I have had the pleasure to work with Randi and Laura on Pixel Queens for the last several weeks while they get their new site ready to launch….and Opening Day is here! Make sure to take advantage of the huge savings before they end!!

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Though I loved all the colors for this train, I found it difficult to work with the brighter ones (pink thru purple) so I chose to only use the other colors instead….they are great for mixing and matching with your fall themes!

Here’s my contribution:

There are so many wonderful creations for this month’s train, make sure to check them ALL out!

Your next stop on the train is: Sara Ellis Designs

Missed a stop? Check here: Blog Train Blog

Download my contribution below…please leave a thank you and I hope you enjoy your download!

Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file.

In each series offered separately will be solid papers, striped papers and polka dot papers.

All striped papers have different variations in the stripes so no two are the same, and all papers are softly textured with a gently crumpled cardstock texture.

Available HERE

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Grab the collection HERE

The collection offers 27 solid papers, 7 striped papers and 6 polka dotted papers – 3600X3600 (12″) 300dpi/ppi

Worth $10.75 when purchased separately, yours all together for just $6.50…save $4.25!

In each series offered separately will be solid papers, striped papers and polka dot papers.

All striped papers have different variations in the stripes so no two are the same, and all papers are softly textured with a gently crumpled cardstock texture.

Available HERE

Available HERE

Available HERE

Available HERE

Grab the collection HERE

The collection offers 27 solid papers, 7 striped papers and 6 polka dotted papers – 3600X3600 (12″) 300dpi/ppi

Worth $9.25 when purchased separately, yours all together for just $6…save $3.25!

The products currently in my store are valued at almost $150 – YOU get all of them for just $25 – that’s a saving of almost $125!!

It’s the perfect time to snaffle up a bargain….who knows when I will do this again?

Click image to get the deal

Please note there is no download associated with this deal….when you purchase my Buy My Store Deal I will send you a coupon within 24 hours that is valid for ALL my products and you will have 7 days to download them.

Coupon will be valid for 7 uses within those 7 days

We are also having a storewide sale! It’s a great time to snaffle up some bargains!!

Here’s my contribution:

There are so many wonderful creations for this month’s train, make sure to check them ALL out!

Your next stop on the train is: Sugar Pie Scraps

Missed a stop? Check here: Blog Train Blog

Download my contribution below…please leave a thank you and I hope you enjoy your download!

Click the images to go to the gallery where full credits for all kits used are posted….and leave some love while you’re there

Templates are available in both my stores

Stuck for ideas for your papers? These layered files are perfect to help you ‘Build A Paper’!

Simply change the colors of each layer to suit, add some texture and maybe a few little additions here and there….and instant paper….nice and simple!

Files included are PSD layered files, TIFF layered files plus individually saved and numbered PNG files if you can’t open psd/tiff files.

3600X3600 (12″) 300ppi

Grab the templates HERE

So…now for the news lol I know I have been a bad blogger and not updated on how my son Juston was doing with his scoliosis (sometimes I am not even sure if anyone reads it anyways lol no comments)

We traveled down to the Westmead Children’s Hospital in Parramatta on the outskirts of Sydney on Wednesday…a drive that took the better part of 7 hours lol

Our appointment with the scoliosis specialist was on Thursday morning….to which we were told….he doesn’t even have scoliosis! I am so pleased and excited, this means no brace and no operation. Their best guess as to why his back curved so much like that is that he had some sort of trauma that caused a muscle spasm and he was bending himself over to the side to try and ease the pain…but was creating more instead lol

So that is a HUGE relief, makes all the driving worth it too LOL

Thanx Miss Randi for your vibes and hugs!

On to the freebie lol

Who doesn’t love a freebie? LOL Okies, I have uploaded the three papers I made to use in the above preview for you all to download, these are full sized papers…enjoy

Isn’t it just adorable??

Click below for the kit in store

Layer it! Stack it! Make it your own!

4 3600X3600 (12") 300dpi/ppi layout templates

Each template is provided in 3 different file formats: PSD – TIFF – PNG

Shadows are for preview purposes only and not included in the files.

