GRRRRR!!

I have been AFK for a little while now since this stuff came up over a divorce.
I just got my internet connection going again and so when I came on here and went to check my DL's and emails, 1. I am swamped and may never catch up on emails. lol and 2. my 4shared account was deactivated and ALL of my files have been lost.

Good news is EVERYTHING I have shared here in the past is still in tact, burned to disk and on my spare hard drive, so nothing is truly lost. Just annoys me that I will have to redo ALL of my links to get the page going again.

I haven't gotten to create much lately, because I have been working as much as possiable. I miss it tho and now that I am online and getting used to a new life style and schedule, I may get to start back up. Until then, I hope to get to share some stuff I had saved back.

Hugs,
Rachel

FREEBIE~More Polka Dot Bows

I love these bows. I actually made them a couple of weeks ago, and I am just now getting the zipped up to share. :)

I tied these little buggers up nice and neat with tails, and you get a set of 7 color varieties with white dots on each. :)

The actual size of each bow is 476 x 337 pixels. Shown, they are about 10% of the actual size. :)

If this is your first visit to my blog or to download my graphics and scrap supplies, I kindly request that you read my TOU before use. YOu can read them
HERE.

Want em?



Smiles Across the miles,
Rachel

FREEBIE ~ From Rachel's Letter Box~POSTAGE STAMPS

Good morning everyone! :) I hope today has found you all to be in bright spirits and the Lord is watching over each of you on your daily pathway! :) Thank you again, for all of the kind emails, I have recieved so many, I am still reading them! :)

Time has been very captivated lately, BUT... I have found some time to create and design a little bit. So I have some fun shares with you today.

I pray I will get time to work on my Offical website and hopefully, get my store done. I know I've said that so many times, and I am working on it as time permits, but lately, man, it's been so difficult with all that is happening in my Life.

Well.... anyhoo, today I have some postage stamps for your freebie download, and will be posting an offer for Customized Postage Stamps as soon as I have the Samplers Ready for Display, so keep posted, because your kiddos and grandkids pictures on a digital postage stamp would be wicked-cool for your scrap layouts! :)

Today's Download consists of 11 sample Postage Stamps approximately 500 x 600 pixels.

One of the stamps is a sample of my Adorable little Neice, Megan in her easter bunny ears... very cute! This is a sample of what I will do with your personal pictures on a custome stamp. :)

The other 10 stamps includes: 3 Pinup Girls, 1 Johnny Depp, 2 Orlando Bloom, 2 Hotties, 1 hog wild for you valentine stamp and 1 teddy bear stamp. :) I have alot more of these I am putting together in themes for the store, but I know you guys will love sampling these! :)

Upclose at 75% actual size


Sorry, the post mark is not included at this time. :)

If this is your first time to visit my blog and download my graphics and freebies, I kindly request that you read my TOU in full before downloading and use. :) You may read my TOU HERE.

Want to try these stamps out?


Thank you all for your patience in waiting for a new post. I will post more as often as I can. I have ALOT of goodies to share still, but time and issues have not allowed it. Things will improve at some point. Until then, keep me and my family in your prayers, and I will continue to design and share with you as time will allow. :)

Smiles Across the Miles,
Rachel

FREEBIE~ Rachel's Swirly Paper Bows and Buttons

I've made a few bows, and I'm making alot more, but these were the experimental paper bows, and In this freebie zip I have added a polka dot one that I thought was cute. The polka dot bow isn't paper, it's ribbon, so I'd like your imput on that one particularly. The other ones is the ones I was working on trying to figure out how to make them, and in the process I have made a template that I will post later one. I have several styles of bows I am working on, but I thought it one was cute. ;)

This freebie "Buttons N Bows" has 6 pastel swirly paper bows and 7 plain buttons, with an additional yellow swirly paper bow and one pink polka dot bow.


If this is your first time of visiting my blow and downloading my graphics and freebies, I kindly request that you read my TOU. You may read them HERE.

