Well, this summer break is just speeding right along!  I just got home from visiting family in Texas and I had a wonderful time… other than my car breaking down.  Ughh!  Anyway, I have been meaning to get these new products on the blog for a couple of weeks, but I am just now finding the time to do so.   So… without further delay or chit chat….
Oh… before I show the new goodies let me tell you about the awesome special I have going on:

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Buy 2, Get 1 Free

on everything in my

digi shoppe at A Cherry on Top!

Simply enter the following Coupon Code at checkout:  4A36B2B11C090

Offer good until 7/15/2009
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Cloud Nine Page Set – $6.49

Close-Up Preview:

Cloud Nine Quick Page Collection – $3.49

Layout created with the Cloud Nine Page Set:

Commercial Use Overlays –  No credit required-  $5.99

This page set has been a work-in-progress for over a month.  I have been taking a very intense intersession class (16 weeks of information crammed into 3 weeks).  I have been working on this kit when I need a creative break.  Anyway,  the class was over yesterday!  I finally finished the kit and a layout today!  :)  Yeah!!!  

Simple Pleasures Page Kit –  Introductory Price: $5.99

Layout of my daughter Ericka — Prom 2009

IF YOU THINK

If You Think You Are Beaten, You Are.
If You Think You Dare Not, You Don’t!
If You Want To Win, but Think You Can’t, 
It’s A Cinch You Won’t.

If You Think You’ll Lose, You’re Lost; 
For Out In the World We Find 
Success Begins With a Fellows Will; 
It’s All In The State Of The Mind.

Life’s Battles Don’t Always Go
To The Stronger and Faster Man, 
But Sooner Or Later the Man Who Wins
Is The Man Who Thinks He Can.

~ Walter D. Wintle

I just don’t even have the words to express the joy I am feeling right now!  No school for the next ten days!!!  I seriously need a brain break and some creative therapy!   So happy!   

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Quote of the Day:

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

~George Bernard Shaw 

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I finally got the urge to do a digi page!  :)  I was totally inspired by Michelle Bradley’s October Sky page kit from A Cherry On Top.   Love this kit!  You can find it here:

http://www.acherryontop.com/company/michelle_bradley_designs/900396

This is my handsome son, Tristan.

We cannot  always shape the future for our children, but we can shape our children for the future.
~Franklin Roosevelt

I hear and I forgot.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
~ Chinese Proverb 

Today’s prompt was to use the color green.  I had good intention, but as you can see I used colors that aren’t really green.  However, green is the dominant color of this page.  :)   I tried.  I really  tried.  LOL!  

Quote of the Day:

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
~George Bernard Shaw 

Today is the day!  I get post a sneek peek for my new collection, Forever Family!  This is my newest paper line + rub-on sheet for Dream Street Papers.  It will be officially released at Winter CHA 2009 in California, later this  month.   The little cottage below is made using my new papers!  Isn’t it adorable!  :)  

Each of the papers in this line are named after one of the special ladies in my life.  They are named after my mom, sisters, grandmothers, and best friend.   You can see even more details and all the other releases at the Dream Street Papers Blog.

 
New this year… we added Rub-Ons!  I am so excited about these!

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Also, I completed another day in my art journal.  I am still following along with Misty Mawn and Milliande.  I have missed a couple of days, but I have been doing creative stuff everyday, which is my ultimate goal.  

Today’s prompt was to use the color orange.  I was inspired by a photo of an orange daylily.  I learned alot about daylilies and the color orange from this spread.   For instance, did you know that the daylily is an emblem of the mother?  Also…did you know that orange represents enthusiasm, energy, hope, vibrancy, and good health?  I have always liked the color orange… it reminds me of summer and suntans!    

Ready for some Dream Street Papers- Winter CHA 2009– SNEAK PEEKS?

This is the week!   Head on over to Dream Street Papers Blog .  Each day this week we are presenting sneaks of our 6 new collections!  Whoo-hoo!

*Photo by Alex Grech

Just checking in!  I have been busy updating the DreamStreetPapers website for our next paper release!  Whoo-hooo!  Most of the updates are still hidden, but will magically appear in the next couple of weeks!  Also, starting next week we will begin releasing sneak peeks on the DS Blog… so be sure to bookmark it and check back often.  I am not going to Winter CHA this year due to my school schedule, but lots of the other designers will be there!  If you are going, be sure to stop in and tell the girls “howdy!”     

I have still been following Milliande and Misty Mawn’s January Art Journal challenge, I just haven’t had time to post my entries.  Hopefully, I can get to that soon.  :)

Also, I started reading Nita Leland’s “The New Creative Artist” on the treadmill at the YMCA today.   All that wonderful eye candy sure made the time fly!   So far I am loving this book!  It is full of inspiration, ideas, and a wealth of creative knowledge.   I am also in the middle of reading Inkheart by Cornelia Funke.  I love most children’s/ young adult literature for many reasons, but mostly because it helps keep my inner child alive and kicking!

I will leave you with the Word of the Day. 
wanderlust \WON-der-luhst\, noun: a strong desire to wander or travel

I skipped a day, as far as posting, but I did work in my journal for day 2.   I am working in a composition notebook, so I spent yesterday gluing some pages together and gessoing.  I made a couple of backgrounds. too.  Today’s artwork is one side of this journal spread.  I am doing my journaling on the other side.   This is one of the backgrounds I prepared yesterday and just drew and painted the image on it.