MellowButterfly Team Blog

Not only is MellowButterfly celebrating Labor Day with 15% off all coordinated kits and RAKs by the ‘Fly Girl Team - but I also have a brand new kit to share with you! It’s called September Days and it is full of treasures that children would find in their own backyards and much, much more! This kit was inspired by my team, who asked for more masculine or gender neutral products combined with a variety of realistic elements like brick, sand and wood. So, I’ve combined rich, earthy tones and all the treasures my son could find in our yard to create this extra special kit!

As always, the kit is also available as separates - you can buy just the papers or just the embellishments!

The girls got really creative with this kit and I just know you are going to love their layouts - and guess what! Some of them were gracious enough to turn their layouts into quick pages for you! What’s a quick page? Well, it’s a pre-made layout with holes cut out where you can put your photos. Then you can add your own title and/or journaling and just like magic, you have a gorgeous layout in just minutes!

And without further ado - here are the stunning layouts that my team made this week using the September Days kit!

Well, ok, not a layout that I designed, but it is a layout using my products! A Touch of Japan is featured on the front cover of the Design Originals’ Digi Scrappin DVD which is being sold in a package of digital scrapbooking educator materials at GetDigiWithIt.com!

The author of the DVD, who also created the layout, tells me that it was a scraplift of this layout by my Creative Team Member Toby:

Now, how cool is that!

My Scrapbook Art is celebrating its first birthday and to celebrate I asked the members to tell me which of my products is their favorite. Well, these are the lucky winners:

digideb won A Touch of Japan, Cindy_rs won Citrus Punch and madelene won Sky Gazing: Over the Rainbow!

Congrats ladies - we hope you’ll share your gorgeous layouts with us!

And for those of you who are members, don’t forget to head over to the forum - because I posted a $2 off coupon, but you better hurry because MSA is closing the birthday thread later tonight!

Interesting little quiz. I currently live in central Illinois and everyone here constantly comments on my Wisconsin accent….

Take a peek below at the layouts the ‘Fly Girls did with my newest kit Softly, perfect for all those tender moments - be it a baby, a precious expression on your child’s face, a sweet kiss, and many other special moments! The soft hues are accented by bold green and brushed metal embellishments - including a brushed metal alpha!

And if you’re smitten with these fabulous layouts, ‘Fly Girl Toby will be giving the kit away to a few lucky gals over at DigiShopTalk this weekend!

That’s right, I have a few mini kits for you to start off the week - all are available NOW in the shoppe (images are clickable).

And be sure to come back this weekend when my newest kit, Softly, will be released. The ‘Fly Girls are doing some fabulous layouts that I can’t wait to show you!

The lovely ‘Fly Girl Armina is currently hosting a giveaway over at DigiShopTalk and will be picking three lucky people to get my For the Boys kit for FREE! Be sure to head over to DST and reply to her thread for a chance to win!

The kit also is available as separates: Embellishments, Papers & Page Mat, Cardboard Doodle Alpha and Catalog Page Alpha. All are now available here at MellowButterfly and will be available in my shoppe at Purple Paper Flowers on Sunday.

Need some inspiration? Here are some layouts that the ‘Fly Girls have done with the For the Boys Kit - and be sure to check out their MellowButterfly galleries because they have been BUSY making gorgeous layouts with my other products too!

The gallery is in the midst of an upgrade - I say in the midst, because the upgrade is technically complete…however, I have lost some of my css (the code that makes it coordinate with the rest of my site). Since this was the first upgrade of any sort that I have ever attempted and it’s taken all day to upload, download and install everything - I am calling it quits for today, lol!

Just wanted you to know that I am well aware that the background images and such are missing on that portion of the site.

I’ve also added a few more quest ‘Fly Girls to the line up for future months - the last blog post has the updated image with their names if you are interested

A more interesting post will be forthcoming!

Now, I know that this looks like a small team compared to some of the CTs I’ve seen, but since this is my first one I wanted to keep it on the small side. Plus, I am hoping that some of these fabulously talented guests will decide to stick around after they see how lovely I am (no laughing Ren)

These Girls are already impressing me with the layouts they are posting and since I will be out-of-town most of next week, I thought I’d share some of them with you before I go.

Thank you to everyone who suggested names for my CT - but especially to KayeBee who was the one who suggested Fly Girls and who will be receiving my just-released kit, A Touch of Japan as a thank you!

Now, you know that I can’t just stop at one RAK with as many comments as I received, so I headed over to the trusty random number generator and three more of you are getting the kit as well!

Comment #18 - Craft TeaLady
Comment #24 - Andrea
Comment #21 - Boland
Check your email ladies!

Alrighty - on to the details of the CT call!

If you are interested in applying for a Layout Artist position (full-time or guest)
Please send an email to contact*AT*mellowbutterfly*DOT*com with:

• a link to your online gallery that bests represents your style
• a link to your blog (if you have one)
• a list of CTs you’ve been on during the last 6 months, including guest spots. If you are no longer on a particular team, please tell me why you left.
• Also, let me know if you are applying for a full-time or guest spot - thanks!

If you are interested in the Designer Assistant position:
I’m looking for a self-motivated individual who is well-organized, detail orientated and is experienced in creating ads for mail groups like yahoo. I need someone who is able to design & post ads to promote my products - i.e. post kit previews, sales ads in mailing groups, post on the team blog, reply to ISO threads in forums, etc. - as well as coordinate a monthly challenge on the team blog and help me with RAKs. NO layouts are required. Compensation for your services will be in the form of MellowButterfly product. This is NOT a paid position.

If this sounds like something you are interested in and are qualified for, please send an email to contact*AT*mellowbutterfly*DOT*com with:

• Your real name
• Your online username(s)
• a link to your blog (if you have one)
• samples of your previous ad work
• tell me why you are interested in this position and how much time each week you will be able to devote to me
• a list of CTs you’ve been on during the last 6 months, including guest spots. If you are no longer on a particular team, please tell me why you left.

Everyone will receive a reply - call will remain open until the positions are filled! Hope you’ll join me!