JEANINE'S BITS AND PIECES

Win $20 Cash and More!

EDITED TO ADD - for all the DSD happenings and blog train please scroll down!!! 

Hi all! Lots of good stuff to tell you!

I am sooooo excited to be coming back to the world of scrapbooking! Starting this Friday, November 5, (and just in time for Digital Scrapbook Day) my store at ScrapMatters will open and I am thrilled! Everyone has been amazing there, the talent is fabulous and the forums are great...

Coming back to my "roots" was my agent's idea (I started designing/selling digital scrapbook kits in 2004!), and I am so glad she suggested it. I forgot how much fun "free-form" designing can be instead of the craziness of always creating for clients! Not only am I happy to be designing again, but I've really missed the community aspect of it too. Plus I have hundreds of photos of my kids, holidays, vacations with Kevin, etc. on my hard drive that need to be scrapped!! Yikes!!

Which reminds me... I will be doing a Creative Team search and a Promo Team search soon. Just make sure you watch for the details (or just email [email protected] and I'll fill you in). :-)

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Now for the fun stuff!

To celebrate my store opening at ScrapMatters, I am having a drawing/contest. One lucky winner will receive $20 cash via paypal, and two other winners will receive a coupon for one of my digital scrapbooking collections FREE (some of them are posted here with more to come)! This is the first of at least three drawings/contests that I will be having in the upcoming months...yay!

Sooooooo how do you enter? Easy!!! You will receive one entry for any of the items you complete below. Make sure you follow the steps closely! 

(1) Become a facebook fan. All facebook fans are automatically entered! Just click here and click the "like" button. You're in!

(2) Post about this contest on your blog and link to this post. Make sure you leave a separate comment ON THIS BLOG POST with a LINK TO YOUR BLOG ENTRY. 

(3) Follow me on twitter here. Make sure you leave a separate comment ON THIS BLOG POST with a LINK TO YOUR TWITTER ID.

(4) Give a shout out about this drawing/contest on facebook and/or twitter and link to this post. Make sure you leave a separate comment ON THIS POST with a LINK TO YOUR POST.

(5) Tell me what you will do with the $20 cash if you win by commenting ON THIS BLOG POST. Just in time for DSD...

So everyone actually has the chance to earn FIVE entries. I will do a random drawing from the comments on this blog post plus all of my facebook fans to come up with the winners.

The contest STARTS NOW and will end Sunday, November 7 at midnight EST. Winners will be notified and announced on Monday, November 8.

Good luck and have fun!

 

**ETA THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED - WATCH FOR MORE CONTESTS SOON!**

 

Fan Page, News to Come, and MORE

Just set up a new facebook fan page! Hooray! I am going to be having a contest-type-thing soon too related to an upcoming announcement, plus I will be in need of a new creative team and promotion team (does that give you a hint about my news???) VERY soon. Go "like" the page NOW to find out the details when they are announced... Exciting stuff happening!

BTW did you create your Scrapblog with the "Be Aware" page yet? Scrapblog is donating $1 to the SGK foundation for every purchase of this! Kudos to them! 

And, last but NOT least, congratulations to my agent Julie on the birth of her baby boy! The pics are adorable - can't wait to see more.

Have a great weekend and happy halloween!

 

 

Breast Cancer Awareness - Scrap for the Cure!

From SCRAPBLOG

Support Breast Cancer Awareness with “Be Aware” Content Collection

We are very excited to announce the release of a new collection by Jeanine DeOre supporting Breast Cancer Awareness. Whether you are a survivor, have a friend or loved one who has battled the disease, or simply want to encourage those who’s lives have been affected by breast cancer, this collection provides the perfect backdrop to share your story. Even within the walls of the Scrapblog offices, there are stories of heroism and hope. Together with Ms. DeOre, a survivor herself, we’re committed to promoting Breast Cancer Awareness throughout the Scrapblog community. For the entire month of October (starting today!), Scrapblog will donate $1 to Susan G. Komen for the Cure for every purchase of the Breast Cancer Awareness Single.* Join us in our efforts to find a cure.

