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*New* Kits from Kitschy Digitals!

(Please note: I'm keeping this post at the top indefinitely, so make sure to scroll down for new posts! :-)

Washi Tape Frames Digital Kit (click on image below for larger preview)

Price: $4

Kit includes: 10 high-resolution PSD and PNG files. These come in 10 colors.

(Contact me at thousandclowns (AT) yahoo.com if you are interested in a commercial license.)

Go to this blog post for more info, a tutorial on how to use these, and to see more inspiring artwork using the frames!

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Woodgrain Frames Digital Kit (click on image below for larger preview)

Kit includes:

- 10 Woodgrain Frames in PNG format, All high-resolution, 300dpi (Note: PNG files can work with any program that will support & open PNG files. Not compatible with older versions of PSE & PS, hence, the PNG files.)

- 2 - *BONUS* Woodgrain Papers in 12"x12" and 8.5"x11" sizes, All high-resolution, 300dpi

Price: $4.00 (Personal License)

If you are interested in a photographer's license/limited commercial license for this kit, you can purchase it below.

Price: $12.00 (Photographer's License/Limited Commercial License)

Go here for a tutorial on how to use these frames, for artwork examples, and more!

SALE at Kitschy Digitals {Goods} and Tiny Bazaar

So the Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales at Tiny Bazaar and Kitschy Digitals {Goods} are starting a little early...

The prices are already marked in my Tiny Bazaar shop. Everything is 30% off storewide!! 

To obtain your 30% off discount at Kitschy Digitals {Goods}, you'll input the discount code "blackfriday" at checkout. Super easy!

The sale starts now and ends Monday, November 30th, 8pm Eastern Time.

Here a sampling of what's in these stores:

I also wanted to show you some photos that I've been meaning to share for quite some time now, but keep forgetting! A few customers have sent me photos of rooms in their homes where they've displayed my Picture Frame decals. I LOVE seeing how customers use these! And 30% off these decals is such a great deal since they are some of the more pricey items in my shop (they range from $20 to $50 regular price)

These were taken by incredibly talented photographer, Mika Beth Edwards (oooh, how i want her to take photos of my family!).. her daughters are adorable. :-)

 

 

And this is of a room in Kelly Lautenbach's home.. I love her arrangement of frames!

 

and here's one of my home...

And remember the 30% off sale on all of my digital kits here and here goes through Monday as well!

I hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving Day. :-)

Kitschy Digitals Kits SALE!

Hi! Happy Thanksgiving to all of you American readers out there. :-) Just wanted to remind you that the 25% off sale on all of my Kitschy Digitals digital kits starts today and goes through Monday.

If you see any digital kits you like in my Two Peas in a Bucket store, that 25% discount has already been marked! (or should be!)

If you are interested in my two digital kits available on my blog, you will need to input the code: "blackfriday" at checkout to receive your 25% off discount. Remember, with digital kits, you never have to pay shipping! yay! :-)

I have lots of kits in my Two Peas store, one in particular might be of interest if you're thinking of a good gift idea for the children or book-lovers in your life. This is a kit that I have offered since last year, but if you're new to my blog, you might not have seen it: the Woodland Book-Lover's Printable Kit.

It was a big hit last year, so I thought I might highlight it again this year. It's such a guilt-free gift for kids when we're so bombarded with all the toys and stuff out there during the holidays.

This printable kit includes:

-4 Bookplate Designs 

-4 Bookmark Designs 

-1 Reading-Log Design 

-3 Iron-on Designs (for canvas totes, t-shirts, you name it) The iron-on designs can also be used as coloring sheets!

-3 *BONUS* Gift Bag Topper Designs (for the bookplates, bookmarks and reading log) 

-Complete instruction PDFs for EVERYTHING. 

You can read even more details about this kit in my post from last year.

Here are some pics of the kit elements that I printed myself last year... everything can be personalized, which i LOVE! You can personalize in Photoshop, or just handwrite the names.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you're not into printing at home, I also sell the bookplate stickers and the bookmarks already printed in my Kitschy Digitals {Goods} shop.

Details to come on the Tiny Bazaar and Kitschy Digitals {Goods} Sale that starts on Friday. :-)

Holiday Sale!

So, I started thinking about all of the Thanksgiving Sales coming up at all of the department stores, etc.. and thought, "hey, i should have one too!"

I will give more details tomorrow on how to obtain your discounts. :-) Thinking about starting on your gift-giving list? We have photo prints, paper goods, beautiful picture frame vinyl decals, embroidery patterns, clear stamps, Blythe accessories, printables and more!

And to clarify, it's:

30% off everything at Tiny Bazaar

30% off everything at Kitschy Digitals {Goods} (everything in this shop is available in my Etsy shop as well, so you can shop at either store.)

25% off all of my Two Peas Exclusive Digital kits (I wanted to do 30% off, but they only allow up to 25% off at Two Peas)

And 25% off my two digital kits now available on my Kitschy Digitals Blog.

Make note, that the sale is an extra day longer for the digital kits.. it starts tomorrow, Thanksgiving day!

More details to come! :-)

(and p.s. the frames I used for the image above, as well as the fabric buttons, will be in 2 new digital kits that will be available in December! :-)

Kitschy Thanksgiving Craft/Decor

Here's a last-minute craft you could do with the kids (or just for yourself!) to add to your Thanksgiving decor. Place them around the table as accents, or make them into placecard holders. SO CUTE. My super-talented and sweet friend Karli Plant made these adorable pinecone turkeys using feathers from the Kitschy Digitals Fresh Feathers digital kit, some cotton balls, woodgrain contact paper (you could use any woodgrain patterned paper that you have!) and glue. SO easy!

 

 

 

She just opened her digital feather files in Photoshop, reduced them in size when needed, printed them and then cut them out. Attach to your pinecone with glue. She made the beak with the woodgrain contact paper. You could also create a placecard with your guests' names and slip it into the pincone in front of the feathers.. or just write your guest's name on one of the feathers!

If you prefer more realistic looking feathers, but don't want to deal with the mess of real feathers, I have a Feathers digital kit that has feathers in realistic colors.

Kids would have fun creating these, but I also think they'd be great for your vintage/kitschy inspired dinner table.  Break out your Pyrex and vintage dinnerware, and these kitschy pinecone turkeys will fit right in!

Thanks, Karli, for this super-cute idea! I hope everyone has a fabulous holiday. :-)

*New* Woodgrain Frames Cut-Out Sheets & New Team Member!

So, remember this Woodgrain Frame digital kit? If you're not into the digital thing, i now have all of the frames in professionally printed Cut-Out Sheets! They are printed on 80# cover stock with a beautiful matte surface.

You can find them in my Etsy shop here, here and here. :-) They will also be in the Kitschy Digitals {Goods} Shop later today.

 

 

 

Here are some truly *gorgeous* projects using these frames by Kitschy Digitals Creative Team Members... I have to say that every single one of these projects: I'm totally in love with each one. Yes, I love them so much I want to marry... them all. ;-)

I want to hang this one, by Martha Bonneau, on my wall.. right over my computer. :-)

(cut-out sheets used: Woodgrain Frames Set One, Two and Three.)

And a super*cute card also by Martha...

 

(cut-out sheets used: Woodgrain Frames Set One, Olivia)

Here are 2 more gorgeous projects by super talented team member Tara Anderson.

The first one is a beautifully unique canvas...

 
(cut-out sheet used: Woodgrain Frames Set One)

And the second is a pretty*pretty scrapbook page... I LOVE the way she used vellum to soften the paper strips in the background.. so pretty.

 

(cut-out sheets used: Woodgrain Frames Set One and Three.)

These last two projects are by our *newest* Creative Team Member, Kara Haupt!! I'm so so sooo thrilled to have her on our team. I've been a big fan of her and her art for a long time now. So excited to see what all she creates! :-)

Here are two projects using the Woodgrain Frames... I always love Kara's self portraits.. always so lovely. I LOVE that both Martha and Kara both used vintage sewing pattern illustrations on their pages.. {HEART}

 

(cut-out sheets used: Woodgrain Frames Set Two, Woodland Embellishments)

And another super*cute page by Kara...

 

(cut-out sheets used: Woodgrain Frames Set Three, Kawaii Cupcake, Monotone Fresh Feathers)

Remember, you can find all three Woodgrain Cut-Out Sheets in my Etsy shop now and in my Kitschy Digitals {Goods} shop later today! :-)

Guest Designer and New Contributing Designer: Maggie Holmes

Wow... i've had alot of this work held under wraps for a WHILE now and i've been busting at the seams wanting to share it with all of you! :-) Our new Guest Designer and also new Kitschy Digitals Contributing Artist (yay!) is the ever-so-talented, Maggie Holmes. :-) I'm such a huge, huge fan of her's.. back in my "scrapbooking days" and now.. and now that she's a pro-photographer, I can drool over her insanely colorful photographs as well!

She also creates for Making Memories (gorgeous books and scrapbooking supplies), Studio Calico and Creating Keepsakes Magazine. Her work is always nothing short of perfection in my book. And she's also super sweet which doesn't hurt. ;-)

Maggie is definitely a COLOR kindred spirit.. she's not afraid to use it, and in such wonderfully yummy ways.

So as not to make you wait any longer.. here's the first project by Maggie, a hybrid scrapbook page. She did several hybrid pages and was so smart to also share progress images of her process... such a fab idea!

