Mandys CIJ Chat Challenge

So you have been browsing the store during the Christmas in July sales? Can you identify kits? Can you search by designer? Well this is a challenge for you.

If you missed my Chat (where were you???) then you missed Santa and the gorgeous freebie that the amazing Marcee Duggar handed out - MARCEE ROCKS!

BUT THERE IS STILL TIME TO WIN A PRIZE...
Complete the challenge in the CIJ Forum http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/forum/showthread.php?p=878463#post878463 (not I am not coding this to make it pretty)

It’s simple – 16 products currently in the DSP Store, 16 squares, 16 designers – all you have to do is identify the products shown on the blocks – each square represents a designer’s kit or value collection. Send me a Private Message or e-mail for a chance of one of the lucky draw prizes from me.

MandyT's Saturday Morning 5am Chat Challenge at Digital Scrapbook place

Teaser - MandyTs match the Designer and Kit Challenge – 5am Christmas Around the World chat with Mandy Tregaskis - Celebrate Christmas in July at http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=365547

So you have been browsing the store during the Christmas in July sales? Can you identify kits? Can you search by designer? Well this is a challenge for you.

It’s simple – 16 products currently in the DSP Store, 16 squares, 16 designers – all you have to do is identify the products shown on the blocks - CURRENTLY HIDDEN UNDER THE On the Rooftops Page Kit..


Come to the 24 hour chat in the DSP Chat Room at 5am… where I will reveal the 16 decorated squares – each square will represent a designer’s kit or value collection. The first person to send me the correct answer wins a prize, then there will be two more lucky draw prizes from me.


Browse the store and possibly win a prize – to me that is a win win situation!

a Letter to my Younger-self

A Letter to my younger self.


DSP Travel Mega Kit by DSP Designers
Butterfly wings: SVC Free Your Mind - by Nicole Young


Journaling:

Dear Amanda,

I know you... you do not know me... but we are intimately connected... you see, I am your future... I have travelled the path you are still going to take, so I can tell you that your journey is just beginning.


I am not going to tell you the paths and pitfalls that await you, as each and every choice you make will build the person I am today. And, while the adult me may have moments when I wish I had opted for the more dangerous, more 'out there on the edge' choice... I acknowledge that any change in the past may change who and what I am today; and again the truth is that I really do not want things to be any different. Don't get me wrong, there are things I wish were different, but this is who I am in 2010 and I would not want to change a single thing.

I am not going to tell you details about your husband, children or studies and career. All these wonderful things will happen regardless, and although you hate surprises some things should just not be something expected or a given. Life is, after all, an adventure; a journey and not a destination; a process of growth and discovery and not just an achievement. Take time, enjoy the trip.

What I would like to do is to remind you that you are unique and special, and those insecurities you have - lots of people have them! I would like to tell you that you are strong, far stronger than you realise now. Embrace your strengths and accept your areas of weakness, knowledge is power.

For all those times you feel like you are on the outside looking in... use the opportunity to study people, this is a skill, a strength, trust your judgement and instincts... they are sound. Then open the door and join in more!

It is true that you cannot please all of the people all of the time. Some people will like you, others will not - regardless of who you and what you are - understand that is human nature, get over it and celebrate those people who share life's journey with you. They are the people who count!

Smile more, be more accepting and don't be so hard on yourself.
Your name means Beloved... remember this ALWAYS... you are loved.
Spread your wings and fly, all it takes is a leap of faith.
Quisque Sibi Verus.

Mandy (July 2010)

3 IMPORTANT LESSONS FROM A WORD CUP

LESSONS FROM A WORLD CUP by MANDY TREGASKIS

• HOW TO WIN

I see Spain is going to win the World Cup...


Its true...
the Octopus has chosen! Perhaps the octopus has a thing for Torres?


LESSON: Your team must bribe the octopus to win the World Cup. Or you need to turn him into nice calamari steak with a little lemon butter and chilli.

• FIELD INVASIONS

Did you see two men run onto the field in the last match?


