Who won the Journey to the Soul "Keys to My Store" drawing?

On Thursday December 16, 2010 a drawing for The Keys To My Store was held at Random.org. There were 105 entries from 30 contestants. You can verify the results and that your DDR user name was included in the drawing by going to this page at random.org. You must enter your DDR user name (all lower case letters) to verify your entry.

A first place winner was drawn with 2 runners up in case for any reason the 1st place winner doesn’t respond. The winner will have until December 31st to email (colleen7699@gmail.com) me for a coupon code. The coupon will be good for 100% off all products in Colleen Lynch, Digital ARTchives’s store for 30 days.

Drum roll please…..and the winner of “The Keys to My Store” drawing is sehabets! Congratulations!

Don’t forget to watch for the Journey to the Soul Chat & Challenge Event to continue in 2011. January through November on the second Friday of the month at 2pm EST or 10pm EST.

Each month will be a new topic to explore through the chat and a challenge to discover the inner you with a journaling layout. This is a snail scrap allowing you plenty of time to journal. Layout deadlines will be the last day of the month. Each participant in the chat will receive a small goodie bonus and be credited for one entry into the annual “Keys to My Store” drawing in December. An additional entry credit may be earned by correctly completing and posting the journaling challenge layout.

This year there will be more winners and more fun! First place prize will be 30 days of free downloading anything in my store. I am adding a 2nd place prize of any one collection from my store, a 3rd place price of any one complete kit from my store and a 4th place prize of any one individual kit from my store.

Watch the forums at DDR for the details at the end of this month!

Happy Scrapping!

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Black Friday & Cyber Monday Sales Plus New Release!

The season has officially begun! DDR is having a storewide sale of 35% off everything now through end of the day Monday. I have rushed to complete my lasted new Christmas release, No Place Like Home so you can take advantage of the sale prices. Remember all coupon codes will be turned off during this sale

This collection was inspired by my love of the holidays. For me the holidays were always a time of joy, a time for traditions, a time for the family to come together and a time to remember old stories. There's nothing quite like being surrounded by family. Home is the place to be for the holidays but with our fast pace changing world it's not always possible, so new traditions begin, but we are always home for Christmas, if only in our hearts!


The No Place Like Home Collection includes: an Element Pak, a Paper Pak, an Embellished Words Pak and an Alpha Pak. As always these are available as individual packs or save 25% by purchasing the Complete Kit (includes Paper Pak and Element Pak) or save 35% by buying the Collection Pak (includes the Paper Pak, Element Pak, Embellished Words Pak and Alpha Pak).

No Place Like Home Collection Pak

35% Off

No Place Like Home Complete Kit

35% Off

No Place Like Home Element Pak

35% Off

No Place Like Home Paper Pak

35% Off

No Place Like Home Paper Pak

35% Off

No Place Like Home Embellished Words Pak

35% Off

No Place Like Home Embellished Words Pak

35% Off

No Place Like Home Alpha Pak

35% Off

This is a tremendous savings on a brand new collection. Don't miss out. Fly on over to my store and remember you also get the free with purchase collaboration kit if you send $10!

To those of you in the US celebrating Thanksgiving, have a wonderful weekend, make lots of memories and say safe. To the rest of the world enjoy the upcoming weekend. Happy scrapping!

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The December DDR Collaboration Kit is called Fantasy

I have just finished my contribution to the DDR December collaboration kit called Fantasy. This kit is going to be a stunner! Here's a sneek peek at my preview.

Look for it at the DigiDesignResort Store in December.

Happy Scrapping!

Colleen Lynch,

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Journey To The Soul Chat

Friday October 15th at 2pm EST or 10pm EST

The "Journey to the Soul" chat and challenge is a 3 month long event. It is based on the book and movie, EAT PRAY LOVE. This will be a self journey to find the essence of your own life. With today's busy life styles it is often hard to find time for ourselves. Time to see the beauty all around us, to enjoy the moment and take time to quiet ourselves, listen and pray, and to love without completely losing ourselves. This is what we will explore over the next 3 months. You do not have to have read the book or seen the movie to participate and it is not necessary to attend all three chats. You are welcomed for as much or as little as you can fit into your schedule.

In November we will take the journey to Bali that represents loving. It is fitting that it is last because we must have good footing in our lives, love ourselves and know who we are before we embark upon a loving relationship. Otherwise it is all too easy to become what the person we love wants, to meet their needs and forget our own and have trouble with setting limits and boundaries. This will be the basis our chat and challenge this month.

