Frick On A Stick

How much do I love these?

[via The Dieline]

Using Spring Rain:

by Bryn:

by Annika:

by Tali

By Keela:

by Anja:

by Laura:

by Renee:

by Claire:

by Bianka:

by Christine:

by Rez:

by Kelly:

by Becky:

by Julie:

by Larissa:

by Lex:

by Steffi:

by Jeannie:

by Amy:

And in case you missed it, my sale coupon good through next Thursday on your entire purchase, in celebration of my big reveal over at The Daily Digi:

I’m never sure if that should be “release” if it’s just one product, but “new release” sounds sort of wrong, doesn’t it? I may have to just start saying “NEW STUFF Y’ALL!!” because that always sounds awesome.

Oh how I love this new kit. Maybe it’s because the streets and sidewalks here in Wisconsin are stuck in the Winter/Spring purgatory that happens ever year – where the days are warmer and the snow is melting, but you’re not quite sure whether it’s safe to emotionally invest in it. And I really really want to invest in it!

A couple of weeks ago one of the creative team members at CatScrap asked me if I’d be willing to tackle a Spring Rain kit, and she had the whole thing planned out in her mind – the colors, the mood, the elements. It was all so inspiring I started working on it right away while also finishing up other projects. She’d already nailed down all the important parts, so I was honored to try to bring it to life for her.

You can pick it up in-store now, and don’t forget to use the 20% off coupon in my last post to save yourself some dough!  And speaking of dough, two of my closest friends today were like “Why does your coupon say lucky 130 lbs?” And I was thinking to myself “What in the world are they talking about?” then I went and looked at it.  It’s actually “lucky13″ and then “OLB” (for one little bird) because 13 is my lucky number.  So, sorry if that confused anyone else.  Haha.  It’s an “o” not a zero.

I’ll be back with CT inspiration this weekend, as well as some inspiration from my portion of The Digi Files. My cup truly runneth over in this department, I’m really blessed to have so many amazing artists who feel inspired to use these products I make – and this week, once again, was an embarrassment of riches from my CT and the CatScrap CT. So many of these artists create very nuanced, intricate pages that just can’t be showcased properly in a 3×6 grid of thumbnail layouts. So make sure you stop back (or subscribe to me, you all are using Google Reader, right? Revolutionize your life!) and get your inspiration on.

I hope you all have a truly marvelous weekend! Enjoy the sunshine!

I’m just thrilled beyond belief that I was asked to be a part of The Digi Files #15 this month.  My big reveal is today, and you can go check out my portion of TDF15 at The Daily Digi Website.  I’m in some really great company this month and think The Daily Digi is such a great site, packed with so much relevant information about scrapbooking and just life in general. I don’t know how they come up with so much material, quite honestly. Then they top it all off by offering the monthly Digi Files products with 6-7 big, full products in them for $5.  It’s insanity really, but it’s my kind of insanity!

The entire assortment will be available on their site until March 31st and then it’s gone baby.  You’ll have to hunt everything down individually after that!  Be on the lookout for giveaways throughout the month, too, because there will be Gift Certificates up for grabs from all of the sponsors.  Also they choose 7 people each month out of all the people who purchased The Digi Files and those lucky winners get $20 worth of GC to two of the sponsors stores.  It’s a lot of opportunity.

To celebrate my big reveal, I have a coupon for 20% off my store for the next 7 days, so clear out your wishlists!

Also I have a sneak peek for you of my new release for tomorrow at CatScrap:

So sneaky!  My newsletter subscribers get early access to my new releases, so you lucky folks will be getting an email with a link (and the coupon code) later today so you can snag your copy early.

See you tomorrow with the whole enchilada!

It’s an atypical release day for me, normally we do all new releases on Fridays, but this week I’m a few days early. Surprise!  I have boatloads of new stuff for you today.

