Still Pawsitively Free

I'm baaaacckkkk.... and with another freebie for all the dog and cat lovers!

I found some papers that were just sitting on my hard drive and put some pawprint overlays on them to make them pet friendly.  And then I made some elements out of the papers.  It's a rather eclectic mix, but hopefully there will be something you can use for layouts of your darling furbabies.

And if you are wondering why it says "3" that's because there is an older freebie with the first two parts.  In case you missed it, I am relisting it again.

And here are your links on 4shared:

Pawsitively Free Elements 1                  Pawsitively Free Papers 1

Pawsitively Free Elements 2                  Pawsitively Free Papers 2

Pawsitively Free Elements 3                  Pawsitively Free Papers 3

On the personal side, I want to thank everyone for the words of support.  I have some good news and a lot of bad news.  The good news is that I hope to be selling in another store in a couple of months, by summer's end and hopefully sooner.  The first bad news is that I did not get into the Alternative Teacher Certification program.  It was my fault.  I got completely mixed up about the test dates and how long it took to get the results.  I am just so stressed because my mother's condition just keeps getting worse.  She is very physically weak, unable to do almost anything for herself, even roll over in the bed.  She is also very mentally gone, very delusional.  And they don't seem to be happy delusions the majority of the time, but stressful delusions where she is running around trying to get something done.  She will be moving her arms around very slowly, and also moving her legs like she is marching.  Maybe she is reliving her Navy days.  It is getting harder and harder to understand her.  At first the words just did not form a sentence that made sense.  Now some of the words are slurred and not clear.  Physically her lower jaw is shifting and her lower teeth are in front of her upper teeth, especially on the left side.  I don't understand why this is happening.  I'm just trying to hang in there!

Miss Any Easter Freebies?

These are the same freebies from April 2nd.  Mini-kit #4 was posted on 4shared, but you had to do a "Easter Hunt" over at Bits2Kits.com to get mini-kits 1 through 3.  Well, the Easter Hunt is long over, so I have uploaded the other 3 kits to 4shared for any one who missed them.

But before I give you the new links, I am going to repeat the

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT

I am going to be taking a hiatus from designing.  There is a lot going on in my personal life right now.  My mother has Alzheimer's, which is getting bad.  She is in a nursing home with hospice care now.  Also, I am trying to get into an Alternative Teacher Certification Program and become a high school math teacher.  I have to go take the THEA test, which means I need to do some test prep work.  There just isn't much time for designing, plus I am often too stressed to be creative.  This means that my store at Bits2Kits.com will be closing on April 30th.  And it also means that until then everything is on sale!!!  40% to 50% off on all items!!  So please, check out the sales here before everything is gone at the end of the month!!

I also want to thank everyone for their words of support.  I will post what happens with regards to getting into the program and if anything changes with my mother.  When I saw her 2 days ago, it was a good day.  She was very alert and talkative, though nothing made sense.  I just nodded and said stuff like "oh my" a lot.  However, she was really retaining fluids and bloated.  Her face looked like somebody had come in with collagen and botox - hardly any wrinkles.  No wrinkles ordinarily is good lol.

I may also have a freebie or two to post later on next month.  There is still a lot of stuff that I have made sitting on my hard drive.  A lot of it is papers, so it might just be paper packs.

Thanks again for the support and here are your 4shared links:

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Spring Has Sprung

It is well past the first of the month, but I do have a collab kit co-ordinating freebie for you!

This small freebie is done in the same colors as the April Bits2Kits.com collab kit "I dream of Spring"

Included in the kit are

61 papers all at 12x12 300 dpi including 20 solid but textured and 35 patterned

4 torn papers
10 butterflies, 33 flowers, 13 leaves, 21 frames, 2 ropes,
3 wires, 5 bows, 8 buttons, 2 tags, 15 ribbons, 3 stitches,
2 staples, 3stickers, 2 swirls, 2 journalling papers, 1 bling,
2 hearts, 2 masks, 3 strings, 1 tree, 1 word art, 1 bunny,
1 duck, 1 cattail, 1 cloud, 2 grasses, 1 kite, 1 umbrella,
2 flairs, 2 scatters, 5 clusters,

1 alpha and 3 styles including beveled, glitter and plastic

7 12x12 quick pages.

All on sale for the month of April for just $6!  And to further entice a sale from you, here are close-ups for my contribution:

You can purchase the "I Dream of Spring" mega collab kit here.

And before I give you the link for the freebie, I am going to make a

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT

I am going to be taking a hiatus from designing.  There is a lot going on in my personal life right now.  My mother has Alzheimer's, which is getting bad.  She is in hospice care now.  Also, I am trying to get into an Alternative Teacher Certification Program and become a high school math teacher.  I have to go take the THEA test, which means I need to do some test prep work.  There just isn't much time for designing, plus I am often too stressed to be creative.  This means that my store at Bits2Kits.com will be closing on April 30th.  And it also means that until then everything is on sale!!!  40% to 50% off on all items!!  So please, check out the sales here before everything is gone at the end of the month!!

