Showing off and a QP

Well, Thanksgiving is done, my house is mostly back in order after serving 18 people.
What a crowd ... and it all went well, if I do say so myself!

Today I'm going to show off a couple LOs I did with Baby on Board - Ramona's newest release.
First is my friend Becky the day she had her second child.


My sister - finally expecting! Yay!


Here's another look at the full preview.

*Image is linked to the store*


And I made the second LO into a QP for you!

*Click image to download*

Baby on Board

Having six beautiful children, pregnancy is something I am more than familiar with! However, I have to sadly admit, I did a horrible job of documenting those amazing, painful, exhausting, exciting days! There is nothing quite like pregnancy. I don't know of any other time in my life where I felt so excited to be so miserable! From those first horrible feelings of morning sickness, just knowing that life was growing inside me, felt amazing!

My latest kit (Mara showed you the sneak peek and a few of you guessed correctly) is the perfect kit for documenting all those days of pregnancy! From the first positive test, to all the different u/s pictures, to the cravings, the aches and pains, right down to those last few days of waddling and waiting!

It is with much excitement that I present to you, Baby on Board:



It's packed full of so many things. It has a flair for every week, a black stamp for every month and silver writing for each trimester. It even has a pregnancy wheel that comes in the separate parts so you can turn it to fit your needs! It's elegant and versatile! You can use it alone or to accent any other kit.

Also, starting this Saturday, I'm going to do a RAK, here on the blog for each of you to win my newly released kit! I will have a new kit every Saturday, so be sure to check in! I'm going to do these RAK's a little differently. Post here why you would want to win this kit and get one point! Post about this blog and this kit on your blog, and post here that you did so and you get another point. It's the same with Facebook, Twitter, etc. Everytime you share the news about this kit, just come back here and let me know what you did and you will earn a point. Later in the week, one of my pests will come and draw a random winner from the comment list! That person will win this kit! If you don't want to wait for the RAK, you can buy this kit for 20% off, during the next week. It can be found HERE.

I also have a freebie for all of you! You've been so patient in reading through all my chatter, so I will reward you with a word art! I figured it went perfect with this kit! Check back throughout the week for more freebies related to this kit, as well as layouts completed with this kit to see how many ways it can be used. And of course, we will have coupons-just for our blog readers!


Click HERE to download

Love Walks In - word art

The designers at Brownie Scraps are having a sale!!
Don't forget Love Walks In...
You can get this gorgeous kit for only $3!!!

And Ramona has made another word art FREEBIE for you!
**Click image to download**
Enjoy! And don't forget to leave Ramona some love!!

Sneak peek!!

Ramona has been so busy!
There are so many changes happening over at Brownie Scraps
and yet she somehow finds the time to create some beautiful kits for us!!

Here's a peek at the next one!

Can you guess what the theme is?
There are little hints in the peek here, but I know what it is!!

Free Love Walks In QP

Have you picked up Love Walks In yet?
You should! It's one gorgeous kit...
And Caitlin posted an AWESOME coupon for you yesterday!!
Check it out in the previous post!


And I've made a QP just for you!

Download from 4shared

Remember to check back tomorrow
for a sneak peek of Ramona's next fabulous kit!!

Freebie WA and coupon!

Happy happy Sunday all:) I hope everyone is having a fabulous weekend! Today I have 2 goodies for you! First I have a gorgeous wordart that Ramona designed to coordinate with her newest kit Love Walks In. Isn't it beautiful!?

click on preview to download



The second goodie I have for you today is a 50% off coupon for the Love Walks In kit! Yes, you read that right. Ramona is giving all of our wonderful blog readers a coupon as a thank you for all of your loyal support!
Just enter the code bloglwi50 at checkout. Coupon good through November 30th. Enjoy:)

Gluten Free Gravy

Ramona here! I'm so excited to get to post to you all today! First let me start by thanking my AMAZING pests for all their hard work and their awesome posts! They love planning and plotting the next surprise for you all, and I appreciate them so much! I LOVE having them on my team!

Many of you may or may not know that I have Celiac Disease. I was diagnosed in February, but I have 2 children who were diagnosed first. It basically means that our bodies can not process gluten or anything with gluten in it. It's an autoimmune disorder, not an allergy, which comes with all the other fun autoimmune things! For example, before my 10 year old son was diagnosed (at age 9), he began developing an allergy to everything. He was suddenly allergic to every type of nut, to most fruits, several vegetables, etc. It started to get to the point that everytime he ate, he would break out in hives and have to use benedryl. I was so worried about what that would mean for his future. He also had lots of stomach problems and with my 2 year old already diagnosed with celiac, I took Mitchell in to see if he had the same. His test came back borderline, which the doctor said probably meant positive and we should put him on a gluten free diet. We did and within six months, all the allergies went away. He can even eat nuts again, with no problems. But, his body was just in attack mode because of the celiac.

