Tomboy Scrapbook Set Freebie!

How lucky can I get? When I decided to start working on my Tomboy Scrapbooking set, I went online in search of a cute skull. For the most part, the best art out there is copyrighted (and I don't want to steal), so I took a chance and asked an artist if I could use his work. Daeo gave me permission to use his artwork for free on the condition that I give him credit and share the links to my work with him. Sounds like a pretty awesome deal for me. You have to go over to deviantart and check out his gallery. Here's the link. He also has his own website, www.daeoart.com. This is my take on a tomboy. Obviously they aren't all the same. My tomboy likes things like skulls, stars, skateboarding, 8 balls, and music. She also loves Star Wars, the Incredible Hulk and Angry Birds (those 3 didn't make the set.) So you understand that while I couldn't cover every interest Tomboys have, I hope I've been able to give you a fun but not too girlie scrapbooking set for those special daughters who aren't girlie girls.

This set includes 20 papers, 8 brads, stickers, frames, photo corners, shoelaces and word art. Enjoy! Can't wait to see your layouts with the set. You can download the elements here. You can download paper set 1 here. You can download paper set 2 here. For all downloads, please use the password, sodigitallyme.

Christmas Giggles Freebie! Huge set!

I am so proud of myself! I have been working hard for the last month to catch up on my scrapbooking. The girls' digital pages are current up to Christmas of 2012. I was bored with the Christmas elements I had in my stash, so I thought, why not make a Christmas set? This set is what I call Christmas Giggles. The color scheme isn't necessarily what you expect for Christmas, but that's what's going to make your pages really pop! This set includes 16 papers,5 tile alphas, scalloped edges for layering, mats, frames, buttons, brads and my very first folded paper edge. Like I said, HUGE! I hope you like it!

Please click here to download Christmas Giggles Elements. Please click here to download Christmas Giggles Papers 1. Please click here to download Christmas Giggles Papers 2. Use the password sodigitallyme for all downloads. Here are two of my layouts using the set:

Would you like to show off your layouts created with my freebies? I'd love to see your work. I am looking for a Creative Team. Please leave a comment with your contact information (I won't post the comment).

Valentines Freebie!

Hello! I am actually ahead of the game on this one! Valentines is just about a month away and I'm putting this out early so you can be sure to use it on this year's layouts. I made 6 papers, 1 torn paper, 2 clips, 1 tag and a fun wordart. I hope you like it:

You may download the set here. Please use the password, sodigitallyme .

Cute Cats Embellishments Freebie

I am so excited that so many people are enjoying my Cute Cats set. I do enjoy sharing something useful! I have been asked to split up the brad set, it never occurred to me that some programs won't allow you to crop the file. Oh well, now I know for the next time. Anyway, rather than just give you the split brad files, I think I'll give you a few more embellishments to go with the set. This set includes: 9 brads 5 buttons 1 circle border (thanks to Courtney's Digiscrappin) 4 tags 3 wordart 2 ribbons

You can download the embellishments here. Password: sodigitallyme

Cute Cats Alpha Freebie

Well, I had so much fun with the Cute Cats set that I decided to add on a couple of cute alphas. I used the amazing fonts Fontdinerdotcom, Fontdinerdotcom Sparkly and Fontdinerdotcom Loungy. All 3 are available for free from sites like daFont.com There are 2 complete sets, each has upper and lower case letters, numbers 0-9, punctuation and brackets.

You can download them here. If 4shared asks for a password, use sodigitallyme. Please note, I mistyped the password on the Cute Cats Freebie original blog entry. I have tried out the sodigitallyme password on 4shared and it is working - I have also had multiple people tell me the download worked for them. Please try to download the kit again!

My Sammi & the boys Jack (the giant tabby) and Bloo (the sweet gray baby.)

Cute Cats Freebie

I am working hard to get my scrapbooks back up to date. That means about 2 years worth of back scrapbooking. I know, I'm ahead of the game in the long run, but it's still something I pride myself on being pretty current with. But as I work, I am noticing a huge lack in free digital scrapbooking elements for certain topics: 1. Sisters (like tween age, not babies or toddlers) 2. Tomboys (this further complicates the sister issue, but it shouldn't be so hard to find elements on things like skateboarding!) 3. Martial arts (specifially Tae Kwon Do for my family - again, its for a girl so extra hard to find) 4. Tires (yeah, it's weird but my sister's husband is a tire salesman and she made a request) 5. Embroidered patches (not affiliated with any organization, just personality stuff) 6. Cats (yes, there is stuff out there but it isn't the type I'm looking for.) So, the first project I completed with the intent of sharing is this:

Please click here to download the 4 papers and 9 brad set. Cute cats was inspired by the free vector pattern that I used to create the main paper. I love them. They are so sweet without being dorky and the color scheme is awesome! I don't know, I might even make some add ons for this set, maybe a funky alpha? What would you use? As a matter of fact, what are you having trouble finding online? I'll be glad to help. I give my stuff away for free because I don't like to pay for it any more than the next person. If the download link asks for a password, use sodigitallyme.

