Make It Monday

Going, Going GONE sale... Saturday was the beginning of the week that is so hard for so many designers at Sweet Shoppe Designs. It's the week they retire some kits... over 500 to be exact. What does that mean? It means that several of the kits in my wishlist will no longer be available after this week... PANIC, but they are on sale for 50% off! My budget didn't allow me to get everything in my wishlist that's retiring but I spent most of Saturday downloading my purchase... it was so hard to narrow it down but I did notice that most of my cart was girly kits so I decided to narrow them down and keep the basics and boyish kits and a couple girly ones. I'm pretty happy with what I got... and then I won a GC from Libby for the SSD March Madness Tournament Challenge... nobody was getting any points in the final game so they were able to announce early. I think it's so sweet of Libby to offer a GC to the winner and was totally excited to hit the GGG sale again to pick up some of the things from her shop that I had taken out of my cart on Saturday.

Anyways, I did play with some of my new purchases on Saturday evening. I won't be linking up any of the ones that are retiring since after this week the links won't work but be sure to check them out at Going, Going, GONE 2010

for the recipe challenge - 4 papers, 3 of the same element, 2 photos and 1 large alpha or number

Credits:
Little Pieces of You by Shawna Clingerman (retiring)
Inspired by Jule template by Darcy Baldwin (limited edition, April)
"r" Guess Whoo alpha by Shawna Clingerman (retiring)
doodle background from Persnickety by Shawna Clingerman
"U" X-Treme Acrylic Alpha by Traci Reed

This next page was also part of the portfolio challenges, I was to create a page inspired by one of the Post It Notes on this blog: Things We Forget... this is a fun blog, btw!
Credits:
A Little Bit Flirty by Robin Carlton and Zoe Pearn
Templates #46 by Cindy Schneider (part of April's The Digi Files at The Daily Digi)
Say It Big by Traci Reed (freebie from 2010 click a sig)
Finishing Touches - Dymomite Words by Traci Reed
DJB Swirl Me Around by Shawna Clingerman and Darcy Baldwin (awesome new font)
Woodles by Shawna Clingerman (freebie from 2010 click a sig)
Stitcherific Corners by Julie Billingsley (freebie from 2010 click a sig)
What I Like About Me by Traci Reed and Eva Kipler (white word strip with blue "happy")
Paper Clips - Circles 2 by Libby Weifenbach

as you can see from these pages, I'm trying to get through my unused kits folder :) Although... this week is quite a busy week for me focusing on my photography since I have a bit of a deadline... and I think I finally know what I'm going to do after months of prayer... now it's just a matter of executing it and finding a hand model... anyone want to have their hands on the bulletin cover and on the wall of photos and for the message slides?