Christmas Carol Blog Hop

It’s here, it’s time, the annual DSS Christmas Carol Blog Hop.
Every year we do this blog hop with each designer choosing a favorite Christmas carol to design a mini kit for.

This year I am doing Little Donkey.
I can remember Christopher singing this with his Kindergarten class way back in the day and it brings back such sweet memories of

happy Christmas times when it meant more to me, when it was all about the children.

I hope you and your loved ones have a safe and happy Christmas this year.
Don’t forget to leave some love as you collect all the fabulous festive minis on this blog hop

Enjoy Little Donkey by Ambowife Designs

DOWNLOAD HERE

Here is the rest of the blog Hop List

Nibbles Skribbles

Shelly Marie Scraps

Snips N Snails

Scrappy Cocoa

Aimee Harrison Designs

Snickerdoodle Designs

Let Me Scrapbook

Deli Scraps by Min

Booland Designs

eqrAveziur

Darlene Designs

JW DigiScraps

Feli Designs

SKrapper Digitals

Ambowife Designs     <——- YOU ARE HERE

Ruby Lane

Digilicious Designs

JanetB Designs

Julie C Designs

Monika Designs

Piggy Scraps

Plush Collection

Hi all, here I am again finally with a new kit and some new cu items to show you all.

PLUSH is my new collection available in my Personal Use store over at the Studio

All Plush products are 30% off till August 31st so run in for a great deal while it lasts

Save by purchasing Plush – the bundle
Includes the following Plush products

Alphabet
Page Kit
Glitter Styles/Patterns and Tiles (seamless)
Cardstock – embossed
Felt Papers

all created at 300ppi for optimum print quality
All papers are full size
Personal Use Scrap for Hire and Scrap for Others Friendly

Here are the latest additions to my Commercial Use Store, for the designers out there

Felt Xmas Decorations cu

$6.00  $4.00
Save: 33% off

4 fabulously felty Xmas Decorations, all lovingly hand stitched by me.
Scanned at highest resolution then extracted and saved as 300ppi png files for top quality.

cu okay
no credit required
no freebies with this product please.

Hand Made Flower Mix 2

$6.00

6 cu hand made flowers.
All flowers in this set made, photographed and extracted by me

no credit required

Hand Made Flower Mix 1

$6.00

larger image

Handmade Ribbon Roses 1 cu

$6.00  $4.50
Save: 25% off

4 Ribbon Roses created by me and photographed and extracted by me.

300ppi for premium print quality
no credit required but always appreciated

I have some new cu products adding to my store tomorrow too, they are being quality checked as I type

thanks for looking and have a fabulous weekend everyone, I’ll be back shortly to add a freebie to this post.

hugs

Tracy

  Here’s a freebie for you all, just click the image to download it

Tags: Commercial Use

Toot Toot, hop on Board

Yes it’s the silly season again and Darlene at the Studio has organised our annual Christmas Blog Train, so hop on board to snag some fabulous Christmas mini kits by the Designers at Digital Scrapbooking Studio.

As we do every year, we have all chosen a Christmas Song or Carol to theme our kit on. Mine this year is Blue Christmas.

It’s a sad Christmas song but hey a lot of people are sad at this time of the year too.

Once you have grabbed my Blue Christmas pressie, hop back on board and head over to the next station at DeliScraps by Min for her goodie too.

Here’s the blog train timetable of stations. The train departs at 6pm EST December 5th and will terminate at the North Pole on the 12th, Santa sort of needs it back by then LOL

Blue Christmas by Ambowife Designs

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Blog Train Timetable of Stations

Ambowife – http://www.ambowife.com/blog <—- You are Here
Deli Scraps – http://deliscraps.blogspot.com/
Angel Hartline Designs – http://angelhartline.com/blog/
Digilicious Designs – http://digilicious.typepad.com/digi_licious_designs/
Nibbles Skribbles – http://www.nibblesskribbles.com
Let Me Scrapbook! – http://letmescrapbook.blogspot.com/
Kimberkatt Scraps – http://kimberkattscraps.wordpress.com/
Booland Designs – http://www.boolanddesigns.com
Darlene – http://darlenedesigns.blogspot.com
LightningBug Creations- http://lightningbugcreationskits.blogspot.com/
eqrAveziur graphic & design – http://www.aveziur.com
SKrapper Digitals – http://www.skrapperdigitals.blogspot.com
Shelly Marie Scraps – http://www.shellymariescraps.blogspot.com
Piggy Scraps Design – http://www.piggyscraps.blogspot.com/
theStudio Blog: http://www.digitalscrapbookingstudio.com/blog/
Twin Mom Scraps – http://twinmomscraps.blogspot.com
2 Girlz Designz – http://2girlzdesigns.blogspot.com
JulieC – http://scrappinhappens.blogspot.com/

Happy Holidays Everyone

hugs

Tracy

BIRTHDAY BASH at the Studio

yes it’s nearly that time again, the Studio Birthday Bash is just days away.

Our STUDIO ANNUAL DESIGNER COMPETITION sign up thread closes midnight on 31st August so if you want to get in on this fun competition rush over to the Studio now. We have amazing prizes this year, the winning 3 designers will score a wacom Bamboo Tablet and the top 10 will get an Atomic Cupcake certificate, wow!!

Even if you don’t aspire to becoming a digital scrapbooking designer there are already 78 contestants signed up for this contest and so for our Studio Members that means 78 free minikits!!! How cool is that! come on over to the Studio and become a part of our community to grab all these goodies. The contest runs all of September and we have lots going on during our Annual Birthday Bash.

