A.J.'s Digi Shoppe Blog

A Very Long Two Years

2016-03-23T20:17:00.001-04:00

Greetings Everyone -

I wanted to let everyone know I have not fallen off the face of the planet, I have been in school and working outside the home. I am happy to report I have completed school, which means I will have time to start drawing again. I can say I have not done much creative items since 2014 and I am quite excited to start again. Drawing has always been my outlet, I am quite excited to get back into drawing! I am not sure how much time I will be able to dedicate to the Digi Shoppe but I do know it will no longer go unattended. I miss blogging and I miss drawing so at least one of those things will start happening again.

Thank you for your continued support over the past two years and I look forward to see what 2016 brings!

Amanda :)

Happy (almost) Summer!

2014-05-21T16:25:00.002-04:00

Greetings everyone,

I am sorry about the MIA since March but I have very good reasons. I am back at work full time and I am in school full time meaning what little time I have is directed at the hubby, the Princess and the Booga!

I am also happy to report I have been sketching in what little "free time" I have and I have some amazing ideas for my next digis. The main problem is not having enough time to really do anything but homework. Reading on average 250 pages a week, writing 2 papers and working full time makes for a very exhausted Manda. I am loving my new job and am extremely happy with my decision to go back to work, even though it has been a change I am happy I made the leap.

I want to thank everyone for your continued support and I hope to have some new items (maybe even a Newsletter) really soon!

Thank you again!

Manda :)

PS: Booga graduated from Pre-School today I thought I would share a photo (mom only cried a little)

When he graduates from high school I am totally recreating this photo.

Freebie Friday (Double Edition)

2014-02-14T00:00:00.000-05:00

I missed last week I do have a really good reason I was in Cookie Purgatory, I do believe that is what they call it when you are 1) a leader/cookie mom and 2) can't eat any of the said cookies because they are not Gluten-Free. I mean I would love to sit back and eat a whole box of Samoas right now, instead I just stare at their purple boxes, I am pretty sure they are laughing at me.

This was only half of them

As you can see one member of my family was not happy with this development

Besides cookies, I am officially enrolled in college I start back March 3rd. This development happened much quicker than expected but I am ready to get back to school. I am excited to see how long it will take me to finish, I am hoping to be done in December if everything transfers.

Today the Freebie is a double because I completely forgot last week. The cookies may or may not look like the cookies I have been staring at for the past week. Girl Scouts of America has no affiliation with A.J.'s Digi Shoppe.

Click on the picture to download your digis

I was having a little bit of trouble with the hyperlinks so if the pictures don't work click on the words below.

I hope everyone has a great weekend and Happy Valentine's Day!

Freebie Friday - John Lennon Quote

2014-01-24T00:00:00.000-05:00

I missed Monday Release, sorry everyone I am pretty sure I can only handle Freebie Fridays. This week involved a lot of sewing for me and other random things happened. I just don't have enough hours in a day to post everything that I need. My biggest problem is I love sleep, I will sacrifice sleep when I absolutely have to but the six hours I get a night I sort of need. I also don't get a lot of time to sit, type, upload, and format with Booga constantly trying to "help" me (that is why you sometimes see random typos or things just not making sense).

I also started the ball rolling in getting back into the outside the home "workforce" in some form of hospitality management (Sales, Revenue or Reservations). Keep your fingers crossed for me because I am a tad excited with the prospect of wearing a suit, make-up and having a manicure every other week (something that really hasn't happened in a while - lol). I have been a work inside the home mom/stay at home mom for almost five years now, I miss interacting with people over the age of twenty. I love my children with all my heart and soul but when mom quotes SpongeBob to her adult friends it is time to find something else to do. I am also looking at going back to school and getting my Business Degree, I figured my eight year break has been long enough and I spent a lot of money/time on school not to have that piece of paper. My children are 8 and 4 and I have spent the past five years with them (every day, almost every waking hour), I know my job is not done and will never be "done" but I am ready to move on to the next chapter of this unwritten book.

I will continue to do the newsletter and the Freebie Fridays, sadly I can't keep up with the weekly releases. Sorry for the long winded post but I wanted to let everyone know what is going on and that I am not just ignoring the Digi Shoppe, I am ignoring all of social media equally.

