Crafts U print are looking for cardmakers

Crafts U Print  have recently added a new concept to their site.

They are looking for cardmakers to upload their card designs onto the CUP gallery, and offer a commision as incentive.

To earn money you have to purchase and make your creations from craft and cardmaking sheets purchased from the site. Most sheets are 80p, and single backing papers are 20p per download and with over 30,000 sheets to chose for your sure to find something you love.

Commision is paid on each sale of the sheet or kit you have used it to make your card. The amount of commision you get per sale increases the more cards you have on the site.

Click on Crafts U Print for more details.

I made it to the final!

Great news, I made it to the Stuff to Scrap Designer Darling finals!

12 of us got through. What a difficult decision the judges must have had, they originally planned on 10 places. The final task lasts for 2 weeks and in that time we have to design a full sized kit + full alpha.set.

So, I'll have to up my game and design a wonderful kit for you all to snag! Thank you for your support over these past few weeks.

Alison x

My entry in the Designer Darling Comp's 4th Challenge + a CU freebie

Hi Everyone,

This week in the Stuff to Scrap Designer Darling competition we were given the task of picking 3 objects, photograph or scan them and extracting them to quality control standards. Of course, the objects must meet with copyright legistation.

After quite a few false starts, and much pulling of hair, I eventually came across a bundle of handmade and designed applique tableware, placemats.

I was given them by my late Grandmother, many years ago. An elderly family friend had gifted them to her back in the early 60's. She had lovingly hand stitched ever one.


As before, if you would like to download these CU applique flowers you will have to visit Stuff to Scrap forum (you will be asked to enroll as a forum member if you are not one already, it's free.)

If you would like to support me you can vote for my entry at the forum from 7 am Friday 5th (GMT) till 7am on Sunday 7th Feb.

Link to the STS forum to download

And another CU freebie you can download from here

2 x CU grunge paper overlays

You can download here

Hope you enjoy

Hugs alison :)

Here's February's STS blogtrain, Digital Scrapbook Kit Freebie for you

Hi Everyone, It's time to join the first Stuff to Scrap Blogtrain of the new year. This month's theme is Groundhog day and the emerging Springtime.

Groundhog day doesn't mean a lot to us Scots, (except perhaps the film) so I've opted for a general spring theme with lots of Snowdrops!!

As I'm at the end of the line, just hop on at Becky aka SAHM Scrapper to snag the rest of the kits.

Remember that the designers are all from different time zones, so all the links might not be posted yet. But do try again later.

So here is my kit for you. It is okay for PU/S4O/S4H.

Here are the 4share links for you:

Download Papers

Download Elements

And the blogtrain list

Becky aka SAHM Scrapper
Night Light Scrapper
Digi-Scrapz by Christi
Scraps N Pieces
¡nyi + a digit·lis scrapbooking
Nibbles Skribbles
Little Red Scraps
jensenmotleycrewdesigns
JIC Creations
Scrapalicious Cereal
Just For Fun
Saphira's Scrapdesign
Lots of PrettyThings
Let Me Scrapbook!
Rainamoon Scraps
Adriana's Cafe
Quiltifications
Always Be Neighbors Designs
Scrappin' Serenity
The Scrappy Kat
Craft With Me
Shel Belle Scraps
Tonisha's Playground
Where The Heart Is
Altered Sea
Kerry's Scraps
GB DESIGNS
This Little Missy
Seal Scraps
Samantha Scraps
Milly Dee Designs -YOU ARE HERE

My Free Mini Kit for Challenge 3,

I have finally finished my Mini Scrap Kit entry for challenge 3 of Stuff to Scrap Designer Darlings competition.

This week, we were given the photos of Deanna's beautiful and hand sewn quilt to use as inspiration for our task. And that was it.

We could go anyway with it, use and any colour palette, the only criteria was to give an explaination as to why we were inspired in that way.

Try as I might, I just couldn't get passed sewing and quilting as a theme. And the colour palette was so beautiful I stuck with that.

At  Christmas, I saw an advert in a craft magazine for NitWits scrapbooking kits and just loved their puffy quilted stitched effects.

I wanted to do something like that.

It's taken me a while, I've started to work out the techniques involved. I discovered a Puffy felt action for the PS7 at Atomic Cupcake and have had so much fun Puffy felting my way through lots of my digital images.

