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April Stickers P365

noreply@blogger.com (Rosemarie) — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:20:00 +0000

Well, April is almost upon us. I'm looking forward to it, as my youngest will turn 1... :) Took a little first-ish step tonight. Aaaaw!

It starting to look like spring now. Only one small patch of snow in my yard, where the sun never goes, and the tulips are now starting peek through the soil.

This is why the April daily digital scrapbooking stickers are sunny yellow. Like little suns for your layouts!

You can find the previous stickers here.

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April Stickers by Pixel Scrapbooking is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at heart-scrapbooking.blogspot.com.

Hawaii Papers

noreply@blogger.com (Rosemarie) — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 02:40:00 +0000

A set of digital 4 scrapbooking Hawaiian themed papers. They imitate a painted print on heavy canvas. All digital elements are 12 inches, 300 dpi.

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Credits:

26 Hibiscus Brushes by ~goddessoffangirls

Palm Tree Brushes by =Rawox

Hawaii Papers by Pixel Scrapbooking is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at heart-scrapbooking.blogspot.com.

Creative Commons Licenses - Wanna Work Together?

noreply@blogger.com (Rosemarie) — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:53:00 +0000

Creative Commons Licenses are a way to protect your copyrights of your digital scrapbooking and photographic creations. As shown by the graph below, they are more and more used as the years go by.

source: Creative Commons Metrics

I'm now jumping on the bandwagon, and hope fellow digital artist do too.

Why choose CC license? In a few words, it allows you to protect your work and make sure it is shared in a way that is acceptable for you. We spend many hours making digital products, in my case freebies, and while we're happy to share our work with the world, we have the right to retain certain rights to our work. We can decide if we allow our work to be sold or not, altered, etc etc. But then again, we don't want to make it hard for others to use our work as well, so that's why these licenses are used.

In the world of digital scrapbooking, 'scraplifting' is sometimes considered a flattery. With photo editing softwares, there is no limit to what one can do. I personnaly don't mind it as long as proper attribution is given. And I state that in my license.

If you want to license your work, it's really easy. First, make sure your work is copyrightable. Graphical arts are, as well as digital pictures, so if you are in digital scrapbooking, there is no issues there. Then, make sure you have the rights to the creation. If you're the original artist, then you have those rights.

You want to see my license I just created for this site??

This work by Pixel Scrapbooking is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

From now on I'll put my license in the footer each of my freebies page, and will provide the source code for easy and proper attribution... (because we love easy!) as well as in a text file in the download package....

What about you guys? What do you think of copyrights in the digital scrapbooking world? Do you use a license, or do you intend to use one??

March Stickers P365

noreply@blogger.com (Rosemarie) — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:46:00 +0000

Here are the March 2010 stickers dates for your digital scrapbook layouts. You can find February here and January here if you don't have them already.

As usual there are all 31 days in the kit, all in png files 300 dpi, so they can be printed and won't lose quality.

On a personal note, this is the last post before I head for vacations. We are sending the kids to relatives and my hubby and I are off to the Big Island - Hawaii (anyone been there? Any recommendations?). So I'll be back posting freebies in a little while, all rested and hopefully with a tan and a head full of memories! :)

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Freebie: Cats

noreply@blogger.com (Rosemarie) — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:03:00 +0000

For all cats lovers out there (and especially to reader Valérie), here is a Cat digital scrapbooking mini kit.

Included is a journaling book with cat doodles, a polaroid frame with cat paws, and two little cat buttons.

Credits:
Cats and birds Photoshop brushes by BSILVIA from Graphics-Illustrations
Paw prints Photoshop brushes by Obsidian Dawn
Font is Scriptina

You can have more polaroid frame in my Polaroid freebies, and I also have the Chocolate papers in a brown tone.

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Freebie: Medals

noreply@blogger.com (Rosemarie) — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:34:00 +0000

Today's digital scrapbooking freebie is a set of 3 medals: gold, silver and bronze. Of course I'm influenced by the Olympics Games!! I had some requests on my facebook fan page for more Olympic stuff so here you go!

All files in .png 300dpi, suitable for printing.

Speaking of the facebook fan page, you can go there and upload pics of your layouts made with freebies from here... I'd love to see them!

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Little Journaling Notebooks

noreply@blogger.com (Rosemarie) — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:22:00 +0000

These are two freebies digital scrapbooking journaling embellishments made with yellow lined papers. The first is binded with rings, the other one with a clip binder. They are in .png format, 300 dpi, transparent, and pre-shadowed. I made them big enough so you can put quite a bit of journaling, but they look great also when scaled down.

