Happy New Year Freebie and Update

Ok so first off HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!

I have finally finished the 17 Monochramatic Christmas Kit there are 105 papers and 578 embellishments total, EVERY kits has at LEAST 29 embellies and every kit has 6 papers (they were supposed to be mini's)

I am working on previews so they will be done before next week.
and I will be having my grand re-opening at Pretty Scrappy later this month, I was planning on having it this weekend but due to my injury I am not ready-although I am off crutches, out of the splint so Im doing much better!


Brittneys family is up so we will be posting the winners of the Tidings of Comfort and Joy kits next week, and since I am in a forgiving mood

YOU HAVE UNTILL 10PM SUNDAY NIGHT TO GET IN YOUR NAUGHTY/NICE STORIES TO QUALIFY TO WIN THE 3 KITS!

LOOK IN POST BELOW FOR AD THAT DESCRIBES DETAILS.

ok
Here is a freebie I made last year--
I have renamed the kit and included my new TOU and blinkies but I am not going ot re-do the preview untill I revamp the kit so the preview still says Xandra Martin Designs but whatev.


I am going to be revamping this kit later this month so right now you can get the original free here--> ~ LINK 1 ~ LINK 2 ~ LINK 3
GRAB ALL 3 LINKS

it is a pretty BIG kit.
17 papers
and 61 embellies



Hey if you want ANOTHER FREEBIE go to the SaXy Ladies Blog---look in the right hand coloumn for the ADSR blinkies the first one that is moving will take you there...

Answer the question and you can win the kit I made to make this blogs background, the blinkies and the SaXy blog background.


(the blinkie and SaXy Ladies Blog was made by Sally using my SaXy kit)

Yes I am ALIVE!!!! *EDIT* Freebies and another Update

Hello I know I havent been a good blogger...and I am sorry but I have been SUPER busy! First off I am almost done with the 17 Monochromatic Christmas kits......yeah I ended up going a little crazy...Go figure right?
Secondly We have a little special treat for you guys, for Decembers Scrap-A-Ganza (SAG) We decided to do a main kit in traditional-ish colors. It is called Tidings. AND We each made an add-on for it Brittney did boy's toys and its called Comfort, and I did girl stuff, and its called Joy.
So the main kit and the 2 add-ons it is called.......Tidings of Comfort and Joy...get it?! lol

So you will get a freebie portion of Tidings, a small freebie portion of Comfort and a small freebie portion of Joy.

BUT WAIT THERES MORE. PLEASE Please read our AD at the bottom of this post for your chance to win the entire collection!!!!!! Trust me this is the easiest contest ever!

TIDINGS

FREEBIE

JOY

FREEBIE

YOUR CHANCE TO WIN EVERYTHING

PLEASE POST ALL STORIES IN THE COMMENTS SECTION OF THIS POST, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE REGISTERED WITH BLOGGER TO LEAVE A COMMENT. ALSO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO PUT YOUR EMAIL HOWEVER, WHEN WE POST THE WINNERS YOU WILL HAVE ONE I REPEAT ONE WEEK TO CONTACT US, IF YOU DO NOT CONTACT US IN ONE WEEK YOU FORFEIT AND THE NEXT PERSON WILL WIN YOUR PRIZE. THE MORE PEOPLE WHO PLAY THE MORE WINNERS THERE WILL BE!

ENTRIES DUE THE 26TH OF DECEMBER

ALSO FREEBIE LINKS ARE NOT POSTED YET THEY WILL BE POSTED THIS WEEKEND





***************************************EDIT****************************************

Ok So I sooo would have had these links up earlier but the other day comming down the stairs I tripped and fell the last couple and landed on my left ankle...it snapped, so I had to go to the ER and I spent the following 6 hours there...1 hour waiting to get out of the lobby, 1 hour to see someone, 1 hour to get an x-ray, another 1 1/2 to get results, 1 more hour to get bandaged, splinted, and crutches....oh and since I didnt feel comfortable driving Adam came to the hospital straight from wor--oh but theres more, on the highway comming to get me he ran outta gas, like 100ft from the exit, so his brother had to come pick him up-thankfully I had my car at the hospital and he took me home, got the kids from his parents house, got them home and showered and into bed and then went and got his car. So yeah a week from Christmas, raining and icy and I am on FREAKING CRUTCHES...not to mention this is my first experience with crutches, and you want to know the freaking kicker? When I was comming down the stairs I was getting ready to finish up my christmas shopping.....so If I was telling a story for a free kit I would soooo get it! unfortunitly Im the one giving stuff away(not unfortunitly--cause I LOVE giving stuff away to fun deserving un-rude people! lol)


Anwho the links are up scroll up to click on freebie pictures there are 2 LINKS. and remember to post your naughty or nice story in the comments here in this post for your chance to win the whole kit-n-kaboodle!

