Eeeek! | Digital Scrapbooking Inspiration

Trick or Treat! That greeting all of Fall adores. The pumpkins. The Carving! The home I grew up in had 4 pillars around a cement porch. I remember many years standing on the cement porch watching Dad carve the faces into our new jack-o-lanterns. We’d get a strand of Christmas lights and change out the bulbs to be yellow. Viola! The fun would now begin! I would be so excited I’d be jumping everywhere. Soon Chelle & her sisters and I would get together, hold hands as we walked down the road from house-to-house. We were about as noisy as 4 girls could be, and then later we got to have the boys with us. Chelle’s brother and my brother. We’d run and skip and scream like banshees because it was Halloween. Our sugar rush was very high. We knew which houses we wanted to go to because they had the ‘cool’ or ‘most desirable’ candy. I don’t do much with the decorating any more, but our neighbors across our breezeway and put up a spooky house banner, 3 skulls — in glitter colors, a green mummy with spider webs & spiders. Just this week, he added a lovely zombie that swings out from under the stairs. We are in Halloween heaven — and that’s before you ever get to our door. LOL
When I saw Chelle’s newest products, I was so excited. The fun side of Halloween. I couldn’t help but feel my day lighten up as I watched Let me show you all of the coordinating products: Eeeeek Bundle, Eeeeek Scatter (FWP) Eeeeek Kit, Eeeeek Painted Papers, Eeeeek Word Art, Carve It Up, & the Eeeeek freebie.


For our designer & CU friends, she released CU Layered Folded Ribbons V2. Last night was Creative Club Digi Designer Edition monthly tips & tut chat. Laura Coyle presented a demonstration on Adobe Illustrator CS6 pattern making. It was soooo interesting. I learned a ton. If you want to design your own stuff, CCDDE is THE way to go. Join today! Next week we have Q&A on 10/17.

 

 

 

 

 

Now the inspiration from the creative team:

Carol (Iowan)

Jan (Quilty Mom)

Jenn J Left (jmljensen)

Jenn J Right (jmljensen)

Kayla (keepscrappin)

Lynett (lynett_rock)

Mary Left (plumdumpling)

Mary Right (plumdumpling)

Ophelia (navaja77)

Ronnie (Ronnie_Texas)

Roxana (roxanamdm)

Out CT friend Dagi (Dagmar) is from Czechoslovakia where they don’t celebrate Halloween. She posted that she was working on her calendar for next year and provided this example.

Dagi (Dagmar)

Krisi made us a hybrid birthday card invitation to share with you.

Krisi (krisi616)

I can’t wait to see all the LO’s you post to the gallery. I know I’m going to LOVE them. See you soon.

Hugs!

Fill Me In Playdate | Digital Scrapbooking Inspiration

Hey! I love to read! Let me just start out with that. I’ve had eye-glasses since I was 16 years old. Almost 30 years. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve had a hard time reading because I wasn’t able to see as clearly and my tri-focals had to be in just the right spot to read. Yesterday I was reading a 2-book series by Carla Kelly (Borrowed Light & Enduring Light) They take place in SE Wyoming and I had read about 1/3 of book one. I usually read in the bathtub, but I had an illuminating thought last night. If I could hold the book right in front of my nose in the tub and see without the eye-glasses, I could do that in my bed. LOL! It’s only taken me years to discover this obvious piece of wisdom. I’ve always had to use my glasses to read street signs, etc, and it just didn’t occur to me….duh! So I’m guessing you’re laughing at me and you should be be….  Long story short, I read all night. I finished book 2 this morning at 6:30 A.M. I had truly missed reading. I love “holding” the book”. I’d been considering a e-Reader, but didn’t want to lose that “piece” of myself. So here’s my thought for the week….sometimes the idea for a LO has been in front of your nose all along…. and my advice? Well, don’t wait 30 years to figure it out!

Wait, I have to tell another funny on myself. As a telephone agent (survey taker), I type what I hear all day long. I’ve got LDS General Conference on and I am listening as I write this post. So if suddenly I sound very profound…. I hope it’s me typing and that I don’t start plagiarizing a talk. LOL

Chelle’s been busy doing 2 new alphas for us this week. Fill Me In {Bundle}, {Marker} and {Pencil}. You can get them as a bundle or individually. I’ve linked up the images for you below.


