Hi all!

I have a number of half-finished, even some all-the-way-finished(!), templates in my "work queue," so I've been working on getting some of them out the door and into your capable hands. 

Today's FREE template is a fun one that I created based on a layout I made for my son's wedding album.  It INCLUDES two Bonus Items: the "Meant to be with You" word art, AND the "love you" photo mask.  And, in case you want to change the "love you" part of the photo mask to something else, I've also included the mask as two separate layers; the rectangle shape, and the text.

Here's the layout that inspired the template:
Download Webajeb-Template-039 from 4shared in .PSD format here, or in .TIF format here.  (Take a look at other Webajeb templates at my online store!)

Enjoy my templates, and please share the layouts you make!

I liked this layout so much that I decided use it as the basis for today's free digital page layout template. AND I'm including the "speed limit" traffic sign that I created, complete with scratches, and mud splatters.

The traffic sign is in .PNG format, 4x4 in size, and 300 dpi.And now a little about the template.

This is the first Webajeb template in a new and improved format inspired by Jessica Sprague. Last week while reading Jessica's blog I came across this posting. Jessica had come up with a new idea to make her templates even easier to use. What she has begun doing is adding a plus sign (+) in front of the layer name for any layer in the .PSD file that is clippable.

Digital scrapbookers know that by "clippable" I mean the technique of clipping a piece of digital paper or a photo to the layer below it, causing it to take on the shape of that layer. Super handy & fast when using templates and dragging in your own papers and photos.

(If you are not familiar with clipping, or using digital templates, Jessica has put together an excellent video tutorial which you can view here.)

The plus signs on the layer names make it easy to quickly differentiate clippable layers from layers that contain text, embellishments, or other non-clippable layers.

In her blog post Jessica wrote, "I actually hope this trend catches on among template designers, and everyone starts offering a + before clippable layers."

I am happily taking her up on that suggestion because I think it's a great idea!

I hope you enjoy my newest template (and the traffic sign embellishment bundled with it). Please share how you use them and I'll feature you on my blog!

At the request of some of my blog and newsletter readers, here is a list of links for January's freebies, and for my products for sale from the same timeframe.

For freebies, just click on the image to be taken to the download page for that product! For items that are for sale, click on the link below it to be taken to the post where you can "Buy Now."

I'm listing the For Sale items first ('cuz I'm hoping that as you scroll down past them one or more will catch your eye and you'll just HAVE to have it!), then the Freebies, in reverse order(more or less!) from the original postings.

I hope you see something you like!

(Added 02/05/09 11:29 PST) NOTE!!! My offering Obama-related digital papers and elements is NOT an expression of my political views. These have been created in response to customer requests in light of recent events in our country and MAY, or may NOT, reflect my own personal views. Please! No political commentary in the comments section! Especially derogatory ones! It's bad karma.

FOR SALE by Webajeb

Digital Alpha - Patriotic

FREEBIES by Webajeb

Digi element: airplane

Word Art: Obama

Digi Template: Clean & Classy

Digi tag/word art: Bath Time

Finally, the following template was offered FREE to my subscribers in the Webajeb January Newsletter. It is also available FREE to anyone who signs up for my newsletter. To sign up click here (link has expired, but you can still get the tag here for only .99) and scroll to the bottom of my homepage. (Your information is always kept confidential.)

BONUS! When you sign up you will not only receive the 2008 Year in Review template:

...but the Any-Year Baby's First Year template, too!

As always, leave me a comment, call me toll-free anytime (866) 521-DIGI (3444) or e-mail me. I love to hear from you!

I had hoped to create another new freebie today but too many other things got in the way and I didn't get it done. Tomorrow I leave for a 4-day scrapbooking get-away where I will have intermittent internet access (if that) so I decided that, instead of making you wait 4 days for another freebie, I'd bring back 2007's most popular template freebie.

It's called Clean & Classy:


The inspiration for this layout came from an issue of Martha Stewart Living. I love that magazine for the way the pages are laid out, even the ads are gorgeous.

