Rikkiscraps

A new theme for SE called “Machinery” is available on mobile9.com. For additional previews and your free download go here.

Seems I’m slowly coming back to life.

I’ve got two new templates up in my shop at PDP and all my products are on sale at the moment with 20% off without minimum purchase.

A new theme for Sony Ericsson is now available on mobile9.com. For an additional preview and the free download go here.

In this book “Mit Kindern wohnen” I saw how someone wrote the first few lines of “Where the wild things are” in a spiral on their wall. “Where the wild things are” is my favourite children’s book and I would so like to copy that, but I’m all thumbs, so I figured I could do it digitally and add a bit to it. A white poster with only writing on it might not look so great after all. So I came up with this:

I simply used the custom spiral shape in Photoshop, wrote the text on a path and added the image underneath with a gradient mask. Easy!

I was shocked to hear that TADA is closing down. The shop will close in early February, so now is the last chance to stock up on Tracy Ann’s supplies. Almost everything is 50% off. Alternatively you can buy the whole shop for 69,95$ until Wednesday or 89,95$ from then on. An excellent deal!

Totally forgot day 12.

Just playing around with an ashtray.

On the way to work.

Outside a coffeeshop

Out for a walk in the snow

Snow covered terrace

A friend of ours brought Christmas cookies from China with him. They taste very unusual, nothing like the Christmas cookies I know. Still good though, just very different.

This is my favourite cafe where I had breakfast this morning.

This is the high street in the quarter where I live. I snapped this real quick with my cell phone when I was on the way to one of the shops.

My car is a hippie one, with flower stickers on the outside, flower garlands on the dashboard, a peace sticker on the rear window. Today a friend showed me this steering wheel cover. It is perfect for my car, just the little finishing touch.

I couldn’t make up my mind what picture to use, so I chose both.

The park behind my workplace.

Burger King

Day 3 is all about muffins. I made a whole lot of “Bear Muffins” with marzipan and almonds for Sean’s birthday party at kindergarten tomorrow. With only one muffin tray that took a while…

This is our main train station this morning. Pretty neat Christmas decoration.

Nina posted her first two photos of her project 365 on her blog today. That inspired me to join that project as well. Fun way to keep track of the year in images.

This is Conny Wenk’s daughter Juliana. Isn’t she absolutely gorgeous? We got this double sided christmas/new year card from Conny, the loveliest card ever. I don’t think I’ll be discarding this one together with the rest.

I finished a new theme for Sony Ericsson phones called “Dotted Line” (don’t ask how it got that name, I don’t know myself). You can see more previews and  download it for free at mobile9.com.

The new Christmas edition of quickpages for the iPhone and iTouch is available in the iTunes shop now.

Show your favorite treasured moments off with style. Once photographs are put into the templates they can be shown one at a time or as part of a slideshow. Make a wallpaper of the combined image and set it on your iPod or iPhone. Email the finished image to friends and family.

Get more information on John’s website John E. Donovan Mobile Solutions or go to iTunes.

This time it’s flowers again and not the least bit of grunge involved. My newest theme “Astrantia” is available at mobile9.com. For more previews and the free download go here.

I’ve been looking around a bit for Black Friday Sales. I know, I haven’t scrapped much lately, but shopping is such fun. The right stuff might get me into it again, right? So, in my eyes the best sales are:

Vera Lim has a storewide sale with everything 45% off. Plus, her designs are now S4H friendly.

Digital Design Essentials has a storewide sale with everything 60% off. If you spend 20$ or more, take an additional 5$ off with a coupon code that you will find on her homepage.

Paislee press’ designs are all 20% off. Newsletter subscribers can take an additional 10% off with a special coupon code.

Tracy Ann has a Thanksgiving Clearance with 139 products at 50% off. Retail value is 500$. If you’d like ALL those products get a special deal for 49.95. Or get HALF for 29.95. I don’t think you can get a better deal than that. All other products in the shop are 40% off.

Almost everything 55% off all weekend! Check out Polka Dot Potato!

A bit different in style than my other themes, grungy and, I think, pretty cool. The theme is available now at mobile9.com. For an additional preview and your free download go here.

Creating Keepsakes offers a free photo book from Shutterfly at the moment. Usually I don’t use Shutterfly because the postage is quite high for me, but in this case the book is a real bargain. The offer is good for a 20 page, 7×9 soft cover book. I had tons of pictures from two trips to a family adventure park in summer and I was already dreading to do umpteen pages to get them all included into my yearbook. So I figured I might as well do a little separate booklet just for those two days.

Another new thing for me was to use Shutterfly templates and backgrounds. That was dead easy, I chose a theme, a set of backgrounds, a sketch for every page, plopped the pictures on it, added title and /or captioning, done. Admittedly, it is not as individual as handmade pages would have been and certainly not how I would have done it myself, but the time saving factor is a big plus. You can change single background papers, choose how many pictures you want on one page and the overall layout – really very convenient. For people who don’t have the time or inclination to spend hours on a page, this is the perfect solution.

This is the cover of my book.

My new SE phone theme “Wallflower” is now available at mobile9.com. To see more previews and download it for free, go here.

Today is the first day of Jessica’s class Holidays in hand. I got all the stuff done basically, so I’m pretty happy.

* Write down goals for this Christmas season – check

I created a nice wordle which I might be able to use later on in the class, not sure yet, but I will definitely be able to use it for a layout. Wrote down some goals, which might help to focus and won’t cause me to say afterwards “I wish I had…”.

* The 20 minutes per day commitment  – check

That might not be so hard to do either. Not sure what I’m going to do with it, but I’m quite behind in my scrapbooking, so there’s a possibility to catch up a bit.

* Getting organized – check

A good idea, too. I made a list of things to do, hopefully I’ll be able to stick to it. It would be nice to not run around like a chicken without a head, because I forgot something and only remembered in the last minute.

In February 2007 I changed the cover of this cheap photo album to use it as a recipe book and today, more than two and a half years later, I finally managed to add some recipes to it. I don’t even remember what I did that for, oh yes, I think I did it with the girls from the old Let’s scrap forum, but somehow our recipe collection never came to pass.

Credits; Ronna Penner’s Kitschy kitchen kit

I absolutely love this one. If you are a girly girl and/or if you liked my “Happy Holidays” theme, you will like this one, too. It is available now on mobile9.com. For the free download and more previews go here.

On Nina’s blog there is a little inspiration game going on. Go, play and maybe win a 10$ GC for her shop at Oscraps. She provides a great quickpage to start with, too.

This is what I came up with. I really don’t like to see those guys hanging around like this.

Credits: Quickpage: Ninascraps, Additional splatter: DaniB, Font: Frutiger Linotype

I’m so totally out of the loop that I almost missed Digital Scrapbooking Day. Not that I am scrapbooking much theses days, but shopping for supplies is always pleasant. And, who knows, the right kit might get me back into it. So, the Paislee Press newsletter drew my attention this morning to a gorgeous collab kit by Paislee Press and Leora Sanford called In good company. It is 15% off and a set of quickpages comes for free with purchase. I just couldn’t resist. Plus: newsletter subscribers got a coupon to get Paislee Press’ Presslines No. 16 for free as well. So, as far as shopping goes I’m quite happy this morning.