November: We will chat on November 19th at 2pm EST about our love lives or even lack of love lives. You will scrap and journal about how we maintain ourselves while taking a chance and opening ourselves up to another person. How is your love relationship working now? What works, what doesn't in your current relationship and explore how our past love relationships worked or failed. You do not need to use a photo especially if you aren't comfortable with pictures of yourself, but get creative and use photos of things you journal about. Your layout must be made with any kit from me in the DDR store, but specifically "P.S. I Love You! was created just for this. You will receive a 25% off coupon code at the chat for any kit in my store and 1 or 2 pieces of word art from my P.S. I Love You! Embellished Words Pak that pertain to this months topic. This is a "snail scrap" so you have plenty of time to think about your journaling and to create a layout. You will have til the last day of the month to post your layout. I ask that all who participate remember to come back to the gallery at the end of each move to leave some "love" for your fellow participants.

"Journey to the Soul" is an event to get you to explore your self and scap about who you are. We all scrap so many pages about the others in our lives, but what will remain to tell our story to our kids and grand kids?

P.S. I Love You! Collection Pak

http://www.digidesignresort.com/shop/designers-colleen-lynch-c-1_216/p-s-i-love-you-collection-pak-by-colleen-lynch-p-7747

P.S. I love You! Complete Kit

http://www.digidesignresort.com/shop/designers-colleen-lynch-c-1_216/p-s-i-love-you-complete-kit-by-colleen-lynch-p-7754

P.S. I Love You! Element Pak

http://www.digidesignresort.com/shop/designers-colleen-lynch-c-1_216/p-s-i-love-you-element-pak-by-colleen-lynch-p-7755

P.S. I Love You! Paper Pak

http://www.digidesignresort.com/shop/designers-colleen-lynch-c-1_216/p-s-i-love-you-paper-pak-by-colleen-lynch-p-7756

P.S. I Love You! Embellished Words Pak

http://www.digidesignresort.com/shop/designers-colleen-lynch-c-1_216/p-s-i-love-you-embellished-words-pak-by-colleen-lynch-p-7757

P S. I Love You! Alpha Pak

http://www.digidesignresort.com/shop/designers-colleen-lynch-c-1_216/p-s-i-love-you-alpha-pak-by-colleen-lynch-p-7758

Journey To The Soul Challenge

Deadline: Tuesday, November 30, 2010

1. Use any kit from my store (Colleen Lynch, Digital ARTchives).

2. Choose at least 1 paper.

3. Choose at least 3 elements.

4. Use at least 1 piece of pre-made wordart.

5. Journal about maintaining your self in loving relationships. Can be bullet style, lists or paragraph form. Does not need to be long, but must include original journaling by you.

6. You may do up to 2 pages to qualify for entries into the drawing. It can be a 2 page spread or 2 seperate pages. If it is 2 seperate pages then they both must meet the specifications above. If is is a 2 page spread you need only to meet the specifications between the 2 page spread. The 2 page spread will count as 2 entries.

7. Post your finished layouts here in this gallery and post your links here in this thread.

Drawing for Keys to my Store

All particiapants will be entered into a random drawing. For each chat you attend and every challenge you complete on time your name will be entered into the drawing. You can enter up to 2 layouts per challenge for credit. So if you participate all three months in the chat and you post 2 layouts for each challenge you can earn upto nine entries in the drawing. The more entries you have the higher your odds for winning. The lucky winner will walk away with the keys to my store. All you can download for 1 month-free!

Thanks for taking the time to read all the details. I hope you will join in this event. I look forward to getting to know you all better!

Happy Scrapping!

Colleen Lynch,

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DDR Newsletter Freebie & DSD Sale Continues at 40% Off

I am contributing the freebie for today's DDR Newsletter. It coordinates with the November Blog Trains's collaboration freebie, The Orient and my new collection by the same name. It is a layered page and a cluster frame. Hurry and snag this freebie because it will only be available for a few days.

Grab Here

In the meantime don't forget about the November Blog Train's freebie called The Orient. Read my blog post with details and links.

Get Blog Post & Links

By popular request the DDR management decided to do a 40% off sale for Digital Scrapbook Day rather than the progressive sale. This way all you gals that work can peruse the store at your leisure over the weekend and not be penalized.

Don't forget to check out the coordinating collection, The Orient. The Collection Pak, Complete Kit, Element Pak, Paper Pak, Embellished Words Pak and Alpha Pak all an amazing 40% off for DSD!

See Details & Purchase

Hope you are all having a wonderful DSD weekend and finding lots of sales and freebies. Don't forget to set sometime aside to scrap a few memories too!

Happy Scrapping!

Colleen Lynch,

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Digital Scrapbooking Day Progressive Sale

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Timeless Keepsakes is the New Mix & Match Event at DDR for November

Timeless Keepsakes is part of the November Mix & Match Event. This kit is inspired by time and memories and has an undated heritage feel to it. I was feeling generous this month so I have supplied one set of standard papers and a second set with worn edges and folds at no up charge. Having both options gives you a multitude of options for page layouts. The elements have a bit of a steam punk feel to them. You will find a pendulum wall clock, a large iron open face clock, and 2 versions of a pocket watch along with clock gears. A large selection of photo frames include an antique ornate wooden frame, a digital peeling painted frame, several gold frames, Polaroid word frames and a scalloped paper frame with a worn and bent overlay. An old door, flowers, leaves, a vine and an array of ribbons rounds out the selection of elements. The word art revolves around the theme of time and memories. The alphabet is a favorite of mine. Uppercase letters, punctuation and numbers in a darling round cream tile surrounded by a square flourish in either a gold frame or an iron frame. The coordinating lower case letters have a simple gold or iron round frame around the tiles.

