Thoughts for a New year!

A New Year is soon upon us! How time flies away from us, slippier than an eel and as substantial as mist. Do you plan on making any resolutions? I try, but on the whole I prefer to make a goal that I can work towards rather than some rash promise made in the heat of the moment.


One of my goals is to do more journaling in my layouts, even if these layouts are just for my eyes or those of my family! I have come to realise that I have nothing written down from my own parents and only snippets of stories remembered from my long gone grandparents. I want to pass on something tangible to my children, not for now, but in years to come.


On that note, here are some New Year quotes and sayings to think over and maybe even scrap your layouts and other projects with these in mind.



Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. Oscar Wilde

Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits. Unknown

A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one Year and out the other. Unknown

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors and let each new year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Hal Borland

Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right. Oprah Winfrey

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. Edith Lovejoy Pierce

New year, same goal. Joe King

Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you've always wanted to do but couldn't find the time. Call up a forgotten friend. Drop an old grudge, and replace it with some pleasant memories. Vow not to make a promise you don't think you can keep. Walk tall, and smile more. You'll look ten years younger. Don't be afraid to say, 'I love you'. Say it again. They are the sweetest words in the world. Ann Landers

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear, and with a manly heart. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Finally, the last freebie of 2008 from me and very appropriate it is to, if you are going to record your resolutions or as in my case to do more journaling! Some star shaped journal mats.

You can get them here for a while!

I hope you and yours have a very safe and Happy New Year!

Need A Little Dough- Re- Mi After The Holidays?

As many scrappers know already there are hundreds if not thousands of beautiful patterned papers available to us. Naked & Angry has provided an opportunity to turn any of your own pattern designs into cash!

From the Naked and Angry Site;
How it works Anyone can come to Naked & Angry and submit a pattern design to be voted on by other Naked & Angry users. The design will be scored for 14 days at which time it will be given a final score. The highest scoring designs will be manufactured and products will be created inspired by the patterns. The winners will receive a $750 cash prize and 1 free Naked & Angry item. Who created it Naked & Angry was created by a team of web designers and developers called skinnyCorp. skinnyCorp also created the community-driven Threadless.com which invites designers to submit tee shirt designs to be scored by the Threadless community. The winning designs are printed and sold from the site. Naked & Angry is an extension of Threadless.com - one which focuses on higher quality products through the more subtle pattern approach. What it hopes to become Naked & Angry aims to manufacture products and garments created from winning pattern designs ranging from ties to tops to pillows to belts to socks to sweaters to wallpaper. The goal is to choose five winning patterns every season to create 5-15 various items.

From what I understand you must design in either Photoshop or Illustrator to be considered. More information available and Naked and Angry's website. Good Luck!

a gift for you

I have been a totally bad blogger! So sorry! Can I make it up to you with a little gift?

We have some gals that are brand new to digi scrapping. They are unwrapping those Elements programs and looking at them all puzzled. To help them out with an easy first project, I put together a layered template with a few glittery elements in a nice basic silver.


Click on the photo for a quick zip on over to the store to grab it. It is in the dollar spot, but is free with the code: ibelieve until Christmas. I hope you enjoy!

If you are a brand new digi friend who is looking for some help using this or anything else, pop on over to our boards and give a shout. You may find what you need, but if not, someone is happy to help!

Happy Holidays!

Christmas Thoughts

Well Christmas is soon upon us so here are some thoughts of Christmas to share and maybe scrap:

Christmas is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace. Agnes M Pharo.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. Charles Dickens.

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month. Harlan Miller.

Christmas gift suggestions:
To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect. Oren Arnold.

Christmas! 'Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial fire of charity in the heart. Washington Irving.

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. Burton Hillis.

May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through! Unknown.

Christmas is forever, not for just one day,for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.The good you do for others is good you do yourself... Norman Wesley Brooks.

May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace,The gladness of Christmas give you hope,The warmth of Christmas grant you love. Unknown.

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas. Peg Bracken.

It is the personal thoughtfulness, the warm human awareness, the reaching out of the self to one's fellow man that makes giving worthy of the Christmas spirit. Isabel Currier.

As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is. Eric Sevareid.

I hope you are all going to have a Happy Christmas and a Peaceful New Year.

Shopping: The Hazards of Boredom

For all the guys who ever get dragged round the supermarket against their will and perhaps some of the girls, should try a few of these too - may liven things up. Proof of what can happen if a wife or girlfriend drags her husband or boyfriend along shopping.

