Countdown to Happy Birthday

Hi, remember my "Countdown to Valentine's" project (scroll down to read post)? Well I continued to play around with the file and came up with this version. I have created a "Countdown to Happy Birthday" project. I designed the frame to be left open at the top so that you can change the photo to make the project usable for different children. Just slide out the old and in with the new.

The last page shows a birthday cake sticker for the Birthday Boy/Girl once the countdown has completed.

Link to download project in KNK format HERE . Please note this is a project for personal cutters only!

Please come back and leave a comment if you download.... these keep me designing free files for you and it just doesn't take that long to say "Thanks" !!

Have a great day wherever you are!

SALE on at DSS

As of the first of September, I am having a SALE at DSS for two weeks! It is Father's Day here on the 6th September and I want to celebrate!

This SALE is for 20% off EVERYTHING in my Store, but only til the 13th Sept, so don't delay!

Have a good day wherever you are!

NEWS!!

I am now selling at Digital Scrap Garden. Everyone is nuts over there, but I fit right in, I am looking forward to having lots of fun with the Gardeners!

And to celebrate my new Store, I am having a 20% off Sale til the end of the month!! So hurry on over there and don't miss out! and while you are there, check out the Forum and join in some challenges. You can earn "seeds' for taking parts which are added up and can be converted to dollars in the Store.!

So... what are you waiting... click on the link or the graphic and help support a starving Designer LOL

Have a great day wherever you are!

New kit in DSS Store and FREEBIE for you!!

Hey there, I have a new kit in my DSS Store called "Fishy Bits" . I love it! and I hope you will too.

Fishy Bits is a gorgeous Summery kit, perfect for scrapping your beach layouts. It would also be great for scrapping visits to the Aquarium, or Underwater World, or even the Zoo! Also a fun kit for water play or bathtime!

Check it out HERE or by clicking on the preview!

Here is "Fishy Bits Add On" just for you for a limited time for FREE!! I am making this mini kit available as a freebie download so that you can sample my work. This Add-On contains all NEW items and these are not duplicated in the full kit. So once you have the Add-On, why not go to my Store and purchase the full kit, giving you a huge selection of items to use when scrapping!!

Link to download Part One and Part Two. Links removed

Please come back to the Blog and leave a comment if you decide to download, I appreciate and read every single one.

Have a great day wherever you are!

New Freebie - Boy Stuff Add-on

One of my new kits to the Store is called "Boy Stuff", a kit filled with grungy papers and boy stuff, perfect for fun layouts! I have created an Add-on to my kit for you in the hope you will go and check out the full kit, or even the rest of my Store :)

and don't forget, my most of my Store is on sale at the moment for NSD so "Boy Stuff" is only $2.00 and it is a huge kit! A bargain!

Link to download HERE Link removed

Please leave a comment on the Blog if you download, I would like to hear reactions and thoughts on my work!

Have a great day wherever you are!

Next Freebie Installment

Here is part four of Sweet Garden. Enjoy

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Part Four

All I have time for at this minute, but .... I'll be back!!

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Next Freebie Installment

Hi there all, I hope you are enjoying the downloads on offer here at the moment. Here is Part Two of the Sweet Garden kit. Thanks to all that have left comments. Scroll down to previous posts to find the previews to see what you will be collecting :)

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Part Two

Here is my layout submitted for the CC over at Inspiration Lane. Thanks for looking, enjoy the freebies.

Have a great day wherever you are!

It's that time of the month again....

Two new Challenges have begun over at Inspiration Lane. Actually, a whole heap of new Challenges have begun, but I am here to let you know about the one I host. The Colour Challenge is up and running and so it the Template Challenge. Now, I don't know if you remember, but as I now host the Template Challenge at IL, I won't be giving my Templates away on the Blog any more. However, if you click the link, it will take you to the Forum, where you can download this Template for free. You might even want to go back and participate in the Challenge and earn yourself some Inspiration Lane points that you can put towards purchases in the Store!

I have created a Kit for the Colour Challenge, but will be giving it away in parts over the course of April as it is HUGE! . I have been making an effort to keep my download sizes to no larger than 25Meg (especially for those on slow or intermittent Internet connections such as mine), but this does result in a large number of downloads to completely download the whole kit. So, as this Kit ended up being 10 download files, I thought I would break it up, and, of course, encourage you to return to the Blog often LOL

See what you have to look forward to :) I have mixed it up though, so in each part you will get a couple of papers and some elements. So make sure you keep checking for the next part so that you get all the pieces!

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Link to download Day One

Please leave a comment if you download, I really appreciate them all.

NOTE: I have received a couple of comments of people being unable to download from Mediafire. I too found the same problem when checking my files. This solution worked for me, so give it a try if you are having issues. I found that I couldn't download from Mediafire if I was logged into my Mediafire account, so if this is you as well, make sure you have logged out of your Mediafire account before trying to download the files. This worked for me even on other peoples files that I was unable to download previously, I logged out of my Mediafire account.... and no more issues, found the download file and downloaded successfully.

Have a great day wherever you are!

