Wednesday Inspiration - it's apple pickin' season!

One of my favorite times (and photos) of the year, for sure! Since I'm not sure we're going to get to go this year, I'm considering taking the kids and husband to the grocery store and taking pictures of them "picking" apples out of the bins. What? I gotta have my Autumn apple pics!

Gonna have to get a little fruity... searching for specifics 'apple digital' brings up too many computers and Jennifer Apples! Even FRUIT brings up a few designers - this week harder than I thought!

Brushes:

Obsidian Dawn - School Dayz

Brushes.500ml.org - Fruit Labels #1

Brushes.500ml.org - Fruit Labels #2

Brushes.500ml.org - Fruit Labels #3
deviantART - Fruit Brushes

deviantART - Apple Brushes (link may not work)

ScrapGirls - ScrapSimple Shapes: Fruit

Other art:

LowCountryScrappers: Wooden apple or Wooden apple

Fonts:

graphicssoft.about.com: "The lower case 'i' in the dingbat 'Fazings1' is an apple."

Summer's Apples Font by SummerNytz - FONT

APPLE Font by Flop Design - FONT

Titles:

A is for Apple

An Apple A Day

Apple Of My Eye

Apple Pickin'

Apple Pie

Bobbin'

Bushels Of Fun

Freebie:

Care to try my funky glass apple? Go ahead, copy it right off the blog. :)

I'm soooo in the mood for an Appletini...

Here is my apple layout for the day:

And please enjoy my sketch! Link your page back to here in the comment section, we'd love to see what you've been up to!

digital kit: Harvest Spice from ShabbyPrincess.com, Fonts: 2Peas.

Wednesday Inspiration - Back to School

Wednesdays appear to be back, I thank you for your patience! We've been handling some family stuff, including having our oldest start Kindergarten. How about you? How did back-to-school go in your house? Wait - you took how many pictures?! Me, too! But I have a confession to make. I haven't scrapped a single one of them! So... today let's work on finding some of that back-to-school digi stuff so we can get some school work done!
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Brushes:
Obsidian Dawn: Handwriting Brushes
Obsidian Dawn: Office Stuff Brushes
Obsidian Dawn: Graduation Sketches
Scrapbook Graphics: Calendar Stamps: $3.00
Digital Scrapbook Pages: School Brush: $4.99

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Fonts:
Desktop Pub: Handwriting Fonts
dafont.com: School-theme Fonts
FontMenu.com: Education Fonts
SchoolFonts.com: Block Letters and Cursive Handwriting
Fonts.com: keyword School

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Don't forget about the digital freebie - SCHOOL RULZ - at ScrapStreet right now. Grab it soon because I'm not sure how long it'll be free!!

Wednesday Inspiration - dizzy about circles

I just love creating with circles - I think circles on any page or creation just make the layout a little more finished. I must have circles on the brain because I'm even looking for a new large circle cutter in my paper scrapbooking world. That's fine, but let's see what we can do with circles in the digi world. Ready for some digital finds? Here we go!

Brushes:
Obsidian Dawn: Arcane Circles
Obsidian Dawn: Gears
Graphic Illustrations: PhotoShop Magic Circles (you have to go thru a free membership * confirmation, but the freebie benefits are waaaaay worth it!)
Graphic Illustrations: Retro Shapes
Graphic Illustrations: LITE Circled Hearts
Graphic Illustrations: {circular} Swirls Set
Yourdigitaldesigners.com: 100 Circles 1 ($6.00)
graphicxtras.com: 100 Brushes 26 'Circles 1' ($9.00)
Brusheezy: Free Vector-Grunge Brush Pack
Illusion of Perfection: Circles
Seishido: Go to Brushycats//Bubbled ($1-$8)
Seishido: Go to Freebies//5th one down=BESIDE

Fonts:
dafont.com: page of Circle
Fonts.com: keyword: Circle
Urbanfonts.com: search: Circle
Free-fonts.com: search: Circle

Supplies: Green Grove by Dora's Designs for ScrapStreet.com
(available for free for only 2 more days!)
Fonts: Jenkins v.2.0, Goundy Stout, Times New Roman, Jellyka - Estrya's Handwriting.

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And a fun little article from Wikipedia on the CIRCLE!

Pie, anyone?

Supplies: Green Grove by Dora's Designs for ScrapStreet.com
(available for free for only 2 more days!)

Wednesday Inspiration - happy birthday

Happy Birthday to you! I'm absolutely surrounded by birthdays in July/August/Sept (--11 bdays for my family only!), so let's explore the digital world of birthdays this week!

Can't call 'em freebies, too many have a price on them.
So this week, we'll call 'em

Birthday Affordables:

at ScrapStreet.com:
ScrapStewSue's Birthday Odyssey for ScrapStreet.com

Fonts:
Dafont.com: Birthday (#s 0-9 only)
Fonts.com: Birthday page
UrbanFonts.com: BirthdayGreetz
SeachFreeFonts.com: Birthday page

Brushes:
Mel's Brushes: Birthday
Andrea's Brushes: Birthday

Quotes & Titles:
Scrapbook.com: Birthday quotes & phrases
Scrapbook.com: Birthday titles
ThePerfectTitle.com: Birthday theme

Odds & ends:
ScrapGirls: Birthday Wishes
ScrapGirls: Birthday Card Sentiments
Daisie Company: Birthday ClipArt

Want to try the layout above? Please don't feel confined to the shapes in the sketch - they're just a supply guide and used to fit the theme today! ;-)

Wednesday Inspiration - i'm lost, point me out?

I am infatuated with road signs. Every where I look (or turn, as the case may be), I am always actively noticing road signs.


Here's the story: When I was little, we were an often-traveling Army family. Mode of transportation was, of course, car in the United States, twice across the United States. Dad told my brother & I this story - The Story of Falling Rock. He was a young Native American boy who had gotten lost amid the mountains. So it was my brother's and my job to look for young Falling Rock as we drove across the U.S., especially when we saw the watch for falling rock road signs.


Once I realized the magnificent and slightly genius ploy behind Dad's story, I still realized my eyes were ever watching road signs. Arrows, colors, directions, you name it - I'm watching it.


Oh, don't even get me started on my obsession with studying traffic patterns. Doug can fill ya in on that one. =)


So, why not some arrow freebies (or almost free)?


ARROWS:
dafonts.com: Pointers
dafonts.com: Polywog
Myfonts.com: Arrow Fonts
Graphicxtras.com: Arrow Fonts


Vectorstock.com: Arrow brushes
Seishedo (symbolical): This Way Out



FishTanked by Lindsey Krauss. Supplies: Digital kit: Relax by Michelle "Spink" Boeckermann for ScrapStreet.com, Fonts: 2Peas, Editing program: Adobe PhotoShop CS2. Lure, Googled. Sketch: Scrapbook and Cards Today, 2008.