I'm a Genius!!!

At least according to my son. The other day we went to pick up a friend's daughter from school. At the school there are paintings on the cement. One of the paintings is of the United States of America. Andrew went right to the state we live in and then I pointed out the state where the rest of our family lives. Then Andrew stepped on the state of Florida and asked what state it was. When I told him it was Florida I also added that Mickey Mouse lives there to which he declared quite loudly to me "You're a genius". I will probably never hear those words again but for one small second my son thought I was a genius.

Well, I just need to apologize for not keeping up my blog. I can't believe I let it go since July 2. We had some changes take place for us that were very personal in nature but now things are doing much better. We've got Andrew started in school, We purchased memberships to 24Hour Fitness to work out more regularly and I have been scrapping like crazy. I have not been designing because I am trying to get my personal scrapping caught up to where I can relax again. I have scrapped at least 40 LO's in the past 2 months and I continue.
I do have a freebie for those who want them. In Texas it is a tradition to take pictures in the bluebonnets every spring. I was inspired by all the photos with word art attached to them. Here are the LO's I did and the freebies will follow.

Credits: Kit by Kristin Aagard called Just A Boy (I really love this kit)

They are PNG files. You should be able to right click on them and do the save as picture. Please leave some love if you take them and give credit where credit is due. If you have any requests for word art frames let me know and I will make them for you.

Have a great day and I hope to keep up my blog a lot better from now on since I have a little more free time with Andrew in preschool 2 days a week (yea - break for both of us).

Stephany

I caught someone's BUG and a freebie

I've been running a fever and body aches for the past 3 days. I will be going to the doctor today to see if they can help in any way. But I have a freebie collab kit that I did with my friend Lisa again. It is called Splash of Spring. If you download please leave some kind words. They make me feel better too. Don't forget to get Lisa's portion at OScrapMomO's Place.

There are 3 links so be sure to download all 3.




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Don't forget to leave some lovin.

Have a blessed day,
Stephany

What a wonderful weekend and a FREEBIE

I had a great time at our Women's Retreat this past weekend. I feel so renewed and filled with the Holy Spirit. God has a great way of getting our attention, mine was by smelling a skunk. LOL More on that later.

Crystal I finally got the girl kit done for Argyle Grunge. I hope you like it as well as everyone else. It personally is one of my favorites. Leave me a comment if you like this kit. Thanks!



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Have a blessed day,
Stephany

Finally Got Another Freebie Done...

Well it's about time, don't you think? I have been working on this kit for a couple of weeks off and on and finally called it done. Then after finishing it I had trouble naming it. My friend Karen stayed up late last night with me giving me ideas until she came up with Spring's Reflection. I liked the sound of that so I hope you all agree.

Update on my little man, we are still having to keep him down for another week so he doesn't spilt his head open. The staples are out and it is healing really well. Last night we were doing a devotional about consequences and I prayed that God would help Andrew to learn about them. Well, wouldn't you know he had to learn them first hand. He was picking at his head where he had surgery and I saw he had picked off a scab (I know, eewww). I decided that he would sleep in his arm splints so as not to pick any more. I pray he learned from that lesson because I don't want to have to fight the arm splint battle again. Please continue to pray for healing and willful obedience to follow the Dr.'s orders and Mommy's/Daddy's orders.

Also please pray for a dear, sweet "little" friend of mine named Meleah. She is only 10 years old but 1 inch shy of being as tall as me. Okay so that is not hard to beat since I am only 5' 1". Anyway, she just found out that she has type one diabetes. Please pray for her and her family as they are learning to adjust to this. Her mom and dad are some of the sweetest people I know. We love all of them dearly!


You are probably wondering where the link to the freebie is by this time. Well, thank you for being patient. Don't forget to leave me some sweet comments. I love to hear from you. There are 7 papers, ribbons, flowers, and frames, 3 arrows (thank you to Shawna at Scrap-n-Stuff for the shape), 1 Tag.


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Thanks for reading and have a blessed day,

Stephany

Who wants another freebie?