(And please say a prayer/think positive thoughts for my mother and for me to get into the teacher's program!)

*****  Update 8/1/2011  *****  Sorry, freebie is no longer available  ******

Hoppy Easter and a Freebie

Happy Easter weekend to everyone.  I have a freebie on 4shared for you...

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I bet some of you are thinking "Now waitaminute Ann, that was too easy!  You just gave us the link with no sales pitch first?  And why does that preview say Easter Hunt 4?  Is there a 1, 2 and 3?  and how do we get them?"

Yes Virgina, there are 3 more parts to this freebie... and a sales pitch for a sale

That's right, everything is 30% off!!  Not just my stuff, but everybody's. 

And there is an Easter Hunt for freebies, not just from me, but from other designers, too.  (We all used the same color scheme, so they will all go together to make a big collab kit.)  The clues are posted in the Bits2Kits.com forum in the section titled "News" - just click here.  And to further entice you to go hunting, here are the previews for what is hidden by me:

Happy egg hunting!!!  If you need help with more clues, just let me know.  These egg hunt freebies are only for a limited time (I think same as the sale), so don't wait too long.

(and come back after Easter for another freebie)

Some Old Freebies Re-Listed

I have moved a couple of freebies from the store to 4shared. Since some of you might not of seen them, I am making a new post to re-advertise them.

And I hope that you will consider a purchase of the kits that these freebies go with:

And to further entice a sale, I have put these two kits on sale for 25% off!!

You can buy the kit Batikin' Me Crazy here.

You can buy the kit Bohemian Fantasy here.

And you can download the freebies on 4shared:

Batikin' Me Crazy 4 Paws *** Update 8/20/2010 - Sorry, freebie no longer available ****

Bohemian Fantasy Extras here and

Home Sweet Freebies  *****  Update 8/01/11 - Sorry, freebie no longer available ******

R U Dreaming of a Freebie?

It's the first of the month again (ok, it's the 2nd, but this time it isn't my fault I'm late!) and you know that means another freebie:

And it also means a sales pitch for the new monthly collab mega kit "Dreamer" at Bits2Kits.com!! 

This is a huge kit with 68 papers, 28 solid and textured papers and 40 patterned papers,

36 ribbons (actually I think there are more),
2 stairs, 11 stars, 2 windows, 13 planets,
23 frames, 7 moons, 2 beds, 9 clouds,
2 comets, 1 crib, 22 brads, 2 beads, 7 strings,
4 pillows,  1 butterfly, 1 net, 5 bows, buttons,
4 bears, 1 branch, 1 candle, 1 rain drop,
7 flowers, 1 owl, 1 plane, 4 sheep, 1 swirl,
1 doll, 2 staples, 1 umbrella, 1 stitching,
1 bootie, 1 tag, 1 wing,

11 word arts
3 alphas
2 brag book albums
9 quick pages

And all for only $6 for the month of March!!  and to further entice a sale, here are some closeups of just my part:

I went a little crazy making ribbons... and frames... and planets lol!

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Sorry, no longer available

Valentine's Day Blog Train

Choo choo!!!  Here comes the B2K Valentine's Day blog train with freebies!!

We are also having a big Valentine's weekend sale over at Bits2Kits.com

So please go check out my store here I do have a new Valentine's kit that has lots of bling. 

The first stop on the Valentine's blog train is in the Bits2Kits forum here.  Yes, there is a freebie posted there for you, too, so go get it if you haven't already.  Also, all of the blogs are listed there, so if you get lost you can go there and find your way again.  The designers are in many different time zones, so some might not have their part up just yet.  (Or I could be the last one to post again!)

To download my part of This Love, there are some options.

For those with a high speed internet connection, to download the whole kit in one big 88 MB download click here

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And to get to the next stop on the blog train, click here for Binty's blog

And here is a list of all of the blog stops:

Bits2Kits Forum

Chris/Heavenly Designz

Sus Designs
LM Design
Nanabanana Scraps
Binty
SAS
Facebook  or non Facebook users try here

Wanna be Wild & Cheap 4 Valentine's Day?

I went back into my stash and found a few more extras and 2 quickpages from my Wild @ Heart kit.

The previous freebie from this kit is still available:

And oh yeah, this is the kit:

It's a really huge kit with over 500mb of stuff!  And it will be on sale starting Friday for Valentine's Day.  In fact, my whole store will be on sale this weekend!

And if you have already bought everything I have made, well, I did get a new kit done for Valentine's Day.  It has lots of bling!!!

You get 9 gorgeous glittery and gold filigree frames.

There are 7 glittery foiled and gold blinged to the max papers, along with 7 grungy solid/patterned not blinged papers just in case you think bling frames on bling papers is overdoing it.

Likewise 15 ribbons, 8 of them with blingy hearts and 7 of them plain along with 7 fashionably folded versions of blingy ribbons.

When it comes to bows, there are 19 total - 10 of them are blinged.

Also included are 8 blingy buttons and 7 blingy tags.

There are two blinged wordarts in different color combinations for a total of 5 wordarts.

