Saturday, November 30, 2013

A Christmas Thank You

 Today I have two versions of my Christmas Thank You card to share with you.
The top one uses Basic Grey Wassail dp
 the bottom one uses PaperTrey ink's Funky Town DP.

I created my own Silhouette Studio Cut file for this project 
you can purchase it with the link provided below.

Here are my cards:

My inspiration came from SCS and the

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Thanks for stopping by today;)

Friday, November 29, 2013

Friendship Bookmark Card

It is Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the Christmas Season, or so it used to be.
I can't wait for the numbers to come in and see what happened with stores being open on Thanksgiving.
I am however happy to be out of the box store retail business this time of year. 
 It is just a madhouse and totally
had me ruined on Christmas for along time.
Happy to report Scrooge has left the building and my Christmas Spirit has returned;)

So my creation today is a card with bookmark.
 The Blog
 held my inspiration project.
You can see the card HERE.

My CASE creation:

All products used are PaperTrey Ink EXCEPT for SU scallop circle punch.

Purchase my designs in the following stores:
 Sara's Creative Adventures is Social:

Thanks for stopping by today;)

Thursday, November 28, 2013

Jumping Christmas Deer

Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends and family celebrating here in the US 
and a very blessed Thursday to all my blogging friends around the world.
Today's card creation for you is called Jumping Christmas Deer, 
this one is destined for a few craft shows in December.
 Inspiration came from a card creation I saw on SCS
 This is my CASE version:
I did not have the deer die so I created an SVG cut file for the Silhouette Cameo.
You can purchase this cut file HERE 
or use the buy now link below.

A bit of a larger view for you:

Purchase my designs in the following stores:
 Sara's Creative Adventures is Social:

Thanks for stopping by today;)


Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Historical Love

New in my shop this week
"Historical Love"
You can purchase my digital scrapbooking kit HERE
With my current 99 cent sale running through Saturday you can pick up this
vintage beauty for 80% off.
Remember EVERYTHING in my My Memories shop is 99cents through Saturday!!!!
Purchase my designs in the following stores:
 Sara's Creative Adventures is Social:

Thanks for stopping by today;)



Monday, November 25, 2013

Christmas Past

Happy Monday and welcome to my blog.
Today I have for you a list pad created with my 
Silhouette and Graphic45 Christmas Past collection.
I made up a few of these goodies for an upcoming craft show.
So quick and easy and they make such great gifts.
Kraft card stock and ribbon are PTI.

Purchase my designs in the following stores:
 Sara's Creative Adventures is Social:

Thanks for stopping by today;)

Sunday, November 24, 2013

99 Cent SALE

Below is just a sample of what you will find on sale:
 Colorful Christmas
 Bright Dots Backgrounds
 Cowgirl Tuff Backgrounds
 Cowgirl Tuff WA
 
Purchase my designs in the following stores:
 Sara's Creative Adventures is Social:

Thanks for stopping by today;)

Saturday, November 23, 2013

The "Brights" Collection


Welcome to my blog, it is great to see you here.
Today I am showing you the start of my
"Brights" Collection of Digital Scrapbook kits.
This collection can be found in my designer store
over at
Brights have always been my favorite color category with
 lime taking the lead as top dog.
I am a Summer after all.
Summer?
Going back to my Color Theory Class there are actually classes of color categories that look best on each person based on biology.
I am a summer because of my light skin, green eyes, dirty blond hair and a blue look to my skin (this is caused by your veins you can either have a blue look or a warm red look to your skin because of your veins and the proximity of them to your skin surface).
And Summers love the BRIGHT colors and they look their best wearing this color palette.
For instance I am a blusher meaning my skin especially on my face becomes flushed easily so I do not look my best wearing a primary red color close to my face.  I am much better off in the complementary colors of
greens in the bright category.
Hence you will see me in  LIME frequently, turquoise comes next and yes, I do wear bright reds;)
So my favorite Summer colors are the inspiration for my "Brights" Collection...
  
