Showing posts with label freebie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label freebie. Show all posts

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Free Digital Frame

Woohoo!
It's been awhile, since I made anything for digital scrapbooking.  Today, I made a frame.  (See preview Below) I'll be using my Xyron to make magnets.  Here's one of my favorites for you to download for free.  Thanks to all my friends and family for parading your dogs in costume, zumba-ing, dancing, eating paletas & frozen yogurt, buying Christmas trees, sending your love from afar by donating online & putting cash in a stamped envelope, adopting my baby jade Sprouts, donating garage sale items, letting me do some website work and logo design - All to help me to raise $1,075 thus far for Phoenix Children's Hospital!  I've exceeded my team committment of $1,000 and now it'll be gravy on top to reach my personal goal of $1,500!  I'm still accepting donations online at my official PCH Fundraising page here > http://tinyurl.com/gocactusmango 

Chewy Mango Walnut Bars! YUM!

My friend Ginni Llorente has started up her own little bakery biz.  I imagine her right now elbow deep in flour, walnuts and mangos.   Yes, mangos!  hello, i'm a fan already and haven't even tasted her Chewy Mango Bars with walnuts yet. (So, sorry no pictures to show yet) But, I've ordered THREE bags of bars already.  Maybe I'll share some with you...maybe not.  If you are in the Phoenix area, and would like to order some of my friend's delicious baked goods. Please leave a comment here or on my facebook wall.  I'll fill you in pricing.   She's just starting out, so the pricing is mainly to cover her expenses.  The bars would make a lovely gift for sure.  I've decided not to mark up the price to fundraise for PCH.  Instead, please consider donating online directly to  Phoenix Children's Hospital at  http://tinyurl.com/gocactusmango and messaging me for details, if you'd like to order some mango bars from my friend.  Gotta support your local upstart businesses!

Lastly, Phoenix Children's Hospital set up these two fundraisers & hopefully those local can participate in them.   
  • Zumba Dec 11th 2-4pm at Abby Bella Arcadia
    4280 E Indian School Rd.; Suite #108
    Phoenix, AZ 85018                 https://www.facebook.com/events/229407250464329/?ref=ts                             $15 Zumba ticket for two hours and 100% of ticket sales go to PCH. that's pretty awesome. 
  • Christmas Trees https://www.facebook.com/events/126582757454927/  Purchase your Christmas Tree with Scottsdale Environmental and $15 will be donated to Phoenix Children's Hospital! Happy Holidays! See event for participating locations. 
More Goodness:
Now, if helping out a children's hospital isn't motivation enough, here's some goodies to dangle before you:

I still have one $25 Sprouts Farmers Market gift card to raffle away to donors.  Plus, my very talented husband, Ron Carranza of ZaZo Graphics and Animation, will be creating a custom 8x10 caricature of your loved one(s), for one lucky Donor! 


Thank goodness for social media networking, because printing & handing out fliers was a real pain, especially having to bring my 2 year old along each time! She may have gone a little bit coo-coo from it all, as you can see from her picture above.  My husband & I are breathing a simultaneous Huge SIGH of relief that the big urgency to raise enough has passed! HIGH-FIVE ya'll!  Now, I have all my energy for the holiday frenzy and training for the MARATHON!!!!  Saturday, I'm running 14-16 miles! Ridiculous!

alrighty, Enjoy the digi frame!



Sunday, May 30, 2010

Before I go to sleep

I forgot to share with you the rest of my Mom's Recipe Box, mini printable kit.  It's an exclusive KJoi Newsletter Freebie...but you have to subscribe to the Kjoi Newsletter to snag the coupon codes...{so, subscribe here yo}  OR you can show me some love and purcase them in my shop  ;) wink-wink ;) 
Mom's Recipe Box {Set 1 here}

Mom's Recipe Box {Set 2 here}

Mom's Recipe Box {Set 3 here}

 Mom's Recipe Box {Set 4 here}

 
I posted a recipe on my food blog...over here...{Potluck Potato Salad}  that I'll eventually transfer onto these printed recipe cards and place in a clear recipe box.  I'm thinking about purchasing this one:


But that project won't be for awhile...i have two other projects on the back burner that need to get served hot and tasty.  That's tomorrow's priority.  Oh wait, It's tomorrow already. OK! gotta crash. 

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Holiday Blog Train gift

To spread the holiday cheer, a group of my kjoistudios buddies put together a 2010 calendar just for you. Visit their blogs to collect pages for each month of the year. I made this page for the month of October with stuff from my Bizarre kits, which are 50% off (along with my whole shop @ kjoi) from now 'til Jan 1st. {shop CACTUSmango}








Maligayang Pasko! + Merry Christmas!




