Today (or whenever it is Saturday in your part of the world) is Digital Scrapbook Day. That means sales, freebies, competitions and general frivolity around the digiscrap world. Which is an interesting little world, as with all the little communities floating around the internet. Its such fun to be able to converse with someone on the other side of the world who shares a similar interest. I guess that is also what we are doing throughout Art Every Day Month and other such endeavours.
And this is why I've been quiet the last couple of days.
Being sick last week put me very behind in my preparations for DSD. As usual I had grand plans, but I've just managed to squeak in with the basics. A Grab Bag (basically a heap of stuff bundled together for a low price available for about a week) and a big sale.
Now, I don't do sales much as a rule. Probably twice a year, maybe 3 times. And generally not very big. But I figured as I hadn't been able to churn out as much product as I'd wanted, I'd put a great big 50% off on the advertisement. I don't sell at a big name digi store, just a little one that's been around for a while (3 years in January, which is a long time in digi-land), so I need to drag people in to at least look at my stuff ;)
So this is my Grab Bag:

There's about $15 or so worth of stuff in there for $3.
I design the majority of my stuff from scratch. That means my own textures, my own PS styles/actions, and with the popularity of realistic items, I create physical embellishments, photograph them and then extract them. Which is a long and laborious process and most days you can generally hear me moaning or muttering about a particularly difficult extraction. I flip constantly between Photoshop, Illustrator and now my new purchase, Art Rage (which I am enjoying learning about). Drawing the base design as a vector and then pretty-ing it up in PS. Lots of fun really!
I have the all the products included in the bag revealed on
my design blog. And if you're interested in digi scrapping, there is a freebie Quick Page there as well to sample the products. For those not familiar with quick pages, they are a flattened .png file that you simply add your photo/s to underneath and then put your journalling/title on top.
I'm all computer-ed out. I've been looking around for digi goodies on sale, but nothing has really grabbed me as yet, so I'm going to go outside and do something else. Mr Mouse is currently cleaning out and re-arranging his shed (a very big job) so I might go and lend him a hand.
Have a lovely day!