Cloud 9 (Expanded)

Well, what do you know? I finally managed to announce something as it hits the store, rather than a million days later! I'm feeling proud of myself!
Remember my former FPD Round 1 freebie? I expanded it into a full blown kit, this is what it became!







Filled with bold and daring colours like teal, orange and burgundy, offset by a neutral beige and some brown paper, Cloud 9 offers richly textured and patterned papers and a variety of stiched and torn elements. From brown paper swirls to heart-shaped buttons, from hanging tag alphas to bracket journaling pieces, this kit is perfect for a multitude of layouts and you will find yourself using it over and over again.
Scrap For Hire Friendly!

Cloud 9 includes:
- 14 Individually Textured Papers
- 2 Bows in assorted colours
- 2 Brads
- 1 Heart Button in 2 colours
- 1 Star Button
- 2 Clipped Flowers
- 1 Patterned Flower
- 2 Frames
- 1 Hanger
- 2 Torn Hearts in assorted patterns
- 2 Hooks
- 1 Bracket Journaling Piece in assorted colours
- 1 Messy Spiral Stitching, with and without drop shadow
- 2 Page Overlays
- 1 Star Ribbon Stitching
- 5 Ripped Borders
- 1 Circle Stitching in assorted colours
- 1 Staple
- 2 Ribbon Stitched Stars
- 1 Stitch Frame
- 1 Macrame Piece
- 1 String in assorted colours
- 1 Brown Paper Swirl in assorted colours
- 1 Bracket Tag on a string in assorted colours
- 4 Tag Alphas - Uppercase, lowercase, numbers, blanks and . , ! ? only - in Teal, Beige, Orange and Burgundy

Available as a full kit or as separate Papers, Elements and Alphas packs.

A Freebie, and 4 new kits.

I'm terrible, aren't I? I just go AWOL without warning, and then you guys all feel like spanking me, don't you? (hmmm, on second thought, maybe I just do it for the spankings, what do you think?)

Aaaanyway, I debuted at SBG on September the 1st, and I've been having a blast! It's been such a wonderful experience, I'm thrilled to have my Studio open! Plus Megs is there to hold my hand, which has been a major help!
And I kicked it off in the best possible way, with 3 (yes, THREE) spanking new collabs!

The first one with Megs (none other than the flergs, as my husband would say) is called Squeeee!:

I went a tad overboard on this one, and made 7 additional alphas, available individually or as an 8 alpha pack:


Then I teamed up with my friend Nicole, of the Sugarplum Paperie, and thought people might enjoy a glass of Chilled Wine:

Finally, my friend Franziska Altmann and I got together to bring you some cardboard-y goodness in the form of Free Spirit:

BUT, that's not all! After all of these collabs, I went out and made a kit of my own, brand new - Kiss and Tell, debuting today at SBG:

and then I just had to go and make a matching Kiss and Tell freebie for you guys:

And, because it's been so long since I've blog, here's a coupon to pick up Kiss and Tell with a 20% discount:

The code is KissingGame (in case the image decides to go missing).

Whew! I really shouldn't go this long without blogging, I'm exhausted just by the sheer length of this post!

Collab with Melissa Bennet and some bittersweet news

Fresh in the store, and 20% off for today only!


http://www.sunshinestudioscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=677&cat=0&page=1







This was the easiest kit (well, half kit, to be honest!) I have ever made, it practically made itself! I love the bright fun swatch I spanked out of Melissa too!

Here's what you'll get with Toxic Pop:
- 8 Solid Papers
- 3 Solid Gradient Papers
- 9 Patterned Papers
- 1 Birdie
- 2 Butterflies
- 2 Buttoned Paper Wheels
- 3 Buttons
- 1 Cluster
- 2 Cluster Frames
- 1 Doodled Flower
- 3 Flowers
- 6 Frame Wraps
- 4 Frames
- 3 Gems
- 3 Journal Tags
- 1 Journaling Piece
- 4 Knotted Ribbons
- 1 Mat
- 5 Page Wraps
- 4 Ribbons
- 1 Rubber Band with Hanging Stars and Hearts (with and without holes)
- 1 Staple
- 1 Swirl
- 5 Swirl Stitches
- 3 Torn and Curled Hearts
- 3 Torn and Curled Stars
- 3 Alphas

Don't forget, 20% off for today only!

