I scan, I design, I share

Designing and giving freebies are part of my digital life. One of my favorite way of designing particularly in my digital scrapbooking is by scanning. That is why I love my Lexmark X2650 3-in-1 very much. This is one of my digital stuff which I can't live without.

I use my scanner in most of my designs particularly in my digital scrapbooking projects. I am a person who loves bling-bling and other elements. I have lots of them in my collection. I am always looking for ribbons and buttons whenever I go and keep on buying them even without target use. I just love to keep them in my collection for future use. But how can these physical elements become part of my digital scrapping? I scan them. Yes, I scan them. I extract if needed. I design to meet my target size...and then I share. Let me give you some samples on how I made it to be possible.

Check out this orange ribbon:


Recently I shared to you my projects about popsicle frames. And one of those frames used this ribbon.

And if you could remember, this was also the ribbon I used when I designed my Christmas card entry in Sulit where I made a printed version of that entry during the campaign period. I just used the plain back side of the ribbon.

I love making hybrid projects but I also love doing digital projects out of my physical items. So I scanned and extracted this ribbon and offer them as free download last December 21, 2010 in my digital scrapbooking blog:

I scanned the real paper, designed for the size needed, and just added some texture for additional effect. I also scanned the buttons and just recolored to blend with the whole kit. I named this kit as Grace Minikit #1. If you want to download it for yourself, you can visit my blog here.

This is just one sample on how I work with physical elements and share as digital items. This could be a hard work sometimes especially when I am handling with extraction but I'm still glad that at the end of the day I have something to share.

Are you feeling blue this Christmas?

How do you describe a blue Christmas? If you define a blue Christmas as lonely and sad, well that is an opposite for me. Why should I feel blue (if you define it as sad) if my blessings are overflowing:

1. I have a very healthy and happy family.
2. We have good jobs.
3. We have something to eat and a house to shed.
4. We have lots of friends whom we can turn to.
5. And most specially, we are given a miracle each day that we have air to breathe.

Now tell me, is there a reason for me to be blue? But I tell you I am blue. I am absolutely feeling blue, not because I am sad, not because I feel bad...it is because of this blue. Tada! My Blue Christmas digital kit:

This kit makes my Christmas a true blue. Last December 6, I released this kit in my digital scrapbooking. I rushed to finish this otherwise I will not be able to looks blue. Why blue? I don't know. I just want to be blue. This kit is available for purchase in my store at MissesBeeHaven in a 50% off but you can get this kit for free if you purchase $5 worth of my items in the store with a provided coupon code. You can visit my post about this kit in my digital scrapbooking blog..and there is a sample cluster waiting for you there for free download.

Here is my sample layout using the freebie cluster. I used pictures of my sister-in-law Marivic and her three lovely daughters (my nieces: Nica, Mae and baby RR):

I will try to make more sample layouts in the next coming days because as of now I am quite busy for some blog design orders. Aside from that, perhaps you know that I am also busy campaigning my Christmas card entry for Sulit.com.ph. The final judging for this designing contest will be on December 13th (this coming Monday). So please wish me luck (to the max!) to at least make it to the top3 in the final. You can read the updates for my entries here.

Thank you for dropping by here and for reading my post. Happy Thursday to all!

Frame Me Please!

If you have not been yet to my digital scrapbooking blog, perhaps you haven't seen these creations of mine. Today, I want to share to you some of my design frames which I created quite long time now but some are just recent. I am so fascinated with photo frames that is why I love experimenting to create something unique and different and of course useful in digital designs.

Most of these digital design frames are available for free download and even tutorials are available too.

Weaving Cadres
Tutorial on How to Make Weaving Cadres is also available.
Download this frame here

Spreading Cadres

Download this frame here


Download this frame here


Stapled Cadres
Tutorial on How to Make Fancy Staple Wire is also available.

Download this frame here

Rubiks Photo Cube
Tutorial on How to Make Rubiks Photo Cube is also available.

Photo Disk
Tutorial on How to Make Disk Photo Effect is also available.

Folded Frame
Tutorial on How to Make Folded Frame is also available.

These are some of my funny but exciting digital designs. If you want to see more of these, please feel to visit my digital scrapbooking and I would be very glad to see you dropping by there. Hope you like them and thank you for looking.

Have a happy weekend to all!