2nd Annual SAS Trick or Treat Blog Party

It's trick-or-treat Freebie time...Stone Accents Studio style. Follow the links that I have for you below my Trick or Treat goodie and you'll be linked to 16 blogs of the Stone Accents Studio Designers - who ALL have super fun surprises for you as well!!!!

Anna

Barbara
Boo
Brenda
Candee
Cathy

Darlene
Ellen
Jeanette (mITSYBELLE)
Lori&Diane
Marzena
Sherah
Stella
Terrell
Piggyscraps
JulieO

If this isn't enough, or if Halloween isn't your thing, get ready for the big Digital Scrapbooking Day celebration at Stone Accents Studio

Getting Ready for the Next Blog Party

Dear loyal readers, the fantabulous bunch o'designers at SAS-y has a huge treat in store for y'all this Halloween! Starting at midnight (CST) on October 30 all of us Designers will be opening our blog goodie bags. Can you say, Freebies, Freebies, Freebies!?!?!

It's the 2nd Annual SAS Trick or Treat Blog Party, and we are determined to make it even better than the first (hard to do, I know, but we are a dedicated bunch). C'mon back on Halloween and get your fright on!

And while I have you salivating for freebies, there's more goodness coming your way. Saturday marks Digital Scrapbooking Day and the Designers at SAS-y have tons more goodies & events scheduled. Including a special CHAT filled with Freebies.

So keep your eyes & ears open, your schedule free and a big ol' spot on that hard drive... Stone Accents Studio designers are gearing up to shower you with Freebies!

And don't forget... there are always Freebies in our stores at SAS-y and newsletter-exclusive Freebies in the, um, Newsletter (new issue out today).

Sweet and Light: Cluster Frame Freebie

I was working on a page for my beautiful DD, my inspiration for my Sweet and Light kit, and wound up with this cluster frame. I realize I've been a little heavy on the Quickpages here and thought I'd splurge on y'all and share this fun Cluster Frame!

The Sweet and Light Cluster Frame is made with elements from my Sweet and Light kit, available now in my store, including the LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE wordart. Enjoy!

Happy Scrappin' folks.

Introducing Date Wheels!

Introducing Date Wheels! A fun and unique way to embellishment your page with the Month and Date. Simply add the date wheel to your page, layer the included highlighting blocks on the right Month and Date... and, TADA!

The Date Wheel Page Embellishment pack includes: 8 colored Date Wheels; 1 greyscale Date Wheel for recoloring; 2 highlighting blocks (in transparent .png format) and 1 sample Date Wheel as shown in the preview. Each Date Wheel is created on a barely off-white background, lightly textured for added pizzaz. All yours to enjoy over & over again.

Date Wheels can now be purchased in my store at Stone Accent Studio.

Also new in my store are three different sets of bragbook pages made with my Falling into Fall kit. You can buy one set, two sets, or the combined bundle of all three sets (a grand total of 15 different bragbook pages) and save!

The funny thing is, I made these before heading off to the pumpkin patch earlier today with my kids! I had too many fall pictures before today... now I am overflowing with pics to scrap. Not that it's a bad thing, LOL, to have so many gorgeous pictures ready for scrapping.

Happy Scrappin' folks!

New Kit - Sweet and Light

I had a craving for something Sweet and Light, and this beautifully pink Sweet and Light mini kit was born. Don't let the name fool you! It may be light on papers, 6 sumptuously textured and patterned papers, but it is sweet and chock-full of elements.

A bargain in these troubled times, and the happy colors don't hurt! Just want to try it out? Click on the Freebie Quickpage below or go to my store and download the freebie Cluster Sampler!

Kit includes:
6 textured & patterned papers
1 vellum overlay (bundled in paper download)
2 dotted bows
2 small tissue bows
3 hanging bows, one gold glittered trimmed (see close-up)
3 flowers
3 mini-flourishes
3 glitter, jewel brads
4 frosted brads
1 staple
1 flower petal
1 petal cluster (pre-shadowed)
1 flower and petal cluster(pre-shadowed)
1 gold glitter trimmed journaling block
1 wrapped frame
1 cluster frame
Uppercase Alpha, gold glitter trimmed (see close-up)
Number & Symbols, gold glitter trimmed
3 word arts:

"LIVE"
"LAUGH"
"LOVE"

Thank you for choosing Piggyscraps for your digital scrapbooking needs.

