Dreams and Wishes Blog Train Freebie

This month STS has a lovely blog train coming around the corner. I created an alpha for it:

The alpha has upper, lower, numbers and symbols and may be used for personal use only. This is my 2nd try at an alpha (the first being in Home is Where the Heart Is from the SNP class) so let me know what you think :). You can dowload my part of Dream and Wishes here.











Fallow the Blog Train to get the rest of the great goodies made, and be sure to leave love!
Designs by Snowlady
Scraps by Missy
Shuckclod's Stuff
scraphannah
Queen Bee Scraps
Note-able Scraps
WinksArt Graphics
Karen Diamond Designs
Growing Pains Scrapped
AK Designs
Scraps by Andrea Memories by Digital Design
DinkeekDooDesigns
Flower Pot Designs                             {========= you are here
Let Me Scrapbook!                                       {-----------------------------Next Stop!
Mommy Me Time Scrapper
Created by Jill Scraps
Digital Scrap Fun
Wendy Tunison Designs
Saphira's Scraps
Busy Crafting Mommy
Monkey's Musings
Digi-designs by Nicole
Robin's Nest
Queen Wild Scraps
Meagan's Creations
Ponytails Designs
Hat of Bunny
Fit 2 Be Scrapped
DoubleTrouble Scraps
The Scrappy Kat
JMC Designs

Scrap It Too: Give Away

Digi Designs by Nicole is having a raffle on her blog, and the prize is her kit, to be released Monday, Scrap It Too. This looks to be an adorable kit, I like the colors and computer elements I see :).  You can enter in two fashions, you can enter the raffle on her blog, and/or you can blog about her soon-to-be kit and raffle and post a link in the forum. Good luck!

21 Guns performed by Infinite

Here is the Talent Show performance of 21 Guns (by Green Day) performed by Infinite.

This is a small version, so the quality isn't wonderful. If you are part of this group and a) would like a better quality copy of this publication or b) notice a problem that you would like fixed please contact me at lm98fisher@gmail.com, send me a message, or give me a call.

Sunny Days: Freebie

The blog train at SNP this month was called Sunny Days, I made  a cute mini kit for you this month! You can download Sunny Days by Flower Pot Designs here, or by clicking the image.















Fallow the rest of the blog train to gather up all these fantabulous portions! Be sure to leave love too!


Karen Diamond Designs
True North Scraps
AndreasCreativePhotographyandDesigns
Magic Moments Scrapped
Shuckclods Stuff
Busy Crafting Mommy Designs
...too busy to blog today
J.D.zYnes
KB Custom Creations
DigitalDesignsbyNoelle
Kristal Kreations Monkey's Musings
Keystone Scraps
Lady Sherwood
Grace Blossoms 4 U
Queen Wild Scraps
Ponytails Designs
Stampgram's Studio
Wendy Tunison Designs
DoubleTrouble Scraps
Ladybug Pics n Scraps
Flower Pot Designs            {----------  You Are Here
Edina Designs Digitally           {--------------------------------Next Stop!
Scrap with Me! CMG
Mommy Made This
Memories by Digital Design

Home Is Where Your Heart Is

I have been taking a class in the SNP forum for designing and the result is a mini-kit from me and the other fabulous designers on my team. You can check out the SNP gallery to grab the links for all the great portions from my team, and the others.

I have also made an addon to go with it and you  can download it right here from my blog.
Fallow this link or click the preview at left to snag the add-on. It includes the rest of the alpha from my kit, 6 elements, 1 word art, and 3 papers.

Freebie: Home is Where the Heart is

For the last 5 weeks I have been taking  a designer mentoring class at the SNP forum.  There are 8 teams that have all created free kits throughout the course. This is our last week and beginning next Monday (May 7th) all of those kits will be available for free! The catch is, you have to be a forum member at Scraps N Pieces, in order to get them. The links will only be available in our forum/gallery. So, get registered now so we can get you approved so you can pick up the LIMITED TIME freebies.  

My team did a kit callled Home is Where the Heart is. Take a look at the Sneak Peak to see the color scheme and then check out the gallery on Monday to grab out great portions. Mine includes 3 papers, 7 elements, 2 word arts, a template, and numbers & symbols of an alpha. Also here on my blog  I am offering an ADD-ON to my part with 3 papers, 5 elements, and the rest of the alpha in the kit, so be sure to check back on Monday to grab that.

Sneak Peak for the kit:

Sneak Peak for the Add-On:

The Point Of No Return

  This is a little out of character for my blog, but I would like to share a great story. The Point Of No Return is written by one of my friends, going by the pseudonym SydLovesTigers (she is an amazing writer by the way, all her books are amazing). She has entered this in the Watty Awards contest!!
  The Point Of No Return is about an asteroid speeding toward the Earth and no one seems to be able to come up with a solution to save the world, save a teenage girl. Unfortunately this plan won't be able to save everyone. Who will live? What will happen?

