New Kit this week @ 2peasinabucket

Take a look at my latest kit released at 2peas.





Messy Stitches V.1

This kit includes

• 6 Messy Stitched Words in Charcoal Black
• 6 Messy Stitched Words in Off White
• 4 Messy Stitched Leaf Shapes in Charcoal Black
• 4 Messy Stitched Leaf Shapes in Off White
• 4 Stitch Hole Leaf Shapes
• 1 Stitched Leaf 12 x 2 Border in Charcoal Black
• 1 Stitched Leaf 12 x 2 Border in Off White
• 1 Sitch Hole 12x 2 Border in the shape of falling leaves
• 27 files in all

Available at 2peas for $4.00

New Release Day at 2peas - Track Team

My newest release at 2peas this morning is Track Team. I think it's pretty cool and since my son will be in a Track Meet next week I hope I too get a chance to scrap with the cool kit.

New Release Tomorrow

Tomorrow at 2peas I have a new kit coming out. I am super excited about it and I thought I'd post a little sneak peak.

It's called Track Team and it's filled with 12 slick papers and 16 different embellishments for scrapping all those awesome track and field pictures you have been taking. It will be available as a full kit as well as seperates. (Paper pack and Extras Pack)

I hope you like it as much as I do.

New Release: Everywhere a Sign

Yeah it's Tuesday and now that I design at 2peas that means New Release day! I have a brush and stamp kit for you today. I guess it's a bit different but I know that I have often wanted some directional signs or street signs for so many different projects. The possiblilites are endless, maybe a camping trip or a day trip to the nearby fair or even a school field trip. I hope you enjoy them. The set comes with 6 Black PNG files, 6 colored rub ons and a brush set.

Tying Up Loose Ends and an Announcement

It seems that every time I turn around I have a new announcement. Today I sent in a really cool kit that will be released on March 16th at 2peasinabucket. Say What, Yep you heard that right. I will be selling my designs at 2peas. I am super stoked and I can hardly wait until my first kit hits the store.

But in order to take up the new position I had to step down from my 2peas CT position. Sniff. I was a little bit sad about that. I will really miss the ladies from the team. Not only are they super talented but they are just all around great ladies. On Tuesdays we always had a little chat while we were waiting to sign up for our week of assignments. It was so much fun and I will really miss chatting and hearing what everyone was up to.

And so the last 4 LO's I post here will be the last assignments that I created as part of the 2peas creative team.

Stay Tuned for a Sneak Peek of my first 2peas release!

New Release Cherry Blossom

My newest kit to be released at Scrapinsider.com. Thanks for taking a peek.

Wehooo! Now for the official announcement

Well I guess I kind of spilled the beans the other day. But just so it's official...



I have now opened shop with my digital designs at Scrapinsider.com. Here's my first kit.

CANDY APPLE

This is a bright and cheerful kit to chase away those winter blahs! These happy and slightly worn papers along with some unique embellishments are sure to be fun addition to your digital goodies.

• 8 patterened and slightly distressed papers


• 6 slightly distressed coordinating solids


• 4 heart buttons in red, pink, light turqoise and dark turqoise


• 10 clear epoxy bits, 4 with graphics and 6 with words


• 6 4x6 photo overlays


• 4 stitched Tic Tac Toe Grids Red, Pink, Yellow, and Turquoise


• 3 Word Arts

I hope you will stop by and visit sometime.

Working on Creative Teams

Over the course of the last year and a half I have been very fortunate to work with some very talented ladies and some amazing designers.

When I first decided I wanted to be a part of a CT, it didn't go as well as I had hoped. In fact I faced several rejection emails and of course several no responses. The first designer I ever worked with was a woman named Laura Lively. 6 months later I went on to CT for Sande Kreiger, Kate Teague, MaryAnn Wise, Jen Alysson, and Carina Gardner. Every team taught me a little bit more and I think I grew much faster because of my time not only with the designers but because of the ladies that I also CT'd with.

As you know I am now part of the CT digital design team for 2peas in a bucket. I am also CTing for MaryAnn Wise and more recently Jen Martakis. I love it. Somehow I have become incredibly busy. I don't mind though, it's a wonderful to feel excited and energized about all the possibilities ahead of you. I love spending my day being creative. Now if I really get it together I may try a few sewing projects.

