The Scrapoholic

Saturday, October 4, 2014

25 Days of Spooky Cut File Freebies! Day 04

Day Four of 25 Days of "SPOOKY" Cut File Freebies!

Runs Oct 1 - 25, 2014

Comes in both MTC (Make The Cut) & SVG (Scalable Vector Graphic) Formats

in a compressed Zip File with a Picture in JPEG format.

Sorry Freebie has Expired

Check out my Etsy Shop for MTC & SVG Cut Files

Until Tomorrow...

Happy Cutting!

TTFN The Scrapoholic aka Jill

Friday, October 3, 2014

25 Days of Spooky Cut File Freebies! Say 03

Day THREE of 25 Days of "SPOOKY" Cut File Freebies!

Runs Oct 1 - 25, 2014

Comes in both MTC (Make The Cut) & SVG (Scalable Vector Graphic) Formats

in a compressed Zip File with a Picture in JPEG format.

Sorry Freebie has Expired

Check out my Etsy Shop for MTC & SVG Cut Files

Until Tomorrow...

Happy Cutting!

TTFN The Scrapoholic aka Jill

Thursday, October 2, 2014

25 Days of Spooky Cut File Freebies ~ Day 02

Sorry for some reason after I fixed the link for the file, not realizing somehow Day 02 post disappeared. If for some reason its a duplicate for you I apologize. Not sure what happened to the post after I edited it to fix the link.

Day TWO of 25 Days of "SPOOKY" Cut File Freebies!

Runs Oct 1 - 25, 2014

Comes in both MTC (Make The Cut) & SVG (Scalable Vector Graphic) Formats

in a compressed Zip File with a Picture in JPEG format.

Sorry Freebie has Expired

Check out my Etsy Shop for MTC & SVG Cut Files

Check out My Etsy Shop for Set of 5 Wrought Iron Fences and I'll be listing more Halloween themed Cut files over this next week!

Until Tomorrow...

Happy Cutting!

TTFN The Scrapoholic aka Jill

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

25 Days of Spooky Cut File Freebies ~ Day 01

Day ONE of 25 Days of "SPOOKY" Cut File Freebies!

Runs Oct 1 - 25, 2014

Comes in both MTC (Make The Cut) & SVG (Scalable Vector Graphic) Formats

in a compressed Zip File with a Picture in JPEG format.

Sorry Freebie has Expired

Check out my Etsy Shop for MTC & SVG Cut Files

Until Tomorrow...

Happy Cutting!

TTFN The Scrapoholic aka Jill

Saturday, September 20, 2014

Quick Update

I apologize for my "short" break being longer than expected. Life has been crazy as usual here in my world. I still haven' had my spinal stimulator adjustment surgery! Mostly because the Plan A didn't work as expected and Life threw in another curve ball. I've got this lower right abdomen pain that came upon suddenly and was originally thought appendicitis, as all the symptoms fit perfectly, but Nope! its been a month of imaging and lab test after lab test and they are dumbfounded as to what it is. Its a pain that doesn't go away, get worse nor better but is right where my appendix is. I'm thinking this is my gallbladder and hysterectomy all over again and have a feeling they will be eventually taking out my appendix just to see as they did with both my gallbladder and uterus and when they did, said " guess we were right all along and should have done something much sooner. I will not be doing a year of this crap as I did with those. One more procedure and its not one anyone wants and if they find nothing, I'm going to make them take out my appendix before they do anything else. As soon as my health insurance company approve my imaging request that is now 2 weeks in the waiting, I can meet with the neurosurgeon to discuss moving my spinal stimulator again. She is a different Dr. than that of whom originally inserted and then fixed it when it moved.

