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HAPPPPPPPPYYY FRIDAY!!! I have new stuff in the Shoppe FINALLY and a Big Sale!!! I’m so excited, can you tell, hehe.  I’ll be putting more in so check back tomorrow too! :) 

First up, Botanical Happiness…LUSHHHIOUS…BEST THING EVERRR…need I say more :)

Book Pressed Foliage…such a necessity…

Flutterflies…a new obsession.  I want to put them EVERYWHERE!

Okay sorry, back to biz, lol…

Okay first I want to congratulate everyone that made the new CRD team. Please help me welcome anyone reading this message to our new team.

Haaaha, gotcha, huh? No really though if you don’t mind I’m going to need to rely on you for feedback. I’ve decided to start giving out good size samplers here for the majority of the stuff that I’ll put in the Shoppe. So yea, like a CT you will get alot of free stuff to play with but without the requirements. A no strings attached CT!

Here’s my thoughts…I post fun stuff for you to play with and most of the time a challenge to go along with it. If you are a competitive person, we’d LOVE to have to participate in the challenges. If you are a freeloader that’s totally cool with me too. Hey, let’s admit it, we ALL love freebies and who didn’t start Digital Scrapbooking or many other things for that matter using freebies to create their artwork? I know I did! Which is why I have always been happy to contribute back. At the same time, I’d love your feedback, REALLY! No I’m not begging for comments, UGH, hate it when people ask for comments, but IF you feel the need to say something I’d love to hear it. You can post anonymously for all I care. What I want to know is do you LOVE it, HATE it and would you buy it? That’s it!

Now, since this is just getting going I won’t have a chance to post a sampler for all the new things already made. Now I have good news and bad, which do you care to hear first? None..okay well you can skip down to download todays gift and I’ll see you back tomorrow. :) Bad News, I lost alot of stuff I worked very hard on. The one I am most devastated about is the entire new Shoppe design. UGHH..I’m truly disgusted about that but I’m also not one to dwell so I’m over that. Sooo…you won’t get the fresh new Shoppe with LOADS of stuff I told you about right away. But the GOOD news is I did save alot of the new stuff and I will be releasing it sporadically. As a matter of fact…..there are some new products already hitting the Shoppe today and you can expect even more tomorrow too!

I know I mentioned having “Creative Partners” here with me to run Authentic Artistry, now you know why. You didn’t really think I could keep the biggest CT EVER Inspired ALL the time, did you? If you did, I’ll tell ya no way could I make all of this happen without these girls. I chose extremely strong individuals from all walks of life to make this dream come true and I will let them introduce themselves starting next week. After that this is no longer just my ballgame, we will all work together as a team to keep you happy, inspired and too busy to …

One more bit of GREAT news……we have more winners!! I promised to do some drawings from the names after those ten flutterflies winners and I have SIX more names to add to that list. We also wanted to announce our ATC winners today too!!

Three random winners of a $20 GC to CRD:

Jen (jenwisni is the beginning of your e-mail since there are TONS of Jens out there, LOL)
Brynn
Vixen

Three random winners of a $10 GC to CRD:

Celly
Susie aka Abb1esMummy
Jeannie

We also have a total of FIVE awesome ATC winners! Four that were our favs, couldn’t narrow it down to just three like we planned and then we picked our favorite from the folks who used the ATC freebie, we linked them all up incase you wanna see them too! EVERYONE who entered did such an INCREDIBLE job, we were all just AMAZED at the gorgeous cards you created! Here are our five winners for those:

Meg
Ramalka
rietje
Eva
Cinna

But listen, another long post so I’ll continue it later… but up today is:

DOWNLOAD HERE!

These are frames made from combining stamps. All are HUGE at just a tad bit under 12″ tall. So, yea they fit the page if you want them too or you can shrink them also. I did these naturish and springy and included that fun ivy too.  Of course and we would love to see what creative things you do with these. They ARE very different so that may throw you off at first but here’s the COOLEST part about doing this…whether you are a player or spectator, you are all welcome to come to the ballgame. :) Either way you’ll never convince me that any of us know it all. I think we can all learn A LOT from each other by doing this together here.  Some will play, some will spectate, we can all learn. :) We will be selecting from the entries to ask you to share some tips on your layouts here with all of us. We will choose ALL DIIFFERENT syles. This is why I chose girls to partner with that even HAVE different styles so we could each pick what we like. One thing is for sure none of us in this world will ever share the very same opinion on every little thing but I can bet you we CAN all get along (sometimes anyway, haha). I’m hoping that is something you will begin to see for yourself if you don’t already! :)

Go play, I can’t wait to see what you do. Oh and remember if you shall speak please let me know… love, hate, maybe… even if it is anon. I DO care VERY much about what you all think! :) Oh and I put the sale back on because I never got to release while it was on last week. Have a great weekend!