Drips! Splats! For our CU Friends, Chelle offers CU Splats!
Chelle provided not 1 but 2 Digital Scrapbook Tutorial: They too are linked below.

As a reminder, Chelle provides this you-tube tutorial on what to do when doodles cross over the edge of a paper.

If your mail client doesn’t play friendly with the videos, you’ll find all Chelle’s videos on her You-Tube Channel.

In our newsletter’s this week, Chelle hooked us up with a link to make the “Family Banner” hybrid project. It has so many applications, but I see it with a Christmas or Thanksgiving application. I”m sure you have ideas a plenty.

Now let me show up some great inspiration from our creative team!

Carol (Iowan) used Apple Of My Eye

Jenn J (jmljensen) On The Trail & Apple Of My Eye

Kayla (keepscrappin) She used Fill Me In Pencil, Fireworks, Ladybug Hugs, and Apple of my Eye

Lynette (lynett_rock) She used the Fill Me In Bundle.

Lynette LO #2 (lynett_rock) She used the Fill Me In Bundle.

Mel (KSCroppyChick) She used Vrooom! & Fill Me In Bundle.

Ronnie (Ronnie_Texas) She used Fill Me In Bundle & Apple Of My Eye

Roxana Right (roxanamdm) She used Prehistoric, Mark My Words, & Fill Me In Bundle

Roxana Right (roxanamdm) She used Prehistoric, Mark My Words, & Fill Me In Bundle

Hope you have a great week. See you in the Chelle’s Creation Gallery. I love to see what you create.

Hugs!

2013 Calendar Playdate | Digital Scrapbooking Inspiration

Hello Ladies! Calendars…. I love ’em. I hang 1 in my bedroom, 1 in my kitchen, 1 in the office, and I use 2 for work. I love to put stickers on my calendars to mark the passage of time until the next payday. I use the “event planner” in Hallmark Card Studio 2012 to enter all the birthdays and anniversaries in my extended family. It keeps track of that information for me and I can print any calendar in the past and future and it updates all the information. I could print the month I was born. So… I’m going to be figuring out how to use that calendar and use Chelle’s toppers. A goal for me.

It’s the Orginal Scrapbook Expo this weekend and the first Digi Scrapapalooza: Utah 2012. So we’ve had a light week. We weren’t able to send out a newsletter this week (9/27).

Let me show you Chelle’s 2013 calendar’s that you can add your images to. 

For our CU Friends, we have CU Retro Alpha Doodles.

Kayla (keepscrappin) made a calendar front & back freebie for us. Just click on the image to download it.

Topper Inspiration:

Kayla (keepscrappin)

Ronnie (Ronnie_Texas)

Jan (QuiltyMom)

Erica (stanworth)

Heather (snowdrop)

Ophelia (navaja77)

Hugs!

Apple Of My Eye Playdate | Digital Scrapbooking Inspiration

Hello Ladies!

Have you seen Chelle’s newest kit? Love it! Love it! Love it! I remember the apple trees in our garden and around the house. I just loved those little tart green apples with salt sprinkled on them. I could eat them one after another. I would have to make myself stop eating them so I didn’t have some ‘natural’ consequences. My grandmother Mon, had a couple of crab apple trees. I think I tried to eat them once, but then we figured out how much more fun it was to stomp on them. Poor Grandma & Grandpa. They got to see all of us kids, but I don’t imagine they enjoyed the squashed apples on the sidewalk. Seems like we got smarter and jumped on the road so we weren’t in trouble. LOL! Let me show Chelle’s barrells of {apple} fun. The Quickies are FWP of the bundle. Hint! Make sure you snap the blog freebie also. I’ve linked them all up for you, just click on the images.

Chelle also created a new Digital Scrapbook Tutorial on Isolated & Selective Color. You can watch it by clicking on the video image.

For our CU friends, we offer CU Crepe. You’ll have to check it out.

Let me show you the absolutely darling inspiration from our Creative Team.

