I instantly fell in love with Hazel Olive Designs products from the first time I saw them, when Mscraps first opened!! I am excited to have her finally joining us in THE DIGI FILES! Her contribution is adorably versatile and our team had a lot of fun with it!! Here’s a closer look:
This is just ONE of the SEVEN collections you can get for $5 total in THE DIGI FILES this month! You can see everything that is included on the Contributor’s page. Here’s some inspirational eye-candy for you created with Oh Baby!:
Layout by Jenn, additional supplies: “Get Real” Shadows by Jennifer Barrette, Traveling Typewriter font
Layout by Katie, additional supplies: Template by Michelle Martin. Fonts are CK script and Century Gothic.
Layout by Karen, additional supplies: Valorie Wibbens Block It Vol. 1 paper blocking template.
Layout by Amy Wolff
Layout by Leilani Rose (Hazel Olive CT member), additional supplies: font, BigMummy
You can see some more GORGEOUS layouts on the Team Inspiration page.
I am Ashley of Hazel Olive Designs. I grew up in sunny California and married my high school sweetheart at 20. 5 years layer we have been blessed with two beautiful and wonderfully unique daughters. Hazel is now two and Olive just turned one. I design at home despite the double trouble crawling and toddling of the girls. They are the light of my life, my inspiration and I couldn’t do anything else but name my company after the twosome. So there you have Hazel Olive Designs. 
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Title: Baby Kielei
Credits: Bloom by Vinnie Pearce
Scrapbook your favorite photos first. Trying to scrapbook for any size family can be overwhelming. You tend to feel that you should scrapbook in a particular order…last Easter before this Easter, 1st birthday before 3rd, ect. All the while, uploading a few thousand new photos a week on to your PC. You would need a team to scrapbook everything! This kind of process can lead to feeling like your getting behind, and make your artistic time start to feel like a chore. Instead, don’t feel the need to scrapbook in any particular order at all. Choosing your favorite photos that inspire you the most is a good place to get started. Then, if you never get to those Christmas 1998 photos…at least you still have your favorite photos done and in a coffee table book to ooh and ahh over.
I began my scrapbook journey at a local scrapbook store. After a few years I moved on to take the role of a scrap-for-hire designer. This new bit began to introduce me to a new world of Digital Scrapbooking. Following the birth of my first daughter, I found myself with-out the past freedom or time available to spread out my paper crafting supplies on my desk and craft away. This opened my door to digital scrapbooking and the convenience of an equally expressive laptop hobby. I am a long time computer geek, program researcher, and creative artist. I have always had a constant need for a creative outlet. I discovered an absolute love for designing digital art and products while getting the opportunity to share my adoration of contrasting color schemes and funky flair. This month I will be celebrating my 1 Year Anniversary of Hazel Olive Designs. Looking forward to another great year.
Colors definitely play a big part in my inspiration cycle. I am a color junkie. I love discovering colors schemes that are playful, fun, and contrasting. Vintage pieces are another major inspiration in most of my kits. I love all things shabby and old, and enjoy the challenge of designing a complete kit around one funky, antique store find.
I use a Toshiba Qosmio X505 laptop with a 6GB, 7200RPM hard drive for the bulk of my designing. With my toddlers running me around, portability is a must as my home office moves from the kitchen to the playroom and elsewhere at any given moment. I design in Photoshop CS4, Illustrator, and Art Rage Studio. My camera is a Canon Rebel XTI…love this thing. I scrapbook, design and anything else computer related with my trusty Wacom Bamboo Tablet. I can’t imagine going back to a mouse in this life time. I also use an awesome little app on my IPad called MoodBoard for organizing and collecting colors and inspiration for my kits. For back up and extra storage I use a Maxtor, One Touch 4 external hard drive with 750 GB of extra storage. I also religiously rely on Mosy Online Backup to further backup and protect my laptop and external hard drive.
My favorite product right now would have to be my Grunge Me: Volume Two, The Assortment. I have been using this one like crazy lately. It has such a convenient range from elegant to the super grungy. I find myself using it on all my pages and a lot of my papers as well.
My best selling product is my Be Yourself kit. I think it can be difficult to find funky boy kits for the “in-between” age. This one seemed to produce quite a few fun, pre-teen to young adult layouts.
Here are some of my favorite products by Ashley
Here’s some inspirational layouts using Ashley’s products. All of the layouts are linked to the originals with credits.
Go have a look in Ashley’s Store and come back and tell her what you like, we will randomly select a winner from those comments to win $10 in product from her store! (Comments must be posted before midnight EST to qualify)!
