I'm delighted to introduce my latest kit:  Forest Fantasy, a wonderfully versatile kit perfect for both traditional and fantasy designs. This extra large kit includes 63 elements and 22 papers, all full size and in jpeg format.  There are lots of scenic papers as well as subtly patterned and solid ones.  This kit is guaranteed to give you hours of scrapbooking pleasure.

It is currently on sale at 40% off at my StarSongStudio Store at Coolscrapsdigital.com.

Many of the designs are created from photographs that I took during the winter last year. Here in the Philadelphia, PA area, we had record snowfalls.  I remember at the very beginning of winter, saying, "I hope I get some good snow pictures this year."  I should have known better than to say that.  We had snow even with the bottom of the window sill!  But yes, I did get great pictures and this kit is a testiment to that.  I also some included some creations from one of my very favorite photography spots: Morris Arboretum. The two little houses were photographed in their garden railway exhibit.  The detail in these little places, measuring about a foot high is amazing.

So if you would like to win this kit, leave me a comment in this thread and I will be back shortly to pick a winner.  And you can win now by downloading the FREE quick page that I made from the kit. The link is at the bottom of this post.  Enjoy.


I'm delighted with the layouts that I received from my exceptionally talented CT artists:
And a sample layout that I did:


And here it is:  A free quickpage which can be downloaded

I'm just finishing up my next kit and what fun I've been having working on it.  This kit is a fantasy kit but when I was doing layouts with it last night, I was delighted to see how beautifully it works for traditional designs as well.

As a bit of a teaser, I'm posting one of the papers that I designed that I think gives a good feel for the kit.  The house is one I photographed at the Morris Arboretum Garden Railway this summer and the pine tree is from my own yard.  Stayed tuned as I will be giving away a kit to one lucky poster once I have it finalized.

I used Random generator to choose a winner for my Rosy Dawn kit shown here:


And the winner is Ruby 2557.  Ruby leave me a comment on the blog or contact me at amplantier@aol.com for information on getting the kit.  Congratulations!

I have another freebie for you -- a Halloween Quick Page.  This freebie is due to the generosity of Addie who is the owner of CoolScrapsDigital, where I have my store.  She created a fun Halloween CU pack for the store designers just so we could make something special for all of you.

Addie is amazing.  When angels were created she was definitely in the front row. She is kind, patient, helpful, fun and generous.  So thanks to Addie I'm offering this quickpage, a 12"x12" page in png format.  Just slip your pictures behind the two openings and you're ready to go.  Just click the link below to access the download.

And while you are on my site click on the previous post and leave on comment on my blog.  I'll be choosing one random winner to receive my Rosy Dawn Kit, now on sale at 40% off at CoolScrapsDigital.com

You can see it here:


Here's a preview of the quick page with photos of my grandson that I inserted.  The actual quick page will come with the two frames blank for your own photos.

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Here's a freebie for all of you, a quick page made from my kit, Rosy Dawn. The quick page is 12" x 12" and is in jpeg format.  Just pop in your picture(s) and you're done.  Or you can add some journaling in the space that I left in the upper right.  Hope you enjoy it.
Click here:

And here is are some previews of the kit itself.  You can buy it at my CoolScrapsDigital Store.  And best yet, it's on sale through the end of October for 40 percent off. That's just $3.00 for a full size personal use kit with 15 12" x 12" papers and 44 elements.

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Just had to share these gorgeous layouts that Dillie did with my new Rosie Dawn kit. Thanks Liz for such beautiful layouts.
You can get the kit here:

I'm delighted to announce that my first personal use/srap for hire friendly page kit is launched. Yes!

This kit was inspired by my daughter Dawn who introduced me to scrapbooking and has been my first and foremost teacher in digital art. The palette is based on the gorgeous colors of dawn: soft pinks, roses, blues and yellows and the kit is filled with gorgeous garden and floral elements. There are 15 papers, 12" x 12" in jpeg format and 43 unshadowed elements, 300 dpi in png format. And there is even a special bonus clustered window frame which is shadowed. A wonderful way to get your page off to a fast and gorgeous start

Here is the link:

I posted this past weekend that I was disappointed that I hadn't won the designer contest at the Studio but I definitely felt that I was a winner in the overall experience. Right after the contest I was contacted my a fellow contestant who liked my design work and wanted permission to give my name to the store where she is selling. And the very next day a second contestant emailed me that she had talked to the owner of the store where she has sold for a long time and that the owner was interested in my joining the designers there.

Well, I'm disappointed that I didn't win the Studio designer contest. It was a close race and all the contestants outdid themselves with great entries. I really enjoyed getting to know my fellow contestants and I definitely wasn't a loser in this contest. I had a lot of fun, learned a tremendous amount, got a lot of experience designing under pressure and gained a lot of confidence as a new designer. Placing in the top 10 out of 93 entries feels great. And I do feel ready to start designing kits professionally. Hopefully I'll find the right store soon.