AMS Creative Team Member, Victoria32, created 2 wonderful layouts with 2 of these templates using My Father’s Eyes by Kimeric Kreations and Cornfield by Valentina’s Creations

Grab the Stacks And Layers Set here

Layered and stacked and boxed! Place your photos in alternate boxes, use papers in them…the combinations are limited only by your imagination!

4 3600X3600 (12″) 300dpi/ppi layout templates

Each template is provided in 3 different file formats: PSD – TIFF – PNG

Shadows are for preview purposes only and not included in the files.

Grab the Box Me Up Set here

Stuck for ideas for your papers? These layered files are perfect to help you ‘Build A Paper’!

Simply change the colors of each layer to suit, add some texture and maybe a few little additions here and there….and instant paper….nice and simple!

Files included are PSD layered files, TIFF layered files plus individually saved and numbered PNG files if you can’t open psd/tiff files.

3600X3600 (12″) 300ppi

Grab the Build A Paper Templates here

Some time this month I have my first two template packs coming out in the shop, and I have made a template to use in the challenge.

CLICK HERE for the challenge

Please leave a thank you when you download, and enjoy!

Some freebies will have been placed in the shop for a short while then moved here and currently there’s not a great deal (all are mine I believe LOL), but as the designers from AMS add new freebies there will be more…enjoy

Download Section:
A Moment In Scrap Forum – Downloads

Notification Forum:
Forum Downloads – A Moment In Scrap Forum

We also have a load of challenges with posting/participation prizes to help your inspiration PLUS a points tracking thread where you can earn Gift Certificates to the shop ….click here to come pay us a visit

Brooklyn made this layout from my Creamy Rose Kit, available HERE and HERE

Victoria made this layout from my Faded Memories Kit, available HERE

Rachel of Captivated Visions made the following two layouts, the first from my portions of the For There’s No Other BYO Collab at AMS, available HERE,

And the second using my Step Into Spring Mini, available HERE

Thanx for looking!

Here’s my contributions!

Hope you like! Happy Scrapping

Here’s my contribution:

There are so many wonderful creations for this month’s train, check them out!

Your next stop on the train is: mITSYBELLE Designs

Missed a stop? Check here: Blog Train Blog

Download my contribution below…please leave a thank you and I hope you enjoy your download!

Some ppl are having issues with the zip file on my server, if you have issues with opening the first download link, please try THIS ONE from my 4shared account

Click below for the kit in store

Requirements are easy!

2 layouts per kit posted at:
– Your blog
– A Moment In Scrap Gallery
– DigiShopTalk Gallery
– One other gallery of choice

Interested??

Please send links to your blog, most complete gallery and any other creative teams you are currently on to lissa@lissaedesignz.com

Call ends May 10th, 2010

My Blog: www.lissaedesignz.com/blog
My Store: www.amomentinscrap.com/shop/lissae-designz

*kit used for ad: FadedMemories – LissaE Designz
*font used for ad – DJB TweenyBopper – Darcy Baldwin

The Kit:

25 papers, 1 bead spill, 3 double ribboned bows, 2 buttons, 4 assorted curly ribbons, 3 flowers, 3 straight gingham ribbons, 3 knotted ribbons, 1 pinned flower, 3 ric racs, 1 stapled flower, 1 old worn frame with stitching, 1 triple wooden frame and 3 alphas with letters, numbers and some extra characters.

Alpha is provided both as individual files for each character and in sheets

Papers are 12″ jpg, elements are in png format to suit most graphics programs and all files are 300ppi. All elements are on large canvases, suited well for printing.

S4H and S4O OK

Grab it here

In the freebie section of the store I have a quickpage freebie, make sure to grab it

Full sized quickpage created from my Faded Memories Kit, just slide in your pics…easy

Quickpage is 3600X3600 (12″) 300ppi/dpi and is provided both with the shadows inside the frames and without the shadows inside the frames

Personal Use Only

Quickpage now available here

I am so excited and pleased at how they printed out, the colors came out just the same as I see the layouts on my computer…and best of all it was SO easy to order them….literally took me less than 10 minutes to register an account, upload my layouts and order them. Check out their prices on their site, they are super reasonable too

Here are some pics I took of the printed layouts (ignore my crappy camera LOL I need a new one!)

