Birthday Bash Day 2
| Birthday Bash Day 2 |
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| Written by Liv Esteban | |||
| Monday, 22 June 2009 19:00 | |||
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Hi there, and welcome to Day 2 of our week-long Birthday Bash! We have LOTS to share with you today, so sit back, grab a cold drink, don that party hat, and read on! We hope you've been having a grand time checking out our new Community features, enjoying our all-around 20% sale, and signing up for the long-awaited and FREE Photo-Editing: Special Effects & Frame-Ups course! There has been a terrific response to the free course, but we love a great big party and we always have room for more! So if you have any more friends who want to come and join us, remember to bring them over to sign up before the registration ends on Sunday! Awesome Announcements! Oh Shoot! with Candice - Due to popular demand, Candice Stringham brings back her Oh Shoot! Photography Course for Beginners this summer! In this 6-week intensive, instructor-led course, Candice will help you take your camera off automatic mode and make aperture and shutter speed your fast friends! Because Candice personally comments on each of your photos during the entire course, the limited slots of her course typically sell out faster than you can blink an eye. So if you're planning to camp outside the Oh Shoot! registration door, you'll want to circle June 29th on your calendars and be there by 9:00 pm EST. (Look for the Add to Cart button that will appear at that time on the product description page, and after signing up successfully, you can wait for the class to start on July 13th!) Get Organized with Picasa! - Molly Schneider launches our newest class in digital image organization, and it's 20% off this week! This class will teach you how to use Picasa, a FREE program by Google Labs (mmm, gotta love Google). Learn how to go beyond using Picasa as an image browser and how to use it to create tags/keywords which will help you find just what you need in your digital stash in a snap and how to organize your image files and folders! Spraground Community Tip for the Day If you've explored our Spraground in the past 24 hours, then you've probably discovered all the awesome improvements, and maybe even stumbled upon our newest source of glee: our very own Spraground Community! Our Community feature now allows us to deepen even further our friendships on the Spraground! Now we can learn about each other, check out friends' posts, and even consolidate shared items (think blogs, Twitter posts, videos, the works!) onto our Spraground profiles. And there's more! We now can create and join groups, and this is one of Jessica's favorite features, so it should come as no surprise that it's the feature of her Community Tip for the Day! Now you can create little mini-communities based on location, event orwhatever else you can think of! For example, how about all you pixel-lovers in Australia? Create your own group! Who's going to DSE this year? There's already a group for that too! Anyone can create a group so feel free to set one up! You can even subscribe to group activity streams so you know when something's new. If you don't have a JessicaSprague.com account yet, then head on over to create an account and join us! If the hat fits... We have had so much fun checking out your birthday hats and your Birth-Day 1 / June CAD Day22 Challenge layouts! This one was a total thrill to find in our gallery (Isn't it just totally awesome to see our beloved Jes in her birthday hat? Love it!) And here are more of lovely birthday-hat-sporting ladies that we spotted in our Challenge Gallery! JulanneW brought the ice cream:
and bab2000 brought her camera!
CheriAnn brought the flowers:
SchoolMommy brought a gift!
And PattiH05k declares this the best hat she has ever worn!
And Molly dances along to the birthday beat here:
PS. She really does nod her head! Check out the moving version in our Challenge Gallery! And if you haven't made your birthday hat yet, come join the fun! You'll find lots of digi schtuff to use on your birthday hats in our shop, too! Molly used our newest designer sweet Crystal's papers, which you can find HERE. And she also used my T-stickies: 100% labels, which you can find HERE. And while you're in the shop, you will definitely not want to miss out on Jessica's uber-fabulous templates HERE. Celebrating the Challenge! In answer to Jessica's Birth-Day1 / June CAD-Day 22 challenge, we were totally thrilled to find all your terrific layouts in our Challenge Gallery! Here are some of them: juliaspencer14 talks about how she is enjoying her dive into the Dark Side: and Dewnie traces her journey through all the Spraground courses here:
pebbles_girl proudly calls herself a digital nerd (yep, we love it!):
and tammycirceo toasts her 2-year digital journey here:
petey111 takes a trip down her digital path here:
and Scrappychick celebrates her digital adventure here: Get your eye-candy fix and view more of these seriously awesome birthday-hat photos and super-creative challenge layouts in our Challenge Gallery! And speaking of challenges... Here's our Birth-Day 2 / June CAD-Day 23 Challenge! We all love how templates help us preserve our memories, don't we? Well, today we're going to celebrate with a template challenge! YAY! Here's the template that I've created for our challenge:
And here's my sample layout, featuring my dear niece Bea (who's also a Spraground babe when she's not in school, heehee):
And here are our very simple challenge requirements for today:
And let's not forget the freebie! Today's freebie comes to you together with the challenge! Together with the 12x12 fully-layered .psd template, you'll be getting these other items: a highly-textured, grungy and subtly-patterned paper, a large photo frame in two versions (with and without shadow), a grungy overlay, and two circle chipboard accents.