Here is the layout with photos added:

This was a sample layout to show how a wedding photographer might use a digital layout as a way to promote their business, or as a title page in their portfolio.

I'd love to see what you do with my template, and any of my other products. Send me your layouts and I'll feature them on my blog!

And, as always, if you'd like me to use this template and create a digital scrapbook layout for you, just let me know. Call me toll-free anytime at (866) 521-DIGI (3444), or email me!

If I use any of my templates when I create your layouts, the cost is less than half the price of a fully custom-designed digital layout - just $9.99!

Click here to see lots more template by Webajeb.

I've offered a number of freebies this month; to see them, browse back to earlier posts for January of 2009. Also, the Webajeb Newsletter for February will go out next Wednesday, and it always includes a freebie, a special coupon, and lots of fun info, so if you are not already on my email list, be sure to sign up here (scroll to bottom of page).

Have a great weekend!

Here's my own Year in Review for 2008. This page went together very quickly because I used the Webajeb-Year-in-Review-2008 page template. There are 12 squares around the perimeter, one for each month of the year, and then a larger square in the middle for a photo representative of the entire year.

The title "Year in Review" and the year "2008" are actually cut out of the larger square, so the background paper shows through. There's a thin black stroke and a drop shadow on all the squares. The names of the months are in white type on each of the 12 outer squares and, since the text is on separate layers in the template, can be easily moved around as needed.

Here is the template without photos:

This is the monthly freebie for my newsletter subscribers. If you are a newsletter subscriber you can either send me 13 photos and I'll create your 2008 Year in Review digital layout file and email it to you, OR (NEW in 2009!) you can download the layered template FREE via the link provided in the newsletter and create the layout yourself!!

Not a newsletter subscriber?? No problem! Just go to my website, scroll to the bottom of the homepage, and sign up! Your info is kept completely confidential, and you can easily unsubscribe anytime.

Once you have signed up you will receive the current month's newsletter (within a day or so) and be eligible for any freebies and specials offered that month. From then on, unless you unsubscribe, you will receive a newsletter once per month (usually on the first Wednesday of the month) with news, info, freebies, and coupons.

What are you waiting for? Come on over to Webajeb!

A quick layout I made this evening (thanks to Club Scrap for the stitches!), just to try out my new split photo frame. I saw a photo frame like this created by a digital designer, and I even purchased & downloaded it, but then when I read the TOU I found it was for personal use only and absolutely no commercial use was allowed. This is a never-ending frustration for me!

Better late than never! Here are the freebies for February. Get them here by clicking on the picture, or get them at my website: www.webajeb.com/freebies.html.

"Hearts" template; download this template, pop it into your Photoshop program and make whatever changes you like to color, size, title, etc. Add two photos of someone special and you're done!
February calendar page freebie; a bit late, but if you like it download it anyway -- you've still got a couple weeks (plus an extra day this year for Leap Year!) to enjoy it.

Check back often!! More freebies for March will appear soon! Happy scrapping!

Ok, so I didn't fool ANYONE with yesterday's posted photos -- everyone easily found me in the second photo, in the back row, right in front of the Christmas tree!





Here is the January 2008 calendar page! My thanks to Claudi Designs for permission to use the yummy background paper. This file now available for download at the Webajeb website. Just click on the Freebies link at the top of the home page. Simply follow the instructions to download the digital file, print it out, and add your own photo. Easy!

This is the January template freebie. The background paper is from the MS Digital Image Suite. This file is also available now at our website under the Freebies link. Once you have downloaded the file you will be able to open it in any photo editing or digital scrapbooking software that can handle the PSD file format. Then you're free to add your own photos, title, and journaling.

And while you're visiting our website. . . . be sure to sign up for our free monthly newsletter!

My friend Susan sent me this page layout that she created using December's free template. Sue simply recolored the background paper to match her photos, popped her photos in, added her own title, journaling and date, and Done! It looks great!

I'd love to see your work, too! If you use one of my freebies and would like to share, please email it to me (web-sized files, please). I'll post it in my blog and perhaps on my website, too, with your permission. Scrapbookers love to see other people's layouts -- it provides inspiration for their own!

