Backyard Playground is Here!!!! Updated :-D

I've updated my post. scroll down a bit for the update :-)

I'm in the process of spiffing up my blog. I still have lots of blinkies to re-do. I've removed the Popsicle Paradise Blog List but the links to my part are still there, just moved down aways. I needed to make room there for the new blog hop list, yes everyone 'Backyard Playground' is here!!

The ADS Designers Yahoo Group has a new Collab MEGA-Kit!! Welcome to Backyard Playground!!!
I have to admit to deserving the wet noodle from my group members! I'm running very behind on my part. You all know the issues I have regarding kit size, no matter how much I try to keep it small, it just doesn't work. Plus I now understand all the discussion I've read concerning issues with Photoshop CS3 Extended in Vista. My DD has Vista on her computer and my photoshop would not recognize a .png file. I tried a couple of times to find out why but in the end it was more fun to play with my grandkids and leave it til I was back here. I know you'll forgive me for being a little late, I do have my papers ready to go right now and I'm working on the elements previews now as well. And you know I always have special things to add-on coming over the next few days anyway, you may just end up with something really special to make it up to you :-D

Here are the papers to my part of Backyard Playground ----

Papers Part 1 - Download Here
Papers Part 2 - Download Here

Update - I have the elements for my part of Backyard Playground uploaded and ready for you now. here are the links :-) ----

Elements Part 1 - Download Here
Elements Part 2 - Download Here

I'm also in the process of changing my logo. When I started designing I was wanting something reflective of the wizard of oz/over the rainbow theme (being from Kansas, lol) and at the time the tornado graphic seemed a good idea. After the recent destruction at K-State and the horrible storm season we've been having everywhere, that tornado graphic seems very disrespectful now and it's gone for good. The weather while I was at my DD's in Kansas was mostly great. One afternoon we had a short storm blow thru that left a gorgeous double rainbow, one very bright and one very faint. My DD snapped a pic of it from a moving car on our way to the store. The pic came out great and I'm using that as a basis for my new logo to try to stick with the over the rainbow theme. Along with the change in logo, I have a change in my TOU to allow S4H. Both my logo and TOU are works in progress and look very rough right now. Please forgive me for not having them ready in time.

Here is the Blog Hop link list. We have 43 designers participating. It's time to explore the Backyard Playground ----

Becky

Beth

Brooke

Crystal(digiscrapalicious)

Crystal(s.amazed)

Dawn

Debbie

Debi

Denise

Donna

Erika

Heather

Joni

Joy

Karen

Kathy(carolinagirl)

Kathy(scraploft)

Kay

Kelly

Kim

Krisi

Lara

Leaonna

Lori

Melanie(bygodsdesign)

Melanie(scrappinasithappens)

Melanie(sweetasmel)

Michaele

Mollie

Monica

Nadine

Nancy

Nikki

Patty

Penny

Rachael

Shannon

Sheila

Stella

Sue

Tammy

Utski

Home Again

I'm back in CA. I've decided to move back to KS. If anyone knows of a cheap and easy way to move across the country please let me know, any ideas/suggestions are greatly appreciated. LOL, with gas prices they way they are today, I'm not sure there is an easy way. But, I've explored my options that I can think of but my brain feels like mush after 2 days on a greyhound bus. I really need to bite the bullet and force myself to fly. I'm terrified of that idea and suddenly the bus doesn't seem quite so bad again :-D

I'm going to be working on my blog today. This stuff with photobucket cutting off images is for the birds. I've had great suggestions left via comments on how to fix these issues and keep them from happening again. I'm going to be implementing some of those changes today, because -----

Keep your calendars open on Tues July 1!! The ADS Designers July Blog Hop is coming. I know you are all going to enjoy "Backyard Playground." We have the greatest group full of wonderful designers of all experience levels. We have so much fun sharing all the cu freebies we can find, great tuts, and if one of us needs help for any reason, we're all there to do what we can!! Our monthly collabs are so much fun I can hardly remember now what it was like to be learning all this on my own. Once again I'm warning everyone to clear out a nice chunk of hard drive space! I'm constantly fighting a losing battle for my hard drive space, I fill it up faster than I can empty it onto dvds. I understand now why I see so much discussion about the best 500 gig and up EHD's, lol. I have a couple hours of burning to do myself to get ready. Backyard Playground has almost twice as many contributers as Popsicle Paradise, our group has grown :-D

I'm off to spiff up the blog :-D

A quick post and a note for Chiara :-)

I'm still at my daughter's in KS, I'll be back in CA this Saturday. Everyone keep July 1st open and clear out some more hard drive space, lol, you're going to need even more!! :-D We ADS Designers are doing it again, an even bigger blog hop. Keep watch for "Backyard Playground" you're going to love it just as much as Popsicle Paradise!!

