free digital paper

Here's some digital paper I created from a photograph I took of a bush. There's nine different papers in all. Please feel free to use it. If you do, I'd like to see what you create.

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Handmade Christmas Cards

Every once in a while I get the urge to do scrapbooking in a more traditional, hands-on way. My friend, Angie, over at ScrapScene helped fuel the fire with her Christmas Card a Day posts. Here's a couple I have done. I will post more as they are completed.

For the blue tree, I used dollar store paper, ribbon, and brads. I cut the fancy ribbon to various lengths and attached them to the card using square blue brads. The star is a bit of silver pipe cleaner. Inside the card, I pasted on a bit more paper to cover the rough side of the brads.

For the green tree, I used a bit of green fabric with pretty red flowers and a Christmas fabric with various little pictures on it. I ModPodged the fabrics to cardstock. Once dry, I cut the bird out of the one fabric and used a fancy template edge to draw out the tree and cut that one as well. For the background, I used some pale green paper that I got years ago at Micheals craft store. I glued the tree and bird to the top of the pale paper then I used a red pen and the same fancy template edge to outline the card.

FYI... The cardstock that I mounted this all on was leftover invitations from our wedding. They have a nice embossed outline. This embossed edge shows through the paper or if I reverse the paper, it makes a nice outline for the inside of the card. for future cards I may cut the background paper smaller than the embossed edge to take advantage of the already present beauty of the paper. Stay tuned.

New profile pics

I've had some fun, putting my face (and others) on famous bodies. Photoshop has taken on a new level of fun for me. Enjoy!

New Stuff

Just thought I should post these new layouts I completed. I will post the info on paper, elements, etc. a little later on.

YingYang

My cousin liked my self portrait so I offered to do up a profile picture for her. The deep background floral paper came from atomic cupcake. The forward red wash on white paper came from designer digitals. The ying yang shape was from phtoshops custom shapes tool. The photograph was a self portrait my cousin Deb took of herself. I hope she likes it.

Riding a tiger

My 2 and 1/4 year old has now started to create her own stories. There is a recurring one. It revolves around a story she has but has a really wonderful twist. In her book, there is a pony named Little Black and a horse named Big Red. In her own story, Daddy is riding Big Red, she is riding Little Black, and mommy (that's me!) is riding a tiger. I love it!

Self Portrait

I created this self-portrait for my facebook account so I thought I would share it here.

Technique described in Jessica Sprague's tutorials. Background paper from Shabby Princess' sunporch collection. I positioned the paper so the flowers were right over my eyes. Did you notice?

Jag Water

We have had a run on a pretty good funny for a few days now. Christina is in love with Diego (Dora's cousin). She thinks the baby jaguar is "so sweet" (with eyes closed, head turned and shoulders raised). This week she decided to work on her ennunciation of 'jaguar'. We always knew what she was saying but I guess it wasn't perfetly clear. Well, it turns out that Christina has decided that the little animals name is 'baby Jag Water'. Clear as day. What can I say besides, "so sweet" (head turned, shoulders raised, eyes closed).

Curls

I am so in love with this picture of Christina. I keep posting it everywhere. I took just about every curly looking element I could find and started adding them all to this page. Then I gradually simplified until I was left with this slightly less complicated layout.The curly brush came from Andrea Victoria over at Designer Digitals. The curly picture frame came from Kirsty Wiseman. The frame around "curls" came from the Shabby Princess Vintage Floral collection. The background paper is AquaPaisley paper from the Sweet Serenity collection at Shabby Princess. The picture is from our abundant collection of our little princess.

Atlantic Grace

I finally got around to doing a page on our boat, Atlantic Grace. I'm glad I waited. I think it turned out pretty good. Lets see... The photo was taken by a friend, Jimmy Patterson, on our maiden voyage. The Image of the Spray in the bottom right hand corner comes from the Joshua Slocum Society International website. I applied it with a blending method I learned from Jessica Spragues tutorials. The quote is from Slocum himself. The filmstrip came from escrappers.com. The waves at the bottom of the page came from atomic cupcake templates. All the smaller images are from our own archives except the small photo of us under sail, which came from our neighbour, Stu. Everyone took a picture of us that day. I think they were surprised to finally see us out sailing after so many years of construction. I applied standard photoshop effects to the main picture and to the title. The background was just a blue page to which I applied a satin overlay in order to give a wavy effect.

No batteries required

Today my 2 year old daughter, Christina, said something that I need to share with the world. I was changing her diaper and she was entertaining herself with a toy whose batteries had died. While I was carefully wiping her bottom I said, "I'll have to see if I can find something to fix that". She frowned and asked, "what you gonna find, mummy?" I answered, "I'm gonna see if I can find some batteries that will fit". She paused with a look of concern on her face then said, "Mummy, batteries don't go in my bum". I quickly reassured her that I was not intending to put batteries in her bum. I'm not sure if she believed me, especially since I couldn't contain my laughter! Ah, my precious girl. I'm so amazed.

Princess

Who could resist this tender moment? The layout and photo blending techniques came from Jessica Sprague. The papers came from Jessica's echoes of asia kit. The flourishes beside the crown are Jessicas as well. The floral brushes are from design fruit. The scalloped edge brush is from an atomic cupcake template. The crown came from wpclipart.

No Smoking

The layout concept was inspired from a tutorial by Jessica Sprague. The clipart all came from wpclipart. I created the background key paper and the license plate paper with wpclipart images made into patterns.

Christina

I wanted to create a page that captured some of the essence of my little girl. And while this page surely did, it had all since changed so much. Thank goodness for scrapbooking so I can create a new montage to capture her once again. I used a brush from design fruits worn high resolution kit to create the picture frames. I created the wood chip letters and butterfly with an action from atomic cupcake. The floral border brush came from design fruits fresh foliage kit.

Princess C

Gunstock Mountain

I did this scrap page as a thank you for my husbands cousins with whom we spent a week of our vacation. I created the Gunstock tag by first borrowing the logo from their website then applying various textures and styles to it. The photo frame, paper, and embellishments came from the Shabby Princess Festival Kit. The brushes came from design fruit. The quote came from quote garden.

Cousins

Here's a page I created after our vacation with some in-laws I had not met before. I got the template from val-sketch. The paper and embellishments all came from Shabby Princess - Moody Blues collection. The quote I found at quote garden.

The Object Of My Affections

These are the cards I made for my mom and dad this year. The templates for each layout came from val-sketch. The paper and embellishments on the Mothers Day card came from atomic cupcake. The Mom font is "The King and Queen" font from DaFont.com. The papers for the Fathers Day card came from Jennifer Adams Donnelly at Designer Digitals. The embellishments came from Jessica Sprague. The brush on the ribbon came from designfruit.com. The layout templates made the cards a much quicker scrap. But I still came away from it feeling I had created something beautiful.

Love Is

Here's another couple wedding photos by Lenore Farell. All of the paper, embellishments and quote art came from Jessica Sprague. The blending of the photo with the background is a technique from Jessica Spragues tutorials that I have used again and again.