by Linda | Sep 29, 2009 | DIY printables
Looking for a free angel printable? Download this line drawing for coloring and papercrafting, along with some matching printable papers.
Another week, another Digital Tuesday Challenge for sharpen up my creative skills. I’m all for heart-filled designs and delighted to work on this heart theme for the week. I’ve actually already designed some heart-motif freebies previously, but decided to do something brand new for today.
Thinking of hearts made me think of a guardian angel, so I created a cute little angel girl drawing and some matching paper designs. Here’s the card layout I created after creating all the elements digitally.
I’m always happy to share my work as I’m still learning so much. Feel free to download the digital files below for your own personal use.
The angel printable makes a great coloring page that is super cute for kids as well. They can color it up and send as a guardian angel wish to friends and family! You can also print the line drawing as a digital stamp for cardmaking. And I’ve also included the PDFs of the background papers I created in purple and red for more creative fun.
Download Angel Printable
Click on images to get the high-quality version to download to your computer. Enjoy!
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by Linda | Sep 24, 2009 | my creative journal
I am loving Spoonflower and all the great designers currently using their platform. It’s not cheap to design and print your own fabric, but the satisfaction of having created something from scratch really drives you to make the best possible product in the end. I also love the empowerment their platform is giving to designers such as Liz Scott, who runs Wonderfluff on Etsy – her own fabric designs printed using Spoonflower. I can’t wait until they go out of beta and enable you to sell your fabric designs direct to the public. It’s great innovation and a grand opportunity for all of us.
I’ve seen so many great designs and professional fabric patterns from independent designers, it’s really fantastic that so many people have been empowered. There’s also a great community as well – designers who are all passionate about textile design. Very cool stuff! The internet has given all of us the possibility of communicating worldwide and now there are companies popping up to help with business and manufacturing – Spoonflower, Etsy, Lulu, Blurb…to name a few. I wonder what other innovations will pop up via the internet for independent designers and artists? It’s definitely a fast changing world out there and supremely exciting!
After creating my birdie pattern and realizing it would make great fabric for PJs, I signed up with Spoonflower and ordered a swatch to see how the colors will turn out. It’s so exciting to be able to have such power of creation upon my hands…woohoo! Also, there was a special theme presented for competition on Spoonflower, a fabric design with spoon and flower design(s) incorporated somehow. I decided to take part and created a spoonflower bud pattern. A simple repeating design with bright colors that I think would make a nice tablecloth or napkins! What do you think?
You can find this spoonflower bud design as fabric on Spoonflower here…
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by Linda | Sep 23, 2009 | DIY printables
Looking for some cute acorn printables for Fall and leafy tree themed projects? Download these freebies for your next papercrafting idea!
Time for another digital card design and the digital tuesday challenge has presented falling leaves for the theme this week. I was super excited to participate because I’m currently enamored with leafy patterns. There are so many types of leaf shapes to experiment with and also so many colors, especially during the Fall season. Here’s the digital card I created:
I designed a leafy yellow and orange pattern as well as the green scribbles for the background. Feel free to use my design work for your personal papercrafting projects – I’m happy to share! The acorn image was a quick doodle and you can download it full color or black and white to color yourself.
Download Acorn Printables
Just click on the images below to get the high-quality versions and download the files to your computer. From cardmaking to scrapbooking to fun creative paper crafts with kids, enjoy!
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by Linda | Sep 22, 2009 | DIY printables
Looking for some cute summer designs? Download these freebie watermelon printables for your next papercrafting project or creative idea with the kids!
After creating my first digital card design, I was happy to learn from a fellow crafter the existence of Digital-Ink Co and challenges. I thought it was the perfect opportunity to participate in the current recipe challenge and use the watermelon drawings I created in the challenge. Here’s the digital card from my digital designs, all in the theme of watermelons.
I might have gone a bit overboard with all the patterns and bright colors, but I just couldn’t help myself. It’s definitely fun to design all sorts of backgrounds and digital elements.
Of course, I still like piecing the cards together with real paper when I send to family and friends, so printables are a must! Here are the digital elements for you to download and use for your own watermelon themed projects.
Download Watermelon Printables
Just click on images or links and download to your computer! Enjoy!
Download the watermelon stripes design PDF
Download the watermelon seeds design PDF
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by Linda | Sep 16, 2009 | DIY printables
Looking for some fall leaves printables for papercrafting and creative fun? Download these freebie leaf patterns and pumpkins!
Wowsers! I have been busy with freelance work and exploring new ventures, completely neglecting my love for paper crafting and card making. Decided to get back into it for the Fall season.
Pumpkins, leaves and everything cozy! It’s such a lovely time of the year and the color palettes and motifs are inspirational for creating designs and patterns. I wanted to participate in the latest Digital Tuesday Challenge as it called for a clean and simple fall themed card, a perfect way to get me back into designing useful freebies.
Normally I would print out digital papers and designs to put together manually and color in, but my printer is out of ink, so going all digital today.
I created the leaf pattern design and digital stamp of the pumpkins with matching leaves, so you can also download them below and use for your personal projects. Both color and line versions are available and the leafy pattern is a repeating tile, so you can pop it into Photoshop and define it as a pattern, then use it to fill up whatever space you need. Hope that makes sense!
Download Fall Leaves Printables
The pumpkins are large images, so just click images below to the get the full high-quality images to download directly to your computer.
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