Giveaway Fun!

Digital Scrapbook Designer Michelle Underwood is hosting a number of giveaways on her blog, including one for a $20 gift certificate to Crab Apple Design's Etsy shop.

In a recent post on her blog "This Crazy Life," Michelle made it super easy for readers to submit multiple entries for her giveaway. She put lots of effort into composing a review of one of my products, the Hootie Hoot Owl Organizer.


I am impressed and grateful to her for dedicating the time and energy to make such a thoughtful post about my company. She is really helping to get the word out about Crab Apple Designs.

About Michelle: she designs digital scrapbook kits for my favorite online paper supply store, Two Peas in a Bucket. If you are not familiar with this store, I love it because it always has the best and most current releases of my favorite designs.

Michelle's kits are easy to download and really user-friendly. I hope to use some of her elements in new line of collages I am currently working on.

When Michelle contacted me, I immediately went shopping AND PURCHASED one of her affordable kits. It was hard to choose just one! Here it is and I love it.


She also has many freebies on her website, which you can find here. The amount of giveaways she hosts is substantial. I recommend adding her blog to the list of ones you visit daily. She has great taste and the giveaway items are handmade and just the kinds of things I would buy if I knew about them.

Crab Apple Designs loves Michelle Underwood! Go check out her blog to find out how easy it is to win good stuff!

Spinners

Over the weekend, I played around with some digital drawings with the idea of creating a set of thematic images to use for card making, journaling, scrapbooking, etc. Right now, I have "games" on my mind. I just won a lot of 125 vintage board games on ebay and I'm still pinching myself about it. In particular, I love those old spinners!

So here are a couple of spinners for you to play with:

Making my Own Patterned Paper

It is TIME for me to learn how to design my own patterned paper. It's either that or bankruptcy via Archivers and Two Peas in a Pod. *SIGH* DAMN YOU SASSAFRASS! Just kidding, Sassafrass Lass papers inspire me daily...but I want to learn how to do it, too.

So I'm experimenting with some patterns with layering of images...dare I call it digital collage? That doesn't sound as fun somehow.

Anyway, here is my first attempt.

In my next post, I'll share some resources I found for tutorials on how to create your own patterned paper as well as some good spots for finding royalty-free images.

Vintage Pattern Restoration

I have a box of fun but really battered old patterns. It would be fun to do something crafty with them, so I decided to take a stab at digital "restoration." Here are the results:

This was the in-between version, where I removed what I felt was unsightly wear, but kept the authenticity.

Does anyone have an opinion on which is better? I am thinking about making a few journals and cards out of these...