New Signature Standards at DST

DST has posted new siggy standards for their forum. So today I worked at incorporating my new logo / business card into a "name tag"... hoping by posting it here, it'll link successfully to DST :-)

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Yipee, it worked!!

and oops! forgot the credits -- this was made using 2 gorgeous kits by Alice at Red Ivy Designs... Inspire & You're So Lovely. i also used heart brushes by hawksmont.

trying a smaller size

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i'm SO excited!

Another favorite designer, Binty Designs (LOVE her photomasks!!) has accepted me for her guest CT. My layout of Fiona Elegante used one of her masks (Sept09).  I'm looking forward to scrapping with more of her stuff. You can find her stores here & here.

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Thanks Binty!

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more OKC's

The following layouts are for some OKC's over at DST. I know you'll HAVE to agree with me that these are some darling kits and were very fun to work with. This 1st set is a "blast from the past"!

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Bathtub FUN 1

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Bathtub FUN 2

credits: Little Sailor kit by Milly Dee Designs

fonts: Callistroke, CK Bedrock, Wendy Medium

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Here's part II of "great-nephews"... these adorable pics of the babies with their older sibling are priceless.

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Fiona & Falcon

credits: Kindy World kit by Rucola Designs

photomask vol 2 by Red Ivy Designs, font - CK Joannie

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Cade & Korbin 

credits: Kindy World kit by Rucola Designs

font - CK Joannie

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Willow River State Park, MN 

credits: Dandelions in the Spring kit by Vera Designs, font - Gigi

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OKC at DST!

I recently discovered OKC (one kit calls) over at DST Forum. It's been great! I've found some great designers this way... one has graciously added me to her regular "guest CT". So, I'm going to begin with her. This is the 1st kit she's designed... isn't it great?!!

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Once A Gamer...

 Video gaming is obviously multi-generational... especially with the Wii...

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I Wanna Play!

Ethan adores his uncle Pete and wants to do everything he does!

credits: Boyfriend Is A Gamer kit by Angelle Designs, 

fonts - Borg-9 & Bradley Hand ITC

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MagsGraphics latest!

My 1st "regular" CT was MagsGraphics -- I love her stuff... so fun to play with... and SO much in tune with the growing years of our 3 sons. Here are the layouts I did in May-July10 with her latest and some of my favorite kits.

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Tonka Christmas

This was a Christmas to remember. We celebrated the birthday of our Lord Jesus and then opened gifts. The boys were absolutely thrilled with their new tonka trucks and sleeping bags.

credits: Monster Truck Madness kit by MagsGraphics, fonts - Franklin Gothic Heavy

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Then came the picture that HAD to be scrapped... little Abigail in her sunflower dress... SO VERY adorable!!!!!!! Mags collaborated with 88DesignsByM for Farmer's Market. It was absolutely perfect for scrappin' this photo :-)

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Couch Potatoe

credits: Farmer's Market Collab by MagsGraphics & 88DesignsbyM, 

Photo Mask by Anita Designs (You Are My Sunshine freebie), 

font - Bradley Hand ITC

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Mags newest designs are a couple build-a-kits called Jack & Luke. The colors are deep & rich and are perfect for scrapping little boys!! (or big ones). I had tons of fun putting this one together using the 1st paper pack and a couple of frame clusters. I made more elements by experimenting with the distort/twirl layers and swirling and more... it was a very challenging layout to do with only the papers to work with this time 'round. If you have boys, be sure and add these fabulous versitile kits to your collection. 

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JOY of Eating!

This precious little boy was the 2nd boy to join our growing family... and he became our JOYFUL eater (and continued to be into his adult years!).

credits: Jack build-a-kit by MagsGraphics,fonts - CK Postage Due & Agency FB

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Then, here's one of my favorite MagsGraphics kits... Freedom. We have many things to celebrate here in our country... freedom that is a very precious commodity in today's world, friendships that we hold dear, family and fellowship of believer's—those who share our faith in the risen Lord, Almighty God, my Saviour—the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Friends = FUN!

