Another gorgeous offering from Creative Victorian Designs: a collaborative with River Rose, Secrets of the Heart. This personal use kit is filled with elegant, soft and warm papers and elements perfect for your vintage or every day layouts.  You can get it here:

And to give you a little taste of the kit, here are two layouts I did with a picture of my Aunt Mary that I found recently. Aunt Mary lived next door to me throughout my childhood and was such a treasured part of my life then.  She sewed doll clothes for my dolls, made special lunches for me and I'm told took me for long walks in my carriage when I was a baby.

I'm now selling my commercial use products at CUDigitals.  
Stop by and check it out.

I'm always excited when I can announce a new kit in the store.  So here it is Winter Garden. The palette for this kit came from a visit to Jim Thorpe, PA, a mountain town filled with wonderfully restored homes from the 1800's.  A lovely old window with lace curtains and flowers provided the inspiration.  You can get it in the kit.  And theme came from a visit to a local nursery filled with wonderful winter kale.  Hence Winter Garden. Find it at my Coolscrapsdigital.com store:




And for some inspiration here are a few layouts:

First, from Mumure.  I am so excited and honored that she's joined my CT team.


And Extase outdid herself with 3 layouts:




And two beautifully scenic ones from Dillie:


And I did a few myself:



And for you:

Dawn, dpneff, created a wonderfully beautiful and useful frame cluster from the kit.  This is perfect for getting your winter and holiday layouts off to a perfect start.  You can download it here:

Thanks to all of you who stopped by on the CSD Happy Holidays Blogtrain. I so appreciated all of the thoughtful comments left on this blog. I read each and every one (actually I read them mutiple times!) If you missed my download, you can still get it here. Just choose blog train in the index to the right.

Coming Monday:  my newest kit, Winter Garden. I was inspired to do this kit after several visits this past week to two local arboretums and one of my favorite nurseries.  I never realized how much variety and beauty exists this time of year after the first frost.  Stop by and pick up a FREEBIE, a truly beautiful cluster frame made for you by Dawn (dpneff).

And the talented designers at CSD have produced an amazing holiday mega kit now available in the store.  This kit is jam packed with papers, elements, and alphas, guaranteed to keep you scrapping for days.  I've just downloaded mine and can't wait to start using it.  It's free with a $10.00 purchase.  And of course I'd love it if you visit my store to start your shopping:

Shop here:

And then have fun visiting the other talented designers here. You won't have any trouble finding amazing commercial use and personal use products guaranteed to delight you.

Requiem of a Frosty Winter (December/January Mega)
Exclusively at www.coolscrapsdigital.com 

Both of these sets contain 5 overlays, 12" x 12" in jpg format. They are perfect for your winter and Christmas kits as well as adding texture to a variety of papers and elements.

These are pictures of snow and window frost which I personally photographed and extracted.

Now on sale, through the end of November, at 40% off so you pay just $2.00 a set at my CoolScrapsDigital.com Store: 

Yesterday I planned to work on a new personal use kit but I ended up creating some new commercial use designer resources.  Steampunk 2 contains 7 rather elegant steampunk elements all created at 300 dpi.

And the wood overlays are pictures that I took and personally extracted of a different tree bark.  These are great not just for adding wood texture but also for adding some interesting original textures and depth of a wide variety of papers and elements.  When I create papers, I love using multiple layers with many different blending modes and opacities.  Some of the layers are barely visible but the end result is a paper with a lot of interest and depth to it.

These two commercial use packs are now on sale for 40% off through the end of November at my CoolScrapsdigital Store:

I want to apologize for the delay in getting these photos up.  I'm just back from a wonderful week's vacation in Hawaii with my daughters. This is the first vacation that just the three of us have taken together since they became adults and what a wonderful time we had. We stayed in Honolulu and took full advantage of the great weather and plethora of things to do. We went jet skiing, parasailing, swimming with the wild spinner dolphins and sea turtles, and had a Segway tour of the area.  Combined with great meals, lounging by the pool, trolley rides and shopping, it truly was a vacation to remember.

So on to sharing some great layouts.

You may remember that Ruby was the winner of the blog drawing for Treasures of Atlantis and she shared some designs she made with the kit.



Don't you just love these adorable little ones.  Thanks for sharing Ruby.

And from MemoryKeeper:


What a gorgeous layout and gorgeous baby.

And if you go to her blog, you can get this fantastic cluster frame that she created with my Forest Fantasy kit. Perfect for your holiday and winter photos.


Stop on over and get it here:
And while you're there take some time to read her blog. She has
a lot of great tips and tutorials for scrappers.

Thanks so much for sharing ladies.