The good news when it comes to cards is that there’s always a reason to send others a little greeting. Like today’s card, which I created for my friends who’d returned home after a summer away. Supplies used: A Place to Call Home by Christy Lyle & Amanda Heimann (retired), ribbon, card stock
Well, friends, what can I say? My little sweetheart sister is the best! Not only is she a web designer in her own right, she also hooks me up with cool stuff regularly, and look where she pointed me just the other day: Couture Collection aka www.ewcouture.com For all of you photography lovers, this is a place you don’t want to miss. This blog comes packed with free stuff for photographers – templates, storyboards, all sorts of things that help you showcase your photos. And who says you can’t use these things on a scrapbook page, too? Anyhow, don’t get distracted by the image above. The website has a lot more to offer, so why don’t you hop on over there to check out the place?
Alright, friends of the digital scrapbooking business, if you remember well, then you’ll remember that I promised you the other day to show you how to create pockets like the ones on the Project Life layout I shared with you the other day. This one: It’s actually a fairly simple process, and doesn’t require much skill at all. Soooo … Here’s How it Works Step 1 | Create a Rectangle On your canvas, add a new layer to your Layers Panel (windows key + shift + N – on my computer), and activate the Rectangle Tool (shortcut U). Draw a rectangle of the size you desire, and rasterize it (right click on the rectangle layer in the Layers Panel and choose Rasterize Layer from the options you are given). Step 2 | Create a Circle Now, you want your pocket to look like a pocket (of course, or else it wouldn’t be a pocket), so for that you want a little semi-circle to be cut out from your shape. Similarly as in step one, …
Have I ever told you about batteries? Of course, we don’t need to discuss their usefulness here, as everyone knows that life is hardly possible without them in this day and age. That, however, doesn’t mean that that makes their life possibly lasting longer. Not at all. And surely not here where I live. In fact, the life expectancy of batteries are just as unreliable as you could imagine. Let me give you a recent example: I was buying an appliance that works with the help of batteries. And on the box of that appliance it tells you clearly that with proper use, a battery will last two years before it needs to be switched out. Well, did I think when I bought that appliance, make that a couple of months instead, and then we’re getting closer to reality. Little did I know that I was wrong. Dead wrong. For it didn’t take two years; neither did it take a couple of months. Within one month after I’d bought the appliance, it stopped working because …
It’s journaling hour here in my little Digiscrap Corner, but today, I got something special for you. Something a little out of the ordinary. But don’t worry (for those journalers among you), you’ll still get a ton of inspiration out of what I’m going to share with you. Have you ever heard of “Grace is Overrated”? It’s a website by some awesome gal who came up with an amazing idea of creating journaling pages. Something like this: You can easily find her pages on her website (for download and print, in colored/embellished versions, or simple and plain). And what’s best of all, you can use her pages as inspiration for your websites. I for one, took inspiration from the prompts in the middle section of the page above, the section called “Moving ever forward.” And see what I did with it on one of my scrapbook pages … Anyhow, if you’ve never heard of Overrated Grace, then could be time for you to discover some gems!
Many of my colleagues dread the winter break, because it seems that this town turns into a ghost town, especially right around Spring Festival. As soon as they can, they flee this campus and our town, touring through Asia, and trying to get as far away from here as they can. I actually don’t mind a deserted campus, because it seems to me that this is the only time of the year, when this place isn’t actually overcrowded. You see, our school is growing in terms of people, but hardly growing in terms of space, which means that every year, the campus gets more populated and quiet corners more rare. Except for the winter break. Now quiet corners are everywhere, and to me that’s a rather pleasant sight!
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. ~ Anne Bradstreet ~
Uff, with Christmas season and the December Daily, it’s been a while for me since I last posted some p2d inspiration. But for today’s post, I found a nifty little website with tons of inspiration; and sketches, too. So, while my page today isn’t really based off a finished layout, it’s still coming from the traditional side of scrapbooking. Here’s the sketch from Scrap Friends: And here’s the page I whipped up based on it. I used a valentine themed kit to scrap about things I love to do.
Remember the Christmas tree in the lobby, which I showed you a couple of weeks ago in this post? Well, someone made a sad discovery the other day, and pointed out to me that if you look closely enough you’ll find that the decoration at the bottom of the tree (within the range of what people can reach) has pretty much gone! Can you imagine that? We finally have the prettiest tree in the history of our lobby, and then people go and steal the ornaments off the tree! (Which is actually not like very expensive, or exclusive decoration. It’s just the kind of decoration you can get in any store around here!) Unfortunately, when I took my camera with me earlier today, for the sole purpose of providing you some proof of this outrageous crime, I had to realize that the tree was gone. No, no, not what you may think now. No one stole the whole tree. It being mid-January, it was – after all – about time to take it down again. …
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