New freebie - Mar09 CC at PDW

Well, I found another Colour Challenge to take part in and I set to and created this Kit. However, Plain Digital Wrapper won't be benefiting at the moment as I can't post in their Forum, so you guys get it first. Lucky You!! UPDATE: Well, PDW came to the party just before the Mar 31st deadline and I was able to post this kit and layout there. :)

The papers in this kit have been created using my Textures which I posted as a freebie earlier. So, if you were unsure about what they look like, download this kit, check out the papers and then .... come back and download the Textures and give them a go when creating your own papers.

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Part One
Part Two
Part Three

Please remember to leave a comment on the Blog if you download so I know you like my work.


This is the layout I created for the Colour Challenge at PDW which required you to use products from their Store (at least one product) and then recolour if required to follow the swatch supplied. This layout uses items that are not in my Kit.

This is a photo of my eldest daughter on her wedding day. She is so very beautiful and I love this photo of her.

Thanks for looking, don't forget those lovely comments I relish in!

Have a great day wherever you are!

New freebie - Mar09 CC at DSG

I have finally finished my kit for the Mar09 Colour Challenge at Digital Scrap Garden. I love these colours. It was quite funny, there was a gap between making the papers and finishing the kit. I named it "Washed Out" and then noticed the swatch was called "Spring Rain" which I had completely ignored when I started designing :)

There are four links in all so make ure you get them all. Please leave a comment on the Blog if you download, these are what keep me designing those freebies for you.

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Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

have a great day wherever you are!

New Freebie for you to try

I have been trying out some more stuff in Photoshop over the last week. I have created some Textured Overlays for you to try. Once again, if you download please come back and leave me a comment on how I did as I haven't made anything like this before.




These overlays can be used differently by changing the Blending Mode on your layer. Choose "Overlay" or "Soft Light" for one look, "Hard Light" will give you a completely different effect, or just use them as they are. NOTE: These overlays look as though there is nothing to them, in fact the textures are really hard to see on the PNG files so it is impossible to drag and drop onto your new layer. So, the easiest way to use them is to open them in PS and then Select-All, Edit-Copy, then move to your new paper that you want to apply the texture to, Edit-Paste. The Textured Overlay will be on a new layer and you can adjust the Blend mode from there. Or.... CTRL A (to select); CTRL C (to copy) ; (on new paper)- CTRL V (to paste). Hope this is clear enough to follow!





Although my TOU states these are for Personal Use Only, I will allow use of these overlays in the creation of papers that are for Colour Challenges or as freebies. They are NOT to be used in a profit seeking form. i.e. you can make papers to give away, but not to sell. Please let me know if you create anything as I would love to see it. This is a limited S4O licence and ONLY applies to this product. All of my other creations remain Personal Use Only. Please remember that due Credit must be given in your TOU if you use these Overlays.





The preview of these textures shows them as layered over a base colour with no other effects applied. These papers are NOT included but are simply a method of showing you the effects these Textured Overlays can produce. As you can see, some are more textured than others.

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Link to download Part One here

Link to download Part Two here

Please remember to leave a comment here on my Blog as Mediafire doesn't allow you to leave comments so I have no idea if you like my stuff or not if you don't comment :)

have a great day wherever you are!

New Freebie

I have been messing around in Photoshop for a couple of days as I wanted to try and reproduce something similar to the photo masks that I have seen around. I have made these for you to try out. There are 4 portrait orientated and 4 landscape at 6"X4". They are grungy, some more so than others, but I am quite pleased with my effort. Think I might leave the creating to others more qualified than myself though,as they are quite time consuming to get right.

To use these masks in PS, open the mask and then place your 6"X4" photo over the top. Then, making sure your photo layer is selected, press CTRL+ALT+G (PSCS3) to clip the photo to the mask. You can also right-click on the photo layer and select "create clipping mask" which will have the same effect.

I have made a couple of examples to show you.

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Link to download here

I would some opinions on these as I have never attempted anything like this before, so please leave me a comment so I know what you think of them. Thanks!

Please leave a comment here if you download as I really appreciate them all. I would also like to give a huge THANKS to those of you that have left me comments on the Blog. It is a highlight of my day to open up my Blog and see that I have had a few visitors and lots of comments have been left for me!

Have a great day wherever you are!

New freebie for Inspiration Lane Colour Challenge

Here is my submission for the Inspiration Lane Colour Challenge. Please feel free to download this kit and use it to create a layout for the Color Challenge, post it in the Color Challenge Gallery, then link back to the CC Forum to earn points that convert to dollars to spend in the Inspiration Lane Store.

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

Part Five Links removed

Please leave a comment here on the Blog if you download as Mediafire doesn't accept comments, and I really appreciate them.

Have a great day wherever you are!

New freebie - Mar09 CC at SAS

Hi all, hope you are all having a great week, of course I am already halfway through the weekend, but never mind :)

I have finally finished my submission for the Colour Challenge at Stone Accents Studio (SAS). I absolutely loved the colours for this month and it has been a challenge sorely missed over at SAS for some time.