So thats my life in a nutshell. I've done some crafting but not much :( I'm still working on getting what files were recovered from my external hard drive that went bad. As I have been transferring them, I realized they are not in "folders" so I have to figure out which ones I've test cut and which ones I haven't, not fun! As when I make files, i put them in "sub folders" that are their theme but under the main "folder" of Need Cutting. Once, I have test cut and fixed any thing needing fixing, i move them to there "Themed Sub Folders" under "Cut Files". Its a long tedious process and can only do so much of that daily. I also try to work on new files or files that need fixing. I've done "non-scrapping" crafts. I've not even started the Wedding Album for my nephew! I've got everything I need for it and its all in its own little container. However, every time i pull it out to work on it and get everything out, I go blank! This is the worst Scrapper's Block I have ever had. Usually, I'll get it on a layout or two, but usually no more than a week. This time, not sure if its my ADD kicking in full gear and/or because of everything going on. I do wedding albums mostly without pictures cause they are made as gifts before the wedding, so its not like its that. I can't even sketch out a layout for it cause even then I just go blank.

Anyways, i will be starting up my 25 Days Series again on Oct. 1st with "25 Spooky Days of Cut File Freebies". I have decided to do my series each month from the 1st to the 25th and take the 26th to the end of the month off. Just to give me a break and have a few days if I need to catch up or get the next month ready. Even after they fix whatever the right lower pain is and my spinal stimulator, I will still have my right arm ulnar nerve pain and have my bad days. Hopefully alot less than the past few months which has been most days.

Until Next time...

Happy Crafting!

TTFN The Scrapoholic aka Jill

Thursday, July 31, 2014

Taking a Lil Break

As most of you know I was injured by a doctor back in 2008 when getting a cortisone shot for Scrapbooker's elbow (Golfer's Elbow) and the needle hit my Ulnar nerve (known as the funny bone). Since then it has felt like I hit my "funny bone" 24/7/365. I've had numerous surgeries and procedures to try to help or relieve the situation. Last year after loosing all my doctors somehow to Obamacare new policies. I had to search for new ones and having a "chronic" pain issue doctors do NOT take you on as a new patient. I found a Dr. who could be both my primary and apin mangt. doctor! Awesome doctor too! Then a new part of Obamacare went into effect as it does every 4-6 months new parts go into affect. The insurance company sent me a letter with the new "law" that states you can not have your primary care dr. be your pain mangt. doctor as well. You can't see a pain mangt. Dr. without having a primary care physcican. So I was in a hard place, as I needed my pain medicine to help relieve my pain. So I was kinda forced to make a decision to get the spinal stimulator implant. I went ahead with it and it went well for about a month and a a half and then it moved. I had to have surgery to have it ut back in place.

Since then, my arm got worse because the anesthesiologist didn't care and wouldn't listen to me about not putting the blood pressure cuff on my bad arm, he ignored me and caused muscle damage to my already nerve and muscle damaged arm. Also, where the stimulator is, I've had back pain that has progressively getting worse. The Dr. who did the implant just kept saying give it time, give it time and didn't do anything to help. Now, on top of the dr. not doing anything, she only comes to Oregon once a month because she is located in WA so scheduling is hard. Her WA office is a 4-5hr. drive one way! Her OR office is a 1 hr. drive one way which is difficult because now my husband has to come with me because I can not sit for more than 20 min. w/out my back cramping and spasming. Her staff is the worst incompetent staff I have ever run into and the dr. admits all the faults I've complained to her about them. She as a dr. is one I love and would recommend but because of her staff, I won't.

After missing my last appt. because I never got a reminder call but they sure remembered to call me the day after to tell me I missed my appt. So I was done, that was the last straw. My husband had just started a new job with a new company so we had Cobra for 2 months so to find a new Dr. under that was hard, nevermind I still hadn't found a new primary. I new insurance kicked in and was looking for a new primary which as I stated is impossible if you have a "chronic pain" problem, they discriminate against you. I finally found a dr. and was able to go see a different Pain dr. He has already started treatment of the back pain. He also has put me on semi-bed rest. Because Bending and twisting makes the pain worse and is pulling on the stimulator and its leads and that is not good. He is trying to get the muscles and nerves around the stimulator to settle and relax in hopes the stimulator will go back to where its suppose to be. However he is 95% sure another surgery is going to be required and move the stimulator to a new location.

