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!

This is for the UK girls! You may already be familiar with Swagbucks – a site where you can earn points by searching the web, shopping and taking surveys – I know I have seen it featured on a lot of US blogs. It has always been open to us Brits, but the prizes / gift cards available for us have been… well… not to put too fine a point on it – UTTER PANTS. However, they are now offering amazon.co.uk gift cards – whoo!! Since making this wonderful discovery, I have been using swagbucks for most of my internet searches and have collected enough points to get my hands on my first gift certificate. I will admit to being rather sceptical about the whole thing, but I am happy to say that it works! It really works! My amazon account now has a little gift certificate applied to it and I am well on my way to claiming my next one, just from searching the web! Yay! Free spends!

Swagbucks run a referral system, if you sign up using this link then whatever swagbucks you earn (up to a set amount), I earn too! Once you are signed up you can make your own referrals to create your own friends list and get your hands on their bucks too!

Click me! Click me! Go on, you know you want to….

If, like me, you spend far too much time searching for random stuff on the web you might like to give this a try!

Thanks for the comments and emails after the last post, it is good to know I am not just talking (typing?!) to myself on those rare occasions I actually get round to blogging!

Ok, the first thing I neeeed to tell you about is the quarterly sale that we are holding at TLP at the moment and I need to tell you quickly because it ends tonight!

One day I will get myself organising. Honestly, I will. Hopefully. Maybe. Today is also the last day to save 20% on the new BYOC products including this paper pack:

Quick, quick, grab some bargains while you can!!

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I also have a little something for those of you who are DST Gold or Diamond members.   I am thrilled to be the DST Featured Designer for July and here’s the kit I made for you:

MY FIRST KIT! It has only taken me three and a half years to pluck up the courage to make one. Ahem. This kit is only available to DST Gold and Diamond members, it’s not in my Lilypad store. (You can click here to find out more about membership over at DST). Here’s some amazing CT inspiration:

Such great layouts aren’t they? They make me very proud, my girls. Each of them have been carefully handpicked to make sure they can make my scribbles look good, ahaha!

** FREEBIE ALERT! **

Speaking of people who make my scribbles look good, my friend Kaylea has made these fun games to help entertain your little (or big) ones in the car! Genius idea! Check ‘em out:

Included are 3 letter sized sheets for you to print and give to your kiddiwinks: a scavenger hunt where you tick off each every item you see, a USA spot the license plate game and – my favourite – the Cow-Culator game complete with jokes Such fun! You download them HERE and if you do, you might like to stop by Kaylea’s blog and say hi. I hope this helps with those looooong summer drives!

Phew! Finally, I just want to wish my American chums a very happy 4th of July! I hope you have a wonderful day!