Thanks everyone for all the warm wishes. We are so so excited! On equally happy news, I think my 1st trimester symptoms are starting to ease. I no longer require a daily nap, my brain doesnt feel like a foggy lump, and I can keep food down finally! Here’s to hoping the trend holds. In the midst of enjoying my non-foggy brain, I thought I would do a design warm-up by working on my Design 365 series (it helped that Gennifer has been bugging me about it for a few weeks). So I’m happy to say that I am on the designing saddle again. I figured a give-away would be nice too! So here are my 3 new kits. I’m going to give one commenter one of these three kits (their choice of course). Just make sure to have your comments in by Friday. I’ll post a winner over the weekend!
These kits all go on sale Tomorrow (Thursday, August 26th), and are 30% off in my shop at Design House Digital!
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!
Oh my busy! I feel terrible, it’s been the longest stretch of non-updating that my blog has ever seen. Almost 2 months! I’m so sorry everyone, life has been exceptionally busy! First things first though, My birthday was 2 weeks ago and I got lots of fun things. My favorites include:
Theses shoes from Spencer…. my current theory is the higher the heel, the better
And Gennifer had this adorable headband sent all the way from canada:
And my friend Heather made me my own snuggie! here is a digital layout I made showing it off:
Now that we’re up to date on new accessories nothing else seems to matter! But I’ll keep going… In the past month I’ve designed a new paper line along with Deena Rutter The line is really beautiful and elegant and called So Sophie. MME will start selling it very soon and it should be in Local Scrapbooking Stores in April/May
Also my Quite Contrary and Beloved Papers got picked up by the quilting company Riley Blake to become super cute fabric! I’ll update more on that as I actually get to see some!
I also have another paper line in the works right now but you’ll just have to wait a bit to see what it looks like! It’s sure to be extra feminine and frilly!
On the Digital Scrapbooking front, Design House Digital is going great! There is a great gallery promotion going right now. If you post 20 qualifying layouts in the gallery before April 9th then you get a $20 gift card. If you post 30 then you get the gift card and this exclusive kit FREE:
I’ve also debuted more Vanity Fair Kits including Persimmon & Cerulean, Here is a little peek, check out my shop for more kits.
Whew!! That was a lot of updates! I am planning to do some major spring cleaning & ORGANIZING so I should have some free downloads soon.
If you are a digi scrapper, DHD has new releases every THURSDAY and they are 30% off day of release only!
Thanks for stopping by! I promise not to go 7 weeks without an update again!
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.
If you’re interested in digital scrapbooking, but you think it’s a little intimidating, here’s a video I made for Design House Digital.
It’s just a really simple layout to get you started, and best of all, you can download the kit that I used for FREE so you can follow along. I used Photoshop Elements 8, and if you don’t have it, you can download a FREE 30-day free trial. It’s actually quite a simple and straightforward program to use, yet it has so many awesome features. You can also do this same basic thing with Photoshop.
