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Now Available: April 2010 Guild Encore Kit "Watercolor Wonder" 25% off through Monday

Originally designed as a member's only kit for the Guild this beautiful kit is now available as a "Guild Encore Kit." 

This lovely Guild kit has a watercolor theme and is filled with the beautiful soft, clear colors of watercolor paintings. The kit includes 12 watercolor backgrounds, more than 60 coordinating elements, a complete alpha set, and a bonus set of photo masks and layered word art.

Regular Price: %5.50 Sales Price: $4.13
Available at NDISB and Pickleberry Pop

Here is a closer look at the kit:





Purchase this kit and receive this FREE Gift:

A "Look Back" Sale 50% Off July 2009 Guild kit

We are taking a "look back" at what the Guild was doing a year ago and offering a 50% discount on the July 2009 Guild Kit "Watermelon Head" and Dee Bee Designs "Sweet Summer Word Art" Available at NDISB and Pickleberry Pop

Originally designed as a member's only kit for the Guild this beautiful kit is now available as a "Guild Encore Set."

The delightful taste of summer is celebrated in this fun kit. Themed around the quintessential summer fruit: watermelons, the yummy pink, red and green textured backgrounds are a perfect complement to all of your summer layouts. The creative elements include postage stamps, cardboard birdhouses, a cardboard flower trellis and even a cute cardboard bike. In addition they are a wide variety of layered floral elements, frames, butterflies, ladybugs and journal mats. FREE Gift with Purchase! Purchase this kit and receive a FREE set of four Ready-made layouts (tm) created by Dee Bee Designs using this delightful kit. Regular Price: $5.50 Sales Price: $2.75

Dee Bee Designs created this darling word art set as a compliment to the July Guild kit, "Watermelon Head." The set includes a border and four sets of layered decorated word art that come as both .png files and layered .psd files. Regular Price: $2.50 Sales Price: $1.25

Sale good through Monday, July 19, 2010

NEW Add-on mini kit coordinates with July Guild Kit

If you just can't get enough of the July Guild Kit "Primarily Summer" then Dee Bee Designs has a treat in store for you! She has created a beautiful add-on mini kit that coordinates with the July kit and brings in a punch of blue to the pretty pinks and greens that are part of the main kit.

This mini kit is on sale now for 40% off at NDISB and Pickleberry Pop. Normally $3.75 you can get this beauty for just $2.25 through Monday, July 12.

And if you like this mini kit then we invite you to participate in a new Artisan Notebook journaling challenge and receive a set of Ready Made (tm) layouts that were created using the mini kit:

Weekend Special On Guild Memberships & Renewals!

To celebrate the declaration of our Nation's Independence we are pleased to offer a 20% discount on all Guild Memberships and Membership renewals. Normally $15.00 this weekend you can receive a 3-month membership for JUST $12.00! This is an AMAZING deal!! That equates to just $4.00 a month! Purchase information can be found HERE.

And here is one more deal for you....help spread the word about this offer and receive a one-month membership for FREE!! Simply post a link to this blog post on Your Facebook wall or personal blog and then link that post in the comments section no later than Saturday, July 3 and Noon PST.

FREE Sample using July Guild Kit "Primarily Summer"

Dee Bee Designs has created two wonderful Ready Made Pages(tm) using products from the July Guild kit "Primarily Summer" as a Free Sample to those interested in the Guild membership. If you like the quality of these designs we invite you to join the Guild today. This weekend only purchase a 3-month membership for 20% off!

9/3 Edit: Unfortunately this free sample is no longer available. Be sure and check for more recent samples

July Guild kit is about "Primarily Summer"

To celebrate the declaration of our Nation's Independence we are pleased to offer a 20% discount on all Guild Memberships and Membership renewals. Normally $15.00 this weekend you can receive a 3-month membership for JUST $12.00! This is an AMAZING deal!! That equates to just $4.00 a month! Don't miss out-join or renew today! Purchase information may be found HERE.

Our July kit takes the primary colors of red, blue and yellow and softens them to a summer sun-bleached hue of pink, sky-blue/gray and hazy, creamy yellows. Of course because it is summer we couldn't leave out touches of green. The backgrounds and elements explode with blooming flowers like a beautiful summer garden at its best. This kit is sure to provide you with a multitude of ideas for scrapping all of your most favorite summer memories. The kit includes 13 12x12 jpeg backgrounds, over 70 coordinating elements, 4 Ready Made Layouts (tm) and a coordinating upper & lower case alpha and numeral set.

Here is a closer look at the kit:

Guild Membership also includes the monthly issue of the Artisan Notebook:

Text is a wonderful design element of our pages; both in content and appearance. Amazing titles add so much interest to our page, and meaningful journaling is fun to look at years later when the details get fuzzy. Stacey Jewell Stahl shares an in-depth article that is sure to inspire you in your journaling and Debb Cozzi has a feature that will help you create "Terrific Titles." Our Inspiration Station focus is on the art of title creation and journaling. In addition, we have several art journal pages for you to nudge you to begin your own art journal as an expression of your creativity. We are very excited to add a new team of artists and a new feature article, "Live the Lyrics." Our Song Writers team will inspire you to express yourself in song lyrics combined with amazing layouts. As always, our regular features include "Recipe for Design" "Making Headlines" "Sarah Barber's Artistic Journey" our color article, "Pigment of Your Imagination" our "Just Write" Challenge, photo clinics and our heritage features with Susan Reynold's "Life Lines" and Mary Jameson's "Linens, Lace & Legacy." We are also pleased to feature designer Audrey Neal and her very talented creative team.

Designers Audrey Neal, Sarah Barber and Fiddle Dee Dee all provide our readers with exclusive store discounts for their products.

The FREE Gifts this month include a mini kit and word art set by Guild designer Dee Bee Designs and a FREE template by Fiddle Dee Dee Designs.

Here are just a few layouts created with this month's kit: