Love You More | DigiMorph

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I created this page for a Digi Morph at Pixels & Company. What is a Digi Morph? It’s a fun scraplift game where each participant is given an inspiration page, scraplifts it, then sends their page on to the next person in line to scraplift and create her own page. The individual pages are only shared with the entire group at the end for a big reveal. It’s fun to anticipate the big reveal and to see how the pages morph throughout the process! Head over to the Pixels & Company blog to find out more about the Digi Morph and see the transformation of each of the three groups.

The current Digi Morph is nearing completion, but you can keep an eye out for future sign ups if you’d like to participate. Here’s a sneak peek of the layout I created.

Happy Scrapping!

Hello, August!

I can’t believe that summer has flown by so quickly! In a few short weeks, school will be back in session and we’ll have to get back into a routine. Time to check in on that summer bucket list and get some items checked off.

I’ve got some exciting news to share today! I’ve been asked to join the amazing ladies of write.click.scrapbook. I’m thrilled to be a part of such an amazing site that provides so much inspiration and is a great resource for storytelling, photography and creating meaningful and beautiful scrapbooks.

The theme for the August gallery is Go To Design. Here’s my contribution to the gallery. Head on over to see the Go To Designs for the rest of the team!

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Be sure to check out my first blog post for write.click.scrapbook. to get some tips for completing your Christmas Journal/December Daily (it will be here before you know it!).

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Scrapping!

Lost Tooth

Sat. Nov. 26: The boy woke up this morning & had lost his loose tooth – before his permanent tooth even starting coming through (a first for his bottom teeth). He was very excited.

He cleaned the tooth (since apparently you get more money from the Tooth Fairy for a clean tooth) and put it in a zip-lock baggie. He also wrote a note for the Tooth Fairy to include with his tooth.

It was a rainy day today – perfect for putting up more of our indoor Christmas decorations, taking it easy (I’m still fighting this cold) and watching Christmas movies. The boy has discovered the Peanuts movies and really enjoys them. :)

~Carey

Crop Night!

Looking forward to spending some time with scrappy friends tonight at our monthly crop! (Oh yeah, and doing some scrapping too!) I honor of tonight, I wanted to share a recent LO about my trip to the CK Convention last month. Girl Power!

Happy Scrapping!

~Carey

3-Day Weekend, Layouts and a Giveaway

Gotta love long weekends! I was off work Friday for Veterans Day and spent 11.11.11 on a scrapbooking playdate at my friend Jocelyn’s house (along with Charlene and Missy).

I got a few digi layouts done and spent some quality time pondering my Christmas journal for this year (and thinking that I really need to finish the one from last year!). I also got to eat one of my favorites – the Oops Roll from Love Sushi. YUM.
It’s been a while since I’ve shared some LOs, so here goes! All are linked for credits.




And finally, I wanted to thank everyone who stopped by during the blog hop last weekend (and hopefully some new followers!). I’ve got a $5 gift certificate to Design House Digital up for grabs for a random commenter to this post. Just comment on how you spent your day on 11.11.11 for your chance to win! I’ll be back in a few days to pick a winner!
Happy Scrapping!
~Carey

[inter]National Scrapbook Day Freebie

It’s finally here! The day scrapbookers all over the world wait all year for - [inter]National Scrapbooking Day! OK, maybe that’s a bit of a stretch, but it’s a fun day of scrapping, shopping, chatting, and of course, blog hopping! I, along with the other Design House Decorators, have some goodies just for you in our very own blog hop. I’m honored to be a part of this group of super-talented, super-friendly, super-helpful group of ladies who comprise the creative team at Design House Digital.

For this blog hop, the Decorators have made a quick page (both 12x12 and 8.5x11) from the DHD Designers' iNSD collab kit. Simply hop around to all 12 of the blogs, collect all of the Quick Pages along the way, and you'll have 15 fabulous pages! (a couple of stops are 2-for-1 deals!) Use them to create your own album all on their own or add along with your own pages using the freebie kit.

Here's my contribution:

To get it, click here, or on the image above. It's a big file, so be patient! :)

To see the layout I created using this QP and to find links for the DHD Designer blog hop kit, check out this post.

Be sure to stop by all of the other Decorators' blogs to snag their pages (and get some sweet inspiration), too! If you made your way here from Allison Waken’s blog, then your next stop is Gennifer Bursett. If you got here by some other means, then pick a link below and go grab some more freebies!

• Allison Waken
• Gennifer Bursett/Missy Backues
• Jen Papadimitriou
• Jen Flaherty/Heather Prins
• Jeryn Carlisi
• Katherine Hansen/Jennifer Valencia
• Lori Pickens
• Shannon Dombkowski
• Theresa Marie Goon
• Tiffany Bodily
• Wendy Bretz

Happy hopping & thanks for stopping by! Have a great scrappy day!

~Carey

iNSD Design House Digital Freebie kit

In honor of [inter]National Scrapbooking Day, the Designers at Design House Digital have put together an awesome blog hop kit! Each Designer contributed a monochromatic mini-kit that you can combine, use alone, or mix and match with your existing stash. Pretty awesome, huh?!

