WOO HOO! I am so excited to have the sponsor spotlights back! After an almost three week hiatus, I am just itching to introduce you to another fabulous designer. And today you will NOT be disssapointed! THE DAILY DIGI is thrilled to spotlight the designer CREASHENS! Her work is just incredible…as I have been putting this post together I have just been in awe of everything I have seen. Beautiful colors, flowing designs, and a rockin’ creative team. Yup…this is going to be a good one. But before we get to all that, let’s see what she created just for this months THE DIGI FILES.
Isn’t this absolutely, drop-dead, jaw-on-the-floor gorgeous? I LOVE it. It was one of those kits that I loved right away when I saw it but when I opened it, I just couldn’t believe it. She has PACKED this thing full. And what I really love about it is that it is one of those kits where everything is there — she has so much variety of color and element choices that I didn’t have to spend a lot of time looking for stuff to go with it. She also has a number of pre-layered elements for the time-challenged like me! I was able to put this page together in about 10 minutes! And you know what…I adore it and am going to print it on a canvas and give it to my mom for Mother’s Day!
You can get this kit, and a bunch of other amazing designs, right HERE for just $5.00
If you want to see 25 of ABSOLUTELY STUNNING LAYOUTS using this kit, just check out what her creative team did HERE. This is, hands-down, one of the most amazing CT’s I have ever seen!
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Name: Shen Guthrie (my design name is CREASHENS)
Stores: Catscrap and Two Little Pixels
Blog: CREASHENS
About: My name is Shen Guthrie. I grew up in the small town of Alhambra in Los Angeles county. Since graduating college 12 years ago, I’ve been working as a full-time corporate graphic designer. I now currently reside in Orange County, California with my husband of almost six years and our 2 1/2 year old daughter who is the subject of most all my layouts.
I started designing because it just felt natural. When I was just a scrapper, I would try to be creative with the products I would buy… Cutting things apart, mixing different things, blending different papers… Creating new things to use. Born into a family of various mixed media artists, and after becoming a graphic designer, I just knew I was meant to be an artist of some sort, even though I always thought and wanted to be a teacher.
‘ve been designing digital scrapbook products since May of 2008, but as a graphic designer for over 15 years now.
Definitely both! I have to be and have both! I can’t imagine doing one without the other now. Although since becoming a designer, I’ve had less time to scrap. Scrapping is still my ultimate therapy pill. If I’m in a designing funk, I scrap. I can scrap my heart out and never be sick of it. I can’t say the same about designing, because at times, I can get burnt out.
(You can see all of her 2009 layouts right HERE)
Considering I get about 6 hours of sleep on the weekdays (with a full-time job) and maybe 7 on the weekends, I’d say 25 -30 hours.
I would have to say Sprung, the kit being featured here this month.
I would have to say it’s a toss-up between my more recent Swell Set No. 2, Uptown kit, Pure Paper Pack, and my debut kit, Natural Wonders.
1. my family
2. rainy days
3. foreign flicks
4. Audrey Hepburn
5. Italy
6. photography
7. flip flops
8. jeans (especially fresh out of the dryer)
9. Charlie & Lola cartoons
10. creating/designing/drawing
1. people who toss ashes and cigs out their car window
2. loud chewing
3. telemarketers
4. corporate bureaucracy
5. my nearsighted vision
5. birds crapping on my car
6. reptiles and worms
7. ironing
8. when Photoshop crashes
9. bills
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Now let’s take a peek into her store…there is so much yummy goodness in there! All images are clickable.
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Isn’t it all just incredible??
And now…because the readers of THE DAILY DIGI asked for it, here are a bunch of layouts created with her CREASHENS! The layouts use a variety of her gorgeous designs. To see even more, check out the MOSTLY CREASHENS gallery over at Catscrap!
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Thank you, Shen, SO MUCH for being with us this month! Your art is truly inspirational!
As a THANK YOU to our readers, Shen has this great quick page for us!
Download HERE
Thank you for this lovely freebie!
I’m not usually a quick page girl but this one is just too stinkin’ cute to pass up …thanks to Shen for the freebie! I Love Creashens!!
I am having problems with gigasize also. The file downloads to my computer, but when I try to extract it, it says nothing is there. I had the say problem with the Mad Libs freebie =(
[...] I’ll leave you with a page. I haven’t had much time for scrapping this week so I’m enjoying some of the gorgeous quickpages that are available. This one is from Creashens. It’s a freebie made with her new kit, ‘Sprung’ and is available at the Daily Digi. [...]
When I try to download this file it says it has been removed. Already??? Or is there a problem with the file?
I came back again to see if this download would work.. I love this page and really want to see a sample of what this designers work looks like full size. The download link is now at Giga-something… which has me enter a 3 digit code,click the download button, wait 60 seconds, then takes me in the same circle again and again and again. I tryed it on both AOL and Explorer and same problem.
What an absolutely delicious post!
I loved reading all about the great designer CREASHENS And I was eager to download a sample , The freebie QP . but when i did i got a erroe message this file has been deleted. So I was very disapointed.
Gorgeous kits – will have to check out her shops!
Love reading your blog! Thanks for the great freebie and for sharing all the marvelous layouts and kit previews.
i have only just discovered this site and am amazed (so very helpful),thanks for the digi files – what a top idea. i have some of creashans beautiful kits and am more than happy to add this gorgeous kit to the pile.
gorgeous stuff! thank you
Had never seen her work before and am blown away by the gorgeousness!!!! Thanks for the introduction …
Thank you so much for the adorable QP!!
Creashens, I am one of your biggest fans!! (: This is a fabulous spotlight!!
Beautiful! Thank you for the quick page and for introducing me to a fabulous designer!
WOW…she is an amazing designer..thank you for the link to her blog and her wonderful work. And a freebie to boot–wow–Can’t wait to use it, and to buy Digifiles #4!!
Wow – what a beautiful kit! Thanks so much for the quick page, too.
Thank you! She is amazing!
Thanks for the goodie and WOW that is some fabulous eye candy. I want to ‘lift’ most all of those layouts, talk about some talented scrappers and some beautiful products!!
Gorgeous, gorgeous! I downloaded and upzipped everything this weekend. I need to make a page!
Oh I love this kit…thanks for introducing me to a new designer!