The Great British Street Party

I am very pleased to let you know that Louise of Loucee Creations has some great news for us with the opening of her new store at Digiridoo where you will find her newest kit 'The great British Street Party' you can read more about what inspired Louise with this new kit on her blog here.

Louise also has her own personal store at Loucee Creations where you will find some fabulous kits she has designed.

Hummiesworld

 May Site Sponsor at Hummiesworld

I would like to introduce our new 'Site Sponsor' for May Jenn of CK Designs.

About Jenn:


Hi all!

I'm Jenn and I am 38 and live with my boyfriend and kitty. I worked in technical development and project management for over 15 years, but left the field about two years ago. I've officially been designing since September 2009 and am a long time paper crafter. I am also a dedicated digital layout artist and am creative for many teams and publications in addition to designing.

You can find Jenn at in two stores Scrapbook Bytes and A Cherry On Top, also on Facebook, Twitter and her Blog Jennck.

For May Jenn has chosen to sponsor the Themed Thursday Class and you will see a preview of the kit Jenn has offered 'Butterfly Flower' pictured below. The kit will be available to download by all who enroll in the class on May 1st.


 

Enrollment to the class will be open through May 7th.

We are looking forward to working with Jenn and hope she enjoys her month as our site sponsor in May.
 

These classes are also open for enrollment through May 7.
 

Course 1
Course 2
Templates
Filters
Scrapping Goal
Heritage
Themed Thursday

For more information, please read the class sign-up page.
 

You must first register in the forum before paying the small subscriber fee of $5.50 per month

She Holds My Heart

The theme for the May Designer Collab Kit is 'She Hold My Heart' and is available to download now. The kit consists of 8 digi papers all created in high resolution and suitable for printing and using on paper craft projects, 19 Elements and 2 wordart files.

You have three download links:

Papers
Elements
Wordart

Its been quite a busy month for me, so much to do and not enough hours in the day or even days in the week. I have been very much occupied with my new job at Hummies World editing their newsletter and designing the graphics. I am enjoying my new venture very much and the first few weeks have taken up much of my time and blogging has taken a bit of a back seat which I have missed. But the good news is now I am well setlled into the job and much quicker at preparing the newsletter I hope to have more time to spend on my blog, could those be 'last famous words' lol.

Easter is now over and I guess we are all looking forward to the big day on Friday, I hope you all enjoyed your Easter Break.

Paper Bows

How cool these bows look and so simple to make

Springtime Freshness - Freebie

It is officially here glorious Spring and I have been enjoying those beautiful warm sunny days we had last week, but today is wet and dreary, I do hope it improves soon. Easter is also just around the corner and I am looking forward to the break, I am planning to get into the garden 'weather permitting' to get some photos to scrap. As I speak suddenly the sun is making an appearance yeah - I love it.

I have some more freebies for you this kit I made for Hummiesworld Designer Collab and is great for your digi scrap pages and hybrid projects too. My grandaughter printed some of the papers last week and made some treat pouches to give to her friends at school for Easter.

The kit can be downloaded at my other blog Wisteria Moments where you will find instructions also for making these gorgous treat pouches. They are so simple to make, you dont need glue or tape just simply fold and fill, I do love quick and simple. Hope you have fun making these, a great way to keep the children occupied and no messy stuff.

Preview of Kit...

Fan Fold Flower Tutorial

Early

Yep its available now about a week early, the Apple Blossom Time kit is available for download now. All papers and elements are 300 dpi and suitable for printing off to use on your hybrid projects. Have fun....

Download here

A Quick Preview

Here is a quick preview of the new freebie kit coming up for March

Scrapbooking Your Ancestors

You may know from my previous ramblings that I have become addicted to this new hobby researching my ancestors and being able to combine it with my other hobby is so much fun. Creating digital scrapbook pages can be time consuming but it is so much fun and very rewarding.

Should you also be interested in your ancestors, you may like to take a peep at my new blog, it is in the very early stages at the moment so content is a little sparse but I am trying to add to it regularly.

Ancestry Research

Christmas Has Gone Time For Some Freebies

Well I have been absent for a while again, life just seems to take over every now and then. I hope you all had a great christmas and I know this is rather late but here is wishing everyone a happy new year. At least now spring is just around the corner and we have summer to look forward to. I have been lurking around now and again and there is so much wonderfull talent around both digital and hybrid, I have seen some wonderful projects over the christmas period. So now christmas is well and truly over we are all looking for a bargain or even better still some nice freebies to add to our craft stash. So have afew links for you to check out at Digi Design Resort a great place for all you digital scrappers but also very useful for downloaded papers and elements which you can print out and use for your card projects.

If you sign upto Digi Design Resorts newsletter you aoutomatically receive a free copy of this wonderfull kit

Well thats it for today, I need to get back into the swing of things so see you soon.

News On Upcoming Freebies

Hi All hope your having a great weekend and looking forward to Spring, I know I am and its just around the corner now, cant wait to get outdoors a bit more with my camera of course. More photos means more designs resulting in more freebies, that has got be good for you. Seriously I have some new freebies in the pipeline which I am really excited about as I have stepped up my designing skills and pretty pleased with the results I am churning out. In the past I have always offered my freebies to everyone, but on a recent subscription to a newsletter email site I now have the option for you to sign up to recieve a newsletter from me. Now I will say I am no expert at writing newsletters, but I think this is going to a fun project and my goal will be to bring to you what new trends are coming to the craft and digital scrap world, so because I want to offer a good quality newsletter my intentions will be to only send one a month, that will give me plenty of time for research and hopefully give you the readers some useful information.

