Layout by Brittney using my mini-kit Zenitude

We are currently working on tons of projects, “we” that is my friend Gandaki and me, to make this store a better place! If you read this blog or if you have just stumbled upon it during your scrapbook wanders on the web, please note that we are still looking (and will be for quite a while for Digital Scrap Designers and Creative Team members! Do not hesitate to contact me because we have many different opportunities to offer, to suit your needs and style and also the free time you have or do not have!! (melothria at digitalarts-cafe.com or at gmail)

Even if I don’t have much free time left (I never thought an e-store would require so much time, what was I thinking?!!) I feel very lucky: I have already met fantastic ladies to create this group that we call the “Cappuccinos”, they have been really helpful, creating beautiful layouts, testing products, sharing ideas and Phillsboo and Scrapper4Life have now created beautiful kits!! Our Black Chocolate and White Chocolate Cookies, the other CT group, are really talented scrapbookers and fun girls as well, as this has always been important to me, to deal with pleasant and friendly people, I think I couldn’t ask for better people to start this adventure with!!

… a few more bold people said “yes” to me… Having Guest Designers is something I had on my mind for a long time and I can’t tell you how happy I am: our very first Guest Designer will release an exclusive collection at the store in December!! So happy and so grateful and proud too, that she decided to give it a try and to trust me, because she is seriously talented!! You can check out her blog to have an idea of what is her style and what she is creating because she has decorated her blog with some of the things included in the collection the CT and me we were all so enthusiastic when we saw her designs, knowing we will get to scrap layouts with them!! I am still discussing things with several Monthly Guest Designers, for 2008, fingers crossed they will say yes too

… and we’re about to achieve another great project… I will not tell you much about it for now, but this is something I had in mind even before opening any store and any blog!! I thought about it when I was doing my first scrapbook layouts And it will only be possible thanks to my Australian “blogger friend” Karen from Scrapsofmind …as for a community… I was asked several times if I am planning to open a forum and the answer is “not yet” but we really want to have a gallery for layouts. That is the next big technical nightmare for us, as we do everything by ourselves. For now, I have set up a group on Yahoo, the Mad Doodles, where we share our layouts and a bit of our lives too, here again we really have quality people who make this group worth to be in. My community project for the store is different from a forum and from a yahoo group but again I can’t say more I’m afraiiiiiiiiid