Map Papers

I am working on a special project right now and was disappointed in the available free map papers for digital scrappers. So, I made myself a cute set of papers and decided to share them with you. Here they are: Just click on the previews to download the full sized papers from photobucket. You will notice the center line has repeated states, when I made my 2-page layout, I used torn edges to break the paper where I needed it -- for my project, I needed most of Nebraska intact. This project of mine is a secret so I can't show you my layouts just yet, but I'll post them eventually. Happy Scrapping!

Password Fix

I am so sorry about the Password problem, try this password: sodigitallyme for all of my freebie downloads.

Girl Scouts Scrapbooking Sets are still free!!

PLEASE NOTE: ALL DOWNLOADS FROM THIS BLOG WILL WORK WITH THE PASSWORD sodigitallyme. I am so sorry for any confusion with my Girl Scouts themed scrapbooking sets. For some reason the download links are asking for passwords. Please try the following links: Girl Scout Embellishments Girl Scout Papers Vintage Girl Scouts Papers Vintage Girl Scouts Embellishments 1 Vintage Girl Scouts Embellishments 2 Vintage Girl Scouts Add-On If these do not work, please do not hesitate to contact me!!!

Vintage Girl Scout set (BIG FREEBIE!)

I have been working away at a new set for Girl Scouts. I am very proud of this one. It includes 11 papers (12x12), alphas, paperclips, bookplates, labels, frames, 12x12 overlays and much much more! The theme is "vintage" but you'll find a few modern touches, like the Girl Scout Journey themes -- (It's your world - change it!), (It's your planet - love it!) and (It's your story - tell it!) -- as well as the updated Girl Scout Logo and all of the current levels of Girl Scouts; Daisy, Brownie, Junior, Cadette, Senior, Ambassador, Troop Leader and Troop Volunteer.

Click here to download the embellishments. Click here to download the papers. If you download the set, please be sure to leave me some love! Use the password: sodigitallyme

Sneak Peak of a new set! Vintage Girl Scout Add-On FREEBIE

I am working very hard on a new set of Girl Scout Scrapbooking elements, alphas and papers. I'm really excited because I'm teaching myself all kinds of new stuff and I'm really impressed with how good the elements are looking. I don't mean to sound conceited, it's just that up unto this point, I've thought items (slowly and painfully) extracted from photographs look better than items created in a photo editor like Photoshop. I don't use Photoshop and there is very little literature on the software I use, but using a great book about creating your own scrapbooking elements in Photoshop, I've been able to figure out how to do most of the effects in my program. You may want to look into the book yourself:

It's by Renee Pearson. This Vintage Girl Scout Add-On includes 7 papers, 4 Girl Scout Poem Cards (Daisy, Brownie, Junior & Cadette) and 1 piece of Girl Scout ephemera. It is for PERSONAL USE ONLY.

To download Vintage Girl Scout Add-on, please click here. Hopefully the big set will be out within the month, keep an eye out for it! Use the password: sodigitallyme

Answer for Julie -- using PNGs on scrapbook page

I just got a comment asking the following: Thank you so much! I am new to digital scrapbooking. I am having trouble adding PNG image to my page, I usually use JPGs. Do I need to convert PNG into JPG? Thanks! Julie Okay, the difference between a .jpg and a .png is that .png has a transparent background, so when you put the object onto your page you don't have to worry about that object covering up something with it's background. You are also better able to create realistic shadows because you are shadowing the object, say a ribbon bow, instead of a square white box with the ribbon in it. I am not sure what type of digital scrapbooking program you use, but almost every program I have tried has recognized .pngs as picture files, therefore they can be added using the IMPORT command in the edit menu (or something along those lines.) My program also allows me to "drop" a file into my workspace by selecting it in and open folder and dropping it into my document editing screen. Whatever command you are using to try to add .pngs, look at the little file type selection box, does it say "jpg only"? Make sure it says "all picture files" or "all files". Then you should be able to select the .png object you wish to add to your layout. You'll find that the transparent background allows you a lot of versatility on your layouts, you can create amazing layered effects with them. Anyone with specific questions for me can use the "Contact Me" button in the right side column.

School Spirit Freebie!

