Flowers For You

I have been very busy slaving away over a hot computer.  But, still not ready for the "Big Announcement" though.  I don't want y'all to think I have forgotten you.  So I went through my hard drive and put together a little freebie for you.  It is title "Misc Flowers" because it is all flower stuff that doesn't necessarily go together.  Sometimes I was just playing around making stuff with commercial use overlays and actions that I had just bought and wanted to see what they would do.  Other times I was working on a particular kit, and the result was good, but not what I wanted for that kit.  Maybe I have hording tendencies because I didn't want to just delete them.  So I bundled a bunch of them together for you as a freebie. 

There are eight 12" x 12" 300 ppi high resolution papers.  There are two branches with flowers (kinda looks like one in the preview, but it's two) and 11 flowers of various colors and types.  Hopefully something will be just perfect for a layout you are working on.  Personal use, but scrapping for others for gifts and/or digital photo swaps is permitted.  Please read the enclosed TOU file.

Download "Misc Flowers" on 4 shared here.  Sorry for those on dial-up, but I was lazy and it is a rather big 75MB file.

Keep watching for the "big announcement" and please don't forget about me!!!

Hopefully coming soon....

I am working on redoing all of my previews and zips.  I hope to be making a big announcement soon.  And yes, freebies will be coming, too!!

Get Funky with this freebie

They're loud.  They're proud.  They're funky and they're free!

I went through my hard drive and all the old papers on it and found these funky gems.  I thought maybe y'all could use them for a layout that needed an explosion of color.  The preview only gives hints of how loud and funky these papers are.  Some of you may be noticing the preview says "Funky Papers 2" and wondering why.... yes, Virgina, there was a previous freebie of funky papers.  I will relist it again for any who might of missed it.

So if you are brave and think your eyes and your computer monitor can handle all this color, here are your download links on 4shared:

Funky Papers 1 (the original)                                

Funky Papers 2 (the new)

My last freebie (a brick themed alpha and papers) did not get picked up by some of the freebie search engines, so if you missed it please scroll back 2 blog posts and get it.

Coming Soon.....

I've had a bit of a break and gotten some time to scrap. I have a new kit almost finished. I've also been taking lots of pictures of butterflies on the mimosa tree in my backyard. So here is a special preview - a layout of some of the butterfly pics done with some of the items from the new kit:

As usual I am having trouble deciding what to name this kit.  I was thinking of "Coraline" or "Coraturq" since it is shades of coral and turquoise.  I am very open to suggestions.  Here are previews of the papers:

I hope to be in a store and have this new kit for sale by the end of the summer.  And yes, there will be a small sampler freebie to go with it. 

Becky's Brick House Alpha and Papers

Becky is a wicked witch.  She says so herself.  (Seriously, her username over at A Cherry On Top is imwickedwitch.)  So when the wicked witch says she needs a red brick alpha and paper, I jump and make her one.  I don't want to be turned into a frog!  And since I have to load it up to 4shared to get it to her, y'all can download it, too.

There are 5 12" x 12" 300 ppi resolution jpg format papers.  3 have brick designs and 2 are just grungy.  The alpha is all upper and lower case, numbers and symbols that are on the keyboard.  However, it is a small alpha at only a little bit over an inch high.  Everything is in one file, so you will have to cut & paste the letters to get them out, but there is plenty of space between them.  (I was too busy jumping to get this done quicky and not become a frog to get them all in separate files.)  Dropshadows are just on the preview.

Download Here

I still hope to be in a store by the end of the summer.  My mother continues to decline, but she seems to be having happier delusions now.  Thank you for all your words of support.

**** UPDATE **** here is Becky's layout:

I think it turned out great!!!  Here is Becky's description and credits for the other items:

This is a layout of my DD's soccer awards banquet where she was awarded first team all region goalie and second team all state goalie. The best award in her eyes came from her teammates who gave her the coveted "BRICK WALL" award for best defender. I could NOT have created this layout without the help of ANN, of AnnOminous designs who specially created the alpha and brick wall paper for this layout and Lilkoala (leslie) for the inspiration for the title. Scrapbooking is truly a collaborative artform!!!

credits:
ACOT June digi doable template (reversed for right side of double layout)
brick alpha and papers from AnnOminous designs (background paper recolored yellow to match our team colors)
green stripe papers and soccer balls from Soccer Inc kit by Lindsay Jane

Still Pawsitively Free

I'm baaaacckkkk.... and with another freebie for all the dog and cat lovers!

I found some papers that were just sitting on my hard drive and put some pawprint overlays on them to make them pet friendly.  And then I made some elements out of the papers.  It's a rather eclectic mix, but hopefully there will be something you can use for layouts of your darling furbabies.

And if you are wondering why it says "3" that's because there is an older freebie with the first two parts.  In case you missed it, I am relisting it again.

And here are your links on 4shared:

Pawsitively Free Elements 1                  Pawsitively Free Papers 1

Pawsitively Free Elements 2                  Pawsitively Free Papers 2

Pawsitively Free Elements 3                  Pawsitively Free Papers 3

On the personal side, I want to thank everyone for the words of support.  I have some good news and a lot of bad news.  The good news is that I hope to be selling in another store in a couple of months, by summer's end and hopefully sooner.  The first bad news is that I did not get into the Alternative Teacher Certification program.  It was my fault.  I got completely mixed up about the test dates and how long it took to get the results.  I am just so stressed because my mother's condition just keeps getting worse.  She is very physically weak, unable to do almost anything for herself, even roll over in the bed.  She is also very mentally gone, very delusional.  And they don't seem to be happy delusions the majority of the time, but stressful delusions where she is running around trying to get something done.  She will be moving her arms around very slowly, and also moving her legs like she is marching.  Maybe she is reliving her Navy days.  It is getting harder and harder to understand her.  At first the words just did not form a sentence that made sense.  Now some of the words are slurred and not clear.  Physically her lower jaw is shifting and her lower teeth are in front of her upper teeth, especially on the left side.  I don't understand why this is happening.  I'm just trying to hang in there!