Click the Image for a Larger view. The Bows shown are only 20 % of actual size , the buttons are 60% actual size, in the larger display image. :)



Want 'em? Grab 'em here


Happy Scrappin!

Smiles Across the Miles,
Rachel

NOTICE::May Scrap LO Winners!!

Congratulations to the following the Winners of May's Scrap LO Contest! :)

First Place goes to : Perri aka PSPGirly

Second Place goes to : Mary aka LdyTeaRose

Third Place goes to: Shirly Shanly

The runners up are :

Binky aka Cindy and Melissa Boersma (Girl th at was a cute baby in the stuffed animals... adorable!)

Excellent Layouts ladies! I received MANY layouts and so it was a very difficult decision indeed, I had to inlist the help of family and friends as I expected I would! :)

Thank you so much for your enteries and I hope you ALL will enter MORE for the June Scrap and PSP Layout Contest, because it was so much fun getting all of these entries and seeing what all has been done with the goodies you have snagged from the blog.

I will be posting these LO's online very soon, I am hoping today or tomorrow if time will allow. ;)

Please Email me if you are the winners and runners up for your prizes to be emailed to you! :)


Prizes are FULL Downloads and not freebie Samplers: So go through my blog and look at the Freebie Samplers.

1st Prize , Mega Kit of your Choice, Full Alpha of your Choice and 1 element of your choice.

2nd Prize , Full Alpha of your Choice and 1 element

3rd Full element of your choice.

Runners up:

1 Special Edition Paper Pack :)

I look forward to your emails ladies!

FREEBIE: Rachel's Best Friend Clip Board QP

Well, the baby is sleeping and I'm finally getting a little down town for me. So I made a few neat things that is going into a new kit I am making ( one of the many.... lol)... I will zip up a sample tomorrow if I get the opportunity, but I wanted to share what I made for this evening and give you a quick page to have. :) Binky, I know you will LOVE this one girl!! :)

I have this really cool kit in compostion, that I will leave a secret for now, but it needed a clipboard. I made this clip board, plus a template for it, and all kinds of fun stuff to go with it, but I t hought, " How cool would it be for the clip board to be scrappy" I got this idea from some stuff I have in my own home, one of them being an inner changable scrappy clipboard I'm making.

The idea is to take your scrap page idea and paste it on a clip board to hang on your wall, great idea for the kids' rooms, and you just change the photo periodically as they get older or have a new favorite.

Here is one I made of my Best Friends Clip Board with most of my own elements and one I got else where, the flower is special thanks to atomic cupcake.

Click the image for a larger more detailed view.


I have a few more to post as I get them ready, but I am really tired this evening. I wanted to at least get something fun up here for you guys, and I will have a freebie mini kit of this one up ASAP.... I haven't done much this week, with all of the drama going on, BUT.... I hope this will be something you can use and enjoy. ;)
If this is your first time to visit my blog and download my graphics and freebies, I kindly request you read my TOU. You can read them HERE.


Do you like it and want the Quick Page?


Have a wonderful Saturday, and I hope to have more fun stuff up soon. ;)
Thank you for all of the wonderfully kind emails I have recieved the last few days, they are appreciated! :)

Happy Scrappin-
Rachel

UPDATE: AFK

Just letting my regular visitors and my new visitos know, that I have been afk alot this last week dealing with some business in RL concerning the incident that occured last week with my daughter being backed into by a car while she was riding her bike. The officer did not file a report and behaved unprofessionally and bias, and so I felt it was necassary to file a complaint with Internal Affairs. All of this has been rather stressful , and so I have spent alot of time away from my keyboard. Today I had an interview with Sergent Weiss , a full investigation on the matter is being conducted.

Just want you to know, I will be posting more fun stuff as soon as I can in the next day or so, once things have settled down and life goes back to normal. For those who missed the earlier entry about what had happened, my daughter is not injured, she is OK and had nothing more than a minor bruise, so don't worry, the issue is how the officer did not handle things with professional and proper protical. :)

Thanks for understanding and keep posted, because, I will be back on my usual schedule ANY day now. Keep us in your prayers that all of this stress goes away soon. Seems lately, when it rains, it poors!