It's SAS Newsletter time!

Quick post here, if you are hunting for freebies run on over & read the SAS newsletter out today! As always there are tons of freebies packed in, some only available via the newsletter (pssst, including one from yours truly).

And, on the left (click for bigger) is the preview of my newest kit in the store. You can never have enough cozy denim papers or brushed steel elements... at least not when you have 5, make that 6, boys to scrap for!

Happy scrappin' folks!

Denim and Steel: Freebie #2

It's my last day in beautiful, far, far away California. Last night my beautiful boy left to go back to his college. Goodbye's are getting easier, but my heart is still heavy today. I really miss him. It was amazingly wonderful to see him, to meet all his new friends and drool in major green envy over his stunning campus. Aaaah to be young again (I think I feel a new kit coming on LOL).

I have another Denim and Steel Quickpage Freebie for y'all today, click here or on the preview. And because I was very hasty in my posting yesterday a preview of the Denim and Steel kit now available in my store at Stone Accents Studio.

Psssssst, little secret for y'all reading all the way down here, as always there is a little sampler (ie freebie) in my store at SAS-y as well. Go, take a look, and enjoy!

Double pssssssst, there's yet another freebie coming out in Wednesday's SAS-y newsletter. You can register for free at Stone Accent Studio's or come on back & I'll post the link when I have it. Happy scrappin'!

Thank you for choosing Piggyscraps for your digital scrapbooking needs.

NEW kit! Freebie for you...

I'm still in beautiful California, but I've managed to put another kit in my store: Denim and Steel! To celebrate I've got some freebies coming your way. First is the QuickPage above, click here or on the preview to go to 4share for downloading.

Denim and Steel includes:

10 "denim" textured papers

38 elements

• 2 flourishes
• 4 eyelet & bow clusters
• 4 bows
• 4 ribbon strips
• 2 zipper accents/borders
• 3 flowers
• 3 "paper" flower clusters
• 3 journaling elements
• 1 notebook/journaling pad
• 2 steel frames
• 2 frame clusters
• 1 laced border
• 1 beaded wire
• 4 steel tag
• *1 plain
• * "Family"
• * "Love is"
• * "Friends"
• Full Steel Alpha
• 1 Wordart:

"A thing of Beauty is a joy Forever"

Thank you for choosing Piggyscraps for your digital scrapbooking needs!

Just news, just stuff, just....

Just a quick little update, quick, because I'm in sunny California! And in about 1/2 hour I'll be in the car driving up to my son's college. Where I'll see my beautiful baby boy for the first time in two months! A very long two months. It's a cruel system where when you do your job well the birdy gets up & flies out of the nest far, far away. Sucks big time. Though it really helps that my boy is completely & totally loving college life and couldn't be happier.

LO by Ladyofthethorns, using my kit Debut Blueer


I wanted to mentioned that the SAS Cast Party is continuing! All the freebies by all the Design Contestants are still up & available for anyone that wants them. Mine can be found below, just click here if you need to... the rest are in the Cast Party "room" found here.

LO by MarilynG, using my kit Falling into Fall

Also, in case you missed it, and in case you already have all the marvelous Cast Party freebies... the SAS newsletter came out yesterday. Also chock full off goodies, many of them freebies! Run on over & take a gander.

LO by Jose, using my kit Falling into Fall


And last, but most certainly not least a big, huge, shoutout thank you to the wonderful CT members creating gorgeous LO's with my kits newly in my new store. I love seeing my designs come to life and it makes me long for some nice, quiet days scrappin'... not enough to give up the chance to go see #1 son, but enough that there's a niggling craving somewhere in my brain.

Thanks girls, you make me look good!

LO by Jose, using my kit Debut

It is Cast Party time!

The Amazing Nani of the Chronicles of Nani has arranged for a Cast Party.... for YOU! For all you wonderful readers who took the time to VOTE for all of us contestants in last months Stone Accents Studio Next Designer Contest!

Not a lot of babbling from me, Nani does a superb job over at the Cast Party site. So click on my Freebie, on 4share, here, six gorgeous brag book pages made with my Beauty Unsurpassed Kit (week #3 contest entry), and then run on over to the Cast Party to get all the other freebies from all the other grateful designers!

Thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. Especially since I am now on the Design team at SAS-y with my very own, albeit tiny, store!


