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.