A whole month of freebies!

Even though I've been designing digi kits for a year, I'm still new to the digital scrapbooking world and am constantly discovering things where I'll think, why in the world didn't I know about that sooner??

Like the Daily Download at Scraphead: it's basically a whole kit you can download for free, made by several fantastic designers, with the same theme. It's available in the forums at Scraphead.

Every month we put together a new one for you. This August, the theme is Sea, Sand & Surf, and I'm excited to be participating! (Here are a couple samples of my contribution.) So come on by, sign up and join in the fun!

Seriously? July already?

Every time I think, write, or say that, I feel like my parents. It means two things: They were right about time speeding up the older one gets, and I must be getting old, 'cause time sure is flying by.

I have two new kits in my store so far this month: Stars & Stripes, with a vintage political campaign / patriotic / ephemera feel; and Summer Fun: bright colors to celebrate the hot days of summer.

Buy them here:

Stars & Stripes
Summer Fun

Love Letters

I absolutely love this kit, but then I'm a sucker for all things shabby chic (or Victorian -- they're similar in style). Though you would never know it, to see the interior of my house... white walls, toys on every flat surface...

The kit includes a 12x12 pre-designed QP (see preview above) that I like so much, I am currently using as my desktop wallpaper. :)

(Click here to buy my kit, Love Letters, at Scraphead.)

Working on this kit reminded me of antique shops around the region where I grew up, full of boxes and boxes of really old letters, postcards and family photos. It seems sad to see such personal and once-loved things being sold in such an impersonal way.

When I was in college, my mom used to send me old Victorian era portrait photos that she thought were particularly interesting. She said I could hang them on my walls as "instant ancestors"... if their real relatives couldn't enjoy the pictures, at least I could.