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It's midnight!

It's midnight and I forgot to announce the final challenge winner for the month! Okay, picking the name...and the winner is andreadickson! Just email me at carina@diginirvana.com. Thank you all for participating in the challenge! I loved seeing your layouts and how you have used digi nirvana products!

Okay, now to sleep!!!1

20% off the Little Darlings Series Feb 29, Mar 1, & 2

The new Little Darlings kit series is finished! This weekend they are 20% off! Check it out in the store.

New Freebie Mini Kit is here! Happy Leap Day!

The Digi Shop Sisters have put together a kit for you. Just pick up each of our parts of the kit at our stores (Dragon Lair design, Sugar Plum Paperie, and Digi Diner-see links below!). Pick up mine here: freebies.

Happy Leap Day!

Here's the full view:

This Week's Challenge Winner

This week's challenge winner is Yoshi! Just email me at carina@diginirvana.com and I will send you your gift certificate for $5. There is still one week left of layouts, so post them!
Carina

The DigiShopSisters Mini Kit Freebie Coming Soon!

Keep an eye out for the DigiShop Sister's mini kit freebies! Should be coming along March 1st! All you need to do is go from store to store to pick up a mini kit from each of the Digi Shop Sisters to get a full kit! Here are the stores you can pick it up from:
http://www.diginirvana.com
http://store.sugarplumpaperie.com
http://www.dragonslairdesigns.com
http://www.digidiner.com

Keep a look out for this freebie!

Thank you for your patience!

Thank you for your patience as the site has had an overhaul to make general navigation easier! Please note that the top portion of this blog still will not navigate you back to the site! Still working on this!:)

Challenge Winner This Week!

And the winner is heathrich! Congrats! Please email me at carina@diginirvana.com so I can send you your $5 gift certificate! Thank you to everyone who entered and be sure to check back next week since all of your names are still in the drawing!

To everyone else...how do you get into this drawing? Just upload layouts into the Gallery at Digi Nirvana! For every layout you get your name put into a drawing. Good luck everyone!

Challenge Winners for this Week!

I decided that I would start the random drawings next week in favor of giving the two people who posted in the gallery $5 gift certificates for posting this week! Congrats to heathrich and andreadickson! Please email me at carina@diginirvana.com with the email address you would like you gift certificate sent to! Congrats ladies!

FLEA MARKET FRIDAYS ARE HERE!

Flea Market Fridays are here! The great bargain find tomorrow will be WORN STAMPS...$1 tomorrow only!

New Valentine's Paper Packs are Up!

Here are the new Valentine's Day Paper Packs! They are only $3.50 each (8 papers per pack)!

The February Challenge—SO EASY!

This is the best challenge ever because it is SOOOOOO easy! Every week for the entire month of February there will be a drawing for a $5 Gift Certificate (Friday—Feb 8, 15, 22, 29). What do you have to do to enter the drawing? All you have to do is POST LAYOUTS! For every layout you have posted, your name will be entered once into the drawing (so put up 3 layouts, your name goes in three times).

The best part is that all the names stay IN the random drawing from week to week (so if you put 2 layouts in the first week, your name could still get drawn the third week , even if you haven't posted more layouts). Of course, the more layouts, the better chance you have of getting drawn.

Please post all of your layouts under—Digi Nirvana Member Gallery. If you want to put your personal layouts in a family album that you have created in the gallery, that's okay too. You may also upload the layouts twice (will only be counted once) to place them both in your personal album and the Digi Nirvana Member Gallery.

The winners will be announced on the Blog on Fridays (Your gallery screen name will be used). Layouts posted as of FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1st will be counted into this challenge. Good luck!

20% Italian Soda Collection Feb 1-3

The new Italian Soda Collection is here! For three days only (Feb 1st- 3rd, Friday-Sunday), the Italian Soda Collection will be 20% off!

Name for $1 Fridays

So after the $1 Sale, I will be having a $1 item every Friday (Starting the second week in February), but I need a name for it! I originally was going to call it FAB Friday, but found out another shop uses that. So what should the name be? 

Here is a sneak peak at the $1 Surprise goodies coming out tomorrow! You'll notice the new look for the store! Also (hint, hint) there will be a new freebie up tomorrow!

Article for Utah Baby Fair

I just wrote a piece for the Utah Baby Fair at http://www.utahbabyfair.com/. I also posted the layouts I did for it in the gallery. You can download the pdf from Utah Baby Fair or Digi Nirvana's homepage! It's a short article on what you need to know about getting started scrapbooking.

New Gallery

The gallery is finally up and running! All of the challenges are posted in the gallery and you can upload your layouts there! Can't wait to see what you have all done!
http://www.diginirvana.com/gallery/

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: