annamarie's: let's inspire each other

Sunday's Freebies: The Beauty of Mulberry Paper, 2 heart filled starter pages. I hope you like!

Today's inspiration is the beauty of mulberry paper, I love the texture of it and decided to play with that as today's freebies.

I hope everyone who is collecting my items likes them.

Here is the beautiful purple version (I love purple):

Here is a single heart, garden version, maybe good for a mother's day digital thank you, (wink, wink):

Anyways, Enjoy your Sunday, I'm off to enjoy a movie while I make a candy bouquet for a client and DO MY TAXES!

Anyone Interested in learning to make candy bouquets? I could put up photos and instructions as one of the inspiration days if there is any interest. They are really fun and well received. They are personalized to the recipients likes. Give feedback if there is any interest!?

Thanks Everyone!

Free Trio of Swirl Background Papers

Here are 3 sheets of swirl papers each a different color tone, green, blue & orange.

Here is the Blue version:

Hrere is the Orange version:

Here is the Green version:

Free Grunge Digital Scrapbook Quick Page

Happy Saturday, before I went out to spend the day with my daughter, I wanted to put up a quick page.

Under the grunge section is this digital quick page where you can insert a photo and add some text.

Enjoy!

Free Watercolor Background Papers for Digital Designs

Hi Everyone,

I've been busy with Dreamweaver classes and lots of intense homework that became a priority.

I found some time this weekend to make some watercolor type background papers and hope you can enjoy them in your projects.

Here is paper 1:

 Here is paper 2:

Here is paper 3:

Enjoy!

Today's Oriental Freebies: 2 background papers and a frame

Here are today's freebies for those of you collecting them.

A oriental background for your digital projects:

 A photo frame for your frame collection:

  A Journal type background paper:

Tuesday's Oriental Freebies: A beautiful woman fringed edge paper and a flower/butterfly photo frame

Hi Everyone,

Today's freebie, following the oriental theme, is a fun fringed background paper:

 and a flower & butterfly photo frame:

This week's FREEBIE theme is Oriental!

Hi Everyone, it's been an extremely busy weekend and I did not get a chance to archive things yet. I am in the middle of taking Dreamweaver classes (for web design) with lots of homework.

So, I will still start my theme items for the week, but will archive the older items as soon as I can.

This week the theme will be Oriental: thoughout the week, I will do oriental inspired freebies, papers, frames, embellishments, etc.

Today's freebie is a partially finished digital page so you can add a photo and your own text, etc..

I saw some comments from some who did not know how to use them or what to do with them, so I will include some instructions this week for newbies to digital design.

Have a Great Monday!

Thursday: I'm cleaning out my refrigerator (Freebies on my blog), get them NOW, before they are gone PLUS Today's Freebies: 2 finished easy pages to download.

Hi Everyone, On Friday and Saturday, I am cleaning out my refrigerator (the freebie portion of the blog) to make room for more NEW things. If you want any, before they get archived, please visit by Friday or Saturday Afternoon.

Starting next week I am going to begin with mini coordinating kits and need to make room on my left hand column.

Today's Freebies are 2 finished scrapbook easy pages, you just have to add your photos/images, text and embellishments.

Here is the red heart one:

Here is the blue/green one:

Please let your friends on artella know about my cleaning out the refrigerator days for Friday and Saturday.

Thanks Everyone, have a great Thursday!

Wednesday's Freebies: 2 Oriental Theme Background Papers for Digital Projects

Hi Everyone, so far I have been doing misc. items, kind of ecclectic. A little of this, a little of that. I'll finish up the week that way. But, I think next week I'll start some themes and multiple matching pieces for those of you collecting them.

Here are two oriental inspired background papers.

I hope you enjoy them, have a great day!

Tuesday's Freebie: A circular Frame w/diamond embellishments

Here is a frame for your digital projects. When you download the original the white will not be in the circle which will allow you to put something behind it.

Here is what the frame looks like:

PLEASE SEE MY MESSAGE BELOW BEFORE DOWNLOADING. THANKS EVERYONE!

With no way of checking how many people are downloading freebies I can't tell if this is adding value to my blog or not.

I don't expect everyone to leave a message, but as a test to see if you want me to continue with freebies or not, if you do download can you at least comment a simple "yes" so I can get an idea of if I should keep them or move on to trying someone else with my blog.

I appreciate you taking the time to at least say "yes" if you downloaded, it will also help me to determine which items people liked and downloaded and which are not popular and I should drop.

Thank you in advance to all who respond. I hope you enjoy the frame!

Monday is Inspiration Time: The Beauty of Ice & Kaleidoscopes, Freebie Download Backgrounds

It's been a while since I have done an inspiration so that is what this week will be about.

I Love Kaleidoscopes and enjoy taking "probably weird photos to some" but inspiration to me. Then make them into kaleidoscopes.

My first series will be about THE BEAUTY OF ICE. I took a photo of the ice on the glass in our catwalk at work. Here it is:

Then I made it into some kaleidoscopes to use a backgrounds, Here is a sample finished page with a color overlay added to the photo:

You can use the above page as a beginning scrapbook page if anyone likes, just punch out the white square with the photoshop magical eraser.

Here are a few of the kaleidscopes from the ice photo for you to download in the freebies section at the left if you are so inspired, especially those who live in the "winter" type of states.

Ice Kaleidoscope #1:

Ice Kaleidoscope #2:

Ice Kaleidoscope #3:

Ice Kaleidoscope #4:

Ice Kaleidoscope #5:

You can now take these and greyscale them and use them as overlays on colors. You can leave them as they are. You can leave them colored, but lay them on another color and play with the burn, differerence, color dodge, etc. within the layers panel, etc.

Have fun, I hope someone can do something creative with them!

Sunday's Freebies: Grunge Digital Background Papers

If you love the look of Grunge, please stop by to download the latest Freebies especially for grunge lovers.

Here is what the rust grunge paper looks like.

Here is what the green crackle grunge paper looks like.

Here is what the true grit grunge sheet looks like.

I hope you have fun with these.