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Enable Me: Document Your December

Published by Sula H.

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 …

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December Daily – Week 3 Recap

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Time is flying! I can’t believe another week has past already. I’ve already completed my third week, and only one week till Christmas is left! Here’s a glimpse at my pages and activities this past week … And I actually managed to also create the cover page for my front and back cover. Can’t wait to see everything printed out and assembled into an actual album. Will definitely show you when it’s finished! I actually love how doing the December Daily project helps me make this season so much more meaningful. After all, I’m a lot more intentional about how I spend my days as I’m trying to incorporate something related to Christmas and its traditions into my daily activities. I hope you still have just as much fun with your DD project as I have. And don’t forget: Keeping things easy is half the work. PS. For more inspiration, see Week 2, and Week 1.

Freebie Friday: Clean Slate

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Finally. First it took me forever to create this template, and then my folder had issues so that I couldn’t place anything in it (or copy from it for that matter to simply copy what I had saved in it already into another folder), and then I wasn’t able to post because my internet is so bad recently. Talking about being annoyed! But, I finally managed to get you a new template. This one’s based on my newest layout “Clean Slate.” I hope you’ll have fun with it. And don’t forget to link us up with any of your layouts you create using one of the templates. And of course, I’ll take the freedom to remind you to not forget to pick up the daily free templates that are posted each day through the month of December over at SSD. 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 Misty Hilltops …

Hybrid Hub: Star Box

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I have something special for today’s hybrid post. A star shaped Christmas box. I found the template and instructions on the canon paper craft website, but instead of using their paper patterns (which would use a lot of unnecessary ink and paper), I simply created my own clipping masks from their templates, and clipped my own papers to them. The papers I used come from Kristin Cronin-Barrow’s Tis the Season for Love, and I Love Cocoa. Creating my own clipping masks also allowed me to resize this box and make it a little larger than the original. This box has double layers everywhere, which makes it quite sturdy.

Enable Me: Creating A Custom Shaped Bokeh

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I stumbled upon a super fun and easy tutorial recently about how to take pictures in which the lights take on fun shapes. As soon as I saw this, I knew I’d have to try my own hand at this, and true enough, it’s just as simple as it seems in the tutorial. So, if you want to know how to take pictures with a bokeh such as this one, simply hop on over to Kevin’s and Amanda’s blog to check out their tutorial.

Behind the Scenes: Re-Coloring Overlays and Brush Layers

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As promised last week, I have a very quick and short tutorial today on how to re-color brush layers and overlays (ie. as used in my current December Daily project). (See the overlay with the date cluster that frames the journaling page.) In this tutorial you will learn how to … … add a Color Overlay Style to your brush layer (or overlay). Here’s How It Works … STEP 1 | Add a Color Overlay to Your Layer Assuming that you already have your canvas open and created a brush layer (or any other kind of solid colored overlay), in the Layers Panel, double click on the layer that you wish to modify. That should bring up the Layer Style menu (or click on the little fx symbol at the bottom of your Layers Panel). On the left side of the pop-up window, you will see a list of Styles options. Check “Color Overlay” to open that menu. Click on the little color box (by default it’s red in my version of …

Journaling Café: Christmas Lights

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Christmas is the season of lights: candle light, twinkle lights, illuminated decorations – we’ve certainly found our way to counter the gloom of winter and brighten up this darkest time of the year. Today’s journaling prompts, therefore, are all about the Christmas lights that bring hope and joy into our hearts and homes: With all the business of preparing for the holidays, I hope you’ll still find time to think about a few of these prompts, and maybe they’ll even inspire you to recall some of your favorite memories of the past. In any way, happy story telling, and don’t get so busy that you don’t have the time to stop and be merry and bright for a moment each day throughout the season! The font used here is my own handwriting font DJB Squirrels In My Pants by Darcy Baldwin (available at the Sweetshoppe).