My favorite season

Halloween is just around the corner! Check out my latest kit, Trick or Treat, now available at Scraphead.

This one has dozens of cute characters and word art, like my candy corn couple and wacky purple bat. Plus a bonus alpha! It coordinates perfectly with my kits, Fright Night and Haunted House, also available here in my store.

Congrats to my little brother!

The more I use Photoshop, the more cool things I discover it can do.

Last weekend my brother got married, and I've been playing around with his wedding photos, adding texture, filters, borders, color, etc. I'm encouraged by the results and think I may do more with photography.

But first I need a really good digital SLR ("need," ha ha...)

I have an old 35mm Leica which is, by far, the best camera I've ever used, but it's a film camera... Besides the cost and hassle of film, living way out here in the outer 'burbs as we do, there isn't a good pro camera shop to do the film developing and processing.

At the wedding, I used my brother's Canon (?), which I totally covet now. My Casio Exilim point and shoot is good, and does a decent job, but wow, what a difference between the quality of the photos my camera takes versus his camera!

Since we got back home after the wedding, I've been working on -- of course -- a wedding themed kit, called "Josephine". It's very nearly done, so I'll be posting it to my store in the coming days... stay tuned!

Here's a page done with the kit:

A whole month of freebies!

Even though I've been designing digi kits for a year, I'm still new to the digital scrapbooking world and am constantly discovering things where I'll think, why in the world didn't I know about that sooner??

Like the Daily Download at Scraphead: it's basically a whole kit you can download for free, made by several fantastic designers, with the same theme. It's available in the forums at Scraphead.

Every month we put together a new one for you. This August, the theme is Sea, Sand & Surf, and I'm excited to be participating! (Here are a couple samples of my contribution.) So come on by, sign up and join in the fun!

Seriously? July already?

Every time I think, write, or say that, I feel like my parents. It means two things: They were right about time speeding up the older one gets, and I must be getting old, 'cause time sure is flying by.

I have two new kits in my store so far this month: Stars & Stripes, with a vintage political campaign / patriotic / ephemera feel; and Summer Fun: bright colors to celebrate the hot days of summer.

Buy them here:

Stars & Stripes
Summer Fun

Love Letters

I absolutely love this kit, but then I'm a sucker for all things shabby chic (or Victorian -- they're similar in style). Though you would never know it, to see the interior of my house... white walls, toys on every flat surface...

The kit includes a 12x12 pre-designed QP (see preview above) that I like so much, I am currently using as my desktop wallpaper. :)

(Click here to buy my kit, Love Letters, at Scraphead.)

Working on this kit reminded me of antique shops around the region where I grew up, full of boxes and boxes of really old letters, postcards and family photos. It seems sad to see such personal and once-loved things being sold in such an impersonal way.

When I was in college, my mom used to send me old Victorian era portrait photos that she thought were particularly interesting. She said I could hang them on my walls as "instant ancestors"... if their real relatives couldn't enjoy the pictures, at least I could.

Memorial Day Sale!

Actually the entire store at Scraphead is on sale -- 35% off everything!! Digital kits, Photoshop actions, templates, etc. Lots of great stuff. The sale is this weekend only... check it out!

New kit & freebie quickpage!

As my older daughter gets well into the terrible twos, it's taking more and more energy out of me in order to keep up with her! As a result, after a day with her and our 6 month old, I am just worn out by the time my husband gets home from work.

The two hours or so a day I have to do my "real" (that is, paid) work, are just not enough time... so the end result is that new kits take FOREVER to create. I'm designing them all from scratch, and rarely reuse elements from one kit to another.

Sometimes I create everything digitally, but more often I combine real (scanned) textures and things with Photoshop work. You can imagine the temptation my scanner, digital camera, and a boxful of ribbons and trims would be to a 2-1/2 year old! I have to be sneaky about it and make sure I clean up before she gets a hold of things.

Anyway I have a new kit, Pat-a-Cake, inspired by vintage childhood ephemera from the early 20th century... purchase it here! Here's a freebie quickpage I made from elements from my kit -- download it here.