Digital Creations

Welcome to the Progressive Blog Challenge!

Welcome to the Digiridoo Scraps July Progressive Blog Challenge!! You've just arrived at stop 3 in Melbourne, Australia!  If you're just jumping aboard, here's the 411.  Basically, the PBC is a blogtrain that you follow along to pick up all the freebies and then use them to create a layout. Upload to the Digiridoo Cybercrop Gallery and post a link to the finished product in Cybercrop Forum before 9am Monday 6th July (GMT+10). It's heaps of fun and you get all of the freebies along the way and you'll end up with this....

PLUS you'll earn this fabulous Participation Prize if you scrap a layout using at least one goodie from each stop!!

Here's your PBC freebie from me, a paper pack for you.  You can download it HERE at BoxNet - the password is candytime.

Remember, you MUST use at least 1 thing from this download on your layout.

 

Your next stop is stop 4, Kelley’s Blog (link below)

As we are co-ordinating this across quite a few different time zones, please be patient if all of the stops are not yet posted. In case you've lost your way, or need to skip back, here are all of the stops on the train:-

Stop 1 - CARYN
Stop 2 - MELISSA
Stop 3 - SHARON --------------> YOU ARE HERE
Stop 4 - KELLY
Stop 5 - SZILVIA
Stop 6 - KRISTIE
Stop 7 - MARIANNE
Stop 8 - KELLEY
Stop 9 - BREE
Stop 10 - WILMA

Don't forget.....we have a whole heap of fun stuff happening in the Forums for the Cybercrop this weekend, including 2 speed scraps, Scrap Bingo and a username challenge!!

Speed Scraps anyone!

Images are linked to take you to the Speed Scrap Forum at Digiridoo Scraps :)

Time for another Cybercrop at Digiridoo Scraps!

Come and join in some monthly fun at the Digiridoo Scraps Cybercrop that kicks off tonight at midnight Australian EST!  There's plenty of challenges and games to play and you can earn this yummy kit FREE by joining in the Progressive Blog Challenge.  My part of the kit will go up at midnight and you'll have all the details of which blogs to travel to to nab the rest of it.

You can check out all the details over in our Cybercrop Forum, so hope to see you stop by!  And make sure you get your BINGO list in if you want to stay up all night vying for the coveted BINGO QUEEN blinkie that I won last month!  It's a riot in the Bingo thread with everyone keeping poor Bree up rather late into the wee hours of the morning last month as it was neck and neck....loads of fun!

Gentle Morning kit from Gypsy Couture

Here's my precious little angel Ryan using a brand new kit from Gypsy Couture called GENTLE MORNING.  The alphas are from Lisa's FREE BY THE SEA kit and I just love the soft colours and beautiful elements Lisa has come up with this week.  Both of these kits are from The Digi Chick.

I'm now a hybrid designer!

Looky, looky, looky at what I'm getting myself into!  You may have noticed a new little blinkie up the top right hand side of my blog and yes, I now officially have my own little store at ScrapMatters as of today - well it will be going live in US time on the 2nd July (whoo hoo)!  I'm officially a hybrid designer and will be focusing on making up QP's and templates for Kaisercraft albums.  So for all you paper scrappers reading my blog, you can just open these up in a photo-editing program, drop your photos in behind them, print off and cut out and you'll have a ready-made digital page that fits the Kaisercraft albums.  In the future, we'll also start selling other brands like Basic Grey and Maya Road.  I will also be making a range of other goodies such as 12x12 page templates and QP's, some wordart, CU goodies and printables, so this is just the start of something that I've been wanting to dabble in for some time now.

The only goodie that will be in my store today is this quickpage album that I've made for the Kaisercraft scalloped tag album.  I'm still working on the templates for the same album and they'll be in my store very shortly.  I've used one of my favourite boy kits from Anna BV Designs called A POCKETFUL OF TREASURES and I just adore Anna's doodles and grungy style.

So in the ScrapMatters store, you can find my designer name down the left hand side under the Designers heading (that's when it goes live shortly - it will be added at the bottom of the current list with a few other fab ladies also joining the hybrid team).  I'll be going by the very original name of SHARON DALE but on my packaging, it will have Digital Creations by Sharon Dale seeing that Digital Creations is this blog name which I've had since I started digi scrapping.

