New Freebie in the Store :-)

I have a new product I just added to my store at Busy Scrappin' and a freebie to go along with it. I came up with some really nice Rose & Vine Borders. They came out so nice I just had to put them in the store but I have a small paperpack made with the borders for your freebie ---

This download link will take you to the store at Busy Scrappin'. Just scroll down to the freebie section towards the bottom of the page. Just click on the preview to download, no registration needed --- Download Here

Are you all checking Strictly Reveal everyday?? If you're not, you should be. I have loads of freebies in the Mixed Bags at Strictly Reveal. We also have several contributing designers making new stuff just for Strictly Reveal. Remember, with every grab bag revealed, we have a freebie mixed bag to go along with it at the end of the post. These freebies will expire, so make sure you grab them quick. The first week's freebies will be expired soon, You want to make sure you grab our special gift provided by Sweetmade, this special freebie is only available for a very short time after which it will go into her store at Ashalee & Sweet. We also have a fan blinkie promotion. Make sure you grab a Strictly Reveal fan blinkie and put it on your blogs and in all your sigs. We have some RAK's and 1 really special $5 gift certificate RAK to that store I just mentioned :-) I'm keeping a list of everyone and every blog I see that has our fan Blinkie, we may choose you for one of those RAK's :-D We are changing servers today so if things aren't working quite the way they should yet, please check back later or tomorrow :-)

Celebration Freebie & Links Fixed Updated :-)

All links are fixed back thru late May. I'm not sure why you had download problems, it downloaded fine for me but that doesn't necessarily mean much, 4shared has been know to act wierd on a regular basis. If you have download issues again, try waiting a few hours or try again the next day, Chances are when you try back it will work fine. Please continue to let me know if the download issues continue. Good customer service is important to me, If it becomes necessary, I will find a different file host.

Have you all checked out Strictly Reveal today?? We are up to 24 reveals! What this means for you is 24 FREEBIES!! There are both personal use/scrap4hire and universal personal use/scrap4hire/designer resource/commercial use mixed bags. I don't have the numbers in front of me but there are more DR/CU bags than PU/S4H only bags. This is one site you should have on your daily's list. So far, we have posted new bags every day! We also have new designers coming onboard to help provide some really cool freebies for you all. I'll let you all in on a little secret, all my parts in our PU/S4H bags coordinate, Once you've collected all the parts, you'll have a nice mega-kit. Once I have this first kit just for Strictly Reveal finished, I'll change the colors and theme and start a new one :-) If you make sure you check digiscrapdepot on a regular basis, you'll never miss a bag. I always post there first when a new bag is available, The info on the grab bags available is invaluable! You never know when you'll spot that next 'gotta have it' item :-D


I have a freebie to Celebrate my first kit "Bright & Dark" at Busy Scrappin' I have 2 4x6 Brag Book pages for you. Just click the preview, that will take you to the store. Scroll down to the Freebies section and click the preview again to download :-)

A Quick Note to Lianne

Hi Lianne, thank you so much for letting me know you found broken links. I'm going to check all my links now and make sure they are right. I'll post again when I have everything repaired :-)

2 Big Annoucements!!! :-D

I have 2 big annoucements today --

1 - Leonna of Busy Scrappin' has accepted my app to her store. I'm so excited!! This is all coming together right now so I'll have another more lengthy post to tell you all about it.

2 - Have you all visited the new Strictly Reveal grab bag reveal blog?? If you haven't you need to head over from here! My friend Melanie of ByGod'sDesign has started this new blog. I myself am a total grab bag junkie! After all, most of the time, they are the best deal in scrapping supplies. Usually new products and 3 or more full sets, They come from a variety of designers & stores available from $2 and up, The only drawback to a grab bag is not knowing what the products it contains actually are. For me and lots of others that's part of the appeal, but there are just as many of us out there that want to know what they are getting before they part with those hard earned $$. This is what we do at Strictly Reveal. We give grab bag reveals with the designer and store's support. We are completely different from other reveal blogs. We are all reveals. freebies and no drama! Oh yes, DId I mention the FREEBIES! I am the new freebie mixed bag coordinator for Strictly Reveal. At the end of each reveal post there is a goodie bag waiting for you, Melanie calls these your "Parting Gifts". I'm working with Melanie on keeping plenty of our mini mixed grab bag freebies available, We already have several designers donating items for our mixed bags. This is a call to any and all designers who would like to provide a supporting hand and get some extra blog exposure as well, I always have odds and ends that don't make it into the final kit. Why not think about donating those odds and ends to Strictly Reveal! We have a cool "I'm in the Bag" blinkie (see my sidebar) for all donating designers, we also have a couple of fan blinkies for everyone. We'll have a link back to your blog in our Strictly Reveal Sidebar. All items accepted, Personal Use, Scrap4Hire, Commercial Use, Designer Resource. When the grab bag revealed is PU/S4H, the mixed bag freebie items will be PU/S4H. When the grab bag revealed is DR/CU the mixed bag freebie is DR/CU. Any one interested can leave a comment here or drop me an email at aerynx@gmail.com

New Page Kit & CU Freebie - Updated :-)

I have a new kit to share tonight. I'm calling this one a Page Kit as it's very small for me, 6 papers, 14 elements, & a quickpage . This one came together very quickly too, I started it this afternoon and tonight it's ready for you. A few days ago Pillowgirl had the daily download at My Scrap Shop. It was a very pretty CU mini kit with the nicest Once Upon A Time overlays. As soon as I saw the kit I knew the pics I had to go with it. More pics of my granddaughter playing dress-up, this time with an old princess halloween costume, Between the pics and cu items I was inspired and this is what came out of it. Here is a layout of my granddaughter, Princess Abbi ---

