Tuesday 29 September 2009

20 years on

AHHHHH- tomorrow is my 20th Wedding Anniversary! I can't believe it myself as it still seems like yesterday that Wayne and I said "I DO". 30th September 1989. WOW, lol. Put down in letters makes it sound sooooo LONG ago. Yet sitting here now, it feels like a blink of the eye.

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Yup that's me on my wedding day- lol. OMG, I look like a little kid, and yet felt sooo grown up-KWIM?. Wayne and I had already been dating for 7 years before we actually walked down the alter.

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I'm more in love with him NOW than I was then. I think that *deepness* grows with age and your experiences together. We've shared many a hard time, and yet have always came out smiling on the other end because we SHARED and worked them out together. The good times have put many a fond memory in our *memory banks* which we often share even today. Humour, honesty, respect, support, encouragement and admiration have pulled us closer together over the years and I couldn't have asked for a better husband, father and friend! *Love you more* Waynie ;-)

Hubby is whisking me away early tomorrow morning for a *second honeymoon*- WOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHOOOOO!

So if you can grab that cup of coffee so long, I have a ton of stuff to show  and tell you BEFORE I get back on Monday the 5th October ;-)

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Heartsong

$6.00 $2.00
Save: 67% off

In honour of my 20th Wedding anniversary and keeping with the colours of the *modern and traditional gifts* of white, china, green for emeralds and silvers and platinum's, comes this romantic soft elegant kit.

15 subtle white print papers, 50 elements ( includes 6 metal word art phrases)

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The papers,

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I've put it up on SPECIAL at only $2 for the time I'm away ( 5th October).

And I threw it at my CT only last night as I have been trying to get everything ready for my trip as well as all the end of the month goodies- lol. BUT OMG!!!!!! They are STARS I tell you-

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By Jodiann ( who apparently says I poop fairy dust- hahaha, but still need to go and read her blog post today ;-P)

Heartsong Love is R-kbcopy

By Ruth ( who surprised me with this by hi-jacking my facebook photo's- lol) Thanks sooo soo much Ruthy- I LOVE LOVE LOVE it.!

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Ruth has made us the word art she used in my Gift Lo as a freebie for you too - you can pick it up HERE.

bed_loveisBy Bekah_E

Bekah will have the QP up for you as a freebie during the week too- so keep a check out on my CT's blog this week for their freebies and creations ;-)

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I've made the LO into a QP freebie as well as some word art to play with that follows the lines of this Romantic kit.

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You can pick up this freebie QP Here- http://www.4shared.com/file/136233191/911b1357/kb-heartsong-QP.html

Before I get to the OTHER freebie-

I've also decided that while the *Cats Away* ( yeah - that's ME-lol) you can grab 45% off both my STORES!kb-sale45

STARTS TOMORROW 30th September and ENDS MONDAY 5th October.

DigiscrapVault and Digiscrap Obsession.

Includes all my Commercial and Personal use products ( not grab bags)

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Three sets of *Love is......* word art freebie. You can pick it up HERE. http://www.4shared.com/file/136233374/7c761e38/kb-heartsong-wordart.html

I'll catch up again on Monday 5th October again. Be good and play nice while I'm away. LOL

Hugs and Loves

Sunday 27 September 2009

Yup it's gonna rain-lol

I know, I know - it's a Sunday and here I am posting on my blog right??. -RAIN??_ Yeah, it is raining here actually- lol. Go figure! hahahaha

It's been a CRAZY week since Tuesday as Nathan finished school on Wednesday for his holidays and I had to fetch him at 10am, then it was take all the kids fishing-OY, now let me tell you this takes patience! Each one wants different things or needs different bait- so you ride around for an hour before you even get to their favourite fishing spot- only to find that the wind is blowing a little tooo much for their liking- so it's off to find another one- hahahahahaha. Most of my day was spent in the car looking for fishing spots and bait! lol

Thursday started off a LONG weekend here in South Africa- being our Heritage Day - or National BRAAI DAY as we know it.

