Category — things i love

Today is National Scrapbooking Day. National Scrapbooking day is a day to celebrate (through fabulous sales and crops) both paper (or traditional) and digital scrapbooking.  I’m not paper scrapper (I can’t stand the thought of having to cut my precious photos), but I am an addicted digital scrapbooker. Digital scrapbooking is just like paper scrapbooking, except it is done on the computer, using a graphics program. (I use Photoshop CS3).  There are lots of sales going on in digi land, especially at CGEssentials, owned by designer and photographer Kim Hill. (view my last post about Kim’s work here) Kim is running a 40% off sale and if you spend $20 you get a free gift. I’m going to try and check out some of the sales, before I go to the Relay for Life tonight.

carrying on my post last week, i’m still on a mission to decorate my boys room. i’ve been looking for an alphabet print to hang on their walls and i’ve found some great ones browsing etsy. here’s my latest finds:

Decoy Lab::Animal Alphabet Poster - Orange/Green

jennski::ABC animal set

visit her blog at Jenn Ski

Laurie Coyle Designs::Alphabet Soup Print 8×10

Paul Chung::Alphabet Series

Happy Tuesday!

I’ve been working on getting my little office space in one of our spare bedrooms organized. I saw this recently on another blog and I must have this!

walldecorshops.com

I’ll add in a fabric covered pin board by Simple Song on etsy.

Someday, I can make myself a fab workspace like Nicole over at Pink Loves Brown…. if only Ikea would open a store in Hawaii, or even offer shipping to Hawaii.

continuing on with last weeks post on orange love, I’ve found some great orange inspiration in etsy, thanks to their nifty color finder tool. Here’s a few of my favs.

1. Art Print - Dahlia Garden in Orange Crush-artistscs28| 2. felt balls in a warm color mix-BAH047-Ornamentea| 3. Dan C pop outsider folk art Boston Bull Terrier-folkit| 4. WhoooWhooo Owl Button Ring-catlover1| 5. The Canary Collection - Birdcages-cricketpress| 6. Vintage Glass 8mm Fluted Round Beads Topaz Color-mbartdesigns| 7. Toy Boat, Toy Boat, Toy Boat-VanFleetStreetDesign| 8. The Loquat Berry Monster-yumiyumi| 9. Orange BUTTON Dot Clip Earrings-MyCreations4U|

Punch of Color::Kim Hill

It’s only fitting that I start off my first “Things I Love” post by sharing one of my current favorite digi scrapping kits. You see, digital scrapbooking was my first leap into using Photoshop and really all things design. I found digital scrapbooking in 2005. I found I had an automatic love for this art and jumped in. I had a small and very brief foray as a designer, but I quickly realized that it wasn’t for me. I still had that “longing” to design, which is why I turned to stationary and card design.

I have to start off by saying, I’m a little biased towards this kit because I’m a design team member for Kim. Kim is an amazingly talented designer and a real sweetheart. I love this kit because I have a little obsession with the color orange. This kit is so bright and fun and funky. Kim has lots of other great products in her shop CGEssentials. Check it out!