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 Have you been trying something new while we have been isolated?  I have had a huge change in my creativity.  Teaching art and Powertex workshops is just not happening at the moment, due to all the restrictions and I needed something else to get my creative juices flowing.  

I also had a major overhaul of websites, realising I was just keeping them on 'because', and they were serving no purpose at all.  I had to revamp the www.docreative.co.uk website as  this remains our primary source of training bookings and shop sales.  But my Scrapdragon website has now been discontinued as I realised I still had this free blog  with all the history attached.  This will now do for my ramblings and any freebies I want to share with people.

So finally to the purpose of this first post in a long time.  While I was updating the websites, I rediscovered digital art and digital scrapbooking. Anyone who has ever read any of my diatribe and ramblings will know I was an avid scrapbooker previously.  I  also realised I can do digital scrapbooking anywhere, without the need for all my paper stash, glues, washi tape and embellishments.  Everything I needed was on my laptop.

Ahh, after about a week I soon realised that all the photos and digital scrapbooking elements I had unzipped from storage, was now clogging up my processing power.  I had previously had a large unwieldy hard drive.  (sadly dropped, broke and everything lost on it!)  I wanted a new solid state drive which was easily transportable and had a massive storage solution. I found a one Terra-byte Netec Z slim on Amazon and it is amazing.  No more watching the little egg timer waiting for files to load or transfer, this was red hot super speed. 

Combining my colleagues love of making mini albums and books, I designed a series of 12 A4 sized printable scrapbook or background papers, based loosely on a vintage garden theme.  These I have offered with a free bonus pack of another 10 vintage floral pages which can be downloaded, printed and used again and again on your cards and mini books.

Pop over to the website and have a look.  I will be adding more in the future

Tootles

Kim


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