I have also chosen Media Fire to host my files this time. There has been a lot of talk about viruses being downloaded from files shared at 4shared although I, touch wood, have not been affected, poor Pam was wiped out and NOT HAPPY! and rightly so. From what I can gather, it is affecting quite a few people, so I hope that none of you have been adversely affected by downloading my files. Anyway, I thought I would try out Media Fire and see how it goes. if you have any problems downloading, please let me know and I will try to help.

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Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

Part Five

Part Six

You will notice there are six links, I am trying to keep my file downloads Dial-Up User friendly as I know from experience how difficult it can be to download larger files with a s...l...o...w internet connection. So make sure you get all six links!

have a great day wherever you are!

Freebie for DSG Feb09 CC

I finally got around to finishing a submission for the Colour Challenge at Digital Scrap Garden. I only managed a Paper Pack this month, but I am hoping to add Elements to it later on, so keep checking :)

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Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Password to download is "flower" . Please leave a comment if you download, I really appreciate them. If you click on the Paper Pack Preview, it will take you to my Gallery posting where you can also leave a comment. Thanks!

Have a great day wherever you are!

new Freebie

Hi there, I have a new freebie for you to add to your Nice'N'Icy collection. When I designed the kit in the first place I used snowflakes as the flowers, but when I was playing with it and making the album quickpages, I found that I also wanted flowers to use. So this mini addition was created. This download includes 12 flowers to add to the original kit to give you even more decorating options for your pages. I hope you like them.

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Link to download Flowers here

Password to download is "penquin" and yes I do know that isn't how you spell penguin!

Have a great day wherever you are!

New freebie Template #5

I have just going back through the Blog and I noticed I have been a little remiss in offering a new freebie Template for you all. So.... here 'tis

Link to download PSD format here Sorry links removed

Link to download PNG format here

Password to download is "create" without the quotes.

Have a great day wherever you are!! and please leave a comment if you download!

New freebie for Color Challenge at TSG

This cooler weather has done wonders for my creativity :) now, if only I could stop my neck and shoulders from killing me, I would be in scrapbooking heaven LOL

However, the weather has worked in your favour as I have created another freebie kit for you all to enjoy.... and you will enjoy it .... got that!! LOL

I must admit I was stumped when the palette went up at The Scrapping Garden. I couldn't think of anything that it suggested to me, and I do like to have some idea where I'm heading when I start designing something. So I decided I would just make a paper selection and forget about the elements. And I did! but when I had finished the papers, they looked so lonely in the preview, I was compelled to rethink my theme and come up with something. After chatting with my DH, Gary, we started coming up with flowers, but there were no flowers in my papers at all..... then it hit me, the colours reminded me of weeds, in particular the thistle. Gary hopped online to check out pics and came back with the Scotch Thistle and this unforgettable name "Thistle Doo". It was perfect, and now I had a theme to create some elements around.

I searched the Internet for gardening tools and took a few pictures of our gardening tools, and was able to get some nice additions to the kit. I then decided to fill it with lots of different sorts of flowers and vines and so on. I am very happy with the way it turned out in the end, I hope you feel the same way.

As it started life as a paper only kit, there are 16 papers to choose from. As it grew into a full sized kit, 36 elements accompanied those papers!

I hope you enjoy using this as much as I enjoyed putting it together, and don't forget, if you make a layout, please email to cazpamATgmail.com so that I can show it off.

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Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

Password to download is "scotch" without the quotes.... and this as in "Thistle" not as in "Drink" LOL

have a great day wherever you are!

New submission for Colour Challenge at CLD - Feb09

It has finally cooled down here enough to feel like working in the computer. We have had well over two weeks of temperatures over 40C and it has been terrible. Now, we are getting all the smoke haze from Victoria, and, as it is pretty thick here, I can only begin to imagine how terrible it must be for those right in the heart of all this trauma.

I finally finished my mini kit for the latest colour challenge at ColorLine Design. I have called it "Loved" and it is a very similar colour scheme to our Collab "Only Time" (still available, scroll down for info and links).

Links to download here

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Password to download is "beloved" without the quotes. Please leave a comment if you download as it does encourage me to keep on creating freebies for you.

I have also created a layout using Kellie Puddy's "A Little Bird Told Me" available here at CLD.

This is a lovely kit, full of soft colours and unusual elements, all of which are gorgeous!

These are a couple of pics of areas in my huge, but very wild, garden.

have a great day wherever you are.....

New freebies for you

Hi there, firstly thanks for all the comments guys, both on 4Shared and here on the Blog, I really appreciate them!




Another week ends and so a new Template freebie for you. We are up to Template 4 and instead of making a layout to show you, I have created a freebie quickpage using my part of our HUGE collab.... "Only Time". I hope you like them both,

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Link to download PSD file here

Link to download PNG file here

Password is "create" without the quotes!

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Link to download Quickpage here

Password to download is "sweetness" without the quotes.

Almost forgot..... head over to Pam's Blog, 'cos my GF has been at it again, and has created a fantastic freebie kit for the TSG Colour Challenge!!

have a great day wherever you are!