new in store | gourmet

Oh I am in love with today! Not only is it my birthday, and I get to celebrate it with good food and champagne, but I also have new stuff in the shop and a little something for you guys! Yay!

Now you know I have a thing for food, right? It's basically all I talk about here (and there's more to come on that topic too). And I was thinking a few months back that I needed a way to document the part of my New52 challenge where I cook for the husband every month. Gourmet was born from that need.


(Click on the image to go directly to the product in my shop)


(Click on the image to go directly to the product in my shop)

Gourmet is available today at JessicaSprague.com.

Now, I said I had a little something for you as well! Just head on over to my facebook page! Click the "Like button" and pick up a coupon code for 15% off the Gourmet Packs! Yay!

Have a great day everyone! I sure will!

Welcome to the JessciaSprague.com 4th birthday bloghop! With freebies!

Welcome to the 4th stop of the JessicaSprague.com 4th birthday bloghop!


You can also click HERE to be taken to Jessica's blog.

I am super excited to be part of this fabulous bloghop, and I can't believe we're at four years already! It's been a sweet ride and I have a feeling that the future holds even more sweetness ahead. :)
Alright, let's get right to business! I have a super cute freebie mini kit to offer you:



Click on the image to download the kit, or click HERE!
I am sorry but this download has expired. You are very welcome to buy this kit in my shop when it goes on sale there Monday July 11th. Thank you for your interest.

But the goodness doeesn't end here, oh no! You've got a long ways to go yet. :)
The next stop on the hop is MousePaperLovely where my girl Kari Holt will offer you more tasty treats. Just click HERE to go there directly.

Also, remember that you can have a chance at a fabulous raffle prize if you visit all stops of the bloghop, collect and asseble the puzzle strips into a quote, and send our dear Tori an email at tori@jessicasprague.com with your answer. Remember that Tori needs your answer by 10pm EST on Sunday June 26th.

Thanks for stopping by lovelies! Come back soon why don't you!

Drumming up business for "da bloghop"

Guys, only one more day to go now until the mother of all bloghops! You really don't want to miss it. Really. Like not in a million years. You will get the most mega awesome freebies you've ever seen. Consider that a promise from me to you. All you have to do? Follow the instructions below:

Birthday festivities and new products

JessicaSprague.com is FOUR! To celebrate, we're throwing a HUGE Birthday Bash & Summer Sale. From June 13-26, you can save 20% off of every self-paced class, and 35% off of ALL digital products. In addition, grab all 27 episodes of Jessica's amazing Photoshop Friday tutorials for just $1 each before they're retired on June 26!

As part of the celebration, starting on June 24, you can participate in an incredible 47-person blog hop (I will be part of it), picking up a sweet digital freebie at each stop! Also, on June 26 Jessica will be making a special announcement of a brand new class coming up in July.

We only put our whole site on sale two times a year, so don't miss out on this GREAT savings opportunity! For all the info on the Summer Sale, Photoshop Fridays, blog hop, and the new class, just click here!


Now, did you participate in the 7 Days in May challenges last month? If you for some reason missed it I have put all my freebies from three of those seven days in my shop.

There's the template, now with a bonus quick page


And there's the mini paper pack


And you can choose to get the bundle, with both the template, the mini paper pack, as well as the wordart

(Click on the images to go directly to the products in the shop)

7 Days in May products are all available at JessicaSprague.com today!

Look at the pretty things the creative team cam up with using these products.

by Emily Cheney

by Jenn McCabe

by Jana Holden

by Miki Kreuger

by Emily Cheney

by Jenn McCabe

by Miki Kreuger

by Mindy Pitcher

Real life card making

It's been a long time since I created a card the old fashioned way with papers and scissors and glue and all that. I think digi has made me lazy with the snazzy control clicks and the convenient do overs. Doing it the digi way is quick and easy and the results are always perfect - no glue smudges, no wrong cuts, no wonky placements.

