New Instagram Fancies and Some Pregnancy Confessions

The sickness in the Watson house has yet to subside- we've been hit with a 24 hour flu bug and Landen, Penelope, and I have all fallen victim. I didn't get half of what I wanted to get done finished and pretty much just tried not to hurl all day.

However, I did get one thing done- posting my new Insta Frames in my Digital Shop. For just $0.99, you can get these bold and bright square frames with a little flag and some tinting to jzoojsh up your iphone photos. Aren't they swell?

There's going to be more fun designs in the Digital Shop coming up after Clementine is born, I have a ton of great ideas for the holidays coming up! I also have a blog "mini facelift" in the works. Not a full makeover, mind you, but a little change up for the upcoming season. I'll be doing some reorganizing of my brands and projects and introducing some new ones, but not until after this baby gets out of my belly.

I have found myself struggling to stay positive and cheery about this last pregnancy, it's just so hot and miserable here and I have a ton of complaints and grumpiness that I can't shake. Then of course, I feel super guilty because I also know I have a ton to be thankful for. Oh well, it's the nature of the 8 months pregnant beast I guess. Hopefully I can get out of this sick and tired funk and not go into labor all crabby and cranky like I have been. Pray for me friends.

How To Wrap An Awesome Present {and a Free Tag printable}

With all these birthdays I have this month, I figured I better brush up on my gift wrapping skills and stock some supplies for making presents extra special. Here are my favorite ideas from Pinterest I gathered for Gift Presentation.

glitter circles // rainbow twine ties // confetti filled tags // cloud wrapping paper & washi tape // confetti & kraft // kraft & bright polka dots // tissue fringe

My most favorite thing to use on presents is kraft paper, and I love mixing bright, even neon colors with the neutral kraft base. I made these fun little printable tags for everyone to use that go perfectly with my new Happy & Bright Birthday Designs in the Digital Shop! 

Just print, cut, & string on with some Divine Twine to get some kraft & neon action on your prezzies. There's more Happy & Bright Birthday designs to go with your gift tags, check it all out over at Rosemary Watson Creative.

Happy Birthday Gift Tags

App Happy: My Favorite Photo Editing Apps

Rhonna & Liz have both done awesome, super informational posts about their favorite apps to use for Instagram, so I thought I might weigh in on what I use to make my Instagrams a little more me.

Picfx ($1.99)
I usually start all my photos in Picfx, because I like a lot of their filters, and they crop your photos into a square for you. I like that you can adjust the opacity and rotate the effects too, so you don't have to have a grunge smear on someone's face if you don't want to. You can also add more effects to one photo to create customizable layers.

Phonto (Free)
So sweet to add text your photos, easy as pie. Also, they just came out with an update that lets you load your own fonts, so I am going to be BUSY loading my giant collection of font faves.

Snapster (Free)
I just downloaded this app last week so I don't have a ton of experience with it, but I do like a lot of their filters. There are even more filters you can purchase within the app if you get tired of their standards.

Stitched Lite (Free)
A collage app to put different photos all together. I don't use this one too often, but it's great to have since it's free

PhotoForge2 ($2.99)
So this one is a little pricey, but TRUST- you need it. It's does have filters and all that jazz, but I really use it for photo layering. Similar to Photoshop, you can start with a photo, then add layers to the photo to get your mobile digital scrapbooking on. I add my designs and my Rhonna Designs PNG files to my Dropbox Account on my computer, then I go to my Dropbox app on my iPhone. I save the PNG files to my Camera Roll, then in PhotoForge I upload the PNG layers, resize & adjust to my liking, then save again to my camera roll. It's a few extra steps and an extra app download, but totally worth it in my opinion.

So, here's a little step-by-step recipe for a fabulous Instagram photo

RECIPE

 {picfx/resize & enhance + photoforge2/frame + phonto/add text + snapster/Instant filter +picfx/bokeh}

As you can see, you can make it as complicated or as simple as you wish, you layer on effects to your heart's desire. AND, as a little present to all my Insta-happy friends, here's some lovely little frames to get you started with your Insta-glamming. Go here to download the file  -------->

Here's my Insta Art I created with these sweet new frames. If you'd like to follow along my Instagram name is rosemarywatson!

***UPDATE***

If you love these freebie frames and want MORE MORE MORE! You can visit my Digital Shop for some Happy & Bright Birthday Frames- for just $0.99!