Freebies, Giveaways, Inspiration, Tips, Tutorials, Presets

Hello Everyone! It's good to be back.

Baking Recipe (Cooking Light)

• Peanut Butter Banana Bread - want the recipe? Get it HERE.

Freebies

• One of my favorite designers, Lauren Grier, has a template pack on her blog. 
• Julie has a -365 template on her blog - go check it out.
• Autumn Wordart by Nini Figueroa.
• Safety pins by BellaBeluga
• Yin has a couple of free templates on her blog...go get them!
• Kate Teague has a few free quick pages on the Shutterfly blog.
• Jerry has some wonderful textures up for grabs! Just perfect!
• Scrap Matters has a fabulous template for their templ. challenge - makes me want to participate!
• Vintage Paper dolls on the Far Far Hill blog.
• One can never have too many brushes, right? Head on over to Angelica's blog to grab yourself some.

Giveaways

I have been a long time follower of Ree Drumond, a/k/a the Pioneer Woman.  She is a wonderful blogger, photographer and cook. Check out her free photoshop actions, photography tutorials and cooking recipes at her blog. She is also giving away a Canon 50D. Click HERE to go to her blog where you can enter your name for a chance to win a fabulous camera.

Inspiration

Are you in the mood for some visual eyecandy? If so, head on over to the Artistic Musing blog...gorgous colors, wonderful photography

Photography

• Get Your Flash Off Your Camera by Jodi Friedman.

Tips

• Journaling tips by Susie Q Scraps.
• Blogging 101 - The Very Basic @ Digital Scrapbooking 101 Blog.

Tutorials

• Text in Path/Text on path tutorial by MissBehaving (Melissa) @ Scrapbookgraphics.
• ScrapNGal has a tutorial on making tags and decorating your very own jars.
• Create a Holga  effect using photoshop.

Lightroom Presets

• Twilight Inspired presets @ Matt's Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips Blog. Be sure to check previous posts for other free presets.10445

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Tutorials and Freebies

Hello Friends,
Here are links to some freebies and tutorials that I have come across in my travels:

Tutorials:

1-How to Choose Colors for your Layouts - Click HERE to see the article.
2-Shadows - Part 1 by the talented Melissa (MissBehaving) - Click HERE to see the tutorial
3-Better Black and Whites - HERE
4-Easy Sepia - HERE

Freebies:

• DHD Designer Blog Hop - Click HERE to got to the blog to download.
• Templates by Amanda Heinmann's CT team - HERE
• Doodled text paths by Kim Wresh - HERE.
• Party wordart by Bethany - HERE.
• Irene has a beautiful quickpage in her blog - HERE.
• Little Dreamer Designs is having an APPRENTICE CONTEST. There's a ton of mini kits available for free HERE. They are currently uploading week 2 of the tryouts. You will have to sign up to the website to be able to download them.
• Neverland Scraps has a super cute horse drawing at her blog. It reminds me of the little pony series. You can get it HERE.
• Twinnie Part 5 @ Digital Crea - HERE
• Carry Me in your Dreams Add-on - HERE.
• Beautyful Day @ DigitaCrea - HERE.
• Colonial addon by Noshay - HERE.
• Frame cluster @ Raspberry Road Designs - HERE.
• Mand Land elements by Free2Scrap - HERE. (Do note the password)

Have a great day. Kait 8287

Tutorials and Freebies

Freebies/Inspiration/Tutorials/News/Photography Round up

News:
Did you know that Lie Fhung, a/k/a Ztampf, is now at Scrapbookgraphics? She is super talented and very artistic. Want to see what she has uploaded so far at the store? CLICK ME.

Inspiration:
I just saw the cutest mittens mini album over at Each Moment, Only Once - it looks like something we can do with the kids!

Favorite Kits of 2009
The crew @ Scrapbookgraphics has a post dedicated exclusively to their 2009 most favorite kits...go check them out, you might find some that you like and can add to your stash. Stay tuned for part 2 of this post, which is coming soon.

Freebies

• Angelica has a lovely sampler on her blog...gorgeous color scheme and graphics. Thank you!
• Cafe J has a cute butterfly tag book.
• Christine Smith has an Eclectic Christmas mini
• Kaye Winiecki has a cute freebie on her blog.
• Nini has a template...if you like the minimalist look, this is the template for you.
• Irene Alexeeva has a cute card.
• Funky Playground
  
• SussieM (from Scrapbookgraphics) has a wonderful sampler from her latest kit, SO THIS IS CHRISTMAS, in her blog.

12 days of Christmas Freebies:

• Did you know that the DigiChick is doing the 12 days of Christmas freebies? The freebie link is in the newsletter, so you have to sign up for it. Want it? Sign up here.
• Weeds and Wildflowers is also doing the 12 days of Christmas - check it out HERE.
• Designs by Sarah
• Lindsay Jane
• Sweet Shoppe Designs
• Eva Kippler
• CatScraps (you might have to register to the sites to be able to access the forums/links.

Photography
Photographing Christmas

Photoshop
Misty Cato Designs - Recoloring Elements Using PSE
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Freebies/Tutorials

I found a few samplers and a couple of tutorials...

Cork Action by Atomic Cupcake
Template by Andrea G/Andrea's Bits, etc.
November Template at GoDigitalScrapping
Template by Misty
Magical string by Peta
Winnipesaukee paper pack by Black Dog Designs

TUTORIALS:
Birgit has a PSP/PS Mask Tutorial
http://birgitkerr.blogspot.com/
Flergs has a Shadowing/curling Tutorial on her blog
http://www.flergalicious.com/blog/?p=220
Visual Triangle
http://scrapartist.typepad.com/the_hub/2008/11/arttherapy-thur.html
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