Check out what people are saying about the goodies bags and door prizes from my favorite crop weekends, NJ Crop Weekends!
The next crop is coming up on August 10-12, 2012 at the beautiful Dolce Hotel in Basking Ridge, NJ. Contact me or see www.njcropweekends.com for more details! Hope to see you at the next NJ Crop Weekends event on August 10-12.
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Well, it’s the time of year to see the retired products! There is a new catalog coming out on June 1, chock-full of new and delightful products… but that means some old ones need to be retired to make room. These are available thru May 31 or as supplies last.
But note that some are available at a big discount!!
Click below to see the various lists of retired products – I will update them as accessories become unavailable. 🙁
Click on image to see retiring lists
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Check out the highlights from the last NJ Crop Weekend. We go away for a long weekend of crafting, fun and friends!
You’ll note in the video that people bring lots of paper crafting stuff to work with, but in this case I mostly did digital work with My Digital Studio! and that means less to carry!
The next crop is coming up over the summer – why not treat yourself to a little creativity time? Heck, you can even ask for the weekend as a Mother’s Day gift!! Contact me at carol@carolGpapercrafts if you’re interested or have questions, or go to www.njcropweekends.com for more details.
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I am so excited – I just got something terrific that is going to be so much fun to use: the Simply Scored Diagonal Plate! We can make envelopes (of any size) out of cardstock or Designer Series Paper. And even a raised pattern on the background for card or scrapbook embellishments! Watch the Stampin’ Up!video to see how easy it is (dimensions listed below so you don’t have to write them down):
Here are the directions and dimensions for making an envelope for a 4.25″ x 5.5″ card:
And for a 3″ x 3″ love note size card:
Please let me know if you have any questions! and if you would like to order the Simply Scored tool (122664) and the Simply Scored Diagonal Plate (125586) please visit my online store! I can’t wait to hear what you have made with the Simply Scored Diagonal Plate!
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What better way to mark the end of school than with a scrapbook using the new digital download for Graduation?! It is fast and easy to make a photobook or individual pages using My Digital Studio, and the new digital downloads this week can be added to any scrapbook template. Take a look!
129877 GRAD PARTY ENSEMBLE
The download includes:
* 2 5″ x 7″ double-sided postcard designer templates (great for party invitations or graduation announcements!)
* 2-page 11″ x 8-1/2″ décor designer template
* 1 12″ x 12″ page designer template
*20-piece stamp brush set
* 7 Designer Series Papers
* 7 embellishments
* 3 punches
Features:
* Digital-exclusive
* All you’ll need for a graduation party: invites, food flags, mini rolled diplomas (these make a cute treat for a grad party)
* Complete with 12″ x 12″ page classmates can sign for a lasting keepsake
Coordinating colors:
Cherry Cobbler, Marina Mist, More Mustard, Old Olive, Soft Suede, Very Vanilla, Whisper White
The digital download for Graduation includes three punches that I think would be useful in lots of other places, as well. Here is a picture of the punches that are included (thanks to Tanner Morris from SU tech support for the screen shot!):
129877 Grad Party Punches
So, check out these digital downloads – you can order them for immediate download at my online store. And if you are new to all this and interested in making a graduation album, you can buy My Digital Studio or try the 30 day free trial at my online store as well!
I look forward to hearing about how you like making your scrapbook using digital downloads for Graduation!
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I posted yesterday about the new Summer Smooches suite of patterns & products. Here’s a flyer that you can review and print to check out all the options available in the suite! You can order all of the products as a special summer preview through April 30, and MOST of them will be available in the new catalog coming out on June 1… but you can ONLY get the stencil and the fabric covered brads this month!
And I made this little picture the fast and easy way, using the My Digital Studio digital download of Summer Smooches patterns and embellishments.
Summer Smooches Easter eggs
The cool thing about doing this in My Digital Studio is that I could have made a different picture for everyone in the family, with different eggs – just by clicking and replacing the pattern on the egg!
Order your Summer Smooches through my online store.
Happy Easter and enjoy your Summer Smooches!!
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Are you ready for some Summer Smooches? Nah, I don’t mean sticky kisses from a kid eating cotton candy! I’m talking about the fabulous new suite of patterns from Stampin’ Up!, available in both paper/fabric/ribbon/stencil/ fabric covered brads, as well as digital downloads. Here are the brightly colored patterns – put on your sunglasses! and read thru to the end – I have a recommendation to save you some money if you want to do some fast and easy scrapbooking!
