Happy Mothers' Day!

I hope everyone is enjoying the day with their mother!  I'm taking it easy at home, but unfortunately, can't spend the day with my mother since she lives in a different province.  I'll give her a call on skype in a little bit, so that will be nice.

Well, not much to say.  Just wanted to pop in and wish you all a great day!

Talk to you later...

Cat

Freebies Galore!

Hey everyone!  You should check out my new blog.  I have a ton of new freebies over there for 3 blog trains I'm participating in.  Also, I have a new Facebook Fan freebie up now, so check that out too.  There are links to the entire trains, so you can go crazy with freebies today.  Hope you have lots of room n your hard drive, because I know mine's going to get really full with all the great kits the other designers have made.

My new blog is here:  Cat Scrap Fever

My newsletter went out this morning, so if you didn't sign up for it, you missed a sweet little kit I gave out to my newsletter subscribers.  Here's what it looks like:

Here is the co-ordinating FB fan freebie (you can grab that one from my FB Page)

and here are the previews for the different blog trains (all the links to all the participants & the links to download are on my new blog):

Pixel Scrapper Birds & the Bees blog train:

Bits N Bob Angels and Demon Blog Train:

Stuff To Scrap April Showers Blog Train:

I hope you like the kits.  As always, I would love to see what you make when them, so drop me a line if you use them.

Talk to you later...

Cat

My New Newsletter...

Hi everyone!  I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.  I'll be sending out my first newsletter on (or as close to it as possible) April 1st.  I'll be including tips on different scrapbooking softwares, tutorials, and of course a freebie here and there.  Needless to say, my grand kick off of the new store newsletter will include an EXCLUSIVE Cat Scrap Fever freebie.  If you want in on the fun and what all else the newsletter will be delivering, you can sign up here.  I hope you will.

Also, just wanted your opinion on my new logo:

What do you think?  Too plain?  Too much wording?  I'd love to hear what you think.

That's everything for today.

Talk to you later...

Cat

New Layouts

Hi everyone!  So, do you have any green plans this weekend?  I'm going to make some corned beef sandwiches, maybe.  That's about as much St. Patrick's Day celebrating we do.  I don't go in for all the green beer and "kiss me, I'm Irish" stuff, but I love all the green (one of my favourite colours) and all the cute little leprechauns.  So, if you have plans and plan on taking a lot of pictures, I have the kit for you.  My new kit to open my new store with is the Lucky Charm kit.  Its full of lots of green (and a little pink and white thrown in) with lots of embellishments.  Here is a preview of what's in the kit:

Its a fairly big kit, and not everything is shown in the preview.  All together, there is over 50 pieces to the kit. You can purchase this kit here:  Lucky Charm Kit.

There are some non-themed elements to this kit that make it very versatile and can be used for any occasion. Here are a few layouts I made with this kit just to give you an idea of how nicely the elements come together.

My beautiful cousin Angela with her 3 children (the 4th hadn't been born yet - whew! 4 kids).

My BFF's second grandson:

And, my cute little Mitzy.  The light was refracted as it shone through the living room window and Mitzy just happened to be sleeping on her (my) woobie on the couch and the little rainbow fell across her face.  It was so pretty and I'm glad she didn't hear the camera start up, otherwise she would have bolted.  She doesn't like having her picture taken anymore.

So that's it for today.  Come check out my new store.  I'll be adding a lot more things as time goes by.  I probably won't be posting as much on this blog since most of my stuff will be on the new store blog.  You can also come and see what's happening there.  My new blog has the same name, just a new place.  You can find the new hang out here:  Cat Scrap Fever Blog

Talk to you later...

Cat

Some really big news!!!!!!

Ok, so I hinted a couple times here and there about something (or a couple things) that I was working on over the last couple weeks.  Well..... its done.... and ready to reveal!  

MY NEW STORE!!!!

