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Hi guys! Re-released today at Sun is my latest collab with my friend, the awesome Flergs, Casual Attraction. 30% off through the weekend!

Casual Attraction {the mega bundle}

Casual Attraction {the bundle}

Casual Attraction

Casual Attraction {the borders}

{CU} Casual Attraction {the plastic glitter styles}

{CU} Casual Attraction {the plastic styles}

And here are the wonderful LOs that both my CT and Megs’ made with this collab:

Recapping:
Casual Attraction {the mega bundle} | Casual Attraction {the bundle}
Casual Attraction | Casual Attraction {the borders}
{CU} Casual Attraction {the plastic glitter styles} | {CU} Casual Attraction {the plastic styles}

… how’s that for a title? Even that is the shortened version, so much has happened since I last blogged (bad blogger! bad, bad blogger! or is that bad wordpresser?) that it would take a whole post just to write the title!
Anyway, where to start? With the earliest things, I guess, which means Bring On The Music. If anyone was curious, we did it. The kit raised enough money that I could buy my friend the special gift I had in mind, and I couldn’t have been giddier that we pulled it off. Thank you to everyone who contributed and to everyone who purchased it, you guys seriously rock.

Next… some of you might have noticed that I closed my studio at SBG. It wasn’t an easy decision — it was a terribly hard decision, actually —, but I had to follow the biggest slice of my heart. I say the biggest slice because SBG will always hold a piece of my heart; I had wanted to sell there for quite a bit before I found the nerve to apply, and it was everything I had hoped for and more. I had an incredible work environment, good sales, supportive people all around, it was truly very special. I’ll always be thankfull to Maya for having given me the opportunity to sell there, to her husband Mick who always had the tech side of the store running smoothly, to the designers who chatted and put up with my craziness in the designer list, and to the crew who did such awesome things to help my designs shine. Part of me still can’t believe I gave it up.

Why did I give it up, I hear you asking? Well, that would go back to that “bigger slice of my heart” bit I just mentioned: I moved back to Sunshine Studio Scraps. Sun is a store that is part mine – I am one of the few remaining founding owners –, and I can still remember every bit of the thrill we felt when we first came together for our freebie collab, Whimsical Wonderland, the butterflies in our stomachs when we decided we’d like to open a store together, the race to the finish line that was our first collab, Walking On Sunshine, and how we used the money we got from it to buy XCart with a few mods and pay to get it installed; I can remember all the dreaming, and the imagining, and the giddiness (and the petty squabbling over trivial things like what font to use and what background would look better because we all wanted the absolute best from our individual points of view, but even that was done lovingly, in retrospect) that went into opening it, the nervous excitement over opening it (and I distinctly remember having to have all my kits ready and xcarted a day earlier than everyone, because I had a Bon Jovi concert to go to the day before our grand opening, and I was damned if I was going to be there late or leave early!), the fun that we all had together. In the two intervening years, the actual running of Sun has passed from co-owner to co-owner as some of us had more or less time to devote to it. Some decided they really hadn’t been cut out to be store owners and would rather just design instead; some got tired of all the chaos that was us deciding things as a group and left to start their own store their own way; some had to go back to working outside the house and gave up owning the store; whatever the reasons, in the end it’s just 3 of us now: myself, my husband and Amanda Kay. And it came to a point where I had to decide between keeping my SBG studio open despite the fact that I knew Amanda didn’t have the time to run the store these days, or take the plunge and give Sun my all. Basically it meant choosing between two very good things knowing that there really wasn’t a wrong and a right choice, just two different ones.

So I left SBG, with a heart that was both heavy and light, for all the friends that staid behind and the friends I’m walking towards, and I’m going to make sure than Sun shines on with the same spirit that we created it, which was a spirit of happiness and love. It’s been a journey filled with friends, and it’s heartwarming to see all the support I’ve been getting from everyone. Even though it was a hard choice, even though I wished for a cloning machine so I could clone myself and keep doing both things, and even though part of me is still feeling sad at having left SBG only a month before my second anniversary there, I can feel it in the air again: the anticipation, the excitement, the giddiness, all back. I’m going to try and make Sunshine Studio Scraps the best store it can possibly be and nothing – not even myself – is going to stop me from giving it my best shot. I hope you’ll stop by to visit me in my old-new home every once in a while, and that you wish me the best of luck in this.

