February Update!

Hello everyone,

I'm really pleased to see my 'Walk On The Wild Side' kit is extremely popular and had over 300 downloads in just 2 days time. Thanks for that! This really keeps me motivated to make more goodies for you. 

I also wanted to let you know that my Retro Holly Jolly kit will be offline within a week, so if you haven't downloaded it yet, make sure you do before February 10th. 

Plus, I will be updating and adjusting a kit for Valentine's Day and it will be online on the 14th of course. It's a kit I made in 2017, so not really an old one, but I think I can adjust a few things here and there to make it a bit more contemporary and useful and more in the style I'm getting into these days. 
So, keep an eye out for that! 

I hope you'll all have a great Sunday and I hope to see you soon! 

xxMarjanxx

A Very Blue Monday

I hope your Blue Monday isn't too blue! 

This kit won't help, because it is blue all over, and I think it will be a while before I touch anything blue coloured when I'm working on a kit in Photoshop, because for now, I've had enough of the colour BLUE... lol! Luckily the kit I'm currently working on for the February Pixel Scrapper blogtrain has just one very dark blue in the colourscheme, so that's good. 😉

The last 2 parts of 'January Blues' are now ready for download. 

You can grab the elements here, with the link below the preview. As a little extra, I also have a part 5, with some cute journal cards and wordart and a quickpage I made ages ago, in 2400x2400 pixels, so not the normal size, but still I think it's lovely, with a beautiful poem about January on it. If you'd like to get this part as well, head over to my Facebook group , that's where I share the link to the downloadpage! 

I hope the rest of your January will be good, with many sunny winterdays! ⛄⛅🌞

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January Blues...

Goodmorning everyone, 

It's a beautiful cold and frosty (but also very sunny) sundaymorning over here and I can't wait to go on a walk later today. Winter is finally here, and although I don't really like cold weather, when it's like this, I wish every winterday would be like this.🌞

Tomorrow it's Blue Monday, I think you've heard of it. A day, apparently, when a lot of people feel down or depressed, at least that's what I read everywhere. It's mostly because of the feeling a lot of us have, after a month of celebrations, holidays and festivities, to come down from all of that and having the long month of a cold and grey January ahead of us. 

Personally, I don't feel like that on Blue Monday. I love December, but I always look forward to a fresh new year, full of new opportunities and chances. 

So I do like January as well, also mainly because my son will turn 8 by the end of the month. 😲

It only seems like yesterday when he was born, but.. well, time flies! 😵

Years ago (in 2010) I made one of my first fullsize minikits, and I called it January Blues. I had never heard of Blue Monday back then, but I guess I knew the feeling it referred to. The kit is in - of course - blue shades and has a lot of denim / jeans elements and papers in it, which I love. The kit needed some adjusting and updating, and I think it still is a pretty fun kit, with the adjustments I made. It contains 18 papers and about 50 elements. 

You can grab the first 3 parts today, and I will upload part 4 & 5 tomorrow, on Blue Monday. I just hope it won't be too Blue for You. 😉

I hope you like it, let me know how useful it is in the comments sections. 

Have a happy Sunday! 

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A little update

I'm really glad my Science Fiction kit is so popular! I was just looking at the downloads, it's been downloaded about 250 times in just 2 days time! 😲😮😁 

It did surprise me a little, because I thought it wasn't quite THAT spectacular, but it seems many of you really like it. 

So thank you for that! 

