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Picklemama Report Welcome to our first newsletter for 2010! New year's resolutions, scrapping goals, and Project 365 are often the buzz phrases around this time of year, so we asked our team to share with us their scrapping goals for 2010 which you can read about below - maybe you share some of the same goals? Project 365 is where you take a photo a day, and at the end of the year, you have this wonderful collection of photos to remind you of the sorts of things that happened in that time - it also prompts you to take more photos, which is so important! This all sounds easy enough, but when you incorporate downloading and editing photos, and sharing them online in a pretty way, it can soon become quite time-consuming, so it is not something for the faint-hearted! We have a few tools available in store which might be of interest to Project 365ers:
Pop Deals! For two days only, as a special newsletter promotion, the following items are on sale at 25% off!
What are your scrapping goals for 2010? When a new year approaches, people usually start thinking about the sorts of things they would like to achieve for the year ahead. Well, the new year is here, so we asked the team what some of their scrapping goals are for 2010. I myself, would simply like to scrap occasionally again! Have you thought about what sorts of things you would like to try, or like to achieve this year with regards to your scrapping? Maybe our team's goals will help you find some inspiration!
Quick Tip - Journaling Text within a Path This is a great tip for journaling on layouts, particularly if you want your journaling to take on a particular shape. The instructions below are for Photoshop CS (though it may work in other versions and possibly even in Photoshop Elements).
Amanda's Fabulous Font Find! This month in my Fabulous Font Finds section I wanted to share with you a font that is perfectly perfect for all your romantic needs. Yes it is that time of year, when a scrapbooker's thoughts turn to chronicling the special people in their lives, and this font is the cream of the crop!
Created by Gazoz and available from Dafont, Mutlu Ornamental is a gorgeously swirly font that just reeks of Olde Worlde romance. I have a passion for flourishing fonts and I can tell you that this font out-flourishes them all! I hope you enjoy Mutlu Ornamental, and if you are on the hunt for more Valentine Fonts, then follow this link to discover a range of lacy, lovely and laughable love fonts!
Special Birthday Deals from the Artisan Notebook, Artisan Guild, and Guild Designer Dee Bee Designs!
The Artisan Notebook is turning three! And to celebrate, you can stock up on heaps of inspiration! Receive 20% off all single issues of The Artisan Notebook, or, get extra value deals with our bundled specials:
The Artisan Guild is also turning three, so all Guild Encore Kits are currently 40% off!
And last but certainly not least, all products by Guild Designer Dee Bee Designs are currently 40% off!
Gallery Standouts! Keep on scrapping and uploading to the gallery, you never know when your layout might be featured here!
The motherload of Diamante Designs products has arrived! The Grand Opening of Diamante Designs at PBP is definitely in full swing, with an absolute load of products arriving in the last few days! I heard a rumour that there are still some brand new releases to come, and everything is currently 30% off until the end of January!
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This Issue : Participate for your chance to win PBP gift certificates!  This month's challenge is about using brushes! Just use a brush or two on your layout and show us what you can do! We have some fabulous brush sets in the shop that might spark some inspiration!
This month we are lifting from Petit-lips's gallery! We just love her elegant style and uncomplicated yet classy layouts. Post your layout in the forumBEFORE the challenge closing date for a chance to win a $10 gift certificate prize!
The Photography Challenge this month is to photograph something starting with R... red, resolutions, rock climbing? (Above photos 1. resolutions are failed, 2. Saturday Rainbow, 3. Rock Climbing at Centenial Glen, Blue Mountains, NSW. via flickr)
This month's Pickle Jar challenge is about Obsessions! Let's face it we all have them, but some are more obvious than others. So this month we are going to scrap about them! What are you or someone you know obsessed with? Is it that you can't leave home without your make-up on, or does a child have a toy they can't live without?
Get a head-start on your next page and join in this great Template challenge with the fabulous Armina! Go With All Your Heart – snaggletooth75 The gallery this month was just filled to the brim with some stunning Christmas and winter pages and it was very hard to choose between them! While they were all so very lovely, in amongst all the sparkly white winter pages and the fabulous Christmas pages, this page stood out with its mouth-watering colours and funky design. The vertical placement of the word strips and stitches draws the eye directly to the cute photo with the subject’s face peeking through the elements with a cheeky twinkle. The hand-drawn elements also add a delightful touch of whimsy to this page. The complimentary background paper provides the perfect backdrop for these vibrant elements! Congratulations snaggletooth75! Please PM fazzbech via the forums to receive a special gift certificate for your next order in the pop shop!
*New* Universal Desktop Wallpaper!
Since the introduction of our monthly desktop wallpaper freebie, something has always bothered me... the fact that our wallpapers won't suit everyone's screens. So I came up with the idea of offering universal desktop wallpapers, starting this month! You can download HERE or click on the image above, no coupon required! Instructions for use can be downloaded HERE. Let us know what you think!
Photography Corner
Flowers are such a simple, but very effective prop! In this photo of beautiful baby Matisse, the flowers create a lovely, soft background, whilst the eye is drawn to those gorgeous blue eyes. Try popping a flower behind the ear of one of your female subjects, or if no suitable flowers are in season, add some digital ones! Love Quotes! Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! ~Thomas Hood When love is not madness, it is not love. ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee. ~English saying 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 Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. ~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 We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. ~Author Unknown Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. ~William Shakespeare Kisses are a better fate than wisdom. ~e.e. cummings Who, being loved, is poor? ~Oscar Wilde Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. ~Robert Browning The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. ~George Moore We loved with a love that was more than love. ~Edgar Allan Poe Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-
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