So with all that going on, I've had to deal with a cyber-bully. I've been quite stressed and need to just take sometime to take care of me. On top of that I had 3 High School graduations in June, one being my 2nd daughter and then I have 3 Weddings this summer, one is done which I made the invitations for. The other two I sadly can not go to and one is my nephew and the other is my niece. We just can't afford to fly to the east coast for my nephew's wedding and I can't sit for more than 20 min in the same position so I won't be able to drive down to So. CA for my niece's wedding and we can't afford to fly either. Believe it or not but there isn't much difference in cost to fly 900 miles south vs. 3000 miles east, i think it was something like $100 difference per ticket.

So I decided I'm going to take the month of Aug. off to get whatever I need done around the house before I go have surgery because I will be on strict bed rest for the first 6 weeks and then slowly taken off over the next 2 months to be sure the stimulator stays put. I can NOT go back to all the medicine to control the pain in my arm and want the back pain to go away. So my 25 days Series will be back on Sept. 1st. I will post an occasional blog post here and there. As I do have 2 wedding albums to finish and want to share as I used alot of my MTC Wedding Cuts. I also have a ton of unfinished projects lying around that I need and want to finish. I also got my broken Hard drive back, the guy was able to get some of my files off it but its a mess of how they got pulled off. I'm gld he was able to get what he could but very very sad because it was only MTC files and none of my pictures. I still have the option to send it out to try to recover everything but no guarantee and it will cost min. $1200! I do have a post about backing up your photos and files coming!

I will be keeping my Etsy Shop Open during the month of Aug. I do hope while I take the time to get my files sorted and organized to upload more to my Etsy Shop. Below is a coupon for 15% off using the Coupon code at check out. I also, currently have stuff listed on Ebay too. If the link for my Ebay doesn't work you can search for Seller under "advanced" by seller and type in TheScrapoholic no spaces.

Sorry for such a lengthy post and explanation.

Until Next Time...

Happy Crafting!

TTFN The Scrapoholic aka Jill

Friday, July 25, 2014

25 Days of Wedding Cut File Freebies! Day 25

Day TWENTY - Five of 25 Days of Wedding Cut File Freebies!

Runs July 1 - 25,2014

Comes in both MTC (Make The Cut) & SVG (Scalable Vector Graphic) Formats

in a compressed Zip File.

Sorry Freebie has Expired

Check out my Etsy Shop for new & improved Wedding Cut Files

If there is a file not listed in my shop simply email or message me on Etsy

Until Tomorrow...

Happy Cutting!

TTFN The Scrapoholic aka Jill

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Wedding Hearts MTC & SVG Cut File

We've all seen those adorably Gorgeous hearts Scrappers have made using various types of techniques for Wedding or Anniversary Cards, Gifts or on Layouts. I've not had a reason until this summer to use them. I have 3 weddings this summer, only get to go to 2 :( since they are close and the other is on the other side of the country and unfortunately being out of work for 6 yrs. accumulating medical debt over those 6 yrs and still denied Disability finances just don't see it happening. Such is life, I'm sure y'all have your own stories of struggles in this awesome (NOT) economy but that doesn't mean I won't be sending my handmade gift.

Anyways, without any further ado this is the File I made using a "heart" in the Shapes provided by MTC (Make The Cut) and then using other "basic shapes" to make the "Dress and Necklace" and the "Tuxedo" Pieces.

You can Purchase the Cut File in my Etsy Shop HERE

I also, have other Cut Files available. I am slowly working on getting more up over time. I also just learned about "Coupons" in Etsy! I have one for my Blog Followers see below!

Here are a few Samples of the "Cut File"

This one above is going in an album

This is a Card I made for my friend's "Country" themed wedding.

I used MM Button Brads for the buttons instead of the circles in the file.

Here is the "Coupon Code" for my Etsy Shop, use it at check out!

Until Next Time...

Happy Cutting

TTFN The Scrapoholic aka Jill

25 Days of Wedding Cut File Freebies! Day 24

Day TWENTY - THREE of 25 Days of Wedding Cut File Freebies!

