Digital Scrapbooking by blushbutter

I was inspired to scrap two layouts of my Old Antique books this weekend, the first layout is of my Harrison Fisher and Old music song books, these books are over a hundred years old, I love looking through these basically because I love to look at beautiful things, but these pictures also come with wonderful poems, which are very beautiful of themselves. I ought to list down every title I have but it's now getting late so I will keep this short and let the photos and page speak for itself.

This second layout is of my illustrated Anne Anderson antique books. The journalling reads:

Ever since I was a little girl I was enchanted by the stories of Hans Christian Anderson and the Brothers Grimm. My Mother passed onto me her three most beautifully illustrated Nursery Fairytale books by Anne Anderson and that’s when my collection began. I absolutely adore the illustrations of Anne in these books and how in her need to provide for her little family she would illustrate many books, 100 to be exact.I have 9! My life has been greatly influenced by these wonderful books!

This kit has been one I've wanted to make for quite sometime, as it is very close to my heart. With my designing I've always strived to Honour my Father for his many blessings in my life and wanted to create a Christian kit to aknowledge my Faithfulness in him. I've hinted a few times in some of my kits my religious beliefs with some word arts in my Easter kit and some blog posts here. I wanted to create a gentle and soft kit with papers that could subtley blend into the background of photos, so when I tried embossing the papers digitally with religious images and the result was exactly what I wanted, it was my inspiration to complete this kit. I also had put away thorns from a bougainvillier a year ago, I remember just how painful their sharp thorns were on my poor hands, I knew I had to have thorns in my kit, I wanted a symbol of the pain God endured for my sins. The kit will suit both modern time and heritage photos of Communion , Easter or even Christmas photos.

Beautiful Christian Communion kit with 5 12x12inch papers and 7 x A4 size embossed papers. 2 Christian notecards, and 26 elements. Rosary bead frame, 1 dove, angel wings, 1 wine cup, communion bread, silver glitter frame, white suit, black suit, girls dress with veil, silver frame, heart locket, purple tassel, teddy jewel, angel pin, wooden cross, silver glitter cross, satin floppy bow with satin straight ribbon, 3 silver corner fancies, thorn cluster, church, lace and pearl Victorian Christian frame.

Communion Qickpages for girls and boys, 5 layered digital scrapbooking quickpage photo templates.

This page is done in a girl version and boy version.

This page is done in a girl version and boy version.

Bonneted Lassy!

This page is from my 34 week photo shoot, I know I'm missing a few on this blog, I promise I will catch them up, I have some gorgeous photos of her, I've just been having to hard a time deciding on which to use!! So in the mean time I couldn't help but use the pretty papers in my communion kit for Shaely's bonnet photos, I used the blue butterfly paper to make distressed frames with using atomic cupcakes distressing edge action(Lurv her actions!)I also used some elements from my Faery kisses in Yellow, which I never quite got around to uploading and finishing off the previews for (oopsy)oh well. I stumbled upon gorgeous old fashioned smocked bonnets, in my search for Shaely outfit's, isn't this adorable!?
http://www.oldfashionedbaby.com/shop/category.asp?catid=26
I'm saving up for this one, but in the mean time...
In my need to make some more pretty photos with my star model, I got out my needle and thread and altered the bonnet I already had with lace and ribbons. I would have wanted larger bows but made do with the ribbons I had on hand. I totally love the effect of how the bonnet turned out on my little sweetheart. She was really giggly and playful but as soon as I got batteries in the camera and got her all set to photograph she spat the dummy! Me being set to get my shots anyway I had to resort to distraction, something shiny! I got this gorgeous little flower dress on Ebay brand new for $0.99 cents, the shipping wasn't much either as I had it shipped with other pretty dresses I got. Her Daddy loves this dress cos she looks so girly in it, he loves having a little girl in the house.

I'm adding a few more categories to my shoppe upon request for better navigation
One of the new categories is Clusters ,Freeies and Book Covers. I hope you will find it a little easier to find things in the shoppe now
Look for more cluster elements coming soon!

Freebie Peach Rose Quickpage and 30% sale on quickpage albums until the 17th March 2010

Beautifully Embellished pages for your bound/image wrapped book covers! Each page is designed with unique flare suitable for a lady , little girl or baby in a whimsical display of flowers, jewels and faeries from the Faery Kisses in Blue kit LINK

4 Beautiful merged flat cluster png elements made from the Faery kisses in Blue kit LINK . I've also included a layered merged flat 12x12inch background page, with a fold out frame, all the clusters are pre shadowed for convenience of use in your scrapping pages. Just drop the cluster over a photo and add journalling and your done!

Richly embellished Qickpages , 4 luscious layered digital scrapbooking quickpage photo templates.
Are you enchanted by the beautiful charm of faeries?
I certainly am and was inspired by that beauty to create luscious pages of clustered roses,ribbons,buttons,lace, feathers,dangling lights,charms,pearls and glitter swirls .

2 A4 Celtic Medieval digital card making sheets on jpeg files for download, to be printed and cut out for making a card and envelope for that boy or Medieval man in your life.

I've always loved the beautiful satin bowed baby gowns and dresses with the pretty little lace bonnets from the Edwardian era. So today I tied some blue satin bows around Shaely Angels little knitted pink wool dress and bonnet. She is such a beautiful little baby to dress up and loves to play with her teddy's. I'm loving her expressions and the many she has. Poor little thing is teething terribly at the moment.

Freebie Professional Use Silver Heart frame and 30% off sale on all Professional Use section until Sunday 28th February 2010

New Flourish brush with swirls Stamp 3565 x 2868 pixels , I've included a grunged version of the brush and quick brush presets for opposite angles, you may have seen this brush used in several of my glitters on background papers.