With that I leave you with todays Freebie - one of my favorite quotes by John Lennon

Click on the picture to download your digis.

Freebie Friday - Big Brother/Big Sister Sentiment

2014-01-17T00:00:00.000-05:00

When I was pregnant with Booga (my son) the only thing I wanted for my daughter was a Big Sister shirt. I thought it would be so cute if I got a picture of my daughter holding my son with her Big Sister shirt on. In theory this was perfect it was going to be a wonderful shot that I would cherish forever. It did not work like that at all my daughter wanted NOTHING to do with my son when he was born. The only pictures I got were these:

Booga is about 4 days old as you can see the Princess is plugging her ears because he is screaming.

Here is another photo I tried to get a couple months later once again not much success.

Here are the Freebies:

Click on the picture to download your digis

Monday Release - Cradle and Buggy

2014-01-13T00:00:00.000-05:00

Our newest digis are perfect for a card to congratulate their newest arrival. Each stamp was and drawn and then converted to a digital format. The colors match all the coordinating Baby Papers and other embellishments A.J.'s Digi Shoppe has created.

Click on the digis to take you to our shop!

Freebie Friday - More Baby Sentiments

2014-01-10T00:00:00.000-05:00

It is definitely Baby Season I had one friend who had their baby Monday, I have another who just hit 40 weeks (she is miserable, poor thing) and I have another friend due in three weeks. Not to mention the friends who are due in April and May.

Booga asked when I was holding one of the babies, if we were going to get one of those anytime soon. I told him probably not. He was a tad disappointed. I asked him why was he sad. He then responded because he wanted to blame all the bad stuff he did on the baby. I admit I appreciate his honesty, so I must be doing something right.

I hope everyone has a great weekend, I will be starting my seeds for my garden (yes I grow from seeds and yes I have a garden or try to have a garden).

Here are your Freebies:

Click on the picture to download your Freebies

Monday Release - Blocks and Booties

2014-01-06T00:00:00.000-05:00

Today's Monday release features Blocks and Booties

To check them out click on the picture to check out the full set of stamps.

Freebie Friday - Baby Sentiments

2014-01-03T00:00:00.000-05:00

In the past month I have had one family member and a friend of mine give birth to new bundles of joy. I also have two other friends who are due in the next month and another who is due in April. So I have been making lots of baby cards recently and decided to expand the sentiments and offer them as Freebies.

The footprints are actually from a stamp I created from my son's day old prints. I do admit I miss those little toes and that new baby smell sometimes but I then remember I can sleep through the night without being bothered (there is the occasional fur baby visit due to weather booms). For now I will settle for rent-a-babies getting my baby snuggles in without all the hard work of a new born.

Click on the picture to download your freebies

Happy New Year! With Freebies

2014-01-01T00:00:00.000-05:00

It is 2014 and a fresh start for the Digi Shoppe. This year I plan to be a tad more organized and concentrate even more on the Digi Shoppe. I have been thinking of ways to improve the Digi Shoppe and one of the ways I thought of was a theme every month.

What has changed:

The first of each month I will release a new theme in our monthly Newsletter.
Each Monday I will release three to four stamps from the collection.
The last day of every month the complete set will be available to purchase on the website.
The Freebie Fridays will be associated (for the most part) with that months theme.
More photos and blog posts featuring projects using our products (i.e. my children may actually age in scrapbook years)
More activity on Pinterest, Facebook, and Twitter
I am also looking at doing more Giveaways this year

What has not changed:

There will be a special freebie or two in the monthly Newsletter
There will still be Freebie Fridays posted every Friday

I am very excited for the new year and I can not wait to see what 2014 has in store for the Digi Shoppe. With that I leave you with a couple of Freebies to celebrate 2014.

Today's Freebies features the 2014 Pantone Color of the Year Radiant Orchid - Happy New Year!

Click on the pictures to download your digis.

Very Late Freebie Fridays (Double Freebies)

2013-12-22T22:43:00.001-05:00

Greetings everyone,
I am sorry for the lack of posting but I have had some major technical difficulties that I hope after almost two weeks it is finally fixed (i.e. no internet or too spotty of internet to upload anything).

I have also been working on Christmas projects, baking, cleaning, and wrapping (something I truly despise doing). I have also been planning for 2014, lots of new fun ideas.

