2009-03-08T16:34:00.000-07:00

Volume 3, Issue 7March, 2009Published by Deco-Pages
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Community Spotlight!

Here are a few of the Layouts chosen for this months community spotlightJennifer Rassi's Choice
by: majula
I just love the cluster of elements and all of the layers in this page. Adorable pics of the baby and what a fun kit. link to full size image: http://board.deco-pages.com/showphoto.php/photo/27667/limit/last14
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Carol Rupley's TWO choices: (oh my gosh, I picked majula also!)
by majula
What a whimsical LO, using Kit Chiche by Vavie974. I love how the elements curve up toward the left corner. The photos are wonderful and seem to peek out of these luscious elements. link to full size image: http://board.deco-pages.com/showphoto.php/photo/27582/si/retro/what/allfields
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and...
by majula
So beautiful and soft and what a pretty baby. This uses Noel Nouveau by Retro Designs and as usual there are loads of delicate and elegant elements to choose from. Majula you did a great job!
link to full size image: http://board.deco-pages.com/showphoto.php/photo/27569/si/retro/what/allfields
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Be On Our Sunshine Team

Are you of sunny disposition, enjoy being on your computer and being involved? We invite you to join our Sunshine team! We currently have openings. Please send a PM to PatinParis with a bit about yourself and why you would like to be on the team.
Requirements?
30 minutes a day activity on site, taking part in challenges, games, posting in the forum and in the gallery. That means having fun, meeting new friends, helping Deco Pages spread sunshine and love all around! We also ask that you help us promote Club Deco. Benefits? Lots of them!! Meeting new friends, getting to know the everyone better around the site, and the Club Deco for free.

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New Welcome Kit Now Available

The Deco-Pages Designers have created this wonderful new Welcome Kit for you. If you have not seen the new area in our gallery where the previews are stored, here is a link...

http://board.deco-pages.com/showgallery.php/cat/844You will want to check this area of our Gallery on a regular basis. As more Designers join our Team, they may leave a little present here for you too!

This kit was designed to keep welcoming you, our creative member family back to our web site, and it gives our new visitors an opportunity to try Digital Scrapbooking Papers and Embellishments at no-cost. Please encourage your friends and family to try Digital Scrapbooking, and to come join the fun at http://www.deco-pages.com/!
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Genealogy Tip from Jean Hoffman
Genealogy Tips #2

Look at the Whole Family Get to know the whole family. If your parents have brothers and sisters, you have aunts and uncles, probably cousins too. Each of them will know their own part of the story of your parents and grandparents. They really are a part of your family and help tell its story. My sister and brother are some years older and they knew two great-grandparents who died before I was born or old enough to remember. They tell me stories of that earlier time and to whom various heirlooms belonged and where they were kept. I spent time with my parents after my siblings left home and know things they don't as well. For example, I was the only one who knew a certain set of jewelry was what my mother wore when she got married. As you trace your family to great-grandparents and further back remember to look at the whole family. You may find the daughter who got the family Bible or cousins with a photo album. A newspaper story about Uncle Bob may also tell about your Dad or grandparents. The more pieces of the family you gather together, the more complete will be the picture you have of your ancestors and their place in the world. In my first tip I mentioned using a pedigree or ancestral chart to see an outline of your heritage. That form is important, but it does not include the rest of their families. Team with it a family group sheet for each couple and you will have the beginning of your family history. You can download a free family group sheet (and other forms and charts) from RootsWeb at

Rootweb .
Enter a couple and all of their children on the sheet and any information you know about them. Fill in the rest of the spaces as you learn what goes there. Don't forget to record where you learned that date, place, or other tidbit. Digital scrapbooking will let you pull together any images you have of the family and produce a visual record too. I recently did a layout for a photo of my father and his sisters with kits by three Deco-Pages designers that might give you some ideas.

