Like a Gnat
I know, I know. “Christy!!! You changed your theme AGAIN?? Can’t you focus on anything for more than 10 seconds?!?” No. No, I can’t. I am a gnat on crystal meth.
See, this weekend is Internation Digital Scrapbook Day. (Yes, I know. A ‘weekend’ cannot be a ‘day’. However, the celebration of a day can last a weekend. Trust me.) With this holiday comes a boatload of sales at nearly every online digital scrapbook store in the universe. And I did a little shopping. I was visiting ScrapbookGraphics.com and one of my favorite designers, Flergs, and saw she has blogwear that works in WordPress. And I said YIPPIE! Because most designers who do blogwear only do it for Blogger and I can’t use it. Plus, she used my new favorite kit of hers to make it, so I had to buy it. I love the black/yellow/green/white combination. It’s so crisp and clean and friendly. Reminds me a bit of my grandmother (don’t ask me why – I cannot explain how my subconscious works), so it was a must have. Love the touches of glitter and I think the flowers are stunning. I’m having a little trouble keeping the white background there – it seems to flicker on & off with each refresh & I’m not sure why. Going to have to fix that because I can’t expect y’all to read my blatherings off a dotted swiss background.
I haven’t actually done any actual scrapbooking yet this weekend, but I sure have taken advantage of the sales. Wanna see what I bought?? Oh, I’ll link up the pictures, too, in case you see something you’d like to buy yourself.
At Scrapbook Graphics, I bought:
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Then, at Digital Design Essentials, I got these great things:
Aren’t those just the coolest alphas ever?? And they were (and still are) only $1!!! I love them and can’t wait to use them.
Finally, I got all these layered templates from Digichick:
By the way, I LOVE layered templates. Truthfully, I use them with almost every single layout I do. See, I can come up with my own layout, but it takes me a while to get it laid out nicely and it’s never quite as good as I envisioned. With the templates, not only can I count on the fact that it will look AMAZING, I can also get layouts down much more quickly. For me, it’s about getting the memories down, so I don’t mind not being so much of an “artist”. Anyway, I can change it up if I want to, as well, so I’m not stuck to what’s there. I love it. Some of my favorite templates are by Kitty Designs (hers are called “The Sketch”), TaylorMade (called “TaylorSketch”), Ali Edwards, Katie Pertiet, and Tiffany Tillman. They rock, they’re inexpensive and they’re a great jumping-off point. <end recommendation>
And discussing my scrapbook purchases made me realize I haven’t shown off my layouts in a while. So, here’s what’s new!
