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!

xoxo

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!

Click HERE or on the image to download, and leave some love if you like my work!

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

This month our Buffet is Who Village, inspired by The Grinch Who Stole Christmas! Here is what I have to show you!!

Get one, get two, heck, get them all! They’re only $1!!!

Here’s a couple of layouts to inspire you:

It’s also the $1 Bake Sale today, I have a few oldies but goodies in the sale this month!

Your little darling princesses will be getting all dressed up for Christmas, and what better kit to scrap their adorable photos than Dressup Darlings!

Next, speaking of holidays, this is last years template set that I created for your holiday layouts, Rockin’ the Layouts Vol 3 – Holiday Edition:

…and if we’re going to make it all formal and fancy, then you definitely need to pick up these elegant Embossed Frames:

and finally, if you are doing a December Daily project this year, these Journaling Prompts will be a perfect jumpstart to telling your holiday story!

Get these hot deals today!

P.S…..the winner of my blog template challenge in November is MamaCake with this gorgeous layout!

Thanks for playing and email me to receive your prize!

I have another template challenge for December, but this one is at Gingerscraps:

Head to the forums to download and play along with us!

Hope you all have a fantastic December, and I look forward to seeing your layouts in the gallery!

Did you miss the template challenge I posted? Go check it out in the post below, you could win a $5 coupon to my store!

These templates were available free to members of the Log Your Memory site as part of my Guest Designer stay during November, but now you can get them for 50% off this weekend for my BLACK FRIDAY AND CYBER MONDAY SALE!

And just because I love you and this is the start of the holiday season, here is a FREE template for you!

Click HERE or on the image to download.

Please leave some love if you like my work!

As an ADDED bonus, anyone who completes a layout with the free template by November 30th, 2011 at 9pm PST and posts it in the comments here on this post, will be entered to win a $5 coupon to my store!!!

Ok, now make sure you check out the deals in my store, you won’t see these prices again for a long time! Have a great Thanksgiving weekend for my friends in the USA and enjoy your shopping! For all my other friends around the world, just plain have a great weekend, and enjoy the shopping too!

Each piece of the Thankful collection is priced at 25% off, this weekend only, or you can pick up the bundle at a huge discount:

Save an ADDITIONAL 25% off the already discounted price, that is nearly 50% off the retail price!

Here are a few layouts from my creative team and the ladies on the Gingerscraps CT:

Aren’t they gorgeous? Thanks for looking and have a great weekend!