So....what is a starving artist collab?

The starving artist collab is the first of it's kind for taggers, designers, and the digital community! Never before has so many different designers and stores come together for a common purpose! To designs and have fun! The starving artist collab kits will not share a common theme, but a common color scheme. Each kit is unique within it's design, and they are HUGE!!! There is a minimum of 10-15 papers and 30-50 elements PER KIT!!! And each for $2.00! WOW!!! And they are only available for the month of july as a Mega Collab!!! Be a part of history! There will never be a multi-store collab like this! Follow the blog, check out the designers and the stores and mark your calander's for July 1st.....That's when the amazing kits take off. And remember, each store will have a special section entitled Starving Artist Collab.


And our kit preview?? This is just a small sampling of what is in the kit! Remember...July 1!!

The B's Have It! Or do they??

Good morning everyone! Spring, so they say, is here. Ha. Cold, windy, rain..rain..and more rain. I have not seen the sun more than a handful of times here in Paris...or blue sky. We actually added an additional blanket to the bed last night. That is more than we had all winter! Of course it does not help they have turned off the heat in our building. They say it is spring. We don't need it. Happens every year, normally in March, sometimes April, this year they waited until the first of May.
Yesterday it was 10°C here. And cold! Feels even colder today but I am not going to look, just tell myself it is not cold and put on socks and a sweater. But the reason I am going on about this? Of course there is a reason. Our CT, Nelleke put out a bunch of great pages for a kit we had done last spring, The B's Have It by Paris Designs. Thought it was a great time to re-look at it as, they tell us, it is Spring. Perfect kit for spring and summer pages. Filled with flowers, bee's, buttons, bows... here is a preview of the kit. Of course it can only be gotten at Deco-Pages! If you have not checked out that site before, you should now. Many new designers and kits in the store, new challenges, the gallery is hopping! Oh... yes. Preview of the kit! Not all is shown!
Some of Nelleke's great pages she made using the kit are:

Help Wanted

Memorial Day

This spring my daughter and grand daughter came to visit here in Paris for 2 1/2 weeks. We had a wonderful time. We went through the catacombs, we spent 2 days at Euro Disney, we went to Normandy and saw the American Cemetery, one of the famous beaches, the point where so many lost their lives trying to overtake the area. Just this month here in France, the end of the war is celebrated, honoring the dead who fought so bravely to give freedom to so many. Knowing that Memorial Day in the US is coming at the end of May I decided to do a kit. For one of the backgrounds I actually used a photo we took of the crosses at the American Cemetery in Normandy.

There are flags, crosses and lots of flowers and clusters to decorate your pages. Let Paris Designs new kit, Memorial Day, help you to create pages to remember those you have loved and lost.

Here is a preview of the kit...found at Deco Pages in the store!


Nelleke has created some wonderful layouts using this kit as well!

National Scrapbooking Day Tomorrow!!

Some of our designers at Deco-Pages have gotten together to create a wonderful free kit for you in honor of tomorrow! There are all kinds of sales going on as well... and there will be coupons and codes given out with the freebies. Want a peak?

Come to Deco-Pages.com and get your kit! May 2 the posting will show up!

So much to do...so little time!

My daughter and grand daughter came and spent 2 1/2 weeks with us...and we were gone almost every minute of every day. So, I am behind. I am behind with kits, on site, on my blog, in my home life, with friends.... Just sooooooo behind!

That said I will try and get some posting done in the coming weeks to get caught up. My CT's have been going to town creating pages, I am now hosting a challenge at Deco-Pages each month, Numbers Challenge with a Twist! You all can go and check it out here...and join us in the fun!

Here is what it is about!
May's Number Challenge is Up with a TWIST!!

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May comes and for most of us brings with it flowers, newly hatched insects, green grass and leaves and the joy of knowing spring is here and summer is coming!!

I am taking over this challenge starting with this month and am going to add a different twist to it. Read on....

As I live in France the new twist will be sharing something different each month about where you live, either your country, your culture, your customs, your holidays, something that will help us all learn more about another place other than where we are living. This month will be about flowers and/or insects where you live.

Requirements for this months Challenge:

1 page layout
2 photos (flowers and/or insects typical for your area this time of year)
3 different papers used "somehow" on your page
4 or more lines of journaling telling us about your photos
5 elements, all different, no less no more.

50% or more of your items need to be from Deco-Pages designers. In your description area you need to list the requirements for 3 and 5, giving credit to designers at the same time. Example:

3 papers: red with flowers by...., white with dots by...
yellow one cut/torn for..... is by....
5 elements: button by...; ribbon by... and so on.
For 4, please post your journaling in the description for ease of reading

Link your gallery layout back in this thread, I will respond here, leave love on your page and send you links for the kit I have created for your efforts. We will continue to use the "main" numbers gallery instead of monthly, here!! Remember... This is a specific challenge and all requirements must be met to receive the kit.

