Digital Scrapbooking by blushbutter

Deb says" I have always loved family, and although family doesn’t always get along, I think that the love should get you through the rough times. I realize it’s not always the way it works, and family doesn’t always stay close, but I’m thankful for my family, and especially for the ones who take the time to keep in touch. So this month, I thought it would be nice to see everyone’s family, and feel the love. Feel free to blur the photos, if you don’t like posting them online."
Join us in our monthly layout challenge, and enter to win a $5.00 coupon from BOTH Blushbutter AND Dusty Bear!!Those who don't win the coupon, will still receive a 10% off coupon for their shops. A poll will be set up, for everyone to vote for their favorite layout, so be sure you check back and vote!

For each layout, you must use at least one element or paper from Blushbutter and/or Dusty Bear.

There will be a different theme each month, for your layout, along with a list of quotes, elements, or a font, you also have to include in your layout!

Theme: Family

Show us your family this month by doing a layout with photos of your family. It can be either your immediate family, or your extended family.
You must use something from this mini kit provided by Blushbutter in your layout. It can be downloaded at the link below.

What else you must include: One of the following quotes:

“Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts. ~Author Unknown”

"A family is a little world created by love."

“At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.” ~Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer, Big Love, "Easter"

To qualify for the coupon’s, you must follow the instructions above, using the items requested and upload your layout to the layout challenge gallery on the Yahoo group, which you can find at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blush-n-dusty/photos/album/182412370/pic/list If you can’t get them to upload there feel free to e-mail them to me at dapperdoxie(AT)gmailDOTcom and I will be happy to do it for you! You may want to put layout challenge in the subject line, and tell me you were having trouble getting it to upload. Also check back in a day or two in the album to make sure its there. If it isn’t e-mail me and ask if I got it!

Here are some other links to Blushbutter, and Lara’s kits that could be perfect for your layouts!!

Blushbutter: Book action: wonderful for adding journaling, or quotes to a page!
http://www.blushbutter.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=37&products_id=567
And to show off your double page layouts in the galleries this display album is great to use, as it makes the layouts look like they are actually in a book.
http://www.blushbutter.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=31&products_id=279

Lara Payton’s Cosy Christmas – love the grungy papers and the colors in this kit.
http://www.dustybear.com/shoppe/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=415
Important links reminder:
Photo Album for layouts:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blush-n-dusty/photos/album/182412370/pic/list=
Feel free to ask any questions you may have. I will answer your questions as soon as I can!! I do hope some of you can join in the fun!!!
Please if you download the free mini kit that has been so generously supplied, do your best to join us in the challenge!

Announcing... The November Quick Page Exchange! This month we’ll be doing 8 x 8 Quick pages using Blushbutter’s delightful kit “SNOW FLAKES” ... You won’t want to miss this exchange (or this kit. It’s beautiful). I will be adding more free quickpages soon

KIT on SALE:
Vanessa has generously marked down her “SNOW FLAKES” kit in her Shoppe here:
http://www.blushbutter.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=476
The coupon code to receive 10% off from 11/24/2008 thru 12/15/2008 is: available in the yahoo group.

How it works:
Each participant will submit 1 quick page layout using the featured kit and receive the other submitted layouts in exchange. So, basically you submit one layout and get back an album! The more participants we have the larger the album will be.

Complete instructions can be found here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blush-n-dusty/photos/album/1721936096/pic/1037708705/view?picmode=&mode=tn&order=ordinal&start=1&count=20&dir=asc
And Frequently Asked Questions can be found here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blush-n-dusty/photos/album/1721936096/pic/798202202/view?picmode=medium&mode=tn&order=ordinal&start=1&dir=asc

So what are you waiting for.... Come join the fun!

I finally finished another of the Faery series kits I've been working on. I have 8 more different colours of these Faery Kisses kits to come, Brown,Red,Cherry, Peach, Pink, Yellow, Orange, and Green. So if there is a colour that is your fave, it will be coming soon! LINK to Purple Faery Kisses.
Wonderful fairy magical pages are waiting to be created by you

Overlay worn,torn and scratched bracket style 12x12 file 300ppi
35 12x12inch 300ppi papers, photographic and painted,5 papers with faeries from old vintage nursery rhyme book.
2 12x12inch 300ppi Cardborad worn,torn and scratched paper covered bracket styled shaper borders with 2 12x12 inch 300ppi matching facing bracket styled inserts also Cardborad worn,torn and scratched paper covered.
Old paper scratched and worn and torn 12x12inch piece 300ppi.
Glitter edging 12x12inch
glitter swirls and seperate sparklies
Bronze Candle holder,bronze fairies,bronze name plates,bronze keys x3,bronze lock,Silver fairy charms x10,silver hinges x2,gold latches x2(open and closed),silver glass heart charm,silver butterfly,silver jewelled teddybear charm,silver locket,silver hair clip pin, bronze frame oval and ornate,silver skeleton leavesx3 ,tin bucket and watercan,bobby pins,7 buttons,crochet pieces, digital fabric sequined flowers, 9 diamonte jewelled enamel flowers,embroidered satin roses,ebroidered pansy.Silk glittered flowers. Glittered Starries on silver wires,glass heart jars one open and one corked. Fabric silk roses large.
Realistic elements~ ivy, camelia's,forget me nots,gerberas,lots of different flowers in previews. Tulle bow large,tulle ruffle x2 beautiful styles. Skeleton leaf. Ribbon bow wraps,Australian bush flower blossom border. Sequined ribbon,sequin groups and singles. Jewels, diamonte jewel swirls,crown and group for selecting and dispersing around page. Diamonte jewel rain sparkles.8 very large Ostrich feathers, 2x pretty curly feathers,4 fluffly feathers. Dragon fly wings for boys and faery wings for girls in glittery semi transparent files. Faery clipart banner, heart trim frame,curled cord with and without shadow. Wheat grass,silver penny sprig, bouganville sprig. Flair sticker buttons. Silke tulle butterflies. Jewelled dangly lights and wishing crystal. And a Carboard Castle for fun

I've been having loads of fun making furry elements for my scrap pages and knew you all would just love to use these to in your kits and pages so I've turned them into lovely styles in 19 different vibrant fluffy colours!
I found the fur style really needed a brushed edge to make the element look more realistic so I have included the brush and an action to brush the edge with fluffy fur in the colours of your choice.

Beautiful Velveteen crushed velvet for your lovely elements, ribbons,alpha's and frames, so many applications for these styles you will have a great deal of fun! Just let your imagination go or grab favourite cliparts and select colours to add a little texture style to and make your layouts POP!

Designers Please Note! Don't purchase these styles to alter, repackage and copy my tools to make your own competitive styles,brushes and actions. It may not be illegal to take my hard work and profit from it, but I find it really in poor taste and quite unethical, you know who you are! These Unique styles,actions and brushes are for making elements for kits only, thank-you for understanding

Freebie Fur frame with owl on png file 300ppi resolution. Poetry by the Wonderfully talented Thena Smith please visit her blog for many more inspiring poems page made using blushbutter Faery kisses in blue

I made these really cute and fun googly eyes and just had to try them out on some fun little elements and as Halloween is coming up I thought how fun to make some of those creepy little characters. I hope you like my efforts, I made these using my felt styles available in the shop(you will need a photoshop program to be able to use the styles.) I don't celebrate Halloween here in Australia it's just never been a thing of ours to do really. All that dressing up and ghouling around does look like fun though
You can download this from the shoppe, thank's for dropping by today

this layout is by Rhonda, isn't Zak just the cutest?!!