DigiScrapDivas (DSD) Grand Re-Opening pt2

So I have been a busy girl scrapping wise. But unfortunately I can't show you what I have been working on until the 1st.

I can tell you it is all with fab stuff which will be avaiable at the DSD Grand Re-Opening on Sep 1st. If you don't know about it yet (where have you been??!)

What You Need to Know:
Be at www.digiscrapdivas.com on Friday Sep 1st at 9am EST. What is the purpose of this 15 straight hours of FUN, FUN, FUN!!!

It will be a fun-filled day of crops, games and prizes as it will be a day to chat it up with each of the new designers. All chats will be held in the OPEN chat room. First chat begins at 9 am eastern and the last chat begins at 11 pm eastern. Please see the home page for a complete listing of all chat events.


Now I have to go and convert Melbourne, Australia time to EST so I can see just how much of it can join in on myself.
[edited to add]: 9a.m. Friday September 1, 2006 in EST converts to
12:00 Midnight Saturday September 2, 2006 in Australia/Melbourne... so looks like Im going to be up half the night at least and suffering the next day!

Should be lots and lots of fun though. Can't wait!

DigiScrapDivas (DSD) Grand Re-Opening

As I am Part of the DSD CT, I have a slight privy to seeing and knowing a little about the Grand re-opening and all I can say is WOW!

Everyone is going to love the kits I have already seen including the September Mega Kit.

All the New and exisiting designers are fab and there are challenges ahoy to come too, not to mention prizes and did I mention lots of Fun!

DSD is such a great freindly place I just love that it's my digi home.

Paper scrapping

Well laziness and Katrina's 2 weeks of being sick has kept me away from blogging.

First she had a bad cold and then it turned into gastro during the second week with bad nappy rash, so I was starting to feel like a nurse. But things have calmed down and she is almost 100% again.

I have been doing a few layouts here and there and I actually had a reason to pull out my paper supplies last night. My aunt was holding her monthly scrap night and I happened to be free to go along. They are all back in the day when you would cut up your photos into little squares and put it back together leaving a small gap to make a mosaic effect. I would love to get through to these people that you sooooo shouldn't do this, but since it's run as a class type thing by a family friend I don't want to turn up once in a blue moon and tell people what and how to scrap especially when most of the girls there are very much beginners and probably feel comfortable getting any sort of assistance.

I had my print outs of 30 or so of my layouts, so at least they got to see my work and see that there are better styles out there. Not that my work is something to be copied or admired more than others but at least it doesn't require mutilation of your photos. I was also helping spread the digi word which is important to me.

It was good to just use paper and photos, cutting matts and paper trimmers for a change. I even opened and used a prima like flower and brad for the centre in an effort to A. Use some supplies and B. Show them a little lumpy bumpy style, even if my layout was pretty crap.

Unwell

Katrina has come down with a cold, so things haven't been fun the last 24 hours. She had some phlegm on her chest and trying to bring it up cause here to throw up all over her sheets and toys in her cot at 3am. She's now got a runny nose and a cough so it looks like I will be busy with looking after her for the next few days.

In scrapping news...

I made it as the Layout of the Day over at Digiscrapdivas for 9th August.

Also if you are up for a challenge check out my current Diva Dares Challenge for layouts with Multiple Photos here

New Look, a Few Kinks (fixed)

I got a little bored with the old look so here's something new.

I used Kathy Moore's In Bloom kit for the title banner and color scheme. Thanks Kathy :)

I do have a little kink in all this though.

the new look required me to change the BG color from white to black. No problem there.

But now i have some weird white border around my banner title image and i can't see anywhere (perhaps I am blind) how to get rid of it or at least make it black so it won't stand out.
If you can help me in this problem I would be super dooper happy.

Thanks in advance for any tips.

[edited to add]: Thanks so much to Genevieve over at DSD who helped me out with the problem as you can see it's all fixed now. Thanks ever so much.

My week so far

OK I have had a good week. Didn't do much Monday or Tuesday. Yesterday I went to visit my favorite Aunt. It had been a while since I seen her and little Chelsea (her grandchild that she has custody of) has been looking forward to seeing Katrina since I mentioned I would pop over soon. I stayed for about 5 hours and enjoyed a lovely and peaceful afternoon chatting and watching the girls play together, even if it did mean breaking up a few tantrums from both girls because one had a toy the other wanted. Chelsea is almost 4 but doesn't quite understand that Katrina is younger than her and doesn't understand things the way she does. The fact Katrina is probably 1 cm shorter than her doesn't help, poor thing she's quite short for her age, but it runs on that side of the family.

Today I had tickets for the Mattel factory again. I wasn't as happy this time as I was after an Elmo of some sort and last time there were a few of them, this time not a single Elmo to be found. Damn. But I got a cool remote control pound puppy, a pick me pound puppy some Barbie stuff and a few books for Katrina's Power touch baby thinngie. So I'm sure over the next year or so the things that aren't suitable for Katrina can be given out as presents. we also got 30% off the already discounted prices which was just even more of an excuse to buy things to put away. lol.

Katrina is going through a Hi-5 craze this week. Good because it gives poor Dora a rest, though not totally. She is hooked on the Grow song and Dream on and keep s on asking me to sing them and she will try and sing along and dance with me. She gets so excited about it all too. So damn cute i tell you, but also rather annoying after the 50th time in a row of singing these 2 songs and she's still requesting you sing them again!