Paper Pile Kitten's Blog

Grab a Digital Collection (or two) for $1 every Wednesday

I hope you haven't missed the One Buck Wednesday events at Jessica Spragues blog and shop. Every Wednesday you can buy digital scrapbooking collections for just one dollar a piece! Today, and today only, Cosmo Cricket's Wanted collection (above) is marked down, along with Echo Park's Springtime (below) and several other digital packs. That is just amazing!

I've bought several of the Echo Park and Cosmo Cricket collections along with some products from Carina Gardner, for example the beautiful Haunted collection from My Mind's Eye. All of those digital goodies can be bought and downloaded to your computer, and even if few of the collections are marked down on a Wednesday, they are still offered in the shop for a great price. A lot of the collections are sold for about $5, which really isn't a lot of money.

The beauty of all this is that I actually have most of the papers and embellies from these collections in my stash! So the digital collections are add-ons for me. I'm able to create hybrid projects and, of course, digital layouts with Photoshop. I love the possibilities!

I wish that all of the scrapbooking manufacturers would make their collections digital and downloadable. I think they would increase their earnings that way. Because we don't choose between the papers or the digital files - we want them all! (As always. LOL!) I know that Webster's Pages are offering their collections in digital packs as well, but other than that I don't think that many of the manufacturers have digitalized their lines.

It's such a benefit for me as a scrapper. Here's an example: Everybody Loves Christmas is one of my all time favorite Christmas collections. Now that I have the digital files as well as loads of the paper product, I can play around with the different papers and elements without worrying about messing up or running out of those supplies. I can make digital sketches of a layout, trying out different approaches and different supplies from that line, before making the actual paper layout. It's totally awesome! Just a tip for today. :)

Pin Pin Pin

I'm really into the new web site Pinterest.com. It's a place where you share gorgeous pics that you find on the web. When you love a photo that someone else has pinned, you can repin it and save it on your own pin boards. A bit like tweets and retweets but with pictures instead of texts. It's the greatest place to go for inspiration!

I've been very busy pinning and I've pinned and repinned more than 400 pics already! I took some of them and made them into a couple of collages for this blog post. Aren't those photos totally awesome?! I'm so in love with some of those pics that I could lick them. LOL! I'm definitely going to print these and use them in my Creative Journal.

If you're a Pinterest member, you can follow my boards here. If you're not a member yet, you could request an invite from the Pinterest people and after a few days, you should get an e-mail letting you inside to take part of all the goodies. Or, you could send me an e-mail and see if I've got some of my invites left.

The Prettiest Vintage Pics

If you love the vintage style, here's a blog tip you don't want to miss: The Graphics Fairy! This incredibly generous blogger, Karen, is collecting and publishing the prettiest old victorian and vintage pics. There's a new picture every day! Almost 2,000 in total! And she also have a web site called The Background Fairy with loads of free backgrounds and graphics for your blog. 

 

Live With Prima Tonight

 

Be sure to check out Prima Marketing's web site Live With Prima. They're regularly sending shows live on the web, and if you've missed some of them you could have a look at the archives. Use the shows for inspiration, knowledge and practice. Tonight, July 15 at 6:30pm PST, there's a show with wonderful Marion Smith (I just adore her work!), showing us how to alter frames. Prima will also have shows regularly during CHA. I can't wait to see that. I'd love to go to CHA, but it's too far away from Stockholm, Sweden. Maybe next year...