7 minute naps and eating paper

Okay, so my little guy is almost 6 months old. And this week he has somehow decided that morning naps are for the birds and that eating paper is a great way to add fiber to the diet. Arggghhh! Suggestions? Anyone?

So, I made this cute little tag (3x3 at 300 ppi) to add to his scrapbook with a picture of him screaming (lol). I thought I would share it with you.



You can snag it here

Here are a few pictures I took of him this weekend.







Did I mention he has a hernia? We go see the surgeon tomorrow to schedule his surgery to repair it. Fun fun!

Ah well, back to working on my next kit, Saphire.

Be blessed,

Lady V

Sneak Preview

You will not believe the collab kit that we have put together at Pretty Scrappy. With this kit you will get the collective creativity of thirteen designers in over 600 elements and over 200 papers! This kit is almost 1.5 GB!!! It will hit the store on June 1st, and we have some great freebies coming your way to whet your appetite! Here are some previews of Summer Fun:












I made a brag book page for you from my portion of the kit.


click here to get freebie

Have a great day, and check back soon for more Summer Fun!

Lady V

Have you ever...?

Had one of those days where your emotions ran the gamut? Well, today has been one of those. My sister told me early this morning that my nephew, James (17), was missing. He left his sister's at 10:20 last night and was supposed to pick up his brother and go home. He never showed up to get his brother, he never arrived home, and did not show up for school this morning.

We were all frantic. His Mom, Dad, and Sister contacted all of his friends and the local police while my sister called the local hospitals.

Finally, he was found. He had taken a wrong exit on the highway home. He got lost, ended up on the other side of the river, ran out of gas and had no money on him to call home or get more gas. So, he slept in his car.

The local police contacted a few other departments and ran his license plates. He was found by another police department and safely returned home.

In todays day and age, when a kid goes missing, it is enough to FREAK a family out. Needless to say, I was praying and had quite a few friends praying as well. Praise God he is okay, and home!

I went from devastated to elated in the space of a few hours and developed a headache from all the crying!

Wow. Thanks for reading my ramblings...

I have a new kit going into the store at Pretty Scrappy. It is called Au Naturale. It has 30 papers and 31 elements. Here are the previews.





The following is a freebie, not included in the kit.

You can get it here for the next week, then it goes in the store.

Have a blessed day!

Lady V

Earth Tones Kit

Grandma Hig recently celebrated her 90th birthday. We took advantage of the opportunity to grab a 4 generations photo. Pictured are Grandma Hig, Richard Higgins (my hubby's Dad), Brian Higgins (my hubby), and Zane Higgins (my boy).



All elements from my new Earth Tones Kit now available at Pretty Scrappy for just $6.99!






The kit contains 15 patterned/textured papers, 45 elements, 15 frames, an uppercase alpha as well as a lowercase alpha.


Don't need the whole kit? Get the Earth Tones Alpha, Earth Tones Element Pack, Earth Tones Frames, Earth Tones Paper Pack seperately for just $1.99 each.

Grab the free quickpage here:
Earth Tones Quickpage



Be blessed,

Lady V

May 2008 Scrap Kit Challenge

The theme for the coming month is "Honoring Our Parents. I decided to knock out my kit early this month so that I can work on stuff for the store at Pretty Scrappy.

Here are my Previews:

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3


Kit Contains: 16 papers, 2 overlays, 2 borders, 30 elements, 3 uppercase alphas, and 2 wordarts. Not all elements shown in previews.

Special thanks to: Obsidian Dawn, MegaDoodle, TexasTwisterGirl, ActionFX, Monica Larson, Janine Oliveira for resources used in this kit.

Be Blessed!

Lady V

Nitwit

Ok, so I totally missed offering a freebie for National Scrapbook Day. I am SO sorry!!! The only excuse I can offer is that I had family in town, and I have been working on trying to get stuff into the store at PrettyScrappy.com. I do have one kit up there, and there is second kit as well as some commercial use stuff pending. I can't wait til it makes it into the store. I will post previes here when it does.

Anywho, I thought I would do a wordart freebie for once. I've never posted any wordart before, so I hope its okay. The image is approximately 8x3 at 300ppi. It is a png with tranparent background.



Snag it here, while you can. My wordart will be going into the store shortly. Personal use only on this one, but I will be doing some commercial use stuff soon!
click here to get freebie


Please leave a comment here or on 4shared with any suggestions for wordart freebies.

