Seasonal Post Number One for 2016

Well, in a quick and dirty update, we travelled across the country, and back, and it was glorious. But it took a whole month and then some (27 days), and consequently I only now feel like I'm somewhat catching up...

Arizona, near the Mexican border

Much of the country we drove through looked like that--huge skies bounded by low but highly photogenic mountains, with flatlands of drought in between (I was struck by how the plants positioned themselves for maximum water intake). Hugely gorgeous and mysterious to this wetlands Swiss/Western Coast girl...

Southern California, right over the Coast Range, with ocean--more familiar landscape!

Well, suffice it to say that lots has been going on--including in my business life. I started with PickleBerryPop, which is where all my commercial use products can be found as well. These are my newest products--and I have a totally new Collection coming out tomorrow, as well!

Oops!

Vintage 3 - Commercial Use Brushes

And, I'm starting a newsletter! Knowing me, it will be more of a random thing featuring coupons and freebies and updates on scrapbooking, art, photography, jewelry--you know, everything in one place. Anyway, to subscribe, just click the link in the right-hand column all the way at the top, or use this handy link: http://eepurl.com/bUuxDX . I still have to get a list going--right now I only have 2 subscribers... one of which is me. *giggles*

Hope you have a most wondrous weekend! We're having actual sun today, for the first time in a while...

Productivity Overdrive!

Well, May was a HUGELY BUSY month for me. I had to finish (well, start and finish) a 5'x18" banner for a Midsummer Masquerade fundraiser ball in town. It's been sooooooooo long since I've painted on canvas--I was really scared to start! The 2nd day was the worst, but on the last day I suddenly hit my groove, and the whole thing turned out ok. (You can see it on the fundraiser auction website here.) Plus, I was busy making TWO free kits for 2 different scrapping sites. More on those later in June! So then I figured that if I was going to be featured in June, I should probably have some new stuff in my shops... and *boom!* Creativity happened!

So, I have a new kit for you called Flying Colors (I'd polled my fans on Facebook about whether "Tickled Pink" or "Flying Colors" caught their fancy more, and the latter won). It's nominally about graduation from any grade, but also of course about that exciting and fearful time of change, when you don't really know what's going to happen next... I had to show the brushes, and the word art, separately (click on them to see them full size), cuz of course the kit is huge!

And this, is a coordinating freebie!!

 

  Not only all that, but I also participated in the MScraps Memory Mix collection, where you can get mix and match pieces for either $1 or $2, depending on how full the packs are. Mine's a delightful collection of beach-themed brushes called Sunsplashed, taken from photographs of my own wanderings, of course!

And furthermore, while I was coming up with my little bead scatters for the Flying Colors kit, I just went ahead and extracted a whole BUNCH of beads, and put them in my commercial use shop (though they're good for CU or PU!):

I will leave you to imagine how long it took to use the pen tool to extract all those babies. Heh.

So there you go! And the end of school is approaching, which means I have less and less to do each day as Allen claws his way through the end of the curriculum--and for me, that means MORE TIME! Can't wait for summer vacation!

Hope everybody has a wonderful weekend playing. =)

WAHOO! iNSD is here!

I so love to just burn through all the challenges and make zillions of pages on these weekends... *happy sigh* And hopefully you do too! I have a global 50% sale going on both at the Commercial Use store, and the Personal Use store. So if you need extra goodies, you know where to go! Plus, I have a couple of freebies for you as well! You can pick them up on my Design by Heather T. Facebook page, or scroll down.

Click on this image to go to the PU store:

Click on this image to go to the CU store:

Click on this image to get your Personal Use freebie:

Click on this image to get your Commercial Use freebie (which you can also use for personal use):

Most of all, have a wonderful weekend!!! ♥

More Splishy Splashy Goodness: CU/PU Overlays & Masks 5!

Man, the CT went to town on this one! Here are my commercial/personal use Overlays & Masks 5:

Some awesome layouts:

By Astrid:

 

 By Fu:

 By Linda:

 By Ona:

By Jo-Anne:

Of course they come in color, and as grayscale, AND as .abr, and they're 20% off through Sunday. Tons of fun to play with!

