Adventure 365 February - Mad Genius Designs

If you missed out on getting this kit for free by participating in Jewel's Adventure 365 for February - you can now get it from her store.



Love this kit - that purple is my favourite shade.



Oh and stay tuned for QP designed by me using this kit ....

Experimenting with blend modes {+ a freebie}

Mad Genuis Designs Texture Tuesday offeres texture freebies every week. I picked up these last week.



DSDI March Go for Pinks (or blues, or ...) colour challenge had a big palette to play with so I combined the texture plates with some photos of muddy splats on a car bonnet that I had. Several blend modes, gradient levels, and CU card and paper overlays, I came up with these.



Clicking on either image will take you to their source to download. Please do not share the file, but please direct to where they can be found on either blog :)

Head {cl}over Heels at DSDI

Join us in a Celebration event mixing it up between Valentine’s & St. Patrick’s Day.

"Head {cl}over Heels"

Ton's of Fun & Great Prizes!

March 11-18

Suddenly Spring by Bonnie Blou

Cute Kit. Bright, fun and so scrappable. The colours are soft but not too girly and variety of plain and patterned papers.



I put it to the test using DSDI's March Made in the Shade template challenge.



Perfect for these photos of AJ on his first day of preschool way back when ...



Told you it was scrappable and cute :)

Curried Sausage for One?

Tonight the man of my life is eating a ?delicious? airline meal enroute home from Melbourne - lucky him.

Me - I had curried sausage for one. Kids had sausages and salad. I'm not a real big fan of them unless they are BBQ'd served with fried onions slavered in tomato sauce and wrapped in buttered white bread.

So in the fridge I found some korma paste and some cream. A spoon of paste and several of cream cooked together in the microwave (ooh yeah go the gourmet chef tonight) Chucked in some cherry tomotoes from the garden and cooked them some more. Once the sausage was cooked I chopped it up and mixed it in with the sauce. What serve with you ask? Deb of course! Tasted fine :) Could of done with some peas but what they hey?

More about food ....

Continuing with my pledge of cooking something different, last Thursday I poached atlantic salmon in pinot gris and served it with oven roasted veges.





Carbonara sauce is something I make quite regularly - I remember once at uni trying to do this dish and thinking it was quite complex to do. Not any more.

So fry up some bacon until it is crispy and remove all but about 1 tablespoon of the fat from the pan. Toss in a pinch of paprika and 1/2 cup of cream.



Mix one egg and an extra yolk with grated parmesan cheese - about 30g will do.



Cook up and drain your pasta. I usually do tortellini. Toss in a tablespoon of butter. Mix in the bacon and cream. Mix in the egg and cheese, turn the heat back on to low to just cook the egg.



hmmm no wonder I have belly fat :-))

Design Team Call at DSDI

DSDI is looking for some fun energetic design team members who love to have a good time and be a part of a great team.

~Simple Basic Requirements
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Submit bio to admin@digiscrapsdrivein.com

QC Team postiion available at DSDI

DSDI has an opening in our QC team. This involves checking all new kits that come into the store for Quality Control.

Previous Experience with graphics a must.

References will be needed.

Perks: Full access to all new kits that come in the store.

To apply or questions.. Send and email to Jaime (at) DigiScrapsDriveIn.Com

DSDI CT call

DSDI February Go for the Pinks (or Blues)

Jen chose a neutral pallet for this month's colour challenge and I found it just a little tricky, but then again I am a dabbler not a designer ;)



This is what I came up with.



You can grab my mini here.

One huge mega enabling post ;)

I am a little behind in my enabling for this month - for some reason I kept running out of time, and my old blog is always last my list. So I've set aside mt morning to do so - kids have been dropped off to school, I've collected the mail and taken the dogs for a walk. I've just put the cow on for a coffee and Muse is blaring from my speakers. Time to enable :)

January Love is now available at the Red Genius Store as a bundle, and is 20% off right now.



I love the colours in this kit.

I used the glitter styles and cardstock styles to make the frame and the alpha.



The alpha used on this page is by Little Red Scraps from a kit that also uses the same colour pallet, called Love You Forever, which is sadly not available anymore. Maybe when Jane is feeling better, she will start designing and selling again.

The second one I based the template on for February's Made In The Shade template challenge that I am hosting at DSDI this month.

DSDI's February guest designer is Kat's Creations. I've had the pleasure of using Insane Moments, which is a collab with Spinkydink Scraps.

Daphadilly Art has a cute little blue mini called Sweet and Free.

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It was just perfect for this picture of Will.



Lastly but not at least is this month's DSDI FOTM kit Get Your Game On. The kit for scrappung all of your family game nights.

I am not a foodie - honest!

I am trying to cook something new at least once a month - I would like to do try once a week but I just don't think that is viable for me!

Last night I made caramelised pork belly and with my love's encouragement I plated it up almost like the glossy mag pic.



So I had about 750g of pork belly which I removed the rind and cut into little 3cm pieces. I stir fried in my wok until browned and the tossed in a few cloves of chopped garlic which was also stir fried for about a minute. 1 + 1/2 cups of water, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1 tbs kecap manis, 1 tbs soy sauce, 2 whole star anise were all added and brought to the boil. I reduced the heat and cooked for about an hour stirring when needed. You are supposed to bring the heat back up and boil to thicken the sauce, but mine had already thickened by then.

