Hand-drawn Digital Scrapbooking Kits and Clip Art
A selection of hybrid projects created using digital scrapbooking supplies. Ideas for using your digital stash to make craft projects, personalised gifts, home decor and more!
My pal Sara created these super cute Easter bag toppers that I am excited to share with you today! I love bag toppers because they are so simple to make up (just print, cut out and fold over a bag of your favourite treats) and you can personalise them to make extra special little gifts! They’re also perfect for quickly making lots of party favours or class gifts. Sara created two different toppers, one for sharing a treat with your favourite ‘peeps’ and one to give delicious bunny tails snacks!
A little while ago I came across the most amazing hybrid pop-up box cards (created with my doodles!) and I’m SO excited to be able to share them with you today! I’m always a little bit in awe of papercrafters and the amazing creations they make, especially as my own scissor skills are very limited! These cards were created by a lovely lady named Anne who got in touch with me recently to chat cardmaking and doodles.
I’ve shared a few creative planners here on the blog before, today I’m excited to be sharing my own planner with you! I have been using a modified bullet journal system for my day-to-day and business planning for a few years now (you can see more about the original bullet journal system here) but I’ve been intrigued by the amazing, artistic planners I’ve seen on Instagram and in the digiscrap galleries for a long time now. So, when I saw that my pal Michelle from Quirky Heart was hosting a creative planning class earlier this year I jumped in and signed up straight away!
Michelle’s course was very inspiring for me and helped me formulate how best to use my planners for productivity AND creativity! I am still using my everyday bullet journal for my everyday business, personal planning and task lists (that journal is made up of lists and notes in plain ballpoint pen, no creativity or decorating in sight!) but I’ve also started another journal that I am treating as part sketchbook and part memory keeping project.
I’m recording events and details of everyday life that I want to remember in that new journal, and I’m decorating it and drawing in it too. And I have to say, I’m really enjoying the combination of creative expression and memory keeping!
I’ve been making both weekly and monthly spreads, with the odd extra memory-keeping or tracker type page included here and there. I’m sure my journals will change and evolve as I continue to use them over time, it’s exciting to see where all this will take me! Here are some pages from my new bullet journal / creative planner:
A little while ago I came across an amazing hybrid project on YouTube that took my breath away and I’m so excited to share it with you today! I have a bit of a soft spot for hybrid projects created with my doodles, it makes me happy to know that what started as a sketchbook drawing (and then became a digital image) becomes un-digitised again by someone half way around the world printing it onto paper! I love the idea of the drawings coming full circle and back to their papery roots!
This October Daily notebook and 3-D Halloween card were created by the super-talented Núria from Scrapbook Mania, if you’re a fan of hybrid crafting you’ll want to check out her inspirational YouTube channel for tutorials on how to make these projects and many more!
Núria put together this wonderful journal to record all her October memories! It’s a simple stapled book, but Núria printed patterns and doodles onto the pages to make a unique, personalised journal. She even printed some of my Spooky Overlays onto vellum paper to create decorative transparent pages! Other printed pages were embellished with doodles and Núria also printed some extra illustrations to decorate her journal throughout the month, all stored in a handy little pocket in the back page. This is such a fun project, I love it!
Coffee and donuts – yum! I created this kawaii style doodle in my sketchbook a while ago, and finally got round to scanning it in and creating a colouring page from it. The original drawing was inspired by an Instagram drawing challenge with a coffee theme, but I couldn’t resist sneaking in some cute little donuts too!
Here’s how I coloured the new colouring sheet using some Promarkers and Derwent coloured pencils:
The colouring page is sized at 7×9 inches (the size of the sketchbook I drew the original doodle in!) and so will fit nicely on an A4 or letter sized sheet of paper with some space around to add extra doodles to, or to create your own background design. [Read more…]
