Woohoo!

I ordered Business Cards, YAY!!

I know it seems like a silly thing to be so excited about but I have been trying to design them and get a look that I liked for about 2 months now. SO, today, I just kind of went for it... I think they turned out pretty cute! I am leaning toward more beautiful things and less cute things these days, so I think they are lovely, lol...

My design club set this week is Bee Mine!


I also added a really kewl tutorial up at Wrappers Corner to do this:


Or even this:


If you do the tutorial, you should post your results for us to see, they are super awesome!! :D

The Valentine's Contest at Wrappers Corner is Voting! After that, I will release that new Freebie, which is my set for the contest!

I am going to update AliSarah today! I am adding 5 more Alphabets for your designing pleasure!

I also bought a new .com for my Scrapbooking for Hire Stuff, so I am going to design a template for that today too!!

Until then, I'll be heading out to go have lunch with Rachel for Operation Observation... which basically means parents bring take out food and eat it on sticky benches and tables while our kids try to pretend not to know us while still eating and sharing the food we brought... And then I have to go to the DMV and get my registration for my car!

Thanks for stopping in!

Huggles all!!
~Sarah~

Here's my set for this week... I sure like it... I am having lots of troubles not recoloring all the pieces into other colors too!! :D

Here's some I love you freebie words! I am learning how to use Layer Styles in Photoshop, woohoo!! :D


Have a great day!!
Huggles!!
~Sarah~

Happy Valentines Day!

I think it is so funny that because we are most of us in the business of supplying folks with things to celebrate holidays, we end up celebrating those holidays amongst ourselves way early!! Maybe I'm just in a weird mood, but it is funny to say Happy Valentines Day in January, isn't it?? :D

Here's a Valentine Freebie:


I have more but I haven't zipped them all up yet!! Stay Tuned!!

Huggles!!
~Sarah~

p.s. Alisan's set this week was Easter Eggstravaganza!


And, I added to AliSarah a Princess set:

Whazzup??

SO, wow!! I haven't written in forever!

I just wanted to drop a quick line to let you know how my Holidays went! For Christmas, I got Bronchitis, with miserable coughing, hacking, and sleeping all day long! We had middle schoolers over to go Christmas Caroling, and I was right in the middle of the hacking, but I still wanted us to have a good time... But, while we were out singing, I started coughing and I pulled a muscle in my neck, OW!!

So, I went to see Dr. G and he gave me some antibiotics but nothing for the neck... So, I couldn't turn my head for a whole week. I went back to see Dr. G and he finally gave me some muscle relaxers, which made me tired, but didn't put me to sleep. But, the good news was I could turn my head, lol... SO, I went shopping and bought all my presents the Friday before Christmas, lol.

We had a great birthday party for my Gramz on Dec. 23rd and I got to see that side of the family, so it was super fun! Then, Christmas Eve, Baby Daddy #2 came over to see the kiddle, but he was late so we just had a mellow night and he took the kiddle to see National Treasure 2, which I still haven't seen. :( They liked it though.

Christmas Day, we got up, Baby Daddy #2 was still here, so we opened presents and had a good breakfast. Then, we headed up the hill to have a super fun time at the family Christmas Dinner, which was really small and cozy this year. It was so nice!! AND, I got out my chocolate fountain, which is super super awesome!! We had some serious yumminess!

Since then, we have just been hanging out. We saw the hubster's parents and they took us to see the Rose Parade Floats being decorated, which was kewlness!

New Year's Eve, we hit the movie theater during the day while everyone was still at work! The kiddle saw Alvin & the Chipmunks, she liked it. We saw Sweeney Todd, We LOVED IT!! (I'm a theatre chick so I love all things Sondheim, not to mention the necessary Johnny Depp/ Tim Burton obsession, lol! Helena Bonham Carter is DIVINE as well! SO, it was an all around treat that totally lived up to all the hype for me...)