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Deciding to devote myself to running Sun means starting with a Designer Call and a Sweetie Call, and there’s still 11 more days to get those apps in if you’re interested. Here are the ads:

Designer Call:

(And here’s the text, in case the image doesn’t show up for some reason:)

We offer:
• XCart store for full control
• No Paypal Fees
• No Setup Fees
• Site CT and Advertising Team
• 80/20% Commission Exclusive
• 75/25% Commission Non-Exclusive
• Access to personal use products
• FUN Work Environment!

We require:
• No more than one additional store (plus a personal store if you have one)
• Exclusive Products
• Minimum 2 new products a month
• Contribution to the monthly mega collab

We are also looking for Guest Designers!

To apply send us an email to sunshinestudioscraps@gmail.com stating:
• A little about yourself including your name and design name
• A link to your current store(s) (if applicable)
• A link to your design/personal blog (if applicable)
• Whether you’re applying for a permanent or guest position

Deadline August 15th for the permanent call • ongoing guest call

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Sweetie Call:

(Again, here is the text:)

The Details:

• Kits and Designers are not assigned
• Choose 3 different designers per month
• Create at least one layout with our monthly collab before it hits the shop
• No comments required
• Guests spots are available

To Apply: Send an email to sunshineCTcall@gmail.com with:

• A little about yourself, including your name and forum name.
• A link to your most current gallery
• What other CTs you are currently on.

Deadline is August 15th!

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My Sun store is still very understocked – all it has for the moment is my Dreams in Colour 2.0 Collection because I have been swamped with other store related things – but it’s 50% off through Friday, August 6th, AND, if you purchase Dreams in Colour 2.0 {the Complete Collection} you will automatically receive Dreams in Colour 2.0 {the album} for free! Only until Friday, so hurry if you’d like to take advantage of these offers!

I’ll slowly be adding the rest of my kits to my Sun store as time permits it, so if you’d like to see me add any kit in particular, feel free to leave me a comment saying which one.

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On other, related news, Nicole Seitler, designer of the Sugarplum Paperie and Girl Friday Studio lines, Digichick owner, original Sunshine Girl and, even more important than all of that, awesome friend, has allowed me to bully her into celebrating my coming back to Sun with doing a guest month in the Sunshine. We could think of no better way to start off both my return and her guest spot than with a collab between us and so when, while I was showing her the potential colours for our collab, she said “That’s like everything under the sun!”, I just knew it would be even more perfect if we named it that. Thus, Everything Under The Sun was born. Here’s some inspiration from both mine and Nicole’s creative teams (Photobucket is hiccuping like mad for me right now, so I hope these show):

And I guess that’s it for today. Thank you for bearing with me while I poured my heart out, and for walking beside me on this journey.

Love & Spanks,

Hi guys! Tonight I’d love to introduce you all to a project that is near and dear to my heart. Bring on the Music is a very special collab, that came out of the desire to give a dear friend a very, very special gift. Friends from the digi world joined me in this attempt, and the result was this hugely packed collab grab bag. This is a dream that would not have been possible without everyone, from the awesome designers  who contributed to it to my CT who worked tirelessly to make the beautiful album, dreaming it with me, so a huge thank you to everyone is in order. It’s also a dream that won’t be possible to fulfill unless you guys want to buy the bag, so by all means, go ahead and grab it!

Bring on the Music will be sold in grab bag form for two weeks. The first week (ending on June 8th) will have an introductory price of $5, after which the price of the bag will go up significantly. After June 15th, Bring on the Music will be sold separately as a mega collab kit and its coordinating packs, and it will be retired at the end of the June, so grab it while you can!

Contributing designers, in alphabetical order: crystal livesay, ellie lash, faith true, lliella, madame wing, studio mgl, studio rosey posey, studio vivarant, studio wendyzine and studio ztampf!

Bring On The Music {the mega kit} includes:

• 31 papers
• over 100 elements
• 6 alphas
• 1 template

Also included in the grab bag:

• 1 solid paper pack
• 1 pack of 6 cluster frames
• 1 pack of 6 borders
• 1 quick page album with 17 quick pages
• cu plastic glitter styles
• cu plastic styles

Also included is a $5 coupon to Studio mgl (no minimum purchase required), a 25% off coupon to Studio Ztampf and a 20% off coupon to Lliella Designs!

