This Little Piggy kit for $2 andA5D Huge Birthday Sale

Happy 2nd birthday After Five Designs! Come check out our 35% off store wide sale from September 27 - October 3. My entire shop is 35% off HERE. And just for fun, you can take an extra 10% off your purchase using this coupon code: A5DEXTRA10 (**Please note that the coupon will not apply to collaborative items, cu items, or the $2 birthday kits.)

For a fun birthday treat, 10 After Five designers have created kits using one color swatch. All of the kits are marked at only $2 during the birthday sale. You can pick only the kits you like and use them together to create one huge personalized collaboration!

My coordinating A5D birthday kit is called This Little Piggy and it is a sweet, fun(ny) piggy themed kit inspired by the nursery rhyme, “This Little Piggy.” I think it is the perfect kit to scrap all of your sweet photos of sleeping babies, and cute little feet and toes, messy bedrooms, and of course, pigs! This Little Piggy includes 10 textured papers, full alpha, and 38 unique elements (62 total elements including variations). This Little Piggy is only $2 from September 27-October 3.

This Little Piggy

Please forgive my laziness tonight not posting any layout inspiration tonight. It's 10:00 PM here, and I am just feeling so super sleepy and preggo and my bed is calling out my name!!

I do have a little This Little Piggy coordinated label sampler prepared for you. Enjoy!

Download This Little Piggy Sampler Labels HERE

After Five Birthday Giveaway

I wanted to let you know about an amazing opportunity to win a bunch of free kits in the After Five Designs forum! Twelve After Five Designers have come together for a HUGE 2nd Birthday Giveaway!

Two random lucky winners will receive a $7.00 coupon from EACH of the 12 participating designers. That is $84 total in coupons! All you need to do for a chance to win is write "Happy Birthday" in your own Native Language in THIS THREAD in the A5D forum. Make sure you post ASAP because the two random winners will be chosen in the evening of September 26. Good luck!!

(12 Participating Designers: Cinnamon Designs, Createwings Designs, Dido Designs, HGD by Laurie Ann, Jazzmin Designs, Jofia Designs, Kay Miller Designs, Kimla Designs Kristin Aagard,
Lily Designs, Marta Designs and Nikki Beaudreau Designs)

New* Autumn Falling & Trick or Treat Returns

This week I had the opportunity to team up with Amber LeBau of Stolen Moments Designs who is the guest designer at After Five Designs this month. I really enjoyed working with Amber. She's super sweet and talented! We thought that since today is the first official day of fall, it would be fun to come up with an Autumn themed collab kit.

I am excited to introduce Autumn Falling. This pretty fall kit has tons of cute Autumn goodness. Autumn Falling includes 62 unique elements, a full alpha and 18 beautiful papers. It is 20% off HERE at After Five Designs through Friday, midnight. I have a coupon code for you to take an additional 10% off through September 26. Use coupon code: AUTUMNFALLING10

Autumn Falling

Thanks so much to my CT, the A5 CT and Amber's CT for the inspirational layouts! (Layout artists: Vetra, Sundri, Sashinamama, Olka, Miheda, Mel, Mary, Lucie, Kay M, Joshi_82,Hanazana and BettyBuh)

In response to several requests, I have decided to bring back my Trick or Treat kit. This kit includes 18 papers, 2 full alphas, and over 90 unique and original elements. Trick or Treat was available for a short time last year, and if you missed out on it, you can now pick it up HERE in my After Five Designs Shop.

Trick or Treat is 20% off through Friday, midnight. You can apply the additional 10% discount coupon code for an extra discount on Trick or Treat as well! (Code: AUTUMNFALLING10)

Trick or Treat

(Layout Artists: Davita, Paula Francovig, GoneWithTheWind, WendyP, Kay M, Sundri, Hanazana and Betty Buh)

I have created 5 additional papers that coordinate with the Autumn Falling Collab kit. They are available here to you as a free gift! I hope you enjoy them!

Download Autumn Falling Paper Pack Sampler HERE

Happy Birthday After Five Designs!

