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Sneak Peeks & A Giveaway....

Just a little sneak peek of a project I made using the September '08 "Vintage Revival" Add-On project kit from soon to be unveiled Kenner Road.

In celebration of the Kenner Road grand opening on September 15th I'll be giving away this sweet Scenic Route designer collection kit. The "Laurel Kit" contains 15 double-sided papers, 3 single-sided kraft papers and 2 sticker packs.

It's a piece of cake to win. All you need to do to get in the running is to blog about the street you grew up on or blog post a photo of a vintage item in your home, a baby pic or family heirloom. Your post must say you "want to win a prize from Kenner Road". Be sure to link me up here in the comments section or e-mail me a link to your blog entry. There will be other giveaways today and throughout the weekend on the blogs of my Kenner Road teammates: Ker, Gigi, Ames, Dina.

Some of you may know that the pre-sale subscriptions for Kenner Road had sold out back in August but, come this Monday, you'll be able to get in on the action if you missed out on the pre-sale. Can't wait until Monday when we can all browse and buy vintage inspired scrapbook kits, ephmera & digital elements.

Here's to Celeste Smith for snagging the first Guest Designer spot at Kenner Road. For those of you that know Celeste she clearly needs no introduction....and for those of you that think you don't know her but read scrapping magazines, well, then you already are familiar with her and her killer work.  Celeste is a scrapping powerhouse who can blast out the layouts like nobody's business!  Creative, quick, and funny as can be...I just love this girl!

Just a few sneaks of Celeste's Kenner Road projects for September:

{ Kenner Road } Will Take You Down Memory Lane...

as will Dime Store Daze.

This weekend I have 2 uber cool and super vintage-y women to talk about.

Kenner Road:

Most of you are probably familiar with my dear friend Kerry Lynn. You may know her by "KL" - I call her "Ker", but, either way, she is who she is and so ROCKS. The girl has an eye for pulling together the most interesting and delicious mix of vintage goodies (papers, fabrics, ephemera, trims, bling...you name it) and create to die for projects. And, now she is going to share her talent for this with all of us!  What with her workshop classes continually selling out & the popularity of her limited edition kits at her Etsy shoppe (K8tyKat), the time has come for Ker to share her talent with the masses...enter Kenner Road.

Kenner Road is a subscription based kit club. Pre-Sale subscriptions for the first Kenner Road release went live yesterday, August 15th, and are already SOLD OUT! Ouch, that's not hot...that's on "Fi-Yah!" Fear not though my friends....if you missed out on the pre-sale you will still have the opportunity to snag the September release on September 15th...it'll cost you a few more clams to get your pretty little glittered and glued hands on it but it's worth it....one more reason to sign up for the subscription is that you can save about $5 per kit which means one more Starbucks for you!

Now, in addition to these vintage delights, Ker is also launching a line of digital goodies so if you are a digi-scrapper, a paper crafter/altered art/mixed media/scrapper looking to get into a little digi, or full on hybrid, now is your chance to do it in style!

Keep checking back for the Kenner Road site launch as well as the availability of new subscriptions and the rest of the project kits & goodies that will be waiting to land in your mailbox!

Be sure to look for Kenner Road layouts in the September issue of Digital Artist Magazine!

Dime Store Daze:

Tomorrow, my other dear friend and local guru, Gigi Kennedy, and I will be taking a vintage jewelry class here at the Jersey shore with none other than the infamous & beloved Terri Ventura of Dime Store Daze. Looking forward to seeing Terri again, and, as if all that weren't enough, we will also be taking a beeswax class with Suze Weinberg!!  Can you believe it?!?! Neither of us can.....can't wait to get into a jam packed room with so many other creative and talented people and get schooled by all their knowledge and techniques!

Sneak Peeks of tomorrow's workshop kits:

Some of Terri's work from a recent swap:

Could you imagine getting any one of these charms in a swap...I would pass out from the beauty & excitement as I walk from the mailbox!  :D

Here's Terri doing her thing at Tinsel Trading in NYC:

You can find out more about Terri in the September issue of Digital Artist Magazine as well as see a couple of layouts inspired by her work!

Wanna Win A 100 Bones?

Check this out...so easy & so fun!

All you have to do is grab your August issue of Digital Artist Magazine (seen below), which is available now, and look for the clues.

This jam-packed issue is bursting with more than 150 pages of amazing inspiration, tips, informative articles and FREEBIES from Danielle of Something Blue Studios at CatScrap, TaylorMade Designs and Kelsey Smith!

This month’s Exclusive Kit is by none other than Holly Designs! “Calypso” is bursting with lush colors, beautifully textured papers and heaps of embellishments! Download this tropical beauty with your copy of Digital Artist Magazine!

That is one *luscious* kit!!!!

Don't miss this...there are a 100 bones at stake....now get hunting!!!!!

A Winner, More D.A.M. Good Stuff & My Nephew...

Last Monday I was feeling the need to share the creativity and offered a one year subscription to Digital Artist Magazine to a random commenter on that entry....and the winner is:

Sharon, keep your eyes peeled for an e-mail from me later this afternoon...I want to make sure your subscription goes to the right address!  Hopefully you will enjoy the magazine as well as the exclusive monthly digital kits that are included.  :)

Speaking of DAM, the daily blog party leading up to the second anniversary and publication re-launch celebration is still in full swing.  Here's what's going on today, Day 9......