Also I decided to make this alpha which is included in the main kit it is a full Alpha Upper and Lowercase, also numbers and almost all the symbols!

Happy Turkey Day! Gobble Til You Wobble

Some of you will remember the kit Gobble Til You Wobble from last year, however I did a complete makeover on it, redid papers added papers, redid embellies and added new embellies. I think this is one of my favorites!

The first 2 Previews are of the actual Kit the last Preview will take you to your link!

In the Kit there are 16 Papers and 52 Embellishments

and
There are 8 Papers and 31 Embellishments in your Freebie!!

So if you get both you will end up with a kit that has 24 papers and 83 embellies.

FREEBIE

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
Oh and here are a couple Sneak Peaks of the Papers for my monochramatic Christmas kits...

*Note I havent made previews for my purple, dk blue or berry papers yet, and I still have more colors to go*

Sneak Peek and Update on Nov SAG

Ok whew I know I know long time no post but I have been super busy!

November Scrap-A-Ganza----it is completed and ready to go I will be giving you a one lump download next week, or maybe the end of this week we'll see. lol

Okay the sneak peek....I am wrapping up Bed Bugs and Closet Monsters just a few finishing touches



What am I working on now?

An awesome series of kits. I was inspired by the Sunshine Studios Designer Contest Round 3 I think? They had to make a monochramatic kit. (Using only one color, different shades of the same color)

So I decided To do a mini series, I have 21 Colors and each kit will be a color, it will have 6 papers and anywhere from around 10-20 embellies, and they are all christmas themed, not one single kit will be like another, EVERY single paper will be different, and I will have a combo where you can pick 2 colors for a certin price or 3 colors for a special price, not everyone uses traditional colors for their decorations, last year my tree was chocolate, teal, purple with hints of gold. So woul will end up having a tailored color combination choosen by you!


So stay tuned....

Change

Ahhh America it is time for change, change of weather, of time, of blog backgrounds...and of course a Change of History! I have not voiced out who I was voting for, I did not want to preach out to you or offend anyone, I just want to say how happy I am that we are taking the first real steps to changing the road our country has been taking.

Congratulations to My President-Elect Barack Obama!

Now wait just a minute you may be saying to yourselves..did se say blog backgrounds....? Hmmm well lookie there! That is a New background!

I wonder what is is from?

Trick or Treat

Ok here is your little treat one day only

My Forest Bed Kit--not the freebie (which you can still get below) but the whole shebang

sorry no pictures over at Adams parent house posting!

here are the links get them while you can



HAPPY HALLOWEEN!



***Edit***
The links are no longer valid as I said on Thursday they were only going to be up for halloween.

Important Info about Tomorrow

Ok so surely you guys know that Halloween is my favorite holiday. If you didn't now you do! It is truly the artists holiday, all about imagination, wonder, creativity, make believe, and art!

So if your subscribe to my feedblitz thing I am going to go ahead and tell you now that TOMORROW I will be having a one day only Halloween treat. You will have to come to the blog tomorrow and if you wait for an update from feedblitz you will be too late. It seems to run a day behind. I will post your Trick or Treat goodie tomorrow afternoon before we start getting ready for Halloween.



Alrighty so untill tomorrow...........
muah ha ha ha ha ha ( <---my best evil laugh, kind of pathetic I know)

PS
Did you notice my blog has a new look? another new background? I will be changing it from time to time and I think maybe a contest, like maybe the frst person to tell me what kit I used to make it might be able to win the kit free.....hmmmmmm maybe just maybe

OK Whewwwww SEPTEMBER Scrap-A-Ganza

I know I am sooo late with this and I am sorry, I lost papers, and my sketches so I had to scan them all in again, anywho here is the preview---I only made one preview the entire kit, and NOT EVERYTHING IS SHOWN, but don't fret I always give you large awesome freebie dont I?! Of course I do!