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One more Debut Freebie...

You can skip all the babble & click on the FREEBIE to grab it from 4share! No hard feelings LOL. I was once a freebie hound myself. Thing is, I got tired of searching for just the right Freebie. Then I got tired of searching for just the right bit, in just right color with all the right everything else in the kit to justify digging into my paypal stash. So I started designing. Let me tell you, it rocks to have just the right bits, just the right papers for my photo's!

I do hope some of y'all out there are finding some of the right pieces for you in my designs as well. If not in my Freebie's, check out my store. And a little hint for you, digging around in my store (which, btw, is still totally tiny) and you'll find even better freebies than I list here on my blog!

Speaking of better freebies... it's almost Wednesday which means it's almost time for the SAS-y weekly newsletter. Another awesome source of amazing, exclusive, Freebies! You might want to go check out my store, and while you are there register for the newsletter. It's quick, it's easy, it's free.

And, seriously, in this day & age of crashing economies, who doesn't love free? Btw, a thought I had as I dug into my paypal account for some desperately needed photoshop brushes, digi-scrapping is the way to go. I mean, once you buy the kit you can use it over & over & over. Not like the paper scrapping kits where once you use it, it's gone. A digi-kit lives forever! A great way to make our dollars stretch while our belts tighten.

Um, that was this little Piggy's musings for the day, LOL, off to bed I go. Scrap happy folks!

Pssssssssst.... to go to my store, click here. And, of course, a little close-up viewing of the Debut kit:

News & Updates & Stuff

There are a ton of you out there who were kind & gracious & supportive enough to register and VOTE for us contestants at the SAS Next Designer Contest a couple of weeks back. I cannot begin to tell you how thankful we all are. I can, however, jump on the bandwagon and join the amazing Nani and the Cast Party she is throwing.

The Cast Party is this Wednesday, October 15th. Many of the Designers/Contestants are participating and all those participating have planned special freebies for that day! So please, check back on Wed. for an amazing freebie day.

On Friday, October 31 there will be a SAS Blog Party... again filled with freebie's by the fantabulous SAS designers... for you!

And, woooooooohoooooooooo! I won an award! Thank you to my fellow SAS Next Designer Contestant Karyn!

To keep the love going, because there can never be too much love, I nominate these amazing blogs of some of my favorite people:

mITSYBELLE
Nani/Chronicles of Nani
Allison/Planet Alien

You girls rock!

The happy & the sad...

Happy, happy, joy, joy... good stuff first! I have another freebie quick page up at 4 share for y'all. Made with my brandnew, now in my store, Debut Blueer kit! Don't forget, if you absolutely love this, you can always get the whole kit, it's twin kit Debut Greener or splurge and get both in the Debut Mega Kit (with savings of course). The Freebie link is here.

My fabulous Falling into Fall kit has also made it intomy store! Along with a brandnew, never before seen Freebie Sampler. Go check it out! And while you're there check out mItseybelle's new kits as well. My fellow contestant, my fellow winner is doing a fantastic job stocking her store.... and sporting some freebies on her blog.

Night all!

My Store is Open (psssst, freebie for y'all)

I cannot begin to explain all the awe & wonder that I have for the amazing women at Stone Accents Studio (SAS-y)! They have held my hand, answered my gazillion questions and helped me to open my very own store at SAS-y. It's been a long, slightly rocky, fantastic journey. I sincerely hope that all of you will at least go take a look over there. Not only do they have my, fabulous, products, but they have a whole slew of talented designers showcasing their wares. It's worth a looksee.

I might also add, for you freebie hounds, there are freebies galore hidden over there. In the store, in the forums, here, there, everywhere! And since most of you are freebie hounds, LOL, here's the link to my freebie up above. It's a quick page made with my Debut kit at SAS-y. And you can find it here (or simply by clicking on the QP itself).

I do have another, more extensive, Freebie listed in my store. A made a little sampler using some of my favorite elements from my new Debut kit. To go to my store, click here. And, of course, a little viewing of the Debut kit:

SAS Newsletter is here!

This week's Newsletter from Stone Accents Studio is is here! For you FREEBIE hounds this is a must-subscribe! Not to mention the sales on all the awesome products in their stores, the fun & festivities in their forum and just the general amazingness of the whole crew at SAS-y.

Going, going GONE!

