Oh my word! It’s freebie time! Times Two Too!

Saturday, 25 August 2007Wednesday, 24 September 2008 / LivE / 4 Comments

(see me rushing through the door, with a flower peace-offering in my hand 😀 )

I’m so sorry for not being able to post a freebie yesterday… I got caught up in a whirlwind yesterday which involved, among other things, moderating for Jessica’s second run of the U&R course (where I am in the company of 3 other fantastic moderators, great friends all!), making and uploading new freebies for you (good for the next 5 days! YEAH! :D), packing for an out-of-town trip (have you ever tried packing for a family of 5 kids?), attending a school activity of my son (which took an entire afternoon!)… whew! Have I earned enough of your empathy? LOL! 😀

So anyway, here, finally are your freebies. Since I missed yesterday’s freebie, I’m posting TWO today!

One is a wordart done in color, with translucent splats behind. (It’s a png file, of course 🙂 The paper in the preview is just there for… preview purposes, LOL! 😀 But you’ll get that paper too, don’t worry… when the next paper pack comes out). For those who prefer more flexible wordart, don’t worry, I have another wordart freebie in black and white waiting in the wings, which you can manipulate / turn into the color you want :D.

I love this quote because it’s so playful, and I thought it matched the kit’s theme perfectly! (Click on the preview for a larger view if you wish!)

Download HERE. The password to unzip the file is lovedigi (Okay, I tried to get creative and ended up just switching the old password’s words. hahaha :D)

ETA: Sorry, link has been removed.

The second freebie for today is a set of gel stickers (special thanks to atomic cupcake!). They’re shadow-free and pretty big in size so that you can use them with as much freedom as possible (always better to downsize to fit your layout than to upsize, right? 😉 ). You can try putting letters above them, the way paperscrappers would probably apply rub-on letters to gel stickers? The world is your playground, and you are limited by nothing when it comes to playing with digi-schtuff! Don’t you just love it? 😛

Download the gellies HERE. The password for the zip file is anGELS. (It’s case-sensitive, so make sure the GELS is in caps). Now, that’s getting a bit move creative with the password, don’t you think? LOL!!! (Background is for preview purposes only; the file is in .png format).

ETA: Sorry, link has been removed.

I will be gone for the weekend (from Saturday afternoon to Monday, my time in my part of the world)… but I will bring along my laptop in the hopes that I can get a net connection in the mountains where we will be. I can’t imagine not being able to log on (I would miss you all terribly!!!). So keep your fingers crossed for me!

Do pass by here everyday though… I’ve arranged it with my blog’s guardian angel to ensure that even while I’m gone, the freebies will keep coming here everyday. (Magic!) 😀

Hope you like these, and don’t forget to leave some love in my blog (Thanks sooooo much to all those who comment. You truly make my heart smile!!! Words cannot express how elated I am to read what you’ve written, even if it’s just a thank you… and you’ve all done more than that! I love you guys! Thanks thanks thanks!)

Surprise!!! It’s freebie time!!! :D

Saturday, 18 August 2007Wednesday, 24 September 2008 / LivE / 7 Comments

Come jump with me! I am so excited to finally unwrap this gift I have for you!

Happy happy day! I’ve been working on a surprise gift for all my friends at Jessica’s playground, and now I can present the first box!!!

This is an ongoing process of discovery… So far I have 5 solids and 16 patterned papers. These are all 12×12 and made at 300ppi. I will be uploading them in packs, so that downloading is easier to handle for you (and uploading is easier to handle for me! )

Besides, I think it’s always nice to get little packages delivered to your door for an extended number of days rather than having one huge overwhelming box dropped in your living room, don’t you think?

This is my very first attempt to make a mini kit, and I’m so glad that you’re walking right beside me as I take this journey. Renee Pearson’s book has been invaluable in teaching me how to go about designing, so I am so grateful to her for that. Even more, I am overflowing with affection and gratitude for my favorite digi-diva of all time, Jessica Sprague, because without her, I wouldn’t be exploring this creative landscape and feeding my addiction to digital scrapbooking. She taught me how to get up and run, and for that I will always, always be grateful. It is also on her playground where I met some of the very best friends this world has to offer, and that has been a totally unexpected and utterly amazing gift.

Our next official journey with Jessica (the intermediate class) is supposed to start sometime in October, and I am sooo looking forward to that! Jessica’s classes are always sooo thrilling and enthralling, and my playground friends and I miss the buzz that we used to get every single day of our U&R course. So we try to wait as patiently as we can, and we try to amuse ourselves with organizing our digi stashes (in my vocabulary, ACDSee is now a verb!) and with coming up with Photoshop Friday challenges to attempt together. Since I’m bursting with energy, I’ve added this adventure of creating digi schtuff to my repertoire of Things to Do to Keep Myself Amused Till Jessica’s Next Class comes around.

