Cyber Friends

Sweet Janita, I think she was in high school when I first met her. She is now finishing up her time at university... When we first met she was making ps brushes and giving them away on her site Vanilla Design. He brushes became so popular she couldnt afford the bandwidth so she made the tough decission to create a club where paid membership would give you access to her brushes for a certain period of time depending on the tytpe of membership you bought...
At this time nobody was selling brushes in the digital scrap shops and I kept telling Janita she could probably earn enough to off set her school expenses if she would open a shop. I also told her she was under selling herself, that her product was worth much more than what she was charging.
Janita went about her buisness and I went about mine. As I did so I continued to use her brushes and tell everyone that would listen about Vanilla Design. Since that time Janita changed hte name of her site, Seishido, and opened a shop! It's not surprising to see a seishido blinky on someones sig tag in the digiscrap community or find seishido listed in artistic credits.
Janita lives in Germany and we have sent packages back and forth to each other, discovered we share similar taste in music and continue to stay in touch on line... Despite the fact that she is the same age as my daughter and whe have never "actually" met, I consider Janita to be among my friends...

This was done for Janita... special thanks to another cyber friend "Aneta" for creating this wonderful word art especially for me

Pay it Forward

Many years ago, I came across a young high school girl  (janita) in Germany who made brushes for PS and gave them away on her site (vanilla trust) Since that time our fiendship has grown and her love for PS brushes has turned into a small thriving buisness. On the rare occasion when janita sees something online that she just has to have but it is in the US and the mfr wont ship overseas, Janita has had the merchandise shipped to me and I forward it on to her.Recently while preparing a package to ship to janita, I slipped a john Nathaniel cd in to the other item. I just knew she would fall in love with his music!

Now janita is ALWAYS sweet and very generous! In this case she sent me a thank you gift before she even received her package. AND that's not all! Much to my surprise I read the following in her latest newsletter for Seishido

[excerpt from newsletter]

This is a brushset I have done last night. Just something very simple and not available at Seishido. A rare item! To say thank you for all your love and support through the last year and hopefully next year and this also is an early bunny surprise! Baby Luna turns 2 years here in just a few days!!!

8 B R U S H E S

.... .... ... ...  And I dedicate this set to Julz who will know by reading the setname how much I am enjoying her gift. This is exactly what I needed and what I always fall for. So yummy!!!

These are the news so far. New brushsets, new textures, new Seishido features, new shoes I have bought yesterday and well, new music given to me by Julz. Thank you for sharing! I am in love now :3

Cookiehugs and summersmoochies ~ Janita

I Dunno!

Don't ask me, I found it in my "working photos" folder. Which generally means photos I have edited in one way or another in preperation for scrapping. This is neither a photo, nor is it working.... I just don't know where I was going with this. The paperdolls appear to be a poor extraction from where I haven't a clue... I do know those brushes are by wonderful Janita...

My Friend Janita.. (she makes me brushy!)

WooHoo! Look what Janita sent me! Isn't she just the sweetest?! I happened along Vanilla-design (at the time I thin it was vanilla dreams) long before I started digi-scrapping... Well officially digiscrapping anyway. Like many other digi-scrappers I was combining my love of family photos, my computer knowledge and a graphics program to create collages. I quite accidentally stumbled upon a small group of digi-scrappers on a handful of sites and jumped right in! Since then digi-scrapping has EXPLODED! There are new designers, new alignments and new shops everyday. Just recently though has the digi-scrapping community recognized the benefits of "brushes" or "Digital stamps" (that is except the designers who have known all along) Suddenly, brushes are all the rage.... I have tried unsuccessfully repeated times to convince Janita to offer her brushes on one of the sites. I think she wants to retain full control of her product/art. Who can blame her?! When I first found Janita she was giving all her brushes away for free. So many of us had found her wonderful work that she could no long afford to pay the bandwidth charges and she had to make a change. She moved her brushes from vanilla design to a site she created just for the brushes, Seishido and started selling memberships. I instantly recognized the value of her life time membership and paid the $150.00 Euro (about $186. USD)! She has told me that a couple other "scrappers" have since purchased lifetime memberships! A lifetime membership included everything Janita has previously created and everything she has yet to create! She currently has over 400 brushes and about 50 textures. Can you imagine all that for $150.00 euro... the brushes alone are worth about $1200.00 usd Whew! I really feel like I am taking advantage of this young lady... I think I will buy another life time membership just because!... So... my advise to you... if you enjoy brushes... rush on over to Seishido and buy a lifetime membership Oh and looking for another great brush source... check out Janita's good friend Shiricki at Angelic-Trust I'm not sure which one I found first... but I am sure it was the same day! LOL

