They are ready!!!

So, I have feverishly been working on this project for a few weeks now, even pressing my poor husband into working on the website, and I am finally ready to unveil it….

Personalized holiday photo cards! They are now available through my website:

http://www.scrapfancy.com/cards

I am so excited about this, and I am really happy with how the designs came out. Some are very clean and graphic, while others are “scrapbook inspired”—they are much more intricately layered (digitally, of course), and “dimensional” than most other photo cards—lots of great shading and details on these. I wanted very much to make a line that was different, one that would make photos shine and look really special.

Many thanks to my friends who have given me their firstborn (or at least photos of said firstborns) for my samples. It’s so much easier designing when you’ve got adorable pictures at your fingertips! Thanks guys!

Best things about these cards:

1. The designs!
2. The cards are printed at a lab that caters to pro photographers. I got the test prints back, and I am happy to report they are awesome—way beyond what the glazed-eye clerk puts out at Walmart!! The colors and clarity are great.
3. They are customized by me, which means there is a pair of human eyes deciding how best to crop and enhance the photos, and how best to position the type, which is VERY unlike the automated photo kiosks at discount stores
4. You can order from home—no waiting in line at the kiosk while your darling kiddo throws random items into your basket and the lady in front of you rotates her picture round and round, and after ten minutes decides she wants to start over with a different picture for her card.

And there is an exciting bonus--order by November 15 to be entered into a drawing for a pre-designed mini scrapbook (holiday themed)—this is a super cute chunky board book album that you just add your pictures to! So check out the site now and you can finish your cards before the frantic holiday chaos begins, and perhaps you may win!

What month is it??

So you know how gearing up for the holidays just starts earlier and earlier every year? I mean I remember my friend making an offhand remark in July one time about how she had to stock the store she worked at with their new Christmas and holiday items that weekend. Incredible.

I have never been one of those people who has Christmas planned out (gifts purchased, cards written and sent out, house decorated) way in advance. But this year, for Scrap Fancy, I have done something waay out of character and thought ahead about the holidays. So, my brain is really confused, because I am totally immersed in planning something really awesome related to the holidays--in my mind, it is somewhere in late November and early December...I have to keep looking at the calendar to see what day and month it is.

So, be on the lookout for an announcement in the coming days--I am so very excited about what I've been working on and can't wait to show everyone!

Ok, ok, going to reveal my geekiness...

Just a silly post today about worlds colliding. Those of you who know me will remember that Steve turned me into a MMORPG playing geek after we met. Well, I was sooo surpised and relieved to find that the World of Warcraft and the World of Scrapbooking are not mutually exclusive!! I am one person who has participated in both of these very unrelated activities. However for the longest time I thought I must be the only person that would like these two very different things. I mean sometimes in WoW people would be shocked that I was female in real life...yet in scrapbooking it's very hard to find a man anywhere.

But recently while reading one of my scrapping mags, I came to a dead stop on a layout and just stared. I mean, the design of the layout was really great, but what caught my eye was that this person, who was a CK Hall of Fame winner and contributing editor to the magazine--this person, who was an amazing scrapper, was also...a face-melting troll priest! I had to run and show Steve that I was in fact NOT the only one if the world who embraced both monster slaying AND preserving memories! I was so excited...really!

Anyway, all this came to mind due to that scrapper's recent blog entry, and the timing was just funny because Friday night I laughed soo hard at South Park's spoof on World of Warcraft...

So now you all know...I am a MMORPG fan...and I love to scrapbook.