Dagi

Jenn J Left

Jenn J Right

Jenn M Left

Jenn M Right

Jenn V

Kairyn Left

Kairyn Right

Karen S

Kassie

Kayla LO #1

Kayla LO #2

Lynett

Mary

Mel B

Mel N

Nee Nee

Ophelia

Ronnie

Roxana

Krisi created a card using the bundle. What fun we can have when we think outside the box!

Krisi

 

Hugs!

Indian Summer Playdate | Digital Scrapbooking Inspiration

Hello Friends! Indian Summer is a favorite time of year for me. I love FALL! College Football, Tailgating, the World Series, temperatures dropping, and watching the leaves change from green to the brilliant hues of Yellow, Orange & Red. For many years, I lived in a community where the maple trees had both a green and a deep plum magenta leaf. When I first saw Chelle’s kit, I was immediately drawn to the magenta flower with the yellow in the center. It made me think of many “Decoration Day” flowers we take to family headstones to honor and remember our family. We put a lot or orange or plum/magenta on our male ancestors. Oh My Gosh! Do you need a new fall siggy? Chelle has you covered there as well. Let me show you you the goodies of the week.

Chelle has also been busy working on some fun and exciting CU items. I haven’t shown you some of them because we’ve been canning. Last Saturday Chelle canned salsa (40 quarts) and I was did (65 points) of beans. I know she’s been canning beans, corn and peaches also. Here are the CU products she’s released since I last did a playdate.

The first video explains why she created the Indian Summer Kit. Then Chelle has 2 new videos to help you with your scrapbooking. Here’s a link to each of them and to her YouTube Channel. Just click on the image.



Are you going to the Original Scrapbook Expo on September 27th & 28th in Sandy Utah? Chelle is teaching 3 classes if you’re are in the area. Sandy is about 20 miles or so south of Salt Lake City Utah. Here’s some more information about the classes:

  • FREE Introduction to Digital Scrapbooking.  That class is filling up fast.  If you would like to attend, hurry and register quickly.
  • Jumpstart Your Journaling: Is your writing battery dead? Do you skip the journaling step of scrapbooking because you lack writing skills? Do you feel like your stories aren’t worth sharing? Jump-start your journaling and learn how to craft sentences like a pro!
  • Scrapbooking Trends & Techniques: 101 Simple ideas for incorporating trends in your scrapbooks.  Current styles and trends often make their way into scrapbooking from the worlds of fashion, home decor, advertising or handmade crafts. In this class, we’ll discuss what’s new and trendy as well as tips for successfully incorporating the styles and trends of today into layouts that will last for future generations.

Let’s see… what else can I share with you? Have you joined club? (Creative Club Digi & Creative Club Digi Designer Edition) We’ve been going strong for 6 weeks now. I’ve been attending the chats. 2 each month: 1 on tips & tutorials and 1 on questions and answers. The chats last about 60 minutes. They are REALLY interesting. She records them and club members can watch them at their convenience if they didn’t catch it live. Plus and I do mean PLUS, you get all of her CU or PU items that she has designed and released that month. PU for CCD and CU for CCDDE. Register here.

  • Next chat for CCD? Wednesday, Sept 19th at 7p.m. MST.
  • Next chat for CCDDE? Thursday, Sept 20th 2 7p.m. MST – Guest: Attorney speaking legal/copywrite/trademark issues for digi-designing. Even if you don’t have the design bug, it will still be filled with valuable information. Please help us spread the news.

 

Now, to the good stuff, the inspiration from the Creative Team.

Jan

Jenn J

Jenn V

Kairyn Lisa Left

Kairyn Lisa Right

Karen S

Kayla

Lynett Left

Lynett Right

Mary

Melissa N (kscroppychic)

Melissa B (prettypeaches)