Atomic Cupcake offers a free action every month. This month's is an Embroidery action.

So here is my entry, it can be downloaded as before at STS forum My kit is at the bottom of the link.

I hope you enjoy X

Alison

News update and blog of note

I've checked the Stuff to scrap announcements thread and I've made it through to the next round of the challenge. I'm all excited to see what the next challenge will be!


I was doing a bit of blog hopping this afternoon and came across this lovely little blog called Aly's Sunday  Challenge.

It's such  a cute site. Aly is an 11 year old digi stamper, and with the help of her Mum, runs a challenge every 2 weeks.

I am a great believer in supporting up and coming talent, so I'm off to send an email offering my services as a sponsor.

Another couple of digital freebies for you. A Quick page and a CU digi Stamp

Well ,today's the day I find out if I've made the grade and  move on to the next round of the Designer Darlings Competition at Stuff to Scrap. Thank you to everyone who downloaded the kit and voted for me. I really appeciate your support :)

I won't get the results till later, so I thought I would post a couple of freebies, instead of bittng my nails! lol

The first is another quick page I made using stuff from Little Miss Attitude Mini Kit  and some things from my digi stash which I'll share with you tomorrow!

Download here

The second is the little rag doll line drawing that I designed for the kit.

This little digi stamp comes in .png format at 300dpi. CU okay.

I was playing around with an open source, vector graphics, program called Inkscape  the other day, to improve the quality of my digital stamp images.  It's a wonderful program, with lots of neat filters etc, but unfortunately it doesn't recognise my little graphics pen for pencil drawing.  But I have discovered that you can import you artwork and it will clean up the lines!

The little rag doll was put through this filter, if you download and have a look, let my know if it passes 'digi stamp quality control' could you?  I would be so grateful.

Preview is blurry as it is saved at 72dpi

Download 300dpi version here

I hope you enjoy!

Hugs Alison

Designer Darling Challenge 2 and 3 digital Scrapbooking freebies for you

I have just completed and uploaded my Mini Scrap Kit for round 2 of the Stuff to Scrap Designer Darling Competion.

This time we were given a  colour palette. Once again, we chose our own theme.

The only CU product we could use in our design were a selection kindly donated to us by Deanna of Flower Scraps.

CU styles, actions, paper overlays and textures were out too.

Basically we were to design our kits from scratch.


Here is my entry

The kit contains 5x 12x12 backing papers and 12 elements.

It is a purely digital kit, as the colours do not lend themselves to print.

Once again, it you would like to download this kit, you click on the link for Stuff to Scrap Forum, and register, if you are not already a member. Link below.

Voting commences at 12 midnight (MST) today, Thursday 22rd January .(which is 7am  Friday 23rd GMT) and ends on Saturday  24th ,12 midnight (MST) ( Sunday 25th, 7am GMT).

So if you like, you can     DOWNLOAD HERE  

(you will have to scroll down the thread to find my kit but it gives you the chance to view all the wonderful entries.)

At the end of this week some of us will be eliminated, so I 'll let you know how I get on.

I have two other freebies for you to snag.

The first of all, I created a Quick Page using the Little Miss Attitude kit.

You can download here

And 3 Commercial Use paper overlays.

Download  link

I hope you enjoy!

Alison x

A digital scrapbooking mini kit freebie for you

Just finished my Kit for the Stuff  to Scrap, Designer Darling contest.

It's been a hectic few days as I worked to meet the deadline.

I got the information on Challenge 1 at 7.30 pm GMT on Tuesday. With a deadline of 7am Friday, I'm suffering a bit from bed-separation anxiety! That and a caffeine overload. lol.

You were given a colour pallette for the challenge and allowed you to choose your own theme and name.  No restriction on the use of CU items. Nicole from Digi-Designs by Nicole (The STS owner) even donated one of her wonderful CU products to all the entrants.

The competition will be judged on a points system.

Points will be awarded for various categories, ie quality of digital files, uniqueness of papers and elements, usablity etc.

There will also be  public voting in place, so all visitors and STS members can vote for the kits they like. This will also go a little towards the entrants points. As will the number of kits downloaded.

 Let's get on to the freebie.

