Sneak Peek…

Here’s a little sneak peek of one of my new kits coming out soon! Easily among my favorite designs ever!

Sneak Peak ~ and Dropbox Link

NOTE: If interested, please read below for information about Dropbox.

From February 1-14, I will share the spotlight as one of the Featured Designers at theStudio with an incredibly talented, creative, and thoughtful designer: Karen from Snickerdoodle Designs. After much discussion, we picked an idea, theme, and color palette ~ and then the fun began! I totally love how this turned out and am excited to share it with you! There will be a freebie mini kit you can use to create a layout, and then one lucky person will be randomly selected to win the full kit. Here’s a little sneak peak of just a few of the adorable elements!

One of the many things I learned from Karen during our collaboration was to use an amazing FREE online storage system called Dropbox. Maybe I’m the only one who didn’t know much about this or use it – what a great resource! Not just for filing your own stuff online, but being able to share files instantaneously with someone else and not have to wait forever to upload or download something. It’s also great because I can see my files I’ve stored there rather I’m on my home or work computer, my mobile device, or anywhere I can access the Internet. No more attaching documents to e-mails – just “drop” them in Dropbox! Sweet!

Here’s the best part: you get 2 GB of free online storage when you sign up. You can pay for more if you want – OR once you’re signed up and have downloaded Dropbox to your computer, you can send your own link to friends or family members. If they sign up and download Dropbox to their computer, BOTH of you get an additional 500 MB of free storage space, up to like 16 GB, I think.

If you want to try this out, here’s my link: http://db.tt/d11iEN6O

You don’t have to sign-up through my link, but if you do, we’ll both get extra storage space added to our individual accounts. I won’t have access to any of your files; we just both get the bonus.  If you have any questions or need help, please let me know! : )

Sneak Peek ~ Color Challenge

It’s so fun to look back at my scrapbook pages, especially the early ones I designed that got me hooked on digital scrapbooking. One of the best ways for me to learn is to participate in challenges. It still takes a lot of courage to put my work out for public scrutiny, but it’s a good way to try new things and gain confidence! The 2nd digital layout I made was for the color challenge at Stone Accents Studio – now, the Studio. Here it is in all its glory! I’m still a huge fan of templates to get me started on layouts.

For color challenges these days, I tend to create mini kits whenever I have time instead of layouts, and I couldn’t pass up this month’s palette at the Studio. Here are the colors and a sneak peek of my mini ~ I’ll post it in the next few days.

Sneak Peek…

I’m not quite finished with the freebie kit to celebrate reaching 100 followers, but since my blog background needed a change, you now have a “sneak peek!” After almost a week of being sick, I’ve spent much of today catching up on my real life ~ but sometime tomorrow (or Sunday), I’ll get the kit done and posted. At least that’s the plan as of now…  : )

Sneak Peek ~ Sweet Romance

Quick post to let you know about a few things:

• The 50% off sale in the Stone Accents Studio store continues this weekend. Click HERE to go to my store; once there, you can see all the other designers on the left.


• Wow! Thanks for all the comments on my blog and on 4-shared. I really appreciate each one. And thanks to everyone who is following my blog ~ 85 as of today! I'm humbled and grateful for your support.


• Last: I'm so excited to do a collab kit with Nicole Parker ~ the first part will be posted Sunday night. The kit will be free through the next Sunday and then will be added to my store. Here's the color palette we used; the kit name is "Sweet Romance." I've also included a sneak peek of my portion of the kit.

That's it ~ I hope you do something fun this weekend. Stay safe.

Halloween Sale, Free Grab Bag, & a Sneak Peek

The 50% off store-wide sale continues at Stone Accents Studio (SAS) through tomorrow, but TODAY ONLY, all Halloween items are 60% off. You can check it out HERE if you're interested.

Also TODAY, you can grab a goodie bag of treats for FREE ~ click HERE to see all the mini kits. Here's a preview of mine. While you're there, check out some of the fun challenges and other events going on at SAS.


And later tonight, I'll post my "Morning Solitude" kit for the November "Stuff to Scrap" blog train ~ here's a sneak peek. Have a safe Halloween!

Sneak Peek ~ Afternoon Delight

Hooray! Got it done before the deadline and in time to do a sneak peek! Now I'm off to spend a couple hours working on my round 4 kit before I go get a much needed pedicure! Hope you get everything accomplished this weekend that you want/need to; hope I do, too! : )


P.S. I just checked my e-mail and had a message from my future CT member Nita with 3 QP's she made for the blog train! I only sent her the link last night! I don't know how she whipped them up so fast, but they look great and really show off the papers and elements! Thanks, Nita! And forget "future" CT member: wanna be my first "official" member? : )

Sneak Peek! And TOU Follow-up...

I've always wanted to do a sneak peek of a kit, but I'm usually so excited to get it finished that I just want to post it! In this case, I have to wait until Sept. 1 to post, so I'm going for it. Here's the color swatch for the Stuff to Scrap blog train; the theme is "Fall Festival."

But before my sneak peek, here's a quick update on my TOU issue. First, I appreciate the support and thoughtful e-mail messages so many of you sent me. The 2 sites who had posted my work have removed it at my request; for now, I'm going to trust it won't happen again (but I'll keep watching!). There's a 3rd site that is posting direct links to my 4-shared files, but it's in a language I don't understand and I can't figure out how to contact them. So I've given up on that. And now we move on...

Here's my sneak peek ~ I'm excited to share this kit with you! Nita, Rose, and Tammy all used it to make some great QP's/bragbooks, plus there are a LOT of other fun contributions to the train. I hope you'll stop by on the 1st. Until then, stay safe and be happy!