ClipArts: Curly Tops

I have created this curly topped cupcakes before and I had already forgotten to post them here, good thing I was able to do some scanning on my local disk. 

As seen, these are just simple cupcakes, I guess I have already posted some cupcakes which look like them. The only difference is the curly tops and I love it. They are so cute to look at. I guess I'll gonna eat them right away if I can see cupcakes like them. 

Fourth Scrapset: Birthday Package

This has been created a long time ago, I guess it has been four months and I had already forgotten about it until today when I was scanning through my scrap set files and came to bumped into this very interesting folder. Why interesting? Because out of all the folders, this is the only one which doesn't have published on its file name. That means, I haven't published it yet on this blog. That made me happy because I have something to post for December.

Clipart: Wedding Cake

It has been awhile since my last post, I have been very busy this past few days with my work and my sideline business. I have been missing posting my clip arts.

This wedding cake has been created way back two months ago, I had reserved this for days like this when I am too busy to create a new clip art.

ClipArt: Chocolate Cup Cake

I will be leaving you a Yummy Chocolate Cupcake for the weekend. I was inspired by a chocolate cupcake I saw at Bo's Coffee and thought I could create one. I had added up a big blue icing at the top to make the appearance much more attractive. I have added some chocolate stips, honestly, I don't have any idea of its name. But I thought those were all chocolates.

Anyways, I just hope you like it. Grab it!

ClipArts: Pink Ladies' Drink

 

Another clip art that I have made after creating the Flower Slipper, I call this one as Pink Ladies' Drink since the glass is pink and the inside of it is also pink. I was actually inspired by a scrap book lady had showed me a scapbook sticker set with this design.

Download it now for your scrapbooks! Just click on the image and save to your drives.

ClipArts: Flower Slipper

My old slipper had broke today, the left foot slipper's strap was torn and I can't anymore use it. Anyway, that was a slipper that I use inside the house so, it is actually okay and I thought that it had served me almost a year actually so it deserved some kinda of an indefinite leave, lols.

But since I just lost a slipper, I created a clip art on my notebook and here it is:

My slipper was white but I just thought blue is better. I hope I can own this one and wear it.

Grab it now! Just click on the image and you will be able to download the whole set at once!

Third Scrapset : Brown Green and Pink Combo

From now on, I will be putting a "Certified Handmade" watermark on the preview page of all my scrapbook kits and clip arts just to signify that all the things that I have posted and published here are made by me and my bare hands, ofcourse with photoshop's help.

So, for today, I have here a kit which is composed of four background pages, three clips, 3 cupcakes, 3 flower clips and four tags. This will work perfectly if you have photos of your friends at a cupcake shop.

ClipArts: Halloween Scrapbook Set

Halloween Scrapbook Set is here! I apologize it took awhile for me to post it, I guess I am already late but in case you haven't created your Halloween scrapbook page, then you can download it or you can use it for next year's Halloween photos! Save it for the future!

Alright then! Grab it now! Just click on the image and you will be able to download the whole set at once!

BG: Fleshy Stripes

Want to grab the image? Just click on it and save it into your drives.

Having problems downloading the file? Comment out or send me a message at my contact page or at jean[dot]bbeltran[at]gmail[dot]com.

BG: Choco Stripes

In line with the Choco Polka dots that I have posted yesterday, I thought of creating another choco coated background image. This time, it is striped design.

Chocolate colored designs are yummy for the eyes and are good for backgrounds because the color is dark.

BTW, October is almost done. Here comes November. I am thinking it would be nice if I do the same thing as what I did on October, I will post my clip arts collection. Stay tuned!!!

BG: Choco Polka Dots

The last piece but certainly not the least of my Polka Dots Collection. I have five of them and to count off, we have The Green Polka Dots,  The Yellow Polka Dots, The Pink Polka Dots, The Blue Polka Dots and this one, the Choco Polka Dots. What I love about this is the fact that this is chocolate like colored. I feel like eating chocolates now.

I just figured out that it is almost November and Halloween is just around the corner, so Happy Halloween guys! I am wondering what will be my costume in the coming Party on Sunday. I will need to go to the mall for that! Tell me your own costumes too!

BG: Green Polka Dots

Second to the last piece of my Polka Dots Collection. I have five of them and to count off, we have The Yellow Polka Dots, The Pink Polka Dots, The Blue Polka Dots and this one, the Green Polka Dots

Enjoy everyone!!!

BG: Blue Polka Dots

Third of my Polka dots collection. 

First was the Yellow Polka Dots and second on the list was the Pink Polka Dots.

You would know the very very simple trick on how the background color was changed.