So that’s why this kit is called Play With Me. I made it in honor of Jess and all my playmates on her playground. I love them all!I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it. Again, it’s very simple, nothing grand… but it comes with a kazillion hugs and a whole load of affection.

Here’s the first of the series: You can download it HERE. Please don’t forget to leave a comment if you do snag it (and even if you don’t). Your comments are like gas in my creative tank: always good when it’s fully loaded. ETA: Sorry, link is no longer available.

Oh and after you download the zip file, when you unzip it, it will ask you for a password. The password is digilove. All small letters, no caps, no period. Just “digilove”

If you have friends who want to snag the freebie as well, feel most welcome to send them over to my blog for the links, please. That’s all I ask: no hotlinking please. Okay, so that’s two I ask 🙂 :

– download from my blog directly, and

– do please leave a comment.

Now that’s not asking for much, right? 8)

One last thing… if you do use it on a layout, could you give me a link to your LO? I would be so honored to be able to see the wonderful works of art you created! Thanks so much!

Okay, then… off to work on more stuff for you! Happy downloading, my friends! And don’t forget to come back to my blog every now and then to check out the the rest of the kit!

Hope to see you soon! 😀

Freebie Time! Share the Digi-Love!

Tuesday, 14 August 2007Wednesday, 24 September 2008 / LivE / 3 Comments

I was chatting with a very good friend of mine a couple of days ago (lots of fun!). Isn’t it funny how time flies when you’re having fun? Uh-huh, that’s why songs have those lyrics, thank you very much, Gloria Estefan! 😀 harhar. Anyway. When it was time for goodbyes, she told me how she could now sleep as her kids were already home. Oh, yeah. Thank goodness I have a few more years before I have to deal with that kind of worry. But I certainly know how it feels.

Many years ago, when I was still…ahem… single, my brother’s room was right next to mine (separated by a shared bathroom). This room arrangement was great because he had a fantastic sound system (way back when there were 33s and spinners 😀 ) and because we come from a family that loves music, I loved being able to just open the adjoining door and get free entertainment without the job of having to lift the needle when the record had reached its end.

Having adjoining rooms also meant that I knew exactly when he came home (which was often in the wee hours of the morning). Since I have always been a night-owl, I was the one who received that call one fateful dawn when he called to say that he had been in a car accident and could I please send my brother-in-law (who lived with us then) over to help him out. Years after, I was also the one still up that other dawn when we received a call that my brother-in-law had himself gotten into a car accident. (I should sleep earlier, you think? 😀 )

You would understand, therefore, how I hate phones that ring at dawn.

(By the way, my brother ended up with a very Harry-Potter-like scar on his forehead that he never bothered to have treated by a plastic surgeon so he could have a visible reminder of how important it was to never come home that late again. My brother-in-law was coughing up shattered windshield glass and picking pieces of them out from his eyes weeks after his own accident. But thank God, they both cheated death. Guardian angels working overtime.)

Now really, why the need to talk of such awful stuff? Well, we all have things we worry about. I worry about getting phone calls that carry bad news. I worry about my kids slipping in the bath. I worry about losing the people I love without warning. What do you worry about? Or are you one of those lucky few who blissfully sashay and sway through life with zero worries? And tell me now, honestly, are there even people like that? 🙂

And yet… as soon as those troublesome thoughts enter my mind, I take my psychic broom and start sweeping them right out my mind’s door. Then I sit and say a prayer. Because, really, what can worrying do? We take the necessary precautions, and the rest is left to faith. I have a very active relationship with my guardian angel and the guardian angels of my family. I bug them all the time to keep those I love safe. And they do a great fantabulous job. So really, what’s the point in worrying? Doesn’t do any good… and it leaves wrinkles in its stead.

So in celebration of saying CEASE! to worrying habits, I made a freebie for my friend… and for me… and for all of you who are interested as well. I only made a colored version because from the comments in the downloads, it seems not everyone needs the black-and-white version. I suppose you can always recolor the colored version anyway if you want to change the colors. If you happen to want the black and white version, just drop me a line and I’ll make one to download too. [Same Terms of Use, in case you were wondering 😉 ].

Again, it’s very simple… but it comes with a lot of affection and good vibes (and brooms to sweep worry away!). Enjoy, and please do be kind and leave a comment… I can’t tell you enough how encouraging it is to get comments, and how it truly helps me come up with stuff that would suit what you want. 🙂

Enjoy!

Note: This is a png file… background is only there for viewing pleasure. 🙂

Download the wordart HERE. ETA: Sorry, link is no longer available.