Monday, June 29, 2009

Bump in Progress

Boy, my blog's dusty! I actually designed a quick page and digi scrapped for the first time in months!!! And yes folks, that's my bump in progress...the reason I've been away from the blogosphere & all of digiworld. That little growing package is very delicate...such that, I've had surgery, bed rest, weekly injections and tons of ultrasounds since my last post in March. We're just living it day by day, week by week.


fonts used in [bump] title:  Tahoma and Desryel.

But, the joy of finding out that baby's a lil' girl, has brought me back to the drawing board with a fresh new goody to start the day.  This kit is based on the first ever digital scrapbook kit that I designed, called Desert Botanicals Collection Volume 1. That was a mouthful of a name! LOL!  My 2009 version Desert Botanicals v2, has been reborn into a sweet little 5x7 quick page album set.  Desert Botanicals v2 is inspired by the colors of the southwestern landscape and the surprisingly exotic looking flora that bloom in the desert.  The floral patterns on the paper are based off of the Mexican Bird of Paradise.

Desert Botanicals v2 5x7 Album is available exclusively at K-Joi Studios.

This 5x7 quickpage is a sample of the album set above and will be offered as a freebie on K-Joi Studios Blog sometime this week.  Please check K-Joi Studios Blog to snag this quick page ;)

Monday, December 15, 2008

Free Christmas Word Art and Quick Page

Here's a page I made for my hubby's family reunion last year. I submitted it to the Word Art and *This Christmas* Lyric challenges at Kjoistudios. You can snag this word art for free in my shop at kjoistudios, here.
And here is the free quick page I made for the Lyric Challenge.
Don't forget the Holidays in My House Mega collab kit is on sale for only $5 during Dec. ;)

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Freebie quick page and Toots!

Congrats to the winners of the Sept. + Oct *I Will Survive* Lyric Challenge!

They each one a trip to the K-Joi Studios Prize vault.



Oh my goodness oh gosh oh golly! I've been honored by the DSM blog peeps with a runner-up prize for my blog header entry! Wooooooohooooooo!!!!! For my efforts they've gifted me with two kits from Pixel Canvas. They're stuff is gorgeous and I can't wait to see what I get! :D :D :D :D :D :D Hop on over to the DSM blog to see Amanda's numero uno blog header and all the fun hybrid project ideas and beautiful freebies!


Speaking of freebies...i made one this morning, to give away during my first EVER Chat...no, not the first time I chatted...but, the first time I've HOSTED a chat! oh it was loads of fun and my little chatroom guinee piggies made my virgin hosting gig easy to enjoy!

Congrats to Shelli - winner of the "Left Over Candy" chat game ! Everyone had multiple guesses, but she was able to guess it right on the money! I crammed 67 starbursts in that glass!
She won this super cute set of custom boutique bows



handcrafted by Margie at http://luvabows.com/!!! These are real bows not digital embellishments and Shelli will get these in the mail next week and plans on giving them to her grand daughter! lucky gal :) Big thanks Marg!

Our Second winner is Creatively Obsessed !!!!! she was the fastest scrapper this morning during the "Scrap It while It's HOT" cha, where everyone had less than 30 min to make a brand new halloween layout with any kit of their choosing. She whipped out a brand new halloween layout first Monster House using Dawn Inskip products. Her prize is all my Bizarre stuff at kjoistudios, including my new 8x8 quick page kit that fits in an 8x8 Shutterfly album.



Here's the quick page I made for all the chatters and now you too. ;)




Kara joined in the fun, fortunately after we talked talked about snakes and other slithery creepies and she squeezed in a page too using the chat freebie! Woohoo! go kara!

Monday, October 13, 2008

Freebie and layout

This is my dear god daughter at her ballet class. I used the "flourish.thrive.grow" word art, because she's growing up so beautifully. I wonder what she's thinking in this picture, hopefully she's just paying close attention to her teacher!

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Happy Happy Joi Joi!

Happy Happy! Filipino American Heritage Month! Woohoo!





Crop Dreams Reveal Preview #1



taking a cue from one of my fav bloggers (paislee press), I decided to tantalize you all with reveal previews. In the coming days, we'll get to know the fabulous digital arists that have come out of the woodworks to participate in Mabuhay Project's fledgling collab kit. Three more pinay digi artists who have joined in, so I'm making a new preview once all their goodies are in. Stay tuned these next 10 days for Crop Dreams big reveal - Oct. 10!

And more great news: K-Joi Designer Search is BACK! from outer space and that's a good thing! That means there are now FOUR rounds of FREEBIES gorgeously and lovingly designed by the uber talented contestants, or as they like to call themselves: Joi de Vivre. Here's the links to download, please thank and leave some lovin' on their gallery posts, vote/see past vote results.



Round 1 freebies. Please visit the gallery to thank & leave the contestants your lovin'. Click here for Round 1 Vote Results




Round 2 freebies. Please visit the gallery to thank & leave the contestants your lovin'. Click here for Round 2 Vote Results.




