Because I Love Design

I love my job.  I love designing for clients.  I love blogging and I love making freebies for all of you.  I really, really do.  But sometimes I also love to design just for fun (since I love design so much!), and usually when I do that, I like to do digital scrapbooking.  So I thought I would share a couple recent digital scrapbook projects with you.  All of them include elements from a new digital kit I got that I've been enjoying using.

First off, here's a page I made about my friend, Mariah.  I was so happy when I found the deckle-edged photo frames in this kit, and they worked well on this page.

Here's one I made with a self portrait I took awhile ago.  I decided to keep the layout a little simpler than what I usually do, and try a new twist on journaling...using only verbs.

Yes, crying made the list of adverbs.  Please don't take that to mean that I live a sad life...I absolutely do not!  God has been so good to me.  I do cry sometimes, though...sometimes things do get hard.  But those are the times when I have to remind myself that God is always good, and He can even use our tears to draw us closer to Him!

This next page is just a little note about my typewriter, which I love!  I am a big fan of typewriters, and I really enjoy using mine.

This next project actually isn't a digital scrapbooking layout, it's a greeting card.  I used digital scrapbooking supplies to make it, though.  I thought using digital fabric flowers might be a fun twist on a basic Christmas tree shape.

And I will leave you with one more layout to look at.  I made this page about my sister, Emily.

I hope you enjoyed my digital scrapbook layouts!  And if you're new to digital scrapbooking and would like to give it a try, I'd recommend going here for general inspiration and classes, and here for great freebies.  I'd recommend using Photoshop Elements, and you can get a free 30-day trial of Photoshop Elements 9 here.