Cool shadowing tutorial!

Cool shadowing tutorial by Miss Behaving @ SBG!

Wow! Thank you, Studio Crew!

I just dropped by the ScrapbookGraphics Blog. Today is my last Play Day. The incredibly talented ladies have really outdone themselves and I am so, so, truly honored. Please take a moment to view some of their gorgeous work.

http://www.scrapbookgraphics.com/?p=5079

Hiatus from Designing and Coupon

Some of you may have noticed that I have not been very active on my blog or added any new designs during the past month. I will be taking a hiatus from designing for a few months. I will be closing my Studio at ScrapbookGraphics on March 31.

This has been a difficult and sad decision. I love the site, the community, the wonderful designers, and all the support that you have given me. But there are personal and family matters that require my full attention at this time. I do not want to retire from designing but I will be taking a hiatus for a few months.

Thank you for all of your support over the past couple of years. But this is not good-bye...just an unexpected turn of events in my personal life.

Everything in my Studio has been marked down by 35%.

Here is an extra coupon for an additional 20% off.
Coupon code: Blog20

Thank you again for all your love and support over the last couple of years.

SongBird Charity Kit - Port Au Prince

Songbird Avenue is a special digital scrapbook site dedicated to charity kits. Over the years, this organization has raised over $42,000 to various charities. At the end of each month, you can find the total raised for that past month's charity.

This month's digital scrapbooking kit is for the benefit relief in Haiti. All proceeds from February will be donated to Doctors Without Borders. I am truly honored to be a part of this wonderful (and huge) collaboration.

This kit is HUGE and simply beautiful. The list of designers itself is phenomenal. Most importantly, the money is going to a great charity.

Included in this kit are: 104 patterned papers, 208 elements including , 8 alphabets and 6 12x12 inch PSD, 300 DPI layered templates.

Contributing Designers:
Ali Edwards
Amy Martin
Amy Sumrall
Amy Teets
Amy Wolff
Studio Baers Garten
Birgit Kerr
Dianne Rigdon
Emily Merritt
Emily Powers
Flergs
Gina Miller
Heather Ann Melzer
Hollie Haradon
Irene Alexeeva
Jacque Larsen
Janet Phillips
Jenna Desai
Karah Fredricks
Kari Hentzelt
Kate Teague
Kaye Winiecki
Leora Sanford
Lili Niclass
Meredith Fenwick
Nancie Rowe Janitz
Paislee Press
Pamela Gibson
Phuong Ton
Queen of Quirk
Randi Oh
Rhonna Farrer
Sausan Designs
ScrapKitchen Designs
Shabby Miss Jenn
Shabby Princess
Studio Alana
Studio Berna Datema
Studio Crystal
Studio Lorie
Studio Manu
Studio Maya
Studio Mgl
Studio Miss Vivi
Studio Rosey Posey
Studio Ruby Rynne
Studio Ztampf
SussieM
Tangie Baxter
Valorie Wibbens
Vicki Stegall
Studio Wendy

This kit is approximately 1.2 GB and is available in 12 download links.

Frameworthy Challenge at ScrapbookGraphics (Jan 11-17)

This week's Frameworthy Challenge is very interesting! I don't want to spoil it for you so please check on this link to go to the forum and read Nevermore's post. I was very intrigued so here's my layout. It makes more sense if you know what the challenge is.

This is a little bit different for me as I am not really a white space or even rectangle photo scrapper. I love lots of elements and large photos. However, it's fun to mix it up sometimes. :)



So my 6 words are
"the best is yet to be..."

Credits:
Template from Studio Hillary's Haiti Children's Org Charity. Proceeds go to the charity and you set the amount. Please check out this worthwhile charity if you can.

Background from my Altered Inspired Mini (Phuong Ton),
flower from Natali Design's All You Need is Love,
leaves from On Designs After Summer

Template for Save the Children Charity

I wanted to let you know that Studio Hillary has set up this template to raise funds for Save the Children Haiti Relief Fund.

This is a quote from her product description:

"Given the recent tragic events in Haiti, I wanted to help as much as I could. All proceeds from the sale of this template will go to Save the Children to assist in their relief efforts in Haiti. With the support of wonderful customers like you, I have donated in the past to Save the Children, and hope to be able to pull together as a community again. Save the Children is a highly-regarded charity and has received four stars from the independent charity review Charity Navigator.

I have given you the option of entering whatever amount you would like into the Amount field. My thoughts were that each customer could donate $2 for the template, but if you can afford less, or more, please feel free to enter that amount. I will be sending the donation to Save the Children at the end of next week via Paypal so please purchase this template now.

If you would like to see confirmation of our donation from Save the Children, I will be including the official confirmation to all my newsletter subscribers. If you are not already a member of my newsletter, you can join us right here.

Remember, new Studio Hillary template releases are available in both .tiff and .psd formats!!"

Very Interesting Layout

I am not sure how I missed this layout from the ScrapbookGraphics Gallery by finecraft. It is different and is an eclectic mix of some of my favorite subjects, existential thinking, spirituality, space, dinosaurs, and of course scrapping.

Free Layered Template!

This template doesn't really have a lot of layers. I was playing around with Bokeh. Not really good at it but I thought this may be fun for you to play with. The bokeh light effects are on separate layers for flexibility. Hope you like it. :)

Paper and most elements: Natali's All You Need is Love
Butterfly: Vera Lim In Love with You
Bubbles: Phuong Ton's Altered Inspired Mini





Edited to Add Vanilla's Layout. :)



Credits:
Studio Phuong-Bokeh Template
Delmik Design-Elements from Winter Time
Dreamland Digital Designs-Elements from Breath of Winter
Lorie Davison Designs-Paper from Drifting Snow

My Sweet Tooth

I am going to do some enabling here. I am not on Holliewood's CT (not that I would mind one bit! LOL) but I love her kits. They are packed with fun sometimes funky realistic elements. I saw this last night and needed to buy it. In some sick way, it satisfied my sweet tooth... at least digitally. I'm craving cupcakes right now though...

My kids were having their after dinner dessert as I was downloading this (chocolate pudding Popsicles). Their mouths were covered with chocolate and they both looked well a little ew lol but I grabbed my camera and starting taking pictures. I was already in the middle of downloading the perfect kit for the new photos! There are big chocolate chunks in the preview. Yummm..mmeee!

Does that count as Serendipity? Maybe a stretch? LOL

Itinerary #2

This serves two purposes. The first being this is my second layout for the Art Journal Caravan. Wow, maybe I will be able to get at least 52 layouts done for my book. The second purpose being, this is an example of one of the papers in my new Altered Inspired Mini Kit.

I have always been a worry bee. I worried about everything since I was a child, and I thought maybe I would outgrow it, but no... it got worse when I had my children. The world feels like it is in such disarray right now. What will my children's futures be like? How can I keep their nightmares away? Crime scares me. War scares me. The economy scares. What if someone gets really sick? What if I lose my job? What if something bad happens? What if someone gets hurt? What if I forgot to lock the doors?

All these fears and bad thoughts lurking in my head. It's manifested itself many times in my dreams...more like nightmares.

So this is what this page is for me.



Credits:
Top paper from my Altered Inspired Mini Kit (Phuong Ton), Bottom paper from Birgit Kerr's Rooted In the Past, the Fear alpha is also in Birgit Kerr's Rooted in the Past kit, the Accept alpha and chain is from Christina Renee, the blue house is from Thao Cosgrove, the heart on the house is also in my Altered Inspired Mini Kit, overlay from Something blue Studios