I served on a bed of rice, and topped with thin slices of shallots and chilli, and corriander and mint leaves. He who hates corriander had continental parsley instead.

Will be having this one again! However I have to find an "alternative" for Mr fussy pants and Master I don't like it even when I really do. At least one delightful cherub asked when we would be having it again!

This is Me - Melly Scraps

This HUGE "all about me" kit contains everything you need to scrap YOU - perfect for keeping a personal journal.



Here's a page of me on holidays.

A Day in My Life - Collection by Jen C Designs

A day in my life is perfect for documenting the days of your life. This grab bag includes a full size kit, dates stickers, days of the week stickers, weekly (1-52) page borders, day frames (Sunday-Saturday), three alphas and templates.



The colour palette used for this amazing collection is also the focus of January's Go For Pinks or Blues colour challenge at DSDI.

Here are a couple of pages that I have created so far using this gorgeous kit. Ahhhh so many possibilities.

And So It Begins

Yep another year had past and another starts.

DSDI has a beautiful soft kit to help celebrate all those new beginngs. Check out this month's FOTM.



I made this page of my son and nephew having fun together.



If you wan this kit for half price come over to DSDI and join in the Its A Fad Challenge, where all you have to do if create a page using this kit. You will then automatically be in the draw for the next FOTM kit for free.

Digi Scraps Drive-In Charity Scrapathon Blog Train!

October is Breast Cancer awareness month, and you've probably noticed pink everywhere - businesses from office supplies to donut shoppes have been creating products specially designed to raise awareness ad funds to this important cause. And the ladies at Digi Scraps Drive-In have stepped up to the plate. Not only have the created a beautiful charity collab kit, but they built an entire weekend event around it.

The Charity Scrapathon runs from October 21 o 24. Anyone can scrap along, but to be eligible for the prizes, you need to have purchased the charity collab kit.

And WOW these prizes! You can earn coupons, a site collab, and a chance to win Jen C Designs or C.W. Picket and Company's entire store!

When you purchase this kit, your $6 goes entirely to Breast Cancer research (after Paypal fees), gets you stunning collab kit (and it's not just pink) And a chance to win coupons, another kit, and perhaps an entire store (now that's a deal!)

Feast your eyes on the beautiful kit:



You can pick it up at DIgi SCraps Drive In, and remember all proceeds (after Paypal fees) are going to breast cancer research.

Of course we had to get the word out about this even as much as possible, and so we decided to launch the event with a Blog Train. Travel this train and you will collect beautiful brag book pages and even a set of blogwear. The train starts on the DSDI Blog and ends in the DSDI forums. Some of our team members live in other timezones, so be patient if all the contributions aren't posted yet - they will be.

Here is my contribution:



And here is the list of participating blogs:

Digi Scraps Drive-in
Nibbles Skribbles
C.W. Picket and Company
Kerry’s Scraps
Amy Scraps
Gail’s Moments In Time
Mad Genius Designs
The Cute Gets Cuter
Daphadilly Art
Luksamummy
Bonnie Blue Designs
A Damsel With A Dulcimer
Tricia's Treasures
AnitaW
Giggly Polkadots
Jen C Designs
Melly Scraps
Drive-By Freebie Forum

Have fun riding the train!

Download Brag Book Page One here!

Download Brag Book Page Two here!

New Release for Mad Genius Designs

Trick or Treat is so super cute!!! Chek out all the previews peeps !!! All available at DSDI!!!

{CU Glitter}

{Card Stock}

{Kit}

{Bundle}


I don't celebrate Halloween, but I was inspired to make a brag book set that Jewel will be giving away over the month of October - go to her blog to find out how :)

Do you love a mystery?

I love mysteries and in October at DSDI you can get a MYSTERY Collab!!! The Pink Ladies were given a colour pallet to work with to make up individual mini kits to be combined into a mystery collab. Let me tell you it is the BEST ever I have seen from DSDI :)



hmmmm - just look at my new blog design :)

Well to kick off the new kit some of us have made some little extra freebies from the kit for you.

We're hop hop hopping from one blog to another giving away mystery freebies :)

DSDI Blog
Amy!Scraps
YOU ARE HERE a damsel with a dulcimer YOU ARE HERE
Nibbles Skribbles
Mad Genius Designs
Gail's Moments in Time
Kerry's Scraps

Here's my contribution, a cluster frame with and without drop shadows.

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Please leave some love to everyone!

Oh and if you love my new blogwear, and you are not subscribed to the DSDI Newsletter, please do as you will be in for a nice suprise :)

You can click on this image below to subscribe.

Night Music Freebie

Jewel has opened up her DSDI Birthday grab bag and all the contents are available for indovidual sale.

In celebration of this I have two paper borders up for grabs using "Night Music"

You can get the kit from the Mad Genuis Designs Store at DSDI.

Freebie no longer available.

DSDI has 40% off until the end of September :)

Wowzers!!!!