Mulberry Six Pack of Digitreat's Jump

Crikey 4 shared is VERY slow tonight. And when your husband accidentally closes off IE and your upload, then it does take just that much longer ! So as promised these are the “test drives” for the texture, in a six pack of Pam’s jump colours. The file size is big, so I have split it into two parts. The first part is here, and the second part is here. Had a small play with adding some rose petals per lvmommy’s comment – it looks nice in the skip colours using the rose petal brushes from Obsidian Dawn. Don’t know if anyone wants to have a go at that – I have a couple of other things on my to-do list so I would love to see someone else’s take on that.
Best wishes,
Erika

Some Journal Mats for You

Atomic Cupcake has a super duper new glitter edge action that I grabbed today. I have decided to give this whole glitter thing a go. I grabbed it primarily to make a glitter edge for a journaling mat for my snow lay out which is in Pam’s Jump palette and also a ballet layout I am doing in the Skip palette for my daughter. So the three mats I made are here for those that would like to use them. The lovely snow effect is from one of Obsidian Dawn’s amazing collection.
So much for a weekend of scrapping. Despite the horrid weather here in Brisbane, I still spent most of yesterday chasing around, then we had a soccer team Mum’s girl’s night out, and a kids concert today. Mmm weekend gone, LOL.
Hope you are having a great weekend wherever you are,
Erika

A Quick Freebie

I went to do a layout of my daughter’s first trip to Cold Rock with all of Pam’s lovely ice cream goodies, and realised I needed a second frame that wouldn't draw attention away from the lovely focal frame she did. So here is one I made using Atomic Cupcake’s fantastic cut out action, and the Jump yellow. It does not include the writing (or the photo LOL). And you can grab it here. Hubby and the kids have been sleeping in this morning so I thought I would get in some scrapping (its more quiet than starting up the washing LOL). Now they are waking up I am off to the markets and to do some gardening.

Best wishes,

Erika

Let it snow !

Serendipity indeed. That foil action that atomic cupcake has just released, it is the answer to my prayers for that snow layout. Thank you so much everyone who left me or emailed me their ideas. I knew I wanted some colour near the photo of my son on the left, but a boy, wrap or flower wasn’t right. I have to be honest, I am not a glitter girl – I know I can hear the sharp intake of breath – everyone else loves it, but it just isn’t my thing. I’m not saying I won’t ever use it, I am just not drawn to it. Must be all those years in uniform LOL, it squished my inner girliness – don’t worry my daughter has it in spades and makes up for both of us. So anyway, as soon as I saw Atomic Cupcake’s new actions I just knew – foil snowflakes – they sparkle, they add colour, they did the trick (plus a few ideas from the lovely people that visit this blog and care enough to read my ramblings). So here are the snowflakes I made, still in Pam’s Jump Red and Blues.
By the way check out Jeannie’s tag response – Jeannie has been added to my I want them at my next party list. This lady has really lived life – and you have to see that mad 80’s big hair. Does that bring back memories , the teen mags with pictures of Jon Bon Jovi and all the rock “hair” bands, or all the “new romantics” like Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, and the like with the big fringes - or my dreadful poodle perm, cockatoo fringe, or mod (think The Cure) phase LOL.
Going back to supervise hubby in the garden, I can hear hammering and I only left him to plant 4 plants. Mmmmmmm
Best wishes,
Erika

A Freebie and Plea for Your Ideas

I think this missing mojo thing might be catching. Inspired by the colder mornings here, and memories of VERY cold winters when we lived in Canberra, I decided to scrap some photos from that time when the snow was on the hills surrounding the city. I love these pics of my gorgeous boy and spunky hubby. For Brenda – spunk is a term normally reserved for teenagers (not Mums in their mid-thirties LOL) meaning a good sort ! The bright red hat, turquoise blue boots, dark green trackies on my son and burgundy jacket on hubby, sent me in the direction of Pam’s Jump ABC kit. I made a couple of papers, one was too much for a multi photo layout, so saved it and tried another, I made some red felt to draw out the hat, and some frosted elements and title for the snow. The snowflakes show up better when you look at the image at print size, but seem a bit lost on preview. BUT the layout lacks something – (as well as journaling). I don’t know what though. If anyone has any ideas I would LOVE to hear them. It’s driving me crazy. We headed out early this morning, tennis lessons before school, ballet lesson for my daughter then up the mountain to help my aunt out with some other stuff, before a “lovely” dinner of KFC (my son got to choose after 3 awards at school this week). I thought a day away from the computer might help – but no. I have bundled up the bits I have made for you here, not everything in the bundle is on the preview (hey I'm lazy LOL). Your thoughts on what this page needs to finish it would be gratefully appreciated.
Best wishes,
Erika