Jean M. Hoffman, scrap-genie *Certified Genealogist, or CG, is a service mark of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by board certified genealogists after periodic evaluation, and the board name is registered in the US Patent & Trademark Office.
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How I Learned to Ski, Almost by Carol Rupley

When the kids were little we joined a ski club in the little town of Freeport, IL where we lived. One of my best friends started the club and, even though I had never skied, I was willing to give it a try. Mike and the older kids took intermediate lessons and Jacob (then 5) and I took beginner lessons. The instructor showed us how to stand and stop, toeing in and so on. I was very pleased with myself; I could actually do these things. Jacob refused to do anything that the instructor showed us and just tugged on my sleeve the entire lesson. About the time that we were going to learn how to use the chairlift and ski down the slope, Jacob pitched such a fit that we just dropped out of the rest of the lesson I could figure out the rest of it myself, it was pretty easy really.
We went to the bunny hill and used this rope pull thing to reach the top of this slightly inclined mound (hardly a hill at all really). Every few feet I fell and had to figure out how to get up and try once again to go down until I fell, it was awful, I hadn't learned anything, I didn't know what I was doing at all! I hadn't had the important part of the lesson, how to ski! Because Jacob was lower to the ground he just had an easier time of staying up, so he made it down before me. With all of the falling on my part, Jacob got bored and left me sitting in the snow and to play tag with his sisters. After two slow, tottering trips down the bunny slope, I parked myself on a bench, stupefied by my complete lack of coordination and skill.
I watched the other skiers go by, they zipped and zagged with grace and coordination. Everyone that seemed to get it' skied effortlessly down the hills. From the corner of my eye I spied the fasted person I had yet seen on the slopes, a birdlike creature that zoomed past me, It was my 5 year old son, my fellow ski school dropout. His coat unzipped and arms straight out for balance; his coat flapped in the breeze like giant wings as he raced down the hill. I watched in horror as he effortlessly boarded the chairlift at the bottom. Without the lesson, without trying, he had learned to ski. No false-starts, no imbalance or humiliating bum-bumps. For him, he just Got It!'
And I, of course, didn't. Today, he's a great skier and still a very fast skier. I did try again but still haven't felt comfortable beyond the bunny hill. Somehow I didn't get the coordination gene but the rest of my kids did. I sometimes tease Jacob saying if only I had finished that lesson I would be able to ski now. LOL, who knows, maybe?
Let me know about your winter sports memories, especially skiing. I'd love to see your LOs.
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Owner's Corner and Club News:

It's been a busy month around here, look for Deb's note next month.

Club News:

This month, the Club Deco Mega kit is going to provide you with so many sporty elements and papers to create wonderful pages for your scrapbooks. If you are not a Club Deco Member, this is a fabulous month to join! Everyone is Winner with this kit, it is full of sports papers, elements and quick pages. The color scheme goes with so many layouts, you are going to love the versitility of this kit! Once again, the Design Team has done a wonderful job in creating these kits and we can't wait to see the pages you create with them, so please do share with us in the gallery! Club Deco is available in three membership choices,

find out more in the forum.
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Quotes compiles by Jennifer Rassi

I hope that everyone is okay with these quotes, as I just wanted to share some mix and match quotes something for everyone type of thing: Blessed are the children of scrapbookers, for they shall inherit the scrapbooks. ~Author Unknown Scrapbooking fills my days - not to mention my living room, bedroom and closets! ~Author Unknown Just as pieces stitched together in a quilt warm our bodies, scrapbooks bind together memories to warm our hearts. ~Author Unknown My grandmother made me a scrapbook because I was once too young to remember; I am making scrapbooks for my family because one day I may be too old to remember. ~Author Unknown We gather up pictures and bits of our past and scrapbook them into a gift that will last. ~Kimberly Rinehart, "Scrapbooker's Verse" So many pictures, so little time! ~Author Unknown Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with. ~Drew Sirtors No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils. ~Henry Ward Beecher A morning without coffee is like sleep. ~Author Unknown Mothers are those wonderful people who can get up in the morning before the smell of coffee. ~Author Unknown Chocolate, men, coffee - some things are better rich. ~Author Unknown Dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask. ~X-Files
Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you. ~Marsha Norman Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions. ~Edgar Cayce
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CHATS, CHALLENGES & MORE
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New ! Card Template Challenge with Lori Staton

Welcome Everyone, Here is a fun Challenge for you to create this month which I hope that you all creative people out there will enjoy this great challenge. Just intime for St. Patricks Day! So we are going to try something new here for all of you who enjoy creating Digital Scrap cards. Club Deco Members will get the Starter kit for free...so if your not a Club Deco Member you will have to pay $1.99 for the starter kit. To become a Club Deco Member and recieve all the wonderful kits that get as a Member...you can join here at this Forum area:

Club Deco See you there! I have put together three templates that you may use. I also have greyscale elements that you can interchange the colors to them and to add to your cards. There are two parts to download to get you started in this challenge. One is the templates and the other is a little mini kit to get you started.
When you make three cards...I will have your reward waiting. This challenge is for the whole month of March...so take your time. When you have completed your tasks and pm me with your links...I will send you your reward. Rules: You will need to post your links here and add your layouts in the Gallery area and p.m. me your links with your layouts to recieve your special reward. Also take your time and have fun.
Can't wait to see you all here create your wounderful card Plus get your Freebie Reward.

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March Challenge Kit - Blossom Fresh FREE to Club Deco Members!

Club Deco Members receive this challenge kit for free! It will also be available in the store for a very low price for the month of March.
You will get the following posting gifts for participating, see forum for details!

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Creative Team Challenges

Watch for Creative Team challenges for the month of March!! There is loads going on at Deco-Pages so be sure to visit the challenge forum to see what the Creative Team has going this month!
Link:

http://board.deco-pages.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=77

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Template/Sketch Challenge by Michaele Burkhart

Come and join me each month for a new template challenge! I provide you a free template and then you let your creativity loose to create a fantastic layout from there! At the end of the month you can also receive a posting prize bonus....please check

HERE to find out more about this monthly challenge and to join in!
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Material Girl , Holiday , Scrap by Numbers, & Color Challenges

Some of our favorite challenges!. Too much going on to write these up right now but be sure to look for all of the details in the challenges forum!!

http://board.deco-pages.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=77
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ABC Challenge

Welcome to the March ABC Challenge ! In honor of St. Patrick's Day , I thought I'd make a holiday appropriate alpha for us to enjoy! So come and join in the March ABC Challenge this month and you will receive this alpha to use in your layout:
For full details of this challenge, please join us in the March ABC Challenge thread found in this forum:

http://board.deco-pages.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=108Happy Scrappin', Jennifer Rassi
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Fontalicious Challenge with Paris Designs

Theta, mom5kids, is still in cyberspace somewhere, waiting for her internet to work again! There will be another challenge in her absence this month using the font "Dungeon". Come to the challenge to get the link and discover the dungeon for yourself....

Look in the forum for this challenge
http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4105680126700294694&postID=3521699436243751206#Challenges
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March Photography Challenge: Hello Everyone,

I'm inviting you to come and join me, Jennifer Rassi, this month in the Photography Challenge . I want to challenge you to get out and about in your community. Find a historical landmark, statue, or building and make a layout using at least 2 photos of the subject. Get creative, use angles and different views to show-off this subject in your layout. Please read the March 2009 Photography Challenge thread for all details. I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with. And I'll be watching for your amazing shots!
Let's see those shots, photo shots that is! Jennifer Rassi
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Contests, Games & puzzles
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2009-02-03T18:06:00.000-08:00

Welcome to Digital Scrapping News! We will keep you informed about new trends and techniques and share some interesting features with you. Our contributors have a wealth of knowledge about geneology and heritage scrapbooking and the most current software for creating your treasured pages. We will have puzzles, and tell you about challenges and chats to participate in. Jennifer Rassi has compiles some quotes to use with your loveable Valentine layouts. check back because there is more to come...

Many are the starrs I see, but in my ye no starr like thee. ~English saying used on poesy rings

For you see, each day I love you more

Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. ~Rosemonde Gerard

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Author Unknown

Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. ~Author Unknown

A hundred hearts would be too few

To carry all my love for you.

~Author Unknown

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. ~Robert Browning

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. ~Kay Knudsen

Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. ~Author Unknown

You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. ~Author Unknown

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Attributed to Claudia Ghandi

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. ~Stephen King

The most beautiful view is the one I share with you. ~Author Unknown

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ~Voltaire

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. ~David Byrne

I'm so in love, every time I look at you my soul gets dizzy. ~Jaesse Tyler

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. ~Mark Overby

You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. ~Dr. Seuss

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ~Zora Neale Hurston

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