So, picture these crazy people when you peruse this masculine collection!

And of course there is a multitude of add-on products from both of us!

Of course we also have these goodies bundled at a huge savings, save 60%!!

I also have a HUGE sale going on right now! I’m retiring some of my older kits and products, and they are all 70% off!!!

These items will all be gone for good after this sale, so if you have anything that catches your eye, get it now, you will not see it again!

Thanks for looking, have a great weekend!

I have a new element pack for you this month that coordinates with the Reading Room March Buffet:

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Reading is huge in my house, we’ve always read to the kids and they all love to read themselves to sleep at night. Ok, not the baby, but he is well on his way. He even “negotiates” for more books at bedtime with his new-found understanding of the phrase “one more”

This element pack is only $1 for the next few days, get it on sale! It coordinates with the rest of the fabulous March Buffet as well.

Here is the layout I created with my pack and some from the other GS designers:

I’m also hosting the March Template challenge at Gingerscraps, so head on over to the forum for this template and play along with me:

Thanks for looking, and I’ll see you in the forums!

This set of grungy splat brushes will add depth and realism to any digital design! Each splat is available in both PNG and ABR brush format so they can be used in any program. Add dimension to your personal scrapbook layouts or use them in your next digital kit. For tips on using them realistically on your pages, check out this tutorial on my blog.

Thanks for looking and I’ll see you next week with a couple more new products!

I have a brand new Valentine-themed kit for you today, inspired by the adorable picture of my daughter with our dog, Jackson, pictured in the preview:

And yes, she is sitting on him. LOL! Poor puppy, he is the most patient thing in the world. Ok, at least with our kids – with us he’s a grumpy old man and grumbles at us when we tell him to get off the couch!

I also have a set of coordinating papers:

These are part of Gingerscraps February Buffet – Smorgasbord! It has been one full year since Gingerscraps starting doing their monthly buffets, and to celebrate, the designers have gone back through the past year of color schemes and themes, and added to our collections with anything we might not have had a chance to make back then! I never got a chance to do last February’s theme with these lovely pink colors, so this was my contribution! So these two packs coordinate with everything else in the February Chocolate Kisses Buffet! Only $1 for the first five days of the month!

Also to celebrate, Gingerscraps is putting every single previous buffet on sale for $1 too!

Here are some of my previous buffet contributions, only $1 right now!

All of these, only $1 right now!

Happy scrapping and thanks for looking!

I have a new template for you this week, perfect for scrapping about the ones you love!

A uniquely crafted template with 50 pieces that compose one heart, this template will show how much your love shines through. This template is provided in PSD, PNG, TIFF and PNG formats for your scrapping convenience.

Here are some layouts from my creative team and the Gingerscraps store team:

Get it this weekend, only $1.50!

Happy scrapping and thanks for looking!

Hand drawn by me, this twisty puzzle-licious template has spots for 12 photos to show off your year in a snap! But its versatile too, my CT girls all used it for something else to show off their events at a glance. Take a look:

Available for only $1.50 this weekend!

I am pretty much off for the holidays now, I’ll “see you next year” haha! Hope you all have a wonderful holiday season!

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It is all 25% off this weekend, or you can get the bundle for a savings of 35%!

Here are a few layouts from my fabulous CT and the Gingerbread Girls:

And here is your freebie, a matching set of flair buttons! This freebie will be for one week only, so make sure to download today!

Sorry this free download link has expired.  Please check my shop to purchase this item!

xoxo

See you Friday!

I released this Who Village Stitches and Splats this week, and I thought you might like to know how to use them on your page effectively!

So first, we open a new layout and plop a paper and a splat on it:

Now, some people’s natural tendency is “ok, I have it on my page, now I apply drop shadows to EVERYTHING!”

Well now that just doesn’t look right, does it??? If you think about it, does ink or paint on a page actually throw a shadow in real life? Nope. Well, unless you use the amount of paint on your page that my 4 year old would, but I don’t usually let him scrapbook

So, you ask, what next then?? Well next, you double click the splat layer in your layers palette and bring up a Layer Style menu that looks like this:

It defaults to the first page, the Blending menu. See that tiny little triangle button that my red arrow is pointing to? That’s the key to making your paint look real on your page! Click your mouse and hold while dragging the triangle button to the right, like this:

Notice how the splat suddenly has some “holes” where the paper underneath is starting to show through? Well, it is not quite looking right yet, but we’re getting there. Here’s the tricky part; now you hold down the ALT key while clicking and dragging the LEFT HALF of the triangle back to the right, like this:

See how the halves of the triangle button separated into two? And notice our splat – the texture of the paper now shows through our splat, looking MUCH more like real paint or ink! Neat trick hey? I discovered this trick from SuzyQ Scraps, where she describes on this Daily Digi post how to use this technique for text, so that your journaling doesn’t “float” on your page. Try it next time you use anything like text or paint that shouldn’t “float” or cast shadows, you will love the effect!

Hope you enjoyed the tutorial, leave me a comment if you learned something, or if there is another subject you’d like a tutorial about!

xoxo