Urban Mermaid Designs

Monday 18 May 2009

NEW KIT: FAIRY DREAMS IN THE SUMMER

Yipee, Summer is on it's way and to celebrate I've created Fairy Dreams in the Summer!
Fairy Dreams in the Summer is a sunny and sparkling kit perfect for your summer, garden, vacation, fantasy pages and tags or for simply scrapping a magic moment!
It's packed with enchanting, summery elements!
CONTENTS: 4 BRUSHES/STAMPS (png and abr files): dandelion seeds, "Summer" wordart, dragonfly, fairy.
30 ELEMENTS: 1 unicorn, 1 fairy, 1 swing, 1 bird, 1 butterfly, 1 bow, 1 glitter swirl, 1 ice-cream, 1 grass, 4 flowers (pansies, sunflower, daisy, buttercup), 3 frames (flower, window, heart), 1 tree, 1 leavy string, 1 leaf, 2 pixie trails, 1 fairy wings, 1 peg, 2 journaling tags, 1 sun, 1 sun rays, 3 word art.

You will also get 10 unique papers that will be perfect backgrounds for your creations, preview below:

Full Size for printed scrapbooking, card-making and hybrid projects is HERE
Tagger size for sig tags and web-based art is HERE
Check out these beautiful Layouts by my Creative Team and Special Guest CTs made using the Full Size kit:


By Patty

By Martina

Kelli RAK

Kelli RAK

Danima RAK

By Jennifer

By Laura

Anny RAK


By Jennifer

By Martina


Fairy Photos by http://sbg-crewstock.deviantart.com/

By Natalie

By Jen

And check out these sunny tags made with the Tagger Size Kit:








If you would like to recreate this stunning yellow butterfly fairy tag by LadyRaven you can follow her psp Tutorial HERE

To celebrate the launch of Fairy Dreams in the Summer I am offering the Add-on kit as a Freebie for a limited time. Here's the Freebie Preview:

You may download the Freebie HERE

Wednesday 13 May 2009

SNEAK PEAK NEW KIT!

Here's a sneak peak of my new kit Fairy Dreams in the Summer!
It's a sunny, floral kit with plenty of magical elements for your layouts and tags. It will be in stores by Monday!

Monday 11 May 2009

NEW BLOG AWARDS

Many thanks to Dianna of Digicats (and Dogs) Blog who has given me 2 Blog awards! You can get some great tips on the latest posers, scrapkits and freebies on her blog!
I would like to pass the Rockin' Girl Blogger Award to:

I would like to pass the Blog Magico to:
Congratulations ladies, your blogs ROCK!

Sunday 10 May 2009

Happy Mother's day!


Happy Mother's Day to all my American readers!
Have a great day!
* Mother's Day Tag made with Mermaid Dreams in the Ocean Tagger Size available HERE
and Mother & Daughter Mermaid Tube by Molly Harrison available HERE

Thursday 7 May 2009

SCRAPDISH MAY BLOG TRAIN

Toot Toot! Welcome to the Scrapdish May Blog Train!
Some of the Scrapdish Designers have come together to create a beautiful Freebie collab kit with a matching color scheme and all about Mother's Day. If you collect all the pieces, here's what you get! Wow!


Click the links below to collect your Freebies:

Tahera
CarolineB
scrapshana
barb5
Shelly

YOU ARE HERE>>>>>Urban Mermaid Designs

Helena
ScrapDesafios


Here's my Mom Rocks Freebie preview:

You can download the Freebie HERE

Monday 4 May 2009

NEW BLINKIE!

I hope everyone had a fun National Scrapbooking Day! I spent all day Saturday shopping in the scrapbooking sales!
I finally made a blinkie today. It's not perfect, but for a first attempt I think it's okay! I mainly used Mermaid Dreams in the Ocean Tagger Size to create it.
If you have Photoshop, why not try making one yourself? It's fun and not too difficult. Here's a basic tutorial on how I did it:
  1. Open a new document in Photoshop 300x100.
  2. Using a scrapbooking kit of your choice, choice a background and some elements.
  3. Place all elements that you wish to animate on seperate layers.
  4. Write your text on seperate layers.
  5. Click on the icon at the bottom of the Tools palette and it will take you to Adobe Imageready.
  6. You will see a layers palette as you do in Photoshop. Make visible the layers you wish to animate first.
  7. In the Animation Palette click the duplicate current frame button twice.
  8. Move the elements/text you wish to animate slightly then click duplicate current frame button twice again.
  9. Keep moving your elements/text and duplicating the frames. You can click Play to see the animation come to life. Keep going until you are happy with the result. You can delete frames if they are not right and also go back into Photoshop if you need to edit an element, then come back to ImageReady where the change will have been automatically updated.
  10. When finished, reduce image size to W150px x H50 px.
  11. Save optimized as GIF

Here's the finished Blinkie:

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Saturday 2 May 2009

SALE, TREASURE HUNT AND PRIZES


Come and help us celebrate National Scrapbooking Day at Scrapdish this weekend!
We are hosting a Treasure Hunt with a Gold Theme and we have a big Prize Draw!
All this and a HUGE store-wide SALE!