Soccer World Cup Promo with freebie!

I'm back and I wanted to tell you about our brand new exciting promo. As some of you will know, the Soccer World Cup kicks off on 11th June in South Africa. There are 32 countries taking part including each of the home countries of our four designers - South Africa, England, USA and Australia. We thought it would be great fun to run a promo in line with the tournament and get everyone involved with a chance to win gift certificates, discounts to the store and a participation freebie!

How do you take part, I hear you cry?! Well, we have opened up a section of our CT forum to everyone so that we can all keep track of what's happening with the promo and chat with you all about any questions you have for the designers in the store or the creative teams. This forum will be active for the duration of the promo (until July 11th) and if it's popular and well used, we may consider extending that! You need to go to the forum here and register for access and once accepted, go here to register for the promo itself BEFORE the end of the day on 9th June (two days before the tournament begins). You will need to wait for activation of your account before you can register for the promo - this is being done manually to make sure we don't get spammers, so please bear with us if you have to wait a few hours :)

All the details of the promo are included in the forum - it explains the prizes, it will be where you get your freebie mini kit designed by me for participation and where you can ask quesions of the designers and creative team members!

What are you waiting for? Head on over to the forum and get registered - we look forward to welcoming you and chatting with you some more! Oh, and this is what the participation freebie looks like, just to whet your appetite!! :)

Sweet Like Chocolate alpha freebie

I hope everyone is having a fabby weekend! I've been really busy this week, so I'm on catch up with everything I can today before I head to my parents for the week. I am passing through to let you have the alpha for Sweet Like Chocolate as promised - click the preview to download {link expired}, but check back soon because I will have news of a brand new Scrap That Idea promo we are doing with a participation freebie mini kit and prizes!! TTFN.

Country Life freebie

So, as voted on Facebook - this week's freebie out of retirement is overwhelmingly 'Country Life'. Check out the preview and click the links underneath to download and remember to leave some love! Back on Sunday with Sweet Like Chocolate alpha. TTFN.

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My latest store kit and a freebie!

Have you seen my latest store kit called 'Cherish'? I am really proud of it - the colours were so beautiful that it came together really quickly. I hope you like it as much as I do....


You can pick it up for just $3 in store here - that's 25% discount on the normal price until next weekend. And my creative team again outdid themselves with the gorgeous layouts here:

Pretty impressive hey? I am going to give you a QP freebie later this week using this kit, so be sure to check back for that. Back to today and I have the elements for 'Sweet Like Chocolate' for you - the papers link will be disabled now, so I hope you didn't miss them!! Click the preview to download (sorry, link expired) and check back during the week for the QP. Next Sunday, you'll get the alpha for Sweet Like Chocolate. TTFN.

Boys will be Boys freebie

I hope everyone is well and enjoying Spring? We are in line for a lovely hot weekend in England, so I can't wait for that - we've already had a taste of the sun this week - I spent most of Tuesday in the Garden with a book - very relaxing!! Hubby is working away this week and so it's quite quiet around here, but I have plenty of things to do with myself and actually notice less than when I'm working! Today, I am going shopping for a birthday present for my friend Hayley - we are going out on Saturday night to celebrate - really looking forward to that!

As promised, I have Boys will be Boys out of retirement for one week - check out the preview and click the links below to download. A little later today, the links for Primary Grunge will disappear, so GRAB IT NOW!! Back at the weekend with the elements for 'Sweet Like Chocolate'. TTFN.

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Layouts and a freebie add on to Primary Grunge

Just wanted to tell you about some kits in the store this weekend at Scrap That Idea. You may have already seen them on my Facebook fanpage, but you won't have seen my layouts :)

So first up is Fresh Flowers from Sara and this is my layout...


This is from Stacey and is called 'Y is for You Complete Me' - she's nearly finished with her alphabet series - I wonder what will be next?


And, this is Jive from Mel - the lovely Jenny and Tina from work!



Back to Primary Grunge and I realised that Sara still has her add-on available to download on her blog, so check it out if you don't already have it! Click the preview. TTFN.

A new freebie kit!

Before I get to the newest freebie, I want to tell you about my latest store kit which is called Boys Club. It's great for scrapping boys, but also perfect for pool layouts! Take a look...

And this is what my CT have done - awesome as always girls!

You can pick it up for just $3 in store here if you like it! I'd love to see what you make if you do.

And now for my freebie. This one is a mini kit for which today you can get the papers (sorry - link expired) - check back next weekend for the elements. I hope you like it - let me know! TTFN.

Good luck!!

I just wanted to wish Portsmouth FC good luck today in the FA Cup final at Wembley. Hubby is a lifelong fan and he is so excited today that I had to mention it! There is little or no chance that they will win as they are playing Chelsea, but you just never know on the day do you?

If you could all please send positive thoughts towards the Wembley area of London, he'd be very grateful!! LOL! TTFN.

Sneak peek

Oh my gosh - I am overwhelmed by the response I got to the re-release Primary Grunge! Thank you all for the love you've left over the last couple of days :)

I thought you might like to see a sneak peek of a freebie mini kit that I am releasing on Sunday - take a look and remember to check back! TTFN.