This one was suppose to be two weeks ago, I finally got it to upload:

Click on the picture to download your Freebies

This was Fridays to celebrate the fact it was 79 degrees on the first day of Winter.

Click on the picture to download your Freebies

I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and a great New Year (that covers me if the internet decides to completely wig out again this week).

Freebie Friday - Faith Star

2013-12-06T13:03:00.001-05:00

A tad late today but I did remember this week it was Friday! I have been working hard on the 2014 plans for the Digi Shoppe. I am very excited about 2014 and what it has in store for the Digi Shoppe. I have been modifying the Digi Shoppe site and hope to have everything finished soon.

Today's Freebie was inspired by an ornament I created for my Etsy Shop. I have mentioned I got many ideas from the ornaments I created and this is one of them.

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend, we plan on finishing our decorating, getting some baking done and enjoying some time with friends who are set to move next week.

Click on the picture to download your digis.

Shop Small Saturday Special!

2013-11-29T23:16:00.001-05:00

I know what you are thinking you forgot Freebie Friday (yes, yes I did) but to make it up to everyone I have an amazing deal for everyone. I also plan on making it up to everyone in December, promise.

Are you ready to shop small? We have an amazing deal for you tomorrow ONLY if you buy ANY DIGITAL STAMP you will get one free (equal or lesser value) YOU PICK!

It is that simple you purchase a stamp, chose another stamp equal or lesser value free (do not add it to cart send me an email (ajsdigishoppe@gmail.com on what stamp you would like).

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!

Freebie Friday - Tree

2013-11-22T00:00:00.000-05:00

Greetings everyone!

I have been quiet recently primarily because I bruised my right ulna (yes it was extremely painful and prevented me from doing anything). I have also been creating Christmas Ornaments for my Etsy Shop at a crazy pace (one of my many ventures I do). Believe it or not, the clay has really helped with gaining strength back in my hand. I have also been working on ideas for new digis as well as ideas for 2014 which is right around the corner. Some of the new ideas I have came from creating the ornaments out of clay.

I also want to apologize that this post is late I forgot to hit publish and didn't realize it until after I got home from my son's Preschool Program (it was amazingly cute for the record).

Click on the picture to download your digis.

I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday :)

Freebie Friday - Sentiment

2013-11-15T00:00:00.000-05:00

I am slowly getting back to being able to hold a pencil but it has been a very slow recovery process. I traditionally shy away from creating sentiments which is ironic because I personally love sentiments especially when I scrapbook. I created two new sentiments for everyone. I hope everyone has a great weekend and week.

Since Blogger was being a tad difficult please CLICK HERE to download your digis

Freebie Friday - Thanksgiving Sentiments

2013-11-08T00:00:00.000-05:00

Short post today gearing up for the holidays and despite a wrist/arm injury to my dominate hand I am slowly plugging away at my Christmas To-Do list.

I hope everyone has a great weekend.

Click on the picture to download your digis

Freebie Friday - Puffin

2013-11-01T00:00:00.000-04:00

It is November and only 53 Days till Christmas! Yes I am in complete panic mode, not quite hyperventilating into a bag but in a couple weeks I see that completely possible.

I have been creating ornaments for my Etsy Store some inspired by digis and others that will inspire digis. My Etsy Store is for my "other" art besides my digis, I promise I do sleep even though it may not seem like I do.

As promised here are some Halloween Photos of the kiddos:

My Swedish Chef

My Puffin

So in honor of my daughter's costume this year here is this week's Freebie: A Puffin

Click on the picture to download your digis!

Freebie Friday - Monster in Disguise

2013-10-25T00:00:00.000-04:00

October is almost over and I wanted to share one of my Halloween Favorites, the Groucho Glasses and Stache.

Every year I would have to put on a pair of these because to me it wasn't Halloween until I put on the glasses.

We survived our Build-a-Bear Bash here is my Princess with here Bear:

(I can't believe she is going to be 8 on Tuesday!)

