Match up challenge & freebie too!

A little personal note before we go into business. LOL!

It's been a year and a half now since I became vegetarian. It started as a kind of merit-making and giving-back-to-the-world project to celebrate my son's 5th birthday, and I thought at that time that I was going to try it for 2 weeks.

Well, a year and a half later I still haven't digested a piece of meat and I feel FABULOUS!! I'm not trying to convert anyone, I can't even say exactly what good being vegetarian does for my body. All I can say is that it feels so natural for me. I am totally satisfied and really never had any kinds of meat craving at all.

Isn't it great when you know that you are doing something right for yourself?

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We have come to the last day of Digital Scrap Cafe's Birthday week! I'm sure you had a lot of fun participating in our challenges and collecting Daily Download freebies so far. Need I remind you that there's a lot of big prizes to win at our party as well? But of course, you can just go back to my previous post for all those information, or better yet, just go to DSC forum to check it out!

I'm soooooo excited to be hosting the very last challenge of the party!!! Woohoo! I can't help bringing it here for you to see as well. But if you're interested, you really have to hurry. 'Coz since this is the last day of the Birthday Bash (Feb. 3 - 9), and you will have ONLY 24 HOURS to complete this!! Oooohh, scary huh?

Here is your challenge.

In short, find these DSC products, link me up, and win! Easy as that! The prizes? EVERYONE who gives ALL the links correctly will get $1 store GC to use after this week!!

Click on the challenge image above or here for more details! (And a whole lot of HINTS on how to win this challenge too! LOL)

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Speaking of challenges, I just want to show you a layout I made for one of those as well.

I made this layout using the I Love You a Latte kit with Val C. Designs's beautiful wordart that she gives away in this challenge thead. (Commercial break: Buying ILYAL kit and doing the challenges will get you entered for the prize raffles!) The month stamp is from Pressed Petals Designs' fabulous Initially Dated set which is on sale at 50% off until Feb. 15!

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Now the freebie!! Yay!

I told you in the previous post that my dear friend Lisa of Aprilisa Designs has started designing professionally with DSC. She is now working so hard creating cute stuff to fill her shop with digi goodies. I picked 2 of her wonderful products, Affection and Love Bites, then throw them around until I got this page, which I loooooooove very much. LOL.



Well, of course, good news for you. If you want this as a quickpage for your little darling too, you can have it. Just click here to download from 4shared or on the preview image below. And don't forget to leave me and Lisa some love too, will ya?




That's all for today, folks! If you need me, I'll be at DSC sitting tight and watching my challenge the whole 24 hours. (Who am I kidding?!?) LOL!

sales, prizes and freebies galore at DSC!

Digital Scrap Cafe is turning one! Woohoo!!! And boy, what a party we're holding!!!

Put on your party hat right now and celebrate with us for 7 full days! From Feb. 3 to 9, you will find a whole lot of sales, prizes, and freebies waiting for you in DSC's blog, store and forum. Ready for them???

**SALES**

During Feb. 3 to Feb. 9, the whole DSC store is 50% off.

And once your purchase exceeds $10, you'd get this beautiful set of 12 quickpages plus 2 cluster frames from the celebratory kit 'I Love You a Latte', created by the DSC designers and CT members, worth $7.99, totally FREE!! (Care to guess which one is mine? There'll be a little reward for the first one who guesses it right, how's that? LOL!)


**PRIZES**

There are tons of prizes for you to win and also many ways you can participate to be eligible for those awesome prizes! Take a look at these...



Don't miss the daily fun&easy challenges during the week! I'll be hosting the very last one (on Feb. 9) so I'm kinda excited myself, because you would only have 24 hours to complete it. It won't be too difficult, I promise, especially for those of you who's a true fan of DSC and familiar with our designers' styles and products. Ooops..I must not give you too many hints, right? LOL!

Please go ahead and click on those images above to find out more about the raffles, the challenges, and the prizes. Or just click here to go to the DSC forum, you'll find our brand-new Birthday Bash section at the top!


** FREEBIES **

Apart from all the usual freebies that you can find *everywhere* in DSC, during the Birthday week there's also a Daily Download freebie for you to collect from our blog. By the end of the week you will get a full kit, 1 lowercase alpha, and 2 quickpages!

Loving this party now? :)


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Well, to help spice up this celebration a little more. I decided to make a little something that goes with all the DSC's "cafe" theme to share here as well. So I present you Pom's Breathing Room Latte Word Art set.


I think they are versatile enough to be used in many kinds of layouts, and can be modified to suit your scrapbooking needs easily. If you're interested, please click on the preview above or click here to go to 4shared to download. And leave me some love too, will ya? :)

I used one of those WAs (with a little modification) in a layout that I want to share here with you. This is quite a special page for us too.


(Please click on image for bigger view and to read the journaling)

The page was done on the 2nd of February, which is my stepson Michael's birthday. He's 28 years old now. Eventhough my son Neill (6 years old) is young enough to be Michael's son, they are still so close and love each other so much. Or as much as any two brothers can be. And I believe that the fact that they live so far apart only makes the bond stronger. :)

Credits:
Template by Scooty's Designs from DSC Template Challenge Jan.29 - Feb.4
Papers and some elements from Crea Zara's kit 365
Wordart and stamp from Pom's Breathing Room Latte wordart set

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Okay, I'm signing off now. Just gonna leave some links to remind you again. DSC's Birthday Bash ---> here. And Pressed Petals Designs retirement sale (also 50% off all products!) ---> here. If you like my freebies, you might want to leave some kind words just down here where it says Post a Comment. Easy huh? :)

Sad news for Pressed Petals fans....

With such a heavy, heavy heart, I have this news to share with you.

Alamama of Pressed Petals Designs has decided to retire from designing. I'm sad because I have been a fan of her layouts in ScrapMatters since forever and has learned a lot from her creativity. That's why I said yes right away when she asked if I want to join her CT.

I only had a little more than a month to work with her products but I can honestly say that I love each and every one of them and also am very satisfied with all the layouts I made with her stuff. Now, I mustn't make this too sad a post because eventhough the time was short, it's full of great memories and it's a privilege to know Alamama herself as well as all the nice and talented ladies in her CT.

What can I say now except...Thank you so much! I wish you the best for all you are doing and planning to do in the future. I'll continue to be a fan and be inspired by your art as always!! :)

Let us all give her the best good-bye gift! Alamama's Pressed Petals Designs is now having a huge retirement sale over at ScrapMatters. Everything in her store (except collab kits) are now 50% off, so go there and get your hands on all her creative and delicate products fast!! And on the way there, why don't we drop by Alamama's blog to leave her some kind words and wish her good luck as well? :)