Edit: This contest now closed! Winners announced Friday morning!
Wow, it’s been CRAZY around here! This week is all about catching my breath, playing catch up, and fitting in a little design time! This weekend my uncle from Colorado was in town. You can read more about that at my personal blog, but whenever my uncle comes into town, it’s all about food, family, chatting, and having a lot of fun. It’s a lot like Christmas but without all the snow and Christmas trees and Christmas spirit – there are even gifts!
As many people may know (because I’ve sort of “bragged” about it enough around digi-land lol), two weeks from yesterday I will be attending my first class in my freshman year of college. Actually, my first real class is two weeks from tomorrow (Wednesday) but I have Freshman Orientation on Monday the 16th and Tuesday the 17th at 8AM. I’ve been hurriedly getting ready – getting my school supplies, packing up my backpack, gathering my books, paying my fees, and waiting for Heath’s bonus check from work so I could get a brand new laptop and new phone. Because my laptop is really a poor excuse for a laptop – it’s old, it’s in bad shape, and just doesn’t have the capabilities to do what I need it to do. I had picked out my laptop just a few weeks ago and I was just waiting to get the check so I could purchase it – to my surprise, the day my uncle left he walked in with the exact laptop that I had picked out. It was his little way of saying, “I’m very proud of you for going back to college and I want you to succeed.” My family isn’t too good with saying emotional things, like “I’m proud of you,” sometimes. I was floored! I’m so happy with my new laptop – this is the laptop that I own now, and yes, it’s purple! Perfect for Pixiemama, don’t you think?
Anyway, so I’ve been installing all my programs onto the new laptop and getting it ready to try out designing on it. It’s going to take a while, but I can’t wait to try her out and see how she does! I also had a day full of errands yesterday, I had to be up at the college at 8AM to pick up my books (I’m about 40 pounds heavier with books and $30 lighter, plus I still have more books to pick up – yikes!!!), then after my uncle left to travel back to Colorado and I picked Heath up from work we headed to the store to pick up my new phone. It was an awesome day filled with new techie-toys for me!
I have a lot of awesome new stuffs to show you today.
First, it’s August now and that means time for a new Scrappity-Doo-Dah Grab Bag! Have you checked out the August Grab Bag? It’s only $2.99 and it’s filled with some awesome goodies. It includes both PU and CU stuff, so it’s perfect for anyone! I contributed this month, and I have to say I love this kit!

And here are my contributions!


Joy {For Joyanna} was created and inspired by the birth of my CTM Crystal’s new little baby girl, Joyanna! Crystal is a fantastic photographer and I’m sure you’ve seen her around the digi-world once or twice. Here is a layout that she created with Joy!

You can head to my designer gallery at Scrappity-Doo-Dah to see even more of my wonderful CT’s layouts using Joy and many more products!
Also, as I noted above, I’m headed back to school in two weeks and I’m so excited about it that I’m having a sale!

You can get (almost) all my store for 25% off through the rest of the month! All PU/CU/S4H/S4O products are included except some collabs, retiring items (at 50% off already) and my retirement bundle (at a super discount price already)! Head on over to my store where you can stock up before the kids head back to school, because it’s a great deal!
This month I’m doing the ad challenge all by myself – my faithful comrade Jaya had a family emergency suddenly and she will be in her home country of India for the entire month of August. Please say a few prayers and keep her in your good thoughts, her mother-in-law is very ill and she definitely needs the well wishes!
The newest ad challenge is up at SDD. For the first part of the month I’m focusing on taking inspiration from the color palettes of ads – I’ve even included a color palette that you can save to your computer to easily choose your two colors, and choose your kits! Here’s a little peek:

You can find the ad challenge here at SDD!
Before I head out, I have a little sneak peek of what’s coming your way this Friday at SDD!

If you can guess the name of this kit, you could win it! All entries will be eligible to win the kit, right or wrong answer! There’s also two matching pieces that will be available for purchase Friday:


I’ll give you one hint, and one hint only for the name of the kit. It’s a toughie! Ready?
Your hint: RAWR!
Post your guesses in the comments section here to win! You may only guess once, and all subsequent guesses will be thrown out. You are welcome to tweet about the contest, but tweeting will not increase your chances to win. One lucky winner will win a free copy of the kit (only). Winner will be chosen Friday morning and will be notified by email!
I look forward to all your guesses! Also I will be sending out a newsletter sometime on Saturday – there may be a little freebie in there for you! You can go ahead and sign up here!
I have to head out – more programs to install and then I want to get to designing some stuff on my new laptop! Have a great day everyone and come back Friday for the reveal of the kit!
Important Note
(All regular posts are below this one!)
Hello ladies! Just stopping back by today to sticky some important notes that you may want to read!
An Important Note Regarding my Designing vs. School
An Important Note Regarding Facebook Giveaways
Please if you have time, make sure to read them! They are important notes about changes in certain things in my designing!
Thank you and Happy Scrapping!