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Lara Payton's new kit, Beloved, inspired me to pull out some of my old photos of San Francisco. It's such a beautiful city, and this kit really highlights it, I think!
Kit is Beloved by Lara Payton, available at http://www.dustybear.com:
http://www.dustybear.com/shoppe/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=246
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Font is Coronet
Kit is From the Heart by Chari Originals, available at Hookedondigiscrap.com
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Lift-a-flap heart by Melany Violette
Font is ... rats, i forgot! lol
So here's an unsual thread for me --
I am really just joining the ranks of digital scrapbook designers, my first kits went out for sale in mid-January, though I was designing freebies for a bit and those were always maxing out the downloads. :) I've worked as a professional graphic designer and web builder for 12+ years and have also taught photoshop, After Effects, Premiere, and more at UCLA Extension so I'm no newbie hehe! I've been digi-scrapping for about two years now, and though I've just started selling, I can see that there's TONS of competition out there from many talented designers, and I'm just hoping for a tiny piece of the giant pie that is the digi-scrapping world online.
In the boards of designers, there's lots of discussion about originality, and I have learned that they/we worry constantly about people copying their ideas. I wanted to find some public way of announcing that I respect and admire so many other designers (and my paypal account is well used and my hard drive is full of their kits to prove it!) and that as a relatively new designer am absolutely not trying to copy anyone. I don't want to be enemies with my digital co-workers, as it is. I want to continue to promote digital scrapbooking in general, and my fellow designers.
So, I've come up with a way to tell the world -- this blinkie:
I'm going to add it to my siggy and post on DST and other boards and try to be a positive influence, here's hoping it comes back to me hehe!
Feel free to grab a copy and post it to your siggy, I'd love to think that there are lots of designers and digiscrappers out there who realize that there's room enough for us all in this marketplace that will only continue to grow and bloom over the next several years.
I'll stop my rant now. Thanks for your time. :)
- Leslie aka iamserenasmom aka scissorlessmedia
Here's the card I'll be sending out for Valentine's this year:
Kit is Delightful by Lara Payton, dustybear.com
SakuraInBloom MaryseVincent Alphas -- Gold letters (blog freebie)
font for "love" is carbon phyber
other font is artistic
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In honor of the upcoming Valentine's holiday, I thought I'd share this page I created with all y'all fabulous blog readers of mine :). This page is created with my recently created To My Valentine kit, currently for sale at HookedonDigiscrap.com. Click here to visit my store!!
Here's what the page looks like with my photos in it ...
And here's what it looks like empty, ready for your pics. What a perfect valentine this would make, printed at 5x5 or 6x6, though I provided the file in full 12x12 glory!
CLICK HERE to download this cool freebie!
CLICK HERE if the above download link has expired.
CLICK HERE if THAT link has expired. If this one expires, please email me and I'll put more copies up LOL!
What a great idea Christine Smith had -- for a BLOG CARNIVAL. How cool is that? I'm jumping on the bandwagon :) If you want to know more about it, visit her blog
I'm offering a coupon for $1.00 off any of my designs at HookedOnDigiscrap.com -- just enter SG1 at checkout :) You can use it for my newest kit released this week, Impressions -- check out the closeup views below -- or any kit you like more. And if you do use it for a page, I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to see what you've come up with!I'm also sending out the search for a Creative Team. Please email me if you're intersted -- leslie@scissorlessmedia.com. So if you like to scrap, and are willing to post into a few galleries on my behalf, I'd love to have you! I have one fabulous member on my CT right now, but she's lonely hehe!
Thanks so much for dropping by, don't forget to sign up for my freebie mailing list if you're interested! :) I didn't have enough time to take the photos for it this week, but next week I'll have a cool tutorial up here on getting digi-designs outta the computer and onto some crafty gifts!
Kit is Connor by Jennifer Riggins, available at scrap2basics.net
Photobender action by Lara Payton, dustybear.com
Font is Artistic
Fellow HODS designer Sara E. tagged me! So here's my 5 weird and unusual things about myself or my pets (yikes!)
1. I can pick things up with my feet. I rarely have to bend over to pick anything up. What's even funnier is I've noticed my daughter picking things up with her feet too. Must be a family trait! :D
2. One of my cats, Gibson, whenever we move to a new house (which we've done six or seven times to him now) does what we call "the perimeter meow." He'll walk all around the edge of the house on all sides taking a few steps, stopping, meowing and then repeating the whole process around the house several times.
3. My first job in Los Angeles after graduating college in San Jose was as a production assistant on the tv show ellen (the sitcom, not the show now, we're talking 12 years back here lol). I got the job by calling up and asking for it, basically. The UPM was pissed off at the current p.a. and fired him and hired me. The first task she gave me? Buy her tampons.
4. I make lists, to do lists that are pages and pages long. I feel better when everything I need to do or know for a specific task is written down. I'm usually up late the night before a trip writing my list, go to sleep, then wake up and toss everything from the list into the duffel.
5. I played TheSims Online for the first year it was out, and had a very successful house. LOL it's okay if you don't know what that means!
And my list of who I'm tagging:
Kit is Romantic Recollections by Lara Payton, DustyBear.com
Fonts are Boopee and Old Century
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Template is Misty Cato's blog template 8
Here's a sneak peek to a kit that will soon be available at hookedondigiscrap.com -- it's called Impressions and it's inspired by my love of post-impressionist artists like Van Gogh and Monet. The papers have a canvas and paint look to them and there's several different kinds of frames in lots of different color choices for framing your works of art. :)
This massive kit contains 20 papers and 41 elements:
5 painted papers
6 polka-dot papers
2 art-inspired watery papers
2 plaid papers
3 flowered papers
2 striped papers
4 ribbons
5 stitched tags with ribbon
5 stitched textured frames
5 corner puffy stickers
4 medallion puffy stickers
5 oval metalwork frames
5 square metalwork frames
5 metalwork tacks
3 journaling squares
Here's a closer view:
My entry for the quote challange at rakscraps, whatcha think?
This photo is my daughter at 5 days old, that's my hand in the photo.
kit is Always With You by Maria LaFrance, digitalfreebies and digiscrapdivas
LO is Sara E.'s Silly Circles, hookedondigiscrap
font is coronet and cuckoo
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