Ashlee & Her Cricut Creations

We were so fortunate to have Ashlee Mason come and teach our first Cricut Expressions Basics class last week Saturday. You can check out Ashlee's awesome blog HERE. A little about Ashlee...

• She's married to an active Marine and has an adorable little boy named Logan.
• She's a big Steeler's fan!
• Started scrapbooking in 2006 when she was pregnant with Logan.
• The Cricut is one of her most favorite tools..can't you tell?
  

I was so busy being blown away by all the things you can do with a Cricut..I totally forgot to take photos of the class. So instead, here's some of Ashlee's wonderful creations using that amazing little cutter!

This little guy has to be one of my favorites....I love how Ashlee used scalloped circles cut with the cricut to make the feathers. All the pieces were cut with the Cricut and then pieced together.





































Here's an adorable little ticket book she created just for dad...awww how sweet! I love the shadowing of the letters.




















And here's an ice cream cone and elephant that are just so sweet!




































Lastly, here's an airplane that she cut and turned into a card. I love the black shadow around the plane and how she doodled the lines to outline the shape of the plane.




















Thanks Ashlee for coming & teaching the class even after your long week of adventure with your sister *wink*! You are amazing and I can't wait to see what else you come up with!! I'll be updating the calendar with some revisions we are making to the Cricut Classes, so be sure to check back.

The Greeting Farm September Releases

Happy Labor Day Weekend everyone..hope you are enjoying your looong weekend!! Just an update: The Greeting Farm recently released a few new stamps from their Hope & Garce and Wild Sprouts Series.

Coming soon to Pineapple Cove! Stay tuned..I'll let you know as soon as these arrive! We also re-ordered Spooktackular, and Edward. I'll email & blog when the stamps arrive.

10% Off SCAL only until 9/8

Craft Edge, the makers of Sure Cuts A Lot is giving 10% off if you purchase or upgrade to v.2 by 9/8/09. Those of you who are not familiar with SCAL, you can use this software with your Circut machine to cut out True Type fonts already installed on your computer and other various shapes. No more expensive cartridges!! It's compatible with both Windows and Macintosh.

To purchase or learn more, I have links on my website that will take you directly to the site. www.PineappleCoveDesigns.com

You must use a coupon code before checkout to save 10%. Please email me for the coupon code.

Sale @ Pineapple Cove

We're having a Sale here at Pineapple Cove starting 9/2/09 until 9/9/09.











Clearance - 70% Off
All American Crafts products - 25% Off
Military Products - 40% Off
Baby, Sports & School Themed Products - 30% Off
All Soap & Soap Supplies - 40% Off

Club members receive a 40% Off coupon valid for one (1) item only between 9/2 and 9/9. Some exclusions apply...you should have received your coupon via email. If not, please let me know. Thanks and see you soon!

Thank You..Aloha..Mahalo

I just wanted to send out a big Mahalo to the Kim family for giving me this beautiful basket of goodies! I was so fortunate to help them design their son's 1st B-day invitations. They dropped off this basket last week as a 'Thank you'.

I'm really glad they liked the invitation and I heard the party was lots of fun. Brennan's theme was Sesame Street, so we went with the vibrant primary colors for the invitation. Isn't he such a cutie? I love the fact that in the photo, his index finger is pointing to signify "1". We decided to go with the baby characters which are so adorable and fitting. Matching RSVP cards were also included.



















I had a lot of fun designing the card and I feel so fortunate to have been given the opportunity to be part of Brennan's milestone. This job has been one of the most fulfilling and rewarding...
thank YOU all for the opportunity.

P.S. - I haven't ripped into the goodies yet...don't know what I'm waiting for. It just looks too pretty to unwrap. =)

Digi 101 Class Photos

Happy Monday everyone!! I just uploaded photos from our Digi 101 class on the left sidebar. Enjoy!

Digi Know?

Digi know that resaving JPGs over and over again will cause the quality to degredate? I sure didn't, but I learned this today from the talented Claudette San Pedro who taught our Digi 101 Scrapbooking class today @ Pineapple Cove. We were so lucky and fortunate to have her come teach. She did an amazing job. Thank you so much Claudette for taking time out of your schedule..I can't wait for the next one!!

We were so fortunate to have Mindy Terasawa donate her Monkey Do Kit which everyone received a copy of. We also received a template from her Moss Scape Quickpages which was used as an excercise in class. Here's my finished layout I made of me and my sister. Everyone says we look like twins...really? cause I don't see it. =)

























Working on the layout excercise, we learned about layers, how to use quick pages, different tools within PSE, how to drop shadow, erase parts of a photo without deleting another image and how to save our digi layouts for printing. PNG files were explained as well as other file formats like psd and jpg.

I forgot my memory card at home, so I'll have to upload photos of the class tonight to the sidebar. I learned so much today and had lots of fun with the girls, thanks again Claudette!! Until next time...