Hugs,
Rachel

FREEBIE~ Jelly Bean Lane's Exclusive Charms

Introducing, my Jelly Bean Lane Charms. Little Charms to make name tags and to put in scrap pages.

I will be making the charms as I go with my exclusive Jelly Bean Lane ©Rachel Hansen digital art work. Some of the more popular peices have been the cup cakes and I have gotten SOOO Many emails on the gumball machine, and my daughters flip flop, that I have decided to start making charms out them.

This sampler has three charms , the gumball machine, the purple flip flop and the famous pink cupcake. ;) Also included is a charm chain and a charm clasp to attach the charms to the chain.

Here is a sample of what I did with my charms and the charm alpha, which will be on another freebie sampler download soon, in the phrase "lucky".
Click the image for a larger view. The full sized image shows the charms to be only 30 % of actual size. ;)


If this is your first visit to my blog or the first time of downloading my graphics and designs, I kindly request that you read my TOU before downloading and using them. :) You can read my TOU HERE.

Click the Scrap Jar to snag this Charm Sampler


New Charms Created Often, so keep posted for the new ones!

Happy Scrapping!

Rachel

FREEBIE~Stress Dots Digi Papers by Rachel

Well, it sure has taken me long enough to get a post done today hasn't it? lol I've been busy just doing this and that. I made some really wicked cool charms, charm chains, charm alphas etc today, which I will post at a later date in a kit I am working on. ;) You guys WILL LOVE THEM.... if you're on my mailing list, you already got a sample of that today! How did you like it guys? I know I've gotten several emails already about them, and you're totally welcomed everyone and thank you for the comments. Sorry I haven't emailed everyone yet, it's been one of those days where my nose has been in my PSP and I just haven't budged except to take care of the kids and eat. ha ha

Well today I have some grungy stressed out papers today. The picture shows three papers, but there are four. I made one more at the last minute before I zipped it. lol

If this is your first time of visiting my blog or downloading my freebies, I kindly request that you read my TOU before downloading and use them. :) You can read my TOU HERE.
Here is the peak of this small paper back, which is also a add on to the "polka stripe" papers I posted last month. ;)

You can get those papers HERE

Click the image for a more detailed view


Like 'em?



Well, Happy scrappin' to you all..... and I promise no more confuzzle on whether or not I am changing my paper and graphic size... besides, PSPers usually aren't into HUGE Giagantor graphics and large downloads.... I'm not at least....:)

Smiles across the miles -
Rachel

Random Snarking - There is NOTHING wrong with my PPI!

I said ,
This month I am going to post more papers for you guys to use" and I said, "I am going to make my things larger to better appease everyone"..... But... I looked at my stuff, and I talked to a few of the regular people who download here , and everyone is happy with my sizes, shapes and colors, and no one has wanted to me to change anything...... and when it comes to printing, I spoke to someone about the qaulity when you print, and lets face it guys..... this is digital scrapbooking for god's sake! DIGITAL, meaning it's for your computer, and I don't care what the resolution is... or how much larger the graphics are, you will NEVER get a perfect matching print out compared to what you see on the internet, because it's digital and there will be some distortion. I did a test run and printed through PSP and mine print just fine, as well as to be expected for the kind of printer I run, my program and the fact that it's a digital graphic.

But for those who care whether they are printing qaulity or not this is the size and resolution, and no I'm not changing everything I have already made and finished for ONE person. Now if, a bunch of people had complained, I would do something differant. Thing is, I post so many "FREEBIES" here it's not even funny, and they are 9 out of 10 of them, samplers of my kits with the actual size of the kit papers and graphics, so you can download them anytime you want to before buying "try it before you buy it" if you will, to see if it's what you want or need, and even take it for a printing test spin, I give you the keys, now have fun! :) lol

So, I've changed my mind, and this is final... My templates will be about 1000 x 1000 pixels as well as the papers, and the graphics will vary as before from 300 x 300 pixels to 800 x 800 pixels, the ppi depends on the size of the graphic, and I cannot FORCE an 300 x 300 pixel graphics to have 300 ppi, it just won't happen! Sorry. lol BTW, this rant isn't for everyone. lol

So My freebie today, will be posted next, and the papers are pretty grungy if you're into the stressed look. I like them and think they are differant than my usual...

