Palettes for Inspiration

Bookworm (by Jane)

Cheer up emo kid

Ocean Five

Sugar

Melon Ball Surprise

Let Them Eat Cake

Atomic Cupcake 30% off!

Guess What?!!!

Atomic Cupcake has 30% off absolutely everything at her store until Sunday!

I've just purchased her 20 credit bundle for US$49, which is normally $70. - I thought it would take me another couple of months to afford it!

So now, I just have to manage to narrow it down to twenty fave actions to download - talk about stress....

I'm going to pace myself, and try to limit it to one or maybe two new actions per month.

Surface effect actions:

Edge actions:

Element actions:

July DSO Colour Challenge

Not sure whether I'm going to have time to do this one.

The colours don't absolutely grab me, and I have a couple of blog trains I'm already committed to for August & September.

Although, I suppose I could work with the first three colours and make something wintery.
I'll have to think about it...

Use any 3 colours & post your creations here

Images to download

Upcoming Blog Trains

Garden Party

Launches July 15th

Through Thick & Thin

Family & friends theme

Launches Aug 1st.

Stuck on Stickers

(palette TBA)

Launches Sep 5th.

Princess Party

(palette TBA)

Launches Sep 15th.

Tip: Catching Stray Pixels

Apply a stroke style to your layers before finishing up with a file.

It will make it much easier to spot and delete any stray pixels that you might otherwise miss.

List of things scrappers look for in a good kit

I've been wondering what makes a great digiscrap kit.
What is essential and what is desireable and what do scrappers hate?
So I asked them...

• Papers:
  a mix of plain & patterned papers that co-ordinate well.
  theme-related patterns.
  at least one neutral solid.

• Theme-related elements
  several with real variety (not 4 different versions of the same thing)

• Notions:
  ribbons, ricrac, string, twine, rope, wire.

• Clusterable elements:
  flowers, leaves, twigs, branches, ivy, buttons, swirls, glitter, beads, stars, hearts.

• Frames
  different shapes.

• Fasteners:
  stitching, prongs, clips, brads, staples.

• Wordart

• Journaling:
  blocks or tags

• Alphas:
  good, but not essential.

Other important aspects:

• Elements should be original and unique (especially flowers).

• Flowers should have leaves to go with them.

• Realistic sizing between elements. For example, birds should be smaller than trees.

• Wordart language - offer US & UK spellings, and tell buyers you will gladly offer translated versions if they ask.

• A fantasy theme needs landscape papers and scenery elements.

Taken from this thread at digishoptalk forum