Update: This lay­out got pub­lished in the Jan 2011 issue of Gin­ger Scrap­street. Here is a link to that. Today at Scrap­book Chal­lenges I took the Doo­dle only chal­lenge to make a lay­out with no scrap­book sup­plies, but with only card­stock, pen and mark­ers. What a great chal­lenge!! I acco­mo­dated my lay­out to suit their weekly sketch, Sketch 218 as well. Dou­ble Duty!! Here is my lay­out title “answer”,

This is a 8.5 by 11 inch, sin­gle page lay­out. It is a dig­i­tal lay­out, but I totally stuck to the chal­lenge. I actu­ally drew the ques­tion marks for the back­ground!!! It was an idea I had in my head, and since I was busy the whole of last week, the idea kept brew­ing in the back of head. I wanted to doo­dle my own back­ground paper. It turned out to be a good idea. I doo­dled the bor­der using pen and paper and scanned them onto my lay­out. I some­how found it a bit tedious to doo­dle using my graphic pen last night. I think I need to make a lit­tle more room on my com­puter table for my hand to be in a com­fort­able posi­tion. The jour­nal­ing, words and the title were all writ­ten on paper and then scanned. I could have just doo­dled the entire lay­out onto a card­stock and made a paper lay­out, but I wanted to try mak­ing a back­ground paper using Pho­to­shop. It was a great learn­ing expe­ri­ence. For this lay­out I used Adobe Pho­to­shop CS5. And now, for all of you out there, I have a free­bie down­load!! Am super excited about it, and so happy to share my ques­tion mark doo­dled back­ground with all of you. It is a 12 by 12 inch, 300 dpi image in jpg for­mat. And its a pretty small sized file, a super quick download!!

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Pre­vi­ously, I always used to work with  Adobe Pho­to­shop CS3 on my lap­top. But my lap­top is seri­ously injured and may it RIP. It was my best friend, and I feel com­pletely lost with it  So any­way, I had to use our desk­top, and it has the newer pho­to­shop, CS5, and it rocks!!! The new ver­sion is awe­some and is sleeker has so many more options. Need to get all my dig­i­tal sup­plies trans­ferred onto the desk­top now…

Keep a look out at my blog, I think I might be hav­ing a few more down­loads com­ing soon…