So, this has led us to a life and a diet free of gluten. For those that don't know (because I didn't until I had to) gluten is the thing in wheat that makes it thicken and stick it all together. So, if you've ever made homemade bread and you knead it. It's to activate the gluten that you need to knead it. But, I've also learned that it's in everything, including some baking powders! Seriously, it's amazing! Eating out is a pain, no more Chinese food, because it is in all the sauces, no more Italian food (for obvious reasons) and many other things are affected by cutting out gluten. Before you begin to feel sorry for us, though, I have to say that I don't mind at all! I have found many ways to duplicate things at home and just make them gluten free! I even made pizza a few weeks ago and it was pretty good! More and more companies are taking pity on us Celiac's and releasing more and more gluten free products, so life is good! As we get ready for Thanksgiving next week, there are a few things we'll just skip (like the stuffing) and some thing we will make ourselves, gluten free! This is a simple recipe, but here is how I make gravy, without using wheat!



Download card HERE

I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving! We are leaving town on Tuesday to go visit all of my family in Nevada. I'm very excited to spend the time with them. I won't be on much, because I won't have a computer with me, however, I have prepared a few holiday goodies for all of you and my awesome pests will post them for me, while I'm gone!

RAK winner!

Thanks for sharing your true love stories!
Random chose No. 2! Congrats to roseytoes for winning Love Walks In

Here's what Ryan (roseytoes) said:
so my true love would probably be my son, just because i can see how he is growing up to be a wonderful gentleman and to be very respectful.. i think he will definitely make some young lady very happy when he gets older :)

Look for another RAK soon!

Thanksgiving Recipe

We are on the final countdown to Thanksgiving, only 1 week to go! I actually get 2 Thanksgiving meals this year, we are celebrating tonight with my dad's side of the family. My 2nd cousin and her daughter are in from Australia, so that will be a lot of fun, I haven't seen her in almost 10 years and our kids are close in age - my son is looking forward to meeting his "cousin" from down under!

So, I would like share a recipe that I like to serve for Thanksgiving, but is easy enough to do all year long! I personally am not a huge fan of green bean casserole, so I serve fresh green beans instead. I love the flavor of these Sesame Green Beans: (picture is linked to download)

Don't forget to leave a comment on THIS POST to be entered to win Ramona's newest release Love Walks In!

New Release, Love Walks In!

Well today is the day for the big unveiling! Ramona's new kit, Love Walks In, has a gorgeous color pallette, beautiful elements and fun papers

You can catch it and the matching alpha in the store now!

Here are some layouts using the new kit:

by Ramona

by Caitlin

by me

Win a free kit!

Because you may not have seen it, please....

See the second half of the previous post and leave a comment there!!!

I want you to have a chance at this kit! It's FABULOUS!!

Corn casserole recipe and a RAK

Yum! I can't wait until Thanksgiving dinner. Every year we make way too much food and wind up eating it for days! But that means I don't have to cook for days!
One of the more recent additions to our dinner traditions is corn casserole. Of course we always have green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, the turkey, rolls, and so on.
A few years ago, a friend of mine introduced one of her family's traditional favorites.
And that's the recipe I'm sharing with you today!

Click on the image to download from Boxnet

And now on to the RAK for this week.

I showed you a sneak peek of the fabulous kit Ramona is releasing tomorrow.

All you have to do to win the kit is tell me something about your true love. How did you meet? What's your favorite thing about him? Anything you'd like to share ... and you'll have a chance win Love Walks In!! Easy peasy!

My true love is my boyfriend. He's really my soul mate.

My favorite thing about him is he makes me laugh.

Sneak peek

Ramona has another fabulous kit coming this week!!
It was made as a challenge from Mr. Pest. He said she wouldn't be able to make a romantic kit out of the color palette he showed her.
Boy was he wrong!
The kit is called Love Walks In. I love the colors and the elements are fabulous!
Here's a little look!

Thanksgiving Recipe- Pumpkin Muffins

Happy Sunday all! Hope everyone is having a great weekend! Today I have for you another Thanksgiving recipe. These muffins are so quick to make and so yummy, hope you enjoy! :)Download Here

and for anyone who's interested HERE is an egg-free version. My younger son is allergic to eggs so this is the way I always make them:)

RAK Winner!

