GRAND OPENING CHALLENGES! yum, yum!

There are some great challenges going on this month with some freebies and of course, yummy prizes! My wonderful CTs are hosting these so read on! Our favorite layouts will get posted here! The gallery will not be open until a few weeks so these challenges will be hosted via the contact emails and the blog. Good luck!
Carina

CHALLENGE 1 {WHAT'S IN A NAME?)

HOSTED BY: Theresa Marie
START DATE: January 1st, 2008
END DATE: January 11th, 2008 (midnight)
PRIZE: $5 Gift Certificate or Siri Kit (You choose!)
CONTACT: theresamarie@diginirvana.com

I am big into names and their meaning, so I decided to challenge all of you to use Carina's items to create a layout about a name (yours, your child's or spouse, or whoever) and what their name means. Also, tell us how they got their name and if they fit their name meaning.

Design Focus: Try something new (let us know what you tried!) I've wanted to try stringing ribbon through letters for a little while now, and finally decided to give it a try!

HERE ARE MY DETAILS FOR MY LAYOUT - JOURNALING AND CREDITS:
Audrey Nicole
noble strength-people's victory
We had your name chosen a year before we found out we were pregnant. We actually stayed up until 2am talking about names and when we finally came up with "Audrey Nicole" we knew it was the perfect name. I was so excited when you were born and you were a girl! I was able to use this beautiful name. Even more so than how beautiful it sounded, was the meaning "noble strength" and "people's victory". We also asked your Grandma Linda to give us a list of Chinese names, and we chose "Lee Pei" from that list, meaning "beautiful" and "precious". It fits you so well and expresses perfectly what we feel when we admire you. One of our hopes is that you will have noble strength and victory in your life as you are already so beautiful and precious to us. We love you so much, our perfect little baby girl.

Credits: Items created by Carina Gardner - diginirvana.com - kits used were:
Siri (alpha, my love stamp, papers & paper tear), Cardboard Cut Outs (photo corners, folder & flower), Heidi (grid & pin), Sparkles (darling child), Spring Trellis (#5), and Stella (ribbon). Chinese stamp by me.

CHALLENGE 2 {1-2-3 Scrap me}

HOSTED BY: Kerry Peters
START DATE: Jan. 4th
END DATE: Jan. 18th
PRIZE: Gift Certificate $5

Welcome to DigiNirvina. I am sooo happy to see you here!!! I am Kerry, aka Df12wife, a creative team member for DigiNirvana. I am pleased to bring you my first Challenge of the New Year!

Rules: All you must do to play along is complete a layout using atleast the below requirements. Use of DigiNirvana products is required to be entered into the drawing for the $5.00 gift certificate at the end of the challenge. (Easy to do with all of the FAB $1.00 products available every day.)

1 - Solid paper
2 - Photos
3 - Pattern Paper
4 - Fastners ie..staples, brads, eyelets, photo corners.
5 - Words for a title

Please leave me a link to your layout in the comment section, so I can leave you some love!!!! Can't wait to see what you show me!!!
Questions or comments please contact df12wife@diginirvana.com.

Example on this challenge:

CHALLENGE 3 {Double Digi Challenge}

Hosted by: Michele – Creatively Obsessed
Start date: 01/01/08
End date: 01/15/08
Prize: Each participant will receive Quick Pages of the layouts I created! One lucky winner will be chosen at random to win a $5 gift certificate to the Digi Nirvana Store!!

Welcome to the Grand Opening of your soon to be favorite scrapbook store, Digi Nirvana!I am Michele and I am Creatively Obsessed. I will be hosting the monthly Double Digi Challenge and I am so glad you decided to join me.

The main focus of this monthly challenge will always be to create two page layouts. When browsing through my scrapbooks, I prefer my pages to coordinate. (Even if the events are not related.) I feel that this is more pleasing to the eye. Some months, I might pick a theme, or a kit to use. Others I may say I want you to scrapbook two coordinating layouts of unrelated events. There are so many possibilities; you never know what I might pick!

I decided the first Double Digi Challenge should be EASY but FUN.

With Holiday season behind us, I know you have a lot of special memories to scrapbook. So, this month, using only this FREE kit, I want you to create a 2 page layout about your special holiday memories.

Each participant will receive Quick Pages of the layouts I created for this challenge! One lucky winner will be chosen at random to win a $5 gift certificate to the Digi Nirvana Store!

Special thanks to Carina for making this FREE kit for us to use! Click here for the kit.

While we are waiting for the gallery to get up and running you can email your layouts to me at creativelyobessessed@diginirvana.com (Be sure to include an email that I can send the quick page participant prize to). Once the gallery is ready, future challenge layouts will need posted there. I look forward to seeing what you create with this wonderful kit!

This is a peek at the kit! Go pick it up in the shop!

Challenge 4 {Game Layout}

Hosted by : Erica
Start date: Jan 15th
End date: Jan 31st
Prize: $5 Gift Certificate

Here's a fun idea: create a layout based on one of your favorite games (e.g. monopoly, image & action, chess, etc.) Use at least 3 different papers. Be creative and have fun! There will be a random drawing for everyone who enters this challenge!

Can't wait to see your layouts! Email them to erica@diginirvana.com.
Erica

CHALLENGE 5

(Coming soon!)

Finally, the January 1st Kit is here! This kit (normally $7.50) will be $1.00 on January 1st ONLY! Part of the NIRVANA {GO} Sale!

The siri kit is completely packed full with yummy treats including 10 distressed papers, two paisleys, one quote, one my love stamp, one white ribbon with staple, a white frame (12 in. x 12 in for paper border or can be shrunk for photo frame), one brown ribbon frame, a paper tear, and an alphabet. Enjoy! Png and jpgs at 300 dpi.

Updated Calendar

Here's the new updated calendar on all the yummy goodies coming out in January! If you want to see larger images of the different product just go to the shop! It will open with the Nirvana {GO} Sale Category.

What are the Surprise Goodies? Only newsletter subscribers will find out in advance! So sign up!

Introducing the new Creative Team

It was a tough decision, and I want to thank everyone who replyed to the Creative Team Call! Look for challenges in January from these ladies! Also feel free to check out their blogs to the right.

Grand Opening Freebie for the Newsletter

Hi all right now I have a great freebie for the newsletter for everyone who signs up by January 1st! This is for all current (active) newsletter subscribers and anyone who subscribes by January 1st. The freebie? The Classic in Chocolate Paper Pack (normally $5.00 in the store). See a larger image in the store at: Classic in Chocolate

New Layout

This layout uses the summer garden kit, sweet ada kit, and winter wonderland kit. Univers font.