Ever After by Paris Designs

This was a kit that was originally done in 2007 and it is one of our most popular.  It has been reworked and a few items added, (2 frames, 4 mats) everything is clean and the quick pages redone. It is one of those soft kits that you could use for any event... weddings, births, Valentines Day are probably the most popular but people have used it for many more. For more element previews, see the kit in the store at Flights of Fancy Digi-Scrap.com/boutique under Paris Designs!!  
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Kit includes:
21 Background papers
15 shear bows:  5 bows each 3 styles
  4 lace buttons
 1 stitch for buttons
12 gems with gold
12 gems with silver
  1 single gem string
  1 gold heart
  1 lace strip/border
  1 lace with gems strip/border
  4 lace frames
  4 mats
  1-3 strand necklace of gems
  2 quick pages
  4 ribbons flowing
  4 ribbons straight
  1 ribbon bundle plain
  2 ribbon bundles with roses
  4 roses, 1 added stem
  3 tags with roses
  5 tags plain
  4 word art
  2 different frames, 1 with tag

New Coordinating Freebie... look at post just below

 The freebie includes 1 background, 1-17" long rolled shear ribbon,
pebble, butterfly, tag, wing, rose. All coordinate with the kit showing on the  preview and I did put a preview in the zip for a better look.

Just click on the preview!! Enjoy!
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Waiting For Spring by Paris Designs with Coordinating Freebie

Ever start to do one thing and then end up doing something else?  Well, this kit is like that... started out as "Winter Fantasy" and ended up being "Waiting For Spring". I also got a coordinating freebie for you! Ready to see?  Ok... Here is the kit and a preview of the backgrounds. There are 2 other previews of elements not shown on the main preview at the store you can see. 

 

The kit can be found at Flights of Fancy Digi-Scrap.com/boutique. 

Waiting For Spring by Paris Designs

Do you enjoy the fun, whimsical side of life? Then "Waiting For Spring" is for you. This kit is versatile enough to be fun and whimsical but also can be just dainty, soft and pretty if you want it that way. Waiting For Spring kit covers the end of winter with some snow still falling lightly on one background, lightly misty on another background to soft and pretty and flowers on others. The elements take you on a faery journey when you just want to be outside and having great spring weather.

There are 8 backgrounds within the kit along with three zips of elements which include:
2 dog elements (one with tiny faery and one without)
1 clip
2 dot doodles
2 bubble elements
Little bridge
Faery sparkles
Cloud with hanging gems
4 different faeries
1 bird
1 bird on greenery
Transparent Bow
9 butterflies/dragonflies
2 faery houses (one with light)
10 flowers
2 glitter leafy shapes
Mixed stone pads
Mushroom forest
Tall unique mushroom with small ones
2 quirky ladybugs
Frog frame
Button
Doodle
2 flowers on ribbons
3 glitter splatters
1 flower corner elements
2 glitter grass and flower borders
flower doodle
3 tags
small mesh
1 faery nymph
paw print
5 shiny pebbles
Journaling paper
4 shear 17" thin ribbons
Ribbon with flower frame
Partial page wrap
folded ribbon
2 glitter trees
2 wings
Fun caterpillar
Faery light bulb separate from house


Have you registered at Flights of Fancy Digi-Scrap.com/boutique yet? The more customers we get for our newsletter listing, the quicker we will start sending one out.
  

If you love faeries, there are 4 in the kit to play with at the store. 

Cabin Fever Re-Release and Coordinating Freebie!

This kit is actually a mega kit in itself.  It takes 7 zips to download.  Paris Designs Cabin Fever
This has been a labor of love. Each time I went back to work on this kit, I changed things, added more. I am content with the final kit and I hope you enjoy it! Due to the popularity of this kit I decided to put it in the new store. All items are based on a 12 x 12 page, created in 300 DPI with the lace strips 17" long. The preview shows just a very tiny portion of what is in the kit. Cabin Fever is a kit based on love, warmth, family and friendship during the long winter months and especially around that magic of Christmas. It has things for winter, Christmas, nature (animals, trees, eagles) and is very versatile.

This kit can be purchased as a whole or separate components. If you want to see the entire kit, you need to go to the store and see the seven (7) individual previews at the bottom of the kit itself. Can be found here!!

4 BB pages
22 BGs
6 clusters
44 different elements plus another 29 with changes (73 total)
2 tree borders
Total...81 elements

 
Now for the Coordinating Freebie 
2 BGs
4 Elements

Click on the preview above to go get the freebie!!

Challenge!! Come and Join Jenn!!

Jennifer Rassi, AKA Angels Digi Scraps has decided to do a year long challenge and asked if she could do it using the Flights of Fancy Digi-Scrap blog... of course, what could I say but YES!!  Come and join Jenn in her challenge. Just click below...

2 new kits in the store!

Paris Designs has been busy these last couple of weeks. 2 new kits in the store!  Winter Blues:

 

and Winter Joy

  

Both kits work individually or together, coordinating in elements, style and colors and are personal use only. They can be found at our new store, Flights of Fancy Digi-Scrap.com/boutique.     Just click on the name of the store and you should be taken to it!  The kits are only $2.99 each.  They are just waiting for you to help you make your winter memory pages.

 

Christmas Eve!

