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Apr
25

LOVEly doodles ;D and Quick Tip #1

Posted by DeAnna

I finally finished a whole page of doodles that I had so much fun with!  The theme was love, so there’s hearts, bumble bees, butterflies, a couple of photo frames, a few word sayings in my handwriting (which I think is horrible but what can you do!), and a couple of birds.  I’m not great at doodling, it’s not really one of my talents, but I thought I would offer it up so people could use some of the doodles if they wanted to.  You can download the file here.

love-doodles

Quick tip on using some of the doodles – you can select a drawing with your magic wand, but if there are elements that aren’t connected, you’d be better off using your Marquee tool and drawing a selection around what you want OR your Lasso tool if items are too close together.  Once you have your selection made, command + J/CTRL + J to make a new layer.  The items in your selection will be copied to a new layer!  Then, click on Window, Arrange, Tile and you can then drag the new layer you created onto your layout or other document.  EASY!

These doodles are for personal use only, have fun with them and link up your work so I can see!

I have a template that I’ve been working on that I’ll have finished and up for downloading in a few days (to celebrate 100+ downloads of my kits and templates!).  PLUS – we finally gave the album I was working on to our friends last night.  It was a huge hit and they’ve given me permission to post pics of the layouts!  I’ll have those up this week too.

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Dec
26

MCP Actions free texture applicator action…

Posted by DeAnna

MCP Actions has a great new FREE action on their website that makes it easy to add a texture to your photos.  I love tiny newborn baby feet, and this photo of Matthew’s feet (he was about 24 hours old in this shot) is one of my favourites.  I used the new action to add a texture from the Soft Translucent Tones pack I downloaded from ShadowHouse Creations.  I changed the blending mode to Hard Light because I liked the edge burn it gave, and the warm tone to the center of the image, highlighting Matthew’s baby feet.  If you haven’t checked out MCP Actions or ShadowHouse Creations, definitely go and browse your way through some awesome stuff!

Here’s the straight-out-of-the-camera shot:

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And here is the edited photo:

matthew_baby_feet

I love the difference! Go check them out now!!

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Dec
18

Two New Freebies…

Posted by DeAnna

Wow, there’s so much to catch up on!!  These last few weeks have gone by sooo fast, it’s crazy.  We’ve:   made a gingerbread house (which I’ve never, ever done before); had our family photos done; written to Santa; and picked out our tree at a U-cut tree farm, decorated it, and then had to put the tree back up after it fell over!!!  I made ginger molasses cookies for a cookie exchange, which was a lot of fun, and something else I’ve never done before.  I’ll post pics of some of those in another post.

Kyle is 3 now, and this is actually the first year we’ve talked about writing to Santa.  He really wanted to make a list for Santa, so we decided we would write him a letter.  However, I didn’t want his first letter to Santa to be on plain old paper.  So I whipped these up:

all-i-want-for-christmas-writing-paper all-i-want-for-christmas-kids-version-writing-paper

You can download both papers here.  I used brushes from Obsidian Dawn to create these papers (Thanks!!).

Then I wanted to create a template to make recipe cards for the Ginger Molasses Crinkle Cookies I made for the cookie exchange (which were really good!  Click on the link to go to Canadian Living for the recipe).  I used one of my favourite papers from my Overcome Kit (which you can find here) for the background of the recipe card, and then typed the ingredients on one side and the instructions on the other.  I printed them on cardstock and cut them out by hand, but it was a bit messier than I was hoping for.  I was in a rush, otherwise I would have figured out how to use my Silhouette to print and cut – which I did today!  Yay!!  I was so happy when it worked :D   I’ll do a tutorial on that soon, I promise!  For now, though, you can download the template I created.  Here’s a look at the template:

recipe-card-template

This is what my document looked like when I printed it out:

recipe-card-ginger-molasses-cookies

I haven’t had a lot of time to work on my christmas kit, but I am working on a project that will hopefully allow me more free time to do the things I want to do ;D

Whew!  That was  alot, but hopefully it was worth it!  Enjoy.

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Nov
01

Spooktacular! FREE digital scrapbooking kit…

Posted by DeAnna
halloween-preview-web

Here it is, as promised.  A new free digital scrapbooking kit just in time for all your Halloween photos!  The kit contains 5 cardstock, 10 patterned papers, 6 word art, and 9 stickers (with drop shadow).  You can download it here.

Again, this is for personal use only, not for commercial use.  Please post a link in the comments section if you use the kit – I’d love to see your work!

I’ll also have another template for you in a couple of days, once I download all my halloween pics.

I’m going to work on a Christmas kit, and a baby boy kit next.  I have so many ideas running through my head now, and with my new MacBook Pro, it just makes it so much easier to get it done.

Enjoy the kit and happy scrapping!