And on other, bittersweet news, this will be my last release at Sunshine Studio (althought I will still be around to spank everyone there ). My ES store has just closed and my store at Sun will be open until the end of the month and, after that, I'm psyched to anounce I'll be selling at SBG along Megs! Can I get a squee?

Crimson Gypsy and a freebie!

Well, what do you know? I finished the kit! And it only took me a month to do it! go, me!

Here's the beast that took me a month to finish, Crimson Gypsy:







Grab your glass of wine and snuggle up in front of the open fire. This kit is loaded with gorgeous tones of red wine & chocolate. Shabby and aged, with touches of vibrant red & green. Let the gypsy in you come alive! Scrap for Hire friendly, as always!

Available as a full kit or separate papers, elements and alpha packs!

And here's a 20% off coupon if you buy the full kit! Good through August 15th:

(The code is GypsyDance in case the image goes AWOL)

I can hear you impatiently tapping your feet, waiting for the freebie! LOL!
Here it is, it's my Round 2 submission for FPD's Teacher's Pet, Hanging by a Moment. Hurry up and download it, we have to take the links down by 9am EST Monday!


Enjoy guys! I have something exciting in the works, let's see if I can get out of Lazy Cow mode and not take a whole month doing it! :D

My first ever grab bag! Plus QPs, a new kit and... a FREEBIE!

Yup, I've been wanting to make a grab bag ever since I started designing, and I finally did! Exclusively at Sunshine Studio Scraps:Available for a limited time only (June-27th to July 3rd), this is my first grab bag ever.

Link to Grab Bag

Inside you'll find 9 as of yet unreleased products and a little bonus, all for $3!

Note that the coupon does not work on the grab bag!

Then I have some Quick Pages made out of Cinnamon Breeze by the lovely and talented Franziska Altmann (also exclusive to Sun Studio):

Link to Cinnamon Breeze album.

And, finally, exclusively at my Elemental Scraps store, there's Neon Tantrum, my latest kit:

Link to Neon Tantrum.

Also available as separate elements and paper packs.


Finally (whew!) here's the coordinating freebie!

Download the freebie!

Full Circle Line - Kit, QP Album and FREE CD Album

Hi everyone!

It's late, and I'm tired, but I'm sooooo happy with everything I have to show you!
I have been wanting to create a retro 70s disco kit for so long now, and always kept postponing. Then, finally, when I wasn't even trying to make it happen, it did! And thus, Full Circle was born!



Then the amazing Franziska Altmann made me this gorgeous Quick Page Album, consisting of 12 12x12" Pages @ 300 dpi.



And, for a limited time only, you can get the CD Album for free, if you purchase both the kit and the QP album.






Here are some LOs by my wonderful CT using Full Circle:

Layout by Vasco, aka Moon Scraps, aka THE Hubby


Layout by Jeannette, aka Lady_Grundlefunk


The kit is also available as separate Elements and Paper Packs





AND, if you're still not satisfied, you can get a matching freebie called Circle Line to boot!


Whew, that was a LONG post!

Easter Egg Hunt!

Welcome to the Sunshine Sweets 1st Annual Easter Egg Hunt!" The Sunshine Girls (and surprise... we've added MY Mr. Sunshine to our little designer group) hope you enjoy our newest collaborative freebie "Sunshine Sweets".

In the spirit of a traditional Easter Egg hunt we've decided to send you on a little, and VERY easy, hunt for our freebies! Simply click on my egg and download my freebie... inside your download will be my portion of "Sunshine Sweets" along with a folder with your next egg and the link to the blog of another Sunshine Girl (or guy! LOL) just follow that link and click on THEIR egg...their download will contain the link for the next blog... and so on and so on...

Oh! and what would be an Easter hunt without the GOLDEN EGG?? Somewhere during your hunt, you will download the Golden Egg, this link will take you to somewhere where you've NEVER been before, someplace NEW and VERY exciting!! This new place will have a great surprise for you (and only you, our loyal egg hunters)! This surprise will also contain a link that will help you continue on your hunt until at last your journey brings you back to my little blog... where your hunt will be complete!

