MellowButterfly Team Blog

There is still time left for you to participate in the Petal Pieces Challenge being hosted by LauraM over at Purple Paper Flowers through July 13. The free sampler for the challenge was provided by me and is from my Glitter and Grunge Kit (download available in the challenge forum here.

There is also a great 25% off coupon to my PPF shoppe included in the .zip for the challenge - but I’ve decided to share it here on my blog as well. ***Remember, the coupon is only valid on my products for sale at Purple Paper Flowers, not here in the MellowButterfly Shoppe.***

Like the graphics in the ad? They are for sale: Origami Butterflies, Balloons & Strings, Once in a BlueMoon Alpha, and the stitches will be available in the For the Boys Embellishment Kit coming July 18!

By the way, the gallery update is complete with the exception of an issue with the thumbnails for some albums randomly not appearing. I’ll keep working on that for you

That’s right - my designs are now available at the fabulous Purple Paper Flowers AND they are having a 25% off sale this weekend too!

If you aren’t familiar with PPF, you should really check them out - they have a great site creative Team - The Blue Belles - who host LOTS of challenges each month and when you participate you earn points which can be redeemed for PRODUCTS! How fabulous is that?

They also are the home of the Designer Bud Club. The Bud Club is a place where current and aspiring designers have access to some terrific tutorials on how to create commercial products. Not only do you get access to the tuts, but you get 50% off the PPF Team Collab Kits AND each month you get a commercial use freebie! Wow - isn’t that a great deal? As a member you are also entitled to a discount on membership at Actionfx.com which is run by renowned Photoshop Guru and Author Al Ward!

PS - all the products I have at PPF are also on sale here for 25% this weekend too!

hee-hee! I was too excited to wait one more day to release the Blue Violet products, so you get them a day early! Here are a few layouts the team did with these products this past week:

Aren’t they beautiful? You can click on the images to visit the full sized ones in the gallery. I’m sure we’ll be adding more layouts to the Blue Violet Showcase, so stop back in later and check it out!

Now, of course what would a new product release be without a little sale! So, until Sunday, June 1 you can get all these products at 30% off! Buy it as a kit, or as separates - all the previews are linked to the shoppe where there are additional previews.

Oh, what’s that you say? I forgot about the giveaway…… LOL - no, I didn’t. I just thought I’d make you wait a bit - I’m evil aren’t I? My fancy random number generator (my son) chose the number 4 - well, since that post was one of my CT girls who already has the kit, I ended up using an even more scientific method to choose….I picked the person who left the first comment! So, congratulations Armina! You’ve won the Blue Violet Coordinated Kit and Blue Violet Glitter Styles and Patterns - enjoy!

One last new product release before I go - for those of you who emailed me so many wonderful compliments on the Citrus Punch Kit - I’ve created a little Add On Kit! OK, well, it’s not really little as I don’t seem to do little well. But, it is also 30% off through Sunday. This product is no longer available!

Just poking my head in to welcome Debra (healersmoon) to the Creative Team and to share some great new products that I added to the shoppe today which will all be 30% off through May 25th.

First up are these awesome clear Photoshop styles - perfect for transforming any shape of any color into instant 3D transparency! There are two sets - one called Clearly Fluids, which gives a larger, rounder look - and the other called Clearly Solids, which give a flatter, more plastic or acrylic look.

Next up are Rainbow Glitter Styles and Patterns. These are the same glitters that I designed to use in my Glitter and Grunge products and I loved them so much that I revamped my Citrus Punch and Rembrandt’s Palette Glitters so they are all in this new style. I know you’ll love them too - as they come as Photoshop Styles, Patterns and seamlessly tiling .jpg files so you can create the glitters in other programs too!

Lastly, for the new products are another handwriting font based on my friend Alana’s handwriting and these really fabulous translucent balloons which come with cute little strings perfect for holding or fastening - digitally of course! I have to give a special thanks to my husband, John for doing a little QC on them and giving me some advice that made them look even better (although it required me to completely remake them all lol! Hope you like them too.

As promised, here is a little sneak peek at my newest digital scrapbooking kit, Blue Violet, which will be released next week! It’s another big one - it comes as five individual products: embellishments, patterned papers, striped papers, solid papers, glitter styles - or for paper lovers: the paper collection and for kit lovers: the coordinated kit. Wow!

And for those of you who stuck with me and made it down here at the end of the post - a little something special! Everyone who leaves a comment on this post until May 28 will have their name put in a drawing to win the Blue Violet Coordinated Kit and Glitter Styles for FREE! The winner will be announced next Friday along with the release of kit.

So, are all you scrappers ready for National Scrapbooking Day on Saturday? I don’t have a heck of a lot of free time to participate in all the fun activities, but I do have plans to browse some of my favorite designers shops in hopes of getting a few deals!

Being such a tiny and relatively unknown shoppe, I’ve opted to maintain a low profile here - but in case anyone happens to drop on by I did finish up some new goodies I’ve been working on and they’ll be 30% off through Sunday May 4th.

Everything in the Glitter and Grunge line is available as individual products. Or, if you love all three of the paper sets, consider the Paper Collection and save a bit of cash. Or, if you love everything and just have to have it all, I’ve got you covered too - just grab the Coordinated Kit!

Before I post the previews (and possibly lose your attention!) - be sure to check back this weekend for my first blog challenge. It’s going to be a super easy one that anyone can do and everyone who participates is going to get an extra special goodie from me!

And I also wanted to welcome the first two members of my Creative Team - Jen C and Renilicious! These two gals are really great friends of mine who I’ve had the pleasure of working with before so it is sure to be great fun! I’m going to be getting Jen and Ren settled in before I do any more recruiting for the team, but keep an eye on the blog in the next week or so for more information!

And now, as promised, here are your previews for the new products (and one sample layout I made!):

To kick off my first weekend in the new shoppe, I’m having a 30% off sale on my newest products! The sale price is good through midnight, Sunday April 20th.

The final newsletter went out to customers registered in the old shoppe location this afternoon. If you were a subscriber, be sure to check your inbox as you received a special discount coupon good April 21 through 30. Don’t forget to register in the new shoppe location if you want to continue receiving periodic MellowButterfly newsletters via email.

And just a reminder, I’m still accepting applications for spots on the MellowButterfly Creative Team - past members are welcome and encouraged to reapply for the new team!

Here are the products that are on sale this weekend: