Wherein We Find That Productivity Overdrive Has Its Costs

So, I had a heart attack last week. No kidding. Apparently it's congenital--one of the vessels supplying the heart, the bottom part of it, is teensy weensy in one portion, and that go kind of blocked, or almost blocked, and a tiny portion of the heart muscle was affected. And on the way to the hospital in the ambulance we found out that morphine makes my throat swell up, too. Sure was an adventurous day!! =)

However, except for reaching my fatigue limit a heck of a lot faster, I seem to be doing just fine. So, one day at a time, shooting for many more of them! Happily, school is now out, so I can do art besides the graphic design, and I'm even hoping for more jewelry ventures soon, too!

This was my little art journal contribution for Week 15 that I just finished tonight (yes, I'm a wee bit behind):

And, I finally finished a new kit that I started *before* the heart attack: Chance of Thunder! It's a great kit for storms, either the kind in the sky, or the kind in the heart.

The CT made some super-fun pages, too!
By Caroline:

By Cecilia:

 By Jenny:

 By Julie:

 And by Marianne:

I'm looking forward to sharing more playtime with you soon--hope you all have a great weekend! ♥

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. =)

Sing A Song!

I have amazingness in the store today! After a super-long design hiatus occasioned by my Mom's visit, a protracted struggle with the Yachats Gazette, and Allen's birthday (and subsequent schoolwork catch-up needs), I've put out an ENORMOUS kit called Sing a Song. It has -so much- fun stuff in it!

These are all the brushes, which are also available separately:

70+ elements!

 30 papers!

And beautiful CT layouts to show you some examples of what you can do with this great kit:

2 by Astrid:

 2 by Cecilia:

 By Laura:

 By Lisa:

 By Marianne:
By Paula:

 By Solysombra:

 By Yvonne:

Anyway, rush thee over to the store before it goes off the 20% sale!

The Essence of You Memory Mix Packs!

I have a beautiful new "kit" made up of 4 packs - 2 paper packs, an element pack, and a template pack. It's part of our Memory Mix Collection, so each pack is only $2.00 (for 1 week only). Mix and match as you like! It's called The Essence of You.

 

And the CT crew (2 of whom are new--welcome Laura, and Danica--and also my new promo whiz, Doralisa) have made some lovely pages:

By Laura:

By Danica:

By Astrid:

By Karen:

And by Linda:

I just dropped off my Mom at the airport in the big city, so I'm rather sad; but I hope to get lots of work done this weekend! Oh, nevermind, it's my 10-year old's 11th birthday. *laugh* Lots of work there, but not the same kind! I hope you guys all have a great weekend yourselves.

Featured Designer, Freebies Galore, and Helpful Collection!

As a complement to my 2 weeks in the Featured Designer spotlight, I've lovingly designed the Helpful Collection which is just huge, and GREATLY on sale for my Featured Designer spot. Here's what you get with the collection:



A closer look at the elements: 



Some awesome masks (also available separately):



Patterned Papers:



An Alpha:



Wordart:



And a pack of Solids, which is free with purchase (you do have to put it in your cart, though):



And here are a couple of really lovely CT pages:

By Vera:



By Jo-Anne:



I'm having a huge sale as well, with a couple of freebie add-ons. I'm the Featured Designer at MScraps for the next two weeks, and have an awesome sale going on:



There's a new Facebook Fan Freebie on my Design by Heather T. page too (just "like" the page, then click on the big fat heart, then on the preview)--this coordinates with my new Helpful Collection, which is greatly reduced for these 2 weeks. Here's what the Facebook Add-On looks like:



Also, if you subscribe to the MScraps Newsletter by Tuesday, Oct. 1, you'll be able to get this Add-On as well:



But wait, there's more!  *lol* With any purchase totalling more than $5.00 from my store, you can get this coordinated Helpful Solids paper pack for FREE! You do have to add it to your cart, and it will zero out at check-out time.



Well, how about that! That's a whole lot of deliciousness available--and that doesn't even cover all my goodies on sale...  Have a great weekend, and I hope you visit!

Have a great weekend! We're expecting the first of our winter storms... just in time for Autumn!