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Freebie: Olympic spirit

noreply@blogger.com (Rosemarie) — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 04:11:00 +0000

Are you watching the Winter Olympics Games??

Here is an Olympic Games inspired mini kit. You'll find 2 embellishments, both with and without shadows. They are on a transparent file, 300 dpi, .png file.

You can also download many country flags and buttons, world maps and travel related themes here.

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Freebie: Little Monkey kit

noreply@blogger.com (Rosemarie) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:50:00 +0000

I have three boys, all under 5 years old, and today all of them were little monkeys! Full of energy, happy, and using the sofa as a tumbling mat... (grr, I hate when they are doing that, but, well, they are boys!)

So in their honor, a Monkey kit! 4 papers 12", a monkey chain, a monkey hanging upside down from a banana (not sure what was going on in my mind!) and a Little Monkey word art. All in 300 dpi, ready for your digital scrapbooks.

This kit is color coordonated with the Chocolate papers, so feel free to download them as well. Also, more zoo related kits here.

The font used for the word art is Boyz R Gross free font.

UPDATE: You can download this kit at 72dpi as well. The size of the file is much smaller (4MB instead of 15), allowing faster download and using less space on your computer. Use this format if you intend to view your layouts on a computer. If you intend to print, use the 300 dpi.

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Freebie: Chocolate papers

noreply@blogger.com (Rosemarie) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:50:00 +0000

Today's freebie is a set of 4 papers, 12 inches, 300 dpi (suitable for printing) and word art Chocolate - Chocolat ( according to google translate that should cover English, French, Spanish and Portuguese!). With Valentines Day fast approaching (are you ready yet?) the stores are full of chocolate treats so that's the inspiration behind this kit. I'll publish more elements during the next few posts with this color scheme. Collect them all, you can have the email updates here if you don't want to miss them :)

The font used is Cameo Appearance.

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February Round-Up P365

noreply@blogger.com (Rosemarie) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:07:00 +0000

Are you all continuing your projects 365? I'd love to hear more about them! A few readers sent me links to pages they created with the January template, it's always amazing (and motivating) to see your work with them :)

So today I'm releasing the February template. It can be used with the February date stickers here. Like the January template, I've included the Quick Page, and all other elements as a mini-kit. Have fun :)

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Zoo Animal Word Art

noreply@blogger.com (Rosemarie) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:00:00 +0000

I'm still playing around with the Xenography font and went ahead creating some zoo related word art. So I created a Zebra, Tiger and Snake texture to the font.

For those doing zoo related layouts, I have more freebies available for you:
lions, koalas, elephants, penguins, the Africa kit, and why not admission tickets.

The paws print brushes used on the cover picture are from Obsidian Dawn.

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Some letters!

noreply@blogger.com (Rosemarie) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:56:00 +0000

This freebie is some letters I created using the font Xenography as a template, and added colors to them so they look like little scraps of papers...

The letters are in .png files, there are the 26 letters of the alphabet in capitals. They come in vivid colors. Hope you live them! I also included the word love, as February is the love month so it may be useful.

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Freebie Hearts

noreply@blogger.com (Rosemarie) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:24:00 +0000

With Valentine's day being the next 'holiday', there is no getting around them! Hearts are everywhere! Do you feel the love yet???

Here is a set of 4 hearts with decorations. These were made with the Flower Frames brushes by Generosa. Beautiful, worth the download!

If you want more love related stuff, visit my Valentine's day gallery.

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Freebie: February Date Stickers

noreply@blogger.com (Rosemarie) — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:54:00 +0000

Here is another set of date stickers (January stickers are available here). In this set you're getting all 28 stickers. Nice for journaling or for Projects 365.

The font used in this freebie is Stencil Std, which comes with Photoshop CS4. You can find a very similar free font at TradeBit: Stencil Std Bold

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Scrapblog: a reader's review

noreply@blogger.com (Rosemarie) — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:29:00 +0000

A guest post by MrsPeel, from Enjoying the Simple Abundance, reviewing Scrapblog. You can also read her review of Smilebox here.

After using Smilebox I came across Scrapblog.com and, this, by far, takes all the prizes, an absolute winner.

An online program, Scrapblog is free to use, lets you play around with elements, backgrounds, edit your photos, crop & resize,include links and videos,music, transitions....the features are amazing and it is really, really easy to learn, with many tutorials on video and the blog & forums always there to help.

Now, for us, who started as the site was starting, a small team running the ship, a small community,everything was free for almost two years.

Early 2009 though, the Market Place started. Of course we knew this one day would have to happen, none does anything for free these days (or almost none!) they have to earn their living as the team grew, the program developed...