The story behind this collection is on the Yellow Polka Dots page. So click on the link!

BG: Pink Polka Dots

As promised, I have here the other color variations of my polka dot design. The first one was the Yellow Polka Dots which was published yesterday. I will not be talking further about this since I have already told you the story behind this at the Yellow Polka Dots post.

So if you want to grab the image, just click on it and save it into your drives.

BG: Flesh Polka Dots

It isn't New Year yet and I have no idea why this idea came up to my mind, I just knew that I am creating a background image with white polka dots on it. Actually, this design has a lot of variations and I will be posting the rest of the other color variations here in the following days. As of now, let us just focus on this one first. 

So, going back what I like about this image is that the polka dots were properly placed. First thing that I was doing this morning was that I was just brushing on the layer and then the polka line came up. I duplicated the polka layer and then placed or arranged it in a way that it looks like windowing the every other polka lines until the final image. Actually, I had lowered the brightness of the polka lines because it was hurting my eyes.

BG: Pink Stripes

Stripes are still the basic background style for digital scrapbooks. Every kit or set has this style. If you search it on the web or even in book stores or other school supply stores, stripes can't be absent. Realizing this, I was encouraged to create another one.

I named this pink stripes because the main color here is the dark pink one. If you look at it, you would think I had also added the pink lines but the real thing here is that the pink color was the first layer which covered the whole page. The other colors were just added as rectangle shapes. 

BG: flowery

Flowers are simple yet it is refreshing when added to a plain background color. Same as with this background photo that I had personally made at our office. Lol. Yes, you read it right, I was doing photoshop while waiting for a call to come in. Isn't that super nice?

Actually, when I just arrived at the office, someone has already occupied it since we don't really have a permanent seat plan. I was kinda disappointed because I was already anticipating that I will be photoshoping the entire shift. Without a choice, I sat on the station right next to where my favorite unit is. I prepared my tools and when I was browsing to the program files, I was surprised! Alas! The unit also has a Photoshop program. Yehey! Now I have two favorites units and then started the plan I had before - Photoshop!

BG: checkered

The background image for today was inspired by a checkered blouse I saw when I was just roaming around the town. I just thought it was a good design. At first I was kinda hesitant because of the colors that I had used before finalizing it with a light orange color.

I may create more checkered patterns in the future but for now, you can download this one first.

BG: Polka Dots

It looks like New Year is coming, actually not. New Year isn't coming yet but I had been inspired with this Polka dots background image. I like how the dots blended with the pink background and that it seemed to be complementing each other.

I made this manually including the alignment and on how they were arranged. I used the basic brush here and attempted a lot of colors which can blend with black and pink worked out perfectly.

BG: Raffled-Edged

This is a cute background image. I was inspired by this shirt with some raffles at its edges and thought of creating something like it and I ended up with this thing. Even though it is not perfect but I still see it as something cute. I named it as "Raffled-Edged" totally because it has raffles. 

I finished with just the raffles but I have also decided to add something on the bottom and that is the running stitch. It is just a spice for the background image and I like it.

BG: Colorful

I fell in love with this one here. I am totally amazed how they worked good with each others colors. Light and baby colors are really perfect when matched with a darker shade. Their sizes doesn't matter as long as they are distributed evenly. 

I used Adobe Photoshop CS2 for this image, I haven't use CS2 for a long time so I was having trouble at first, I was adjusting to the interface and that there were a couple of functions working on a CS4 and which isn't working on a CS2. One good example is on CS4, I can just highlight a layer and hit the delete key on my keyboard and it deletes the layer but it the other way around with CS2. Hitting the delete key won't do anything. You can never delete a specific layer by that, unless you click on the trash icon on the layer tab.

BG: flowerful

When I was just a little girl, I would always draw flowers and it made me happy every time I do that. Whenever I get bored, I would get my pen and my notebook or anything to write on and start scribbling to the pages. The first image that you would see is a flower definitely. So for now, I would like to go back of being a kid and published here the background image which has nothing but simple flowers on it.

BG: Circles Again for the Second Time

I am kinda attached to circles these days. I am at work and there was nothing to do because of the availness, meaning, calls come in rarely so I decided to create another background design. The only available brushes are those that are preset on photoshop like basic, calligraphic, square brushes etc. So I picked up the circle brush and started randomly clicking on the page which I have filled with a very light green color.

I ended up liking it and tadaa!! it's now part of my background collection. Hope you liked it too!!!

BG: I am In love

I think I'm in love right now, not because of any man or guy out there but because of my blog and the thought that I was able to share my creations to everyone is such a great feeling. And then I just thought I can create a background today at work with hearts all over it.

