Remember how I said I would be back with the brown patterned alpha made from one of the papers in may part of the "Hurry up and get here Spring" blog train? Well, I have finally had chance to do the preview and upload this to 4shared:
Sorry it's not much of a preview, but I hope you like the alpha. You can download it by clicking on the preview.
Also, Bellascraps March edition was published last week. This is the Easter edition, with articles and tutorials by Julie Ann Shahin (of Everyday Digital Scrapbooking), Becky Cutshaw, Kelleigh Ratzlaff (of The DigiChick), Lynn Clifford, and Sandy Osborn (of Print Design Services) and plenty of layout tips to guide you through your own designs.
Lliella Designs of Funky Playground Designs & Sunshine Studio Scraps has created a kit that is sure to make you “hoppy” as you scrap your Easter and Spring photos! Made exclusively for Bella Scraps readers, Egg Hunt is free with purchase! This issue also includes free download bonuses: Egg Hunt Quick Pages (4 quick pages for you by the Bellas) and Project Templates by Lynn Clifford (yours truly!!!).
IN THIS ISSUE:
• Featured Designer: Allie Llacer (Lliella Designs)
• Bellas create.
• Bellas create a bonus. Egg Hunt Quick Pages
• Beginner: Hybrid Easter Basket by Lynn Clifford
• Step Up Your Layering by Becky Cutshaw
• Bella’s Choice: Marcie Reckinger
• Using Quickpages by Kelleigh Ratzlaff
• Technique Call: Faithbooking
• Whimsical Hybrid Bird Cage Tags by Julie Ann Shahin
• Element Call: Birdies & Chickies
• Paper Easter Baskets: Easy Paper Baskets for All Occasions (on the cover) by Sandy Osborn
• Easter submitted.
• How to Create with Prima Hybrid Chipmates: Digital + Stickers + Chipboard + Epoxies by Julie Ann Shahin
• Featured Scrapper Rebecca Lavender-Roberts
• Flower Pinwheel Gift: Introducing Chalkboard Paint by Julie Ann Shahin
• It’s All in the Details: Weddings by Amy Eileen Head
• Resources & Coupons
You can buy this at the Bella Scraps shop and this edition has loads of Easter themes and ideas, both digital and hybrid. It is definitely worth a read :).
I'd forgotten all about St Patrick's day until this morning, when I was deluged with loads of St Patrick day emails in my inbox! I haven't made a St Patrick's day kit or anything, but here are a few random facts about St Patrick:
- Kidnapped at 16 by Irish raiders and taken from his native Wales to Ireland. There he was sold as a slave to an Irish chieftain.
- For six years he tended the flocks of his master, spending the days and nights in prayer.
- He escaped and made his way to Britain, where he became a priest and later a Bishop.
- He returned to Ireland as a missionary and played a major part in converting the Irish to Christianity.
The following is part of a prayer attributed to St Patrick:
Christ with me, Christ before me,
Christ behind me, Christ within me,
Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ at my right, Christ at my left,
Christ in the fort,
Christ in the chariot seat,
Christ in the poop [deck],
Christ in the heart of everyone who thinks of me,
Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks to me,
Christ in every eye that sees me,
Christ in every ear that hears me.
Tim Hughes wrote the song, My Everything, based on this prayer and I made the above tag last year to include in our church notices.
Well, that's all for now. I need to run a payroll, finalise some company accounts and prepare a corporation tax return all before I go line dancing tonight....I lead such an exciting life! I'll be back probably tomorrow with another "Hurry up and get here Spring" alpha, this time based on the brown flowery paper as requested by ABC. I have finished the alpha but won't get time to zip it and upload it until tomorrow sometime.
I haven't had much free time recently as I have been so busy (nothing new there then!). I have been out at a client's putting all their books and records onto an accounts program and it has been an up and down ride. But it is beginning to look as if in another day or so, it will all be up and running - so I just need to train them on how to use the software!
I've also managed to write a tutorial for Bellascraps, and I think this will be in the next edition which is due to be released around 15th March. Here is a sneak preview:
Ok, that's all for now. I'm hoping to be back with a freebie in the next day or so, so watch this space! In the meantime, happy scrapping!
Have you ever had one of those days when you really don't want to do any work, even though you know you should? Well, I have a pile of work to go through, and so far today all I have done is check my email and start a draft of a letter....:(. I needed some incentive so I spent a little time making an alpha using an action from Boop Designs:
Well, I'd better get back to work since after taking the morning off to collect my son's car from the garage, I am now behind schedule (nothing new there, though!).
ADSDesigners March 2009 Blog Train: Hurry up and get here, Spring!
