Meet The Crew – Sheri

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Karen

Today we get to know a little bit more about Sheri, also known as Scrapshabby at SO.  She has some absolutely stunning pages in her gallery, here is one of my favorites.  The photos are incredible and the colors and placement of the elements is just perfect.  And that bottom cluster is just perfect!

 

Tell us a little about yourself:

I am a SAHM with two teenagers still at home. I also have a grown daughter, son-in-law, and two grandsons. Yes.. I am getting older (almost 50), but I have to brag and say I have three of the greatest kids ever (knock on wood)! LOL

When/how did you get involved with digital scrapbooking? Did you paper scrapbook first?

Yes, I paper scrapped for about 15 years before I tried digi. I actually avoided digi for quite a while because I knew I’d get addicted and sure enough, my paper supplies are gathering dust big time!

What is your favorite subject to scrapbook?

Whatever goes with the current favorite kit I just bought!

How long have you been on Anna’s team?

Since April 2011.

What is you favorite kit by Anna?

I’m not sure I could answer that one because I love her style and there are so many I love!

How would you describe your scrapbooking style?

Clustery for sure! If there isn’t a few flowers and leaves to play with, I’m kind of lost!

What is you favorite page made with a AnnaBV Designs kit?

If you had $2000 how would you spend it?

I know I should say that I’d save it or pay bills with it, but since I can gratefully say I don’t have much debt, I must admit that I’d probably spend it on digi supplies and a few new computer gadgets I’d like to have.

Do you snack while you are scrapbooking? What do you eat/drink?

Oh yeah! I drink way too many Cokes and I generally have sweets laying around (as is evident by ever-growing tummy)!

Thanks for sharing with us Sheri!  I really enjoyed getting to know her better and I hope you did too.  I’ll leave you with another page from her gallery, be sure and stop by and leave her some love.  I love her clustering and the delicate flowers.

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Old Love

Posted on January 21, 2012 by admin

Old Love – the kit and the alpha
20% off now.
Buy the kit, get the alpha free!

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Mix and Match 01/20/12

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Angie

Hi everybody! It’s Angie here and I’m back with another Mix and Match. This fortnight we are going to focus on getting the most out of your holiday-themed kits. I live in Australia so we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, but I love using one of Anna’s newer kits, So Thankful, which has a Thanksgiving feel to it. Anna’s CT mixed and matched it with Free to Fly, one of Anna’s older kits, to create layouts which can be about any theme or occasion, not just Thanksgiving. So grab a cuppa and be inspired by the creations Anna’s CT have made and if you feel like giving it a go yourself, I have a coupon for you at the end! :)


Some of us also used Anna’s Sweet Tweets stitches:

And here are the beautiful pages Anna’s CT created using these two kits:

Haven’t Anna’s CT done a fantastic job?! If you’d like to give this a shot for yourself, then we have a coupon you can use to get both So Thankful and Free to Fly at 25% off:

abv_MM_25xz (code can only be applied to So Thankful and Free to Fly)

I hope you enjoy using these kits as much as we did! :D

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Rumble in the Orchard Round 1

Posted on January 18, 2012 by admin

For those of you who haven’t been following this competition, Rumble in the Orchard is a battle between SO designers’ CTs.
My team (aka Anna’s Angels) consists of four super talented scrappers: Ronda (scrappingramma), Angie (angiepangie), Alyssa (alyangel) and Dana (Genda).

The first challenge is called “The Sum of Its Parts”, and the name tells it all – the four scrappers have to create their individual pages, including one word that describes them, and the four pages also need to work together in some way.

Well, this is a challenge to my liking, and though my team hasn’t posted their pages yet, here’s a little spoiler about their project, in the form of a free template, LOL. I’m not giving away any more details, except that you should check out the rest in the Rumble gallery at SO. Tomorrow.

Update! Here’s the page my team made. If you like it click here to vote for Anna’s Angels!

Click on the image to download a 3600×3600 version of the template!

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January 16th GSO pick

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Angie

Good evening lovelies! I had the fantastic pleasure of going through Anna’s gallery again this fortnight to bring you another GSO. I love doing this feature, it’s always a feast for the eyes looking through Anna’s gallery. :) This fortnight I just had to pick the following layout by…

*drumroll*

VanillaDesignz! For this incredibly gorgeous page:

I Am So Lucky

I think the perfect word to sum up this layout is ‘WOW!’ The shadowing and layering are incredible and I love the central design of the page. I was immediately drawn to the beautiful photo in the center, however the beautiful composition of the page stands out on its own too. Just gorgeous!

VanillaDesignz used a kit created by Anna with Faith True, called Only the Lucky:

Congratulations VanillaDesignz! I’ll be sending you a $10 coupon to Anna’s store at Scrap Orchard ASAP. If you’d like to be in the running to be featured next fortnight (and win a $10 coupon of your own!), simply upload any layout made with one (or more!) of Anna’s kits to her gallery at Scrap Orchard. It’s as simple as that!

See you next fortnight! :)

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AnnaBV Valentine Card Hybrid

Posted on January 11, 2012 by scrappingramma

Happy 2012
Hope you have the “BEST” Year ever!!

I am so ready to get going on Valentine’s Day
I love that holiday.  This will be the first
of our Valentine freebies.  ! tri-fold card
ready to print made with Anna’s “Love You to Bits” kit
Enjoy!!