So, the output is the picture above. Hope you like it! Thanks for following my blog and embracing the same passion that I love.

BG: Green Shaded Circles

If you have noticed, yesterday's post and this one has something in common. It is too obvious actually, the shades or shall I say the colors used. I have used the same since I like it how they dwell well. They were like pink shades that goes along with each other. They have something in them that enjoys each other color's presence. 

Aside from lines, circles are my second option when it comes to designs. Lines and circles are like one two and three. If one is present, there should be number two.

BG: Green Shaded Lines

This is just a continuation of yesterday's post, Pink Shaded Lines. Obvious as it is, it's another line shade background design. Lines are simple yet elegant if you just put the correct shades. Even if you are simply shading the lines randomly by a specific color shade, it will look awesome and creative. Just like this one, there is actually no regulation on what color to put on a line. I just filled it randomly and resulted to this one.

You try it but if you want to just grab this, click on the download here button below!

BG : Pink Shaded Lines

This is one of my favorites because it is colored pink. Lol. Seriously, I consider this as one of my favorites because first, I love pink shades, I love how the color fades and darkens but still it is good and lovely, it shows complete girly side. Second, this was like my first attempt and it came out really nice. I like the combination of the brush on the top and bottom parts. The brush here is the halftone type and it did not destroy the looks of the page.

Wanna grab it? Just click on the download button below right away.

Octoberfest BGs: Circles

This is really cool. I  love how the brown color mixes with the shades of pink.

I have nothing to say, just download it by clicking the download link below!

Octoberfest BGs: Flower Hearts

It is not Hearts' day or Valentines Day but I had this background created way back last February so apologies for the late post, well this blog had been created way beyond February so no worries. 

Anyways, this is just one of my favorite backgrounds for scrapbooks, this can be used either your subject is the children or a lover. It  actually blends with it and carries it right through.

Octoberfest BGs

And the title speaks for itself, yes it is already October, three months to go and it is already Christmas but before getting to the Christmas Season, let us not pass by October. For this month, I will be sharing to you all my background collections. You might have seen some of them used on my works here but anyway, I will be posting them all here. 

Check out my first one: 

Clouds for your scrapbook

These are cute thing for your scrapbooks. I don't exactly know their name but I recognize them as clouds for scrapbooks. I used one for my grab button on this blog. 

Stationery Sheets: Certified Handmade

Way back in grade school and in my secondary years, I was addictive to stationeries and those cute scented papers packed with envelops. I have like a box full of my stationery collections. I would always ask my brother who is taking his college here in Cebu to buy me four to five packs of stationeries when he goes home to Bohol. I would usually use four sheets and leave the other two for my collection, there were stationeries which have glitters as well and different cut shapes. 

As mentioned above, those are mostly scented papers as well. I have a ton of them, literally, and even now, if I go to a bookstore, I am still attracted to those cute lovely stationeries.

Cupcake Mania Continues

 The cup cake mania continues today and in the next days to come. I have four cupcakes that I am gonna share to you today. I had created this days ago inspired by the pink cherry top with those first two on the photo.

Tags and Design Inside It...

I am always a fan of scrapbook tags, they are useful in many ways. Like using them in a book to remind you of the last page you have read, on scrapbooks, you can put a name on it or a label, you can also just place it on a page for design and etc.

I was scanning through my scrapbook folder last night and I opened up this one with nine tags with different shades and design and I thought to share it with you guys. I do hope you are into tags as well. So here is the set, hope you like it!

Second Scrap Set : hearts and flowers are the best!!!

My first scrap set was published way way back I guess three months before and that it was published not on this blog but instead on my primary one with the jeanbeltran.info one. Check it out here!

This second scrap set was actually created a few months before and it was created just after I was finished doing with the first set unfortunately, I was unable to publish it right away for some reasons. I also had added other things up here. Before, it only started to be with those hearts and circle tags but then as time pass by, I decided to also add some background papers or those that are use for backgrounds. I also added up some tags while still leaving the hearts and flowers theme here.

This is a sample scrap page that I have created for this specific scrap set. You too can create your own. Happy scrapbooking!

Stripped Cups

I named it that way because of how the cups were made, which I love most about this cupcakes. I would start creating those cupcakes with the cups first. 

I made the chocolate cupcake first and the other just follow through. Hope you like it.

Neon-colored Scrapbook Tags

For today, I would like to share to you this cool tags that I have created today.

I was inspired by this little flower brushes so I decided to create something that is appealing and eye catcher. I then selected neon colors since they are attractive and glowing.