Complete Quirk Name

This is my final challenge in the Quirk Naming Ceremony over at Digital Art Quirks. OH, my Gosh... Lisa gave me such a great second name and I just struggled to put them together... I'm not really happy with this, but today is the deadline to post... so here it is... I am certain I will eventually redo this...

credits -
papers and elements:
Cottage Arts - Autumn Breeze
Cottage Arts - Butterfly Wings
Doris Castle - Precious Moments

brushes:
Janita at Seishido (Vanilla Design)

fonts:
Satisfaction
Intimacy

This is the beautiful card Lisa gave me with my second name. You can see more of Lisa's Quirk Art here

Tough Challenge

WOW! this was more difficult than I thought it was going to be; but, I finally finished my art fro CathyRose at Digital Art Quirks and come up with a second name for her! Tender Withe - her husband named her Tender and I have given her Withe. Withe is a subtle stick as from a willow... used to tie or bind things together. She is traditional, straight like a stick, yet tender and loving binding her family and friendships together I created my art for her based on some questions Cathy answered for me. I used a combination of her moody and happy colors... the bottom half stormy and blue, yet calmed by the water.. light airy bubbles fill the air (because I couldn't get the feathers to look right) She is well balanced, serene.... TENDER WITHE

Credits:

brushes from:
Seishido
Angelic Trust
Annika Von Holdt
Envouge

Texture from:
Aztec

Quirk Me!

Ok... over at Digital Art Quirks they have this great "doings" where you can get a quirk name. First you think of a first name for yourself, then make a 4x6 piece of art depicting your name. The person below you on the sign up list then thinks of a second name for you and makes another 4x6 piece of art for your new name. I picked "Spiritual" I don't know why.... LOL

Lisa gets to give me my second name... I sent her the following information to go on... I forgot so much... feathers, the sun sparking off water, sunrise, warm rain... so much more!

I adore soft colors, clouds and nature. I gravitate toward things with wings; fairies, angels, butterflies, dragonflies, etc. I have never seen a firefly but DH has promised to take me where I can see them! I love candles and soft scents...babies and kittens. I love rainbowsand crystals. I love fine linen and old furniture. I love all kinds of music, comtemporary, jazz, standards, rock-a-billy, country, opera, transe, celtic, chant, religious, etc. I love the theater, comedy, thrillers, drama, love stories and some sci-fi. I'm a computer geek.. all self taught. I don't consider myself particuarly talented, although I derive great pleasure in creating! I'm the spiritual type, immersed in my religion. I'm a dreamer... In my dreams I see friends in need or personal perils to come... and believe it or not, they almost always come true... it's not like I actually see it.... I see the people and have a feeling. I believe it's the spirit speaking to me. I think I am an "old soul", not that I believe in reincarnation, but I believe we were all together in the spirit world before we chose to come here on earth. I think I have been waiting a long time...LOL

Oh and I'm still thinking about that Hugh Fructose Corn Syrup project!

Oh I should have used Faithful! Dang!

CREDIT:

Elements by:
Doris Castle's Bella Donna kit available at scrapbook graphics.
Carrie Stephens' Celebrate Everyday kit from Fish Scraps.
Jeanine Baechtold's Essence kit available at computer scrapbook.

Brushes by:
At0mica, Damned in Black, Vanilla-Dreams (Sheisido)

Fonts:
Xband Rough, Satisfaction

Texture:
One Green Eye

Too Much - Not Enough

Well, I was going to whine here.... I actually had it all typed out and decided against it... I'll just say that this was my entry for week two of a digital scrapping contest and it didn't make the cut! 100 other digital scrappers went on to round three without me! It was a shocker to say the least! None the less I feel good about my layout and it's a winner in my eyes! I am the best I can be today and life is wonderful!