Fab 'n Funky Sponsorship

Good morning! Today Doodle Pantry is sponsoring Fab 'n Funky and their challenge is to use ribbon and/or lace on a card. Both Glenda and I used Fancy Flamingo for our cards.

Glenda

Dawn

and Lori used Pearfect Wormy 

I hope we've inspired you to drop on by Fab 'n Funky and give their challenge a try! Good luck.

Save Your Digi's! (and 3 FREEBIES)

Good morning!
Today I am posting to urge you to protect your digi stuff.   It is really easy.  And also to give you a few new freebies (at the end)!

I was thinking the other day, it would be horror to lose all your digital media on your computer!  I can imagine how disheartening that would be.  Probably a few thousand tears would come pouring out before I'd regain my sanity.   I really do understand!

I might be the only one out on a limb, but I personally don't think digital media is much different than other products bought in stores.  Just my humble little opinion.  A file saved on a computer is as real to me as a set of craft dies or all my cardstock and ribbon.   I personally would consider it my loss if I didn't take the opportunity to keep my digital files safe.  I equate it to buying a Dell computer, and not purchasing their warranty.  I just can't expect them to replace it if it gets stolen or dropped with no warranty.

Suggestions on HOW TO MINIMIZE or even potentially ELIMINATE your risk for digi loss
I highly suggest doing either one or both of the following:
1. The most affordable option is to purchase a flash drive or other separate backup drive, and copy all your digital media to it.  Make sure this particular drive is updated at least MONTHLY with your newest purchases.  Keep the drive in a safe place and do not constantly leave it connected to your computer (If you get a virus and crash, anything plugged into your computer could potentially get affected as well). You may need to buy several flash drives if you really have a lot of digital media.

AND/OR

2. Purchase a digital file backup recovery contract with your computer's manufacturer or the store where you bought your computer, or somewhere out there in www land.  There's either a yearly fee or monthly fee, depending on the provider and options you select.  Usually you can set the program up to automatically backup your files at regular intervals to a "safe" and "recoverable" place in www land. If you never have a problem, it will seem like wasted money, but if you ever DO have a problem.... I would think it would be well worth it.

Just some friendly advice to spend a few bucks to get some flash drives to back up your files.  It will save you so many heartaches and headaches if your computer meets a disaster.
And now for a little gift for you!

BONUS FREEBIES!

JUST BECAUSE I LOVE Y'ALL, I've decided to let everyone come download these 3 NEW versatile sentiment sets FREE for a LIMITED TIME!   MAY 15-19, 2013 ONLY!

4 Team members created some cards with some of these sentiments,

PAT, ELIZABETH,  SHIRLEY, LINDA

TO GET YOUR 3 FREE SENTIMENT SETS CLICK HERE

  UPDATED NOTE: If you downloaded these from the shop page prior to 11:30 am eastern time, you'll need to download the So Thankful set again... there was a mispelled sentiment and I corrected it.   Here's a snapshot of the shop page, where the files are if you're not making a purchase:  

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I wish for you a wonderful day, a safe week, and may you bless others with your own special creativity!  Pass along some love and bring a smile!

Sister Act Card Sponsorship

Good morning! Today Doodle Pantry is sponsoring Sister Act Card Challenge and their theme is anything goes, what a great theme!

First up to inspire you is Glenda using Cherry Tomatoes

Lori used Cherry Nice Mice

Ellen used Easter Egg Ants

and I used Wild Rose

Hop on over to Sister Act Card Challenge and give their theme a try (so easy). If you use a Doodle Pantry image you can enter our challenge too!

Totally PaperCrafts Sponsorship

Good Morning, I hope its bright and sunny where you are! Today Doodle Pantry is sponsoring Totally PaperCrafts and their challenge is don't be square use any shaped card. We've got two great cards to show you.

Glenda used Cherry Nice Mice for her gorgeous circle card

and I(Dawn) used Jacaranda for my fan card.

This is the card standing on its own

I hope we've inspired you to hop on over to Totally PaperCrafts and give their challenge a try. If you use a Doodle Pantry image you can enter our challenge as well!

Doodle Pantry Digital Challenge 34

DOODLE PANTRY DIGITAL CHALLENGE

Tag/Keyword: DPDC34
THEME: Use a Doodle Pantry image
(NOT just a sentiment)

Feel free to browse the freebie page HERE.  There are some "free with purchase" and some that are totally free downloads.

We hope you can play along with us!
DEADLINE DATE/TIME IS THE 24th at 8:00 pm CENTRAL TIME
(which is 9:00 pm EASTERN TIME on the 24th) Winners posted on 25th

FEATURED PRODUCT   Fruitful Star
All participants who place their post link in the blue frog linky, and who have created a project that follows the theme/rules, will be emailed this set for FREE.

(Participants emailed approx. on the 8th, 16th, and 24th)

SCROLL DOWN FOR SOME INSPIRATION PROJECTS USING THIS FEATURED SET
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(PLEASE ONLY ADD BLOG, CDAC, or SCS LINKS. THANK YOU)

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We hope you will be inspired to play along with us this week!
Here are some of the DT creations to help get your creative juices flowing!

by Sarah Taylor	by Sarah Taylor

by Dawn Frost

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ABOUT WINNERS

If 25 or less participants, there will be 1 winner chosen, but if 26 or more participants, there will be 2 winners chosen, from all the entries to win a $15 gift coupon to spend at doodlepantry.com.
AND everyone who enters the linky with a qualifying project post will receive the featured set shown above for free!

Other challenge guidelines below:

1. It is expected that you will create something NEW and follow the challenges theme. Make something paper crafty with Doodle Pantry images!
2. Post your creation on your blog or online public gallery in which a comment can be left.  Post MUST be dated within the time frame of the challenge.  Please, no past creations, create something new!  
3. The linky widget may state that a URL is not required, but IT IS REQUIRED. You MUST LINK YOUR POST of your project/card (CDAC, SCS and BLOG POSTS are preferred, so that we can more easily leave you comments)
4. Challenges are open for almost 3 weeks (ends at 8:00 pm CST on the 24th) and winner(s) posted on the 25th.
5. Only enter once per each challenge
6. Keywords or tags for the challenge are DPDC and the number of the challenge, no spaces.

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We hope you have been inspired today, and we hope you can join us.  Thanks so much for stopping by and we wish you a wonderful week!

Fun new images today

I can't believe May is here already!  Only 1 more month of school and then it's trying to keep kids busy all summer long... hmmm, not sure yet what I am going to do about that.  But I've got some fun new images to play with!  There's A LOT of cheerful colors going on!
Below is our latest releases, and don't miss our 25% off everything special (minimum purchase $3.00)!  MAY 1st thru may 6th only!  Just fill your cart with products totalling at least $3.00, then when you view cart, enter the coupon MAYSALE in the field and CLICK SUBMIT to see your discount apply. Continue with checkout and pay.

PEARFECT WORM (Pearfect Worm Free w/purchase May 1-24 only)	FRUITFUL STAR (featured for DPDC34)
HANDY BIRDIE	HANDY ANTS
FANCY FLAMINGO	CHERRY NICE MICE
JACARANDA	MINI PINWHEEL TEMPLATE
WASHINGTON STATE	BIRTHDAY BIRDIE COLOR+
OLD SHIP COLOR	HOTROD PICKUP COLOR
SADDLE UP COLOR

Thanks for stopping by to check out the new releases!  Don't forget our challenge #34 is coming up in a few hours!  We hope you'll play along to get the featured image set for free! May you be blessed and create a card to share the blessing!