But my fingers were itching to make some mess this morning and with beautiful inspiration the from Mouse, Paper, Scissors Mom class at Jessica Sprague.com, by Jessica and Heidi Swapp, I went to town on the papers and glues. It gave me a few of hours of mental therapy where nothing but cutting, folding, glueing, and glittering mattered. It was quite liberating and something I highly recommend.

I made a card for my goddaughter's birthday. It's very girly and pink, which is perfect for her as she is the epitome of a little princess. The more pink and glitter the better. So I think this card did the trick. I love the outcome.























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Supplies: The beautiful papers are from the Gabrielle line by Bo Bunny and they are included in the class.
I printed the card pages on heavy textured cardstock and all tags, flags, and butterflies on satin photo paper. I used Chandelier Glam glitter paint by Tattered Angels to get the sparkle. For the finishing effect I used adhesive stones and a glittery brad from my local craft store.  I used Sloop Script and VT Portable Remington fonts.
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Announcing the giveaway winner!

Yahoo! We have another winner!
This week I am giving away a $10 gift certificate to My 4 Hens Photography.
So, who is the winner?

Heather! Yay! She said:

I am sure your family and friends would love a card from you Heather, you have an amzingly creative mind.
Please contact me with your email adress and I'll send you the specs. :)

Ok, people, we're concluding the birthday celebration with a freebie tomorrow! Don't miss it!
Party on!

Birthday party continues with new stuff and a giveaway

And the party continues my dear friends! I am so excited about the new product that is available at JessicaSprague.com today! I love greeting cards. I love to give them and I love to recieve them. I love digital greeting cards. I love the flexibility and the ease of the idea. From one single template it's possible to get a multitude of designs from photocards to more classic designs. The best thing? You can also print each layer seperately and then put together as a regular paper card. Isn't hybrid just fab?



This set features four fully layered psd card templates and four quick cards (as seen in the preview above). The cuick cards are also in psd. format with a seperate layer for you to clip a photo, a patterned paper, or a text layer to - whatever you want! I think you saw some examples of the cards in my inspiration post on Friday? Excellent work by the CT, no?

I am also equally excited about the giveaway today. It's a good one y'all! I have one gift certificate worth $10 to My Four Hens Photography. Yay! Sarah of My Four Hens has some gorgeous actions. Gorgeous I tell you. Now, don't worry, there are actions for both Elements and for CS, so you are covered no matter what PS software you use. There are also Lightroom presets, overlays, and textures to choose from.
One lucky person will win the $10 gift certificate.
All you have to do is leave a comment to this post telling me about someone you would like to send a card to. You have until Wednesday to reply. The winner will be announced on Thursday. Very simple!

Now, don't miss the OBW on Wednesday. And you also don't want to miss the freebie I've got lined up for you on Friday!

Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with My Four Hens. They have not asked me to write about them. I have not been given the gift certificate by them. I am the sponsor of the money for the gift certificate. I just happened to like their products and wanted to share it with you all. :)

A birthday party with new products, a giveaway, and some FB action

That's right! It's been a year since that completely nerve wracking and life changing day when I officially joined the ranks of designers at JessicaSprague.com! One year! Can you believe it? I hardly can. It's been a whirlwind of a year with so many amazing experiences. I have learned so many things about the design biz, people around me, and most of all myself that I am sure would have never known otherwiese.

It's been demanding and humbling to learn how much work it takes, and about the never ending things to learn about graphic design, colour, and digital scrapbooking. I have been amazed, awed, and deeply touched by the beautiful creations of all the lovely people who have used my designs.

So what better way to say thank you, and to pat myself on the back for daring to take a leap of faith, than to party? Heck yeah!

I've got several goodies lined up for you today! Let's start off with new products in the shop! I have not one, not two, but three new products available in my shop today. Heck yeah!