As a thank you to our readers, Ashley has created this freebie to share with all of us!
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I am so proud of my wife Ashley. Not only is she great designer but she is such a great wife and mother to our beautiful girls. I love u honey.
I love the Sew Lovely kit because I have loved to sew since I was very young and could hardly wait until junior high so I could take homemaking class!
I really like “Life gone digital” and “Cup of Harmony.”
Thanks for the cute freebie! An it’s funny because I was drooling over the “be yourself” kit this past weekend. I put it on my wish list. That is my favorite of her kits. It’s so great!
Haha. After reading some comments, I saw that I had misseed the “Grunge me” brushes! They’re on my wish/shopping list also! Something about them!
Wow! I just bought Daily Digi 2 days ago, downloaded it yesterday, and had yet to get to unzip it. I LOVE Ashley’s contribution! I was already thrilled with what I’d seen but I just love this kit! I’ve gotten to go to MScraps here and there before but I must not have seen her store! I love you guys! You always show me the greatest designers that I’d have completely passed up with so many out there! My personal fave, well actually I think at this point, I’m really thrilled to have the one that just came out in the Daily Digi! I’m sure it’s gonna sell like hotcakes once people who miss this month’s see it in her store! But after that I totally love “Life Gone Digital” I love her style!
Thanks so much for the adorable mouse! The Grunge Me Brushes, volume 2 are now on my shopping list.
Thanks for the freebie. Ellie is my favorite.
I really like the Out of this World design. Super Cute!
Vintage Yuletide, Ellie, Vintage Vixen and Sew Lovely for me- I love the vintage thing- Ashley’s (Hazel Olive’s) was my favourite Kit in the TDD Files!
Thanks so much for the scrapping tip-I am guilty of being overwhelmed and love the idea of just focusing on favorite photos and forgetting the “schedule”! Wow, so hard to choose a favorite but “out of this world” and “moody” would fit our family right now! Thanks for the chance!
Oh, I LOVE Vintage Vixen! Thanks for the chance to win!
Love Ellie and Grunge me 1! Thanks for another great designer!
I love that “Be Yourself” kit! I think it would be great to scrap pics of my 14-year-old brother, who is always hard to scrap!!
Thanks for introducing me to Ashley. Her designs are very unque. I have enjoyed looking at all of them. I, too, am quite fond of the Grunge Me brushes and think they would be fun to play with. Thanks.
Oooo… Grunge Me 1, and Vintage Vixen. aAways wanted to be a little vixen-ish…
I just love when I discover new designers – thanks TDD!
I adore Ashley´s style and if I´d had to pic something I´d defenitely go for the “Grunge me – volume 2″ brushes. I can see so many great ways to use it both digital and hybrid.
So if I don´t win I´ll buy it! ;D
Thanks for giving the chance to win!
I love the grunge me brushes and Be Yourself kit. Thanks for another great designer pick!
Thank you for the cute mouse. I love your kit Be Yourself too, great message.
Love the retro syle that she uses! I really love the look of both of the Grunge sets, those are going on my wish list! Thanks!
Great retro style! I love Sew Lovely and Vintage Vixen. Thanks for the chance to win.
Thank you for introducing us to Ashley – great stuff!! Loving the ‘Timeless Fall’ kit because I love fall. Also the ‘Grunge Me Brush Set 2′ and the ‘Techno Life’ items look really fun and the ‘Be Yourself’ and ‘Out of This World’ kits would be wonderful for scrapping my 4 boys. Thanks for the freebie, too!
So. Cute.!!! I love her Ellie kit!!! Thanks for the chance!
I really like Sew Lovely. Brings back lots of memories. Thanks!
Thank you so much for this post. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in CBH Digital Scrapbooking Freebies, under the Page 6 post on Aug. 23, 2010. Thanks again.
Love your quickpages and the Be yourself kit is great!
My favorite is the Grunge Me Vol. 2. I could see myself using that a lot!
I love her style! I really like the Be Yourself kit, too, and the Grunge Me brushes!
I am loving her grunge brush sets…yummmy! and Be Yourself too, boy kits/pages seem hard for me, that kit is perfect!!!!!! Thanks for bringing us some fabulous designers to drool over again this month!
I lover her style! I really loved Sew Lovely, Moody, and Out of this World.
I love the vintage look of Ashley’s work! I especially like Vintage Vixen and Moody. Can’t believe this is the last kit for the month. Time for September, I guess!
“Life Gone Digital” and off to have another look.
“Out of this world” and “Moody” – I have 3 sometimes-very-moody- kids, so this one would inspire lots of fun ideas…!
Loving Out of this World!