Check out the big ad at the top of this post, as there's a big sale on for the next few days to help celebrate the new hybrid goodies coming to ScrapMatters.  And there's some free with purchase goodies too.  I've helped contribute to the hybrid Grab Bag by making up a little printable that you just whack through your printer and you've got a little goodie bag to use!

So, off I go to get some more things prepared!

Ryan on his first birthday

Here's a pic of my youngest on his first birthday back in April 2006.  Ain't his eyelashes just the longest you've ever seen?  Both the boys have these divine lashes!  This kit was so kindly given to me by Lina of LDrag Designs and it's a recent release of hers FOR JOHN and it's just perfect for my darling boys to be scrapped with!  Lina's stores are at Scrappity Doo Dah and DSO if you wanted to check her kit out.

Blissful Morning kit from Gypsy Couture

Come and have a look at the stunning new kit BLISSFUL MORNING from Gypsy Couture!  I just love the simple pallette with the pop of red and green.  Click on Lisa's kit image below and it will take you to her store.  I have also used some of the 3D alphas from her WAY OUT WILD kit as they matched perfect but everything else is from Blissful Morning.  To read my journalling, just click on the image to enlarge it :)

New kit from Color With Caryn!

Come on over to Color With Caryn's store at Enchanted Studio Scraps to check out her brand new kit which is being released later today and also pick up IT'S A BOY THING for $1!

Community announcements

Make sure you come on over to the Digiridoo Scraps Corroboree Centre and earn yourself some fabulous participation prizes from our designers.  Each challenge offers up some inspiration to get you scrapping and then you'll be PM'd your prize at the end of the month.  We even have a free template each Tuesday on our blog, so stop on by and join in our fun little community :)

Image is linked above to take you to the Forum!

Make sure you nab yourself a Grab Bag or two at ScrapMatters as I've seen inside them all and the girls have outdone themselves this time!  They are such great value and are only available until the 30th June.

Image is linked and will take you to the Store front :)

Glitter Meets Grunge

Here's a very grungy layout of my two beautiful boys using GLITTER MEETS GRUNGE from Hazel Olive Designs.  Ashley is brand new to designing and you can pick up her awesome kits at Digiridoo Scraps!

Baby's keepsake/treasure tin

I have created this tin for a tutorial over on The Hybrid Chick blog for a 2 week Baby Shower they are running! You'll be able to get loads of ideas and also win yourself some fab hand-made gifts that the girls have whipped up.  Check out this post on the 19th June to see all the supplies and how I made it plus there's lots more pics to see.

The digital papers are from MEADOWLARK kit by Sugarplum Paperie and these are available at The Digi Chick.  You can check out the other supplies in The Hybrid Chick post.

I am going to give this to a friend who is due to have a baby soon so hope she doesn't read this blog!

New collab kit from Gypsy Couture

Isn't this new collab kit between Gypsy Couture and Miss Vivi just adorable!  I just love all the animals, the textures and those 3D alphas are so cool!

And this is the layout I created of my poochy Zak, our then-12 year old Golden Retriever being mischievous for the camera!

The WAY OUT WILD  kit is available at The Digi Chick and Miss Vivi's store at Scrapbook Graphics.

Template is by Dana (missrubikscube) for this week's Sketch Challenge 15/6/09 at The Digi Chick.

Fonts are Problem Secretary and SA Inkspot

Great Father's Day idea

Look at this fabulous little box that Kelleigh Ratzlaff has released! 

Created with Kelleigh Ratzlaff's new template DADDY'S TOOLBOX, available at The Digi Chick.

Papers and swoosh from NEW DIRECTION range by Dianne Rigdon, available at Scrap Artist

I am going to make another 2 of these so that my boys can give one to their Dad and their to Pa's for Father's Day and maybe make a little mini photo album to go in each one.  Kelleigh has a set of tool templates on her blog with a fabulous mini album she made for her box and I just LOVE it!  So head on over and check out her project and download the template.  Remember you can print her templates off onto your own papers if you don't have a photo editing program.  She has full step-by-step instructions on how she made her toolbox and mini album.

And if you go to her blog post today, there's a whole lot of samples of what her CT have made with the tool box....there's treasure chests and fishing tackle boxes...the girls have been very creative indeed!

