Amanda Rockwell’s Brush Workshop

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Janet

I’m really excited to be able to tell you about Amanda Rockwell’s Designer Brush Workshop!  I mentioned in a post previously that I was able to be a “tester” for a workshop she was developing.  It’s now available for purchase in her store at Scrapbookgraphics!  If you’ve ever wanted to make your own texture brushes, or wanted to know how it’s done, this is for you!

You get to download everything!  All the videos she’s made and the instructional pdfs to refer to.  You will learn how to make shabby/texture/smudge/blending brushes like a pro! You will learn what materials work best, how to use them and where to find them!

After this workshop, you will never look at black Tempura paint and toilet paper the same way you did before the workshop!  LOL!  Literally nothing is safe from being painted!

She’s just started working on the second workshop and I’m “testing” that with her as well — and let me tell you, the first video of the second workshop is fantastic as well.

My last two sets of brushes were made working through her workshop materials.  They are available at  Digidesignresort and at theStudio

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Sneak Peek of the Collab, and a Sale

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Janet

How about this?  Posts two days in a row!  The store at Hummies World is open, go on over and take a look!  Did you notice that everything is on sale?

Thought maybe you would like to see a sneaky peek at the collab that will be released in a day or so?  Yes?  Here it is –

And maybe a little page to show you what you can do with it??  This was made by Shari –

Don’t forget that a challenge freebie will be posted in this thread, and you’ll have a chance to win the collab!

Valentine’s Sale at theStudio till February 15

And theStudio is having a Valentine’s sale — everything is 30% off — here are my Personal Use and Commercial Use products!  And everything linked to the Valentine’s category is 45% off.  Don’t miss this!

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Announcing . . . . A New Store!

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Janet

Not just a new store for me — but a brand, new store!  Hummie, of Hummies World, wanted to add a store to her already extensive site (best place to learn to use Photoshop Elements with all her tutorials and classes).  Check out what’s available in the store!


Jodiann (Jodiann’s Sky Pie) and I accepted the challenge and have been having fun behind the scenes, loading products into the store, and even making the first store collab.  The store has been open for a couple of weeks, and our early shoppers have helped us find bugs and get things fixed.  So are you ready for the Grand Opening?  It’s this Friday, Feb 10!  And we have fun stuff planned for you!

Here’s the announcement about the fun that’s coming, Grand Opening — Sneak Peek, and you’ll want to watch that thread because the freebie for the challenge will show up there.  In order to chat with us, you’ll need to be registered in the forum.

I’m still adding things to my store, and so is Jodiann.  Be sure to check out what’s available in Jodiann’s store as well.  Come and join us!

Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Commercial Use Goodies — Brand New

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Janet

First post of the new year — I know, I’m a slacker here!  But the truth is, I’ve been busy creating lots of new commercial use products, mostly texture packs.  I cleaned out closets and found some old folded paper bags and fell in love with the wrinkles so that got me started.  I came across some sheets sheets of handmade paper, so there’s a small pack of those, and some packs of yummy kraft paper.

I was also a tester for a fabulous designer’s new brush class that will be coming soon, so I learned some new techniques, and had a blast getting messy with paint and other supplies.  So as if my stash wasn’t big enough already, I’m now collecting all sorts of odd bits and pieces of stuff to save for brush-making.  Hubby now actually has  “a look” when he sees me stashing some of this stuff, LOL!

Everything is available at Digidesignresort and theStudio.  So let me show you what you’ll find.

And finally, here are the two new sets of brushes!

Posted in new kit | Leave a comment

New Year’s Sale, and Delightful Surprise

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Janet

Happy (almost) New Year!  I hope that each of you have had a wonderful Christmas season with many opportunities for visits with family and friends, and food, of course!

I also wanted to say “Thank you!” to each of you for your support and notes through the past year.  It means more than I can say!

Ok, on to the sale info — both stores are on sale for 35% off (no coupons needed), bundles may be a bit more or less off than that, but they are on sale as well!  And so are all my commercial use products — and I just added 5 new packs of paper textures to both stores!

Digidesignresort
theStudio Personal Use
theStudio Commercial Use

And now for my delightful surprise — first for me and then for you!

I received an email today from Tonisha, Simply Stated Scrap Designs,  saying that she had created a quickpage with my mini from the Blogtrain Traditions (you’ll have to scroll down to the December 1 post to find it).   She said I could offer it to you here on my blog, and I’m thrilled to do that!  Please head over to her blog where you can say thank you,  Simply Stated Scrap Designs, and also pick up the freebie quickpage.

Posted in freebie, sale | Leave a comment

New Collection, Possibilities, and Featured Designer

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Janet

If you’re looking for the BlogTrain Blog mini, you will have to scroll down a bunch of posts to see it.  The Christmas Carol Bloghop mini is down below as well.  They’re worth hunting for, LOL!

My new collection called, Possibilities, is here and the bundled version contains the full kit, a set of clusters, a set of stacked papers, and over 40 wordbits to use as titles, journal prompts, or to highlight your pages.  The kit has 14 patterned and textured papers, textures made from my own texture brushes or scans.

