G’day G’day! I am so late with my blog freebie this month but I tell ya I have had one hell of a month! LOL. So without further or do here it is. Click on the image or the link below to be taken to the freebies page.

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Enjoy and thanks heaps for looking. Ok I am going to my warm bed as it is way past my bed time again. LOL.

Hugs,

Told ya I had forgotten something. ROFL!

Yes you read right! For a limited time ONLY you can purchase everything in my Tara Dunstan Designs Store or my Pickleberrypop Store! And yes this includes ALL commercial-use items as well for one tiny price of $45.00! That’s a total saving of $519.55 for EVERYTHING!

Thanks heaps for looking and Happy Scrapping everyone!

Hugs,

Hi Guys and Gals! Well I have so much news it’s almost unbearable. ROFL! Now where to begin? Hmmmmm. ROFL! Ok we’ll start with the BRAND spankin new stores I am selling at! hehehehe! I am so so excited to tell everyone that I applied to the Scrapable Designer Call and I GOT ON! How cool is THAT! Lots and lots of thanks and kisses to you Denise for having me girl! I am sooo over the moon about it. So not only can you find my products in my own store at taradunstandesigns.net & pickleberrypop but you can find me at Scrapable too! But that’s not it! ROFL! I received a few emails from the girls over at Perfect-A-Dream with invitations to join them over in their brand new store selling my goodies! How exciting is this! Thanks heaps to Grazi, Carola & Val for the invite and I am so happy to join you all on your new venture!

So I can now be found at the following stores: taradunstandesigns.net, Pickleberrypop, Scrapable & Perfect-A-Dream! How cool is that!!

So what else has been happening? Well my Guest CT Call is over now and I have soooo many gorgeous girls coming on board! I am so excited to put this up! I have put everyone who applied on through out the months of July, August and September so please help me in welcoming the following ladies to my team:

Welcome aboard girls and can’t wait to work with you all!!

Now onto some store news. I have been a busy little bee and have made a fair few things and best of all I have made a HUGE HUGE HUGE Aussie Kit! Make sure you check it out Aussie’s cause it is HUGE! LOL.

To check the following items out please use these links to go to each store:
taradunstandesigns.net, Pickleberrypop, Scrapable & Perfect-A-Dream

And my past newsletter freebies are now available in the store too!

I am still yet to upload everything to both new stores so please bare with me.

Now onto some layouts! The first one I made using my brand new kit, Goody Goody Gumdrops.

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And here is another one using my kit, Estelle’s Elegance.

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And here are some using Gina Marie Huff’s gorgeous goodies:

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And one using Jofia Devoe’s gorgeous kit:

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This month I will not be putting out a newsletter freebie. Well as of now I won’t be because this month has been very hectic and I have run out of time but please stay tuned. I might find time to get something special made up for you all.

Ok I thank that is all for now. Trust me I know I have forgotten something so I am sure I will be back very soon with what I have forgotten. HAHAHAHA!

Hope this finds you all going great and hope your having a great week!

Hugs,

G’day G’day! How is everyone after the long weekend? I had a great weekend with just the girls here, while Dunno buggared off to play golf with the boys PMSL! I even did house work! Yeah I know, bloody shock horror. PMSL! But I had so much time over the weekend to play in PS and I churned out some pretty cool layouts. Well I think they are pretty cool anyway. PMSL!

But first before I go showing off what I did I have an exciting opportunity for all you girls who would like to create with my goodies! I am having my very first Guest CT Call and you are all invited to apply. Depending on the amount of apps, I may just see how I go and I might be able to fill in a few months so come on and apply girls!

If you can’t see the above post it reads as follows:

Looking for a Guest spot at TDD?

Do you love Tara Dunstan Designs? Can you make 3 layouts in a month? Can you post in 4 galleries, one being DST, one being at pickleberrypop, one being at Tara Dunstan Designs and one of your own choice?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, send an email to:

tara at taradunstandesigns dot net

with a brief bio and a link to your main gallery & I will get back to you ASAP.

Call ends on the 18th of June, 2008.

Can’t wait to see your apps!

Now onto some layouts! I have been in the BIGGEST layout making mood lately and there are soooo many gorgeous kits out there I want em all! ROFL!