Have a great weekend!

Christmas Silhouettes!

In a flurry of activity, I have come up with Christmas silhouettes based on vintage illustrations, and called the collection "Noel". If you're looking for the personal use edition, go to MScraps; the commercial use is over at Scrapflower in 2 packs, and includes vectors.

The CT of course made some great pages!

By Astrid:

By Fu:

By Jenn:

By Jo-Anne:

By Julie:

 And by Karen:

And of course they're 20% off through Sunday!

Rejoice, for International Digital Scrapbooking Day is here! ;)

Seriously, though! It's awesome. And there's some awesomeness forthcoming here, too! But before the freebies, I just want to point out that I have a very cheap little mini-kit that's new at MScraps, called Chill Zone:

 I mean, really--$2.09? Can't beat that!! Plus, it coordinates with all the other November 2013 Memory Mix products from other designers, and you can build your own kit just by picking and choosing what parts you want to get. AND MY WHOLE SHOP IS 50% OFF! (Just in case you hadn't noticed.)

Next, an announcement:

I'm now selling all my CU (commercial use) products at Scrapflower!! I haven't quite got them all re-packaged, but I'm a-workin' on it. Everything is 50% off for a short while! I -do- have some new stuff over there, AND... we have a CU blog train going! It's better if you grab it from my Facebook page,

but if you can't, here it is too:

You can find the full list of participants on the Scrapflower site.

And, Mscraps is having a blog train too, of course!!!

It's also better to grab it on my Facebook page, but again, if you can't, here it is:

To get the full list of participants, please go to the MScraps site.

MScraps is of course having a TON of challenges, and there are a gazillion chances to get free goodies (check out the wishlist post, for example), and it's just a lot of super-charged fun. I might even hang out in the chat room a couple of times. ;) So rejoice... and have a great time!! =)

'Ween-ies!

*giggles*

Hi everybody--

I've got a special thingie going on this week! I have a personal-use 20 image pack (.png files), and a commercial use 3-pack that contains .png, .psd (smart objects), .eps (completely scaleable vectors), and an .abr pack for each--27 images in all. I've called the collection 'Ween!

Personal 'Ween:



Commercial Use 'Ween 1:



Commercial Use 'Ween 2:

Commercial Use 'Ween 3:



You can make so much fun stuff with these!

By Fu-Mom:



By Jo-Anne:



By Jen:



By Vera:



By Astrid:



And by me, even:



All the 'Ween packs are off 20% this weekend only--hope you have a great one, by the way!

New: Commercial/Personal Use Brushes: Branches 3

My son and I took a ride inland for a couple of hours today--the colors are beautiful! This Branches 3 pack (note that it comes with re-scaleable vectors!) is a great set for your Autumn needs, too:




Of course, they're 20% off through Monday. Look what pretty pages the crew made!

By Astrid:



By Jo-Anne:



By Jen:



By Sandrine:



And by Lisa:



Hope you're enjoying the season wherever you are!

Commercial/Personal Grunge Brushes, & Off-Kilter Dates!

I thought I'd be designed-out for a while, but look what popped out! The CU/PU Brushes 5: Grunge are a set of 27 (!) brushes in .abr and .png files. Grunge brushes are so great for making papers, photomasks, distressed anythings... And as a scrapper, you can use them to fade your photos, or add interest behind a photo or element on your layout. I love grunge brushes! (These were all made from photos I took of things. Guess my habit of standing nose to wall or nose to floor is paying off! *giggles*)

Astrid made this really cool page with the Hi Energy kit and the Grunge Brushes:

And also out popped some funky typography in date form, with three versions: totally grunged, slightly grunged and offset 3D edge, and just slightly grunged. The three versions have 0-9, days of the week, and month names. Here are the Off-Kilter: Dates:

I have several layouts for these:

By Astrid, with Precious:

By Vera, with Small Things:

And by Jetje, with Wishes Come True:

Both products are of course 20% off through this Sunday. I hope you guys have a wonderful weekend!