Fabulous Freebie Friday!

Welcome to the new Friday Freebie. I hope to expand my skills in digital scrapbooking and graphic design by posting each Friday something I have made during the week. And you get it all FOR FREE!

It makes sense to me to guage whether or not people are interested in stuff I make, because I hope to one day become a digital designer. But for now I'm happy just using you all as guinea pigs (giggle - I'm a GP breeder in another life - look up my cavy website at http://www.piggywink.blogspot.com/) and testing out my creations on you, the unsuspecting public!

I will also be giving away some quick pages. These are pages that are already done for you, papers, elements and writing, with a space for you to just insert your digi photo/s. I plan to sell these when my online shop is up and running. But for now, they are yours, free.

I ask that you not reproduce my designs or templates, or give out my link for them, to your friends. If they like it, send them back to my blog and they can download it from here. I'd also ask that if/when you get published using my designs, please credit me. C'mon, it could be you in my shoes one day! I am a strong believer in "what goes around, comes around" so please be mindful that all of us are a part of this wonderful scrappy adventure and your support of fellow scrappers is part of what makes this such an astounding industry.

So, enough lecturing for now. Happy scrapping. Oh, and don't forget to email me a jpeg of your finished layout. Or provide a link in my comments section - we all want to benefit from your scrappy talent!

My free template this week is one I made to create this layout using Kaisercraft's digital Loire Valley kit. Download it (DOWNLOAD LINK EXPIRED)

Chore Charts & Recent Photobook Work

Just thought I'd remind anybody who wants to know that I've started posting freebies on Fridays, so tune back tomorrow for some free digital goodies. I'm just getting started on designing, so please leave me some love if you approve, or leave some constructive criticsm if you must!

I just made these so I don't have to yell at my kiddies so much in the mornings. They are in Kindergarten and Year 1. Sometimes I feel like a drill sergeant!

Now onto some of my latest scrap-for-hire work. This is a 5 x 7 inch brag book which will be spiral wire-bound at the top and covered in clear acetate for protection. I did it as a freebie for our local preschool teacher, because she's just wonderful! She wanted photos of her new grandson interspersed with animals from her farm.

See you tomorrow.

New CT Team, Published Layouts and your Template Layouts

Ok, just returned from playgroup, where I yelled my lungs out singing "Grand Ol' Duke of York" amid the din of tamborines, clarinets, cymbols, maraccas etc. skillfully hammered by about twenty 1-4 year-olds. But it was my out-of-key singing which gave the rest of the parents a severe headache!

Thank you to all the lovelies who emailed me the layouts they created with my freebie template as a base. Here is the original layout that inspired the template. It's by Tara, who has lots of awesome layouts & challenges here.

This is Melissa's, who is just getting into digital scrapping and is picking up the skills sooo quickly!

So far this template has had 35 downloads and the one before that has had 90, so I'm very pleased with myself atm because I would looove to entice some more Aussies to "the dark side". And seeing as there are actually some people using them, I'll definitely be posting more freebies in the future. It's all good.

Here's Brittney's using the earlier template. Both are still available to download if you want to give them a try.

In other news, I'm on another Creative Team - for e-scapeandscrap. Do you remember when you used to dream about being invited to a toy store or a lolly shop and being told "you can have everything you could possibly want" ... well, I HAVE IT! I have complete access to everything in this store here. I'm dying to go on a creative bender with all this scrappy goodness!

Here's my intro page

Lastly, want to toot the advantages of buying the latest Scrapbook Creations magazine - it's a great size, the featured layouts are nice and large so you can scan over every single details and read the journalling, and because I"M IN IT! Twice. So get to it! Issue 75.