"Just for Holly"

This is an in between post.  Holly and I have been tossing around the same daisy for years.  It has a tiny bug in the yellow center.  The petals are crumpled and missing in places.  I hereby christen this our new daisy.  May it have a long and useful life.  Did you know to make gingham you take solid vertical stripes, make a png file then ghost the png file?  Duplicate the ghosted layer and turn it 90 degrees.  Voila a gingham, complete with dark squares at the intersections.  Even better you only need to do it once if you remove color and then enhance the color to a shad you enjoy. Or you may just use mine and not worry about any of that Greek if you aren't a photoshop user.

For a 12x12 of this blue gingham CLICK HERE

Below is my handy dandy little black strip.  Looks boring, doesn't it?  Well, if you'd like to fake pictures being on a film strip it sure comes in handy.  Because it is a transparent background PNG you can drop a shadow from it, pulling dimention into your page.  It also lets the background papers peek through.

"Purple Beveled" PNG Free Scrapbook Alphabet

When I make basic letters in solid colors I catch myself saying, "Oh, anyone could make this.  Why should I bother?"  I remind myself about life before I understood photoshop.  How many times did I look for a special letter, paper or pattern just to embellish a Word document?  And for those photoshoppers, now they don't have to endure the tedium of making the letter.  If I were a paper scrapper I'd have a folder full of basic alphabet stickers.  Indeed, I've had that very folder in the past.  It's amazing how lazy one gets with photoshop.  I'll cringe and step backward if you ask me to use scissors and paper.  Sigh.