 
 Bright Embossed Solid
 Bright Patterns
 Numbers Bright

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 Sara's Creative Adventures is Social:

Thanks for stopping by today;)



Thursday, November 21, 2013

Facebook Fan Page FREEBIES



With the launching of my design business 
Sara's Creative Adventures Designs
I have decided to giveaway
freebies on my facebook fan page.
Run over there and become a fan so you don't miss any FANtastic FREE digital goodies.
Today I have posted this printable Christmas Card:
This card was made using my
"Colorful Christmas" kit.
This kit will soon be live in my store over at
My Memories.
Stop by my designer store at My Memories today and see what I am so JaZzEd about;)

Purchase my designs in the following stores:

 Sara's Creative Adventures is Social:
Facebook
Twitter
Pinterest
LinkedIn

Thanks for stopping by today;)

Thursday, November 7, 2013

My Memories Digital Scrapbooking Software V4 YouTube Channel

"MyMemories Suite Version 4 digital scrapbooking software is a fun and creative way to create scrapbooks, photobooks and more, whether you have a Mac or PC. The software's design tools will help you to build entire albums and other printable projects effortlessly using one of the many installed templates or designing your very own pages from scratch."
 
Purchase price
$39.97
When you use my code at checkout STMMM97 you can save $10.00
 bringing the final cost to $29.97.
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My Memories Digital Scrapbooking software is ranked #1 in the industry.
You can learn more about My Memories Digital Scrapbooking software HERE.
You can read the review HERE
 
Today I have a link to share with you.
It is the My Memories YouTube channel.
Here you will find tutorial videos on how to create with My Memories Software.
 
And more links for you:



Youtube Videos

So what are you waiting for?  Go on an adventure and create your memories now.
 
Thanks for stopping by today:)

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

My Memories Suite FREEBIES for the week

has THREE brand new freebies for you this week.
Go snag yours today!

I used Wisteria Moments Santa's Eve freebie on this layout...

Thanks for stopping by today;)

Saturday, November 2, 2013

Eureka Stamps Blog Hop, Great Gifts To Give!

 Welcome to our Eureka Stamps
 and
QKR Stampede
Handmade Gifts blog hop!!!!
We are so excited to share with you
Our handmade gifts perfect for any holiday!
You should of arrived here from Eureka Stamps Blog

Don't forget to leave comments along the way as there will be a prize from every blog along the hop. Each blog be choosing a winner from the comments left on their hop posts!
These winners will each win a 2 digital image of their choice.
The Grand Prize winner of the hop will be chosen from the very last stop, which is  
This winner will receive 5 digital stamps of their choice from the
Eureka Stamps.
The hop will run for 1 week and end on Thursday November 7th 6PM EST,Tthe lucky winners will be announced on Eureka Stamps blog on Saturday Nov 9th
Your next stop is Karen!
Today I will be showing you a very cute apple goodie basket.
I was inspired by my 4th grade teacher, Mrs. Dykstra and her fun little
reward box for learning our multiplication tables.

This is my version for J's 2nd grade class...
Cut file from Silhouette Cameo America Store:

Below you will find all the details for the products I used.
Star Pencil Toppers:
 using digital stamps

Great Work Digi5504
http://www.eurekastamps.com/proddetail.php?prod=digi5504

Super Kid Digi8601
http://www.eurekastamps.com/proddetail.php?prod=digi8601

The Silhouette cutfile is from the Silhouette America Store
 

 Addition Flash Cards:
 
 using digital stamp

Stars and Ribbon Frame digi11903
http://www.eurekastamps.com/proddetail.php?prod=digi11903

Silhouette America cut file:
Bookmarks:
Digital stamp used:

Star Border digi38801
http://www.eurekastamps.com/proddetail.php?prod=digi38801

Cut files from Silhouette America store:

Visit all the above links and see what the amazing DT has for you.  
Plus it will give you more chances to win;) 

 That completes the contents of my gift.
Please keep reading to see in depth how some of the creations were made.
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 For those that are new to the world of digital stamps I have a quick refresher for you.