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This one above of Gypsy would have to be one of my most fave layouts! I am so going to get this printed and hung on my wall I tell ya. Also going to do one of Jaz and Lily too. Gunna look awesome I reckon. LOL

Hope you all have a great week wherever you are in the world and thanks for looking. I will be back through the week with a new blog freebie so keep your eyes out.

Cheers,

Well where do I begin? Seriously!! ROFL!! Ok I will begin with one of the biggest exciting things for me. Last week I received a PM from Gina Marie Huff, one of the 3 AMAZINGLY talented Weeds & Wildflowers girls, asking if I would like to be on her Creative Team. Of course I jumped right at the chance and said a HUGE YES! hehehehe! I was soooo excited (and still am too) and so very honoured that she would ask me to be on her amazing team. And this is the first time I have been asked by a designer to be on a team too and what a designer to begin with hey. I can’t wipe the smile from my face I tell ya. LOL.

A few weeks back I brought Gina’s The Happy Collection and I can’t stop scrapping with it. If you haven’t got it yet, I tell ya you NEED it. It’s amazing and so so so worth the money! And that isn’t the only thing I have brought from the girls either. I have got a nice little collection now and it is just going to keep growing. I really urge you to go check the W&W site out cause it is unreal and the quality is next to none.

Here are a few pages I have scrapped using W&W products.

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This layout below was made using Gina’s The Happy Collection. This is a photo of my GORGEOUS GORGEOUS cousin, Caitlin. She is total model material I swear. Not only is she a Natural Beauty, she is the funniest kid you will come across. She is so down to earth and will just say it like it is. She’s just gorgeous! {Click Here to view full credits}.

And this one was made using the W&W Follow Your Bliss Kit. And this is Caitlin again. I could photograph her all day long I tell ya. {Click Here to view full credits.}

So now you can see why I am so so so excited hey. Gina’s stuff is totally amazing and I absolutely LOVE everything W&W!!

Now onto some more very exciting news for me. I have just opened up my very own forum and gallery for you all to join in on to go with my shop. I am so very excited about it so if you want some fun, some challenges, some games and mostly, lots and lots of laughs, come on over and register and join in the fun. My CT and I are getting lonely now and we would love for you all to come on over and join in on our fun. AND I am not on my own over there either! I have the most amazing friend as my fellow admin, Chris Turnbull. This girl is amazing and I swear if you haven’t checked any of her gorgeous layouts out before, CLICK HERE! Trust me, your in for an amazing time looking through her totally amazing work. Thank you so very much Chicky for being my right hand girl. I appreciate it to the moon and back you know and lots and lots of love to ya girl!! Check Chris’s blog out HERE too. Just amazing girl and I value your firendship so very much!! xoxoxo

And speaking of my Creative Team, they have their very OWN CT blog where they will be hosting their own challenges, product reviews, gallery standouts, etc. And to make the deal VERY sweet, you could pick yourself up some coupons and gift certificates to use in my store!! So come on over and join in on the fun. I promise you will have a ball!

Congratulations go out to Penny Way for being our very first winner at the CT blog too. She picked herself up and $10 gift certificate to use in my store. Well done Hun!

Now how about a freebie? Yeah? hehehehehehe! After a receiving a few requests, I have made up a quickpage for you all to grab up. And not only have I been adding a forum and gallery BUT I have also updated my freebies page and put it on it’s very own directory. To grab my freebies up from now on please go to:

http://www.taradunstandesigns.net/freebies

Here is my newest freebie QP, Beautiful You. To grab this up please go to my Freebies page and snag yourself up a goodie or 12. LOL.

