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NEW creashens RELEASE | Recharge Kit + Journal Cards + Stickers

Hello, friends! Hello, friends! A quick one today for the release my newest kit, Recharge ~ a refreshing happy doodly kit to get you going. Recharge includes (12) designer papers, over (60) fun unique hand-drawn elements, and a super duper versatile complete kraft alpha numeral set. Plus, a coordinating Journal Cards element pack and Puffies sticker Pack. Hope you like them!

Recharege available here

Recharge Jornal Cards available here

Recharge Puffies available here

If you are my newsletteer subscriber, check your e-mail because today's newsletter includes an exclusive 10% off coupon for my subscriberss to my shop, today's new products included!

Have a happy weekend!

NEW creashens RELEASE | And Add-on + Wood + More Wood

Hello, Friends and Happy Friday! A few new products for you today... I just loved creating And so much, I couldn't stop. So I have an Add-on pack of (6) designer papers and (20) elements, as well as a set of (4) PNG quick pages today. And I hope you like wood, cause I love 'em. Nothing beats a good piece of solid natural wood furniture, except maybe wood alphabets. :D

 

And Add-on available here

[note: those are my grandparents on the preview. it's a photograph of a photograph i snapped while going through my grandfather's photo albums with him. i love it, because my grandmother is sipping on a soda pop like a happy child when she's normally quite 'proper' in photographs. she passed away 30 years ago from cancer. oh how i miss her.]

And Quick Pages available here

 

Creating these quick pages really reminded me of how much I miss and love scrapping, so I used one. :)

 

I Love Wood Alpha available here

 

Woodchuck Would Alpha available here

 

Some lovely inspiration from my awesome girls...

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I have a little printable Mother's Day card for you created with my And kit and Plank alpha. I hope you like and use it!

Download here

May you all enjoy this gorgeous Mother's Day weekend!

 

Processing Our 2012 Taiwan Trip

My family is from Taiwan. Kalea and I, along with my parents, took a 3-week trip last month to Taiwan to visit with my 90-year-old grandfather. He is aging fast, and I knew in my heart I needed to take this trip, before it is too late. I have over 10 gigs of photographs to process, and eventually I'd like to share our trip with you. But for now, here's a little photo of Miss Sassy Pants showing us she didn't need to sit and can hold on to the bar all by herself. Other than her great grandpa and the family members she got to meet again for the first time (she was just about 1-1/2 years old the last time we went), this subway riding is what she remembers most.

On another note, I have a few new products for this Friday. See you again then!

 

NEW RELEASES | iNSD Goodies

Hello, friends! I know it's been a while. I've been away for the pretty much all of April on a family trip which I will share in another post. As I'm sure you're all aware, today is {inter}National Scrapbook Day, and I've got a few goodies in the shop for you. They are specially discounted at 35% off for iNSD and will return to the regular 20% New Release price tommorrow. We've got Kalea's last softball game to get to, so I must make this quick. :)

Luckily I was almost complete with this new kit before the trip, so all I had to do was put the finishing touches on it. I'm pleased to introduce And, my newest kit for scrapping your special 'and' moments. I hope you like it. I think these are my most creative and artistic papers, and are my favorite papers now. Each sheet is uniquely decorated and so very versatile for everything. They are even more gorgous when printed. And includes (12) designer papers, (5) coordinating solid papers, over (40) unique elements, and (1) complete alphabet set with upper and lower-case characters, numbers, and common symbols and punctuation. 

And Full Kit available here

Let's see these lovely papers in their entirety...

Next up, Felt Up No. 1, a element pack of fresh beautiful hand-crafted blooms to adorn your pages. You know you like the name. ;)

Felt Up No. 1 available here

I've also released my Be Kit that was part of my Designer Feature at MSA last month. If you did not get a chance to grab it then, it's now available here.

I also made a coordinating pack of journaling cards for your Project Life projects, available here.

AND AND AND... I apologize I did not get a chance to share this with you on release day, but these are on sale as well, so grab 'em! My torn bits are my most popular products, and I know you've all been waiting for them. They are the most time-consuming, but so worth the wait.

Torn Bits No. 5 available here.

I've also created this wild alpha for the CatScrap iNSD grab bag FREE with minimum $10 purchase.

You can find the grab bag here, loaded with fun goodies from the awesome CatScrap designers!

My talented creative girls have created some lovely inspiration for you. Please enjoy...

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Ok... So that was a lot! And maybe more later. I'm working on an add-on pack for And and hope to complete it later today. I'll share when I'm done. Hope you all enjoy this action-packed weekend in the digiscrap community. Don't forget, the store-wide 35% off iNSD sale at CatScrap is TODAY ONLY!!!

 

NEW creashens RELEASE | Juan Carlos & Fifi + Add-on + Plank Alpha

Hello, friends! It's almost Friday here in Cali, so Happy Friday! I have a few new product releases for Fashionista Friday. My daughter, Kalea often leaves me little drawings on little scraps of paper she finds. A couple weeks ago, she left on my desk a doggie and bunny drawing I just had to turn into something wonderful. She said they are best friends even though "one is a boy doggie and the other a girl bunny". And that "they love each other". I love the way her mind works. Such pure sweet innocence... I just can't get enough of her! The girl undoubtedly loves pink, so when she saw the blues and greens in this kit, she asked where the pinks were. Hence, an add-on pack with pinks!  Something else I can't get enough of at the moment for my paper scrapbook pages lately are wooden alpha sets. So I made a new set of those as well. Hope you like my new releases this week! They are 20% off through the weekend. And if you're a subscriber, you'll be getting an extra 10% off coming soon.