Other supplies included:
Shipping tags
Distress ink
Craft wire
Sponge for distressing
Dymo labeller
Metal name plate
Safety pin
Rubons
Words
3D foam tape

Scrapbooks for the bushfire victims

Some of you may remember that one of my good friends Susan Curtin had been co-ordinating an appeal to make scrapbook pages that we could give to the victims of the devastating Victorian bushfire victims.  I got together with Susan to help out, along with Lynne Milley and others made pages at home - thanks  Debbie, Mary and Mum!  We have met at my house a few times and we've made up lots of beautiful pages.  Susan is also co-ordinating the drive with a paper scrapbooking store in Werribee - Scrappe Angels.  So between us all, we've been making lots of pages to be popped into albums that will be given to families of bushfire victims and they can replace some of those precious memories that were lost in the fires.  We're winding things up at the end of June as we now have lots and lots of pages put together in a number of themes.  Here's a couple of photos that I snapped at our first get-together in March.  One picture of some of the pages I'd made and a pic of Susie hard at work!

And thanks ever so much to Donna Loughnan for donating all the patterned paper for us to use.  Alethea also gave us some too (hope I haven't forgotten anyone else, but you've all been so generous).  I managed to get rid of lots of my scraps of paper and cardstock too.  I certainly have more than I could ever use in a lifetime!!

More goodies to show off (hybrid is at the end)!

MATES - Click here for credits

This is a layout I did for a photo swap with Keira at Digiridoo Scraps.  This is her DD on the day she was born :)

MY DARLING APRIL - Click here for credits

I created this layout at the very first speed scrap held at Digiridoo Scraps for their recent Cyber Crop.

SPLASHIN' AROUND - Click here for credits

This is a photo of my parents on their wedding day in 1968...don't they look so young and happy!  I have used one of Kristie's kits - she has just opened up her very first store at Digiridoo Scraps and goes by the designer name of Snippets Ink!  Way to go Kristie.

YOUNG LOVE - Click here for credits

Journalling reads:
Toby, I just loved watching you play with your friends Amy and Sally. You were all so intent on watching Humphrey B. Bear on stage at the Sunbury Fair, but you made sure you stuck by your friends and helped each other to sing and dance along with Humphrey. You are all so cute when you play together and this makes me so happy to see. March 2006

FUN - Click here for credits

CUDDLE TIME - Click here for credits

ALWAYS FRIENDS - Click here for credits

SWEET ANGEL - Click here for credits

Journalling:
Toby and Ryan spent the day outside helping Mummy clean up the backyard. We had been to Bunnings to stock up on some tools for the garden and the boys wanted to get it all out and use it! We even found some kid-sized gardening gloves so they used them to pick up all the leaves that were in our backyard. Seeing it's Autumn, there were leaves everywhere!

MUM'S LITTLE HELPERS - Click here for credits

This is my DS4 at Kinder this May for a Mother's Day celebration. We had our feet soaked with bath salts, they rubbed luscious hand creme into our hands and they even had some perfume to spray on us. DS sort of overdosed on it all so I was a bit smelly and slippery when I left...but the kids all had so much fun pampering their Mummy's!

MY HEART IS YOURS - Click here for credits

This is a pic of my two sons and one of their friends and his brother. They decided to jump on top of the older brother when he came to pick his brother up. Poor Bradley got a little squished by the other 3 on top of him!

STACKS ON - Click here for credits

And now for some hybrid goodies!

CANDLE WRAP - click here for credits
As part of my commitments for the Digiscrap Addicts CT, there will be a tutorial on this candle in June edition of  The Enabler that you can pick up from DSA HERE when it's released shortly.

POPCORN HOLDERS - Click here for credits

There is a tutorial for this popcorn holder in the June edition of the Artisan Notebook where they did a feature on The Hybrid Chick.  Myself and two other hybrid chickies were lucky enough to be able to write up a tutorial for varying skill levels of hybrid.

And last but not least, a little purse for you

'FOR YOU' SASSY PURSE - Click here for credits

Community announcements

Here are a few little goodies for you from the various stores that I CT for!

Click the above image to go to the ScrapMatters Forum and look for the new Daily Download threads.

The Digichick Designers have been busy creating new kits, papers, embellishments and templates to help you celebrate all the precious little ones in your life. The 21 different kits and elements coordinate together so that you can mix and match items from your favorite designers to make the perfect page or album for your loved ones.