Click on the image above to download today's freebie, which is also the template that you'll use if you choose to participate in today's challenge! (Download to your heart's delight until 10am EST tomorrow, when this freebie retires to the shop and a new one comes up! Yay!) (So sorry, the freebie download link has expired. But you can still get this goodie at our shop! Yay! )We hope you'll have fun with the challenge and explore our site some more! We've got enough cake and ice cream to go around! And we've got even more birthday fun stuff for you coming tomorrow! Have a wonderful day!
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Comments (45)
 
Happy Birthday Jessica and crew!! I'm so glad I found you. I've completed the Photo-editing, Type + Writer classes and am still working on getting my 'stuff' organized in ACDSee. I have learned so much. I am so glad you're offering the missing pieces in the photo work flow and hope that in the coming months you do a Photo editing II class. Congratulations again and I hope you are around for a long, long time.
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June 23, 2009
ooooh, pee in my pants!!! this is great fun! i'm gonna do the challenge...i'm usually not brave enough, but hey, it's time to PAR-tay!
 thanks for everything spragueground!!! a 3
June 23, 2009
wow liv--another super present just for us! This is a great party!
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June 23, 2009
Wow, you sure don't skimp on the party favors! Wonderful freebie!!! Thank you.
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June 23, 2009
I'm jumping up and down by my computer! What a freebie. Thanks so much.
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June 23, 2009
Thank you so much for the freebie! I'm in love with templates these days and this one is perfect! Awesome!!!
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June 23, 2009
Thanks for the love!
And the freebie! Can't wait to play!10
June 23, 2009
Love this - Many thanks. And pass the cake!
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June 23, 2009
Wow, what a beautiful kit! Thank you so much!!
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June 23, 2009
Thanks so much. I loved yesterday it was so much fun. This is sure a great birthday bash!!! ~Ann
PS Thanks my dear friend Liv for the great template. I am going to use it right now. Well as soon as I get my first cuppa. 16
June 23, 2009
Wow - Liv - gorgeous! Thank you!! Can't wait to play with it!!
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June 23, 2009
I missed Day 1 of the bash but I made it today. Can't wait to play with the template and goodies
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June 23, 2009
You are so awesome! thank you for the warm fuzzies!!! am so glad you like our goodies! (((hugs)))
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June 23, 2009
I don't think we can say, "Thank you!" enough! Spraground ROCKS! Thanks so much for sharing all of your awesomeness....that would include freebies, knowledge, patience, kindness, etc, etc! I love it here!
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June 23, 2009
Beautiful kit.
It will be fun creating with it... Thank you 25
June 23, 2009
Thanks so much for the awesome template and extras.
I'll enjoy creating with it. 26
June 23, 2009
Awesome template, Liv! I am just opening it now and seeing all the goodness that the file includes!! Hopefully can carve a little time out tonight to do a layout! Thank YOU!!!
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June 23, 2009
Thanks Liv!!! I hope i can play at least SOME! Geesh.........little boy won't let me sit or stand long!!!!
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June 23, 2009
I just looove party freebie bags! I especially like this as it so sweet and has no calories attached to it...woohoo. This template is awesome! You guys are the best, I can't wait to use it!
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June 24, 2009
Thank you for the freebie, but most importantly thanks for deciding to offer the digital photography class again! I was so hoping for that. Now I've got to get the funds to enroll, hehe
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June 24, 2009
Thank you very much for the free kit. I am still learning how to make digital scrap pages so I may not be able to use all of the elements that you made. I will try and make some time tonight to make a page.
Mary 32
June 24, 2009
I keep trying to download, (ez pz template 01) but it won't work, what am I doing wrong?
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June 24, 2009
I tried yesterday and toay to download template but it won't work. What am I doing wrong?
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June 24, 2009
Boo hoo hoo Jess! i missed Day 2's lovely template & challenge because I had a 13 hour work day and my time difference! Will it be available later???
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June 24, 2009
I'm sad I missed the kit too! It looks lovely though and I am jealous of all of the layouts!
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June 24, 2009
I agree, I'm jealous of all the wonderful LOs, too. I looked for the kit in the store and can't find it. Guess we're just out of luck on this one.
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June 25, 2009
I'm able to download this freebie in its zipped form but unable to extract/open the folder with this
msg "Windows cannot open the folder. The compressed Zipped folder LivEdesgins-EZPZT01zip is invalid". Anyone has any suggestion what I can do?? desperate becos I really like this freebie.  40
June 25, 2009
I can't get it to open either and I'm sure the time isn't up. I love this one and would love to have it. Thanks so much for all the freebies!
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June 25, 2009
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