Finally another post!

Contents of this post
1) A popular page
2) Creative team news

Hi everybody!
1)I have been having great fun on ScrapbookFlair. I think I am now officially clinically addicted. It's a wonderful site where people share and give comments on digital scrapbook pages. From people's comments, I think I am getting better (but most people just say 'great page' which tells me nothing). Here is a page that lots of people seem to like:

Background and elements are from the Michael kit by Demiurgia Designs available at Digital Scrapn Designs. I made the bucket. Fonts are HorndonD, Funstuff, and DomCasual.

This was for a challenge in Scrapbook Flair. The challenge was to make a list of things you want to do before you 'kick the bucket.' I didn't realize this page would be such a hit. Amazingly, I actually won the challenge - that is my very first first-place on the site! Still, I don't know what made it such a hit. Can you tell me?

2) I have also started making layouts for 2 store creative teams: Digital Scrapn and Ahhhscrap. The CT at Ahhhscrap has a group to help us learn about designing, which I am excited about. Between these and working for Stellarific Creations (see previous post), I am learning a lot about the digi-scrap business. But I still have lots to learn.

I joined another team!

This week I started as designer assistant for Stellarific Creations. I am already learning a lot about working the web, and the digi-scrapping business. I get to make layouts for her too, which I don't mind at all :). This one used her Petalicious kit:




This page shows my husband, friends, and me dressed up in costume. No, it wasn't Halloween. It was Purim. Purim is a Jewish holiday when people dress up in costumes and rejoice, celebrating courage and victory for the Jewish people. The holiday is mainly a children’s holiday, like Halloween is. Girls often dress up as Queen Ester because Queen Ester spoke up and saved the Jewish people in the story in the Book of Ester (in the Bible). The little girl at the bottom of the page, my friend Elyse, is one example.

Do you like her designs? Check out her blog at http://stellarificcreations.blogspot.com/.




The second page is on Purim a year later. This page uses my own gold and silver backgrounds, plus a string and fabric heart (recolored) from Stone Accent Studios.

My graduation pics

My graduation was actually over a month ago, but I have been busy even since then. The 'professional' pictures the university had taken were not very good, besides costing a fortune. So my husband took some of his own.

Buddha says:
"Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that final victory comes."



[Credits: The tags are from SBF graduation collection. The blue flowers are from aneczkaw.The pink flower is from Becky Wallace.The other designs are my own (background & frame).]

This is far from final victory but it is still an accomplishment. I graduated with a non-clinical degree in speech and hearing science or speech pathology. Because of a dispute regarding one of my disabilities (a back problem called disk degenerative disease), I was not allowed to finish my clinical training. I am still fighting it, but at least I got my masters degree. What I can do with it is another issue.

So in the mean time, I am looking for jobs other than speech pathology. Most important for my sanity, I keep scrapping :)

I joined a creative team!

I am really excited! I just joined the creative team for Rachel Clark Desigs. Her blog is at http://rachelclarkdesigns.blogspot.com/. Here is my first layout with her designs. The kit is Carribean Rush, which is available in her store: http://stoneaccentsstudio.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=24. It's even on sale right now!

This page shows my friend Ahnnah playing with her electronic cat. This really is the ideal pet!! :)

Artist Trading Cards

I tried out another challenge at Stone Accent Studios (SAS) and got carried away. The challenge was to make an Artist Trading Card with a personal mantra, prayer, or inspiration. I made a bunch of them and now plan to give them out at a dinner party for my bat mitzvah (a Jewish ceremony for accepting religious responsibility).

Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) are 2.5 by 3.5 inch cards to trade with fellow artists. Two of those I made are shown below.

For this blue one, I used Julie O's Delicious Berry Blue kit from SAS and a Shalom font obtained on the internet. The verse is a traditional Jewish prayer.

For this brown one, I used my own background and a tag from Creative Victorian. The verse is another Jewish prayer, translated by Rabbi David Cooper.