"Quite Contrary"

Quite Contrary

"Mary Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?  With Silver bells and Cockleshells, and pretty maids all in a row..."  I was in a bit of a pastel and paper piecing mood this week, and "Quite Contrary" was the result!  This dainty kit combines a touch of whimsy with a cheerful palette, and will showcase your pretty little maid's picture beautifully.  But don't despair if you need to scrap her brother, too - there are several neutral papers and elements to help you out :)
Contents:

• 14 papers
• Paper Bee
• Stitched bee trail
• 2 stitched hearts
• 2 bows
• cord
• 2 buttons
• cockleshell
• "silver" bell
• 4 flowers
• metal heart flower
• 4 frames
• heart mat
• heart scatter
• 3 journal strips
• 2 journal markers
• 2 "seed packet" row markers
• 3 ribbons
• 1 set brackets
• 2 leaves
• staple
• 3 word art

And some awesome examples from my team:

First, a hybrid project from Joana (on the Hybrid team for The Digichick)

From Jeri (welcome to the team!):

From Sondra:

From Lori:

From Candy:

From Jennifer:

 and from Kim:

You can pick up Quite Contrary the Kit or just the Quite Contrary paper pack (on sale today and Friday)  here in my Digichick shop.  Happy Scrapping!

Sneaky Stuff.

I thought I'd give you a little sneak peek of "Quite Contrary," coming out tomorrow at The Digichick:

 And my newsletter subscribers will get a cute little bonus pack that coordinates (have you signed up? Link):

Winter Solitude

Colorado is finally getting some winter weather!  I think even Alabama has had more snow than we have, LOL.  The landscape undergoes a change once snow sets in - the contrasts are more stark, but still lovely.  This particular palette was inspired by a rosy morning sunrise (I see far more sunrises in the winter, seeing as how they are scheduled at a better time!).

Winter Solitude captures that quiet mood to create a showcase for your winter photos.  The colors are versatile, lending themselves to both feminine and masculine layouts.

Contents:

• 14 papers
• 4 flowers plus a cluster
• 2 bows
• 3 ribbons
• leaves
• branch
• 5 frames
• clockface & hands
• 2 buttons
• 2 snowflakes
• 2 beadspills
• 2 swirls
• ticket
• journal book
• 2 journal cards
• Full alpha (upper & lowercase, punctuation, numbers)

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

Winter Solitude is available here in my DigiChick shop, and will be 20% off Thursday and Friday  :)  Happy Scrapping!

Pssst....

Those of you who have clicked the "Like" button for Sherwood Studio Digital Designs have access to a pretty nifty coupon code today - curious?  There's a link to the Facebook Page in the side column of my blog, check it out!

A New Year! and a "Clean Start"

It has been a very busy time since I last put something new in the store... there has been a lot of sorting and cleaning and re-organizing going on in our house as my husband makes changes in the basement.  And changes upstairs, LOL.  All of this has necessitated so much "Clean Sweep-ing" that my brain is tired, and the sad thing is that I could do twice as much again and still not have everything as well organized as it should/could be.  As a naturally messy person (gosh, that looks awful in print, maybe we could gloss it over a bit and say "Not a naturally tidy person!"), I find this to be very wearing, even though the results are so positive.  And since I couldn't seem to get past the mental malaise to design something pretty, I decided to embrace the reality - and "Clean It Up!" is the result.  After all, I'm sure everyone has a cleaning project at some time, so it's a useful thing, right? There are lots of organic textures in this one as well as a lot of "cleaning" objects and a few word art bits to add the final touch:

 And some great examples from my team:

 Layout by Sondra

 Layout by Lori

 Layout by Kim

 Layout by Jennifer - she claims she took on a cleaning project just for this layout - now THAT is a dedicated team member :)

 Layout by Jan Hosford, a fellow designer at the DigiChick :)

Layout by Heather B., a member of the DigiChick team :)

This is a two-pager that I did, hoping to exorcise the cleaning mania, LOL.  I love making 2 pagers but they sure are hard to showcase!

And since we're in cleaning mode, I'm going to be making some changes to my newsletter situation - I've been using Feedburner to deliver blog posts, but I think it would be better to have an actual newsletter - I hate to bug people too much and sometimes I'd like to blather on in my blog more than once a week, so I'm going to give having them separate a whirl.  The only trouble is that I feel uncomfortable adding the Feedburner addy's to the new newsletter without permission, so I'm asking you to sign up for the new one.  Kind of a pain, but better than cluttering email without leave :)  The new link is over there ---> in the side column.  Or you can click HERE.

I also made a little freebie to go with Clean It Up! - I was enjoying the grungy cardboard I used on the oval frame so I made a few more pieces:

You can download it HERE.
Happy Cleaning (and scrapping!)