All posts filed under: DigiScrap Talk

Inspire Me: Patti

Published by Sula H.

It’s Inspiration-Wednesday, and that means, I’m about to bring you some fresh inspiration from the galleries. I always love to check out other people’s galleries, because it always gives me some fresh ideas for my own pages. One such inspiring scrapper for me is Patti (as she is known in the digi-world). Her gallery is full of amazing layouts, featuring gorgeous cluster-work and a great feel for how to work with brushes. If you haven’t known about her yet, it might be worth checking out her gallery. Who knows what inspiration you might find?

Behind the Scenes: Handwriting Fonts

Published by Sula H.

A while ago I started talking about fonts. While back then we covered a little about typewriter fonts, today I’d like to share some insight into handwriting fonts. After all, we create scrapbook pages in order to keep our memories, which means journaling is part of the process. Also, we like for our layouts to look as close to the real deal as possible, and what better way to achieve that look than by adding some handwritten sentiments to the page? Let me take it even a little further – what better way to journal our memories and thoughts than to use our very own handwriting? Now, there are lots of handwriting fonts out. Some for free, others need to be purchased. Again, a great source for some fun and interesting handwriting fonts is dafont. But I’ve also found other handwriting fonts at other websites by simply googling the search term “download free handwriting fonts.” Some of my favorite handwriting fonts are: But of course, there are many more fonts that would look great on …

Monday Highlight: SSD Quarterly Assortment

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I’m sure, those of you who stopped by my little digiscrap corner last week were in for some disappointment, since there wasn’t much happening at all this past week. Can you tell that school has started, and I got a little busier than than the last two months? On top of that, ever since everyone got back to school the internet has gotten really bad here, so that trying to post something takes a lot of extra efforts. But I’m trying my best, and am back on track for this week (have you checked the new template freebie, yet, it’s up now), so, today I want to tell you about the Sweetshoppe Quarterly Assortments. Four times a year the SSD designers release a flood of papers and elements, all neatly packaged into some pretty little mini-kit collection they call the Quarterly Assortment. It’s true, each kit only comes with a few papers (most of them highly patterned) and a couple of elements. In my eyes, the QA still is a great deal, however, since we …

Treasure Sunday: Little Miss Shopaholic

Published by Sula H.

A couple of days I stumbled upon a gem over at the Sweetshoppe blog. It immediately caught my eye, and since Aggie has been one of my favorite scrappers for a long time, and she has an awesome gallery, it’s about time that I picked one of her pages. “Little Miss Shopaholic” by Aggie Aviso First of all, it’s her composition that is a feast for the eye. I love her choice of papers, colors, elements, and how everything is placed on the page so perfectly – all the little clusters, pieces of wordart, and isn’t the little banner at the top just the cutest?

Freebie Friday: Empty

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Since all the students are back on campus, I thought I’d scrap about how the campus can be so very empty, sometimes. And now, I have another freebie for you, based on that page. As always, the invitation is open for you to come back and leave a comment with a link to your gallery, so I can check out your finished layout. Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you enjoy this template! Note: Please don’t 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.

Enable Me: Photo Actions by The Pioneer Woman

Published by Sula H.

Most scrapbook pages can’t go without a photo, so scrappers like us always are looking for ways how to make our pictures shine on a page. Photo editing is a vital part of digital scrapbooking, so today I have another helpful resource for you. The Pioneer Woman. Ree Drummond, who runs that website, also has a category “Photography” on her homepage, where she offers some awesome sets of free photo actions. You will also find lots of other inspiration on The Pioneer Woman, photography related, Photoshop related, or just everyday life related. If you haven’t known about The Pioneer Woman yet, you should go and take a look!

Behind the Scenes: Looping Elements

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When it comes to traditional scrapbooking, many things seem to fall into place just naturally, while with digital scrapping nothing is coincidence. Everything that is on the page is there, because we deliberately placed it there. For example, while on a traditional scrapbook page you can randomly scatter elements by just throwing them on the page and adhere them wherever they fall, you can’t just “throw” things onto your computer screen, and hope they’ll stick with your digital page. It just doesn’t work that way. Another thing, that comes rather easily on a traditional page is the looping of elements, for example through a ribbon. You just tie the ribbon around the element, and place it on your page. Not so with a digital ribbon. Wrapping a digital ribbon takes some extra effort and knowledge of your graphics program to achieve the desired look. But no need to worry – it actually isn’t all that difficult. Let’s take a look at this page, for example: If you take a closer look, you will see that …

Treasure Spotting: You Have My Heart

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As usual, it isn’t hard at all to find a beautiful gem in the galleries as they are full of treasures. So, today I want to show you … “You Have My Heart” by Zwyck Did I ever tell you I have a weakness for paint strokes and brushes on a digiscrap page? Well, here it is. Another layout with just that feature! I love how the paint stroke here is blended with different shades of red (and white, of course). The composition is beautiful. The way the photo was edited perfectly matches the color palette, and besides, it is an adorable picture. And aren’t those pops of green and red perfect for this page? Thanks zwyck, for sharing this beautiful page with us!

Freebie Friday: Keeper

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Better late than never! Sorry, everyone, the internet has been so slow over here these days that it’s been too frustrating trying to post anything, but here I am, finally, with my latest freebie template for you: Again, I would love to see what you do with this template, so make sure to come back to this post (after you’ve uploaded your finished layouts to the galleries), and leave a comment with a link here. You never know: it might be your page that’s going to be featured next Friday along with the new template! Note: Please don’t 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.