Also mitsybelle Designs and I are running the annual Studio CT LAYOUT COMPETITION, if you’d love to be part of the amazing creative team at the Studio jump to the sign up thread here, we’d love to see what you can create with our kits. And you’ll get some lovely kits along the way

Okay so I know I have been real quiet when it comes to blogging. I am so busy with life and work and the Studio that I barely have the time anymore but as always I promise to try and be better at it.

I have collaborated with Linda Cumberland and Moon Designs on a fabulous masculine feel kit called Monsieur, you can check it out here. I loved working with these ladies, the designers at the studio are the absolute cream of the crop in my opinion, both as designers and as wonderful women.

Mitchell and Gregg by bcalberti - studio CT member

Verkeerspark Assen by Renee – Ambowife CT

Berkhout by AJR65 - Studio CT

Chat Layout by Camperchow - Ambowife CT

Have a great week

hugs

Tracy

Been a Bad Blogger

I know, it’s been ages since I posted so here I am with all the news about us

Firstly the biggest news is my Car died, yes broke down and had total cardiac arrest that not even my Paramedic hubby could revive it!! LOL. But yes, that meant a new set of wheels. Luckily Michael’s Dad was here and being a former mechanic and salesman himself he got us a great deal on a second hand Tiida, it’s lovely to look at and lovely to drive, perfect for me, small but not too small and well all it needs is Ambowife Numberplates LOL. I blurred out the plates for obvious reasons and I also blurred out the neighbours’ house, I’m sure they don’t want you looking in their windows hee hee. Okay so here she is… more news after the pics of our new little car…

So what else have we been up to, well Michael has applied to Tassie again but we’re not holding our breath. Just waiting to see what happens so we can then get on with life not being in any kind of Limbo. Here’s a pic of him relaxing in front of the TV with Shona, who is loving it obviously rofl, can’t believe the positions this dog gets herself into and still seems quite comfortable.

As for other stuff, Over at the Studio we are talking a bit about Hybrid and mixing both Digital and Paper scrapping and off the page stuff. Well I didn’t know a great deal about this side of Scrapbooking so I went googling and searching on Youtube, well didn’t I fall into the quicksand as it were. There is a vertual mountain of videos showing you how to do this stuff. So I did some paper flowers just to see what all the fuss was about and wow I think I am hooked. What’s another addiction between friends LOL

Here’s some shots of the current work in progress, trying out some shimmer stuff and different techniques

Okay so we don’t have a dining room where we are living, this is the front spare bedroom, and where our dining table resides. So it’s where hubby makes his books he sells and where I play, if I am not cluttering up the lounge room LOL. Just ask Michael!!  Sorry hun!

This is the top layer of my latest flower, I used some distress inks and some shimmer to give it this look, embossing powder around the edges of the petals, (where it is darker) and then put a fake gem in some transparent glue to highlight the centre, then shaped the petals how I like.

This is the bottom layer and it’s the same shape as the top, only I pinched the petals after distressing it and adding some shimmer to it, this one is inked slightly around the edges of the petals.

Not glued together yet but this is what it will look like when it’s all finished, what do you think,nice and shiny isn’t it!!

Here is a photo of the shimmer on another flower I made and put in my latest digital CU Kit. doesn’t it just sparkle so pretty!!?

Okay so this is the latest offerings in my store, I know I know I am not pumping out kits like I used to but I have a lot to do at the Studio behind the scenes and it doesn’t always leave a lot of time for playing. Plus I am cleaning during the week.

This is my CU Vintage Paper Flowers set, yes like the ones I just showed you. They are 50% off till the 4th July then full price

As you can imagine they did take a while and some cost to create and then extract so they aren’t as cheap as most of my kits but so worth it I think.

Thanks for reading my lengthy post and I hope to see you over at the Studio for some fun in the Chat Room, this Monday 4 or 8 pm est (USA time) For you Aussies that is Tuesday Morning

You never know what I may be giving away as a treat for coming along

Hugs and be safe

Tracy

Happy Mother’s Day

Well it was a very quiet one for me, I spent the day doing some paperwork for the Studio and catching up in the forum. Then I cleaned the house (exciting eh) and made some chocolate Bundt Cakes, that actually turned out, fabulous. We’ll have one each for desert tonight and then I will send the rest to work with Michael. Too much Chocolate Temptation is a bad thing for me rofl. Christopher did ring at around 2pm so I had a lovely chat to him and I spoke to my Mum at about 9am to wish her a happy day. So all is quiet here in our household but content

I hope everyone else had a lovely Mother’s Day too.

We had a great NSD at the Studio with a scrap-a-thon, I was up at 4am to take part and I managed to get a heap of layouts done, well for me it is a heap LOL.

2 pm chat with Piggyscraps

3pm chat with Amber of RubyLane Designs

4pm chat with Michelle of shelly Marie Scraps

5pm chat with ME

6pm chat with Jeanette of mITSYBELLE Designs

7pm chat with Janice of JWDigiscraps

And I love all the pages I made Yay!!

I have been playing around with my blog as you might have guessed. I downloaded a free wp layout after struggling to edit one I had bought. I am finding the free ones are more user friendly if you want to make it look more your own style with custom header and background. I guess you can’t have everything, sigh.

Well that’s me for now, not a lot of stuff to talk about of late, Michael has an interview with Tas Ambulance so crossing some fingers that we get a good result there, if not we will finally be able to make a move to settle properly in Sydney for good.

That’s that for now, take care and Happy Scrapping

Hugs

Tracy