The Timeless Keepsakes Collection includes: an Element Pak, a Paper Pak, an Embellished Words Pak and an Alpha Pak. As always these are available as individual packs or save 25% by purchasing the Complete Kit (includes Paper Pak and Element Pak) or save 35% by buying the Collection Pak (includes the Paper Pak, Element Pak, Embellished Words Pak and Alpha Pak).

Get the Collection Pak at 35% Off

Get the Complete Kit at 25% Off

Get the Element Pak

Get The Paper Pak

Get The Paper Pak

Get The Paper Pak

Get The Paper Pak

Get The Embellished Words Pak

Get The Alpha Pak

Check Out These Layouts

This collection has endless possibilities for heritage layouts and contemporary layouts alike. Remember the importance of leaving behind a piece of your family's history.

Happy Scrapping!

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Wait Until You See What the November Blog Train Freebie Is!

The November Blog Train has arrived and it has a wonderful collaboration in store for you. The Orient, is obviously a Far East theme with a vibrant palette of hues.

You have arrived here from: RebeccaPSP Designs

You are at My Digital ARTchives by Colleen Lynch.
Here is my part of the November Blog Train. Please note there is a 25% off coupon in the download that expires at the end of the month.

Download It Here, Here or Here or Here

You will be downloading from "YouSendIt" a secure bulk server. No worries about viruses, waiting times or ads. I purchase a subscription as a service to my customers. 

Before you board the train again please take a look at my coordination kit now in my store at DDR. It has a 16-paper pack in a clean version and a bonus 16-paper pack in a muted and worn version at no up charge. The elements are to die for. Pagoda and the longevity symbol inspired the photo frames. Hanging "lanterns", hanging tasseled elements and hanging "Kanji" style English words are fabulous and glitter galore! The word art has a zen feel to it but is designed to word with everyday photos. The font has that swash look, while being a script font. The alphabet is "Chinese looking " letters on white tiles. Included are 4 different colored tasseled hangers to emulate the "Kanji" style written language. You will have so much fun with this collection!

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I hope you have enjoyed your stop at My Digital ARTchives. If you like what you see please click on the "follow" button in the "Networked Blogs" box along the right-hand side of my blog. I try to participate in the Blog Trains Blogs every other month.

You're next stop on the blog train is: Color With Caryn

If you get lost you can find a complete list of the blog train participants here:

Happy Scrapping!



Colleen Lynch,

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Halloween Goodie Bag Available at DDR

Check your email box Saturday morning for the DDR newsletter. The designers at DDR have gotten together a sweet little goodie bag for you. Some wonderful freebies and fantastic coupons! If you aren't already a DDR newsletter subscriber you can sign up by clicking on the box on the right-hand side of my blog. To get Satuday's goodie bag go to the store and click on the "Newsletter Freebie" section to download your gift. It will only be available for a few days so run and grab it tomorrow!

This is a preview of my contribution:

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I Have a Newsletter Freebie for Saturday!

Are you a DDR Newsletter subscriber? If you are I have a great freebie for you! It's from my new collection, These Special Moments. You will receive 1 cluster frame, 1 floral border, 1 piece of wordart, 1 shaped paper and 1 full size paper. Newsletter freebies are available only a few days.The download also contains a 25% off coupon, but it expires on October 31st, so don't delay. Here is a preview, click on it and it will take you to the store to snag this freebie!

If you want to sign up for the DDR Newsletter there is a link on the right-hand side of my blog. Do you follow my blog?  Never miss another coupon or freebie. Click on the "follow" button in the "Networked Blogs" box along the right-hand side.

Happy Scrapping!

Colleen Lynch,

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New Free With Purchase

Don't forget These Special Moments Collection is new in the store! These Special Moments was inspired by all the special times we celebrate in our lives focusing on families. From the everyday moments to special occasions like birthdays, anniversaries, family gatherings, new homes, new jobs, just about everything you can think of. The color palette is warm and soft. The papers from These Special Moments are soft dreamy colors with some texture. The elements are a more vibrant version of the color palette offering contrast that allow the elements to pop off your page.

The These Special Moments Collection includes: an Element Pak, a Paper Pak, an Embellished Words Pak and an Alpha Pak. As always these are available as individual packs or save 25% by purchasing the Complete Kit (includes Paper Pak and Element Pak) or save 35% by buying the Collection Pak (includes the Paper Pak, Element Pak, Embellished Words Pak and Alpha Pak).

Happy Scrapping!

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