Under Dappled Shadows will be in my store soon

I put the finishing touches on my kit in the wee hours this morning and sent it off to my Creative Team. This weekend I will work on my ads, take feedback from my CT, finish my wordart, and it should be in my store sometime Monday or Tuesday.

 Thank you for your patience. oxoxxo Lorie

Racoon Wars

We woke up last week to find, to our horrifying chagrin, that all of the grapes in our garden arbor were gone. In one night the local raccoon family (Growler, Gerdie, Gilbert, and their Mom) had eaten every last grape. We were hoppin mad (cursing them with tummy aches) and immediately instituted the Racoon Relocation Program.

We bought a big live trap.

The first thing we learned: Don’t bait a live trap with anything your cat likes. The first night using cat food for bait we caught (duh) Marla Mayhem the cat. We tried marshmallows next. (Racoon Kryptonite we were told.) These raccoons obviously are immune to regular marshmallows – until we pushed peanut butter inside the marshmallows and threw in a fish head for a bonus. (Marla hates fish) That caught Growler.

Growler did not take well to captivity. When we moved him to the truck he growled, hissed, and chomped his teeth like an angry alligator. We dropped him off about 20 miles from here in the wilderness.

Growler

We baited the trap again with a peanut butter marshmallows and a fish head. We caught Gerdie and Gilbert in the same trap. This is a door-at-each-end trap that closes as soon as somebody touches the bait. So they must have run in from both sides at exactly the same time – probably yelling in raccoon language: “Dibs on the fish head!” When we found them this morning they were just sitting there calmly like “Hey what’s up dudes?” They acted like they enjoyed the drive in the truck. We dropped them off at the same place in the mountains as their brother and they immediately climbed up the same tree Growler did. Hopefully tonight we’ll catch Mom and they will have a family reunion in a much more raccoon-friendly neck-of-the-woods.

Gilbert & Gerdie 

By the way, sorry again about telling everyone my kit was going to come out last week. Obviously I can never accurately predict when a kit is going to be done. I am not going to predict when it will be ready but, er, it feels like really soon. I really love this one and want it to be perfect. I guess that’s why it’s taking so long.  …….

I love hydrangeas

I plucked these from my yard yesterday.

Wild Watermelony Art from the Wild Geniuses on my CT

I would like to say when I’m composing a kit I get lost in fields of striped lollypops and sit against trees sprouting sweet smelling muffins with lots of berries and lemon frosting. But the sweet reality of my creative effort is my CT and their art. They motivate my brain and heart. I am always provoked into action by their images. They are inspiration machines. Here are some of my favorite masterpieces they created with Wild Watermelon.

Ikscrap
Priss
Twinsmomflor
Annja

Carinspixels
Damayanti
Dianat
Empolan

Hollie H

Joannknnrd
Juliegoodgirl
Lana
Livybug

Monicca
Olga Unger

Paola
Priss
ScrappieIrene
She_
szrjudit

Twinsmomflor

Vero
Wendy85

The Wild Watermelon Party is in my store

Hey, my steamy summer kit The Wild Watermelon Party is in my store now. TaDa!! It's soo splashy. And - it's on sale 20% off for the next two days too. Yay - slip n' sliding towards my lemonade.

A wild watermelony summer

Eeeeeeek I have shamelessly abandoned my blog for far too long. Summer has been keeping me pretty busy – mostly with my new kit The Wild Watermelon Party. It is a very summery collection and should be in my store next week. Here’s a sneak peek.

I haven’t done a lot of fun stuff yet this summer but I did perform in an air band last week, I have free tickets to a Soundgarden concert later this summer (jumping for joy), and I did enter an arm wrestling contest on the 4th of July. Here is me a few seconds before Cynthia cranked my arm down. (sigh) I’m usually a formidable opponent but ……… Pride goeth before the fall.

I hope everyone is having the best summer ever. I’ll be back soon.

And the winners are.......

Ohhhhhhhhhh thank you, thank you, thank you everyone for all the hard work and creativity that went into these wonderful layouts for the Fabulous Fantasy Layout Contest. It was the brightest spot of every day this past week peeking into the gallery and seeing the new entries.

It was really really hard picking one favorite fantastic masterpiece out of sooooooooo many. But today I did.

So, without further preamble, the prize for my favorite fantasy layout goes to Holstarr for Violet, Don’t be Late! This was a truly fantastic illustration that set my brain spinning into so many different story directions.

http://www.scrapbookgraphics.com/photopost/studio-lorie/p120470-violet-don-27t-be-late-21.html

My Creative Team was all over the map with their favorites. There were several ties so I cast the breaking vote. The CT pick for most fabulous layout is awarded to Mandihy for this magical layout of her daughter as a fairy butterfly catcher.

http://www.scrapbookgraphics.com/photopost/studio-lorie/p120367-fabulous-fantasy-layout-contest.html

For the random pick I collected all the entries and my DH pointed to this winner blindolded (there probably could have been an easier way to do this but I couldn’t think of it). The winner is: Rzoe for Álomvilág 4

http://www.scrapbookgraphics.com/photopost/studio-lorie/p120971--c1lomvil-e1g-4.html

Congratulations everyone. And thank you all so much for your beautiful inspired artworks.

If the winners will please send me their emails (reddoodler@gmail.com) I will send you your coupons.

Under the Dogwood Blossoms with my fav CT layouts

This is a tiny kit but that has not hindered my Amazing Inspirational Creative Team from conjuring up these magical artworks with Under the Dogwood Blossoms. oxoxoxo

Vero

TwinsMomFlor

Szotyi08

Szrjudit

Szrjudit

Priss

Monicca

Lucie

LivyBug

Juliegoodgirl

Irishgull

Ikscrap

Dianet

Damayanti

Carinspixels

Annja