A freebie fruity framework for you!

I do love alliteration lol!

Things have been incredibly hectic this end. Seen far more of the Royal Derby hospital than I ever felt I needed to, and for far too many times too!

Josh's birthday came and went as has Mia's (my baby is TEN! - how did that happen?!) Chiara's is next on the list in May. FIL is still very poorly in hospital (thank you everyone for all your thoughts and wishes, they do mean a lot to me).

I have been doing a lot of creating in some form or another, whether it be baking and decorating, creating party pieces, cards, paper scrapping or digital scrapping. I just haven't really had the time to sit down and get all my thoughts together and bits and bobs organised for sharing properly.

Updating my slide shows is moving up my list of priorities (as should be clearing my paper scrapping space).

Just for now though I wanted to share a digital scrapbook template freebie with you. Bear with me, I haven't shared a download on my blog before so I am really hoping that I have it all figured out right. It's a .psd layered template, based on this digital page:



Credits:
Two Peas in a Bucket: Eggstravaganza and Kitschensinque by Polka Dot Pixels
Owl Tree Studio: Iced Cookie Alpha by Wild Blueberry Ink
Sweet Shoppe Designs: Itty Bits alpha by Danni Mogstad
Fonts: Dancing Script OT and Vintage Typewriter

Which, in turn, was based on this paper page made for A Trip Down Memory Lane for a monthly DT gallery using My Little Shoebox papers:

Scraplifting your own pages is in no way cheating! Nope, it's making the best of what you've already done and can be a great timesaver too.

Download the digital template here

Please let me know if you have any problems and I'll try to figure them out.

Oh and, if you don't digital scrapbook, here's the sketch for you instead :)

January goodies and CT call at Owl Tree Studio

I had lots of fun working the with January releases over at Owl Tree Studio. I used a whole variety of the product which you can get for the fabulous price of just $7.95 a month if you become a subscribed member. You could, of course, just get the things individually as they become available in the shop, but the membership price is a great deal (check it out here to view all the kits, templates and other goodies that comprise the membership bundle for January).

Oh .... and if you are a digital scrapper/hybrid artist you must check out the CT call Tiffany has at the moment. She is looking for people to join a variety of the sub-teams working with these great products. The blog post with all the details is here.

New Beginnings and fancy word overlays by Torta Gialla

Talk to Me, Month Ribbon and border mask by Simply Kelly Designs
Font Pea Valerie

Talk to Me by Simply Kelly Designs

Journaling font Smiley Monster


















DejaVu by Wild Blueberry Ink
New Beginnings by Torta Gialla (staples)
Font Pea Valerie

 



New Beginnings by Torta Gialla

Deja Vu by Wild Blueberry Ink
Border Masks by Simply Kelly Designs
Fonts Sylfaen, Fontmoochers
Based on P365 template 1 by Wild Blueberry Ink

And, yes, I've managed to keep to my resolution so far!

My Mind's Eye gorgeousness

My take on the sketch over at Creative Scrappers this week is full of an array of My Mind's Eye gorgeousness. Here I have to say a HUGE thanks to Amber and the customer service team over at MME for their 'wow I'm speechless' generosity. I had a problem with a product I bought a while back that I only recently opened and they sent me some of the new release goodies to compensate. It is all delicious. Truly. Full of beautiful embellishments and lots of beautiful blinging glitter. It's really hard to tell from the layout photo so I have included a close up shot so you can see that background cardstock. And the die cuts. All glittered. It's seriously stunning in real life.

Anyhow, this is the sketch. Please, please, please check out what the rest of the team did with this sketch. I think it's pretty well the best all round reveal I've seen anywhere for a long while.

And my page (I flipped the sketch and substituted the star with a heart)

Credits:
Pretty well everything My Mind's Eye
with a few extra brads, buttons and a bit of string
The digital frame I used for the photos is from Owl Tree Studio.

And look at all the glitter and beautiful dimensional embellishments.

