Save the Word! - Day 4 (Final Day)

We have reached the final day of my Save the Word! Theme weekend, and today I promise to be lecture free. We are just here to have fun - it is Sunday after all…


The reading/writing freebies of today are:


An Alpha made with old newspaper buttons. But as well as a full alpha with upper and lower cases, numbers and symbols, you also get a little bonus pack of word buttons and a template to make your own word buttons. To ease download I have split it into to parts: Part 1 contains Upper cases, numbers and symbols, and Part 2 is the lower cases and word buttons.

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These freebies are no longer available.

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And finally I have (as usual) had some play time with my actions and made you some Nick-Nacks (a.k.a. elements) in form of tags, brads, clips, etc. to go with everything else from this weekend.


I hope this weekend has inspired you to read and write a little more - or at least given you some new tools and inspiration to create great layouts. Don’t forget to send me some of them for posting in Your Gallery!

I will be taking a few blog-free days but promise to be back with more goodies no later than Wednesday (maybe even sooner). See you then?

Save the Word! - Day 3

On this 3rd day of Save the Word! we have reached the point of using words and text in our layouts. I know you all know how to make text, but there are other ways than just writing. Don’t get me wrong, written texts are great. But maybe now and then we could change it to other kinds of texts?

That is why I have created some freebies for you to do just that.

First up is a collection of magnetic words inspired by the “Magnetic Poetry” you can buy for your fridge door. With them you can “write” your own texts - maybe even poetry - for your layouts. I have to apologise though, I ran out of time and didn’t get to make all the words I had planned. But to compensate I have included a psd-template so you can make all the words you need. If you do not have Photoshop, you can either write me an email with the words you need, and I will make them for you, or you can sit tight for a week or two until I get round to making an Add-On with lots more words.

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These freebies are no longer available.

Check my store - they might be there.

Next freebie is for the “lazy” scrapper ;o) I have made a handful or five of wordarts and quotes to “splash” on your layouts. All the quotes are, of course, related to reading and writing.


Finally, I found an “old” template that has plenty of room for text. Make it your own, but don't forget the text!


If you’ve got the time, please drop by tomorrow for the final Save the Word! day and a pack of more letters and words, old newspaper style.

Save the Word! - Day 2

Thank you for all the layouts you sent me for the gallery! (I knew a Ninja would do the trick…;o)). I will be posting them as soon as possible and make sure you get your freebie-payment.


Today’s Save the Word theme is Writing. Of course I encourage you to use lots of text in your scrapping - you might think pictures are enough right now, but trust me, in 10 or 20 years you can no longer remember the details. But also, I recommend writing outside the digital scrapping world. I am not talking about the next Great American Novel or iconic articles. Something a little less ambitious is just as good. How about changing your next email or text message into an actual hand written letter? Yes, the old-fashioned kind with paper, envelope and a stamp. Your friends and family will treasure it, I promise. Some highly educated people in the psychology field say that writing (but not sending) letters to others or even yourself is a great form of therapy. But let’s not make it a bigger deal than it is - just keep in mind, that any kind of writing is a good thing. You decide the level of ambition…


And after this “lecture”, let us get on to what you are actually here for: The freebies!

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Alpha of the Day is made from an old font sheet, and you get it in both white and black.

And the Writing Paper Pack gives you another 12 papers, this time related to the act of writing.

Tomorrow I plan to give you some Nick-Nacks related to reading and writing. See you then?

Save the Word! - Day 1

Before I start on today’s theme, I want to turn to the appeal I made on Monday. The “Your Gallery” is still quite empty - only Hélène from Belgium had the courage to send me a layout, and I can promise you it didn’t hurt a bit. So hurry up and find one of your layouts (it does not have to be made with my products), email it to me and let us fill up the empty walls in “Your Gallery”. Please - you get a freebie...! As you can see above, I have consulted one of my Ninja-friends, and I can not guarantee for your safety, if you do not do as he says…!


But now on to something different.

I have a passion - or an obsession, you be the judge. I think people all around the world are beginning to neglect the written form of communication. Pictures are beginning to take over where we used to use words. And yes, I see the irony… Scrapping is more about pictures than words, but maybe we could all change that a little bit and start using more words in our layouts? As a writer I am personally doing my best and want to encourage you to do the same.

The next four days I will do my part by introducing the “Save the Word!” campaign and offer you freebies related to reading, writing and using words. I thereby hope to inspire you all to use a little more text in your scrapping. And try if you can get your children to join in. Our most important job is to make sure they read and write well - and love doing it. Cause…


Today’s theme is reading and first up is a Reading Paper Pack with 12 reading related papers:

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And then you get a Bookshelf Alpha for making lots of words:



 
Tomorrow I turn to writing. Hope to see you then.