I'm really liking the clean, graphic-looking, style that I've been using lately. The first thing that draws the viewer's attention are the photos, and that's the effect I'm always looking for. I converted one of the snaps I took of the San Luis Obispo shoreline into a panaramic-view for the bottom photo, centered the gorgeous sunset above it, and then layered three smaller photos as a group partly over it. I like it!

In fact, I like this layout so much I'm thinking of using it as the basis for my next template freebie - for January. So you may see it again!

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Here's a fun new technique I learned. You take a photograph, turn it into a line drawing, then merge it with the original photograph so that there's a transition from the line drawing (bottom of the photo) to the photo itself. Interesting effect, don't you think? I learned the technique from Scott Kelby's book, "Photoshop 7 Down & Dirty Tricks," which I have literally read from cover-to-cover. (And even though I now have PhotoShop CS3, the tutorials in this book are still easy to follow and applicable because very little has changed with regard to menus).

That's my nephew, Adam, in the photo, taken last June. If you have downloaded any of the Webajeb Freebies in the past few months you've doubtless seen him before. I use photos of him alot because I happen to think he's one of the most photogenic kids in the world! Always willing to pose, too!

Now for the December Webajeb Freebies. Here is the calendar page for December:
And here is the template:

Guess I had a bit of the blues when I was creating those! To see these same freebies with a photos please visit my website http://www.webajeb.com/ and click on the Freebies link at the top of the home page.

I hope to get the Webajeb December newsletter out soon. Meanwhile, if you have any questions or comments, please email me at deborah@webajeb.com. I alway enjoy hearing from you!

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I'm a little slow these days getting everything done. My newsletter for October isn't even written yet, let alone sent out! But I did get the new calendar page done, and the template freebie, so be sure to visit my website to download them. I created the calendar page while I was visiting my mom in Simi Valley, CA., and then I just made the template yesterday, and got both uploaded to http://www.webajeb.com/. I've included directions on using both, so I hope you enjoy my freebies! I noticed this a.m. that a couple of people have already downloaded the calendar page so some of you must have been waiting anxiously, and I apologize for the delay!

The Nature Lover's template (pictured below) is based on a layout I did for my veterinarian, Dr. Brisbin. You can see his entire album on my website; just click on the "slideshows" link at the top of the homepage. The calendar pages have been so much fun to create that I'm thinking of creating an entire year's worth for 2008 and offering it on my website. Of course, it may not happen by January with everything else that is going on.

Many of you know, if you read my other blog (http://www.deztalkin.blogspot.com/), that my husband and I are heading out on an 8 week sailing cruise on the 17th of this month. So, needless to say, we are running around like crazy trying to get ready. Adding to the "fun" is my hubby's bout with strep throat, and me having pulled a muscle in my back 2 days ago. PLUS, our oldest son and his fiancee have planned a BBQ in southern california for their parents and grand-parents to meet and get to know each other. That's on the 14th which means a drive down there and back, using up 3 to 4 days of our preparation time.

All of these things are making is difficult for me to really concentrate on my little biz, and it's marketing needs. And, since we'll be gone and my internet time will be much more limited, I am going to have to defer any new work until I return. It's frustrating, yet it couldn't happen at a better time since, at the moment, I don't have any new work! I am mainly working on marketing ideas/strategies, creating the freebies & newsletters, updating blogs, as well as fine-tuning my website. There are bells and whistles I'd love to add to it (a counter, for one) but all these things take time and, in some cases, learning new stuff.

While we are on our trip I will be doing a LOT of layout work, using my own photos. It would be a good time, too, to work on the 2008 calendar. I'd also love to create lots more templates that I could offer individually and at a really good price. Internet access will be sporadic at best, so most of what I will work on will have to be offline. But keep watching this blog for updates, and visit my website often, too. I'll be updating both as I am able. And, as always, e-me anytime and for any reason; deborah@webajeb.com. I love hearing from you!

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