Christine Borgfeld Designs

Polka Dot Potato store closing

Well, not really, but Ashley has decided to stop selling digital artwork and focus on the print business and some other areas.  So after giving it a lot of thought I've decided not to move my products to another store right now.  I haven't been designing in some time, and I've had a very busy year in areas outside digital scrapbooking.  I don't think it would be fair to join a new store when I'm not available to contribute as much as I'd like. 

I will continue to scrapbook and make some brushes from time to time (and possibly post here to share), but right now I'm just not ready to design regularly.  Right now I'm just going to let life take its course for a while and see where things fall as I focus on some other areas.  So enjoy the last day of the clearance sale if you haven't already, and thanks to those who have offered me spots to sell in their stores. 

I also did a layout last weekend (wow!).  Here is the herd of deer that gathers every evening at my father's house to get a free meal and water.  This is one of the best times of year to watch them.

Alex's Smile

I love Jofia Devoe's artwork and wanted to use this set for a while, but the original colors are pink and red so it never worked out for me.  So I recolored some of it for this layout.  I also used one of my new photo masks from the Distressed Elegance set also. 

 

Credits are in my gallery at DST.

a sad goodbye

We lost one of our kitties last week.  It was rough, but I'm trying to focus on positive things so I made this layout to celebrate everything that was special about her.   

The great bike ride

Well the training wheels are finally off.  After days of riding with daddy's hand clamped firmly onto him, Alex finally got the balancing down and is riding on his own!  Now if we can just get him to put his feet down when he stops! 

The layout uses a free kit from Mag designs.  I don't think its available, but she has some others on her blog and she sells at Shabby pickle designs.  The stick frame and tag are by Natalie designs, from her new fall kit - and as usual its wonderful. 

Boys will be boys

Two months ago we started a project to do something with our game room.  It's a long narrow room over the garage with our pool table and nothing else.  I wanted to use it for something besides storage, so we picked out some paint and got started.  We picked maroon for the walls and a beige for the ceiling.  After we finished painting and got the mess cleaned up, the boys ended up playing on the floor while I snapped photos.  So here is the result...

You can see the credits at my gallery at DST.

Alex at the Beach

Just a quick post of my most recent layout.  I was inspired by a layout from pixiedust at DST.  She has some wonderful work which you can see here.  This page uses my new circle frame brushes which I'll get around to posting here soon.  But for now you can see them here at PDP. 

Cool Shades

Here is the boy showing off his sunglasses. This was a fun layout - Its been a while since I did one and it was nice getting back in the groove and playing around.  You can also see it here at DST.