Click on the 2nd preview for the link

New Kit and update

Here is a quick preview of my newest kit Woodlands you can purchase it in the right hand column.

11 Papers

6 Buttons

6 Flowers

4 Frames

3 Journaling

5 Trims

11 Trees

1 Forest

2 Screws

1 Staple

2 Photo Turns

1 Brad

2 Eyelets

1 Clip

3 Birds

6 Fish

1 Owl

2 Butterflies

2 Deer

1 House

3 Mushrooms

1 Squirel

I am wrapping up Septembers Scrap-A-Ganza now so as soon as I have previews for it Ill post and give you guys the links.

Awesome Contest

Ok so browsing one of my fav Scrappin' Guys Blog (Derek M) I noticed he mentioned a contest so I click on the link and head to another awesome blog and she is havign a contest where you can win one of those creepy changing portrait pictures, they are so awesome. I sat and checked them all out a dozen times and I love all of them! However if I could only choose one and actually hang it on my wall it would have to be the one named Lucretia. She actually looks liek my great great grandmother.

here it is

So if you want a chance to win one of these amazing pictures head over to Little Ant Designs and enter!!!!

Whats different?

Do you notice ANYHTING different? Maybe my blogs look perhaps? hmmmm....... Why hey! Lookie there its all customized and pretty with my newest kit Whoo Are You?...Well isnt that Shnnazy? Halloween is my all-time FAV holiday. It truly is the Artist's holiday. All about creativity, imagination, wonder, make believe, art, expression. It is MY holiday! I have a few more kits up on the sidebar available for purchase, but if you purchase one this weekend, I will be gone Thursday through Sunday this week, I am going to Creating Keepsakes Convention in Kansas City, so if you purchase one I wont get the download links to you untill Monday.
I can't wait for CKC in KC! It is going to be a blast!

Anywho enjoy my new blog look and make sure you grab the freebie in the post below!
~Xandra

Introducing....

BIG NEWS
I am going to start offering the choice to buy my kits right here on my blog! Under my aout me section there is an area called Buy My Kits, I will have the name of the kit under it a special button made from the kit and that button will take you straight to PAYPAL! Thats right a secure way to buy my things without the hassel of signing up at another store!
It is run through PAYPAL, you do NOT have to have a paypal account, you can use your credit card, and it is completely secure!
Please include your email you would like your links sent when you do purchase a kit!
Soon I will be offering a CD burning service..not yet but soon!

Okay Whew... I am uploading your Freebie NOW.... So as soon as it is up I will post it here in this post!

Here is the main kit... NOT EVERYTHING IS SHOWN...
It includes:
17 Papers
4 Frames
1 Fence
13 Dressed-up Owls
6 Trees
1 Tree/Haunted House
1 Forest
4 Wooden signs
7 Seals
1 Screw
1 Poem
4 Journaling Blocks
1 Notebook w/Journaling
3 Brackets
5 Bookplates
4 Charms
13 Gems
1 Gem Cat
1 Gem Bug
1 Gem Spider
1 Gem Snake
3 Swirls
7 Bows
13 Buttons
11 Trims
5 Wraps
2 Zippers

Whew that is 17 Papers and 114 Embellishments (and not one single item in the kit or the freebie are the same, no recolored items, all different!)

Whoo Are You

FREEBIE

Okie Dokie So here is the Freebie I will be posting next month...

It has:

7 Papers

2 Bookplates

4 Bows

1 Bracket

5 Buttons

3 Charms

8 Gems

1 Gem Spider

1 Gem Bug

1 Notebook

1 Journaling Cluster

7 Trims

1 Screw

4 Seals

2 Wooden Signs

1 Swirl

3 Wraps

1 Zipper

1 Frame

1 Overlay

3 Trees

whew thats 7 papers and 51 embellishments! Holy Cow!

I'm still not finished with the Main kit's preview so once its up I'll post it for you guys! I just love my little dressed up owls!!

I have an Astro-Owl, Bat-Owl, Bride of Franken-Owl, Franken-Owl, Count Dr-Owl-cula, Fairy Owl, Gh-Owl-st, C-Owl-boy, Mer-Owl, M-Owl-mmy, P-Owl-kin, Princess Owl, and a Wicked W-Owl-tch....lol

Sneak Peak

Just wanted to drop in and show you a sneak peak of the kit Ive been working, it was going to be a mini but I ended up having 24 papers and over 130 embellies--and not one single item is a certain embellishment recolored 5 times- every single item is different!

