IN THE DESIGNER’S STUDIO WITH CATSCRAP
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I am so happy to have Catscrap with us in THE DIGI FILES this month! They are a very fun group of talented designers that each have wonderful strengths and signature styles! Here is a closer look at their HUGE contribution to TDF12 this month:
You get this awesome collection plus everything else pictured on our Amazing Sponsor’s page for ONLY $5!!! It’s a great way to stretch yourself and try some new-to-you designers while getting some high quality products at the same time!!
Our team really had fun playing with this collection:
Layout by Ana, additional supplies: Template (modified) Collection 22, Janet Phillips, Fonts: DJB Tina, Darcy Baldwin, and Giggles, Fontologie
Layout by Karen
Layout by Jacki
Layout by Karen
Layout by Katie
Hybrid card by Kim, inspired by Flower Pocket card tutorial by Andrea
The owner of CatScrap is Catrine Hallingstad, living in Oslo – the capitol of Norway, with her husband Jarle and their three kids – Tobias (11), Mikkel (6) and Emil (6). Catrine has been digi scrapper since August 2005, and designer since January 2006.
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The designers that sell at Catscrap are:
Birgit
Catrine
Christian
Creashens
Danielle
Dawn Inskip
Fizzy Pop Designs
FruitLoOp Sally
Fuchsia
Ida
Lynne-Marie
Madame Mim
One Little Bird
Sausan Designs
Syrin
It all started when Catrine was home with her newborn twins, and had lots of photos on her computer. She wanted to do something with the photos, and not just have them on the computer. She searched around on the internet and discovered digital scrapbooking! She was soon hooked on this hobby. But, after a while she wanted to find out how the digital kits was made, and looked around for all kind of Photoshop tutorials and tried them out. After a while she had made her first kit and asked a Norwegian shop owner if she could sell her shop, and got accepted. Catrine used to work as a system developer, and while she still was home with her twins she started to get curious on how to set up and run a web shop. After some searching and testing the shop was up and running August 19th, 2006, with just three designers, Catrine, Ida, and Syrin. The Cat in CatScrap is from the first letters in Catrine’s name. When CatScrap started, we had so many comments that our products were so unique, like Ida´s wonderful hand drawn doodles and Syrin´s stitches (especially the loose stitches). Every designer has their own unique style, and we are proud of our high quality and unique design.
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We have a very nice community with boards for both English and Scandinavian speaking members. The most popular happenings in our board is the Photo-A-Day ‘challenge’, where all members can post their photos and share their thoughts and stories. And we have the monthly BoB contest, that involves nearly no effort from the members, but the winner will be priviledged with a proud BoB blinke, and win a guest spot on the exclusive CatScrap Creative Team! To qualify for for the monthly Bob Award the only thing the members need to do is to post layouts in our gallery. The members must follow our gallery rules and the BoB guidelines. The BoB guidelines are very simple – the layout must include CatScrap products, there is no minimum or maximum amount required. The more, the better, of course. Based upon CatScrap team members’ discretion, 5 layouts will be carefully selected and recognized each week from the CatScrap gallery, and will be announced in the appropriate BoB thread in the CatScrap BoB forum thread. The members may post as many layouts as they wish, as the more they post, the better winning chance they will have. The monthly BoB award will be awarded to one participant chosen from the weekly lot of layouts selected that month.
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I wanted to share some of my favorite Catscrap products with you as well:
Here are some layouts created with Catscrap goodies:
Layout by Katie, supplies, from the Catscrap store – Primavera collab by Catscrap designers, Template by fei fei’s stuff
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I would like to thank the wonderful CATSCRAP designers for being here with us this month and sharing their talents with us! We appreciate it!
Go have a look in the CATSCRAP store and come back and tell her what you like, we will randomly select a winner from those comments to win $10 of free products from their store (CU products and Digital Artist Magazine are excluded)! (Comments must be posted before midnight EST and must include a product name to qualify)!
Catscrap has some great things in store for our readers!!
FIRST – a 25% off storewide sale today through Friday!!
SECOND – There will be a special chat for TDD readers at 5:30PM PST, 7:30PM CTL, and 8:30PM EST
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I already have a LONG wishlist at catscrap, but I instantly fell in love with Confessions of a Digi Scrapper by Dawn Inskip.
I love Catscrap´s work for a long time. The “innovative” kit is my favorite!
Lol I’m getting a long list put together too! Thanks for a great sale! Here are some that have caught my eye already!
http://www.catscrap.com/shoppe/product.php?productid=17228&cat=0&page=1
http://www.catscrap.com/shoppe/product.php?productid=17021&cat=0&page=1
So so many gorgeous products! I love love love those Alpha Links and Paisley & Swirls – I had not seen them before. Just beautiful!
Oh my! To pick just one – I’d have to say Count on Me collab. So pretty!
Well, I am certainly a luver of Cat Scraps; their design work rawks!! And I fell in luv with their contribution to this months file! I do believe I’m gonna have to hit the shoppe!
LOVE Confessions of a Digi-Scrapper!
What a gorgeous kit “A Hand to Hold” is. I love Dawn Inskip’s Border Rub-ons.
wow, what a great store, have bookmarked them now, just need to sign up for a newsletter!
I love the collab Count on me by K.Studio and Creashens – looks beautiful!
Thanks for introducing me to Catscrap
Hugs
Kerri
There are a few favorites – for the moment my pick is Confessions of a Digi-Scrapper
I pretty much love everything by creashens. Her kits have so many useful and unique elements.
I love all of Syrin’s stitches and the Kaleidoscope & Twitterpatted kits! Off to go shopping with the discount…thanks!!