I hope everyone has a safe and happy Halloween! I hope to actually get some cute photos of the kids this year of their costumes. My daughter is going as a Puffin and my son is going as the Swedish Chef from the Muppets. It should be an interesting Halloween :)

Click on the picture to download your digis

Freebie Friday - Pumpkin Bear

2013-10-18T00:00:00.000-04:00

Today's Freebie is inspired by my daughter's 8th birthday party that will be celebrated this weekend. She wanted a joint Build-A-Bear Party with one of her best friends (their birthdays are nine days apart). So this weekend we are quite busy we have two parties on Saturday and the big joint party on Sunday.

In honor of my daughter's first Build-A-Bear, which was a Pumpkin Bear (he was white with jack-o-lanterns) I created my own Pumpkin Bear!

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Facebook 150 Fan Giveaway

2013-10-13T11:07:00.000-04:00

We made it to 150 Fans on our Facebook Page - THANK YOU!

The winner of our giveaway will receive two digital paper packs of their choice or one complete set of digital stamps.

The winner is....

Lynette Kaufmann

Please email ajsdigishoppe@gmail.com with your choices.

Thank you for your support and we will do our next giveaway when we hit 200 Fans!

Freebie Friday - BOO!

2013-10-11T14:07:00.002-04:00

Today's Freebie Friday is a tad late and I do apologize I was having some technical difficulties and was unable to upload anything yesterday.

I love October, especially Halloween so I decided to do a sentiment with spiderwebs (even though I hate spiders). Side note you don't have to dust in October because the Spiderwebs give your house character and they can be used as decorations.

I hope everyone has a great weekend I plan on decorating the house for Halloween, with other things besides real spider webs.

Remember on 3 more fans on our Facebook Page until we do a giveaway!

Click picture to download your digital stamps

OWH World Card Making Day Blog Hop 2013

2013-10-05T00:00:00.000-04:00

Welcome to the Operation Write Home World Card Making Day Blog Hop!

Thank you for stopping in and I will make this short and sweet because there are so many great items to see on this amazing Blog Hop. We are proud to be able to be apart of the World Card Making Day Blog Hop and proud to support Operation Write Home.

Sketch #126

White Card Stock Base
Freebie Pattern Paper from A.J.'s Digi Shoppe (next post down)
Freebie Images from A.J.'s Digi Shoppe (next post down)
Dark Gray Card Stock
Light Green Card Stock
Water Color Pencils for the image
Glue

Thank you for stopping and please enjoy the rest of the hop :) Don't forget your freebies available in the blog post below,

Freebie Friday - OWH Blog Hop Special

2013-10-04T19:38:00.001-04:00

I love Operation Write Home and I try to do as much as I can for this great organization. Today's Freebie was actually used to create my OWH Blog Hop Card for World Card Making Day (which will be posted in a couple hours). Many of you know I have been working on creating vector images in addition to JPEG and PNG Files. The files I created are EPS and PNG Files and the Papers are JPEG Files.

The set includes the following:
3 - Sheets of Digital Paper
1 - Black Eyed Susan
3 - Rectangles of Green
1 - Sentiment

Please join us tomorrow for the Operation Write Home World Card Making Day Blog Hop.

Click on the picture to download your Zip File

Don't forget we are 5 Fans away from a Giveaway on our Facebook Page. Give us a like so we can do a giveaway.

Freebie Friday - Fall Is In The Air

2013-09-27T00:00:00.000-04:00

I love Fall! One of the things I miss most (besides snow at Christmas) is the changing of the leaves. Growing up the Fall Color Tour was amazing. I remember driving up US2 and 41 and seeing the leaves beautiful shades of reds, oranges, yellows it was amazing. I love raking leaves, watching the leaves glide and dance gently to the ground. On afternoons I didn't work in high school I would go over to the park, sit on the bench and watch the leaves fall from the trees. It was so peaceful.

I also remember my neighbor's "Fall Decor" they always had a haystack and on pumpkin. By Halloween it usually had witnessed at least one snowfall. I decided to draw a haystack and a pumpkin in honor of my childhood neighbor's awesome Fall Decor. I hope everyone has a great weekend and don't forget to sign up for out Newsletter - October 1st and I have some new exciting items I am releasing.

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Monday Release - Monsters 23-26

2013-09-23T00:00:00.000-04:00

Today's Monday Release: Monsters 23-26

I know what you are thinking where is Monster 22? I offered him a as a Freebie Here.