What’s that? enough of my blabber, you want to see the goods? Coming right up!

 

Look what my awesome creative team and friends did with it:

 

And here are the full previews of everything in it, in case you’re impacient, lol!

Thank you so much for bearing with me through such an image-heavy post! Remember, Bring on the Music will be available throughout June only, both in my Studio at Scrapbook Graphics and at Sunshine Studio Scraps under Special Collabs!

Bring on the Music at SBG | Bring on the Music at Sun

Hey guys! I’m really excited to show you my new collab, for loads of reasons. First of all, the name. “What?” I hear you thinking, “She’s got a new collab out and she’s excited about what she named it?? Is she insane?” Well, yes, on both counts. Yes, I’m excited about the name, and yes I’m insane, but they’re entirely unrelated, I promise that my insanity far predates my excitement over the name! Ok, I should really just stop rambling and explain, shouldn’t I? We decided to call the collab Casual Attraction. What’s so special about the name?

Casual Attraction is the name of an awesome band, whose singer, Tiago, just so happen to be one of my closest friends. So this is sort of me sending a wink his way, and also taking the time to let all of you guys know about them. If you’re in the mood for good music, go check them out either on their blog or their facebook fan page and I totally promise you won’t regret it! You can listen to samples on their blog, or even buy the entire album straight from there and have it ready to download in a minute! And hey, if you do go visit them and have a spare minute, drop me a line here on the blog or email me at jesters {dot} tear {at} yahoo {dot} co {dot} uk and let me know what you thought of the band, I’d love to hear it! Here’s a video to get you started!

Secondly, it’s a collab with my friend Megs, aka Flergs, and I always LOVE collabing with friends, it makes it so much more fun! And, last but in no way least, is the kit itself; just looking at the previews and at all the gorgeous LOs both our CTs made, I get giddy. I really think you guys are going to enjoy this one!

We  have it available on its own:

Or bundled two different ways:

A mega bundle:

Or a regular bundle with no styles:

I made matching borders and styles, are those also separately available, in case you want to grab the kit now and some of the other stuff later.

I did mention LOs, didn’t I? Get ready for sheer gorgeousness!

 

Quick recap:

Kit | Bundle | Mega Bundle | Borders | CU Plastic Styles | CU Plastic Glitter Styles

What? A freebie? Did you play nice? Did you go and check my friend’s band? Oh, alright, you’ve earned your freebie then, here you go!

QP freebie

Hi guys!

Mónica has some gorgeous new products @ SBG. Want to take a look at them?

Formerly part of her TDC exclusive grab bag, Holidays in Eden is a bright, fun, colourful mini kit. Scrap for Hire Friendly!

Holidays in Eden includes:
- 5 Indivudually textured and patterned papers
- 1 Clipped Flower in assorted colours
- 1 Butterfly in assorted colours
- 1 Flower in assorted colours
- 1 Frame
- 1 Notebook
- 1 Knotted Rope
- 1 Set of 2 Round Ribbon Stitches in assorted colours
- 2 Strings in assorted colours
- 1 Tag in assorted colours

Also part of her TDC exclusive grab bag, Bordering is an amazingly versatile pack of page borders. Featuring 6 different designs (moons, hearts, 2 different star designs, and 2 different butterfly designs) plus a base of circles or sticker circles, each of the designs comes in 5 different styles (foil, glitter, sticker foil, sticker glitter and glitter gel) for your mixing and matching pleasure. A total of 32 borders. Scrap for Hire Friendly!

Formerly part of her TDC exclusive grab bag, Snippets are two alphas bundled into one. Both have uppercase, lowercase, numbers and some symbols. The white one has a basic “scribbled on paper piece” look, while the black is written in elegant glitter for a fancier look. Both Scrap for Hire Friendly!

And finally, this is Grabbag #3 from Studio FEMNZ. Flergs, Ellie, Mónica, Nicole and Ziska have come together to bring you a grabbag with a difference. They have each made a mini kit in the same swatch, as well as added an extra product each. Over 400 MB. This grabbag will be available @ $5 for 2 weeks only. You are saving $$$ buying it all together at once. Click on the image to go to the store and see what’s inside!

