April 8, 2009

SAS-y Scoop:

SAS IS BACK & SAS-ier THAN EVER!!!

Stone Accents Studio’s future was looking a little iffy the last few weeks of March. Julie O has her hands full with real life right now and found it impossible to run such a big site anymore. Toiny aka Piggy Scraps stepped up and purchased the SAS-y-ist site on the net. I know we all wish Julie O well and Toiny success! Toiny and all the girls behind the scenes are so excited and working hard! There’ll be big changes soon! I can’t wait to tell you… but I better not… yet! Behind the scenes people are changing places and learning new things… including yours truly! This old dog is trying to learn new tricks! Be ready for some fantastic changes!

The SAS Newsletter is going through a remodel… so please excuse the dust! I spent some quality time with the Thesaurus this week… I thought our SAS needed a little spice. There are a couple of new changes in this newsletter I’m really excited about. The Newsletter will have a SAS-y Shooting Star article on a SAS Designer, SAS Team Member or a Site Member every other week or so… to help everyone become better acquainted. When you are chosen I will ask you to write a short biography about yourself, add a photo of yourself and/or your family if you want… the photo is totally optional, and show us one of your most favorite layouts. I hope everyone enjoys this new section… I know I will! The other change is SAS-y Pastimes section. This week I made an Easter word search for you, in coming issues we may have other games such as scrambled words, cross word puzzles etc.

I left out the Challenges section this issue… there are so many changes taking place with the challenges this month I thought it best for you to check them out for yourself.

See you at SAS,

Karin aka allwright1

SAS-y Shooting Star:

	Hi all! I don’t even know where to begin. It has been an absolutely amazing week for me. The Big News in my life is that, not only am I designer at Stone Accents Studio, I am now also the owner. Wow! Wooooooohooooooooo! Yippeeeeeeee! We are all very sad to see Julie leave as the owner. She has done a fantastic job starting SAS and building it into the place we all have come to know and love. Like I said in my announcement, sometimes real life interferes with our digi-lives and all our thoughts and prayers are with Julie and her family. I am pleased as punch how many of our wonderful SAS Designer and CT stuck it with me. Change is hard, and this is a big change. I have had to learn more in the last week than I learned in my whole first year of college… and I have more to learn. I am doubly pleased how many of you emailed me to say you hadn’t noticed! I am truly thankful, and committed, that the change is not adversely affecting YOU, our loyal customers. There are some exciting changes coming up at SAS; including an Extreme SAS Makeover contest launching May 1, some new designers coming on board and the brandnew SAS-y Featured Designer section here in the newsletter. And wouldn’t you know it! This week the Featured Designer is me: Piggy Scraps Design. Let me tell you, it helps knowing the owner. I am first, and foremost, a wife and a mother of six. We are blessed with 5 boys and 1 girl; ages almost two to almost 19! Thankfully two of the boys are off at college, because have you all seen how much teenage boys eat? The rest are at home and fill my life with joy, stress and love. I began digital scrapbooking because of my kids. Traditional scrapbooking led to big messes. Stickers decorating, walls, doors and little brothers; scissors cutting funky hair styles, pens… let’s not talk about my wonderful acid-free markers. I didn’t like digital scrapbooking at first, I couldn’t find what I wanted, photoshop frustrated me, but I kept coming back to it and found that if I created elements that I wanted, and papers that I needed, I was a lot happier. One thing led to another, and now I am here! I’m also an avid reader (lately the zencart manual), a quilter, a food network fan and wannabe chef and a snowboarder. Not that I snowboard a lot here in North Carolina, but I so love it. I’ve also taken up swimming 50 laps every morning, a great energizer and a wonderful way to clear the cobwebs out of my head and start fresh. I’ve designed a little mini kit freebie, as a thank you for reading all this way, as a thank you for putting up with our dust as we revitalize SAS, as a sample of my work. SAS would not be SAS without all of you… Thank You!
Freebie – Featured Designer By Piggy Scraps Design

