phew, I am on a come down from the Oscraps 3rd Birthday Party.  It was a fantastic week, our Oscraps Designers went above and beyond with their kindness and generosity! We had over $1,000 worth of prizes to give away it was crazy!! Just goes to show the O is the place to be!!

I have to tell you about my new addiction, in fact their needs to be a 12-step program for it.  At christmas I bought myself Animal Crossing Lets go to the city (Or as its known in America, City Folk!) I have it with the wii speak, but I had no friends to speak with.  And my little town, Hysteria, had only apples and I really needed to get cherries, coconuts, oranges, pears and peaches, but, without any friends with the game it was so difficult! 

I discovered on Facebook an Animal Crossing fan page, so I joined and got new friends, I now have all my fruits in my town thanks to my Animal Crossing Facebook friends.  The game is generated towards adults, or as I call them, adult kids! I now have 30 registered friends, and about 7 of those I meet up with on my TV, in the comfort of my living room, on a daily basis.  We all go fishing together.  Its insanely addictive but great great fun!!

Amongst my Animal Crossing addiction, I am busy working on various new projects, and trying new techniques some of which I am really happy with, but also having to make a mental note on my steps on how I achieved techniques LOL.  I have often found I have made some great new elements and then forget how I did it!! ACK!

Anyway, rather than keep you all waiting for my next lot of projects here is a little freebie, insipred when i was hanging out laundry, watching my kids playing in the garden, horray, spring is here!!

Download wordart here, enjoy :)

Sorry I am late, I have had a crazy few weeks!!

Congratulations to both May and Noel who both won my Charmed Alpha, for correctly guessing my new store is over at Scrapbird I am so happy and excited to be joining a group of very talented designers, from literally all over the world!!

Have you been over to Oscraps this week? If not, why the heck not!?! Oscraps turned 3yrs old and in celebration we have been having a HUUUGE party, lots of challenges, chats and prizes and freebies.  In fact, tomorrow (Sat 21st) I will be hosting an international friendly chat with an awesome participation prize from one of our talented designers!! The chat will kick of at 2pm GMT, so come join me in the chatroom for lots of laughs and you never know, you could possibly walk away with one of my 9 top prizes ;)  Hope to see you there :)

Anyway, I am afraid, this is a flyby posting, a little man of mine needs lunch then off to nursery :)

I have the freebie finished!!

Horray, finally I have finished my freebie :)

But before I go onto that, I did mention in my previous post that I am setting up shop somewhere else, and my products will be ready to go into said shop at the weekend :)

So I am giving you a chance to win my alpha, I didnt get much response before so giving you another opportunity :)

So just guess where I am moving too, a hint of a clue, - little bird ;)



Here is the alpha you can win



In the comment box drop leave your guess, and a means of me contacting you, I will choose the first correct answer and one random poster :)

Ok, here is the freebie you can download,

Contains, 3 textured papers, frame and clustered leaf element :)

With known problems with 4shared, trojan horses through adverts, I thought it would be safer to put the freebie through my store at scrappythoughts, I would hate, through no part of my own, for you to pick up an infection from there, therefore, I have removed any previous freebies that I had at 4shared just to be on the safe side :)

Here is the download link for Lily May here

sorry, sorry, sorry

I know, I know, I promised a freebie a couple of days ago, and I am so sorry that I havent posted it. Unfortunately, real life has been getting in the way, can you imagine!!!

I am busy repackaging some of my products so they are ready to upload to my new store, and as soon as I have done that I will get the freebie up for you. I am not going to predict a timeline because I notice, everytime I do that, something gets in the way. Not to mention, Photoshop is being a complete PITA!!

But it wont be long (((hugs)))

Eh!!!???!!

Seriously, some people make me stop and think......are they serious!

Let me digress...

I, on a daily basis, go to an unnamed supermarket, to buy snacks for the playgroup my son attends. If I had my way, I wouldnt set foot in that store...period...hence the reason I get a weekly delivery from another unnamed supermarket which is a rival, even though the supermarket I prefer is approx 20 miles away, but, its cheaper, and better quality, even the delivery driver helps me unpack the items and has a 'blether' (Chat in Scots slang!)

Continuing on.....

The playgroup leader asked me to get 25 easter eggs for the children, they are on offer right now, buy 3 for £2,50. My son picked the mini eggs one, big ol chocolate egg with 6 mini eggs inside, good choice son.

So, I put 2 trays of the eggs in my trolley, 12 in each tray, then added another one on top.

Proceeded to check out, informing my son, that no, you cannot have an easter egg right now, you will get them at playgroup at easter time.

Placed one egg on the belt. As checkout operator picked up the egg I told her, I have 25 of those in total.

