Another Valentine's Freebie Set

Valentine's Day is just around the corner. This year I'm kind of excited for this occasion since it's been a while since hubby and I had a serious date. He already asked me to find an interesting place where we could go. Good thing I had one place in mind courtesy of one of my fellow blogger.

So that explains this freebie set I found:

click the image to go to the designer's website

Now that I'm back into collecting Free Digital Kits, my laptop's memory will surely be filled with freebies and it's performance will slow down once again just like what happened months ago. I guess I would have to buy several CD-R or perhaps DVD-R and burn copy these freebies before they eat up all my laptop's storage capacity. Of course an Extra Hard Drive (EHD) will be more convenient than doing all the works of burning files from laptop to blank media, but that is not on my budget yet. Maybe in the near future or if hubby will give it to me as a gift (just like when he gave me a TP-Link Router on my birthday last year).

Getting My Hands Into Digiscrapping Again

Pardon my creation if this looks like more of a collage but actually it's another example of a quick page template. There was just a single vacant slot, the one at the top photo with what seemed to be frames and boarders. I just couldn't help to post several other photos in it because I wanted to include all my daughter's shot during her second hair cut.

Honestly, I feel like I'm a newbie once again in this kind of craft, starting again with easy quick templates, settling for simple dragging of photos.. But I know, as soon as I get my mind "Into the zone" again, I'll be doing much better than this.

PitAPat Quick Page by: Raspberry Road Designs

Digital Scrapping Terms and Definitions

With my two personal blogs, I'm sure I'll have some visitors who are not so familiar with this blog's concept. They will see my previous crafts and would probably wonder what is Digital Scrapping is. So to start with, let me give you some of the terms that you can encounter if you happen to be interested in this kind of hobby:

Alphas- Decorative alphabet letters to creative titles for your layouts. Each letter is a separate element, however some alphas are all in one file and must be “cut” out.

Birthday Club- If you are a member of DSP, and have allowed email from the administrators, then on your birthday you will receive a coupon for a free page kit on your birthday. You will get to choose from an assortment of page kits.

Challenge- When a member, moderator, or designer says to masses, I challenge you to do this, just for fun. It’s not a contest, just something fun for everyone to participate in. Normally prizes are not given out, however from time to time the challenge issuer may give out incentive gifts for anyone who participates.

Embellishments- Objects added to a scrapbook page to enhance it, such as ribbons, fibers, tags, charms, stickers, etc.

Fibers- A fancy thread used to decorate scrapbook pages

Inspiration- Something, such as a sudden creative act or idea, which is inspired. Inspiration is often given out, such as a color pallet, a sketch, a magazine ad, another layout, a word, a quote, etc.

JPEG- Joint Photographic Experts Group, a file extension supporting a broad range of subtle colors specifically for photographs. Smaller file size due to image compression. This type of file can degrade your image.

Mosaic- A technique in scrapbooking where you cut photos, paper, etc. into small shapes and then piece them together to create a mosaic look.

Page Kit- Papers, mats, various elements, etc. files are all individual giving you the freedom to layout the page in your own way using as much or as little of the items in the kit as you wish.

PSD- native file format for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements

Quick Click Template- The QuickClick Template system is a wonderful new product that gives you the creative license to make unique layouts by filling in the "blanks (shapes)." The design work is done...you won't have to think about placement of your photos or accent papers because we have carefully designed these "interactive sketches" for you!

SWAP- Two scrappers exchange photos to scrap for each other, or a group organizes a regular photo swap

Word Art- Quotes and titles using 1 or more decorative fonts to create an artistic overlay for your layouts.

These and many more alien words if you are just starting to get interested in Digiscrapping..

Personally speaking I started enjoying this craft with freebies like quick template. The process is pretty simple, just drag your photos to the ready made template and your done with your very first masterpiece!

I got this free quick template design months ago..

Quick Template from Polka Dot Plum Designs

here's my craft using the image above in .png format

(husband's face blurred because he begged me not to sprawl anymore his pictures over the worldwide web, wish granted!)