To give you an idea on the theme I am going to show you one of the papers and a couple of embellishments.

The name of the kit is ' Whoo Are You? '

working on previews now, and maybe just maybe you might be able to get a sampler of this kit free this month........stay tuned

Links up

okay so blogger didnt post my scheduled post for today so the links will be up untill midnight sunday night.

Julys Add-On 1

Julys Add-On 2

Freebie

August Add-On 1

August Add-On 2

Freebie


go to my shaken and stirred challenge at pretty scrappy to get the freebie Dreams Come True Freebie & maybe the Add-On, its open untill the end of september

4Shared driving me crazy

Ok the links should be up and running, I dont know what is going on with 4 shared, because it has happened again, lets plan ahead, for everyone who subscribes to me plan for the Add-Ons (both july and august) to be given again. lets say the 13th of September. Mark it on your calendar. the 13th of Sept. I will post the new links for the july & august add-ons again.

AGAIN IM SORRY FOR ANY CONFUSION

THE LINKS BELOW ARE WORKING NOW!!!!
(hopefully)


Sorry Again

MISSUNDERSTANDING

ALRIGHT SO ALOT OF YOU SAW THE FREEBIE POSTING AND SKIPPED THROUGH THE AD AND ALL OF THE WORDING.......NEXT TIME PLEASE READ THROUGH, ONLY THE FREEBIES ARE AVAILABLE NOW ALL THE ADD-ONS WERE AVAILABLE FOR THE 29TH ONLY.
HOWEVER SINCE THERE WERE SO MANY WHO DID NOT READ THOROUGHLY I AM GOING TO MAKE THE DREAMS COME TRUE ADD-ON AVAILABLE UNTILL SEPTEMBER 7TH. THE SCRAP-A-GANZA FREEBIES WILL BE HERE UNTILL SEPTEMBER 30TH

SO GRAB THE FREEBIE PORTIONS AND THE DREAMS COME TRUE ADD-ON

CLICK ON PIC

CLICK ON PIC

CLICK ON LINKS UNDER PIC

LINK 1 LINK 2

A Very Merry Birthday To Me!

ALSO LOOK LATER TODAY FOR A FREE PORTION OF MY NEWEST KIT

DREAMS COME TRUE

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Alright So I would have been on here earlier to post the links for all the freebies I am giving away today, but I think Nicholas sensing it was my birthday wanted to cudle with me all morning long, he never cudles with me anymore so I had to enjoy it while I can get it!

Toddlers--so fickle.

Anywho here are all my freebies-REMEMBER July's Add-On and August's Add-On and the Dreams Come True Add-On are free for today ONLY so snag them while you can!!

(Click on the pictures to be taken to the download

NOTE: Some have more than 1 download link so under some pictures you will notice an additional link)

2nd Download link

2nd Download Link

2nd Download Link

************Links Fixed************

I am now taking orders for custom banners and blinkies, I am currently accepting one order at a time, so if you are interested take this order form, fill what you can and email it to me and we can discuss what you would like!

Pricing

Order Form

ANOTHER NEW KIT......

ANOTHER NEW KIT.....Dreams Come True

NOT EVERYTHING IS SHOWN

13 Papers

1 FULL Alpha (upper, lowercase, numbers, punctuation, along with Uppercase Letter Decor)

1 Carriage

1 Castle

1 Tower

1 Tower Window Frame

3 Overlays (not shown)

1 Blank Crest

1 Blank Banner

6 Magical Creature Paintings
2 Blank Creature Paintings

4 Royal Family Paintings

1 12x12 Frame

1 Notebook

1 Scroll

1 Paper Cluster

1 Crystal Ball

5 Stacks of Books

1 Each of the Following: Mermaid, Fairy, Pixie, Pegasus, Wizard, Dragon

3 Criss Cross Ribbons

6 Stitched Crumpled Ribbons

6 Stitched Ribbons

4 Different Types of Trim

5 Velvet Ribbons

3 Rusted Brackets

5 Buttons

2 Crowns

8 Flowers

2 Goblets

6 Jewels

1 Jewel Cluster

1 Pearl

2 Sets of Leaves

1 Full set of Zodiac Stamps (not shown).

WHEW.......Its in 5 zips, to make it easier for dial up people!!!