Here she played around with some of the digital kits in Photoshop and ended up with this assemblage:

(kits used: Thrift Store Chic Frames Deux, Matilda, Skyler, Olivia)

Gorgeous colors right? (and if you'll look closely, she carries out this color palette throughout all of these projects! love that!)

Next she printed out the above 12"x12" image on her home printer (her printer accommodates this size, but you could also use an 8.5x11 canvas in Photoshop so that you can print this standard size on your printer if you can't print 12x12).

She then completed the page by adding three dimensional elements. I *LOVE* the idea of creating alot of your image in Photoshop first. It saves you time, but still gives it that "you spent alot of time on that!" look. :-) By adding the 3D elements afterwards, you are left with a scrapbook page that looks like any traditional paper scrapbook page, but with half the work. There's no glue, cutting or paper mess to clean up in Photoshop!

(Cut-out sheets used: Yarn flowers, Woodland, Olivia)

Next is another page she created using this same method.

Here's what she created in Photoshop first:

(kits used: Washi Tape Frames, Thrift Store Chic Frames Deux, Matilda, Skyler)

And then after printing, she added these elements:

 

GORGEOUS. :-)

Next is Maggie's last hybrid scrapbook page...

First in Photoshop (these are actually 2 - 6"x12" pages shown together):

(kits used: Thrift Store Chic Frames Deux, Matilda, Skyler, Olivia)

And then after printing and adding her three-dimensional elements:

 

(Cut-out sheets used: Yarn flowers, Woodland, Olivia)

I don't think Maggie or her little girl could be any cuter. Don't you agree? :-)

I really just ADORE the way she "styles" her artwork. Everything is just so perfect!

Next up are 2 *super* cool projects she created using the digital kits and the YUDU screenprinting machine. I've been sooo intrigued by this product and I've loved seeing other artists use it in such cool ways.

On this art journal canvas, she used the frame design from the Thrift Store Chic Deux kit and the fawn design from the Woodland Diecuts kit to create the screenprinted images:

 

(Cut Out Sheet used: Olivia Two)

she then added journaling and embellishments. I just love this. :-)

She used the same screenprints on this *darling* shirt she made for her daughter. Seriously, so CUTE!

 

She put together a great tutorial on how to make those pretty fabric rosettes.. don't miss it!

Thank you Maggie for these beautiful projects and I can't wait to see what else you create in the future for Kitschy Digitals! So happy to have you. :-)

see what people are creating...

I *LOVE* seeing what people do with Kitschy Digitals products.. I've recently seen some REALLY beautiful ways that artists and photographers have used some of my digital kits for commercial use. Alot of my kits have commercial licenses available! Both of my kits that I'm selling through my blog (until I have my website finished!) have commercial licenses available and alot of my kits that are exclusive to Two Peas in a Bucket have commercial licenses as well! When you click through my kits there, you'll notice that you have 2 options on some of them: personal or commercial license.

The Commercial License covers both limited commercial usage AND a photographer's license. If you're interested in the specifics of this license, you can read the Terms of Use PDF here.

Here's a super-cute example of using commercial licensed artwork for a business oriented blog. I *LOVE* this blog banner designed by Holly Neufeld of Red Velvet Art.. so fab! I adore the way she incorporated the Washi Tape Frames and Woodgrain Frames into this design. And not to mention that adorable photo!

Photographers have done the most creative things with my kits in the past, and Laura at Laura Collins Photography is no exception. :-) She used the Thrift-Store Chic Picture Frame kit to enhance her Holiday Card designs she is offering her clients this season. I think her designs are gorgeous.. so sophisticated and fresh. And her photography is breathtaking. :-)

 

I also love the way MikaBeth Edwards (one of my favorite photographers!) used this same kit on the home page of her website. Such a classic look.

If you have purchased a commercial license for any of my digital kits, please share what you've created! I would love to see! There's an "email me" link in my right sidebar. :-)

Don't miss these Elle's Studio Giveaways!

Don't miss these 3 awesome giveaways over at my personal blog!

See post for details! :-)

 

 

Halloween Goodies!

I know that some of you might not have been reading this blog this time last year, and I wanted to share with you a super*cute Halloween printable kit that I designed last year for Kitschy Digitals. You can print it out and use as treat toppers for your treat bags, and also candy bar wrappers! Use them for your kids' classes, or use them for you! :-) they are very kitschy cute and feature my Pose Doll inspired illustrations. This was a really fun kit to design last year. I loved designing halloween costumes for the girls.

You can purchase the kit here (for only $6!)

Here's a preview of the kit and some photos I took using the kit myself. There are also two blog posts that I posted last year with instructions on how to use this kit and also how to have them printed locally if you'd rather not use your own printer. Those posts are here and here.