I started working on this over the Christmas break and had the hardest time coming up with a name for it. Then I did some tweaking and and came up with Argyle Grunge. I don't know if that really fits it our not but I am not that good at naming kits yet. Anyhow, Hope you guys like it too. I also have a LO that I did with this kit.

Template: lisaminor_rackettyscrappityB5_8x8
Kit: Argyle Grunge by Stephany Stratton

Fonts: Bookman Oldstyle

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Have a blessed day and don't forget to leave a nice comment here or on 4shared.
Stephany

Warm Winters Day Collab Kit Freebie

I was asked to do another collab kit with my friend Lisa (OscrapmomO). Wow, did I feel honored. I really appreciate her allowing me to practice my designing. I really have nothing else further to talk about so here I give you Warm Winters Day. Remember to leave some lovin. I like to hear nice things.


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Here is a preview of Lisa's Part

Go to Lisa's Blog to pick up her part of Warm Winters Day

Have a blessed day,



Stephany

Please forgive me...

Thank you to Fenn for gently reminding about saving as a PNG and not a JPEG on the word art files. Here are two new links one for each word art I have given so far. I really appreciate the kind reminder and it was very helpful that you left the comment on my blog as I get those sent to my email account and are easier to pull up. Hope I have corrected the problem quickly and efficiently. The PNG files have been flattened so the font remains intact but they should now be transparent. As always leave me a comment with some love and/or needing something corrected.

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Have a blessed day,

Stephany

Glad to be home...and a freebie

Well we got home from our "vacation" last Sunday. It felt so good to come home and start cleaning, of all things. We put all of our stuff away that day. We are very anal when it comes to coming home and putting our things away. Then we start to concoct ways to improve our house. I think painting the living room is in store for this weekend. We are also trying to finishing organizing our garage. Lots of boxs got put into the attic and many more will be ready for storing. With all that being said, it is just great to be home!

We had my best friend Shela and her family over on New Year's Eve and had a great time. We made homemade pizza's and then played some Wii. We are all very competitive. I like the Wii because it is very interactive. The kids played well together too. They left probably around 11:00pm so we got ready for bed. Andrew and Eric went to bed and I stayed up and got to hear our neighbors be very roudy. Oh well, that's to be expected, right?

We went to The Dump furniture store on New Year's day and had the worst time finding the place from the directions I got from Yahoo maps (which by the way I don't recommend using). Just when we thought found it there were no turn-in's. I had to go potty really bad so we had to go find a restroom. Stopped at a gas station and things were going fine until I came out of the store and fell flat on my face in the parking lot. What a way to start off the new year, clutzy! My mood was shot after that. When we did get to The Dump it was super cold because of the north winds and the evening sun was setting to make it very difficult to see anything in the store. I was a little relieved when we left so I could go home and nurse my wounded pride. Ha, pride really does come before the fall! It's good that I can laugh about it now.

Here is a cute story: last night when Eric and I went to check on Andrew before bed, we saw that before Andrew went to sleep he had put another pillow on the end of his bed and put his new little panda bear on it. He even put his favorite blankie over him to keep him warm. To see it really warmed our hearts. Andrew has a gentle side when he wants too.

Well here is a freebie word art that I have been meaning to send through before the new year. Sorry it has taken so long to put on here. Hope all of you had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

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Have a blessed day,

Stephany

Freebie Time

Just thought I would try designing again. I needed a kit to go with a picture of my son and decided to make one. Simple enough, right? Well, let me know what you all think of my new kit Checkers, Stripes and Bubbles, Oh My! This is my first time using 4shared on the upload side of things. I hope I did this right. If I didn't, bare with me. I will try to fix it asap.

I also finished a LO done with my new kit.

Credits: Template - lisaminor_ht5_square
Fonts: Child's Play and Arial
KitL Checkers, Stripes and Bubbles Oh My! by me


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Okay, so I'm posting on Steph's blog

She's a new blogger, and a newbie scrapper too!
But she's made a freebie to go with my "For the Toys" kit, so here it is!


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