No hurry...all of our links will be active for plenty long enough for you all to find your eggs, crack them open and enjoy your sweets in time for Easter! So, get busy...have fun and have a great Easter!!!

Here's what my portion looks like:


You can download it by clicking on my lovely, gorgeous egg, made by Shauna, of Pineapple Plantation Designs, and beautified by No Less Than The Flergs!

Please Read!! One of our sunshine girls has had an emergency and we're unsure if her links will be active by the time you get there... If for any reason you come to a site that doesn't yet have it's links posted or if those links don't yet work... PLEASE just be patient...this is a really complicated matter with all of our different time zones! The links WILL eventually (and by eventually, I mean as quickly as we possibly can) be corrected or posted!.... Remember this is fun!!

Love Actually - At last!

First of all, and before I give you your well-deserved freebie, I want to send out a huge THANK YOU to all the lovely comments you left me here on the blog. They made me feel so appreciated, I got a warm fuzzy feeling inside.

I ended up missing my son's party at the park, that was one of the worse days for me. Now I'm at the point where the pain is completely gone, as well as the infection, but I'm not 100% out of the woods yet, because my eardrums are still sort of glued inside. I'm under strict instructions to chew a lot of gum (!) and blow my nose often, even if it's dry, to help make my eardrums pop and, if all goes well, that will be the end of it. If all goes less than well, though, they'll have to do a kind of small surgery, or so I'm told. Here's trusting in the power of the almighty chewing gum!

On other news, I am planning on having a CT Call - probably a CT Challenge, to borrow the idea from my fried Flergs - in the near future, I just need to get a few things back on track.

Now, finally, here is Love Actually:

mgl LA Papers | mgl LA Elements

Enjoy your freebie!

Colour Your World Competition!

Hi people!

I've been awfully silent lately, but I intend to make up for it today with a mega competition! We'll get to that in a minute but, first, let me show you my brand spanking new collection, Dreams in Colour. It will be in the store later this week, and I had a blast making it!





















Each kit will be available both as separate paper and embelishment packs (as shown above) and as full kits. They will also be available in a single purchase as the Complete Collection. If you choose that, not only do you get to pay less (obviously!), but you also get this exclusive bonus, not available anywhere else:




Now for the competition: 10 people will win the "Dreams in Colour" Kit of their choice. Erm, yeah, that means if only 10 of you sign up, you're guaranteed to win, lol!
Then, there is a grand prize: one lucky person will win the entire Dreams in Colour collection, meaning all 10 Kits plus the special bonus. Remember, you can only get this bonus when you buy (or, in this case, win) the entire Collection.

What do you need to do to win these? It's quite simple, actually: I have just enabled newsletter capability on my blog. Do you see that little box on your left, the one under "Subscribe mgl Scraps"? Well, that's what you need to do to win one of the 10 DiC kits, just subscribe to the feed and then leave me a comment letting me know that you subscribed, what your favourite colour is and how it inspires you to scrap.
I have the feed set up to only mail out when I post something labelled "announcement", "competition", "freebie" or "new products", so don't worry about having my LOs delivered to your inbox!

To enter in the grand prize competition, you need to blog about it! Yup, it's as simple as that, make a post, let everyone know about your favourite colour, and then link people here to mgl Scraps, so that they can enter as well! No blog or site to post from? You can post in forums then, but only if the forum rules allow it, and only in the appropriate place. Please don't go off spamming people on my behalf, lol!

After you have linked here, you need to get the link to me, either by leaving me a comment here or by e-mailing me at jesters (DOT) tear (AT) yahoo (DOT) co (DOT) uk with your name and link.
I'll keep tabs on who is coming from where through StatCounter and, by the time the products hit the store, the person who sent the most people over here will have won the grand prize.

I shamelessly lifted the notion of the "subscribe my newsletter and blog about me" competition from the lovely Kylie Banks over at Phaunt Actions. Go pay her a visit, she has a new forum up and running, and it's just a wealth of knowledge waiting to be discovered!