Yumminess at Owl Tree Studio

I've been playing with the new digital kits available for September at Owl Street Studio. Six this month plus bonuses. I was especially thrilled that so many of them worked great for boy pages. I've done seven pages so far and I'm certain to be using them more. Nip on over to check out the kit previews (oh and yes, you will have read that right, only $9.95 for everything!).

Just a quickie to let you know ...

that the Owl Tree Studio gallery and forum are up and running! Please pop on over, join in our discussions and start uploading your layouts created with Owl Tree Studio products. We’re going to be randomly giving away some one month memberships and other goodies to participants and I would love for you to be one of the winners!

Also, in celebration of putting the last piece of the site puzzle into place, Tiffany has extended the fabulous $7.95 promotional membership pricing until August 15th. If you didn’t get a chance to sign up last week, go ahead and sign up today!

Feeling Good!

I just fancied a quick play with digi again - I'm off to crop tomorrow and so will be playing with paper and glue then (oh and eating cake .... done a huge batch of baking today for taking cake to crop tomorrow, to keep my 'promise' from the school auction, for keeping here ready for Sunday - my birthday! - and some plain buns to go into a trifle for tea on Sunday). Just had a piece of the choccie cake ... divine even if I say so myself! (love my old Be-Ro recipe book).

This kit is sooooooooo cute! (yes, worthy of that many o's). It's the Feelin' Good kit by Girl Boy Girl Designs (with a couple of papers borrowed from the Life's a Beach freebie kit and Casa Mia kit) and is available exclusively to members over at Owl Tree Studio.

Fonts used are CKbedrock (title) and CKbuddies (journaling) and the tabbed journal clipping masks are by my own fair hand.

In case you haven't heard (maybe because you've been on an exotic vacation without internet or maybe you've been away from digi-land), Owl Tree Studio is officially open. In case you haven't heard enough from me about how much I am loving their products, here’s an official summary of what you’re guaranteed to get each month as an inside member:

1 Mega Collaboration Kit
3 Individually Created Designer Kits
3 Designer Bonus Items (examples include frame packs, brush sets, Alpha packs, etc)
16+ quick pages created by our creative team
2 project tutorials that walk you through the process of using our digital goodies for tangible crafts
Unannounced goodies throughout the month, including page templates

Check out the full August reveal to look at August’s products.

Starting in September, Owl Tree Studio be featuring a new guest designer every month and you’ll receive an extra individual kit AND an extra designer bonus each month. Exciting!

It may sound a little sensationalist, but for the money, there is no better value on digital design available online. Not only are the Owl Tree Studio designers incredibly talented and responsive to inside members, their products go through rigorous quality control testing to ensure that the products you receive each month are ready to be turned into beautiful layouts and art for printing. There are absolutely no strays or jaggies in their products (I would know, since I've seen all of them).

Their monthly product line is full of digital goodies you won’t want to miss out on. All of the Owl Tree Studio products are ONLY available through Owl Tree Studio and are only available for a one month period of time. If you see a kit you like, you’ll have to be a member of Owl Tree Studio during the month it is featured to add it to your stash.

The regular monthly membership rate is $9.95. However, if you ; sign up by the end of this week (August 8th), you’ll lock in the charter rate of $7.95 per month and your monthly subscription is guaranteed to never go up, even if the pricing does. Plus, because you're getting in so early, you'll also get the chance to give your input on future kits. It feels amazing to receive products that are created around your requests and needs.

What are you waiting for? ; Sign up now and join me inside the Owl Tree Studio members' area!

Owl Tree Studio now open!

Owl Tree Studio opened it's doors for business yesterday. It's a digital scrapbooking kit club and I just noticed that they have got an opening offer on the monthly membership - just $7.95 - that is good for as long as you remain a member. What a fabulous deal! Check out the blog for more details.

As I mentioned before, I've been lucky enough to join the Creative Team there and I just wanted to share a couple of pages I have created using the August membership products.

