Boy Blue

Thank you for all of your lovely comments about Baby Mine!  Several people have asked me about a blue version of that very pink kit, and so by popular demand I release Boy Blue. Now you can scrap your little angel in pink or in blue. Boy Blue is new in the ScrapMatters store today and its on sale this week only.

Boy Blue from By Becca


Boy Blue Word Art from By Becca


Need some inspiration? Check these out!

February goodies from Kim

Oh boy ladies, its like Christmas morning if you are a fan of KimB (and who isn't, really?)

She has her February Grab Bag up with 6 Brand NEW Full sized products for only $5.  It has 49 original elements to design or play with and all Quality Checked for your peace of mind.  About half of it is going into the kit I'm working on right now (tee hee!) so Kim's timing could not have been better!

Available at DSO and at DSV 
from 02 Feb - 09th February 2010 only. 
Don't miss it.

100% close up detail of some of the goodies in the bag.

Also, the DSO Ladies have collaborated this month to bring you a fantastic surprise!  A DSO Mega!
This mega isn't like the old mega kits of the past where you were stuck with downloading a huge kit containing parts you knew you would never use.  This time around YOU get to choose the bits you want!  All ranging from only $1 - $2.25

All of the Feb Collab, titled Forever & After can be found in the DSO COLLAB category in the store.
Here is Kim's *Chapter* for the Collab-

Forever and After Element set.

Forever and After - Worn and Torn Matts.

Forever and After- Plains and Prints  all previews are clickable.

And in case you are wondering, my CT call is still on but will probably close this weekend, so if you haven't applied yet, now is the time!  All the details are in the post before this one.  Have a terrific day!

CT Call

Every now and again I get inquiries from people who like my designs enough to want to be on my CT.  I am always terribly flattered when I get these inquiries, makes me feel all warm inside!  But when I get them, I nearly always say I'm not looking to add to my team right now, but when I AM ready, I'll post a call on my blog and at DST.

Well, its time.  I'm ready.  So here we go.... I'm having a CT call!

The call will close when the spots are filled.  So bring on those applications -- I need some more talent!

A little this, a little that

The last few days have been super busy!   We took all the kids to the movies -- together -- for the first time ever on Saturday night.  This was definitely an adventure.  They did pretty well!  The two older ones were of course fine, but the younger two didn't do quite as well.  About twenty minutes before the end of the movie (that's a guess, it seemed like an eternity!) my two year decided she wanted to go home.  She is a very stubborn little thing and wouldn't let that go.  Every thirty seconds or so she announced that she wanted to go home.  I kept shushing her and sending her over to her daddy, but she kept coming back over to make sure I knew she wanted to leave.  And then the four year old had to go to the bathroom five minutes before the movie ended.  She was miserable because she didn't want to miss the end and she was miserable because she couldn't wait any longer.  Poor hunny.  And then the six year old decided she needed to go too.  I ended up taking all three girls out during the last minute or so of the film.  The boys gathered our coats and my purse and met us in the hall after it ended.  All in all it was an adventure and I think its safe to say that all of us, even the littlest one, enjoyed our trip and will do it again.

Yesterday I had a hideous headache and got absolutely nothing done. Today my two year old is miserably sick and I've spent the better part of the last day snuggling with her on my lap and getting a crink in my neck from turning my head sideways to look at my computer.

In the midst of all of this I managed to get a few things done.  First, I have a brand spanking new fan page on Facebook.  There is not a whole lot there yet as I'm still learning the ropes, but I have a few fans already.  Actually, I shamelessly begged my friends to become my fans so I wouldn't look like a total loser.  Thank you to everyone who answered the call.  As we sit I have 57 fans (yay me!) and room for lots more.  So, if you are on Facebook and want to get all the latest scoop on my designs and a special offer here and there, become a fan!  You can do it through the link above or through the handy dandy Facebook fan box over there in the right sidebar of my blog.

Next up, I have a few more pages to share with you from Baby Mine.

Crystal

Josette

Candace

Kim

And guess what?  I finally found some time to scrap!  I made this today for my friend Jen (Graham Like the Cracker) for her latest release Letters to Juliet at Sunshine Studio Scraps.  I have always admired the perspective layouts that I've seen others do, particularly my creative team member Candace who rocks perspective.  I've halfheartedly tried it a few times and given up before I got it figured out.  This time around though, I decided to actually follow through.  I'm not sure I got it "right" but it is by far my best attempt so far. What do you think?

And I made a page of my youngest who was busy playing with a pair of sunglasses yesterday and let me snap a few shots.

I made this using Sweet Sixteen from Chaos Lounge.

 The kit is geared toward girls who are much more mature that my two year old, but I thought it was perfect for this punky photo and I love the result.  I checked with Chaos Lounge who gave me permission to offer this one as a quickpage for download.  So if you like it and have a glamour girl of your own, feel free to snag it.

Download here.

