New Tutorial In the Works

I'm very sorry that I've not posted any new stuff here in awhile, but I promise you I have a new tutorial to post in a few days. I've entered the tag I made into a contest for MPT and the tag cannot come from a tutorial, so once the contest ends on June 10th, I will post the tutorial. I'm also working on some new word art.

TTFN!!!! And have a great day.

I love saving money

My new quest is to save as much money as possible on groceries and other household items. To that end, I've found internet coupons and I LOVE TO USE THEM. I have found that one of our local grocery stores and Wal-Mart will accept them. The D**N Dollar General will not accept them because they don't accept copies of coupons, they are not copies you idiots....LMAO. I got into an agruement with the manager there and finally just told them that I would take my ad to Wal-Mart and use my coupons there because Wal-Mart would price match and accept my coupons. And instead of trying to keep a customer, they gave me my coupon and ad back. Well, I guess you can't get the brightest bulbs for $7.00 an hour.

Because of my coupon quest, we have alot more name brand items in our pantry. For instance, my son has a cat that he is just crazy about. I've got enough cat food to last for at least 6 months because of $$$$ off coupons, free food coupons and rebates. And I just printed off two more cat food coupons this morning, so MEOW the cat won't be going hungry for a long time.I like going to the salvage grocery store. We went on Saturday afternoon and I found lots of bargins. You gotta watch the dates on stuff, but like I told my DH, you would get stuff off your own shelves and eat it after the "best by" date. I had four huge bags of groceries and only spent $30.

I've also found a recipe for making my own fabric softner. I passed it on to my sister-in-law and she loves it as much as I do. When I did the math on the cost, a batch that will do 50 loads of laundry cost me $0.89. Can't buy it in the store for that amount. And it works great, the best thing is that there is absolutely no scent on the clothes, so I can use it for DH's hunting clothes and not have to buy special scent blocking detergent for them. I have a recipe for making laundry detergent, but since I use the cheap detergent anyway, it won't save me any money to make my own.

The Dollar Tree has great deals on toothpaste, toothbrushes, body wash and shampoo. I got some "silk" shampoo at the Dollar Tree and I get more compliments about my hair now that I've been using it than ever before. DH and my son keep their heads shaved close, so they just run a wash cloth over their heads to wash their hair, even more savings, since we cut their hair with clippers we purchase a few years ago. Last year, I had to miss quite a few days because of my DH's health situation, so I bought all my co-workers gifts at the Dollar Tree. They all thought the lotion that I bought them had come from Bath & Body works. I didn't tell them any differently.....LOL!!!

St. Patrick's Day WordArt - Freebie

Here's a little bit of WordArt to go with the St. Patrick's Day kit that I made. If you want to download it, you can find it here. It is PSP format.

Luck O' The Irish Taggers Kit - Freebie

Well I told you I would be back with a kit this week and here it is, Luck O' the Irish Taggers Kit. As usual, all papers are 600 x 600, but not all elements are showing on this preview.

I love the saying on one of the balloons, on St. Patrick's Day, we are all Irish. In my case, that is not true, I'm Irish the other 364 days of the year also. When your mom's family name is O'Bryant, you have an uncle born on St. Patrick's Day and you have a family tree that stretches back to the 16 century filled with Irishmen and Ireland, you can't get more Irish than that, can you? One of my uncles in my dad's family says that we are black Irish and I'm living proof of that, black hair and the Irish temper to match. But I'm sure that you didn't come here to get the history of my family, you came for the important stuff, the kit. You can download it here.

I would love to see what you do with my creations, so please feel free to e-mail me with your tags or whatever. If you use my kit in a tutorial, please direct your users to my blog site instead of the 4shared link. Please follow my terms of use listed in this blog and have fun.

Thanks so much for looking at my work. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

She's a "Lady" Bug

Supplies: Font - Two Peas Scrapbook (free font)

She's a Lady "Bug" FTU kit from Rockin Ruckus here

Mask of Choice

Dropshadow of choice

Plugins used: Penta Dot & Cross
I'm using the artwork of Amberly Berendson http://www.harpyqueen.deviantart.com/

Another easy one, so let's get started:

1. Open 600 x 600 canvas, flood fill white.

2. Copy paper of choice (I used #15). Paste as a new layer. Add mask. Layers, merge group.

3. Copy frame 2 and paste as a new layer.

4. Magic wand, selections, modify, expand by 10. Copy paper of choice and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert, delete. Move below frame layer. Using tube of choice, paste as a new layer. Delete. Selections, select none. Move below frame layer. On frame layer and tube layer, dropshadow of choice.

5. Close off background and mask layer. Merge visible frame, background and tube layer. Resize merged layer 80% and rotate 12 degrees left.

6. Copy flower doodle, resize by 60% and move below frame layer. Penta dot & cross, default settings. Duplicate, flip and mirror. Move until stem isn't showing.

7. Copy tag and resize by 60%, move to lower left.

8. Copy heart and resize by 80%, move below frame layer. Rotate 12 degrees right.

9. Add copyright, license number (if applicable) and taggers watermark.

10. Add your name and dropshadow. That's it. I'd love to see what you do with it.

Thanks for trying my tut.

Creative Roadblock and New Tut

Wishing all the Luck O' the Irish this week. I recently hit a creative roadblock, however, be on the look out for a new kit this week. It is my tribute to my Irish heritage and will be called Luck O' the Irish. I will also be offering word art to match the kit.

I have wrote a couple of new tuts during this time and I will be adding them to my blog.

Blessings to all and thanks so much for downloading my work. I would love to see what you have done with it.

HUGS,
Teresa

Small Word Tutorial

Small Word Tutorial

Supplies Needed:

Template 2 and Scrapkit here

Tube of Choice - I'm using the work of Les Toil, found here

WSL Mask #86

Eyecandy 4000 glass

This is another easy tut, so let's get started.

1. Open the template.

2. With your magic wand, select the letter L in your template, selections, modify, expand by 2. Open tube of choice, copy & paste as a new layer. Selections, modify, invert and delete. Move this layer below your template layer.

3. Repeat this for the rest of your letters.

4. On the template layer, use your magic wand to select all the letters. Selections, modify, expand by 4. Open a paper of choice from the scrapkit and paste as a new layer. Selections, modify, invert, delete.

5. Still on this layer, go to effects,plugins, eyecandy 4000, glass. Use these settings: Bevel width: 30.00 Smoothness: 75 Bevel Placement: inside marquee Edge Darkening: 30 Gradient Shading: 35 Refraction: 50 Opacity: 0 Tinting: 50 Glass Color: White Move this layer under your tubes.

6. Copy merged.

7. Open a new 600 x 600 transparent background. Flood fill white. Paste as a new layer.

8. Open another paper from your scrapkit and paste as a new layer. Apply WSL_Mask 86. Merge group and move below template layer.

9. Add embelishments of choice. In my example, I added the tag and rotated 15 degrees.10. Add your name.

11. Add copyright, license #(if applicable) and taggers watermark.

Thank you for trying my tutorial.