And these are the layouts I got printed:

I need to go frame shopping now…and I am definitely going to get more printed. I have plans for a ‘wall layout’ so I need to get my butt scrapping LOL!

Please make sure to leave me some love when downloading…a small thank you goes a long way LOL

Click Here for the downloads page

Your challenge is to scraplift this gorgeous layout by Jen of JJ Scrapping!

In gallery here: Life is a Beautiful Sunset – A Moment In Scrap Gallery

Check out more of her awesome layouts here: - Digishoptalk – The Hub of the Digital Scrapbooking Community

I love the teeny photo up to the left and how the white space draws the eye to the photos, and the clustering is just perfect

*Please use at least 50% of AMS products in your layout

*Upload your completed layout to the gallery here: Other Challenge Results – A Moment In Scrap Gallery

*Post your layout/layout link in this thread: April Scraplift Challenge

At the end of the month the layout submitted with the most comments will win a $5 Gift Certificate to the store!

Happy Scrapping!

We have introduced a new points system and you can now earn points for this challenge…see here: April Challenge Points Tracking Thread

These layouts were created from my Little Boy Beep Kit

Here is a pic of my darling daughter eating her chocolate!

Isn’t she a gorgeous grot? LOL

I hope everyone is having/will have a wonderful Easter!

With 6 papers, 1 decorated frame, 1 leaf scatter, 2 different flowers, 1 scrunchie ribbon, 1 straight ribbon, 1 double tied ribbon, 1 bead scatter, a stitch, 1 string and 1 button you can make some cute layouts with this mini.

Papers are 12″ jpg, elements are in png format to suit most graphics programs and all files are 300ppi. All elements are on large canvases, suited well for printing.

S4H and S4O OK

Grab it in store HERE

And even better, if you participate in the April/May Template Challenge in our forum, you will receive this mini completely free just for joining in the fun!

Here is my layout using both the template provided for the challenge and this mini:

One of the names suggested for the kit was by Muka on the DST (DigiShopTalk) forums and I love it….so cute LOL she said:

Little Boy Beep (little bo beep… also the vehicles are like beep = horn )

So that’s how this kit came to be named

10 papers, 1 airplane, 2 bead spills, 3 brads, 1 car, 5 assorted flowers, 7 assorted frames, 3 leaves decorations (1 with glittered edge) 1 notepaper, 3 photo prongs, 3 ribbons, 1 ric rac, 1 space shuttle, 1 stitches, 2 straight ribbons, 2 strings, 2 tied ribbons, 1 bow, 1 train, 2 word arts and 2 complete alphas including uppercase, lowercase, numbers and extras on both separated files and single sheets

Papers are 12″ jpg, elements are in png format to suit most graphics programs and all files are 300ppi. All elements are on large canvases, suited well for printing.

S4H and S4O OK

The kit is available in store HERE

I have a quickpage freebie for you all, I have supplied it both with the inner frames shadowed and unshadowed, it is full sized, 3600X3600 300ppi/dpi

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Please leave a thank you if you download, it’s always nice! (no one left any but I hope they enjoy the qp’s anyway lol)

He is booked in for physiotherapy sessions to hopefully help it, if that doesn’t help the next step is surgery, no brace unfortunately

So 2-3 weeks of physio and then we’ll see where he’s at…am crossing my fingers lol

My eldest son, Juston, who is 11 has complained on and off of back pain for the last couple of weeks, I put it down to bruising or something (we are a family of klutz’s lol) and just kept an eye on how he was feeling…yesterday I noticed his posture looked off so I got him to stand in front of me. His right shoulder dropped noticably and he was sort of hunched over to one side.

I made an appointment for him to see the doctor today as Scoliosis runs in our family, and once there the doc took one look at him, asked him to take off his shirt to look at his back and agreed about the scoliosis, sent him for x-rays.

As the x-rays were being taken they came up on a screen where we were standing and I could see the curve in his spine was quite pronounced. We are sort of in limbo at the moment as his doctor will be out of town next week, so we won’t know exactly what needs to be done until our next appointment which is 2 weeks away, all I know is that it will be either a brace or surgery which scares the heck out of me.

