Month: February 2012

scrapbook layout

Happy

Credits: Happiness is … by Zoe Pearn Scraplift of lls   Grace Credits: Simply by Penny Springmann Blissful Stitches by Traci Reed The Alpha Files No. 17 by Krystal Hartley Font: DJB Miss Molly Brown by Darcy Baldwin   Love Credits: This Life: February by Penny Springmann Paper Clips: Backgrorunds 2.0 by Libby Pritchett Ornamental Edges by Kristin Cronin-Barrow Scraplift of Beautiful Dreamer

Treasure Sunday: February 26th

I’ve got a new collection of pretties that I’d like to share with you this week.   Stuck on you by Dalis What a fun, messy, splattery layout! It’s so pretty with the soft colors and the elements scattered all over the page.   Creativity by Soco This gorgeous page caught my eye immediately. Not only does it work with a beautiful color palette, but that photo is just wonderful, and what a great job did she do at blending the photo with that artistic, colorful paint mess. Truly creative!   Your Home by LilisMother My next pick for today is another sample of beauty and creativity. What a pretty cluster, the little paint splats perfectly draw the eye to the various clusters, and I don’t need to mention how adorable the photos are!   River Walk by Heather Prins I love the approach to this page: The large photo with the beautiful lighting, perfectly complemented with the little photos telling the story of a river walk!   xoxo by Ana.Paula Last but not least …

P2D Inspiration: Love

I love traditionally scrapped pages. And the other day, for the Sweetshoppe portfolio, I got myself inspired by this page in the gallery over at Two Peas: Turning it into a digital layout, this is what I came up with: If you’ve never done any paper-2-digi scraplifting before, you should try it. There are so many great pages out there, worth lifting, all you need to do is look through some of the traditional paper scrapping galleries.

Freebie Friday: Winter

It’s happy hour in my little scrap corner again, and today, I got you this quite elaborate template. It’s based on my page “Winter Wishes.” Make sure you pick it up, before the link expires, and I hope you’ll have fun with this template. Also, if you’ve missed last week’s template, you can still download it as well. As always, I’m quite curious to see what you guys create with these templates, and I’m always happy, if you link us up with your finished pages. That’s it from me today. Happy Friday, scrappers! Note: Please do not re-distribute this template in any way (you may share the link to this post), and when you use this template, please make sure to credit it to Misty Hilltops Designs.

Hybrid Hub: Card No. 26

I’ve got another card I want to share with you today. It’s made with the kit “Animal Crackers” by Libby Pritchett and Tracey Howard, and I wish I had a way to properly translate the German sentiment, which means “extremely good” (a common expression in German), but the literal translation is “animalistically good” or something along those lines, though that really doesn’t mean anything in English, lol. Anyways, for the sentiment I used one of Darcy Baldwin’s fonts.

Enable Me: Words To Inspire Part 1: A-I

We scrappers are always looking for ideas and inspiration to spark our pages. One thing, a lot of us are struggling with is finding the right words for titles or topics, so I actually compiled a list of useful, inspirational words that would make great titles on any page. And today, I’m presenting the first part of this list: I hope these words will help you find a title for a page, sooner or later, and of course, stay tuned to get the second part as well!

Behind the Scenes: Enhancing Legibility of Your Journaling on Patterned Papers – Part 2.

When working with journaling on patterned papers, one of the things I like to do is adding a slight brush layer, as I recommended in the first part of this tutorial. So, today, I’m going to show you how to do just that: Adding a Brush Layer to Enhance Journaling Take a look at this page: On a slightly striped paper, I wanted to add some journaling. But after I added it, I realized the striped pattern was just to strong -the journaling lost its focus. So, if you look more carefully, you can see how behind the journaling, the stripes are nearly wiped out, and I did it by adding a brush layer. And here’s how it works … (I’m assuming that you already added your journaling to your page, and that you placed it somewhere on top of a patterned background.)   STEP 1 | Add a Layer Above Your Patterned Paper To avoid messing with your patterned paper, simply select that paper layer in your Layers Panel, and add a new layer …

Journaling Café: Winter Thoughts

For many of us in the northern hemisphere, winter’s still somewhat in full swing, and I haven’t even taken the time to look at some wintery-themed journaling. But today is the day where I make good that neglect! Here are some prompts to help you put your thoughts about winter to paper: And here’s one of my pages:   The font used here is my own handwriting font DJB Squirrels In My Pants by Darcy Baldwin (available at the Sweetshoppe).

Treasure Sunday: February 19th

Here’s more inspiration with all the gems that I found in the galleries this week. Let’s start with this little beauty here: Beautiful by twinsmomflor What a great artistic approach to a digiscrap page! The blending of backgrounds, elements/brushes and the large photo is stunning, and I love the little elements she added to give this page a more three-dimensional feel.   Memories Live Here by wombat146 Next up is this gorgeous gem, which has a great composition and such a lovely mixture of elements and papers. And I love how the shadowing of that string looks so realistic!   Traffic Jam by Mama_Maike Great blocking of papers, photos and elements mark this layout, and I love the fresh colors on the white background. The Sign by oldvwblues Staying a little longer on the topic of traffic: I just had to laugh when I read the sign. But actually, it was the fun composition, and the lifted corners of the pictures that caught my eye.   Totally Sweet by iciclelady Last but not least I …