The Hybrid Chick team will be creating Baby Shower themed projects. Be sure to stop back for invitation ideas, baby shower favor ideas, gifts and other projects featuring the gorgeous designs of The Digichick Designers.

Join us on The Hybrid Chick blog starting June 15th through June 28th for baby shower projects and giveaways!

Hope to see you there!!

And finally, Digiridoo Scraps is officially up and running now after we had our Grand Opening Celebrations last week and now we're looking for a few more CT gals, so if you'd like to apply, here's the ad or you can click on the image to take you to the Digiridoo Forum for more details.

New look for my blog

Some of you may know that I was originally a paper scrapbooker and thus I have another blog called Creations From The Heart where I originally posted all my paper scrapbooking and stamping projects.  Now that I mainly do digital and hybrid, I have decided not to update the Creations From The Heart blog anymore as most of what I do is going onto this blog anyways.  It's just easier to maintain the one blog so you'll notice a few changes around here.  I've added all my paper scrapbooking and stamping links into this blog's sidebar too so all my readers can come to the one spot which hopefully makes it easier.  So if you had my Creations From The Heart blog bookmarked or in your feeds or reader, you may want to remove it.  The other blog will remain there but it won't be updated after today.

Thanks for stopping by :)

Color With Caryn is now at Digiridoo Scraps too!

Color With Caryn is now selling her goodies at DIGIRIDOO SCRAPS and her grand store opening coincides with our bring store GRAND OPENING this weekend, so make sure you pop on over to Caryn's store (and check out everyone else's whilst you're there!) as there's loads of goodies on sale and stop by our Forum to join in all our fab celebrations!!

And while I'm here for Caryn, here's a layout I did tonight with some of Caryn's goodies from her collab kit EARTHY CRUNCHY which is available at Enchanted Studio Scraps.  Check out Caryn's blog post here about the great cause all proceeds are going to - cystic fibrosis.  You can earn this kit by donating $5 directly to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and if you donate $10, you will also receive a quick page album too!
Credits for this layout can be seen HERE.

And Caryn has released her new ALL BOY kit at both stores (DIGIRIDOO SCRAPS and ENCHANTED STUDIO SCRAPS)  and here's a layout I did using this fab kit!

Credits and journalling  for this layout can be found HERE.

Digiridoo Scraps is having server issues!

Not what we'd hoped for during our Grand Opening celebrations, but the hosts servers are down and out so you may find it difficult getting onto the site at the moment.  We have contacted them and they are trying to rectify things but it's a little bit slow at the moment or just timing out, so please persist as we'll be back soon!

EDITED TO ADD:   the hosting issues are all resolved and the site has been up and running all day!

Welcome to the Digiridoo Scraps Progressive Blog Challenge!

Welcome to the Digiridoo Scraps Grand Opening Cybercrop Progressive Blog Challenge!! You've just arrived at stop #8 in Melbourne, Australia. If you're just jumping aboard, here's the 411. Basically, the PBC is a blogtrain that you follow along to pick up all the freebies and then use them to create a layout. Upload to the Digiridoo Cyber Crop Gallery and post a link to the finished product in Cybercrop Forum before 9am Monday 8th June (GMT+10). It's heaps of fun and you get all of the freebies along the way....look at what you'll collect!

PLUS this fabulous Participation Prize!!

Here's your PBC freebie. Remember, you MUST use at least 1 thing from this download on your layout!!  Image below is linked to Box.Net download and my passwords is friends.

Your next stop is stop 9, Keira's Blog.

As we are co-ordinating this across quite a few different time zones, please be patient if all of the stops are not yet posted. In case you've lost your way, or need to skip back, here are all of the stops on the train:-

Stop 1 – Szilvia
Stop 2 - Felicia
Stop 3 - Kelly
Stop 4 - Bree
Stop 5 - Kris
Stop 6 - Marianne
Stop 7 – Melissa
Stop 8 – Sharon ----------> You are Here!
Stop 9 - Keira
Stop 10 – Marilyn
Stop 11 – Katie
Stop 12 - Tiffany

Don't forget.....we have a whole heap of fun stuff happening in the forums over the weekend, including speed scraps, a scavenger hunt, Scrap Bingo and much more!! And remember, you can grab our awesome Digiridoo Collab kit free with every purchase of $10 (in the one transaction)!!