It's my baby girls 20th Birthday!

It was 20 years ago today that our first daughter was born.
How special that day was for our family and many friends!
You have brought so much sunshine in our life...
this is a tribute to Katie...of 20 blessed years!

Happy 20th Birthday!
And thank you for bringing so much joy into all of our lives and those you touch!

We love you and are all so very proud of you!

New Files to keep you inspired....

Hello my fellow scrappers it's been a little over a week till my last blog! I'm sorry...I do want to thank EVERYONE for joining in on my sale! So many of you were very happy when it started, I was flooded with emails. The biggest surprise was when I heard that the ladies on the cruise powered up their laptops to get in on the sale! Thank you so much it's really encouraging to hear news like that!

I hope all of you have recovered from the cruise. I took a little mini vacation my self. Scott and I got away for an evening of romance, it was so needed! We dinned, danced and stayed away for a night. I came home so refreshed. Then a girl friend spent the night Friday through Sunday we caught up on twenty years of our lives. Which takes an entire weekend to do. It was so funny when we opened a bottle of wine my girls started text messaging our older children who had to come home and see mom drinking. Like I've never had a glass or two, but gosh this was big news...OK so it took the second bottle to get me dancing...but we had a great time!

Katie is off to Florida, I'm so jealous...not! If she went down the coast a bit I'd be really upset. She called three times yesterday checking in...she's such a good girl...She told me that their are thousands of people around her and she wished that they would have driven to Tampa. Well I think she has made up my mind for our vacation this year...I want to return to Redington Beach were we will have some privacy!

Julie & Kristen our preparing for their first communion. I just can't wait for them to be more in communion with our church! And this year when we visit our favorite place in the whole wide world (that's what my kids say and of course me), Catholic Familyland they will both participate in the procession wearing their white communion dresses. I'll have to have my camera by then!
I've been without my camera as it slowly breaks down...which is one of the reasons why blogging has been such a choir for me. I'd rather share it with pictures...which I'm going to be shopping for a camera this week... I'm looking into the Cannon Rebel.

Did you get to see the two files I happened to get into the store last week? My princess album and more princess die-cuts! I'm not crazy about the yellow background showing the album below...it's hard showing white on white...but it's an awesome album all ready with the cover, back and inserts for you to cut! I have special instructions in the zip file for binding the album. You can use this album after visiting any of the Disney theme parks or if you are having a Princess party! The idea came along with one of Brian's friends stopping bye to say hello. She asked me to design her an album to give to her customers at a beauty shop which they have Princess parties.



Princess slipper, crown & the Princess throne...you can use any of the die-cuts from this file for a Princess page or your album! I just love all this Princess themed stuff!


OH...did I mention my Princess clippies? They are coming out very soon! I am so excited about these little clippies and I know many of you are clip fans! I started to pull some pictures to possibly scrap some... if I ever get some time! I have a house full of princesses so many photos to scrap!



My newest Wedding line...

Katie and I were talking about her wedding...NOT that she's engaged yet! Don't worry friends and relatives you will be the first to know but we still talk about the one day big event! Anyway, after she and I spoke about the songs we will play and the gown she would wear I hopped in my car to run to the store...what's playing a wedding song! It brought tears to my eyes thinking how one day we will have to give up our precious first girl...Katie. I get silly like that...then another wedding song...OK what's going on...the radio station is having the Wedding contest as I listened I began to think...I need a Wedding line...and here it is...


I just love the elegance of these two Wedding Dresses! They are very easy to cut to have a beautiful die-cut to add to your album. If you look closely you can also the veil which was cut from vellum.


My Wedding Cake...decorate with your color theme and you will have the perfect die-cut to go with cutting the cake!


Every bride needs her special bouquet of flowers... this file contains different sized and shaped roses in full bloom with sprigs of different sizes to duplicate the brides bouquet. Place the die-cut on a page as the Bride throws her bouquet or a page that is all about the bride.