After that, we had lunch... And, we all went together to Enchanted, which was so disappointing. I was so sad... Now, a few days before all of this, I had gone to see a sneak preview of 27 Dresses, so I had just seen the lovely James Marsden being enchanting and wonderful and making me want to be in love with him... But, this movie was just sad, in my opinion. I wanted it to be so much better than it was. It did have a few great moments, and even one that wasn't even in the trailor... BUT, it just left so much to be desired... Oh well *sigh*

Anyhow, we did a little shopping and got some super indulgent foods to eat New Years Eve. We stayed up all night, it was fun!! Yesterday, we just lounged all over, which was good too...

So, there's that, everything that happened to me since you last heard from me...

Huggles!!
~Sarah~

Some Design Club Sets!

Holy Moly!! I am gonna be making like 4 posts today, lol... SO much went on over the Holidays, and I can't believe I have left you guys hanging for so long... I'm not delusional though, I really don't think there are a whole lot of you drooling for my freebies, lol... A girl can dream though, can't she?? :D

Here are display images for some of the Design Sets I forgot to tell you about while I was in Holiday La La Land!!

First up was July in Christmas, by ~Sarah~!


Second up was Bingo Bonanza, by Alisan!


Bingo Bonanza came with a little bonus from me, Happy New Year!


Course, Now we are up to January!! And, it was my week again! SO, I went ahead and made this super cute set that my kiddle adores, Girly Skulls!


We sure hope that everyone likes these sets!! :D
Huggles!!
~Sarah~

Birthday Star!

Hiya!!

I just dropped in to let you know that Alisan released her AliSarah Design Club Set for this week today! Here is the preview image so you can take a peek!! :D



Huggles!!
~Sarah~

Let's Boogie!!

Bet you can't WATCH THIS without laughing and then wanting to make one yourself!! :D

Huggles!!
~Sarah~

Tween Time!!

Hey all!! I have been trying to get this thing to upload for days!! So glad I finally got it!! I have had a lot of requests for my backgrounds that coordinate with the Hannah Montana plates and napkins they have at the stores. I am uniquely qualified to make stuff for the tweenie market as my adorable cuteness, Rachel, is smack dab in the middle of her tween experience!! She is a huge fan of the whole Hannah Montana phenomena and anything related to it! She has approved these backgrounds and says they are "so kewl"! So, anyhow, here are my 3 tween time backgrounds!! They are 2000x2000 pixels, so they are probably too small for scrapbook page backgrounds. BUT, you can still use them to make frames, or decorate your pages!! :D



On the me front, we are meeting a dog later today to see if he gets along with our Brownie girl. We think she might like to have another dog around to play with and stuff! SO, we shall see how Brownie and Choco get along!! From what I understand, Choco is house broken and doggie door trained but not much else, so I'll have fun teaching him to do tricks like I have taught Brownie!!

Oh! And, I have been worried that maybe I should give some instruction as to how to get the actual freebie! So, in case you didn't know this, all you have to do is click the preview image and it will take you to the download link on 4shared. I am new to the 4shared thing, but I am pretty excited about it!! :D

Huggles!!
~Sarah~

Bunco Night!

I just released this week's set for the AliSarah Design Club!! It's called Bunco Night, and I think it is a super fun set!!


I am thinking about making a Wrap N Scrap Pack to match, do you think that's a good idea?? :D

Huggles!!
~Sarah~

Rice A Roni! This breakfast can't be beat!

Ok... So, yesterday I told you I was having pizza and diet soda for breakfast, and I wanted to be more clear and point out that it was indeed the new Pizza from Pizza Hut with the foldover crusts and the double the toppings thing they are advertising right now... SO, if you work at Pizza Hut and you want to send me free pizza for linking you, I am so kewl with that!! Additionally, I LOVED this pizza, it was YUMMY!! It was good at night and great for breakfast the next day... Until my daughter came home and said, "where did all the pizza go?" and I was left with the guilt of eating the last of it for breakfast... *sigh* oh well...

Meanwhile, I was having a little dilemma because I didn't want to be that chick who blogs about what she is eating for breakfast everyday. But, today, I made myself Rice A Roni, which is somewhat noteworthy because I usually just have yogurt and/or oatmeal... Plus, this is not leftovers, this is brand new totally self indulgent, ridiculously good, Broccoli Au Graten Rice A Roni, just for me, just for breakfast, just for today!! With, what else? Diet soda!

