Last Friday saw the launch of the August BYOC (and I think it was also about then that my brain gave up trying to remember anything and just switched to ’summer holiday raining every day survival mode’ whereby the only useful information it can store is where the sky remote and chocolate hobnobs are).

I made some sewing themed doodles this month and this is what they looked like (this was an especially difficult to preview to make with lots of little bits and pieces!):

Because I am so late posting this (oooh, déjà vu anyone?!) here’s a coupon to take 20% off the regular price of these babies until Friday: stitchnotintime

After I re-released the Old Skool bits and bobs last week my CT suggested that I re-release another oldie, so here is my Wordy-Bits alpha back from the depths of my hard drive ready for a TT $1 day deal! This is one of my favourite alphas, it was originally part of a collab with my lovely pal Tiff Brady and we retired it when Tiff stopped designing. There are two previews because I can’t decide which one I like best (hobnob / sky remote brain at work again!)

Hope you have a lovely week!

Wow, it feels like ages since I did a TT $1 deal (which is probably because it IS ages since I did a TT $1 deal) – so today I’m doing two A lovely customer of mine recently got in touch and asked about the long retired Funky Junky Old School kit and whether I would consider re-releasing the doodles as her son had just been made Head Boy at school. So I considered it (!!) and here’s the result:

Both the doodles and the alpha are on sale at $1 each today only. Get ‘em while they’re hot!!

P.S. FJ Old School is the kit that I have had the most correspondence about after release, by a long looong way. And the reason for most of the correspondence is the red shield like badge in front of the locker in the preview. The one that says “Prefect”. Not “perfect”. It is actually meant to say “Prefect” – it wasn’t some ironic misspelling of ‘perfect’ ah ha ha ha!!

I assumed that Prefect was an international term (both Rach and Michelle from the original FJ collab understood it, which I later worked out was because they both read Harry Potter!!) but now I know that it isn’t. At all. For the record, a prefect is a school pupil who has a position of authority over other pupils, a bit like a head boy or girl, or maybe a hall monitor. Just another of those strange British-isms I like to throw out there every once in a while, you know, just to confuse people

Your challenge for the day (should you chose to accept it) is to use the word “Prefect” in a sentence and see if anyone notices. Or asks if you meant “perfect”.

Chat tonight!!

Would you like to come and chat with me tonight?! I’m the featured designer over at Digishoptalk this month and as such I get to have my own little chat so I will be online from 7pm EST tonight (Friday 30th July) nattering away in the DST chat room. (That’s midnight for us UK girls – sorry!!) Please come and join me if you can, I would love to see you there, you can even ask me whatever you like

Hhmmm, I seem to be on a bit of a roll with the food inspired products lately. Probably because I am *trying* to eat more healthily, so naturally all I can think about is cake. Cake, cake and more cake. Speaking of which:

This new collab kit I made with lovely Gina is out today and 20% off all weekend! Coffee (or should that be cawfee?!) and cupcakes are two things that I always associate with Ms Miller so it was very fitting that we chose this theme to work with, sort of like essence of Gina in a kit. Without the shopping (the 3rd thing I associate with Gina!)

I also have the alpha and doodle parts of the kit available individually:

EARLY BIRD BONUS (this weekend only)

Use this code to save a further 10% off the new Coffee & Cupcakes alpha or doodle packs: coffeecaketreat

Here’s some CT inspiration from my amazing girls:

I hope you have a lovely weekend! I’ll be back next week with the BYOC goodies

Wow. Three posts in as many days – unheard of!! LOL I have another new kit to show you today, the one I teased you about yesterday! The mystery designer is none other than the lovely Shabby Miss Jenn and here’s the delicious, summery kit in its full fruity glory:

Umm yum yum yum, it makes me hungry just looking at it Jenn and I decided it was time to make another kit together and went for a lemonade stand meets fruit picking theme!

EARLY BIRD BONUS

Use this code for an extra $1 off Fruit Stand all weekend: yummyyummyfruit

Here’s some amazing CT inspiration from my talented team and the rocking Pad Pollywogs:

Fruit Stand is 20% off Friday – Sunday! And to celebrate, Jenn and I decided to run a special offer on our first collab, Bundle Up – this kit is on sale at 30% off all weekend! Time to grab some bargains!

It’s the last day of term here today, the summer holidays officially start tomorrow – whoo!!! I hope you have a wonderful weekendy and for all the Brits out there a fabulous start to the summer hols!

Thanks to the random number generator, the winner of the album giveaway is… drumroll please…… Lori!

Submitted on 2010/07/21 at 5:41pm by Lori

This is such a cool collaboration! LOVE IT!

Many congratulations Lori, you should have had an email with your prize details (please let me know if you haven’t received it). And here is the prize – The Summer of Us album created by Tiffany Tillman is 30% off TODAY (Thursday 22nd July) ONLY! Today’s the day to snap up a bargain if you are looking for a quick and easy album to help you  preserve all those previous summer memories!

I had a question about the doodle pages included in the kit so I thought I would answer here too in case anyone was wondering! Included in the pack are four pre-designed doodle pages with matching journaling pages, designed to make 4 double page spreads. (You can see an example in the preview – the Just Beachy page is next to the corresponding journalling page).  The doodles and titlework are shadowed and merged into one layer, although they are separate from the background so you can easily add your choice of background paper or more embellishments. The photo layers then sit either on top or underneath the doodle layer, there is some flexibility to move the photos around with some of the pages but they are really designed to work as is. The journaling pages are same – merged doodles and titlework, separate from the background (although the title can be easily removed if you wanted to change it). If you have more questions about the album, please just ask!

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I just wanted to leave you with a little tease, because that’s the sort of girl I am This is a sneaky peak of another collaboration project that’s coming out on Friday. Any ideas who the other designer is?! I will give you a clue: she is utterly fabulous! All will be revealed on Friday!

** TIME FOR A LITTLE GIVEAWAY!! **

Wanna win something? How about a summer album kit created by the wonderful Tiffany Tillman?! Oh yes, THE Tiffany Tillman! I was so thrilled when Tiffany got in touch and asked if I wanted to work with her on this project, I have long been a fan of her amazing photography, layouts and templates – not to mention her laugh-out-loud blog posts!! She has created this Shutterfly ready set of templates, quickpages, papers and more using a selection of my doodles and her own wonderfully fresh and clean style!

Isn’t it fun?! The whole thing makes me smile when I look at it The album will be released tomorrow (Thursday 22nd – Thursday, not Friday!) but to be in with a chance to win a copy, simply leave me a comment here before midnight EST today (4am GMT) and I will pick a random winner first thing tomorrow! So easy.

Tiffany and I are both giving away a copy of this kit to one lucky blog reader each, so you might like to pop over to her blog too to double your chances! Here’s hoping your summer is warmer and drier than mine  – we have three more days until the kids finish school and it has been been raining solidly for the last week – argh!

I will be back tomorrow to announce the winner, good luck!