for those who create, this is for U!

My poor dear overworked friend and slave driver boss Charlie (tic), has made the lovliest Designer Bits 2 set for those who create. She didn't push an action button and make a bow and then change the color 12 times, she painstakingly erased and extracted (as in no stray pixels) these:
This weeks product release is the the second in a series of commercial use products called Designer Bits 2. There are 19 png files ( original and greyscale) which include a ribbon with bow, rick rak, paper flowers, ribbon flower, ribbon butterfly, scattered beads and a crocheted lace. They are all 300ppi and contain no stray pixels.No credit required but appreciated.These fabulous designer items will be on sale for 30% off for 1 week only.
I totally am NOT a designer, I get all sweaty and hypervenilate thinking about designing, but I know how much time and effort my friend puts into these...they are so worth you getting!
You also might want to pop over to Charlie's blog, because my more talented CT co-workers have whipped up some freebies for you! Buy 2 of them, because you see Creative Team Appreciation Week is coming up, and well she needs cash to spoil us! woo hoo


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Anne


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I get so excited everytime I see it all packaged up!

Okay, I love art to be artsy, and I could never get the pencil to do what was in my head. I can sketch it out if I have the picture in front of me, copy it...but to just draw what is in my head it won't come out. I think I have a short in my brain to my hand...ha ha
This is why I love scrapping on the computer, I can fiddle with an elements until I have skewed it or taken a small part off and rearranged it to be just what I want it to be. I see it in my head first, and getting it to become is very satisfying!
Netta at Creative Victorian Designs is one of the designers I also do Quick Page (QP) creations for. This means I take her kits and don't do layouts for her to showcase (although I will do layouts for me with them...lol), but I make clusters out of her elements that others purchase and use in their layouts. It already has the the shadows and the layers are all merged so it has become one element. I also do stacked papers, this is a base for a layout. They are just fun to make! The QuickPages are just a layout without the picture, title, dates or journalling, that is all for the buyer to put in.
So that is a bit of what it is, and why I do it, so now here are some of the new to the stores over at Creative Victorian Designs
I love these page clusters and think they are just soft and really show how versatile Netta's kits are. These were all made from one kit; ByGone Innocence. All of these are available at Creative Victorian Designs
But really, go and see this store, I am in awe and am fast collecting about everything from dear Netta!


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Anne


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some new stuff for sale!

Claudi has been stocking the shelves and I love seeing my creations in them! She has them in three stores;
Inspiration Lane
Faith Sisters
and
Digital Freebies

These are all made from her kit A Mother's Touch. I had done a couple other QP's earlier, but the clusters are just a blast to make! I think the page clusters have become my favorite! It is a challenge to make them different from all the others...and I try and use the elements in different ways. Making 8 Brags after 4 QP's and 3 full clusters was just an easy task, as the kit is so full of fun and bright elements! My favorite is the green with that teal blue...it just goes so good with the silver in my opinion..lol
I am having a blast working with Claudi and the other lovely ladies on the QP team. Claudi has some fun things for the future and I am excited to be a part of it. I am learning the other side of scrapping, the business end. I enjoy the organization (you who know me, know I love to organize) and seeing the whole process, from design (which I have NO plans on doing), to the CT teams, QP Teams, to the store and beyond! lol
It is amazing all the ins and outs of scrapbooking, and I have just met just a few people in the world of scrapping.
I love to learn and this is a fun thing to play and enjoy!


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Anne


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I have been remiss...

I love that word, remiss...sounds so smart! But I have been going on and on about all the designers I am lucky enough to create for, and have completely forgotton to tell you about a dear sweet woman named Carolyn Rose Kite.
Carolyn is another Australian, who is just talented and like most designers, doesn't sleep much! Her heart is bigger than the whole country of Australia, and some of you saw the kit she helped distribute with all the funds going right to the Salvation Army for the horrible fires a month back in Australia!
Well, Carolyn has a new kit out, that is one that can just take your breath away, I really believe it is a kit that you can pour your heart and dreams into the layouts. The kit is called House of Hope. The kit is available only at Scrap N Tag. This kit was inspired by Carolyn's upcoming move to Queensland, with a theme of hope and new beginnings. In shades of blue, green, teal and brown, it has a definite masculine look to it, but can be used for both male and female pages. For those who struggle with journalling it also comes with a BONUS: 67 Hope inspired Word Strips
Here is a layout I did with it:
Last week, my girls went swimming at my parents, it was cold and rainy, but they went. I was snapping pictures of the giggles and shivers, and when I uploaded the pictures, my heart lept in my throat, for my little daughters faces are growing up...one of the pictures was a bit blurry of Anna, on the bottom, but both capture her face as it has changed.