With the program still free to use, and LOTS of stuff for free (one could make a 20 pages scrapblog without needing to pay a penny (or cent!) is still really difficult to resist temptation with all the fabulous designers who have stores there...so I started spending a bit of money...after all, I was making my daughter's year books and it was worth it...

The way it works: You register in in a very, very simple process. You will then will have a page for all your creations, click on the Create new which will open the builder (working area)
when you click in "get stickers" or "backgrounds", it will take you to the Market Place

There you can choose "Least Credits" and all the free stuff will come up, or browse by tag, color, theme, even go to each designer store without leaving Scrapblog.

If you click on a priced item,(just slightly moving your mouse over the item will tell you) the window will open to ask you to credit your account.

Every thing you buy it's yours to use for ever, goes into the "purchased items* area of your builder, but, contrary to elements and papers bought in designers online stores,or anything we get through file sharing, these cannot be used outside Scrapblog. Remember you also need to have a good working net connection for the program to work.

U$10 will buy you 500 credits, U$25 1000 credits, and so on.

The cheapest sticker (element) is 10 credits and the most expensive is 30 credits. Backgrounds go for 25,50 and 75 credits.

One can also choose to start with a theme: there are free and priced themes, and one can either leave it as it is or move everything around, switch between pages, very much freedom for creativity.
They lately introduced the Quick-Mix, which are Quick Pages in which you need to do nothing but upload your photos....the program will allocate them into the pages, with freedom for you to change anything you aren't happy with.

The printing available is ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL....I have printed cards (U$1.99 per a 3 page card) calendars (U$24.99) and a diversity of books, well priced and (I repeat) absolutely wonderful quality. I had a calendar printed for my mum, then soft covers books, but the winner has to be the keepsake book...this are a bit bigger than an A4 page, in hard cover and the quality is superb. In these kind I am making my daughter's year books, every year one keepsake book.

They are U$34.99 for 20 pages, with the possibility of adding pages for an extra 90 cents or so. My books are never less than 50 something pages, the longest reaching almost 80....still, not only the pleasure of having composed them entirely, but the happiness in my daughter's face...every penny is well worth it.

If you are in the UK though(or further, as they are based in the USA), delivery can prove a bit expensive, especially because they don't have an "add to cart" feature, so one ends up paying about U$40 delivery per book...but no need to panic: do what I did.

Get a friend in the US to receive them for you. You will still pay delivery per book but only within the US (much cheaper), then ask your friend to go to a post office,,send you all the books together...it works a bit cheaper that way. (or so I think!)

Another really good side of Scrapblog. com is the community and the team, they are pretty good at listening to customers needs, will always go the extra mile to help, there are forums, challenges and always new features and general stuff.

So why, I hear you asking, did I go for the other programs if Scrapblog is the winner?

Well, you see, once I discovered the magic of PNGs, the wonderful world of DigiFree(recently renamed CraftCrave) and people like our dear Rosemarie here @ Pixel Scrapbooking, I had so much beautiful stuff I wanted to use, and I had payed nothing for it....
Scrapblog may prove that tricky.

They do not stop you using your own files, but to do so, you will need to bring them in through Photobucket, otherwise they will show the transparent layer as a white square. Sometimes it works just fine: you click "get photos" click Photobucket from next menu, get them, fine. Many, many times this just does not happen. Why? it puzzles me too.

Never mind the free stuff in Scrapblog, I was getting so tempted by new stickers and backgrounds, I started spending money in the Market Place....soon I realized I had spent over a U$100...and then I remembered about making calculations about a program I saw advertised being around U$50.....problem being that in the past year I had switched from PC to Mac.

So this program was ScrapbookMax V2.0, and after that I bought Digital Scrapbooking Artist by Serif, both on the same price line,both allow you to use your own , designer or freebies PNGs,but will be telling you more about them later, as I can see this went a long way already!

(Rosemarie's note: stay tuned for MrsPeel upcoming ScrapbookMax review).

MrsPeel is an former performer, eternal traveler, a warrior of life and of course, an avid digital scrapbooker. Follow her at Enjoying the Simple Abundance; you can also visit her Scrapblog gallery

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Smilebox - a reader's review

noreply@blogger.com (Rosemarie) — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:28:00 +0000

A guest post by MrsPeel, from Enjoying the Simple Abundance, reviewing the Smilebox.com program. You can also read her review of Scrapblog here.

