Can you handle this?

Get ready for a load of product previews!!!

As you may already know I start my new exclusive store at SBG this week! Friday to be exact. And man have I been busy! I can show you all but one thing, I still haven't finished it but it will be ready by tomorrow night.

And I will also announce the contest winner! It was so hard to choose just one! But I have a list of 24 finalists that I will be contacting for future guest CT spots. I was blown away with the amount of entries I have had! And I hope some of you are up for a guest role sometime during 2008?

Also my gorgeous head CT boss lady Anne has been so busy and such a help to me, and now we have a newsletter! So I hope you will all sign up to get my monthly newsletter which will have new releases, sales, freebies, tutorials, layouts & more!!

Sign up HERE or click the Newsletter link above.

I also have a new blinkie to snag!

New releases for February!



















And there is even more glitter colours, glitter gel styles and more funky things to be released!!

In store Friday! HERE

Me again.......

Just a quickie!

Monica Larsen rocks yet again!! I asked for an example layout using one of her actions today and she sent it to me to trial!! This girl seriously rocks big time!! And so does her action......which reminds me I must go and actually PAY for it! LOL!! Look out for some foilage soon!

And I got this cute kit from my friend Ellie Lash! It is so cool and she does some wicked little characters! Man o man I'd love to be able to create like that. It will be available son at her NEW store! woot woot go Ellie!

And lastly! Coming soon for Valentines day! Another mega collab freebie!! Called Love Actually, it is from the same designers that bought you the Winter Wonderland collab!

Here is my part released next week!



So keep an eye out!

Worst parent ever!!!

I will get to the meaning of my title in due time!

Well it has been a fantastic response to my CT competition so far. Entries are dwindling right down now so it is getting easier to view all of the layouts. Wow we have had some awesome pages entered and man o man is it a hard job deciding!!!

A bit of a toot firstly! My local paper has started using some of my elements for their advertising features. I made some notepapers, cork board, thumbtacks, post it notes etc...for their back to school special. And today I did stuff for their future Valentines Day feature. So I am kind of published!! LOL.

Saturday we went to the beach at Queenscliff. A miserable weather day, 18C, wet, overcast, cold. So we didn't bother with any sunscreen for any of us. Lo & behold if Kaylee isn't burnt to a crisp!!! She is red as a beetroot the poor little thing and we feel like we are the worst parents ever! Even Britney would remember the sunscreen on a wet day! :( She has blisters even.

Other than that it was a fab day. It was actually quite nice in the water even though the weather was so miserable. Photos from Kaylee's first day at the beach.

Love those eyes

Just my latest layout! I have managed 2 for the year! YAY!!

Everything is from my new collab with JanaM coming soon.

CT Competition

CT CALL IS CLOSED!

WINNER ANNOUNCED FEB 1st

Mini kit will be available Feb 1st at www.scrapbookgraphics.com in the new Strawberry Delight Kit. If you buy the full kit you get the add-on mini as a bonus!



Layouts MUST be in by Midnight Jan 25th EST,
so we have time to decide a winner.

No late entries accepted.

If you only want to have a guest position then let us know when you send in your entry! We'll be looking for some guests too!

How do you like MY effort??? LOL

Wanna be on my CT?

No calls!!

You have to earn it!!

Coming soon is a layout competition. I'll give you a free mini kit, you create a layout, and my CT and myself will choose a winner. The prize is being a CT member! I will keep you posted when it is happening. Within the next few weeks. And here is a sneak peek of what you will be getting!!

I will announce the winner here and at DST. And anyone whose layouts are awesome may be offered a guest CT role for the future, if that is ok with you? I'm excited to see who enters and of course all of the gorgeous layouts everyone creates!! WOW it will be a hard call.

I have been madly designing new stuff, some is different than what I usually do so I hope everyone likes it. A new collab with JanaM, this time a boy kit. Here are a few more sneak peeks coming soon!

Other than that I have been a bore! It has been so hot here lately than all we can do is stay indoors with the air con on. 42C most days lately. This weekend we are going to the beach if it isn't too hot!!

