Showing posts with label anticipation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anticipation. Show all posts

5.26.2010

Blog Swap and Giveaways...Ella Friends Join us at SFTIO!

Have you met Ella?



Ella Publishing is the fantastic brainchild of the lovely Angie Lucas...it's a most wonderful site where you can find a monthly ezine, ebooks on design, creativity, photography, sketches, text and more! It's a one stop shop for great scrapbook inspiration...

We're so pleased to be joining some Ella Friends in a swap! They gave three of our designers a copy of Lain Ehmann and Stacy Julian's Ella ebook Simple Secrets of Happy Scrapbookers and we gave them our ANTICIPATION kit. Here's what they did!



Moon Ko:





Katie Scott:





Tami Morrison:





To see our designers Nancy Doren, Diana Kennedy and Rita Barakat's LOs, go check out the Ella Blog right now! You could win an ANTICIPATION kit! Or just click the kit title to grab yours now before they're all gone...



Wanna win something else great? How about your own ebook from Ella? Just leave a comment here and we'll select THREE winners! You'll have until Friday 5/28 at noon to enter.

Love,

Rachel

5.21.2010

Join Me Today on the CK Blog and Win!

Hey everyone...Happy Friday!

I am having a really fun week with my friend Barbara who is visiting from New York. We have had the most enjoyable couple of days, shopping, laughing, and cooking up a storm!

I want to invite you over to the Creating Keepsakes Blog! I had the pleasure of creating a special layout on this month's theme at Scrapbooking from the Inside Out, ANTICIPATION. I'm really pleased and honored to share it there as this Friday's Guest Blogger. Here's a little peek:


My post is all about how to add more meaning to your layouts, and I walk through how I created this layout from my photo inspiration to using the right embellishments in more creative ways. There are tons of tips and lots of step by step photos. I had a blast! Thanks, Megan and Joannie for the great opportunity!

Make sure you go and check it out - we're sponsoring another wonderful giveaway..that's right, the ANTICIPATION kit. You'll need to leave a comment on my CK guest blog post to be entered.



You can still grab one of these kits here...we've restocked due to the incredible demand for this gorgeous kit.

Hope you have a great weekend...I'll be back tomorrow with some good news...the NEW SFTIO Design Team announcement.

Love,

Rachel

5.12.2010

Anticipation Kit WINNER and Challenges

Drumroll please...



Congrats to Cheri for winning our first ever blog hop giveaway!


Cheri, your ANTICIPATION kit will be winging its way to you shortly.


I'm so happy that we had the chance to share all the great topics, ideas and techniques that could be used with this kit. If you'd like your own gorgeous, meaningful ANTICIPATION kit, click here. While supplies last, signing up for a six month subscription gets you the gorgeous gifts below - technique, color and fun all in one.





Free gifts: Elizabeth Craft's Press-on Sticky Circles and Ritz Ultrafine Chartruse Glitter. I love these so much! Just stick on the circles, peel off the top layer, and you've got your sticky shape ready for glitter, flocking...so much more...




We'll be sharing more DT layouts in the next few days. Wanna see 'em now? Check it out here. You'll need to log in, but it is totally worth it! We just want to keep in touch with you and keep inspiring you...

PS - have you seen out industry-exclusive Inspiration Page? Music, Photos, Prompts, Quotes and more to get your creativity and heart flowing.

In the meantime, why not come join us online and play along with our monthly challenges? Here are the first 2 for May. You've got all month to play, and no kit is necessary to join in on the fun. These challenges are the perfect way to get into the idea of visual journaling - refecting the theme of your LO with design ideas. This is what I believe takes your pages and turns them into expressive works of art.

May Challenge #1, Anticipation Interrupted/Off the Edge

Interest, Excitement and Joy: Psychologists sometimes refer to a cycle of interest, excitement and joy that we might interrupt because of past disappointments. Have you been in the position of cutting off your own sense of excitement or anticipation because you’d rather not be let down if things don’t work out? Do you ever put a damper on someone else’s excitement so they won’t get too hyped up or sad if things don’t go their way?

Please create a LO about an experience you've had at curtailing your own, or someone else's anticipation to lower expectations and maybe relieve pain if it doesn't work out...new boyfriend? Job opportunity?

For the design twist, please push something on your page off the edge to show how you cut off the cycle of interest, excitement and joy...

May Challenge #2, Intuition or Premonition/Sparkly

Intuition: Do you believe in woman’s intuition? Have you ever felt that you could anticipate something before it came to be? Is there something magical in certain circumstances about what you feel just before something amazing, frightening or new happens? Has someone else ever had a premonition about you, and did it come to pass? Was it scary? Would you rather know about someone else’s intuition about you, or do you want to be free to make your own mistakes or successes?

Please create a LO about an advance-feeling or intuition or premonition you've had.

For the design twist, please use something sparkly - light or dark - glitter, stickles, bling, to demonstrate the magical quality, good or bad, of the intuition.

More later!