This series of packs is all about me going back to my roots. I think I have shared a few snippets about being in a creative slump for a while? I needed to go back to the stuff that I really love to find a glimpse of it again. First, the colours! Blues, browns, tans; they are all my favourites. They make me feel calm and serene, refreshed and warmed at the same time. Also, I think they are just plain pretty. Then, greeting cards, invitations, card making; that's what started me on this whole journey to begin with all those years ago. So this whole series is devoted to my first loves. There is one more part of the series coming next week (a card templates pack, but ssssccchhh don't tell anyone). I hope you will love them all as much as I do. Meet & Greet is available, surprise surprise, today!

And what would a birthday party be without a giveaway? Why nothing I tell you. So guess what, we're having a giveaway! Heck yeah!
One lucky dog will win all of the above packs. Heck yeah! All you have to do is reply to this post and tell me what you would like to use them for. Please post on Wednesday at the latest for a chance to win. The winner will be announced on Thursday.

But what about everyone else, you ask? Don't worry loves. I've got your backs too! Heck yeah!
Head over to my facebook page, click the like button (if you haven't already), and check out the action on the wall. I don't think you will be disappointed! But don't wait, you've only got three days to get in on the action.
Important edit: I am sorry for the confusion! With action I meant stuff going on, not Photoshop actions per se. I am sorry if you got all excited and were deeply disappointed because of my inability to communicate correctly! All I have to say for myself is that I am Swedish after all!

Alright my loves, time for some cake! Go ahead and have one you too on my behalf!

Also, there's more good stuff coming next week so don't be a stranger, alright?! ;)

The first ever jessicasprague.com birthday bloghop - with freebies galore!

Welcome to the celebration of the year! That's right, this weekend we are going all out and partying til the sun goes up (and down, and up, and down again) to celebrate that JessicaSprague.com turns 3. Woohoo!

And what better way to celebrate a birthday than with a bombastic and bootilicious bloghop (ok, so rhyming isn't my forte exactly, lol)? Right, I can't think of anything either.

First, if you came to me directly, please go and see the birthday queen herself, Jessica Sprague first, so that you can participate in the whole bloghop. I assure you, you do not want to miss any part of it.

OK, so here are the rules to abide by:

Easy peasy right? You just go from blog to blog to blog  ... to blog and so on ... yeah, there are 33 of us participating, which means 33 pieces of awesomeness! :D Once you have all the downloads, unzip them and find all the little quote strips we have included in our files. Put them together into a full quote. Email Tori to have a chance at the prize at the end of the rainbow.

So what does my contribution look like then? And how to get it? Here you go! Click on the image below and the kit is yours. Sorry the bloghop has ended. Please check my shop as of next week, where you will be able to purchase the kit.



Now, to continue the party, go and see my girl Danielle Thompson of Kitschy Digitals. She's got a great mini kit for you as well.

Also, remember that we have lots of other goodies going on:
*The store wide sale (all digital products and all current self paced classes) of 20% off is still going on.
*Registration is going on for the forthcoming FREE class "Computer Tricks for Cards".
*The birthday challenges are going on all weekend in the forum - the first challenge is live now!

Have a wonderful birthday weekend everyone!

The flyer post

Yeah, this post will truly live up to its name. I've got some exciting news to share with you guys, and all in the shape of flyers.

We love flyers at jessicasprague.com. We make them as often as we can. No joke either. Going to the shops for some milk? Make a flyer! Changing the channel on the telly? Make a flyer! Sipping the coke zero? You got it - make a flyer!

LOL

Yeah joke. But we do like to proclaim our news to the world, and what better way than to use a pretty flyer that can go on blogs, or FB, or the in every mailbox on your street.

So you know I told you about the upcoming FREE class with Jessica? Yeah, here's more info:

(Click on the image to go to the class page)

Now, next weekend is when you do not want to be away from your computer. For two reasons. The first?


Ya, über fun challenges are being planned for next weekend. It'll be hosted by me, my fellow designer Liv Esteban, and one of our CT girls, Chrissy. You don't want to miss!

The second?