Ophelia

Ronnie

Roxana

Tea For Two Playdate | Digital Scrapbooking Inspiration

Hello Friends!
What a lovely kit Chelle made this week. A beautiful and lovely memory of times present and times past. Chelle’s Great Grandmother Pitcher (my grandmother) collected tea cups & saucers and had them placed about her house. A few years before she died, she gave each of her granddaughters one from her collection. This kit helps me travel back in time so Sunday afternoons at 4pm where we all gathered each to visit with Grandma Pitcher and our Aunts and cousins. You can choose the Tea for Two Bundle or pick them up individually: Tea for Two, Tea for Two Word Art, Tea For Two Ginghams, Tea for Two Freebie, & CU Curled Paper Flowers.
For our CU Friends, Chelle gives us CU Curled Paper Flowers:
Did you hear about Creative Club Digi Designer Edition’s Q&A chat this month? We have a copywrite & patent attorney guesting as our speaker. He’ll be talking about the legalities involved in digi-designing. It’s on Thursday, September 20th at 7pm MST. Spread the news! Tell all our designer friends.
Let me show you what the creative team designed with Tea for Two:

Carol

Jan

Jenn J

Kairyn Left

Kairyn Right

Kayla

Mary

Mel N

Ophelia

Ronnie

Roxana

Shanell

Have a great week! Hugs!

Through The Year QP Playdate | Digital Scrapbooking Inspiration

Hello Everyone!
I’m sure glad it’s Saturday? I had a CRAZY week, and I don’t have kids going back to school. I don’t know how all you busy Mom’s do it, but I hold you all in the highest esteem. Christmas is just a few months away. Wowsers!  Chelle thought it might be a good time to get a jump start of photo books and get ahead of the Christmas shopping season. She gives us Through The Year quickpages. There’s also a freebie on the blog with 2 additional pages.  Adorama has a 50% off 14 page 8×8 album through 8.28 . Here’s a link to the photo book information. Code: PXSEEIT.
To make it even easier, Chelle will walk you through the process using this scrapbook tutorial video.
If your mail client doesn’t play friendly wtih the video, you’ll find all Chelle’s videos on her You-Tube Channel.

Here’s the freebie I mentioned.

For our CU Friends, Chelle offers CU Leaves.
Let me show you the QP’s the CT came up with:

Carol

Heather

Jenn J

Jenn S

Melissa B

See you next week! Hugs!

Mark My Words Playdate | Digital Scrapbooking Inspiration

Hello Friends!
Where has August gone? We’ve got some great new things and LOs to show you this week. I hope you’ve been enjoying the Q&A chats we had this last week through Creative Club Digi(CCD) &  Creative Club Digi Designer Edition (CCDDE). I was able to participate in the both club chats this week. AWESOME! I learned a lot and it’s great FUN to interact with all of my NEW friends! If you haven’t joined yet, you are missing out. Join the club.

This week Chelle gave us Mark My Words and everyone went CRAZY. Definitely put it in your cart, you are going to use it so OFTEN! Sometimes you need a little something to draw attention to your story.  Pencils, markers, highlighters…we’ve got it all in this HUGE 140 image set of markings.  Circles, arrows, boxes, brackets, underlines…even some line sets.  EVERYTHING you need to “doodle” up your story.
For our CU Friends, a fun new “DANDY” of an Alpha Doodle. These wide, playful, almost vintage  alpha doodles in a variety of styles will make it super easy for you to create the perfect alpha for your next kit…and the next…and the next.

Wondering what to do for your next PARTY? Chelle’s Creative Team has come through with 3 great new Party Printables: Yeehaw, Prehistoric & Princess. Each kit contains: 1 Happy Birthday Banner, 2 invitations, 2 drink bottle wraps, 2 medallions (cupcake toppers, etc), 2 treat bag toppers, 2 thank-you cards, & 2 party hats.  Print exactly the number you need.  Easy to assemble.

Reminder! Register for Digiscrapapolooza On The Road: Utah! Register here and get a ticket to the Original Scrapbook Expo. The fun starts September 28-29 in Sandy, Utah. Save $25 until Aug. 21st. Space is limited. Your Digiscrapapalooza [Utah 2012] Retreat Ticket Includes:
• Admission to The Original Scrapbook Expo on September 28 & 29, 2012
• Entrance to the “Digi Lounge” at The Original Scrapbook Expo [a $90 value] • Digi Lounge Crops & Digiscrapapalooza Team Events
• 20% Discount in the Scrap Orchard Booth

