Sugarplum Paperie

Run to The Daily Scrapper right now and you’ll find this sweet little freebie kit featured there today! Not sure how long it will be available, so go now! Here’s a preview:

Happy scrapping!

Okay, okay… the wait is over! Paper Garden is now in the shop, and not only that—it’s on sale all weekend long. Ooo! How exciting!

Would you like to take a closer look at the kit now? I am happy to oblige! Here are the gorgeous papers:

The pretty embellishments:

And the entire Paper Garden collection:

Normally, you would save $1.00 when you purchased the whole kit, but this weekend you’ll save an additional 25% off! Be sure to pick it up a.s.a.p.—you don’t want to miss this deal!

Franziska and I also have something special just for you. Be sure to stop by her blog to see just what she has in store for you! Here are my little goodies:

Enjoy! And happy scrapping!

I have two templates to share with you today! The first is for this month’s Shanty’s Ad Challenge:

And the second is for my weekly Scraplift Conversion Challenge:

The inspiration for this week’s layout came from a paper layout made by Jessy of my Creative Team! Be sure to check it out. She rocks at both paper and digi? Now that’s not fair! Ha!

I love that so many of you are joining us at the Shanty to play! Makes me smile to see you there! I think that it’s one of the most welcoming communities there is… and it just makes me all warm and fuzzy inside to see my digi friends there. Thanks for coming over to play!

Have a great weekend! And, of course, happy scrapping!

The second set of Monograms is now in the shop! Here is Volume 2:

And you can also now get both sets together! Not only will you get all six alphabets and 12 clusters, you’ll also save $1.00 when you purchase the whole collection:

Now, I know you. You love freebies! Me, too! And let me tell you–it’s even more fun to give them out! I’ve made a little sampler for you that contains one ampersand in each of the six colors, along with two pre-shadowed clusters! Enjoy them:

And in other news, I’ve decided to leave the Sunshine Shop. I didn’t really have anything in my little section of the store anyway, just some collab kits that I’ve made with other Sunshine Girls. But I spent a huge amount of time on a million little behind the scenes things for the Sunshine Studio and it finally caught up with me—I felt like it was time for me to step down for my own sanity! It’s really hard to try to “do it all.” I don’t know why I keep trying to do it… LOL! So, when you hear that I’m not there any longer, it’s not due to any “secret drama;” It’s just that I got burnt out from working overtime. Thankfully, they have a new tech support person on staff to give them the help that they need, so that makes me feel good. I wish them the best!

So, anyway… here’s to happy scrapping! Thanks for listening and I hope you have a wonderful day!

I forgot to post about this last week, so you’re in for a double treat this week!

Here is last week’s template. I just LOVE this one. Lots of possibilities…

And here is this week’s template. Love the scalloped mat!

Just stop by the Shanty blog to pick them up! And I hope you’ll play along with us, too. I always love to see your creations!

Happy scrapping!

Hello all! Happy Wednesday to you!

There’s a new kit in the Sugarplum shop called Plumberry Teacakes:

I hope you like it! There are some really pretty two-toned papers in this kit, which are hard to show off well in a preview. Here’s a sneak peak of my favorite paper:

And I have a little freebie for you, too–something I created for this kit and then wondered if it really went with the collection after all. So, I thought I’d give it to you and let you put it to good use either way.

Word art stickers are getting quite popular, so I played around a little and came up with these:

Enjoy!

And as always, happy scrapping!

Hello to the Future! I’m writing to you from the past! What am I talking about?! Let me explain…

This is one of the reasons that I just love using WordPress! You see, I wrote this post for you yesterday morning because I wanted to let you know about lots of fun stuff, even though right now I’m currently relaxing at home without my laptop. I need some time away from the computer to reorganize my life and rethink my priorities, you know what I mean? Having my husband literally take the computer away from the house is the only way for me to get that done—Ha!

So, I’m taking a break from the computer, at least for the weekend. If you have any customer service issues with the shop, I will help you with them as soon as I am able to! I didn’t want to walk away from things without giving you a heads up.

In other news, I have some fun things to share with you today! First of all, my weekly freebie template is now available at the Shanty blog! Here’s the template:

This week I plan to give away a $5 gift card if we have more than six people play along with us. For all the details, see the thread here: Scraplift Conversion - May 23rd.

And I also wanted to let you know about a free mini kit I designed for my Squidoo lens on Digital Scrapbook Freebies! I figured, if the lens is about freebies, why not put a freebie on the lens? Brilliant! Don’t know why I didn’t think of that sooner… Ha! Here’s a preview of the kit, Vintage Garden:

Feel free to stop by the lens to download the kit–no registration required; no strings attached! It’s just a link. So, enjoy the kit! And feel free to upload any of your layouts to my Sugarplum Sunshine Gallery! I’d love to see what you create.

Until next time, happy scrapping!

Wanted to let you know that this week’s Scraplift Conversion challenge is up on the Shanty blog: Scraplift Conversion & Template #6.

Just stop by the blog to pick it up! And happy scrapping!

I made a little something for you today! It’s a trio of “word art” frames. I’m sure you talented people will come up with all sorts of creative ways to put these to use. Here’s my little attempt:

(Click for credits.)

I’ve saved these frames as .pngs and as an .abr brush set so that you can either use them as is or easily change their color (when used as a brush). (FYI: I changed the blending mode to Overlay for my layout.)

Here you are! Enjoy:

DETAILS:
Contains three word art frames
300 dpi, saved as .png and .abr files
Drop shadow for illustration only
Approx. 5 1/2 to 6 1/2 inches in diameter (shown here @ 15%)

Happy scrapping!

Happy Freebie Collab Day! Hooray! The Sunshine Girls would like to celebrate Mother’s Day with you. Mothers are incredible people—they deserve to be celebrated. So, we’d like to help you do just that!

Here is my contribution to A Mother’s Love. Enjoy!:

And you can find all the links to all the other Sunshine Girls’ blogs on the Sunshine Blog! How easy is that?

We hope you enjoy using this kit to celebrate the special people in your life. Be sure to stop by the Sunshine Gallery and share your layouts with us! There’s even a special new category, just for you: A Mother’s Love Gallery. Can’t wait to see your creations in there!

Happy scrapping!