In a last minute holiday rush, I love to create little designs to print out for decorations and tags on gifts.  The nice thing about digital is the ease of printing them out and the ability to duplicate as many as you need for the holiday season.  Today I whipped up a little xmas tree graphic.  It’s a quick design I created in Adobe Illustrator with some simple shapes and matching holiday colors.

I printed the image on some nice cardstock, punched a hole on the top and strung it onto a wrapped gift for decoration.  It also serves as a tag on the opposite side, where I wrote the to and from names.  Super easy!

Feel free to download the design your personal use – just click to see the full size high quality JPG.  I am entering this into the Digital Ink Co Challenge regarding a last minute project.  This is a perfect match for the challenge!  Happy holidays to all and thanks for visiting!

Posted on December 17, 2009 at 7:44 pm | Free-Template-Tutorial-Links, Showcase | No comments

Whoa, a bit behind this week and I am just catching up on all my RSS feeds!  December 8th is a holiday in Italy, so this past 4 day weekend has been family time.  I found a bit of time today to participate in the digital tuesday challenge, to create a card around a Christmas song.  The first thing that came to mind was Jingle Bells!  A classic, right?  Here’s my card design…

I created all the graphics for this card and also the bells and stars background paper.  Feel free to download the PDF of the pattern design below for your personal use!

Posted on December 9, 2009 at 11:58 am | Free-Template-Tutorial-Links, Showcase | 2 comments

I was doing some digital illustration today and wanted to use the little holly wreath I drew, so created a quick digital card design using the Digital-Ink Co Challenge sketch.  I drew all the elements and just quickly put coordinating red and green colors together for this layout.

Also, feel free to download the holly leaf pattern paper for your personal use, I have created PDFs for the green version and also white version.  Enjoy!

Posted on November 19, 2009 at 6:24 pm | Free-Template-Tutorial-Links, Showcase | 6 comments

Here’s a quick design I created following the latest Sweet Stop sketch challenge.  It turned out smaller than I though, dunno why I worked in such a small size!  I am really into the scribble-ish line look at this point…so using it in a lot of designs!

I also made PDFs of the star background paper for you to download and use for personal projects.  There is the yellow background version or the opposite white background with yellow stars version.  Enjoy!

Posted on November 18, 2009 at 7:39 pm | Free-Template-Tutorial-Links, Showcase | No comments

I got a note in my inbox announcing a Digi Day Cookie Exchange Party & Challenge in the SNR Card Universe Ning Group, so I had to participate with the free digital stamp they offered up.  How cute is that gingerbread cookie?  I believe it was created by Digital Delights by LoubyLoo!  Talk about talent…woohoo!  I used the image in the digital card layout below after coloring the image in Photoshop.

I really like how my cookie pattern paper turned out, so I am offering it here - download the PDF of cookie pattern paper for your personal use.  Hope you have fun!  Thanks!

Posted on November 12, 2009 at 5:50 pm | Free-Template-Tutorial-Links, Showcase | No comments

Hello folks!  Just wanted to say thank you to all who visit my blog and check out my designs.  If you’ve been following me for a while, you’ll know that I started out cardmaking traditionally but switched to all digital, so that I could use my own designs and print the card when I actually would send them out.  I am a bit sad today, because I found out that a group I was part of online removed all my photos in the ning group because they were digital and not real cards.  They only want real handmade cards and photos of them.  Sigh…sort of sad.  I understand groups have their own rules and such…but it’s sad to think that somehow my digital designs are just not worthy enough.  I can make anything on the computer since it’s accessible to me, but I can’t buy everything I want from all the great scrapbooking and cardmaking stores out there.  This just sucks.

I’m definitely a bit down today, but I can’t let it stop me from doing what I want to do and enjoy the process of creating.  The latest digital tuesday challenge is themed for holiday wishes…so I decided to participate with a digital card design as always.  Thanks for stopping by and hope you like my card.

I created all the imagery used so you can also download the xmas stocking image and the PDF of the xmas tree pattern paper for your personal use!

Posted on November 12, 2009 at 12:58 pm | Free-Template-Tutorial-Links, Showcase | 5 comments

Another quick digital card design as I cozy up indoors today!  Roasting chestnuts and hot coffee inspired this card layout design and color scheme.  What do you think?  I followed along the latest Stamp TV sketch and created my own designs and motifs for this card.

I created the pattern paper, so feel free to download the PDFs below for personal use.  Enjoy!

Posted on November 9, 2009 at 12:28 am | Free-Template-Tutorial-Links, Showcase | No comments

Another week and another card for the current color challenge at digital tuesday. We have to use kraft, orange and another color, so I decided to go for the Halloween theme.  Here’s my little cat doodle with a witch hat accessory, a little startled from the ghostie!  Simple and quick card design…check it out!

Here is a digital stamp of the cute cat image, if you would like to use for your personal projects.  Enjoy!

Posted on October 29, 2009 at 11:42 pm | Free-Template-Tutorial-Links, Showcase | 5 comments

Here is another quick digital card design I created for The Sweet Stop challenge 27.  It is a sketch challenge, so I followed along, but created everything digitally including the little girl holding flowers.  Here’s my card design:

Feel free to download the girl holding flowers digital stamp below for your personal use.  Thanks for stopping by!

Posted on October 28, 2009 at 5:40 pm | Free-Template-Tutorial-Links, Showcase | No comments

The latest challenge at Dare you to digi stamp is to make a shaped card.  I decided with the cold frosty air and winter approaching to create my own snowman digi stamp.  The whole card would be the snowman shape, until of course I encountered the arms!  Slight alteration and finally decided on my card design below.  It is supposed to open from the fold on top of the hat.

Here’s the original snowman image I was tinkering with, free for your personal use!  Enjoy!

Posted on October 27, 2009 at 11:12 am | Free-Template-Tutorial-Links | No comments