The Dish: Serving up…. Amamda/ PhotoCowGirl

I am serving up Amanda aka PhotoCowGirl today!

Photocowgirl

She is our feature GingerBread Lady this month, and you know what that means! She has an amazing Grab Bag for you for the month of April.  **This product will be automatically added to your cart with any purchase of $10.00 or more! **

Grab Bag Photocowgirl

This set of THREE brand new products can be yours for FREE this month! With any $10 purchase in the Gingerscraps store, this grab bag is yours for FREE! Simply make any $10 purchase in a single transaction in the month of April 2011 and you will receive this grab bag absolutely FREE! These three products will cost you $8.00 next month in the PhotoCowGirl store, get this deal while you can!

So lets get to know more about the lovely Amanda….

Ginger: Part of being the Monthly Feature means I put you under the microscope, and find out all about you 🙂 You ready to Dish!?
…. well it is lunch time here (right now with I am typing this) So for my first question…. What should I have for lunch today? lol What is your favorite Lunchtime meal?

Amanda: I am a big soup and pasta fan, but darling hubby is very meat and potatoes.  So whenever we don’t get to eat lunch with him, we often have soup or pasta.  My favorite: homemade fettuccine Alfredo

Ginger: Mmmmm I love fettuccine Alfredo!! So yummy!
Now I have food on the brain, What is your favorite flavor of ice-cream?

Amanda: DQ’s Triple Chocolate Cookie Dough Blizzard.  My hubby brought me one right after my 2nd daughter was born.  I swear it can heal anything!

Ginger: I have actually never had a Blizzard…. but now I think I will make sure I do 🙂 Sounds delicious!
OK, what is your least favorite food?

Amanda: Hominy.  I can’t even stand the way it smells.

Ginger: Honestly I dont even know what that is. LOL. Hopefully that will not be served at your Easter Dinner this year? (did you like the smooth transition!) Tell us about your favorite Easter memory?

Amanda: When I was a child. Easter egg hunting with my cousins!  Now, we visit myparents and go to church as a family.  You don’t realize how important family is until you become a parent.

Ginger: I so agree with you! Traditions are so important, and photos of it all just as important 😉 ok now, I want to see a childhood photo of you! If you can dig up an Easter photo that would be awesome!

Amanda: Oh, Ginger you’re killing me.  You know, I don’t have a single photo of my childhood, outside of baby pics in my baby book.  They are all at my parents.  You are missing out too, because I was a cute kid.  Tell you what though, I will dig one up next time I’m at home and post it in the forum.

Ginger: I will hold you to that 🙂 Tell us about your family now? (kids, ages, etc)

Amanda: I have 2 girls, 3 years & 7 months.  I’ve been married – going on almost 5 years – to a man I met locked out of his dorm room in nothing but a towel… talk about fate.

Ginger: Oh my! That is so funny! Can we see a family photo pretty please?

Amanda: I hate to admit this, but I do not have a family photo of all of us.  My hubby likes to run and hide from the camera and I’m usually behind it   Thanks for the reminder that I need one, and here’s a layout I made of my two favorite girlies to hold you over until I get one:

Layout
Credits: Kit, Memory Keeper by Designs by Helly; template, by Busy Bee

Ginger: LOVE the Layout though, so precious! How about some more….Can you share with us 2 of your favorite Layouts and tell us a little about each?

Amanda: This is my all time favorite layout:
Layout
credits: In The Wild by Ziggle Designs

Ginger: Oh my goodness! I love that! Wonderful journaling!
And now Amanda the Designer! PhotoCowGirl… Why did you choose that as your designer name?

Amanda: Well, I don’t want to say I stole it, but I’d heard of a photographer called the FotoCowboy.  I liked the idea behind it so I used it as my login name when I first started hanging around the scrapbook forums.  I never got creative enough to think of another one when I started designing.  Although, in all honesty, it fits.  I’m not sure I’d classify myself as a hardcore cowgirl, but I love to take pictures and I’m a country girl – with a horse.

Ginger: Thief! haha just teasing 🙂 It totally does fit your style perfectly.
Can you share with us your 2 favorite products, I know it is like picking a favorite child.. but do your best 🙂

Amanda:
Layout

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Wild-About-You-2-Templates-by-Photocowgirl.html

Bundle
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Barren-Beauty-Bundle-by-Photocowgirl.html

I’ll spare you the 3 pages explanation of why they are my favorite.

Ginger: Beautiful!!  Well.. it looks like you survived! Yahoo!! I want to thank you again for being our March Feature Designer! And I hope all you readers out there rush on over to the GingerScraps Shop, and fill your cart (with at least $10.00 worth of goodies) so you can get Amandas AWESOME Grab Bag!