To make this more interesting I want you to tell me what you would like to hear about or are most interested in and I will do my best to deliver to you exciting news on your favourite subject. So now I have finished rambling, the idea is that to get a download link to my freebies you will need to sign upto the newsletter, but no worries it is all free and no catch.

Dont miss out on the first newsletter my estimated date being the weekend of the 12th of March, opt in box is just to right in the sidebar.

Spiral Roses

Hi all, just a quickie today I really wanted share with you again while surfing around the craft world on the internet I found this video on how to create spiral roses and fell in love with as always. These roses seem to be the new thing with digi scrap kits and that is basically how how found this video. I really wanted to make obne of these so I could photograph it to add into a kit I am making. I am kind of thinking this will be another freebie kit not sure when it will be ready though at the moment as I have been really tied up with trying to retrieve all my craft files aft a very stupid mistake on my own part really. It has taken me two whole weeks to get them all back onto my PC so a little advice make sure you have all your digi stash backed up in more than one place, I know that is what I will be doing now, really dont want to go through that again. Now I have a load of lessons to catch up on, anyway here is the video they look so easy to make and I will be having a go today hopefully, if I can get some good photos for you I will post them up maybe this weekend, one never knows what life will throw at you as a distraction from what we would really prefer to be doing I guess you know what I mean lol.

Free Digi Scrap Kit

Digi Design Resort are offering a free digi scrap kit and all you need to do is sign up to the newsletter,

You can get Natural Breeze here

Colouring With A Digi Tablet

Today I want to share this video with you from Fred She Said, I just love all her products and I came across this tutorial yesterday. She makes it look soooooo easy but I have spent most of today practicing this technique and I it is wel just a tad fiddly, but I guess with more practice it will get easier.


I hope you enjoy this as much as I did, it certainly inspired me to have a go.

Apple Blossom Elements Freebie

Wow I so happy to see so many of you downloading my designs, it would be great to see what you make with them. But here is another gift for you to download as the response to the apple blossom papers has inspired me to make these elements to go with the papers. Hope you enjoy them.

Download here

Two Days Early - Pearly Charisma Kit

Well I actually thought I would be another couple of days getting this post up but I am pleased to say its ready for download now so here it is my first designed digital scrapboook kit. The kit inlcudes 17 Papers and 30 elements. I would love to see any work that you may create using this kit, just email me your pictures at caruff@hotmail.co.uk and I can provide a link for you to your blog or webpage.

Download Elemets here

Download papers here

Fred, She Said - Digital Design & Papercrafting Goodness: OCT 19 - DIGI OF THE WEEK: Sunflowers & Thankfulne...

Some inspiration for using your digital images, love it

Fred, She Said - Digital Design & Papercrafting Goodness: OCT 19 - DIGI OF THE WEEK: Sunflowers & Thankfulne...: "This week's Digi of the Week was selected by the wonderful DT Tracey MacD! She chose Sunflowers & Thankfulness! Both the Digi AND Pre-Colo..."

New Blinkie - More Freebie News

Today I have been playing around in PSE and made myself a blinkie for my blog, it was actually one of the lessons that I am enrolled on. I have been having so much fun there and learnt tons of techniques from simple editing to actually designing my papers and embellishments for digital scrapbooking. But the great thing about the papers I have created is that they are in high res and are also suitable for printing and using for my vurtual craft work. I like so much that I can create something to my own taste and colour to suit exactly what I need. No more trawling the shops and internet for that must have stash.

My next project on the digital side of things will be a new header for my blog, my only problem is that I can be very indecisive and I spend more time choosing a theme colours etc lol. Well I hope you like the new blinkie, when I get really good at this designing lark maybe I could offer my services to others, now that will be a fabulous event to look forward to.  At the moment I am just finishing of my first whole kit, so keep a look out as there will be some fab paper freebies in the kit for you all to print off or even use in your own digi scrapbooks.

Hopefully it will be ready for download by the end of this week, but for now here is a preview for you.

Have a great week.....

No Crafting Work

What a couple of weeks, done no crafting at all due to suffering with toothache and visiting the dreaded dentists chair. Well with teeth now sorted - I hope my Dyson decided to die on me and that was painful, I can I possibly live without my beloved Dyson so having spent all day searching for the best deal it would semm that Argos have it going at the moment. Although I am not to thrilled about having to part with the best of £200 its a great saving on prices else where. So my thanks to Argos

 
Onto something a little more crafty well storage more than crafty, I have been spending some time on sorting out my ribbon storage. After finding some fabulous draw files in Tescos for only £2.99 thats another bargain up my sleeve I guess. I mus say I am really pleased with the find and i now have some great lokking and tidy too ribbon storage.
 
This is how my ribbons looked before and after
 
 

AND AFTER

 
 
What a difference I absolutely love them and I can thing of many other ways to utelize thes draws so I will be collecting a couple more on my next visit to Tescos. There storage capacity is great I must have at least 50 strips of card which I made myself to wind the ribbons onto.
 
So if you fancy a ribbon makeover pop into to your local Tescos and treat yourself to some.
 



So thank you Tescos

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But for now I am going to check out Itunes who knows I may even find some more bargains lol

Top 50 iTunes

Freebie Error

I have to relay my apologies to anyone who has downloaded the free lilac papers and found that one was missing. This morning I discovered that the download file was missing one of the papers, well what can I say I am soooo daft. I have now updated the file and if you would like the whole set you can get on the new link HERE or on the original link in the post below which has been updated.