Toot Toot, hop on Board

Yes it's the silly season again and Darlene at the Studio has organised our annual Christmas Blog Train, so hop on board to snag some fabulous Christmas mini kits by the Designers at Digital Scrapbooking Studio.

As we do every year, we have all chosen a Christmas Song or Carol to theme our kit on. Mine this year is Blue Christmas.

It's a sad Christmas song but hey a lot of people are sad at this time of the year too.

Once you have grabbed my Blue Christmas pressie, hop back on board and head over to the next station at DeliScraps by Min for her goodie too.

Here's the blog train timetable of stations. The train departs at 6pm EST December 5th and will terminate at the North Pole on the 12th, Santa sort of needs it back by then LOL

Blue Christmas by Ambowife Designs

DOWNLOAD HERE

Blog Train Timetable of Stations

Ambowife - http://www.ambowife.com/blog <---- You are Here
Deli Scraps - http://deliscraps.blogspot.com/
Angel Hartline Designs - http://angelhartline.com/blog/
Digilicious Designs - http://digilicious.typepad.com/digi_licious_designs/
Nibbles Skribbles - http://www.nibblesskribbles.com
Let Me Scrapbook! - http://letmescrapbook.blogspot.com/
Kimberkatt Scraps - http://kimberkattscraps.wordpress.com/
Booland Designs - http://www.boolanddesigns.com
Darlene - http://darlenedesigns.blogspot.com
LightningBug Creations- http://lightningbugcreationskits.blogspot.com/
eqrAveziur graphic & design - http://www.aveziur.com
SKrapper Digitals - http://www.skrapperdigitals.blogspot.com
Shelly Marie Scraps - http://www.shellymariescraps.blogspot.com
Piggy Scraps Design - http://www.piggyscraps.blogspot.com/
theStudio Blog: http://www.digitalscrapbookingstudio.com/blog/
Twin Mom Scraps - http://twinmomscraps.blogspot.com
2 Girlz Designz - http://2girlzdesigns.blogspot.com
JulieC - http://scrappinhappens.blogspot.com/

Happy Holidays Everyone

hugs

Tracy

BIRTHDAY BASH at the Studio

yes it's nearly that time again, the Studio Birthday Bash is just days away.

Our STUDIO ANNUAL DESIGNER COMPETITION sign up thread closes midnight on 31st August so if you want to get in on this fun competition rush over to the Studio now. We have amazing prizes this year, the winning 3 designers will score a wacom Bamboo Tablet and the top 10 will get an Atomic Cupcake certificate, wow!!

Even if you don't aspire to becoming a digital scrapbooking designer there are already 78 contestants signed up for this contest and so for our Studio Members that means 78 free minikits!!! How cool is that! come on over to the Studio and become a part of our community to grab all these goodies. The contest runs all of September and we have lots going on during our Annual Birthday Bash.

Also mitsybelle Designs and I are running the annual Studio CT LAYOUT COMPETITION, if you'd love to be part of the amazing creative team at the Studio jump to the sign up thread here, we'd love to see what you can create with our kits. And you'll get some lovely kits along the way :)

Okay so I know I have been real quiet when it comes to blogging. I am so busy with life and work and the Studio that I barely have the time anymore but as always I promise to try and be better at it.

I have collaborated with Linda Cumberland and Moon Designs on a fabulous masculine feel kit called Monsieur, you can check it out here. I loved working with these ladies, the designers at the studio are the absolute cream of the crop in my opinion, both as designers and as wonderful women.

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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Sailing by AJR65 - Studio CT"]Verkeerspark Assen by Renee - Ambowife CT

Freebie Clustered Border

Okay here's the freebie I made today from my new kit Gone a Courtin'

Download HERE

enjoy!!

This weeks freebie Kits

VOTE NOW

I will be posting the where to vote info later on today but I thought I'd show you all the free kits that are in the SAS-y Designer Contest round 2 gallery this week for you all to download and have for free. They were all asked to do a theme about friends and to use that gorgeous fusia color and make their own palette, so go check them out pick your 3   favourites and vote them when I post the links :)

Okay gotta run and get dinner ready for hubby coming home, have a great night all!!

Tracy

Commercial Use Freebie

Well I have a commercial use freebie,  I thought some of the ladies in the designer competition might like and well I thought some of my readers might like it too so here it is.