Today only, we are offering this theme for 50% off the normal price. Buy it for 110 credits now through Friday, October 1 5pm PDT.**

* Scrapblog will donate $1 for every purchase of Breast Cancer Awareness Single, up to $10,000.
**Offer valid from 2pm PDT 9/30 through 5pm PDT 10/1. Applies to Breast Cancer Awareness Single only.

IF YOU HAVE A SCRAPBLOG PAGE USING THIS COLLECTION, PLEASE EMAIL ME THE LINK - [email protected]! THANKS!

Organize those School Papers!

Hi all!

I did a guest post over at Scrapblog (thanks Rebecca!) about a quick, easy and cheap way to keep all those school papers together and make a keepsake at the same time.

If you do the project, send us a photo or link ([email protected]) and get a little something from our Kristy Valshan, Inc. store for your efforts <wink>...

Speaking of KV, did you see our newest papers? Love the Random Fall packs...

Have a great weekend!

Back to School :-)

Yay! Did a layout of the kiddos with the Kristy Valshan Back 2 School kit over at the wonderful Scrapblog today. I really love doing layouts there because it is so EASY and QUICK!

This page will be available as a theme so you can personalize your own - great idea for a quick teacher gift! Just stick the layout in a frame, or use the kit for a 4x6 brag book. Give each child in the class a hard copy of a page you create (you can order prints right from scrapblog) and they can adhere their school photo and handwrite a note to their teacher!



Thanks for looking! Check out Jen's post for more Scrapblog fun (and grab all of her freebies while you are there)!

CHA PHOTOS

Back from CHA and have some fun photos to share!

I am looking at these photos and, even though I have now officially lost 15 pounds on nutrisystem (WOO HOO), I look like a cow in my fat clothes (esp the ones on Jen's blog and the KV blog). Sigh. Jen always tells me to wear fitted clothes (which I didn't do - do you always buy clothes that are too big? I always have). I have my big clothes on that, as she so kindly puts it, makes me look like i am wearing a tent. Sigh. LOL. She is right of course, but I feel like i need to hide my big body you know?

ANYWAY, enough about my confidence issues!! LOL!! Here we go!

This is a photo of Jen and I in the Orphan Works booth. We were playing with my xshot portable tripod.

What is funny is i would set the timer for 2 seconds, pull out the xshot, and the photo would snap. Well here is what happens when I forget to set the timer and snap the photo early!!! Boy we look mean in this photo!!!

Next up are some photos of the CHA Designer Showcase we did Saturday. We had a bunch of new designs, cards, products, etc and had some good meetings (wink)!!

And I even did a PAPER LAYOUT with our new Sawyer collection! I did it digitally first and then did all the fun paper stuff. I ripped, wrinkled, crumpled and inked. It was fun!

Next we headed on over to Tapestry by CR Gibson (one of our licensing/manufacturing partners) to go see our newest releases! They were busy taking orders from retailers but we snapped some photos!

The boxed kit with Calista's photo is from the "Fancy Free" collection and will be available at Archiver's stores nationwide as well as independent retailers. It comes with fun scrapbook, papers, elements, etc.

The chipboard suitcase/board books kit is our "Franklin" collection with some revisions. It is called the "Traveling Suitcase". It is a travel-themed kit that will also be available at Archiver's by the end of August and independent retailers across the US/Canada.

If you are a retailer and interested in ordering either kit, please contact Tapestry by CR Gibson here and just tell them you are interested in the Kristy Valshan kits.

We also met up with our friends and licensing partner Scrapblog. It was great meeting Rebecca in person! We are really excited to have been invited to join Anna Griffin, Rhonna Farrer, Cosmo Cricket and others to be premium content providers on the Scrapblog site. Look for our free themes to be released over the next couple weeks (right Rebecca? LOL)!

We were so fortunate to chat with many scrapbookers, artists, and crafters from all over. We got to go to lunch with Robin, Melinda, Connie, and Oriana (see photo on Jen's blog), hang out with artist friends Brenda Pinnick (loved her new sizzix dies) and Vicki Schreiner (who has a whole new line coming out at Cracker Barrell stores), wave hello to artists as they did their classes and make and takes (Jill McKay, Claudine Hellmuth, Margot Potter), see fellow digiscrappers (Amy Teets of Dream Street Papers, Amanda Dykan of Design Originals, Kristi McFadden and Cindy Wyckoff of Scrapbook Dimentsion Magazine, etc) and have fun! Sorry if I left anyone out!