8 comments Posted by Lynn at 3/01/2009 08:48:00 pmWell, my daughter and I have just got back from a fantastic three day break in London. This time, we visited the British Museum, the Natural History Museum, St Paul's Cathedral, the Globe Theatre, the Clink Museum, Buckingham Palace, as well as Oxford Street, Regents Street, Leicester Square and Trafalgar Square.
DD managed to fit in some shopping time, and we saw "Zorro, the musical" and "Jersey boys". Both performances were good, but if ever you get the chance, you really should go and see Jersey Boys. The audience was dancing in the aisles and the cast had a standing ovation. The language was somewhat ripe at times, and some of the jokes/innuendos would not have been understood by my 12 year old (who thankfully wasn't there!), but the music was awesome. It was as if Franky Valli and the Four Seasons were singing right in front of us. I would definitely recommend it - just close your ears when they use the "F" word!
DD and I very rarely use the underground when in London, which meant that for the first two days, we walked everywhere. I reckon we did at least 12 miles the first day with another 10 the second day. Mind you, every time we tried to work out how far we walked, the estimates kept going up! We only managed about 5 miles the last day and succumbed to the lure of the underground as our legs and feet had just about had it! I am sitting here at my computer now and can still feel my bones aching and the blisters on my feet throbbing! It was definitely all worth it though :)!
Anyhow, after those few days away, I came back and finished off my part in the ADSDesigners blog train: Hurry up and get here, Spring! Here is a preview of my part in this. Firstly, the elements:
and then the papers:
Just click on the previews to download them.
Woah, I can hardly believe it has been so long since I last blogged! I was busy in December and January trying to get a million and one tax returns submitted. Well, it felt like a million and one at least ;). Then at the beginning of February, hubbie agreed to put a false ceiling up in my office, which meant a complete redecoration job, including a late night trip to Ikea to get some new office furniture. I was hoping that we would have it all finished in a weekend.....how wrong I was! DD and I did most of the redecorating once the ceiling was up, but it involved moving furniture around every time we wanted to decorate a different wall!
We'd had this great idea that we if we put all the furniture in the middle of the room, then we could work round the outside. Whilst in theory this proved to be true, because I have a huge office desk, a large corner computer desk, three filing cabinets and then all the files, etc that were on the bookcase and shelves before we moved them, we had very little space to manoeuvre in! We managed, however, to finish all the painting (apart from the ceiling which has still to be done....) by the Sunday night. However, I was so exhausted by the end of it (I found muscles were aching in places where I never even knew I had muscles!), all I could do for the next few days was just sit and look at the boxes that needed to be put away!
It has taken me about 10 days to finally sort everything out, and there is just a little more to do and then it will be all finished! Not bad considering I have had to be out of the office working at a client's for much of that time.
So, I have not had much time to do any scrapping or designing, although I am in the process of designing a kit for the next ADSDesigners blog train. This has a spring theme, so I have put together some Spring papers for you:
They are very plain and simple, with slight variations in colour but should make lovely background papers (or at least I think so:)). Just click on the preview or here to download. Enjoy!
Happy New to you all! It's been really busy here over Christmas, trying to fit tax returns and accounts in between spending time with the family. Our eldest son came home for Christmas, which was lovely, and then he and his girlfriend came over for the New Year too (he had to work between Christmas and the New Year).
I still haven't managed to find the time to go and see Twilight. I've read the books (thanks to our daughter who passed them on to me!) and am debating whether or not I can ignore work and go see the film. But I still have 43 tax returns to do between now and the end of January, so things are a bit panicky here, to say the least.
I reckon the one thing I need to do this year is to get organised, so I have signed up for en e-course which should, hopefully, get me started. If I was more organised, I wouldn't have this mad panic every December/January, and would have more time for designing and just messing around on the computer!
And talking of messing around on the computer, that is what I was doing this morning as I was given a Bamboo tablet for Christmas, so I have been trying it out. I'm still getting used to using both the pen and Art Rage (which came with the tablet), but I reckon there are loads of things I could do with it once I get the hang of it! So watch this space!
In the meantime, I was out this morning and managed to get some photos of the frost and ice, and came up with these:
It's a set of six papers, and here are some closeups of some of the papers.
Well, Christmas is only 11 days away and I am totally disorganised, with very little done and a to do list a mile long! It seems like it was only yesterday that I was getting ready for last Christmas (and panicking as usual about how much there was to do!) and here we are, a whole year later. I just don't know where the time goes! And yes, I know I keep saying that, but it is so true.