In scrapbooking, like most of other stuff to do with technology, I had to find my way on my own...
My start was knowing nothing and developing into a knowledge hunger which sent me investigating, so I thought I would share my findings with you, trying to avoid my Latin vein, I will try to make this short and to the point (which, if you know me, will know is NOT an easy task LOL)

So, I have tried a few programs, starting with Visit Smilebox.com: this is perfect for those who look for a quick solution: just choose the designs, they have hundreds and hundreds, stick your photos in, some text...choose music, in some cases color scheme...presto! ready to send to friends and family, and, allegedly, print your creations. This proved wrong with me, we could not print a single page, though we had payed for the annual subscription which at the time seemed reasonable. It was early 2007 and I knew nothing about scrapbooking, so a year for U$44 worked out (at the much better exchange rate then) £22.

I was happy until later in the year the system messed about with one of my photo folders, I contacted them and they did...nothing.

I was terrified of messing up another folder so I left it alone, never touched it again: another mistake.
If you do get a subscription and do not longer want the program, contact them to cancel, otherwise they will take your money out the following year without prior notification.
Available for both PC & Mac.

Mrs Peel is an former performer, eternal traveler, a warrior of life and of course, an avid digital scrapbooker. Follow her at Enjoying the Simple Abundance

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Freebie: Stars and moon papers

noreply@blogger.com (Rosemarie) — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:44:00 +0000

I was having a look at some scrapbook layouts made by some of you and space seems to be a popular theme lately... So I made these two papers, created with elements from past kits: moons and charms (both free). One paper is with a moon man, the other is just a starry paper. Both are 12inches papers, .jpg, 300 dpi, suitable for printing.

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Freebie: Digital Charms

noreply@blogger.com (Rosemarie) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:01:00 +0000

A bit of bling-bling for your layouts! 2 stars-and-chains charms, one in gold and one in silver. They are 300 dpi, png files, transparent background. Shadows for preview only.

If you need more charms, check out my metallic tags.

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Freebie: Journaling papers

noreply@blogger.com (Rosemarie) — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:29:00 +0000

This digital freebie consist of 5 pieces of journaling papers. A little texture was added to the lined papers, along with flower doodles. These doodles were made using the free photoshop brushes called Flower Doodles by harisenpower.splinder.com. All files are 300 dpi, png files. Shadows for preview only.

Another freebie with journaling papers can be found here.

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Freebie Dotted Flowers

noreply@blogger.com (Rosemarie) — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:41:00 +0000

Today's freebie is a small set of 2 geometrical dotted flowers. They are both transparent (only the dots will show), in .png 300dpi.

If you like flowers I have another set of painted flowers available here.

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Organize your digital scrapbooking collection! QuickTip1

noreply@blogger.com (Rosemarie) — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:05:00 +0000

Today I wanted to share a quick tip tutorial to help you organize your digital scrapbooking files. If you're like me, it doesn't take too much time before the scrapbooking kits piles up in a folder or two....

Did you know there was a nice way to have large thumbnails of your kits, so it makes it easier to locate the files you are looking for?

Note: I'm using Windows XP, but you can probably do the same thing with newer windows versions.

First, I wanted to show you the final result screenshot:

Here's how you can have those big thumbnails.

First, go your main digital scrapbooking folder, and select the thumbnail view:

The default view will be like this:

Now right-click on the file thumbnail and select properties:

Select the Customize tab, and then Choose picture

Select the picture you want, then click Open, followed by Ok.

You're all done! No more searching through files with obscure names!!! I started including the Cover picture in my freebies so you can use them as thumbnails. Let me know in the comments if you found this little tutorial useful!

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Folded heart freebies

noreply@blogger.com (Rosemarie) — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 05:06:00 +0000

Love is in the air!! I loved the LOVE freebie tag made a few days ago, and wanted to expand on the theme a little. So I came up with these paper folded hearts, and added the tag and a nice bow to hold it :) Feel free to use them with the pictures of your loved ones! I've also included the blank paper shapes in the kit.

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Freebie: Metallic Tags Embellishments

noreply@blogger.com (Rosemarie) — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:34:00 +0000

A set of metallic tags to use on your digital scrapbooking layouts.

All in .png, 300dpi.

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Freebie: Stamps. And a bonus for friends!

noreply@blogger.com (Rosemarie) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:13:00 +0000

Dear Reader,

Here is a set of stamp frames. You can use for travel scrapbooking layouts, or with penpal themes. Or you can write a letter, of course.

And to my dear friends, you also get envelopes to go with the stamps. If you're not a friend yet, you can become one by subscribing to this blog (it's free!!) and you'll get your password in the email. Don't forget to activate your subscription!

Photoshop users can complete this kit with free postage brushes available at Brusheezy. Click on the thumbnails to go to the designers pages.

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