Digital Scrapbooking Layouts and Camera Saga

I’m taking a little time off from designing while my kids are on winter break to create some digital scrapbooking pages for my family.  I was close to getting caught up when I went on a retreat this fall but I don’t think I’ve scrapped too much since then!  I am excited because I figured out how to unfreeze my good Nikon camera, which I have been unable to use for a couple months.  First I lost the receipt to register the warranty.  Then I found it.  (it started acting up just a few months after I got it) Next, I got registered at Nikon but the system kept kicking me out when I login (still does.)  I couldn’t find any contact info on the site. Finally found it, tried calling a couple times but was on hold so long I had to abandon the call while something went down at home. (kids!!) Then on Christmas, my AWESOME hubby got me this really cool set of computer speakers (complete with a rocking sub woofer). He said he really wanted to get me a new digital camera but didn’t know exactly what I wanted.  So I started looking for after Christmas deals on Amazon – there were quite a few but I wanted to take one last try at getting my beloved Nikon fixed.  It has a huge zoom, starts up fast, has very little lag time between shots and takes great pictures.  But it was totally frozen – would only turn on and in order to turn it off, I would have to remove and reinsert the battery.  I got curious to see if others had this problem and knew how to get it in for warranty service. So I started reading the user reviews on Amazon. Sure enough, quite a few people had this problem and had to send it back to Nikon for service. It seemed like people were without them for about a month to get the service done.  I was feeling kind of nosey to see how many people had the same problem as me so I kept reading – all the way to page 13 where I saw a FIX – someone said if the camera was frozen and you gave the zoom a slight twist after turning it on, it would start working again.  I tried it and was AMAZED – it worked!!  So it was like getting a new camera that I loved for Christmas.  So now I’ve taken a bunch more pictures of our winter break activities such as roller skating so I’m even farther away from getting caught up.  I probably should just set aside the whole idea of “caught up” and enjoy making pages more often! So anyway, here’s what I’ve made lately:

I LOVE the lighting on this one – we went to this beach a jillion times last summer but after dinner delivered the best photo opportunities. Sorry, I lost the credits listing on this page.

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This is our third daughter at the performance for her summer orchestra camp.  Everything by Christine Smith – Digital Scrapbook Basics Black Kit and Earthy Remix

This is a two-pager for dd#5’s 7th birthday.  She wanted a party at home with a water balloon fight, which was easy since her birthday is in the summer. Credits - Party Like It's Your Birthday by Lindsay Riches, Splashes from Elemental Scraps Summer collab

The kids always find these baby toads in our window wells in the summer.  Isn’t it cute? Feeling Froggy – Creations by Rachael, Princess Pea Alphas by 3 Lil Monsters

I love love love this picture of our youngest daughter peeking out the hole in a climbing tube at the park.  With my good camera, there are enough megapixels to fill the width of a 12x12 page and I carried the color of the playground tube down to the bottom with some gradient work, a little blending and a little erasing.  Border is from my Halloween Fun digital scrapbooking kit.  I found the quote online.

Our youngest again, who is still at the age where dressing up and wearing wings is a lot of fun.  Made with my Flower Patch quickpage.

Thanks for reading and don’t forget to check out the SPECIALS page in my store – there are a few new discounts added for a sort of impromptu after Christmas sale.

Most CU on Sale for $1.50

I have a Christmas/New Years sale going on for commercial use digital scrapbooking products in the store at CUDigitals.  Everything of mine on the site normally priced at $5.00 or less is now just $1.50 and my two higher priced products (instant ribbons and custom curled ribbons) are 60% off.

Here are some examples of CU products on sale for $1.50

Only $2.40 for these two items:

And if you need other CU products, here are the other sales in the store right now:

Cay’s Creations – 50% off

Crazed’s Creations – 40% off

Eirene Designs – 30% – 50% off

Giane Designs – 15-25% off

Kim Cameron – All products just $1.50

Myst Designs – 20% off

Shien Designs Retirement Sale – 50% off

Snap Wings – 30% off

Stargazy Creations – Retiring Products only $2

Whimzy Treasures – 35% off

New Store, Everything 40% Off

Hi everyone!  I am pleased to announce that my designs are now available at With Love Studios.

That means you can get my new bundles for just $5.99 (priced at over $20 if purchased separately)

There’s also a sweet deal on my Felt Nativity set ~ it’s only $2.99

Have fun!

MORE Items on Clearance, Save up to 92 Percent

There has been a little bit of a shakeup behind the scenes here at Christine Smith Digital Design.  As most of you know, my digital scrapbook designs are available in my store at christinesmith.net as well as at Digitals, MyMemories, PxlCafe and ScrapDish.  There was an announcement at the beginning of the month that ScrapDish would be closing at the end of 2011.  At that time, I was invited to join another store and I accepted that position and will be opening there on Dec 23.  I will be able to tell you which store later this month.  MEANWHILE, an offer was made for someone to buy ScrapDish and the deal went through and ScrapDish will remain open.  So my designs will stay there for now as well.

Since it is the end of the year, it’s always a nice time for “out with the old” and in with the new…so I’ve got a clearance sale at Digitals, at christinesmith.net and a Christmas sale at ScrapDish. And as I am repackaging my products for the new store, part of that process is going through my whole line to see what I am going to keep selling and what will retire.  I thought I had everything picked out for the retirement sales / clearance at the different stores but I decided that I am going to ALSO update a few of the colors in my Digital Scrapbook Basics line.  So I’ve now added the following to my clearance sale:

Digital Scrapbook Basics – Green Bundle – value: $13 – on sale for $2.99

Everything else GREEN is 60% off

Digital Scrapbook Basics Turquoise Bundle – Value $13 – on sale for $2.99

Everything else Turquoise is 60% off

AND, for the SUPER Savings:

The entire collection of Digital Scrapbook Basics Kit is valued at $43.99 – on clearance for $5.49

or – get everything in this line for $9.99 – $120 value

Thanks for reading and shopping with me!

UPDATE–Free Mini Kit

Ooops!~ It looks like I set up and incomplete blog post earlier this week that went live without the information on the free digital scrapbooking mini kit in my store.

This is now available for free

I was cleaning off my hard drive and came across this mini that was supposed to be for a magazine feature on a site where I no longer sell my products.  So now it’s your for free.  Just check out my site at christinesmith.net/store to grab it

ENJOY