5 Reasons to check out Mygrafico.com right now

1. Check out my 5 new sets. 2. The retirement sale - just $1 each! 3. So many great designs inspire your creativity. 4. One of those new sets is a FREE digi stamp...perfect timing for Father's Day ;D. 5. Flowers make everyone smile...three of my new designs let you choose from cool brushes, pen-n-ink botancials and bright summer flowers.

Here is a peek at my 5 newest collections...

Pen-n-Ink Garden

A collection of 4 beautiful pen-n-ink botanical illustrations including a lily, rose, lenten rose and iris.

Lighthouse Digi Stamp - FREEBIE

Escape to the beach with this lighthouse sketch. Pair with the Father's Day verse in my new Masculine Verses set and you will have a quick and easy Father’s Day card, as shown. Download for free and tell all your friends!!!

Summer Florals

I can’t help but get in a cheery summer frame of mind looking at these brightly colored flower clip art designs. Use on cards, layouts, invitations and other projects. Take your pick of formats...eps, png and abr brushes!

Bold Floral Brushes 1

If you like to be in charge of what you create, there is nothing like Photoshop brushes. Use this set of 20 digi brushes and art files to create amazing flowers in patterns, textures and colors that you like. The eps files are scaleable and editable. Use the png for layering and also to selectively color or try the digital brushes for creating fast, easy one color floral designs. Combine with textures and styles in Photoshop to unleash the possibilities!

Masculine Verses

The set of verses and titles for creating projects for and about the men in your life. Includes brushes as well as eps and png files for use in your software programs. Just print, or colorize first, then print. Layer on cards and layouts either digitally or traditionally.  This is one of those basic gotta have sets!

I promise to catch you up soon on all of my Project 365 creations. It has been a busy time in our household and I am just getting caught up on photographing and uploading the projects so I can share my daily creative experiences with you.

Project 365/ Days 24 & 25/ New Ideas for Digital Sets

Day 24 and I started working on a brush set of swirls, Swirly QZ’s that can be used on their own as brushes, that can be colorized in solid colors, used as a mask with patterned papers or even combined with other graphics to create interesting page elements or card accents. I also want to include svg files that will work with personal diecutting machines i.e. Cricut or Silhouette and software that allows you to cut out the svg files. Just think of how fun it would be to have these as diecuts for scrapbooking! Stay tuned for updates on the release of this new set. I would love your thoughts and ideas on this.

These pen and ink Gnome Garden sketches are just a starting point in the design process in a set that will be full of color clip art designs. From these preliminary sketches I will work on combining items and creating final digital artwork for the set making sure to include elements that make it full of fun designs to work with on a variety of projects. Thought you might enjoy seeing how set designs evolve.

Check back for future posts to see how these sets develop or you 

can visit www.mygrafico.com for releases of other new digital collections.

All design concepts © copyright 2011 Cheri Wenger

Hot New Releases of Cheri Wenger’s Digital Designs

Pocket Full of Shells

If you have ever wallked the beach and picked up shells along the way, this set will bring back fond memories. It includes a bonus set of png files with white shell backgrounds for making your own shell collages or groupings. Use chalks and markers to color the digital printouts and create!

Garden Swirls

Flourishes are fun to use on any card or layout. These bold, flowy swirls work well by themselves or paired with the other images in this set. Add some floral flair to your next creative project with my Garden Swirls set.

Forever in Love Flourishes

This set evolved from another set with a wedding theme in mind. These delicate flourishes add a touch of class to any project you choose to use them on. The images are all provided in large 6" size and can be scaled as shown.

What’s New for Spring?

I have been busy designing some fun new products. The first is my Ladybug Garden set featuring a variety of designs in red, black and yellow color combinations. This set is perfect for making cards, layouts and other projects, especially those featuring your own little lady bug!

Want to create your own fun flowers? This Bold Blooms set is a great flower starter. Combine the designs with digital papers, colorize or use patterns to create fun flowers. Layer to create even more designs! Use the free brush files provided in Photoshop to create backgrounds, masks and more! Or simply use to create hi contrast b&w designs & patterns.

You may recognize some of the bold blooms designs used to create some

of the flowers in the Ladybug Garden set pictured above.

This set is also fun to use with Disney theme pages.

Last week was Earth Day and I created a layout especially in honor of that day. Now,

I am sharing this FREE digi template with everyone. Just put in your own

journaling details and photos to complete a scrapbook page in minutes!

I included a Digi Tips file with this download to get you started into digital scrapbooking.

Just go to mygrafico.com to download this freebie!

This snake is cramping my style!

For those of you who don’t know this about me, I HATE SNAKES! My sister and I have had a big fear of snakes since we were little. I have gotten over my phobia a little and can tolerate worms and tiny snakes...under 12 inches. We have had to evict a couple of those from our lanai and garden, however, when they are as big around as a hose...I can’t handle that, even if they are good for the garden and non-venomous. Yesterday, on Earth Day, I was watering my garden and potted plants when I spotted this big black snake lying in the Plumbago bush under my daughter’s bedroom window. I was wanting to get the garden spiffed up for prom pics this weekend and this darn snake spoiled my plans. I squirted him with the hose and he quickly disappeared. The problem is...where did he go? I kept squirting the hose, but couldn't seem to chase him out of hiding so I went back out today, and guess where he is? On top of the next bush, sunning himself. So I sicked my husband on him, who said, “He looks friendly!” And I responded, “I don’t care, friendly or not, I hate snakes and want him out of there!” So he agreed to remove him, but when he got a couple inches away, the snake slithered away and Dan ended up with a handful of leaves, and still no snake! He observed the same thing. He seemed to have disappeared into thin air. I suspect he is hiding under the AC unit and of course that is where all the weeds are that I need to remove. GRRRR! Doesn't this snake know I have prom pictures to take and a garden to whip back in shape, and that my schedule can’t revolve around his tanning sessions!!! This snake is cramping my style!

I thought about what card to post. Right now I don't have any good flowery theme ones, but this skull and cross bones seems to fit. You know that I don’t REALLY want the snake dead, just sunbathing in someone else’s garden!

This features skull stamp & Cardstock from SU, embossed

background from Cuttlebug, Fiskars border and Uptown Houndstooth

Digital Paper from Lindsay’s Stamp Stuff found at mygrafico.com.

Working on Samples

If it isn’t enough work creating the sets, I had to get busy showing samples of how to use them. There just aren't enough hours in the day it seems. One minute I am consulting on Prom Decor, the next giving boyfriend advice, next cleaning (which I try to avoid until it is time to evict the dust bunnies), then it’s writing, designing and creating. I know you can all relate to me! Right? I am well behind on cards for friends and family too, but here are some sneak peek photos of some cards I just posted to my mygrafico albums. For all the details on what sets I used, you can check there. These range from fairly simple to more complex hybrid . I will be posting more ideas today and tomorrow in the gallery. Happy Friday!