She stopped, looking at me in utter horror, '25 eggs' she shrieked, 'um, yes' I said.

The next thing I know she is pressing buttons on a box beside her checkout, I am expecting snipers and other armed officers to surround me, but no, it was a SUPERVISOR. WTH is going through my mind, and I actually did mutter W.T.H (this is what happens when you have been on forums for some time, you actually do find yourself saying out loud, forum acronyms, such as saying out loud to husband L.O.L)

Anyway, supervisor says to me 'You have 25 easter eggs?'
'Yes I do, problem?'
'We can only allow 6 per customer'
'Um, where, exactly, does it say that'
'It doesnt....,yet'
'Well, if it doesnt, you can not tell me that I can only have 6'
'One moment please' says supervisor, wanders of and speaks into her headset, now I am really expecting the military to pounce on me.

Supervisor comes back, 'Can I ask why you need 25 eggs'
'Does it matter?' I say, 'Oh, unless you think I am going home right now to overdose on chocolate'
Supervisor is not amused, but mind you, neither am I right now, I could care less!
'The duty manager would like to know' she informs me.
'OH FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS GOOD!!'
pause from both directions, I am now starting to feel like a criminal!

'I need the eggs for 25 children at a playgroup'

Supervisor speaks into headset 'She says......blah blah blah.......ok........ok'

'You can have 15 now'

'Why only 15, you have a whole shelf full of eggs what is the big deal?'
'Duty Manager says we have only so many allocated to us and this is the reason why we only allow 6 per customer'
'Riiiiiiight' still makes no sense when there is an entire shelf full of chocolate eggs!

Brainwave hits me...

'Ok, I will take 15 eggs'

Pay, take 15 eggs to car, go back into store. In my trolley I put in 6 eggs. And I make my way back to the checkout I was at previously. Checkout operator looks in horror. 'I am buying 6 eggs I told her, this is a new transaction, therefore, I am a new customer, pay for the eggs, put them in my car, go back into store and buy 4 eggs.

I feel rather smug with myself, but I realise how much that store pains me!! But if I see another chocolate egg it will be only too soon.

Anyway, I am working on a freebie for you guys, hopefully have it up later today/tonight, if not, tomorrow. Hubby is away tonight to some dinner thing so I have peace to work ;)

A twitter

I have fallen pray to twitter, I twitter what I am doing and tweet with people I follow. Its suprisingly addictive, and I feel the need to post about every little thing I am doing. I also love following people to see what they are doing. My absoulte favourite is Jimmy Carr He is a well known, loved and hysterical stand-up comic, or, as he prefers to be known, a joke technician! His twittering is priceless. I also love following my favourite radio presenter, Tich McCooey He is on my local radio station in the mornings, where I often gyrate with Mr Dyson in my lounge to his sounds, he used to DJ at a bar I attended as a free, no commitments 20 something who loved drinking tequila shots, still do, but now, as a mum of 2 youngsters I can no longer hold the tequila as well as I did, or, I should say, tequila doesnt hold my legs up the way it did!

If you didnt know before, I am a celeb whore! LOL I stock up each week on mags where I can see what the celebs are up to, sometimes grateful that I dont have their lives! So, twitter has become my celeb addiction, where I can follow celebs daily. And just so you know, Britney Spears twitters too, she really, really does.

So go twitter, believe me it will suck you in! But be warned, I do not think there is a 12-step program for the addiction!

Shop news.......

I have a new store :D BUT, I am not telling you were it is just yet ;) Its a SECRET, but I am super excited to be there with really talented designers! I will still be at scrappythoughts I just thought I would try another store ;)

Although, stay tuned to find out where I am going to, I may have a little comp in the pipeline :)

(((hugs))) hope to see you twittering soon ;)

New Clipping Masks and a sale at KittyCat Designs

Hey everyone, just doing a fly by as I make the most of this gorgeous weather trying to tackle the ironing the size of Mount Everest! ACK!

Firstly, I am having a sale in my store, 34% off. This is to celebrate my reprieve for a couple of months. My hubby turned 34 on Tuesday, he is now the same age as me for a couple of months, so in that few months I hear no jokes about me being so OLD *rolleyes* and the fact I am a cradle snatcher, can you say, HARDLY!! So for celebrating my joy of no jokes between now and March 8th my store is 34% off.

And this gives you a chance to grab my new Clipping Masks which are literally just in store now!!

7 PNG clipping masks which you can use individually, or mesh together to make a new mask.

Oh, and Lynn who responded to my Charmed Alpha post, drop me an email at teanamac at hotmail dot com, to get my alpha. You didnt leave me a way of contacting you :)