Happy Saturday! Wendy here to announce the winner of the $5 gift certificate to Ramona's Store! Ramona wanted to know HERE what you would buy with it and we had 5 great responses. I consulted with Random.org and the winner is.......

True Random Number Generator Min: Max: Result: 3


Melanie!

Congratulations, I will PM you your prize!

Thanksgiving Recipe- Cranberry Sauce

I can't believe Thanksgiving is almost upon us! I am looking forward to Rett's first taste of all the Thanksgiving day fare. To help you prepare for this wonderful time of year, we are going to be distributing Thanksgiving themed recipe cards. I think this is a wonderful idea for your own Thanksgiving meals to write down all the recipes of the dishes, hold punch, tie with ribbon and distribute. Also a wonderful thing to stick inside a wedding gift or house warming. Remember to jot down Grandma's famous turkey recipe. The next generation will thank you. Here is my contribution for today, home made cranberry sauce.

You can download here.

You can download the recipe card template HERE to create your own recipes to distribute for Thanksgiving.

Chuggin' along

I'm just getting into the swing of my week... and so are the designers at Brownie Scraps!

So in addition to the makeover.... (Did you check it out?!) ....

Leslie and Bethany (Punky Princess and Scrappin' Daisies) have joined
Ramona as owners of Brownie Scraps!!



Don't forget about the cruise that's coming up, I sure hope you'll join us!!
It's going to be fun... a party at Brownie Scraps always is!


Check yesterday's post for a chance to win $5 to Brownie Scraps!!
Have a look around the store!
Two of my favorite kits are Ramona and her Brothers and Ramona and her Sisters.

So today I've made a simple little cluster for you to sample the Brothers kit.
Here's a look at the kit:
And this is the cluster frame I made:

Download it from Boxnet

What would you do?

Remember the Top Secret things? One of them was the new look coming to Brownie Scraps. Well it happened!! It's fresh and fun and ooh, just come have a look!

What would you do with $5 to Ramona's store?!

Go and have a look around Ramona's store .

Then come back here and tell me what you'd buy if you won $5 to her store.

Saturday I'll come back with a winner!!

Cherish Friends QP

Happy Sunday all! I hope everyone is having a fabulous weekend! We are having some unsually good weather so the kids and I were outside playing most of yesterday. We had such a great time that I really hope it will be beautiful again today!

Well I just made a layout with one of Ramona's kits from September and just had to share so I turned it into a quick page;) Cherish Friends is such a versatile kit, I just love it! It's in the shop right now for 25% off.

Just click on the preview to download the QP.

Top Secret

There's so much going on at Brownie Scraps!
But it's top secret stuff. I've only seen some little clues ...

Go take a peek at Ramona's store. The packaging has been updated...
Looks a little different, huh? I'm liking it!

And there was a designer call that closed just a bit ago....
Who's joining the Brownie Scraps' design team?
I'm so excited to find out, but no one's telling.

AND, I think I heard the word makeover mentioned somewhere too...
So keep an eye on us over at Brownie Scraps... change is good!

Friday Freebie!

Ramona released her new kit "Fall Memories" this week. The kit and coordinating alpha & QP set are 25% off this week, so grab them while you can! So, for today's freebie you get a QP made with it! Enjoy!

Download here.

November event!

Hey there, Laura here! October's Harvest Festival is wrapping up over at Brownie Scraps and the gals are getting ready to host another awesome event to help you beat those cold weather blues.

Who wouldn't want to take a cruise right now? I've heard that there 'might' be a passport full of goodies involved.. but like it says 'details to follow!'

Another exciting event that goes along with this one is BINGO! Who doesn't LOVE the bingo?

Check out more details here.

I hope everyone is enjoying scrapping those adorable Halloween pictures and gearing up for Turkey Day! I'll see you again next week!

Fall Memories- New Release, Freebie and a great deal!

Good morning loyal bloggers! Can you believe it's November already? I am trying to figure out where this year has gone, but I'm not having much luck lol :)

Ramona has a wonderful fall kit in the store this week, called Fall Memories!

I just love all the different leaves and glittery elements!

Check out some of layouts made with Fall Memories:

By Ramona:

By Mara:

By Laura:

Ramona has also put together a free hybrid project for you, this adorable mint tin album! Included in the download is a coupon for 35% off the bundle, which includes the paper, elements, alpha and 5 quickpages!

Download Here

Now for the really great deal! Fall Memories is 25% off this week to celebrate it's release. But if you buy the kit HERE in the month of November, Ramona will give you the Alpha and Quickpages for FREE! Plus, you can still use the 35% off coupon!! This deal is too good to pass up!

If this week is going as fast for you as it is me, you better rush right over to the Brownie Scraps store and pick it up today!