This letter was recently sent by Head Office to a customer in Wigan: Dear Mrs. Cater, While we thank you for your valued custom and use of the our supermarket Loyalty Card, the Manager of our store in Wigan is considering banning you and your family from shopping with us, unless your husband stops his antics. Below is a list of offences over the past few months all verified by our surveillance cameras:
1. June 15: Took 24 boxes of condoms and randomly put them in people's trolleys when they weren't looking.
2. July 2: Set all the alarm clocks in House Wares to go off at 5-minute intervals.
3. July 7: Made a trail of tomato juice on the floor leading to feminine products aisle.
4. July 19: Walked up to an employee and told her in an official tone, 'Code 3' in House Wares..... and watched what happened.
5. August 14: Moved a 'CAUTION - WET FLOOR' sign to a carpeted area.
6. September 15: Set up a tent in the outdoor clothing department and told shoppers he'd invite them in if they would bring sausages and a Calor gas stove.
7. September 23: When the Deputy Manager asked if she could help him, he began to cry and asked, 'Why can't you people just leave me alone?'
8. October 4: Looked right into the security camera; used it as a mirror, picked his nose, and ate it.
9. November 10: While appearing to be choosing kitchen knives in the House Wares aisle asked an assistant if he knew where the antidepressants were situated.
10. December 3: Darted around the store suspiciously, loudly humming the theme tune from 'Mission Impossible'
11. December 6: In the kitchenware aisle, practiced the 'Madonna look' using different size funnels.
12. December 18: Hid in a clothing rack and when people browsed, yelled 'PICK ME, PICK ME!' 13. December 21: When an announcement came over the loud speaker, assumed the fetal position and screamed 'NO! NO! It's those voices again.' And; last, but not least:
14. December 23: Went into a fitting room, shut the door, waited a while; then yelled, very loudly, 'There is no toilet paper in here.'

Wednesday Inspiration

Just a sketch today - I'm working on a little blog highlighting while researching other freebies, so today is a simple sketch of a layout I just finished using the ScrapStreet.com's digital designers' collaboration kit from this December. Want it: go here! Yuletide Whimsy (or click the image). There are some freebie Yuletide Whimsy quickpages in the store, too! (if you want to see what the CT did with these quickpages and this kit, go to page 40/41 in the December mag - cute stuff! Watch my Wednesdays closely, I'll have a freebie Yuletide Add-On here in a week or two!

So here you go, to get you in the Christmas spirit!

Little Christmas Pirate by Lindsey Krauss. Supplies:
Digital Kit: Yuletide Whimsy by the ScrapStreet.com Digital Designers,

Fonts: 2Peas Boulevard, Times New Roman,

Pirate: www.tiltedmill.com.

Sew Good

Really there are blogs to cover just about every subject under the sun and stars these days. If you like to see something different from the man in the street's viewpoint then read a blog. I have found loads of interesting stuff, random factoids and information that COULD be really useful (if only I had the time) From my stash of fascinating blogs, I thought I would preview a couple here for you.

Like sewing? This is one for you then. Free pattern for a cute (linux) penguin. In fact a few patterns of said penguin, delight any small person with one of these and you are bound to make more than one friend for life. the Penguin Project is the place to find these

Then if you like dressmaking and other larger sewing projects, snip aling to Burdastyle.com where you can download fullsize patterns and instructions for various garments. Great fun to look at , I havent tried any of the patterns yet although I have downloaded a few for trial.

If you want to handmake gifts then Whitesewing.com has loads of gift ideas and patterns in easy to download and read ofline pdf format. I particularly like the recycled jeans otganiser and the scented padded clothes hangers.More of these kind of patterns for free can be found at craftandfabriclinks.com. Loads of cute patterns for all kind of bits that you can make from bits of leftover fabric you just hate to throw away.

Black Friday Sales and A Freebie

Yes it is that time again! Some of the designers are having sales at ScrapStreet

Make sure you do not miss a bargain and pop to the store.

We also have a little freebie for you to sweeten your Thanksgiving holidays. Raspberry Truffle is a little kit created for our Saturday Night Scraps last year. It has been dusted down and brought out for you to create some sweet and cosy layouts.

Get it here for a short time and enjoy.

Being Thankful means......

