April Hot Product at Digishoptalk!

The kit for this month is fun and brightly colored - with some great characters inside like the turtle and crocodile.... it's called Dazzletude and it's by Teresa Hernandez.

I used a calendar overlay for 2010 by Geeky Diva Designs for this project - easier for me to keep track of the months at a glance.

Disclosure Policy - Long Version

Since I am on the creative teams of several designers and stores, I think that it is a good idea to have a disclosure policy on my personal blog. On the right hand side of this blog, I have blinkies of all of my creative teams. Please feel free to contact me if you have any thoughts, questions, or concerns!

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I am a member of creative teams for digital scrapbooking designers. I receive digital scrapbooking kits in exchange for creating layouts and advertising these products. Although I receive this compensation, I truly love the kits I use and would create with them even if I were not part of the team. I create for Andilynn Designs, Geeky Diva Designs, ScrapMatters, Elise Hansen, Plain Digital Wrapper, Digishoptalk, and Gwenipooh, Amy Sumrall, and Pamela Donnis as of the writing of this post. The blinkies on my blog will have the most up to date list as teams change.

Official policy:
This policy is valid from 09 March 2010

This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. This blog does not accept any form of cash advertising, sponsorship, or paid topic insertions. However, we will and do accept and keep free products, services, travel, event tickets, and other forms of compensation from companies and organizations.

The compensation received may influence the advertising content, topics or posts made in this blog. That content, advertising space or post may not always be identified as paid or sponsored content.

The owner(s) of this blog is compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. Even though the owner(s) of this blog receives compensation for our posts or advertisements, we always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the bloggers' own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.

This blog does not contain any content which might present a conflict of interest.

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Elise's Pieces CT Spotlight

I'm so excited - I'm the CT spotlight this week on Elise's blog - go check it out if you have a moment!

Hope

I wanted to share two layouts I created in thinking about the new year.

This first one is about my word for the year - hope. This is the first time I have picked out a word for the year (inspired by Ali Edwards). I wasn't planning on it initially but as I was scrapping this layout and writing the journaling - I realized that I was picking a word without meaning to! The photo from this layout is from Lake Powell in Arizona - it happened by accident that I was trying to take a picture of a rock wall but the sunburst got in the way! But I thought of it right away when I started scrapping with this kit by
Elise Hansen and Nikki Epperson - Resolution.

This second one is more fun and light hearted. I decided to pick out a bunch of secondary words to help me focus on my main word for the year (which feels a little abstract to work with daily and set goals although it captures the spirit of all of it). I used a template by Cathy Zielske and a fun funky kit by Amy Sumrall appropriately named Funny Flowers.



I plan to look at these layouts monthly - also a new goal for me - to refocus and reflect. Here goes!

Love is Everything

Love is everything - well especially when it involves chocolate, right! Yum!


Made with Love is Everything by Gwenipooh Designs and Mini Truffle Box Template by Geeky Diva Designs. Also check out Gwen's blog - she has a really cute template for you!

Peak at my Tools

I took this picture to show my tools - for my project for the Hybrid Bootcamp happening now at ScrapMatters. I've got my scissors and my super easy double stick tape and my new presentation paper.


The Bootcamp is really amazing so far with lots of fantastic information. Way exceeds what I was even expecting. If you've thought of hybrid trying hybrid but don't know where to start, it is really well organized and breaks everything down. But - beware of craft store enabling!!!


I'll post what I made with these tools tomorrow!

February DST Hot Product

Hello my name is... Heather. But really this post is about my hybrid project for DST this month. It's a bookmark keepsake box. Perfect as a gift for any booklover. It is a wonderful way to present handcrafted bookmarks and it's a fun way to keep them and other bookmarks in a handy spot. When I made this box, I decided on a size for the bookmark and then made the box to fit around the bookmarks - so it could be adapted for any shape.




I made the bookmarks and the box using the kit Hello my name is... by Digital Scrapbooking Studio. The girls as Stone Accent Studio have reinvented themselves and want to reintroduce themselves. This is me - waving back and saying hi!