Its taken awhile for me to get the courage up to do this.  I know its a tough market, but really I'm not in it to make a fortune (because I know I won't).  I really like designing and rather than have this stuff just sitting on my hard drive not doing anything for me, I thought now is the time to get back into a store.  Then I thought, why not my own store.  So the journey began.  I really would love to see you all stop by and take a look. If you're intersted, you can even sign up for my newsletter.  I'm hoping to have the first issue ready for press for the first of April.  I have big plans for this new place. Another thing is I will be moving my blog to the one associated with the store and probably just keep this one for my personal stuff.  So I will still be around, but all my craft stuff will be on the store blog now.  I'll leave this blog up because there's a lot of stuff here that I people still access (like the Silhouette tutorials - those one's are my most popular posts). 

So that's it.  I'm wiped out.  It was a long, long day yesterday loading the few things into the store.  If you head over and take a look, there is also a freebie page.  I have some new stuff there for you. 

Hope to see you soon at the new place!

Cat

New Challenge Freebie

Hi everyone!  Some of you might remember me mentioning a site I've been hanging out at lately.  Its called Pixel Scrappers.  I found it a couple years ago, but never really looked around to see what was happening. Well, I happened upon the site again, and I decided to take a look around.  I'm glad I did.  Its a great community with lots of digi freebies (personal use & commercial use).  There are a lot of great tutorials and, what I've been involved in lately, are the challenges.  Specifically, the designer challenges.  I want to get back into designing again, and this has given me the little pick up I needed to get going.  I've been working on getting a store set up, so you all can check that out, but I'll let you know when its ready and open for business. :)  In the meantime, I played along with the latest designer challenge at Pixel Scrappers, which was to make an add-on element for the Spring Fields kit (I love the colours).  Here is my addition to the kit:

There are two files available (packed together).  The first one is a sequin and glitter spray, and the second one is sponged background spray.  The sponged spray is quite subtle and a little hard to see, so I suggest you click on the preview to make it bigger so you can see the detail. You can pick up this add-on here:  CSF Spring Fields Add-on Freebie

I hope you like it and if you do use it, I would love to see what you did with it, so let me know. :)

That's all for today...

Cat

A New Paper Pack Freebie

I'm taking part in a design challenge at Pixel Scrappers and this week's challenge is to create a repeating pattern that you can use to make digital papers.  I love making digital papers.  I find it the easiest part of designing.  I did these papers up last night for the challenge and I'm offering them up for you to download.  I'm also offering the templates I created so you can play around with your own colour combinations and textures to see what you can create. :)

You can download these papers from here:  Call Me Paper Pack.

Here are the templates:

I'm offering these as CU, so if you make something you like and you want to sell it, your free to do so (you just can't sell the template as is or just recolouring it and selling it).  You can download the Paper Makers from here:  Call Me Paper Maker Pack.

Well, that's it for this post.  I bet you're falling out of your chair to see that I've actually posted twice today eh?  I'm on a roll...

Oh yeah, if you download, please leave a comment.  I just like to know what you all think of my designs (your feedback will help me determine what kind of designs you all like) and I'd really, really love to see any projects you do using my designs - really...

Ok, talk to you later...

Cat

Another Layout with my new kit

I was playing around with my Heritage Lane kit last night and surfing the web for freebies (what else are you suppose to do at 2am?) and I found this pretty layout template by Zoe Pearn Designs.  I haven't used layerd templates until I used the one for the Persnicky Prints layout contest, and I tell ya, they are great.  I can put together a layout in about 15 minutes and I don't have to think about where to put everything.  My layout skills really leave something to be desired, so while I am using these tools as a quick and dirty way of getting out a layout, I consider them a learning tool as well.  They help me understand how to put together a great layout using their scale of elements, placement, and shadowing.  I know I'll be looking more into how to make these for myself in the near future. So here is the layout:

I think this better shows off the colours of the kit, plus I got to use that pretty doily.

So, that's all for today.  I'm amazed there's still sunlight and I've posted.  Usually, blogging is a late night activity for me.  I need to get my schedule straightened out.  I've been looking for work and I can't be up all night and expect to be engaged if I get called for an interview.  We'll get there...

Talk to you later...

Cat