Feb 22

New Project Life Goodies

Hi there! Happy Wednesday to you!

I just wanted to give you all a heads up that the new kit that I collaborated with Crystal on is up for sale now in her shop! Yay! We’ve created the kit in both a printables kit and a digital elements kit so if you just want the PDF’s – you can just purchase that kit OR if you are you a digital scrapbooker you can purchase just the digital elements kit! I hope you love it! Here is the collection preview:

This is a BIG kit! Crystal and I are both SO excited about these! We’re even selling them at a special price right off the bat – $8! Awesome, eh?! I’ve already been using these and just love them! Love the color combo and love how I’ve used them in not only my Project Life (that you can see HERE in this post), but also in another project I am working on and will post about tomorrow. These cards are so versatile! Love that! You really get your money’s worth! You can find the kits for sale HERE.

These also coordinate with my Say What? Journaling Cards (that you can find HERE), the Cards for Claire that benefit sweet Claire and her family (that you can find HERE) and all of the yummy goodness that is Crystal’s Color Collection #4 that you can find HERE.

I hope you love them! Let me know what you think! BIG hugs! Hope you are having a great day!

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Feb 21

If you follow this blog…

…via Google Friend Connect, I just wanted to give you a heads up about something. I was reading one of my favorite blogs today and they were talking about how starting March 1st Google is discontinuing the Google Friend Connect for non-Blogger blogs. That is a total bummer to me because as of right now I have over 700 sweet folks following One Happy Mama using the Google Friend Connect and so since I had NO IDEA about Google’s plan to discontinue that feature, I wanted to let you all know as well. One Happy Mama USED to be hosted at Blogger, but September of last year I made the switch to WordPress and so now I fall into that non-Blogger blog category. Sigh. Such is life, right?

This is what I’m talking about:

So if you are one of the 706 folks who follow my blog using the Google Friend Connect (above), that means that you will no longer receive my posts in your Blogger dashboard, and I won’t be able to get new followers using that gadget in my sidebar. So basically now that gadget is pretty useless and I’ll be removing it from my blog soon.

There are some other ways that you can follow my blog to know when a new post is going up and so I thought I’d share those with you quickly so that you don’t miss out on any posts and because I love my blog readers and don’t want any of you to not be able to catch the latest posts here.

At the top of my blog you will see these icons:

Clicking on the pink button will take you to Feedburner where you can subscribe to my blog and you can receive my blog updates right in your inbox or you can get the updates in your reader, like Google Reader. It takes no time to set up at all and that way you won’t miss a beat when it comes to reading One Happy Mama.

Another option I’ve been recently told about is Linky Followers. I’ve added the widget below my GFC widget so you an click on it to follow my blog. I’ve gotten some comments and emails about it and folks seem to really love it! I’ve signed up and it was easy and it’s FREE.
There’s also BlogLovin’, which I totally forgot about. That’s another option!

I also Tweet about every new post and I make sure to post on Facebook as well so you can click on those icons and follow that way as well.

Thanks so much to all of you! I appreciate my readers so much and don’t want to lose any of you just because Google is making some changes yet again. Sending you all hugs and hoping you all are having a great week! Don’t forget to check out Project Life Tuesday below this post and enter the giveaway! I’ve got another giveaway coming on Thursday!! Hugs!

Feb 21

Project Life Tuesday: Week 7

Happy Week 7 to you sweet blog readers and Project Lifers! Can you believe we’re already 7 weeks into this? Whoa. Time flies! Ha!

Today I’ve got a special treat for you! An awesome giveaway! Yay! I LOVE giveaways!! First let me talk about my week 7 really quick.

This week I used some goodies from the Clementine Core Kit that I love and also some goodies from the Martha Stewart office line at Staples (Thank you, bestie!!). I threw in some thickers, flair and I’m loving my stapler lately so I any little bits I can, I staple. LOL! Also, this week I used cards from the kit that Crystal and I collaborated on. You can see the cards from the kit on this page – “hello there life” and “A Story from Today.”