I have been Googling and reading up on scoliosis treatments and surgery to try and get some idea of what we are in for, though I know I won’t truly be able to gauge that until we speak to our doctor and the specialist.

All the emotions from this have been compounded by that we have also had to make the painful decision to rehome our black labrador pup that we only got a couple of months ago…he won’t stop snapping at my younger 2 children’s faces no matter how much I try and train him not to, and my children refuse to be taught not to run away and around him squealing…and to add to that he has literally chewed up everything in our yard lol, the kids’ trampoline, swing set…the bikes (seats and padding etc), he chewed the newly installed wires on the trailer and today I think was the final straw for my husband when he found Jasper had chewed up the cords on the brushcutter, hubby was so angry I swear he could be heard on the other side of town LOL

Sooo…I feel like all my emotions are in a blender that has no stop button lol

I don’t know how many still read my blog as I am not the world’s greatest blogger and never have been the journalling type….but I will keep you all updated who may still be reading….and thanx for ‘listening’

All images are clickable to the AMS Gallery

These first two were created by Tamsin McAtee from my Forever, My Love Kit

This layout was created by justjessa from my Daddy’s Pride And Joy Kit

They are all gorgeous!

Designer Resource

Grab it here

Sample papers are offered as freebies in the freebie section of the store for personal use only and are created from the colors of AMS’s Color Psychology Collab

Grab it here

4 3600X3600 (12″) 300ppi/dpi patterned overlays featuring different types grunged up chalky dots

Designer Resource

Grab it here

Sample papers are offered as freebies in the freebie section of the store for personal use only and are created from the colors of AMS’s Color Psychology Collab

Grab it here

4 3600X3600 (12″) 300ppi/dpi grunged chalk edge overlays

Designer Resource

Grab it here

Sample papers are offered as freebies in the freebie section of the store for personal use only and are created from the colors of AMS’s Color Psychology Collab

Grab it here

These 2 turned out really pretty though and I figure some will like them so…enjoy

Two full size papers, 3600X3600 (12″) 300ppi/dpi

Personal Use Only
Grab the freebie in store here

All Newsletter Subscribers receive this free minikit to enjoy!

Mini contains: 6 softly textured papers, 1 doodled frame, 1 heart ribbon frame, 1 slightly curly ribbon, 1 decorative curtain, 1 decorative scatter, 2 flowers, 1 button and one heart shaped leaf decoration.

All files are 300dpi/ppi, papers are 3600X3600 (12″), elements are transparent png files and all files have been quality checked for strays, jaggies, missing pixels, resolution and excess space as per our Quality Check Standards

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All of our designers are working together to bring you our very first store collab….while all the parts are not quite completed yet, we can bring you this sneak peek of just a small portion of the collab! AND if we reach our goal of 100 fans on our fanpage, all our fans will receive the collab for free! So come fans us, and invite all your friends!

Click here to fan us on Facebook!

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Scrap Challenges on the Forum

There are several challenges posted and while the site is new and rather bare at the moment LOL we are working hard to make it grow…come grow with us! Forum Challenges: Jan/Feb Color Challenge

Jan/Feb Element Challenge

Jan/Feb Font Challenge

Jan/Feb Template Challenge

Jan/Feb Theme Challenge

Jan/Feb Avatar Challenge

Challenging Moments Guidelines and Prize Info

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Visit us at A Moment In Scrap

These layouts are created by Marie aka JKcreations, click here to visit her blog

All layouts are clickable to the AMS Gallery where you can view the larger size

This one is a double page layout

Aren’t they just fabulous? Thanx Marie!

Click here to grab the kit in store at AMS

AMS is a new store looking for designers who are fun, friendly and not interested in drama.

