Bella Scrap Magazine $25.00 Prize

So here's the deal...
If you haven't subscribed do! it's a great magazine with excellent downloads and great tutorials and informative articles! Or.. if you haven't yet subscribed maybe you might want to wait until after Monday, because right now Holley VanDenBerg is hosting a give away. Here is the post from Holley's blog:

no fancy graphic. awesome prize.

It's time to award my blog readers with a giveaway. I'd like to give a $25 gift certificate for Bella Scraps MagazineTM to TWO lucky readers. All you need to do is leave a comment here in this post.

If you'd like to earn extra entries you may do so by:
1. Subscribing to my updates (in the right column)--leave a separate comment that you did.
2. Blogging about this giveaway and link me directly--leave a separate comment with link.

So you have 3 chances to win! I'll post the winners on Monday, September 29. Good luck!

Remember that's Holley's blog not mine! LOL... oh... the entire quote is linked to her blog!

Studio Doris

Picture taken in Napa last year scrapped with the latest from Studio Doris



Whispers of Autumn elements and Papers
by Doris Castle available here at SBG:
http://tinyurl.com/453dsk
http://tinyurl.com/3eetrz

Leaf cluster Blog gift by Doris Castle:
http://tinyurl.com/3zwejj

Folded Ribbon from Eerie Garden by
Doris Castle Availabel here at SBG:
http://tinyurl.com/3w69k3

Stitching from Gathering Hearts by Doris Castle
Cucrrently retired

tiny tag from Little Darlings by Doris Castle
currently retired

Sequins From Bling It Baby by Traci Murphy
at Funky Playground Designs - currently retired

font: Angelina

ESCAPE

My Adorable grandson early this summer at the beach

credits:
Blue Autumn and Twig It by Merkeley Designs
available here at Oscraps
http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=20894&cat=0&page=1
http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=20893&cat=326&page=2

also FREE Taylor-Made word art (spa getaway)
also available at Oscraps
http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=20344&cat=0&page=1

FREEBIE

Would you like a gift from Doris Castle?
Receive this FREE Leaf Groupie as a FREE For All at Doris's Scraps of Life Blog.



This groupie coordinates beautifully with the Whispers of Autumn Backgrounds, Embellishments and Quick Page Album

Frustration? (or just Inept)

i JUST DONT SEEM TO BE HAPPY WITH ANYTHING i DO LATELY!

I was suppose to do a layout for one of my designers to put in an ad and I just couldnt get it... so I tried a layout sans photo thinking the photo was distracting me... I still wasnt happy but shared it w ith the rest of the team.. they all said it was great and the artist told me just to drop some pictures in it... well... this is what I have... two different versions

still no photos

then I started playing with some of those pictures I took last time I was in Napa. I LOVE the boat picture... but alas... I thinkk I have scrapped and rescrapped it a dozen times and I still dont like it

and then there are the photos I took last October when I did a shoot for my daughter so she would have beach photos for her Christmas cards last year. At Bodega Bay I was intregued witih this boat... I like where it's going... I'm just not sure it's done... maybe some wordart about ships or seas or something salty

so thats what I got going right now... I sure could use some feedback!

Can't Cry Hard Enough

How about a "wordle"

Going Home

Friday was my moms birthday... I met my daughter in my home town and we took my mom to dinner... by the time it was all over we both we exhausted and spent the night. Saturday morning I got up early and went out on a photo shoot. After all these years I still get home sick.....

her are some of the photos I took

and a layout I'm working on

reworked... both still need journaling

OScraps Designer Spotlight Challenge Merkeley Designs

Photos I took while on a road trip with my mom
last year.

LO created for the designer spotlight Sept 1 to Sept 7 2008
The challenge was harder that at first I thought...
I had to go back 2x and add things.
the challenge can be found here: available here at OScraps,
Fanciful Overlays
by Doris Castle. available at Scrapbook Graphics
http://tinyurl.com/5eyw9y

fonts:
Passions Conflict, Rosewood Std, Times New Roman

Sweet Sixteen

I have recieved some wonderful news from Studio Doris! Doris is comming back to digi! YEAH!!!
And to start things off, she has a little number called "Peaceful Joy" she has done for The Story Tellers Club!
I used "Peaceful Joy" along with pieces of her "Exceptional" kit (previously at Scrapbook Graphics) and her new "Fancyful Overlays" available here: http://tinyurl.com/5eyw9y to scrap another photo I lifted from my nieces Facebook Page.



fonts: Mutlu, Rosewood Std., Times New Roman