Primary Grunge freebie kit

Thanks to everyone who voted on Facebook for the revival of one of my retired kits as a freebie. The winner was Primary Grunge and this is what it looks like:

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This kit will only be available for one week, so make sure you download it before it's gone! I have a short list of other kits that were voted for and you may see those over the next couple of weeks ;). Please leave some love if you download so that I know you've snagged it! TTFN.

Retired kit as a freebie?

Hey everyone - have you checked out my Facebook fan page? I am offering to give away a retired kit as a freebie later this week, ie the kit with the most votes on my fan page. Become a fan and have your vote here. You can see all my old kits in my archives if you want to remind yourself and have a little time to spare ;)

A QP freebie!

Before we get to the freebie, don't forget to vote on my poll about freebies over on the right of my blog. Also, be sure to become a fan of AWP on facebook to be in with a chance of winning a $10 GC. AND, don't forget to enter my challenge on the Scrap That Idea blog to win 5 free printed digi pages from Pages to Treasure worth $25!!

For today, I promised you the QP from my layout for Happiness Is... This QP is included in the pack you can buy in store for just $1. If you want all three, head over to the store by clicking this preview.

If you just want the freebie, click my layout below! Be sure to leave some love!! TTFN.

Some layouts....

Hey everyone, just wanted to show you a couple of layouts I've done as a CT member for Stacey and Mel! Firstly, Mel's new kit Exhale - this is my layout and the preview of the kit is clickable to store:


I forgot last week to show you W is for Wild from Stacey - take a look:


And this is Stacey's X is X-Specially for Boys - very cool for scrapping the men in your lives...

New facebook fanpage!

This 'n' that!

As the title of this blogpost suggests, there are a few things for me to tell you about today, so sit back and relax if you have a little time :)

Firstly, my sabbatical has started. My last day at work for three months was on Friday and it was a fairly busy day, but I got everything done and went out with Jenny and Tina for drinks after work. I had a fab time - we don't go out often because they live in Bath and I'm in Bristol, but we should because we had lots of fun!! Here are the girls taken on my hipstamatic camera - if they look like they've had too much to drink, that's because they have!!

This week so far.... Monday was a public holiday, so I treated it like a Sunday, relaxing and doing not much!! Yesterday (my first official day of not working), I did the grocery shopping, started my spring clean (I am doing one room per day!), walked the dogs, went to the dry cleaners (I've been meaning to for months) and made homemade moussaka for dinner! Hubby was impressed with my new domestic goddess status!! lol! Today, I took Pompey to the vet (he seems to be losing weight, has blood in his poo and is drinking lots) - he had a urine test and a blood test - we are waiting for the results - fingers crossed he will be ok. He doesn't have diabetes though - the urine test ruled that out, which is a relief. I also continued my spring clean (room two), caught up on a couple of TV shows that I recorded, walked the dogs, cooked dinner and finished a new kit for the store (you'll see it in a couple of weeks or so).

Tomorrow will see room three of my spring clean, cut and colour for my hair, walking the pups, cooking dinner and most importantly voting in our general election. I am still totally undecided on who to vote for, but I have about 27 hours before it becomes essential for me to decide!! I have always used my vote since I turned 18 and it's a really important thing to me. Even if who I vote for doesn't make it into power, at least I had a part in it and I am fully entitled to complain when things go wrong!! No vote, no voice!

Sounds like my sabbatical hasn't been really exciting yet and that's true, but I wanted to use this first week to catch up on all the things that are a chore when you work full time. Next week, if hubby isn't working, we are taking off in his van with the pups for an adventure! Can't wait!

OK, so back to scrapping and I haven't shown you the latest store collab, have I? We decided to do another colour collection - we called this one Funkytown! Take a look....

This is what my CT did with it - check out the other girls blogs for their CT layouts too.

You can buy this in store for just $5 - or each part is $1. As there are 10 parts to it, you get each part for just $0.50 when you buy in a bundle. What a bargain hey?

Finally, check out my challenge here to win 5 free pages at Pages to Treasure worth $25 and also vote in my poll - you'll see it at the top right of my blog!

OK, that's all for today - I will be back soon. TTFN.

The sale must go on!!

Our sale is still on today at Scrap That Idea. Don't miss getting 50% off your orders over $5 until the end of today!

Happiness Is..... NSD sales!!

Well, the title of this blogpost covers both things I have to tell you today :) Firstly, we are having a 50% off sale for NSD weekend. Go grab yourself some bargains (no coupons required)!

Secondly, I have a new kit in store called Happiness Is.... - you are going to be able to pick this kit up for only $2 during the sale - what are you waiting for? Ah, ok - the preview and the CT layouts hey? LOL! This is what it looks like - I have to say, it's my new favourite kit - the layouts are going to blow you away!!

If you're already convinced, you can pick it up here, if you need more persuasion, these are the gorgeous layouts by my creative team - I am super impressed with my CT on this kit - they are soooo talented....

And a freebie? Oh, go on then!! LOL! Click the preview to download and remember to leave some love. TTFN.