The images are linked to the products in the shoppe.

 

 

 

I'll leave you with some inspiration from the team and well wishes for a fantastic weekend! Don't forget it's Daylight Savings Time this weekend. Have a scrappy one!

Please click on each thumbnail to see these beauties from my createive team in detail. (in order from left to right: Cathy, Christine, Heather, Irina, Jordan, Karen, Maria, Renee)

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ANNOUNCEMENT | It Happens Every Four Years

Happy Wednesday, friends! Hoping this will sweeten our extra day this year...

One day only ~ 40% off my shoppe!

HAPPY LEAP DAY!

creashens ANNOUNCEMENT | new creative team

I'm pleased to introduce my new creative artists joining me and my resident artists! I cannot express enough how excited I am to begin working with them and get to know them. I am proud to add them to my creashens family. Congratulations and welcome, ladies!

 

random happiness

Hello, friends! I've been wanting to try posting from my phone for a while now and thought this waiting time while Miss Kalea is in Chinese class would be a good time to try. So don't mind me as I experiment with a post and a couple of photos from when she was on snack break ~ one with her cutie pie face and one as she told me to count as she stood behind that pole to play hide&seek. Made me laugh, cause she really believed she was completely hidden! Love her! Happy Sunday!

Announcement | I'm calling you!

Hello friends, happy Friday! Over the years, I've been constantly receiving inquiries from creashens fans about their eagerness to join my Creative Team. Due to the amount of time and sometimes heartache, I haven't had a Creative Team call since my first in 2006. But I think it is time now... So if you are interested in a chance joining my Creative Team, please see the information below and download this application.  

The ad above reads:

Are you interested in creating with creashens products to create digital and/or hybrid artwork to promote creashens products and the creashens brand?

If your answer is YES, please download the application and submit your completed application to creashens@gmail.com, no later than Friday, February 10, 2012, to be considered for a guest or permanent position on the creashens Creative Team.

You will be considered for a guest or permanent position if you are able to meet these requirements and conditions:

* Create at least (1) digital or hybrid layout or project per kit release

* Upload your creashens artwork to the CatScrap gallery, plus (2) other galleries of your choice

* Proudly and actively promote creashens products and the creashens brand to the best of your ability (for example, via social network)

* Contribute to and participate in team and CatScrap forums

* Most importantly, have fun creating memories

** I am currently not accepting applications from designers. Thanks for understanding! **

 

New team members will be announced Monday, February 13, 2012. Thank you in advance for applying!

NEW creashens | With Kit | Dirty Pockets #2

Hello, friends! As you may know, the Winter 2012 Catwalk Collection was released last week, but due to some very time-consuming projects last week, I just couldn't complete my Catwalk kit in time. I was able to finish it up this past weekend, so I'm now proud to introduce With, because everything is better with you (in my case, my daughter, Kalea). With is 20% off through Wednesday.

Included are: (12) papers; (3) frames; (2) 3x4 journal cards; (2) floral journal spots; (1) hand-made fabric flower in two colors; (1) set metal brace; (1) confetti hearts; (1) confetti pearls; (1) bow; (1) ribbon in two colors; (1) 'memories with you' stamp; (3) flairs; (1) chipboard flowers; (1) metal flower; (1) decorative flower; (1) heart cutout; (1) leaf twig; (1) large mat; (1) decorative glitter scroll; (1) vi ntage rose sticker; (1) tag; (3) wordart; (1) alpha numeral set with symbols, punctuation, numbers, and Scandinavian characters

All papers come in 12"x12" jpg format, elements come with and without shadows in png file format. Everything proudly created in high resolution quality and presented in 300dpi for optimal printing.

 Please click on each thumbnail to see these beauties from my createive team in detail.

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And because I was so crazy swamped with the projects, I did not get a chance to introduce my Dirty Pockets #2, so they are 20% off through Wednesday. These 12x12 pockets (10 total in pack) are perfect for digital Project Life. I've also included a handy dandy tutorial to make elements peep out of the pockets for increased realistic effects. I had a a blast creating my sample page you see in the preview, because of the unlimited creative possiblities running through my tinkering mind. And so what if you make a mistake (which could be costly frustrating if you're doing traditional Project Life), you can redo anything you don't like, because these are in digital format. So scrap away, play, make mistakes... Just get those memories documented!

(10) 12x12 slightly dirty pocket protectors + PNG files + layered PSD and TIF templates + with both rounded and sharp corner mask options for each pocket

Please be advised, because the file size of each template is large, I've split them up into (13) download zip files. Be sure to download each file to complete your purchase download. A step-by-step tutorial is included in the Info Pack zip, so be sure to download that if you want to learn how to make items peep out of the pockets for realistic effects.

Papers and elements used in the sample are creashens products and not included in this element/template pack.

This element pack includes PNG files with and without shadows. Everything proudly created in high resolution quality and presented in 300dpi for optimal printing.

More gorgeous inspiration from my girls...

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On another note, I have a new mailing service you can sign up for on the top right column. If you've been a subscriber and would like to continue receiving my mailings, I will add your e-mails to the new service. If not, please shoot me an e-mail and let me know you'd like to unsubscribe. I would like to offer my subscribers extra perks with additional discounts and even free gifts. So subscribe, you've got nothing to lose. =]

I know I still have a lantern tutorial I need to share as requested by many of you via e-mail. Chinese New Year won't some around for another year, but you can make these lanterns with pretty scrapbook papers and use them to decorate any occasion. The little ones feel especially giddy when they make these and see them hung up.

Have a fantastic week, friends!