The amount of inspiration I can get from paper scrappers seems endless. Just take a look at this page by Shannon Tidwell: I was intrigued by the ideas of using photos for a very messy background, and that is what I tried to recreate in my digital version of the page: Supplies used for this page: Girl Friday: Casual Hour by Traci Reed & Krystal Hartley
I’m excited because it’s time to begin sharing a new freebie kit. Summer is right around the corner, which means we’ll have plenty of opportunities to make memories of lots of lovely summer mornings. As usual, this kit is cram packed with goodies – from selected unique elements to the everyday flower, ribbon and button asset. You’ll get 25 patterned and solid papers as well as over 70 elements – all for free. And as always, we’ll begin with the alphas (of which there are four this time). As always, if you enjoy my designs, I would be really pleased if you could spread the word and point others this way, so more people can enjoy these freebies. Don’t forget, however, that my Terms of Use apply (no reselling, or re-destributing parts or all of any of my products, and sharing only by sending others to mistyhilltops.com), and that you may use my products only for your personal scrapping needs. And now that I’ve made myself clear, all I’m left to do is wish …
I had so much fun creating this hybrid page. I got the idea from scrapbook generation.com to use strips of paper and empty filmstrips. The kit “Through My Lens” by Traci Reed was perfect to scrap those everyday pics from sharing life with my friends in Germany for three weeks.
Are you someone who likes getting free stuff? Well, then I might have something for you today. There’s this website “Papercraft Inspirations” that comes not only with a ton of inspiration, but also with lots of free (and actually fun and awesome) printables (usually papers and ellies you can cut, ready on sheets). You need a little more persuasion? Then why don’t you go hop on over there to check and see, if this is something for you …
For some of us, the end of the school year is near, and that means, it’s a good time to think and reflect a little on what we’ve been learning. It’s also a great time to think about things you learned in the past as well as considering what you would like to learn in the future. Of course, I had to put together a page of my own, with some little reflection, and here’s the result: Now, it’s your turn writing (and scrapping, if you like). Products used: Font for prompt: DJB Squirrels in My Pants by Darcy Baldwin Be Tru 2 Ur School by Traci Reed DJB I Love Me Some Aly by Darcy Baldwin
I love finding ideas from other scrappers and using their layouts as inspiration for my own. This following layout is such an example. I found this intriguing page on Daphne Wünn-Rihm’s website: Not only did I dig the composition, but I totally fell in love with the idea of stitching the silhouette of a city onto the page. So, using Mommyish’s Stitching actions and finding a simple outline of Paris online, I quickly recreated a page featuring just these things, while at the same time preserving my own style of scrapping (clustering). And look how my own page turned out: There you have it. The kit I used, by the way, is “Leaving on a Jet Plane by Kristin Cronin-Barrow & Shawna Clingerman, available at sweetshoppedesigns.com.
I’m excited to share with you my next all hybrid double page spread. For this one, I used a digital scrapbooking kit by Kristin Cronin-Barrow & Scrapkitchen Designs (retired), called “A Mother’s Love.” It features photos we took at the edge of a field where a couple of wild flowers bloomed.
Recently, I discovered a website that has some awesome, awesome inspiration going. ColorsConspiracy a bilingual site with articles posted in both French and English. And it features traditionally scrapped paper layouts. But that’s all the tradition you will get there, because generally speaking, the pages they feature are fun and fresh, artsy, and usually just simply gorgeous. If you need more convincing, why don’t you hop on over there to check the site out for yourself?
How many times have you thought something along the lines of “Oh, if I could just …”? I know I have some times. The good news is, we don’t have to live stuck in our dreams, we can actually turn our dreams into reality … with determination and perseverance. Today, I thought I’d put out some journaling prompts that encourage you to think of the changes you need to make and the things you care about most in your life, the things you dream about … Now there are no more things to hold you back from pursuing your dreams. But before I get away going after mine, let me quickly show you the page I made for today’s journaling café:
Paper 2 digi can actually be an exciting adventure. Usually, I love the way those pages turn out for which I found inspiration in the traditional paper scrapping world. Like the page I want to share with you today. Take a look at this gorgeous traditional paper layout by Maska, which I found on the website ColorConspiracy. I totally love the spritzy artistic feel to it, and decided it’s definitely something I’d like to use as a spring board for one of my pages. So, I took the idea of lots of paint, splatters, brushes, a bit of word art, and a couple of scattered elements, and came up with this page: While my page is definitely still quite different from the original (I can’t help myself and need to cluster more elements somehow), you may still be able to find some similarities. And at any rate … the website colorconspiracy is definitely a place worthwhile when you look for inspiration for one of your own pages!