I AM THANKFUL:
FOR THE WIFE
WHO SAYS IT'S HOT DOGS TONIGHT,
BECAUSE SHE IS HOME WITH ME,
AND NOT OUT WITH SOMEONE ELSE.

FOR THE HUSBAND
WHO IS ON THE SOFA
BEING A COUCH POTATO,
BECAUSE HE IS HOME WITH ME
AND NOT OUT AT THE BARS.

FOR THE TEENAGER
WHO IS COMPLAINING ABOUT DOING DISHES
BECAUSE IT MEANS SHE IS AT HOME,
NOT ON THE STREETS.
FOR THE TAXES I PAY
BECAUSE IT MEANS
I AM EMPLOYED .

FOR THE MESS TO CLEAN AFTER A PARTY
BECAUSE IT MEANS I HAVE
BEEN SURROUNDED BY FRIENDS.

FOR THE CLOTHES THAT FIT A LITTLE TOO SNUG
BECAUSE IT MEANS
I HAVE ENOUGH TO EAT.

FOR MY SHADOW THAT WATCHES ME WORK
BECAUSE IT MEANS
I AM OUT IN THE SUNSHINE

FOR A LAWN THAT NEEDS MOWING,
WINDOWS THAT NEED CLEANING,
AND GUTTERS THAT NEED FIXING
BECAUSE IT MEANS I HAVE A HOME

FOR ALL THE COMPLAINING
I HEAR ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT
BECAUSE IT MEANS
WE HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH. ..

FOR THE PARKING SPOT
I FIND AT THE FAR END OF THE PARKING LOT
BECAUSE IT MEANS I AM CAPABLE OF WALKING
AND I HAVE BEEN BLESSED WITH TRANSPORTATION .

FOR MY HUGE HEATING BILL
BECAUSE IT MEANS
I AM WARM.

FOR THE LADY BEHIND ME IN CHURCH
WHO SINGS OFF KEY
BECAUSE IT MEANS I CAN HEAR.

FOR THE PILE OF LAUNDRY AND IRONING
BECAUSE IT MEANS I HAVE CLOTHES TO WEAR.

FOR WEARINESS AND ACHING MUSCLES
AT THE END OF THE DAY
BECAUSE IT MEANS I HAVE BEEN
CAP ABLE OF WORKING HARD.

FOR THE ALARM THAT GOES OFF
IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS
BECAUSE IT MEANS I AM ALIVE.

AND I AM THANKFUL:
FOR THE crazy people I work with
BECAUSE they make work interesting and fun!

Holiday Season

Well I am getting in the holiday season, how about you? I have been busy designing some christmas stuff at ScrapStreet. I thought I would share with you....

This is a preview of my latest christmas kit called Merry Little Christmas. Fun, bright and cute!

and to celebrate... a little freebie for you, just enough to do a page or make some cards.

Get it here and don't forget to stop by the store and check out all our new stuff...

Yes Virginia There Is A Santa Claus

Who says there's no such thing as a free lunch? For a limited time only, Trend Micro Internet Security 2008 (PC-Cillin) is offering their security suite for FREE! You get the anti-virus and anti-spyware protection PLUS NetNanny, a web filter for blocking inappropriate sites for children.
Why 'free' you ask? Because it's part of a promotion between Trend Micro and customers of HTC ISP and it seems everyone is welcome to this fabulous offer. Also, Trend Micro is launching it's latest addition v.2009 that has a lot of extra features. But if you'd rather have the basic version of on-board protection, this version is for you but don't delay. Who knows how much longer this offer will last!

Just download the trial version of Trend PC-Cillin software and use the following serial number to convert your trial into a full retail version. This is for Windows XP and Vista users.
PFEP-9991-7436-4997-1545

Be sure that you uninstall any previous versions of Trend Micro Security Suites and/or any other anti-virus programs you currently have before installation of this new program.

Definition updates are good for 2 years.

It's JOPKE's day!

I've had her kits saved up for some time now and this morning, I went to town! In case you don't see them all around the digi world, here they are... and I believe in the post just before this one you'll see her new kit - Forever - I can't wait to get my hands on that one, too!

I Love You in Blue by Lindsey Krauss. Supplies:

Digital Kit: Bluish Season Mini Kit by Jopke for ScrapStreet.com,

Fonts: 2Peas, DEP: Adobe PS CS2.

