I'm continuing to finish up the Blue Hydrangea Collections a little at a time.  This preview has been made with elements from "Blue Hydrangeas 1" which is now available on DAISIE at this link, "Blue Hydrangeas 2" & some quick page duos that will be released soon as well.

I have really, really loved working with this collection.  When it is complete it will have a lot to choose from and work with!

There will be a Wedding/Anniversary add on module and a torn-paper letter alphabet to go with it.  I will also release my "Audrey Jeanne's Loose Handwriting 1 font" which is elegant but not fussy font.

I promise not to keep you waiting too long on these.  I have most of the work done, but have to figure out what goes best with each kit and (as always) get the paperwork etc. ready for Miss Stacey!  Even artists have to do paperwork .

By the way, for you quilters in my audience, we settled on my first collection of fabrics.  It is called "Magnolias in Winter," and will be a compilation of rich reds, chocolate browns, hunter greens, and tans.  It will feature beautiful creamy Magnolias, Magnolia wreaths, berries, pine boughs and other elements that will work all throughout the fall and winter seasons without being specifically Christmas.

This collection will be unveiled May 1st at a quilting trade show and I'll find out how soon afterwards I am allowed to give you sneak peeks.  Miss Stacey has offered to allow me to sell yardage at DAISIE, so I might take her up on that offer.  Perhaps I'll offer fat quarter kits or something similar?  You are welcome to leave me comments with your suggestions of what you would like to have available.  In addition, we have a wonderful quilt shop owner that is a member of DAISIE and has been an invaluable assistance to me.  If her quilt shop's website carries the fabrics I'll post the link here as well.

Audrey Jeanne Roberts

I really HAVE been working on this kit in amongst the other obligations I have to fulfill , in fact there will be at least two kits eventually, but I'll just be happy to get the first in the store next week as promised.

This kit has some wonderful textured and antiqued pieces to it in addition to swirly "stitched" accent pieces.

Perfect for many uses, but especially weddings and anniversaries.  There are quite a few papers, frames, borders, tags and spot art pieces that will make it a real work horse collection.

I'll probably have a few more sneak peeks next week.

Happy Easter!

Audrey Jeanne Roberts

Inspired by the beautiful British "peel offs" gold and silver three dimensional stickers and trims, I've created several kits of metallic dimensional sets.  Shown in this preview are two of the sets, "Brads 'n Things" and "Tags, Charms 'n Borders."

There are mini photo frames, heart charms,  and borders in one kit.  There's another kit for Wedding-oriented text items for such as "Guest Book,"  "Bridal Shower," "Love" and "And they lived happily ever after."  There's another kit of "Brads 'n Things" that is for everyday use.  It has a swirl clip and  heart clip (or they can just be used for accent pieces) there are also oval, circle, square and rectangle pieces to use for brads.  Each item in this set comes in gold, silver, pewter, antiqued brass, rusted, distressed gold and black iron.

The pictures in these charm frames are of my Prince Charming and I saying our vows and the two of us at Hume Lake last Labor Day. 

These kits and a few more will be coming soon to D.A.I.S.I.E. Company!  I hope you'll enjoy using them on your creative projects!

For digital scrappers, the texture and dimension that metallics add can really make a page pop.  These can also be used in craft projects in many ways such as tags for gift bags and labels for cans and boxes or on greeting cards… the possibilities are endless!

Audrey Jeanne Roberts

The April D.A.I.S.I.E. Club is just a few days away and I am once again one of the contributors to the 10 to 12 kits that come in the club each month.  For only $9.95 you get 2 full art kits of 30 pieces or more (I think mine is over 40 pcs this month!)  and 8-10 printables kits — that's the best kit value on the web!!!!

In the kit are papers, frames, tags, spot art, borders, text pcs. and more.  This kit is perfect for Weddings and Anniversarys, but there are plenty of blank or non-specific items that can be used for other occasions or crafting purposes as well.

After the club comes out, there will be two kits of Instant scrapbook pages called "Quick Page Duos."  Each set is designed to be facing pages in your scrapbook.  Simply drop your pictures behind the openings, size and print… it's that easy to make beautiful scrapbooks!  I will continue to add to the Wedding Quick Pages so that you will eventually be able to create an entire album with little or no effort.

