September 22nd, 2011
I cannot tell you how excited I am for Halloween this year. I completely blame it on Pinterest... after seeing so many gorgeous Halloween decoration, party, costume ideas, I just became obsessed with decorating and creating so many fun projects. Well any project girl needs some good printable patterned papers to go with her grand ideas… so I designed 22 awesome halloween-themed designs (12×12 halloween digital scrapbooking papers ). I am so so so excited to print a bunch of these suckers out and work on some projects. I’m hoping I’ll finish this deadline by this weekend and be able to work on some spooky projects.
And for those of you who are digitally talented, I also made some creepy elements and scary digital stamps! These are great for digital scrapbooking, party favors, stationary and other freaky projects:
If that doesn’t get you in the mood for Halloween, then I don’t know what will! These 4 individual kits and the giant collection kit are all 30% off TODAY ONLY! So if you’re interested, pick these up today and you’ll definitely be ahead of the game.
Okay on a side note… I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned this, but all during the month of September Design House Digital has been doing a seriously awesome blog series called “School of Design” Each day in September, new and informative articles about various aspects of design, photography, digital scrapbooking, and blogging have been posted. You definitely need to check it out all the great and FREE content. Right now there are 19 great articles, and there will be a new one every day for the next week still. What are you waiting for? Go check it out!! Design House Digital – School of Design Blog Series
January 1st, 2011
Today is the start of DHD’s 1 year anniversary! There is tons going on all week through the 9th of January. We’ll have chats EVERY NIGHT from 7-9pm (MST) with the designers and decorators hosting in the DHD chat room.
Of course everything is on SALE too. The entire site is 30% off site + 40% off full kits & cutting files AND all Design 365 & monthly kits are 50% off! Plus every day we’ll have different kits priced at $1.00. Now that’s a sale! In addition to my digital kits, my 2011 Planner is also 30% off during this week, so if you’ve been thinking about getting organized, now is a great time to grab it!
To kick off the birthday extravaganza, the DHD designers made a printable 2011 calendar. Just hop around to all our blogs and collect all the months! Scroll down to see the months that I created, and grab your very own .PNG by clicking on either the image or the link:
January: Robyn Meierotto
February: Jen Allyson
March: Sara Schmutz
April: Celeste Knight
May: Tiffany Tillman
June: Karen Funk
July: Kate Teague
August: Jen Allyson
September: Celeste Knight
October: Jen Allyson
November: Robyn Meierotto
December: Gennifer Bursett
May 17th, 2010
A couple of month’s ago I was seriously inspired by Trish Turay’s dress garland featured on Get it Scrapped. I instantly knew that I wanted to create a shadowbox for my new niece’s nursery. So I bookmarked the website and ordered a 9×20 Shadowbox online.
On Saturday I had a whole day to do whatever I wanted with it. So I hopped out of bed and got to work! The first thing I did was create my own cutting files. I have a Cricut Expression and use SCAL to cut all my own custom files.
I created 2 dresses, 1 apron, 2 over-skirts, and a collar. This made really short work of my project because I didn’t have to hand cut anything. I love my Cricut.
All the paper that I used is from my Quite Contrary line – Hello Beautiful color set by My Mind’s Eye.
With all my dresses and items cut out, I grabbed some Lush embellishments also by My Mind’s Eye, and my awesome new Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro and started embellishing!
For the first dress, I used ribbons, paper and brads to create some cute hand-made flowers. I also added some tiny rhinestones for buttons and made a glittered sash.
The second dress also got some glitter on the collar and layered skirt. I ran the top skirt through the sewing machine and topped it off with a ribbon sash and a button. I also added a playful pink pom pom trim using my Glue Arts Glider.
For the third dress, I wanted to gather some wide organza that I had lying around. So I pulled out my sewing machine… I barely know how to sew, so pardon how messy this is… but at least you know beginners can do it too!
I traced where the apron hit the dress so that I would know where I needed to start my skirt and how long of a gathered piece I needed.
Then I grabbed some yarn and sewed it loosely to my organza – about twice as long as the skirt.
Then I gently pulled on the yarn to gather it, and then sewed it to the bottom dress, so that none of my bad sewing would show!
The gathered skirt was a little unruly, so I used my glue glider to help it stick down. You couldn’t see any of the glue in the final product.
I also wanted some ric-rac on the bottom of the apron to finish the transition. The best way I know to create adhesive ribbon is to run it through my Xyron. This really makes it easy to get ribbon down securely especially on curves. I also used it on the green ribbon on the first dress.
Once I was happy with how all the dresses turned out, I decided to make a banner with the new baby’s name.
I just hand-cut a bunch of triangles and then ran them through the sewing machine with some crocheting string. I did it really SLOWLY so I had control over the string and the placement on the triangles.
I chose a contrasting color – brown, to give the banner a more detailed effect. Then I simply added some glitter sticker letters.
Once I decided how everything would be placed. I grabbed some teeny clothes pins and some cream seam binding to hang the dresses on. I also found some eye-screws to hang the ribbon by.
For the banner, I used some small pins and tied the string around them.
You can also see that I added a few pins in the middle of the banner to create a scalloped look. This was the final product and I absolutely love how it turned out. The hardest part was having to give it away! But I can’t wait to see it in my new nieces adorable nursery.
For the wrapping, I wrapped some tissue paper around the frame and had my cricut cut out another dress and apron. I only added one embellishment to this dress — a little rhinestone necklace. Then I clothes-pinned it to the ribbon with a little congratulations tag.
If you’re interested in doing this or a similar project, I actually took the time to build all the files (SVG, GSD, JPG, AI) for the various cutting programs and am selling them at Design House Digital starting Thursday May 2oth (2010). These files should work for any die-cut machine including the Cricut (with SCAL), & Silhouette. I’m giving away this digital kit to one of my readers, all you need to do is comment — tell me what kind of cutting machine you have — and I’ll choose one random winner on Thursday Morning!
April 20th, 2010
One thing I love about DHD is that most of the awesome designers also have awesome blogs! So we decided that it’s a good idea to show off our cute blogs and do a really fun freebie at the same time! So This is the deal (it’s pretty sweet), you go around to all our blogs and download all the bits and pieces that make up this one big awesome kit:
So here is my part, it contains 3 papers, and 3 elements. Just click on it to download:
Then once you are done downloading, check out the two links below to two other DHD designer’s blog to find more awesome free downloads and links to even more! You should visit 10 blogs in all to complete your kit!
Also, if you haven’t already, subscribe to my blog or facebook fan page so you can follow all the fun that goes on here in project land. Good luck and happy scrapping!
April 1st, 2010
Happy April Fools Day! I’ve never really celebrated this silly day because I’m not much of a prankster, but I decided to make a silly printable Disguise kit this year. Print out a few of these for your kids to play with after school, or if you’re at work on this fine holiday, you can wear them around the office if you want to pretend to be Steve down the hall. Heck, if you still have Halloween pumpkins out, or a Santa hanging around, you can dress them up and have instant April Fools decor! I’m sure all of you can think of lots of funny things to do with it!
To download the kit you’ll have to go to Design House Digital’s Blog and download it there, but its free and easy, and in the end you can pretend to be Steve, so it’s totally worth it.
Have a great April Fools!
Disguise kit is for Personal Use only.
