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I just love those small sticky notes, so here is a brand new set of different curled and bent notes for you. Below you can see some of the notes I made myself. I added some text and found the small drawings for the notes on the web, and pasted them into a new layer using layer blend mode "multiply" or "darken".

http://www.4shared.com/Stickies_bright.html		 Another set of sticky notes in .png format. The shadow looks a bit dull on a plain white page like this, it looks much better when you use it in a LO. There is also a few extra notes in different shades of white included in this bag. 



http://www.4shared.com/Stickies_subtle.html
                                                                       
Donna asked for a light bulb for all those "light bulb moments", and you can download two bulbs here. Size is approx. 1200 pixels height. I didn't make the original light bulb myself, but found it on the web. I then changed it, so one bulb is turned "off" and the other is "on". If you move your mouse over the light bulb to the left you can see how it looks at approx. 15% size.

JC asked for stains from glasses of red wine. I found some nice stains on the web, you can download them here:

http://qbrushes.com/photoshop-splash-brushes/coffee-stains/

They are coffee stains though, but nobody will know if you just change the color....... 
Two torn botanical frame sets (only one shown here) in .png format.


http://www.4shared.com/Botanical_frames.html 		This bag contains 4 different versions of each letter (including Danish Æ. Ø and Å) and two different versions of all numbers. 

http://www.4shared.com/Ransom_letter_alpha.html

Thanks heaps for all the comments on 4shared.com, in my guestbook and on e-mail, I really appreciate that. It makes me feel a lot better, after having an otherwise crappy day today - LOL! So I decided to post an extra freebie this week, just to say "thank you" to all of you again...... :-)

I got inspired by all the acorns falling from the trees right now, so I made this small grey scale acorn (and squirrel) stamp, which is up for download this week. Use it like this:

Copy the acorn (or squirrel). Make a new layer and paste as a new selection. Keep the selection and fill with color before deselecting. Now you can play around with the layer blend mode and opacity settings to obtain different results. Merge the visible layers when you are satisfied with the result. 

 



http://www.4shared.com/Squirrel_stamp.html
These stamps will look very different depending on the layer blend mode and the background paper you use. You can use layer blend mode "multiply", "burn" (one of my favorites), "normal", "hue" or whatever you like. To make it really interesting duplicate the acorn/squirrel layer and use a combination of different blend modes, and turn the opacity up and down. On the squirrel below, I also applied some text. 
Someone asked for zippers (the open zippers are coming next week), so here they are. There is 12 zippers in .png format in this bag. To recolor, use the red zipper , and adjust "hue" until you get the color you want. You can turn "saturation" a bit up too, but not too much, otherwise the metal parts will be discolored. Turning the saturation down works fine. Takes a while to download.

http://www.4shared.com/Zippers_closed.html		 Just a tiny piece of word art, maybe nice on some birthday invitations or something....... :-D






http://www.4shared.com/Come_celebrate_wordart.html

Another small piece of word art in .png format. The 
original is purple, but will change depending on which 
layer blend mode and background you use, and of course
it is also possible to recolor.

http://www.4shared.com/grand_parents_wordart.html
12 open zippers in .png format. This is a pretty large file, so it will take a while to download.



http://www.4shared.com/Zippers_open.html

Okay, so maybe it is a bit late with a leaf stamp, but at least autumn is not completely over yet! This bag contains:

3 different oak leaf silhouettes
Leaf stamp in .png, PS and PSP format
1 grey scale natural leaf 
20 different colored leaves (not all shown here)

http://www.4shared.com/Leaf_stamp.html

Use this oak leaf stamp the same way as the "Squirrel and acorn stamp" above, and it will look different depending on the layer blend mode and background paper you use. But it is just as fun to make something else. You can fill the leaf stamps and silhouettes with anything you like - maybe glitter, newspaper or notebook paper, here are a few ideas:

1. Green leaf with grungy text 
2. Golden leaf with natural texture and vintage wallpaper
3. Yellow leaf with patterned paper
4. Orange leaf with patterned paper

 


I hope you noticed the announcement for the free scrap booking class at JessicaSprague.com, it is her 
FINAL class of 2009, and best of all, it's FREE! Take advantage of this special opportunity to refocus on 
what matters most to YOU during the holiday season, 
no matter how you celebrate. I have signed up already, 
so hurry up and join me.... :-)