Love You to Bits Kit3 fold Valentine card printable

Click image or DOWNLOAD HERE

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Meet the Crew – Alyssa

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Karen

Hi everyone, Karen here with another edition of Meet the Crew.  I hope you are having a great New Year with lots of inspiration and creativity.  Today we get to “meet” Alyssa and see some of the awesome pages she has created.  If you get a chance you should head over and look her gallery and leave her some love.  Definitely an inspirational gallery.  Here is one of my favorites by her, I love all the paper strips, how the journaling goes is two different directions and the depth that she created with her layers and shadows.

Let’s hear what Alyssa had to say when I got the chance to interview her:

Tell us a little bit about yourself.
My name is Alyssa but mostly everyone that knows me calls me Aly. I am 21 years old and a proud mother! I just got engaged to my boyfriend of almost 6 years on Christmas Day 2010! I live in Bermuda and I am a full time student. I will be graduating in May…finally.

When did you start digital scrapbooking?
I used to make siggies. So it all started from there. I used to use a lot of freebie kits and then I found the world of STORES and I started to buying them. Ever since then I have been scrapping pages.

How long have you been on Anna’s team?
I’m not even sure when I applied. It was a while ago and time has gone by so fast because it’s been fun so I have lost track.

What is your favorite kit by Anna?
I love this kit by Anna.
What is your favorite page created with an Anna kit?
It is one that I made actually with the kit that I listed above.

If I had to chose a layout from someone other than myself, I would chose this one by Holly. This was the layout that first drew my attention to Anna’s Products. I’ve loved them ever since.


When do you typically scrapbook, during the day or at night?
Lately it has been during the night. For some reason I haven’t been able to go to sleep until the sun comes up.

What is your favorite drink?
Hot Chocolate! I am drinking some right now. If not that, carbonated water. Most people think it’s gross but I love it.

What is the last book you read?
Harry Potter and the Sorcerrers Stone. I love Harry Potter. I am starting to read the series over again…for the (I think) 6th time.

If you were one of Anna’s kits which would you be? Why?
I think that “Sunkissed” best fits me because it is beach themed. Being from Bermuda, I am always on the beach. The colors in the kit are also some of my favorites.

What other interests or hobbies do you have?
I love to read! You will always find a book in my hand. I have also recently discovered audiobooks so I am starting to use those now too. Aside from reading, I love watching educational documenteries. I started watching them on National Geographic Channel but now I have netflix and I am able to watch so many more. I love learning new things.

Thanks Alyssa for sharing with us.  Don’t forget to head over to her gallery and leave some love.  :)

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GSO Interview with Ari (Blues)

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Angie

Hi there readers! :) We’re back with another GSO interview, this time with our pick from three weeks ago, Ari (Blues). It was fantastic to interview her and I’m sure you’ll love reading Ari’s answers! Thanks again Ari for taking the time out to do this for us, we loved featuring you and your gorgeous layouts.

How long have you been scrapping for? (digi or otherwise) I discovered digiscrap in 2008 but I knew nothing about scrapbooking or Photoshop, so it took me a long time to learn, to create pages and…to gather the courage to post them in galleries.

What is your favourite season of the year? Until the last few years my season was summer. I love the sea, the sun, the laziness, the lack of clothes (LOL). Now I have some family problems that changed summer in the worst of it all for me, but hope is the last to die…

What is your favourite AnnaBV Designs kit? This is a hard question since I hate to choose. Anyway it’s a toss between Random Moments (love the cutest elements ever) and Keep In Touch (simply rich, gorgeous palette). Right now I’m lusting after Sweet Home, it’ll be mine soon.

Do you prefer to use templates or design a page from scratch? Or a bit of both? I love templates but use them only when I don’t have a clear idea of what I want or don’t know how to start. Usually when I let myself enjoy the process I design from scratch.

Do you have any scrapbooking tips for newcomers? Don’t spend too much time collecting designs, thinking you will need them sooner or later, and too little time to really use them. Buy a gorgeous kit and start playing with it right away. Making pages and enjoying the process is the reason you have designs.

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Half off New Year Kits

Posted on January 6, 2012 by admin
By way of wishing you all a happy new year, I’ve created a coupon code you can use to get 50% off any or all of my New Year themed kits.

Code:  AnnaBV_NewYear1

The coupon is valid till Sunday (Jan 8), one use per customer.
Rock Around
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Mix and Match for 01/06/12

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Angie

Good morning everyone! Welcome to the first Mix and Match for the New Year. :D If you’re anything like me, you would have taken LOTS of photos over Christmas! I try to use a variety of kits whilst scrapping my Christmas photos, so it’s nice to combine two kits to make something new. So Anna’s CT matched Dreams Never End (the new) with Letter to Santa (the old) to mix up something new for your Christmas photos! And as always, there’s a small coupon at the end of the artcile for you so you can pick up either or both kits at a discounted price, if you don’t already have them. :)


Some of us also used Anna’s Sheeply in Love doodles to spice it up even more!

Here are some of the creations Anna’s CT came up with, using these kits. As you can see, they can be used for a wide variety of events and occasions – not just Christmas!

If you’re like me and you still need to scrap some of your Christmas photos and you need either (or both!) Dreams Never End or Letter to Santa, then I have a special little treat for you! Add either or both of these kits to your cart over at Scrap Orchard and put in the following code during the checkout process to receive 25% off!

abv_MM_25zx (code can only be applied to Dreams Never End and Letter to Santa)

Enjoy and have fun mixing and matching it up with these kits!

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