A couple of weeks ago I was presented with the opportunity to collaborate with Leora Sanford of Little Dreamer Designs, and after I stopped squealing and jumping up and down in my living room I sat down, calmly collected myself, and said “Why yes, Leora, I would be honored!”  Or at least in my mind I like to pretend that I was all coherent and classy like that, but the reality is that it was probably more like “OMG! YES! A million times YES!” I can’t say for certain because I blacked out shortly after that.

I love Leora Sanford’s designs, and not just because I’m on her team (I am). She epitomizes everything that inspires me to create: clean, minimalist designs with unique elements and color palettes that make me swoon. I want to be just like her.  But not in a creepy Silence of the Lambs sort of way.

We put our collective minds and hearts into this kit, and I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as we enjoyed creating it. And as always, it’s available for 20% off until this Sunday, February 21st at midnight EST. AND, if you purchase the full kit between now and then, you get our template set for free! Just add both items to your cart and the templates are on the house.

The templates are free with purchase until Sunday at midnight EST!

Also this week I created two element packs, one is a set of scratchy drawn borders for your pages. I’m addicted to these sorts of things, they’re one of my “go to” items.  I like to recolor them, change the blend modes on them, etc. These were created as vector images and shrink down beautifully to be used to frame photos or draw borders on paper pieces.  Love love love ‘em!

And a set of word art that I was inspired to do while taking a little online survey. I thought the whole premise of being surveyed about everyday life was a cute idea. Sometimes I wish I could just slap a label on things like “I am THIS bored with work”.  Haha.

Thanks for checking in with me again this week, I hope everyone has a great weekend. Are you all keeping up with the Olympics? I’m totally addicted.

A few minutes ago he sent me a link to these, and they’re such a good idea.  Universal Lids for jars, from the Unica store:

$25
[via Unica Home]

You know how sometimes you just wind up with a cool jar, and you really WANT to have something to do with it, but in the end you wind up pitching it into the recycling bin because you don’t want to be THAT person. The person who winds up with a cupboard full of empty jars, and then one day a friend stops by and they’re looking for a coffee mug and you’re like “NO! NOT THAT CUPBOARD!” but you’re too late – because they’ve already opened up the door to your deep, dark, secret jar collection?

Or is that just me?

Anyway, these would totally add some sanity to a situation like that.

Let me preface this by saying that I, in NO way, have anywhere near $10K for something like this.  But I would have KILLED for something like this when I was a kid.  Can you imagine?  Geez:

[via Etsy]

Yep. It’s true. A Full Sized Hand-Crafted Wooden Space Ship For Sale!

Works as a treehouse for slumber parties or as a playset for kids or adults.

The INSIDE is ENORMOUS!

It’s the size of a full-sized car with a professional finish and full paint job.

Will fit into most garages.

It is is Large enough to comfortably sleep 4 full sized adults inside the main hull, with a (detachable) bubble sun roof for stargazing, and windows for a cool breeze.

Every object on the inside of the cockpit is moveable, removable, and adjustable.

Well, who am I kidding? I’d take it even as an adult.  Sleeps 4 full sized adults?  SCORE! Who’s coming over?!

It’s that time of the week again!

A couple of weeks ago I sat down on a Saturday afternoon to draw a little robot head for some journaling tags I wanted to do. Once I started drawing him I just couldn’t stop – even though I had no idea what direction I was headed. I kept spinning my laptop around on the couch to ask Tom if he looked “roboty” or not. When he was done I had this total Geppetto moment where I wanted him to come to life, because he just looked so stinkin’ cute. From that, I created Innovative, and it’s available now in the One Little Bird store, 20% off until Sunday at midnight EST:

And for those of you who just like alphas – I did package up the alpha from Innovative individually.  It’s included in the kit, so don’t buy both (unless that fills some deep seated need for you). I had so much fun creating it that I figured I’d offer it a la carte, too.

Thanks for checking in with me again!  Have a great weekend!

I’ve got a lot going on this week, and had I been on top of my game I would have had separate posts for each of these every day this week. But instead there’s one big Wednesday update.