If my Gramz was reading this, she'd give me a lecture about how I am going to die from aspartame poisoning on account of the formic acid... As an ex-biology major in college, I'd have to agree with her. But, as a person who LOVES Diet Dr. Pepper Berries N Cream, I just can't care about that... I am drinking my can, a can a day, like those almond guys, only it's diet soda. Phosphoric acid, caramel coloring, formic acid creating aspartame and all!! I'm drinking it!

So, yesterday, I had a super retarded moment. I'm gonna tell you the story so you know not to do what I did. I had this customer who wanted a bunch of stuff for her bunco group. SO, I had to design something because I couldn't find something I liked already done. I couldn't find any dice so I had to draw them myself. All in all, I was very proud of this creation I had created. We set up a time to meet at the Starbucks down the street and I was standing in line getting ready to order a Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha hold the Mocha (which was supremely YUMMY by the way) and this lady looks at this thing I am holding, which looks like this:

She starts talking about how cute it is and how she plays bunco and how she loves this and so on... And, I stand there like a moron holding the thing and NOT ONCE do I mention that I made it, that I designed it, that this is my business, that she could order them from me, that I would sell her one, that I could make them with her face on them, NOTHING!! I say NOTHING about my business and I did NOT EVEN offer her a card!!! I can't believe how crazy stupid I was... What was I thinking??

My customer came, and we had a supreme time hanging out in the Starbucks drinking our drinks and chatting it up! So, that was a positive end to my being a moron!!

Today's freebie is a paper based on this shirt my daughter Rachel has, I just thought the picture was so cute, so I wanted to make a scrapbook page with it, which I did... I made this paper to use on that page... And, now I am sharing it with you!! I hope you'll be able to find a use for it!! :D


Huggles all!
~Sarah~

My Life as a Frog...

Ok... So, when you are filling out your profile, you have the option of answering a random question... I totally love random questions so I did it... And my question was about how I would live my life as a frog... But, then it only gives you 400 characters to answer it... How can anyone answer that kewl a question in so short a post?? I don't know... SO, here is my whole answer!! :D

question:
The squish of mud between your toes; how would you live your life as a frog?
answer:
Oh, I think I would love to live life as a frog, so much simpler than what we are doing as people, right? I totally dig on the way mud feels between my toes, as long as I know it is pure and doesn't have bugs or grossness in it... As a frog, I would lay around on my lilypad and dip in and out of the water just enough to keep myself moist! Like all frogs, I'd be looking for that perfect mate, and trying to avoid polluted water! Hmm... Come to think of it, my life as a frog wouldn't be all that different that my life as a human... Except that as a frog, I can swim away from my eggs once they are fertilized and let the little tadpoles fend for themselves!! ;-)

Huggles all!!
~Sarah~

Pizza & Diet Soda!

Yeah baby!! It's breakfast time, and I am having the breakfast of computer champions!! Pizza and Diet Soda! It could be Pizza and Beer but that might impede my ability to keep writing, no?? I am not really much of a beer drinker anyway really... Anyhow, this is my first blog post and I think I will keep it short and simple with a little introduction of myself...

My name is ~Sarah~ and I run two e-Commerce websites from my home. The first is Candy Cuteness, where I sell custom party favors and some Crafting supplies for people who want to make party favors! I only really carry hard to find stuff that I have found a supplier for. I try to carry things people need but can't find a source for. I also try not to mark things up very much. My second site is AliSarah Designs, which is where my friend Alisan and I sell Candy Wrapper Designs for professional Candy Wrappers, and where I sell some things called Wrap N Scrap Kits. These are large collections of backgrounds and elements sized to be used for Digi Scrappin' or for Designing Candy Bar Wrappers!


Here are a couple freebies for you, just in case you see this someday!!






Thanks for dropping by!! I hope you will enjoy these freebies and visit us again sometime!!

Huggles!!
~Sarah~