New Digi Scrapbook Backgrounds

Hey there...

I was visiting the designer digitals site - which I do often to get inspired. And although - I elected NOT to take advantage of their freebies today...I still got around to creating a new digital scrapbook background for the holidays (from scratch)....





After telling my daughter what it said...she became inspired and despite my efforts to encourage her to create her own digital scrapbook background image for the holidays...she took control of photoshop and came up with this.




Regardless...she is 6 - and I am just ecstatic that she gets so involved to begin with...(she even came up with the title as well). It's such a gift to have her sit with me at the computer and create these pages. I just love it!

Thought I would share them for your viewing pleasure.

Happy Holidays.

Memorial Scrapbook Pages & Brads (Digital)

I do hope and pray that those of you reading this post are subscribers to my newsletter!!!

(Please leave a comment if you are - just to let me know that you read this! I very much dislike making mistakes like this - but do want to know that you at least got what I promised).

The reason being...I made a boo boo in my last email release for which I am very sorry. I do try hard to double and triple check almost all emails before I send them out, yet...none the less - this one slipped through the cracks.

So - if you were looking for the download link for the Remembrance Day Poppies / Memorial Scrapbook Pages my daughter and I made for you, titled "I Remember Our Soldiers" 2007...

You can download it here.

http://www.scrapbookingdirections.com/protected/oursoldiers.zip

...again, I am very sorry. I do hope you forgive me. And I do hope that you like the pages now that you have access to them.

KIND REMINDER:

In order to use the brads in this digital scrapbooking pack you must have a Digital Scrapbook or Photo Editing Software like Adobe PhotoShop or Print Shop Pro. And you must have some basic knowledge on how to add them to your files and resize them. They are PNG files.

Please also read my copyright statement. It is important to me.

Thank you. And Happy Scrapping!

Kids Scrapbooking; Page by My Daughter

Well today brought a very unique turn in direction for me.

At first - I was working on something for my subscribers. I got inspired by a simple - yet very beautiful image of a poppy that my daughter had made.

It was composed of 4 red construction paper hearts - that were glued together on the sheet - with a black dot in the center.

I was taken back by it when she brought it home. If you have subscribed to my scrapbooking newsletter - you will get my renditions of it for free VERY soon. (I am creating the email for my list right now).

So...I started making a few background papers with it...I turned it into a brush -- and then I also made it into it's own brad.

I then showed her that I did this and she asked if she could do one herself. So -- using another project I was working on (with a Japanese Maple Leaf I got from the yard) - my daughter created this pink Scrapbook paper! If you click on it...you can see a bigger version.

Now...if you can visualize it without the watermark...you will see the amazing work she did.

Each and every leaf on this pink scrapbook paper was added by her. She even came up with the creative genius to put the lighter and smaller pink leaves into the bigger purple ones.

I was VERY impressed to say the least.

It was a very proud moment for me today.


Because this one is so special...I am not yet sure if I will release it to the public yet...but I will say this...knowing that she can do something like this (at her wee age) tells me that we MUST have a whole world of gifted children out there who may NEVER get to share their gifts if we don't show them how.

*I am now on a mission to find out how I can help them share their gifts too! Got any ideas?

I am so glad I showed her how to do this today.

It's such a feel good day.

P.S. We named this one "Tribute to Tink" (because it reminded her of Tinkerbell). *Don't worry Disney...I am not infringing on your copyrights. But I thank you for inspiring my daughter!