Download Here

So the voting is on and the girls are very nervous, just like we all were last year. So if you would like to vote for your 3 favourites in this years SAS-y Designer Competition you have until midnight on 9th September (that's in the US est frame)

So not until the 10th September at 3pm  Aussie time.  You have to be a registered member of stoneaccentsstudio.com to vote and while you are there check out the gallery and download some beautiful kits HERE There are 50 entries in this first round so I am sure you will find something you just have to have LOL

Here's a link to the poll  VOTE NOW , good luck to all of the entrants this year :)

So some of you may be aware that on Saturday I turned 40, yes I am on top of that hill looking down on you all LOL. So we had a lovely quiet day and went out for dinner that evening, I had a yummy steak and dessert, and yes I ate every mouthful LOL. Michael got me some movie tickets and a new drink bottle holder for my bike, the kind you can put vertical on your handlebars so it's a lot easier to use that the one I had.

And I bought a new camera, a Canon eos DSLR 1000D it's gorgeous and it's got a zoom lens bonus too so the commercial use freebie is my first offering from that. Christopher bought me a camera too, but I had already got this one so he is going to take it back and hopefully get the money and give that to us to help pay for this one.

Here's a pic

Okay so that's it for today I might be back with some of the layouts I created with the kits from the competition, mitsybelle and I split them between us and managed to get every kit scrapped with. Phew LOL

Have a great day/night

Hugs

Tracy

A Quickpage for you all

So here is Quickpage number 2 from my Just Because kit, There will be another few freebies from this kit over the weekend so stay tuned :)

DOWNLOAD HERE

Here's a layout I created with the quickpage too :)

Have a great weekend everyone

Tracy

Check out the gallery

I just found out how to add a javascript gallery to my blog, so exciting LOL

So if you click on the gallery link on the tab at the top of the header it will take you to my gallery

of layouts created by me with my kits.

I am thinking of doing another one to show off my CT's layouts too.

So since you all just had a look and got excited with me LOL, here's a freebie Quickpage for you

all. Have fun with it :)

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Here's a layout I made it from using my new kit Red Wine n Rag Time

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Tracy

Look what's new and ON SALE!!!

I am now exclusive to SAS and to celebrate, my New Kit "Red Wine n Rag Time" is on sale at 50% off!!!

That's crazy, you get it for just $2.25. But only till the end of July!!

Check it out in my SAS Store today

16 papers for cropping and 52 pieces to play with in the element set.

Keep an eye out for the freebie samples coming to my blog very soon!!

VOTING IS ON - grab those freebies

How exciting, the time has come everybody.

You all have from now until midday Thursday central time to cast your vote for the designer you like best. If you're in Australia that is 3am Friday Morning yikes!!

I have added all the links you need to grab the kit, the QP and the addon for "Lazy Sundays" please, if you like the kit consider voting for me.

REGISTER FOR SAS

Have a great day everyone and Thank you for your support from the bottom of my heart!!
Hugs
Tracy

A Preview of the Freebie While I Wait - Link Now posted

For the zips to upload that is LOL. The links should be up soon.

Firstly a big THANK YOU SO MUCH KISS KISS KISS AND HUGS

to all those who voted for me, or even those who tried to but were having problems with the site.

I appreciate it so much.

If you download this one AND you like it consider casting your vote and if you don't like it don't vote for me but for the kit you DID like the most.

This is my next freebie for you over at stonaccentsstudio.com.

If you haven't joined SAS this month and want these freebies you best run over there and register.

The Designer Competition Gallery

You can download 33 kits from last weeks round and

33 from this weeks round, once they are all uploaded.

So why not join, they have a download a day on at the moment too. There's heaps going on for theirBirthday Bash throughout September.

Well it took me about 36 hours non stop to design this kit. And NO SLEEP!!

That's where it got it's name, cause today, Sunday here, I anticipated being Lazy and doing nothing.

But I'm not LOL.

So this Kit "LAZY SUNDAYS" IS MY FREEBIE FOR THIS WEEKS ROUND.

It's HUGE over 204 MB of pretties.

So that means 20 Papers, 20 Elements And a bonus Quickpage, just waiting for you

The kit includes:

20 Papers

4 frames

1 furry fastener

1 shopping bag

3 Bow Ribbons

1 plain Ribbon

4 digitally painted Flowers

1 Tag on a string

1 floral bulldog clip

a journalling block

a stitched denim patch

and a zipper

and the quickpage....all for free

ENJOY THE FREEBIE

Sorry these files are no longer available,

to purchase the whole kit please see my TTS Store

Plus.... You never know what I might put up here for you to ADD to your stash of Lazy Sunday, so keep your eyes peeled for the freebies here too. I'll be back later with the links and a little surprise maybe, we'll see!!

