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{fresh} ish {seeds} 12 November

I'm happy to say that I have brought my Plant Your Story series to The Lilypad.  As you know the storytelling of scrapbooking is something so near and dear to my heart so I really love to play with different storytelling inspired designs and ideas.  And the Plant Your Story series of templates is designed with your own stories in mind: the everyday, the event, the special and fun little tidbits, the serious, the playful. 

So starting today you can find my heart of storytelling at my new home! Woot!  And all five of these sets are available in my store for 20% off through the weekend.  Double woot!

Plant Your Story: Letters and Lessons, inspired by pages where I've shared my heart with Bugga through letters I write to her, sharing hopes, truths, lessons…

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Plant Your Story: Listed {volume one}, inspired by lists…lists of favorites, of hopes, of fears, of dreams, of things.

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Plant Your Story: Blocked {volume one}, inspired by my love for playing with journaling in design-minded ways, so it becomes a part of the design itself.  Playful and fun!

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Plant Your Story: Blocked {volume two}, originally available at Catscrap this autumn.  More blocky fun!

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Plant Your Story: Quoted {volume one} inspired by all things quotey.  Those quotables our loved ones say, the silly things our little kids say, favorite quotes, conversations.

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I'll be back tomorrow to share some inspiration from recent releases and more!  Hope everyone has a beautiful weekend! 

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Happy DSD {fresh seeds} galore and {free seeds}!

I hope that everyone is enjoying a sunny and very scrappy day today!  I know that today is FULL to the brim of fun and new releases and freebies all over the community and I hope you’re enjoying celebrating this hobby we love as much as I am!  I have so so SO much to share today from {fresh seeds} to {free seeds} so let’s dive right in!

You may have found your way here from Michelle Batton’s blog as you’re hopping about on the fantastical blog train sponsored by DigiScrapAddicts but if you’ve missed a spot or lost your way, head on over to the DigiScrapAddicts forum to find the complete list and start fresh.  There are over 40 (ummm…wow!) fabulous freebies along the way and I’m so happy to share a little something with you today.

I was inspired by all things autumny and warm and cozy and I so hope you like it! You can download {HERE} or by clicking the image below.

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Your next stop is Sir Scrapalot’s blog where Aaron has another fantastic freebie for you!

And now on to even MORE DSD fantasticness…

I’m also really thrilled to say my store at The Lilypad is stocked to the brim with most of my products (including Learning Garden which had been previously available during my guest stay at CatScrap) and you can save BIG today.  Everything is 30 % off (excluding my BYOC and my holiday cards which are both offered at 20% — still awesome right?).

And I’m really really excited about my new releases today!!  Crystal and I are thrilled to bring you the second installment in our Grow with Love series.  Meet Grow With Love: Kids Edition.  20 fabulous templates, 20 fabulous journaling prompts.  Grow With Love began with our Marriage Edition this summer and it was borne out of our love for storytelling through out scrapping.  We were inspired by deep reflection of our own loves and relationships to create a series of templates and journaling prompts that we hope will inspire you to share your own stories and create beautiful pages from the heart that you will love. But more than that, we hope, through the process of scrapping and reflecting and writing, the project will have a more tangible effect in our real lives.

This version is (obviously, right? lol) about our children.  And parenthood.  We are SO excited to share it with you all!

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As before Crystal and I will working these prompts with you and expounding on them, diving in a little deeper, giving a few more examples on our blogs. twice a week.  We hope that you will feel inspired and we hope that we will be doing “more” than scrapping together…we hope that we will be growing together. we will be working through the project with you all on our blogs.  It all starts here on Monday.  Yay!!

p.s. If you’d like a chance to win GWL Kids, pop back a little later today.  I’ll be having a giveaway. Woot!

I’m also really thrilled to share another collaboration!!  This one is warm and cozy and fabulously autumny and it makes me smile.  I’m so happy and honored to have worked with my amazing friend Becca of Tickled Pink Studio to bring you Bountiful.  A full kit and a full set of templates that are just perfect for any autumn, Thanksgiving, family or happy page.

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Are you collabed out?  I hope not, because I have one more to share with you today.  Woot!  I’ve teamed up with the amazing Amy Martin to create a series of 4×8, 5×7, and 5×5 holiday card templates (and believe me when I tell you these are SO fun).  They are customizable so you can create just the perfect card to send from your family to loved ones.  We know you’ll love sending something extra special and they will love receiving it.  Here’s a peek at Good Cheer:

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Hope you all have a fabulous day!  I will be back later to giveaway Grow With Love: Kids Edition.  In the mean time, be sure to follow me on Twitter and Facebook because I am goofy for sharing coupons and such.