It's A5D's 2nd birthday! To celebrate, I am offering a chance for 3 people to win a free kit of their choice. All you have to do is let me know which one you want by posting in your choice HERE in the birthday forum at After Five Designs. Make sure you post by 9:00 PM MST September 21. Good luck!

PSSST.....While you are in the A5D forum, take a look around. There are lots of games and challenges happening. Plus you might just find that there are a few other designers and CT members with a little birthday gift for you. :)

Fruity Cutie & A5D Birthday Candle Blog Hop

I have had the opportunity to work with Lyndsay Riches recently. I totally love Lyndsay and I'm so excited about the bright, fun and fruity collab kit that we put together! Fruity Cutie is a huge kit packed with 100 unique elements (136 including recolored and variations), a paper pieced alpha (in three colors) and 20 beautiful papers. This fun and unique kit is sure to become a favorite in your scrap stash.

Fruity Cutie is 20% off at HERE at After Five Designs through Friday at midnight!

For an additional 10% discount through September 19, use coupon code: FRUITYCUTIE10

Fruity Cutie

For a limited time, when you purchase the Fruity Cutie Collab Kit, you will get these four 12x12 Quick Pages for free! This offer is available through September 24. After that, the QPs will be sold seperately.
Thank you to my CT, the A5D CT and Lydnsay's CT for the beautiful layout inspiration! (Layout Artists: SMI, Sherly, Sashinamama, Olka, Miheda, Mel, Mary, Hanazana, Lisa, Kay M, Domad and Britanee)












A5D is turning two! This candle below is part of our birthday celebration. To play along, make sure you collect all 7 candles (right-click on the candle, then choose "save picture as" to download). (If you have any difficulties saving the candle, you can download a zipped copy of the candle HERE.) Create a layout with A5D products and using all the candles (create the layout at 72dpi in order to use the candles), then upload it to our special "Birthday Candle" gallery to be entered in a drawing to win a $35 gift certificate!


Make sure you visit the other blogs to collect all the candles (if the candles are not available when you visit, please check bac. We are all in different time zones, and it's difficult to coordinate!):

http://nathylilescape.com/
http://glamfairydesigns.com/designs/
http://www.holstarrdesigns.blogspot.com/
http://thescrappychick.blogspot.com/
http://minimalscrap.blogspot.com/
http://createwingsdesigns.typepad.com/createwings_designs/

I have created an additional coordinating alpha for the Fruity Cutie Collab Kit. Please enjoy it as a free gift! Have a lovely weekend!

Download Fruity Cutie Alpha HERE

Pea in a Pod

I have been dying to share some exciting news. We will be adding another little munchkin to our family at the end of February. The girls are so excited, they talk to the belly every day and say the cutest and funniest things. We don't know if it's a boy or a girl yet, but we would be completely happy with either!

I thought it would be fun to celebrate and announce the news with a new pregnancy kit! I think Pea in a Pod is the perfect kit to scrap your pregnancy photos, ultrasounds, newborn baby and baby shower photos, cards, invitations and projects. The kit includes 16 papers, full alpha (in 3 colors), and 85 unique and original elements (137 total elements including recolored and variations).

Pea in a Pod is 20% through Friday, midnight at HERE at After Five Designs. You can use this coupon code for an additional 15% off your purchase price through Sept. 12.

Coupon Code: PEAINAPOD15

Pea in a Pod

Thank you to my CT and the A5D CT for the inspirational pages! (Layout artists: SMI, Sheyenne, Sashinamama, Paula Francovig, Olka, Mel, Mary, Kay M, Julismama, Domad & Aly321)

I used Random.org to pick the winners of the random drawing for two free copies Pea in a Pod. Here are the results:

Random Integer Generator
Here are your random numbers:

25 10 Timestamp: 2010-09-08 23:26:10 UTC

Congratulations to Paula (September 4, 2010 7:29 PM) and Maja (September 4, 2010 3:40 PM)! I hope you enjoy the kit! Please email me to claim your prize: kristin.aagard@gmail.com.

I thought a date stamp would be a fun addition to a pregnancy kit. I am offering it here as a free sample. I hope you enjoy it!

Download Pea in a Pod Date Stamper HERE