Now for some Store News! LOL. I got busy last week and uploaded a lot of new goodies into both my Tara Dunstan Designs Store and my Pickleberrypop.com store too. To check out all the new goodies CLICK HERE! Here is a preview of what you will catch while you are in there:

See told ya I had been busy. ROFL! And it hasn’t stopped there either. ROFL! I got asked the other day if I would make up a paper and a scrapabet for the January edition of Scrapbooking Memories and of course I jumped at the chance to get my work in Australia’s number one Scrapbooking Magazine. I am so so excited about it and not only that, one of my layouts have been chosen to be published this year in the Scrapbooking Memories mag too. I can’t hold back the excitement around here at the moment I tell ya. ROFL! Check out the Scrapbooking Memories site. They even have an online gallery and I tell ya you get the most sweetest comments. They are so gorgeous over there. It is GREAT! And if your a fan like I am grab this blinkie up that I made for them and wear in your signatures:

Ok onto some more layouts I have made in the past week or so. I have been in the BIGGEST scrapping mood lately and I can’t stop making layouts. hehehehehehe! Check these out for some inspiration.

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This one below was made using ChereKaye’s GORGEOUS frames and papers. You HAVE to have em I tell ya. They are gorgeoussssssss.

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This one below was made using the MASSIVE collab kit available over at Pickleberrypop.com. It is called Imagine.Create.Share and it is HUGE! All we designers got in and got busy and made this gorgeous kit up for all of our new Scrapbooking Memories customers. PBP were featured in the latest mag this month and to celebrate we all got together and made something special. It is a total must have!

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And this one below was made using ChereKaye’s gorgeous gorgeous goodies for my CT requirements and I think it came out really cool. Her stuff is so so cute!!

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And this one below I made for Trav. Check the crays OUT! Aren’t they HUGE! The one that Corinne is holding is bloody massive. YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY!! hehehehehehe! So there ya go Darling, your on my blog now. PMSL! HAHAHAHAHA! Look out Dick, your NEXT! PMSL! HAHAHAHAHAHA!

I used Natali Designs (Vendula’s) gorgeous stuff in this layout of Trav and Corinne and sadly she isn’t selling at PBP now as she has been poached my Scrapbookgraphics but I wanna say, Vendula your gunna be missed Chicky and keep up and amazing work girl!!!

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Holy crap I have made one hell of a post haven’t I. HAHAHAHAHA! Ok I think I will end it at that because it is now 11.55pm and I have only just got all 3 girls to bed not long ago so I am going to hit the fart sack because I need some sleep. What a day. LOL. Bloody school holidays! I am stuffed PMSL!

Hope this finds you all going great and I am sure I will be back again soon with another post. Next time I won’t leave it so long and make such a HUGE post. HAHAHAHAHA!

Cheers,

Yayy I’ve been tagged by Rachael {Rachael’s Scrap}

1. Link your tagger and list these rules on your blog
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

Okay here are 7 facts about me (Aghhhhh) LOL:

1. I have a massive chocolate addiction!! That’s all I got to say!!! HAHAHA!

2. I absolutley LOVE music! From mainly the 70’s & 80’s but I love a whole range of genre’s. I have music on each and every day and when I was in high school it was the only way I could do my homework, with the music pumping. HAHAHAHA! Also, when I am alone driving in the car I have the music so loud and pumping, I LOVE it!! hehehehe!

3. I collect naughty toys. PMSL!

4. I am 5 foot 6 1/2 inches tall. LOL

5. I love to play & watch netball.

6. I have a fasination with Adam Ant!! PMSL!

7. I absolutley LOVE David Bowie!!

That was bloody hard!!! PMSL! OK, so now I have to choose who I’m going to tag! Hmmm, there’s a lot of people I’d like to choose, but my choices are….

1. Chris

2. Annette

3. Kaye

4. Nat

5. Kel

6. Biancka

7. Jenna

Have fun girls!

I am jumping for joy here! hehehehe! I applied for ChereKaye’s CT and GUESS WHAT??? I got ON!!! How exciting hey. I have been bottling the excitement in for over a day now and the announcement has gone out and now I can SHOUT it out. hehehehehehe! Thank you so much Chere for picking me out of so many apps and I hope I can do you proud.

I got to playing this morning and I have made a new layout for the CT. Chere’s The Spring Line is amazing and you HAVE to have it!!

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Here are a few snippits of her awesome kit. There are so many more goodies in this collection so go grab it up. You won’t be disapointed, trust me!!!

Thanks heaps for looking and I hope you all have a great week!! I shall be back in a day or two with a newsletter & a brand new freebie for all of my valued subscribers!!