The Creative Team’s layouts are WONDERFUL. Because Mark My Words can be used on any layout, the variety from the team is very inspirational. Wait ’til you see what the team has done with Chelle’s stuff. Your fingers will be itching to MOVE & CLICK. Here you go:
Carol used Something Fishy.
Jenn J used Rainbow Collection, Chocolate Lovers, and Midnight Crow Reloaded.
Jenn M used Oh Snap!, Traveler, & Spic n Span.
Jenn S used Oh Snap!
Karen used Bugcatcher & Celebrate
Kassie used Graduation.
Mel used Beat The Heat.
Ophelia used Happily Ever After.
Ronnie used Ladybug Hugs.
Roxana used Traveler.
Shanell used Rainbow Collection, On The Trail, & recolored the tortoise from Gnome Sweet Gnome.
Shannon used Summer Lovin‘.

Hope you all have a great day! C ya soon!

 

 

Beat The Heat Playdate | Digital Scrapbooking Inspiration

Hello Everyone! Chelle’s Aunt Sari here. Have you ever Beat The Heat with Lemon-Lime-‘Lectricity? I have. Back in 1991, my sister Ellen and I lived in in an apartment community in Salt Lake City, Utah. We decided to go to Lagoon Amusement Park and meet up with some other family members. Ellen made some Lemon-Lime drink for us to take along. We had a fun and exhausting day. When we rolled back into the apartment, we both thought we had rinsed the remaining few drops of lemon-lime drink out of the cooler and left it on our kitchen counter. A few days later we heard this loud pop we thought was an electrical wire popping. Scared us good. We called maintenance and for the next 3 weeks, they opened up walls following the electric lines trying to find the “popping” noise, but it just kept moving to different points in the apartment. Being “good” tenants, we kept moving our “stuff” out of the way for the maintenance worker, which included the box the cooler was in. Imagine my sister’s horror and embarrassment, when she saw the pop-up lid on the cooler make the “noise” one day will the maintenance workers were in the apartment. They were clearly frustrated they hadn’t found the problem. [Start Laughing -HARD- now!) As the remaining drink mix in our cooler fermented, it built up pressure in the cooler until it “popped” to release the pressure. Then the pressure would build up again until it needed to “pop” again. You get the idea. Let’s just say when our lease expired, we moved to another location. Ellen still remembers the maintenance worker’s faces when she told them what was causing the popping? I was at work (Whew! Thank Goodness!) We were sooooo embarrassed! It’s been 21 years and I still get a little-red-faced when I think about, but then I just have to LOL!

Chelle’s designed some great things this week. She released the most melt-in-your-mouth, Beat the Heat kit that has had my mouth watering for the yummy coolness in the kit. She adds in Beat The Heat Word Art Sticks, & Beat The Heat Blog Freebie. I had to go buy myself a snow cone! LOL

For our CU Friends, she gives us CU String Flowers & a CU String Flowers Sampler.
Chelle released Clipping Digital Paper Clips in her ongoing instruction of Digital Scrapbook Tutorials. If your mail client doesn’t play friendly with the video, you’ll find all Chelle’s videos on her You-Tube Channel.
Chelle is a sponsor at the Mousescrappers Minnie Marathon and Banner Collection is her participation prize. It’s only available through Mousescrappers, but will be available in the market at a future date.Reminder! Register for Digiscrapapolooza On The Road: Utah! Register here and get a ticket to the Original Scrapbook Expo. The fun starts September 28-29 in Sandy, Utah. Save $25 until Aug. 21st. Space is limited. Your Digiscrapapalooza [Utah 2012] Retreat Ticket Includes:
• Admission to The Original Scrapbook Expo on September 28 & 29, 2012
• Entrance to the “Digi Lounge” at The Original Scrapbook Expo [a $90 value] • Digi Lounge Crops & Digiscrapapalooza Team Events
• 20% Discount in the Scrap Orchard Booth
Don’t forget about Creative Club Digi (CCD) and Creative Club Digi Designer (CCDD). If you haven’t yet registered, click here. Members get Chelle’s products at a reduced rate & 2 free chats each month. The first CCD Question & Answer (Q&A) Chat is on the 14th @ 7pm MDT. & the CCDD Q&A Chat is scheduled for the 16th MDT. The Tips & Tricks chats are scheduled for the week of August 19th. Join now! You’ll be glad you did! Learn more in these 2 video’s where Chelle tells about the clubs. (Just click on the images.)

