Happy Wednesday!

Lots of sunny news today and I hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far!  I can hardly believe we’re on the brink of the holiday season and I’m starting to get really really excited.  I’m a complete geek for Thanksgiving, all things advent and Christmas.  But before I get completely carried away with the holiday spirit I am happy to say that it’s Wibbet Wednesday….

…and Summer Garden is available today for 50% off!!  Summer Garden is a fun and playful set of templates inspired by all things sunny and all things summer, but I think you’ll find can be used for most any page.  Or if you’re like me and still catching up on summery pages (lol!) this is the perfect time to snag them.

AND…I am also excited to share peeks of a few {fresh seeds} coming to The Lilypad on Friday that you can use for whatever and whereever your creativity guides you.

First is Taking Shape, which was previously available as part of my collaboration with Tiny Toes Designs during my guest stay at CatScrap.  If you haven’t snagged it yet and if you love a play with shapes and papers, this playful set of templates is for you!

I am also releasing two new installments of my Plant Your Story series…a fresh set of Listed templates and a fresh set of Quoted templates.  These are really fun for documenting the every day..be it in the conversations we share, the little things our loved ones say or documenting anything listy.  I have seen some amazing pages from the girls so far that use these templates in non journal-y ways too..so the possibilities really are endless!

Plant Your Story: Listed {volume two}

Plant Your Story: Quoted {volume two}

Sooooo…if you’d like to win one or all of these {fresh seeds} just leave a comment below telling me what your favorite holiday food is (yum!), for a chance to win before Thursday 18 November at 10pm (PST).  One winner will get to choose which they’d like to be gifted with and one lucky winner will win.them.all!  You can increase your chances at winning by posting about the giveaway on Twitter and Facebook.  Be sure to come back here with a link in the comments.

Good Luck!!

If you’re hopping along on the DigiScrapAddicts DSD blog train never fear you can scroll down to find my post with the freebie and other news or you can click {HERE}.  Welcome and Happy Blog Hopping!  ♥

Good Evening!

Thank you so much to all who submitted entries for the Grow With Love giveaway! I had a date with Mr. Random.org over some peanut butter m+ms (yum!  although maybe I need to reconsider eating them at 10:30pm, lol!) to help me determine the lucky winner.

And without further ado, I am so happy to say a big “Congratulations!” to….

Congrats suzie!! Please shoot me an email at zinniasandswallowtails AT gmail DOT com at your convenience so I can get you set up with Grow With Love.  Woot!

Again thank you ALL so much!  If you didn’t win this time, don’t lose heart..I’ll be having new release giveaways pretty regularly and I have *five* coupons to share for an additional 20% off any purchase in my shoppe (so that’s 50% off! woot!).  Just use coupon code: GWLkiddoz to save.

I’ll be back in a bit with a closer look at Grow With Love (and Bountiful and Good Cheer too too) and some fabulous inspiration!

Also, Crystal and I wanted to let you all know about something super fun and exciting and meaningful we have planned for next year!  We have made it our goal to get people to tell their stories. Not just the super happy birthday’s or holidays, but the ones that you might not even know you have to tell. The ones hidden deep down in your heart and soul just waiting for their voice. This was part of the mission of {grow with love}. We just know that sometimes scrapping takes you away from your family and becomes a bit of a competition and we feel it is important to get back to story telling and still be taking time with the people you love. That is why we have a lot of “act” prompts. To get you out of your chair and living a bit! We also know that some people struggle a bit when it comes to sitting down and actually doing the journaling.  Learning to open up and let the words flow without being forced.  We have decided to start offering some different types of actual classes where we can work with you in a one on one type of setting and help teach people how to actually embrace the {grow with love} sentiment and put it into their pages. We are ironing out all the details still but we are hoping to start an early registration on Black Friday (where we will also be releasing a very special {grow with love} holiday edition as well!).

I hope you all have a beautiful day!!! Enjoy the rest of DSD weekend!! ♥

We are up to our eyeballs in our move process, but I wanted to pause to share the winner of the Fresh Cut: Sunflower and Learning Garden giveaway!  Woooot!  I do not have my handydandy Photoshop, as we have unplugged the desktop computer (gasp!), but I did have a date with my favorite Mr. Random of random.org and he happily shared with me today's winner……………..number 17.

Oh and by the way…I'm in love with all the fun songs!!!!  Thank you so so much for sharing your favorites with me!!! ♥

I will have another post tomorrow to share more from my latest release at my guesty home CatScrap. 

In the meantime don't forget that you can snag Fresh Cut: Sunflower for 20% off through Friday 10 September.

Hope everyone has a happy and sunflowery kind of day!!

So we are definitely in a season of transition these days and in many ways.  As many know we are on the verge of a big move, and so our minds are full of all things moving related: packing, cleaning, yard sales, cleaning, decluttering, cleaning, organizing, enrolling in school, cleaning, saying goodbyes, making lists, and cleaning.  I wanted to share with you a couple {fresh releases} before we hit the road and I so hope you will like them!

First, is Fresh Cut: Sunflower which will be arriving at After Five Designs on Thursday.

And on Friday something fun and playful will be landing at CatScrap, where I’m guesting for the month of September!  Woot!  This is Learning Garden, which is perfect for those back to school and learning pages, but also can be used for any general page too too.

I need a little diversion from all the cleaning (lol!) and so I feel like spreading a little sunshine.

Leave a comment below telling me a good road tripping/travel song is,
for a chance to win Fresh Cut: Sunflower or Learning Garden
before Thursday 9 September at 10am (CST).  You can increase your
chances at winning by posting about the giveaway
on Twitter and Facebook.  Be sure to come back here with a link in the
comments.