Here is  the synopsis:
  An asteroid, Entiem, is scheduled to hit Earth in two months. Our savior? A fourteen-year old girl who hardly talks to anyone and is more colder than ice with a mind as great as Thomas Edison's or Albert Einstein's. Those chosen to live? Four from each country, and the world's most respected politicians, voted upon by the UN. After the panic, comes confusion, and the tables are turned, making the survivors, the endangered.

Check out The Point of No Return on WattPad here, or read it on your phone using a WattPad app and the story code 4087363. Don't forget to leave love/comments!

Spring Into Color

This month SNP has the cutest blog train to share, it is called Spring Into Color. There are lots of gorgeous pieces. I made a kit with 6 papers and 13 elements for PU to share this month. You can download it here, or by clicking the preview.

Be sure to leave lots of love for all the amazing portions this month!

Amy's Designs
Andrea's Creative Photography and Designs
AK Designs
KB Custom Creations
Edina Designs Digitally
shuckclods stuff
Scraps N Pieces
Flower Pot Designs          {-------------- You are here!
Donna's Scraps Of Life          {-------------------------------Next Stop :)
Wendy Tunison Designs
Sheri's Scrappin' Spot
Busy Crafting Mommy Designs
Ladybug Pics n Scraps
DigitalDesignsbyNoelle
MagicMomentsScrapped
...too busy to blog today
Stampgram's Studio
Heni scrappel
Keystone Scraps
Penny H Designs
True North Scraps
Memories by Digital Design
Karen Diamond Designs

STS Blog Train- Spring Showers And Lots Of Flowers

The STS Blog Train this month was called Spring Showers and Lots of Flowers. I made a little kit as you can see. It has 8 papers and 11 elements. You can dowload my part of Spring Showers and Lots of Flowers here.

Fallow the Blog Train to get the rest of these great goodies!
Created by Jill Scraps
DoubleTrouble Scraps
scraphannah
LdyMcBeth's Spot
Flower Pot Designs   {-------You are here
AK Designs    {------------------------------------Next Stop
Cami Jo Designs
Hat of Bunny
Busy Crafting Mommy
Saphira's Scraps
Queen Bee Scraps
Let Me Scrapbook!
Scrappin Serenity
The Digi Scrapping Mama
The Scrappy Kat
Eva Marina Scraps
Mommy Made This
Designs by Angel
Note-able Scraps

Making letter templates for pics

I'm really not sure what I should call this tutorial, but letter templates is the best my imagination can produce. Maybe a picture would explain it better:

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1. a) select the text tool.
    b) choose a font that is bold and blocky
    c) type you letter
    d) choose the move tool
    e) resize the letter to fill the screen

2. a) choose the rectangle shape tool

    b) create rectangles over the letter leaving about a 1/4" between them or as you see fit

    c) group all the layers to the letter by pressing control and g. or holding alternate and clicking between the layers

3. a) simplify all the layers by right clicking on them and simplifying

    b) select the shape of the letter by control clicking on the layer thumnail of the letter

    c) press control, shift and i together to select the inverse or oposite

    d) keeping the selection, click on each layer and hit the delete key to delete the part of the rectangle that is outside of the shape

4. a)If you haven't already simplify the text layer

    b) un-clip/un-group the rectanges from the text layer by selecting the one directly above the text layer in the layers panel and pressing control and g.

    c)Add drop shadows, and bevels if you are so inclined via the effects window.

    d)Customize the shadows by clicking on the little fx to the right of the layer thumnail in the layers panel

5. Using the template

    a)Click on the 'File' menu in the top left, the down to 'place' find you picture then double click on it, click once and press enter, or click the picture then place.

    b)Move the picture in the layers panel to just above the rectangle

    c) Group it to the rectange by pressing control and g

    e) Repeat this until all the rectangles have pictures, or for a neat effect group papers to some

Here is an example made with my part of the upcoming April SNP Blog Train: Spring Into Color

Spring Shower and Lots of Flowers

I made a kit for the April 1st STS Blog Train. It has 11 elements and 8 papers. You can download it here, or click the preview.

Free template

I made a free template for the Junior Scrapper Challenge at STS. If you are a junior scrapper, head on over to STS to complete the challenge. You can download the template here.

Hint Of Spring STS Blog Train

This month I jumped on board and created a kit for the STS Blog Train, Hint of Spring. I personally think these color are gorgeous, and so I redid my blog ware with my part.You can download my part of the kit here. It is with Wiki so there should just be a button to click ( fingers crossed:) ). If you scroll down a little I made a freebie to go with my shaped paper clip tutorial with this kit.

There are a bunch of cute things this month so fallow the train to pick up all of these free goodies!

