Lots and LOTS of Christmas goodies!

The Stuff to Scrap "Homespun Christmas" blogtrain is on! After downloading all the contributions you will have one HUGE beautiful mega-Christmas kit to scrap all those photos of kids frantically tearing up gift wrapping while the grownups enjoy the eggnogg. ;-)
I love the color scheme and I love being part of this blogtrain. Hope you enjoy the ride!!



Here is my download link:

ILR_Homespun Christmas

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A little bit of action

I often look at other designer's scrapbooking kits and wonder how certain elements were done. A lot of kits contain puffy felt elements and they are just SO cute. To tell the truth, I was too lazy to figure out by myself how to get that look, so I googled "puffy felt action". (In case you don't know what an action is and why it's great, just skip the rest of my babbling and click the link at the end!)

I found one, I bought it, I installed it, I started it ... and got an error message. And then another one ... and so on. What a disappointment!

After a bit of research I realized that the action doesn't work with my version of Photoshop because my PS is in German. SO WHAT NOW? Disregarding the fact that it would have most probably taken me less time to figure out some puffy felt style myself, I just didn't want to let it be.

A while back I had briefly tried recording my own actions for altering some photos but I never really looked into all the possibilities. So I did some more searching and FINALLY - I stumbled over a page, that explains it ALL. What an action is, how you install one, how you record it, how you play it step by step and *tataaaaa* how you alter it.

And because this tutorial (available for free) made it possible for me to alter the action I bought so that I CAN use it with a German version of PS, I need to share this with you. (And then I'll go back to Photoshop and make some puffy Christmas trees and baubles and whatever else I can think of...)

So here's the link: Photoshopessentials

And here's a single little freebie for you (made with the action I bought and using a freebie template by Twinky (twinkydezines).



Puffy Owl

Layouts with upcoming freebie kit

I took advantage of the miserable November weather and spent the weekend finishing my contribution for the "Stuff to Scrap" December blog train. I can't wait to publish the link for the freebie download. For now I made four quick layouts with the kit so you can get an idea.

Blogtrain Add On Pack

Here's a little add on pack for the ADSD blogtrain "Gingerbread Christmas". ENJOY!



ILR_Gingerbread Christmas AOP.zip

Gingerbread Christmas Blogtrain!!

The theme of the November/December ADSD blogtrain is "Gingerbread Christmas".
Here's the preview of my contribution. Have fun downloading it (link below).


My download link:

Gingerbread Christmas

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Christmas cookies

As I didn''t manage to include a single gingerbread element in my kit for the "Gingerbread Christmas" collab-kit, I thought I should at least give away some cookies.



Cookies for you

All about autumn page kit

A while back I realized that I adore layouts with element clusters. And quite often these clusters contain scanned (or photographed) items like flowers, bows etc.

So my latest kit is quite different from what I've been making so far.

I hope you enjoy this quite big freebie kit. Please leave some love here on my blog if you download it. (And don't forget to tell your friends! :-))

If you're doing a layout with this kit, I'd love to see it, so give me a shout!

All about autumn kit