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Daily Life, Freebies

Welcome Nancy’s Kitchen readers!

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I have recently reconnected with my wonderful Aunt Nancy and discovered that she has the most amazing recipe site!  I must confess… I paint better food than I cook, but I am always trying to improve on the meager skills that I do have and all of your wonderful hints and recipes will help me to do that!  In exchange, I've promised Aunt Nancy that I'll provide her with art to prettify her wonderfully practical website — I think that's only fair!

I'm starting to write articles for Nancy's website and I also write daily in my blog here.  My range of topics is varied, starting (of course) with my art!  I share sneak peeks of new art that will be coming to The D.A.I.S.I.E. Company, and new products that I have created for either the giftware or home decor industries.  My current project is a brand new quilting fabric line with Loralie Designs that will debut at the shows soon and be available in Quilt shops across America around August 2007. 

I also have digital freebies on my blog and will be creating craft projects that you will be able to download free blank templates and instructions for.  Any craft kits that I design templates for, will also have the completed craft project (including all art required) available for a very reasonable price at Daisie.  The first kit is a blank template for creating a digitally printable quilt block (with your own digital graphics or photographs).  These are for printing on your ink jet printer on printable fabrics.  You'll find them filed under "Crafting." There are two kits that have already been created for you, and will be available for purchase on Daisie I believe this Friday.

I also dabble in gardening, though I am by no means a master gardener!  My hints lean towards making gardening as simple and the least time-consuming as possible.  In both crafting and gardening, I'll leave the complex projects for Martha Stewart! 

I am a Christian and Inspirational book author with 13 books published, so a big part of what I share each day is in  segments I call "One Minute Wisdoms."  My current theme is "The Art of Simplifying Your Life."  You'll find the current series posts categorized under "Simplifying Life."  My goal in these segments is to provide devotional level writing that will cause you to think about how you can actually apply the principles to your own life.

I hope you'll peak around and look in my closets and cupboards while you're here, my home is your home Bye

LINK to FREE recipe cardsHere's one of my very, very basic "recipes" for a dessert I enjoy almost every night (I did warn you that I paint better than I cook!)  (NOTE: THE LINK HAS NOW EXPIRED 3/14/07 BUT IF YOU SIGN UP AT DAISIE COMPANY YOU'LL GET THE NEXT SERIES FREE)

There are I believe 10 more recipes and 12 blank recipe cards to match included in this free download.  Enjoy and feel free to pass this link on to others to come and sample.

If you want to receive this mailing 5 times a year, go to D.A.I.S.I.E. Company's website www.daisiecompany.com and sign up to be a member choosing to receive the newletters and all Daisie Extras and you'll receive these cards 5 times a year for FREE!

This link will only be operable through the end of the day, March 13th, 2007.  So hurry!

Audrey Jeanne Roberts 

Crafting, Freebies

Recipe Card Design Contest

For those of you who are not familiar with The D.A.I.S.I.E. Company’s website, it is a digital downloadable store where you can purchase artwork to download and use in creating an endless array of products for your personal or small crafting business use. 

The company is sponsoring a recipe card contest this month where members have created their own recipe cards from the graphics available on the site.  You can visit the area where the cards are being shown by clicking on the recipe card shown here:  

Sample Recipe Card 

If you like to create your own digital designs you might want to get involved on the creating side of the equation, if you just like recipes and recipe cards, you can sign up for a daisie membership (free) and make sure that you sign up to receive the extras.  5 times a year the recipes/recipe cards get sent out for FREE!  Not a bad deal!FRIDAY FREEBIE

There are quite a few free graphics that are available to give you a taste of the art and artists at daisie, and the D.A.I.S.I.E. Club is a great way to start very economically.  Each month for $9.98 you receive 2 art kits of approx. 30 pieces each, 1 scrapbook kit and 8 printables kits.  This month for example, just one of the printables is a 3D Gazebo that stands almost one foot high and makes a fabulous center piece with a gift box attached! 

(UPDATE: freebies are for a limited time only.  This link no longer functions.  Check back later for other special gifts). Click on the Chocolate Bar Wrapper image and it will take you directly to where you can receive it for FREE!  The Recipe card will take you to the gallery where you can see all of the cards created so far for the contest.  If you sign up for D.A.I.S.I.E. and D.A.I.S.I.E. Extras, all of them will eventually be yours!!!

Audrey Jeanne Roberts 

Crafting, Freebies, New Releases

My New Quilt Block Template is Here! For Digital Printing on Printable Fabrics

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This is the first in a series of quilt block templates that will allow you to design your own quilt tops to print on printable fabrics direct from your computer.  I will have a square format block in the next couple of weeks and will continue to play with this format and add to the collection.  The fabric I used for this project is Pabric's "Pabric Soft" which is a lighter, thinner fabric suitable for sewing projects, (www.pabric.com).  You can also create your own printable fabric following the link in the post directly below this one. 

Link to Quilt block templateThis template kit is free.  Click on the quilt image to the left to begin the download process.  Feel free to let other quilters know about it, but please refer them to this blog site to download from here rather than simply pass on the files(http://www.daisiecompany.com/blogs/audreyjeanne/?p=41, copy and paste this link).  Also, if you do pass along the information to your quilting group or friends, post a comment telling me that you did so or email me at audreyjeannesblog@daisiecompany.com and I'll enter you in this month's contest in which the prize will be an digital art kit of one of my quilt blocks! 