Runs July 1 - 25,2014

Comes in both MTC (Make The Cut) & SVG (Scalable Vector Graphic) Formats

in a compressed Zip File.

Sorry Freebie has Expired

Check out my Etsy Shop for new & improved Wedding Cut Files

If there is a file not listed in my shop simply email or message me on Etsy

Until Tomorrow...

Happy Cutting!

TTFN The Scrapoholic aka Jill

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

25 Days of Wedding Cut File Freebies! Day 23

Day TWENTY - THREE of 25 Days of Wedding Cut File Freebies!

Runs July 1 - 25,2014

Comes in both MTC (Make The Cut) & SVG (Scalable Vector Graphic) Formats

in a compressed Zip File.

ALL Rights Belong to DISNEY

Sorry Freebie is no longer Available

Until Next Time...
Happy Kutting!

TTFN The Scrapoholic

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

25 Days of Wedding Cut File Freebies! Day 22

Day TWENTY - TWO of 25 Days of Wedding Cut File Freebies!

Runs July 1 - 25,2014

Comes in both MTC (Make The Cut) & SVG (Scalable Vector Graphic) Formats

in a compressed Zip File.

ALL RIGHTS BELONG TO DISNEY

Sorry Freebie is no longer Available

Until Next Time...
Happy Kutting!

TTFN The Scrapoholic

Monday, July 21, 2014

25 Days of Wedding Cut File Freebies! Day 21

Day TWENTY-ONE of 25 Days of Wedding Cut File Freebies!

Runs July 1 - 25,2014

Comes in both MTC (Make The Cut) & SVG (Scalable Vector Graphic) Formats

in a compressed Zip File.

Sorry Freebie has Expired

Check out my Etsy Shop for new & improved Wedding Cut Files

If there is a file not listed in my shop simply email or message me on Etsy

Until Tomorrow...

Happy Cutting!

TTFN The Scrapoholic aka Jill

Sunday, July 20, 2014

25 Days of Wedding Cut File Freebies! Day 20

Day TWENTY of 25 Days of Wedding Cut File Freebies!

Runs July 1 - 25,2014

Comes in both MTC (Make The Cut) & SVG (Scalable Vector Graphic) Formats

in a compressed Zip File.

Sorry Freebie has Expired

Check out my Etsy Shop for new & improved Wedding Cut Files

If there is a file not listed in my shop simply email or message me on Etsy

Until Tomorrow...

Happy Cutting!

TTFN The Scrapoholic aka Jill

Saturday, July 19, 2014

25 Days of Wedding Cut File Freebies! Day 19

Day NINETEEN of 25 Days of Wedding Cut File Freebies!

Runs July 1 - 25,2014

Comes in both MTC (Make The Cut) & SVG (Scalable Vector Graphic) Formats

in a compressed Zip File.

Sorry Freebie has Expired

Check out my Etsy Shop for MTC & SVG Cut Files

Until Tomorrow...

Happy Cutting!

TTFN The Scrapoholic aka Jill

Friday, July 18, 2014

25 Days of Wedding Cut File Freebies! Day 18

Day EIGHTEEN of 25 Days of Wedding Cut File Freebies!

Runs July 1 - 25,2014

Comes in both MTC (Make The Cut) & SVG (Scalable Vector Graphic) Formats

in a compressed Zip File.

Sorry Freebie has Expired

Check out my Etsy Shop for new & improved Wedding Cut Files

If there is a file not listed in my shop simply email or message me on Etsy

Until Tomorrow...

Happy Cutting!

TTFN The Scrapoholic aka Jill

Thursday, July 17, 2014

Disney Album ~ Just Princesses

I've been working on this album over a long period of time and finally have finished it. I've decided to sell it and will be listing it in my Etsy Shop.

The Album is a fun colorful diamond pattern with a small 4x4 Slot for either a Picture or an "Embellishment". There are 10 Page Protectors with 20 beautiful Disneytastic Layouts!