Do you ever have days where you really and truly got a ton of work done, only it doesn't look like it? I had one of those days yesterday.

I completed a digital kit. I homeschooled my kids. I did our 2007 taxes. I made my Dad a birthday card. I did laundry. I cleaned the living room. I cleaned off my desk.

All of that in addition to the regular occuring housework. And yet....you could walk into the house and wonder what I had done all day.

Truthfully, the taxes consumed most of the day. But I am glad that they are done!

And thankfully, SSCB has learned not to ask me what I did all day anymore. That only had to blow up in his face a couple of times before he quit asking.

On the digital kit front - I am working a boy kit. I wanted something different for JB. While I can still happily use the baby blue baby kits that I have so many of, I felt like I wanted to have some stuff that wasn't babyish....more toddler-like, or even little boyish (I'll tackle teenager when that gets a little closer...).

So, out come the deep blues and greens. I like it a lot. I can't wait to hear what you guys think!!

Spruce Elements

Here are the elements for the Spruce Collection. Enjoy!!

Spruce....Peaceful

This kit reminds me of the outdoors. Springtime woods. How Bella described her home in Forks in the book "Twilight," by Stephanie Meyer. My Mom got me hooked on the story of Edward and Bella. It's going to be a movie. "Cedric Diggory" form Harry Potter will be Edward. I think it's perfect. Thanks Mom. I have lost a lot of sleep over "New Moon" and "Eclipse," the second and third books in the series. I am anxiously awaiting the movie (release date? I don't even think they have started filming...) and the fourth book "Breaking Dawn" (releasing August 2, 2008). And I have decided that I never want to go to Washington state, because vampires and werewolves and Sasquatch live there.

Just kidding. Love to my Washington homies...

But I digress. Here's the papers. They're 12x12, 300 dpi. The elements will be posted tomorrow. Unless I am too tired from being up all night reading "Eclipse." Or sleepless because I finished it. I hate finishing a good book. It leaves me feeling....empty. Until I start the next one anyway...

The paper file is huge...sorry. I need to play around and see how to conserve file size somehow...

More Chocolate Cherries!

Here's the elements to match yesterday's paper! Bon appetit!

Chocolate Cherries

Another freebie kit for you! Chocolate Cherries has 8 papers. Yummy! I designed it with Valentine's Day in mind, but I think you could use them for just about anything. Especially chocolate layouts. Or am I the only one that has those? :)

Some Digital Musings and a FREEBIE!

Today's freebie is the element pack to go with the papers from yesterday. You'll find them down-post!

About the elements? It seems like there should be more of them considering the amount of time they took to make! Oh my! It's a pretty steep learning curve! But, it was so much FUN! I am shocked at how much I enjoyed making all of this stuff. The hardest part for me is picking colors, you know? Oh, and names. My hat is off to all you "real" designers out there. You make this stuff look easy! Oh, and thanks to my Scrapshare focus group for putting up with all of my "does this look like glitter?" posts yesterday!

I am learning so much by doing this. Just yesterday I learned:

• There are a thousand ways to do digital glitter wrong. :)
• All about Photoshop Styles
• How to create a style
• The true importance of layers.
• and it's easy to make cartoony elements, much harder to make realistic ones!

So there you have it. And now for the freebie.

I remembered to do the elements in 300 dpi. They do not have drop shadows in the PNG files, only in my JPEG.

My apologies again about the papers being 200 dpi. I noticed that I had to size up to even use them as 8x8. I was bummed. But, hey, learn something new every day, right??

Click the picture to download!

Expanding Digital Horizons

I have expanded my digital horizons, people. It's something that I have wanted to do for some time, but lacked the willpower to sit down and do it. Let's not talk about lacking the time, cause I lack that too, but doesn't everybody?

I designed my first ever set of digital scrapbook papers! Hee-hee. I am giddy.

Of course they are a freebie. It was fun. I plan on making more! Yay!

What encouraged me along? Only a challenge at my fave scrapbooking "chat board." (wink, wink - nudge, nudge) Scrapshare. Thanks Tracy!

Anyway, here are the papers. I boo-booed a little and only made them 200 dpi. It shouldn't be too bad for anyone that wants to size up. They are also 8x8 paper, cause that's what I scrap in 8x8. It rocks. If you really would prefer 12x12 let me know. If I get enough feedback to that end I can upsize, but don't want to do that just yet. I mean for now, I am designing for me, you know?



Clicky the picture to download!