I just filled my cart with all kinds of goodies from these lovely designers! Good stuff! I really fell in love with the Dainty Kit. So adorable.
I love the 365 templates those are my favorite to.. thanks for the chance to win!!
Confessions of a Digiscrapper by Dawn Inskip is awesome! Teehee
Love any of Syrin’s stitches or the kits by One Little Bird–they are so classy. But I have to have Syrin’s Saturday Candy for a layout of our grandson for which I have been waiting for that little something extra!
I loved those Hennai papers at first sight!
About a boy Rocks!!!! and dear ol dad is cute…
too much goodness to list but tranquil, innovative and the quick pages for Dainty stand out. PS. LoVE the paper dolls in the TDD kit. LOVe them!!
Love this store but going to Catscrap to pick “a” product is like going to Nordstroms to pick “a” pair of shoes…Dawn Inskip’s About a Boy would be a perfect kit for right now. Also, great sale!
Thanks for the spotlight on Catscrap. Just now registered and signed up for the newsletter!
I love the “snow” LO featured here. I’ll have to scraplift it for sure. I like the Slim & Trimmed Alpha by Birgit and the I Believe in You kit by Vera Lim, Catrine and Syrin. Thanks for the giveaway!
Dainty Full Kit by creashens is fantastic!! Love it!
thanks for the chance!
Silke
I love the Project 365 Photo displays and the Week by Week templates. I have Project 365 on the brain!
I really love Dainty from Creashens!! What a cute kit!! Thanks for the chance!!
Rebecca
So hard to pick just one, but I’m loving the I Believe In You collab.
I LOVE, LOVE all of Syrin’s Essential Stitches & also Amy’s stitches by Syrin. She does stitching like no one else – It’s perfect!
I have to have Confessions of a Digi-Scrapper!
Just have to pop in and say that all these comments makes me smile
Thank you everyone! I love CatScrap; it’s my home 
I just bought two kits! The Confessions of a Digi Scrapper by Dawn Inskip and Innovative by One Little Bird. I just love Catscraps and can always find something I like there and also their unique style is so refreshing! Thank you for such a wonderful write up on one of my favorite places to shop!
I’d love to have Sausan’s new ‘Love Bird’ kit!
I guess I should have maybe included some things I did not buy that I would like… LOL I like Dainty by Creashens and Sidekicks Pack No 9 by Fizzy Pop Designs
I just adore Dainty by Creashens. I don’t know how I missed seeing that before today.
I would love to have the Project 365 Quick.ish Pages by Danielle.
I had never heard of Catscrap before reading this post today. After visiting their shop I realize that I have been missing out!!
I loved Dainty Full Kit by creashens. In fact, I loved the entire creashens store!
Oh gosh, so hard to choose…. but…
The great outdoors – Collaboration kit with FruitLoOp Sally and Kaye Winiecki I have to have it…. I do,I do!!
really like Syrin’s Essential stitches 5 since
I’m always in need for stitches
I just LOVE Cat Scrap!!
If I have to pick my favourites it will be “A girl´s lullaby” and “A boy´s lullaby” by Ida.
And one more I really love is Danielles “Love story”.
I fell in love with Catscrap’s unique style when I discovered digiscrapping a few years ago… I feel so privileged to be a part of this great store! Thanks for all the wonderful comments ladies!
Cat Scrap is my all time favourite store!!
I love everthing from Syrin!!
Especially her Prettifiers, My friend Lilli kit and of course her great stitches:)
I love the new Dainty kit by Creashens but really its so hard to choose, there are so many wonderful designers!
I love Creashens’ and Lynne-Marie’s and Danielle’s stuff – but top of my wish list right now is Squeeze by Creashens!
Thanks for the sale!
TY so much for all your sweet comments! Come and celebrate with us tonight at Catscrap!
I also love the Alpha Links shown above – beautiful. The kits are all so lovely too, hard to pick just one! I do love “Anne with an E” though!
What unique products! I like Syrin’s Essential Stitches # 5.
Love the Innovative kit- great for my baby boy, and I also really like the About a Boy kit which I ‘m sure will be great for my little man as he gets older
What a great store! I’ve never been there! I found all kinds of things I like. A couple in particular:
Template Set #1 Clustered by Lynne-Marie, About by K Studio, Something Blue Studios, and creashens, Anne (with an E) Full Kit by creashens and so many more!
I’ve had Ida’s Urban Madness in my wish list for quite a while now…
Border rub ons, Love Bird, Mirella, Home for the holidays, Pebbles…Really just too many. So many terrific designers here. I could stay there looking all day. I would love to win this give away!
I love the templates. They are definitely going on my wishlist!!! The paisleys and swirls…the stitches…Heck, I love everything! Thanks for contributing this month.
Wow! This store has tons! I loved a lot, but especially like the Confessions of a Digi scrapper and the Hennai paper pack.
Too many awesome things to choose from. I love the kit in the digi files! Also love “Count on Me” by K Studio and creashens.
Wow. Great stuff! I sure love the Kaleidescope kit by Lynne-Marie, creashens, and Leora Sanford!
I seriously love just about everything on catscrap’s site — and my hard drive full of kits and such from the store is a pretty fitting testament to that.
Right now, I’m in love with just about everything Sausann puts up. (And if I was to win, I’d be filling in some holes in my Sausann collection with it, for sure. LOL!)
Ohh, I’ve always loved Catscrap!
My favorite kits are Frankie Loves Hollie by creashens, Syrin’s stitches and Innovative by One Little Bird.
I honestly think Catscrap is one of the best shops out there