(preview from my Beauty Unsurpassed kit, my favorite)

Hello faithful followers & Squealerfan! Ooof, a little blogging hiatus there while I recuperated from the frenzy that was the Next Designer Contest over at Stone Accents Studio. Actually, honestly, I've recuperated fully and am well on my way to Designing Heaven. Those of you slow on the uptake, yep! I'm a Designer. I won thanks to all of you!

Now all those fabulous kits that were given away as freebies during September are slowly being taken down by all the wonderful contestants who participated. And that means mine too are soon to be taken off of 4share. You've got till Friday, folks, to snap up these amazing freebies before they hit the retooling shed for repackaging and, unfortunately guys, pricing.

Little caveat here, my first kit for this contest, My Soldier, My Hero, will remain a freebie. My thank you to all the wonderful Men & Women who so proudly and honorably serve our country.

My Soldier, My Hero (week 1)

• Preview (jumps to another page in my blog)
• Papers 1
• Papers 2
• Elements

Beauty Unsurpassed (week 2)

• Preview (jumps to another page in my blog)
• Papers *links expired*
  
• Elements *links expired*
  

My Family Tree (week 3)

• Preview (jumps to another page in my blog)
• Papers *links expired*
  
• Elements *links expired*
  

Falling into Fall (week 4)

• Preview (jumps to another page in my blog)
• Papers *links expired*
  
• Elements 1 *links expired*
  
• Elements 2 *links expired*
  
• Alpha *links expired*
  

Those of you still jonesing for more freebies... I urge you to run, not walk, over to Stone Accents Studio (SAS) and check out the Designer Contest gallery. There are still some freebies listed but they are fading very quickly. However, don't despair, the wonderful Design team alway has fabulous freebies listed in their store, with their newsletter, and as Designer giveaways. So take a browse, register and join in the fun!

Thank you all!

My whirlwind 4 weeks are over, the voters have spoken and I am now, drumroll please, a Designer for Stone Accents Studio (SAS)! I am beyond excited. I am beyond overwhelmed. I am beyond thankful. I truly thank each & every one of you out there from the bottom of my heart. In the infamous words of Sally Field: "You like me! You really like me!

Obviously there's more to come, but there's a little paperwork & set-up to be down between me and Stone Accents Studio (SAS). I'm also working on a little celebration Freebie for y'all. In the meantime here are the 4share links to my last, my winning, entry at SAS-y: Falling into Fall


PAPERS
http://www.4shared.com/file/64986288/94483c60/papers_fallbypiggyscraps.html
*links expired*


ELEMENTS, part I
http://www.4shared.com/file/64996877/b3989158/elements1_fallbypiggyscraps.html
*links expired*

ELEMENTS, part II
http://www.4shared.com/file/64995360/2a0775b5/elements2_fallbypiggyscraps.html
*links expired*

ALPHA & NUMBERS
http://www.4shared.com/file/64976189/6359257e/Alphas_fallbypiggyscraps.html
*links expired*


I'd also like to give a huge Shout-Out to my fellow competitors who are also new Designers for Stone Accents Studio (SAS). Mitsybelle and Monika! Congratulations ladies, I look forward to working with you.

When I say *HOT*, I mean *HOT*

*HOT* voting = another Freebie Quickpage for you! Click up above to dowload, or click here.

Now run on over to SAS-y & VOTE for me. And while there you can score some truly awesome Freebies and maybe make some new friends.

My final entry for the Stone Accents Studio (SAS) Next Designer Contest is Falling into Fall. You can find my full (*links expired*) Falling into Fall kit at SAS-y. This is not just a full kit with papers and tons of elements, but also a full kit with a full Alpha. Upper and lower case and numbers... even a couple of symbols.

Another Freebie -- the voting is *HOT*

Okay Squealerfans (ROFL at that term, someone posted a love note over at SAS-y under that name, just love it)... another FREEBIE for y'all! The competition is *HOT* over at SAS-y and I'm needing some votes. Soooo another quickpage is up for grabs.

I figure the quickpages are good for three things:

1. I use them to scrap my pics with
2. Gives me a Freebie to give you
3. Shows you how great my kit is...

Which leads all y'all to run over to SAS-y & VOTE for me. Um, but there are some other designers, did I mention the competition is *HOT*, so check out their stuff, their kits as well. You will score some truly awesome Freebies!