Valentine’s day is sneaking up! I have some projects in the works, but I’ve been getting ready for CHA so I haven’t had time to finish and share them. I did however release a digital line of valentine’s kits that are sooooo cute, so I wanted to share those with you. I also have 2 free valentine downloads, those will be at the bottom of the post, so keep reading!
The first thing I want to show you is an adorable “Ten reasons why I’m crazy about you” quick album that I designed. This is really awesome and I’m going to finish mine and print it out for Mr. Project for V-day this year. Basically it consists of TEN 5″x7″ pages where you can quickly drop in photos and your text, or simply drop in your photos, print and then hand-write your text. I am super exited about this meaningful album. It’s available in my shop at Design House Digital.
I also have a bunch of Smitten papers, elements and heart sets in my shop. This mini kit is 30% off Thursday Jan 21 ONLY.
So now to the freebies! My friend and Design House Decorator Tiffany Bodily Made this adorable Photo valentine. The file is a PNG file (like my quick album), where you can drop your photo under the image layer and then print it out.
I made a cute printable valentine that doesn’t require any work or know-how:
Both valentine cards measure 3″wide by 4″ tall when printed. They are each set up on their own 8.5×11 sheet for easy printing. These cards are for PERSONAL use only and can only be downloaded from www.theprojectgirl.com. If you find these downloads available elsewhere, please contact me using the contact link on this site. Happy Valentine’s day!
Here are a few beautiful layouts by the Design House Decorators showing off my Smitten digital products:
Have you stopped by the My Mind’s Eye Blog lately? Wow! Wow! Wow! All the sneak peaks for CHA are up, and they are fabulous. And today I took a peak to find the MOST beautiful papercrafting projects using my Be-Loved papers. Here are two of the photos, but be sure to check out the detail shots and credits on the MME Blog. So awesome!
If you’ve heard about Project 365 or are thinking about doing it, now is a great time to start. I’m sure you have *some* photos from 2010 and many more days are ahead of you still! This year I was planning on doing a modified version of 365 where I would compile photos from each month and make a few pages, and then at the end of the year get an album printed. However when I really started looking at how much fun taking just one single picture every day could be, I decided to go for it! So I made a super clean, super simple album template for the month of January. I wanted it to be very photo-oriented because with 365 photos of different things, you don’t want too much interfering with that. Plus I like really graphic and editorial style layouts. Here is the album that I designed:
You can see that it’s really basic. It has 8 pages wth spaces for 31 photos, and then a 9th page which has one line for a caption for each photo. I am going to make a corresponding album for every month of 2010. Each will be a variation based on the season, but they will all have the same look and feel so that if you followed the project through for the whole year, you would end up with a sleek coordinating album.
You can also personalize and modify the template to your specifications by adding digital elements and patterns. I decided to make a quick video tutorial to show you just how easy it is to compile your photos from 2010. Hopefully it will inspire you to start taking pictures! If you are unfamiliar with templates, this tutorial should give you a basic understanding of how templates work in general. I used Photoshop Elements 8.0 but the same principles apply to other versions as well as full-featured Photoshop.
For those of you who are avid scrapbookers and papercrafters, you might know about CHA the semi-annual crafting trade-show. CHA is in just a few short days and I have an adorable paper line coming out by My Mind’s Eye called Quite Contrary. My good friend Zoe Pearn and I collaborated on the design of this paper line to bring you 40 fun and beautiful papers and 80 a-la-cart accessories. I wanted to show you a few of my favorite elements, but I love all the pieces so much! You can see them all at My Mind’s Eye.
Check your local scrapbook store in the next few weeks when it hits stores. Be sure to ask for it by name so that your store will know that they need to order it in if they haven’t already. I can’t wait to get my hands on it and make some fun projects as well as see all the amazing things that crafters are making with it too! I’ll be posting here from CHA with lots of updates and photos!
I used the Random Number Generator to pick #17 Leslie:
17. Leslie
I have loved my minds eye papers for so long. I never knew who designed them but always wondered who did. It was quite a suprise to find out that “you” have designed several of my favorite lines. I’ve cyber followed you ever since. I’m completely new to digi scrapbooking but I love it. You are truly inspiring. I love the fact you share so much on your blog. I not only learn about photoshop, design etc… but I get to know you as well.
Thanks for the giveaway.
Leslie
Thanks Leslie and everyone else for commenting! It’s great to hear from all of you out there and know that you’re enjoying all my efforts to keep this blog going!
