SOTB is closing it's doors and a freebie

This is a pretty sad time for me. Scrap Outside the Box will be closing it's door as of December 15th. I hadn't even posted that I finally took the leap and started selling there. LOL. I've only been there for a few weeks. I've been a part of SOTB for 4 years. I started posting my layouts to the gallery right after I started digi scrapping. It felt like home to me. Everyone was so nice and there was so much fun stuff to do. But, with the economy the way it is, there just isn't enough traffic hitting the SOTB store. So, the site owner has decided it's best to just close the doors. In the meantime, all my products at SOTB will be 50% off. Here's the link to my store:

Kimberly Schlehahn Designs

The good news is that I'll be selling at two other stores pretty soon. As soon as I get the stores set up I'll post links to them.

So, since I posted last time Lizzy had H1N1, Andreas was in 2, yes TWO car accidents. Both of them were very minor, but the last one really crunched up the side of his car AND Lizzy was in the car with him. What stinks is that the guy that hit him ran from the scene and the gas station didn't get it on video because the overhang from the building covered the camera. Oh, yeah and the best part? Our insurance won't cover it because it was "hit and run" with no license plate information. Wonderful, right?

What else? We're looking to move, again! Our landlords are pretty much broke so even minor repairs aren't getting done. Not sure when the move is going to happen, I'm hoping it's not before Christmas, but we're not sure.

I have a freebie for you. It's part of Grandma's Quilt.


Once again click the preview for the link, and please leave some love for me, either here or at 4Shared.

Thanks and Happy Thanksgiving if I don't post before then!

Pimp that Cupcake...and a freebie

Scrap Outside the Box is celebrating it's 5th Anniversary! There is a fun challenge by Wilma to "Pimp that Cupcake". She provides a template for the cupcake and you pimp it out!! There is also a Speed Scrap that went on tonight. You can upload your layout until midnight Sunday! Larisa of Garden Girl Designs hosted the crop and she's giving away an AWESOME gift if you participate. You can pick up her Teenie Weenie Halloweenie kit for FREE!!!! How cool is that? Look back in my blog a post or two and you can see a preview of that cute kit!

Click the following links to get to the challenge forum:

Pimp that Cupcake

Speed Scrap (scroll down the thread until you find the instructions)

Here is a sweet (yes, pun intended!! LOL) layout that my almost 9 year old made tonight in honor of Scrap Outside the Box's 5th Birthday/Anniversary! She is so methodical about placement and making sure everything matches. It was pretty fun to watch her make this.


Let's see, what freebie can I give away tonight? Oh how about Grandma's Quilt. It's sort of spring-ish but it's snuggly to me! The colors are from a quilt that my Grandma made and I tried to make the papers look as washed and used as that quilt was! Here is the first part, keep an eye open for the rest of the kit:

SOTB 5th Anniversary Blog Train Freebie

You can see in the slide show all the great kits you'll be getting as you hit all the following blogs. Here is the slide show:



Here is the list:

Scrap Outside the Box

(Digidesigned) byWilma

Missy's Bits

Caroline B.

Kimberly Schlehahn Designs <---- you are here

Danielle Designs

Scrapsational Scraps

Totally D Designs

Ilona Havenaar Designs

Garden Girl Designs

You can pick up my portion by clicking on the preview:

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Thank you so much for stopping by and continue on to the next train stop!!!

Never say...(and a freebie)

...uneventful. I think I jinxed myself. LOL So, last post I said the last few weeks had been uneventful, and they had been! Now, I have pink eye, in BOTH eyes. It's miserable. I haven't had this since I was a kid! It totally stinks! I'm making sure to keep my daughter and hubby away from my hands and face LOL.

I was also invited to join my absolute favorite digi scrapping's anniversary blog train!! It's happening this coming week and the weekend! So, keep an eye on my blog if you want and you can pick up my piece to the blog train and get all the other blog links!

The most amazing thing happened to me today!! I was invited to join the "designer's" side of a store. I get to hang out there until I get up enough nerve to try selling my designs! I'm so excited!!!! It's so hard to come up with the words for how I'm feeling. Let me just get a little of this off my chest. I'm very excited and nervous at the same time. I'm scared that I'll put time into this and no one will like my designs. I'm scared that I just don't have enough creativity to pull designing off. But even with all that, I still want to do it; I'll never know until I really try, right?

On to the next subject. One of the designers I CT for is having a CT call. This is a team that is an absolute blast to work on! If you're interested here is the ad:


Speaking of Garden Girl Designs, she has a fun new kit that previewed this past week. It's called Teenie Weenie Halloweenie. It has a ton of fun word art, doodle sketches and cute elements:


Here are a couple of layouts that I made with this fun kit:


I've been sitting here the last 10 minutes trying to figure out what freebie to give out. LOL. I think what I'll do tonight is give you a couple of Quick Pages that match the parts of the kit I gave away the last few weeks. Click the previews to get to the download links:

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Smooth sailing and a freebie

These past few weeks have been wonderfully uneventful. LOL. Don't you just love when things just go well. The only thing that's pretty much sucked is we went from nice "fall-like" weather to hot as hell weather. Does anyone notice that the seasons seem to be shifting? I mean for example, winter starts later and lasts later, then spring starts late and so on, and so on.

