL Heavenly

JOURNALING READS:
And Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast
rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Sensitive Plant"

Bloom N Grow

Today, I came across a photo of my nephew Josiah that was taken December 10, 2007. I can't believe how much he has grown since then!! He just looked too precious in this pose, that I had to scrap him...lol!!

FULL CREDITS:
Background from I See Spring Papers
http://www.digiscrapboutique.com/bou...k-pr-3648.html
Flower & Word Art from Blooms N Doodles
http://www.digiscrapboutique.com/bou...s-pr-3645.html
Flower from Beautiful Botanicals
http://www.digiscrapboutique.com/bou...s-pr-3643.html
Stitches from Fancy Border Stitches
http://www.digiscrapboutique.com/bou...g-pr-3642.html

DESIGNER: Veronica Spriggs
LAYOUT: Jay Elliott
PROGRAM: PSP-9