 

 

 

 

 

Here's a closer look at what comes in the kit:

 

Happy Halloween! :-)

New Artwork from our Creative Team :-)

Wow, i have sorely neglected posting here and I apologize! But I have TOOOONS of amazing artwork to share with you so pull up a chair and make yourself comfortable. :-)

First, I have some always beautiful pages by Dina... She used the Monotone Fresh Feathers Cut-Out Sheet from the Kitschy Digitals {Goods} Shop. For those that are a bit intimidated by digital scrapbooking, I have Cut-Out sheets of most of my digital kit designs! They are professionally printed on 80# matte cover stock... the colors are so vibrant. I really love these quality of these. These feathers look great on Dina's page! She printed out the Washi Tape frames from the digital kit, cut them out and adhered to her page. They look like real tape!

Here she printed and cut out the Washi Tape frames again.. again, they look so real! love this page...

(other kit used: Olivia Printable Kit - blue houndstooth paper)

I adore how she used the white paint on this page...

(kits used: Washi Tape Frames, Olivia Printable Kit)

On this page she used the Monotone Fresh Feathers Cut-Out Sheet, as well as the Thrift Store Chic Picture Frames Cut-Out Sheet...

(Cut-Out Sheets: Kawaii Cute Cupcake & Shabby Frames)

Dina printed out elements from the Olivia Printable kit, Woodland kit & Matilda Printable kit for this page...

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(kits used: Woodgrain Frames kit, Olivia Printable kit, Vintage Buttons kit)

(kits used: Woodgrain Frames kit, Olivia Printable kit)

And here are more hybrid pages by our Creative Team members.. next up is the always beautiful work by Tara Anderson. :-) She printed out the yarn and straw flowers from the Yarn Flowers digital kit... How stunning is this page?

Here she used a prize ribbon from the Prize Ribbons Cut-Out Sheet, but you could also print them at home with the digital kit... this page is beyond gorgeous!

Here's a beautiful earthly page from Larissa...

(kit used: Woodgrain Frames Kit)

And a pretty and simple page from Larissa as well... I just love how she used negative space in this and the little swirly string that leads up to the cloud is such a beautiful touch!

(kits used: Woodgrain Frames)

And I just love this super colorful and fun page by Larissa as well...

(Cut-Out Sheet used: Kawaii Cute Fruits Phrase Strips; Digital kits used (printed at home): Olivia Printable Kit, Matilda Printable Kit, Kawaii Cute Fruits kit)

And here are some *precious* hybrid projects from team member, Cathy! I ADORE how she used the Woodgrain Frames kit here!

Here's a gorgeous little piece by Cathy as well.. what a sweet moment between siblings! :-)

(supplies used: Monotone Fresh Feathers Cut-Out Sheet, Woodgrain Frames digital kit)

A beautiful page by Karine.. i LOOOOVE how she used the feathers and how they go with the cute little feather headband her daughter is wearing in the photo. :-)

(Cut-out Sheets used: Olivia, Prize Rosettes, Kawaii Cupcake, Feathers)

Next up is an ADORABLE project by Marie! She created these little cupcake toppers in Photoshop and then printed them out... how seriously Circus-y cute?! I LOVE the colors in these photos...

(kit used: Woodgrain Frames digital kit)

Here is a super unique project by Martha... she used the frame design from the Thrift Store Chic Frames Deux kit to create a screenprint on this t-shirt. Love! She used the Yudu screenprinting machine and you can read more about how she created this in her review at Craft Critique!

(Washi Tape Frames kit)

Here's a totally fun idea that Kirsty came up with... here's what she did:

I found the blank rub-on sheets here - http://www.craftycomputerpaper.co.uk/products-Dry-rub-off-decal-paper_159.htm – and  they work in a similar way to faux tattoos. You print on to one sheet, smooth a second, sticky piece on top when it’s dry, and then use the finished pieces exactly like normal craft rub-ons. They obviously work on paper, too, but I had a couple of the wooden bracelets hanging around, and somehow wearable makes are much more fun!

Love this idea Kirsty!

(kit used: Thrift Store Chic Frames)

Now that we're done with our hybrid projects, here are some digital projects by our Creative Team members!

Here are two GORGEOUS pages by Anna... I truly wish i could wallpaper my house with Anna's images... always so colorful and yummy to the eye!

(kits used: Washi Tape Frames, Feathers, Olivia)

Another page by Anna...

(kits used: Olivia Digital kit, Thrift Store Chic Frames Deux, Woodgrain Frames kit, Vintage Buttons kit)

A SUPER*CUTE card that Karli made... i just love her retro style!

(kits used: Kawaii Cute Soft Serve, Prize Ribbons, Yarn Flowers, Washi Tape Frames)

and last, a gorgeous page by Stina...

(kits used: woodgrain frames, washi tape frames, matilda kit)

thanks girls for this beautiful artwork!