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Freebie Friday: Breath of Fresh Air – Part 2

Are you ready for the next installment of “Breath of Fresh Air”? It’s time to share the first part of the papers. Procedures and terms of use are the same as always, which means: you’re allowed to use any of my products for your personal scrapbooking needs, but you may not redistribute any parts other than by sharing the link to mistyhilltops.com. Now, I hope you’ll enjoy the papers. Have fun scrapping, and as always: happy Friday, scrappers!

scrapbook layout, outdoor, weather

Behind the Scenes: Scrapping with Themed Kits

Themed kits are great for scrapping a very specific topic. I have lots of themed kits in my scrap stash, ranging from sports and outdoors type topics to seasonal, games, hobbies, male/female, and whatever other topic you may think of. And of course, they are perfect to scrap on that very particular topic. But themed kits are useful for a lot more than that. Being part of the creative teams of quite a couple of designers, I frequently run into the problem that my designers whip up gorgeous products for which I have absolutely no photo to match, and while I could just opt for scrapping a photoless layout, I can just as well choose to ignore the fact that the kit is themed and use any photo I like to scrap a page that has nothing to do with the theme of the kit.   Tips to Help You Scrap Non-Themed Layouts with Themed Products Stay generic Only use those papers and elements that are just about included in every typical kit, esp. embellishments …

scrapbook layout, spring

P2D: Spring

Got you another fun page that was inspired by some traditional scrapbooking page. Take a look at this layout by geekgalz over at Studio Calico’s gallery: I thought that this looked like a fun page with all the layers and the paint splats etc. So, of course I had to try my hand at lifting it (but not without giving it my own little personal twist, of course):   It’s spring after all. Anyhow. If you’re looking for some inspiration to scraplift a traditional page, you might want to take a little peek at geekgalz’ gallery. She’s got tons of fun layouts that you could use as a jumping board for one of your own designs.