My own designing is beginning to grow. Before Christmas I faced a similar process as I did for CTing. Lots of no responses, some rejection (all very nicely worded and polite but still rejection is tough to swallow sometimes) I did get some very practical advice and that in fact prompted me to take an illustrator class with Carina Gardner at Jessica Sprague's site as well as purchasing illustrator. (I love illustrator but I will leave that for another post!) Just after Christmas I was invited to design for a site called scrapinsiders.com. So a new journey begins. I will have a more official announcement in the next day or so when my very first kit will be released.

What would a post about CTing be without a few Layouts from said CT position. This first Layout is of my lovely dd pouting and it is a familiar scene around here. I used Chelsea Parsons Milly and Molly kit and it has the cutest little illustrations on it. I have also always loved the way her kraft paper really looks like kraft card stock with all those yummy flecks and bits. The other product I used on this Layout is the 99 cent labels by Shimelle Laine. The cool thing about this kit is that you can use it digitally or she also includes a pdf file so that a paper/hybrid scrapper can easily print it out and use them on a paper project. How cool is that.

On my second Layout I again used a kit by Shimelle Laine. It is called Can't buy me love. It has lovely rich colors and is filled with hearts perfect for any kind of Valentine Layout. As you can see I didn't use it for a Valentine Layout, I used it for this teen kind of Layout. The cool photo mask is from MaryAnn Wise's flakes of snow photo mask kit.

Have a great Weekend.

A Little About My Creative Past

I had a big long post prepared today describing my life long love of art, drawing, and photography. I read it through and even I felt bored to tears. Yikes I can't have that.



I'll try to touch on a few of the interesting things. I have always loved drawing since I was very little. Over the years my creativity has led me down many paths and sometimes life has pulled me off those paths. Some of my favourite creative pursuits have been drawing/sketching, water colour painting, calligraphy, photography, (are you really surprised?) sewing, home decor, and of course scrapbooking. I started with paper scrapbooking and I think that is reflected in my digi scrapbooking even now. I have been digi scrapbooking for two years and I have ended up loving it even more than paper scrapbooking. I'm not sure why because sometimes I do miss the feel of the paper and the full textures. I don't miss the supplies covering my living room table though. I do intend to do a bit more hybrid scrapping in the new year but for now I'm very content with what I'm doing.



Over the last year I found myself often creating items for my pages. At first I did it to say that I could. Then when I knew I could, I would only create my own things if I couldn't find what I had in my mind in any of the digi stores. Then a month ago I began to think, maybe others would like what I make too, hmmmm I think I'd like to take this designing a little more seriously. This month has been like a month of rediscovery for me. I haven't drawn in ages. I had wondered if my drawing ability disappeared with the birth of my first child but apparently it was only lying dormant. I had totally forgotten how much I love drawing. Who knows where things will go from here but I'm glad that I've been able to create some cool things that people are enjoying.



I really am truly overwhelmed with the response and support of my design work thus far. Thank you everyone so much for taking the time to visit me, comment and download my designs. Please do drop in and let me know if you create anything with my designs, I'd love to see.

Celebrating with a Freebie

Wow the last few days have been a whirlwind for me. I have been overloaded with this crazy learning process. Html codes, interfaces, zipping, pdf's, and uploading are just to name a few of the things that I never really thought I'd need or even want to know.

It has been very exciting and at times frustrating. Should I even mention the fact that the one thing that I think will take me 5 minutes to finish has ended up taking the better part of my morning. Now I'm set, I know more today than I did yesterday.

As I've mentioned before I've been dabbling around with my own personal designs for digital scrapbooking. Last night after spending my evening watching my dd at soccer practise I felt inspired to create some sport overlays. Originally I had planned to include a digi scrapbook page with them but I was so excited about how they turned out I just want to share them right away. So in honour of my new journeys and projects I want to make them available to you. If you wish to download them for your own personal crafting/digi project just click the preview for the download. I hope you enjoy them and if you use them in a project let me know, I'd love to see it.