From me to you - Happy Holidays! 1 comment
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Special thanks to Heather Theado for the creation of this wallpaper using my Holiday Fancy products from Scrap Artist!
Tuesday Afternoon Beauties No comments yet
Hi everyone! Kelleigh here, and I’m hijacking the blog to show you some of my “Dianne projects”.
Have you ever printed out one of Dianne’s gorgeous papers? Well, I have . . . many times. I must say that as gorgeous as her papers are on the screen, they are even more amazing when I can hold them in my hand and admire them. I recently made a bunch of cards using Dianne’s Tuesday Afternoon papers. WOW! Just looking at the vibrant colors and beautiful patterns makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.
You may have seen these in the galleries, but I thought they were worth another look here!
This first card is a shaker card with purple and orange glitter behind a transparency. This was a lot of fun to put together!
It is created with Tuesday Afternoon papers and Noteables Tagables (which are just GORGEOUS!!).
On this next card, I cut out the little butterfly and raised it up on a foam square to add some dimension. I also added the little flowers and some rhinestones. Everything else is by Dianne (except the stamped sentiment)!
On this last card, I wanted to see as much of that gorgeous background paper as I could. Stunning, huh? I cut out the little butterfly and raised it up, plus added the rhinestone and a stamped sentiment. Easy!
Try a little hybrid today! Dianne’s papers are the perfect place to start!
New Creative Team Members! No comments yet
Oh girls that was HARD! Sigh. Could you all just be less FABULOUS?! Anyway. Here’s the list of new girls! (You all should have heard from me via email by now - please pm me if you didn’t get one!)
Angie Stumpf
Becky Derby
Claudia Star
Heather Theado
Kelly-Ann Halbert
Kristen Haacke
Kristen Rice
Lisa Newhouse
Melanie Hobbs
Tiki
Congrats ladies and thank you to all who applied!
Would you like to be on a fun, relaxed creative team? 1 comment
I am looking for a few go-getters who will be willing to work with my product several times per month. I am very easy to work with and will accept newer scrappers who exhibit some style and initiative. ANY style scrapper can apply - paper, hybrid, digital, clean, artsy, what-have-you!
Basic requirements are as follows:
- I will ask you to commit to making a certain amount of layouts per month, according to your ability and schedule. Include this information in your application.
- Make at least one fabulous layout for every kit downloaded. You can make more, but at least one for each kit that you download. A good guideline is to use at least 50% of my product in your layout. However, I will not be doing a lot of calculating. ; )
- Send me a link via email so I can be sure to see your work! Post wherever you want, but it would be really nice if you could post at DST and in my team gallery.
- Don’t share links or kits with anyone.
- While my products are S4O friendly, this does not apply to creative team downloads unless we have made prior specific arrangements to that effect.
- You can end or change your status at any time. Just let me know if you need to take a break or move on. If you fall off my radar and don’t respond to emails, I may assume you don’t want to be on team and at that time you will be removed.
I don’t require that you spend a lot of time doing promotion in the forums etc but it is appreciated… if you feel like tooting about being on team, or promoting product, that’s completely up to you and your comfort level.
Interested? Apply below!
more inspiration from Charleston No comments yet
So, I’m bound and determined to get all of my Savannah trip photos scrapped- I have several vacation albums and none of them are complete. All of the ones I did this week are from the day we spent in Charleston. I love two page layouts for scrapping lots of pictures and I like to make seamless 24×12 backgrounds from pages. Solids are easier to do this with as I copy a portion of the center of the page and place it over the visible seam between the two parts of the background. With a bit of erasing with a low opacity brush, the seam is effectively hidden and I’ve got a wide background. Patterned backgrounds are a bit trickier, but it can be done too with a bit of persistence- see the Charleston LO below.
journaling: After arriving in Charleston and finding a hotel room for the night, we drove out to Sullivan’s Island and had a look around Fort Moultrie. It was closed by the time we got there, so we could only walk around the outside path and read the signs, but that was enough. The fort has undergone many renovations since construction began in 1776 to protect the entrance to Charleston Harbor from a British invasion in the anticipated war. Its first incarnation was a thick walled structure built of palmetto logs and sand. It was still incomplete when Commodore Sir Peter Parker and the British fleet attacked on June 28, 1776. After a nine hour battle, the British retreated and the colonists had won their first victory in the revolutionary war. The fort was named in honor of its commanding officer, Colonel William Moultrie. The South Carolina state flag commemorates this battle- the palmetto tree and moon represent the defeat of the British navy here during the first conflict of the Revolutionary war with the palmetto walled fort successfully defending the town.
Fort Moultrie was neglected, destroyed and built-up over the years as war loomed on the horizon. Four incarnations of the Fort have stood on this spot, each with more powerful weapons and defenses than were there before as weapons technology has advanced. Since the advent of nuclear weapons and guided missiles, the critical role of Fort Moultrie in the protection of Charleston Harbor has diminished and now the National Park Service has restored the Fort to represent the major periods of its history.
credits: Sweet Liberty by Dianne Rigdon; Moon from Dream Whispers by Jofia Devoe; palm trees from Sea Doodleys by Weeds & Wildflowers; font: Times New Roman
journaling: We learned lots of interesting things about Charleston during our carriage tour around the city. *“Earthquake washers” hold together many of the oldest houses because they couldn’t afford to rebuild after the revolutionary war. *The English colonists considered brick a poor-man’s building material, but there was no local stone so they put plaster over the brick and scored it to make it look like the buildings were built with stone. *Most houses are long and one room wide because of the practice of taxing homes on the width of the home facing the street in England. *One of Charleston’s nicknames is the “holy city” because of it’s high proportion of churches to it’s population. Of course it is also known as the “city of decadence” for all of the other business types that abound in the city as well, and the churches often owned the properties of them because they paid their rents on time. *Bay street used to run along the edge of the bay, but the city has been practicing land reclamation for many years and the city has grown by several blocks into the bay over the years. *Broad Street was the diving line between the rich and not-so-rich neighborhoods of old Charleston with the most affluent living south of Broad, so in attempt to claim rank people would say that they lived ‘somewhat north of Broad’ which would be shortened to ‘snob.’
credits: Super Sassy Chic, Provence, Notables Alpha and Notables Tags by Dianne Rigdon; LO template 66 by Yin Designs (modified); staple by me; fonts: CK Constitution, CK Neat Print
credits: Amy K kit and metal dates by Holly McCaig; Cocktail Recipe 1 by Amy Hutchinson at After5Designs.com; Hot News No 5 by Lauren Reid at LittleDreamerDesigns; font: CK Journaling Condensed
and for this last layout, I’m reminding you not to forget that as digiscrappers we can change the colors of papers and elements to suit our photos. I have to admit that I tend to forget that, probably because it is just quicker to use the kits as they are and not try to adjust them. Sometimes though, the perfect kit just doesn’t come in the right colors. I used Sweet Abandon for this page, and I changed the paper and charm from blue to green to better fit the photo.
credits: Sweet Abandon (some pieces recolored) by Dianne Rigdon; green sprig from Amy K by Holly McCaig; ribbon and leaf branch by Flergs; large leaf from Realistic Extras by Kim Broedlet; twine and staple by Melinda Staley from Scrapdish Basics Collab (coming soon); Colored Chrome action by Atomic Cupcake; font: Tiranti Solid LET