Another Digital Tuesday Challenge and I’m all for heart-filled designs! I’ve actually designed some heart-motif freebies previously, but decided to do something brand new today.  Here’s my card using my own digital papers and embellishments.

Feel free to download the files below for your personal use – digital stamp of the angel girl and the background paper PDFs.  Have fun and thanks for stopping by!

Posted on September 29, 2009 at 4:56 pm | Free-Template-Tutorial-Links | 8 comments

Time for another digital card design and the digital tuesday challenge has presented falling leaves for the theme this week.  I was super excited to participate because I’m currently enamored with leafy patterns. There are so many types of leaf shapes to experiment with and also so many colors, especially during the Fall season.  Here’s my card:

I designed the leafy yellow and orange pattern as well as the green scribbles, so feel free to download the PDFs and print for personal use below.  The acorn image was a quick doodle I’d like to share as well – you can download the color or lined version by clicking below for the full-sized image.  Enjoy!

Posted on September 23, 2009 at 3:26 pm | Free-Template-Tutorial-Links | 3 comments

After creating my first digital card design, I was happy to learn from Micki the existence of Digital-Ink Co and their challenge blog. Since noticing that I had completely forgotten to share my watermelon slice digital stamps – I thought it was the perfect opportunity to participate in the current recipe challenge at Digital-Ink Co.  I decided to design my own paper backgrounds to go with the watermelon slice designs and went all digital.  Here’s my card design:

I might have gone a bit overboard with all the patterns and bright colors, but I just couldn’t help myself. I am realizing more and more how fun it is to design my own backgrounds and images as well as laying out cards digital.  Seems a way to go green and test out layouts.  Of course, I still like piecing the cards together with real paper when I send to family and friends – something about feeling the papers and having all the layers there in real life!  Hope you like my designs and below are some of the digital elements for your personal enjoyment.  Cheers!

Download the watermelon stripes design PDF

Download the watermelon seeds design PDF

Posted on September 22, 2009 at 9:12 pm | Free-Template-Tutorial-Links | 11 comments

Wowsers!  I have been busy with work and some new ventures, completely neglecting my love for paper crafting and card making.  This week I had to get back into it especially because Autumn approaches and it is such a lovely time of the year.  The color palettes and motifs are so inspirational for creating designs and patterns.  I wanted to participate in the latest Digital Tuesday Challenge as it called for a clean and simple fall themed card, a perfect way to get me back into designing useful freebies.

Of course, my printer had to pick this moment to completely run out of ink.  So normally I would print out digital papers and designs to put together manually and color in.  This time around, considering the circumstances I created my card entirely digitally, so here it is:

I created the leaf pattern and digital stamp of the pumpkins with matching leaves, so you can also download them below and use for your personal projects.  Both color and line versions are available as well.  Note that the leafy pattern is a repeating tile, so you can pop it into Photoshop and define it as a pattern, then use it to fill up whatever space you need.  Hope that makes sense!  The pumpkins are just large images, so you click to get the full version then download.

Enjoy the freebies and thanks for visiting and checking out my card design.  I hope to be more active moving forward, so let me know what type of files work for you as well.  I’m always open to comments and suggestions.  I just love being able to create designs on the fly, for whatever theme or card type I need.  Woohoo!

Posted on September 16, 2009 at 7:35 pm | Free-Template-Tutorial-Links, Showcase | 16 comments