BRAVE by Lindsey Krauss. Supplies:

Digital kit: Bluish Season Mini Kit by Jopke for ScrapStreet.com,

Fonts: 2Peas, DEP: Adobe PS CS2.

Fall Princess by Lindsey Krauss. Supplies:
Digital kits: Fall Paper Pack and Scent of Memories by Jopke for ScrapStreet.com,
Fonts: 2Peas, DEP: Adobe PS CS2.

Perfect Pumpkin by Lindsey Krauss. Supplies:

Digital kit: Everyday's Joy Quickpage by Jopke for ScrapStreet.com,

Font: 2Peas, DEP: Adobe PS CS2.

Climbing the Perfect Apple Tree by Lindsey Krauss. Supplies:

Digital kit: Everyday's Joy Quickpage by Jopke for ScrapStreet.com,

Font: 2Peas, DEP: Adobe PS CS2.

As for me, I'm 'bout ready to back and posting on Wednesdays... I've got two digital blogs to highlight and I'll be adding some new digi sketches and fun freebies! Watch for Wednesday Inspirations to be back this week!

New in store: Jopkes FOREVER kit

I'm very happy to announce that I have a new kit in the store: FOREVER.
The beautiful color of deep warm red in this kit will add a loving feeling to your precious memories! 'Cause it's all about love, isn't it! It's amazing how many moods you can create with this scheme of only three colors! It can be warm or powerful, tender or cheerful, loving and playful! This kit really can be used for all kinds of memories captured on photo, including your Christmas layouts, as the warm red is a perfect Christmas-color!

Crop Weekend!

It's that time again! Crop Weekend at ScrapStreet!

Our crop hostess, Lori, and our creative team have cooked up a fabulous weekend of games and challenges sure to get your mojo humming. This month we are visiting the Elephant Festival in Thailand and have elephants as our main source of inspiration. Skeptical? Come in and see how elephants can inspire you to create wonderful pages, cards, and decor items. You might even learn a bit about these fabulous creatures while having fun.

Need a bit of a nudge? I made a mini kit and it is free this weekend only with coupon code: novcrop1

a peek:

I can't wait to see what you create! Off to play!

Falling Leaves

Oops! What bad bloggers we have been recently.Holidays, illness and just plain laziness I think. There has been much talk on the Streets recently, how mojo is missing from our creative sisters. People are doing anything but scrapping - even cleaning!

So to help get us all back on track and to prepare for the welcome return of our monthly crop this weekend (challenges are posted throughout the weekend and you can win scrappy prizes paper or digital) here are some seasonal quotes.

Autumn.. the year's last, loveliest smile.

....William C. Bryant
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf's a flower.

....Albert Camus
No Spring nor Summer Beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face.

....John Donne
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

....George Eliot

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.

....Stanley Horowitz
For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.

....Edwin Way Teale
Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves,

We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!

....Humbert Wolfe

Come said the wind to the leaves one day,

Come o're the meadows and we will play.

Put on your dresses scarlet and gold,

For summer is gone and the days grow cold.

....A Children's Song of the 1880's

October's poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.

....Nova Bair
Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.

....Elizabeth Lawrence
Every leaf speaks bliss to me,Fluttering from the autumn tree.

....Emily Bronte
By all these lovely tokens September days are here,

With summer's best of weather and autumn's best of cheer.

....Helen Hunt Jackson

To help you along with these I have a little freebie for you.... A Leaf String! Some pretty leaves pinned to a string.

Just right to grace your LO's this autumn.

Find it here for a few weeks or so.

Get the Skinny

On skins. What are skins? Vinyl covers for your laptop, mp3 player, or cell phone. You can buy a variety of them, but what fun would that be? More fun is making your own!

Still, there are tons out there for sale if you want premade. Here are a couple of laptop covers that caught my eye:




Laptop covers run $15-30, cell phone skins from $10-25. Do you have some people on your Christmas list who you were struggling to find something inexpensive, yet personal? Me, too! I am off to make some skins and mark them off my list!

Here are a few companies offering skins:
http://www.laptopskins.net/
http://www.skinit.com
http://www.mytego.com
http://skinweaver.com

Happy shopping and creating!

Digital Scrapbook Day

Whoo Hoo! The day we digital scapbookers dance about, rush to sales and celebrate with contests and freebies.

ScrapStreet is no exception this year!