The kit as shown with my art in digital graphic form will be available next week from The D.A.I.S.I.E. Company.  It will have several options: as shown with 1 Corinthians 13, Faith, Hope & Love, a second option to put your picture where the verse is and a third option with the text shortened up allowing space for you to personalize the piece with a couple's names and date. 

You can use any of your fonts that are similar in feel, or my Copperplate 2 handwritten font also available from The D.A.I.S.I.E. Company for a perfect match.

Have fun quilting and creating.  Please send me pictures of your creations and I'll post some of them here to give ideas and inspiration to all of us!

Audrey Jeanne Roberts

Contests, Freebies

Last 24 Hours for Contest!

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Here's the free artwork that I will give away on March 1st!

February's Contest Prize

This is brand new art and will not be available for a while on D.A.I.S.I.E. Company… so the only way you can get it right now is to win it!  To enter the drawing, all you have to do is refer my blog to a friend or family member and send me an email at audreyjeannesblog@daisiecompany.com or post a comment on my blog noting that you referred someone and I'll automatically enter you in the contest.

The art that is given away will be for personal use only.  Hope you'll enjoy it! 

Audrey Jeanne Roberts

Freebies

Celebrating Spring with a Freebie!

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Okay … so it’s wishful thinking… hopeful thinking…. desperate thinking… but spring is, by the calendar only a month away!  So to help tide you over until it’s here, I created this colorful little butterfly for you to play with.  Just click on the butterfly to download.  Downloadable freebie!

 For those of you not familiar with my clip art kits, here’s the link to my entire D.A.I.S.I.E. catalog, www.daisiecompany.com/cart/index.php?manufacturers_id=32&main_page=index. 

Check back often it is growing every week.  Also you will find products that have been created out of my artwork by the wonderful D.A.I.S.I.E. Designers sprinkled throughout the printables portion of the store, link here UPDATE: freebies are for a limited time only.  This link no longer functions.  Check back later for other special gifts). 

 Image available in English Cottage Garden Collection 1

 

 

 

 

 

For those of you that have purchased my, "Audrey Jeanne Roberts’ English Cottage Garden 1" clip art collection at D.A.I.S.I.E. Company (link no longer active)

This butterfly will work with the side view butterfly (shown to the left) in the collection so that you can use them for animation purposes.

 

Until Spring is out our windows we’ll have to make her happen on our computer screens and in the gifts we make for those we love.  Audrey Jeanne Roberts

Freebies, New Releases

Spring is Right Around the Corner & Friday Freebie

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For those of you still locked in the throes of winter… my apologies, but my crocus’ are popping their little purple heads out of the ground this morning!  The tulip leaves are about 3 inches tall and the daffodils are just slightly ahead of them.  After two weeks of heavy rains (which we badly needed) and cold grey gloom, the sun is shining in a clean blue sky and the Sierra Nevada peaks are glistening with snow.  If you’re unfortunately still buried under snow, I hope you’ll enjoy my sneak peeks of the new kit I’m preparing for The D.A.I.S.I.E. Club for March.  It’s called "Sunny Days" and will have a wide assortment of sunflowers and other "sunny" flowers.

I’m also going to be working on some small kits for Easter, some with pretty crosses and Christian elements (no sneak peeks yet as I still have to paint them!)  I may also do some elegant easter eggs and perhaps some easter baskets.  I can’t promise how much I’ll be able to do on these as I am creating my first quilt fabric collection which will encompass at least 20 different related fabric patterns.  The floral cluster in the background of this blog is a tiny part of the collection that I’ll be doing. 

As to what else I’m working on… I have 6 new Kitchen towel, hot pad and oven mitt sets that I’m designing right now.  I don’t know exactly how long they will take to get to market or where you might be able to see them, but will keep you posted as we go along.

If you are unfamiliar with The D.A.I.S.I.E. Company, you can find it at www.daisiecompany.com or in the links to the right on my blog.

D.A.I.S.I.E. is a digital download and scrapbooking company that has a wide collection of wonderful artists that create digital art kits that you can use for crafting (even for craft shows), making your own greeting cards and for scrapbooks.  The designers at D.A.I.S.I.E. create incredible ready-to-print projects such as gift boxes, bags, note-n-tote bag, European decoupage cards, centerpieces and more.  If you haven’t been there today’s a great day to visit as there’s a "Friday Freebie" bookmark that is made from my Gerbera Daisy and butterfly art by Barbara Clooney, one of our designers from England.

(UPDATE: freebies are for a limited time only.  This link no longer functions.  Check back later for other special gifts). To get to the Friday Freebie, click on the link above, select add to cart (you won’t be charged at check out), register for D.A.I.S.I.E. and download your freebie.  You may want to register for the newsletter as well there’s always some little free surprises in those as well.  DAISIE treats its customers really well, such as the 11 recipes and 12 blank recipe cards that they sent out free last night.  If you had been registered to receive the newsletter you would have received them as well!  When you’re done, check out the message boards, where some of the nicest people in the world hang around and encourage one another!

Hang in there Spring is coming!!!!!

Audrey Jeanne Roberts