The theme of love inspired me, must be the time of year. lol  A little bit valentine inspiration, but with a lot more uses. The colour pallette has an autumn, winter feel to me.

You can download the kit at STS forum thread here.(STS members direct link) You will have to scroll down till you come to my entry.
The download  and a gallery link will be under my kit preview. The gallery link takes you to the voting area. (nudge, nudge, wink, wink!!! LOL, oh what a shameful person I've become.)

If you aren't a member of Stuff to Scrap yet, you will have to use this link to the main forum page and register to get access.

You can only vote today 15th and tomorrow 16th until midnight MST (which is Sunday 17th  at 7am GMT, for anyone over my side of the pond)

So here it is.

Well I think I've more that adequately plugged myself, but you will be able to view all the entries in the contest.There are so many talented people taking part.  And while you're at it, you could snag your fill of everyones' fabulous kits.

Have fun

Alison x

Happy New Year Everyone!

I hope you all had a great time over the feastive season. 

We got the white Christmas we always dreamt of. In fact we are still knee-deep in the stuff.

I am  fed up having to dig the car out of it every time I go visiting. But hey, it keeps me fit!

I've posted a couple of  new printables on Crafts U print (more to come in the next few days).

Little Angel Clipart is a zip file download containing six graphics for commercial use.

 and a selection of  valentine printable topper sheets for card making.

I've got lots more  CU clipart  and printables to come and remember Crafty Bob is hiding somewhere in the site waiting to give someone a great money prize.

Cool competition at Crafts u print

                                                
 I just had to let you know about the Crafty Bob treasure hunt which is being held at Craftsuprint.com

To save time I've copied and pasted the site blurb about competion.


Crafty Bob is our new crafty character, and what a crafty chap he is!

The rules are simple.
Crafty Bob likes to play 'Hide-n-Seek', just find the waving Crafty Bob on the Craftsuprint website and you will win 'The Bobpot'.
When you have found 'Wavy Bob' just click on him and fill in your details to claim your CASH PRIZE.
The first person to click on the ‘I FOUND BOB’ button will win the Bobpot Total.
You must be willing to accept a paypal payment as this is how your winnings will be paid.
There are a few 'Red Herrings', in other words 'Decoys' out there! - so be warned. Also there may be clues left in the forum, so keep an eye out for Crafty Bob in there!
Remember you are looking for a Crafty Bob that is waving, exactly the same as the sample shown below.
Once Crafty Bob is found, the winner will be displayed on the homepage and then verified. Crafty Bob will then go and hide and the fun will start again!

The first Bobpot has just been won at £103, once verified the comp will start again.

As a designer, I am not allowed to take part so I thought I would let all of you know.

Beware though, it is a great big site!

Best of luck

Alison

Merry Christmas, a big thanks and some digital scrapbooking freebies for you.

With Christmas almost upon us, I thought I would post some little gifts to thank you for following my blog.
 I will be busy in the run up to Christmas day , so I will probably not get much of a chance to be online.

I have lots of plans for after the New Year, and my first freebie gives a small taster of what I'm going to be up to.

It is a little add on to the kit I am working on. Although it is for scrapbooking, I am sure it could be utilised by all you card makers in some way. I hope you like it.

The DOWNLOAD link for kit

I will have more digital scrapbooking freebies on offer in mid January as part of Stuff to Scraps designer challenge and of course there is the STS blog train on the 1st of February.

My second freebie for you, is 3 of my printable feastive door hanger files.  These freebies are for Personal Use only


Little Angel uses clipart from Trina Clark at digiscrapkits.com

Download link



Little boy, I love Santa, door hanger

Download link


And finally, Merry and Bright door hanger

Download here


I also have a variety of other door hanger printables on offer that you can purchase at Crafts u print .


Finally I thought I would post you a preview of my digital stamp that will be available in January at the 50/50 Club.  It will come as a line drawing but here's what I did with the image.

There are so many wonderful artists who will offer a freebie digital image to download each month and only to the exclusive 50 crafters who become members.

The membership fees are £2 per month and if you recruit a member when you join your first month's fees are free. 

The is also a monthly money prize to crafters and designers alike.

Well worth joining and there are still a few places available.  

Well I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and a Gid New Year.

All the best when it comes.

Hugs

Alison