I have a quick note to Chiara --

We would love to have you in our ADS group! Here is a link to the group page at yahoo http://groups.yahoo.com/group/adsdesigners/

We're happy to help in any way we can!! You can reach me by email at aerynx@gmail.com :-)

Sorry about the images

According to Photobucket.com I've exceeded the allowed monthly bandwidth for a free acct. I'm so sorry all my previews , layouts, and other images have been replaced with that annoying photobucket icon. While I find it very annoying to have all my images disappear, it's also a really good thing because that means lots of you have found my blog :-) This is another first for me so I'm not quite sure yet what I need to do. I'm thinking a photobucket pro account may be in my future. In the meantime I'm so sorry and I'm working on fixing this as soon as possible :-)

Welcome back to Popsicle Paradise :-)

I have my last add-on for Popsicle Paradise to share today. I'm a little sad it's the last, This has been a great week, My download counts are over 1000, I never expected that. It's totally cool!! And Thank You so much for all the wonderful comments, I read each and every one, I get lots of warm fuzzies reading them. Everyone's Popsicle Paradise links will be active at least for the month of June, mine will stay active as long as I have space at 4-shared and I know several others plan to keep their's active too. I have my download links and the blog hop links list in my sidebar towards the top so they don't get lost as the original posts move down the page. They will remain there for the rest of June. I decided to make this final add-on a grab bag style surprise. There is an alpha, a few papers and elements that didn't make it into the main kit and a few little surprises made with cu items I didn't have then. Here is my final part of Popsicle Paradise ---

Download Here

I have a new kit ready but for the previews, I'll be working on those this weekend, I hope you've had great fun in Popsicle Paradise and have a great weekend ;-)

More Popsicle Paradise, the 3rd CU freebie

I have my 3rd CU add-on for Popsicle Paradise today. I found a couple of good tuts on making felt. I used what I learned to make the flowers in my part of Popsicle Paradise. Today I have a layer style/pattern/png fills of those felts in popsicle paradise colors of course :-)

Part 1 - Download Here
Part 2 - Download Here

Make sure you check back tomorrow, I have one more Popsicle Paradise freebie :-)

More Popsicle Paradise, CU Freebies :-)

WOW!!! You all are the best!!!! At less than 48 hrs of posting, I've had almost 800 downloads on my part of Popsicle Paradise!! Thank you all so much for the wonderful comments both here on the blog and at 4-shared. Every time I read them I get warm fuzzies :-D I would like to say a special thank you to everyone that left condolences on the deaths on my mother in Feb and my close friend, ex-hubby George last week. All my previous records for download count and comments have been broken, a couple times now, lol.

Are you ready for some more Popsicle Paradise??? I have 4 more things coming to go with my part. 3 of these are CU Ok and you get 2 of them today :-D

First is the overlay I made to make my popsicle papers. This the first overlay I've done that came out the way I wanted and that I liked. I'm kinda proud of it so I want to share it with all of you :-)

Download Here

A couple of weeks or so ago we were discussing and doing tuts in our ads designers group on how to make seamless tiles. These had me making LOTS of different tiles. Along the way I made seamless glitters for every kit I had at least a color scheme for along with every kit I had in the works. After those I started making glitters for my kits that were already finished. I made glitters for the Popsicle Paradise color scheme even tho I was finished with my part. I would like to share these glitters with you. There is a layer style with a bevel & a pattern that's flat for photoshop along with png fills for psp users ---

Download Here

As Always, when sharing, please send your friends here to my blog. Please support the fight against digital piracy!

Keep checking back, There's 1 more CU freebie and a surprise add-ons pack still to come. Have fun in Popsicle Paradise :-D

Happy June 1! Welcome to Popsicle Paradise :-D

Happy June 1!! The MEGA-kit collab Popsicle Paradise from the ADS Designers Yahoo Group is here. Clear a good chunk of hard drive space and have fun ---

First I have a layout to show you. Heather of HS Designs has made quickpages from all or most of our kits. This layout was done with Heather's beautiful quickpage made with my part of Popsicle Paradise ---

My grandkids Abbi and Cole truly in Popsicle Paradise :-)

At the end of this blog hop you will have parts to Popsicle Paradise by 23 designers of the ADS Designers Yahoo Group. This is my first chance to participate in a blog hop, I'm very proud this is my first. I would like to say a big Thank You to Anne of Creative Dreams for organizing this incredible thing, Please trust me when I tell you, you won't be disappointed. It was an amazing thing to watch come together. As most of you already know, I just don't know how to make a small kit, so here is my part of Popsicle Paradise ---

Elements Part 1 - Download Here
Elements Part 2 - Download Here

Papers Part 1 - Download Here
Papers Part 2 - Download Here

I also have the quickpage from above as a cool goodie add-on - Download Here

From here you go on to Angie, and 21 more ADS Designers. Have fun on the hop!! :-D

Angie - http://angiesasylum.blogspot.com/
Anne - http://creative-dreams.net/
Brittney - http://brittneycreations.blogspot.com
Catt - http://cattscrapps.blogspot.com/
Chantal - http://www.chantalmiller.co.za
Crystal - http://amazedscrapper.blogspot.com/
Crystal – http://digiscrapalicious.blogspot.com/
Dawn - http://bearlyscrapping.blogspot.com/
Donna - http://mamadukez-creationz.blogspot.com
Faye - http://www.angelfayescorner.blogspot.com
Heather - http://www.dylanstokes.blogspot.com
Joni - http://fenncreations.blogspot.com/
Leaonna - http://busyscrappin.blogspot.com/
Melanie - http://blog.bygodsdesign.biz
Monica - http://randominspirationsbymonica.blogspot.com
Nancy - http://catstation.net/scrappycats/blog/
Nikki - http://justpassinthru.wordpress.com
Patty - http://secondhandangel.wordpress.com
Penny - http://www.alliekatcreations.blogspot.com
Sheila - http://http://abyscraps.wordpress.com/
Tammy - http://mommyofjayden.blogspot.com/
Xandra - http://xandra-a84martin.blogspot.com