This is the first kit I've made that I've chosen the colors from the pics I wanted to scrap. It's very pink and very girly. Here is my Princess Page Kit---

Download Here Link Fixed, again, lol :-)

My previews are so bad, I'm horrible at making them, I promise the kit looks much better than the preview shows :-)

Update - You all know I always make glitters for my kits, even when I'm only using 2 colors, I have my glitters for Princess Page Kit ready for you. There is a photoshop style & pattern plus png fills. Commercial Use Ok :-D

Download Here

New Layout & Peek at New Kit

Today is my granddaughter's 5th birthday. I know everyone says this but it really doesn't seem she should be 5 already. She is a normal 5 year old girl and playing dress-up is one of her favorite things. While I was there visiting last month my DD & I picked out the cutest ballet dress, I'm not sure what the correct term would be, and matching fluffy high-heeled shoes. The shoes from the toy dept of course but we found nicer outfits in the children's dept for cheaper than those in the toy dept so we just got the dress a couple sizes too big so she can play with it for awhile and not grow out of it so soon, After Abbi opened her presents my DD sent me some really cute pics of Abbi modeling her new outfit. Extractions have been a hard thing for me, especially since making the switch from photoshop elements 5 to photoshop cs2. I really missed the magic extractor included with pse. It works so much easier than the regular extractor included with ps cs2. I have a little tip to share. I always back up my plugins folders so even tho I don't have pse installed on my computer right now I did have the plugins folder backed up, I went into the preferences of ps cs2 to the tab where you can point the program to an additional plugins folder, and pointed it to the backup. I now have pse's magic extractor available to me in ps cs2's filter menu and it works great! I have a mostly finished layout to share, I'm so happy with how the extraction came out, I need to show it off ---


This is brag book size, my fav layout size, For this layout I used a template from the CU Micro Templates set by Paula Yagisawa. You're getting a peek at my new kit, my first to go into my new paypal store front widget. It's called Summer Glitter & Grunge. Look for it to go live in the next day or so. I'll post previews, etc when I have it all ready to go :-)

Backyard Playground CU Freebies :-)

I hope everyone is having a great holiday weekend. Also I hope you're ready for more backyard playground. I have 2 CU freebies for you today. I have the glitters and felts I made for use in my part of backyard playground to share. Both are a ps style & png fills for other apps. I do have a question for all of you. I need your input concerning my photoshop styles & patterns. My personal preference, which tends to spill over into my designs, is to keep a pattern file of the original glitters/felts & to make my styles with my preferred bevel/emboss, etc settings. The issue I'm concerned about is that my preferences tend to make the styles file size on the large side, sometimes the huge side, lol. I've been researching this a bit to see what the industry standard is, but it didn't really help, I saw styles made in both ways. So, after all you are the ones using them, I've decided to ask you what you want. I'm going to try to set up my very first poll. In the meantime please leave in comments how you like your ps styles :-) Today's glitters and felts are an untouched flat style. I also would like to know if you want the pattern file too with an untouched style. They would be basically identical except for the ps file type. If anyone wants the pattern files to today's downloads, just drop a note in comments and I'll upload it for you :-) ---

Download Here

PS Style - Download Here

PNG Fills - Download Here

Keep checking back, I have one final part of Backyard Playground to share with you :-)

Happy 4th CU Freebie :-)

Happy July 4th!! I have a little treat to share to celebrate the day :-)
Last night I was working on another layered border and I got the idea to make it into a special July 4th CU freebie ---

Download Here

I hope you all have a safe and happy 4th!! Make sure you check back tomorrow for more CU glitters :-)

It's CU Freebie Time!! :-D

I mentioned in my first Backyard Playground post that I wanted to come up with something special to share with you to make up for being late with some of my links. I was playing with some new ps resource stuff last night and came up with a new layered border. It has a texture and in 3 layers for easy color customization. There is a psd file for ps users and png's for use with other apps. Best yet it is Commercial Use Okay!! :-) The examples shown in the preview are included and of course made to coordinate with Backyard Playground. The Backyard Playground examples are personal/S4H.

Download Here

I'm finishing up previews for my glitter and felt styles in backyard playground colors. Keep checking back, the next CU freebies will be up soon :-D

Are You Ready For More Backyard Playground?? :-D

First -- I have to apologize to you all. We have guidelines to follow for our ADS group collabs. One of those guidelines asks us to have every file name start with our designer name or some sort of unique tag to avoid problems with overwriting files for those of us that put all parts of a collab kit into one folder. I somehow missed changing my file names to include my tag in one of the parts I posted last night. The part affected is Elements Part 2. It has been updated now. For the 568 of you who have already downloaded Elements Part 2, the only change is in the file names, The elements themselves are still exactly the same. I sincerely apologize for the oversight!! My only excuse is that I was determined to have my elements posted before I went to bed last night. It was 4 am when I had them uploaded and posted,

Next -- I have more Backyard Playground to share with you!!! I have a set of glitter-edged felt bracket frames and a set of grosgrain ribbons. I promise they look much better than the previews, My previews still need work, lol ---

Bracket Frames - Download Here

Ribbons Part 1 - Download Here
Ribbons Part 2 - Download Here

Make sure you keep checking back, I have CU freebies for you up next :-D