A Layout, A Story and Some Freebie Add Ons for Skip and Jump

Well I put my time to better use and scrapped the pictures of my daughter’s self inflicted hair cut. This happened last winter. My M-I-L was up to look after the kids because hubby was away on exercise and I was going somewhere to see a client. Anyway on this day my daughter had said she would like to get her fringe cut, and I said I would make an appointment. She headed off to play in the play room and my M-I-L and I grabbed a coffee. I heard my daughter go through to our bedroom, and figured she was just playing with my shoes (she had a shoe fetish since she started walking). A short while later she came out and I noticed her fringe (it was GONE), so I called her over and as I stroked her head great clumps of hair came falling out. Not only had she cut the fringe but great chunks around her ears. Thank goodness for whatever angel was watching over her that day because she could easily have done damage with the scissors. It turned out my husband had left a pair of scissors in with his clippers that she had found. She had totally tidied up after herself though, all that beautiful hair, all those gorgeous curls were neatly in the bin in our ensuite. I phoned my hair dresser who said to bring her straight in and they “salvaged” a cute pixie cut from the horrid mullet she had given herself. We emailed a picture of the scissors to my husband first, and the story of what had happened. The funniest part of this is that when we picked up my son from school and asked if there was anything different about his sister, he looked then stated “she is wearing gloves”. As I said at the time, hair will grow back, but male blindness is forever. SIGH. Anyway I had to scrap these pictures, and thought I would jump out of my comfort zone with Vicki’s Citrus Berry, and the alpha is from her dandelion dreams kit. I have put together some of the items I have been making over the last few days for layouts here, there are a couple of extra things in there I forgot to put on the preview.
Have a great day,
Erika

Layout and Freebies

I was very good today and rested my ankle lots. I also managed to do some scrapping and that is always a good thing. I re-did a layout of my daughter from January. With the backlog I have you would wonder why redo one, but I really didn’t like the original and it is the first pages in her new album. I was using the Jump palette, but the pink on the fabric strip is a bit light, I didn’t adjust it properly to be a true Jump pink, but the flower is a Jump blue. I loved the alpha that Vicki (http://vicki20.blogspot.com/) did the other week for Dandelion Dreams (not to mention the soccer one LOL), and I so I did some elements in a similar style and with a “girlier” font. I am right into this white space (or in this case green space) at the moment. I have always been an uncluttered not fussy type of scrapbooker, and was really happy with this page. Since it was all stuff I had made myself (button from the button tin give aways) I thought I would turn it into a quickpage also. Hope you like it and you can download the elements and the QP here. I have to say I love the names of some of the cities people are from. Some really intrigue me and others give me itchy feet to come and see it, especially when the names suggest beautiful natural scenery.
Rug rats will be home soon, homework to supervise, dinner to cook, so I am off. I have some more greyscale fabric stuff I will post tonight or tomorrow.
Erika

JUMP ing Bits and Some "wordart"

Last night I made a layout with photos from when we brought home one of our “fur babies”. Monty is our lilac point Burmese, and we got him before my daughter was born and I am only just scrapping those photos LOL. The big fluffy cat in the photo is Jasper our Ragdoll. We had him before we had children, and when my daughter was about 9months old we realised she was allergic to him. We were incredibly blessed that one of my mother in law’s friends who adored him, could offer him a home. He has his own double bed and is spoilt rotten. At the time we got Monty we weren’t sure how Jasper would react to him, but he was great, they settled very well together and were always cuddling somewhere. The photos were taken when we were living in Canberra and I feel cold just looking at them LOL.
I was not sure what I wanted to do with this layout. I was going to use pewter stuff, so made the quote and photo corners in pewter, then I abandoned that idea and stuck with the simple clean, white space look. It must be all those templates I saw at the Scrap Orchard challenge last week LOL. (I have to add the journalling yet !) But the photos were so clear and suited that more than a fussy layout. So I re-made the quote in tooled leather (I can hear you groaning – not leather AGAIN). I also made some photo corners in the leather, and a chipboard monogram letter M. The leather frame I used was from Pam (these are the ones that got me started on this leather thing) and that is one of her eyelets on the M. I also threw in to the download two “word art” pewter tags I have made in the last week. I love the one about being 4 it is for a layout about my daughter . The other one is actually a song title by an amazing Australian song writer Paul Kelly, the song is fantastic – From Little Things Big Things Grow. It is a great song (in true story telling fashion) about the Gurindji Strike, but has become a bit of an anthem about positive change that slowly grows a voice. I added tags to thread it on a ribbon and without the ribbon I think it looks like a tray. LOL. They are here for you to download. I think the wordart for from little things also applies nicely to family type layouts. I did the cat quote in brass for anyone who has a tortoiseshell cat !
Have a great day,
Erika

And the jump ones !