Love,
Rachel

5.10.2010

Coming Tuesday...Inside Out Blog Hop!

Make sure you stop by tomorrow for our first Scrapbooking from the Inside Out blog hop!











No silly, not THOSE kinds of hops! A BLOG HOP!

We want to share some of the gorgeous, meaningful work of our stellar design team. Our kits are so much more than pretty - they're all about a deeper experience of scrapbooking - inspiration, emotional release and real understanding and self-awareness. You won't want to miss it!

I'll have instructions for you about where to go and what to do first thing in the morning...and you could win this:



Our beautiful all-in-one, no add-ons needed May Kit, ANTICIPATION, retail value $46.95...yours free if you're our lucky winner!

Make sure to come on back Tuesday to join us and Explore Your Inner World.

Love,

Rachel

4.30.2010

May 2010 Kit - ANTICIPATION

What are you waiting for? That’s the question we’ll be asking this month as we explore May’s theme, ANTICIPATION.




Click HERE to buy now before they all get away!

Life is full of perched moments – ones in which we anxiously await our next steps, or the path that life has chosen for us. Sometimes we wait with patience and tranquility; sometimes we’re vibrating with possibility and ache to reach out with both hands toward the future.


This kit was inspired by the gorgeous new Bayberry line from Pink Paislee, with the addition of Teresa Collins door paper and beautiful papers from GCD’s new, creative Melody Ross-designed lines.

Bright, happy, forward-looking embellishments include Prima’s Say It In Crystals brackets, blingy beaded and sequined flower centers, pebbles and bright green textured leaves.

We’ve included tons of journaling cards from My Mind’s Eye and Pink Paislee, pretty pink corduroy fabric from Buzz and Bloom, evocative lock and key embellishments, Cosmo Cricket and Basic Grey alphas, and silk, bubbly lace and the highly sought-after Pink Paislee pleated ribbon trim.

If you've been waiting for the perfect time to get a six month subscription, scroll down to check out this month's bonuses...we’ve sold out FOUR months in a row, so make sure you buy now!

What fun, adventure and new challenges lie just around the bend? Explore with hope, eagerness and expectation this month! Like we said, what are you waiting for?


Contents:

10 Sheets Double Sided Patterned Paper:
* Teresa Collins Welcome Home * GCD Ava Petit Garden * GCD Lydia Violet Garden * GCD Zippety Bricks * My Mind's Eye Life Stories Pink Damask * Pink Paislee Bayberry Cottage Flower Garden * Pink Paislee Bayberry Cottage Picket Fence * Pink Paislee Bayberry Cottage Front Porch * Pink Paislee Bayberry Cottage Trellis * Pink Paislee Bayberry Cottage Gazebo

2 Sheets Specialty Paper:
* Pink Paislee Bayberry Cottage Porch Swing (die-cut) * GCD Artsy Urban Blue Floral (flocked)

Embellishments:
* Cosmo Cricket Ready Set Chip Licorice Alpha Chipboard * Basic Grey Green at Heart Micro Mono Alpha Stickers * Basic Grey Bling It Ampersand, Black * Prima Flower Centers, Dynasty Dark Pink, 5 pcs. * Prima SIIC Clear Brackets * Buzz and Bloom Fineliner Long Corner Cord Flourish Magenta * Tim Holtz Ideology Locket Keys * Melissa Francis Resin Gloucester Keyholes, 1 * Prima Pebbles, 4 pcs * My Mind's Eye Quite Contrary - Beautiful edged journaling card * My Mind's Eye Quite Contrary - Beautiful bracket journaling card * Pink Paislee Bayberry Cottage flip notes, 3 sheets * Pink Paislee Bayberry Cottage cork buttons, full sheet * Prima Temple Leaves, keaw green, 3 * Creative Impressions Silk Ribbon - white 1", 2 ft. * Websters Pages green lace trim, 1/2 yd. * Pink Paislee Bayberry Cottage ribbon pleats, full package

4 sheets Cardstock:
* Coredinations Gemstones, Pearl * Coredinations Gemstones, Jade * Coredinations Royal Orchid * Coredinations Atoll Aqua

Color:
* Tsukineko Walnut Ink, Willow 8ML

Stamp:
* My Mind's Eye Laundry Line Celebrate

Contents may vary slightly.

4.27.2010

Sneak Peek of May Kit: ANTICIPATION

Here's the sneak peek of the yummy May 2010 Kit: ANTICIPATION
Bright, fun and full of thinking about the future, butterflies in your tummy and dreaming of what you're waiting for...


















Our kits sell out fast! Be sure to join us on May 1 to grab yours. Full reveal that morning...

Of course, we provide so much more than a gorgeous, huge kit with NO NEED to buy sneaky add-ons. Our industry-exclusive Inspiration Page shares meaningful journaling prompts, quotes, a hand-selected music playlist, stock photos and our stellar design team's fantastic, deep LOs.

Tired of the same old look, kit after kit? We've got just what you need...to explore your inner world. Come join us.


Love,


Rachel