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I’ve also desided to attend the “Next Designer Contest”.

It will run for the whole month of September, and our first assignment was:

“Your Round 1 Challenge is to create a mini kit using the same palette, kit name and theme, as well as the same paper & element limitations.

Theme: Last days of summer
Name: Summer Harvest
Palette:

Use the above color palette & theme to create a mini-kit. You may add black & white if needed, you may add 1 metal of your choice.

Your mini-kit must include exactly 3 papers and 6 elements. You must include at least one clustered element. All of your papers and elements must be created at 300 dpi. The only file types accepted are jpg and png. Your preview must be 600X600px, 72dpi, and a jpg file. Your preview must include all papers, elements, kit name and your new Designer “name”.

All of your designs are expected to meet theStudio Quality Standards:
You may use commercial use/designer resource products in the creation of your mini-kit. You may use more than one photo-editing/vector program to create your kit.

Please do not break any copyright laws in this competition–you will be disqualified if you do. You must state all of the software programs you used in your terms of use. You must also state what commercial products you used in your terms of use and give credit to the originalDesigner.

All previews must be posted in the Annual Next Designer Contest Gallery: NDC Round 1: 01SEP – 04SEP 2010. Please post your download links there as well. You may use any outside host including 4shared/rapidshare/boxnet etc. You must use ZIP files only. Do not use RAR. You may blog all you like about the contest, however, you may not reveal your contestant identity.

Voting will be done by registered Studio users, however please note that you may be disqualified by theStudio for breaking any rules. Please, please, please be careful. Ask if you are unsure, we are more than happy to help you.

Round 1 kit will be due September 4, 2010 by 3:00 pm EST.
Round 1 voting will go up after all kits are submitted.
Round 1 results will be posted September 6, 2009 by 3:00 am EST.

I have worked to make these rules as clear and easy to understand as possible. However, if you have any questions please post here or PM me. I will take all questions and create a separate FAQ for everyone to benefit from (I will leave your name off).

Good luck!”

The funny part is that we have to post our minis under a secret identity, and therefor I’m not allowed to advertise for it here. But you may follow this competition here: NDC

I have joined theStudio Layout Artist Competition.

Each week we get a kit to make a layout with.

This week we got this beautiful kit by Mistybelle:

This is my layout:

Autumn Joy:

Kit: “Autumn Kiss” by Mitsybelle
Font: Docteur Atomic

We went to look at what happened at elvefestivalen in Drammen. Here are some pictures:

We have three new items in the store today:

Grids templates:
* These templates are challenging with its boxes and grids. At the same time they are playful and they are giving you lot´s of room to let creativity go wild

“Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don’t fit into boxes.”
Tori Amos

This templatepack contains 6 templates.

Butterfly Templates:

* Inspired by butterflies this templatepack is perfect for those light and dreamy LOs. Use them as they are or just let fantasy show you how you want to layout to look like. Great for inspiration or if you need several layouts with the same style.

“Butterflies are self propelled flowers.”
R.H. Heinlein

This templatepack contains 6 templates.

“Worn Out”:

* Worn Out is hitting the stores and this is a kit like you never have seen.

This is made for those fantasy-layouts that really stand out in galleries and albums.

“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.”
Iris Murdoch

This kit contains:
* 14 papers
* 48 elements
* 1 alpha

All of our kits are available here:

* ScrapElf

* My Life And Scrap

* ScrapScandiStyle

Elise has begun 1. grade this week, and here are some pictures from the first day:

We have now been divided into teams, and I am part of the blue team.  There are 10 teams totally.

Yesterday we got a challenge. It was to make a logo for the whole competition.

Our logo looks like this:

If you want to help us win this challenge, click on the picture to get to the voting area. Remember that I’m a part of the BLUE TEAM.

I’d really appreciate it if you voted for us

Our first challenge in Designer Survivor was to make a template.

Click on the picture to get to the gallery…

Here is a full size version of my LO:

Credits:
Kits:  “This Year” by ScrapElf 
           “This Year – Forever Summer” by ScrapElf
           “This Year – My Garden” by ScrapElf
Font: Problem Secretary

I’ve desided to attend the “Designer Survivor” challenge.

I’m really looking forward to challenge myself as a designer.

Missile Master

Promotér din side også

Here’s another freebie for you – 9 papers.

Click on the preview to get it.