10.17.15 Trick or Treat instaLife Journal Cards | Digital Scrapbooking Week In Review

Hello Friends!
This week Chelle released instaLife and Journal Cards to go with her Trick of Treat digital scrapbooking kit. For our CU Friends we released CU Ribbon Toolkit! Check these out!
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Here are a few inspiration layouts from our creative team. The first layout is by Jan.
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Our second layout is by Jenn S.
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Third is from Karen.
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If you  missed Trick or Treat or Trick of Treat Alpha, here you go.

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Have a great week!

by-Sari

10.15.15 Love This Photo Fix | Digital Scrapbooking Tips & Tutorials

Hello Friends!

One of Chelle’s favorite photo fixes is adding a white border around her photos. It can really help emphasize your photos. She uses the white border trick a lot. We challenged Donna & Jenn J to use a white border around some photos in their layouts, but to show us a before and a after photo.

Donna used Choose the Right {Trek} in her layouts. The pictures really stand out with the white border, huh?

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Now let’s look at Jenn J’s layouts. She used Prehistoric & About A Boy.

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Hope you have a great day!

by-Sari

 

 

10.13.15 Teacher’s Pet

Today I want to feature Kimberly, a member of Chelle’s Creations CT who was a devoted customer even before she joined Chelle’s team. One thing that was always important to her was how useful the kit was for her. Being able to USE the kit is extremely important. Teacher’s Pet is right up her ally. When asked to submit a layout for this blog post, she gave me five layouts! That’s one of the best things about Chelle’s Creations. Her kits are easily mixable and matchable and can be used over and over again.

Take a look at what Kimberly created with this one kit. She has First Day of School pictures, Kindergarten, and even a high school picture all scrapped with Teacher’s Pet. I love how she leans toward the orange papers and elements in the kit. Take a close look, and see if you can find all the ways she used chalk on her pages.

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You can find the basic kit here, but don’t miss the bundle. It includes the journal cards that are so very useful on a variety of pages, and a special block letter alpha.

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Gymnastics

Here’s a look back at a classic kit from Chelle’s Creation celebrating everyone from the tumbling toddlers to the elite competition gymnasts in our lives. The Gymnastics kit is a collaborative kit by Chelle and mle Card with lots of brightly colored papers and hand rendered elements. But check out the digital scrapbooking pages Chelle’s CT members have created. I’ll show you three pages using the same kit, and you’ll be surprised at the variety.

First, Kimberly has a daughter who does tumbling lessons and classes every day because she is a competition cheerleader in her high school. I’ve seen her in real life, and she is amazing. But, Kimberly’s scrapbooking skills are equal the task of capturing her daughter’s great moves. She used a layer mask on her large photo to mask away the bottom corner of her photo so she could tuck it behind the ribbon on the quick page (sold separately but made from parts and pieces of the kit). She even included a QR code which you can scan with your phone to see a video of her in action. The QR code comes out with a white background, so she used a blending mode on the yellow paper she clipped over the QR code. 2013_04-gymSwL_Feb2015SOTemplate2_zpsksbkfpol

Next, Jenny took the same kit and made a layout that has nothing to do with tumbling, and yet the kit is absolutely the best choice. The bright colors and stars in the kit were a perfect match for her children, the stars of her show. I love the flow of movement down the page with the photos arranged vertically on the layered ribbons and clusters of flowers and stars. Cabin2015fdd_ffLABR2_tp2_web

Finally, Jenn chose to use the neutral colors in the kit for her page. The tan paper and green stitched border are a great match for her outdoor photos. But the jumbled arrangement of the letters in the title caught my eye. They seem to pop off the page and complement her tumbling subject perfectly. tumble

Here’s a closer look at the kit in the market, but don’t miss the quickies or the bundle for a real bargain. cc_mle_gymnastics_kit

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Big Screen Alpha & LIOT {Doubles} 27 & 28 | Digital Scrapbooking Week In Review

Hello Friends! This week Chelle released her digital scrapbooking Big Screen Alpha & her latest additions to her Lay It On There {Doubles} Series. #’s 27 & 28. Let me show you the goodies. I adore this alpha. It comes with it’s own personality.

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I also find Chelle’s whole Lay It On There {Doubles} series to be fabulous. The digital scrapbooking layouts it helps creates are so.. Squee!..fun.

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Here are some digital scrapbooking layouts to be inspired by. They use the templates & the Big Screen Alphas.

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Here’s one more layout by Kayla.

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Chelle made  You Tube Video to help you Make the Most of Your Alphas you have bought.

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For our CU Friends, we have CU Vector Lace Patterns. These are positively divine. I urge you to pick them up just to play with if for nothing else.

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Talk to you soon! Enjoy!

by Sari

Taking Self-Portraits With Kids | Digital Scrapbooking Tip of the Week Classics

HI Friends!

Do you get in the picture when you take “selfies” or self-portraits with your kids? That’s the most important thing. Make sure you include YOU in the photos. It’s really simple as a tip, but sometimes the simplest statements make the most impact. Our CT made some fabulous digital scrapbooking layouts.

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Jan used I Write the Songs. Her picture showing the banner and her kids off to the side really got my attention.

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Carol

Carol used Slam Dunk. The contrast between the “good” as well s the “funny” pictures.

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Karen

Karen used Puppy Love.  She said she had furry kids when she takes self-portraits.

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