How to use digi stamps with PSE10.
Open your donwnload stamp file.  
This file comes as a jpg from Eureka Stamps that means it has a white background you will need to remove this background for my technique.
Click on the background eraser tool as shown below.
Click onto the white background you will see it be removed and the transparent layer appear.


I wanted to do something special with this image so I added a preloaded effect.
Color Target was my choice.
In your effects panel pick the Color Target Effect under the complex label and apply it to your digital stamp.
Now save your colored digital stamp as a png file to preserve the transparent background.

 Below is my saved digital stamp in png form...

Below you can see that I have opened my save PNG digital stamp in my
Silhouette Cameo designer software.
Now I am ready to print and cut my bookmarks...

Here are two completed hybrid bookmarks.
The 3d star from Lori Whitlock is one of my fave cuts on the Silhouette;)
 
 
Links for digital stamps used from Eureka Stamps:










From Eureka Stamps sister store
QKR Stampede...


You can find these images and many more when you shop
the Eureka Stamp Store.   They offer rubber and digital images giving
you the best of both creative worlds.
Please stop by Eureka Stamps Store and have a look around.
Sign up for our newsletter while you are visiting
 so you don't miss
one single moment of the good stuff.


 



Thanks for stopping by today;)

National Digital Scrapbooking Day

Thank you for visiting this freebie link on the blog has expired.
Please visit
Sara's Creative Adventures on Facebook
to pick up this freebie through December 2013.

Welcome to my post in celebration of
National Digital Scrapbooking Day.

I have a freebie download just for the celebration...
Included in this download are the following
 JPG, PNG and PSD files.

If you prefer to download the quick page file format you use the most 
the individual links are listed below.
Links have expired.

Here is my completed quick page...

Friday, November 1, 2013

QKR Stampede Great Gifts to Give Blog Hop

Welcome to our QKR Stampede and Eureka Stamps Handmade Gifts blog hop!!!!
Today showcases images from the
Check in on Saturday for our sister stores hop
We are so excited to share with you
Our handmade gifts perfect for any holiday!

So let us get this party started!
You should of arrived from Jackie's blog if not then you will want to start at the beginning on the QKR Stampede blog, as you will not want to miss a chance at all the prizes we are giving away!

 Here are my kickn' Christmas Gifts:


 I get a kick out of you 3D boot gift box:
 Digital stamp used
This will make a very cute gift box for some items and a gift card for the boot barn.
I love this cut from the Silhouette Store.  I think I want my next pair of boots to be these two colors.  
LOVE IT;)

 Cowboy Christmas boot shaped Christmas card:
 Is this shape card adorable or what?
And the digital stamps used make are so fun.
I know a few people who are going to love receiving this Christmas card.
Digital stamps used:

The cut file used from Silhouette America store...
 Cowboy Christmas Ornament:
 This little Christmas ornament will bring some cowboy fun to
any Christmas tree.
You could even use it as a gift tag.
Digital stamps used:

Print and cut file from the Silhouette America store:

Don't forget to leave comments along the way as there will be a prize from every blog along the hop. Each DT member will be choosing a winner from the comments left on their hop posts!
These winners will each win a 2 digital image of their choice.
The Grand Prize winner of the hop will be chosen from the very last stop, 
This winner will receive 5 digital stamps of their choice from the
QKR Stampede Store.
The hop will run for 1 week and end on Thursday November 7th 6PM EST.   The lucky winners will be announced on the QKR Stampede blog Saturday Nov 9th.

Your next stop is back to the QKR Stampede Blog

Below is a complete list of the hop in case you get lost along the way:
Sara http://sarastudio.blogspot.com  (You are HERE)
QKR Stampede blog http://qkrstampede.blogspot.com/

Digital Stamps used:

Thanks for stopping by today;)