Serious BLONDE Moment

And I don't mean that in a derogatory way to any of my blonde readers. BUT I made an OOOOOOPPPPPSSSSS of epic proportions. I don't know what I did, but it seems that when I did my preview of my QP freebie for yesterday I saved after I resized it. How stupid can you get. My sincere humble apologies and I'll redo the QP and post the new link tomorrow.

Unfortunately I was out the entire day and only saw that I made an oops and haven't had time to redo it. I'm soooooo sorry for my stupidity. Seems that age is starting to show it's ugly horns. LOL.

Well Kim B is still celebrating her birthday in STYLE and she has the most marvelous CU freebie on her blog today. Swing by and grab it up as her goodies are always perfection itself.

I wanted to make a little shop menu with her age on it as a price, but this year there's an odd number of candles on her cake and I decided to just make a fun and funky little menu element using some products from her PU Grab Bag. Just shows how versatile the goodies in this bag are. If you haven't got it yet I suggest you hurry and get yourself this bag, it is worth every cent.

Here's a preview of the menu element. And LOL yes, I checked the size 3 times before making this post. I have backache from trying to kick myself.

You can get it here http://www.4shared.com/file/146854185/36a40169/RB-kbbirthdaymenu.html. Remember to pop by tomorrow for the fixed QP and anothe little goodie that will be revealed.

Have a marvelous day.

Hugs

Renée

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIM B

WHOOOOOOHOOOOOO, it's my friend Kim B's birthday!!!!!! Many happy returns girlfriend. I hope this is the start of the best years yet to come. Oh boy and if you go read Kim's blog today, you will see that once again she's celebrating BIG!!!! I'm deliberately not cluttering my post with too much eye candy, as I really want you to go by her blog and wish her a HUGE, BIG, BEST birthday wish ever.

Since my last blog I have been extremely busy. I had to wind up my job and train someone new to take over from me. It was quite emotional as I have been with the company for 4 years and in that time colleagues usually become family. But it was time for me to move on and start my own venture.

I also bought a new computer to handle the magazine and all my scrapbooking and I have been setting that up to my liking. Wheeee and did my pc supplier surprise me with a gift of PS CS4. Whoooppeeee!!!!! I do have some PS experience, but have always preferred to work in PSP. I'm now doing as many PS tutorials as I can lay my hands on so that I can migrate fully to that.

And yesterday was my 50th birthday. WOW, I can't believe I'm a half a century old. I definitely don't feel it and plan to have a hooligan of note party on Saturday. There's 8 of us that have our birthdays one day after the other and we have decided to all get together on Saturday and PARTAY. I'll probably regret it on Sunday, but now I'm looking forward to it.

OK, I'm sure you want to see 1 or 2 little hints of what is in Kim's PU grab bag.

Here's a LO of my darling Jayden using 2 products in the PU Bag.

And here's a LO using a picture of Disney Lizzi from Deviant Art. Isn't it just perfect for this kit???

And of course I have a freebie for you. A QP using items from the PU bag.

You can get it here http://www.4shared.com/file/146292169/e091f177/RB-KBs_Birthday_QP.html. Just remember to go by Kim's blog and wish her a Happy Birthday.

Love and Hugs

Renée

AMAZING!!!! Eye Candy Intensive

That's what has been happening at DSO the past couple of weeks. AMAZING creations, AMAZING products and AMAZING prices.

TARRARRRARRARAH, it's the 2nd Annual DSO Personal Use Grab Bag week and the ladies have out done themselves. Each Grab Bag is filled with at least 4 items, all quality checked and of the highest quality standards, for only $3 per bag. I'm going to put up a preview of each bag and if you click the DSO Roll on the right hand side of the screen it will take you to each designers store. I unfortunately don't have a preview of Jazzy's bag, but I can assure you, it's worth having. Also, the photo mat I used for Jayden's pic in my last posting is hidden somewhere in Kim B's Bag. Enjoy your sales everyone. I NEED TO SMELL CREDIT CARDS BURN!!!! LOL.

Kim B

Loucee

Andrea Dickenson

Jill

Dianne

Lynn

Mel C

Misty

Sassy

Charlie

And here's a teaser of a LO I did with some goodies from Kim B's bag

My Commercial Use Overlay Bag is also still on sale for $5. That's 5 new products each with 5 full color and 5 desat overlays in each pack. That's 50 items making them 10c each. They'll be going to full price on Tuesday midnight so if you have your eye on them, grab the bag now.

As I missed posting yesterday, I will reveal 2 of the products in the Bag.

Striped Overlays

Hand Painted Fabric Overlays

Have a wonderful day.

Hugs

Renée

My First CU Grab Bag & CU Freebie

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

Oh boy, my life is changing by the day. My darling little GD will be 9 weeks old tomorrow and she's getting so cute. Jayden rules the house when she's here. We all become quite silly around her. Katia is blessed that she is such a happy contented little baby. Just look at how cute she is.

And if you want to know more about that stunning photo mat, be sure to pop around on Friday because I have some AMAZING news to tell you.


I'm about to realise a lifelong dream. I have always wanted to be involved in a biking magazine and I have just been offered the whole publication of a new magazine. I have resigned from my job to do the mag from home and to concentrate more on designing, so I'm so excited. My last day at work will be the 14th of October.

And I have my FIRST Grab Bag in the store. It's entirely an overlay bag with 5 new products, each with 5 full color and 5 desat overlays. That's a total of 50 overlays for 5$ for 1 week only. Here's a little hint of what's in the bag. All quality checked to make sure that it has no pixelation, blurry bits or anything that can frustrate a designer when they use a product for the first time. You can get it in my store here.