Happy DSD!!! ♥ Happy Scrapping!!!

 

{fresh seeds} and {blooming creativity} 5 November — Full Bloom: Black Eyed Susan

Well I'm completely out of my gourd with debut and DSD excitement.  It feels like ages since I've been able to share in your art and stories and I'm feeling as inspired as ever by the holiday season, the scrapping season, and new adventures.  I hope you are too!

I'm thrilled to kick the weekend off with my contribution to this month's fantastic BYOC at The Lilypad — Full Bloom: Black Eyed Susan.  Inspired by all things autumny and layery and warm, this is the latest in my series of templates that are a bit richer in layers and details.  They can be modified to suit any style or page and I so hope you like them!

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And here's a bit of amazing Black Eyed Susan inspiration from the girls and the Pollys!

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Full Bloom: Black Eyed Susan is available for 20% off all weekend long!  (new BYOC products are excluded from any sales in the store).

I will be back tomorrow with more fun and more goodies!  I'll be having a sale on all my products (don't worry my store will be filled to the brim starting Saturday), there will be three new amazing new collaboration releases (yes, three!) including the latest in the Grow With Love series, there will be Twitter fun, and blogging fun and well…loads of fun.

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p.s. Psssst…newsletter subscribers regularly receive exclusive additional savings, and DSD weekend is no exception, so if you haven't subscribed yet, you can do so here.

 

{free seeds} home is where the heart is

Six weeks ago I was feeling reflective and nostalgic for the beach, tearfully saying goodbyes as we headed West to our new home here in the desert.  And now, here we are, finally settled in and starting to venture back into normalcy again.  At the same time, we are focusing on doing all the things that make a house a home: decorating, meeting new friends, continuing traditions and soaking up lots of family time.  As I was feeling a little pang for “home” in Florida the other day, I was reminded afresh how “home” really (and truly) is where your heart is.  And it is what we make of it.  Love, and home, as it were, begins and ends with family.  And so, I find myself feeling blessed to be home.

Speaking of “home”…I am so grateful for my time at After Five Designs and the opportunity to have worked with the women and talent there, but I have some really exciting news I can’t wait to share with you.  As of Friday 5 November, I will be “repotting” Zinnias and Swallowtails — settling in and planting roots at a new “home”…my creative home.

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Think you might know to where I may be “repotting”? planting roots? calling my “home”?  Post your guesses in the comments section before 10pm PST tonight.  Two lucky winners will win 3 products of their choice (except for collabs).

But wait! There’s more!  In honor of perspective and blessings and settling in to home, I hope you’ll enjoy this freebie today!

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And if it strikes your fancy, feel free to snag this little wee bonus freebie too, inspired by making home where your heart is.

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And this is just the beginning of the fun!  In addition to my big debut tomorrow (Friday), I have so many fabulous goodies to share with you this weekend, including several collaboration projects, a sale!, some Twitter giveaways, and a blog hop freebie (yes another one), so be sure to connect with me on Facebook and Twitter and sign up for my newsletter, if you haven’t already.

I hope that everyone has been well!  Can’t wait to see your guesses!

{heartsong} revisited

As some of you may know, our family has called the Gulf Coast "home" for
many years now.  And we love it so. It
is beautiful. It is vibrant. Tomorrow we drive away and head to westward for a fresh adventure.  But we will think of this coast home so fondly.  And we will remember how We took our daughter to the beach, we will remember the sound of the waves crashing on the sugar white sands, the smell
of the air. How we would see dolphins at play, view all manner of beautiful
sea birds and sea life. We
have enjoyed the shade of the majestic live oak trees, we have
appreciated the vitality and beauty of the wetlands. We get to enjoy
the people who live here. They are warm and genuine and kind and
totally full of life.

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And I remember with a fresh ache, when the Deepwater Horizon disaster happened on April 20, we could not have imagined the heartsickness that would follow.  For
more than 90 days, oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico before the leak
was finally "capped" in late July.  It is estimated that approximately
4.9 million barrels (or 205.8 million gallons) of oil spilled into the
waters.  It has been one of the biggest environmental disasters in
decades.   Hundreds of miles of beaches, wetlands, and estuaries along
the northern Gulf Coast have been impacted.  The spill, though
temporarily "capped", continues to cause extensive damage to marine and
wildlife habitats as well as the Gulf's fishing and tourism industries. 
Families are without work and marine and land animals continue to
suffer.  And there are still many unknowns about the long term effects
of the oil and of chemical disbursements used in attempts to curtail the
flow and impact upon the regional coastline and waters.


