It’s Another Thursday…

July 9, 2009 by carina

I’ve been meaning to post this link for some time now, but have managed to forget with all the craziness (and loveliness) in my life! The winner of the PhotoCuts Giveaway on my blog posted some layouts using the Overlays on her blog called http://paperscissorsandglue.blogspot.com. You can check out she uses the overlays there:). The whole blog is very scrap-a-rific with tons of digital and paper layouts.

This will very likely be my last post of the week. I’m getting my 2peas submissions in today and getting ready for a lovely weekend in Park City with my husband. It’s been a long time since it was just the two of us and I’m pretty excited about the break. I know I’ll have tons of things to post next week. I have big announcement to make, pictures from the weekend, and an awesome post I’ve been working on that you won’t want to miss!

PhotoCuts Layouts—The Collection Team Does It Again!

July 6, 2009 by carina

My fabulous Collection Team has done it again! These layouts feature two of the newest PhotoCuts products that came out last week and this week. This popular collection has more kits coming out this month along with a few special items. For example, tomorrow starts the Christmas in July special at 2peas! You’ll find a couple of holiday paper packs from me.

I’m also excited for you to check out my new kit Sproutlets (which now has a preview!) which will hit 2peas in a week. It’s jam packed with all kinds of goodies! The papers are darling and the elements are yummy! Katherine even already sent me this darling layout from the kit. I’m pretty excited to use this kit in my own scrapbooking!

katherine_growing-up-400x4001 This easily could be the most “layout heavy” post I’ve ever had! I hope it inspires you in your own digital and paper scrapbooking!

Sproutlets

July 3, 2009 by carina 1 Comment

My Friday is feeling a lot like a Saturday:). Working on some designs today—specifically finishing a mega kit I’m working on called Sproutlets…It’s like 6 kits or more wrapped into one big kit! After I’m finsihed submitting this to 2peas today, I’ll be all set for a fun-filled, laid back 4th of July weekend! I have dinner with my bestfriend Jen tonight who is in town from San Fransico (always a treat!). Our favorite hang out is the Cheesecake Factory (the avacado rolls have some kind of addicting drug in them). Tomorrow, we’ll be heading to Toole for a BBQ with my in-laws. But most of the time, well, I’ll just be chilling with my little girls and having a slow weekend—just the way I like it! Hoep you have a Happy 4th of July!

Layouts of the Garden Vignette Collection

June 22, 2009 by carina 2 Comments

jenny_feb-09-gardner-village Well, it was a rainy weekend for us in Salt Lake. Once again, we had to postpone going camping, which really turned out to be okay as I had a big design submission to deal with, a work pool party, errands, errands, and more errands, and a Father’s Day dinner to boot (my in-laws included). So it was a full (but as always) a fabulous weekend (because it was a weekend:)).

So here it is Monday, and I’m dragging. I finished the design submission and will have it FedExed off by this afternoon. I’m always happy when the initial first designs are finished.

loriweb400_sweetbabygirl And, I probably wouldn’t have even blogged today, but I felt like it would have been an incredible injustice to my team to not post these FABULOUS layouts they made last week of the new Garden Vignettes collection. You’ll be able to buy it at 2peas tomorrow. There are 9 digi kits total with 5 element packs and 4 paper packs. All the papers are yummy and distressed as are the elements. IN FACT, the giveaway ends early tomorrow morning, so get your name in quick here.

Here’s who made these gorgeous lay yam_sweetness400carina outs. The first one is by Jenny, second, by Lori, third, by Yam, fourth, by Susan, and fifth by Katherine. These ladies really know how to make a layout! I am completely inspired by these and will probably be getting together my own mini album with the Garden Vignettes collection of my family’s last vaca or outing.

Hope you are having a more fast pace Monday than me and I’ll be sure and post tomorrows winner of the giveaway!

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Introducing the New Collections Team!

June 15, 2009 by carina

I had an outpouring of applications for the Collections Team call I posted a couple of weeks ago. It was such a hard decision but I knew I could only take on 5 more people. I think you’ll agree that the talent here is outstanding! I was blown away by these ladies! To introduce them, they each submitted a cg layout (if you want to know about the products they used here, ask in the comments below! These products can all be found in my digi scrap shop at 2peas.). And here they are:

Katherine

This layout has been removed for publication! You will just have to see it when it is publish:)

Lori

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Jenny

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Yam

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Susan

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gardebvignettes_logo Beautiful work, ladies! You can see why I’m so excited to have them on the team! They will be doing layouts for their first collection, Garden Vignettes in a week. I’m excited for you to see the collection and their beautiful layouts! There will be a give away starting on Thursday for this collection, so be sure and check back for a sneak peek and a chance to win!

PhotoCuts 3rd week of Release

June 13, 2009 by carina 1 Comment

Just thought I would show you next Tuesday’s releases! This is the third week of PhotoCuts. I think you’ll like these (I certainly love using them!).

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Join me at DSE for Tips and Tricks in Illustrator

June 5, 2009 by carina

Finally! I can post one of my news bits that I haven’t been able to post until now: I’m teaching a Tips and Tricks in Illustrator Class at DSE, Digital Scrapbooking Experience on September 24th in Provo, UT. Come join me for this very cool course! It’s an Al La Carte Course on Thursday from 2pm-3pm. See the course description here. Course Description

If you’ve had an urge to learn more or refine your digital scrapbooking (or even product building for digital designers) skills, Illustrator is a tool that can really help you build better product. I’m excited to teach this little course and get people started on my favorite Adobe program! I’ll be going through the ins and outs of the program, drawing tools, building templates, and so much more. I’ll have tools and handouts to help you get started. I’m really excited about the course and I hope you’ll join me!