A word on that -- your time to to leave a brief comment is greatly appreciated if you download.  It takes just a second to leave a kind word and it makes a huge difference!  It can be frustrating to post these and see hundreds of people download then but just three people leave a comment.  :(

To those of you who have left comments lately, thank you!  Especially those of you who said that you were glad I wasn't leaving designing altogether, just changing stores.  Totally made my day!

That's all for now, see you soon!

Oh baby!

I'm sure its no secret by now that I am kind of a girly girl.  I love pink, flowers, bubble baths.  Some of these things are a little tricky now that I'm a mama to four -- I find myself sharing my bubblebaths on occasion, and at the very least small hands are usually scooping the bubbles out of my tub.  I guess my daughters inherited my love of good smelling stuff!  In fact, we overflowed the tub the other day and Jeff had to come upstairs to make sure we hadn't burst a pipe. . . . oh my!  But I digress.  The point is that I'm a girly girl.  And actually that works out for me because I have three little girls to share the girly things with me.

I was overjoyed when I was expecting my first daughter -- all that pink, all those cute little ruffles, silky satins, soft cottons.  I love all things baby girl!  And so I've been mulling over a baby kit in my head for the last month or so thinking that it was almost time to make one.  As luck would have it, one of my CT girls is expecting a new baby girl very soon and that gave me the inspiration that I needed to get to work on it.  I am so glad I did!  I had a ton of fun working on it.  So much fun, in fact, that I could stop at just the kit and made a pack of word art.  And THEN, my talented CT helped me to create a twelve page brag book as well!

Each piece is available separately.

Baby Mine has 12 gorgeous papers and 60 elements, many of them absolutely one of a kind.

Baby Mine: Word Art is the perfect complement to the kit and to many other types of pages as well with 15 stunning word arts and decorative bits.

And finally, the Baby Mine: Brag Book, consisting of twelve 4x6 pages carefully built at 300 dpi, preshadowed and just waiting for your photos.

And everything is also available as a discounted bundle so that you can have it all, guilt free!

Need a little inspiration?  Here are a few pages from my CT.

From Jenn:

From Holly:

From Tiffany:

From Nancy:

There are a ton more, but I don't want to overwhelm you and I'd love to save a few for later in the week.

And as always, you know I can't release a new kit without a little freebie.  This time its a brag book page made by my wonderful Holly!  It looks like this:

Download here.

That's all for today, much more to come this week including another brag book page or two!  Thanks for reading.

Saying goodbye

There is change in the wind. After wrestling with the decision for some time, I finally decided that it is time to hang up my wings and resign from the fairy fleet and the design team at Enchanted Studio Scraps. I hope that I made the right decision and I hope that time will tell, but regardless of the outcome this is bittersweet for me. I have formed wonderful friendships at ESS and without question would not be a designer today but for my time there and the opportunities that ESS offered to me. For this ESS will always hold a special place in my heart. I can't leave it altogether and I will continue to CT for Chaos Lounge who still sells there, but I know that it won't be the same which saddens me. With that though, I am excited about a new opportunity and hopeful that it will be a success! I'll still be designing, but I can't tell you where just yet.

My store closes on January 24th. Until then everything in my store is discounted and 20% off. The discounts will show in the cart only. Some of the products currently for sale will retire forever when this store closes, so if there is anything you've been thinking of getting and haven't, well, now is the time.

In other news, my dear KimB released a gorgeous new kit to day, Passions Blush.

It is filled with lush rich papers and beautiful elements suited to many types of pages.

I made this one and I am terribly flattered that it was mentioned in the Gallery Standout thread at Digishop Talk today.  Yay!

And I've turned it into a quickpage for you to download if you would like.

Download here.

I'm off to watch Season 2 of the Tudors while my little ones are asleep.... ok, maybe not the whole season, but a few episodes anyway.  Gotta love Showtime On Demand!  So long for now.

Frost. Snow. Ice.

It seems a bit ironic that I'm pimping a frost kit this week since I've spent the last 7 days being pummeled by snowstorms.  I have been stuck in my own driveway three times in the last week and my husband got stuck once.  So that's four times for the family.  In seven days.  Gotta love the frozen north!  Actually, I don't think I'd mind it if I never had to go anywhere or if I could walk everywhere I go.  It really is very pretty and my backyard, house, even my little town all look like postcards.  Which *almost* makes up for constantly getting stuck and having to shovel and blow snow, but not quite.  lol!

I have more pages to share with you today and a quickpage, too!

Josette got a GSO mention at DST for this gorgeous page:

Britt made this:

Kim (who is on the Scrapmatters CT and made this for me!)

Crystal:

Nancy (love this!)

Christy:

And Tiffany (who is guesting on my CT this month, lucky me!)

Tiffany also made her page into a Quickpage and you can snag it on her blog.  Here is the preview, its linked to Tiffany:

Cool, eh?  Well, that's it for today, I have to do some work at my real job.  So long for now!