New Release Dreamy Skies! and Giveaway Winner!

Time for the big reveal! I was so excited to step back and revisit this kit which I first created over 2 years ago! But every element and paper is new (ok, except for the airplane! had to bring that back!) so it' s like a totally new kit! I even jazzed up the palette I used! So I hope you will LOVE this new

DREAMY SKIES

It was really a work of love for me! I hope you like my custom umbrella, kite and medallions! This kit is packed full! with 14 papers, 56 elements, and a full alpha with lower-case letters and numbers.

Check out the awesome layouts my CT did:

Dana- love all the layers of circles!

Kandice- great stacking and this kit is perfect for sleeping babes!

Another one from Kandice with some gorgeous clustering using my template pack: Free Spirit- the Templates.

Kendra- great bold use of patterned paper and great blocking behind the photos!

I love the large-photo layouts from Lahni. This one is awesome with the stitched medallions!

I love her title and use of black and white photos on this one!

Lauren used Dreamy Skies to create her first Cover photo for her Facebook page!

Here's a great layout page by Lauren showing off her great clustering skills with the graffiti stamp in the kit!

Love this sweet page with the perfect amount of clustering by Lindsay, also showing off the word art included in the kit!

 Here's a layout by Marlyn showing off the umbrella and other "rainy" elements! Perfect with her fantastic tourist shots! love her cluster behind the photos!

Here's a great inspirational page by Mary where she really puts the papers to great use in an interactive way with her picture! 

Love the circles and cut-outs in this layout by Stephanie

Stephanie made use of a template by AmyDane Designs!

 Another great layout by Stephanie with great frame weaving in front and behind her photos!

A layout from Thao! I love the tall photo and the cute way she did the flowers!

And here is one from me! I couldn't resist using Lahni's instructions for a recent Speed Scrap!

You can grab Dreamy Skies for 20% off this next week!

And..... one lucky commenter wins this new kit. The randomly-selected winner is.....

ROBIN!

Congratulations! I will contact you via Facebook with your coupon code! and as a parting gift, you all can grab this freebie add-on from my facebook page! Be sure you grab it by the 23rd because I'll have a new freebie there next Friday!!!

Have a great weekend and be sure to come and play with all the great activities and challenges we have going on at STS this weekend to grab a free Designer Collab!

Sneak Peek at Friday's New Release!

Hey everyone! Just popping in to tease you with a Sneak Peek at my newest release coming this Friday:

Want to win it? Leave a comment here and also check out the related post on my facebook page for another chance to win! Winner announced with the kit reveal on Friday!

Speed Scrap Tomorrow!

Queen Wild Scraps is hosting a speed scrap at STS this week - check it out:

Featured Product Tuesday! and $2 Tuesday! Freebie!

Meagan's Featured Product this week is her Cut-Out Template Pack. It will be on sale for just $1 on Tuesday. These templates are super fun!!! So pick them up!!

And Meagan made an awesome QP from her template pack and It's My Party - Boy (which will be in the $2 bin on Tuesday). Just click the preview to get your freebie!

Another Blending Tutorial

Hey scrappers!

There is a lot I could tell you about blending modes so I'm going to make my tutorials around that for now and keep each tutorial simple by just adding a couple of tidbits here and there.

Another helpful blending mode I want to tell you about is hard light. I use hard light on shiny elements.

You can find hard light in the same menu as overlay. Below I have a side-by-side comparison of an element where I clipped a paper to a bullnose clip (from Rachel's Scraps) and then I duplicated the bull nose clip, de-saturated it (you know how to do that, right? grey scale a color element?) and then made it an overlay using hard light and then overlay so you could see the difference.

 Notice that with the overlay, the shadowy areas are not very shadowy (as you noticed from the blending mode on papers tutorial). Hard light does a great job of letting those shadows show through, giving more depth to the element. You might notice that the hardlight seems a little less bright. I would just merge all the elements and then boost the saturation on the whole element aftwerwards. Overall, the hard light was a more effective blend mode for this element.

Other elements that hard light works well on are buttons, gems, shiny string and any other shiny elements that have a glare. You will find that sometimes the overlay colors the hilights and it just doesn't look natural.

One other thing about blending modes I wanted to bring up today is about clipping your overlay layers to the shapes.

In the picture below, you will see the original clip layer, a clipping mask with my pattern, and then a clipping mask with the overlay layer. You make lots of clipping masks onto one element and you want to do this because with the duplication of the same element, they can sometimes get this outline and you don't want that. So make it a habit of clipping them all together!

Next week I hope to get a tutorial to you about selectively recoloring an element, meaning elements with different colors.

Till then, Happy Scrapping & Designing!

I Heart Notebooks Quick Page Sampler

This week I have a special treat for all our 8.5 x 11 scrapbookers out there. Those that are 12x12, don't worry I have a new kit coming out next week that I know you'll love! The 8.5 x11's will love it, too!


Anyways, I got with my CT Marlyn who scraps notebook-size and she said you guys have a hard time finding quick pages in your size! Sounds like a bad clothing store! Lol!

So I decided to make you some quick pages from my different kits in your size! Yeah! Introducing my "I <3 Notebooks Quick Page Sampler"! 20% off for the first week!

As you can see I used a mixed of kits and a  mix of number of photos on the layouts. Just drop on a cute title and some have room for journaling!

Check out some finished layouts by my CTMs Marlyn and Dana:


Marlyn

Dana:

Everyone have a great weekend! and be sure to stop by next week for a sneak peek....and a giveaway!

Happy Scrapping!

Recent Logos!

I wanted to share with you some of the logos I worked on recently!

First, I did a new logo for Scrappy Cocoa. I was so excited to work on this for Stephanie! Miss being on her CT!

I updated her cocoa mug into a new icon for her! I can play around and make custom shapes for your logo!

Then, I did the total package for Becky of SAHM!

Here's her new logo:

And here's her new blog header:

And then here's her new Facebook Cover Photo!

I also made her facebook profile pic!


Again, with Becky, I updated her chili pepper with a custom shape I made and then added some flames so you could feel the heat!

Packages start at $10. You can check out the details here. Have you been wanting a new look? Logos will take maybe 3-4 days and I got Becky's package done in about a week so turnaround is fast!

Happy Scrapping!

Featured Product Tuesday! and $2 Tuesday! Freebie!

Meagan's Featured Product this week is Curious Cutie. You can pick up this super cute kit for just $2 today only!!

And Kandice made you a QP freebie from her super cute layout above. Click on the preview to download.

Some are having issues with the download? Here's a direct link