Author: Dina

Congrats to:

Run, do not walk, run over to the Kenner Road blog for another great NSD giveaway…

1. One grand prize winner will receive a 6-month subscription to Kenner Road, beginning with the May kit, Constant Companion.

2. Three runners up will win one of the sold out April kits, Central Valley, Hen House or Two-by-Four.

Current subscribers are eligible. one entry per
person, however, if you send a friend and they comment that you sent
them {including your name in their post} you will both be eligible to
win the exact same prize if your lucky number is drawn {this includes
the 6-month subscription}.

To celebrate National Scrapbooking Day, Allison from Hambly is having DT members give away a $15 gift certificate! Think of the lovely screen-printed overlays and papers you can get…yum. On Sunday, I'll draw a random winner from the comments on this post. Make sure you visit other DT member's blogs to enter for a chance to win there, too!For a list of the DT blogs participating, visit
Hamblyscreenprints.typepad.com (only
1 gift certificate per person).

Also check out the 2Peas In A Bucket Hambly contest…you could win more Hambly! If you're a Twitter aficionado, you can follow Hambly there, too.

I was honored to be the guest designer for Studio Calico this month…serious pressure! 🙂 Loved working with the kits, the stamps are way fun.

and what came out was an ultra-grungy, ultra-painty, ultra-messy sewn book…I think it was my subconscious way of getting out all the stress I had been feeling. I realize it looks like a paint store barfed on a page…but it is what it is.

It is par-tay time this weekend over at Get It Scrapped! GIS is turning one (yay!) and we're celebrating with all kinds of fun: challenges, prizes, and mini-projects will be posted in the forums beginning on Friday night (that's April 24!).

LIVE CHAT SCHEDULE (drawings for prizes at each chat!)

Friday, April 24
7 pm – 8 pm EDT: Party Kick-off with Debbie Hodge & Doris Sander.

Saturday, April 25
10:30 am-11:30 am EDT: Inspiration Chat with Paula Gilarde & Lynn Weber.
11:30 am – 12:30pm EDT: Multiphoto Layout Chat with Debbie Hodge.
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT: Motivation Chat with Tania Willis & Lynn Weber.
9:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT: Stripes & Dots Chat with Debbie Hodge.

There will be 4 challenges posted on Friday night, and lots more posted on Saturday. I did a little mini project (more like a technique, actually) that will be posted on Saturday afternoon…it has to do with spray inks (of course). 🙂 Come & join us…it's free, and you'll get lots of scrapping done.

Learn how I created this easy mixed-media-inspired border at the {entreARTistes} blog.

You know those awesome Kitschy Digital scrappy goods that I mentioned before? They're on sale, yo…20% off. You know you neeeed those feathers. Oh, and the frames. Oh, and basically one of everything. hee hee. You can also get 20% off in the Kitschy Digital Goods shop…the coupon code is 20percentoffKDG.

Happy Shopping!

I got to play around with Danielle Thompson's wonderful Kitschy Digitals elements…and I had a blast! I'm not a digi scrapper at all (no skillz, people)…but I would open the files in Photoshop Elements, resize them if necessary, and print 'em out to use as paper elements. Easy, and so fun.

For interested family, friends, and voyeurs: here are my Europe pics. I didn't really take too many, and there are some I haven't edited yet.