New Year freebie!!

No, no, I haven't gone insane. I know it's January 31st, but today is the Chinese New Year. And this year is the year of the horse, which is my Chinese zodiac sign, so I was inspired to use my old freebie kit to make a small freebie for you.

Download here or click on the image

I got super lazy, though, and didn't package it... The kit I used is the one I made years ago called Chinese Zodiac and you can still find all the pieces on the blog (http://poppylium.blogspot.ca/search/label/chinese%20zodiac%20%28kit%29).

It looked like this:

Well, there you go, Happy Year of the Horse to everyone :D

Festive alpha

The alpha I made for Chinese Zodiac is bright and quite festive, take a look:

Like it?

I know that sometimes we don't want to use the alpha, or at least not for everything, so I thought I'd share with the you the font I used so you can do some journalling, write dates, etc., with a font that matches the kit perfectly. It's from Harold's fonts and it's called Chow Fun.

Now here's your link to download the alpha:

Chinese Zodiac alpha

Enjoy!

Chinese Zodiac elements

I'm glad you are enjoying the kit! I had fun making it.

Before I give you the elements, here's a little layout I made with it:

So, you know the whole kit looks like this:

But here's a more detailed view of the 12 lanterns, one for each of the 12 signs with the corresponding Chinese character, and the 12 animal elements, again one for each of the 12 signs.

You also get a simple lantern, and an empty one that you can use as a frame (and the weird grey papery thing fits in the lantern so you can give texture to your photo if you want).

And 2010 is the year of the tiger, so I made a little wordart for that, but I also included a blank one so you can make for any year. Like I said, I had fun...

So enough blabal, here's the link so you can get the elements:

Chinese Zodiac elements

Leave some love and come back tomorrow for the alpha!

Back with a freebie!

I can't believe how long it's been since I blogged. I've been a bad blogger!

I've considered showing you some of my layouts recently, but I figured I'd be better off getting a fresh start with a freebie!

Considering the date, a lot of new kits are coming out with Valentine's day themed kits. That's how I started last year with an alpha! I can't believe it's been a year!

Instead of going with that theme, I was inspired by something else happening on February 14th this year: the Chinese New Year. My new kit is called Chinese Zodiac and it has the feel of a Chinese New Year celebration and everything you need to scrap your chinese zodiac sign.

I really hope you like it, I'm pretty happy with it...

So here's a look at the whole kit:

As usual, we'll start with the papers, and they look like this:

You'll notice the 12 little ones on the preview. The kit includes one paper with the Chinese character for each of the 12 signs (and they are labelled clearly in case, like me, you don't read Chinese, lol).

So here are the 3 links to download on 4shared:

Chinese Zodiac papers 1

Chinese Zodiac papers 2

Chinese Zodiac papers 3

Please let me know if you like it with a little love (here preferably, or on 4shared). And don't forget to upload your pages done with the kit or any other kit of mine (my guestbook is a little sad...).

A little disclaimer before I let you go. I am not of Chinese descent, nor do I really know the culture so well. I did a lot of research for the colours and the characters, etc. and I hope I got it right. But if anyone around is Chinese and notices mistakes, please let me know so I can try to correct them, and know that I mean no disrespect.

See you tomorrow with the elements!