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( We braai ALL the time, to celebrate, to just socialise, to mourn, actually at any excuse just to light the fire ;-)

Braai Day is a celebration of our great country and its unique national pastime. It aims to unite all South Africans on 24 September by encouraging them to partake in a fun and tangible activity shared by all demographic groups, religious denominations and body types.

So of COURSE that is what we did- lol

1The fire that is lit- no matter WHAT the weather-lol3

Everyone sits around it socializing, waiting for the fire to die down so we can cook on it- but most times more wood is thrown on- lol.  Of course a *social* braai isn't without a few *shooters and drinks*-  lol . Here Deon decided to be a little patriotic and burst into our Anthem! hahahaha

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*Pink drinks* Dave ( a South African advert joke ;-P)

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The *girls*

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EVENTUALLY, someone (Gary) decides it's time to put some solid food in our stomachs and took charge of the tongs-lol

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Chicken kebabs and wings on sticks- which usually get eaten straight off the fire before they even reach the table-lol

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Lots of Yakking and laughing and more pink drinks after everyone has eaten ;-)

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TOOO MANY pink drinks- BWWWWAHAHAHA, Ant fell on her *ass* trying to catch Wayne- lol

Friday was a *sleep in* morning as you can see by the pictures above and Friday afternoon was Nathan's best friends ( my *second* son) 18th Birthday party. He wanted his friends and his favourite parents at the pub for his first official *legal drink*- lol. We all had a ball, and I learnt that Nathan takes after his mom TOO! hahahahaha- One beer and he was talking the hind ass off a donkey! lol So he isn't ALL WAYNE after all ;-P

Okies- enough yakking and a little news on the business front-lol

Some NEW CU PRODUCTS

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Doodly Festive Trees

$5.00 $3.50
Save: 30% off


This purchase contains:
10 PNG @ 300 ppi 
7 hand drawn trees 
2 Christmas Bulbs 
1 Star

AVAILABLE @ DSO and DSV

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Leafy Bits

$5.00 $3.50
Save: 30% off

Clustered Leafy bits for all types of decoration. 
Ribbons, feathers, berry's and more make these a nice finishing touch to add to your kits or Lay-Outs. 
This purchase contains:
5 PNG @ 300 ppi

AVAILABLE @ DSO and DSV

 

REDJU has her WHOLE STORE on SALE at DSV @ 35% off-

Check these new goodies on SALE-

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Designer Mix volume 10$5.49
Sale: $3.57
Save: 35% off

 

folderDesigner Mix volume 11$5.99
Sale: $3.89
Save: 35% off

Redju_CUDesignerMix12

Designer Mix volume 12$5.99
Sale: $3.89
Save: 35% off

 

Redju_CUDesignerMix13

Designer Mix volume 13$5.99
Sale: $3.89
Save: 35% off

ALL QUALITY CHECKED for peace of mind!

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Loucee made us up a little element with my new goodies ready for Christmas that you can pick up on her blog HERE.

Okies- I need to get off here now as Wayne is cooking the family lunch- lol- WOOOHOOOOOOOOO!! The smell is driving me NUTS and my stomach more so! Roast Pork with veg and gravy! YUM.

Hope you all have a fantastic Sunday and get in some good rest and family time.

Hugs and Loves

Tuesday 22 September 2009

Big Blush

OMW- I didn't know wether to actually post or hide under my desk today-( Thanks Sue-;-PP) lol. So many of you have made me BLUSH big time and made me feel rather humbled too. THANK YOU for your comments, compliments and encouragements and for jumping on that lonely soap box with me lol - it just made it *not so woney out there*- lol

I didn't want to stir a hornets nest ,really I didn't - I just wanted to REPLY and couldn't do it any other way .  PLEASE remember if you ever have any problems with something you have purchased - EMAIL me or the designer you have bought the product from. We are all human and do make mistakes- but goodness at least give us a chance to sort it out properly - which I will do with a smile on my face and as quick as I can.-)

But going to leave that behind now and on with the next episode of -------------uhum Kim's ramblings- HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Nathan finished his LAST prelim exam today and goes on holiday tomorrow- only to go back for a week or two to start his FINAL SCHOOL EXAMS- oh my nerves!

