Voting has started

Voting has started in the "So...You think you can design" contest. I don't think I am going to be able to go to the forum until voting is over. It is making me have butterflies in my stomach. Please go over to the forum and vote. My user name on there is poppymom. If you like my work, please vote for me. Here is the link to the voting forum .

The promised freebie

Here is the freebie I promised you. This is a mini kit I made from my kit Yummy Yummy. You can get it at my store if you like it and want the whole thing. My store is here .

Get it here

Voting for "So..You Think you can Design" contest at Just for the Scrap of It starts on the 9th. If you haven't signed up at the forum, please do so. There are some great kits available and they all coordinate together. You can find the round 1 gallery here .

Photoshop CS3

I have Photoshop Element 5.0. I love this program. It is a great scrapping program. I can do a lot of my designs with it too. For my birthday, I got a subscription for DigiScrapDesigners . This site does not do specific designing tutorials for photoshop Elements. They are all for the full Photoshop. Some of the tutorials I could not figure out an alternative in Elements. For example, to put a selvege on a ribbon, the instructions say to go to the "stroke" feature in the layer menu. Elements doesn't give you that option. A friend of mine is letting me borrow CS2 while his computer is down.

This does have a point, I promise. I was telling my mom that I want to save the profits from my sales to get my own copy of CS2 or CS3. On Thursday, she offered to buy it for me until I told her it was $650. Yesterday, she called me and told me she was going to buy me the program I wanted. She said that my step dad had offered the money he had in savings for me to get this program. So, last night, I ordered CS3 from Adobe. I am so excited. I am going to continue using my Elements to scrap with though until I get used to the other program. I think it will be a while.

Stan (DH) and I were talking about this last night. Everything is just falling in my lap. I am meant to be a designer. I don't know that I am ever going to be rolling in dough from it, but I hope that I can eventually make enough to contribute a little to the house hold income. I don't know if I will ever go back to being a nurse. I don't know what is going to happen with my neurological problems, but I can tell you they aren't getting better. I also don't want to live on disability income. I am not that kind of a person. I am independent and I want to make my own way. I also don't want to fight for it like so many people have to. If I ever get to the point that I can't design or do anything else to bring in income, then maybe it is time for me to look into disabilty. For now, it isn't for me.

Now for some CT news. Here is a LO I did with Kim Cameron's kit Pumpkin Juice. The name is a link to the kit in the store. This kit is so cute. I love all the pumpkins in it. I wish I knew where there was a pumpkin patch around here. This kit would be great for those pumpkin patch pictures. I am going to have to google search pumpkin patches to see if there are any in the Austin area.

Here is the kit. Isn't it great?

My other CT news is sad. I got an email from Landi LeRoux telling me she was retiring from designing. I love her designs and will miss being able to CT for her. She wants to spend more time with her family. I can definitely understand that. I wish her the best of luck. She promised she was going to stay active at Snap and Scrap. I am really glad for that.

Now, I know that I promised a freebie the other day for my Yummy Yummy kit. I haven't forgotten. I have been busy trying to get my store stocked. Plus, yesterday, I finally felt better so we ran some errands. It was nice to get out of the house again. I have been cooped up for weeks. I am going to get the freebie ready today and try to put it up tomorrow. Will you forgive me?

Yummy Yummy and a freebie

I have a new kit that I just put in my store. I love bright colors and a lot of my LO will have bright colors in them. I designed this kit with the thought of making a recipe book. It is a very full kit with lots of things to make your recipe LO. It can be found in my store at Scrappers Zone. Check back later and I will have a mini kit from this kit.

For now, I do have a special treat for you. I am getting ready to put a kit in the store entitled "I Miss Summer". This kit will be perfect for scrapping all those pictures you took during your summer vacation. I made a mini kit from this kit and I have that for you today.

get it here

I hope you enjoy this kit. I would love to see any LO you do with my work. Also, if anyone has any wishes, let me know. I am still a new designer and really want to know what people want.

Alta

Alta is my grandmother's name. She is 94 years old. She was my inspiration for the first challenge in the So You Think You Can Design contest at JFTSOI. Our theme was heritage. I can't help but think of my grandmother when I think of heritage. My grandmother loves to spend time in her flower garden. She loves to talk about her flowers and take care of them. Now you know why there are flowers in my heritage kit. Check back here later as I plan to offer an add on pack for this kit. I don't want to do it until after the first round is over as I don't want anyone to think I am buying votes (against the rules, plus unethical). I would appreciate if any of you that download the kit would go to the website and vote on the 9th and 10th. You don't have to vote for me. Vote for the person you think deserves it most. There are close to 30 of us in this contest. We are all using the same theme and color palatte. That is going to be one massive kit when they are all put together. Definitely worth a look. If you go to the gallery for round 1, you can find the links to the kits that have been uploaded so far. We have until the 7th to upload them, so keep checking back for more enteries.

get it here

I announced in my last post that I was going to be a new designer at Studio Style Designs. I got notification this morning that I have been accepted as a designer at Scrappers Zone. I have gone through close to 15 rejections. Each time, I tried to improve my work and find resources to learn new techniques. I guess it has paid off. I'll be putting link to my stores up as soon as I get products in them.

Short and sweet

The design contest has started at Just For the Scrap of It. We were given our colors and our theme. The theme is heritage. The colors are beautiful. I am still working on mine, but hope to have it finished by Thursday so I can get some LO done. I am getting behind in my CT duties due to the illness I am still recovering from and the contest. I'll post here when I am done.

I have some BIG news too. I am going to be one of the new designers at Studio Style Designs. I CT for Aimee and she sells over there. She told me they were looking for designers and that I should put in an application. Vickie looked at my work and told me the same day that I was in. I am so excited. The store is down for maintainence right now, so I don't have any kits there yet. I'll let you all know when the store is open.

I am still battling a migraine, so I am going to go lay down and watch "The Biggest Loser". I hope everyone has a good day.

Scrappin' Pink LO

Here are a few LO done with my Scrappin' Pink kit. They were all done with special women in mind.


This is my LO of my MIL. She is fighting breast cancer for the second time. She is a stronge and amazing women.

This one was done my Denise at Make It Scrappy. This is a friend of hers that was diagnosed earlier this year.

This one was done by alicia+jess at Make it Scrappy. I thought it was cool the way she used the velvet paper as if it were a picture.

If any one has a LO of a special person fighting this horrible disease, I would love to see it.