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Blog Hop | New Releases Made & Montage

Welcome to the last stop on the Ormolu Blog Hop! We are celebrating the arrival of the two newest collections Made and Montage! Make sure you check out the shop today and all of the new items!
Also, be sure to stop by each blog, check out the projects and leave a comment for a chance to win! 

I'm here showing off one of the two newest stamp sets, Montage. 
It includes some fun little digital time elements along with some time sayings! I thought it was perfect for documenting my lack of sleep due to having a little one.  

I used the open digital '8' with some light colored ink to stamp three '8's'. Then I went back with the filled '8' and inked it with a bright red ink (kinda like what typical alarm clocks look like in the middle of the night) and used a baby wipe to wipe away extra portions of it so it would only stamp the areas for the '3' and '0's'. I also used the 'A.M' stamp along side the '3:00'.  

To finish it off I stamped the 'Take a Picture...' stamp along a file folder tab. 

 

Here's a look at the journaling using one of the new Montage Storytellers (sized for Project Life!) and one of the new Montage pennants. 

The giveaway for this blog is the Montage Stamp Set! Leave a comment below and I will pick a person to send one of these awesome little stamps sets to :) 

 

If you missed out on any of the other blog stops, here is the complete list: 

 

Latrice Murphy

Diana Fisher

Valerie O'Neall

Jen Kinkade

Jen Chapin  

Angie Gutshall

Ormolu blog (you are here!) 

EDITED TO ANNOUNCE WINNER: 

Congrats Amanda J! Please contact me with your address information so I can get your prize out to you :) 

 

Giveaway on Ali Edwards Blog & Exclusive Flair this Weekend

 

 

This weekend I am doing a giveaway on Ali Edwards' blog. Any orders placed throughout this weekend will receive a 'Christmas Magic' flair button. Be sure to head to Ali's blog and leave a comment for a chance to win a $30 gift certificate to the shop.

I will be updating Wednesday's giveaway winner later on today- check back on that post for the winner. 

ALSO: Still have a small handful of the new stamps left! I've used them the last three weeks straight on my Project Life layouts. Perfect for adding a quick something to a basic journaling card. LOVE the 'He Said' stamp a lot lately for capturing all of the funny things Jude is saying. 

AND: I have my December Daily album cover all ready and pieces of the interior done. I don't usually do the pages in advance so much- as I just gather things and have a plan ready to go...which is probably why I end up finishing it in January...

DON'T FORGET: November 30th is the last day to apply for the Creative Team call. Lot's of applications coming in-Is your's one of them? 

Giveaway | Project Dig Deep

Today I am SO excited to be able to giveaway a Project Dig Deep eBook! 

This looks like a great chance to shake things up a bit with Project Life!

Here is the info: 

Discover and share exciting new stories within your Project Life system

http://www.bigpictureclasses.com/ebooks/dig-deep.php

 Becky Higgins' Project Life system, which is built around the idea of scrapbooking quickly inside divided page protectors, has revolutionized the way thousands of people approach memory keeping.

 

We're thrilled to unveil the first eBook to dive deep into the Project Life system, revealing seven amazing strategies that could revolutionize the way you approach Project Life!

 This is your chance to join seven avid scrapbookers as they get inspired by their own recent scrapbook pages and then "dig deep" to tell seven types of expanded stories within their ongoing Project Life albums.

 Whether you scrapbook chronologically or in a story-based format, you'll love these concrete strategies for discovering and sharing meaningful stories. You'll be inspired to expand on a loved one's personality, flash back to the past, show off a photo tour of a beloved place, create a tribute page to a loved one who has passed on, explore an important relationship, and more!

 Meaningful, story-based scrapbooking has never been easier—or more fun!

 Meet the talented ladies whose stories compose the eBook

 Amy Schubert

Annette Haring

Elisa Blaha Cripe

Jessica Turner

Kam Altar

Megan Anderson

Melanie Britt

 Get your own copy of Project Dig Deep here!

 For more Project Life inspiration follow our Pinterest Board, Join the free BPC community or visit BeckyHiggins.com.

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TO ENTER:  please leave a comment on this post by Friday, November 23. 

Winner will be announced on this post on Saturday, November 24th.

EDITED: Winner of the Project Dig Deep E-book is: 

Kylie Beller 

"Tried Project Life for the first time this year and loving absolutely everything about it! Would be thrilled to win this awesome prize, thanks for the opportunity :)"

 

The Winner of Cocoa Daisy Santa Fe Flair is...

Michele May! 

Please contact me at ormoludesign (at) gmail (dot) com with your address so we can get these sent out to you right away! 

Thanks so much everyone! 

Exclusive Cocoa Daisy Flair Giveaway!

I was SO excited to team up with Christine from Cocoa Daisy and create a set of flair for the August Santa Fe Sunset Kit! The kit is sold out...and so is the add-on embellishment kit that includes the entire set of flair- but you can still win a set of the Santa Fe Sunset Flair!  

Enter to win this exclusive to Cocoa Daisy Ormolu flair one of four ways:

1. Leave a comment here on this blog post, make sure you tell us you're entering the Cocoa Daisy giveaway.
2. Leave a comment on Cocoa Daisy's blog, make sure you tell them Ormolu sent you.
3. LIKE the Ormolu FB page, make sure you tell us you're entering the Cocoa Daisy giveaway.
4. LIKE Cocoa Daisy's FB page, make sure you comment that we sent you.

We'll keep the contest open for a couple of days, then pick a random winner. Make it easy for us to get ahold of you so we can pass your information on to Cocoa Daisy. Once we have your name/address, we can send that information to them and your Ormolu flair will be on it's way to your doorstep. 

 

Summer 2012 Flair & Giveaway Day 3

Who's looking forward to summer? 

For some of you it might have already kinda started. For me I think it will officially start when my daughter gets out of school next Friday and we begin our 'summer schedule' (so looking forward to that!)

I've been tucking these little 'Summer | 2012' flair buttons  into orders that were placed since the new items came out on Friday but I wanted to share so you know to look for it in your order. This is an exclusive flair button that I will include in orders throughout the summer (well, until I end up on maternity leave in August!) I am planning on making a little mini-book to document our summer adventures, which are mostly close to home because of the whole pregnancy thing. 

 
Today's giveaway is a set of Bungalow Clock Flair (either digital or analog style) because I am just loving how these can be used for so many different types of things. Not only to document the everyday but for projects like schedules, chore charts, calendars... 

AND of course I will throw in a 'Summer | 2012' Flair Button ( you have to have one of those!)

Leave a comment on today's post by 8 p.m. PST today and a winner will be announced on tomorrow's blog post. 

Don't forget to check back on tomorrow's post to see if you won...and to enter into another giveaway!

-Kaitlin 

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And the winner of yesterday's giveaway for the tag sale |sale tags is: 

Suzanna, contact Kaitlin at ormoludesign(at)gmail(dot)com so we can get those out to you! 

Thanks everyone for the comments!

a little peek

I cannot wait until the new release can be shown to you all. The color palettes and the new products are amazing...and as usual, I say Kaitlin has outdone herself this time around!

Here is a layout I created with some of the new goodies, mostly from the Bungalow line:

There are a couple of other colors from this line that didn't make it on to this layout, but the combination is fresh and beautiful! Can you spy the new stuff?!

Let's take a closer look:

Fabric strips...labels...dots n spots:)

dots n spots...flair...sale tags.

Bungalow is just one of the new lines being released and has a family/home theme, but is still amazing for everyday scrapbooking. Hope you enjoyed the peek...make sure you check back for some more peeks, and then the full reveal next week:)

And if you want to win some new products before you buy them, check out THIS post!

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Get it First | a new release giveaway!

For the last few weeks I have been getting ready for a new release. I plan on having the release ready to go later next week and so over the next week or so the creative team will be sharing sneak peeks of the new release in their layouts and pages. 

So, as I'm getting other projects out of the way and working on stocking up the shop- I thought...how fun would it be to get some of the goods out to someone before anyone else can even get them? Fun, right? 

Leave a comment in this post between now and Friday night midnight eastern time to be entered to win a fun assortment of all new product! The winner will be announced on Saturday night on this same post. 

Don't forget to come back and check to see if you've won!

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The winner of the giveaway is Mary R. 

Mary, email me at ormoludesign (at) gmail (dot) com with your address so I can get your package out to you right away! 

Thank you so much everyone for all of the comments! We will have sneak peeks of new items on and off throughout the week and then Friday the new items should be up in the shop (fingers crossed!)

 

Challenge & Giveaway

Seriously awesome giveaway on Courtney's blog today to celebrate her new book, A Sweethaven Summer (which is now available on Amazon & Kindle!).  You can enter the challenge which includes a $30 gift certificate to the shop (yay! I am so excited to be a part of this!), Creative Foundations-a new book by Vicki Boutin,  Stamps from Unity Stamps, a prize pack from Scrapbook Adhesives, a copy of Card Maps Volume 2 and a lot more scrapbooking product! 

What are you waiting for? Go check it out :) 

Scrapping with Instagram shots

Since finally getting an iPhone last Spring, I've been bitten by the Instagram bug, and I'm thoroughly hooked on it. I was an avid Flickr user before I discovered IG, and even went so far as to try and complete a 365 by posting there everyday. However, that fell by the wayside sometime around mid-May,  and I decided to give it up, as I just didn't have time to sit and edit photos on a daily basis. Enter IG- it was a perfect alternative to my big DSLR, and so easy to snap a quick photo and edit it  in camera using the various overlays. Also, since my kids are at an age where they are strongly *ahem* opposed to me taking their photo, this seems to be a more subtle approach, as they sometimes don't even realize they're having their photo taken. ;)  I'm enjoying the 'everyday' type shots I get, and the absolute practicality of not having to drag the big camera everywhere I go. The print quality is obviously not as good as my Nikon, but I don't mind sacrificing that as a trade off. Here's a layout I did last week, using a favourite shot of my son and his BFF ( I like to call him my 3rd son, as he's here pretty much 24/7) hanging out on a summer afternoon. This is such a typical scene in my home, and I'm happy I had my phone handy. ( Although, if you're anything like me, your iphone rarely leaves your side, LOL).

Post your link to a page you've done using your IG shots ( or any phone shot, if you don't happen to have an iPhone) and I'll draw a name for a chance to win a package of these sweet '2-Day Hooray' buttons that I have doubles of:

These are perfect for everyday shots like mine, or for those of you who have embarked on PL, n'est pas? :)

 Good luck, I can't wait to see your layouts! I'll post the ( random) winner on Wednesday, February 8th.

* It is not necessary to use Ormolu products to participate in the challenge :) 

 

**** Updated with my random.org pick... Kristy G, you're the lucky recipient of those cute buttons! Please email me at melaniedotlouetteatgmaildotcom with your mailing info. Thanks to all who played along!

 -Melanie

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