Welcome to my little world of digital scrapbooking. I hope you enjoy these freebies as much as I enjoyed making them and that during your brief visit you will receive a sense of satisfaction and well-being. Come back and visit again real soon and have a God-filled day.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Clip Art

I really like clip art. I like the bright and colorful ones and I especially love the patriotic ones. When you walk into a scrapbooking store, it's the same as all those wonderful stickers. They all look so cute and I want to buy them all. I buy what I can, take them home and put them in these nice little piles in my room. And there they still sit. You see, I don't paper scrap. My older daughter Dana has done that for several years, and every once in awhile I go to her house and we make cards or a page. She and her husband have this big two-story, four-bedroom house and no kids. So she has her own room where she can put all her scrapping supplies and she loves it.

So I keep collecting all these cute little stickers and they have no place on my digital pages. That is until I discovered digital clip art stickers. So, true to my nature, I bought some and then set about incorporating them into my layouts. They don't really have a place in my heritage pages, but they fit right in on the pages I am doing for my youngest granddaughter Randy's scrapbook for her upcoming birthday.

So here's the newest page I did for her Kindergarten graduation picture. Can you believe the school took cap and gown pictures for graduation from Kindergarten? When she brought the pictures home from school, she was quick to point out to her mother that "those aren't real books in the picture", just in case her mother didn't know that.

This is a page I created using clip art from Country Clip Art by Tina, which is the the bus, books, blackboard and pencil frame. I created the Kindergarten word art. The little hanging buttons are from Diva's Creation - GrazyJelly Beans.












I liked it so much I decided to offer it as a freebie. Randy is in Kindergarten, but I went ahead and did the other grades in word art. In this little mini kit, you get all the grades word art, two frames (one with the bus and one without) and the background paper. Here is the preview and you can download it here. If you like it, please leave a comment.

Saturday, June 13, 2009

June Color Challenge

I get lots of emails from various different digiscrapping sites that I visit. Some I buy from and some I just browse their forums and galleries. Yesterday I received an email from Plain Digital Wrapper about their June Color Challenge. I guess I had never noticed this particular challenge, or else the colors just intrigued me, or maybe it is because I have finished Ashlyn's book and now need to do Randy's. Whatever the reason, I decided to participate in this challenge.

So here is the color chart they gave us to work with.













Now it just so happened that I had a pretty good picture of Randy that was taken at Ashlyn's birthday party that would work good with these colors. But starting from scratch with my own elements and paper, etc, is a little bit harder than pulling in items from kits. So it took me awhile longer on this. With a little imput from Brandi, here is what I came up with for the layout.













The challenge said we could make a layout or a mini-kit, or both. So since I created everything to make the layout, I decided to put it all together into a mini-kit too. And I also converted my layout to a quick page. I added a few more papers to round it out. The pink flower is a template from Atomic Cupcake and the sun is a CU freebie from JosDZigns. It is not included in the kit but you can visit her blog at http://www.ccountry.net/~gmimlost/JosDZigns.html. The clip art is from Country Clip Art Graphics by Tina. Here is the preview for the kit.




This kit is for personal use only and you can get it here.

You can find the quick page here.