Happy Monday everyone ! For my USA readers, I hope you had a wonderful 4th of July holiday, we sure did! I posted a few pics of our fun weekend at my Lovely Lovely Things blog.  I just wanted to pop in to let you know about a couple of hot tips:

Summer Sales at Shutterfly

I found out that Shutterfly is having some great summer promotions where you can save up to 30% off on things like the photo books, prints and 18 month calendars! I put a link to the promotion in my sidebar  – sorry email subscribers, you will have to actually come to the site to access this . But hurry – the promotion only lasts until the 13th of July!

FREE Photo Editing Software

My sister Rebekah clued me in to this great photo editing software called Photoscape, which you can download onto your computer for free! She loves the fact that is is very simple to learn to use (unlike Photoshop, which she is a little overwhelmed by). I took a few minutes to check it out, and I love all the great features! Here’s an example of one of our weekend photos before and after a quick editing session with Photoscape:

Before:

After Editing with Photoscape:

Don’t get me wrong, I am not about to give up my Photoshop anytime soon, but for those of you who are interested in doing photo editing, but don’t have the time or budget for Photoshop – this could be the solution!

That’s all for now, hope your week is off to a great start !  ~xo Jess

Good morning ! Just popping in to let you know about a big sale going on today – in honor of ADSR’s stop at Sunshine Studio Scraps, they have put the whole store on sale for 50% off for today only. That includes everything in my store too!  This is the first time you are able to purchase the entire So Flirty Bundle for only $5 – you save $11!  P.S. The sale price does not appear until you add the items to your cart. Happy shopping !!

Happy Friday everybody! I hope you had a great week and are ready for the weekend !! I don’t know about you, but I am really looking forward to Valentine’s Day  – what could be sweeter than a whole day dedicated to LOVE? It is with this in mind that I have put together my new mini kit: Real Love. It is on sale for just $2 right now!

My inspiration for this kit is a passage from the Bible:

“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.” 1 Corinthians 13:1-8a (NIV)

You will find these words incorporated into the design of some of the papers in the kit, and of course, most of the elements are meant to communicate a major message of LOVE ! Although you can’t miss the bold pinks and lavender colors here, you will also find plenty of neutrals too – for those non-girly pages .

I LOVE these beautiful pages made by some of my talented digi scrapping friends!

Melinda Staley

Katie the Scrapbook Lady

Jennifer

Sharon Dale (aka skye_zak)

Rebecca Labbe, Kiden Studios

RuthMelody

Anne Berit

Wendy Cole

And of course I have a little freebie for you to coordinate with this kit! Enjoy !!

*Click Here to Download the Real Love Freebie*

Wow, thank you all SO MUCH for making this sale a success, I am so grateful for each and every one of my readers and customers ! If you still have something you’re planning on picking up, I’d do it today – tomorrow everything in the store will be going back to the original prices. Well, everything that’s in the store now, that is . I have a little  something new for you, so stay tuned…

Happy New Year !! I hope you all enjoyed your holidays!! I am truly enjoying mine – my Mother-in-law is still in town until Tuesday, so we are having a wonderful extended visit . I feel a little bad about being MIA from Scrapbook Ideas and the online scrapping world, so I thought a little sale might help make up for it .

From now until Sunday, EVERYTHING in my store is 50% off!!

{HUGS!} Jess

It’s time for another Sunny Sunday Sale! The Christmas Heart Quick Page set is on sale for only $2 today – that’s more than 50% off !

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The Daily Scrapper has a fun daily advent calender going on this month with a new kit on sale every day  – today’s special is my Christmas Heart kit which is on sale for just $3 – that’s a 45% savings! But this sale is for one day only, so don’t miss out ! *Click Here to Visit My Store*

By-the-way, have any of you ever used scrapblog? I am just starting a fun Christmas book on there, and here’s the first page I finished ! I plan to print my book for a Christmas gift when it’s finished – has anyone tried them for printing? I’d love to hear about your experience with them…

Credits: Christmas Heart kit and Christmas Heart quick page, by Jess Gordon, available here. Font: Cry Kitty.

Merry Christmas!!!!!! I have lots of news today, so let me just get started ! First, I wanted to let you know I put a new option in my store for buying all of my Christmas Heart goodies. You can now save $5 on your purchase if you get the bundle, which includes the paper pack, elements, printable projects and the quick pages .

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Giveaways!

Next, I wanted to let you in on a few giveaways going on right now – you have a chance to win one of the Christmas Heart Printables sets right here at DST’s 12 Days of Christmas, and there is also a gift card up for grabs at Emily Giovanni’s Blog-a-versary celebration – plus a bunch of other awesome prizes!

Sales!

Sunshine Studio Scraps has a really cool sale every week called Sunny Sunday. Everything in the Sunny Sunday category is $2 or less ! So I decided to join in the fun this week – all of my templates are only $2 this Sunday only 12/7/2008!!!

Real Flower Templates

Layered Shape Templates

Autumn Shape Templates

All My Favorite Things Templates

Did you think I forgot the freebies? LOL – of course not ! Here’s one I made using elements from my Christmas Heart kit . I have some more freebies in store for you too – but I will save them for a future post. If you grab this freebie, please spread the Christmas cheer by leaving a Christmas-y comment on this post !!!

*Click Here to Download Freebie!*

Oh boy, I’m SO EXCITED! I have teamed up with the super talented hybrid genius, Kelleigh Ratzlaff to offer you these new printable projects ! Kelleigh has a whole store over at The Digi Chick filled with fab hybrid templates, and I am thrilled that she has agreed to use her craft creating skills to make these fun projects with my designs.

Aren’t they beautiful? I think they would be PERFECT for filling with candy . Maybe for a teacher gift, or to give to your favorite neighbor ? Can’t wait to make one!

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I also put together a quick page set using Christmas Heart, which is now in the store:

Here’s a close-up view , so you can see the details:
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Besides Kelleigh’s awesome boxes, I have also been wanting to share some other hybrid projects created by my Christmas Heart “One-Kit-CT”. I never asked them to make something hybrid, so imagine my surprise and delight when I saw these !!!!

Brooke made a really sweet card – love the quote on this one !

Brooke - In Oregon

And Wendy made a whole bracket album – isn’t it fantastic?? I really enjoyed looking at all of her wonderful family photos !

Wendy

Have you made any Christmas-y hybrid projects? I love to see them, so please share!

Merry Christmas ! You will be hearing that a lot from me this month, because this is one of the happiest times of year for me, and I like to really enjoy it and spread the joy as much as I can ! I noticed that the Christmas Edition of The Daily Scrapper is up – check it out, you don’t want to miss this one!! As you may know, The Daily Scrapper is a FREE online newspaper filled with great articles, tutorials, inspiration and more. This month’s special edition includes two tutorials by me . There are actually five tuts in there this month plus lots more ideas for hybrid gifts and cards. One of my tutorials shows how you can make a 3D star-shaped Christmas Tree ornament using the Golden Star Mini Album (on sale for only $1.50 right now) plus chipboard stars. If you’re feeling really creative, you could make your own star-shaped digital pages and use them with cardboard or heavy card stock if you want to just use supplies you have on hand . Click HERE to see the full tutorial !

P.S. Another great reason to check out the Christmas Edition of TDS is the huge Christmas Bazaar section which is packed with special coupons, sales and of course feebies !!!