125409 Summer Smooches Designer Series Paper
I have to say, I am a sucker for any kind of fabric covered brads – and these are adorable – use them with the paper or the fabric selections. But here’s the kick – these selections are available as a preview this month only, until 4/30 – most of them will also be available in the new catalog, coming out on June 1 – but you can only get the fabric covered brads until 4/30 and they won’t be coming back in the catalog!! Aren’t they cute?
125589 Summer Smooches Fabric Brads
And the stamp set is a lot of fun:
125497 Bright Blossoms - Clear-Mount Stamp
How are you doing so far – are you ready for some Summer Smooches?
I also love the digital downloads available from Summer Smooches – for My Digital Studio, or any other graphics programs. There are two choices. First is a kit, containing the paper, the stamp brush set, the fabric brad embellishments and some card templates (129601 Summer Smooches Kit) – here’s one of the cute cards:
Summer Smooches card template
Or you could choose the 129919 Summer Smooches Photobook Template, including the DSP, stamp brush set, a ton of embellishments and one of my favorite photobook templates that I have seen from My Digital Studio yet! Templates can make for fast and easy scrapbooking – just drop in your pictures and add the text. Here’s a little sample:
Summer Smooches Photobook Template
The pages are brightly colored, making them perfect for a vacation layout or… just about anything! So my vote, even though the card template is cute, is to save some money and just go for the photobook template. You really don’t need both – you would be paying twice for the same paper (um, don’t ask me how I learned that!).
You can order any and all of these cute selections in my online store. What do you think – are you ready for some Summer Smooches?
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There are some great new items that I want to share with you in the My Digital Studio digital downloads for the week of March 20, 2012!! Check ’em out below!!
Oh boy, a whole new set of ribbons and bows – I love to use these as decoration on pages and cards, and also to divide sections on a scrapbook layout… look to see these in some of the upcaoming pages that I will share!
The download includes:
* 188 embellishments
Features:
* New ribbon style
* Gathered skinny taffeta and not-quite-as-tidy tied bows; a perfect statement for any project
*A perfect addition to the Taffeta Ribbon Color Pack (item 122156) that you may already have.
Look how cute they are:
129603 Taffeta Trimmings
Let’s face it, many of the scrapbooks that we do are travel or vacation related, and it is always fun to have travel images to use on the pages. These are cute!
129926 Wish You Were Here Stamp Brush Set
It’s hard not to love these butterflies. Plenty of was to use them on cards, scrapbook pages, as frameable art for a gift… ‘Nuf said!
Download includes:
* 3-piece stamp brush set
* 5″ x 7″ greeting card designer template
129602 Wonderful Wings Stamp Brush Set
Yet another set of images that are very flexible in how they can be used. I absolutely love these little tags and journaling blocks, AND the punch with the ticket corners… and I am looking forward to making a page that uses them to label the pictures!
Download includes:
* 16-piece stamp brush set
* 15 embellishments
* 3 punches
Features:
* Digital-exclusive
* Send cool digital memos to yourself or your friends
Coordinating colors:
Bashful Blue, Basic Black, Basic Gray, Calypso Coral, Crumb Cake, Whisper White
129924 Get It Done Kit
How aborable is this! Do you find yourself forgetting birthdays? This looks like a template that you can use for a swatchbook where you keep track of all the birthdays that fall in each month so you can reload your calendar each year!
Download includes:
* 26-page swatchbook designer template
* 23-piece stamp brush set
* 7 Designer Series Papers
Features:
* Digital-exclusive
* Never miss another birthday with perpetual calendar that keeps them all in one spot
* Versatile stamp brush artwork works for any project
* Portrait swatchbook pages designed so that when professionally printed, the rivet is in the upper left corner
Coordinating colors:
Crumb Cake, Island Indigo, Lucky Limeade, Pool Party, Rich Razzleberry, Very Vanilla
129923 Book of Birthdays Swatchbook Template
Aw, I saved the best and cutest for last. My Senior Girl Scout troop (of high school girls!) has adopted the squirrel as their unofficial mascot, as they have to work hard to stay on topic during meetings… remember the dog in the movie “Up”? He would be talking along until –“Squirrel!!” — he was totally distracted by a squirrel running by!
130680 With The Grain Stamp Brush Set
So, what do you think – can’t you see yourself using a bunch of these? You can download any of these at my online store. And if you don’t have My Digital Studio yet, please check out the 30 day free trial and you will be eligible for my free series of training videos. And then you’ll be able to use some of these cute My Digital Studio digital downloads for the week of March 20, 2012!!
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Oh boy, I took one of the new embellishments from this week’s digital downloads for My Digital Studio and used it to make a filmstrip on the scrapbook page!