And the Jump ones here. Don’t let this stop you have some fun colouring them in your own choices !
Best wishes,
Erika

Seven Fruity Jump Buttons

This freebie is from my beautiful seven year old son. He LOVES having a play with photo shop. Today he wanted to have a go at making buttons, and chose the fruit shapes. He did all the rest himself, with quite limited guidance from me - just a couple of reminders to stop because he was about to miss out a step. He did the two colour stuff and everything. They are in the JUMP colours. I know lots of people grab and run – only around one in ten take the time to leave a comment, but if you would take the time for this one because it really would make the day of my gorgeous boy. He even did the preview page himself. So you can download seven fruity buttons from Thomas if you like !

14 Languages, 12 Styles, 1 Meaning French

I seem to remember from my high school french (too long ago LOL) that there were male / female versions of many words in french. No one let me know if I had the wrong word or a missing word - so this is all I did. If I have got it wrong, please let me know.

http://www.4shared.com/file/46181036/37beb042/CWTG_-_Jump_-_NSD_-_French.html

Best wishes,

Erika

14 Languages, 12 Styles, 1 Meaning Finnish

Here is the word for the scrappers in Finland. Stop and say hello as you download !

These freebies have been shared on the understanding that they are not to be re-distributed in any means (including QPs). You may not share the files through any means, anyone interested in downloading them is to be directed to this blog. These freebies have been made using the actions available for purchase or downloading from Atomic Cupcake and brushes from Obsidian Dawn. Comments and feedback are encouraged and appreciated.

http://www.4shared.com/file/46177376/f6af0312/CWTG_-_Jump_-_NSD_-_Finnish.html

Best wishes,

Erika

14 Languages, 12 Styles, 1 Meaning Dutch

Thank you Christelle for the letting me know there were more versions. Time did not permit me to do all four versions by today. I will try and get back to them at a later date.

These freebies have been shared on the understanding that they are not to be re-distributed in any means (including QPs). You may not share the files through any means, anyone interested in downloading them is to be directed to this blog. These freebies have been made using the actions available for purchase or downloading from Atomic Cupcake and brushes from Obsidian Dawn. Comments and feedback are encouraged and appreciated.

http://www.4shared.com/file/46171268/2ca52abf/CWTG_-_Jump_-_NSD_-_Dutch__M_.html The female version is here http://www.4shared.com/file/46238826/acfadc8e/CWTG_-_Jump_-_NSD_Dutch__F_.html sorry no preview, I accidentally deleted it.

Best wishes,

Erika

14 Languages, 12 Styles, 1 Meaning Afrikaans

Happy (Inter)national Scrapbooking Day. This is the first set. These freebies have been shared on the understanding that they are not to be re-distributed in any means (including QPs). You may not share the files through any means, anyone interested in downloading them is to be directed to this blog. These freebies have been made using the actions available for purchase or downloading from Atomic Cupcake and brushes from Obsidian Dawn. Comments and feedback are encouraged and appreciated.You can download them here:

http://www.4shared.com/file/46168384/fa3a4717/CWTG_-_Jump_-_NSD_-_Afrikaans.html

Best wishes

Erika

Two Great Kids

Because my niece got TWO awards at school this week for her good behaviour and consideration of others and my nephew is a train-a-holic and is the Young Engineer of the month. We wish they were closer so we could share the good news. So a charm for a charming young lady, and some more trains for our gorgeous guy. If you have a Caitlin or Jack in your life and would like to download them the labels are in JUMP because Pam has posted train stuff with that kit:

http://www.4shared.com/file/46025632/3ad054ba/CWTG_-_Caitlin_and_Jack.html

Lots of love,

Auntie Erika

12 Silly Buttons

I was playing with the button action whilst I was waiting for the previous post's file to upload - 4 shared was VERY slow tonight. I wanted to see how the positioning of the holes would go with different shapes, and these are the results.

http://www.4shared.com/file/45905994/4e27460d/CWTG_-_Jump_-_12_Silly_Buttons.html

Hubby has finished studying for the night, so it is time to catch some Zs.