Keep posted and thanks for listing to my Random Snark... lol If you want to know what it's a bout, just email. ;)

Hugs,
Rachel

46 Freebie Downloads

If this is your first visit to my blog or the first time for downloading my freebies or purchasing my kits, I kindly request that you read my TOU. PSP Taggers and Tutorial writers are welcome here, but I request that you follow my TOU. If you have special needs for tut writing, please email me first. ;)

You can read my TOU HERE.

Here is the updated Link until tomorrow for ALL of my freebies so far.

46 Freebie Downloads FROM JELLY BEAN LANE.


Happy Scrapping and PSPing. :)

Hugs,
Rachel

TUTORIAL By Rachel : Mystic Bubbles

Mystic Bubbles

Click Image for a more detailed View

TOU:
This tutorial was written by me and the graphic is of my own imagination, except the ownership of copyright over 
Lil Orora Fae by ©Joel Adams.
If it resemebles any other tutorial it is not intentional and is strictly coincidental.
You are welcome to use my tutorial for Weekly Challenges, but you must link back to Jelly Bean Lane and the tutorial address and not copy and paste it to your message boards.
You may use my supplies for other PSP tags and tuts, but may not claim them as your own and must give credit if you use them in tutorials , linking back to Jelly Bean Lane.

For This Tutorial you will need :
PSP X

Plugins:
Eye Candy 4000
Filter Attacks
One Tube of your Choice, I have used
©Joel Adams Lil Orora Fae
which you may purchase at www.lilz.net with your C.I.L.M. License,
 and
My Supplies, which you may down load
here by clicking the zip file.( Lil Orora Fae is not included )

This tutorial is for Intermediate PSPer's, where as you will need to be familur with plugins and Masks to do this tutorial properly. So before you begin, be sure to unzip my supplies and add them in the appropriate PSP Files on your pc.
Ready? Let's Begin by

1. Opening a New image in your PSP
500 x 500 pixels with your background transparency checked.

2. Flood fill this layer with white. Your flood fill button is the little paint can to the left and you select your flood color with the forground color on your color pallet, which is the top color,  not the bottom. :)

3. Add a new Raster Layer.

4. Flood fill Raster Layer 2 with Gradient Duotone Red ( standard with PSPX).

5. Now it's time to use that really cool Plugin, Filter Attacks. Go to Effects>Plugins>Fliter Attacks>Pattern:Supernova.

6. Go to Layers > Load/Save Mask> Load Mask from Disk > Select JellyBeanGrungeMask with the following settings checked:
 Source Luminace
Fit to Canvas
Invert Transparency
Hide All mask

7. Time to add just a hint of a glow around your mask. Make sure you are on your Colored Mask Layer and not the black and white layer and go to :
effects>plugins>eyecandy4000>gradient glow and put in these settings
Glow width = 3.00
Soft Corners =25
Over all Opacity = 60
Draw only outside Checked
Color Opacity 100
Color #ffc0c0

(( HELPFUL HINT: Save as a PSPImage often as you work in case the brownies take over your PSP and it shuts down suddenly. This will save you ALOT of headache and Swearing ))

8. Add a new Raster Layer then tube the heart pearls tube at scaled 136% and adjust it to the center of the Mask. Then go to Effects> 3D effects> Drop Shadow
with these settings:
Verticle 1
Horizontal 1
Opacity 80
Blur 5.00
Color Black or #000000

9. Add a New Raster Layer and select your bubble tubes. Be creative and put them where you want, you may want to add a new Raster Layer between each bubble so you can adjust one if you need to without making all of your bubbles move at once.

