Kaisercraft Digi Creative Team

I'm on it. Woohoo! That is all.

Well, of course, that's not all! I'm super excited! Running round the room excited! It's my first time on a creative team, and what lovely talented ladies are on it with me. I was so excited when I got the e-mail to tell me, and we've all been chatting and creating for about a week now, but I'm such a fretter that I didn't mention it till now.

I always loved Kaisercraft's rhinestones and pearls, can't beat a bit of bling! I do miss that sometimes in my digi scrapping, there are products that mimic bling, but it's not the same.

So when I saw the call for the CT, I thought I'd have a go. I've been digiscrapping almost a year now, and felt ready to take the next challenge!

Here's the LO I created using the free Tag This along with a couple of elements from Designer Digitals.

I've been paper scrapping for 2 1/2 years, but I never felt particularly adventurous with it. I liked my pages, but I didn't tend to try exciting new techniques.

It's different with digi, I love trying out new things! I can't exactly say I've found my style yet, can many people? All I can say is that I'm having fun lol. I tend to veer between pages that look like paper ones, and pages that could only be digi. I'm in love with brushes and masks. I love being able to flip a brush, and so find it frustrating when I go back to my stamps and find a flourish reversed from the way I'd like it for my page.

I love the versatility of digi. The way elements can be resized, recoloured, flipped and blended to match to any page. I love that once I've bought a kit the papers are there to stay. No 'saving the best papers for something special'. No faffing over that first cut into a precious piece of patterned paper. With the undo button that's never a problem.

So, I guess I love my digi scrapping. And you know the strangest thing? i always swore I'd never try it. I'd seen too many pages with oversize text floating, or fake-looking ribbons. I just couldn't see the point of using pretend ribbon when I had 10 jars of real ones.

That all changed when I took the Stories in Hand class at Jessica Sprague's site. The whole class was fantastic (and p.s. there's a new free class starting tomorrow if anyone's looking for another challenge), and the last task asked us to create a LO using a template. She provided a video tutorial to talk us through it. I was honestly hooked from that moment!

I love how many friends I've made over the last year, and indeed through scrapping in general. It truly is a wonderful, friendly and welcoming community!