I have, however, had a few minutes to spare and made these glitter ogverlays. They were so easy to do - two of them are from commerical use overlays I have, and the other two I created myself from scratch. It actually took longer to save them, zip them and uplaod to 4shared than it did to create them all in the first place! And in case you are wondering (although I realise you are probably not bothered!), I made the two on the right.
As promised, it is commerical use friendly, so feel free to download either here or by clicking on the preview.
I'm off now to finish off a set of accounts and then perhaps make some Christmas cards (long overdue, I know, I should have made these weeks ago!).
It's been another busy day at work here - the list of accounts and tax returns to do seems never ending! However, I went shopping with my daughter last night as she needed to get a Secret Santa present for someone at work. It is absolutely fatal going shopping with her! I ended up buying a pair of shoes for myself, a small Christmas tree (plus ornaments and tinsel) for my office, a birthday present for a friend of our youngest son (he's at the birthday sleepover later today), a small stocking filler for hubbie, a Christmas present for my mum and a large teddy bear for our daughter (who wasn't really with me, didn't fall in love with the teddy, suggest it would be a good present, and most definitely was not standing right next to me at the till when I was paying for it!. All of this came out of the food budget too! I guess we're not eating this week!
So, since I'm getting in the Christmassy mood, I thought you might like some glitterflakes:
Just click on the preview or here to download. I'm afraid it's personal use only as some of the glitter effect I used was not commercial use. I'll try and make sure the next thing I do is commercial for those who prefer that.
I'm off to work on making calendars for Christmas presents, a birthday card for our son to go with the present he is taking later today, writing a tutorial on either creating drop shadows or using overlays (can't quite make up my mind which one to do), doing our church notices, and trying to get some more tax returns done. Sounds like I'll be somewhat busy!
Hope you have a lovely weekend and if you use the glitterflakes, let me know how you get on. I'd love to see what you create with them!
ADSDesigners December Collaboration: Holidays at Home
8 comments Posted by Lynn at 12/01/2008 06:55:00 amWell, today sees the release of the latest ADSDesigners collaboration, Holidays at Home. As you would expect with such a name, it is full of holiday themed papers, elements and alphas, so if you collect the whole collaboration, it will probably set you up for several Christmas's to come!
I've just uploaded my part of the collaboration to 4 shared, and the links here below. I kind of got carried away with the glitter, and the elements are huge! I had to split them into two zipped files as 4shared wouldn't take them in one file! The whole collaboration looks amazing, and you really don't want to miss out on this one, especially if, like me, you still have loads of cards and calendars and gift tags and so on to make!
My part of the collaboration contains:
- 16 papers (patterned, plain and ruled)
- 4 Christmas bulbs
- 2 Christmas decorations
- Christmas tree
- 2 glitter splashes
- 6 glitter frames
- 3 glitter strings
- Notebook
- Notepaper
- 3 presents
- 5 ribbon wrappers
- Snowflake overlay
- Star
- 4 tinsels
- Alpha
I did warn you that I got carried away with the glitter! The links are:
Papers
Elements 1
Elements 2
Alpha
My thanks to Laura Skathi, Kim B, Marianna Banos and Megadoodle for some of the brushes, actions and elements.
The complete list of designers in the collaboration is as follows:
Adele of Blind Sight Designs
Adventures in Scrapland
Amanda of Amandas Scrappy Creations
Amie of Amiebear
Beaconscrap
Beckmoores Scrapalittle
Becky's Scraps
Bits'N'Bobs
Bouquet of Pixels Brooke at Ahhh Scrap
Busyscrappin
CMB Designs
Creative Digital Scraps by Chiara
Deanna at Flower Scraps
DesignsByAmilyn Digital Keepsakes
Doodle Designs
Elemental Pixie
EmCee Scraps
Erika {aka PinkuPixie}
HeatherStokes at HSDesigns
Jayden's Mama
Jessie
JIC Creations
Just Another Scrap Kathy Goldstein
KittenScraps
Lei at Fairydustprincess-Magicmaker
Linda at Linda's Dream Designs
Lynn of Heavenly Crafts
Lynn at TMA
MagsGraphics
Manda at Disaster in Designs
Mariscrap
Merrilee Wheaton Designs
MsBhvin Scraps
My Little Corner of the World
Oase Panda Bear Designs Pamela Yates at Pammy's Playground
Rachness
Scrapping with Jen
Shabby Tagger
Shel at Shel Belle Scraps
Stacy at Kalo Designs
Teri at Teris Thing-O-My-Jigs
Wendi at Willow Grace Designs
WillowRaven at Purple Dragonfly Creations
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