Miss Any Easter Freebies?

These are the same freebies from April 2nd.  Mini-kit #4 was posted on 4shared, but you had to do a "Easter Hunt" over at Bits2Kits.com to get mini-kits 1 through 3.  Well, the Easter Hunt is long over, so I have uploaded the other 3 kits to 4shared for any one who missed them.

But before I give you the new links, I am going to repeat the

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT

I am going to be taking a hiatus from designing.  There is a lot going on in my personal life right now.  My mother has Alzheimer's, which is getting bad.  She is in a nursing home with hospice care now.  Also, I am trying to get into an Alternative Teacher Certification Program and become a high school math teacher.  I have to go take the THEA test, which means I need to do some test prep work.  There just isn't much time for designing, plus I am often too stressed to be creative.  This means that my store at Bits2Kits.com will be closing on April 30th.  And it also means that until then everything is on sale!!!  40% to 50% off on all items!!  So please, check out the sales here before everything is gone at the end of the month!!

I also want to thank everyone for their words of support.  I will post what happens with regards to getting into the program and if anything changes with my mother.  When I saw her 2 days ago, it was a good day.  She was very alert and talkative, though nothing made sense.  I just nodded and said stuff like "oh my" a lot.  However, she was really retaining fluids and bloated.  Her face looked like somebody had come in with collagen and botox - hardly any wrinkles.  No wrinkles ordinarily is good lol.

I may also have a freebie or two to post later on next month.  There is still a lot of stuff that I have made sitting on my hard drive.  A lot of it is papers, so it might just be paper packs.

Thanks again for the support and here are your 4shared links:

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Spring Has Sprung

It is well past the first of the month, but I do have a collab kit co-ordinating freebie for you!

This small freebie is done in the same colors as the April Bits2Kits.com collab kit "I dream of Spring"

Included in the kit are

61 papers all at 12x12 300 dpi including 20 solid but textured and 35 patterned

4 torn papers
10 butterflies, 33 flowers, 13 leaves, 21 frames, 2 ropes,
3 wires, 5 bows, 8 buttons, 2 tags, 15 ribbons, 3 stitches,
2 staples, 3stickers, 2 swirls, 2 journalling papers, 1 bling,
2 hearts, 2 masks, 3 strings, 1 tree, 1 word art, 1 bunny,
1 duck, 1 cattail, 1 cloud, 2 grasses, 1 kite, 1 umbrella,
2 flairs, 2 scatters, 5 clusters,

1 alpha and 3 styles including beveled, glitter and plastic

7 12x12 quick pages.

All on sale for the month of April for just $6!  And to further entice a sale from you, here are close-ups for my contribution:

You can purchase the "I Dream of Spring" mega collab kit here.

And before I give you the link for the freebie, I am going to make a

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT

I am going to be taking a hiatus from designing.  There is a lot going on in my personal life right now.  My mother has Alzheimer's, which is getting bad.  She is in hospice care now.  Also, I am trying to get into an Alternative Teacher Certification Program and become a high school math teacher.  I have to go take the THEA test, which means I need to do some test prep work.  There just isn't much time for designing, plus I am often too stressed to be creative.  This means that my store at Bits2Kits.com will be closing on April 30th.  And it also means that until then everything is on sale!!!  40% to 50% off on all items!!  So please, check out the sales here before everything is gone at the end of the month!!

(And please say a prayer/think positive thoughts for my mother and for me to get into the teacher's program!)

*****  Update 8/1/2011  *****  Sorry, freebie is no longer available  ******

Hoppy Easter and a Freebie

Happy Easter weekend to everyone.  I have a freebie on 4shared for you...

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I bet some of you are thinking "Now waitaminute Ann, that was too easy!  You just gave us the link with no sales pitch first?  And why does that preview say Easter Hunt 4?  Is there a 1, 2 and 3?  and how do we get them?"

Yes Virgina, there are 3 more parts to this freebie... and a sales pitch for a sale

That's right, everything is 30% off!!  Not just my stuff, but everybody's. 

And there is an Easter Hunt for freebies, not just from me, but from other designers, too.  (We all used the same color scheme, so they will all go together to make a big collab kit.)  The clues are posted in the Bits2Kits.com forum in the section titled "News" - just click here.  And to further entice you to go hunting, here are the previews for what is hidden by me:

Happy egg hunting!!!  If you need help with more clues, just let me know.  These egg hunt freebies are only for a limited time (I think same as the sale), so don't wait too long.

(and come back after Easter for another freebie)

Some Old Freebies Re-Listed

I have moved a couple of freebies from the store to 4shared. Since some of you might not of seen them, I am making a new post to re-advertise them.

And I hope that you will consider a purchase of the kits that these freebies go with:

And to further entice a sale, I have put these two kits on sale for 25% off!!

You can buy the kit Batikin' Me Crazy here.

You can buy the kit Bohemian Fantasy here.

And you can download the freebies on 4shared:

Batikin' Me Crazy 4 Paws *** Update 8/20/2010 - Sorry, freebie no longer available ****

Bohemian Fantasy Extras here and

Home Sweet Freebies  *****  Update 8/01/11 - Sorry, freebie no longer available ******