GRAB IT HERE

My New Kit!!!

Ok so here is the preview for the Underwater Adventure Kit.Perfect for summer fun, sea adventures, water blasts, warm weather play! This Kit Includes the following: 16 Papers 6 different Frames 19 Different Trims/Ribbons, Strings 11 Glitter Swirls in 3 styles and 11 Different Colors 6 Fish/Sea Creatures 4 Mermaids 10 Buttons-Different colors 1 Pearl 3 Clips 3 Brad Prongs 2 Bubble Clusters 2 Clouds 1 Lighthouse 3 Rocks 1 Rock Cluster 1 Sand Border 8 Types of seaweed 2 Seaweed Clusters 1 Sun 1 Wave Cut Background


GRAB IT HERE

Whew....I will be giving away July and Augusts kits over my birthday weekend and the freebie portion will be up untill the end of september

UPDATES---Monika-my CT READ

Ok so my computer went down again since I last chatted with you, and I lost july's kit and what i had for august so I am still making them and will we offering the entire kit to you julys freebie and add-on and the same with august, for the first 3 days then after that you will only recieve the freebie portion.


I am starting from scratch so give me a week, also I just finished my Underwater Adventure, and I have some big news.....I am changing my design name....you will notice it if you look at my new TOUs........I will be changing some things in the comming weeks (as far as blog style and blinkies)

SO WATCH OUT!!!!

Oh and watch for a special treat the weekend of Aug 29th.........I turn 24 on the 29th so you may *wink wink* get a SPECIAL treat *wink*

and My CT please email me ---and Monika for some reason it will not let me email you......do you have another email address??????

Guess What......

Guess What..........
Im Baaaaaack!

Well not completely, I have my hardrive wiped my computer re formatted and windows up and running (as well as internet he he)

Now I have to re-install all my programs and drivers but Im back on my computer!

So watch out in a couple more days you guys are going to get hit hard with freebies.

AHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Ok so it didnt work and my computer crashed. It has been in complete compaq system recovery for 4-5 days and I just dont know if it will work. I am probably going to have to buy a whole new computer.


So run dont walk to my stores and buy some kits!! That way I can earn some money to buy a new computer! LOL

JK

Untill I get the whole computer situation fixed My Scrap-A-Ganza will be put on hold. However whenever I get back up and running I will be giving you any of the months that I missed along with the current months kit. YOU WILL NOT MISS OUT ON ANY MONTHLY KITS--they just may be delayed.

Thank you to everyone for all of your kind words!
They mean alot to me!
Xandra

hey I am probably going to be off the computer for a day or two--I think my computer is infected with a spyware, these ads wont stop popping up and it disabled my task manager, and reset my homepages and desktop to this ad to buy this one spyware, so I am going to have to wipe my hardrive down and i dont know how long it will take.

I promise once I get this squared away on my computer I will make it up, July will probably be late.

Sorry
and for those of you wanting to leave me nasty comments that if I cant post a freebie when I say I will then blah blah blah....just dont bother comming back to my blog.

thanks
Xandra

Last Day of Birthday Blitz and Update

Ok so next months kit may be a little late, I have over 4 pages of sketches scanned in and I havent even started coloring them yet. BUT all the papers are done, well almost, lol. I LOVE these colors!

ANYWHO I FINALLY HEARD FROM BRITTNEY!!!!

She is alive and well kinda at a loss, STILL no internet, and worst of all she thinks she may have to move back to Oklahoma. I kinda yelled at her for being out of contact for so long, I was worried sick that something happened to her.

She said she has been designing, and has a few new kits done already (she just cant uplaod them yet)

So lets leave her some encouraging words!

HERE IS THE LAST LINK OF BIRTHDAY BLITZ

Thank you ladies you are too funny

I just wanted to say THANK YOU for ALL your kind words!

Its funny most of the ladies who sent me a message or comment about saying sorry for not saying TY all the time are the ones I have their scrn name recognized because they do leave so many kind words...

I know everyone has a life and kids or grandkids, I do NOT expect a long TY for everydownload (cause I break them up into smaller downloads) so PLEASE do not think you have to say thnak you everytime! LOL just every one in awhile stop by and say TY just to keep my spirits up --man i am demanding arent i?! lol

You ladies are fantastic and I am going to make a little something for you!
(be on the lookout in a week)
Xandra