Closing Time...

It's with a heavy heart that I announce that I will be closing my store doors at DeviantScrap on 31 October.  Life has been kicking my butt these lst few months, with everything out of balance.  

So.  Everything is on sale, grab a bargain before they're gone for good!

Thank you, all, for your support!

One Dollar Alpha Sale!

On sale now, the following alphas are all $1, including my Monograms in Pink.

Grab them from my store, here!

New In Store - Absinthe Mini Kit (PU)

You can find the new kit here!  :)

Have a great rest of your weekend, and a wonderful week to come!

Everyone Loves a Sale...

... so I'm just giving you a head's up that there is going to be a fabulous celebratory sale for DeviantScrap's THIRD birthday!!

Oh, and speaking of DeviantScrap, Hollie and her hubby, Nic, are busily revamping and glamming the store!  Can't WAIT for the new look - it's GORGEOUS!

I'm also trying to kickstart my Altered Emporium page on Facebook, so if'n you're a Facebook-er, feel free to like me there:  Altered Emporium

See you at the end of the month with my sale ad!!

WOOOT! I got published!

I know, it was a surprise to me, too.  :)

Hollie Haradon, our fearless leader at DeviantScrap.com, wrote a fabulous article about DS and our collaborative efforts for Midnight Reverie - can't wait to see it!  I knew that was happening, but didn't realise that I'd be named, or that I'd receive my own copy of the publication.  It hasn't arrived yet - drat you, Australia Post - and I can hardly wait!

I will link you up when it finally arrives!!

almost Happy New Year and a freebie!

It's almost New Year, and I wanted to make a printable calendar:

I'm going through a rounded-corner phase, and I just like the simplicity of printing on 4x6" photo paper (I love to use matte photo paper for that kind of printing) so that I can print what I want and when I want.

I have a very hard time sticking to colour schemes, so having a calendar that you can tart up (or not) works for me.  :)

So, however you celebrate it, have a wonderful New Year (when it arrives)!  :)

It's beginning to look a lot like...

Christmas!

I try and fail with albums and they're expensive to import from the states... I just bought a Sn@p album and inserts and bits and pieces (over $100!!) and got it home and went... yeah, I don't know how I'll go with the odd sizes.

So I thought, well, I really love the style/concept of Cathy Zielske's 30 Days of Thankful album but don't have access to a 6x6 binder or anything that would be useful.  I ummed and aaahed about the whole shebang - I wanted to do a Days Til Christmas album for Tayli but wanted a super simple way to do it.  Then suddenly it's the evening of 1 December (yesterday) and I thought "Crap, if I don't do this now, I'll have lost the first day!".  So, I made up a 6wx4h template up to use, and snuck upstairs to take a photo of Tayli sleeping.

Once I made the template and set the whole album up (this is one of THE most fantastic things about scrapping with Lumapix Fotofusion - you can create a whole album in ONE document!!!) I went through everything in my stash to make the colour scheme.  I have a loooooooot of stuff, but I couldn't find anything that I loved until I went through some of the more recent bits and pieces I bought from The Lilypad in conjunction with my CT kits (Kate Hadfield & Michelle Godin)...

Finally settled on Pink Reptile Designs' Dear Santa papers, Kate Hadfield's December Doodads, Michelle Godin's Snarky Snippets: Christmas, and Valorie Wibbens Pocket Stuffers No.2.  Fonts are Buciebol Huomenna and Scrap Brother.  This, of course, may all change - I have difficulty sticking to an album-long colour scheme!!  ROFL. 

Now you're probably thinking, hey, she's a designer - why the heck didn't she use her own stuff?  Well... that would be because by the time I made something it would be a couple of days in to December and by that stage I would have lost the will to live and the album would never happen.  Besides, I'm a HUUUUUGE fan of tartan, and Pink Reptile Designs' Dear Santa papers have the coolest tartan paper I've seen in a while.  It didn't hurt that she also had a cute word search paper.

Anyway, I'm going pull all of it together and print it at home on Christmas Eve.  That way I can have it ready for Tayli on Christmas morning... okay, that's the theory so far!

I have released a brand new art journal mini kit in store - called, oddly enough, Art Journal Mini and is on sale for $1.50.

I'm the host of the December art journal challenge/chats at Deviant Scrap.  You can find my prompt here - you are welcome to join in!