Birdsong by Kristin Aagard

4 beautiful water color background papers, full alpha, upper and lowercase letters, numbers 0-9 and several symbols, 2 hand drawn and shaded birdies, epoxy brackets,hand drawn branch with leaves,wire bird cage, flower with and without stem in white and red, wooden circle frame, scalloped paper frame, glitter in green and blue, grass in 2 tones, acrylic hearts and heart swirl, wooden birdhouse with separate support pole, 3 acrylic music notes, wire music notes, curled polka dot ribbon in blue, orange and green, staple (with and without shadow), hand sewn page border stitch in 2 colors, string in assorted colors, paper tag

Kristin is in the Designer Spotlight and also providing this portion of the daily download.

You can find her store here.
You can find the daily download here. (look for the animated red button that says FREE).
You can view her gallery here.

Page Kits

Grab Bags

Element Packs and Commercial Use

Quick Pages and Brag Books

Freebies

Tell us about the person behind the designer.  Where do you live, married, children, what hobbies do you have, what is your favorite tv show.

I live in Sweden with my dear husband and children. My children Charline & Marcel are my inspirations.  I enjoy watching alots of TV shows, House, Grey Anatomi, Criminal Minds and more.. on my spare time I normally play with my kids or watching movies/tv shows

How long have you been in the graphics industry, and more specifically, how long have you been designing digital scrapbook products?

I started digiscrapping in 2005 several months after my son was born.

How did you stumble upon digital scrapbooking?

I was SAHM and I was talking to a good friend, Novita and we started digiscrapping together. I was on severals CT until I decided to join LDD Contest and become a designer that was a year ago.  I havent designed for so long yet and I am still learning everyday.

How would you describe your style?

My style … I guess my kits always been realistic style and I am gonna to stick with it!

What do you enjoy designing the most?

I love designing because it’s testing my creativies and I will always try to learn more so I can be a great designer.

Today’s Layout of the Day is brought to us by bj_ella and is titled Bridesmaids.
This layout was created using Pretty In Pink from Cherie Shields located here at Gotta Pixel.

Check out the rest of today’s featured digi scrapper’s gallery to see all of the incredible layouts she has created and get some inspiration for your own layouts!

The Font Fever Challenge is in today’s spotlight. Join hostess CindyB for July’s Font Fever Challenge featuring Pea Heather’s Doodle Phrases. Visit the forum here for more information and to get the link to download the free font.

Darlene aka scrappee has already jumped in and made this adorable layout titled Turtle Feast!. Visit the Font Fever Challenge gallery and leave her some love and get some inspiration for making your own layout.

Other challenges for July include Blueprints Challenge, By The Numbers Challenge, Scraplift Challenge, Blast From The Past Challenge, Rock Your Desktop Challenge, Grab Bag Challenge, Ad Inspirations Challenge, Blender Challenge and Hybrid Challenge.

New this month is My Hometown Challenge. Watch for more information on this fun new challenge for July.

How to get this daily download

Register in the store if you have not done so. The login for the store is separate from the Forum and the Newsletter. Daily downloads are activated at 8:30 AM Eastern Standard Time and are available for 24 hours.

1. Log into the store.
2. Find today’s daily download in Kristin Aagard Designs store (she is providing her part of the collaboration from July 1-16).  The daily download will have this icon under it.
3. Add the daily download to your cart and check out. The download will be instant.

Want the entire Daily Download kit immediately each month?

If you join the Pixel Club, you will receive the entire Daily Download kit on the first of the month in just a few files.  No waiting and download a file everyday.  Pixel Club Memberships are as low as $2.92 a month!  If you’re a Pixel Club Member, please go to the Previous Daily Downloads area to download June’s kit!

Connie Prince has a new kit in the store today called “Good Night Moon“! The kit is on sale this week for only $2!!

Good night moon is a celebration of nighttime things, whether it be bedtime or star gazing..the sky is truly the limit! Complete with a beautiful moon & shimmery stars to decorate the night sky. Cute little owls to perch upon a tree limb, brilliant glittery details, and beautiful colors that will make any of your night time layouts come to life!

Kit contains: 8 Patterned Papers, 5 Solid Papers, 2 Buttons, 2 Flowers, 1 Frame, 1 Glitter Doodle, 1 Nighttime House Scene, 1 Moon, 2 Owls, 2 Rubbins, 4 RikRak Ribbons, 2 Stars, 2 Glitter Star borders, 2 Strings, 1 Tree Limb, 7 Word Art Labels (Moon, Stars, Good Night, Sleep Tight, Bedtime, I Love You, Stories), 1 Blank Label, 1 Complete Alpha/Numeral Set with some punctuation.

Scrap for Hire, Scrap for Others OK

Here are some gorgeous layouts created using this kit!

Have a wonderful day!

Strolling through the Park by Kristin Aagard

Strolling Through the Park is a cute summery collaboration page kit between Kristin Aagard and Ziggle Designs.

Included:

14 gorgeous papers backgrounds, cloud alpha, letters a-z, cute, hand drawn bee, butterfly, dragonfly, bird and duck, soft fluffy clouds in a variety of fun shapes: 3 cloud shapes, train, elephant, castle, fish, heart, flower, star and boat, soft bubbles, lots of hand drawn flowers including 2 white daisies, dandelion and super cute blue and pink flowers (with and without leaves and stems), wired sunshine, wire heart and wind swirl, tree, tire swing, paper hills, white washed wooden picket fence, wooden park bench, balloons in 3 colors, lots of ribbons and bows including 2 ribbon ties, swirled ribbon, wrapped and tied ribbons, flat gingham strip, and ric rac, 3 hand stitch elements, striped swirl, button in 2 colors, frames included string frame, metal rimmed grass, scalloped paper frame, and triple circle acrylic frame, 2 paint splats, 3 glitter splats, paper tag, staple with and without shadow

Kristin is in the Designer Spotlight and also providing this portion of the daily download.

You can find her store here.
You can find the daily download here. (look for the animated red button that says FREE).
You can view her gallery here.

Gotta Pixel has a Daily Download program. Each month, our Designer Spotlight designers create a page kit for you which you can collect through-out the month. This kit is free, the only requirement is that you log in daily to download the day’s piece. This month Isabel Mendez and Kristin Aagard are providing the page kit!

Daily Downloads are available at 8:30 AM EST.  You have 24 hours to download the file after it’s activated.  After the 24 hours, it will be removed and the next day’s daily download will be made available.  If you miss a day, you do have the option of becoming a Pixel Club Member and getting the entire collaboration kit in just a few zip files.

Not only do you get the awesome Daily Download, you also get to save 30% of in both Isabel and Kristin’s stores throughout the month of July!!

Want to get the full kit now or did you miss the downloads from the first of the month?

Pixel Club Members will receive an additional bonus for being club members.   You will be able to pick it up in the Previous Daily Downloads area.  No more waiting all month to get the entire kit!