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Felt Arrow/Sign Embellishments for Digital Planners & Digital Scrapbooks

by Kate

This set of felt effect signs and arrows for your planner. These red and green embellishments have been designed for you to add to your digital planners, digital notebooks and digital scrapbooks. The felt effect will give a nice tactile feel to your digi bullet journals and will help to liven up any digital spread.

More Digital Planner Freebies HERE!

Each of these free digital planner embellishments has been saved in a PNG format to allow you to layer them over your digital planner covers and layouts. Note, these files have been optimized for digital use and are not designed for printing.

Add these embellishments to your Goodnotes planner cover, digital notebook planner – or any other pdf planner.

You will find we have a range of other digital planner freebies for you to download and add to your planner. New freebies are added weekly so don’t forget to come back and see what new goodies we have for you.

Don’t Forget Digital Scrapbooking!

These embellishments will also work great in your digital scrapbooking projects. Just load them into your digital scrapbook and start creating!

Download Felt Sign Embellishments

Red Green Felt Effect Embellishments

Don’t forget to take a look around the rest of our site – everything we have is free to download. If you have any requests for future products, just leave a comment and we’ll add it to the list!

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Plus, if you would like to help us shape the new products, we’d love to hear from you. We’d love to hear what content you’d like to see, what freebies you’d like to have and what other planners related content you’d find useful. Email me at kate@makebreaks.com if you’d like to tell us what YOU would like to see 🙂

Advent Sticker Embellishments for Digital Planners & Digital Scrapbooks

by Kate

This is a set of advent stickers for your digital planner, journal or scrapbook. These stickers have been designed specifically for quick loading into your digital planner. They are in PNG format and can be used in Goodnotes and other PDF readers, Procreate for iPad, Affinity Photo or Designer – or your favourite digital design program.

There are two sets of stickers in this pack, one small, the other larger. This will enable you to use the size sticker you require for your project, rather than slowing your tablet or phone up with images which are bigger than necessary.

More Digital Planner Freebies HERE!

Each of these free digital planner embellishments has been saved in a PNG format to allow you to layer them over your digital planner covers and layouts. Note, these files have been optimized for digital use and are not designed for printing.

You will find we have a range of other digital planner freebies for you to download and add to your planner. New freebies are added weekly so don’t forget to come back and see what new goodies we have for you.

Don’t Forget Digital Scrapbooking!

These embellishments will also work great in your digital scrapbooking projects. Just load them into your digital scrapbook and start creating!

Download Advent Embellishments

Advent Stickers

Don’t forget to take a look around the rest of our site – everything we have is free to download. If you have any requests for future products, just leave a comment and we’ll add it to the list!

Be the first to know of new freebies and other fun things! SIGN UP HERE 🙂

If you would like to receive our DIGI PLANNER FREEBIE newsletter sign up HERE. This newsletter is focussed only on digital planner goodies!

Plus, if you would like to help us shape the new products, we’d love to hear from you. We’d love to hear what content you’d like to see, what freebies you’d like to have and what other planners related content you’d find useful. Email me at kate@makebreaks.com if you’d like to tell us what YOU would like to see 🙂

2020 Embellishments for Digital Planners & Digital Scrapbooks

by Kate

Here are a range of free 2020 digital planner embellishments to add to your planner covers. Customize your planner covers with these free embellishments.

You will find we have a variety of styles for you to choose from, including cute felt effects and some unusual stone-styles, which will add something different to your planner.

Each of these free digital planner embellishments has been saved in a PNG format to allow you to layer them over your digital planner covers and layouts. Note, these files have been optimized for digital use and are not designed for printing.

Add these embellishments to your Goodnotes planner cover, digital notebook planner – or any other pdf planner.

You will find we have a range of other digital planner freebies for you to download and add to your planner.

Digital Scrapbooking

These embellishments will also work great in your digital scrapbooking projects. Just load them into your digital scrapbook and start creating!