10. Time to add a glow around your bubbles. If you added a Raster Layer between each bubble you will need to go to each individual Layer to add the glow effect. To add the glow to the bubbles go to Effects>Plugins> Eye Candy>Gradient Glow , with the following settings:
Glow Width 11.28
Soft Corners 25
Opacity 60
Draw only outside selection Checked
Color #ffc0c0

11. Add a New Raster Layer and add the tube of your Choice. Then go to Effects>Plugins>Eye Candy>Gradient Glow with the following settings:
Glow Width 36.14
Soft Corners 25
Opacity 60
Draw Only outside Selection Checked
Color: #ffc0c0

12. Add a New Raster Layer then select the Pink Sparkle Tube at 35% Scale and add sparkles here and there to your bubbles.

13. If you have used another artists work, then please find your bottom layer and add their proper copyright at this time.

14. You are now ready to add your Signature to the tag. Go to your Mask layer and add a new raster layer. Select the Faerie Font and in your Color Palette your Foreground Color will be #000000 and your background color will be the gradient duotone red. with the following settings:
Antialias Sharp
Stroke Width 0.5
Create as Vector

15. Type your Signature Now, and size it and adjust it where you want it on your tag.

16. Go to Effects>3D Effects> Inner Bevel with the following settings:
Bevel #2
Width 6
Smooth 7
Depth 3
Ambience 2
Shininess 0
Color White
Angle 315
Intensity 50
Elevation 30

17. Go to Effects>3D Effects> Drop Shadow>Effects>Plugins>Gradient Glow with the same settings you use for the Mask Layer.

18. To finish it off go to Image>Add Border with the following Settings:
Top 1
Bottom 1
Left 1
Right 1
Color #8fob32

GOOD JOB! I would love to see the tags you have created from this tutorial and your many variations.

Rachel Hansen Jelly Bean Lane
 2003-2007



Here is one that my friend Sammy made when she tested this tutorial. I love it and it shows that you can use about any form of art or free tube without using specifically a CILM Artist if you don't have LIC.
Click the Image for a more Detailed View

SPOTLIGHT: LizarDesigns!!! CHECK IT OUT!

Liz is a wonderful PSP Tutorial writter, that I had the pleasure of meeting via email yesterday. She contacted me about using some of my graphics in her tutorials. I was very flattered and exstactic and of course I said yes to her, because I LOVE her work and her Tut writing skills!! :)

I will list Artists under my PSP Resource Center when they use my work and if I really enjoy what they do, and Liz stole my heart with her Tag LO's.

She is linked in the PSP Recources of my page under LizarDesigns.

Check her out and tell her I sent you... She is absolutely FABULOUS!

Here is a Lovely Tag she made with my "I Heart Chocolate" Papers.
Click the image for a closer look.


Thank you Liz for the Lovely Tag, I LOVE IT!!
Smiles Across the Miles -
Rachel

SHOW N'TELL : Gumball Machines by Rachel

Here's a little something I made today, thought about writing a tutorial for it. :)

If there are enough interested people, I may put a couple of color selections of this graphic up for Snags , gumballs seperate and no gumball in the dispencer. :) THis is what it looks like Dolled up. ;)

If you're interested, please email me. :) This would be, of course, a freebie. ;)

Click the Image for a larger view.

FREEBIE: SUPER TEMPLATE

This is the template I put together last night, and here is also the sample of what it looks like completed, of course it varies from paper to paper and element to element, but you can do sooo much with this Template LO. :)

This is my son nathan, one of the most recent pictures I've taken and currently my favorite, it really brings out his beautiful smile! :)





I like to color my template layers so for dramatic effect in advertising them. This template comes in size 1000 x 1000 pixels resolution is 300.00 on PSP.

