Photoshop Elements is on it's way to my house!

I've finally saved up enough to buy PSE8 & it should be arriving in the post sometime next week.

I can't wait!

Up until now, I've been using a free program, paint.NET, which does quite a lot.
For anyone starting out digiscrapping, it's a great tool to learn with.
It has layers (you can make them transparent for overlays), a magic wand selection tool, lasso's, etc.

But I've been drooling over PSE for simply ages...

So of course I had to go and buy some gorgeous actions to play with (I've played with the trial version of PSE already & need more toys).

I bought five actions from Atomic Cupcake, because they were really good, and also if you buy 4, you get 1 free... and  I'm a tight bee. ;)

I figured the five actions I'd most use would be puffy felt, stitching, heavy crumpler (for paper), chipboard and of course everyone needs a paper tearing action.

I lingered over the scallop actions, but am going to make do for now with my own hand-drawn scalloped edges.  - Twenty dollars was enough of my hard-earned paypal account to splurge right now.

If you want to try out the quality, Atomic Cupcake has a different freebie action to download each month, and for June it's a pencil sketch edge action.

Hopefully, we'll see a *huge* improvement in the quality of my creations from now on.

- I'm sure you'll see more of them, at any rate, as I spend 18hrs a day playing with my new toys!

DSO June Challenge - Papers

I'm taking part in the DSO design challenge for the first time ever, and have created some papers to match three of the swatch colours.

They're not really my type of colours (I hate peach), but you have to start somewhere, don't you?

In fact, this is my first time taking part in any design challenge, so I hope I'm doing it right...

Includes 9 papers in peach, taupe and teal.

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Thank you to Patrick Hoesly, dog ma and anthonyesau for the use of their textures.

Watercolour Hearts

Jane has been experimenting with watercolours and I thought these little hearts would look very cute in a scrapbooking layout.

Look out for more of her little bits in my freebies in the future.

2 transparent pngs, 300ppi.

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Pastel Paisley Doodles

Here's some little pastel doodles my friend Jane drew the other week.

I scanned them and gave them transparent backgrounds for her & she said I could share them here, so enjoy!

2 transparent pngs.

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Toile Gift Tags

After I finished the basic gift tags the other week, I just kept playing around with them, and came up with these tags in three different lovely toile fabrics in red, blue and green.

Hope you enjoy them!

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Bacon, Eggs and Toast

Smiling felt food for a perfect pretend breakfast in the kid's cubby. Guaranteed fat-free!

Includes 4 transparent png's:  Bacon, fried egg, plain toast and toast with jam (not shown).

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Crafty Felt Circles

I love these little sewn felt circle shapes.

They were actually the tops of felt cupcakes, until I decided that they would make cute pieces for digital scrapbooking.

8 transparent png images.

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