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Enable Me: 2012 Calendars

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The year of 2011 is almost at an end. It’s the last chance to get the new calendars for 2012 ready in time. I’m rather excited that I finally get to show you the calendar I made back in October, using Cindy Schneider’s and Dani Mogstad’s calendar templates. They come in various sizes, and are perfect to jump start any calendar project, and if you haven’t decided what to do for a 2012 calendar yet, they’re the perfect solution. I actually ordered a bunch of calendars to give to family and friends (thus all pictures of myself, and thus I couldn’t post earlier, because I didn’t want to give away the surprise), and I hope I get to print my own version (with different photos) before the end of the week. If you are looking for calendar inspiration – most template designers release their own version of calendars, and there’s tons of inspiration in the galleries, too!

Behind the Scenes: Create Your Own Layered Christmas Tree

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Christmas 2011 officially now is a thing of the past. But for us scrappers the good news is that our holiday scrapping is just beginning, since I’m sure that most of us have a lot of memories that we want to preserve with your layouts. It’s the perfect timing, therefore, to bring you this little tutorial on how to create your own paper clipping Christmas tree. Check out my DD cover page, and the tree you see there is what you’ll learn to do in today’s tutorial:   In this tutorial you will learn how to …   … create your own clipping masks using a custom shape; … rasterize the custom shape; … divide the custom shape into various fields/shapes by using the Eraser Tool.   Here’s how it works … I’m assuming that you’ve already opened your canvas, and are ready to start …   STEP 1 |  Create a Triangular Shape The first thing we need to do is create a triangular shape. Simply press U to bring up the Custom Shape …

Journaling Café: Christmas Gifts

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In Germany, today is still a full fledged Christmas holiday, officially called 2. Christmas Day (yesterday was the 1. Christmas day). This means, celebrations, indulging in great meals, and gift giving are still in full swing. Today’s journaling inspiration, therefore, is all about the gift giving: Let’s hope that with the holiday aftermath (or maybe continued celebrations) you’ll still find the time to journal some of your thoughts and experiences regarding this year’s Christmas gifts. Here’s a page of mine about gifts: The font used here is my own handwriting font DJB Squirrels In My Pants by Darcy Baldwin (available at the Sweetshoppe).  

Treasure Sunday: December 25th

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I hope your Christmas celebrations are going well. To add some little eye-candy to all the sweet treats you’re getting these days, I went and raided the galleries, and here’s what I found this week …   Winter by Bdigis Starting off with this fun and wintery page! I love the fun and fresh feel to it. The clustering is gorgeous, and the color palette so pretty. Great photos, too!   Snowy Love by chocochoco Another page with the same kit (I saw lots of pretty pages with it today) – great clustering, fun composition, and I love the gold letters stuck in between the other elements.   Wish List by caramellche Staying with the Christmas theme – here’s another page that caught my eye. I love the vintage/doodley feel about this page, and all the fun elements she managed to scrap in the cluster.   Please Check Twice by estir_bune I don’t care much about Santa Clause, but this page actually caught my eye. Most of all, I like the paint and doodle bits …

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December Daily – Week 4 Recap

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Merry Christmas, everyone! My December Daily album is coming together just nicely this year, so it’s time for another recap of what happened this past week (all images are linked to gallery for product info) … For most of you, it’s time to celebrate now, so I won’t keep you much longer. Have fun making memories! PS. For more inspiration, see Week 3, Week 2, and Week 1.

Inspire Me: Christmas

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If you’ve been following my DigiScrap Corner even just a little, surely by now you’ve figured that I really love Christmas. And since it’s the season, and Christmas is almost here, I thought, I’d throw out some more inspiration for you. Here are some Christmas pages I created earlier this year (from last Christmas) for a photobook project I did.   And here are some older pages from last Christmas …

Enable Me: Document Your December

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Ok, so I know it’s kind of a little late for this – it already being almost Christmas and all; and I know that I usually try to hook you up with stuff that’s free in the Enable Me/Inspire Me section of my Digiscrap Corner, but being someone who absolutely loves the December Daily project this year, I just have to still show you: The other day, I stumbled upon the Pear Tree Album – a template pack by Sara Gleason. And boy, do I wish I had the extra $$ to purchase that set! This pack is huge, and besides the full range of page templates in various sizes (to make way more than just one DD album), it also comes with lots of extra goodies, such as transparency overlays, trims for clippings, etc. etc. I’m telling you, if you are looking for some DD inspiration, and you have the cash for templates (this set is rather cheap considering all the content, and comparing it to template packs in general), then you need to …

Behind the Scenes: The Key to Clustering

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Composition and element clusters often make or break a scrapbook layout. With all the templates that are circulating the market these days, clustering has been made a lot easier, and yet, I still hear more than enough comments about how people just don’t know how to create pretty clusters. If you’re one of them, then this tutorial is for you!   In this tutorial you will learn how to … … add elements, and arrange them in such a way that they create clusters.   Here’s how it works … Lets get started. I’m going to take you step by step, as I am creating one of my December Daily pages. STEP 1| Add Elements You Desire to Use on Your Layout I’ve already prepared my page so that I only need to add and arrange the elements. KEY #1: The order of when you add which element doesn’t matter. First, I just go through the element folder of the kit I’m using and pick a couple of the elements I’d like to add. I …

Journaling Café: Christmas Celebrations

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It’s the season of celebrations – Christmas parties, advent afternoons, get together-s with family, friends, colleagues, and whoever else. Today’s journaling prompts are all about the Christmas celebrations: With all the celebrations coming up, I hope you’ll still find the time to record your memories, too … The font used here is my own handwriting font DJB Squirrels In My Pants by Darcy Baldwin (available at the Sweetshoppe).

Treasure Sunday: December 18th

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Got myself some new treasures again, and feeling in a generous mood, of course, I’m going to share them with you. Love by juhh Starting off today’s showcase with this page by juhh. My heart goes “aaahh” whenever I see pages like these – so full of life and vibe. I love the “messiness” of this page, all the splatters and doodles. The overall composition is just so much fun, and I love the artistic feel to conveys so perfectly.   Awakening by Jopke Staying on the artistic side of things. Another page full of splatters, messiness, and – life!  Love the shadows of this page – the little picture frames lifting at the corners, the yellow flower. And the photos are so beautiful, too!   Dec 15th by teeleedee Of course, what would be the Christmas season without Christmas layouts, or the December Daily for that matter. If you know anything about me, then you’ll know that I love pages with lots of white space. And this one’s so much fun! I totally love …