I'm designing for About.com - Free Kit

I'm proud to announce that I am now an independent scrapbook kit designer for About.com. If you are not familiar with About.com or their wonderful graphics area, run by Sue Chastain, their graphics guide, please check it out soon. She always has tips, ideas and tutorials for all the major graphics programs, along with reviews and freebies. There is a newsletter that you can sign up for that will keep you informed of all the new content that she has ready for you.

I'll be designing a new kit for them, each month and you can pick up the digital scrapbooking freebie April kit by clicking on the preview below.

NOTE: When saving the files at About.com, click on the small thumbnail to get an individual image, then right click and choose:

IE: Save Target As...
Firefox or Google Chrome: Save Link As...
Safari: Save Linked File
Opera: Save Linked Content As...

Otherwise, you will not get the correct filename or filetype.

I often get "stuck" with color palette ideas, so if you have one you'd like me to use, please feel free to email it to me. teapotlady at gmail dot com

Kim's March 09 Color Challenge

Here I am with another mini kit for Kim's Color Challenges. I missed last month, as I've had some computer problems. Plus, sorry Kim, but I just couldn't get into those colors. She gives us 5 colors and we are to create a layout or mini kit with them.

The hard drive, went out in my, less than a year old, HP computer. Fortunately, I keep backups on externals. WHEW! Rather than deal with HP's tech support...and I'll leave it at that....I just took it to The Geek Squad at Best Buy and had them fix it. It's, actually, still there. My laptop has been getting a good work out because of it. However, not before a problem started with it too. Since Comcast gives me McAfee for free, I decided it was time to uninstall Nortons (purchased) and just use McAfee. Well, the computer had a different opinion. Norton's had embedded itself in so many places, that it caused networking problems along with a few others. I spent time with Comcast and Sony tech support to try and get it working. We finally gave up after an hour and did a complete recovery. That meant reinstalling everything. What a pain, that always is. And I'll be looking at reinstalling when I get the desktop back too.

Enough of all that. Here's my mini kit that I made for the Color Challenge. You can download it by clicking on the picture.

Kims January 09 Color Challenge

Happy New Year! So far, I have gotten through the flu, the Holidays and a cold. GEESH! Enough already. I'm ready to start this New Year and toss away 2008. And the first order of business was to work my way into Kim's Color Challenge at DSO. We are given 5 colors to work with each month. It's one of my favorite things to do. Hope you enjoy it. Just click on the thumbnail for the download.

December DSO color challenge

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone!! This month found me down and out for a week and a half with the flu bug. Awful stuff. And this was with a flu shot in me. GRRR!! But, I'm back on my feet and ready to get through this busy time of the year. Kim's DSO Color Challenge was first on my list, as I always learn a lot about Photoshop while making something to share on her forum. I probably could have added more to it, but "other" stuff is tugging at me to get done around here. Click on the preview to download.

P.S. The download is named November, but it's really the December one. Sorry!!! These holidays have fried my teenie brain, I'm afraid. HA!

Corduroy Styles

Last night, I spent some time learning to make styles for Photoshop. I decided that I could use some Corduroy to add to my ever increasing list of styles. To get me started, I made 5 of them using Kim's, DSO, November color challenge. I see that I spelled the name wrong on the preview. Oops.. Oh well, life goes on...Click on the preview to download them. If you're working on a kit or layout for the challenge, feel free to use them. And be sure to go to the previous email to grab the kit I made, using the Color Challenge colors.

Kims Nov Challenge and a Quilt finished!

YAY! I finished the quilt that I was making for my friend, Judy's, daughter's new baby. The theme is Dick and Jane and today is the shower where she will receive it. I can't WAIT to hear how she likes it. I even had time to show it off at the Santa Clara County Quilting Association meeting, last week, before putting it in the mail. Here's a picture of it as it was being shown.


So, with that out of the way, I found some time to work on Kim's November Color Challenge at DSO. You can grab it by clicking on the links below the preview.

Paper Download
Elements Download

A QP For My New Kit

Today found me sitting here and playing with my new kit. I'm sharing a quick page that I made to go along with it. However, I WILL admit that I took a little road trip to the mall and did some shopping at Macys for awhile, before designing it. Found some great bargains. One is a new winter coat. And with the change in the weather lately, I'll be wearing it REAL soon.

DH and I have started a new walking regime every morning for 2 miles. It's actually turning out to be a really great thing. I have lots more energy for shopping. LOL

Click on the preview to download.