This freebie kit includes 48 papers, 69 elements, a brush set and 1 alpha. To get this great kit, you’ll have to “hop” around to the designers’ blogs and grab each of their respective files to compile the full kit. There will be 13 sets all together, from the following designers: Audrey Neal, Agnes Biro, Celeste Knight, Dana Zarling, Gennifer Bursett, Jen Allyson, Jopke van Dongen, Karen Funk, Karla Dudley, Kate Teague, Robyn Meierotto, Sara Schmutz, and Tiffany Tillman.

To start, simply visit Audrey Neal’s blog and you’re on your way!Don’t forget to leave a comment and bookmark each of the designers’ blogs so you can keep up on all of their great creations!

Here’s a layout I created using this awesome kit.

For more inspiration on using this kit, check out the pages created by the DHD Decorators at the DHD blog.

Be sure to come back Saturday for the DHD Decorator blog hop!

Happy Scrapping!

~Carey

2011 [inter]National Scrapbooking Day [Week] at Design House Digital!

Yep, that’s right – Design House Digital is celebrating [inter]National Scrapbooking Day, all week long! Everyone celebrates a little differently, at Design House Digital, we like to have a big week-long celebration, that way not all of the festivities are crammed into one day.  So mark your calendars and get ready for a very scrappy week! Here’s what is going on starting May 1st:

25% OFF!

25% off EVERYTHING in the shop. This is a great opportunity to grab those kits you’ve been keeping your eye on. The sale goes from May 1st through May 8th.

TWO BLOG HOPS!

1. A designer hop with 13 of our awesome designers participating. If you hop around and grab everything, you’ll have more than 100 gorgeous items FREE! This hop starts on Wednesday May 4th.

2. The Decorators are hosting a QUICK PAGE hop using the designer hop items. You’ll be able to hop around to 10 decorator blogs (including mine!) and download 10 great quick pages – now that’s a fast and free way to get an album done! This hop starts on Saturday May 7th.

Check out the DHD blog on corresponding dates for the first hop link.

DOLLAR KITS

It wouldn’t be a DHD sale without dollar kits! Check in every day for new dollar kits. If you aren’t subscribed to our newsletter go and sign up now so that you can receive an email about which kits are $1 each day of the sale.

CHATS

We will be having 3-hour blocks of hosted chats with gift certificate give-aways. Mark your calendar for 7-10PM (CST) Thursday, Friday & Saturday evenings (May 5-7). There will also be a SPEED SCRAP chat during the Saturday night chat. If you haven’t participated in our monthly speed scrap event, this will be a great time to try it out!

GIVEAWAYS

We have a HUGE blog giveaway this year – one very awesome Cricut Expression! It’s easy to enter, but all entries must be posted between May 1st and May 8th 2011. a link to the Cricut give-away was posted on the DHD blog on May 1st. All you’ll need to do is submit a comment to that blog post to be entered to win.

We’ll also be giving away a $5 gift certificate to a random gallery poster EVERY DAY between May 1-8th 2011, so get your layouts up in the gallery to inspire us all!

Mark your calendars and join us for some very scrappy fun!

Happy Easter!

I hope your having a blessed day with your family! We’re just chilling out at home on this cloudy, rainy day.

I wanted to share this LO today. The story behind it practically melted my heart and almost brought me to happy tears! DS was just beaming, he was so excited to give this basket to DH. He just couldn’t stop smiling, and neither could we. DH & I just kept giving each other that knowing look of “how sweet is this kid” and “how lucky are we?” He came up with all of it on his own, and only needed my help to take the photo and print it. He’s a sweetie, and so creative! I need to take a close-up pic of the basket, but DH took it to work and forgot it there.

Now, off to raid the Easter candy!

Happy Scrapping!

~Carey

Crop Night!

Yay! The third Friday of the month – that means it’s crop night! I love getting together with my scrappy friends to chat, eat and maybe scrap a little. Ha! It’s certainly my Happy Place!

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The design and color scheme of my layout was inspired by one of my favorite sweater/tank combos. It’s amazing the inspiration that can come from your closet (or a fashion magazine)!

The black and hot pink color scheme, the zigzag edges and the tie closure (ribbon) all found their way onto my LO. :)

~Carey

Technical Difficulties!

I’m sorry to announce that the chats today at Design House Digital have been cancelled due to technical difficulties. BUT, stayed tuned – we’re planning to have the chats another day once the site issues are fixed!

Be sure to check out the blog hop today & pick up the pieces to this gorgeous free kit!

Digital Scrapbooking Day!

If you haven’t heard, Saturday, November 6th, 2010, is Digital Scrapbooking Day! At Design House Digital, we’re planning a fun weekend celebration starting Thursday November 4th. We’ve got a lot going on this weekend, so take notes and join us for a really great time!

• Site-wide 25% off sale from November 4th - 7th
• New Fall Blog-hop Freebie
• Gallery prizes to two random gallery posters using DHD product
• Hosted Chats by designers & Decorators (also debuting an official chat room)
• different $1 kits Friday, Saturday, Sunday

Join me, along with my co-host CTM Tiffany, on Saturday at 7pm MT (8pm Central) for a fun chat and your chance to win a great prize!