Homecoming is just one week away here in our town and so I thought it might be fun to make a school spirit inspired freebie. I found a great little book on cheerleading and used the images to create 3 papers, a pennant and 3 buttons. Our school colors are purple and gold and I grew up in a town with the colors maroon and gold, so I thought yellow was a safe bet on my color scheme, though you could adjust the colors to suit your needs. I'm not a cheer mom, but I have a 4-almost-5-year-old who I think has a promising future in that direction. I can just imagine the layouts in my future! Enjoy and Go Arrows!

Click here to download.

A neat idea, link to tutorial & FREEBIE!!

First, I have to apologize for neglecting to post anything recently. I'm not going to make excuses about how busy I am since I'm sure every other person out there has their own version of a busy life too. Needless to say, I haven't been struck by the inspirational bug in awhile.

Anyway, I am working on getting my books current for my trip home to see my family this summer. I am current on my digital work and Scrapbooksplease has a free shipping sale starting tomorrow!! I am working on a few more traditional layouts before I'll consider myself done. Right now I have some adorable pictures of my 4 year old and her friends. I decided on using butterfly themed embellishments, I'm not sure why, but I have a nice variety. Some of it are pieces of a belt that broke (some tooled leather butterflies and some metal butterflies), butterfly iron-on patches and shrinky-dink butterflies I learned to make at Girl Scout camp. Did you know you can recycle #6 plastic to make shrinky-dinks?? It's so awesome -- I never actually made shrinky-dinks before camp last weekend so chances are even the store bought ones would amaze me. So to get back on track, I needed a way to tie the butterflies to the friends on the page. I came up with this quote:

"Friends are like butterflies: each one is different, each one is special, each one is beautiful." Now, how to get it onto my page in a neat and interesting way??

Wouldn't it be cool to make my own rub-ons? Thank goodness for Google and Bing, I was able to find a tutorial on how to do just that! Check out the tutorial here. And here is my wordart freebie for this quote.

You can download the freebie here. I actually included 7 different versions of this quote, with printing them to make my own rub-ons in mind. You could certainly use them on digital layouts and cards as well. Please enjoy them, and note that if I used another designer's piece as a stepping stone, I tried to include their name in the name of the design -- sorry if I didn't get you, not all my stuff has names on it.

First a question, then another freebie.

Where or where has deco-pages gone? Does anyone else out there use deco-pages.com? I post in the gallery there and I can't connect to their site. I am starting to get paranoid and I hope their server will be back online soon. Any news anyone??

Now for the freebie! I don't know where all this creativity is coming from, but I have a theory! My husband recently asked me to stop playing all Facebook games. I played Farmville for a long time, then I quit last summer. Then I started playing Fashion World and one like civilization. But I quit back in September or October. Since then I've had a lot of extra time for stuff around the house, my traditional scrapbooking, my digital scrapbooking and of course creating freebies. I found the grayscale templates for these flowers on the microsoft clip gallery quite awhile ago and I have had them on my desktop staring at me for ages. So last night I decided to do something with them. There are 11 flowers and 4 stems in the set. I added the shadow for the preview but not to the png files. I also left the grayscale originals in the folder for you if you needed to make a flower or two in a specific color. Just add a layer over the flower of your choice and adjust it, most of these are set to Multiply or Screen, but on some I used Dodge or Color in my photo editor. I don't use Photoshop so I'm not 100% sure of the lingo to explain it to the rest of the world. Here is the result!

You can download the flowers here.
Remember, leaving me some love is free!

Little Stamp Ornaments Freebie tonight.

I'm just on a freebie roll! I was working away on my traditional book today when INSPIRATION hit me. I am working on last year's Christmas layout. I decided to make a free form Christmas tree out of a green yarn stitched onto the page. Then I wanted some sort of ornaments. I was looking around at my collection of odds and ends and I came upon some old Christmas postage stamps. Now what to frame them out with?? I found some little tiny paper stars that I'd picked up on eBay for a 4th of July page. I used some ModPodge (best stuff ever!) to decoupage the stamps onto some white cardstock and then the white and red stars onto them as frames. The only drawback was that I had a hard time framing out the best parts of the stamps with the star's shape, like on the stamps with Mary and baby Jesus, it's hard to get both into the center of the star. They dried very quickly, so I cut them out and to dress them up I wrapped a little bit of decorative wire around them. I also used the wire to "hang" them from the tree on the paper. I wish the layout was complete, I can't share it with you until it is!

In celebration of this wonderful idea, I've created basically the same thing for you, except that I warped the stars a little when I wanted to get a little more of the picture into the frame, and I made them with glitter. Oh, and just because I love you all so much, I made 4 Love stamp ornaments. These are made with scans of actual stamps, some are American and some are foreign.