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On the right side, I used more Martha Stewart labels, the sweet tag I created using the March Card Kit from Simon Says Stamp, another 4×6 card from the kit Crystal and I put together and I also cut out a piece from the Nashville Symphony pamphlet from our field trip last weekend and included that.

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I added a 8.5×11 page protector to this week to include the sweet cards I got for Valentine’s Day from my husband and kids. I stapled one of the 3×4 cards from our new kit to the side and added a label as well.

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:some close ups: :both pages:

I’m going to have more details and previews of the new kit that we’re releasing up on my blog soon once it’s in Crystal’s shop, which should be later today. I promise that you’re going to love it! It’s a BIG kit FULL of cards in all different sizes that fit in multiple Project Life page protectors and they are also great to use on cards and on traditional scrapbook layouts. So many ways to use them! I’m excited to show you more.

I’m going to give away this new collection to TWO people. To be entered, leave a comment on THIS post. Everyone who links up to their Project Life below gets an extra entry!

I’ll draw a winner on Friday! Good luck and have a great day everyone!! Hugs!!

Project Life is an awesome system created by Becky Higgins. Read more about it HERE.

Link up below if you’d like! Check out more awesome Project Life inspiration HERE on my friend Jessica’s blog!

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Feb 20

Blog design – A Come Back

Hi there!

I just wanted to pop in to update you all on the status of the Two Happy Mamas Blog Design Studio. Back in December I was thinking that I was going to close down the studio and stop taking orders. I’ve been on a bit of a break and really limiting the amount of orders that I was taking for a awhile now and just felt like since I wasn’t able to devote that much time to it anymore and had some other creative endeavors that I was working on, that I would concentrate on those. I kept getting inquiries about doing blog design and would work on some here and there. In doing that, I realized that there was still interest in the blog designs and I also realized that keeping the studio open could help greatly with a new medical bill that we have for our daughter, so I decided that instead of closing down the shop, I would update the website, add a few new designs and retire some of the older ones and that’s exactly what I did. It’s refreshing!

I am mainly accepting only predesigned blog orders, but will take on ONE custom design a month so if you are wanting a more custom, unique look you can email me and see if there is a waiting list and if so, how long it is.

So, I’m happy to report that Two Happy Mamas Blog Design Studio IS open for business. It’s new and improved and I’ll be adding MORE designs every month. So check out the website HERE and also head on over to our Facebook page HERE and like us to get the latest news, specials and giveaways!

Here are some peeks of the new designs:

Hugs!

Feb 20

Simon Says Stamp

I had the pleasure of being sent this beautiful March Card kit from one of my most favorite scrapbook sites online, Simon Says Stamp. You MUST check out this website if you haven’t already. I love ordering from Simon Says Stamp. Their product selection is great, prices are wonderful and the folks there, well that is the best thing about Simon Says Stamp – Heidi and the rest of the folks there are the sweetest that I’ve ever encountered. I’m serious. Heidi also has a heart of gold. (Love you, sweet friend).

So when she surprised me by sending me this kit, it totally made my day. I wanted to share with you the few things I’ve been able to create with the kit (so far) and to just give you all a heads up on the great store that Simon Says Stamp is and how awesome their new monthly card kits are. FEbruary’s kit sold out and March is ALMOST sold out so be sure to check out the website and pick you up one if there are any left! They will probably be gone by the end of the day! Be sure to also check out the website so you can stay up-to-date on it all so you can snag yourself an April Card Kit. I am SURE it’s going to be amazing, too!

I haven’t had as much time as I would like to create, but I was able to whip up a simple card:

This beautiful tag that I’m going to attach to a gift that I am planning on giving:

And in the spirit of Project Life Tuesday, tomorrow – I even created a sweet tag to put in my Project Life Week 7 pages:

I love how soft and beautiful this kit is. Very elegant and light. It’s so easy to whip up some sweet and simple cards, tags and more. I think it would be so fun to have one of these beautiful kits delivered to my door every month!

You can find Simon Says Stamp’s store HERE, their blog HERE, Facebook page HERE and follow their tweets HERE. They are all so sweet there and are worth checking out for sure.

I hope you have a great Monday! BIG hugs! See you tomorrow for Project Life Tuesday!!