What a pre-holiday season it has turned out to be!!  We got the store 'opened' but just, the grand opening date has not been decided on yet.  We will definitely keep you all posted! Please head on over and register... don't forget to sign up for the newsletter!!  We are doing one thing I am very very pleased about. Quality Control! Nothing is going into the store for sale without going through the QC team. We want those little annoying problems you can find in kits stopped before they get to the customer. No nasty little surprises, or even little annoying ones are coming into the store and being sold.  We did get a Christmas kit in the store and have 2 more in the works.  To see it and more previews of what all is in it, go to the store!!  Flights of Fancy Digi-Scrap.com. Click on the preview to head on over!!

Craft fairs all went by in a blur.  I was swamped before they got here and before I knew it they were over. I could tell by how exhausted I was I had done them though. The mess that is created when getting ready for them is still in evidence in the living/dining room in our apt. because I have not been able, or should I say not had the energy when I am home, to clear it away. The table and love-seat are piled high with multicolored pieces of materials, sewing machine, crates with glitter, glue, ribbons and buttons are stacked in the mess as well.  Here is a couple shots of one of the fairs, and it is only a couple areas of the table. I can say I make everything you see.

Then there is the unusual weather here in Paris. It has almost not stopped snowing. In the 12 years I have been here, never have I seen it like this. I am so glad I picked up a pair of boots when in Michigan this summer. I am not without them most of the time. Unfortunately my winter coat is packed somewhere down in our storage and I have yet to go and dig for it. So, I go out with 2 lighter coats, 2 scarves, sometimes 2 pair of gloves, hat and boots. My mom is sure I am not dressing warm enough, but I have the evidence. I look like a polar bear in blues. Only good thing is in the spring when I don't do this any longer, I look like I dropped an easy 20 lbs!

Why am I wearing all of this?  Simple... this is what I am wading through when we go outside.

This is the "Place des Fetes" where we live (Paris France). There were people all over the place and kids building snowmen. I have never seen so many different shapes and sizes with unusual decorations in one place. I was going to take photos the next day when I went out to walk the dog but some vandal had been busy during the night and they were all destroyed.


I chuckle each time I go out being from Michigan, watching the drivers who are trying to drive with their non-snow tires, tiny cars and lack of experience. Then I watch the crazy ones who actually walk out in front of the cars thinking because they are going slow they will be able to stop, when you can barely stand up it is so slippery.


We are going to have a late Christmas though. I worked up until today and hubby came down ill to start his vacation. He has been in bed for almost 2 days straight but starting to complain more so I think maybe he has passed the worst of it. No sense trying to do nice meals when he feels so crummy. I don't even have the tree up but did clear out the corner a little where I 'may' put a smaller version of what we usually put up. Not sure. It is so much work to put up and take down when you are not feeling good enough to enjoy it.


The daughter and grand daughter have made it home for the holidays (in Michigan) and we will try and hook up with everyone via phone to wish them a very Merry Christmas. That all said, I should get back to work on those kits OR work on getting a small tree up. Which will it be?

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas!  May it be filled with peace, happiness, love and good health.

Wow!! More designers and kits going into the store! ALSO.....

We are very sorry to say we had problems with an upgrade in the cart and had to redo it. Anyone who has registered as a customer to receive the newsletter will have to PLEASE -- RESIGN UP.  We lost our few registered customers... but hopefully we will get them all back and registered!

NEW LINK:  HTTP://flightsoffancydigi-scrap.com/boutique

The good news is we have signed up a couple more designers, that makes 6 of us so far. The kits should start going into the store very soon. They are starting to go through the Quality Control Team. Each kit will be QC checked and if all is ok, given the "ok" to link into the store. You should see this little sticker either on a preview or in the description area saying all is well....

 although even if the designer doesn't put it in, it is not allowed to be linked into the store without the QC Okay!!

Still do not have a grand opening 'date', but it is basically open. We will continue to keep you updated!

The rain in southern France

I happened to be listening to the news yesterday and they said that for each meter square, 320 liters of rain fell Sunday night. As I think more in US measurements, that is very close to a 3x3 foot square and that is a LOT of water in one night.  And, it is raining here in Paris again today and the last I heard the southern part of France was to get more.


On a happy note, my daughter got a full time teaching job in Fayetteville NC in August. We were all thrilled for her as Michigan just has nothing to offer her anywhere near where we were living, including further south. But, it did cut into the time we were able to see her this summer as she left to move down before we returned to Paris. That was sad... but being a mom who wants to see her 'child' do the best they can in life, I am very proud of her to accept a job and pack up and move her and her daughter to a place where she knew absolutely no one. Being totally alone in a strange place... even with one other person with you... for some can be thrilling and for others totally traumatic. Going from the North to the South can be like moving to a foreign country in some aspects. Even the food changes, not to mention the accents/words. She seems to be settling in, so is our grand daughter so we are thrilled!! And she is loving her teaching position (6th grade---Math and Science).  Congratulations and we are so proud of you!


I have been back 3 weeks now and did manage to get the candle bag order done for the church. Now to start getting ready for craft shows. Which reminds me. If you have not checked out our other blog, take a moment to do so! You can find it at the left, Turtles Rainbow Gold where I did manage to get it updated about our note cards. As I get other things out and going, I will update it further with our other items. I also need to get a kit or two designed and at least one in the store. Now if I could just figure out a way to clone myself for a few weeks, to get everything I need to do done, and work at the same time, I would be all set!