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Back in May, I wrote the post Where Are All the Brown Kid Stickers? about my quest for finding brown children in scrapbooking embellishments. Since then, I’ve been keeping my eyes peeled for brown children, especially in digital scrapbooking kits. Tomorrow, November 7, is (Inter)National Digital Scrapbooking Day. (Don’t ask me why they write it like that, with the parentheses.) Because many digital stores are having sales for the occasion, I thought I’d take a moment to point out my favorite designers, who became my favorites in large part due to their multicultural embellishments.
At the top of the list is Wimpychompers. As far as I’ve seen every single one of her kits contains at least one brown child. And her kits are adorable!
Close behind are the Scrapping Sisters. Right now, all of their work is free, and it’s all amazing. I put in a comment a few months ago, asking them if they could include brown kids in their embellishments. They responded! They’re working on a series of sports related kits at present.
Tracy at Growing Pains Scrapped is an adoptive mom, too. I discovered her very recently. She created a cute kit called Dogs and Frogs that included a white child. I commented asking if she could consider adding brown kids in the future. She emailed me personally and made a brown boy for me!
Jennifer at Life is Not a Cereal is another recent discovery. This week, she’s designed a rare kit – it’s inspired by China. Yes, there is at least one Asian themed digital scrapbooking kit. It’s even harder to find Asian looking embellishments than it is to find brown kid ones.
Finally, Bethany at Elegant Word Art creates really lovely sayings in an artistic manner. She has an extensive collection of adoption related sayings, some free on her site and some available for purchase at her store.
The last time I posted about the lack of brown kids in embellishments, Jenna commented that I could use Photoshop or another photo editor (I have GIMP) to change the color of the white children. I don’t know why that didn’t occur to me in the first place.
Photo Credit: Robyn C. 2005.