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In the face of this uncertainty, this loss, this "stain", I just ached.  And I felt it on my heart to try to do something, any
some small something to try to help raise awareness and support for the
region.  And so as I say "goodbye" to this land I love, I wanted to remind you that today is the last chance to support the cause of gulf restoration and wildlife and family support, which is all still so so very needed, with a purchase of Hands Across the Gulf.

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got together some of my most dear and favorite artists in the community
who shared the same tug on their hearts for this disaster. 
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works for weeks and available for nearly a month so far, Hands Across the Gulf is our heartsong for
this cause. 


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Forty-five
designers across the digital scrapbooking community have united with
one shared cause:  to raise awareness and to support recovery efforts
for the environment and those impacted by this tragic disaster. 

Participating
designers include:  Aja Abney, Amy Martin, Biograffiti, Boutique Cute
Dolls, Createwings Designs, Deena Rutter, Designs by Cindy Schneider,
Designs by Crystal Livesay, Dido Designs, Dunia Designs, Emily Merritt
Designs, Fiddle Dee Dee Designs, Fizzy Pop Designs, FruitLoOp Sally
Designs, Laurie Ann (Heaven's Gate Designs), Holliewood Studios, Holly
Designs, Holly Spring Designs, Jazzmin Designs, Jennifer Barrette
Designs, Jacque Larsen, Juliana Kneipp Designs, Kay Miller Designs,
Kaye Winiecki, Kitty Designs, Kristin Aagard Designs, Lauren Grier,
Leora Sanford, Loreta Labarca, Micheline Martin, Nikki Beaudreau,
Paislee Press, One Little Bird Designs, Sabrina Dupre, Sahlin Studio,
Sarah Cornish of My 4 Hens Photography, Shabby Miss Jenn, Studio Basic
Designs, Sugarplum Paperie, Tickled Pink Studios, Tiny Toes Designs,
Tracie Stroud, Vera Lim, Vinnie Pearce, and zinnias and swallowtails.

And I have to say, as empirically as possible, I don't think I've
ever encountered such a beautiful collection of designs in a charity
collaboration before.  I love the range of scrapping styles
represented, I love the beautiful artistry and creativity expressed.  I
love how GINORMOUS it is (and really, it's huge.).  Here's a peek at
the main preview (there are many more detailed previews in the shoppe,
so feel free to check those out as well):

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And here's a closer look the templates from me that you'll find in the kit:

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And I wanted to compile a few inspiration pages to share with you so you can get a closer look at the kit in action:

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This
gorgeous kit representing the varied styles of the scrapping community,
is positively overflowing with beautiful papers, unique elements,
templates and Photoshop actions.  All told, designers have contributed
more than 100 papers and 200 elements,  2 full alphas, 18 templates,
and 4 PS actions to Hands Across the Gulf. 

Available for sale for one month only, 100% of the proceeds from this kit will be donated to the National Wildlife Federation and to the United Way's Gulf Recovery FundAnd tomorrow 15 September, is the last day this beautifulness will be available.

Thank you so SO much to all who have supported this cause so far.  

I hope everyone is well and I hope you all have a beautiful week!!

{fresh seeds} and {blooming creativity} 10 September — Learning Garden and Clippables: Schooly

I'm thrilled to share with you one more new release this week, this time
coming to CatScrap, where I am so honored to be guesting this month.  Learning
Garden
is a series of fun and playful template designs inspired by
all things "schooly". It's just perfect for those back to school pages,
learning and homeschooling pages and yet versatile enough that they can
be modified to suit any story.

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And here's a bit of Learning Garden inspiration.  I really loved how the
team used these templates to create both schooly and non-schooly pages!:

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In addition to these fun templates, I am also releasing a set of matching
"clippables" — Clippables: Schooly –which are customizable element
templates.. I had tons of fun making them and hope like them! They are super
simple, but lots of fun and you can clip any papers to them or embellish
with additional elements and can be used to create the perfect fun and
custom extra touch to your pages!

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Learning Garden and Clippables:Schooly are available for 20% off through Saturday. 

There is so much on the near and distant horizon that I can't wait to share
with you!!  Some of it starts right away!

There will be lots and lots of fun news and chances to save at After
Five Designs this month, as A5D celebrates its 2nd birthday!  Be on the
lookout for some amazing releases, freebies, games, new designers (who I
promise you will be really exciting), an A5 ct call and a huge sale!

There's even more exciting news to come, including a couple new fantastic
collaboration projects which I'm really excited to share with you once I get
settled after our relocation.  Yay!!  Lots to look forward to.  Lots.

Hope you all have a beautiful Friday!!!

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