Candid Frame filmstrip
The download set is called Candid Frames and it has six embellishments that look like various picture formats. These are the types of film or picture images that are included:
129929 Candid Frames - Digital Download
These are so easy to dress up your page – just add the embellishment on top of the picture, and adjust the sizes. The embellishments are clear so you can see whatever is underneath them in the middle!
For this page, I simply used one of the basic templates for a 12 x 12 scrapbook page that has three pictures and a text box underneath. Here’s all I had to do to make this cute page:
And that’s it! Clean, simple, graphic and fun. I love it! What do you think? You can get the downloads from my online store, and then you too can make a filmstrip on the scrapbook page!
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If you have no regrets, you need to get out more!! That’s my new favorite saying – and it comes from one of the newest stamp brush downloads for My Digital Studio! All are available at my online store.
Check out these exciting new digital downloads for My Digital Studio for this week, March 13, 2012!! There are some cool stamps suitable for Mother’s Day items, great stamps with words & sayings, a vintage bike ride in the park stamp set, a great looking kit with layouts… let’s start with my two favorites, and at the end I will tell you why I love using kits!
This one has 13 great sayings that can be the centerpiece of either a fun scrapbook layout or a greeting card. And the one I mentioned… well, yes, it IS a little snarky… but what fun!
129920 Fantabulous You Stamp Brush Set
Fabulous! Terrific! Wonder-oso!! Can you tell I also love this set? I love being able to dress up the photos on the page, and this set of six different frame stamp embellishments does just the trick. In fact, I think I am going to do a page using these for my next post – stay tuned!
Coordinating colors:
Basic Black, Crumb Cake, Crushed Curry, Going Gray, Very Vanilla
129929 Candid Frames - Digital Download
Lots of great wordage in this set of stamp images – suitable for cards AND scrapbook layouts (so here’s a great tip – give Mom a nice card that you have made with the included template, take pictures of her lovely day, then scrapbook it using the same colors & images!). You could also use this to make a cool piece of frameable art.
Download includes:
* 25-piece stamp brush set
* 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″ greeting card designer template
129868 Mom, You're The Bomb Stamp Brush Set
Oh these are cute – and so useful! Four different formats of recipe cards that you can use to make a custom recipe project. How about a scrapbook page with cards of family recipes, on the page with a picture of the family member who makes it? Or giving a set of recipe cards to a new bride? Or, making the front of a bridal shower card as a recipe card of your favorite recipe? Fun!
My friend Jessica just made one of the stand-up calendars into a recipe book but had to make her own format – while hers is lovely, she could have used this and it would have gone so quickly!! And I think that it is cool that you can download just a small template – it doesn’t always have to be a BIG book template!
Download includes:
* 1-page 11″ x 8-1/2″ décor designer template
* 19-piece stamp brush set
* 3 embellishments
Features:
* Digital-exclusive
* Stylish recipe cards in four styles to suit a variety of occasions or themes
Coordinating colors:
Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Lucky Limeade, Pumpkin Pie, Taken With Teal, Very Vanilla
129925 What Goes In Designer Template
Aw, this is the sweet old-fashioned bike ride in the park that I was mentioning! Aren’t the 8 different images adorable? I love the park bench and the lightpost! And you know, this is one of the reasons that I like using My Digital Studio. I may only have a couple spots where I would use these images – but it is MUCH less expensive to buy them as a digital download than as a stamp set… and they take up a lot less room!
129933 Happy Every Day Stamp Brush Set
You may know by now that I am a sucker for paper – and that applies to the digital world as well! But sometimes, you pull out a pretty sheet of paper and then just sit there, trying to figure out what to put with it. So, I love sets that have what this one does – fun, pretty paper designs with MATCHING tags, journaling spots and embellishments. Go for it!
Download includes:
* 66-piece stamp brush set
* 12 Designer Series Papers
* 12 embellishments
Features:
* New exclusive-to-digital color palette
* Stamp brush set designed for multiple colors per image
* Use for thank you or everyday projects, treats, and more
Coordinating colors:
Blushing Bride, Crumb Cake, Daffodil Delight, Early Espresso, Marina Mist, Not Quite Navy, Peach Parfait
129928 Afternoon Tea II Kit
Any and all of these digital downloads are available in my online store for immediate download… and if you don’t have my Digital Studio yet, either purchase the software or order the 30 day free trial from my online store and you will also receive my free training videos!
So, I think it’s safe to say one of two things: If you have no regrets, you need to get out more OR if you have no regrets, then you have probably already taken advantage of these cool downloads!!
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