Rooting for Stacey

Over at, "Nicoal Goes Digi Scrapping" Stacey is previewing her contest entry for the Growing in Grace Magazine for Ladies and I gotta say, she's outdone herself in this kit. The kit she's submitting for the contest, "There is a Season" was inspired by an Ecclesiastes verse.

The color scheme that Stacey chose are cozy and reflective of the Fall season and her elements and papers meld so perfectly. I just LOVE how she created this lovely Digital Scrapping kit, and guess what? It will also be in her stores for sale to the general public later tonight! And and and!!....a freebie from the kit!!

Hop over to Stacey's blog and read where you can buy this absolutely lovely kit and please be sure to wish her Good Luck in the contest. You have to admire her attitude when she says, "I may not win this contest, but I truly did enjoy the process of completing this kit".

Freebie Flower Photograph

This is a bloom from our Rose of Sharon tri-color bush. It was taken with a Nikon D40x in high resolution. The size is 3872x2592. If you'd like to have it you can download it here. I love how the blossom seems to be floating with the light from behind it. No filters OR Photoshop voodoo has been used on this photograph.

Some ideas would be to extract it for Digital Scrapping or maybe as your Desktop background. I have no restrictions on the use of this photo because beautiful things in Nature do not have any limitations such as TOU's. Please freely enjoy it.

Wasting Time

Dora posted this link to Wordle over on the Scrap Street Blog and I've played with it for 1/2 hour today! Here's my little word cloud that pertains to the Digital Scrap community. Now go play and have fun!

Get Street Smart!

Over at the Scrap Street Blog, there's some very interesting tips, tutorials, and all around fun information going on. Go have a look and if you have a moment, post a little comment.

Freebie Toy Chest Brushes for Photoshop

You will find this set of Toy Chest brushes exclusively at the Busy Scrappin' store for free download. In the zip file, you'll find an .abr file and 10 .png image files for all our DIP friends.
These are smaller than Digital Scrap size and would be perfect for making your background patterns and stickers.
They are CU and Scrap For Hire friendly.

Street Smart Tip

My store mate over at Scrap Street.. Sue Wood has put up a great tutorial on how to get rid of stray pixels. Whether you're an accomplished designer or a novice, you'll find this tutorial very comprehensive. Scrap Street Designer Group Blog.

DSO Extended it's Sale !

Wheeeeeeeee!! Kim has extended the sale at DSO to July 13th!
Go over and stock up on this extraordinary opportunity at DSO.

Big Sale and a Plug for Kim B

Ya better hurry cos time's a wastin'. Get over to DSO because those lovely and talented ladies are having a 50% OFF sale from July 10th-12th.


While you're over there be sure and check out Kim B's latest kit, "Softly Sweet". It is an all-around MUST HAVE and I'm not kidding. It's so impeccably designed that it makes me wanna slap my Momma. In Kim's designs, you can always see the time and detail she puts into each and every element and paper, which keeps me coming back for more from this most talented Designer!

New Brushes

Over at Busy Scrappin I've put up my newest Photoshop Brushset. In this set you get 6 brushes ideal for making your own background patterns for your scrapping pages or you can apply styles and use them as embellishments. Made in Photoshop CS3. PNG's files included. Ranging in size from 1470 to 2249.
CU and Scrap For Hire okay.

New Kit "Birthday Odyssey"

This kit is gender friendly for either male or female. You'll find a wide variety of elements (20) with a coordinating set of papers (10) to make any Birthday Lay-Out special and spectacular.

Kit includes;
10 coordinating papers, 4 Solid and 6 Patterned, 5 Brads, 2 Pointing Arrows for Journaling, 1 Landscape Doodle Frame, 1 Portrait Doodle Frame, 1 Droopy Hand Colored Flower , 1 Doodle Flower Stem, 1 Doodled Hand Colored Stemmed Flower, 1 Birthday Cake w/Candles, 1 Pert and Patterned Bow Tie, 1 Balloon Bouquet, 1 Patterned Knotted Ribbon, 1 Birthday Hat, 1 Tilted Hand Colored Flower, 2 Labels with Birthday Related Quotes, and 1 Wire "Happy Birthday" Word Art.
This kit is ready for quality printing in 300 ppi and is 12"x12".

You can get the whole enchilada at www.Scrap Street
or
Get which parts you'd like at Busy Scrappin'

This is a LO created by Lindsey at ScrapStreet.

Brillante Weblog Premio 2008

I have received this wonderful award twice! One from my friend Linda and the other from Dnadryad. But due to the fact I'm a bit pressed for time, I'm going to just list my 7 links instead of 14! lol
The rules of the award are:

1. The winner can put the logo on her blog.
2. Link the person you received your award from.
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
4. Put links of those blogs on yours.
5. Leave a message on the blogs of the girls you've nominated

My lovely winners are;
Kizgold
Val J
Stacey
Leaonna
Cindyrelly
Norene
Kimberly

HB to the USA today

My ears are buzzing and my nose is stuffed up with sulfer and the dog is having a nervous breakdown! Until next year, I hope everyone had a great 4th of July.

Freebie Backyard Playground New Links

Sorry this one is gone.