Now I'm working on some 'just for fun' paper scrapbook layouts which I will share in the next day or so.

Credits -

Casa Mia kit by Lina Tieu (I recoloured and removed the lines from the scalloped circle journal labels) and separated out the word 'sweet' from the 'home sweet home' title.

Neutral frames by Girl Boy Girl Designs.

Everyday Words by Wild Blueberry Ink.

Credits - Casa Mia kit by Lina Tieu (again I recoloured the scalloped circle journaling labels). I also isolated one of the hearts from the pink hearts paper and used the cookie cutter tool to create a small heart/circle embellishment.

Everyday Words by Wild Blueberry Ink. I recoloured the word strips and isolated the 'together' from the 'always together' phrase.

Credits -

This third page was created using the August Collab kit. Love the bold, vibrant colours and fun elements and that frame is so useful!

This is the page that I created the quick page from too.

Check out the August product reveal to see what $7.95 will get you ... though there are also going to be so many more bonuses throughout the month such as tips and tricks, more elements, inspiration and craft projects too.

Digi Scrapping frenzy

Working on my digi skills, figuring out how to make quick pages, templates, clipping masks and so on. Have had lots of fun playing :)

I took part in the portfolio challenges over at Sweet Shoppe Designs in July, some of my creations are below:

All are made with products from Sweet Shoppe Design (various) and Owl Tree Studio (Life's a Beach freebie).

Also finished my pages for the A Trip Down Memory Lane August gallery which will be going live in a week or so. Lovely, bright papers from Echo Park - great fun to work with!

Woo hoo me - at Owl Tree Studio!

After picking myself up off the floor and working on the fabulous kits provided, I can now breathe deeply and sit and blog about a wonderful new site for digital scrappers and a wonderful new opportunity for me! Owl Tree Studio, is a new digital scrapbook kit club and I have been chosen to be on the Creative Team! I am so excited and huge thanks to Tiffany for choosing me.

For starters, there is a beautifully bright, breezy and refreshing FREEBIE KIT available at the Owl Tree Studio blog, all you have to do is sign up for the newsletter. And there is a wonderful alpha to match also available at Jen Balding's blog.

Here is my layout (including a couple of elements from the kits available to August subscribers).

The design team has put together an incredible August lineup (while you check it out on Facebook, go ahead and like OTS so you stay up to date on all things OTS and important) and the creative team has put together some incredible quick pages, blog posts, scrap challenges and page templates for you to enjoy.

As we get closer to opening day, the Owl Tree Studio crew wants to give you an opportunity to try them out for FREE.

That’s right...F-R-E-E!

On Sunday, August 1st, 2010 Owl Tree Studio plus each of the three resident designers will be giving away free memberships to Owl Tree Studio. You can enter to win as many times as you want between now and July 31st, 2010 at 10am (EST). Everyone’s contest rules are different, so you’ll have to visit each designers’ blog to find out exactly what you have to do to enter their portion of the giveaway.

Enter to win a free membership from the official Owl Tree Studio blog by:

Following OTS on Facebook - 1 Facebook follower will win a free 1 month membership

Follow OTS on Twitter and ReTweet:

"Follow @OwlTreeStudio & RT this for a chance to win a free month of great digital scrapbooking goodies http://bit.ly/aib6cA #digiscrap"

- 1 Twitter follower will win a free 1 month membership

Join the mailing list (and get a free beach themed digi kit) - 2 mailing list subscribers will each win a free 3 month membership

Sometimes, the studio owls get a little over excited and rumor has it one commenter on the Owl Tree Studio blog contest post might win a 1 month membership as well.

Follow OTS on Facebook; and Twitter AND join our mailing list for the biggest chance of winning, then visit the incredible designers’ blogs to pick up more chances to win through the designer contests!

[Fine print: Winners will be selected using Random.org. You can only win one time. If you win, you will have to sign up as a paying member to continue accessing the OTS members’ area AFTER your free membership period ends].