We want designers that are willing to help promote the store and be active in the forum & gallery

WE OFFER:
- complete control over your products, sales, coupons, etc
- no monthly product requirements
- 4 collabs per year (1 every 3 months)
- 20% commission plus Paypal Fees
- email notifications of sales
- monthly pay cycle
- Quality Control – all products will be checked

** We are looking for designers with high quality products, creativity, and some level of uniqueness is preferred. To that end we will be carefully looking at all applicants for the amount of actions and/or scripts used in products, and while some action usage is accepted (they do have their place sometimes lol) any designer who uses *primarily* actions or scripts to create their kits may be declined on this basis **

INTERESTED?
Send us an email with the following info and “AMS Designer Call” in the subject line:
- Name and Designer Name
- A short bio about yourself
- Links to your blog and store/s (we do not require exclusivity, nor do we require you to be in a minimum number of stores, however preference will be given to applicants who are in fewer stores and therefore able to spend more time being active in AMS)
- How long you’ve been designing for
- A preview of a product that you designed and think shows your best work
- A sample of your work (a minimum of 10 pieces)

Email: admin@amomentinscrap.com

AMS is looking for an awesome creative team! If you’re fun, friendly, dedicated and creative, we want you!

We need you to be able to commit to:

- 1 layout per kit
- 4 kits per month
- Post layouts on your blog and in our gallery, and at least 2 other galleries of choice

You get to keep the kits you choose for Personal Use only.

AMS would like a mix of different styles to showcase our designers’ kits.

All applicants will receive a reply within 2-5 business days, so if you don’t hear back in this time please resubmit your application

INTERESTED?
Send us an email with the following info and “AMS CT Call” in the subject line:
- Your name
- A short bio about yourself
- Links to your blog and galleries
- How many CT Teams you are currently on
- How long you’ve been scrapping for

Email: admin@amomentinscrap.com

Isn’t he just gorgeous?

He’s great with the kids, I was watching him yesterday while we were there (at the RSPCA) and getting to know him and every time he was running and the kids were he veered around them rather than bowl into them, he’s quite well trained already so his previous owners obviously put some time into it.

He was an absolute angel in the back of the 4WD on the way home, I sat with him just incase, but no need to worry lol and soon as we let him out into our yard he was feeling right at home…the funniest part though came when we went inside! I heard banging on our screen door at the back and thought he was just banging at it to get in….nup LOL he managed to squeeze in through the cat door and was quite happily munching on our cat Jade’s food LMAO

Jade is our 2 year old cat….and she wasn’t too happy at the new addition, as you can imagine hissing and arching lol but they will get used to each other soon enough

You can see more on my facebook (see photos here), add me as a friend if you’re not already added lol

This kit contains 12 papers, 10 assorted ribbons, 6 strings, 6 flowers, 5 buttons, 2 meshes, 3 frames, 3 heart decos, 1 bubble scatter and 1 bead spill.

Kit is for your personal use only and comes in both page size and tagger size.

Page Size: Papers are 12″ jpg, elements are in png format to suit most graphics programs and all files are 300ppi. All elements are on large canvases, suited well for printing.

Tagger Size: Papers are 800X800, elements are in png format to suit most graphics programs and all files are 72ppi. All elements are reduced in size from full sized by 24%.

Page kit download available at AMS forum to registered members

Download the tagger kit here

Kit contains 10 papers, 4 frames, 9 assorted ribbons (in sets of recolors), 3 ribbon frames (set of recolors), 6 assorted strings (in sets of recolors), 6 assorted flowers (in sets of recolors), 3 hanging christmas bulbs, 3 ribbon tied buttons, 3 prongs, 3 paper hearts, 2 long stitching (1 shadowed and 1 unshadowed) and 1 bead spill

There is one complete alpha with uppercase, lowercase, numbers and some extras

Papers are 12″ jpg, elements are in png format to suit most graphics programs and all files are 300ppi. All elements are on large canvases, suited well for printing.

