3 More Sleeps...Until College!!

And I'm quite excited about it, too!! It feels like it's been years since I've let myself be involved in the things that I love doing - and I can't wait to get to school!! XD

Today, I've been tinkering around in my fave 3D program: Poser :) It's a delicious little animation program, that isn't that expensive for the average joe...which is good, because I'm quite the "joe" in the financial department right now. lol

Some pretty cool renders came out of working with these 3D anime figures today :) I'm quite pleased with how they're rigged! Here's an image from today's excitement!!

Autumn is Coming!!

It's true, summer is coming to an end, but it's all right! Autumn is one of the most peaceful, serene and relaxing seasons of the year! Well, in my opinion, anyways!! Autumn is my favorite season!

You'll have lots of time to scrap your favorite summer memories, while cozying up indoors around a fireplace and a cup of hot chocolate...and maybe one of these happy kits? :)

Click the images below to view the products!

Outdoorsy Girl show cases a delicate beauty, paired with the rustic, outdoor style of roughing it! I know, some of my favorite childhood memories are from going camping with my folks! The Outdoorsy Girl line is available in full kit form as well as in a paper pack - because if you enjoy crafting as much as I do, you can never have enough paper - in digital or printed out!

=NEW!= Neptune Rising Kit

What a glorious Wednesday morning! I woke up around 6:30am...very unlikely for me <:) but that's fabulous! To start, how do you think saskatoons would taste in lemon cupcakes? All right, all right, on to the glory news!!

New Kit in Store!! Neptune Rising - It is a full kit and includes:

• 8 12x12" papers
• 1 triple frame
• 1 flower embellished twine frame
• 1 sparkle frame
• 3 buttons
• 3 jewel brads
• 2 paper flowers
• 3 glitter flowers
• 1 jewel border
• 1 bow
• 2 ribbons
• 1 twine bow
• 2 paper tags
• 1 sparkle splatter
• 1 jewel embellished twine string

All in 300dpi for high print quality. Shadows not included.

Photography

This past weekend, my buddy's band was playing at the Red River Rampage 2010 show - I took a schwack-load of pictures for them. I wouldn't say that I'm the greatest photographer in the world - in fact, I don't even think I'm that great - but I'm really happy with how the imagery turned out.

So happy in fact, I'm in a giving mood :) Who wants a Photoshop Action freebie?!

When I'm done creating an element, I spend far too much time trying to crop my elements individually. When saving element product files, it's important that much of the unnecessary space is trimmed away from the file. If too much negative space is left around individual elements, your packaged product can appear more bloated in size than it should be.

Introducing the Dragon Trimmer! This handy little Photoshop Action will trim any one of your graphics with a 10 pixel border. This product is for Personal and Commercial Use - and no credit is required when in use! It's just a simple, handy tool to have on the side of your drawing board, to eliminate those unnecessary time consuming clicks! Just be sure, before use, that you merge ALL layers that are to be a part of the image you want cropped.

Click on the image or here to download.
Requires Adobe Photoshop CS2.0 or versions higher!

Beautiful Thursday!

What a lovely day today :) It's such a nice day, I'd like to give you something that'll make your heart SWIM!! Pardon the pun!! It's still great beach weather and we're going to have tons of beautiful summer memories to scrap about come autumn, so please enjoy these free Commercial-Use brushes and graphics!!

What's for Breakfast? 40% OFF ALL KITS!!

It's been quite awhile, since I had to ponder "what am I going to eat for breakfast?!" Haha - I've been trying to save all my money for school, and it seems like I'm taking the biggest hit in the grocery department! So what to eat, what to eat.

I'm following my sister's recipe blog right now, it's super fantastic! I'd like to try some of those recipes...but not so much for breakfast :) Granted, I'd eat a stir fry first thing in the morning, no problem!

I've been trying to create an advertisement this morning and so far, Photoshop has crashed on me 3 times. Count it, THREE times. What's up with that, Mr. Adobe? (Or would it be a Mrs. causing so many issues?... If that's the case, it must be a Mr. ;-) I'm just joking! :D

Let's try this again, while I continue pondering breakfast items.

Oh, it's an exciting deal, all right! All kits are on sale for 40% off through out the month of August 2010! In celebration of summer, of course :) Because summer rocks!

...Maybe I need to run an update for Adobe?! O.o; I'm about as computer savvy as a pet rock.

There, Adobe's working quite happily now :) That makes me happy....Breakfast is next on the chopping block!!

Click the image to be directed to the store to check out this great offer! Aloha, fellow scrappers!

Great Coupons for Store Launch!

If you missed any of the coupons that were given out as we counted down the days until my store launched, you can collect them ALL HERE!!

Cats, Coffee and Computers...

Yes, this is generally how my mornings start off :) Lots of coffee and wow, the boys have been so super snuggly this morning, it's adorable. Spook's taken a liking to sleeping by my feet, under the computer desk - so I get sit here, drink coffee, design and foot-snuggle with kitties...What could seriously be better than that?!

I may become spoiled...once I'm in college, I may have to get special permissions to allow Spook to come with me, to sit under my desk to cuddle. =3

I've got a few kits on the roster, right now. This week, I'm going to be concentrating on getting my butt in gear for school and taking a trip back to Dauphin for a spell. I'm not sure when I'll be doing that, but I'd like to get back there for a bit - sort out some stuff at Mom's, and more importantly, VISIT WITH MY LOVIES!!!! I've been missing everyone for so blasted long - friends, family - I (heart) you guys!! lol

This week's going to be my "pay tuition, buy books and get all crap in order" week!! W00t! I'm so super looking forward to college - designing and college is all that's on my mind right now! lol - I think, at this point in my life, if the "right guy" were to show up, I'd be all, "Listen, I've been waiting 27 years for this moment, and I'M EXTREMELY BUSY RIGHT NOW!!!" ...And if he's perfect, ;) he'll understand Hahahaha!

No, I wouldn't tell him to get lost...He'll brain storm with me, on the first date - we'll be all, "What do you think about this design," then he'll be all, "I blah blah blah.."

...Ok I'll admit, I started writing this like 3 hours ago, my submarine of thought has capsized into a pool of coffee goo.

Back to designing!