Meagan's new releases and FB freebie

Holy smokes, there's LOTS to tell and show you today, so get comfy!  Meagan's gone template crazy this week!  First up, we have her Project 52 Volume 2 templates.  So versatile & perfect for your multi-photo pages  As always I have the previews linked for you.

Next up is Meagan's Siggy Templates!  Have you ever wanted to have a cute forum siggy?  Do you find yourself stuck when trying to come up with one?  If you're anything like me, the answer to both is YES! I absolutely stink at making cute siggies.  Thank GOODNESS Meagan came to the rescue!   

Cute cute cute!!!  I've already made 2 siggies with these fabulous templates.  Take a peek at what Meagan's girls have done with these two packs.  And remember, they are both 20% off through Sunday!!

Told ya they were awesome!  And before I close this for the day, a HUGE THANK YOU goes out to you, Meagan's fabulous fans!  She has recently reached 5,000 fans of her Facebook page!!  And as a thank you, please head over to the Meagan's Creations Facebook page & pick up your thank you gift, this geeky chic kit, Geek Chic!

And make sure you're subscribed to the newsletter to pick up the coordinating Journal Cards!  (The link is on the right.)

 Make sure you grab this freebie quickly, it's only available for one week!  Thank you for spending time with us today!

Blossoms of my Heart Release and freebie!

It's the 21st of May and the 21st means Release Day for TNS! This time, Dawna made a lovely feminine kit in pinks and purples, with a hint of green and yellow thrown in for good measure. Did you take your mother out for Mother's Day? This kit will be perfect for scrapping those photos with.

Blossoms of My Heart is heavy on the flowers but that's what makes it such a great feminine kit. However, there are plenty of other elements too: frames, ribbons and bows, hearts, doilies, and even a butterfly scatter flitting over a glittery swirl. The 16 papers are mostly patterned, but there are 4 glitter papers in the pack for those times you want a more solid paper. There is also a super-cute alpha included with the kit! In addition, there is a co-ordinating pack of 15 Swiss Dot papers available separately.

The North Stars was so excited to work with Blossoms of My Heart. Check out the CT layouts and you will see why I wanted to play with it!

As usual, the North Stars wanted you to have a couple beautiful gifts to go along with the kit!  Visit their blogs and collect them:

poki

Karrie

Robin

Kandice

Here's my layout and freebie for you!

You can download my freebie here.

It's a Girl Thing Collection and it's free!!

Well I'm very pleased to show you what I was creating the last 6 weeks during my Designer Mentor Class at Scrap N Pieces. I had so much fun learning the correct techniques and how to properly do quality checking on my designs. There was a lot of material to go though but so worth it all. My Mentor was Brooke from Fit 2 Be Scrapped! I was on team 7 and Brooke picked this really cute palette. We all decided that a girls theme would be perfect, SO we called our mini's It's A Girl Thing! Take a look at the color scheme. Isn't adorable!!

The first week we learnt how to do papers. I think my favorite technique was doing my own brush work. My flower and butterfly paper is me using all brushes. So much fun! My paper textures and girl pattern paper is by other designer paper templates but I did put my own spin to them too! The girl template was an element template and I really want the little girl paper so I made it into pattern paper over top another paper template...so easy to do! Plus you can stretch your CU stash! I could making paper forever! Week 2 was all about creating elements. Love making elements from doodles. So easy! So fun! I also tried my hand at exacting a few elements here. I did the little pink butterfly from my daughter's craft stuff and my fabric flower. I wanted a full flower so all I did was exact a simple 8 petal flower and then layered it the lots! Put a sparkle center with button and voila I'm done. Week 3 was about exacting buttons and ribbons. Boy this was the hardest part for me. I could not take a picture of a button to save my life. I must have taken thousands of pictures, they were blurry or too shiny. It just didn't work until Wendy (Wendy Tunison Designs) suggested that I tape it to the wall and try it that way. Well wouldn't you know it I took 10 and they all looked great! I didn't have to much trouble with my scanner for my ribbon. The first scan was perfect. Another hint if you have a scanner that does 600dpi use that setting it helps. 

 

Week 4 was about making an alpha. I used a doodle alpha template. I love the chalk look these days and wanted to give it a try. My daughter likes her gel pens and I thought using that type of style on my alpha would look cute. I only did lower case alpha and some punctuation. Every thing is PNG format and I included the PNG alpha sheets too!

 Week 5 was about making word art. I love cluster word art, it's so easy to use pre made ones from the store. When I buy a kit I usually buy the bundle especially if it has clustered word arts! But I also collect the Black versions too. Here I made mine easy for you to recolor each part, plus I made just a plain version for you too!

Week 6 was about making templates. I have to say that I thought this week would have been easy but it wasn't. Every layer was quality checked and made into PNG files too! I love double templates so I look at some of my layouts. This template was from one of my layouts from This Scrapper's Got Talent Challenge that was held at Scraps N Pieces. I love templates with lots of room for pictures.

Layout was created with World Traveller a Collab by Keystone Scraps and Wendy Tunison Designs.

You can pick up my creations here in the Photoshop Class Gallery at Scraps N Pieces. My links are direct download for you. Be sure to pick up my teammates mini's too. They also would be labeled It's A Girl Thing! 

I want to thank Lori and Heide the owners of Scraps N Pieces for having such an awesome class with the organizing and providing the tutorials with examples each week made me feel confident now. When I create a kit, word art or templates that I have high standards and know how to make sure they are all quality items for me and you. I love to thank my mentor Brooke, you were so easy to talk with and get help. Loved getting your advice and showing me tips how to do things. I like to thank all the designers for providing us with coupons and free Commercial Use items for our classes. If you were wondering about digital scrapbooking and how to make your own product I HIGHLY recommend taking the next Designer Mentor Class! 

Make sure you take a look at all the teams, everyone has mini's or full kits to offer you for free. But only for 2 weeks. Go here SNP Photoshop Class Gallery!

Monthly Manic Monday @ Scrap Matters

Kari here to tell you about today's Manic Monday deal.  And to let you know that ScrapMatters has decided to change things up with the Manic Monday deals.  Now, instead of every Monday, it's going to be a once a month thing, BUT you get more products to choose from.  

Meagan has chosen some pretty awesome deals for you for an amazing HALF OFF.  As always, I have the previews linked for you.

First up, her I Scream kit.  All that ice creamy goodness can be yours for JUST $2.75.

Next up is Just Like Dad.  Love the grungy dirtiness that makes this kit!  All this dirtiness can be yours for ONLY $3.

Now, if you're like me, after seeing these fabulous kits & knowing that I just gotta have them, you need templates to go along with them!  Well, Meagan's got you covered there, too!  She's offering her Project 52: Weekly Templates up for ONLY $2.

Just love how versatile these are!  Take a look at all three of these babies in action:

Awesomeness, right?  Yeah, these girls rock!  I mentioned freebies, didn't I?  Yes, multiple!!!!!

Remember, these freebies are only available for 1 week.

Download here. Coordinates with I Scream.  

 Download here. Coordinates with Just Like Dad.

Download here. Coordinates with  Project 52: Weekly Templates

Thanks for spending time with us today and I hope you have a great week!

(cute siggy, huh?  It's coming soon!)