It is Favorite Friday, but…

June 5, 2009 by carina

Usually I would be posting my favorite things that I have seen this week, but it’s been such a busy week that I haven’t had a chance to blog or, well, just about do anything! The Collection Team calls have been streaming in (I’ve been so flattered by the entries!). Thank you to everyone has been applying! I’ll be announcing the team early next week! It’s blessed Friday, because also managed to get my digi kits in to 2peas this week this morning….no late Saturday night craziness for me this week, thank you. I’m hoping for a family filled weekend of biking (my new Madsen bike is coming any day now!), dance recitals, and swimming. A bonfire too (my favorite) if I can work it in! lol. Check back for peeks of my new collection that will hit in a couple more weeks. It’s super grungy and in yummy, yummy colors! It’s called Garden Vignettes. Hope you all have a happy Friday!

Giveaway Winner for PhotoCuts and Collections Team Call

June 2, 2009 by carina 1 Comment

Hooray! It’s Tuesday morning and as promised I have the giveaway winner along with some other news. I do this the old fashion way so I was up this morning cutting out the paper and writing out names. lol. And the winner of the blog giveaway for photocuts is:

siriandherflower1 Just email me at carina@diginirvana.com and I will try to get a hold of you as well and we’ll arrange for you getting your free product! You can find all the new PhotoCuts Collection digi kits at twopeas here. Here’s a layout I did using a mask from the new collection and a paper from a collection that hasn’t been released yet called Garden Vignettes! Look for it in a few weeks. Here’s a peek:

More business to attend to! I am finally opening up a new creative team call for a collections team! Yes, this is big news as I haven’t done a call for a long time. My wonderful publications team has been amazing (you guys rock!) and I’ve decided that I need a second team to take care more of the layouts for this blog and for new collections. You’ll love my darling CT Manager Theresa and you’ll get a collections team blinkie to boot:). What does it involve? Read this:

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So how does it work? You will receive 1-2 kits per collection along with some started kits to give you some “goods” to get going. The collection team will know about collections that will be released and will have a week or so to put together a layout to be posted at 2peas, etc. It will be no more than 4 layouts a month with the average being about 2-3 layouts a month. We are a friendly group at the studio:).

Oh, and speaking of blinkies, grab this one for your everyday wear:

and keep an eye out for the publications team and the collections team wear:

Here’s the html for the fan blinkie for you to copy:

PhotoCuts Giveaway!

May 29, 2009 by carina 21 Comments

My new line Photocuts hits 2peas on Tuesday, but I thought to introduce the line, I would do a giveaway! So here’s a peek at the first four digi kits of the line:

firstfourrelease_carinagardner So what do you need to do in order to win one of these great photo-enhancing kits? All you need to do is comment on this thread which one of these kits you would REALLY like to have. Easy-peasy!

Top-Left : Filmstrip Frames

Top-Right : Taped Off Frames

Bottom-Left : Masks

Bottom-Right : Overlays

I’ll announce the winner of this blog giveaway on Tuesday morning!

And, if you want another try at winning one of these, I’m doing a seperate drawing on the 2peas blog. So go over there and enter too! Good luck!

Also be sure to check out the new PhotoCuts digi kits during the next several weeks of 2peas releases as there will be plenty more!

PhotoCuts Collection—Photographer’s Tools

May 18, 2009 by carina

photocutsad I just wanted to give you a preview of the line coming in two weeks! I’m so excited about it because it will be a photographers tool set! These digital kits will be SO much more useful than for just scrapbooking…it will include overlays, masks, filmstrips, and frames of all kinds. It’s the kind of set that will really be useful for any type of photography! So the countdown is just 2 weeks away….

BTW, you’ll be able to pick them up at TwoPeasinaBucket.

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New Studio Website!

May 12, 2009 by carina

blogimage1 You’ll notice a couple of changes around here:). While not all of the blog is finished (the links to my free downloads, tutorials, and new flickr groups are not up yet), the studio site is! I’m so excited to introduce this great new resource for those of you looking for my designwork. The Studio is place to find my newest paper crafting releases from My Minds Eye, digital scrapbooking collections at Two Peas in a Bucket, where to buy my designs, and the latest design news! There’s also a fantastic new project gallery that will be updated with design projects regularly! Probably my favorite new thing that will be coming to the blog in the next couple of days is an open group on flickr for you to upload photos of your projects using my paper craft supplies and digital scrapbooking kits! The group is called Your CG Creations and you can go ahead and start uploading stuff…it just hasn’t hit my sidebar yet. I’m excited to see what you create!

So go ahead and take a gander at the new site!

New Website

May 10, 2009 by carina

If you’ve noticed an absence of blogging it is because I have been trying to get together a new website that hopefully will be up and running at the end of this week! It will be a great resource for my design news, projects with products, new paper crafting products, digital scrapbooking products, and where to buy them. The blog will get a new makeover as a result as well! There will be new flickr groups and more:). So excuse my absence a bit for this coming week and I’ll have this new website up and running! I’m pretty excited about it! You’ll even get sneak peeks of my new products coming out WAY before they actually hit CHA and stores!

Happy Sunday!

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A Few Layouts on the Paradise Collection

May 4, 2009 by carina 1 Comment

My creative team has gotten together a few layouts for you using the Paradise Collection, which premiers tomorrow at 2Peas!

This one is by Tiffany.

This one is by Carey.

This one is by Theresa.

Thanks ladies for the darling layouts! The first 6 Paradise Items will be in the store tomorrow.

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15% off Sale at 2Peas—Ends tonight

May 3, 2009 by carina

I’ve been MIA all weekend and just hopped over to 2peas and saw they are having a sale on all the digital stuff—even all the new stuff! Check it out if you get a chance tonight!