1. One very good looking Italian in a Superman shirt - he got a light fine in the FIFA court - the newspaper said the women were all in love with him - plus he got a light fine because he did it for world peace! Good looking and World Peace - what a winner. He had planned to run onto the field using a wheelchair to get close.


2. The other was a German. He did not get off so lightly - he was not as good looking - plus he ran onto the field when a friend dared him.




LESSON: Only try running onto the field if you are good-looking, prepared to be photographed without your shirt on - and support World Peace.

• GETTING TO THE GAME ON TIME

Did you see that about 1900 people missed the game in Durban when their flights could not land at King Shaka airport?




LESSON: Fly a lot earlier if you want to get to the game. Or do what the rich do - Charter your own flight and park illegally at the airport so that the commercial flights have to turn around and go back!

Fly your Flag in a Layout Challenge at DSP

When the FIFA World Cup arrived in South Africa the country was festooned with flags.

So this July, my challenge to you is to fly your flag in a layout:

It can be a photo of your flag, flags on clothing/face paint, decorations... how you choose to fly your flag is up to you.

Challenge runs until the end of July when there will be a lucky Prize Draw for a DSP store voucher!

Double-duty is fine (the current Club Digital is perfect for many different flags) or post your layout in the General Gallery for Challenges and link it back in my Fly your Flag Challenge Thread

 

Live Love ORANGE!

My Team is Holland!

Live Love Orange

 

LVC Live And Love Series by Christine Gundersen
Wildflower Wishes QC by Elizabeth Weaver

Oranjegekte.
I do love my vuvuzela - you know if you can't beat them... join them

Fly Your Flag

Digi-scrapper inspiration piece - July Digital Scrapbook Place Newsletter by MandyT


I have a confession to make, I am not really a flag person, or at least I wasn’t until living through the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa.


Suddenly every street corner had flag sellers, cars were sporting at least one little flag or more, or mirror-sox; houses, gates, walls… suddenly the whole country was a flutter with bright color. That’s when the nagging started: “Mom, can we get a flag for our car, please…” At every traffic light I became the target as I clearly had no brightly colored pendant fluttering in the breeze. Telling children they had their own little flags at home, made less than no impression at all. I pointed out some cars had an over-zealous six or seven flags each and my argument was that those cars more than made up for mine… a tactic that failed miserably. Eventually I gave in and bought some mirror-sox. Little did I know that that was only the beginning of our household’s flag fest.


My house is now festooned like a building housing a United Nations summit… I even have a FIFA flag proclaiming Football is Life! Yet, I love it. There really is something special about a flag fluttering in the wind, the colors vividly glowing in the last of the evening light. Somehow, a flag seems to carry with it the hope, pride and passions of a nation and that is something truly inspirational.


So this July, my challenge to you is to fly your flag in a layout!
Watch the challenge forums at DSP to take part in my Fly your Flag challenge for a change to win a DSP store voucher!

just like a Waving Flag - Left-hand side layout

Good Life Kit - by Marcee Duggar
Red, White and Boom - by Christine Gundersen
Patriotic Stripes Alpha - by Heidi Kuester
All above part of Club Digital July 2010 Content.

Extra DSP Products:
Flourishing Style 2 page quick click by Tina Chambers

Photos taken at the Holland vs Japan World Cup match at Durban's Moses Mabhida Stadium: loved this photo I took of the South African flag being waved by a supporter a few rows down. I duplicated the layer extracted the flag, and added a shadow. I then desaturated the photograph on the lower level and attached it to a layer mask - part of Tina's QC template.

100% Digital by Mandy T

just like a Waving Flag - Right-hand page

This is the right-hand side of a double-page layout.

DSP Credits:
Good Life Kit - by Marcee Duggar
Red, White and Boom - by Christine Gundersen
Patriotic Stripes Alpha - by Heidi Kuester
All above part of Club Digital July 2010 Content.

Extra DSP Products:
Flourishing Style 2 page quick click by Tina Chambers

Photos taken at the Holland vs Japan World Cup match at Durban's Moses Mabhida Stadium: A Japan Supporter wears his flag, South African flags adorn a parked car, Chilean flag and of course Dutch fans waving their flag after their victory.

100% digital.