Source: scrapmatters.com via Emily on Pinterest
Source: education.com via Emily on Pinterest
Source: aspottedpony.com via Emily on Pinterest
Source: scrapmatters.com via Emily on Pinterest
Source: education.com via Emily on Pinterest
Source: aspottedpony.com via Emily on Pinterest
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Here are my latest digiscrap elements - two frames and one tag, all in a scallop shape with a bit of glitter. They are free for personal use only, which means use them in your scrapbook layouts but not in anything that you'll sell, and don't redistribute them - if you know someone who would like them, please send them here. Thanks! {Contact me if you want to use any of my items for a commercial project.}
Download the high-res .png files here:
1) Frame with bee {the bee is courtesy of the fabulous Graphics Fairy blog}
2) Frame without the bee
3) Striped tag
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I was playing with a brush and some glitter, and ended up with a cute little note card featuring a glittery tree. This one is free for personal use, just like my set of digi tags a few days ago. Please contact me if you want to use any of my digital items for some kind of commercial project.
If you'd like to print up some of these cards for yourself - here is a jpg that is sized to print at 3 inches wide if you use 300 dpi resolution.
I think they'd work well as journaling cards to add to a scrapbook or art journal, or stick several together with a brad or staple and keep in your purse/wallet for taking notes on the go. If you use this, I'd love to see what you make. Feel free to link to your project in the comments and I'll click over and check it out!
linking here:
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This is the first time I'm offering a digital product I made, and it is free, with a couple of conditions:
1) Free for personal use only - that means not for any kind of commercial project - contact me if you want to use them for a commercial project.
2) I'd love to see what you make - so leave a comment if you want to share & I'll go look at your blog post. This isn't required, I'd just love to see something I made in use.
3) If you want to tell someone else about these items, please direct them to this blog post. Don't give away my images, and since they are for personal use, obviously don't sell them either.
I think that's about it. These terms apply to just the items in this post.
If you look at the image above, you'll see that I added numbers to each element so you can choose which one(s) you'd like to download. Click on the links below to get a high-resolution .png file of each one.
I hope you enjoy using some of my elements in your digital art or scrapbooking projects, and I'd love to see what you make with them! I'm working on a second collection, also of neutral elements, and a collection of glitter elements. If/when they are finished, I'll post them.
Giving credit: I used some free images and textures from fuzzimo, lostandtaken, and the graphics fairy. Source: greylustergirl.blogspot.com via Leah on Pinterest
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I thought this snapshot from a trip to Death Valley needed and aged appearance, so I stuck it in a polaroid frame {courtesy of the fuzzimo blog} and distressed it a bit. Now it has the perfect aged look.
I love Death Valley - it looks like something straight out of a dinosaur movie {well, minus all the lush vegetation - maybe more like a movie set on Mars?} but it's a very dusty place. Everything man-made there looks old and dusty.
If you've never been, it's a great place to go in spring or fall, but avoid the summer - temperatures get up around 120 F on a regular basis, and it's extremely dry - but in spring and fall, with temps in them 80s and 90s, you can swim in the warm springs and hike in short and t-shirts, and there are things to see there that I've never seen anywhere else. I plan to take my kids in a few years, when they are old enough to enjoy the trip and not just complain the entire drive down and back.
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This tag was just a fun, quick thing I made to play with the steampunk brush set I downloaded from the Graphics Fairy. I used one of the brushes for the background, then stamped the hourglass over it. This one is low-resolution, so it's really only useful for online stuff, but I might make something similar to use as a digiscrap journal tag. I think journaling about reflecting on the last year or how time flies would be appropriate.
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I like that my December pictures are a mix of holiday-themed stuff and random things we did that had nothing to do with the holidays. The app I'm using is Project 365 Pro. It was 99 cents, and I got some itunes gift cards for Christmas so it was free in a way ;)
If you aren't trying to lose weight and get healthy this year, I bet this chess cake would be delicious...or you could make it for a party and just have a small piece...
Some great photoshop tutorials for digital scrappers - any other GIMP users interested in having them "translated" for GIMP? I've been working through a lot of photoshop tutorials in GIMP so I could write down the steps...
Okay, there were a lot more great things to read this week, but I got so busy reading I completely forgot to link them all. Hopefully you get a little inspiration out of these though!
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At the time, digital cameras generally had 2 or 3 megapixels, so my photos from the trip are all very small by today's standards. I wanted to do something with this sunset shot though, because it's the best sunset shot I've ever taken. It actually isn't even quite sunset, so who knows where all the great orange came from. The photo is completely unedited - normally these kinds of photos are washed out, or the lighting ruins them, or something, so I never get good colors when I attempt sunset shots. I have no idea why this one, taken with a low-res low-quality camera, turned out so well. Here's a slightly larger version of just the photo:
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I made the layout using supplies by Charlize Creations. I got the kit, called "You are Loved," from the Digi Files a few months ago, but it should now be available wherever Charlize Creations products are sold.
The journaling below the photo is actually about what happened after that trip - I arrived home two days before 9/11, while some of the people I was traveling with ended up stranded far from home. One of my coworkers was en-route to California when the attacks took place, and his plane was sent back to France. We all remember where we were that day, and I was thankful to be safely home, but worried about my friends who had stayed a few extra days in Europe for sightseeing.
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