Round 3 freebies. Please visit the gallery to thank & leave the contestants your lovin'. Click here to place your vote > Voting Closes Oct. 6th





Round 4 freebies. Please visit the gallery to thank & leave the contestants your lovin'. Click here to place your vote >Voting Closes Oct. 6th







OH, I made a new banner...it's alright for now. Still haven't made "The One".

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Divas, Sisters, CAKE + Pie

On September 7, 1949, a DIVA was born - none other than the phenomenal Gloria Gaynor, who's breakthrough song "I Will Survive" was an instant "anthem of female emancipation" and remains so the world over. This is the song that will pump a bold streak of karaoke bravery in even the most timid of closet singers. It has been revived numerous times in diverse musical genres, even by Gloria herself. My favorite renditions of her song range from 1940's-style close harmony vocal music, a rock novelty song, and alternative rock.

Although the song tells the story of a woman getting over a breakup, I dedicate the spirit of this song to those who have faced and are facing natural disasters; to Kara and her team, our site members - new & originals and to all the Designer Search contestants - now working on their round 4 entries - who have been pushing through the growing pains that each weeks' challenge has brought them. Given the struggles K-joi has and is overcoming with such a big growth in membership of scrap happy sister's from all over...exceeding bandwidth was bound to happen. It's only befitting, that as we celebrate K-joi Studios 1st of many birthdays that we take inspiration and cathartic release this month from one diva to another, of such heart pounding powerful lyrics!


Get in touch with your inner Diva and share it with us your scrap diva sisters as a symbolic slice of birthday CAKE or Pie. Take a bite out of this month's challenge along with me, Gloria, The Puppini Sisters, CAKE + Parokya ni Edgar's "Picha Pie". (YouTube videos - Gloria Gaynor CAKE Puppini Sisters Parokya ni Edgar's "Picha Pie"

*How to participate:
Upload your layouts inspired by & using excerpts of your choice from the song *I Will Survive* to the K-joi Gallery and leave a link to your LO, in the Lyric Challenge forum, by Sunday Sept. 28th, 2007  Thursday, October 30th. We will pick two winners because we missed September. This month's winners will be picked randomly and will walk away with a $5 trip to the K-joi prize vault. Winners will be announced  Tue. Sept. 30th Friday, October 31st.

Here is an 8x8 LO (made with a photograph from one of our Studio Diva's, Creatively Obsessed. This is her DD and her shiny new red car. She shared this photo to help inspire the K-joi Designer Divas, because it totally has all the K-joi colors, red, black, and white.)
The paper and epoxy "diva" word art are from "divapack" my lil' contribution to the September K-joi Designer Diva collaboration kit. If you participate* in the challenge you will receive the "diva defined" word art, in both clean and grunge versions. I applied this word art as an "overlay" on top of the papers. ;)

Here's the lil' preview for my contribution to the K-Joi 1 yr. anniversary collaboration kit. I have not seen the other Designer Divas contributions yet, due to the site situation...but that's alright by me. I like surprises!


Oh and of course...let's not forget the lyrics!!!!
I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor

At first I was afraid
I was petrified
Kept thinking I could never live
Without you by my side
But then I spent so many nights
Thinking how you did me wrong
And I grew strong
And I learned how to get along

And so you're back
From outer space
I just walked in to find you here
With that sad look upon your face
I should have changed that stupid lock
I should have made you leave your key
If I've have known for just one second
You'd be back to bother me

Go on now go
Walk out the door
Just turn around now'
Cause you're not welcome anymore
Weren't you the one who tried to break me with goodbye
Did you think I'd crumble?
Did you think I'd lay down and die?
Oh no, not I

I will survive
Oh, as long as I know how to love
I know I'll stay alive
I've got all my life to live
I've got all my love to give
And I'll survive
I will survive, hey hey

It took all the strength I had
Not to fall apart
Kept trying hard to mend
The pieces of my broken heart
And I spent oh so many nights
Just feeling sorry for myself
I used to cry
But now I hold my head up high

And you see me
Somebody new
I'm not that chained up little person
Still in love with you
And so you felt like dropping in
And just expect me to be free
But now I'm saving all my loving
For someone who's loving me

Go on now go
Walk out the door
Just turn around now'
Cause you're not welcome anymore
Weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye
Did you think I'd crumble?
Did you think I'd lay down and die?
Oh no, not I

I will survive
Oh, as long as I know how to love
I know I'll stay alive
I've got all my life to live
I've got all my love to give
And I'll survive


I will survive, oh

Go on now go
Walk out the door
Just turn around now'
Cause you're not welcome anymore
Weren't you the one who tried to break me with goodbye
Did you think I'd crumble?
Did you think I'd lay down and die?
Oh no, not I

I will survive
Oh, as long as I know how to love
I know I'll stay alive
I've got all my life to live
I've got all my love to give
And I'll survive
I will survive
I will survive...

And you survived this long post!