Ladybug Hugs Playdate | Digital Scrapbooking Inspiration

Good Morning Everyone! It’s Saturday, so that means it’s time for Ladybug Hugs playdate. If you missed out at Chelle’s Birthday party last night, watch her blog, she announced some great things to be coming in the next 6 months. Check out Chelle’s Ladybug Hugs, (FWP) Ladybug Hugs Bonus Alpha, Ladybug Blog Freebie & CU Banner Patterns.

Did you see all those Banner Patterns? Wheee!! They’ll be fun for everyone and  will work for just about every LO you are making. Why not try ’em out? I tried to choose a favorite LO from Chelle’s CT, but they were just all so darn cute, I couldn’t! Let me show you what they created.

See you soon! Hugs!

Oh Snap! Playdate | Digital scrapbooking Inspiration

Hi Everyone! I can’t believe how fast July is going by. I hope you’ve been picking up the Oh Snap! Daily Downloads in honor or Chelle’s Birthday! Be sure to pick up today’s download. I just adore the 5 different cameras. We have 2 items to “flash” at you this week. Oh Snap! Wordbits and CU Bloomin’ Crochet 2.
While we’re on the subject of cameras and film, Chelle created 2 new YouTube Classes this week for you to view: Reflected Light & Painted and Drawn. If your mail client doesn’t play friendly with these 2 videos, you’ll find all Chelle’s videos on her You-Tube Channel.

Chelle’s having a party on her birthday! We want everyone to come. Games! Prizes! Live Chat! Don’t miss out, register using this link. Then we have Felt 4 U. Ever wanted Chelle to create something just for U? Here’s your chance.  Last but not least, for Chelle’s birthday, we’re also playing “Pin It To Win It“!
Here are the playdate layouts from Chelle Creative Team:

Carol

Jenn S

Kassie

Kayla

Lynett

Mary

Patty

Ronnie

Roxana LO #1

Roxana LO #2

Hugs!

7.14 Heroes Playdate

Hello Again! Chelle’s Aunt Sari here. I don’t know about you, but I sure have been enjoying Chelle’s newest products this week. A collab with Cheri of Dream Big Designs on Heroes: Police, Fire, & EMTs. The Heroes Super Bundle is  HUGE and FWP are the Heroes Clusters & Stackers!  Chelle recently told a story about the creation of this kit, it was too funny not to share!!

“I think my favorite part of this collection is the little handcuffs. Eeek! I made the chain using some silky “string” that I usually use for CU strings. I cut little pieces…burned the edges so they wouldn’t fray, then warmed up the edges & stuck them together to form links. (In your head you should be seeing me trying to hold tiny pieces of string together over a flame without burning myself. LOL! Actually I held one end with jewelry pliers and the other end I could hold with my fingers, but back a bit (they are still tiny…about 1″ around) The problem was the flame. I didn’t want to find a candle for just those 3 links, so I was trying to hold the light-the-grill-lighter — the kind that you have to hold a dial AND push a button to light the flame–AND hold the pliers & the other end. Yea…after burning myself a couple of times I had to get DH and one of my kids to help me. LOL”

Are you laughing still? Me too! Let me breakdown everything that’s available. I don’t want you to miss a thing.

For those of you who want to create with CU Products, Chelle offers CU Birdlegs Alpha Doodles.

Chelle’s Creative Team went must have had their hair on fire as they designed this week. Gosh! Every time I turned my computer on and looked at the creative team’s LO, I expected to be blown away by the sirens. They were smokin! What ingenuity!! They really had their thinking caps on for some of the ideas. What til you seem them.

Hugs!

Toadally Playdate & CU Baker’s Twine Flowers | Digital Scrapbooking Inspiration

Hey Scrappers! I attended the first ever SOUL (Scrap Orchard University Live) webinar last night. It was sooo much fun! Chelle was there as the guest There were 77 people chatting during the presentations. It was fun to get to know my “friends” from Scrap Orchard! I can’t wait for next month’s SOUL. They are actually doing 2 webinars. The regular monthly SOUL will be on August 2nd and the 2nd will be the 8-9th to announce the Iron Scrapper winner. You’ll have to make sure you register and attend.

This week Chelle released Toadally,  Toadally Quickies & CU Baker’s Twine Flowers. Fun. Fun. Fun! Toadally has been one of my favorite bundle’s Chelle has created. I love pink and green and bits of blue & yellow together. She offers Toadally Bundle with Toadally Quickies as FWP. If you picked up  Toadally Add-On, Toadally Stacks & Toadally Doodles back in March, you can pick up Toadally and Toadally Quickies individually.

So here are the product images:

Have you been picking up the Oh! Snap series of daily downloads. July is Chelle’s birthday month and she has some good stuff on her web site. Here is today’s download. They are only available for 24 hours, so you need to get to her website to get the first few. Last night on SOUL she said she’d leave the first few days up through Sunday and then 24 hours only.

 

 

 

 

 

Chelle’s creative team has gone toadally nuts with their own designs. Last count, 52 layouts are to follow:

Hugs! Sari

6.30 Collages Playdate

Hello! Wow! I can’t believe it’s the last day of June! Seems like this year has just flown by. I live in Utah and we’ve had some nasty wildfires the last couple of weeks. I hope all of you are safe and happy. and that you have a happy 4th of July! I’m looking forward to it. Chelle has created some Collage Templates with a Free Sampler, a YouTube class on Using Photo Collages, & CU Swirly Strings 3 this week.

Chelle’s great at teaching and had given us new YouTube Tutorial on Using Photo Collages! Check it out below. If your mail client doesn’t play friendly with the video, you’ll find all Chelle’s videos on her You-Tube Channel.

For those of you who follow Chelle’s CU products, she’s given us a new one! CU Swirly Strings 3.

Iron Scrapper 2012 begins July 5th…. be on the lookout, there’s some great prizes this year. Hope you are all revved up and ready to go! Click the image below to see the rules.


There’s soooo much going on…. Scrap Orchard University Live (SOUL) is starting a new webinar program with guest speakers once a month. (I’m totally looking forward to these.) Chelle is the guest speaker in the inaugural program.  There will be a demonstration on making signature tags (siggy) and a really fun mini-kit available for the participants. It’s on July 6th, I plan to be be there. Make sure you register below.

One very important last thing! July is Chelle’s birthday month and we’ll have some daily downloads going on. Check back, you don’t want to miss ANY of them. Make sure you subscribe below. I haven’t seen any of them yet, but I know they’ll be great!Now for the creative team’s LOs using the collage templates. My FAV LO of the week, goes to Ronnie. Those pictures of sea nettle are INCREDIBLE. Make sure you check it out!

Hugs!

6.23 Gymnastics Playdate

Hey Ladies!
Hope your weekend! When I was a child, probably 2nd grade, our school district offered 2-week mini-classes during the summer. I attended one on gymnastics. I was fearless! I jumped from the high bar to the low bar, and then it happened, (duh-duh) I fell!! After that, I was so nervous that I fell off everything. My Olympic dreams shattered on the mat under the bars and chalk residue! LOL! It probably didn’t help that I could never do a cartwheel either. Ha Ha!
Have you seen Chelle & MLE Card’sGymnastics Collab? They definitely deserve a perfect 10!! LOL, but that’s not the way they score gymnastics anymore. It’s huge! Definitely want to pick this up before the London 2012 summer Olympic games! I try to watch all of the events I can. Do you remember seeing Peter Vidmar, Paul Hamm, Nadia, Mary Lou Retton, Shannon Miller & the Magnificent 7 in Atlanta, Nastia Luikin & Shawn Johnson?
I can’t wait for you to see what Chelle & MLE Card have put together. First up is the Bundle w/Swirls & Word Art, and the FWP Quickies. Don’t forget the blog Freebie. (Sheesh! I want to go find a bouncy tent w/all those little balls and take some pictures of kids having fun!) I have got to get me a digital camera!



Do you love banners? CU Banners V3 is available in 4 new shapes! Plus there’s a you tube mini class on Chelle’s Channel. What a great week for digi-designers!

Here are some LOs from our creative team:
Carol:
Erica Left:
Erica Right:
Heather:
Jenn S LO #1:
Jenn S LO #2:
Kayla LO #1:
Kayla LO #2: />
Mary:
Ophelia:Patty:
Roxana:

6.16 Summer Lovin’ Playdate

Hello Friends! “Oh, what do you do in the summertime, when all the world is green. Do you fish in a stream, or lazily dream on the banks as the clouds go by? Is that what you do? So do I.” (Sing along if you know the tune.) Wouldn’t it be great if life did slow down just a bit and let us enjoy summer? Chelle’s Summer Lovin’ kit really draws my mind towards the years before the technology explosion changed all our lives. I don’t remember selling lemonade or kool-aid, we lived in too rural an area for that to work. One of our summer treats was called Banana Crush. (See Chelle’s post @ ScrapOrchard for the recipe) We always looked forward to having Banana Crush on Sunday nights. Of course as the teenage girl’s Chelle and I often “scooped and poured” while her younger sister’s served. Everyone had a second serving.
Chelle really made a beautiful, sentimental Summer Lovin’ Kit. The nostalgic bicycle, little red wagon and pinwheel are certain too be used many times. Then for fun, she also gives us Summer Lovin’ gingham papers that really add a peaceful nostalgia to the designs you’ll create. Don’t forget to download the blog freebie!
For those of you wanting something a bit more challenging, take a look at Chelle’s CU Breezy Alpha Doodles.  Why not stretch your skills and give Chelle’s Alpha Doodles a try. Isn’t the green one with the stitches down the center the cutest ever?

One of Chelle’s unique talents is her desire to share her knowledge with others. She created her YouTube Channel for this purpose and creates mini video classes to help you learn. This week her class was on making it easier to see the layers in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. Check out the video to learn some tricks. She has 29 different videos.

Want MORE? Here are the designs from Chelle’s Creative Team. Don’t miss out on Roxana’s LO, it was my fav for the week. Plus I learned something. I didn’t know those cars were called “Plasma” cars.  See you next week!

6.9 Soaked Playdate

Hey Everyone? Enjoying your summer? I have a funny story to share. My DS6 (dear sister 6) and I had a 24 ft wide and 4 ft deep pool in our backyard, the one with the air in the lip around the top of the pool. We would come home from work and get in the pool for an hour or so. It was on cement behind the garage. We had lilac bushes in front of our vinyl lattice fence. Mom was with us. She was sitting in her chair with her back to the sun, like she LOVED to do. DS6 and I were floating along doing our thing when DS6 over balanced. (Start laughing now) The lip of the pool dipped and over the edge went a ton of water and DS6, with her butt in the air. She ends up head down between 2 lilac bushes with water streaming over her. I was laughing so hard! She was squealing/gurgling!! Our neighbor’s on the other side of the fence came running. They had 3 small boys. They stood there wide-eyed not making a sound watching to see what we would do. I finally quit laughing (mostly) and got DS6 upright and the lip of the pool straightened up so we didn’t continue to lose water from the pool. Mom wasn’t sure what had happened, but she could definitely see DS6’s butt in the air and she could hear us squealing and laughing. She was laughing as hard as we were, even though her vision was poor enough she couldn’t really see the detail. We had no problem getting SOAKED that day. LOL!  Wish I’d had a camera that day! They’d be great blackmail pictures!!! HAHAHA!  Here are Chelle’s new products for the week.  (HEE HEE HEE! Chelle just e-mailed me and told me that after DS is that person’s age not what number sibling they are. So it wasn’t my 6 year old sister drowning, it was my sister who was roughly 45 years old at the time. I’m learning.)

Here are some designs from the Creative Team… sure looks fun! I picked Jan’s LO as my fav for the week. I just want to crawl into the picture and started getting soaked, splashing, & just having a fun time. They are all marvelous!

want MORE?  The team used the following products by Chelle!