This kit will be available April 1st, 2007 at http://www.daisiecompany.com/.

Audrey Jeanne Roberts

I have been working on my contribution to the April Daisie Club and having so much fun!  I had some wedding art that I had created a couple of years ago for greeting cards.  I decided to play around and see what I could make from it, and boy have I made A LOT!  In fact so much that there will be a kit in the D.A.I.S.I.E. Club and at least one other kit to go with it (and probably even more before I get done!)

Here's a pair of Quick Pages that I made using some of the kit contents.

There will be several sets of Quick Page Duos so that creating an album would be very easily done either for your own wedding or for someone dear to you.

I also have a series of beautiful gold three dimensional embellishments that I have been crafting to make a mini kit with.

I thought I'd give you a sneak peek and invite you to tell me what you want in a Wedding/Anniversary set so that you have input while I'm actually in the process of creating things!  Feel free to leave me a comment with any of your requests or ideas. 

Audrey Jeanne Roberts

Oh boy!  I'm having so much fun for Easter… makes me wish we had little ones around again.  I put together another digital clip art minikit of 10 pcs. that you can add on to your Gerbera Daisy Collection (if you own it), to make it into a wonderful Easter set.  It will retail for $2.98 at The D.A.I.S.I.E. Company beginning on Tuesday, March 20th, 2007.

There are four large frames that will hold a standard photo or you can put text into.  A blue and a pink with Happy Easter and without and a blue and a pink with and without Easter eggs.

The tags are also with and without text and Easter eggs.  This will allow you to use them all year around as well as for Easter!  Here's the link to all of my digital clip art kits at The D.A.I.S.I.E. Company store.

Oh well… I really, really MUST get off the mountain and go into town for a haircut that's at least a month overdue!  So… off to civilization I go  Maybe some more goodies tomorrow?! 

Audrey Jeanne Roberts

This kit is perfect for elegant feminine designs and for an elegant, more adult Easter.  It comes with 5 coordinating Easter eggs, 5 matching papers, 5 12" borders and quite a few border pieces, art pcs., frames, tags, a 5" x 7" illusration and a 7" x 7" printable friendship quotation.

If you love purple and lavendar I have plenty of those wonderful colors for you in this kit.  There are 44 pcs. and it will retail for $6.98 at The D.A.I.S.I.E. Company starting on Friday, March 16th, 2007.  Stacey has confirmed she'll get it up on Friday and I'm going to do something I've never done before… I'm putting it on sale for $5.98 for the first week only!

English Violets have a very special place in my heart.  As a child growing up, my grandmother and mother always had English Violets growing in the garden of any home they owned.  This was quite a feat in sunny San Diego as English Violets are not stocked in the stores.  When I was little I loved popping the little round seed heads (I was rather easily amused!)  We dug up and transplanted violets from one home to the next each time we moved.

When I grew up and got married, the very first thing I wanted to do when we purchased our own home was find some violets to put in my own garden to keep the tradition alive!  It made me feel as though I had come of age.

I hope you'll enjoy them as much as I enjoyed creating them!

Audrey Jeanne Roberts

Okay… now out comes the tease in me!  I have to show you what you're going to be getting from me in the March issue of the D.A.I.S.I.E. Club!  For those that are anxiously awaiting spring, I've brought it to you a little early.  There's something so sunny and friendly about sunflowers.  I'm going to go out into my garden this week and start sowing some seeds so that I'll have them as early as possible (if the birds will leave them alone and let them grow!)

There's over 30 pieces in this collection.  This particular print is included with and without the text so that you can make it your own.  it's a 6" square to make a greeting card out of or you could make it as a framed print or a tile or?!

There are several full paintings that have been included in this kit as well as a couple of frames, some borders, some….. well!  There's just some of everything!

 Yesterday, I was a bad girl (I'm soooo good at being bad sometimes!)  We went to a movie and did some shopping down the mountain and I brought home a half flat of snapdragons, some pansies, stock, icelandic poppies and I can't even remember what else .  Now I have to race to get them in the ground because we might have snow again tomorrow!  Oh well… they'll do fine and after all Spring is right around the corner!!!!!!

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Audrey Jeanne Roberts