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. =)

'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!

CU/PU Brushes 2 & 3: Branches

Some gorgeous brushes to play with--great for augmenting photomasks or background papers:

http://www.mscraps.com/shop/HeatherT-Commercial-Use-Brushes-2-Branches/



http://www.mscraps.com/shop/HeatherT-Commercial-Use-Brushes3-Branches2/



And some lovely pages by my new and old CT members:

By Astrid:



By Julie:



By Jen:



And by Vera:



I hope everybody has a great weekend! I'm going to try and recover from going to the dentist's, and having a tough week with Allen's school--lots and LOTS to do there! Plus, I made a couple of pretties:

These are both from a design by Eni Oken over at www.jewelrylessons.com, which I've found super-helpful as I start out. If ever you want to see all my jewelry, please do check out my Etsy store, or more informally, my FaceBook "store"!

I hope to make another in purples this weekend! =)

Designer of the Week = Bonanza for You!

That's right, I'm the Designer of the Week @ MScraps, and in honor of that I have a special for you:

And that also means that my two newest products, WaterMarked 3 (splatters) & WaterMarked 4 (brushstrokes) are also 50% off!

I hope you've already signed up for the MScraps Newsletter, so you can get my Freebie, too!

 Some awesome creations with the WaterMarked brushes:

By Sandrine:

 By Julie:

By Vera:

By Jenny:

By Petra:

 By Romy:

And most of all, I hope you have a lovely, lovely weekend!

New @ MScraps today: BRUSHES!

That's right, I hauled out the paintbrushes recently and had fun getting ink all over my shirt (I swear, I don't have a paint-free shirt in my chest of drawers!). Which means I made 1 series of cup rings and 1 series of brush marks--all called WaterMarked (1 & 2). Soooooo much fun for giving extra texture to your backgrounds! In addition, the rings turned out nicely enough that you can use them as frames, too!

I have some fun layouts for you, too:

By Jen (with Boy oh Boy):

By Lisa (with A Year of Hope bundle):

By Julie (also with A Year of Hope):

And by Romy (with Boy Oh Boy):

 

Hope you're getting ready for a wonderful weekend!