This layout came about as a "challenge" from a dear friend of ours. After emailing her the layout I did for one of the July challenges over at Digitals (and including a picture I had wanted to use but didn't fit the page), she said "Ha Ha HA, that deserves it's own page!"... and inspiration hit and wala! another layout celebrating our friendship.

credits: Freedom kit by MagsGraphics, font - CK Love Note

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Navy Dad

 credits: Freedom kit by MagsGraphics, font - SF-Alexa, 

photomask by janieinMN, PSE5 & 1207CSSparkle brushes

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Ethan's 3rd Birthday

Ethan loves Buzz Lightyear. During our visit to MI in Feb10, he had a grand 'ole time playing with a little buzz that we brought him and he shared his big buzz with his gramps... many fun photos of that duo romping in the living room of my parents house.

credits: Freedom kit by MagsGraphics, font - Callistroke

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VERY BUSY WEEK for nieces!!

Great Nephews

Our nieces were quite busy the last week of May resulting in 3 precious great-nephews!! A truly scrapable occassion...

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credits: 

Ami kit by Red Ivy Designs, fonts - CK True Type Distressed & CK Shannon,

photomasks by janieinMN

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June DigiSB Challenges!

I'm so far behind in blogging, that I'm going to lump many similar layouts together. This post is focusing on challenges from Digitals & theStudio. I hadn't participated in the challenges at Digitals since Oct09 (it was a very rough winter). If you've been keeping up with my blog, you'll know that I was very excited to discover a WordArt challenge over at theStudio (formerly Stone Accents Studio) that I look forward to every month since it began Feb10.

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In June, I had urgent incentive to do the challenges because I liked the bonus kit so much... had to get as many pieces to it as I could... loved the colors & theme! So, without further delay -- here are the layouts I did in June & July (broke my record for # layouts in a single month since I began digi-scrapping in Dec08!

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Sweet Abigail

This is the little sweetheart premie that was born at 26 weeks to some friends of ours. What a joy it's been to pray for her and see miracles happen! Be sure to watch for the layout of her 1st day at the beach!!!

credits:

Digitals Sketchy Challenge - dedesmith 6/10 

Digitals Scripture Challenge - Word Art by Glenda Ketcham 6/10

Lewisham kit by Amanda Thorderson 5/10

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Summertime Bovines

Some fun pictures taken at a farm we passed on a scenic drive in Wisconsin.

 credits:

Digitals Scrap Therapy Challenge - PhotoMask by Amanda Thorderson 6/10 

Digitals Scripture Challenge - Wordart by Glenda Ketcham 6/10

theStudio Color Challenge - Summer Sunset kit by Monika Designs 6/10

Treasured Memories by Amanda Thorderson (flower)

Remembering by Amanda Thorderson (ribbon)

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Wild Feathers

Quite a story behind this one -- we were at our favorite nature walking trail and while I was taking pics of a mother duck & her ducklings, my hubby spotted the Eagle and shouted "did you see that?". We took photos as quickly as we could and between the two of us, I was able to recreate the story in this layout... using Blue Eyes addon by Alice at Red Ivy Designs.

credits:

Blue Eyes AddOn kit by Alice -Red Ivy Designs

fonts: SF Alexa, SU Carefree 

original photography by rjs/janieinMN

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Engaged!

credits: 

Digitals iChallenge - Vintagely Weathered by Juliana Gordon

Fonts - Signboard, SU Harry Paul

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Gooseberry Falls 2007

credits: 

Digitals Designer Elements Challenge - kit by Silvia Romeo 6/10

Digitals It's Only Words Challenge - Wordart by Kathryn Estry 6/10

Font - ShelleyAllegro BT

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Ethan's 1st Birthday!

credits: Digitals Ad Challenge

America's Inauguration kit by Amanda Thorderson

Font - Grinched

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Grandsons' Skyping!!

Our 1st skyping adventure with our grandsons -- Ethan had just developed an ear infection so he was much quieter than usual... Jaden seemed facinated by the computer video :-)

credits:Citrus Crush by Amanda Thorderson 

Digitals Calendar Challenge - June2010 

Fonts - CK Shannon

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credits:

June10 WordArt challenge by Kimberkatt at theStudio

Mr Organizer kit by Kathryn Estry

and, that's all for now folks!

