2010 July

Scrap Matters Site is down…

July 31, 2010 By Kat Leave a Comment

If you’ve stopped by Scrap Matters in the past day or two, you might have noticed that the site isn’t working. The wonderful admin over there know of the problem and it is being worked out as quickly as possible. Its a bummer but gives you some time to scrap some pages that you have been holding out on and they’ll be ready to upload when the site is ready. Here’s some pages I’ve scrapped recently.

This is for a recent Speed Scrap over at Scrap Matters.
Using Celebrate! Bold by Chelle’s Creations

This is an older photo of my niece Hannah. The coloring came out so wild, I don’t know how to describe it. I used Dreamer Revisited by Britt-ish Designs

This is another with Chelle’s kit, It’s my niece’s 3rd birthday party. We had so much fun!

This is a great kit… It’s After Dark by Sahlin Studio and I absolutely love the colors. I’ve scrapped a couple like this one with it. Isn’t it just rockin’?!

Hold tight, I am certain that Scrap Matters will be up and running soooooon!

Filed Under: Britt-ish Designs, Chelle's Creations, Kit Highlights, Sahlin Studio, Scrap Matters, Scraps and Haps

Summer Storm=Flooding

July 24, 2010 By Kat 1 Comment

To say it’s been a hectic couple of weeks, well that’s an understatement. If you haven’t checked out the news story about our house flood, the link is in the post below. Over at Scrap Matters this week, Plum Dumpling Designs must have felt my pain, lol. She released this awesome new kit called “Summer Storm”. It was the perfect kit to scrap the mess left behind by our flooding.

So here’s a couple pages I did with this kit. It is really a unique kit and so much fun to scrap with. This first layout was basically just to tell the story and show off the best of my photos during the flood. I have a ton of after photos too and photos from the rain that flooded the yard again the next day.

The photo through the door in this layout shows the flood the next day. I sat by the back door watching just in case.

I do feel very lucky and try to remain grateful every day. Compared to what some have had to deal with, this flood was just a minor inconvenience. I am thankful it was not worse. None of our larger furniture was damaged. I did get to replace towels and will replace some sheets and blankets (I threw anything I could on the floor to soak up or slow down the water). I also get a new set of drapes and maybe a new bookshelf outta the deal.

There are quite a few other fantastic new releases over at Scrap Matters. If you stop by my blog tomorrow, I’ll tell you all about them.

Filed Under: Kit Highlights, Scrap Matters, Scraps and Haps

Flooded House

July 17, 2010 By Kat Leave a Comment

Check out this link… It’s a news story that was done about our house flooding… It’s funny to see myself on the news!
http://nwahomepage.com/fulltext-news/?nxd_id=175715

Basically we had a mess, Thursday was a rotten day. First thing Thursday morning, our toilet backed up and we had sewage in our bathroom floor, shower, and kitchen. It was SO gross and smelled HORRIBLE. Imagine that! We got it cleaned up, figured out, and moved on with our day.

Later that night, I was relaxing in the recliner and glanced to my left and water was pouring through our floor. We jumped up and quickly discovered it was *not sewer water again, but rather our backyard had flooded with the rain and water was pouring in through our backdoor. My husband and I sprang into action. He ran outside and opened the gates to the fence on both sides and said they were acting like a dam, holding water in. It was about 10 inches of water we think. Fortunately we had less than 6 inches in the house, maybe as little as 3-4. While he worked outside, I worked inside quickly using an air mattress we already had blown up in the living room to work as a barrier and getting all of our belongings up off the floor or out of the path of the water.

We were pretty lucky actually. We only lost a few items, some new towels, sheets and blankets (I used everything I could find to stop the water flow)…our drapes are ruined but they are replaceable and I wanted new ones anyway, and a bookshelf.

So we are slowly getting our house put back together. I was really scared about doing a news story, but I thought what the heck. So the link at the top is our story featured online. It was also on the 5,6, 9, 10 o’clock news. Each story was slightly different so that was pretty cool. I’ll share some photos and videos soon but now, I am off to my niece Hannah’s, 3 year old birthday party. It’s Toy Story “3″ themed… how cool is that?!

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Quick Page Exchange

July 12, 2010 By Kat Leave a Comment

Hi all! There’s a great quick page exchange going on starting today at Scrap Matters. Check it out and finally scrap all those vacation pictures you have just sitting in a folder begging to be shown off! The image is linked!

Filed Under: Scrap Matters

Speed Scrap coming!

July 9, 2010 By Kat Leave a Comment

I love speed scraps, they are a way to crank out a rockin’ layout in a short amount of time. They let you scrap outside your normal giving you a set of instructions to follow. Lots of times, those things are not what I would normally use in a layout. I end up with something unique and crafty almost every time. So Sunday, July 11th, LDrag Designs is hosting a speed scrap over at Scrap Matters. Here’s the announcement and scroll down a little further to see the awesome PP (participation prize).

So there it is! I am adding it to my calendar now so I will remember to head over there. I hope you see you all there!

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Oopsie…Suspense!

July 2, 2010 By Kat 1 Comment

Don’t fret… the new releases for today at Scrap Matters have been held off one extra day to allow the admin to complete the work on the server. Everyone will release tomorrow instead and you’ll love what they have. Here’s a couple of layouts I did this week with the new releases!