My oldest niece, Kacie, and her fiance came down over Labor Day weekend and we all went to the Jelly Belly Factory here in Fairfield. It was our first time. It was fun but because it was on the holiday the factory wasn't actually in use. We still got to tour and see all the jelly beans "curing". It was cool!Elizabeth seems to be doing great in school. I'm not sure if it's the medication she's on for her ADD, maybe the fact that she's seemed to mature quite a bit over the summer, her new teacher, or maybe a combination of all of them but something's working with her.

I only have one layout that I want to share with you and then I'll get to the freebie. I did this layout with Fall Harvest by Garden Girl Designs. It's such a fun kit with great colors and lots of neat embellishments. The kit has an adorable scarecrow that I didn't use in this layout but I have the perfect picture of Elizabeth that was taken a few years ago that I want to use with it! Oh, I can show you a preview of the kit:

Isn't that scarecrow just the sweetest thing?? Click the preview to go buy it! Now, here's my first layout with that kit:

Okay, and now onto the freebie. Here is the final part of Round N Round. It's an add-on with some cluster frames and some paper that I just wanted to throw in there. Hope you enjoy and please leave me a comment if you download!

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Fall is in the air...and a freebie

WOW talk about a huge change in weather. Yesterday we had a high temp of 101. Today got up to a whopping 79! I was just coming back in from taking out the garbage and I realized that over night the shadows seemed to change, or maybe it's just my wishful thinking!

Autumn is my absolute favorite time of year. I love the way the shadows lengthen and the smell of the crunchy leaves. We don't get the gorgeous color changes that other parts of the U.S. get but it's definitely on its way!I wish someone could've reached out and gave me a cyber smack, saying, "wake up girl and post something on your blog!" LOL I guess I just didn't even think about it, no other excuses! School is going well for Elizabeth, Andreas is enjoying his job, and of course I love my work. I always say my job is a monkey job but where else am I going to find something I enjoy, something that pays EXCELLENT and something that doesn't stress me out? I may have never shared what I do. I work for the local Air Force base as a chiropractic technician. The doctors I work with are great, my co-worker is fun and our patients are the BEST! I don't work overtime, if I have to leave suddenly I just let someone know and the clinic is so laid back!!

Enough about work...on to some layouts. Here are my most recent (only four today):

First two are made with Safari Adventure by Garden Girl Designs (layouts linked)

School Rulz by Colie's Corner

Sweet Slumber by Colie's Corner

Let's see...what else? Oh yeah, the freebie heheheh. I have the next part of Round N Round. I hope you like it!

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1st Week of school and a freebie!

So, the first week of school was pretty uneventful. I briefly explained in my last post that Elizabeth's school got shut down at the end of the last school year due to budget cuts. The district decided that they would bus the kids from the old school to the new school. Right now the whole bus situation is a joke. Last Saturday we got E's bus pass in the mail. It said she was to ride the 7:40 bus. Umm, no way! School starts at 7:50, and she's supposed to be on the 7:40 bus, there is no possible way for that bus to make it to the school on time. We took E to school on the first day, it took us 30 minutes to make it there when it normally takes 5 minutes. The traffic was so backed up, it was incredible! According to the principal, it's gotten better each day. But the bus thing has me all confused. I take her to the bus stop in the morning at 7:10, which is in time for the earliest bus. There is also a 7:25 and then the 7:40, who knows what will finally be decided. I guess this is what comes from combining 2 1/2 schools into one.

I haven't done much scrapping this week. It was hard getting us all back on schedule. Let me show you my last couple of layouts before I get to the freebie!

(Credits: Pink Punkin Mega Kit by Scrapable Designers. Frame (recolored), pink bow, flowers, stitches all from Enchanted Beauty by Totally Twisted Scraps. Scraplift of Joy of a Boy by gailani.)

(Slumber Party kit collaboration by Danielle Fenning and Doodleboogs. Scrap lift of Parade Ariel by Aussiegirl)

(My BFF by Colie's Corner. Photo mask by Colie's Corner )

(Ahoy Matey by Garden Girl Designs, I slightly recolored some of the word art to make them match the photos better.)

Okay, that's all of the layouts for now. Thanks for taking the time to listen to me rant and view my layouts. And now, on to the next part of Round N Round:

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The only thing I ask is that you leave me a comment either here or on the 4Shared site. Thank you very much for liking my designs!