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. =)

Art Journal Bits

Not sure why, but I've been really inspired to do a lot of art journaling supplies recently. This week I have some way cool Jagged Frames, some Jags & Tags (ripped edge tags and some cardboard), Painted Papers, and some very awesome Scribbles that look exactly as if you'd done it yourself on the page.

Here are various layouts that use one or more of these elements:

By Jen:

 By Lisa:

By Julie:

By LiLi (with Little Bits):

By Romy (with Making Up):

By Romy again, with just the Jags & Tags, Painted Papers, and Jagged Frames:

By Jen, with Painted Papers & Just Because:

I hope you have a lovely weekend--I'm hoping to catch a bit of sun between the "chance of showers" then "chance of rain"... ;)

New @ The DigiChick: Paint Shapes 1

Paint Shapes: these are really cool--they look like paint directly on a canvas! Plus, I included the brushes, so you can make your own (use a small bevel and emboss once you've colored it to highlight the paint ridges).

By Jen:

By Soleen:

By Julie

New Shop, and New In The Shop!

Hehehe =) I'm so very pleased to be selling now at Gotta Pixel:



And in honor of this, everything's 30% off! Plus, I've been working on this new kit, Painted Petals, and it's done:



Whee!!! And I've made a couple of layouts:



For the July Blueprints Challenge @ Gotta Pixel; template by Brenda (Tbog).

Credits: Everything by Heather T. @ Gotta Pixel. Papers from Luxuriant, Touch of Ginkgo, and the Gotta Grab It (July 09) Paper pack. Alpha, dragonfly, and button from Touch of Ginkgo. Star from the GGI Element Pack. "Fun in the Sun" button from By The Sea. Font: CAC Shishoni Brush. "Summertime... is when the hood is down and the raincoat is off" -- when you live at the Coast, at least!



Everything with the Gotta Grab It (July 09) Element & Paper Pack @ Gotta Pixel. Fonts: Angelina & Clearface Black SSI.

Come visit, please! =)

21-Day Challenge, Day 14

I'm all doodled out for the moment, unsurprisingly =) This was sparked by the ideabooks4u challenge about randomly using 6 pieces of paper from your stash, and I will probably use this as a background for a future layout. But I have a TON of real paper, and thought this would be a good use for some of the millions of bits of yuzen washi that I have and can't bear to throw out because they're so pretty...

White acrylic paint as a base and "glue" for the torn pieces of paper, then over-painted with Lumiere paints in Sunset Gold, Pink-Gold, and Purple-Gold. Black Micron. Click for a larger view, as usual...



And this weekend... Stamp Show in Portland, OR -- look for Art Neko's booth, and there I'll be!