Aside from the flowers, I was also encouraged to pen tool and play with it, the scrap1 tag has been created using pen tool and fill tool still sticking with the color theme.

Camera Film Template

Hello guys, my last post of a free template seems like history so I decided to create a simple yet attractive one today. I called this "Camera Film" because there's a camera and a film on the template. I like the combination of the template and its cute since you can also paste some photos on the film. 

Cakes for Free

Just sharin' guys...

I know this is not something that you are interested on but try double check the clip arts I just made today. I posted it to my primary blog at jeanbeltran.info. On this collection are cupcakes and cakes which were inspired by the single strawberry I made first at start.

My Top 10 fave fonts

In relation to my last post about fonts "I *heart* Free Fonts", I like to share my top 10 favorite fonts, I consider them my favorites because they are those that I use mostly when I am documenting something or when I make templates, they are the fonts that I add in there. 

Starting with “James Fajardo”, not because the name is the same as my boyfriend’s but because I found it simple and it works in all themes. It is like black that works in all designs, well that’s my opinion. Take a look at my “Star String Photo Template”, it was that same font.

Here is “Champignon Alt Swash”, as what my research says, Champignon is a French word for Mushroom and Swash is a typographical flourish on a glyph, like an exaggerated serif. So the font is a Mushroom Serif, that’s what my instinct is telling me. I love the curls on the end of the letters like J and I love how it compliments each letter. I used this font for my main blog at www.jeanbeltran.info. I think it suits my name perfectly, whatcha think? Hehehe :)

I *heart* Free Fonts

I love fonts, i love to work with fonts, i love to download free fonts.

Are you also into fonts? Well, I am madly in love with fonts, in almost all of my works or creations, I place fonts on it. I usually use handwriting fonts, it's like i wrote them myself, the only difference is that it is digitally made. When I go online and search for free fonts, I can't help but click on the download buttons, what could be more lovelier than those that are for free? So my baby, i am referring to my laptop here, is already full of external fonts, I call them external because they were not the default ones.

The only problem that I get when I use those customized fonts is when I publish those writings or compositions outside and unfortunately, other pc's don't have those fonts installed to theirs. So, in that case, I still need to install it myself. Anyways, installing a font is definitely easily as a piece of cake. Let me help you if you don't know how.

Here, download a font first, say you like to have "James Fajardo" on your pc, I have downloaded mine here. If you want to have it, then just click on the link. 

Click on the free download button and then save it on either your documents or on your desktop, or anywhere you like to save it as long as you can remember where it was located.

After downloading it, just go to the specific folder which contains the file. Say, for my case, I saved it on my downloads folder under my documents. So I opened it up and copied the file, ctrl + C or highlight the file, go to edit, then click on copy. Once done, go to control panel, then go to Fonts folder, just to remind you, I am using windows xp for this. Here is a screen shot:

1st Anniversary Photo Frame Template

So I was thinking of posting another template here and since James and I just celebrated our second anniversary last August 24, 2010, I have thought of posting here the photo frame that I have created when we celebrated our first anniversary. All I could think of are memories, time flies so fast, it seemed just yesterday but here it is:

Star String Photo Template

Hello there!

Today, I want to share to you a photo frame template. I had created this just yesterday, August 24, 2010 when I saw my picture together with my niece, Baby Aiesha. This template here applies to those pictures that you have with shades that are available on the stars that are hanging on the template. Like for our photo, the dominant color is green, so I decided to color the base as green.

My sticker Set 2

Hi guys and welcome to my new blog! 

For my new blog, I was thinking about a nice set to start with, I looked at my collection of scraps on my D disk and decided to post my second sticker set. The first sticker set was already published in my jeanbeltran.info blog, try and check it out too. Click here. This time, I still have tags and flowers but it is a kinda different compared to the first one. Included in this set are buttons also and some "cloud tags", I self named them actually, hehehe. I have noticed that "cloud tags" are really famous now a days so I created my own version. You might like it as well so download the set now!

This is a sample scrapbook page that I created using this set. 

INTRO

*** Scrap booking for Keeps ***

I had finally decided to create another blog for scrap booking. I made this decision one day when I had jumped into this website which tells about how Google adsense would provide exact ads to a website. I am new to blogging so I was just posting all that I can share of in my jeanbeltran.info blog, not thinking of how that would affect things. Well then, hope you guys will still be checking my other blog while still enjoying my ideas about scrap booking either digital or the old-manual way, most specially my free scrapbook kits and everything about scrapbook.

I am thinking to move the old kits from my jeanbeltran.info blog here but I am still hesitant. I will still be sharing the links of my updates in my original blog.

Comments are always welcome.