Also, you can still take part in yesterday's activities...you have until Thursday to get in on the chance to win the sweet prizes listed here:

If you jump in on the Day 8 challenge & leave me a comment with a link to your entry I will pick a random participant to receive the August and September issues of DAM. Let's see what you can do with the adorable template freebie for this challenge!
Come on now, show me what you got!!!   LOL

Meet my newest nephew (aka Li-Ley's little brother), John Michael.  Isn't he precious?!?!?!?

Credits: Jofia Devoe - Dream Whispers and Aja Abney - Word Art Snippets

Lookie Here.....

Digital Artist Magazine is undergoing some major changes in the *very* near (like right now!) future. To kick off the celebration of the facelift, as well as the second anniversary, there are some cool things going on daily at the DAM blog over the course of the next few weeks. All you have to do is surf over and you could be the lucky winner of some sweet digi prizes!  What's that? You don't do the digi?!? Well now is the time to get started...no excuses!!!

Here's what's happening right now:

To sweeten the pot I will give a random commenter a year's subscription to DAM, yes, ONE FULL YEAR (I am yelling because I am so excited!!!)...all you have to do is comment before Monday, 12:01am (EST).  Tell your friends...this is something you don't want to miss out on.

Cleaning Up...

my desktop and came across these. Not sure if I posted them here before & too lazy to go take a look see.  :D

As seen in Digital Artist Magazine - April 2008 issue:


Page theme was "creative use of flowers"...hopefully I captured the creative use.

Real Paper:
A non-digi mini of Lia......the colors are a bit blown out from all the sunlight but, you get the idea.

Still have loads of photos from CHA to sort through, need to finish painting my room so I can move my stuff into it, finish up a few layouts & other projects in the pipeline and then perhaps I'll be all caught up.

Looks like after the crazy weather we had yesterday the sun is finally peeking thru the clouds...maybe I will get a few minutes at the beach after all...if so, all the other stuff on my to do list will have to wait a bit longer as I have a new love of the great outdoors and don't want to miss one moment more than I need to being outside enjoying Mother Earth! 

Back To Basics....

that's where I am at right now.

Just a couple finds from one of our favorite antique places.

The old icebox was buried behind some other furniture and had 2 really bad coats of white paint slapped over a really pretty soft green...the green was almost identical to Benjamin Moore's "Scenic Route", which is a beautiful soft vintage green. The wood is so pretty and in really good shape considering this icebox has gone unloved for quite some time but, I just can't resist painting it...a glossy bright aqua/blue-ish color is what I am thinking to contrast the yellow walls in the kitchen. If that blue doesn't get the green light it will be some shade of bright glossy red. Also thinking of adding some zebra print in the recesses of the doors.

The bench came into the store inventory as we were shopping and I could not leave it behind.....the orange velvet, the fringe and that wrought iron is to die for....cleaned it all up and looks cool in the living room.  :)

I'll be back with pictures of the old scale we found to put on top of the icebox, a killer set of TS&T pottery for the table, a cool framed painting, and a beat up old wooden Coca-Cola soda case. Wish it was a Pepsi case but it will do until until we can score one. Until then it's a little more sewing for me and taping off molding in my art room to prepare for painting.

Have a great Friday!  :)

Get 'Em While You Can.....

as they will be officially sold out by noon EST if they haven't already.....

Yep, Kim is back in action....she has been on a bit of a blogging hiatus while tending to a wee bun in the oven.....so, if you are lucky, you'll be able to snag one of these uber-pretty "Delilah" aprons...isn't she just perfect for the Spring/Summer season....isn't this newest creation so *delilahghtful* (yeah, I know...it is true - I am a totally self-entertaining moron)...can ot get enough of that modern polka with the pink ribbon & bow...oh, and those fantastic gray leaves on that green.....love it!!!!  And, if you're feeling real creative and all seamstress-y you can always snag the Delilah apron kit and sew it yourself!

There are 2 of these pretty little frocks on the way to 2 of my lovelies......

Remind me to tell you how my weekend was....it was interesting to say the least.  Have you ever been side-swiped? And while parked in a driveway in suburbia?????  I have. TWICE.

What A Week.....

as many of you know things move fast in my little world. This week I had some serious PC issues, signed and returned my SIStv contract, planned a last minute trip to Chitown to spend a day with some amazing friends, left my day job. Being back from my trip, caught up on rest, I have just posted the 3rd installment of tutorials for SIStv's theme for the month of April, digi/hybrid minialbums. You can check it out here.

Happy creating.  :)

Faux*silver*Bella Photoshoot....

because neither of us had the wherewith-all to take a photo of us together here is my "FauxBella" photo of Kim and I!   :P

Credits: Frame by Nancy Comelab @ The Lily Pad, Elements by Amy Martin @ The Lily Pad,
Elements by Jen Wilson @ JWD, Alpha by Angela & Emily Powers aka Two Sisters Designs @ ScrapArtist

Some Silver Bella project photos to follow.......

Oh, and, yesterday I mentioned some changes at Digital Artist Magazine...well, I wasn't sure if it was open for discussion & didn't want to blow any top secret stories...since then I have found it is open for me to blab!  I am so very super excited to tell you that Nancy Comelab is now the proud owner/editor of DAM....keep your eyes peeled for the December issue because it is going to be jam packed with loads of eye candy, articles and a smashing kit from the DAM artists just in time for the holidays!!!

Sometime this weekend the DAM site should be back up and functional...there have been a few snags during the process of changing servers.  ;)