First: Hodge Podge Art Challenges are BACK! And I was extremely flattered to be asked to join their cast of characters this time around. Especially once I found out that the new challenge series was going to include 48 weekly prompts that will lead each participant towards completing a full album with an “All About Me” theme. Although you can change the “Me” out to anything really. Some people are doing their whole family, some are doing music, some are doing their spouses.  The world is your oyster. I’ve wanted to do an AAM album for a while because the boy is always totally intrigued when I share little tidbits about my past (like how our TVs didn’t have remote controls) but it’s pretty unnerving to come up with questions to ask myself. So I’m optimistic that this will help me achieve my goal, and I’d be over the moon if all of you would join in and do an album of your own. There are weekly gift certificates given away a winner chosen by the challenge poster – but I think the finished album is the end game, personally. Free stuff doesn’t hurt, though!

The prompts are going to alternate between letters of the alphabet (A-Z, duh!) and journaling prompts. So you can do two separate albums if that’s your bag, or pool the two together into a big compendium of information about your subject. This week we started with none other than the letter “A”, and here’s my page for the challenge:

credits:
Sweet * Tart by Leora Sanford & Paislee Press
Reasons Alpha by Creashens
Smitten Alpha by One Little Bird

All the participants of the Hodge Podge Art challenges can also post in the dedicated gallery at My Scrapbook Art so we can keep track of one another’s progress, find inspiration for our pages and generally hang out and go through the journey together.

Second:

Christine has set up shop at Little Dreamer Designs now! Her personal store is still open, but you can one-stop-shoppe her over at LDD now, too. It’s a totally thrilling move for her to a store that she loves, and I’m crazy happy for her. I did this page using one of her new templates this week, actually. I’ve had a productive scrapping week for a change!

credits:
Everyday’s An Adventure by Leora Sanford & Aja Abney
Template Set No. 8: Artsy Fartsy by Christine Newman/Listgirl Designs

Third: And this is the last one, I promise.  A sneak peek of my product releases for this coming Friday at Cat Scrap. I had an idea rattling around in my head for a product I wanted to make, and it all centered around one little character I drew on a Saturday afternoon – and you can see him in the lower lefthand corner of my sneak peek below. I just fell in love with him, and wanted to do him justice and I hope that you’ll agree that I did. If you’re a newsletter subscriber you’ll receive an exclusive early link to my new releases in tomorrow’s newsletter. Otherwise they’ll be available in my store at Cat Scrap on Friday 2/5!

Thanks for checking in! xoxo

Love is in the air this time of year, for sure, but do you know what I love best about the days leading up to Valentine’s Day?  The candy. This is the only time of year where candy makers chuck all their other flavors in favor of just the “red stuff” – cherry, strawberry, raspberry, etc.  And the “red stuff” is where it’s at. Tootsie Pop V-Day packages are JUST cherry and raspberry, which means I don’t have to pick those flavors out and leave a bag of abandoned grape, chocolate and orange ones.

For today I put together a mushy lovey display of UTTER LOVE, my friends.  Love love love.  And wouldn’t you know? It’s just the red stuff. And it’s available now in my CatScrap store at 20% off until Saturday @ midnight EST.

There’s an alpha in the kit, but I wanted to create a “little black dress” of an alpha as a side dish of sorts, also 20% off until Saturday night:

and a little bit of Inspiration for you from The Flock and the CatScrap Creative Team, all rolled into one big display of yumminess:

In the future I may start offering the New Release discount as a coupon code in my newsletter, just to make the newsletter all that more dramatic and awe-inspiring. If you aren’t subscribed then what are you waiting for? This week I sent out pre-release links on Thursday to my newsletter subscribers, so they got a jumpstart on the goods before they went live in the CatScrap store. You can subscribe to my newsletter by clicking on the graphic below, or the link afterwards (or the one in the sidebar of my blog)

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I set up a fancy little Facebook fan page for my designs this week, too. If newsletters aren’t your thing, I’ll be posting new releases there also.  Although not early.

Thanks for checking in with me!
xoxo