It’s available today at theStudio and will be available at Digidesignresort on Monday.   The bundle, and each piece, is on sale for a limited time, so don’t wait!

Featured Designer at theStudio

And now for the fun part!  As the featured designer, I get to give you a challenge, hee hee!  But I also give you something to play with.  It’s a mini add-on with more gorgeous patterned papers and elements and wordbits.  Kim did a wonderful post and ad (above) for me in theStudio forum here.

The extra bit for the challenge is to use every piece in the addon mini and journal a bit about your hopes, dreams, wishes or possibilities for yourself in the new year.  At the end of the feature on Dec 31, one person who has entered a page in the challenge will win the kit!  You’ll have to go to the forum to download the freebie addon mini.


Now how about a little inspiration from my fabulous Creative Ladies — I knew you’d want to see what they’ve done with it!  You can tell that this collection is very versatile, from baby photos, to kids, to elegant pages.  The colors lend themselves to any season or reason — you’ll get so much use from it!

from Irma –

from Jody –

from  Andrea –


from Elaine –


from Shari –

Hope to see you in the forum for the challenge!

 

 

Posted in freebie, new kit, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Christmas Carol Blog Hop at theStudio

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Janet

What a fun bloghop you have in store!  You’ll follow the designers’ blogs and find mini kits representing some of the best loved Christmas songs and traditional carols.

I chose the song Away in a Manger because it’s one of my favorites, but when my daughter sent me a text with the dates for both grand daughters’ Christmas pageants,  I started remembering them.   The little productions at the school use all kinds of homemade props, costumes and stick figures, and when I saw these doodles, I knew I had to use them for this mini kit.

You can also print these so your little ones can make ornaments, or play with their own nativities.

I played with it and so did some of my Creative Ladies — have a look!

from Jody –

from Andrea –


And finally, here’s my freebie mini,  Away in a Manger.  Get it quickly, it will only be here through Christmas Day!

You should have come from Digilicious Designs
And now I’m sending you on to Julie C Designs

Remember that our designers live all around the world, so if someone doesn’t have their post up yet, just check back.   And here is the whole list –

Nibbles Skribbles
Shelly Marie Scraps
Snips N Snails
Scrappy Cocoa
Aimee Harrison Designs
Snickerdoodle Designs
Let Me Scrapbook
Deli Scraps by Min
Booland Designs
eqrAveziur
Darlene Designs
JW DigiScraps
Feli Designs
SKrapper Digitals
Ambowife Designs
Ruby Lane
Digilicious Designs
JanetB Designs    <– you are here
Julie C Designs
Monika Designs
Piggy Scraps

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Advent at theStudio

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Janet

It continues!  Be sure you stop by theStudio store to download the delicious goodie each day.  It’s all in the same palette so each piece will match.  Guess what’s next?

Posted in theStudio | Leave a comment

Advent at Digidesignresort

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Janet

You’ll want to be sure to go to the Blog at Digidesignresort. If you’ve never visited there, you will be surprised at the amazing amount of content, particularly free tutorials — almost all of them videos!  Store owner, Monja, and I were talking about what we could add to the list and I thought — we haven’t done tutorials on using templates.  And Templates are very rare to show up as newsletter freebies.

So I said I would make a set of four templates to be given out through the advent time, and she would make a video tutorial to go with each one.  I told her what would be unique about the template so she could focus the video on that — and today the first template and video tutorials arrived!

It’s very basic, opening the template, checking the layers, turning them on and off — pretty simple.  The template is free or you can purchase the Framed Template set in my store if you miss one.

Each one comes in psd or tif formats, as well as 12×12 square, or 8.5×11 size.  Remember that psd files can be opened and used in PSP (several of my Creative ladies use only PSP), and the 8.5×11 is very close and easily sized to fit the European A4 size.

Here is today’s template –

Here’s the whole set –

Now have a look at some of the magic my Creative Ladies have done with it!   Each one used the same template, but made it their own!

by Irma –

by Jody –

by Barb –

by Andrea –

by Sharon — notice that she flipped the template horizontally — it looks totally different!

Stayed tuned — more of them coming!  head over to the Digidesignresort Blog!

Posted in Digidesignresort, freebie | Leave a comment

Frosted Christmas — It’s New and on Sale !

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Janet

Cool frosty greens and grays, with warm golds to give you many options for not only your Christmas and winter pages, but also most any other occasion.  There are 8 textured and several shabby patterned papers, and 30 unique elements.  Some are Christmas related, but most would be perfect for any occasion at all.   Frosted Christmas is on sale now through Dec 12 at 25% off at theStudio.

There are more pieces to this collection, stacked papers, a set of 5 clusters, and glitters to match!   Be sure to consider saving even more, by getting the whole bundle!

And here’s the whole Frosted Christmas bundle!


And a little inspiration for you from my fabulous Creative Ladies!

from Elaine –

from Irma –
from Jody –from Sharon –
from  Shari –

Posted in new kit | Leave a comment