Speaking of people, Jen and I got to sit down and to a make and take with Crafty Chica! She has an incredible new product line and beautiful glitters, and is just so pleasant to talk to! We made some fabulous sparkly earrings and she mixed some glitter for us to take home!! How fun is that?!?

One of the WEIRDEST (and coolest) things to happen was when Jen and I were walking the show and I could swear I was hearing my name (but not the usual voices, lol). I turned around to see my good friend from college, Lisa Dorsey! I have not seen her since 1993! 15 years later she recognizes me at CHA (which is amazing in itself) and I got to hear about her, Greg and her girls! So great!

Other highlights of the week were breaking my diet with Jen (she FORCED me to go get chocolate cake at 10pm at night and get Portillo's 4 times!! really!!), spending time with Jen's family, and making friends with the neighborhood skunk. Ask her about our new product line too!

Speaking of Jen...

 Ain't she cute?

Blog makeover! Opinions please!

Well, I was getting really tired of my blog. Being cheap (lol) i only was doing the basic typepad plan, but decided to upgrade. I looked at blogger (again, being cheap!) but I am totally horrible with html. I plopped a banner up, Jen and I had a good laugh at how bad it looked, and then ran back to typepad. Blogger looks like a great option if you know how to tweak code, but alas, I stay very far away from html!

So what do you think? Easy to read? Hard to read? Too much?

I am hoping by pretty-ing it up it will make me want to post more... wishful thinking!

The banner was made from a carpet runner mock up using a new Kristy Valshan collection (not sure if this collection will be "released" on the site or not due to potential licensing opportunities), and the font used for "Bits & Pieces" is by Darcy Baldwin (it is my own handwriting made into a font - I highly recommend her!! I love the font and used it for Christmas cards, envelopes, journaling on scrapbook pages, etc - Jen used it to address her own cards this year too! LOL!).

That's it for now - Jeff and kids home from grocery store so off to put the groceries away. Have a happy Saturday and thanks for your comments!

Important!! Do you post family photos on your blog or scrapbook pages in galleries?

If so, you really need to be aware of this new law. If you design and/or are an artist, then your creations are also at risk.

To very quickly and easily write a letter to your congressman/congresswoman about Orphan Works and how it will affect you, please go here:  http://tinyurl.com/3wbtbz.

If you would like some additional information, you can look at my previous post below or visit IP Attorney Tammy Browning-Smith's blog here. Tammy is KV's attorney and is fabulous!

My artist friend Brenda (a designer for Sizzix, HUGE on QVC, etc) has great information on her blog about Orphan Works as does the lovely, talented, and awesome enough to be on the Martha Stewart Show Claudine Hellmuth (scroll down after the adorable picture of Mabel). Their blogs are fun and inspiring so be sure to check them out often!

Thanks so much for reading this and have a good weekend!

QOTW - Viewing/Organizing Adobe Presets?

How do you all organize and view your presets? Like brushes, shapes, etc.?

I am going bonkers trying to figure out an effective way to organize (spring cleaning bug I guess). Does ACDSEE have a trick that allows you to see/tag them?? I have ACDSEE 9 (LOVE IT BTW - go grab it if you don't have it!!)...

I would prefer not spend a lot of money (lol - obviously right?) but really think it would be a good idea. Unless adobe CS3 has a way to do this and I am just missing it - yes, yes i can be an airhead sometimes. That, and I have a rather large nose so seeing past the end of it isn't always easy! LOLOL!

Anyone want to share tips? THANKS! :)

FREE at Shutterfly!

Aside from all the freebies at the KV Blog, don't forget Jen and I are featured at SHUTTERFLY this week! We designed a ton of freebies just for them so visit Shutterfly throughout the week to download the coordinating creations! Here is just a taste:

And here is a layout I did with one of the KV Blog free QPs using the Calista Collection:

Even though we designed Calista with Spring in mind, I really thought it went well with Calista's jacket and the orange pumpkin...

Have a great Thursday!