Cheers,

Just a quick note today! I am just about to walk out the door because I have to go to the doctors but I wanted to let you all know first that I have a brand new freebie out on my blog. I have created these FUNKY buttons using products from Rachaels Scrap! If you haven’t checked her awesome stuff out yet CLICK HERE! I promise you will not be disapointed with her amazing quality Commerical Use stuff. I have brought a lot of commercial stuff the past few months and I will tell you now, a LOT of it was just pure crap!!! All pixelated and warped but Rachael’s stuff is the BEST quality you will find out if you go and check her out. And trust me, I have a lot of commerical use stuff! LOL.

So please rush on over and check her out! I promise you will walk out of her store with the BEST Commercial Use stuff!!

Ok onto my freebie. To download this goodie please CLICK HERE or on the image to be taken to my Freebies page. Enjoy and I would love to hear some comments if you grab something

Cheers,

CONGRATULATIONS to the following ladies who have won a Gift Certificate to my store for their wonderful patronage throughout my National Scrapbooking Day Sales and also for all of their support!!
Thanks heaps Girls!!

Gift Certificates have been sent out to your email addresses so keep an eye out and as always, Happy Shopping!! Enjoy and thank you so very much again

Cheers,

Would you believe that I am so far behind! ROFL! Nothing new I know BUT I have a very good excuse this time. hehehe! I have been working hard behind the closed doors with a massive secret, yep that’s right, a BRAND spanking new store has finally been open. Check this out:

I have thrown ZenCart to the dumpster and upgraded to X-Cart and so loving it! And to make your shopping online even safer my store is totally secured with an SSL Certificate so you can shop with peace of mind.

I am having a 30% OFF the entire store sale and to make the deal even sweeter, if you spend over $10 you will receive my brand new kit, Little Miss Chris, totally FREE! To get this kit please read the product description for further detials. To check my new store out please CLICK HERE.

And as if that wasn’t quiet enough, if you check out my team blog HERE, you could snag yourself up a $10 gift certificate to spend in my store. Make sure you subscribe to the blog if you want to keep up on the weekly challenges, prizes and lots and lots of goodies from my AWESOME CT Girls.

AND if that wasn’t quiet enough to wet your whistles, Kaye Winiecki and Myself have gotten together and we have made a GORGEOUS new collab kit together called, All That Twitters! Not only is it available as a full kit but you can also pick it up as just an element or paper pack. This goodie is only available at our Pickleberrypop.com store so get in and beat the rush!

To check this kit out please CLICK HERE or on the image below:

A massive thank you goes out to Kaye for everything. Your the best girl and I had soooo much fun working with ya!

Now for some even bigger exciting news for me. I submitted a special layout early last year to the For Keeps Scrapbooking Magazine and it got published in last months Issue 66, 2008. I initially made this layout as a 6×4 Inch photo to give out at my Auntie Liz’s funeral and everyone loved it so I decided to make it up as a big 12×12 Inch layout and thought what they hey, I’ll submit it to the magazine and I was so over the moon when I got a message back saying it was chosen to be published. So anyway I was just browsing the magazine one night when I was bored and I get to page 118 and whatta ya know, here is my layout. It wasn’t meant to be in the mag till the following month so it was a massive surprise and what a surprise to have. Not only was it such a special layout to me BUT I got a FULL page to myself. I was sooo happy and excited and so teary all at the same time but WOW I was excited to see it as a WHOLE FULL page and what a tribute to my Auntie Liz hey!! Check it out:

Now for some layouts I have been playing with in PS in-between breaks from setting the store up. Making these have been the best relaxation tool I tell ya and what gorgeous products to work with too!

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My Petals layout is currently out for publication and will return again very soon.

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This one below was made for my Scraplift Challenge I have running over at Pickleberrypop at the moment. If you duck over to HERE and check it out, you will receive a freebie for participating. The GORGEOUS GORGEOUS layout I have chosen to use to scraplift is one of the many brilliant layouts made by Chris Turnbull, A Moment. I am in total awe of this gorgeous girl and I just know you will fall in love with her beautiful work. CLICK HERE to check her gallery out! Trust me, you will LOVE what you see!