April Daily Download #16

Oh my goodness!!!  I am way late today!  🙁  I totally slept in this morning and have been so busy cleaning all day.  I just sat down to look at the comments and realized there were none!  lol  I love seeing all the comments in my e-mail!  You guys really are pretty awesome!!!  I’m still working on some fun tips and tut’s for y’all!  I’m a Gimp user right now and just trying to learn Photoshop Elements but I’m working on getting some good stuff – don’t worry!  🙂

It was so great to see some of you at the speed scrap yesterday!!!  There’s another one coming up on Thursday 4/21 at 9pm EST – this one will be a template chat so it should be fun too!  I do LOVE templates!!!  When I first started scrapping I was afraid of them but now a year later – I use them a lot!!!!

Anyhow – here’s day # 16 for you:

Hope  you are having a great weekend!  🙂

April Daily Download #15

Hello all!!!

It’s Friday!!!  Are you ready for the weekend?  I am!  I am so excited by the warmer weather that I might just want to stay outside all weekend.  I’m sure my boys would like that!  🙂

So anyhow – I hope you’ll consider joining me for this speed scrap today.  It should be a fun time and I’ve got several new kits that I haven’t scrapped with yet.  I’m excited to get into them! 🙂

Be sure to visit the store today – there are lots of fabulous Fresh Baked Goodies!!!  Alrighty – here’s day #15 of this kit:

Have a great day!!!!

Daily Download #14

Hello!  Hope everyone is having a great week!  Just want to give a quick reminder that we are having a speed scrap tomorrow at 10am PST/1pm EST.  I’ll be putting the kiddos down for nap and enjoying a little mid-day speed scrap – I’m ready!!!!  🙂  We’ll be scrapping with Cari Cruse and in case you haven’t been to one of her speed scraps before – you always get a great layout and she usually hands out a pretty awesome participation prize too!  🙂  I hope to see you there!!!

Now here’s day #14:

Have a fabulous day!!!

April Daily Download #13

April Daily Download #11

Hi there!  Hope you are ready for a new week!  It’s Monday – yay!  That means I have to get back to the grind with 3 kiddos instead of just my 2.  I do love being able to stay home though – even if it means hanging out with 3 crazy boys all day!  🙂  Maybe today they will play nicely together and let me do a little scrappin’ – I think I’m in the mood since its a dreary and rainy day.

Question for you:  Is there anything special you’d like me to post with the daily download?  Would you prefer me to highlight more challenges? show more layouts for inspiration?  post tips and tricks for scrappin’ things?  Let me know.  I am game for just about anything – I’ll give it a try for y’all!  🙂  Thanks!  I look forward to hearing your responses!

Okay – here’s day #11:

Have a great day!!!!

This week’s LOTW winner is scrapper@heart with her beautiful  LO. This LO has such a beautiful story to tell with it’s photos and journaling.   Click on the image to leave her some love or click here to view her entire Gingerscraps Gallery.
  
This lovely layout was created using goodies from the I’m Every Woman collection by Connie Prince.
 

 

 

 You can pick outstanding gallery layouts which become the next LOTW nominee’s by posting in the “Baker’s Best” thread. Check out the rules here.

  As always your vote counts so head over the the forum to vote for the next LOTW winner. You can be a LOTW winner too, all you have to do is scrap! Happy Scrapping.

 

https://gingerscraps.net/gsblog/2011/04/3496/

April Daily Download #9

Hi y’all!!!  Did you pick up some goodies in the store yesterday?  The one big thing on my to-do list for today is to put in an order with Persnickety Prints!

Other than that – I think I’ll be trying to be outside soaking up some of the sun we are being blessed with!  I love this time of year when I can just smell summer coming!!!  We almost broke out the grill tonight but decided to wait one more week. It’s still just a little too chilly as soon as the sun goes down.  🙁  It’s okay – it’s close!!!!

Alrighty – here’s the next piece to this awesome kit!

Have a great day!!!!

Jacque 🙂

April Daily Download #8

Wow!!!  Have you seen the Fresh Baked post for today???  If not – be sure to scroll down or click here to check it out!!!  Such yummy goodies in the store this week!

Just want to make sure – you did see that there is a sale on the Persnickety Prints this weekend – right?  It’s only this weekend – so I don’t want you to miss out!!!  I am going to at least print out a few layouts.  I have never done it before and since this month makes almost a year that I’ve been digi-scrapping – what a great gift to myself for sticking with this wonderful hobby!  🙂  Plus – don’t they make great gifts for the grandparents???  I think so!!!  Everyone loves pictures of the grandkids – right?

Okay – now here’s day #8 for y’all:

Hope you have a fabulous Friday!

April Daily Download #6

Hi there!

Just want to remind you about our April Guest Designer:

These are two of my favorite kits in her store but she’s got lots more!  She has oodles of GREAT templates too!

Isn’t that Sunshine and Rainbows kit just perfect for spring?  I love those little owls!  And the pinwheels too!  The banner up top is linked so you an get right to her store or both of the kits are linked so you can hop right to them in the store.  🙂  I like it when its easy to shop!  🙂

Okay – so here’s what you probably came for – day #6 of this super cool kit from HK Designs.