~2011~ New Year … New Shop! Plus a freebie!

For my debut at GingerScraps, I am offering Vintage Island and Olde Tyme Junque each for 40% off!

Vintage Island {the kit} :: Aloha! Bring the spirit of the islands to your scrapping with this collection of Hawaii-inspired elements and papers. From footprints in the sand to vintage-style postcards and brightly-colored blossoms, you will find all you need to add a little “aloha” to your pages!
Contains: 18 papers + 40 elements + 1 alpha

 Olde Tyme Junque {the kit} :: Aged to perfection, the papers and elements in Olde Tyme Junque are beautifully worn and rustic. Rich textures and antique pieces add a nostalgic heritage feel to any scrapbook page. The newspaper-covered chipboard alpha coordinates perfectly, and gives an extra touch of nostalgic dimension to your pages.
Contains: 12 papers + 55 elements + 1 alpha

In the coming weeks I will be busily unpacking and settling in at GingerScraps, so be sure to watch on my blog, twitter, & facebook for new products as well as re-releases of old favorites at great sales prices! I will also be looking for some *fantatic* new CT members – watch for my CT Call in just a week or two, and be sure to tell your really talented scrapping friends to apply! :)

Be sure to bookmark my new shop:

::Scrappy Inspiration::

 

::Freebie Nook::

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☆,.-~*'¨¯¨'*•~-.¸- Have a truly wonderful & happy New Year 2011! -,.-~*'¨¯¨'*•~-.¸☆

Happy scrappin’ ya all! :D

`·.¸¸.·´´¯`··._.· Cari `·.¸¸.·´´¯`··._.·

 

Looks Who’s Designing Now!!

The big day is finally here!! If you have caught all the hints I’ve been throwing around, you might have realized I have been holding back some really big news…

I am now officially selling my digital scrapbooking designs at Pixel Gypsy Designs!

I am so excited to announce that my designs are now exclusively available at PixelGypsyDesigns.com. After getting to know the wonderful folks at PGD for the past several months, and seeing their top-notch customer service with their super-friendly community, I have had no doubt that I wanted PGD to be the place I sell my designs. And now that day is here! Woohoo!

(Click the poster for a larger version)

My first two kits are now available at PGD:

Herbal Garden

 

Knoticals

 

 

 

All my designs are high-quality, 300ppi images.

And now for the extra special part! With each kit I release at PGD, I will be offering a coordinating, layered deluxe tag for *free* here on my blog! To kick things off, here are the deluxe tags for my two debut kits:

Herbal Garden pw: HGtag89

Knoticals pw: KNtag1114

*Please remember to send your friends here, to my blog, if you think they’d like these tags. A password is required for each tag download – it is located directly under the tag above. Enjoy!

I have one more wonderful thing to tell you before I wrap up this looong post…

To celebrate my debut at PGD, I am offering a full week of 30% off all my debut products!

Visit my PGD store!

Sweeeeeeeeet! Key To Romance Elements

I just couldn't wait to share these, so here they are! The elements for my Key To Romance freebie kit are ready for you to download and start playing with! Enjoy!!

- Click HERE to download the ELEMENTS -

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REMINDER: Please, be sure to always read & abide by my terms of use, included as a text file with every download. Also, please leave a note on my blog so I know folks are enjoying my designs - that way I'll know to keep 'em coming! Thank you!

Key To Romance Freebie Kit

I have a wonderful surprise!! I have been working away at a beautiful little digi kit, "Key To Romance," and I'm giving it away here on my blog starting today! This kit has 8 papers and 8 elements, including one adorable wordart. Today I am offering the papers for you to download, and I'll be back over the weekend to offer the elements.

Here's my first LO done with the new kit...

Key To Romance

Credits:
Torn heart, double hearts, frame, tag, papers, key, wordart, & heart lock by Cari Cruse from Key To Romance at caricreates.blogspot.com
Tack, hanger, & hanger shadow by Ami Collofello from Old Fashioned Charm kit at PixelGypsyDesigns.com
Button by Elise Hansen from Touchdown kit at PixelGypsyDesigns.com
Stitches by Amanda Carlson from Rainy Days kit at PixelGypsyDesigns.com
Stitches & stitching holes by Amanda Carlson from Just Stitches kit at PixelGypsyDesigns.com
Swirl by Abish Allen from My Garden kit at PixelGypsyDesigns.com

Here's the preview for Key To Romance... (isn't it sweeeeet?!)

- Click HERE to download the PAPERS -

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REMINDER: Please, be sure to always read & abide by my terms of use, included as a text file with every download. Also, please leave a note on my blog so I know folks are enjoying my designs - that way I'll know to keep 'em coming! Thank you!

