As a special little Christmas treat, I wanted to share something holly jolly with you, my wonderful readers.

Below you can download two free digital graphics for your scrapbooking, card making, or digiscraping. As .png files, each can be modified in size, color, shape and transparency in your photo editor (like Adobe Photoshop Elements).

Simply click on the links below to download these clean, one-of-a-kind designs. They will remain free to download through January, then will be added the new Scrappy Graphics section in my Etsy shop.

Here are some ideas on how to use the graphics…

As a photo overlay

As a journaling background (center the text, fitting each line accordingly).

As a photo mask - (and if you’d like to read why there are two slings in this picture, go here!)

As a dye cut (add embellishments, ink, distress, etc.)

Or use them together

I hope you enjoy these…and have a very merry Christmas!

You can download these files on my Digi Graphics page (coming soon).

Here’s the shore video tutorial…

There’s one thing you should know before you watch, and this is important (and of course I forgot to mention it in the video):

Though you have the ability to create corners in Photobucket, you can only save the final image as a .jpg. If you watched last week’s video, you’ll know that the only way to save the rounded corners with transparency is with the .png format. In the .jpg format, the corners will have a white background. Photobucket supports .png files, but you can not save your images in the .png format. So keep that in mind when you go to insert your photo on a background other than white! In this regard, that is one advantage that Photoshop Elements has over Photobucket.

On to the video…enjoy!

Check it out, m’kay?