And of course I have a Commercial Use freebie for you. It's a hint of what is in the bag



You can get it here http://www.4shared.com/file/129656791/8c7b5816/RB-CU-Freebie-Overlays.html. And if you pop by tomorrow I will reveal 1 of the products that is in the bag.


Hugs
Renée

25 Hour Day & Bar One

Yeah, I know it's a crazy title for a blog post, but we have a chocolate here in South Africa called a Bar One and the punch line in the ads is "For a 25 Hour Day". I have recently been wondering if I have 3 of those a day, maybe I could have a 75 hour day and get through all the things I want to get through.

Jayden is growing so fast and is changing daily. Hopefully I'll get a chance to do a LO or 2 in the next day or two. I just love the stage she's at. She's 6 weeks old and started smiling and she smiles at her blanket and the lamp and the side of her carry cot and and and if you KWIM. LOL. It's too cute. It also looks as if she's going to have big blue eyes, but we'll have to wait a bit longer to be sure. She is thriving and Katia took to motherhood as if she's always done so. She is 100% comfortable with Jayden and if I think back to when Rainer was born I know I didn't handle him all that confidently.

I've been having a wierd headache for the past 2 days. All on the one side of my head and my eye kept on twitching. I was getting rather concerned this afternoon and decided to stop off at the doctor. Well I have to tell you, if my doctor wasn't married to one of my friends, he'd never see me. I'm not very fond of a doctor's room. His consulting rooms are on a very busy road and I was watching traffic very carefully and when I turned to check that both sides were clear I just felt this huge clack in my neck. 15 minutes later I was still waiting for the doctor when my headache was gone. Seems I had a bit of a pinched nerve and with the rapid movement of my head I managed to release it. He gave me some anti-inflamatories and a jab in the butt and hopefully this is the end of wierd headaches and I can see him at the next friends visit. LOL.

Well have you seen that Kim B has been at it again. She has another one of her glorious mega grab bags up in the store again. 8 Brand new CU products for $8 for a limited time only. And her regular customers will know that it's top notch quality. No strays or jagged edges. You can get it here

I've got a freebie cluster frame for you made with some of the products in the bag.

You can get it here http://www.4shared.com/file/125683997/67688ede/August_Mega_Cluster.html. Hope you enjoy using it.

Hugs

Renée

Very Bad Blogger & New CU Items

Hello Everyone

Seems all I'm doing lately is appologise for being such a bad blogger.

Life has really taken over. First my car was hi-jacked, then I became a GRANNY on the 2nd of July. Oh man, has that little madam just taken over my life. My DD Katia had a bay girl named Jayden and she is the cutest little thing imaginable. She has just stolen all our hearts and most of our time is spent with her.

I did this LO of her using various of Kim B's CU items.

I have also been working on some new CU items and I'm building up quite a few things to release during the month, but the following items are in my STORE. 25% off for 1 week only. All items have been quality checked for no jaggies or strays. No drop shadows on any of the items either.

The first 70's Ribbon are from ribbons I found in my mom's stash. It's times like these that I'm so happy she's a hoarder.

The second Africa Wildlife are some beautiful animal overlays that I made from photos taken by my very talented friend Warren de Swardt. They're textured with slightly grungy edges.

And I haven't forgotten about everyone, I have a faaabric flower that's CU friendly, and I've included a layered psd file, desat .png file and a colored .png file.

You can get it here http://www.4shared.com/file/122631114/20d5c3c0/CU_Fabric_Flowers.html. I hope you can find some use for this and we'll chat soon.

Hugs

Renée

Special People

Hello everyone

It's not often, but every so often in your life you meet a very special person. Today, my blog post is dedicated to just such a person. Her name is Gina (or Geezee) Zuiderduin. I'm going to tell you about her in a bit, but I first have to do a bit of advertising.

Bunny has decided to shake things up quite a bit over at DSO

First there's a Designer's Call Drive. Are you looking for a fantastic store? Are you looking to make friends with your fellow designers? Are you looking for a happy place? Then look no further, DSO is the place to be. Read more about it here.

Now for all the scrappers out there

Oh yes, you read it right. DSO will now have it's own Store Creative Team. Stop by the forum and read all about it. I'm so excited about this. WHEEEEEE

Now I have to share something that Kim got up to. Her creativity knows no bounds. Not only does she create the most amazing kits and CU goodies, but she challenges us as a CT as well. LOL. Earlier in the week she decides to come up with a "strange" request. It's time for the July Color Challenge and she asks each of us for a color. Well when they started coming through I thought, this is going to be spaghetti bolognaise. We are all so different. BUT Kim came up with 2 yes TWO amazing color swatches and 2 of the most incredible posting bonuses I have ever seen.

Go read the rules here and here.

OK, that out the way, let's get on to Geezee. I was carjacked on Monday morning. I don't want to dwell on that too much, but apart from the shock and losing my personal effects and being very frustrated by red tape I am OK. I am going for councilling and feel OK with what has happened. I just have this uncontrollable urge to swear profusely. Well Kimmie mentioned this on her blog yesterday (thanks my friend) and when I got home and checked my e-mail, I had this INCREDIBLE e-mail from Geezee. I'm not going to share the mail or the subsequent mails between Geezee and myself, but I have to tell you that she made me SOB. I cried harder because of her e-mail than after the whole scare I got.

Geezee, you are an incredible lady. May every kindness you show to others be returned to you a million times. I have made this little frame cluster to thank you and I'd like to share it with the scrapping community. All I ask is that if you use it, remember that it stems from a kind deed and be thankful for the kind and loving people in your life.

You can get it here http://www.4shared.com/file/115345105/686e218e/Geezee.html. Have a marvelous evening. I have an idea for color swatch one and I'm raring to go.

Love and many hugs

Renée