So the voting commences on Monday at 6 MCT that's in the US. Here in Australia that is 9am Tuesday morning. So join now so you can VOTE for the next Sassy Designer. As before, you can vote for up to 4 Designs and you must be registered there to vote and to download.

Here's a Layout I did with the Kit

I hope you all like the kit and get a lot of enjoyment out of all the kits this week. I have seen Mistybelle's and it's so pretty. Mistybelle lives here in Australia too and she is another who stayed up all night to finish her kit and get it posted LOL. WE love to Design.


My little blinkie I made with my New kit "Lazy Sundays"

HUGS

TRACY

PLEASE VOTE FOR ME

Fallen Heroes by Ambowife

HERE

http://www.4shared.com/file/61901289/1cd05029/Ambowife_FallenHeroes_Papers.html

http://www.4shared.com/file/65907987/2619e900/_2__Ambowife_FallenHeroes_P2_and_elements.html

http://www.4shared.com/file/61895097/a8d9be82/Ambowife_FallenHeroes_P3.html

http://www.4shared.com/file/61907243/75dba9e7/Ambowife_FallenHeroes_P4.html

http://www.4shared.com/file/61853519/61e869bb/Ambowife_FallenHeroes_P5.html

IT FINALLY IS POSTED AND YOU CAN VOTE FOR AS MANY AS YOU LIKE AS LONG AS YOU CLICK THEM ALL AND THEN CLICK SUBMIT!!!

Make sure you activate your account via the email SAS sends you so that you can download and vote!!

And keep an eye out next monday cause there are 4 weeks of this and if I get through to the next round there will be another free kit next week. MONDAY

GOOD LUCK TO ALL THE CONTESTANTS, YOU ARE ALL AWESOME IN MY EYES!!

HUGS

TRACY

September colour challenge freebie

Okay so here's my mini for the SAS colour Challenge this month. Hope you all like it.

Leave love and don't share send those who want it here or to SAS

Elements

Papers

Now for those of you looking for the voting page to vote for me or anyone else for that matter, we are still waiting for it to be posted. If you find it could you let me know, all the contestants are tearing their hair out LOL. I'll post the link here as soon as it is up.

VOTE HERE FOR FALLEN HEROES FREEBIE

Hugs

Tracy

Aussie Mega Kit Freebie blog train

Do you want an Australian Mega kit Created by Aussie Designers. Well you came to the right place LOL. A group of us from DigitalScrapbookingClass have got together to create one for you. It was all Caz's idea so thank her when you head to her blog to grab her part of the kit.
Here's my part's preview

And you can grab it HERE (sorry this link is no longer available)

Now run over to the other blogs for their parts just click on their preview to jump to their blog
Cazzie's Scraps

Kazzy Creations

DeBee Dezines

As they are posted on the other blogs I'll add links here
Enjoy and remember DON'T share the links to any of these freebies, send interested scrappers to the blogs and leave them all some love too.

Hugs
Tracy

YEAH!! WHAT HE SAID!! Oh And a FREEBIE

We shared this desert, it was so yummy, and no point counting for this special night either!!!

On our way back to our room, this was taken in the haunted cats gallery.I had the best night, and the breakfast was wonderful too!! A very rare and special event, My hubby is such a romantic isn't he!! No wonder I call him Sweetness all the time. Love you my Darling!!!

Now, here is a freebie for you all, practicing for the Next Sassy Designer Competition I am entering at Stone Accents Studio in September. This is for the SAS August Colour Challenge! Comments are always nice and please don't share the links, send people who want it here to my blog!

ELEMENTS

PAPERS1

PAPERS2

PAPERS3

Have a great weekend!
Tracy

Busy Week

We've been reasonably busy this week.
Weightwatchers: I stayed the same, not really worried about that!!
Michael's Birthday: Yes my darling had another birthday this week. Hope you had a great day honey!!He was on holidays and is till the 29th, poor sweety is bored silly. I got him a nice fancy pair of black shoes, he just won't tell you what he wants so I thought he could do with a new pair. We also went to see the Dark Knight batman movie on his birthday too! (Sunday that is) The movie was awesome.
Hmm what else, Oh oh oh, My friends Jo and Rachael are coming up on Saturday and they fly to Queensland on Tuesday so we are trying to think of things to do that we haven't done with them on other trips. So excited!
Also counting down till Monday when we can have the pregnancy blood test.