Here is the chat schedule (all times are Mountain):

9AM: Robyn Meierotto
10AM: Karla Dudley
11AM: Jen Allyson
12PM: Tiffany Tillman
1PM: Karen Funk
2PM: Kym Tsukamoto
3PM: Deena Rutter
4PM: Kate Teague
5PM: Sara Schmutz
6PM: Missy Backues, Katherine Hansen
7PM: Carey Bridges, Tiffany Bodily
8PM: Jen Papadimitriou, Jeryn Carlisi
9PM: Gennifer Bursett

So mark your calender, and plan a fun scrappy day and weekend!

Learn Something New Every Day

Starting September 1st, I am participating in Shimelle’s Learn Something New Every Day class where I’ll focus on learning
something new from my life for every day in September. With the kiddos off to school to start learning new things, what better time than now to document my continual journey of learning! I’m hopeful I’ll keep up with daily entries and eventually get them all scrapped!

What have you learned today?

Hi!

If you’ve found your way to my blog from the Scrapbook News and Review newsletter, welcome! I’m so excited to be featured in this week’s newsletter! I joined the SNR team over a year and a half ago and am now an Assistant Editor and Digital Team Coordinator. I’m constantly inspired by the amazing talent of the SNR team and readers and am blown away by the knowledge shared in the SNR Forum.

Although I’m primarily a digital scrapbooker now, I still dabble with my traditional supplies (especially since I have SO MUCH of it!). Lately, I have been branching into the hybrid world. I’d like to share a recent hybrid card with you! I used Carina Gardner’s Back to Basics Collection and Deena Rutter’s Pendant Banners Digital Cutting Files, both from Design House Digital.

Additional supplies: scissors, glue, border punch, edge distresser, distressing ink, twine, alpha stickers or stamps for card sentiment.

Step One: Use the pendant banner cutting files as clipping masks for various papers in Photoshop. Print papers for card components and clipped banners. I clip all of my papers to my desired size before printing to save on ink.

Step Two: Cut out all printed items.

Step Three: Distress or ink edges of papers, as desired.

Step Four: Fold pennants in half matching up ends, thread over twine and glue wrong sides of pennants together to form banner/bunting.

Step Five: You’re now ready to assemble the front of the card!

Step Six: Layer paper pieces on brown card front.

Step Seven: Tie ends of bunting in knots and trim. Place liquid glue under knots and the pennants on each end to secure bunting to card.

Step Eight: Add sentiment using letter stickers or stamps (I used Thickers). Attach card front to folded card base.

That’s it! I hope you’ll share some of your hybrid cards by linking up in the comments for this post!

If you want to see more inspiration and fantastic tutorials and articles, check out the brand spankin’ new issue of Scrapbook News and Review Magazine, debuting tonight! Here’s a sneak peek of a few of my projects that will be in the issue:

 

 

Thanks for stopping by! Happy Scrapping!

-Carey :)

New Eyes!

Monday I had LASIK eye surgery on both of my eyes. The surgery went by very quickly, and now I can SEE without glasses or contacts! It’s very exciting and I’m thrilled with the results! You know I’ll be making a scrapbook page about this one!

Project 365 – 2010

Well, last year I began P365, but only made it through February (at least the posting part). This year, I’m starting anew. Wish me luck! You can check out my P365 blog here.

If you’re playing along, join us at Scrapbook News & Review Magazine in the forum. You can also play along at Design House Digital, where they have a challenge and some really amazing products to help you along the way! Good luck keeping up with it!

I Love Christmas Lights

Christmas Journal entry.
Friday, Dec. 4, Lights: I’ve always loved driving around to look at Christmas lights. The more lights and decorations, the better! This year, I found a new favorite home that has tons of decorations, but is still tastefully done – a hard combo to achieve!

This came out a bit blurry. I’ll have to go back & get a better photo!

So Much To Do!

Christmas Journal entry.

Thursday, Dec. 3, So Much To Do: Now that we’re counting down the days until Christmas, I’ve realized I have quite a lot to do! I’m going to take a day off of work to be able to make a dent in the list, esp. the shopping for gifts!

• Make penguin costume for play
• Make a list of presents to buy
• Buy presents (a biggie!)
• Wrap presents
• Clean the house after decorating
• Make cards
• Take Collin to see Santa & get picture
• Make hand-made gifts
• Make Christmas cookies
• Scrapbook when I can!

Winter Weather

Christmas Journal entry.

Wed., Dec. 2, Weather: The weather was unseasonably warm over the weekend, but now has dropped below freezing, with a chance of snow! A few flurries fell, but it mostly was a cold mist all afternoon and evening. It seems December always announces its arrival with a change in the weather.

Counting Down

Christmas Journal entry.
Tuesday, Dec. 1, Counting Down: December has arrived! Time to count down to the big day. The boy is excited about moving the candy cane on his countdown calendar and opening the doors on his advent calendar. We also have a countdown with the number blocks. The boy filled the advent calendar up with candy himself and set it on the cedar chest. Now, he’ll open a door each day of the month until Christmas.
photo coming soon