All posts tagged: A Creative Need digital stamps

Thinking 0f Our Mothers

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It’s time for our MAY CHALLENGE: Favourite Moments with Mom (or a Mother figure in your life) Think of special moments with your Mom, from your childhood or adult life.  Maybe you remember baking cookies, family dinners, travelling, or walks in the park, soccer practice, or bedtime stories. Whatever it is that brings back happy memories for you should be what you work into your project for this month. HOW you work it in is up to you! Just let it be the inspiration for your project.  If you’d like to share your thoughts  about Mom with us  in describing what inspired your creation, that would be wonderful! Our team has created some personal projects for you here to help get you started! Peggy made this sweet bookmark. She shares a special love of books with her Mom.   Memories of Merlina’s Mom inspired this sweet card. Ice Cream sundaes bring back sweet memories for Kitt As always the images used by the design team are available  in the A Creative Need Shop. There are new images added monthly! Join in the …

Mid Month Challenge Inspiration!

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It’s not too late to join in our January CHALLENGE! This month’s challenge is CELEBRATE SOMETHING NEW – Let’s celebrate newly-weds, new babies, new homes etc.!!  I love what I’m seeing so far!! Keep them coming creative friends! Gloria has created a lovely heart to frame her chosen image “Just Married“!  What a lovely greeting for the lucky Newlyweds! Thanks for stopping by! Have a creative day! Deena x

November Challenge: Button Up!

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The WINNER  of our OCTOBER CHALLENGE is Nancy in Iowa! Congratulations Nancy, please e-mail me at deenaperreault@gmail.com with your 2 Image choices from my  A Creative Need SHOP! This month’s CHALLENGE just might help you use up some of those buttons that you hoard! Yes, you know who you are!  The ones with bags and even boxes full of cute buttons! Well, what are you waiting for…this one’s for you!! Let’s BUTTON UP this November challenge! You can add your LINK HERE. Here with some inspiration for you; our lovely designers using ACN’s brand new Christmas Digi Stamp Deer and Gnome (Tomte)… Larissa   Peggy   Did you know that the TOMTE /gnome is a mythological creature from Scandinavian folklore  associated with the Christmas season?  He is usually depicted as  no taller than three feet, with a long white beard and colorful clothes.  It is known as a gift bearer and is considered the Swedish and Norwegian version of Santa Claus! Have fun with this month’s challenge! Add your project link to the CHALLENGE PAGE. Thanks for stopping by!  Deena

Creative Blog Hop

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Hello creative friends! I have been asked by Claire from CREATIVE MAKING,  to participate in a  blog hop.  This blog hop is unique in that it is not just among card makers or scrappers but has included writers, illustrators, and other creative genres as well along the way! Claire is a very talented cardmaker, quilt maker, cross stitcher and more!! It was very gracious of her to think of me to participate in this too! Thank you Claire! Here is a short bio about myself if you are new to my blog… I am an artist and crafter, traditional and digital painter, avid card maker, and miniaturist, and I am passionate about creating! I am happily married to my best friend and we have two beautiful boys who try our patience, but also fill our hearts with joy, every day! I have always loved to draw and I began creating digital stamp images for use in my card making, art journals, and scrapbook designs.  My drawing and painting style is influenced by simple, everyday moments and natural …

More DT Inspiration for our Vacation/Travel Challenge

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Hello my creative friends! How is your summer going?  Any travel plans yet? Or maybe you’ve just returned from a lovely trip?  I have not yet had my vacation, but I am so looking forward to some beach time with my family!! Have you scrapped about your vacation, dreaming about your next exotic travels? Or maybe you need to make a  BON VOYAGE card for a friend? OUR CHALLENGE this month is all about VACATION and TRAVEL!  So get your travel groove on and share your summer vacation scrap pages, art journals, cards and crafts HERE! Now for a little inspiration to help motivate you from the lovely ACN ladies! Gail Gloria   Peggy Thank you for stopping by! I am always happy to see you!! 🙂 Have a creative day!! Deena x

Vacation/Travel theme Challenge Inspiration

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Thank you to everyone who played in our challenge last month! Wow! We had 95 entries! Keep those wonderful creations coming! I love to see each and every one of them!  July’s challenge is on! Please join us for another wonderful month of creativity HERE.  JULY CHALLENGE #21 – VACATION/TRAVEL Our JUNE challenge WINNER is LAILA (Castle in the Skies) Congratulations Laila!  Please e-mail deenaperreault@gmail.com with your 2 digital image choices from my Etsy shop. and everyone who used an ACN image last month was an automatic winner! You all should have recieved your image in your e-mail boxes by now.  If I missed anyone, please let me know. Would you like an ACN image of your own? Pick up this month’s FREEBIE ! Now, for some team inspiration!   LISA used A Creative Need’s new image: Wine and Cheese for Two. Isn’t her colouring awesome!?   Gail created this lovely card with ON THE ROAD AGAIN   To see all the newest DIGITAL STAMPS visit A CREATIVE NEED Digital Stamp Shop We will be back with more challenge …

Happy Canada Day!

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Happy Canada Day!  I am proud to be Canadian and feel very lucky to live in such a beautiful Country!      As part of my Canada Day celebrations, I am giving all my readers a CANADA DAY Digital Stamp discount!  For 25% off your entire order, click apply shop coupon code and just type in ACNVIP1 .  Once you’ve added an item to your cart, on the right, click Apply shop coupon code above Item total. Enter the coupon code and click Apply. The coupon discount will adjust your order total. I am not offering this discount to anyone other than you, my loyal readers!  I hope you’ll take advantage of this discount and enjoy some of my images at 25% off the regular price! These are a few of my personal favourites… Happy shopping!! And to my fellow Canadian friends, have a fabulous Canada day!! Deena x

Creative Inspiration

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Hello friends,  it’s time for some mid month inspiration from a couple of our A Creative Need team members! Our Challenge this month is ANYTHING GOES and you have until the 30th to add your entries, so I hope you will join us! First up is Lisa with this sweet slip of a card!  🙂 and Gail made a lovely wedding card using ACN Cross with Intertwined Hearts   Do you have any creations you would like to share with us? This month if you use an ACN image on your project you will automatically win 1 digital image!! I will send you your image via e-mail at the end of the month, but first you have to enter HERE! Have a creative day!! Deena

Free Digi Papers from MMS!

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Are you looking for a great Scrapping, card making Software?  MY MEMORIES SOFTWARE has a super easy to use, fabulous software program!  The best thing about it? You can dowload it and start to use it in minutes for less than fourty dollars USD! (at time of posting). They have  lots of free digital kits on their site too! Here’s your free papers from Annu’s Place on MMS… Eastern Papers by Annu’s Place I use this software for fast and easy digital scrap pages, photo template pages, digital card designs etc.  It’s versatile and EASY.  This is a very basic program in the sense that there is no complicated learning involved.  But there’s nothing basic about it when it comes to what it can do for you!  Don’t know how to use programs like photoshop? With this program you don’t need to.  Want a shadow behind your image? Click the shadow button and position it as you like!  Want to add an embellishment? Click Add embellishment, and choose anything you  have in your collection of digitals or …

Ethereal Florals Digital Stamps

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Here’s the newest digital stamp set available for download at  A Creative Need.   I wanted to put together a floral set that would adapt well to water colouring as it’s such a fun and favoured way to color images!  Of  course they can be coloured any way you are most comfortable with. 🙂 Ethereal Florals Stamp Set   I’d love to hear what you think of these.  I value your opinions and love to know what you are looking for in your digital images. Have a creative day! Deena