Freebie list

Don't forget to pop over to my freebie list blog here. There are 74 more freebies listed today! We have been busy little vegemites! ;-)

Pale Tartan

I'm now into the Pale Tartan part of my Highland Dreaming kit. Like the dark set, there is a major tartan and then matching plain, grunge and simpler tartan papers in paler shades of blue red and green. Today I have the major tartan for this set in plain and grunged (shown in detail):

Download Pale Tartan Paper here.

Don't forget to check out my new automated digital scrapbooking freebie list blog. It is created by a computer ptogram that checks all the blogs of digifree sites to see if they have been updated since the last check. I wrote this because of the unbelievable rate at which people are putting up freebies. There were 210 freebies found in posts (on Blogger) for the last 4 days! But remember - this is a computer program - it's not 100% accurate. Note also that I will not, in any shape or form, try to extract freebie links from blogs. Like me, designers want you to read their blogs not just get their freebies. It's more about getting to know the designer and their work than simply getting lots of goodies. Anyway, I hope you find it useful.

Another Freebie List

I just discovered another digiscrap freebie list on Silvia's blog!

Tracking Comments on Blogger

Thank you so much for all the wonderful comments I've been receiving lately. I'm overwhelmed by the enthusiasm!

I was finding it hard to keep track of my comments and yesterday I discovered a nifty tool for bloggers which isn't all that widely published. You create a "feed" on your blog and use the URL:
http://MYBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default
replacing MYBLOGNAME with your blog name. You can select whether to include the name of the poster and the date. unfortunately you can only list up to 5 of the most recent comments but it's very handy!

Fonts and The Font Thing

Mindy posted a link to lots of free fonts on her blog which are really nice.

I use The Font Thing to organise my fonts. It is by Sue Fisher (a fellow Aussie!) and it's brilliant because you can categorise your fonts (into "Collections"). For example, I have "favorite", "script", "handwriting", "kids" (for the funkier/kiddy ones), "picture" (for picture fonts), "typed" etc. If you find it hard to keep track of your fonts it's a must-have. The other great aspect is that you can type your text in the top and see exactly what it will look like for all your fonts.

Sue has lots of info on TFT on her website including screen shots. She also has links to other font resources including font archives and other software. Very handy.

There is a tutorial for TFT at DSP but they don't go into using the collections which I think is the best part.

Be aware though that if you have hundreds of fonts it can take a loooong time to generate the text in all the variations. This is another good reason to use collections because you are only looking at a subset of your fonts at any one time.

(Alternative download for The Font Thing)