In my last post, I mentioned that Bunny Cates created a cute “Turning 21 Again” card with my Fresh Start collection.  Bunny created a printable 8.5 x 11 PDF for her card design and is graciously allowing me to give it away here on my blog.

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Well… not many people impress the shit out of me but Ms. Bunny Cates has gone and done just that!  After seeing my new scrapbook kit, she e-mailed me about doing some hybrid cards and asked if I was interested… alright… I’ll bite.

She created her first card last night and sent me a photo… just one photo.   Today she posted the card on her blog… she has a like a zillion photos at all different angles… I’m just floored.  I wasn’t expecting her to showcase it like that.  She makes my crap look good!  I’m speechless… and that doesn’t happen to me very often.

Here are a two shots… don’t want to put them all up… head over to her blog to see the entire project…

And… if that’s not enough excitement for me this week… Ms. Stacey Schweiger is going to CT for me again!!!!  WOO HOO!!  I have always loved Stacey’s layouts.  I’m so excited to be working with her again!!

Here is her latest layout…. I love how she cut the flowers out of the paper to overlap her darling little girl.

Not sure what made me e-mail Rachel and Correen last week…. but I did and asked if they’d have me back at ScrapDish.  The industry must really be hurting because they let me come back.  lol!

It’s been a very long time since I just designed… designed with no expectations, no pre-selected color palette, no deadlines, no requirements, no store and/or business admin duties in the background and no pressure but my own.  My colors, my style, my speed… it was very therapeutic for me this week and I actually enjoyed it.

But boy do I hate naming collections and have never been very good at it – probably because I have always designed first and then figured out the name later – instead of designing towards something.  After thinking about a name for awhile, I ended up with FRESH START.  Dumb, I know… but it was what was in my head during this process so it stayed…

I’m also not sure why I stuck with this color palette… it wasn’t even one of my top 5… I do like the color combination though…it stands out to me. It just isn’t typical for me – no blue. lol!  The element I like the best is how the numbers came out.  I also like the two-color bows – scanned and extract by me. 

Anyway.. if you are interested (my one or two readers), I’m putting it up for sale this week for $3.99. I even did a layout with it… haven’t scrapped in ages either… about time.