You are downloading a PSPimage file as well as PSD file, compatable with both PSP and PS. ;)

FREEBIE: Some "Tacky" Scrap Supplies.... lol

FIRST! I wanna show off my new Scrap Supply Jars. I made these over the weekend, and thought, everyone else does scrap bags, so I am going to be completely differant. I base all of my designs off of inspiration around my home , family and friends, and I keep baby food jars and candle jars and all sorts of paper clips and tacks in these extra jars. My website will have these little jars containing my supplies to download. SO, from now on, when you download my freebies, just click the jar, I am discontinuing the snag it button except for Templates and Paper packs. :)

These Scrap Supplies are just "Tacky" ! lol But I think you might like them. I think they will be adorable on a cork board background, ( one I plan on posting later on myself as soon as I make the corkboard. lol)

This is a freebie, you won't see on my store and will be a perminant download here and on my PSP Workshop Website. :)

Digital Tacks. They aren't extremely large , but are perfect size for even the large 12x12 scrapper and can be resized smaller for Taggers, Tut Makers and the smaller 3 x 3 taggers like me. ;)
If this is your first time visiting my blog or downloading my supplies and graphics, I kindly request that you read my TOU. You can read them HERE.

This is 100% actual size of the tacks.



Click the Jar to download these supplies



I did get a good nights sleep last night and I am feeling much better today. :) I will be afk for a while today, where as we will be taking the kids to the movies and grabbing a bite to eat.

Happy Scrappin'

Rachel

Coming Soon to Jelly Bean Lane

Grand Opening Coming SOON! Keep Posted for the opening of Jelly Bean Lane's Digital Scrap Mall, where you can window shop at all of my kits and caboodles and buy whenever you please. Freebies will always be abundant here no matter what. :)

Hugs,
Rachel

Freebies will resume...

Hello all... :)

I have a couple of wonderful freebies to add firs thing tomorrow.

I haven't been feeling the best today. For new readers and friends that are still getting to know me, I have a heart condition a) Mitro Valve Prolaspe and b) Sinus Tacticardia. Usually I feel pretty good as long as I get plenty of rest, a decent diet and my medication on time, but I think with all of the recent stress it kinda threw me off.

So I have been really tired the last couple of days and today it settled in pretty darn good. I'm pretty pooped. So, I didn't do much today really but nap off and on and clean the kitchen from the disaster area that occured from making Jam yesterday. lol

And I did make a new template to share with you tomorrow. I doodled around a bit and made some graphics of the Scrap Mall and the WorkShop, they look pretty nifty. ;) And I did catch up on emails. :)

Not a real productive day, but nontheless, well rested.

Tomorrow I will resume my freebie DL's and the goodie bag again. Providing I am not to tuckered out. Off for a good nights rest,

Smiles across the miles,
Rachel

A Sneak Preview of Tomorrows Freebie Template:

ATTENTION PSP TUTORIAL WRITERS and Siggy Designers

I recieved a wonderful email today from Liz, who requested permission to use my graphics in her tutorials.

I want to let all Tutorial writers and Siggy Designers know, that your emails are welcomed and I will reply to each.

I am honored to recieve them and reply to them, and I do have TOU written for how you are permitted to use my graphics in your tutorial writing... I kindly request, that if you have a differant need than what my TOU outlines, that you do as Liz has done and email me first so we can work something out.

Once I hear back from Liz, I will be posting a link for her site if she doesn't mind, because this girl has some great work and some Amazing tutorials.

So, PSP'RS....... Keep posted. ;)

Hugs,
Rachel

May Contest Ended

Just a quick post that I have closed the May Scrap LO Contest and will be looking over the applications today. I had a few entries this time, and I realize it was just so late in the month to post it.... But... you can begin designing your LO for June, and you can use ANYTHING you downloade my blog, wether its my freebies, Fonts and brushes from my goodie bag or a purchased kit or graphic.

This months stipulation is a little differant, you can only use MY graphics and Papers and no one elses, since this month I will be supplying more papers ... lol *grins*

I also want to extend this Contest to my PSPers as well. :) So, best Scrappy Tag Layout or Scrap LO.... In other words, you don't have to use pictures of your family, but can use pictures of something else, as long as it's legal with the copyright infringment laws. ;)

I will post more later on this months contest and will post publications later on the winner of May's Contest and show off all of the entries. ;)

Hugs,
Rachel