Lifting Hopes Kit ... link corrected

Oops! Just saw that I goofed the link to the Lifting Hopes kit at PrettyScrappy.com! Sorry about that. I have fixed the links in the original post, and I'll also repost them here. :)

Layouts Get Larger ...

Just letting you all know that I am beginning to link the layouts shown on my blog to larger versions in my DigiShopTalk gallery. Any time you want to get a little bit closer look at one of my layouts, just click on the image and you'll be taken to that layout in the gallery!

Serenity Of My Garden LO

Just finished a great LO for another PixelGypsyDesigns challenge. If you haven't checked out their site, it's well worth the visit. They have great digital products, awesome prices (especially on Wednesdays!!), and the gals on there are the friendliest I've met online! And if you are into challenges, they are giving away the STORE each month of 2009 to whomever gets the most points playing along in their challenges! It's a ton of fun!

(Seriously, I am not really doing an ad for PGD, I just really like the site and would love to see you all join in!)

Here's my LO ~ The Serenity Of My Garden

I so enjoy the peaceful serenity of my little pond amid my flower & herb garden.

Credits:

Fresh Green Solid paper, branch, & hangers by Sherrie Piegdon from Mari's Rustic Lane kit at PGD
Brown paper & foliage by Abish Allen from My Garden kit at PGD
Border Stitch by Ami Collofello from Old Fashioned Charm kit at PGD
Lt. Sage Solid paper by Sherrie Piegdon from Serene Papers at PGD

Papers & alphas by SJTowers from Cinnamon Spice kit at sjtowers.blogspot.com
Green Tape & alpha from Harvest Spice at ShabbyPrincess.com
Alpha by KristinCB from April kit at ScrapWow.com
Alpha by zpearn from Sweet Shoppe All I Want kit at ScrapnArt.com
Alpha by mel_h from Down By The Lily Pond kit at melslightbulbmoments.blogspot.com
Lily pad, white yarrow, white lily by Cari D. Cruse at caricreates.blogspot.com

Font: CK Ali's Writing

It's Almost Here!!

I'm so excited about the Lifting Hopes Collab Kit that's coming out the 1st of February! It is the first Collab Kit I've taken part in, and it's also a charity kit to benefit the National Foundation for Ectodermal Dysplasias. Once I read about EDs on LadyVDzine's blog, I just had to take part in this special fundraiser.

This kit will be available at PrettyScrappy.com, and is stuffed with awesome papers & embellies in the colors you see in the sampler below. As soon as it is available, I will share a link and a preview of my part of the collab kit - so check back soon!

Winter Blues Elements

And now it is time for those fun fun fun elements for my Winter Blues kit! yay! If you've missed the other parts of this kit so far, be sure to look back through my blog to get the QP wallpapers and the kit papers. Then coming up on Wednesday you can come get the Winter Blues Alpha!

So with no further ado ... I bring you the Winter Blues Elements:

- Download HERE -

REMINDER: Please, be sure to always read & abide by my terms of use, included as a text file with every download. Also, please leave a note on my blog so I know folks are enjoying my designs - that way I'll know to keep 'em coming! Thank you!

2009 Digi Calendars - Free For You & CU, too!

First, I hope you all are enjoying the Winter Blues papers. The elements will be available on Monday, so be sure to check in! Now on to the new calendars...

I spent so much time earlier this week searching the internet for something I thought would be plentiful and easy to find: digi calendars to use in my kits. Well, after hours of fruitless searching, I decided I'd have to make my own. Now that I have completed the entire 12-month set for 2009, I want to share them with my site visitors. I've made two simple black-and-white calendars for each month - one with capital letters in the headings and one with lower case. Simple and sweet! The calendars are transparent PNG files in black text. These can be used directly on your digital scrapbook layouts, and I am also allowing limited commercial use for designers who want to use them in their own elements for kits and in S4O.

- Download the calendars HERE -

REMINDER: Please, be sure to always read & abide by my terms of use, included as a text file with every download. Also, please leave a note on my blog so I know folks are enjoying my designs - that way I'll know to keep 'em coming! Thank you!

 

Christmas Blog Trains for Digital Scrapbooking Freebies

Just want to share with you all the three Christmas Blog Trains I've been downloading from this week. There are some very talented digital designers offering beautiful free kits for the Christmas season. Each of these sites will offer previews of the kits being shared and links to the individual designer sites where you can download them. If you're on dial-up, as I am, these pages can take a few to load, but is it ever worth it to see the vast selection of designs. Most of these sites will only have the links available through December 31st - so hurry! Have fun!

Christmas Around The World

Worldwide Christmas Scrapbooking Freebies

Holly Jolly Express