Needing a tuxedo? You could use this die-cut for a Wedding photo or how about when shopping for the suit?



The Brides Maids and flower girl dresses are beautiful and so easy to cut. Cut them in your favorite pattern papers or colors to match your Wedding.


Titles for the Wedding... I have three files full of titles to complete an entire album so you won't miss a thing...and they are all finished in the same font to have an elegant album when your finished. Showing are two of the titles soon to be released...I'm waiting for my third titles to get cut...which should be ready today or tomorrow!




Let's not forget the Limo! If you rode in style to the Wedding or out to Prom, I've created a Limo for those pictures! He's easy to cut and paste so that you will have more time to enjoy taking more pictures...


I hope you enjoyed the new files and I look forward to creating some really awesome die-cuts for you next week! I'm thinking spring, summer and lots of fun stuff all created by hand so you will receive an original piece of ART!

HaPpY ScRaPpInG!

Carrie

PS...now that I'm back from my mini-retreat I'll be sharing some great layouts that my CDT have made for you and to my much neglected group...I'm leaving you a file.
Thank you for all of your support!

WHOO HOO! MY SALE IS ON...

I've got to tell you Michelle is the best!

I just got an email from her. She went in and set my sale for today!

40 % OFF ALL DAY!

I'm so excited and I know that many of you will be too!

So ...Happy March 1st!

And...

Thank you EVERYONE for understanding and being so patient!

Carrie

I feel so bad!

I know many of you were really looking forward to this sale. I've received many disappointing emails... so to make it up to you in your time lost logging on and off to see if my sale began... I'm going to give my Enchanted Castle away from now until Midnight tonight! That's a huge savings of $ 4.89. Now you can feel like you got a bargain today!

Hurry log into our group and get it before it is gone.

HaPpY ScRaPpInG!

Sincerely Yours,
Carrie

February 29th sale....

I'm not sure why my items did not go on sale today? Must be a programming error? Their is nothing I can do at this point. Michelle will be back next week and then I can find out what happened and possibly get another sale going for you.

It's been a very productive week! And I can't tell you how happy I am having my Creative Design team and my cutters. They are awesome ladies to work with. First of all when I send a file needing to get cut they return it faster than I can convert!

Then they turn around and tell me they will send me a layout. My CDT is working hard at some awesome layouts and projects to bring you inspiration! They don't just whip out a layout they spend time planning, after they step into their thinking room, well one of them has a thinking room and you know who you are!

This week one of my Creative Team Members sent me a couple of pictures to design a castle and then a carriage. Before this she had no idea what goes into the design process. We were on the phone almost every day! I would throw her a design and she would suggest more! She really worked me hard but I think you are all going to love the results. Each die-cut I created by hand drawing either by using the shapes, line tool and merging in my program and some of them I sketched on a pad of paper. This is how most of my die-cuts are created so that you will receive a unique one of a kind creation from me. You can see my newest line of Easter die-cuts and my Princess line below.




Now for some personal stuff... Scott and the kids surprised me this week, they are all so awesome! They planned on surprising me for Valentines but with Katie in college and the boys all working over time they just couldn't pull it together. So finally they told me that Katie and the boys are going to watch the little ones, that includes the pre-teens so that Scott and I get away.
Isn't that sweet of them! They pitched in to pay for dinner, entertainment and a hotel.

They think I need to get some rest! Well I have to agree! This is the first week since September that everyone has gone to school or work. Between the sicknesses and snow I've had someone here at least one day out of each week. So it's time to celebrate!

We are still looking for some beach some where? I love some of the suggestions i have received so far. Thank you as I look into the beaches, I'm looking for an area that isn't bombarded by people, but not over twelve hours away. Since we will be driving.

I'd like to tell you more about the week of snow and activities but Julie is preforming in a concert
in 30 minutes so I better go.

I will be leaving my special group a present tonight.

Thank you for all of your support!

Carrie

Oh...yeah...HaPpY ScRaPpInG!