Something sparkly~

While working on my minikit for BAM's April color challenge, I made this little random alpha. It's not much, just pink glitter and a little white, on the Microsoft font "Curlz MT." I called it...

Girly Curly Alpha
This very girly little alpha pack contains a full upper and lower case alphabet, as well as numbers, curly brackets, and other common punctuation. Enjoy :)

Click on the preview to download!


I'm not sure when the Color Challenge blogtrain will be; probably at the end of the month again, unless everyone gets done early. I'm hoping to have at least a couple of freebies a week for you, though, so stay tuned ;)

CU Glitter anyone?

Hey guys, I have a proposal for you.

I recently figured out how to make SEAMLESS glitter textures, so I can fill an entire 12x12 paper with glitter, no funky lines. It's awesome, and it has way increased the quality of my glitters. Anyway, thus far my glitters (the few I've put up on this blog) have been personal-use freebies. I will continue to do those when I make kits, but I was wondering if there's anyone out there who would like a custom glitter set, from your own color palette, for COMMERCIAL USE, for a small donation. You could use it any way you like (except to redistribute the exact files I give you and claim them as your own) -- you could make your own kits for freebies or to sell, make your own pretty glitzy alphas, or anything you want.

The downside of this plan is that I am not affiliated with any shops, so you would have to trust me and take my word for it (and Paypal's) that I'm an honest person who will do what I say I will. Hopefully in the future I'll be able to hook up with a shop, but for now this is all I can do.

Let me know what you think. Here's my proposal:
-You make a $3 donation to my Paypal account.
-You e-mail me a color palette, up to 5 colors (or buy an additional 5 colors for $2 extra).
-I give you an estimate of the amount of time it will take (most likely 24-28 hours, unless crazy things are happening)
-When I'm done, you get the following:
*12x12 SEAMLESS glitter papers matching each of the colors you sent me
*A custom set of layer-styles to use in Photoshop, applying the glitter texture to your images and/or text.
*Permission to use these files for making your own kits, as freebies or to sell.

This is just a "feeler" post; please comment here with some feedback for me if you'd like to see some custom CU glitter! :) How do you feel about this proposal?

Speed scrap and Template 28

Yay, we had another speed scrap tonight! It was a lot of fun. I got to use a pic of Andrew that I just took today. I will probably make a 2pager with the rest of this photoshoot, though. He was being so stinkin' cute and totally playing to the camera.

I don't feel like hunting down the rules at the moment, but suffice it to say that if you wonder why I did something the way I did it (only one pic, elements clustered together, some layered between things, number of papers, etc) it's probably because it was in the rules. ;)

Credits:
main kit - Lucky Fish collab by Mel and Vicki
green ribbon (originally red) - "deja 1an" by Nini-lolo
frame - shape swiped from "Boys Will Be" by Project B Designs

So in preparation for using more of these pics, I made myself a 2-page template. It's been a while since I did one of these! I'm getting rusty!
6/11/09 - This template has been updated and now includes both the original PSD and new PNG files.

Template 28
As I said, this is a two-pager, with room for 11 pictures, and simple, thin-edged mats. Oh, and rounded corners. :) Y'all seem to like those. I hope you like this one!


Enjoy~

And one more...

I was looking through my other layouts this morning, hunting for LOs that hadn't had a template made for them yet, and came across this one. The final LO for this was awful. I picked the wrong colors, the wrong kit, it just didn't work. But the layout was decent. :) So here you go!

Template 27
This one has rounded corners, small mat/frames, and room for 6 pictures. Don't forget to read the TOU!
6/11/09 - This template has been updated and now includes both the original PSD and new PNG files.

Recipe-to-scrap LO and Template 26

I made this for BAM's second Recipe-to-Scrap. I was watching LDS General Conference at the time, hence the theme that emerged.

Credits:
-Christ picture from lds.org
-papers, most elements - "Front Porch" by Steel City Scraps
-reversed-brad fastener - "Olivia" by kafrounette
-fonts: Everett Steele's Hand, ITC Avant Garde Gothic, Scriptina, Cafe Rojo

And in case anyone would like to scraplift, I also made a template out of this! :)

Template 26
This is more of an "idea" template, with only one real spot for a picture. It was made by request. In my layout, I used the place behind the heart to place a blended picture. I would love to see what you do with this one!
6/11/09 - This template has been updated and now includes both the original PSD and new PNG files.

Template 25!

Oooh, if I had a penny for every template I've made, I'd have a whole quarter by now! *lol*

This week's challenge at BAM was to scraplift someone in the digiscrap world. I did so, but my layout uses pictures that are not my own, so I won't be posting it on this public blog. ;) However, I did make a template out of it!

Template 25
Nice and wonky, this layout has room for 6 photos. I used it for closeups on little baby parts -- toes, tiny hands, a little ear. ^_^ Anyway, I hope you like it~ enjoy!
6/11/09 - This template has been updated and now includes both the original PSD and new PNG files.

Click on the preview to download!

Gushy thankyous and a couple of templates!

Thank you all so much for the wonderful comments you have been leaving on my Ready For Sun kit. You have no idea how much they help! Nice comments = motivation to keep designing! I cannot believe the elements file has gotten over 800 downloads! O_O It's mind-boggling. I only hope I can continue to live up to that standard! You all are wonderful, thank you so much. Oh and by the way, Kaelira (another participant in the BAM-CC1 blogtrain and a very good friend of mine) has posted her addon now, too! You can grab it at her blog -- and don't forget to leave her some love! ;)

These next templates are dedicated to sirmeyer and sdwrdt, who never fail to comment on a template. ^_^ Thanks guys ;) And really all of you who come every time and download, and especially comment. You all rock.

Templates 23 and 24
These templates are nearly identical; they started out as a two-pager, actually, but didn't look quite right together. Each has room for 5 photo-strips, or you can use the spaces for papers and really focus on one or two pictures. They're kind of a photo-strip-story type deal. Very simple and clean, two strips in the back for papers if you like that sort of thing. ;) As usual, they are in PSD format with a full-size PNG included for non-PS users (though I'm not positive I'm doing that right...) -- 12"x12" and 300dpi.
6/11/09 - These templates have been updated and now include both the original PSDs and new PNG files.

Click on each preview to download!


I'm participating in BAM's color challenge for April, so keep an eye out for that. ;) I don't know if I can release much before the end of the month (I think we're doing another blog train) but if I don't, I do have another at-least-mini-sized kit in the works!