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Free Halloween Word Art for Digital Scrapbooking by DLS Designs

I just purchased some of Atomic Cupcake's Photoshop Actions and created some free Halloween Word Art. Here are 6 Word Art Embellishments: Witch, Happy Halloween, Ghost, Ballerina, Pumpkin, and Boo!. As usual any feedback is much appreciated. And please let me know if there are any problems. I would love to see what you make with them, so comment here with links to your work, or email me. If you post a layout online using one of my papers, please credit DLS Designs and link back to this post. Enjoy!

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Free Muted Floral Grunge Digital Scrapbooking Kit from DLS Designs

Here is my first free Digital Scrapbooking Kit called Muted Floral Grunge created all in Gimp. There are 8 papers and each one is in .jpg format and 12"x12" by 300 dpi. The shadows were added for the preview only. There are also 2 Rulers/Ribbons, 2 Staples, 1 Button/Badge, and 1 frame. As usual any feedback is much appreciated. And please let me know if there are any problems. I would love to see what you make with them, so comment here with links to your work, or email me. If you post a layout online using one of my papers, please credit DLS Designs and link back to this post. Enjoy!

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Free Dark Grunge Scrapbooking Paper Pack

Here is my first free Paper Pack, Dark Grunge Canvas Papers. They are inspired by Christina Renee Designs' grungy look. Each one is in .jpg format and 12"x12" by 300 dpi. The shadows were added for the preview only. I would love to see what you make with them, so comment here with links to your work, or email me. If you post a layout online using one of my papers, please credit DLS Designs and link back to this post. Enjoy!

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Hog Island Sunsets Scrapbook Page

This layout was done by me in Scrapbook Flair and Gimp to display all of my Hog Island Sunset photos. I am not sure how I feel about this background paper. I'm toying with the idea of all white or all black. Maybe all brown? I edited the color of the background paper. The original background paper is by Jackie Eckles of Little Dreamer Designs.

RickRack Embellishment Tutorial for Gimp

Creating Rickrack Embellishments From Pre-made Ribbons in Gimp

1. Start by opening your selected ribbon in Gimp.
2. Next go to Image->Canvas Size... Set your height to about 1000. This may be a big large, but I prefer to work on a larger canvas. If you use a large canvas, you can always crop it later and you have more room. Click Resize.
3. Next go to Filters->Distorts->Ripple. Set the options to:

   The Larger the amplitude the higher the peaks. The smaller the period the closer together the peaks.

4. Lastly save the file.

Free Purple Plaid Alphabet

For my first free alphabet set, I used Binner as my font and my own plaid paper. Each letter is in its own png file, but the numbers are all together in 1 png. I've also included some punctuation which are in their own png. Drop shadows are not included and are only used for preview purposes. Since this is my first alphabet set, I would love any and all feedback, so I can improve. Thanks to Ditter Doodles for inspiring me to create this first alphabet set.

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Free Digital Scrapbooking Flower Embellishments

I have recently started digital scrapbooking. I started with photos of Lil' Grey and Cho. Now, I am also working on a Flower Alphabet Book. Since I enjoy photo editing, especially in Gimp, I instantly started to make my own papers and embellishments. After all the work that goes into making the embellishments, I figured I should share the wealth. Here are my first embellishments. I hope to have more papers and embellishments to list later. They are all in .png format and don't have any shadows. The shadows were added for the preview only.

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