A Simple Day

I've been sick the past three weeks, and finally started feeling well enough to put together a new kit, which is more on the clean and simple side, I think. It's called A Simple Day, and it has a ton of different components to it!

Masks:

Layout Mats (or clipping masks--these are great to make quick pages, but you can of course resize them and use them as frames within a layout):

An Alpha:

And, a set of Dates:

I made a page too--I realized I need to be doing more scrapping!

by Helen:

By Romy:

By Petra (with Grilled Templates):

By Jen:

And by Sandrine (Romy teasingly mentioned that she was amazed Sandrine managed to hold onto the camera *giggles*):

Hope you have a great weekend, and your loved ones come running up to you so enthusiastically!

Freebie: Dress-Up Alpha!

I have a great new kit coming out this week, Dress-Up. And I made an alpha to coordinate with it, that I'm giving out for free!

First, a little sneak peek of my kit:

(It will be at both MScraps & PickleBerryPop, btw.) And now, for the freebie: a set of uppercase, numbers, and a few punctuation and accent marks. Just click on the preview to download--and enjoy!

New @ MScraps & PickleBerryPop: AlphaButtons!

These should be a lot of fun...

 

By Vera, with Just Because:

By Jenny, with Colors of Sweet:

So check out the new AlphaButtons--20% off through Sunday!

Stitched Alpha 1 @ MScraps

Short and sweet: just a new stitched alpha @ MScraps yesterday (but Blogger wasn't working, so you're only seeing this post today!):





Made a layout with it today:

And my crew have a couple of sweet ones as well!

By Julie:

By Lisa:

And by Romy:

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend! I'll be out and about taking lots of photos... (mwaaaaaaaaahahahah)

Alpha.....

Templates! That's right folks, TWENTY-FOUR (yes, I know I can't count, but I did leave out the K & X) templates for you, based on the "A is for..." formula. These are loads of fun, easy, and you get a ton of wordart, masks, and other goodies out of it too! 

These even come singly if you want. I'll even make up a template for you with the letter and word you like (use the AlphaYou product for ordering that). But let me tell you, I think these will make a *very* cute photoalbum for someone! I'm making one, but it's a secret for whom... hehehe. In case they read my blog.

Here are of course some really fun samples:

Ulla-May:

Julie:

Jean:

Romy:

Lisa:

Tracy:

And finally one of my own (with BIL and my little nephew):

Hope you have a wonderful weekend! Don't forget, AlphaTemplates are 20% off until Monday--a big savings on this one!

AlphaStickers (English/French) & DillyDally, New @ MScraps!

I bring you a fun set of large alpha letters that are decorated with cute "stickers" representing a word that begins with that letter. And, I've done it for French, too! The CT are making little charts and doodle books for their kids--so much fun!

Here's Julie's darling little doodlebook:

and a fun page by Romy (with Quiet Play):

and here's Elisa's fun sampler in French:

And I've put DillyDally into the shop as well:

By Jenny:

These are all 20% off till Monday, of course. Have a wonderful weekend, everybody! Allen's going to be 8 on Sunday, so my weekend will be full of frenzied preparations for family staying, and a party on Sunday. Phew! =)

Freebie to Celebrate!

As of March 1, I'm now an exclusive designer with MScraps (which will hopefully help save some part of my sanity *lol*), and to celebrate, I'd like to tempt you with my newest Alpha: AlphaNumeric! And it's free! You should be able to just click on the download link directly on that page, without even putting it in your cart. I think.

Alphanumeric contains the numbers 0-20, then tens up till 100, plus 1,000. I'm sure you can find a zillion fun ways to use them! Enjoy!

http://www.mscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=2401

New @ MScraps: AlphaGiants!

These full-page letters are lots of fun for heightening a background, or as an overlay on a photo. Or place them over a solid background, and set the blending mode to multiply (or others, play around since the color will make a difference), and watch the magic happen! And of course, you can simply resize them to whatever you need.

You can get AlphaGiants @ MScraps at 20% off till midnight Sunday, Dutch time.

Some cool pages from the CT:

By Ulla-May:

By Romy:

By Julie:

and one from me:

By Lisa:

By Ona:

By Pom:

Have a wonderful weekend! I just realized Christmas was next week, so I've gone into panic mode a bit.... eeeeeeks!

Freebie: Flourished Love (+ Alpha in the shop!)

I developed this font when I first got my Font Creator software, and I'm only now getting around to doing something with it. Better late than never! Anyway, the alpha was for sale in the store:



And here's a much smaller version of the word art that I'm offering as a freebie: [no longer available, sorry]

Trying My Hand

Well, it's no big secret that I am pecuniously challenged, so I keep on hoping that if I work really hard and gain lots of skills, I'll get lucky and land a designing job where I can work from home and continue to homeschool Allen (yesterday he learned Roman numerals, and practiced counting with coins--fun!). It just so happens that I'm fortunate enough to practice by scrapbooking! *lol* I think I'm juuuuust beginning to get to the stage where I know enough to realize how much I don't know...

So, a couple of layouts with stuff I made:

A variegated polka dot paper pattern. That was way fun. And then making little dots with my frame, and inside an alpha I made up (the ONE thing I don't like about Designer Digital's site is that everything has to be so small! 500x500 at less than 100 Kb just eats all the detail. *sniff*). You can see it a little better here:



Although even there you can't see the little dots in the letters--just imagine they're all like the "4"! And the interlocking circle tag thing also has "holes" running around the edge. The paper overlapping the green rectangles was also one that I made--I actually recolored the polka dot paper for this layout. Plus I made kind of a patchwork quilt paper with white lines running through the various colors going in different directions, but I ended up not using it. So, that's almost like a full kit!

I also really like what happened with this layout:



The stained glass effect was pretty easy after all (I'd had these nightmare visions of dodging and burning each square): I just used the background for one of the cards I'd made earlier this year. I desaturated it, duplicated it, turned one of the duplicates at a 90 degree angle, and set one to color burn, and the other to linear dodge. Terrific effect, I think! My little crow is from a walk a couple of weeks ago, and the tree I first drew free-hand, then redrew it in Illustrator.

The picture is from a walk we took this past weekend down near Coos Bay--just WAIT till you see the phenomenal pictures I took--and then my battery ran out. ARGH! My husband wondered if I could even take a walk without a camera in hand anymore... =)How'd I get so hooked?!?