Every now and then I get questions from people (on here, on Facebook or on Deviantart) regarding older kits that I've taken down or that aren't available for download anymore, asking if they will be available again in the future. Mostly I just want kits to be available for a certain period of time, because I need the space in my storage accounts, but also because I want to be able to keep track of things and it's getting more complicated when I have so many kits 'up' for download. Sometimes there are issues with the download pages, or other technical problems, and I just don't have the time to keep up with all of those issues. I have a job to go to and of course a family life that I hold dear. 😉

But when I come across a question from one of you, asking for a specific kit that you'd like to download but it's not available on here anymore, I usually recommend to look on my Deviantart account first, or on my Facebook group. Sometimes I keep the downloads up on those pages for a little longer, just because I simply forgot to take them off, or because I posted the downloadlinks later on there than here on my blog. I just thought you should know this. If it's not available anywhere anymore, you can always send me an email, (marjan_sprankeling@hotmail.com) and I will see what I can do. It's not a guarantee that you'll get what you're asking for, but you can sure try! 😛😆

Then lastly, today I've started designing already for the new Pixel Scrapper blogtrain edition, called "Walk On The Wild Side". I love the colours for this theme and the theme itself, but it's also quite difficult to be original with this one. Most designers go with animal prints etc. and that was also what I was going for, but ah well, at least it will be a consistent blogtrain I guess. 

I'm also doing a renewal of an old kit this month, called January Blues. It's with lots of ...well blues, winter elements of course and with elements of jeans fabrics, which makes it a very fashionable and usable kit too. It won't be huge, but with about 15-20 papers and about 50 elements it'll be worth it I think. 

I hope January will be a great month for you all, have fun scrapping and I'll be back soon with the January Blues.💖😆

(The pictures below are just a few examples of the 2 kits mentioned above).

Merry Christmas everbody!

At last! 

Here are the two last additional parts of the Retro Holly Jolly kit. The plan was to upload them seperately, but I have no idea when I'll have the time the next few days, so I'm going to share them both at once, here on the blog.

I think this will be the last time I'll be posting before the holidays, so I really would like to take time to thank all of you who have been downloading my kits the last couple of months. It's been wonderful to do some digital designing again, and I'm sure I'm going to keep doing it, for sure when the busy festive days are over and I'll have some time to sit down and start designing a new kit. I already have some ideas and of course I'll be participating in the next Pixel Scrapper blogtrain, with the Science Fiction theme. I finished it a while ago, and I struggled a lot with this one! I'm pretty satisfied with how it turned out, but I think it's not my best work though, haha. I actually love Science Fiction, but somehow I found it very hard to translate it in some useful stuff for a scrapbooking kit. 

A little reminder for you as well; both Free Spirit kits will be taken down next weekend, so you better be fast if you still like to download it. 

For now, I'm wishing everyone a very merry Christmas. I hope you can all relax for a while and enjoy the festive days, like we're going to do (hopefully).   

I'll be back on one of the last days of this year for the blogtrain post, so be sure to check in then. 😉

Season's Greetings! 

🎇🎄🎅🎄🎇

Marjan

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Christmas around the corner

Goodmorning everyone! 

It's been a week since I posted the first extra part from Retro Holly Jolly. It's been such a busy week, the hectic days before Christmas I guess, that I haven't had the time to  post more. But I always keep my promise, so here I am with another part for you.  I will be posting this on my Facebook Group, so you better be heading there if you'd like to grab it.  Maybe I'll be posting it here on the blog after Christmas, but for now it will just be on there. 

This part contains 54 more elements, and they combine with the original blog train part beautifully. 

Just click below the preview to go to the Facebook Group and click the link on there to download this part. 
Have fun with it and look out for 2 more parts this week! 

- x - 

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Retro Holly Jolly Extra

Hello! 

First I want to say THANK YOU for downloading my Retro Holly Jolly kit so many times! It's great to know you like this all so much. I'm liking it too and already started some layouts using it, maybe I'll post them later this month, maybe even a Quickpage for a freebie, who knows? 

Anyway, here's the first of 4 extra parts of the Retro Holly Jolly kit. It contains 10 papers that didn't make it into the blogtrain. 

The next parts will be a pack with 54 elements and 2 more paperpacks. They will be up in the 2 weeks leading up to Christmas, and I will post them on my Facebook group, Deviantart or on here. 
I will keep you posted here on the blog, so you can keep an eye out for them. 