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Anne


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My hubby blessed me as usual!

I have been busy deleting almost all the FREEBIE grabs I did 2 years ago or more...the ones I frantically downloaded. I remember being almost rabid to get the freebies for the day! ha ha, amazing how our priorities change.
so...........my EHD (External Hard Drive) filled to the brim(500G)...I was very proud of myself for getting rid of 15 Gigs and I had tried to burn CDs, but they only put a little bit on them...
so my dear husband brought home an External DVD/CD writer with Litht Scribe (it make a nifty keeno label on the CD with what is on it!) and a Blue Tooth for my cell phone! In California, it is illegal to drive and talk on a cell phone! I am not a big talker on the phone when I am driving, but (okay you can laugh) I loose my cell phone in my purse ALL THE TIME! I can see it glowing in there, but can't find it! I had a string wrapped around it at one time...ha ha...
so now I pop in the ear phone and just wear that around the house and leave the phone in my purse. Yeah me!! Yeah my honey!
So tomorrow, as my children finish their essays for school and clean their cluttered rooms and do laundry, I will burn all my PSDs and kits from the dear designers that I have completed. I also want to put my photos on DVD...I am leaving them also on EHD along with the save for web layouts...because the family loves them!

Just a little babble, because I can! lol

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Anne


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Ready? Here it is!

I woke up to read my #3 issue of Charlie's DigiScraps Newsletter. Wow! My fellow artist on the team are remarkable, I so hope you signed up, the freebie from dear Denise is fabulous...wow, wow, wow! Then a coupon for more off?
The newsletter also is my permission to tell you about this new kit:Granny's Farm, available exclusively at Enchanted Studio Scraps. This kit is so original! The papers are like material and the elements just flow together! I was able to make an 8 page (with cover and back page) recipe book for you also:
The recipe book also includes 6 bonus recipes! My shortbread recipe and (don't tell my sister in law Mary but her) Sunshine Carrots recipe is in there too!
When we all downloaded the kit, LouCee (the dog grooming sweetie from England) made a lovely layout of a quilt, but needed some Charlie made stitches! oh my, and Charlie came thru! these stitches go fantastic with this kit.
The kit was inspired by a quilt of Charlie's, so it was fitting to have the quilt theme layout!
So you have the kit; Granny's Farm, recipe cards (including bonus recipes), and an add-on of stitches that completement the kit! That is huge, so Charlie has a heck of a deal for ya,
tell the people about it Charlie:

"I have another Jumbo deal for you all. Buy the full kit and Recipe cards and get the Stitches for FREE! What an awsome deal."

Thank you Charlie, sweet of you to drop over to my blog. She is very kind to us! lol...

I almost forgot my layout! Geesh! I didn't think I was going to have time to get a layout done, as I had obsessed on the recipe cards and getting the right recipe for the bonus ones. I am a bit compulsive, has anyone noticed that about me, I try to keep that hidden...lol
February of this year, my parents came up to visit for the day, and my oldest Mr. E made dinner, it is Chili, and it is a famous recipe (not in bonus cards), that many of my friends use! (waves to Alamama and her family)! It is a good meal stretcher and cheap! lol Eric and I thought the beans looked rather beautiful in the pot. (It was a 365 pic a day shot too). I thought he looked rather handsome cooking! I hope you go and pick up Granny's Farm, it is just a fun and full kit! Get the recipe cards, the stitches and goodness while you are there pick up Funky Love Birds kit too, it's awesome! lol

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Anne


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ewe deserve a sneak peek!

Wowza, topsy turvy holiday! We had to change plans due to high winds and heavy rains Thursday at the ocean, so we went first to Napa, it was cold and windy, but we were inside eating yummy elk! I am so much a lover of elk now! I did a bagoki, a soy sauce marinade and BBQ it...oh my, it was super fabulous! btw, that recipe is from me! lol actually from Wilma, the bomb diddily in Alamo who first made it for me, many years ago!
I wanted to make a post, cause I am holding back from blogging on Charlie's new kit! I can give you a little peek! This kit is so fabulous! I wanted you to hurry and sign up for Charlie's newsletter, because she has nifty coupons and FREE things that are only available in the newsletter! Tomorrow I will show you the whole thing and something completely different that I was able to do for Charlie...it was remarkable and so so so much fun...gosh, I hate hate hate to wait!
There, now I can go have that egg salad sandwich I wanted all day! lol
Pop back in tomorrow for the unveiling!


Thanks for reading!

Anne

Never lose your joy!