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SHOP | Digital Christmas Glitter Elements + A Video Tutorial

More sparkle in the shop!  You'll have a ball designing your holiday projects with this set of Christmas Glitter Elements.

Your purchase includes two PNG sheets with festive designs. One file includes designs with color and shadow added (that example is above) and the second file is a silver set that you can easily customize however you like in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. Drag the designs right onto your images or design projects! Purchase yours here.

Some ideas for use:

• Use in digital scrapbooking. Perfect for December Daily and Project Life albums!
• Add to your photos or graphic design projects like holiday invitations and Christmas cards.
• Create your own journaling cards, note cards or gift tags.
• Create design elements for your personal blog or website. (Tip: The glitter effect works best if you work in a 300 dpi resolution artboard and reduce to 72 when you're done with your design.)

I made a video tutorial to show you how easy it is to work with these elements in Photoshop Elements. (This is a similar proccess for Photoshop users, you can check those instructions here.)

Click to expand and watch in HD. You can also watch this video on Vimeo here.

I've got more Christmas digital goodness! Check out this set of 18 printable 3x4 cards. 

SHOP | Christmas Glitter 3x4 Printable Cards

There's more glitter in my shop! Big shocker. I should probably rename it something like Glitter N' Such. 

The holiday season just screams sparkle, so I've designed this assortment of 18 different 3x4 Christmas Glitter Cards for your festive holiday projects. Perfect for December Daily and Project Life scrapbooking albums, but great to use as gift tags too!

There are cards designed to stand alone, cards for journaling and cards with frames ideal for adding images. Print as many as you need! Purchase your cards here.

Also, be sure to check out my new Digital Christmas Glitter Elements as well. A post about them coming later this week with a tutorial. 

SCRAPBOOKING | New York, New York

I went on a whirlwind trip to New York this weekend! My pal Caroline and I headed north and packed as much city as we could into a 24-hour period. We didn't luck out in the rain (and tornado) department, so we laid low eating yummy food, getting manicures, and hitting The Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Heaven for two designers and former art majors.)

The big reason for our our excursion was to see Madonna at Yankee Stadium. Yankee Stadium in The Bronx. Where we got stranded. Yep. The subway broke down and we were left in the rain, cabs scarce, no idea where we were, standing out like sore thumbs while locals yelled, "What are you doing here?!" (Sir, I really don't know.) After a failed attempt at taking a bus, (no transit card or change and more strangers yelling at us) a random car started honking at us. Guess what? We got in it! He said he was a cab driver and in an act of desperation, going against all safety instincts, we threw our hands up. I texted Jim to let him know what we were up to in case the CSI crew had to retrace our steps. Luckily, we made it to the show in one piece. It was Adventures in Babysitting—with Moms.

Madonna didn't hit the stage until 10:30, which worked out just fine for us. The show was fab and I always leave empowered. She's 54, tearing it up like she's 24! Jim bought the tickets for my birthday and he scored great seats that also happened to be out of the driving rain. When we sat down, Caroline said, "He really loves you." 

This is actually a scrapbooking post! I rounded up my iPhone photos from the weekend and pulled together a page using my 8.5x11 Instagram Grid. So simple! I tweaked the color and text boxes and was good to go. I'll insert this into this week's Project Life album with the story of the trip and some patterned paper on the back side of the layout.

P.S. I can't post this on September 11 without saying my heart is heavy thinking about that terrible, horrific day and the ripple effect it's had on so many lives. You can see the new World Trade Center building in the skyline photo above, a bittersweet sight.