Christmas Dance and Chipboard Freebies

I know these chipboard elements aren't super fancy, but I was playing and thought I'd share. There's a reindeer, the word NOEL, Believe and 3 ornaments, all on a single png file that you can use the lasso tool to copy to your layout.



Here is the link to the Holiday Chipboard Elements.

I also wanted to share a photo of my dd in her Christmas dance dress. Seriously, it feels like yesterday that she was running around in a Snow White dress 24/7 and playing princess. She's still my princess!





I think this is the last year for that Christmas tree... it's on it's last legs... or should I say trunk?

Oh, you've got to check out Andrea's blog. She made some cards using my houndstooth and polka dot paper! I was so excited. They are adorable!

Have a great day! Hope you get all your baking and shopping and wrapping all done so you can relax and enjoy the day!

How about bracket paper?

I did this baroque bracket paper (at least it looks like baroque paper to me!). I've done a jpeg and a png in case you would like to layer it on some cardstock paper. The PNG doesn't have a background color, it's see thru.



Here's the link to the Baroque Bracket Paper.

Enjoy!

Last 2 Paper Freebies

Just a quickie post today... I need to get ready for a fun Christmas lunch with a client. I can't wait. The rest of my day is pretty busy. My son has his Christmas play and my daughter has a Christmas dance to go to. Do you know how hard it is to find decent shoes for a 13 year old? If they don't want to wear flats, the heels are 4 inches high. We wasted so much time looking for shoes. She's just going to wear my flats... she really wanted something with a small heel. Apparently they don't make any except ugly grandma looking shoes, and there is no way is she walking around in hoochie mama high heels.

Here are the last 2 papers I made for you. Solids and Stripes.

Four sheets of stripes:


Link to striped paper.

And 5 sheets of solid papers:


The link to the solid paper.

Enjoy the papers. Have a great day!!

What you can do with free paper, and more free paper...

I took a few sheets of the paper I created, printed it out on my favorite ink jet paper, which is Staples brand Photo Supreme double-sided matte paper. It's 61 lb. weight, so it's somewhat heavy, but still goes thru my ink jet printer. I set my printer settings to brochure paper. It prints out really well. I even use this paper when I want to print vintage photos, so they're not shiny.

I placed 2 different patterned papers on an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet, because I knew I wouldn't need a whole sheet of each pattern.

I made 2 cards with the blue papers.

Here is the first card, using the polka dot paper and the plaid paper... ignore the really horrid sewing (the foot pedal to the Purple Pixie sewing machine broke!):


A close up:


Card number 2, I used 3 patterns, the blue polka dots, which I crimped, the plaid w/distressed edges, then I punched out a circle of the tan houndstooth and inked the edge. The felt mitten is from American Crafts. Jewel is from Creative Charms:


Close up:


I think I'll hand deliver the last one, it's kinda bulky.

The nice thing about using digi papers is that you can make as many as you need to send. Plus, if you goof up cutting a piece, you can just print out another.

I suppose these cards are hybrid since I used digi paper.

Today's free paper is snowflakes... fancy snowflakes... hope you like them, I think the red is really pretty:


The link to download the Snowflake paper.

This past weekend my daughter and I went to see the local production of The Nutcracker performed by The Laurel Ballet here in town. Em's best friend Jade danced as a snowflake and the dew drop fairy. It was a wonderful production.

Here's Jade as the fairy:


And, Jade is here to the far right as the snowflake:


Tonight we're meeting Jade and her mom to shop for their Christmas Dance dresses. I love doing all these fun Christmasy things!

Have a great day... let me know if you got creative with my papers, I'd love to see what you made.

Vintage Papers & Polka Dots

How about some vintage papers? Kinda has a Websters pages vibe going on?

Here ya go!


Link to Vintage Papers here.

And why not some polka dots to go with it!


Link to Polkadot Papers here.

I made 2 cards the other night with my plaid and polka dot paper, I'll post those later on, I need to take a photo of them first.

Enjoy!! I'm off to breakfast/brunch and a bit of Christmas shopping!!

Happy Hanukkah - and Freebies

I'm tellin' ya, this patterned paper thing is pretty addicting!!

Here I have a sheet for Hanukkah. Great for printing out and making a card!!



Here's the link for the Hanukkah Paper.

And, some fun with plaids!! (I'm seriously addicted to creating these patterns!)



Link for the plaid papers.

Enjoy!

Happy Holidays - Freebie

Hi y'all!!

As promised I have some holiday freebies for you. I've been working on these for about 2 weeks. I did everything in adobe illustrator, and had a blast making all these neat patterns to share. I did take them into photoshop and added a little grunge factor.

First up, I have the very first pattern that I made, Houndstooth! I just love, love, love Houndstooth and was so excited when I learned how to make it.

I have five different 12x12, 300 dpi jpeg papers for you to enjoy:



Here is the link to download.

Now remember, this is just for personal use only. If you use it, please give credit if you can, and also don't try to sell it, because karma will come back to bite ya in the butt!

I also made some coordinating journaling cards. You can either use them on a digi scrapbook page, OR just print them out on an 8 1/2 x 11 page, trim to size, and even use a corner rounder if you like to add to your traditional scrapbook pages.



Here is the link to download the journaling cards.

I hope you enjoy these Holiday Goodies. There will be more to come, so stop back!!

Have a scrappy day!!