I am currently working on a packaging assignment, doing some research and thought, I should ask my trusty readers for their opinion.

What do you expect of paper packaging for premium/boutique/high quality coffee? Weight of the paper, texture, colours, design, font, sustainability?

Happy international Scrapbooking Day, dear fellow digi designers! SugarHillco proudly presents our Blog Train, filled with goodies for you. You should have arrived here from:

Wishing Well Creations.

*** Link has been removed after 8 days *** Click the image below to download the free gift. Should you ever get lost or a link does not work, please go to the

SHCO Blog,

where you will find the complete list of our blog train.

Your next stop is Miss Tiina, wooohooo!

Don’t forget we have a sale happening at SHCO,

my store is on sale, 40% off everything. Have a great weekend!

Our kids sometimes come up with facts where both my husband and I think – How do YOU know that? When I was your age, I wouldn’t have known that… Does your kid sometimes surprise you with knowledge beyond their age? Do you have a little nerd in your family? Then “Smart Little Cookies” is the right kit for you!

This kit contains 13 solid and patterned papers and 60 elements. The doodles are all drawn by me.

Do you love layouts with the focus of one large photo? Then this template set is the right one for you. Eezy Peezy 8 contains 4 12×12 inch templates, available in either psd, tiff, layered png or page format.

Of course I also offer my trusty Double Decker, which includes both products above for a fantastic price! And if you are quick, you can grab it for $5.59!

Let me leave you with some gorgeous inspiration made by my trusty CT

Here is a little sneak peak of new products coming to my TDC store on 12/04/2012!

Wishing you a happy Easter! Hope you find lots of delicious chocolate eggs.

OMG, we are doing it again! No joke! Enjoy 75% off almost everything in the SugarHill Store for 24 hours only. And yes, this means all my products are 75% off!

A few days ago I received an invitation from Kiki to join her event “art by candlelight” on facebook. I loved the idea, thought it would be fun, but usually Saturday night would be family time, so I replied a careful maybe. The family decided to watch Harry Potter – again – so I didn’t feel guilty to get artsy instead, woohoo.

Kiki challenged us to create something meaningful about Earth Hour, and I knew I wanted to use blues and greens to represent the earth. I set up all the candles, closed the curtains, got all my supplies out I thought I would need + some more just for good measurement I prepared a journal page by painting it with gesso. Then it was time and I turned off the light -oooh, how cozy! Looky here:

And then I started playing with my greens and blues, colour washed the paper first, then let paint drip down, speckled with paint and toothbrush, splattered paint blobs with a brush. In that early stage I remembered to take some progress shots. But once I got really into it, I totally forgot

I didn’t imagine how hard it would be to paint by candlelight! Well, the painting itself wasn’t too bad, but choosing the colours is! I could not determine if that partiular blob of paint was dark blue or dark green, lol. Once I had my wash and splatters done, I used watersoluble pastel crayons to create some swirls a long the left and bottom edge and drew 3 hearts in the middle section of the paper. The swirls were not to my taste, so I used a damp rag to wash them out a bit. I added some texture using a roller stamp, punchinella and bubble wrap. I stamped the clock with the time for Earth Hour and emphasized the hearts with more colour and then lined it with a lumograph and rubbing the line to soften. Then I finished up with some doodling and adding the journaling (I seriously have to work on my journaling writing style!).

Materials used: journal paper (110gsm), gesso, gouache, water soluble wax pastels, punchinella, bubble wrap, rollograph herb words, kaisercraft empire clear stamps, lumograph 8B, uniball eye fine black, faber castell pitt artist pen black B

I have some new CU goodies in the store! When I was working on a template, I thought it would be so much easier if I had more custom shapes to create my templates. So I got busy and soon ended up with these 60 awesome custom shapes to help you create templates in a breeze. Each set contains 20 custom shapes + png files. Check out this Special Offer:

Every set available separately also:
Template Shapes 1 includes:
1 bow, 1 button, 2 flowers, 2 frames, 1 half cirle, 1 heart, 1 knotted ribbon, 2 leaves, 1 straight ribbon, 1 scalloped border, 2 scallop mats, 1 scatter, 1 string, 1 tag, 1 tag string and 1 wave mat

Template Shapes 2 includes:
1 bow, 1 button, 2 flowers, 2 frames, 1 heart, 3 individual leaves, 2 paper strips, 1 folded ribbon, 1 ricrac, 2 scalloped mats, 1 scatter, 2 tags, 1 tag string

Template Shapes 3 includes:
1 bow, 1 button, 2 frames, 2 leaves, 1 banner string, 4 pennants, 1 ricrac, 1 scalloped border, 1 scalloped mat, 1 scatter, 2 stars, 2 strings, 1 wave mat

I am having a sale at both stores TDC and SHCO. All products 39% off this weekend! Additionally I am retiring 10 products at TDC:

Not much happening here, I know. My assignments keep my on my toes at the moment!

But there is news: All my templates are now available in .page format! When you download my templates you can now choose between psd, tiff, layered png and page format. Enjoy!