To download the ornaments, please click here.

How to display postcards in a scrapbook album & Cluster Frame Freebie!

I have been working away on my scrapbooks trying to get caught up. Christmas is coming and I try very hard to have the books ready to take home to show to my family back in Nebraska. I had a lot of fun with the vacation album from our family trip to the Black Hills this summer. I bought an 8x8 album and printed wallet sized photos for the pages. Then my main souvenirs were postcards. I agonized about how to put the postcards into the album without using page after page in the book. One day at the dollar store I found acid free clear document envelopes. They were perfect! I was able to put the postcards into the envelopes, sometimes without any trimming, sometimes with just a tiny bit, then I was able to "stack" them.

In each envelope I put 1 postcard, or if I had a lot of them, as I did at Mount Rushmore, I put 2 in (be sure the back one will be upright when you flip it up), then I cut a piece of coordinating cardstock to go above the postcard(s) in the envelope. I used the cardstock because I didn't want to put the brads through the envelopes without something to strengthen the "hinge" joint. I didn't use it as a titling option, but this would definitely be a good place for it! Then to make sure the postcards were placed straight onto the album pages, I measured and punched holes on the cardstock background paper - and if it wasn't very strong, I backed it with a stronger cardstock just in case - that way they postcards wouldn't be hanging on the page protectors. Here is what my finished pages looked like:

I had a lot of fun with it, I hid journalling and souvenirs under the postcards and on my favorite layout about the scenic drives in the hills, I put a picture of my girls sleeping in the back seat of the truck, their mouths wide open in exhaustion. It's a fun surprise and too funny to let them forget. I did learn 1 lesson though. When on vacation, journal every day on your postcards so you don't have to do that part when you put your books together! I didn't do it this time, but believe me, I will next time!
So anyway, that took care of my memories. So what to do for the girls? Well, when I was printing my little wallet sized photos, my printer ran out of blue ink and a bunch of pictures printed pink-tinted. I left them in the pile of clutter on my desk and forgot about them until the end of the project when I was cleaning up and planning to move on to the next big thing. Then it occurred to me that I could use them and have fun with them! So I found some pretty paper, black with pink and blue butterflies on it and I scrapbooked the pictures that featured my younger daughter. The journalling reads, "The best vacation memories are rose colored." I'm proud of it, a mistake that turned out really sweet!
For my other daughter I had to do more. I wanted to do a digital layout for her because she took so many pictures herself on the vacation - she earned her digital photography patch for Girl Scouts on the trip! But rather than make page upon page of vacation pages for her, I thought I'd put together some cluster frames and put the best pictures of her and taken by her on the trip. Here's one of them:

If you'd like to use some of these frames for yourself, you can snag them below. There are 7 in the set. I made them to fit a 12x12 page.

To Download Frames, click here.

Sparkly-Pink Alpha Freebie

Well I was working on my daughter's birthday page for her 4th birthday and I needed a sparkly-pink 4. I decided that I'd have to make my own, and once I decided to do that, I figured should make the whole number set. But then it occurred to me that I should also make the alpha and of course I had to add some punctuation. So anyway, here you go.

As I said, the set contains the numbers 0-9, the alphabet A-Z and the font I used (Santa's Sleigh Full Deluxe) had the exclamation point, question mark and period that fit with the style I was creating. Please enjoy! Click here to download.

Girl Scout Scrapbooking Set Freebie! 2 Pc Download

I received a comment yesterday that I should break my GS set into 2 pieces to make for easier downloading. So here are the new links. I apologize, I never thought of it.



Download the Embellishments here.

Download the Papers here. Use the password: sodigitallyme

Girl Scout Scrapbooking Set Freebie!

As many people know, I am a Girl Scout Leader for my daughter's troop. It's one of the biggest joys in my life. I absolutely love the experiences I'm able to provide to my daughter and her friends. And it's all thanks to the founder, Juliette Gordon Low. In honor of Juliette Gordon Low's birthday (October 31st), I am releasing a Girl Scout Scrapbooking set. I tried to include all of the levels of Girl Scouts, Daisy, Brownie, Junior, Cadette, Senior, Ambassador & Leader. Not all items are shown in the preview. Drop shadow are for preview only.

This set includes:
14 coordinating papers, 12x12
14 coordinating distressed cardboard frames
A-Z alpha set
7 Bridging-related items
3 word art
4 cards
2 Juliette Gordon Low picture charms
Bronze, Silver & Gold Awards

You can download the set here.

Please leave me some comments or send me the layouts you make with the kit, I'd love to post them for others to see!