Yes we are having a storewide digi sale for Nov 1 - 2. 30% discount off all digi items including those commercial use items..... go grab yourself a real bargain.

We also have our SNS (Saturday Night Scraps) back and we are starting with digital challenges this month. There are a couple of freebies to download and challenges to do - you could win some coupons for the store!

Town Square on the forums is where it is happening - challenges run through to Monday in the wee small hours so be sure to post your creations in our SNS gallery and link us up in the challenge threads to be in the win!

As if that wasn't enough here is a small freebie to wet your appetite! A small addon to one of our latest kits Mam'zelle Allie - special thanks to our designer Rachness for her doodles.

Grab yours here for a short time and be sure to join us for some fun!

OK so it's not Thursday!!

Guess we are all late this week! Still it's thank God it's Friday today and I have a little something for you... This is especially for Maryse who made a Quick Page out of the ScrapStreet Fall Frolics kit ( still free until the end of the month so go get yours in store!).

As a thank you I have done a little addon.

This will be available for a couple of weeks and then poof it will magically vanish! There are just 4 papers and 3 elements including Fig the frog. Get your copy here and enjoy.

Happy Sunday!

Time for some shameless kit promotion from me. I am loving everything about fall right now (still in the pre-snow days) and made a kit with a hint of a retro feel for all of my fall photos. I really had fun with the felt textures and different tree styles. Hope you enjoy it!


A few layouts playing with Funky Fall:




Hope all your pictures are fabulous this week! Happy Scrapping!

HeY Hey Its Saturday

Well it is Saturday in digiland again. I have been looking at some of the new kits coming into Scrapstreets shop. Super wow. GingerScraps is pretty fantastic name and her kits are certainly fantastic You should see them .Take a look here

Is Kiwi and Strawberry by GingerScraps gorgeous or what. Mouthwatering layouts come to mind with such a beautiful kit.

Then we have a couple of new designers, they might be new but the freshness they bring to digiscrapping marketplace is unbelievable.

Jorinde has this beautiful offering which is a favorite of mine called Rustic Road, I just love the leaf elements of this kit. They have a real autumn feel, and look very elegant on a layout.

Now I want o gove you a sneakie sneakie peek at a truly stunning kit from our other newb designer Jopke,

Scent of Memories is not in the shops quite yet, should be in, over the next few days, but what a delightful treat. Such a delicate and pretty kit in the palest but most gorgeous color scheme. Her eis a sneaky of the previewpage. I can really reccommend this kit. I have had the priviledge of previewing the whole thing and am looking forward to making a couple of layouts from it.

Finally just for your scrapping pleasure thought I would revive an old kit of mine. I have had it as a freebie in another store in the past. so I think now it has been on the shelf a while, it might be nice to offer it o you here.

So here it is Love is (in the air) and part2

Another Freebie

Well as promised I have another freebie for you to go with our Fall Frolics kit here at ScrapStreet. This is the Uppercase alpha to match the Witchypoo lowercase alpha last week. With letters A to Z and a small selection of punctuation, you will be able to do invites, cards or titles for your layouts.

Get your alpha here

Photoshop In A Browser?

Before you spend any money on PSP, PSE, PS CS, and would like to try your hand at creating digital art, why not start with SUMO Paint. Sumo is one of the new "Web 2.0" web based applications. It's a very close clone to Photoshop but without the built in bloat. It's being touted as the most advanced online image editing software around and it's not just for correcting "red eye". It actually has an easy-to-learn interface and Photoshop users will love the familiarity of it. Be sure your browser is up to date with Adobe Flash as SUMO is a Flash based application, meaning it will open in your browser. I have personally tested SUMO Paint in Opera v. 9.52, Internet Explorer v. 7.0, and Firefox v. 3.03 and it worked without a hitch. Nothing to download and install and it's FREE!

