SBG Blog Train and a change

Hi everyone!! This is going to be the last post on this blog :( I have a new site for you to check out since I am now designing templates under the name Studio Buttercup for Scrapbook Graphics! Yay :) You can find me at studiobuttercup.com be sure to bookmark it for future reference and freebies of course!

I come bearing goodies :) Here is my portion for the blog train....

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The next stop on the train is tomorrow at the fabulous Miss Vivi's blog

and if you haven't already be sure to check out what Fran has to offer today as well!

Happy Holidays to everyone and hope you enjoy!

Love and Hugs

A couple of new Awesome CTs

I am soooo thrilled that I made the cut for two brilliant designers at MScraps! Joyce Paul and Polly and Rufus Designs! They are some of my favs and I have been waiting for them to have CT calls forever! They are also two of the designers who contributed to a very special charity colab to benefit the flood relief in Pakistan. Here is the preview....

And my pages....

The first page is using a gorgeous template that comes in the kit and the second is my own design for my little twinkle star!

They were also kind ennough to let me offer this qp to you for download...

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You can find the kit at MScraps HERE. On sale 20% off today so be sure to grab it up! Hope you enjoy and Happy Scrapping!

New Ct and some more art journal pages

Woohooo! I have been VERY neglectful to my poor blog. But I am back again with some art journal pages to share and a new CT to gush about! :) Here are me lastest pages from my art journal that I did this week. I am determined to finish this thing so hopefully I will have lots more pages coming!!!

OK this one is my ode to turning 29 a few weeks ago and I must say it is my favorite just because the journaling is so exactly how I feel about this whole 1 year left till 30 business....

I also have been offered spots on a number of new CT teams!! One of them is a super talented designer Flora aka Three Sweet Chicks. Her templates ROCK by the way you should check her out at her store Here She also has a new charity colab comeing out that is gorgous....here is a sneak peak for you.

Hope everyone is well and hopefully I'll be back sooner rather than later! LOL Happy scrapping!

More Art Journal Pages

Some more art journal pages to share. I know I am really stinking at this blogging thing but hey I am always running behind so I guess at least I'm true to form. The first and second pages use kits from some super talented ladies who go by the designs name ViVa Artistry and you should really check them out over at thedigichick.com. The last uses stuff from the ever incredible Tangie Baxter who got me started with this whole art journal mess. :) I love it! I never realized how nice it is to make something so personal and expresive just for yourself. These pages are some of my all time favorites and I'm sure I'll keep making more to add to that list.

My Safe Place

Worth The Risk

Fighter

Thanks for looking and happy scrapping!!

Art Journal Valentine

My husband is sooooo sweet and he sent me a bunch of poems on Valentines Day through my e-mails, text messages and facebook. So I kept finding sweet little things he wrote for me all day and even a couple days later. But I didn't think about doing anything since we were on vacation and were going to be at the parades all day. Well this is my attempt at making it up to him since I was such a horrible wife this Valentine's Day. So here is a belated valentine for my Soulmate and the most wonderful husband who ever lived!

I would copy the journaling but it is kinda mushy so if you really want to read it I think you can click the image to enlarge or look in my scrapbook graphics gallery and you can see it better there. Hope everyone has a great day!!!

A Couple more pages

I have a few more pages to share with you from my Art Journal, which I am terribly behind on. The first is my take on the verb Believe. The second is something I came up with for the verb accept. It is symbolic of my journey of acceptance. The negative emotions are at the bottom in the darker part with the positive emotions at the top in the lighter and happier part of my life. Hope you enjoy!

Fulfill-week 1 My Art Journal

My word for 2010 is FULFILL. Here is my week one art journal page. I really like the happy tone it took on, not in the best of moods right now so I am glad it came out cheerful.

I want to try and get in another page this week about fear and courage. Hopefully later in the week. I got to buy a ton of stuff on sale for $1 from Kasia Designs so I am super excited to scrap some with that. This is my first of my Kasia pages and I am sure many more to come and also some CT work I have been working on and maybe a freebie or two also. Keeping this short so I can get to bed and get some sleep tonight because last night was not the greatest. Happy scrapping!

Art Journal

I had the opportunity to join Studio Tangie's Art Journal Caravan and decided to hop on board. Here is the cover of my journal and I decided I was going to go digital but print my pages at home and then add them to a moleskine journal, which I still have to purchase :) But that will allow me to do some non digital stuff also if I get the urge.

Looking forward to the journey and one of our first week assignments was to pick a word for 2010 and my word is FULFILL. I think it descrides what I want to get from this year for lots of reasons but mostly because I have a tendancy to start things and not finish and my goal for this art journal is to finish it. Hope everyone's new year started great!! Be back with more to share soon :)

A new start

So my poor blog has been VERY neglected!! I am starting a new year and I want to give my blog a fresh new start too. I want to post more about me, my life, my photos, what I have going on and my layouts of course :) I am going to participate in Tangie's Art Journal Caravan and I am really excited about doing something for ME! I think it will help me to have something that I do simply as a way to express myself. I am still giving designing a break and I am really not sure what will happen with that because I just don't forsee having the time needed to devote to it. I still have my one store open at CSD so I guess we'll see. I want to share my art journal pages on here so be on the lookout for that and of course the occasional freebie too :) But for now hopefully I can give my blog a new look and such before the new year. I'll be back and enjoy the last little bit of this decade!! I have big plans for the next one!