OOOOOH ok-BEFORE I get to doing a little pimping of my own today. I want to PIMP something NEW from JODIANN CATES who has joined the girls at DSO- WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

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HOLEY COW- these  CLEAR COVER STYLES are freaking AWESOME to play with- I had to Quality them last night and I couldn't stop playing with them. I swear- I kept changing colours under them to see what would happen! These are really something UNIQUE and I haven't seen anything like it out there. GREAT JOB GF!! And yes- I was playing some more this morning- hahahaha

Clear Cover Styles

$4.50 $2.95
Save: 34% off

Punch Up Your Colors!  
8 Clear Cover Styles to add a kick of COLOR to your elements and fonts!
The more detail and texture in your project, the more colors will POP!
You will find yourself coming back to these Clear Cover Styles time and time again for a color infusion!
CU Okay.
Text Document with tips for best use included.
PS7, PSCS, PSCS2, PSCS3, PSCS4 and PSE compatible.
CONTAINS
8 Photoshop Style in .ASL format 
1 Text Document with Quick Tips for best use

Check them out HERE.

And now to show off a little of what's in the HUGE  GIVE IT HORNS BAG

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This bag has the HIGHEST QUALITY commercial use tools and products by KimB and Disasterpiece Studios.

10 FULL SIZED products in it- that works out to only $1 per PRODUCT.

My CT have played with it tooo- WOOHOOOOOOOOOO- and boy have they come up with some STUNNERS for you

Using my COLOUR CHALLENGE colours the girls have come up with these STUNNING freebie mini's using the bag ;-)

bed_kbccprvBekah_E has this on her blog for you- you can pick it up HERE.

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Loucee has this one using bits from the bag as well as other CU goodies from Netters and myself. You Can grab it HERE.

And I played with one of the product today too! (Terror)ific Twigs-WOOHOOO- I LURVE LURVE LURVE these!- They are in the GRAB BAG too.folder

The minute I saw these I wanted to play with them and seeing that we don't celebrate Halloween I made something for you guys to play with. kb-halloweenytwiggy

It's side panel cluster in PNG and fits on a 12x12 ( so it can be easily resized for cards etc)

You can grab it here- http://www.4shared.com/file/134528240/310f6cf5/kb-halloweenytwiggy.html


Off to *school sports Awards* this evening- Nathan was cricket captain this year and is receiving some award (that he doesn't know what for)- lol.

Thanks again everyone for all your comments- BOY, my inbox has been this busy in a long time- LOL

BIG HUGS to all

Monday 21 September 2009

Quality and on a more serious note today

Today I thought I would do a *show and tell*- on what Quality I expect when buying Commercial use tools, as well as in Personal use kits. With such an influx of CU tools out there it's hard sometimes to know who's stuff you can trust and who's you won't buy again. I've been burned a lot, I don't buy anymore except from designers that I KNOW give their 110% into their products.

DSO has always had a QUALITY CHECK system in place since I started selling there over 2 years ago - Bunny refuses to up any kit into the store that hasn't been Quality Checked- it's her policy, and I LOVE that. It has also made me extremely fussy about my own work. And yes ,we all learn more as time goes on- don't get me wrong. Everyday is a learning curve for something new and how to improve on my stuff.

You've wondering where the hell I'm going with this aren't you- lol

Well on Saturday I had a comment in my inbox- which I would usually ignore as it's not worth getting upset about. I don't usually take a stand on a soap box and am usually the *bystander* listening and reading etc. The big pacifist - uhum.........

