Digital Elements for Sale - and a FREEBIE

Just $1.49

Get them Here at my online store!

As mentioned in this recent post, I have been working on creating my first set of digital elements for sale, and they're done! In that same post is a freebie - the airplane from this set - so if you haven't already and would like to download the freebie first, see if you like it before you purchase the set, click here.

Boy, was there a learning curve in figuring out how to "package" my elements, zip them up for quick download, upload to the file sharing site, 4shared.com, and finally, learn how to add a "Pay Now" button allowing someone (like you, hopefully!) to actually go through the purchase process.

Whew!

I THINK I have the Buy Now button set up correctly. If you have ANY trouble using it please shoot me off an email at deborah@webajeb.com so that I can find the problem and fix it, as well as give you an alternate way to pay and then receive your download link (so you don't have to wait while the hair-tearing-fixing is going on).

Isn't technology wonderful???

UPDATE: 01/07/09 - The Buy Now button is working - yay! When you click on it you will be presented with a Paypal screen. At this point you can either login to Paypal (if you have an account) OR you can pay with a credit card without a Paypal account. Read the screen carefully and then make your choice as to how you want to proceed. Once your payment has been accepted you will be taken to the download screen. If you have ANY trouble, just email me at deborah@webajeb.com. Enjoy!

Yet another update: 08/10/09! I'm no longer using the Buy Now buttons; please go to my online store to purchase my designs and products. Thx so much for your support!

Webajeb Word of the Year 2009

(click on the banner to visit Tip Junkie)

Usually I would reserve a topic like New Year's resolutions for my personal blog, but I've come across something along the lines of a resolution that I think also relates to my small business.

At Tip Junkie's blog, this week's "Talk To Me Tuesday" post is about something similar to New Year's resolutions but, I think, powerfully different.

The idea is to choose a single word that represents, or sums up, what you want for yourself for 2009. I participated in the exercise on a personal level, which you can read about here, but I decided to also choose a word to use as a reminder of what I want for my small business in 2009.

Of course, some of the first words to come to mind are Craft, Create, or Imagine, but no one of those words really covers all I hope for with regard to my designs, my services, or my products. Those words float around in my head all the time anyway. Finally, I realized that what I really long to do, and what I believe will be the most productive thing I could do this coming year for the growth of my business, is:

STRETCH

So that's my Word of the Year for Webajeb Digital Photo Albums & Portfolios.

I hope you'll pop over to the Tip Junkie and join in the Word of the Year exercise. Not only will it get you thinking, and get you motivated to figure out a distinct direction that you'd like your life to take, but there's a giveaway, too!! A gorgeous custom-designed pendant inscribed with your chosen word courtesy of Tabetha of Reminisce Heirlooms. It will be given away to randomly chosen participant, so get over there!

A Digital Freebie from Webajeb

Click on the airplane to download!

I've finally had a little time to play around with new techniques and create some fun, new stuff to use on my digital scrapbook layouts. Some time back, via Scott Kelby's book "Photoshop 7 Down & Dirty Tricks," I learned how to turn solid black shapes, like an airplane, into cool metallic digital elements. For the past couple of days I've been having a great time applying the technique to a fun variety of shapes.

One of my plans for 2009 has been to package up some of my own custom-designed papers, elements, alphas, etc., and offer them for sale or as freebies to the digital scrapbook community. My first set of elements offered is going to be a set of metallic shapes. I hope to get the set completed and available for sale in the next few days.

Meanwhile, enjoy the freebie. Be sure to leave me a comment and let me know what you think of it!

Baby Girl Digital Scrapbook

This is the title page of a digital baby girl scrapbook that I created for a client to give to her husband for Christmas. Click on the layout to see the rest of the book (minus a couple of pages that I felt were a tad too personal to display via the Internet). I hope you'll take a moment to see the rest of the album.

I was really happy with the way the book turned out. My client reported that her husband "loved his book; tears were flowing!" Just what a digital scrapbooker-for-hire wants to hear!

Happy Birthday Digital Layout - for my Dad

Today is my Dad's birthday. Happy Birthday, Dad!!

My dad loves cars, especially VW bugs (in all their many variations), dune buggies for off-road racing, and (of course, he's a guy) fast sports cars. He has owned many cars over the years so for his birthday I decided to make a collage of photos of just some of those cars.

The top left photo is from the 50's and shows my dad holding a jackrabbit that he'd shot while out hunting with a friend. In the background is his VW bug which, if the photo were in color, you see is dark green with with red tires. How awesome is that?? The top right photo is an iStockphoto of a "new" beetle, red, exactly like one he owned some 7 or 8 years ago.

In the middle is a photo of an apple green de Tomaso Mangusta sports car. Although this is a photo I found on the internet (I didn't have one of my dad's own car handy), this is exactly like the car he owned in the 70's. I remember it well. In fact, for all I know, this may be the actual car my dad owned that's now owned by someone else. In my Internet research I found that only 200 Mangusta cars are still out there, and how many could there be that color?

Third row: on the left is a red Classic VW that currently sits in my dad's garage. It's a 1968, and is in close to original condition, including the skinny steering wheel with the horn in the center, and those funny little wing windows that you crank open with a little lever. My dad just this year acquired it from "a little old lady" who only wanted him to give her what she'd originally paid for it in 1968.

The other photo is also from the 70's. My dad was big into off-road racing in those days, along with my brother, Steve, (that's the two of them in the photo). The dune buggies were built on VW chassis, had roll-bars added, and were pushed full-throttle over dirt roads pocked with holes and rocks. A very bumpy ride that required the wearing of kidney belts and left the riders covered in mud, dirt, sweat, and grins. My dad and brother were a tough bandido in those days.

Bottom row, on the right-hand side is my Dad's bright orange VW with flames painted on the side and a souped-up and satisfyingly noisy engine. I got to drive this car for awhile during my first year in college (in the 70's) and enjoyed the attention I got wherever I went.

Finally, bottom left-hand is my dad posing in front of the Brubaker Box, aka the Automecca Sports Van, a vehicle originally dreamed up by a guy named Curt Brubaker, and then taken in hand by my dad who worked to manufacture and sell them either fully built or as a kit. You can read more about it here. And if you scroll down to the photo of the "Volkswagen Greats" magazine article entitled "The Automecca Sports Van . . . or the Brubaker is Back?" you'll see a photo of my dad, Mike Hansen, just to the right of the title.

I guess you could say my dad's had a few cool cars in his day . . . !