JMC Designs
WinksArt Graphics
Memories by Digital Design
Busy Crafting Mommy
scraphannah
HD Creations
Shel Belle Scraps
Hat of Bunny
Karen Diamond Designs, formerly known as "scrapN2Nspire".
Flower Pot Designs   <-------------------------------------------------------------UR here
The Digi Scrapping Mama
DoubleTrouble Scraps
A Fish Design
Ponytails Designs
Just For Fun Designs
Leaving a Legacy Designs
Created by Jill Scraps
Ladybug Pics n Scraps
SAHM Scrapper
Saphira's Scraps
The Scrappy Kat
Scrappin Serenity
Designs by Snowlady
DinkeeDooScraps
Mommy Made This
Let Me Scrapbook!
Note-able Scraps
Monkey's Musings
Joyeuse Pagaille
Sweet Maple

Creating a shaped paper clip {freebie}

Today l'm going to share a tutorial on creating shaped paper clips, using Photoshop Elements I'll be using 9 but just about any program will work.    Note that clicking on the pictures will bring up a window with their full size.

1. Create a new document (ctrl + n), name it shaped paper clip, make it what ever size you want, I'm using 12*12, double check that the resolution is 300, color RGB, and the background is transparent, click OK.

2. Create you cutom shape. First select the custom shape tool (A). Then choose your shape(b) and color(C). Finally draw a shape just a little smaller than you page.

3. Dublicate the shape (ctrl+j) (a), rename them shape and clip (b), free transform 'shape' (ctrl+t) to make it 90% of its origonal size (c), accept the change by clicking the checkmark (d). Right click on first 'shape' and then 'clip' and select simplify.

4. Delete the center of the rim. ctrl +click on the thumnail of 'shape' to select it. Then select 'clip' and press Delete.

5. Increase the rim size by first selecting the 'clip' then holding down alt while dragging the little box out till it is 110% bigger.

6.Connect the rim to the shape by first creating a new layer and dragging it to the bottom (A), then (B) selecting the brush tool, and using either the size variable or the bracket keys ([=+, ]=-) to find a size that fills the gap and finally clicking once on the new layer to connect the 2.

7. Merge all of the layers together by right clicking then selecting merge visible.

8. Group (ctrl+g) a paper to your newly made clip and layer some elements. Add drop shadows and bevels and you ready to.

 Below is a free circular paper clip. Right click and choose save as to download it. l made it with my portion of Hint of Spring feel free to Use it for Personal Use, but please give credit to Flower Pot Designs.   

Hint of Spring

Made for the STS March blog train: The rest of the train will be released on the first of March.This has 9 papers, and 12 elements, and is for PU Only. You can download it here.

Febuary Blog Train

This month the SNP blog train is called Twitterpated, I made a set of templates to share, you can download them in either PSDs, .tiff, or .pdf (each file type has a different download). I think that downloads should be fairly straight forward now, simply click the download button, but let me know if it fails to work, that seems to be my luck lately.

Fallow the blog train to get the rest of the great freebies this month.

Amy's Designs
Magic Moments Scrapped
AmyDane Designs
Karen Diamond Designs formally known as "Scrapn2Nspire"
Monkey's Musings
Keystone Scraps
Ladybug Pics n Scraps
Queen Wild Scraps
Flower Pot Designs     <----------------------------------------------You are here
Scraps N Pieces
Lisa's Scraps
Wendy Tunison Designs
By Christin's Blog
Memories by Digital Design
Just For Fun Designs
KatyBugScraps
Ponytails Designs
DoubleTrouble Scraps

Snail Mail *new link*

I'm sorry something was wrong with the download for the add-on, I reuploaded it and it seems to be working, the new link is down below...

My entry for the Designer Darling Contest round two is called Snail Mail. You can download the elements here and the papers here.

I also made an add-on to go with it. You can download it here.

My Sweatheart

Today By Christin released her latest kit My Sweatheart just in time for Valentines Day. Still need to get some cards made? This is just what you need. Have some wonderful pictures of Valentines Day festivites? This kit is for you.
To get the creative juices flowing I have some pages made with pictures from my recent orchestra concert:

And I have a freebie to share; it is a frame and you can find it here. Select the zip file labeled Leah_BC_MS_freebie, then in the right hand side bar there should be an option to download.

Designer Darling Round 1- Something Sciency

I am participating in the Designer Darling Contest at Stuff To Scrap.

You can find the download link over at the STS DD thread. While your in the area if you could vote on your top favorite kits!

My week 1 attempt is called Something Sciency:

You can download Something Sciency here.

Blog Train

This month the STS blog train was All You Need Is Love. I made a little mini kit. You can find it here, find the zip labeled FPD_AYNL then in the right hand colum should be an option to download it.

Follow the train to get the rest of the great goodies:

DoubleTrouble Scraps
CutieFruity
Just For Fun Designs
Busy Crafting Mommy Designs
JMC Designs
Scrappin Serenity
Joyeuse Pagaille
The Digi Scrapping Mama
Flower Pot Designs <~~~~~~~~ You are here
A Fish Design
SnickelsCorner Scraps
Ponytails Designs
Mommy Made This
Queen Wild Scraps
Cami Jo Designs
PizazzPixels
Lisa's Scraps
lmcdesigns
scraphannah
Growing Pains Scrapped
The Scrappy Kat
Saphira's Scraps
Kandiced
Sweet Maple
Junfunkie Designs
Let Me Scrapbook!
Note-able Scraps
Stuff to Scrap