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Enable Me: A Treasury of Tutorials

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Have you ever wanted to know how to curl photo corners? Have you ever wondered how to create text in a shape? Do you want to improve on your shadows? Would like to start creating your own elements and papers? Or do you simply want to know how to create your first digital scrapbook page ever? You need to wonder no more, for I’ve got the answers for you. That is, the Digital Scrapbook Place has the answers. They offer a whole big section of tutorials on their website. So, if you haven’t seen their collection yet, you should check it out, for they might have just the right answer to one of your questions!

Behind the Scenes: Valentine’s Inspiration

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Valentine’s is still fresh in our minds, and I’m sure for many there are lots of nice memories to keep. So, I thought I’d bring you some Valentine’s inspiration from the galleries. I went on a search and found a couple of layouts that caught my eye. To start off with, I found this page by Diella, using “Just Love Me” – a collab from Sugarhill Co. I love the composition here and the mixed use of brushes/stamps and “real” elements such as flowers, etc. Of course, her title is too funny, too (you’ll get the joke when you look at the full size picture in the gallery)! Next, I found “Valentines” by oldvwblues, using “Be My Valentine” by Carole Créations. I’m sure, you can guess what caught my eye with this page … Right! It’s the photo treatment. How fun to turn the photo into a drawing. “Love You XOX” by MerylBartho is another page I fell in love with. She used a whole lot of different products, including “Time for Love.” On this …

Monday Highlight: J’Adore

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Happy Valentine’s, everyone! Though I have to admit that I don’t really like Valentine’s Day, (because it’s become so commercial and all – and I’m also of the opinion that you should always show your affection to your loved ones,  not just on one special day of the year) – I got the perfect Valentine’s kit for you today: J’Adore by Kristin Cronin-Barrow A little bit of red, a little bit of romance, a little bit of Paris, and a whole lot of love – this is J’Adore. I love how Kristin put this kit together so perfectly. J’Adore comes with bold, patterned papers as well as soft, subtle nuances. It has a beautiful color scheme of red black white and a hint of blue. The heart banner is too cute, the different pieces of word-art – some of them French – are the perfect start for your title work and journaling, and most of all the Eiffel Tower is the cherry on top! Here’s my page, using the kit:

Treasure Spotting: Soccer Champs

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I fell in love again – with yet another gallery treasure: “Soccer Champs” by Darla Vasquez I had narrowed things down to several layouts, but this one just struck me the most. Not only do I love Darla’s job with the shadows here, but I also think her composition is striking, the scattered stars are too cute, and that paint stroke on which she did the journaling – isn’t that the greatest idea of all?

CT Spotlight (02/12)

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Exciting news as our designers have been busy as ever trying to bring us some new great products. Darcy came out with an awesome mega pack of 8 childlike fonts. Libby whipped up some krafty background papers and another pack of her famous paper clips. Cindy created two gorgeous single templates that will help scrapping your Valentine’s pages in no time, and Stephanie (Nanie’s Designs) isn’t slowing down a bit to offer more templates and even an alpha template this week. And here are the pages I came up with using some of the products:

Freebie Friday: With Love

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So, I have been quite busy this week with some out-of-the-ordinary stuff going on, hence there was no time to get you another template. But I don’t want you to be all disappointed, so I’ll hook you up with Darcy Baldwin’s little Valentine’s gift. You can find it on her blog. I hope you’ll enjoy it, and then next week things should be back to normal, I hope! Have a great weekend everyone!

Enable Me: Journaling

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Let’s talk about journaling today. It’s something that all of us scrappers have to deal with at some point, and I know, many of us are struggling to make our journaling meaningful. Me for one! I’m a member of a font designer’s CT (Darcy Baldwin, for those of you who know her), and just the other day, I had been wondering – how can I make her fonts shine more on my pages? In other words, how can my journaling become more center stage on my pages? A big question, but there is hope in sight! Lot’s of great journaling prompts can be found on the web, and though many of them are not even meant for scrappers, we certainly can take the inspiration and turn them into something useful for our pages. And then there are those great scrapbook journaling prompts. I stumbled over one great inspirational blog last week, when I was listening to the paperclipping digishow (published for The Digi Files). One of the guests in that show was Sara Gleason. Now, …

Behind the Scenes: The Rule of Thirds

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One of the most basic rules for photography is the Rule of Thirds. It works quite simple, but can improve your image dramatically, when it comes to proper balance in your composition. The Rule of Thirds also can be applied generally in graphic  design, which makes it quite a useful guideline for us scrappers as well. Now, keep in mind that when I use the terms, “rule” and “guideline” it doesn’t mean these rules are set in stone. Maybe the most important rule in graphic design is that “rules are meant to be broken!” So, when talking about the Rule of Thirds today, I’m not saying all your pages have to abide by this guideline from this day forward. It is meant as a tool, helping you to get better results when taking a photo, or putting your page together. But you may just as well ignore this rule, and still create a great scrapbook layout! Still, as it is a rather useful tool, in our tutorial today, we are going to look at How …

News: SSD Turns 5 And You Get the Presents

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Make sure to stop by the Sweetshoppe every day, this month, as they are celebrating their 5th anniversary. All month long, they have special promotions and sales going on, and you can download a free present every day. Don’t miss out on this, as the links for each giveaway work only for about 24h, and then they expire. MSA Continues Oh, and if you haven’t heard or realized it, yet, the My Scrapbook Art gallery isn’t closing. I’ve heard through the grapevine that some new investors were found, and ownership over there is about  to change. Good news for all of us who upload our layouts there!

Monday Highlight: Instinct

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Usually, I bring you some SSD products in the Monday Highlight, as SSD is my favorite scrap-store in the world. But I also have some favorite designers in other stores. Peppermint Granberg for one. Some of you probably know who I mean when I say “One Little Bird Designs.” As much as I like to load up a page with bold elements, photos and papers, just as much do I like to work with clean, simple designs and lots of “white space.” Peppermint Granberg creates products that work just perfectly for the latter kind of layouts. So, today I’m going to bring you … Instinct by One Little Bird Designs This kit is a feast of papers and patterns. It’s very versatile and can be used for bright, happy pages, as well as dark, subdued layouts. Instinct has a lovely theme with leaves in various ways (papers, scatters, branches), and comes with a uniquely stitched floral ornament, which looks great on any page. Of course, a product by One Little Bird Designs wouldn’t be complete, …