In other news, Mónica made this awesome HUGE freebie for the SYTYCD Contest at DSA. Let’s show her some support and go leave her some love.

* If you can’t see it you need to register at DSA first.

Hi guys!

Remember Mónica‘s collab with Nicole, In the Meadow? Well now you can get it at SBG!!

In the Meadow it’s full of Springtime goodness and sweet feelings. You’ll love the soft and playful colors and the charming elements! It contains 22 patterned and plain papers, over 25 unique elements and two full alphabets!

Here’s a peek at the 22 gorgeous papers included in this kit.

And some LOs made by Mónica’s wonderful CT:

Now let me show you In the Meadow: Another Alpha.

An Alpha to match In The Meadow. Not included in the actual collab. Scrap for hire friendly!

And finally In the Meadow: The Borders.

Perfectly matching In the Meadow, 6 borders that will make your LOs come to life. Scrap for Hire friendly!

Flergs, Ellie, Mónica, Nicole and Ziska are at it again! They have a new collab grab bag!! You can get it here (pic is linked too) and, if you’re far too curious, the store detailed previews have the complete reveal in them!

Here are some layouts made by Mónica’s awesome CT

Helloooooooooooooooooooooo world! I’m alive! Yes, despite the fact that my entire family was hit with Rotavirus, and there were trips to the ER, and fluids IV, and throwing up, and other bodily fluids… and then my toothache hit. *Shudders* I’m still far too traumatised to mention my toothache, I’ll need years of therapy before being able to face it!

So, aaanyway, I’ve started to bring into my Studio all that I made last month for my guest stint at TDC, starting with Fields of Gold:

There’s also a matching border set:

Also coming into my Studio, now that Irene Alexeeva’s guest month at SBG ended, is my collab with her, Treasures of the Deep:

Or you can get the alpha pack:

All of these, as usual, Scrap for Hire friendly!

Erm, well, what can I say that the title hasn’t already said for me? I came here, and I blogged about Chocolate Covered Cherries, and hinted about 365 International Edition being posted “tomorrow”… well, those of you who already know me know that my concept of “tomorrow is, er… shall we say “broad”? Yes, “broad” is an apt definition (or a euphemism, however you want to see it, lol, but me, I say the glass is half full).

So here I am, almost a month later and, well, yes, I’ve released 365: International Edition, but I’ve released a few other stuff too. But, before I get to that, let me show you a very very special release: some of you might know Mellisa Toy, aka Scrapper’s Circus, aka Fairytale Studios. For those of you who don’t, Mellisa is the sweetest blog stalker-dash-friend-dash-customer-dash-designer-dash-scrapper, and I’m sure I’ve left out a few other qualities as well. Well, Mellisa was in a nasty car accident – you can read about it here – and 5 of us got together – 5 being me, Studio Flergs, Studio Ellie Lash, Studio Ziska and Nicole Seitler of the Sugarplum Paperie – and made a collab grab bag to help her out. You can get it here (pic is linked too) and, if you’re far too curious, the store detailed previews have the complete reveal in them!

Now for what else I’ve been up to: a set of photo masks that I’ve lovingly dubbed “Masquerade” – lovingly, because Masquerade has a particular meaning for me; a collab with Melissa Bennett entitled Mental Block; a gazillion CU Plastic and Plastic Glitter Styles; and now, as in just-now-minutes-ago, a brand new kit called Trap the Spark. Trap the Spark has the added bonus of being 20% off through the weekend (and most likely at least half of monday too, LOL!). Ready to see previews of all of this?

And that’s it for today! (Although hopefully, not for the rest of the month, lol!)

Hi guys! I got a few comments from people who were on dial-up and so couldn’t really deal with the huge files that I made for WW2, and I also got some of you saying you couldn’t download the quickpage. The QP is a png, not a zip file. So, when you clicked it, it would open the png in a new window and you’d have to right click and Save As. I can see how this might have caused some confusion, lol, so here’s a hopefully confusion-free zip version, along with apropriately manageable (I hope!) files for the dial-up people. Hope this helps and, if you need them even smaller, let me know and I’ll split them further!

| Papers | Elements |  Alpha | Quick Page | Square Mat 1 | Square Mat 2 | Square Mat 3 | Round Mats |