Your turn

I consulted with my blog partner Duke on what we should post about today. We decided that since I gave myself a gift yesterday, today I should give one to you. Duke thought that this was a tail wagging idea.

Since this is a gift we aren't going to actually show you what it is. Half the fun of opening a gift is the anticipation of what's inside right? Ok so maybe not, but that's the way we're doing it anyway. I will tell you that there are 15 things in this package.

If you would like to take advantage of this and open an early gift from me and Duke you can pick it up right HERE

I've actually been meaning to do this for several days now but never could find the time to upload the file because I was too busy with the darn dropping.

It's time for "that reminds me"

Remember last Sunday when I posted a picture and told you how it reminded me of one of YOU? Well, it's time for another one. Bet you thought I forgot about it didn't you? I used several combinations of your numbers that you gave me last time until I finally found a picture that jumped out and said "Hey, that reminds me of..."
This weeks picture reminds me of Kat from Candles crafts and whatnot.

Out of sheer boredom one day I took the picture of this building. When I came across it in the files and noticed the sign it reminded of the post Kat did about her chiropractor visit. You can read that post here if you missed it. Hopefully she has her computer problems taken care of and she'll catch this post.

WAIT! don't go away yet. There's more. Yesterday I showed you the fun I was having playing with the halftone pattern and said that I would put together a download for you. Believe it or not, I actually managed to get it done. I'm still feeling a little soggy from my life as a fire hydrant but that's no excuse to let you down. So here it is. I've include 2 papers and one overlay.


Go ahead and grab that download right HERE

So that's all there is for today. Have a wonderful Sunday.

It's been ages

How long has it been anyway since I offered you a freebie? I'm afraid to look back and see when the last time was.
I started this the other day as a distraction from the pictures when I was getting frustrated. Tonight, since there is nothing else to do I put it all together for you. I made the dot overlay first. Then I put a plain color underneath, added a contrasting color to just the dots, used blending modes, duplicated the dot layer, rotated it then played with the blending modes again. I finally ended up with the paper you see in the preview.


What I'm giving you today is the dot overlay and the paper. You can use the paper or see what kind of combinations you can come up with using the overlay. Have fun be creative. You can grab the download right HERE

I can hardly wait till the weekend, which does officially start tomorrow at 2:30. I've got all this time on my hands now. What will I do?

Just a note before I go. When I was doing my drops tonight I had a problem trying to get to a few blogs. There were 3 of them and I don't remember which ones other than one was Grampy's. When I clicked on the widgets it kept going to a search results page. Did anyone else have this problem? I tried several times to go back and always got the same thing. I even tried going to Grampy's blog through the comment section on mine. Still same thing. All the other ones worked fine though. Sure would like to know what was going on with that.

I don't have time tonight, but tomorrow I'll be bringing you my top ten droppers for September.
Have a great night.

Fall is in the air

The evenings here have been getting quite cool lately. I can feel fall in the air. I'm not quite ready to say good bye to summer just yet but I have no choice. Even though I am a fan of warm sunny weather I do appreciate the beautiful colors that come with fall. I've actually spotted a few trees already that are changing colors.
Last night I was doing some playing in photoshop elements and came up with a little fall gift for you. In the download you'll find three fall colored papers with an embossed look to them. I've also included 2 overlays that I used to make the papers. You can try them out on plain or patterned papers, try out different blending modes and see what you come up with.

Grab your gift right HERE.
Now, since it's Friday and the air is a bit on the cool side I'm going to practice my hibernating skills for the weekend. I'm going to need all the rest I can get this weekend because next week is our local fair. That is always a crazy week for me at work and I'm sure that this year is going to be like all the others.