I saw this "toadly awesome" frog picture in a store, and   
thought it would make a nice frame for some funny 
pictures.

http://www.4shared.com/Frog_frame.html
Made these small tape pieces a while ago, as I stumbled upon some cute deco tape in a Japanese web shop. So I thought, "I can make a digital version of that"...........

http://www.4shared.com/Cute_elephant_tape.html		 Like the elephant tape to the left this bag contains 4 different tape pieces in .png format.


http://www.4shared.com/Cute_piggy_tape.html

Christmas is coming up soon, so as an early treat there is 
4 freebies this week! I "baked" these Christmas cookie shapes, so now you can add sprinkles, icing or whatever you like. There is 13 cookies in .png format in this bag.

http://www.4shared.com/Gingerbread_shapes.html

I like snowflakes too, so why not make some gingerbread flakes? There is 12 cookies in .png format this bag. 


http://www.4shared.com/Gingerbread_snowflakes.html
I used one of the snowflake cookies and added some icing, just to show you how the cookies can look like, if you add 
a few decorations. There is 14 different cookies in .png format in this bag, and you can see some of them above. 

http://www.4shared.com/Gingerbread cookies.html		 There is 12 arrows in this bag. The text is "Jolly Holly" "Candy canes", "Christmas", "Ho, ho, ho", "Let it snow", "Make a wish", "Let's celebrate", "Milk & cookies", "North pole", "Reindeers", "Sleigh parking" and "Santa Claus".

http://www.4shared.com/Gingerbread_arrows.html
Just a small piece of word art (size approx. 1000x900 pixels) with some Christmas balls. 



http://www.4shared.com/Cool_yule_wordart.html		 I found some Christmas cards with pop-up text on the web, and wanted to make something similar, so this is what I came up with. Credit goes to my friend Elaine, who helped me making this template.

http://www.4shared.com/Christmas_pop-ups.html


Shivangi asked for a raffia bow last week, and I suddenly remembered I made one a long time ago. It looks like this (see below), and you can download here. The color is natural beige, but you can of course recolor as you like.

"Skrapper Digitals" asked for my blinkie. I just have an old one, but here it is:
How to use the Christmas pop-up template:

1. Paste the Christmas pop-up template paper into your (3600x3600 pixel) layout in a new layer.

2. Turn the layer blend mode to "multiply", and it will look like your paper has been folded in the middle, 
and the words have been cut out. 

Words include "Christmas", "Celebrate", "Noel", "Jolly holly", "Angels", "Frosty", "Decorations", "Greetings", "Holidays", "Icicles", "Miracle", "Mistletoe", "Presents", "Santa Claus", "Snow" and "Yuletide". 

If you don't want the fold to be exactly on the middle of your paper, just move the template up or down, but then you will have to fill the empty area below or above the template with the color #eaeaea or R=234,G=234,B=234, which is the color from the edges of the template. Below you can se the template used with a paper from W&W. 

If you want to move the template left or right, just copy a piece of the left or right side of the template including the fold, and paste it into the empty area, and it will look like the paper fold continues to the edge of your paper.
 


"Laser" asked for a tutorial on how to make the pop-up letters, so here it is. It is written for PSP, but I am confident that PS-users can figure out how do it as well. 

1. Download the PS or PSP template, and open it. The template consists of two layers “Fold” and “Letter”. The top layer is “Letter”.  

 

2. Now write your letters (I used color black, font “Impact”, bold, size 400. The color must be black however, as this will later be your shadow layer). Keep the letters selected and now move them so that they are just in the middle of the fold you can see on the “Letter layer”. Chose “Selection” and “Promote selections to layer”. Name the new layer “Shadow”. Keep the selection. Now you have 3 layers in total, and your black letters selected (those marching ants).  

4. Chose “Selection” and “Invert”, now you have selected the area surrounding the letters. Keep the selection, go to the “Letter” layer and hit delete.  Chose "Selection none".

5. Now go to your “Shadow” layer with your black letters and move it down below the “Letter” layer, so that it is in the middle. Your template should now look like this. The top layer is “Letter”, the middle layer is “Shadow” and the bottom layer is “Fold”.

