Freebie Friday - Giant Ice Cream Cone

My grandmother owns an ice cream shop in Michigan (yes it does seem like an oxymoron but she does, yes it is only open for 6 months out of the year and yes it is the coolest job ever.)  I have been asking my grandmother for 20 years to design the logo for her shop and she has never let me do it.  After the last t-shirt design which she was not pleased with she finally let me have a go at it (yesterday).  She told me she wanted a little boy holding the giant ice cream cone.  The ice cream cone is significant they are known as the Biggest Cone in Town - the photo below shows how big one of their large cones are - yes that is me I was 16 when the photo was taken.)

I decided that the cone should be held by Booga (my son) because if anyone would run away with an ice cream cone that big it would be him.

So here is the design I did for my grandma's shop (yes that is how she spells dairy and cream).  So if you ever find yourself in Escanaba, Michigan (my hometown) look up Jim's Dari Kreme and stop in for a giant cone or an E.T. Sundae (chocolate ice cream, peanut butter topping that is homemade and Reece's Pieces - it is a whole lot of heaven in one container).

If you click on the logo it will take you to their Facebook Page - they do not have a website.

Since my grandma is an awesome lady she said I could offer the little boy with the cone as a Freebie for the Digi Shoppe.

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The ice cream is blue, it is actually Bluemoon which is a flavor for soft serve ice cream and frozen yogurt.  Bluemoon flavoring was invented in my grandma's kitchen in the 1950s by my grandfather and a couple of his "mad scientist" buddies, who owned Bancroft Dairy in Escanaba, Michigan.  Bancroft Dairy was sold to John Jilbert of Marquette, Michigan and is known today as Jilbert's Dairy.  Jilbert's sold the recipe to National, which supplies flavorings to Ice Cream and Frozen Yogurt Shops all over the country.  I personally love Bluemoon Ice Cream but it is a love it or hate it flavor of ice cream.  I recommend if you ever have a chance to try Bluemoon Ice Cream it is worth it!

Don't forget to like the Digi Shoppe Fan Page once we hit 150 likes on our Facebook Page I will be doing a Giveaway.  Also if you become a Follower on our Blog once we hit 50 Followers I will do another Giveaway!

I hope everyone enjoyed the Oz Collection that was released on Monday, if you haven't click on over to the Digi Shoppe to check it out.

I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!

Monday Release - The Oz Collection

I have always been inspired by pen and ink drawings, we have also been reading Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz (again) and I decided I need to do a "vintage" set of Oz stamps.  The Oz Collection is a collection of ten (10) different images, the complete collection consists of forty (40) digital images - 20 black/white (10 PNG 10 JPEG) 20 - color (10 PNG 10 JPEG).  Each image is available separately or as a complete collection. 

Don't forget to check out our Facebook Page to see Sneak Peeks of what I am working on.

Freebie Friday - Clapboard and Film Canister

Yesterday like so many others found out about the passing of Roger Ebert.  As a kid I watched Siskle and Ebert, I was personally a fan of the two thumbs down, I loved the horrible cheesiness of it all.  I always thought that is was really cool he had a painting of Siskle after his passing.  When I got a Twitter account he was the first person I followed on Twitter, I read his blog religiously and saw very few movies he gave two thumbs down (there are a several we disagreed on over the years.)  If you are looking for the Best of the Best of Roger Ebert check out this article from Jezebel.

I admit I have tried several times to do a roll of film digi and I never liked how they turned out until this one.  The clapboard is based on a real clapboard that belongs to my husband (if you have never played with a real one they are really cool!)  They are two separate digital stamps and both are quite large (almost 7"x7").

I have also been creating some fun new digital stamps and have been giving sneak peaks on the Facebook Page.  I have two new sets almost finished as well as several others in the sketching phase.  I am going to do a giveaway once the Facebook Page reaches 150 fans.  I will do a second giveaway once the blog reaches 50 fans.  The giveaways will be for one complete set of stamps or two sets of Digital Paper of your choice from the Digi Shoppe.

I hope everyone has an amazing weekend, I am looking forward to some baseball, gardening and a welcome home party for one of my dear friend's husband.

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Monday Release - The Genki Collection

The Genki Collection are inspired by Japanese Wood Block Prints.  Each image was hand drawn with a Micron 08 Pen, scanned in and colored in Photoshop.

 Don't forget our Newsletter is released the first of every month and there is a new unreleased free digi.

Freebie Friday - Gerbera Daisy

I love Gerbera Daises, actually I love ALL daisies.  As a child I would pick my neighbor's daisies and would paint and draw them.  She said she never realized until I went off to college how many daisies I actually picked.

My favorite were her orange and pink Gerbera Daisies, I would mix them with Shasta Daisies and give the bouquet to my grandma once I was finished.  When I had knee surgery in high school Angie picked all her orange Gerbera Daisies for me and the gift also included Micron Pens and a sketchbook.  I sketched those daisies for days.  This week I managed to sprain my knee (the same knee I had surgery on) so I have been laid up all week.  I decided to pull out my Micron Pens and start sketching.  Once I sketched the daisy I brought it into Photoshop and practiced my digital painting.  I am extremely pleased with how it turned out and expect to see a lot more pen and ink drawing style digis in the future.

Don't forget to check out our Facebook Page and sign up for our Newsletter that comes out April 1st!  My goal for April is to start posting and utilizing the Facebook page more and do the Monday Release again.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Easter!

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Freebie Friday - Bunny

Easter is closing in fast and I decided to tackle another home improvement project.  I'm not sure why I am concentrating so much on my home recently maybe it is because I have seen all the imperfections for 5 years and I am tired of it.  I ripped out my ugly, poorly installed, crooked (very crooked) kitchen back splash and am installing a new one.  This backsplash isn't your run of the mill glass tile backsplash it consists of pennies, beer bottles and left over glass tile from my bathroom.  I am very pleased with the progress and can not wait to finish it.  I am also wondering what the bank teller is going to say when we go in and buy $30 worth of pennies.

Hopefully this weekend I will get some more digis created and Easter Projects done.  I have high hope and it is suppose to be raining here so I have a vast check list.

Happy Spring and Weekend Everyone :)

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Freebie Friday - Leprechaun Jumping

With St. Patrick's Day on Sunday I decided to release the design I did as a shirt for my daughter.  I have never done anything like this combining past digis to create a new image.

The reason why I did this was because I found myself last weekend with a little girl who was in desperate need of a St. Patrick's Day Shirt.  I had the iron-on transfer paper and had to come up with something quick.  Usually when I do stuff like that I never save the file this time however I did save it because I liked how it turned out.  The image is quite large I did them as an 8"x10" so they can be printed on the transfer paper.

I also wanted to share the St. Patrick's Day Shirt I created for my daughter with the Leprechaun and Pot O Gold.  I hope everyone has a wonderful, safe St. Patrick's Day Weekend.  I plan on not leaving my house and maybe even get some gardening done.

The Princess and her shirt 

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