I have been doing some tutorials on the Digitalscrappingclass Yahoo group I joined this week too and so if you like what I made you can grab this freebie while you are here. I actually got my pspX out again and did the tutorials with it. It was hard to remember how to use it I have been using photoshop for so long now LOL.

DOWNLOAD

OKAY SO LEAVE A LITTLE LOVE AND ENJOY YOUR FREEBIE, NO SHARING OF THE FILES OR MAKING QUICKPAGES TO GIVE AWAY, SEND PEOPLE HERE TO MY BLOG IF THEY WANT THE FREEBIE.

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!

HUGS

TRACY :)

A new Freebie Kit

Okay I am a little late this month with my kit contribution for the Members Mega Kit at Rakscraps but here it is finally. I guess with the IVF I got a bit sidetracked LOL. So Here is a preview and the download links, there are 5 because I tried to make them smaller for easier download cause I know some of you are on dial up and this should make it smoother for you. The theme was patchwork, cottage craft so that's why there's a hell of a lot of stitching in this kit using the colour pallette they required too. So leave me a little love, it only takes a second before you click on the download button and makes my day. If you know someone who wants the kit send them here and if you are interested in playing in the challenge head HERE.

There are 20 elements and 9 papers so it is a bit bigger than a minikit. LOL I got a little carried away.

ELEMENTS1

ELEMENTS2

PAPERS1

PAPERS2

PAPERS3

ENJOY PLAYING WITH MY KIT AND HAVE A GREAT WEEK.

HUGS

TRACY

IVF and a freebie

Well I've been kept on my toes with IVF this last few weeks and we are going in on friday 1st August for Egg retrieval and if we get the eight that we think I have hopefully we will have two to put in on the Monday. So I have to have my trigger injection on Wednesday night and then no more needles till after the operation. So cross your fingers and maybe we'll have some good news by the 18th August. A nice birthday present for Michael even if it would be a week late.

Okay so onto the freebie I made for you today. Just a little one, a tage I whipped up.Here's the preview and the link.

DOWNLOAD

Have a great week all, be back in a few days or so.
Hugs
Tracy

Want Some Ribbons?

I made this ribbon last night and thought after recolouring several that I would share them here with you all. There is also a monotone version in the file so you can recolour it to your needs. Personal Use Only as is the condition with all my freebies and please don't share them send anyone who wants them here. And a little love, as always is always a great way to encourage me to continue offering up freebies. Just click on the download under the pic to go to the link.

DOWNLOAD

Okay onto some layouts I did this week.

Our Wedding Song, my Husband chose this song, it was his only job appart from turning up LOL!!And he sang it to me throughout our Bridal WaltzLyrics to Into My Arms by Nick CaveDesigner: Ambowife DesignsKit: Floral PassionThis one is all me too, I actually won Layout of the Day with this layout at MootwoDesigns on 12th July!!Designer: Aneczkaw - Jewel KitDesigner: EllenM - Sunset At Sea Posting BonusQuote - Calvin & Hobbes and Yes that is Christopher when he was a few months old, with straight hair!!This one is all me to for another Lyrics Challenge!This one of Gabriella I did using Shannon Fahrnbach's Scrapping Basics Papers, her Matt and her Gettin Edgy paper curl/tear. The flowers are mine made using Rose Li's Action called Beautiful FlowerDid this layout for an Ingredients Challenge where you had to use all the kit contents in a layout.Designer: Rachel Sams of Steel City ScrapsKit: Weekend Getaway Mini

I used Shannon Fahrnbach's Gettin Edgy Paper Tears on this one, the rest is just by me!

This one I used some stuff from various Members at SAS East West Scraps - Art in the Park SAS CC FreebieMemory Lane Creations by charlene July SAS color challenge KitThis one is using Shannon Fahrnbach's Gettin Dirty Addon!! These next two layouts are using Shannon Fahrnbach's Gettin Dirty Kit

Okay so as you can see I have been very busy with all the layouts as well as designing and making your freebies this week, phew, time for a break on the weekend LOL!!

You have a great weekend too!

Hugs

Tracy