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.
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!
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 …
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).
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 …
I got another paper-2-digi sample for you. Recently, I found this page in the galleries, which I happened to find a fun page: So, I took the inspiration, and turned it into this digital layout: Are you getting inspired? The you should go and find yourself a page to play with.
The internet hasn’t been liking me very much, these days, but still, I’ve managed to get you a new template today. It’s based on my layout “Treasured Memories.” (I hope you can see the preview image, because I can’t. lol – Bad. Bad bad internet!!!) Anyways, I was having fun creating this page, and hope you’re having fun working with this template. As always, let me know what you do with this template by linking us up with your finished layout in the galleries. And as always: 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.
I’ve got more card inspiration for you. This one’s another simple thank-you card, made with several layers of patterned papers. The kit I used was from an older SSD Quarterly Assortment mini kit by Kristin Cronin-Barrow.
I’ve got something new to inspire you this week. I’ve known her layout since years, ever since I first set eyes on a beautiful page of hers, called {The beach people}, which she posted in the galleries about two years ago. And ever since then, have I been an on-and-off stalker of her gallery. If I was asked to define her style, I’d clearly include it in the category of “clean design,” though she also knows how to scrap other styles. If you’re looking for more inspiration, then Kelleanne’s gallery is definitely worth a trip. Here’s one of her more recent pages: And you can find her gallery HERE.
I love patterned papers. I think it was the pretty papers that actually got me hooked to (digi) scrapping in the first place. So, when creating layouts with some of the beautiful kits the designers create, of course I like to have some of the patterns shine. Often, however, using patterned papers as a background of a layout can be quite distracting, and the journaling at times can become pretty much illegible when we try to write on patterned papers. Throughout the years of my scrapbooking journey, I’ve discovered a few ways of how to find a happy compromise between using patterned background papers and making them work on a layout. One of these little tricks I will share here with you today, and the magic word is … Blending Take this layout, for instance: I used Dani Mogstad’s cute winter kit “Chill Out” for this, which has quite some pretty patterned papers, including the snowflake paper I used for the background. While working on the page, however, I realized that the pattern made the …