Sumo's features include;

• 1. Shape tools
• 2. Layers with blending modes.
• 3. Brush Tool- settings for size, opacity, scatter, random rotate, and gravity.
• 4. Ink tool-Creates realistic ink impressions with options for "ink wetness" look.
• 5. Text tool
• 6. Eraser tool
• 7. Filters
• 8. Gradient tool
• 9. Gravity for Vectors-similar to Photoshops Pen tool.
• 10. Shape Trails-Creates ghost trails for the shape given, creating an interesting and cool effect. Shape trails are available in Rectangle, Circle, Pie, Star, Round Star and Blade Star.
• 11. Custom Shape Tool-The SUMO Paint custom shape tool lets you draw your own custom shapes and fills the shape when the mouse button is released.
• 12. Symmetry tool-allows you to draw some intricate mandala-like drawings very quickly.
• 13. Transform tool
• 14. Lasso tool
• 15. Smudge tool
• 16. Blur tool
• 17. Line tool
• 18. Curve tool
• 19. Zoom tool
• 20. Selection Modify
• 21. Color Picker
• 22. Swatches
• 23. Saving Images with multiple layers
• 24. Select Pixels
• 25. SUMO paint start view
• 26. Support for Cool Iris 3D Gallery-Browser Plugin, optional.

Having not read any tutorials prior to trying SUMO, I found the import/export feature a big surprise!

If you'd like to join the SUMO community, look under File, there's a login/register option for free membership. It's another great feature for uploading your art into your own online gallery and unlike other photo apps it doesn't have hooks into social sharing sites like Flickr and Facebook.

SUMO Paint is currently in beta, but the gold release of the web-based application is expected later in the fall. SUMO Paint is being offered by Finnish-based Snap Group Ltd.
Ready to try it? Click on this link and off you go! Have fun playing with SUMO!

When you are not scrapping . . .

How do you spend your time? Other than thinking about scrapping, shopping for scrapping, or taking pictures to scrap, of course. I am a reader. I adore starting a new book on a Friday night when I can stay up late reading, then sleep a bit, then stay in bed on Saturday and read some more. Ahhhh, that is heaven for me.

Recently my ScrapStreet sisters shared a new addiction: The Twilight Books. Ok, so I know that many of you have probably read them as they were being written, but somehow we missed the initial publishing. However, we are making up for it now. We have special room with tons of threads discussing them all. Fun questions, interesting observations, and a giggle or three shared between friends.



I am last to the party and a bit scared to start. See, I am right in the middle of a heavy travel schedule for my hubby. Will have him home 4 days this month. Single mom is a MUCH harder job (huge props to all of ya out there doing it) and I am pretty sure that if I open the first book, I will not look back up until my kids are asking if it is ok to run with the scissors. But the stack of pretty books are calling my name.

If you see me here next week with a vampire kit, you will know I made it through! Anyone else want to share your opinion on the series?

Thursday Treats

So have you been into our store at ScrapStreet and helped yourself to our free kit for October?

This is it and we have been having fun with it, go check out the CAT gallery and the contest gallery HoHo Down!

So as a treat for you this week I have some matching alphas for you.. not 1 but 3!! They are all lowercase a to z with numbers 0 to 9. I shall do the uppercase and punctuation sometime this month!

I may also have another spooky treat for you later this month.......

This is the purple version and you can get it here

This is the green one (my favourite) and you can get that here

and the last one complete with Witchypoo's hat is here

I hope you enjoy them and would love to see what you do with the kits... leave a link in the comments to let me know and I may do a little something just for you!

'Not For Coffee' Filters

A few weeks ago on this blog I wrote an article about a great Plug in site, so today to follow that theme I'd like to introduce another great resource site. "Grafnet".

As of this posting Grafnet has over 4192 listings of Photoshop Filters. The author of the website uses the same photo to demonstrate the effects of each particular filter which just makes sense! In addition Grafnet makes it easy to locate and contact the designers of the filters with clickable links.

New finds for your favorite filters are listed in the upper right hand side of the website and the filter index is in alphabetical order. The author asks that if you discovers a new filter not listed on his website to please contact him. This keeps the list current and ever expanding. There's an easy Contact form on the site to do so.

Filters and plug ins are fantastic tools to integrate into your scrap booking projects. Try them on photos, papers, elements or make something from scratch. The sky's the limit when it comes to the thousands of filters available.

Let's play with pattern!

Are you a pattern collector? Always on the lookout for some fun and free patterns for your photoshop? I know that I am! Here are a few of my favorite sites. Enjoy!

FreePhotoshop | Graphicxtras Patterns
Patterns are provided by Graphicxtras. It includes series of vector shapes, brushes, patterns, textures, and gradient.


Free-Photoshop-Patterns
It provides various sets of patterns and are ready for download all at once.


Obsidian Dawn
Photoshop brushes, patterns and tutorials are available free from this site.


Have a favorite you would like to share? I would love to know about them!