So the calendar says it’s officially spring, but the weather here in Michigan says otherwise!  We are buried in snow and freezing temps and are waiting impatiently for some sunshine and warm weather.

In the meantime, I’m excited to be able to celebrate the official coming of spring in the US and the UK, with my fellow artists at Design House Digital.  We are bringing you a sweet new blog hop, “Sweet as Spring!”

 

Start at the Design House Digital blog, and visit a bunch of blogs belonging to Design House Digital artists, designers & creative team members.   At each blog, you will learn something new from one of our Design House Artists.

There will be a clue at each stop, and you will need to write them down and put the clues together to form a coupon code.  If you follow the whole hop in order, you will be able to get a mega kit for free: “Sweet as Spring – a blog hop treasure! “

Twelve designers (including me!) contributed a total of 67 elements, 51 papers, and 4 alpha sets , and this gorgeous kit, and the treasure is worthy of the journey.  But, in addition, everyone who downloads the kit before Wednesday, March 27, will also be entered into a drawing for a $15 gift certificate to the Design House Digital shop!

We have a challenge for you, too: build something amazing of your own!  Using just the Sweet as Spring collaboration kit (and your own photos, of course), create your own project and put it into our Sweet  as Spring Challenge Gallery.  If you post your project before April 17, you will be entered into another drawing for a $15 gift certificate to the Design House Digital shop, but the challenge gallery will remain open afterwards, and we would love to see your layouts any time.

Now, here is my letter  for the coupon code: P

{I’m not giving you a tip or technique today, but rather a REMINDER.  P is for Please, Please, Please remember to backup your Photos!  Copy them onto an external hard drive and store it at a friend or relatives house.  It’s also a great idea to use an online storage service like Backblaze or Carbonite.  You will feel so relieved to have peace of mind that your photos are backed up.  Remember, it’s not IF your hard drive fails, it’s WHEN!  I have spent a few years now helping people create backup plans for their photos at The Memory Boutique and I can’t not begin to tell you the horror stories that I have heard and witnessed of people losing their photos because they did not have a back up plan.  So, this serves as your REMINDER.  Just do it!}

You can use the list below of all of the stops in the blog hop, or you can jump directly to the next blog:  Kristin Damon

• Design House Blog- Start here!
• Sarah Sullivan
• Vanessa Fenton
• Inkling and Wit
• Diane Rooney
• Mary Moseley
• Kristin Damon
• Imaginenation
• Courtney VanSickle
• Kandy Caballero
• Krystal Winn
• Tracey Allen
• Qadirah Gomez
• Kelly Birrell
• Amy Lanham
• Sweet as Spring – a blog hop treasure!

Have fun.  I look forward to checking out your creations with the Sweet as Spring kit in the Design House gallery!

Mary

 

2013 looks like it’s going to be a great year!  I have a re-vamped website,  digital designs over at Design House Digital and an online shop with Society6 which features some of my photography and select patterns on products such as prints, cards, iphone/ipod/laptop skins and cases.

Exciting!