Color Challenge at Deco and other challenges!!

This month I took it over... and it was late due to a series of errors... but the good news is, if you want to earn a huge kit, and get some other freebies along the way, take part in the Color Challenge at Deco-Pages.com!

Here is the preview of the starter kit:This is the starter kit for the color challenge. If you are a Club-Deco member you get it for free, otherwise it is 1.99 at the store. There are also a color chart and numbers if you would prefer to create your own kit and give it away?? Your first layout you post and/or kit you make and give away to the members at Deco-Pages entitles you to the Part 2 prize:

And then... if you make 2 more layouts, you can receive this part free!
But wait... I am not done!! I also have been covering for a great friend and designer who has been running the Font Challenge. She has moved and has had, and still having a huge problem getting the internet...so I went ahead and made extra parts and put them up for prizes in the February Font challenge, (which is still open until March 31, 2009--midnight EST) and the March Font challenge.All of these kits will be put in the store after March 31st...so if you want them free...you have to do the challenges!! I hope you come and join us...would love to have you as part of the "family" at Deco-Pages.com!!

I have been tagged!! EEK!

Ice Pricess Scrapz got me... (don't worry Helen...there is a payback waiting somewhere!! )

I normally avoid these things at all costs...must be the left over meds still surging through my system...it certainly isn't a healthy mind in this body that says yes!!

6th folder, 6th photo? I guess I was lucky because the folder on either side had some really ugly photos!! ROFL.
This was dh's folder from his camera. He got a new camera and spent the summer vacation in Michigan setting on the back deck with a cold beer and snapping photos of birds, squirrels, anything that moved. Early morning it was hot coffee and camera... We got lucky with this one!
#6 photo, #6 folder.

Now I have to go tag people...

Here they are
Cinna's Scraps : http://cinna-angelcookie.blogspot.com/
Benilda's Scraps: http://benildascraps.blogspot.com/
Amy: http://www.scrappygirldesignsbyamypassmore.blogspot.com/
Mrs. Miles: http://lalalime.blogspot.com/
Jenn--AngelsDigiScraps: http://angelsdigiscrap.blogspot.com/
Aubrey's Mom: http://scrappinbyaubreysmom.blogspot.com/

Sick all week but finished the race!! Challenge 13

Wow...hope you don't catch what ever this is. I started feeling yucky around the 9th, 10th...kept going until the 14th and crashed. Have not left the apartment since. 3 calls to the doctor, antibiotics for the absolutely head splitting sinus infection and body jarring bronchitis...new nasal spray, fizzy meds to put in water for fever/aches and the list continues. I have not worked since Friday 13th. I am lucky that the race was pretty well done and yesterday, hot tea in hand I finished the last race, lucky #13.

Love is in the Air

Left Page:
1) Use exactly 3 papers
1 must be in a shape
2) Use exactly 3 photos
1 must be B & W
3) Use exactly 3 flowers
4) Use exactly 2 strings/ ribbons
5) Use exactly 2 staples
6) You may use other embellishments as needed, as long as they are not flowers, strings, ribbons, staples, papers or photos.
7) Journal at least 5 sentences (must include the word love).

1) rmd_pll_paper1.jpg
ParisDesignsPLL_Feb09_BG16.jpg (Fluted edging)
JRassi_PuppyLoveLetters_papers13.jpg (Half circle)
2) Top photo, my grandparents on their 50th wedding aniversary
Center photo, our wedding photo in front of the Mairie 19th Arron. (city hall)
Bottom photo B&W -- my mother holding me
3) ParisDesignsPLL_Feb09_flower8.png
ParisDesignsPLL_Feb09_flower4.png
ParisDesignsPLL_Feb09_flower1.png
4) CarolRupleyPuppyLoveLettersRibbons.png (2 of them)
5) ParisDesignsPMB_ScbkSup_StapleSteel2.png (used twice)
6) CarolRupleyPuppyLoveLettersFrame3.png
7) Love is in the Air

The top photo of my grandparents was typical of any photo of them together. Happy, smiling, touching and in love. I was blessed to be able to grow up spending most of my young years living with them. I have found that love with my dh, and the center photo is of us taken standing in the cobblestone street in Paris, in front of the "Mairie of the 19th Arron." (City hall for our section of Paris) on a beautiful day in May. The cobblestones are all lilac-ish color because of the trees that line the streets around were all in bloom at that time, with that color flower. You can see them in the background. The bottom photo is my mom holding me when I was just 3-4 months old. She was, is, and always will be a mother who loves her children, grandchild and great grandchild with every breath she takes.