Can you believe it? I can hardly contain myself, I am so excited about this massive collab by all the designers and CT members of jessicasprague.com. If you only attend one digi related event this year, this is it guys.

See you there (and here, hee!) guys!

Birthday sale at jessicasprague.com

Oh yes my dears, starting today we are having a store wide sale over at JessicaSprague.com to celebrate the site having its third birthday this month. The sale will be running until June 21st and it's 20% off everything!

Head straight over to our shop and stock up on your favourite products right now!

Just click the image to go directly to the shop.

And the celebrations don't stop there my friends. Oh no! We have plenty good stuff up our sleeves. :D Jess is offering a new free class starting June 28th. Don't miss registration for it June 14-28 over at JessicaSprague.com. Also, stay put for more fun and games throughout the month. Hee!

Long time no see!

Great Scott! It's been a while. I have been working really hard on getting stuff ready for a couple of posts here. Um ... is it going well? Hahaha, not really. I have had a few emails asking me if I'm alright, and a couple of requests for photos of Bublé. First off, yes, I am fine! :D Time just isn't on my side, but what's new, eh? Bublé shots are on their way. I had lots and lots of photos to edit from the Italy trip and I wanted to post them all in one single post. I still have about 250 or so to to go before I can grant your wishes. Be patient my little ones, lol.

Here's one little teaser though.


Then I went on a trip with work where we had one day out in the amazingly beautiful northern Sweden. I got a bunch of wonderful shots and I hope to edit and post sometime this week.

Also, I've had a few new products in the last couple of weeks and the beautiful CT girls have done such a good job with that. I need to share!

What else? I'm behind on my P52, as always. Hee, I have my work cut out for me, haven't I?

But for tonight I will just tell you about the birthday celebration we're having this month (ya, month!) over at JessicaSprague.com.


There are lots of great things planned so don't miss out!

Alright, it's half an hour to midnight, so I'm signing out. See you soon!

Party for a birthday girl

My goddaughter turned five a few weeks back. We weren't there and decided to have the whole family over for a small extra party with dinner (spaghetti bolognese) and cake.

I decorated the place all out to make it a real birthday party and I thought I'd share some pics here.

The table was dressed in a hot pink cloth with a multi coloured striped runner. Our white china (y'all know how much I always go on about white china, but it's really practical because it goes with everything and it is clean and fresh) was used for the dinner part.





I used lime green paper napkins (much more practical with kids I have to admit) rolled up with a biased cut piece of scrapbook paper. I altered two different patterned pink paper on the six seats.


I tied some dotted ribbon around each glass. The birthday girl got a pink one, her brother a green one, and the rest of us got a turqoise one.


I filled these candle holders from Menu with M&Ms


I got some really beautiful pink and green flowers and put them in two vases on the table. Five days later they are still as lovely.




I also put some garlands with cute wooden flowers along the length of the table.


I see now that I have missed to upload the ultra cute flag garlands that I hung across the room. I'll have to get back to that.

I wrapped the presents in matching striped paper. Anal? Yes.


And then, I also baked. I know, quite the home maker again.  I go through short periods of massive energy and interest. They are very short though. I think I could bake more often, but then I'd have to eat them and that is something I have to be careful with. So unless I know I can give them away I just don't bake at all.

I made vanilla cupcakes with pink vanilla frosting and served that with chocolate chip cookies which were store bought - hey I'm not perfect. Um, and that was a three tiered stand and there are six cupcakes on the bottom. I wasn't cheap and only served two cupcakes, lol.


I also baked a cake. Now this cake was the ugliest cake ever made. I seriously need some cake decorating help, lol. It did taste good though. It was dark chocolate cake with chocolate mousse and banana filling. Of course we had five pink candles.


The cake was served on Hello Kitty plates and we had soda and lemonade in Hello Kitty mugs. That was greatly appreciated by the girl. You can see me holding one of the plates in the back of the photo above.

And that is pretty much it. :)