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May 31, 2007

Notes From Jackie

Today marks the end of May - as well as the last day and sad farewell to two of our Design Team members - Beshka Kueser and Sonya Shaw. These ladies have inspired us with their incredible talents, laughed and cried with us and been wonderful team members and friends. We will miss you both greatly, thank you for sharing your time and creativity with us!

Summer Scrapfest is here and starts TOMORROW!! Get all the details HERE. This is our 4th year of Summer Scrapfest and we have made some exciting changes to make it even easier to participate - please join us!

A few quick notes on new products coming soon:

  • Autumn Leaves' new June releases are coming soon - Foliage, French Twist additions, new clear stamps, and Rhonna rub ons!
  • Sassafras Lass' new stamp release will be here next week!
  • We've ordered 2 of BoBunny's newest lines - arriving next week - Santorini and Paris.

p.s. Don't miss our My Mind's Eye promotion - now through June 5th!

 
Doodlebug Delights
By: Beshka Kueser, Design Team Member

Doodlebug Pigment Inks

What do you think of when you think of Doodlebug? Bright colors? Fun prints? Unique & whimsical products? Now you can add inks to that list. Doodlebug has introduced a line of archival safe pigment inks in 12 doodlebug colors.

Pigment inks are made from 100% pigment and unlike dye-based inks, they are thicker, richer, and fade resistant. Thus, they will create bright and vivid transfers and resist fading. Pigment inks work well on a wide variety of materials including vellum, photos, even wood. To avoid smudges when using pigment inks on coated paper, embossing is recommended due to slow drying time.

Now for the question on everyone’s mind. Are Doodlebug pigment inks Doodlebug colors?

Doodlebug Beetle Black:

black = black

Doodlebug Bon Bon:

bon bon = brown

Doodlebug Lady Bug:

Ladybug = red

Doodlebug Cupcake:

cupcake = pink

 

Doodlebug Bumble Bee:

bumblebee = yellow

Doodlebug Tangerine:

tangerine = (while I would guess tangerine would be orange, this ink actually transfers a more yellow color, a bit darker than bumblebee, but more yellow than orange)

While viewing ink colors online may not always accurately provide you with the color you will get with stamp transfer, the Doodlebug inks seem to be true & coordinate well with Doodlebug product lines. What you see is what you get with the exception of tangerine which produces more of a yellow tint than an orange tint. The inks worked wonderfully with both foam & clear acrylic stamps, producing full & clean images each time. I got great transfer & needed little pressure to transfer image to paper.

**Note: I did all of my testing on white cardstock. Using colored cardstock or other materials may cause color variations. For the examples I used a foam “m” and a clear acrylic heart from Ki.

 

Design Team Examples

To view all layout ideas and products used, please be sure to visit the Design Team Gallery: Doodlebug Delights

Or Click each image below to see a larger view!

Beshka

Susan

Wendy

Sonya

 

Kate

Margaret

 

Gallery Picks of the Week

By: Jackie Bogert and the LM Design Team

Nichole does a great job of making the new Love Elsie line her own:

What a beautiful combination of Chloe's Closet, Doodlebug Sugar Coated cardstock, and Primas from Canzlynn98

Gina's nice shot does a wonderful job of focusing on the great image she captured!

 

Digital Tip

This weeks tip is an Adobe Photoshop Tutorial on using the channel mixer

http://mb.lifetimemoments.com/viewtopic.php?p=2425239#2425239

 
 

New In Stock

NEW:

RESTOCK:
 

Coming Soon

  • Autumn Leaves new June release
  • Sassafrass Lass stamps
  • BoBunny new collections
  • restock of your favorites!
 


Sara Meyers, Newsletter editor sara@lifetimemoments.com
Kate J. Design Team Coordinator kate@lifetimemoments.com
Jackie Bogert , Owner jackie@lifetimemoments.com

Design Team (Sara Meyers, Miranda Isenberg, Madeline Fox, Kate J., Susan Berg, Tracy Austin, Sonya Shaw, Wendy Chang, Franny Lesniak, Nancy Thomas, Margaret Winters, Melissa Thigpen, Beshka Kueser, Cecilie Malling and Vickie Brown.)  designteam@lifetimemoments.com

 

 

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