Free 2020 Embellishments

2020 Embellishment - Turquoise Felt
2020 Embellishment - Green Yellow Felt
2020 Embellishment - Pink Purple Felt
Gold Effect 2020 Header
Purple Stitched Effect 2020 Header
Stone Effect 2020 Header

Don’t forget to take a look around the rest of our site – everything we have is free to download. If you have any requests for future products, just leave a comment and we’ll add it to the list!

Be the first to know of new freebies and other fun things! SIGN UP HERE 🙂

If you would like to receive our DIGI PLANNER FREEBIE newsletter sign up HERE. This newsletter is focussed only on digital planner goodies!

Plus, if you would like to help us shape the new products, we’d love to hear from you. We’d love to hear what content you’d like to see, what freebies you’d like to have and what other planners related content you’d find useful. Email me at kate@makebreaks.com if you’d like to tell us what YOU would like to see 🙂

Tutorial: Make a DIY Folded Paper Ornament (With Free Template)

by Kate Pullen

Make a cute DIY paper ornament with our free printable template (see below). This flower patterned ornament is ready colored, so all you need to do is to print onto plain white heavyweight paper or light cardstock to create this ornament.

How to Make the Paper Ornament

You will need:

  • Template (download below)
  • Cardstock or heavyweight paper
  • Scissors or craft knife
  • Adhesive (I like glue sticks, however normal white glue or wood glue will work well too)
  • Metal ruler or straight edge
  • Bone folder (you will use this for scoring the paper or cardstock and this will help to give you crisp edges to your folds)

Instructions

1/ Download and print the template. Download the template here

Flower Ornament Template

2/ Cut out the shapes, using a craft knife or scissors.

 

3/ Score along the dotted fold lines using the bone folder and metal ruler. If you are not familiar with scoring, we do this to prepare the paper or cardstock for folding. This means using a bone folder (or blunt knife) and carefully drawing this down the side of the ruler along the fold line. This breaks the fibers in the paper and will make it much easier to fold a straight line.

 

Start adhering the edges together.

Tip: I start gluing together the edges on one side and then turning the ornament over to finish the other side.

Tips for finishing your DIY paper ornament:

  • Think about how you want to display the ornament before you start. If you plan to hang the ornament from a  tree then try adding a piece of looped ribbon or cord into the top of the ornament when you are adhering the edges together.
  • If you want to make a bigger or smaller tree, simply adjust the size on your printer settings.
  • Add sparkle to your ornament with some glitter or glitter glue!

New Papercraft Club

We hope you enjoy this papercraft project from Make Breaks 🙂 If you love interesting paper crafts, you may be interested in our new papercraft club where we’ll be creating more ambitious papercraft projects:

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‘My Planner’ White Embellishment for Digital Planners

by Kate

This white stitched effect ‘my planner’ embellishment will look great on any digital planner cover. This is a PNG file with a transparent background, so you can layer this embellishment over any image. The white stitched effect will look great on any dark or deeply patterned background. Add this to your Goodnotes planner cover, digital notebook planner – or any other pdf planner.

Don’t forget to take a look around the rest of our site – everything we have is free to download. If you have any requests for future products, just leave a comment and we’ll add it to the list!

Be the first to know of new freebies and other fun things! SIGN UP HERE 🙂

Download Free Digital Planner Embellishment

White "My Planner" Planner Embellishment

If you would like to receive our DIGI PLANNER FREEBIE newsletter sign up HERE. This newsletter is focussed only on digital planner goodies!

Plus, if you would like to help us shape the new products, we’d love to hear from you. We’d love to hear what content you’d like to see, what freebies you’d like to have and what other planners related content you’d find useful. Email me at kate@makebreaks.com if you’d like to tell us what YOU would like to see 🙂

‘My Planner’ Grey Embellishment for Digital Planners

by Kate

This stitched effect ‘my planner’ embellishment will look great on any digital planner cover. This is a PNG file with a transparent background, so you can layer this embellishment over any image. Add this to your Goodnotes planner cover, digital notebook planner – or any other pdf planner.

