Scrapping Freebie: Cute Music Themed Pattern Pack

Finally I was able to get away from work and zip this freebie up. I was playing around with some patterns and made these cute ‘music’ inspired designs. Mostly made of dingbats from KevinandAmada‘s font collection.

The free paper/background included was irish coffee inspired greens and mocha. I also included .png overlays of the patterns, which would be really handy if you are lazy to use the .pat file. You can easily add a layer below for color variations.

Here’s our Cute Music Themed Pattern Pack #1

Freebig Bag Template

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Hope you guys enjoy this freebie. TOU is included in freebie zip pack. Please read it for the usage terms.

Personalized Folding Umbrella Templates

Oh, I miss ‘designing’ at Artscow. You see that’s where I started digi scrapping. I wanted to make personalized gifts, then I decided maybe I’ll make my own backgrounds and elements for my photobooks. And before I knew it, I was mad out it. Lol. So most of my ‘free kits’ were my beginners experiments.

And I have so long since stopped making kits and templates. Sigh. Mostly because I don’t really have the luxury of time. But I wish I could get back to it. I love tinkering with designs. But maybe soon I’ll design some stuff because I want to make a photobook for my daughter and last years travels.

Anyway, i was browsing my templates and saw these umbrella templates I made. Personalized photo umbrellas? Yes! They make great gifts!

You can use these templates for free..

Personalized Gift Umbrellas - Artscow Template

(1) Pastel Summer Umbrella  (2) Pretty Checkered (3) Cute Brown-Yellow Umbrella (4) Blue Swirls (5)  Purple Floral (6)  Red Classy (7) Purple Stripes and Circles

 

You can sign up at Artscow for free and get started making your personalized gift items.

Scrapping Freebie: Floral Elements Pack 1

Yay! Finally, I’ve gotten around to posting this. I made this a few weeks back after I finished making the Leaf PS Brushes. I was playing around with different ways I could use the brushes and before I knew it I had a couple of flower elements already.

Lol. It just took me time to clean things up a bit and ‘pack’ it for giveaway, I was too distracted with a letterhead prints project. Anyway, I don’t wanna delay it further, so here’s the freebie.

4 floral elements with leaves from the PS brushes freebie pack.

Freebig Bag Template-NEW

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Image credits: Photorack. This is free for all. You may use it anyway you want. My only condition is to not claim it as your own freebie. I spent hours too extracting and making this. Enjoy!

RedHeart Inspired

After my month long vacation, I found myself roped into crocheting again. In fact I had my crocheting needles with me the entire time we were moving from one place to another. And had a crazy time crocheting necklace scarves and belts. Right now I’m crocheting a laptop sleeve for my sister and also two tablet sleeves for myself and a friend.

So what brought on this crocheting frenzy? Easy. RedHeart.com. It. Is. Awesome. I found myself enamored with simple easy to do crocheting projects. To be honest, as much as I drool over big complicated projects, I can’t commit that much time and I know myself, if it takes too much time, I’m just guaranteed not to finish it. So when I was combing for some fashion accessory crocheting project I stumbled across RedHeart again. And got sucked into checking out each and every pattern they have. Lol.

RedHeart Free Crochet Patterns

Next up, I’m looking for a pattern for a violin case. Yes, a violin case. This would be a gift for a friend’s daughter who plays the violin. I’m definitely going the extra mile here. But RedHeart is just so inspiring so I’m sure I can do it. Who knows next time I’ll be crocheting and stitching up Mitchell Guitars cases? There is something so awesome and appealing to me about musical instruments sporting crocheted sleeves and cases.

This is another great creative outlet for me, but that’s not saying I’m gonna stop with scrap booking stuff. I’m just getting inspired in a different way and who knows I might get a lot of scrapping ideas from these recent creative find.

Tips for Creating Your Own Business Cards

You might have noticed, once in awhile I offer business card design freebies here. Not just because I love making them, but more so because business cards, I believe are very important for a business.

Business Card Maker

There are several reasons why one would need a business card. If you are offering services, starting up a business, a business card is very important and essential in spreading word about you and what you offer. It’s a very important element to help you capture the attention of potential customers. It’s also like a small representation of you. And best of all, its an inexpensive way of making yourself known, coz let’s face it, not everyone has the budget to rent a billboard, or a 60 sec TV ad.

So for those seriously considering establishing a business, or building a network having a business card is essential. If you have the extra budget, then engaging a business card services company to design and create your business card would be ideal. But if you’re on a tight budget, you can just easily make your own.

A few tips for a good, professional business card:

  • Make sure the design, fonts reflects your personality and matches your business.
  • Do not clutter. Do not include unnecessary information.
  • Make sure you include important information. Primary info should be your name, email address, fax numbers, business phone numbers. If you plan to put your personal numbers on your card, then be prepared for those calls.

Image courtesy of pakorn / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Mini Canvasses on Sale at Artscow

Just in time for Christmas!!! I’ve been waiting for this. I wanted to print some of my scrap pages into canvasses, but I figured its gonna be pricey, so I’ve been waiting for some promotion or any coupon, for a few months now but I was thinking this is more difficult than actually waiting for Gard bags discounts.. But thankfully, the ever generous Artscow hatched up this promotion. And here’s my answered prayers!

Artscow Canvasses Coupon

Of course, I’m sharing it with everyone.

If you want some canvasses, they make great decor on homes. Perhaps, some Christmas themed canvasses? These would make fantastic decor! Canvasses start from $8.99 up with free shipping!

Sign up for Free at Artscow, then use the coupon code below to avail of the discounted price.

Use the Coupon Code: ALLSIZESALE
Expiry Date: 12 / 10 / 2012

Freebie WP Theme Sneak Peek: Candy Clouds

This project has taken a backseat, I’m a bit shamefaced to admit, I was in a procrastinating mood again. I keep putting it off coz I reasoned I needed a lot of time to finish each template. And that I don’t have much off. I have loads of websites to maintain and the ‘creative’ projects has been relegated to the sides. It also doesn’t help that I’m currently so into online shopping, I use up a lot of my spare time browsing sites for sale events, even a julbo sale won’t escape my notice.

But I’ll have the extra curricular activities rest for awhile and I’ve been working on a template for WordPress. I have plans to make this available for Blogger too but first here’s a sneak peek. I’m calling this Candy Clouds and I know its a girly theme. I like feminine themes like these coz I realize that there are a lot of lady/mom/girl bloggers out there and there’s not much cutesy and girly themes to choose from whenever I browse free theme repositories.

This will be available for download here soon..

Crafting Den Free WP Themes: Candy Clouds