Be blessed,

Lady V

Hope Blooms Quickpage

So, here is the quickpage I promised from my new kit, Hope Blooms.

My husband created the color palette. I named the kit Hope Blooms because our hope to adopt is in bloom. Kinda corny, I know.



The kit will be in the store tomorrow at http://prettyscrappy.com/

Check out yesterday's post for reminder of what the kit looks like...

Snag it here:HopeBloomsQuickpage


On another note. For those of you who pray... Please keep my sister Denyse in your prayers. She was told today that she is losing the vision in both of her eyes. She has three little ones (as seen in the picture above) and it breaks my heart to think that she may not be able to see them one day.

Thanks,

Lady V

update and a freebie

My husband and I are attempting to select which agency we will use for our adoption. We went to an informational meeting today at Children's Hope International. So far, we have been to informational meetings at Missouri Baptist Children's Home, Bethany Christian Services, and Children's Hope. We plan to attend a meeting at Dillon International in the next few weeks. It is amazing how much has to be considered when selecting an agency.

For starters, I am affected by a rare skin disorder, called Hay Wells syndrome (see www.nfed.org for information). We just found out that me being affected by the disorder may disqualify us from international adoption programs. Argghhh. And, if/when we do qualify, we have to face the hurdle of the fact that I don't have fingerprints. Which will make immigration an issue. Arghhhh!

On to less stressful subjects... I just applied for a design team position at www.prettyscrappy.com.

To celebrate my having the nerve to apply to be on two design teams this week, I am offering this card front that I recently made for my husband's grandmothers 90th birthday. Everything contained in it is original by me. The cardfront is 8.5x5.5 at 300 dpi. If you download it, please leave a comment here on my blog or on 4shared.



Download here: http://www.4shared.com/file/44798686/d1698135/grammas_card.html

Have a great day!

Lady V

Week 3 for SKC "New Born Wonder" kit

Here is my final installment for the SKC "New Born Wonder" kit. We are going to be doing some family stuff, so I've worked ahead to get my kit completed, so I don't lag behind.



This week, you get 6 index cards, 18 journal tags, and 5 stars.

You can grab them at:

http://www.4shared.com/file/43260574/6837528c/lvd_apr2008_week3.html

If you haven't already grabbed the rest of this kit, be sure to scroll down for the other links.

Thanks, and have a great day!

Lady V

SKC Week 2 Preview

Here is the preview for week 2 of my Scrap Kit Challenge kit.



You can grab week two's elements at:

http://www.4shared.com/file/42912692/c9088b82/lvd_apr2008_week2.html

Please comment if you download!

Be blessed, today and always!

Lady V

April's SKC papers

April's theme is New Born Wonder at Scrap Kit Challenge. Here are my week one papers.



You can grab them here...

http://www.4shared.com/file/42585068/4dcd9852/lvd_apr2008_week1.html

Have a great day!

Lady V

New quick page, from scratch!

So, I've been playing around in PSP, learning a lot of stuff. I made two layouts completely from scratch.

The first one is Zane at 7 weeks, and the second one is Zane on St Patrick's day.





I love that I have learned how to make the barcodes! I am also learning how to make lace, doily's, ribbons, and much much more!

I'm working on an Easter layout. As soon as I have it done, I will post it.

These were created at 300 ppi and saved as png's.
You can grab the quickpages at:
http://www.4shared.com/file/42401861/4e4c7e7d/lvd_qp_freebie_001.html

I am furiously working on my first paid kit, so keep checking back!

Have a great day!

Lady V

My first set of elements...

So, I joined the Scrap Kit Challenge (home page http://scrapkitchallenge.com) and the corresponding Yahoo group (tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ScrapKitChallenge) to learn more about digital scrapbooking. If you would like to check out the other designers prior stuff, go to the Scrap Kit Challenge home page. The challenge that we are currently working on will be published in April. In the meantime, February's "Springing into Easter" kit is available until March 31st.

This months color palette is called Mother Earth. So, here is a preview of what I came up with...


You can snag it here:

http://www.4shared.com/file/40472206/bcefab59/LadyVdZine_Mar2008_elements01.html

Now, run over to the SKC home page (http://scrapkitchallenge.com)and grab March's kits while you can.

Hugs!

Lady V