Don’t forget to take a look around the rest of our site – everything we have is free to download. If you have any requests for future products, just leave a comment and we’ll add it to the list!

Be the first to know of new freebies and other fun things! SIGN UP HERE 🙂

Download Free Digital Planner Embellishment

'My Planner' Planner Cover Embellishment

If you would like to receive our DIGI PLANNER FREEBIE newsletter sign up HERE. This newsletter is focussed only on digital planner goodies!

Plus, if you would like to help us shape the new products, we’d love to hear from you. We’d love to hear what content you’d like to see, what freebies you’d like to have and what other planners related content you’d find useful. Email me at kate@makebreaks.com if you’d like to tell us what YOU would like to see 🙂

Free Printable Wall Art – Green Flower

by Kate

This free printable green flower with black and white stripe background printable wall art poster will print on letter or A4 paper to create an 8 x 10″ poster.  This is a high resolution file, so you will also be able to print to make larger sizes if you require. You could also print the poster at smaller sizes to make greeting cards and invitations.

This free printable wall art is in a JPG and PDF file, zipped together to make a single easy download.

Check out the rest of our printable wall art freebies here – Free Printable Wall Art

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Download the Free Flower Poster  below:

Green Flower Print

Free Printable Wall Art – Orange Flower

by Kate

This free printable orange flower with black and white stripe background printable wall art poster will print on letter or A4 paper to create an 8 x 10″ poster.  This is a high resolution file, so you will also be able to print to make larger sizes if you require. You could also print the poster at smaller sizes to make greeting cards and invitations.

This free printable wall art is in a JPG and PDF file, zipped together to make a single easy download.

Check out the rest of our printable wall art freebies here – Free Printable Wall Art

Want to know of more free printables? Be the first to know of new freebies and other fun things! SIGN UP HERE 🙂

Download the Free Flower Poster  below:

Orange Flower Print

Pastel Digital Sticky Notes for Digital Planners

by Kate

Free digital sticky notes to match the colors in our free digital notebook HERE. Add some color to your digital planner, digital journal, bullet journal or notebook with these free notes.  These digital sticky notes are saved in a png format with a transparent background and can be added to your digital planner in Goodnotes, Xodo or other PDF app.

Don’t forget to take a look around the rest of our site – everything we have is free to download. If you have any requests for future products, just leave a comment and we’ll add it to the list!

Be the first to know of new freebies and other fun things! SIGN UP HERE 🙂

Download Free Digital Sticky Notes

Digital Sticky Notes

 

If you would like to receive our DIGI PLANNER FREEBIE newsletter sign up HERE. This newsletter is focussed only on digital planner goodies!

 

Plus, if you would like to help us shape the new products, we’d love to hear from you. We’d love to hear what content you’d like to see, what freebies you’d like to have and what other planners related content you’d find useful. Email me at kate@makebreaks.com if you’d like to tell us what YOU would like to see 🙂

 

How to Recolor Digital Planner Stickers For Free Using Microsoft Paint

by Kate Pullen

In this short mini-tutorial we’re going to look at how you can recolor single color digital planner stickers (or indeed any digital stickers) using Microsoft Paint.

If you haven’t already taken a look at the new Microsoft Paint it is definately worth investigating. As well as being able to draw, we can also flood fill areas, which means we can color coloring pages, change the color of black and white images – and of course, customize digital planner stickers to match our planners.

Using this technique you can recolor any text stickers, shapes etc. This works best with big bold shapes and designs.

Before You Start…

Before you start, check that the user agreement from the designer allows for their work to be amended or adapted. This is absolutely fine with any stickers you download from here at Make Breaks – so practice on my stickers if you like.

To Recolor Stickers Using Microsoft Paint

Open the PNG file and select the ‘Paint’ option. Then choose the bucket icon on the tool panel. Select the color you want and click where you want this color applied. The color will flood fill the area you select. In this example it colors the whole of a single letter. If the letters were combined, it would color the combined area.

Remember to save the image using a different file name 🙂


That’s all there is to it!