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

Photoshop flower tutorials

• 3d flower

• Leaves and flowers

• Youtube: flower in PSE

Jane coming on board

I'm not going to be working alone anymore.

Jane had such a great time, and we worked so well together on Friday that from now on, we'll be working collaboratively on designing for the CU Freebies blog.

Woot!

Note for the future

Looking for designers
Email for info

Keep this in mind for later...

Also, Digital Scrap Designs is looking.

In love with Fur

I just wanted to make a note of the fact that I love the fur effect in this kit.

So I've been looking around for fur brushes & tutorials on how to get the effect, and these are the best I've found by far:

• Furry Text in photoshop - tutorial
• Another furry text tutorial
• Fur brushes  

Will add new finds if and when...

Work in Progress

Doodle journal template

dA ScrapbookHub June Challenge

Vintage Rose paper kit

Signing off for the weekend.

deviantArt ScrapbookHub June Challenge

Here's the palette:

Not sure I'm going to use much of the brown, but the other colours are nice and bright and cheery :)

Textures from flickr (creative commons)

Flickr creative commons (must attribute)

Writing Textures

Flickr creative commons (must attribute)