Just Be Natural $5 Grab Bag Collab and Freebie!!!

I got the opportunity to collab with the amazing Rachel of Seatrout Scraps.  Just Be Natural Grab Bag is offered for only $5!!! for one week.  A beautiful muted palette to let true beauty shine, this is the perfect kit to scrap all the natural beauties in your life.

 CT Inspiration

Finally, some freebie photo actions for you.  They are created with the same colors as the kit, for some coordinating monochromatic goodness.  Enjoy!

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Tested in PSE11+, CS3+, CC
As with any action, sometimes the layers need a little tweak.  You can lower the opacity of the gradient map layer to let a little color peek through or change the blend mode of the solid color layer to soft light or screen to change the contrast.

Barren Beauty Grab Bag and Freebie and Freebie and Freebie

Reintroducing Barren Beauty (Previously released at GS 5 years ago).  I hesitated to bring something back from so long ago, but after seeing the pages my CT created, I am so happy I did!  I've slightly upgraded the kit, bundled the goodies up, and given it an awesome price of only $5 - plus grab it 20% off as a new release this week! 

(Make sure you read to the bottom because this post is packed full of freebie and coupon goodness.)

CT Goodness

 Barren Beauty Freebie Alpha

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And finally, I have added a special Blended Template to the Welcome Wagon subforum at Gingerscraps.  The post contains a coupon to grab the template for free and also a coupon for an additional 25% off anything in my store! Enjoy!

Blended Templates and Template Freebie

It's Buffet time at Gingerscraps!  Grab some amazing coordinating products from the GS Designers - all 50% off! My contribution this month is a set of fun and unique Blended Templates.  They include my usual TIFF, PSD, and PNG format clustering plus bonus blend layers with my special blending recipe - for fabulous and easy photo blends.  I also have included a little freebie template for you at the end of the post so you can try out all the fun!

My CT absolutely rocked these blends:

It is easy to leave off the blends too.

FREEBIE

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Template Sneak and Free Kit!

It's the end of January, which means the February Buffet is just around the corner!  Here's a little sneak of my contribution - coming February 1st to Gingerscraps:

You still have a little time to get in on the giveaway on my Facebook page

and there's still time to sign up for my newsletter.  Denim Crush will go out free in the February 1st newsletter!

Feisty and Freebie

This kit was inspired by one of my creative team member's little Yorkie.  Once I got to researching the little dog, I realized their personalities sounded a lot like my tiny, but fierce daughter - and the high class, empowering, tiny creature kit was born.  For all the small, but might in your life, here is Feisty.

CT Inspiration

And a little something for you.  The freebie includes a coordinating dog tag and engraved style.

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So "Fawned" of You New Release, Tutorial, and Freebie

It's January 1st and that means Buffet time.  It also means, that I am officially staying on at Gingerscraps full time - a great way to ring in the New Year!  To celebrate, I have a coordinating alpha freebie for you (way down there at the bottom of the post), but don't scroll too fast, there is a fun mini tutorial and great new release you don't want to miss.

My contribution to the GS Buffet, {So "Fawned" of You}, a sweet deer meets Valentine's Day kit with some very "deer" word art is 50% off through January 5th.

With all the holiday crazy, I somehow found time to scrap a page myself.  (You are also going to want to snap up this sweet Buffet template by Pixelily that I used in my layout too).

To help my word art stand out in the cluster, I added a transparent background.  To create this effect yourself, click your word art layer while holding down the CTRL key.  This will create a selection of your word art.  Then go to SELECT>MODIFY>EXPAND.  I expanded the selection here by 40 pixels.  Create a new layer under your word art layer, and, while the new layer is selected, click ALT and BACKSPACE at the same time to fill the selection with color (use the color picker to select a coordinating color from your layout).  I then lowered the new layer's opacity and added a drop shadow to the new layer and word art layer.  You could also clip a paper to your expanded selection for a fun alternative.

Alpha Freebie

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End of Year Sale!

The holiday festivities have kept me away, but there are still a few days left to grab anything in my store for 50% off!

The sale includes my newest kit release {For the Love of Dance}

I'm so in love with this stunning page by my CTM using FTLOD

and a quick sneak peak of my Buffet item coming January 1st - {So "Fawned" of you}