Anonymous Anonymous said... For $10 I hope this grab bag is better than the (useless) bits in the grand opening grab bag. I hope the old 'you get what you pay for' saying is true!

But I decided that seeing it was an ANONYMOUS comment that I couldn't at least answer her by mail or make her complaint right- I would answer here instead ;-)

Yes you get what you pay for and a lot more - I spend a ton of hours making sure that I get my extractions to the highest quality you can use - keeping them realistically correct too.

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For only $1.50 - you received 13 items in all. Now that's less than 12c each??? For the amount of work that goes in to them- I think 12c per item is actually really CHEAP. I'm sorry that you found them useless. I tried to give a *variety* of products in it so that it was cheap enough for everyone to test my quality.

So I thought I would REVEAL the whole lot here now-

REVEAL

It's an eclectic mix of elements(both feminine and masculine) and a CU4CU texture plate.

So I decided to make up TWO FREEBIES today- one with this BAG-

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You can GRAB IT HERE.
http://www.4shared.com/file/134256586/3e6c0bd2/kb-bagcluser-1.html

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(STROKED product image- to see Quality of items.)

I just feel so sad that a lot of people out there expect so much for so little. It's a hobby for a lot of people yes - but like my other hobby oil painting- I  still pay for my paints and canvas etc? Why do a lot expect digital work to be so cheap - the hours are just as consuming.

OOOH - I got off track today - back to the quality issues out there ;-)

What issues do I find that bug me the most -and ones that get sent BACK from our quality department at DSO?- ( please note I've tried to recreate these and have not used any given designers goods but my own for showing purposes)

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#1 -Ever bought some of these??- Textures that are blurred and fuzzy at 100% - Well I have and have saved a LOT of them by adding some of my texture plates over them- it not only sharpens the fuzzy image but you give a *texture* to the paper as well. So not a bad buy I think at 12c?

#2

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That perfect Element looks GREAT at around 45% on your screen and on your windows viewer- which is how it will show it to you when you open it.

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I usually click the FULL VIEW Button on my windows viewer and then again at FULL SIZE in photo shop. (I have recreated the stuff that bugs me the most here- )

# ROUNDED and left over bits in corners.

# Fuzzy soft out of focus edges which means the whole item has a feathered edge on it which is any designers nightmare.

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I Apply a 1pt stroke to everything to check to strays and feathers ( my own and any bought products as I know they have to pass a quality check for both my personal use kits and CU kits)

You can see here that the stroke looks bigger than 1pt as the edge is feathered- the *active selection line* does not reach the element itself- there's that (feather gap*).-

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What the edge should look like with all bits and corners realistically done. Yes, this is how I do my extractions- I spend that extra amount of time to actually make sure that all those little *rounded bits* are gone and it looks like it should.

Do you get what you paid for?- Yeah I think so again and more.

Having a Commercial License on these products means you can make money for YOURSELF off them. At the prices digital-scrap-booking CU items go for- it's a real STEAL!

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GIVE IT HORNS- Collab Grab Bag , with only the HIGHEST QUALITY commercial use tools and products by KimB and Disasterpiece Studios.

10 FULL SIZED products

all Quality checked and ready to use with peace of mind.

EXCLUSIVE to DigiScrapVault.

Full product previews are available in store!

EVERY DESIGNER AT DSV has ONLY QUALITY products up for sale! Every kit or item up in the VAULT has been quality checked for strays, jaggy's, feathered edges and are there to save YOU money ,frustration and TIME.

I've added a little Quality SAMPLER FEBBIE here for CU use- kb-GIH-samper

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Full view with edge stroke.

You can pick it up here. http://www.4shared.com/file/134256330/30760b9e/kb-qualitysampler.html

Ok that's my *soap box* speech today- lol. I'll be back to myself tomorrow I promise. But just felt that this had to be said and shown.

BIG HUGS if you read it all the way through. MWAH