I’m excited to announce that you can now find digitalGinger products at the new digi-shop Inspiration-Lane.com

They still have their big Mega-Kit Free with any purchase and you can get this cute paper, bow and inspire word by dG included!  I am also leading the “Getting Things Done” Challenge.

 Holly McCaig is the guest designer this month and came out of “retirement” just for the shop opening too!

Things were a bit slow this winter, but for a good reason. DigitalGinger has moved from Tucson to San Diego!

While there are still a few unpacked boxes, I am settling in and just love being 5 minutes from the ocean after living in the desert for 13 years. I really miss all of my great friends in Tucson, but the scrapbooking community here in the North County area of San Diego has been so friendly and positive. I’ve been to a Croppin Cuties meetup and to Scrapfest where I met some awesome friends, like Camille Akin owner of Ever After Scrapbooks in Carlsbad, where my new classes start.

I have 3 new hybrid and digital classes starting in just over a week. Check out digitalGinger’s events page to read the descriptions and dates! If you are in the area and have class requests, please let me know! There should be a full day Phototshop class for digi-scrappers soon as well.

I am working on a number of new kits and tutorials and there are so many fun partnerships going on, I can’t wait to share when I finalize the details. I’ll post more soon about my trip to the Memory Trends / PMA expo last weekend, and I’m off to CHA in just a few days and I’m sure there will be lots to tell afterward too!

DigitalGinger joined the Melting Pot Restaurant, Michael’s and Close To My Heart to offer a super fun evening of food and crafts. Over 100 ladies attended this past Wednesday night. During the event they had a three course meal and a chance to join us in the party room to make three different craft and scrapbooking projects.

This was digitalGinger’s first live event and I had so much great feedback! We created a “Thank You” card printed from the Marigold Printable Card Kit No.1. Most of the ladies had not tried hybrid or digital crafting before and they loved the idea of a card that they could print whenever they needed it. They also loved the “click and type” areas that are a part of the kit that allow you to change the “Thank You” text and add addresses to the envelope template. (I didn’t have a computer there to show this, but the descriptions evoked ohhs and ahhs!)

The ladies also were impressed that the drawings and designs were my own, and I really appreciated all the great encouragement and congratulations for opening the website and shop.

I want to thank my good friends Kerridan and Heidi for helping me out over the long night! They were great at pointing out what words seemed to connect the best with everyone, such as saying “drawings” instead of “illustrations.” I really want to expose traditional paper crafters and scrapbookers to digital and hybrid products, and Kerri and Heidi were great at using my poster board of digital layouts and a digital scrapbooking magazine, to point out digitals many benefits. I also included a digital scrapbooking explanation sheet and coupon in the guests folders.

I have added a short tutorial for creating the card we made that night so anyone can re-create our project. I am looking forward to having similar events in San Diego in late 07/ early 08 too!

It’s here and I am so excited! After so many months of work and a year of planning, I am finally able to bring you the beginning of what will be a very fun company.

What is included in the Opening?

• an updated website.
• the digital scrapbooking store with digital kits and printables, like cardmaking kits.
• this new blog, which will host the latest information on all things digitalGinger.
• a new Creative Team whose layouts you can see in the soon to be gallery and the product info pages.
• a second store, the “Gift Boutique”, where I offer my unique illustrations and designs on ready-made products like notecards and T-shirts. You may see designs here that are not yet in the digital kits too.

There is so much more to come as well!

Now that the stores and website are going, I can focus more on getting my designs to you in the form of new digital and printable products and gifts. Check back to the website and shop often, as I will be adding new products to the two stores almost daily.

I focused mainly on the Fall line of designs, like Marigold Collections, for the opening, but I have started botanical drawings and designs for next spring and summer too! I also plan on creating the first children’s lines from a beautiful set of watercolor illustrations of fanciful sun, moon and stars.

DigitalGinger’s home office will be moving to San Diego, CA the end of November, and after the move, I will begin to develop a set of simple and fun online tools for scrapbookers, both traditional and digital.

Thank you to all the friends that have given digitalGinger their encouragement and I am glad to welcome them and you to join the digialGinger community!