it's here!

I know I've been quiet here lately. Between the holidays, the kids home from school, some fevers & oh yeh, working like crazy to get my stuff ready for a new digi home. Finally, early this morning, along with the new year, it debuted to the world in all its awesomeness... Pixels & Company is up & running!

& let me tell you... it's a thing of beauty. So I'm hoping you'll head over, look around, sign yourself up, start making yourself at home. Let us know if something is not quite right, as we're still in that newborn stage & some things will undeniably need fine tuning. For the month of January, we're going to have a big 'ol crazy amount of dollar kits releasing, both new & some "vintage" ones too.

my first dollar kit released today...

these will be perfect for project life pages...each is 3x4" & is available in both .png form or printable .pdfs. You can also check out a freebie I have up, as well as some of your old favorites of mine. I'm still working on putting up more as well as creating some new goodness to send your way.  Look for another new dollar kit from me tomorrow!

Oh... & happy 2013. I'm set on making this year even better than the last. I hope you do too!

{robyn}

new release 11.29

hey everyone! hope you had a great Thanksgiving {if you were celebrating}. We, of course had tons to be thankful for & enjoyed a quiet Thanksgiving day at home just us & then had a big gathering at our house on the Saturday after with both Dan & my families together. It was great to see everyone, we don't get to be together nearly enough, so it was nice.

anyway, today I have a set of glitter papers for you. Glitter is always hot during the holiday season, but I've really noticed a lot of bling this year, between glitter, sequins & jewels over everything.  I thought this would be a great add on to add to your holiday or special occasion pages..

I love how the creatives added some Glisten into their layouts:

by {kelly mobley}

by {claudia harvey}

by {robyn meierotto}

remember, just today, this new release will be 30% off!

{robyn}

happy thanksgiving & new releases

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you that are celebrating today! This is one of my favorite holidays, not just because of the food, but because I always know I have so much to be thankful for. My husband, who I love more than anything, my 3 kids that mean the world to me, our home we've built together, our families that support us in all we do, our jobs that allow us to follow our dreams, our health, & our friends, that even though we don't see nearly enough, are still there after all these years. I'm also thankful for a talent that I can share with others, as well as friends that I know that share that talent & excitement along with me. Recently, I was lucky enough to collaborate with 3 other amazing ladies that I admire to create Here Comes Santa Claus... if I must say so, it is one BIG incredible kit! {52 papers, 130 elements & 1 alpha}

you'll find the collab in Shannon's shop at DHD & you can snag it today for a great deal.

I also did up these December dates you can use to overlay on photos for your December Daily, or just use them with the banners I included. It's easy to change up the colors, too.

now for some inspiration for you! {if you notice, I've added a few new girls to the creatives} yay!

layout by {kelly mobley}

layout by {claudia harvey}

hybrid card by {claudia harvey}

layout by {aria andrus}

layout by {shannon dombkowski}

layout by {sarah hemmert}

layout by {sarah hemmert}

layout by {becca dickson}

layout by {shelley haganman}

layout by {robyn meierotto}

phew! awesome, right? anyway, have a really great day & enjoy your family.  We're not having our big family celebration until Saturday, where we'll host my family & Dan's family here at our house. Today, we're keeping it low key around here, baking a chicken, some pumpkin pies & sweet potatoes to enjoy with each other. 

I'm not one who's into the Black Friday thing... to brutal for me. I can't get into the craziness of it all! We are doing a great promotion over at DHD though, all weekend long & I hope you'll enjoy doing some quiet shopping there...

{robyn}

new collab with Crystal Livesay

hello Thursday & hello to a new collab with the sweet Crystal Livesay... So Thankful!

as you can see, I did the papers & elements & Crystal created these amazing templates to use them with! I'm crazy over the layouts my creatives sent me, so let me share...

by {shannon dombkowski}

by {claudia harvey}

by {robyn meierotto}

you can check out more great inspiration with our kits over at the DHD Blog today!

I hope you have a wonderful day today... remember these kits are 30% off today, so go grab 'em while you can at this great price. 

I have to put in a quick thank you to all my friends that overflowed my facebook page yesterday with birthday wishes... it was a truly wonderful day.  Each one of you made it special for me.  I enjoyed an early morning gift-unwrapping in bed with my most precious people around me {my husband & kids}, shopping & lunch with my mom, a mass in honor of my mother in law {we miss you Bev!} & a fun chat with some of my favorite people to end the night.  I'm a lucky.lucky girl.

{robyn}

Digital Scrapbooking Day Blog Hop

hello! welcome to my blog & the Design House Digital Digital Scrapbooking Day Blog Hop! {whew! say that 5 times fast!} anyway, if you came this way for the blog hop...& to eventually get this fabulous kit for free...

you are in luck! I have something that you're searching for... right.

here...

that's my part of your puzzle! Just in case you came here first, or came out of order, you can refer back to the blog post at DHD to see the correct order here.

this was my portion of the collab. I had a lot of fun with this color combo.

a few of my creatives sent me some great layouts & tips to share with you too! enjoy!

check out this oh-so-cute layout from my creative {becca dickson} & her little tip:

I added a button from Rebecca Wagler's portion of the collab to my layout. She included one maroon shaded button, but I knew I wanted to use a few buttons in different shades. So, I decided to recolor the buttons to use on my layout. Here's my trick to recoloring elements in Photoshop:

Place the element you wish to recolor on your layout. Then, click on your eyedropper tool, and pick up a color from your papers or other elements that you would like your element to be. With the element layer selected, add a solid color fill layer. It should be the same color as your eyedropper selection and should appear above the element layer. Right click on the color fill layer and select create clipping mask to clip the color to your element. Next, change the adjustment layer from normal to the color blend mode so your element's textures and lighting shows through. And that's it! Now if you copy the two layers, you can drag the element elsewhere on the page. To recolor the copied element, all you have to do is double click the color fill layer and use your eyedropper tool to pick a new color.

& this adorable layout by {claudia harvey} & her tip below:

I love adding outlines to fonts and/or word art; I think it allows them to stand out within a layout. It is very simple to do.

1. Click on the font/word art layer you wish to use.

2. Go to edit, then stroke.

3. Select the width desired (I like to use 10 px), use the dropper to select a coordinating color (I like to use white in most cases).

4. Make sure location is set to "outside".

5. Click ok.

thank you Becca & Claudia! Thank you for stopping by to join in the fun! good luck with your letter hunting!

{robyn}