Everything is done in high resolution 300 ppi. Papers are in 12" x 12" jpg format, except for one paper in png format that has a gold filagree edge.

Personal use, but scrapping for others for gifts or digital photo swaps is permitted.  I'm sorry to be getting it in the store so late, but I have been offline for 2 weeks with technical difficulties.  I hope you haven't spent all of your Valentine's allowance. 

OK, enough sales pitch, here are the links:

Buy the new kit ValenBling here
Buy the oldie but goodie mega kit Wild @ Heart here

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And remember that everything in my store is on sale starting Friday for Valentine's Weekend here

And come back tomorrow for another Valentine's freebie as Bits2Kits.com is having a store blog train!!!

CHD Awareness Blog Train

Choo Choo!!  Here I am as the caboose for the Blog Train!!  I am finally back online.
 


CHD (Congenital Heart Defects) Awareness Week is Febuary 7th through 14th.  Apparently CHD is one of the most common birth defects and as many as 1 in 100 babies are born with it. Though many treatments are available, unfortunately it usually means lots of doctor and hospital visits for the little ones.  For that reason my contribution to the blog train has a very medical theme.

There are a few more elements than shown, mainly some more color variations on the pills and shots.  The papers are more generic, including some grungy solids that can be used for any type of layout.

The other participants in the blog train are:

Toucan Scraps http://colestoucan.blogspot.com/

LilyBelle http://lilybellscraps.blogspot.com/

Winks Art http://winksartgraphics.blogspot.com/

Shelly Chua http://scchua.blogspot.com/

Calli Scrap http://calliscrapdesignemporium.blogspot.com/

Meredith Cardall http://meredithcardall.blogspot.com/

Since the blog train started on the 7th and I am late due to technical difficulties, you will need to scroll down to find the post on some of these active blogs (but it will be worth it!).

And finally here are my links.  They are on 4shared, which recently suffered some hacker activity, so please let me know if any virus alerts are triggered!!

For those of you on high speed internet, you can download the entire kit in one big 62 mb download here.

For those of you on dial-up, here are links for 3 smaller downloads:
Elements ** see update below before downloading, please!!
Papers Part 1
Papers Part 2

**** UPDATE Sat Feb 13th at 11:25 am central *****

I just got feedback from somebody that their AVG virus alerted on the elements file.  It was scanned clean by 4shared's Kasperky anti-virus when I uploaded it, but just in case some hackers have messed with it since then, I have uploaded it again and you can get it here  I am not deleting the old link just yet as AVG lost credibility with me a few years back when they flagged an important Windows file as a virus and screwed a bunch of people up by deleting it.  I would appreciate feedback from people with other anti-virus software as to whether or not their programs alerted.  Also, 4shared seems to have a lot of traffic right now.  If you get a server limit message, just come back and try later.  I have no plans to delete any of the links anytime soon - except of course if they are virus infected, then I will replace.  But do remember to come back, please!!!

If you are new to my blog, please scroll through the old posts.  Almost every one of them has a freebie!!!  And please do come back, as I will have some Valentine freebies up soon, including a Valentine's blog train starting I think on the 13th.  (I have a lot of catching up to do after being offline for 2 weeks!!)

Internet problems, but still a freebie 4 U

It's the first of the month again - ok, it is the 5th and I'm late.  My modem died Wednesday night of last week.  Rather than pay $80 for a new one, I decided to upgrade to AT&T's U-Verse and get faster service with a new free modem.  They were suppose to install it on Wednesday, but the installer said that the line into my house was too old to support U-Verse and I had to have a new one put in first.  I'm hoping it will all get done by next Wednesday, the 10th.  I'm over at a friend's house using his internet (give a big shout out and thank you to Clive!) in order to bring you this freebie.

It is a little freebie add on for the new February Bits2Kits Mega kit Bee My Honey:

This is a really nice collab kit that has:

67 papers, 37 patterned and 30 solid but textured,

1 bee bear, 6 bees, 1 bee hive,
12 buttons, 10 frames, 1 honey pot,
7 ric raks, 1 ripped paper, 2 stitches,
3 cluster frames, 1 charm, 10 hearts,
6 ribbons, 1 border, 1 trim, 1 bracket,
1 staple, 2 bears, 12 word arts,
1 petal, 3 glitters, 1 butterfly,
2 flowers, 1 leaf, 1 arrow, 1 lip ( kiss)
7 stickers, 6 tags, 4 bows,
2 doodles, 1 gem, 2 journalling strips,
1 string, 4 stamps, 1 diaper

2 Alphas
1 bear template
1 set of plastic styles

10 12x12 quick pages

And all for the low sale price of just $6 this month!!  To further intice a sale from you, here are the close-ups for my contribution:

***** Update 8/1/2010  ******  Sorry, not available any more *********

I hope to be back online soon with a new kit and more freebies.  There will be a Valentine's Weekend Sale over at Bits2Kits.com.  I have a neat kit "Wild @ Heart" that is great for Valentine's Day.  There is also a big freebie add on for it in the store.  B2K is also having a Valentine's Blog Train Freebie, too.