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Document Your December: December Daily 2012

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  Wheee! December twenty-twelve is at hand (just a couple more days, yay!), and for many of us scrappers that means we are embarking on a new journey with the December Daily project. My 2011 DD was a blast, and so I’m super stoked to get going on this year’s album. In fact, I’ve been so eager to start that I began documenting the season with Thanksgiving (as I did last year) even though that seems a little early (yes, I can’t help it – I just love this season!). Most of you, however, won’t start until December 1st, I’m sure, so there’s still a couple more days to get ready. And with the proper preparations, completing your DD 2012 can be a breeze. Really. Last year, I documented the process of creating this project with lots of  articles, how to’s, and inspiration, and I’m hoping to share more of what’s going on behind the scenes with my own project this year. But, since I don’t want to repeat myself, today I’m just going to …

Journaling Café: Getting Ready for Christmas

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My favorite time of the year – the Christmas season – is about to start, and so today’s journaling prompts are all about getting ready for the season: And since I also had something to say about my preparations, I made a page, too: The font used for the prompts is my own handwriting font DJB Squirrels In My Pants by Darcy Baldwin (available at the Sweetshoppe).  

P2D Inspiration: Sweet November

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A while back I came across this layout, and I thought about how much fun it would be to scraplift it. I loved the arrangement and layering of the different papers, and that pocket in which Kelly (the scrapper who created this page) had inserted the tag. So, I sat down to work on a page, and it was that page that got me into creating the Thanksgiving kit “A Grateful Heart,” which I’ve been sharing with you lately.

Freebie Friday: A Grateful Heart, Part 2

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I’m happy to share with you the next part of my digital scrapbooking kit “A Thankful Heart.” Today you’ll get the first part of the papers, and if you come back next week you’ll be able to pick up the remaining paper parts. And for those of you who have tried to download the alphas and the link didn’t work last week: I’ve fixed the link (at least I hope I did). Sorry for the inconvenience of that broken link. I’d copied the link as I was supposed to but then when I posted it, it reverted back to the original image’s link without me realizing it. I tried a couple times and it always reverted back to the old link, and it took a while for me to realize that I had to completely delete all links embedded in the image for it to finally accept the correct one. Anyhow, you can scroll down to find last Friday’s part (if you haven’t downloaded it already), and keep me posted on how the downloads work …

Enable Me: Count Your Blessings

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For many of us, November is a great time to stop what we’re doing for a moment and think about all the blessings we have. Darcy Baldwin (Sweetshoppe) has created a set of templates/quickpages using Meghan Mullens kit Count Your Blessings, which helps us do just that: her Count Your Blessings Album is a perfect tool to record happy moments and thoughts with just a few mouse clicks. Her album is a ready set of pages, but the quickpages come layered so you can easily clip your own papers to them and add embellishments, which makes this album super versatile and perfect for a little project to remember what you’re thankful for in November 2012. Here’s a page I created with one of the templates from this pack:

Behind the Scenes: Using Paper Piecing Patterns with Digital Scrapbooking

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The holiday season is upon us, and that means some of us are busy busy making cards to send to loved ones and friends. I at least have made it a priority again this year, to create more handcrafted cards, after I failed at it miserably last year. And since I’m someone who tends to get bored with repetition, I’m always looking for new ideas that I can incorporate in my own card making. The www is a great source of inspiration, and over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been able to dig up some treasure or other to inspire one of my own cards. Being a person with both limited time and limited resources, however (craft stores where I live are not what craft stores are in Northern Europe or North Amereica), I have a few guidelines to govern the choice of projects I create: They have to be simple in design, and they have to be with materials I have at hand (printer, paper & maybe a ribbon). A very fun way …

Journaling Café: Season of Thanks

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Though I didn’t grow up celebrating Thanksgiving the way any Americans would do, Thanksgiving has become a more important holiday to me over the last couple of years. And anyways, I think we can always work at becoming more thankful, so today’s journaling prompts are naturally all about the upcoming holiday, and the things we can be thankful for in our lives … And here’s my take on one of these prompts:

P2D Inspiration: Let the Season Begin

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  Admitted, it’s still a little early for Christmas, but since I love the season, and since my recent shopping experience exposed me to some pretty neat Christmas stuff around here, and since I really wanted to use one of my recent purchases, I decided to do a Christmas page. And I found myself a fun paper layout to scraplift and turn into a digital version. Here’s Kelly Goree’s sample page, which I totally loved as soon as I saw it: And here’s my take on it:

Freebie Friday: A Grateful Heart, Part 1

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I’m absolutely stoked, because today I have something special to share with you – my first ever full digital scrapbook kit! I recently got my fingers very itchy to create a layout based on a certain color scheme, but since I didn’t have anything of the likes in my scrap stash, I decided, to just make my own kit. And now, with Thanksgiving and such coming up, I thought, why not turn it into a full kit that I could share with others as well? So, voila! Instead of my usual template freebie, I have this, and hope you won’t be too disappointed, if you’ve waited for a new template. Anyhow, I’ll be sharing this kit over the next couple of weeks, so be sure to come back to pick up the remaining parts. But for now, here’s part 1 of “A Grateful Heart”. Happy scrapping, and happy Friday, scrappers! Note: Please do not re-distribute this product in any way (you may share the link to this post), and when you use items from this …