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This week at TADA

We have all been sniffling here with the start of the winter colds hitting us hard. Thankfully no swine flu or regular flu (thankfully as Melbourne seems to be Swine Flu central right now). Lots of missed school which is hard when this is the end of our first semester and lots of testing. 

Things to be thankful for though is that it is a long weekend here  (Queen's Birthday celebration - even though her birthday is in April).  Thankful because with the amount of garlic I have been putting in our food NO ONE would want to come near us!

I have managed to get some new products up and more to follow this week. I have some fun new titles in the store and you can get them FREE with a $9 order (details in store). 

I also have a brand new set of frames and masks in the Boldly said range. These really are fun to scrap with. 

And by request I have also started to add my printable range to the store so you can grab them at TADA. More to follow as I get time this week. 

Visit TADA here.

I do not do a lot of quick pages. I try to make my kits so easy to use that quick pages happen for everyone! But this is a couple I just had to put out. A little bit of fun, retro feel  in the design and ready to add your own journalling and title (or not!).  

 

Coldplay, Templates & Spice!

Three of my favourite things!

When it comes to music there is not a lot I don't like. I am a fan of  many different genres and LOTS of sixties artists. I also love instrumentals. Recently through my daughter and  a customer I am a little hooked on finding anything with trumpets. 

I also love the cello as I listen to my daughter practising endlessly for upcoming exams (alternating with her fingerstyle guitar playing) so when I heard this I totally loved it and wanted to share. 

I do have a weakness for Coldplay but I dont know the first song at all but this tune is now in my head.   

This sort of music inspires me to design!!!

I thought I could embed iit.. himmmm, Will hav eto work it out tomorrow. You tube link -

The second thing I love today is templates! A few years ago you might have heard me wonder what on earth people used them for and then I became hooked. Now I love to design them. Sometimes I pull them from my own layouts and more recently I design with nothing specific in mind and then create a layout using one. This lets me see how they actually work and helps me understand how others would use them.

So I am a total Template convert! They let me get my stories told and still give me loads of avenues for creativity. This week I have all my layout templates in this section available as a special offer 'Template Temptation'. All of the templates for only $24.95. Over sixty templates, three packs of storyboards (I use these as much as templates) and an album I think. Huge bundle so even if you have a few it is worth checking out in the store.

I love what Tricia (one of my CT members) creates with templates. Her style always is pure simplicity. I also try to make the templates have lots of added value so many have extra bits and pieces and many can be used as is to create a layout. This road trip template is one my favs, Tricis used nothing but the template, all the elements come with the template and make it 'scrap ready'.

 

I always love the one way of my CTs uses the templates. Layouts by Tricia

My third love today is something I created for a new store I have over at ETSY. It is a range of printable commercial use papers and I am also adding some printable gifts. 

So I wanted something for recipe cards for myself and what started off a simple project took me many hours over many days to complete. I ended up with this cool paper with spices all over it that not only could I use for my cards but as spice jar labels! Now I have a mad obsession with spices so I have a LOT of spice jars. But I have to say I love this project. We have been starting to get the recipes in order on the cards. I use the jpegs and have been cutting and pasting some of my favs from the net on to cards.

So I love these cards, I love that the paper with careful cutting (and printed on a single sheet of sticker paper) can become a set of funky spice labels! I have already done about half of mine so far.

So check them out at ETSY.. I probably will add them to the shop eventually but for a bit they will just be on ETSY . Make great gifts and print BEAUTIFULLY .

And this is few of my spice jars. Cutting them all out was a little tricky but fun!

So that was my day! Hope you a fun one!

Tracy

MIA & Lucky Dip

I feel like I have been missing action for a bit. I thought it was going to be such a bright couple of months but then sometimes life has a way of biting you in the backside!   But gradually we are coming out of this fog.   Sometimes when everything in life is not going well I can tune out and just lose myself in designing. My own private escape.  I have done a  little of that so have a bundle of new products to share with you plus a belated birthday bash!!!!

THE TADA 'MAY BELATED BIRTHDAY BASH' NOW ON!!!!

1. I have a Lucky Dip! Nine new fun products. I try to put lots of different things in my lucky dip so you get some new fun things to play with and perhaps even some items you might not have selected. That is the fun of it all! This one has some really fun element packs and a full kit and a mini kit.  Really a great buy for $5 (less for savings club members).

2. 20% off most of the store! Excludes $1 items.

3. Cindy, Jen, Jess & Sylvia... this is for you guys!!!   by popular request over fifty $1 items will be up for the weekend.  (Check back if they aren't all showing in the store yet.) The 20% discount does not apply to these items but the savings club discount does of course.  

 

4. Special offer - free word art set with $10 orders. I send them out so just place your order.

5. Template Temptation. An amazing super offer on my templates. You can buy the whole section for only $24.95 (save over $100). A great way to get caught up on your scrapbooking and many of my templates have bonus elements!

Oh I have more fun to share but some will have to wait until next week!!!

Come visit TADA and as always thank you for your support of my little independent store and my Birthday bash!

 

and here is the Lucky Dip preview.  Let me give you a rundown.

First there is a full kit with a set of paper and set of elements in a really classic style that my CT have been rocking layouts with.  Then there is a mini kit called Charm which is just that, simple and charming.

The new State the date set is really classic, small month tabs with a circle space to add the date or year. I have included 1 to 31 in a stamp set and a single sheet so you can use that or add your own font. One patterned set for fun and a black set that you can easily recolour.

My signature swirls. Something I have been asked for over and over and here is a set. Five variations in two colour ways. 

This way arrows. These are fun! Simple black dotted lines in swirls and circles and fun arrows. 

A template that is more like a quick page. Simple and stylish with a fun frame. Use it as a template or use as is. Try a big photo on the background for real impact. 

The speech bubbles. I have been meaning to do this set forever and I think they are fun! I used one of my favourite fonts on some of them with a few words but most are plain with a handcut paper feel so you can do what you like with them!!!

Plus a set of five word drops that match the kit or you can use on anything really. The single words come on their own so you can layer over the 12inch word drops or not.

That's it - a bundle of new fun products.