DSO is preparing for an online make-over – aka Bunny and Kim, our creative Goddesses, are going to play! In order for them to create effectively (aka update all of  the techie and creative stuff), our fearless leader, Bunny, is going to have to make some changes and take a few things offline. Last weekend the Private Messaging area was hit with a lot of SPAM (and I don’t mean the horrid stuff in a can), so Bunny will be starting with our Forum work earlier than scheduled. What does this mean to you?  It means the DSO Forums, Private Messages, and  Gallery will be starting their computer spa-day on February 1st.

While we don’t anticipate any issues, we cannot guarantee that our Gallery will be able to be saved and re-uploaded successfully as it must be separated from the Forum postings (as those will not be saved).  The goal is for the entire Gallery to be re-loaded all refreshed and ready to go but, just in case it doesn’t behave nicely,  we HIGHLY recommend that if do not have your Layouts saved on your computer that you back them up before February 1.

Courtesy of our own Jodiann – panic is not necessary – help is below:

How to back up Gallery Pictures:

Navigate to your Gallery at DSO, Right Click> Save As on each LO one at a time. If you want to re-up your Gallery photos easily  make a file on your hard drive and save each one there.  You can add a number 01, 02, 03 in front of each file name so you can keep the order straight. If you don’t care about that, don’t add the numbers.

Saving Signatures:

Go to  DSO>Gallery>User CP> Edit Signature. The preview screen has a HTML option. Click it. Highlight>Copy> Save in a email and send it to yourself or paste the info into a blank Notepad file. When its time to add it back. Get the email and do the steps in reverse. Highlight>Copy>Signature HTML code> Go to DSO> Gallery> User CP and paste the code in to the preview screen.

See – that wasn’t so bad now was it.

At least it is at DSO – here’s a small sampling of the stellar Personal or Commercial use products our Designers have to offer:

Charlie is having a special CU sale on some of her products.

Stunning Personal Use kits by our fabulous Designers:

Create the perfect Page Title or Card Sentiment with Jazzy’s WordArt:

Want to create your own kits or freebies with Quality products? Checkout these awesome CU-friendly goodies:

So what are you waiting for?!? Head to the store! (Special thanks to LouCee for doing the “legwork” for this post – you RAWK sweetie)!

Whew – 2 projects in one day! I’m on a roll!  My friend and fellow DT member for Lindsay’s Stamp Stuff, Micki, is hosting the digi-day challenge for Sweet N’ Sassy stamps at Paper Craft Planet today – so I played along: My card layout is based on this week’s sketch at Friday Sketchers – I was shooting to beat the Early Bird deadline for the PCP (which is 10PM EST – though I didn’t pay attention and thought it was 8PM) – so go figure – when there’s a deadline, I opt to create a scene! The castle/drawbridge is a background stamp from Dustin Pike, the frog is a previous Sweet N Sassy digital freebie, and the crown is from Lindsay’s Stamp Stuff’s Pretty Princess set. I generated the sentiment in Photoshop.  The scene and the sentiment are matted with patterned, glitter CS from DCWV.  The card base and mat are both Bazzill.  I haven’t put anything on the inside yet, but I am thinking something along the lines of “I Hope All of Your Dreams Come True”. 

That’s all again – it’s time for supper!