 

6.2 Military Playdate

Hey Everybody! Chelle’s Aunt Sari here. Chelle has simply outdone herself with the Military Bundle. It’s HUGE and very appropriate this time of year. She has the bundle broken down into Anchors Aweigh (Navy), Rolling Along (Army), & Wild Blue Yonder (Air Force). Are they not the BEST names ever? I’ve been humming, tapping my toes, tapping my fingers, boppin’ my head, singing songs in my head all week to the great imagery Chelle did with the military marches or songs? LOL!! Sure wish I’d lost some weight this week with all that exercise. Smirk! Like that’s ever worked for me! Don’t get me started on all the patriotic songs and marches. I’m in HEAVEN! There’s some great sales going on and the Fireworks FWP Kit is so stinkin’ cute, you’ll wish you had sparklers and pop-its all year round! Let’s get started with all those goodies!

First, the Military Bundle!

Want MORE? How about the individual branches of the US Military…. The US Air Force Kit aka Wild Blue Yonder?

US Army Military Kit aka Rolling Along?

The US Navy Kit aka Anchors Aweigh?

The blog freebie? The Military Word Art?

The 2 new YOUTUBE Classes Chelle has available to you for the remarkable price of nothin’! That’s right, there are FREE on her You Tube Channel. Class #1 “Stretch Your Stash – Alphas” and Class #2 “Creating Shortcuts In Photoshop.” If you haven’t been there, you really need to get hooked up, so here’s a link to the Chelle’s Creations Channel.

Want even MORE? Learn more about Photoshop Class Designer Essentials, Chelle’s offering a live class this summer.  Skins? Today I saw her IPhone skin. They are to die for. Check them out for sure! I want one and I don’t even have an IPhone. Hee Hee!

Now for the FAV LO of the Week. I’m really partial to my very first ever digital scrapbook page. It’s of my Uncle Boyce Pitcher, Chelle’s Great Uncle. He served in WWII in the Navy and joined the Navy Choir. He had a beautiful singing voice and also played the organ. I have the advantage of Chelle being close and I have to give her much of the credit. We talked about what would work and then she “taught” me how to do it. I”ll have to play again soon so I can remember what I’ve learned. I’ve put the Creative Team’s LOs in with the kit abbreviations for them. They are just completely beautiful. Not a term used with the military much, but I love the fact that they are all so different: from movies, to green army figurine toys, to parachutes, or museums. I think you’ll be surprised at all the ideas that will bounce from the images. Once again, Ladies! I SALUTE (LOL) you all as well as the US Military – those passed and present! Thank You!!!

Hugs! Until next week…

5.26 iOnline Playdate… Want MORE?

Hello Friends! Chelle’s Aunt Sari here for the weekly playdate. Chelle took a bit of holiday this week. She’s been very busy with the last week of school. She provided a fantastic freebie called iOnline available on her blog as a big THANK YOU to all her friends that live in her computer. I am sure we can all relate. I’ve only been involved for 5 months and I jump online as soon as I’m home from work to see what’s been happening with everyone else that day. Chelle’s creative team is also enjoying the week off, but some of our team did complete an iOline LO. I have to say Carol amazed me this week by inserting her granddaughter’s “Leapster” games into her LO. I also loved the honesty of Jenn J’s LO. I think we all understand the sentiment.

Want MORE? In our newsletters this week, Chelle provided a couple of new training classes on her YouTube Channel. The first is on using Torn Paper Edges in our everyday scrapbooking lives. Don’t let the “CU” scare you away. You CAN do this.  Watch the video and see how easy it can be. Chelle has a sampler so you can try it out and then the link to the store for the whole package.

On Sunday afternoons, everyone in the family always went to Grandma Pitcher’s house. (my grandmother, Chelle’s great grandmother) Gram had this large room in the back of her house with a built-in armoire that had drawers and doors you could pull open. Oh the JOY! She had yarn and crochet cotton and quilt blocks. We could play for hours. Unfortunately we always got yarn tangled with crochet cotton. Even though we were always careful, the younger kids always wanted to play too.  To help you create untangled strings in your designs, Chelle created a class on her YouTube Channel so you can tie up all your loose ends.

Chelle repackaged 4 of her CU String products into a CU String Bundle that’s almost $10 off. “Snag” this bundle while you can!!
Want even MORE? Chelle has a great class on Photoshop in the market. If you want to be a pro check it out!
See you next week!