Super SAS-y Specials & New Stuff:

Nursery Nostalgia Ambowife Designs $4.50 $2.25 til 4-15-09	Mysteria Darlene H $1.50 $1.35	Fairies Garden Party Kristi W $5.50 $3.58	Nursery Nostalgia Quickpage 1 Ambowife Designs Free
Out To Sea commerical use ok! Kristi W $6.00 $4.00	Breath of Spring part1 Monika Designs $4.99 $3.49	Rainbow, Moon & Stars PiggyScraps $4.50 $2.70	Rainbow, Moon & Stars Sampler PiggyScraps Free
Paris In Spring CathyC $5.25 $3.50	Wishful Thinking mITSYBELLE $4.00 $2.80	Serenade Mini Kit Ambowife Designs $3.00 $2.25	Burgandy Glitz EllenM $4.50

Serenity CathyC $4.50 $3.50	Fairy Garden minikit Heidi $1.50	In a Dream Kristi W $5.50 $3.58	Fairy Garden Designs By Moo $3.00 $2.00
Glittery Doodles script – personal or commerical use Designs By Moo $3.50 $2.28	Paper 1 script – personal or commerical use Designs By Moo $3.50 $2.28	Paper 2 script – personal or commerical use Designs By Moo $3.50 $2.28	Startrails script - personal or commerical use Designs By Moo $3.50 $2.28
Wire Flower script - personal or commerical use Designs By Moo $3.50 $2.28	Buy My Store Designs By Moo $20.00	Buy My entire store CU and PU CathyC $35.00 $15.00 Sale:57% off	Buy my entire Store PU and CU_EllenM $35.00 $15.00 Sale:57% off

Spectacular SAS-y Selections (formerly Our Favorite Things):

Happy Easter by littlespooky using Begin Again by mITSYBELLE	The Egg Hunt '03 by Gail using Easter Parade Kit by Ambowife Designs	Laugh by Tammara using Sweet Sunshine by mITSYBELLE	Spring Hope by Shanners for the Journaling Challenge
Easter & Spring by Lyncal for the Journaling Challenge	Every Day is Groundhog Day By RedShoes using Backyard Bayou by Enaideel Scraps	Sisters by JHollars Using Sweet Sunshine by mITSYBELLE	Spring Has Sprung by Pixel Palette Using Lazy Sundays by Ambowife and Templates - Clock 12x12 by Julie C
Special Delivery by Tammara using J'aime Rouge by mITSYBELLE	True Friendship by Goo3Goo3 using J'aime Rouge by mITSYBELLE	Cody Lap Dogs by Amberpony using Begin Again by mITSYBELLE	Finally Married - And Happy About It! By iwannalife2 Gentleman Mini Kit by Skrapper Digitals
Great Uncle & Aunt Wedding By Jean Ann using Jean Ann Mega Kit by Skrapper Digitals	Shower – cake by sluke00 Beautiful Moment Mega Kit & Beautiful Moment Add On by Skrapper Digitals	Sleeping Princes by iwannalife2 Using Fairy Garden by Skrapper Digitals	Eric & Karen By Jean Ann using Jean Ann Mega Kit by Skrapper Digitals
Best Friends by DarleneH uses Bella Mia by DarleneH	(No Title) - by sagedw, uses Bella Mia by DarleneH	Sweet Hunny by mISTYBELLE, uses Carmela by DarleneH	Joy of Motherhood by LilGuysMomma uses Girlicious by DarleneH
(No Title) by Anne063 uses What A Feeling by DarleneH	Spring has Sprung by patchas Using Cupcakes & Fairies by KristiW	Easter Basket by allwright1 Using Some Bunny Loves You by Kristi W	Fantasy by allwright1 Using I love You Faerie Much by Cathy Cher and Kristi Westling
Linda by Patchas Using Cupcakes & Fairies by KristiW

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Dress	Easter	Easter Egg Hunt
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Rebirth	Shoes	Spring
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