On to the CT’s LOs. Love them! Had to give you a “big” view so you could see their creativity at it’s best.

Carol

Erica

Jenn J

Jenn S

Kassie

Karen

Kayla

Lynett

Ophelia

Ronnie

Roxana

Shannon

Talk to you soon! Hugs!

Leafy Treetop Playdate | Digital Scrapbooking Inspiration

Hello Friends! Chelle’s Aunt Sari here. Wow what a weekend! We have an annual family golf tournament (on saturday) named in honor of my father, The Glen Griffin Classic. You may recall, I don’t participate – the direct sunlight and allergies issues I have. So instead, we get babysitting duty. I love me some little peeps. I just didn’t know they were coming until yesterday morning. 7 of the peeps. (Jayley 12, Mylie 10, Ivy 7, Daizee, 5, Zion 2, Tanzi <1, and Nikkos <1) LOL! NOISE! MORE NOISE!  My sister Barb and I (ages 50, and 45) don’t make a lot of noise, so having  7 of the peeps was pretty noisy! They were a lot of fun. Jayley and I played with PSE9 and Chelle’s Girl Power Reloaded kit. She did AWESOM! I knew she’d catch on fast. We also cut out (yes, by hand with scissors, yuck!) some of Chelle’s stuff & put it through my Xyron and made stickers. I’ve had mine for 20+ years and we use it all the time. Especially for sunday school lessons. I think I created a MONSTER! AWK! I definitely should have through that through better. LOL Oh & guess what? My adhesive cartridge is now gone! Love me some peeps!

Leafy Treetops reminds me of a favorite childhood church song and I’ve been humming it since I first saw this kit during the Iron Scrapper Week 1 kit & SOUL’s (Scrap Orchard Live) first live broadcast. I was thinking about Leafy Treetops and couldn’t help thinking about Labor Day and hauling wood when I was around 10-16. Labor day was definitely L-A-B-O-R day in my family. Dad would get us up at 5, we’d make a sack lunch, climb in the wood truck and head for the canyon. Dad would cut down the dead Quaking Aspen and start cutting it up. My job was to roll the big pieces down the hill to the truck. As I got older, I learned to stack the wood in the truck, just as tight as I could. If I didn’t, Dad would throw them all out of the truck and we’d have to hand them to him again and he’d re-stack them. Dad was a jokester!!! Just before he would fell the tree, and he knew it was going to fall upward, he’d yell, “Run! Sara Run! It’s come right at you.” Terrified, I’d jump and run anywhere that wasn’t where I had been! You could hear the tree knocking branches off other trees and I just knew I would die under a quakie! Dad would stand up there and laugh and then tell me I sure could run fast when I needed to. He did that at least once every “haul” and you never knew if it was real, so, each time we would run like crazy! He was a very funny Dad. LOL!

On to the products, this week we have Leafy Treetops & Leafy Treetops Quickies & offers CU Bubble Wrap Brushes for her CU friends.

Oh Snap! Kit, Oh Snap! Word Art & Oh Snap! Quickies: The Quickies are the new release this week. We previously released Oh Snap! Word Art & Oh Snap! kit was part of Chelle’s birthday daily download in July. I did the playdate on Oh Snap! in July. Here’s the link!

Chelle has started doing short video intros of her new products. What do you think? You like? Let us know, comment to this post. First is: Blending Photos &  Second is: 5 Ways To Us Bubble Wrap. If your mail client doesn’t play friendly with these videos, you’ll find all Chelle’s videos on her You Tube Channel.

    

Did you see Chelle’s post about Creative Club Digi (CCD) & Creative Club Digi Designer (CCDD)? Register HERE. Check out the links, Chelle has some introductory videos about each club.

     

Chelle’s team have created some great LO’s to inspire you using Leafy Treetops:

Carol

Jenn J

Jenn S

Kariyn Lisa Left

Kairyn Lisa Right

Karen

Kassie

Kayla

Lynett

Mary

Mel

Ronnie

Roxana

Shannon

The Oh Snap! LO’s are here. Hope you have a great week!

Hugs!