Best wishes,

Erika

Layout and Freebies

I absolutely love this photo I got of the kids on Anzac Day morning. But I was a little unsure how to scrap it. There were SO many colours in it - when will my kids learn to dress in more "scrappable" coordinating outfits LOL. I didn't want to make the piccie B&W because I love all the colours and I wanted my Grandad's medals to show properly. Add the complication that I wanted some sense of the Australian colours (green and gold). So - I adapted the colour block paper I made, and used the fantastic button action from http://www.atomiccupcake.com/ to make buttons out of the papers I had made for the jump add on. I thought the stripe would help bring out the medals. I made the tan strap to practice some dodge and burn techniques to make it look wrapped around the metal. It isn't supposed to be a belt just decorative LOL. Finally I scanned in my hubby's rising sun from his slouch hat. That was a nightmare to tidy up and not helped by the fact my dd had used my nice black cloth for scanning and photographing to wrap around both our lilac burmese cat and our white dog. SIGH. Anyway, I aged the photo a bit because the kids sitting there reminds me of two old mates on a bench. I used Gunhild's fantastic curled edges - they really are a great set and they are FREE http://www.storeide.se/gunhild/index.htm, and Obsidian Dawn's (http://www.brushes.obsidiandawn.com/index.htm) watermark brushes to stain it a bit on the edge. The screw is from escrapper http://www.escrappers.com/. So the bits I made (not the rising sun badge though) are available for you. I used the jump palette so people can get use out of them. Grab them here:

http://www.4shared.com/file/45858691/c4c771b7/CWTG_-_Jump_-_Anzac_Add_On.html

Best wishes,

Erika

φίλοι, 友人, 친구, друзья, Vrienden, Amis, Freunde, Amici, Amigos, Friends

This weekend is National Scrapbooking Day - well I for one think it needs renaming - International Scrapbooking Day. So I thought what I would do is make some labels (not JUST leather LOL - I am awaiting on a tech problem at Atomic Cupcake so I can get some more lovely actions to play with) celebrating the international flavour of the digital scrapbooking community. So these were just the initial ones I have done this morning - yeah finished the tax stuff for both businesses and gave myself some scrap time as a reward.

So here's the deal - I could only get a handful of translations for the word friend. If you would like to leave me a message in the comments to this post with the word friends in your language I will do those as well and post the results on Sunday. For my fellow Aussies - I will be including the word "mates" - LOL. I plan on doing these in as many mediums as time allows (there goes the housework !) and since EVERYONE love Pam's Jump Kit - I will use those colours.

Best wishes,

Erika

Freebie - SPLAT alpha

I had a bit of fun with this today. I think I've mentioned that I love bold bright colours and designs for my kids pages. I had a go at creating this alpha to use on my kids kindy pages. The letter in the middle is actually a cut out so will show whatever is behind it. I did some in all the JUMP colours and five of the RUN colours (I know what a slacker LOL). But you can easily change it to any colour by using the .png file as a clipping mask. And I did the them as a brush set LOL - talk about creating a monster. It did end up getting tedious by the second half of the alpha LOL but you will be pleased to know that I persisted and included the numerals, an ' and a !, and in the PNG files I put a hyphen for those with hyphenated names - cannot remember if I did that in the brushes (oops).

Thanks for the comments and emails about the couple of people that got cranky. It is mostly water off a ducks back, but I am big on manners (ask my poor kids), and I think sometimes we all need to remember patience and tolerance, I know I have my days. I have shot myself in the foot trying to be clever with these brush files and somehow saved over one of the ones in PSE, which I will have to figure out. For those that notice - yes I do know that I got two letters of the alphabet out of order (long story don't ask - they are all there though) and the abr file ended up being called brishes instead of brushes - that is for any kiwi digi-scrappers LOL.

http://www.4shared.com/file/44706358/687b05d6/CWTG_-_Splat_Alpha.html

I am still playing with the sanded paper on chipboard. The tutorials I had relied on you using their product, which I am happy to do, but I cannot share, so I am figuring out how to do it myself.

Best wishes,

Erika

Run Skip Jump - Add Ons

I worked through a tutorial about colouring grey scale images today and thought I would share the results. I had made a grey scale of the little flower I posted last week, and had done a couple of re-colours using the hue/saturation controls. Today I learnt how to do it differently, and decided to go with the ABC kits pallettes. I hope you can use the results. I know it may seem strange to use the "boy" kit colours, but I know people use it for lots of different stuff and repeating the lesson has reinforced the learning for me LOL.

So these virtual flowers are for all the kind people who leave a comment, and especially for Amyeile who noticed the problem with the link on the last post - thank you !!

Here's the link http://www.4shared.com/file/44377538/aba12781/CWTG_-_RunSkipJump_-_Add_On_-_Flowers.html

Not sure which tute I am going to play with next LOL. We have ballet in the morning for my four year old daughter and I have a board meeting in the afternoon.

Best wishes,

Erika