I hope these papers will be of use to you, they're perfect for combining with the Christmas kit, but most papers can also be used for other types of layouts. 

Happy scrapping! 

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Hello December!

And yes, December's here. Great times ahead with the holidays, and of course for digiscrapping. 

The second blogtrain I joined on Pixel Scrapper is a good old-fashioned Christmas kit. The colours are beautiful, muted and pastel. 

I loved this theme so much, although I had a hard time getting into the Holly Jolly mood, but that was only because it still was October when I started designing it and the weather was way too sunny and too warm to think of winter and Christmas. 

I think the kit turned out really cute, I love the penguin I drew, and although I don't think there are a lot of 'retro' items in this kit, it is still very useful for your Christmas photos. 

The other thing I found somewhat difficult, was to stop designing. 😂 The kit has become way too big to join the blogtrain, so I had to split it up in different parts. The first parts are for the Pixel Scrapper blogtrain, the other parts will be available on my blog and Facebook group during the month of December. If you don't want to miss out, just check my blog regularly and I will let you know when and where to get it. 

For now, here is my contribution for the Pixel Scrapper Blogtrain, I hope you like it and that you can make beautiful Christmas layouts with it. 

You can find the rest of the blogtrain here on the Pixel Scrapper Forums. 

Happy Holidays everyone! 

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Are you in the mood for Christmas yet?

Retro Holly Jolly spoiler 😉 

Oh my, it's almost December. This year went by so fast, I can hardly get my head around it that Christmas is around the corner, yet again.  

Today I have a little spoiler for you, a preview of my kit Retro Holly Jolly. 

It contains the Pixel Scrapper blogtrain contribution and the extended versions for my blog and Facebook group, which makes it a very large Christmas kit. 

The first parts will be available on December 1st, and during December I will upload the other parts, so stay tuned for that! 

Also stay tuned for the other part of the Free Spirit kit, which will be released this week too. 

SPOILER:👀❤✌

Touch of Frost

Although it's still October, and the weather is still gorgeous with lots of sunshine, I can feel it getting colder at night and in the morning when I'm off to work on my bike. 

It's just waiting for the frosty nights now. I'm not too big of a fan of winter, I really don't like the cold, but the last months of the year are not that bad, so many festive days and cozy days inside. 

So I thought this kit would be very appropriate for  the coming months. It's not a Christmas kit (I'm currently working on one and it's been a  struggle to get into the Christmas feel, lol), just a winter themed kit with lovely cool colours and I love how it turned out in the end. Originally it was a kit from 2009, but I upgraded it and made a whole bunch of new elements and papers. I'm particularly proud of the little polar bear I drew, it's so adorable. 

It's a large kit and all free for you to grab. The links will be up until December, so be sure to download it before then. And please leave a message, I love to read what you think of it and how you used it. 

Happy scrappin' 

Marjan xx

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New freebies coming soon!

Hello all,

And another few weeks have passed.. pffeww. Where does the time go? I've been doing a lot of designing lately, and I'm also still in the middle of 'Inktober', an online challenge to draw only with ink, every day of the month. I've already skipped a few days because I couldn't find the time to just sit for a moment and draw, but hey, I'm good with it. I love drawing and painting and find I'm not doing it enough, so Inktober is a good way to get back in the swing of things, as far as drawing goes. 

But.. I've also worked on 2 kits for the coming month of November. One will be released later this week, it's called Touch of Frost and the other one (Family Tradition) will be online on November 1st. Family Tradition is a Pixel Scrapper blogtrain contribution, the first one I ever did. Touch of Frost is another upgraded kit, originally from 2009. Although, upgraded... almost every bit got renewed or was designed from scratch, so actually it's a new kit over all. ;-)

As a spoiler, I'm showing you a preview of Touch of Frost. I hope you will like it and enjoy using it. In a few days the downloadlinks will be available! 

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