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Oct
30

New digital kit coming soon – Spooktacular!

Posted by DeAnna

spooktacular-sneak-peek

I’ve been working on a new kit for the last couple of days.  I intended for it to be a small mini(ish) kit, but it’s kind of spiralled a little bigger than that!  Here’s a sneak peek:

I should have it done this weekend.  Now I have to make cupcakes and carve some pumpkins!  Who else is planning on using some of the new Silhouette designs for carving their pumpkins???  I’m so excited!  I think I might plan ahead for next halloween and use the positionable skeleton for my door ;-D.

Happy Halloween!!

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Oct
25

Another Freebie!

Posted by DeAnna

So, just a reminder that the contest for a $10.00 gift certificate from Two Peas In a Bucket is almost over.  A winner will be chosen from all comments posted by noon Pacific time, Monday October 26.  The winner will be announced Monday by 5 pm Pacific.  Just a quick note, this contest is sponsored by me, not by Two Peas In a Bucket.  Once a winner is chosen, the gift certificate will be emailed to them.

I did another digital layout with my Overcome digital kit.  A few days ago, my oldest son, Kyle, was refusing to pick up some of his toys.  He turned around, stepped on one of his many Lightning McQueen cars, and fell flat on his face.  He had a pretty good bruise and bump on his chin, but he also cut his lip pretty good too.  He let daddy take a few pictures, and I knew I had to document it (of course, what scrapbooking mom wouldn’t, I ask?).  Thank goodness he didn’t have to have stitches again (that’s for a future post coming soon – I’m still scanning in some older layouts I haven’t posted yet).

Here is the layout I did:

kyle_fat_lip

AND, I decided to make it into a template as well.  You can download the template here:

template_3

Enjoy!

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Oct
19

Monthly giveaway and another freebie…

Posted by DeAnna

I have decided to do a monthly giveaway the last Monday of every month.  Now, I know what you’re all thinking:  that’s not today.  Yes, you’re right.  It’s not today.  Next Monday I will be giving away a $10.00 gift certificate to Two Peas in a Bucket.  I’ll pick one random comment posted between now and Monday, October 26, 2009 at 12:00 pm Pacific.  I’ll post the winner Monday evening by 5 pm Pacific.

To celebrate, I’ve decided to give away another freebie today.  You may have seen my layout I posted on Saturday evening.  If not, you can view it here.  I decided to make this layout into a template.

template-2

You can download the template here.

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Oct
17

Free Digital Scrapbooking Kit – Overcome

Posted by DeAnna

Overcome Digital Scrapbooking Kit

Well, here it is finally.  I’ve had some network access issues today so it took me longer than I had hoped to get everything together and put it up for downloading.  I’m super excited about this kit.  I hope you will all enjoy it!  I’ve had to split it up into two parts.

Click here to download the paper pack, and here to download the elements.

Just a quick note – this is for personal use only, no commercial use please.

I would love to see what you do with it, so please post a link to your gallery in the comments section.  I did a quick layout using the kit and my latest favorite picture of our family.  It was nice to do some digi scrapbooking again too.  I haven’t done enough of it lately ;-D

overcome-layout-web_0

I also have planned a monthly giveaway, and I’ll provide more details this coming Monday.

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Oct
16

It’s done! Finally…

Posted by DeAnna

Well, my kit is done. Yay!!! I’m finishing my TOU, and then I’ll zip it and put it up for downloading. Look for it on Saturday ;-P

There are 21 papers, and 23 elements, including 3 ribbons, 3 tags, 4 chipboard pieces, 2 word art, 3 borders, some plastic pieces and some felt pieces. There’s a lot in there!  And remember, it’s going to be free!!  Woo hoo!

Just as a reminder, here’s the sneak peek again. I’m really excited about this kit, I hope you will all love it!

sneak-peek_web

Next on the agenda is to finish Brush*Abilities.  then I’ll finally be caught up on Jessica Sprague, and I can think about the next course I want to take ;-D  My husband will be thrilled…  Now if only I could find the desk in my den, I could scan some layouts on my new scanner.  It’s never ending isn’t it?

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Aug
11

WoooHooo!! This deserves a freebie!

Posted by DeAnna

Well, my wonderful husband bought me a MacBook Pro today! Hopefully I’ll have it by the end of the week and I can start the switch from a PC to a Mac – I’m so excited!

My husband took our 3 year old to the water spray park last weekend. He had so much fun, and my thoughtful hubby took some pictures of just the water for me to make some brushes. Good idea honey! So, here are 5 water spatter brushes for you for free! Download them here.   These are for personal use only, so please read the terms of use in the folder.   Here’s a quick preview.  I made them in Photoshop CS3, and they are all fairly high resolution.

water-splatter-preview

I’d love to hear some feedback, and see how you’ve used them, so please post a link in the comments section!

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