July Challenge Time!

Time flies! I can't believe it's been over a week since I blogged... it feels like yesterday. This one is going to be short & sweet. It's Challenge Time!

First up is the Freestyle Challenge at Stone Accents Studio. This month your assignment is to scrap your favorite vacation! Just for fun, and to whet your appetite for my new art papers, I made this little quickpage complete with bonus art paper:

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Father's Day Sale at SAS

A little ADvertisement first... the Father's Day Sale at Stone Accents Studio is ON! We've got 40% off PU & CU products. Wooooooooohoooooooooooo! I've even got a little goodie for my favorite blog followers. An additional 10% of coupon: piggy_dad_10

I also wanted to show off some of the fantabulous LO's done with Pablo's Zebra this week. Scroll down to the end for a little freebie quickpage by Steph. Happy Father's Day to all the dad's out there!

By Shabba



by Kimberkatt

by Zzaa_za

by Shabba

and by Steph

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Introducing: Dad's Coffee

Just in time for Father's Day, a little Father's Day kit that is more an ode to my husband, than a true Father's Day kit. Done in his favorite (outside of army green *sigh*) shades of teals, tans & browns and incorporating his favorite favorite: coffee!

Dad's Coffee is all about my husband. It's manly, no foofy flowers, ribbons or, darnit, my favorite glitter. The only foofy thing I snuck in is some torn, worn, grungy hearts. Because, somehow, our love for him must show through. This kit has 12 papers & 29 elements.

You get: 5 cardstock papers, 4 patterned papers, 3 different worn & tattered papers. There are some really fun elements including a chicken wire "D", a bag of coffee, a travel mug, a paper cup, a thermos, a coffee bean, tattered & worn circle accents, tattered & worn heart accents, leather string frames, tattered & worn frames, two cluster frames, worn metallic word art, worn metallic charm, and an alpha-beaded "DAD".

I have to say, once again, that the wonderful alpha-beads came from the incomparable Deb of Scrappin' Cop fame. Deb just rocks!!! I spent over an hour trying to get these alpha beads to do what I want. Then went google happy. And, of course, Deb had beat me to the punch. I altered them a little, but if you want a fantastic alpha to go with this kit... visit the Scrappin' Cop!

I know I'm really babbling up a storm here... but I thought I'd mentioned that my store, Stone Accents Studio, is having a storewide Father's Day Sale!!! It starts late tomorrow (Friday) for our European & Aussie friends and ends early Monday... though I'm not super sure who is after us time wise. Is it just Hawaii??? Be sure to stop by & save 40% on Personal Use and Commercial Use items. Including Dad's Coffee. Of course.

Oops forgot to mention here's a freebie quickpage for y'all. And if you pop on over to Stone Accents Studio, be sure to pick up the freebie cluster frame below as well! Happy Scrappin'!

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This freebie cluster frame is available via my stores at Stone Accents Studio, Scrapbird & Digital Paper Hearts.

Awesome BB Freebie!

My CT Kim (aka Kimberkatt) made these FANTASTIC bragbook pages & posted it over at the Stone Accents Studio blog. I had to ooooh & aaaah & share. I just finished downloading these myself and am so excited to make my DH his very first bragbook to carry with him.

Bragbook Pages

Me & My Dad Kit (on sale)

Perfect timing Kim!

Introducing: Pablo's Zebra

The kit has absolutely nothing to do with zebra's. I saw some colors I really liked, decided it need some "ooomph", remembered I'd been loving the black & white doodles... and started creating. The hubby asked what the heck it was, and I said I was channeling Pablo Picasso. He said;' "And the zebra stripes?" And so a kit name was born.

A couple months ago I'd finally purchased ArtRage. A couple of months ago I took over as the owner of Stone Accents Studio. This week I installed ArtRage. This week I learned to make my own glitter!!! It's so purrrrrrrrty. And fun. I admit I am no Flerg's, but I am still a wee bit proud of myself. Those of you who love glitter will love all the glitter in this kit! All the black & white doodles have been spruced up with my newfound skill, and there are some glitter splats to boot.

I always love the part where I choose what freebie to give away for a kit. I thought for this one I'd do something a little different & a little fun. You are getting the full-size 300 dpi, png zebra element and two photoshop glitter styles by me! Both the black & the white used to make the elements in this kit. I hope you enjoy.

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*NEW* Mega kit at SAS & a Freebie for you

The SAS monthly Mega collaboration is out (and on sale)! In colours of blue and yellow and accents of cool metal it has been put together this month in honor of 'Father's Day', a tribute to all Dads. All of our Designers have come together to bring you this huge collaboration filled with 60 papers and 109 elements.

And while there's a ton more kit preview in the store (click image above), I wanted to share some of the fabulous layouts already gracing our gallery:

First Born by Mitsybelle

For the love of Snails by Carla
North beach by Carla

And my freebie quickpage for y'all to give you a taste:

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Freebies Galore... if you can find them!

Three stores. Three challenges. Three starters. One tired designer. If y'all can follow my ramblings there's goodies to be had!

Stone Accents Studio - I run the Freestyle Challenge. This month the Designers have banded together to give out absolutely fabulous posting bonuses!!!! I'd highly recommend signing up for all the challenges because this will be a kit to remember.The theme is "Baby of Mine", but what I would really like to see is a scrap of YOU! You as a baby that is. You have free rein this month, of course there's a starter but I want this LO to truly speak of YOU, to be YOU.

You can download the starter below. The Posting Bonus is handed out at then end of the challenge for all y'all who participated & posted in the gallery!

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Digital Paper Hearts - I run the color challenge. This is the first color challenge at Digital Paper Hearts. A color challenge is simple... do a LO using 3 of the colors in this months palette:

I made it easy this first month & y'all can download this freebie mini kit at DPH! DPH gives out points for participation & LO's... the more points the more free stuff you earn. Find out more here.

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Scrapbird - I run the "Firsts" Challenge. This month I don't know if y'all know the word "lovey"... but it means the blankie, the stuffy, the pacifier that a baby becomes attached to. In my oldest case it meant as many matchbox cars as he could stuff under his body before drifting off to sleep.

I know for a fact furbabies have loveys too. I just wish that all the dogs I've ever owned didn't feel the need to make my shoes their loveys.Your challenge this month is to scrap your baby with their first lovey! To get you started I've got a set of freebie starter cluster frames you can download here:

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And the PostingBonus y'all get for participating and posting in the gallery. Yes, I know. It's surprisingly similar to my SAS Posting Bonus... well... there's only so much I can manage LOL. Besides, I'm kind of in love w/my felty animals. I figure the more the merrier!