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Hybrid Hub: Thank You Card No. 2

I have a new hybrid project, I want to show you. It’s another Thank-You card. There are so many reasons to be thankful to those around us, so it’s hard to keep up with showing my appreciation. But cards are a great way to demonstrate your thankfulness, especially when they come handcrafted. For this particular card, I used “Just Breathe” by Kristin Cronin-Barrow and Lauren Grier (available at sweetshoppedesigns.com). Creating this card was fairly simple, since the kit comes with beautiful papers that you really want to show off. I just sized everything on my computer, printed it off on cardstock and assembled it. Note that the sentiment (translated it means: “Wanna say thank you”) is printed directly on the background paper, which was possible, because I always fully design my cards before copying and pasting everything separately onto a new blank canvas for printing.

Enable Me: P365/52 – Log Your Memory

Project 365/52: for some of us that sounds like a huge challenge that can’t be mastered, others seem to come alive at the prospect of documenting every single day of the year, or at least every week in their lives. For those who shy away from the challenge, because it seems to overwhelming, I have to say that the task doesn’t have to be so intimidating as there are lots of resources that can help you document your lives. For those who are already involved with P365/52, but who are looking for new inspiration to bring new life into the P365/52 rut, I also have good news. The same: there is a ton of inspiration you can find to make your task easier. One of these great resources is a website, called: logyourmemory.com. When you go to this website, you can find lots of tools. The Memory Logbook is a book (hardcopy or downloadable) that provides lots of inspiration to document your life: ideas are based on seasons, holidays and events, and the book comes …

Behind the Scenes: Ideas for Photos in Spring

Many of us love to take photos. It’s part of our memory keeping process. The problem starts, when you are tired of the same ol’ same ol’ kind of photos that you get every year – the ones where the only difference is, that it’s a different year, and the faces get older. If you are looking for some fresh ideas and inspiration for your spring photos, however, I might have just what you are looking for. I did some researching the last couple of days to come up with ideas to make your photos a little more fun and varied. And for your convenience I’m putting them together in a nice little list. Spring Cleaning What’s part of your spring cleaning? Your progress Before and after shots You accomplishments Spring – Season of Firsts First flowers in your garden First warm day First picnic First time playing in the park First bbq First time swimming Easter Your decoration this year Your decorating progress Egg dying Easter baskets Egg hunts Your Easter treats this year …

Monday Highlight: Stitched by Anna

Sorry, this is a day late. The internet over here was so slow last night that I gave up trying to post. But here it is: I’ve told you before that I really love it when pages look realistic. The more realistic, the better. One cool way to give our pages a little more realism (and add a touch of something extra, too) is to use extra elements such as stitches. Now, I know that there are tons of stitch-packs on the market – I do have some of them myself. But some of my favorite stitches are those by Anna Aspnes. She has a whole lot of stitch packs in her store over at designer digitals, and they come in all kinds of fashion – simply white, black, or colored, multi-stitched (black & white, red & white, etc.), straight lines of stitching, squares, corners, … you name it. All you need to do is check out her store, and you’ll have plenty of choice. Over time, I’ve invested in three of her stitch packs …

Treasure Sunday: Happy First Birthday

I’m in awe. That is, I’ve been in awe ever since I discovered this beauty in the gallery. Yes, I’m going a little different today and want to show you a hybrid project – a birthday card. “Happy First Birthday” by Geordie Girl Of course, I love Libby’s kit “And Your Bird Can Sing” that she used for this card. But that’s not it. The Hanglar Stanglar stamp girl, besides, is what immediately caught my eye, but that’s not it. The predominant combination of red and white is lovely with this card. But that’s not it. The red and white ribbons make this card so special. But that’s not it. It’s everything together which makes this birthday card a real gem in my treasure chest! Wouldn’t you agree?

CT Spotlight (03/26)

I’m in love with Darcy’s new fonts “DJB Quirky Sisters,” which she just put in her store today. And since we are talking about this week’s new releases already, let me share some more of the fabulous products the designers have released: Libby has a new set of Paper Clips: Jumbo Shapes 2. Cindy with a couple of gorgeous new templates that I fell in love with immediately: Set #88, and Set #89. And Stephanie, of course, also came up with some new templates: Sassy Starters Volume 14, and Sassy Starters Volume 15. Here are my pages, using some of these products:

Freebie Friday: Goals

Happy Friday, everyone! I’ve been having really slow internet today. So, to get this post done, basically took me forever. But here it is finally, and I hope you’ll enjoy it. It’s based on my page “Goals 2011. Hope, you’ll have fun scrapping with this one, and as I always remind you: don’t forget to hook me up with the pages you upload to the galleries. 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.

Hybrid Hub: Thank You Card No. 1

I haven’t posted anything about hybrid in a long time. That’s probably, because I haven’t done much hybrid in quite a while. Still, I do have some projects I worked on last year, so I guess, I can start sharing some of what I did in the past. And maybe that will motivate me to get back into doing more hybrid again. Today, I want to show you one of my very first hybrid projects that uses digital scrapbook supplies. It’s a thank-you-card. Now, keep in mind that I am living in China, which means there is no craft store anywhere near the place where I live. Not any craft stores at least as we know them in other places of the world, where they  offer tons of supplies: flowers, ribbons, beads, stamps, etc. So, I have to make do with whatever I have available, and that is basically my printer. So, usually, I just design my cards on the computer, print everything, and assemble. Since digital scrapbook supplies usually come in great quality, printing …

Enable Me: Snaggle’s Shadow Spectacular

Wednesday’s here, and that means it’s time to hook you up with another great internet resource. Since I’ve done a lot of photoshop actions recently (and I still have several more to come, so stay posted, if you don’t want to miss out on them), I thought, I’d enable you with another tutorial on how to create great shadows. In a thread over at scrapmatters.com, Carly (user “snaggle7575”) shared some insight into her process of shadowing a couple months ago. She gives us the exact specifications for how she does her shadows, and if you are still trying to find the best way how to shadow your digi-scrap elements and papers, then Snaggle’s Shadow Spectacular could be a very helpful tool for you. You can check out her post HERE or simply click on the image above. BTW, Paislee Press is giving away spot to an online scrapbooking class “Sketchbook 3.” If you haven’t heard about this, yet, you should check it out HERE.

Behind the Scenes: Principles of Design – Static and Dynamic Composition

Since (digital) scrapbooking is no less than another form of graphic design, I thought that once a month I’d start to share some insight into the principles and rules of graphic design. Lots of things can be learned in this area, and I’m sure that knowing a little about these rules and principles will help us create even better pages in the future. Now, keep in mind, I’m no artistic pro. All I know about this is self-taught with a few tips by professionals here and there, and I’m making no claim that what I have to say is exhaustive by any means. My goal is simply to share some insights with the hope that it will help us become better scrappers.  But if you are a pro and have something to add to what I’m going to talk about, feel free to do so. So, today I want to talk about a very basic principle of composition – the principle of static and dynamic composition. Static Composition In a nutshell, static composition means that …