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And if you haven’t already, you HAVE to check out Gina Marie Huff from Weeds & Wildflowers brand new GORGEOUS collection, The Happy Garden. It is truely AMAZING and I can’t stop scrapping with it. hehehehe!

Now on the home front, ROFL yes there is MORE. PMSL! I promise this should pretty much do me. ROFL! Everything has been going excellent here. I celebrated my 28th birthday on the 14th of April. Aghhh the years are going too fast I tell ya. Only 2 more years and I hit the big 30! Whaaaa. HAHAHAHA! But to my surprise Dunno brought me a gorgeous new watch for my birthday:

Without even thinking of it he always buys me something with a diamond in it and it is my birth stone. See he is clever deep down in there but he just doesn’t know it. HAHAHAHA! And I am NOT telling him. PMSL! But it is gorgeous and I love it so much. We also went out for tea at the Stanley Pub and I ordered Green Thai Curry, thinking it would be mild like the one I buy at home but NOOOO! It was the HOTTEST thing I have ever put in my mouth. And me being bloody polite, I ate 3/4 of it. HAHAHA! No shit, the skin in my mouth was peeling off by the time I finished and it was so sore for days and days after. PMSL! But it was nice to get out UNTIL my darling husband got the kitchen staff to bring out desserts for myself and the kids. I never eat desserts but he thought he would be funny and get me a sticky date pudding with a candle in it. BUT do you think they brought out a tiny candle on it??? NO of course NOT! They come out with this massive sparkler sticking out and that was embrassing enough for me but it got worse. HAHAHAHA! My darling Jazmin started singing Happy Birthday to me so, yep you know it, the WHOLE bloody resturant joined in with Jaz. I was sooooo embarressed and I HATE being center of attention. I hate it with a passion but I had to smile and grin and bare it for Jaz. PMSL! I gave Dunno one sharp look and the waitress laughed and said out LOUD, I don’t think Dad is gunna get HIS sweets tonight. OMG just advertise it. HAHAHAHAHA! But it was really funny afterwards and I love em all for the great night.

The girls are going excellent. Would you believe that Lily is 18 weeks old now. I swear you blink and the time goes even faster. She is full on rolling around the place now and wanting to badly run off after Jaz and Gypsy. If I put her in a walker I am sure she’d be off and catching them. LOL. She is a real yackka too. Each time she wakes up she talks flat out and it even sounds like she is singing half the time. She is so gorgeous. Her sleeping it getting a lot better now through the day. Night times are always awesome except for a few times last week but hey, I can’t complain really. She even has a friend or friends floating around the house. I have known since we moved in here that we have a spirit but since Lily has come into the world it has just totally proved me right. She will chat away to whoever it is and follows whoever it is around with her eyes. It is great in some ways but sometimes I swear that is why she gets woken. PMSL! I was trying to change her bum the other night and she was full on twisting her body around trying to talk to this person and I cracked em and said, Oh look can you buggar off just until I change her bum, and whatta ya know, Lily turned back around and let me change her bum. PMSL! I sound insane hey, but believe it! HAHAHAHA! There are soooo many different incidents and my girlfriend witnessed it first hand so I know I am not going totally bonkers. PMSL!

Jaz and Gypsy are also going great! Jaz turns 8 next month. Where have the years gone huh? She is a teenager though in an 8 year old body. She totally amazes Mum and Dad when she talks to them on the phone because you would swear you were talking to a teen. LOL. And Gypsy too is going in leaps and bounds. They are such a crack up and the best big sisters in the world. They adore their baby sister and they help me out so much.

We are off to the footy again this weekend to watch the Hawks anilate Port Adelaide! Sooo can’t wait to go again. There is rain predicted though so I am really hoping it buggars off till on our way home. But we might be going over to our mates, Danny and Sunny’s after the game yet but haven’t decided yet. Will be great to catch up with them cause we haven’t seen them in months. But we’ll see what happens. I just hope the rain nicks off till the game is over cause it is so awesome watching the game in real life and not on telly.

Ok I think that is it for now. I have blabbed enough and I have almost written an essay. HAHAHAHA! I hope this finds you all going excellent and I hope you check out my new store. Hurry while the goodies are so cheap and the freebies are hot! hehehe!

Cheers,