Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Trimming the Tree and more~

December chaos continues.....so there's been a lack of posts. We were "forced" to go artificial tree hunting over the weekend when our other tree decided to go into permanent retirement while being stored in our garage. Our search took us many places looking for the right size tree for our low ceiling home, one at the right price for our December budget, and for me wishing for white lights on the tree. I had to compromise on my white lights as the kids wanted colored lights. Overall, I am happy with our new tree. We decorated it and the rest of the house over the weekend. I've been searching for years for the perfect topper, until then, the red bow is what tops our tree. I'll "know" the topper when I find it, you know? Now I hope I can get in to Christmas mood - it's been seriously lacking this year - by now I am usually done shopping and wrapping, not the case this year. We probably have just 25% of our shopping done and nothing wrapped as you can tell!

On another note, I've been asked and accepted a new design team member position with Gina K's newly created Card Kit Design Team and am very excited and thrilled to be working with Gina and her crew!

Gina's K's announcement here

And today, on SCS, you can find the Tag Box tutorial as a featured project. Complete with a video that Morgan, in her very small amount of free time, filmed and edited down for me. Boy, chopping almost 5 minutes off makes for tough editing. Please be kind, this is my first video tutorial with sound - not something that I find comes easy for me. In person, you bet, I can do this easily, but on video, not so much! LOL

Tag Box Tutorial


Thanks for dropping by today!

V.~

11 comments:

Jenn said...

Congratulations on your new design team assignment. Love the tag box on SCS today :) Can't wait to give it a try!

Stefanie Staniak said...

Val, your video was great. No need to worry about doing it again, for sure.
Also, Congratulations on your Gina K assignment. Can't wait to see what you do with that.
Your tree is beautiful. I'm with you about the white lights but we always end up with color - oh well, it is pretty anyway !

Melissa Cash said...

Congrats on your new DT duties w/Gina K. Designs. I look forward to what the team has cookin' for all of us who hang out at StampTV.

Michelle said...

Congratulations, Val! Gina is lucky to have you and your awesome talent!

Theresa Momber said...

Valerie, we are so thrilled to have you join the team! Congrats!

Denise said...

Beautiful!! Thanks for sharing.

lisa808 said...

Congrats on your new DT position. Your tree is beautiful.

Barbara V said...

Valerie, your tag box tutorial is excellent! I totally forgot (hitting self on side of head with palm of hand!) that Scor-tape could be torn! Makes my work easier from now on.

Congratulations on the design team position. You will do them proud I am sure!

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Joanna in Ohio said...

Hi Val! This is my first time at your site and my first time leaving a comment on any blog. I found you through the Gina K website and want to thank you so much for this tutorial. I certainly do understand why you would not be inspired to post things like this. But it is so wonderful to have that I would be willing to pay for it. So I would like to suggest that you consider adding a button to your site labeled, perhaps, "Love it!", because I do love it. This button (labeled anything you want) could be connected to PayPal or some such site that can handle money transfers. I have often given "love it" offerings to programmers posting shareware that I find helpful. There's no set price . . . just what it is worth to the user. And no pressure from you to get paid. Just the opportunity for us to show our thanks. Hope this isn't too pushy. Just think that talent should be rewarded monetarily as well as emotionally. Again, thank you for sharing. I look forward to following your blog!

Jessica said...

You chose the perfect tree! It's lovely! TFS