I Wish You A Shabby Christmas.....

 
Every year I make a photocard as our family Christmas card. I hand out printed versions to friends and family who are geographically close to us, and email an electronic version to those who are far away. This year I used Raspberry Road Designs' gorgeous Victorian Holiday kit to create this 4x6 photocard. I am just in love with this kit. It has soft pink, white and green tones, with a really vintage, feminine feel to it. I have also used one striped paper from the Baskets and Bunnies collection, the journal block is from the Josephine collection, and the sparkles are from Enchanted Fall; all available from Raspberry Road Designs.

And....as a special Christmas gift to our digiscrapping friends; Raspberry Road Designs has the cluster frame available as a freebie. Visit the Raspberry Road Designs Creative Team blog. Merry Christmas! ASx

I'm a Raspberry Girl!!!!

Well, Christmas came early this year........and I was lucky enough to be given an opportunity to join the creative team for Raspberry Road Designs! This is the happiest day of my digiscrapping career thus far :)! I have been working with Susan's kits since I begun digiscrapping six months ago and am totally in LOVE with her gorgeous designs. Her work is absolutely beautiful, very feminine and vintage. The kit used to create this layout is Raspberry Tea with one ribbon from Poppy Hill; both kits are available from Raspberry Road Designs. ASx

Happy Birthday Aussie Bob!

This week we celebrated the birthday of our friend Bob who is working in Australia for a little while. And it FINALLY gave me a chance to use the 4th of July kits I have in my collection!!!  Ahhh having a friend from the US is going to give me a whole new scrapping experience...including the opportunity to do some Thanksgiving pages! The digital kits used to create this page are My Country by Microferk Designs at Scrapbook Elements and Glory Days by Susan Darter at Raspberry Road Designs.  The photostrip took me forever, but I saw the idea in Australian Scrapbooking Memories magazine and had to try it. Will  be a technique I use often.

 I have also worked with some great designers from Cool Scraps Digital as part of my CT role with the Super Treasure Scrappers. This page was created using the free Men's Poetry collab kit. It has over 200 elements and a stack of papers and is a Godsend for me who has two sons LOL!!!

My favourite 'thing' of the week is definitely my new earrings (featured above) that I found in a little fashion boutique here in my home town in Australia. They are made by Californian-based jewelry designer,Colleen Toland and are just adorable. I had a gift certificate to spend and my eyes just zeroed in on these babies. I had a momentary shoppers conundrum wondering; "are they too over the top", "can i get away with these" and worried that I may purchase them only to be hit with a long stint of of shopper's remorse afterwards. I threw caution to the wind and went ahead with my purchase and haven't looked back! Love them! The kit used to create this post's scrap layout is Mardi Gras by Miki Ferkul and the flowers are from Victorian Christmas by Miki Ferkul and Saxon Holt available at Scrapbook Elements.

International Digital Scrapbooking Day on 7 November marked the biggest day of the year on our digiscrap calendar, and of course triggered MASSIVE industry-wide digiscrap sales (don't cha just luv that word???)!!! I picked-up heaps of bargains and some great freebies from my fave sites (like I don't have enough digiscraps already....we are now rolling in terabytes at our place LOL!). So grateful to be a part of the digital purchasing realm and don't have to actually go to a real store and wade through the sales bins, fight other shoppers for the best deals (we've all been there....) or wait in line at the check-out!

I kicked-off my gig on the Super Treasure Scrapper Creative Team for Cool Scraps Digital which was so exciting. This week I had the pleasure of working with Israel-based designer, Elsina M Schepers from EMS Arts. I worked with her soulful kit, Solitude which is a really versatile kit with great muted tones of blue and brown that can scrap both feminine and masculine pages. You could easily pull several themes out of the kit. Here are some of the pages I created using it.

Aussie Scrapster xx