Excuse me, but where did 2012 go?

For some strange reason my blog has lay barren for a whole year. Was I really that busy? hmmmmm - yes! I find myself on two weeks annual leave at the tag end of the school summer holidays with endless tasks to catch up on - like detoxing the boys bedrooms, and my wardrobe, buying new school shoes and uniforms, organising haircuts, dental visits, and doign fun stuff with the boys as well. So what did I do on my first day? Cleaned out the fridge and redesigned my blog background and header. I used Jewel's aka Mad Genius Designs collection called December Daily 2012 which you can look at over at the Studio in her store HERE! There is so much in this mix and match collection that I wont list them all there, but there is an assortment of everyday items and Christmas themed bits as well. Oh and today I scrapped a page, first one for 2013 - goodness it has been ages since i have had the time or the inclination to do so. I guess 2012 was not a great year for creativty for me. Anyway here is my Happy Memories page also using Decemeber Daily 2012.

You can leave some love over at my gallery at the Studio.

Mad Genius Designs June CU Grab Bag

Mad Genius Designs June CU Grab Bag is out now at Digiridoo Scraps! This CU grab bage has two set of grunge overlays and a set of flower brushes.







I combined all of these together with Pattern Genius Volume One - Commercial Use and Brush Genius Volume Two - Commercial Use to come up with a cute mini I have called "Watersprite".





The colours I used were from a pallete for the June Go For Pinks (or blues, or...) colour challenge at DSDI.



You can download my freebie mini here!

Freebie featuring CU product by Mad Genius Designs

I love Jewel's CU products. Her latest CU products are no excepetion. You can click on each image to go to her store.







I had a huge play with them and came up with a mini kit using this pallet.



Which is from this month's Go For Pinks colour challenge at DSDI.

I used the layered damask for a couple of papers, one of the frames and the paper borders. I really love how the paper borders came out!

I used the grunge set for all of the papers.

I used this brush set on the green paper to really grunge up the edges.

{click on image to download}

Experimenting with blend modes {+ a freebie}

Mad Genuis Designs Texture Tuesday offeres texture freebies every week. I picked up these last week.



DSDI March Go for Pinks (or blues, or ...) colour challenge had a big palette to play with so I combined the texture plates with some photos of muddy splats on a car bonnet that I had. Several blend modes, gradient levels, and CU card and paper overlays, I came up with these.



Clicking on either image will take you to their source to download. Please do not share the file, but please direct to where they can be found on either blog :)

One huge mega enabling post ;)

I am a little behind in my enabling for this month - for some reason I kept running out of time, and my old blog is always last my list. So I've set aside mt morning to do so - kids have been dropped off to school, I've collected the mail and taken the dogs for a walk. I've just put the cow on for a coffee and Muse is blaring from my speakers. Time to enable :)

January Love is now available at the Red Genius Store as a bundle, and is 20% off right now.



I love the colours in this kit.

I used the glitter styles and cardstock styles to make the frame and the alpha.



The alpha used on this page is by Little Red Scraps from a kit that also uses the same colour pallet, called Love You Forever, which is sadly not available anymore. Maybe when Jane is feeling better, she will start designing and selling again.

The second one I based the template on for February's Made In The Shade template challenge that I am hosting at DSDI this month.

DSDI's February guest designer is Kat's Creations. I've had the pleasure of using Insane Moments, which is a collab with Spinkydink Scraps.

Daphadilly Art has a cute little blue mini called Sweet and Free.

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It was just perfect for this picture of Will.



Lastly but not at least is this month's DSDI FOTM kit Get Your Game On. The kit for scrappung all of your family game nights.

New Release for Mad Genius Designs

Trick or Treat is so super cute!!! Chek out all the previews peeps !!! All available at DSDI!!!

{CU Glitter}

{Card Stock}

{Kit}

{Bundle}


I don't celebrate Halloween, but I was inspired to make a brag book set that Jewel will be giving away over the month of October - go to her blog to find out how :)

Night Music Freebie

Jewel has opened up her DSDI Birthday grab bag and all the contents are available for indovidual sale.

In celebration of this I have two paper borders up for grabs using "Night Music"

You can get the kit from the Mad Genuis Designs Store at DSDI.

Freebie no longer available.

Mad Genius Designs featured at Pretty Scrappy and 2 free QP's

Mad Genius Designs is in the February 2010 Spotlight at Pretty Scrappy. Jewel has been a part other teams at PS, but she's a new designer there... pick up the first part of her new kit Sleepy Snuggles for $2.00, do a layout and upload it to the Designer Spotlight Gallery, then post a link to the layout here... you'll pick up the second part of this kit for FREE! Just click on the preview to get you there or click HERE!

This is a really cute kit designed for all those cute sleeping pictures we all take.



Here's a page I created using it.



Oh and if you want this page as a QP you can click NO LONGER AVAILABLE The password is: sleepyhead this QP will only be available for a week. Then you can hop on over for another QP designed using this kit by me at Jewel's Blog.

Letting the word out: new Daily Download at DSDI!

This month Jewel (Mad Genius Designs) and Dawn (Daybreak Scraps) have teamed up to bring you a beautiful kit.

Join us in the Drive By Freebies forum starting January 15th for a new portion of the kit each day through the 28th.

Can't wait to see you at the Drive-In!

Celebrations QP

Have you all been following Jewel's blog and collecting her freebies? I have made a quick page using this super cool kit, plus what Shel Belle has on her blog.

Check it out:



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* LINK FIXED - MY BAD ;)