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Freebie Friday: Autumn

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Digital Scrapbook Day (DSD) is almost upon us, but before that I managed to get you a new template – despite of all the Culture Week craziness that’s going on this week (busiest week of the year for us). This new template is based on my layout “Cozy Autumn,” and I hope you can find some use for it, sooner or later. As was requested, I also re-uploaded my template No. 26 again, (May Faves), but you have to be quick, because the link will only be up this weekend. Now I have a very busy weekend ahead (probably with very little time for scrapping and DSD celebrations) as tomorrow is the grand finale of Culture Week 2011, followed by a BBQ lunch for the foreign faculty. So, I’m off to bed now, but my wish for you as usual is: 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 …

Hybrid Hub: Card No. 19

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I’ve mentioned it before, I’m no fan of Halloween. But that doesn’t mean I don’t like halloween colors. On the contrary. Today I want to show off a birthday card I made last year that features the typical halloween colors of orange, gray, and black. I created this card with a limited edition kit by the Sweetshoppe designers, added a ribbon and some accents, and there was a card to brighten up someone’s birthday!

Enable Me: Autumn Words

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If you’ve seen my home-page today, then you’ll know that we’ve got a reason to celebrate. MistyHilltops.com is turning one! And that means, it’s time for a little party. But what’s a birthday without presents? So I prepared this little pack of word strips perfect for your autumn pages. Here’s the layout that inspired those word strips, and maybe it’ll inspire you to play around with word strips yourself! By the way, if you haven’t seen the summer word strips that I created a while back, you can still find the download link in this post HERE. Note: Please do not re-distribute these word strips in any way (you may share the link to this post), and when you use these word strips, please make sure to credit them to Misty Hilltops Designs.

Behind the Scenes: Creating Ribbons from Patterned Papers

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I have another really simple and quick tutorial for you today. When working on one of my CT pages for Libby the other day, I really wanted to use another one of those pretty papers she and Meghan had put together in their new release “Fullness of Life,” but I already had lots of papers in use, and couldn’t find how to add another one without messing up the entire page. Then a light went off! Using a template, there was still one ribbon that needed to be replaced, and I thought: Why not use that patterned paper for that ribbon? But I still wanted to make it look realistic, and really like a ribbon. Well, I thought, that’s easy peasy, just clip and apply a blending mode and that’ll do the trick. Here, take a look at my finished page: See that ribbon with the hearts behind the photo? This is what we are going to recreate today. In this tutorial you will learn how to … … clip a paper to a ribbon …

Monday Highlight: Scrapping Fall with Older Kits

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Buying digiscrap kits, I really like to make full use of them. And making full use of them, also means to use them again, for more than just one layout. So, recently, I dug up some of my older kits from my digistash, to scrap some of my more recent fall memories and thoughts. Here’s one page, made with Julie Billingsley’s and Eva Kipler’s “Warm Your Heart,” which unfortunately is no longer available. I only added a few berries from another kit, and a stamped alpha. And this one – a scraplift of a rather simple nature – was made with Julie Billingsley’s “Falling For You.” See? Old, doesn’t mean outdated, or boring; so maybe you also have some older kits in your digistash that are still good for scrapping your memories. Why not check your folders, and see if there’s something that maybe you’ve even forgotten about, but that would make a wonderful new page? You never know – it might be a page like that that makes one of the next standouts …

Treasure Sunday October 30th

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Wheww! This is a tough call today. Am still undecided on a couple of pages, because there were so many layouts that I liked this week. But here’s this one for a starter: Divine Idylle by beaute This just has a beautiful composition and color scheme going on, and the photos are so adorable. Things I Love by giny The next gem I found has a beautiful artistic theme going on that caught my eye immediately. And I love how she pinned up her title like laundry. Remarkable (Grab Bag) by Dani I also fell in love with this beauty. What a beautiful composition with the pops of red that photo in the background, and the pretty cluster. Amused by domad Here, it was the photo that had me keep coming back to this page, but I also love the doodled border, and all the doodled elements she put together. My Fashionista by PaulineM When I saw this layout, I thought it was such a cool page! I love the yellow pops of color on …

P2D: Pause

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Here’s a new sample for my Paper to Digi series. I took a layout by teapot2angel at 2 Peas and gave my own twist to it. Here’s the original: And here’s what I did with this: Finding inspiration in the paper scrapping world is so much fun, and if you haven’t tried it, you might want to check out teapot2angel’s gallery.

Freebie Friday: Clock

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Yes! Freebie Friday is happy Friday. I’m excited, because I have a brand new template from a brand new layout “My Day.” I hope you’ll find some use for it, sooner or later. Anyways, Digital Scrapbook Day is approaching, and I’m thinking of re-uploading some of my older templates again for that special occasion. But I don’t want to have so much work, if it’s just a handful of people who didn’t get them in the first place, or who care about downloading them. So, if you are interested in getting one of those templates from my blog that aren’t available any longer, just shoot me a comment here between now and next Friday, telling me which one you’d like to have, and I’ll fix the links to the most popular ones, or so. Would that be a good deal for you? Anyways, see you around in digiland, 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 …

Hybrid Hub: Card No. 18

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Check out my next Thank-You card. I made it with Libby Pritchett’s “Apples on a Stick,” and used Darcy Baldwin’s Stamp Pad Alpha for the sentiment. The ribbon was a simple piece of lace someone else had cut off their bedding, and altogether this makes another little card that will make someone happy, I’m sure.

Enable Me: Custom Shapes for Photoshop

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I usually have photo actions for you when I want to share something for Photoshop on Enable-Me Wednesdays. Today, I thought I’d mix things up a bit (though don’t worry, I still have lots of more free photoshop actions to share with you, thanks to my sister who hooks me up). Today, I have a set of custom shapes that I’d like to share. If you’ve seen yesterday’s tutorial post on creating journaling mats from custom shapes, then this is the perfect addition for you to find a huge assortment of various shapes. (My leaf shape is from this custom shape set.) Simply click on the image above to get to the download page, and I hope you find this useful (esp. for those of you who do the challenges at SSD as this month has a challenge to create a brush from a custom shape). Have fun playing with all the shapes …