6. Now for the fun part! On the “Letter layer” use your “Rectangle selection tool” and select the top half part of your letters. Chose “Selection” and “Promote selections to layer”. Keep the selection. Name your new layer “Top letter”.

7. Go back to the “Letter” layer and hit “delete”. Chose "Selection none".

8. Go to the “Top letter” layer (which now contains the top half of your letters) and chose “Effects”, “Geometric effects” and “Skew”.  Skew direction should be “horizontal”, edge mode “transparent” and skew angle “ -20” . Your template should now look like this.

* In PS you go to “Edit”, “Transform” and “Skew”, and please be aware that in PS you skew in the opposite direction, so here you chose “ 20” .

9. Go back to the “Letter layer” (now containing the lower part of your letters) and chose “Effects”, “Geometric effects” and “Skew”.  Skew direction should be “horizontal”, edge mode “transparent” and skew angle “ 20” .

* In PS you go to “Edit”, “Transform” and “Skew”, and please be aware that in PS you skew in the opposite direction, so here you chose “ -20” .

10. Now move the the upper part of your letters, so that they fit perfect with the black shadow. If you look at the upper part of the letter “H” (on the picture below) is should just be covering the top of the black "H" shadow. 

11. Now move the lover part of the letters, so they connect with the upper part of the letters. You will probably experience that the lower part of the letters now don't fit with the shadow, but don’t worry, we will fix that in a second! Now go back to the lower piece of the letters, either select them and drag them a bit down until they fit with the shadow or skew them a bit to either side - or maybe both. Try to skew only 1 degree at the time, and you will soon be able to see when it fits perfect. Zoom in to have a closer look, it makes it a lot easier. Usually I skew 1-3 degrees and drag the letters a bit down and then it looks perfect.

Have fun!

For those of you who don't want to try the tutorial above,
I made a few extra pop-up words. The words are: Be cool, birthday, always, enjoy life, forever, have fun, heart, I "heart" you, laugh, love, memories, my baby, playtime, precious, smile, thanks and too cute.

http://www.4shared.com/Pop-up_words.html

 Time for a bit of Christmas cleaning, so I found these buttons which coordinates with the "Peek-a-boo stamps" 
I made earlier.



http://www.4shared.com/Peek-a-boo_buttons.html



Some examples of the the Christmas baubles I made:
This bag contains PS and PSP templates, so that you can make your own Christmas baubles. Just fill the color layers with your own color or pattern. The ribbon used below are from the Scrappin Cop (I added the snowflakes though). 


http://www.4shared.com/Christmas_bauble_templates.html		 If you like my Christmas baubles, you can download them by clicking the link below. I actually tried to fill some baubles with photos of real baubles, so you can do that with your templates too. Also try to turn the different layers on/off to change look of the bauble.

http://www.4shared.com/Christmas_balls.html
Have you written your letters to Santa yet?

There is 20 vintage Christmas stamps in this bag (size approx. 650x950 pixels). Thanks heaps to Dave (riptheskull's) who was very kind and allowed me to use photos from his amazing collection of gorgeous vintage postcards for these stamps. This is a rather large file, 
so it takes a bit to download.

http://www.4shared.com/Vintage_christmas_stamps.html 		 Well, if you got the vintage Christmas stamps to the left, you might like these rubber stamps too? There is 12 red and 12 black Christmas stamps in this bag. The free font I used was StamPete, size 80. I have included a rubber stamp template where you can insert your own text on the left side too, this way you can make other non-Christmas related stamps as well. Just download the font above, install it, and you are ready to play "digital post office" ...

http://www.4shared.com/Postage_paid_stamps.html

"JJ" asked about the spruce used with the Christmas baubles, and it is a tube which comes with PSP. However the tube is only about 200x200 pixels in size, so it is a bit small for scrapbooking purposes. I made another branch which is a bit larger though (750x550 pixels), and you can download it here. 
There is 15 Christmas signs in gorgeous muted colors in this bag. These signs will also be available next year (without the Christmas text).

http://www.4shared.com/Shabby__christmas_signs.html		 10 little reindeers made of different types of bark made their way into this bag.....


http://www.4shared.com/10_bark_reindeers.html
I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Click the penguin to download the last small freebie this year!

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