Personal Use Only, S4H and S4O OK

Available in store HERE and alpha by itself HERE

Available in store HERE

Kit includes 12 papers, 3 softly textured solids and 9 assorted patterns, 2 bows, 2 ribbon bows, 2 curly ribbons, 2 flowers, 1 gold scatter, 2 gold swirls, 1 paperclip, 1 polaroid frame, 1 red wooden frame, 2 roses on stems, 2 round ribbon frames, 2 scattered heart decorations, 2 staples, 2 straight stitches, 2 strings and 2 swirly ribbons and 1 complete gold alpha on both all-in-one sheets and separated files, uppercase, lowercase, numbers and some extras

S4H and S4O OK

Available in store [HERE]

I have a freebie for you all, a quickpage from the layout I made with this kit…qp is full sized 300ppi 3600X3600….enjoy

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9 full sized alphas saved in both One-In-All Sheets and Individual Files, each alpha has Uppercase, Lowercase, Numbers and Extras including (){}[]!#$&*+=,. on 300 dpi/ppi canvases

Available in store for $5.00

Cos I plan on having my designz loaded into a new store here next to my blog, I won’t have a store up without SSL…and when I got this domain I originally added it as an ‘addon domain’ to my main domain (havendesignz.com) which meant I couldn’t add an SSL Certificate….sooooo…my options then were to either purchase separate hosting for this domain, or upgrade my account to a reseller account, I went with the reseller account because the price is still around what I was paying just for the havendesignz account.

After having all that setup, in order to get this domain into it’s own account, I had to backup my files and databases and delete the addon domain, and re-create it on the new account….which mostly went smoothly….but I was having problems re-uploading the files, I kept getting errors in my FTP Client….and here is where the ID-ten-T error came in….for those not familiar with the joke, try reading it as ID10T *giggles*

When I downloaded all the files, I also downloaded a file called .ftpquota …this file holds the ftp info needed to be able to login etc….and yup…I was reuploading this with the rest of the files, I felt SO embarrassed when it finally dawned on me LOL

So end of story…I have the blog back up and running, but I am having to re-upload all the freebie downloads…I left this till last lol and it’s going to take several hours to do that, I wish I had a super fast connection but our options are different and more limited here in Australia lol

Please try again later if you can’t get the downloads you want, they will all be here again soon

K…a couple of weeks ago just after my Pop passed away, I came down with the Swine Flu…since 2 of my cousins had to return from a vacation in Thailand I can only assume they shared LOL

Seems every time I start to feel better it turns around and hits me again, and between that, trying to find time to spend with my kids and looking after the store, I don’t have much time let alone energy left for designing lol, so I have decided to cut back on how much work I do…I really don’t want to be looking back and wondering where my babies’ younger years went.

With that uppermost in my mind, I have decided to close down the store at HDDS, I will keep the forum, gallery and topsites…it would be nice to grow a nice little community there lol

I also decided I still want to keep my personal store, so I am in the process of adding that onto this site…will prolly take me a few weeks to get it all organised, and when I do, I will have a ‘re-opening’ sale lol

I also decided…as you can see lol, to rehaul my blog…I posted a while back how I had a custom preview template created for me by Flergs…well she has graciously given me permission to use the elements she created for the preview in my new blog design….doesn’t it look wunnermous? lol

You can find the credits and a link to her blog at the bottom of this page

Sooo….that there is pretty much it for the time being, HDDS is on a store-wide 50% off sale till the doors close in a week’s time, all my girls have been wonderfully supportive…and if you are a store owner looking for some more designers, I highly recommend each and every one of them

Till next time….I’m heading back to bed LOL

**Please note, this is NOT a Designer Resource Pack and is not to be used to create elements in another designer’s kit or pack for resale or freebie, the set is for Personal Use/S4H/S4O only.

16 png files @ 1648X1524 pixels (approx 5″X5″) and 300ppi/dpi

Available in store for just $2.50

$3.50


$3.00

$2.50

Grab the set together for just $6.00….save $3.00!

Kit includes 10 wonderfully textured papers, 5 patterned and 5 solid, 2 rectangle frames wrapped with raffia, one grungy lace frame (both pre-shadowed and unshadowed), 3 stapled strings (same but three different colors), 2 doodles in both light and dark flavors, 3 double colored ribbon bows (same bow in different colors with texture added), 3 sequined and stitched ribbons (same but different colors for the ribbon), 2 flowers, 1 stitched sequin line and 1 complete alpha with uppercase, lowercase, numbers and extras, provided both individually and on png sheets.

Grab the Page Kit here