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May Flowers

Sunshine Child

 credits: Sunflower Patch by MagsGraphics, font - Sherwood

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More Space Case!

 Space Cadets (left)

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Space Cadets (right)

credits: Space Case kit by MagsGraphics, fonts - Tristan & SU Kelly, 

Space Cadets WA by janieinMN

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Space Case kit by MagsGraphics

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long time away... what to say??

well, i knew i was behind in posting on my blog... just didn't realize it'd been 2 months! it's all i can do to keep up with facebook!! my husband worked LONG outage hours for 6 weeks ... i've spent more time in the kitchen ... and have done several scrap layouts (will upload those in another post).

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i've had so much success with homeopathics for my severe allergies, that i signed up to be a retailer for Heel, Inc. they have fantastic (& SAFE!) products -- those combined with avoidance (ONLY treatment for latex allergy and #1 treatment for multiple chemical sensitivities) & following every possible precaution has really improved my health. the frequency of my reactions and the recovery time has greatly decreased. unfortunately, the downside is that when i'm doing well, i end up taking some risks that i shouldn't and then get into serious trouble. had a very bad reaction last sunday... but, it was after breaking my record of successive days not needing epinephrine or benadryl!

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family is coming to visit - yipee! my parents for 10 days and our oldest son & his sweet wife for the weekend. the hardest part about where we live is that family is so far away. our 2 grandsons are growing like weeds!! looking forward to our next skype call with them (did our 1st a couple of weeks ago -- it was awesome! we got to spend all our time chatting & just watching them (unlike yahoo messenger where most of our time is spent troubleshooting -- ym works during "tests", but when it counts, it's awful -- we actually thought it was our camera and were looking into getting a newer webcam... then we tried skype & video was great!)).

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one of these days (after get caught up with posting my recent CT layouts), i hope to post more info on homeopathy... along with a list of popular products and option for my interested readers to purchase (meanwhile, you can check the company out here at HEEL -Inc.-- i carry many of their products in my retail store. that goal is right next to the one for posting my custom-designed jewelry online. i really don't want to have to deal with an online "store", so not sure how i'll go about it. right now it's all via email, phone & word of mouth advertisting. need to put more thought into it :-)

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hoping to have digi-SB layouts uploaded soon, so be sure to check back here for updates.  i've participated in a few OTC's (one-time-calls) for a few designers (2 brand new!) and am still enjoying the WordArt challenges over at theStudio. i also participated in Digitals challenges this month (just HAD to have the bonus mini-kits!!).

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more WordArt!

Space Cadets by janieinMN

This has got to be my absolute favorite challenge -- it gets me into "gear" almost instantly -- inspiration hits and wala! a tutorial has turned into a creative WA to use on one of my scrapbook layouts (albums open and pics are selected to be scanned for this one). It's using a kit from MagsGraphics called "Space Case". As soon as it was released I knew I just ad to scrap it! We have pics of the boys at the Museum of Science & Industry with the space suits and pics from a trip to NASA (next to where my Air Force dad used to work). For this particular challenge I noticed others were changing the words to go with their layouts... inspiration struck.... use Mags kit!.... aha!! "Space Cadets"!

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Be sure to check out this wonderful tutorial challenge -- you'll learn various techniques (normally hidden to the average person using PSE for photo-editing) that are super cool... and if you print the challenge, you'll have a reference for the next time you want to do it (like I needed for the stroking which was from the 1st lesson). WordArt challenge at theStudio

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Here's the fun, fun, FUN kit I used...

other credits: fonts used -- Tristan & SU Kelly

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Abigail Marie

Abigail 1 - birth

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This layout speaks for itself. Abigail is the daughter of a young dear friend of ours.

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credits: "Grungy Love" kit by Red Ivy Designs, font - Tristan

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Another WordArt Challenge

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with shadows

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The Studio has done it again -- this is the 2nd month in a new challenge called Decorate your Wordart. Kimberkatt provides awesome tutorials and tips. Last month was "how to color fill and add stroke for sticker effect". This month it was "how to clip paper to wordart" (similar to masking). SO MUCH FUN!!

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credits: "Cocktail Dress" kit by Red Ivy Design, 
Kimberkatt's WA challenge & Heart Brushes by Hawksmont

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