My bad

oooo I am naughty! Here I am posting my fab CT layouts and I totally forget to announce the latest team member!!!

Please welcome Jenni AKA Sportay24 to my team. She has already done a couple of gorgeous layouts! Here they are. I feel so bad that I didn't even announce her!!

I am constantly updating the CT layouts slideshow too. Wow these girls are all so awesome! I can't post them all here or we'd fill up that page!!! So take a look left at the slide show for all the gorgeous layouts.

Don't forget there is a sale at scraphead 25% off!



Use code JN108 at the checkout (minimum order $3)

Howdy!

I'm a bit AWOL of late....but I do have good reason. You will see on Feb 1st!! hahaha. My CT girls are creating some wicked layouts! And I am busily creating some delicious goodies to release soon. A new girly kits, some frames with a twist!, more swirly, sparkly goodness, some beautiful flowers! AND another JanaM collab! for the boys this time.

Now I can only show you a snippet of what is coming to hold on to your hats!!

Kaylee is ALL better! woo hoo, kids are doing great, eating me out of house & home. We are planning a trip to the beach soon, Jason has gone back to normal shift work instead of permanent graveyard shift. So we are getting loads more good family time.

SALE AT SCRAPHEAD!

Enter code: JN108 as you check out and get 25% off (minimum order $3)

Glitter!

I have had a lot of questions about glitter recently. So it is probably easier for me to do this little info post.

My glitters are compatible with Photoshop 5+ maybe earlier but I am unsure. Photoshop Elements 3 through to 6. PSP & Photo Impact! And probably other programs too.

The photoshop versions are an ASL file. The other programs are in 8 PNG files which you use like a texture or pattern etc....

Here are the installation steps for the versions I have tested:


How to Install Custom Layer Styles

Elements 6:
C: > Documents and Settings (Vista computers: substitute Program Data for Documents and Settings) > All Users > Application Data > Adobe > Photoshop Elements > 6.0 > Locale > en_us > Photo Creations > Layer Styles.

- Linda gives some extra steps to make things a bit 'prettier' to, but getting the style file into the Layer Styles folder is all you need to do to get them installed and useable from what I am understanding.

http://www.scrappersguide.com/

http://www.scrappersguide.com/video_...yles_pse6.html

Elements 5 under Windows XP: Place the *.asl files into a folder with the same name as the *.asl file under:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Adobe\Photoshop Elements\5.0\Photo Creations\special effects\layer styles\

Elements 5 under Windows Vista: Place the *.asl files into a folder with the same name as the *.asl file under:
C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Photoshop Elements\5.0\Photo Creations\special effects\layer styles\
Elements 4 and lower: Place the *.asl files into:
Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements X\Presets\Styles where X is the version number for your version of Photoshop Elements.

For photoshop & PSE: To get the best results you should have a play with your pattern overlay settings. The % of the pattern will make a big difference to how you glitter will look. I usually use mine set at 200% and that is what the glitter is saved at. But sometimes it defaults back to 48% and I have no idea why. So if it ever looks REALLY bad just play around with the % settings. I'm not sure about elements but in PS you can double click the thumbnail in the layers palette, then adjust the % slider in the pattern overlay section.

Here is an example of difference on a 3600x3600px paper.

L_R 50% 100% 150% 200%



This colour is from the Caramel Pudding Glitter pack, available NOW!

FREEBIE

Ok I made an add on my Rough & Tumble kit. It has a different alpha, same texture but a better looking style. Also some new papers and elements. Hope you will add this to your collection!

Image is clickable
Password is Grasshopper

Thanks for all your well wishes for my little Kaylee. She has recovered well from the hives, but now has gastro! She is such a tiny girl and now this has made her seem so skinny & fragile. She is 19 months old and only weighs 19Lb/8.9kg. Which is quite small. And last time she got gastro it lasted 10 whole days, she lost a lot of weight with it and I hope it doesn't happen again. She can't be too sick though, this morning I left her asleep in my bed. When I went to check on her she was gone, had escaped out the doggy door and was playing outside!!