Some pics and stuff

So I decided that I wanted to schedule a photo shoot with the girls at least once a month. I don't feel like I take enough pictures of my girls. (at least not good pics) Anyways we went Sunday for our October shoot (actually the 1st of November but whos counting?) we went to the arboretum which was PACKED! I really didn't know so many people go there just to hang out, we only have ever gone to do pictures for people, even though we have a family membership. But we really need to start going more, we bought a sandwhich and laid out a big blanket and they had a band playing, it was really cool. The pictures on the other hand did not go so well. We forgot the battery for my newer camera so I had to use the OLD digital rebel (like the first one!) but at least I brought it I guess. We also forgot the sippy cups, huge mistake! Neither of the girls wanted to cooperate but here are a few of the ones I could salvage.

anyways at least I got some new pics and hopefully next month goes better. I also have another freebie for you from the SAS-y lady contest. It was my week 2 entry called Soul Sisters. Hope you enjoy it!

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AND HERE

Also, I was having so much fun being a Studio Crew temp at scrapbook graphics they asked me to stay full time!! YAY! I am so thrilled to be there and it is one of my very favorite sites anyway so it couldn't get much better! But they are having a chat tomorrow at 9pm EST and the theme is Color my World. Be sure to check it out and you could possibly win a gift certificate to Studio Peta!

Here are some more layouts I have done too. I have been in a funky mood lately and I think it shows in my layouts.

All of the layouts were made from products available at scrapbookgraphics.com

I hope everyone had a safe and happy Halloween and wish you all happy scrapping!!!

Its been a while

Wow! I have been seriously neglecting my poor little blog!! Well I have been super busy with school lately so you'll have to excuse my absence. I also have had to look at things and make a decision to take a major step back from designing for the time being. I closed one of my stores and will not have anything new coming out anytime soon other than maybe a template or mini here and there. But I have been having great fun this month as a Studio temp for Scrapbook Graphics! It has been soooo great, seriously the best gig in town so if you ever get the chance be sure to snatch it up!! Their designers are some of my favorites and look at all of the cool stuff I have made using their products.

Peta Boardman Spring Kiss bundle

Glam Fairy's Mon ami Perrot

ON Designs Grabbag 16

Randi Oh Boho Grace

You can pick up all of these products HERE. Ans they are having a get to know you chat tomorrow at 9pm EST sponsored by Miss Vivi, another of their fabulous designers. Be sure to stop by for your chance to win gift cards to her store!

And finally if you didn't get to pick this up at the SASy-lady contest here is a little winter themed mini for you to grab.

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Hope you like it and thinks for stoping by!! As always happy scrapping!!

October Blog Train, CT Call and New Release

Choo Choo I am part of a blog train this month! But first my new release! It has been a while and my poor blog has been neglected too because of school starting this month. Bu there it is in celebration of my birthday in September my new kit is Celebration. You can pick it up at My Store it will be on sale through the weekend 50% off.

And a freebie quickpage for you. Hope you like it!
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Also a CT Call! If you are interested in working with and promoting my designs please e-mail me at francoisphotography@yahoo.com with a little about you and a link to your most complete gallery. The requirements as listed above are 2 LO per kit posted to 3 galleries, enable each new release and to have fun! Not much and I only plan to release two kits a month. Hope to hear from you!




Now what you have been waiting for! The blog train :) My portion can be downloaded HERE

The next person in the train is

Scrappin Page Designs


and you can find the complete list of blogs

HERE


Hope you enjoy the ride and happy scrapping!!

Page Frocks new releases!

Page Frocks has a super cute new kit in the store today Goodbye Summer and it is 50% off today and 30% off through the weekend. She also has these super cool Blocked Templates out that I used on the layout of my oldest Aubrey. She also has a freebie to go along with Goodbye Summer on her blog.



Be sure to go check them out and Happy Scrapping!!

4shared hacked

Aparently 4shared was hacked sooooo i am going to have to change the links to all of my freebies except for the last quickpage. Please don't try to download anything until I post that all of the links are fixed because I don't know if they are infected with a virus or what is going on. It will take me a bit to re-upload and change the links but I will post when they are all done. The Soul Sisters quickpage is on my personal server at Divine Digital so no problems there you can download that one with no waiting! Thanks!

SASy Lady Contest Week 2

Ok I made it to week 2 of the contest and I got to lay in bed today with the laptop so I got my mini kit done. It is called Soul Sisters and I really like it! You can go grab it for free HERE.

I also put together a quick page for you so be sure to grab it too!

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Hope this makes up for missing Friday's freebie! Hope you have a great day and happy scrapping!

Sick :(

No freebie today but I will make it up to you when I get better. I'm sick with God knows what...it may be a Lupus flare up but I hope not! Hopefully I will be up and running again soon. Have a great night and happy scrapping!

Freebie Friday

Well I decided to make a quick page to go along with my little mini Winter Love kit. It is my weeek 1 entry to the SAS design competition and you can pick it up free HERE

and here is the quick page to go along with it....I think I may do an addition and make a full kit. I like it and I am always wanting a winter kit that is versitile and not just Christmas related.

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Hope you enjoy and have a great night and happy scrapping!!

A Contest and Designs in Digital News

I entered another contest this month...I know crazy right? I just can't seem to say no but this one is a designer contest so here is my week 1 entry...

It is at Stone Accents Studio and you can download my portion and about 70 other designers entries HERE. Now Designs in Digital is having a fun contest starting on the 9th also called project gallery, a spin on project runway. Be sure to go check it out and play along HERE.

Lori of Page Frocks Designs also has a few new items in the store. The first is a Fall kit that I absolutely LOVE!! It is really fun and easy to work with and the colors are just great! Check it out...

She is also releasing a new series of products called the basics collection. You know like the little black dress for digi scrapping! Here are the first two...

More to come from her in this collection so keep your eyes open but you can find all three of these products HERE. Be sure to check back by on friday for your freebie!! Have a great night and happy scrapping!