Hybrid Halloween Projects | Digital Scrapbooking Resources

Hello Scrappers! Ever wondered what else you can do with your digital scrapbooking Halloween stash? I’ve found some great ideas and resources for you.

Krisi made an invitation to her daughter’s birthday party.

Krisi (krisi616)

I found a couple of other ideas to show you. Love the bats added to this kitchen light. Project links/instructions are beneath the images.

Wall or tile art that sits on your mantel using a frame and vinyl lettering.

Candles are easy-peezy when you print out elements from Chelle’s Eeeek! & Carve it Up Kits in vellum. (The links are below. Buy some flameless candles, attach the vellum images, and “abracadabra” you have some great decorations for your windows or table centerpiece. Hint! Chelle’s release this week, has some great vintage additions that you might like to include.)

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Remember Chelle’s Hybrid Tag Frame using “family” as the subject. Why not change it up with Eeeeek & CarveItUp? Use some netting and make it a banner for your mantle. Use some flameless candles. You’ll have the spookiest fireplace in your neighborhood.

Here’s one from Chelle: A Kitchen Tile, some Vinyl and a few minutes later, instant decoration. (Hint! you could do these seasonally.) This tiles sits in her Mom’s house. I’ve loved this idea since I first saw it.

Here’s a quick rundown of Chelle’s Eeeek Bundle:

 

 

 

 

Have fun this Halloween with the spooky decorations you create. 

Fonts! Fonts! & More Fonts! \ Digital Scrapbooking Resources

Hi Gals! Fonts make me giddy with excitement. They make me want to jump up and down. I don’t know exactly why, but I love ’em.  I’m that person at Staples who buys the CD’s of fonts. I download them whenever I run across any new fonts. It’s hopeless I know! I’m a font-a-holic! If there were a 12-stop program, I would never get past step 1. LOL My personal favorite font is Janie HMK and a new one I found this year, St. Nicholas.

  • Katie at The Daily Digi offered this list of great fonts for scrapbooking. She also had a posting for great fonts from the previous year, you can check them out here.

Our CT Ladies not only gave us inspiration LOs, they also gave us information about their fonts. Let me share them with you now.JennV (jennv): I have several favorite fonts to journal….I’ll admit I like a good somewhat plain font that is easy to read as I usually write LOTS of journaling. The font is I use the most often is SlimSans Serif (what I used here for the journaling). I also love the bold version of it that I used here as my subtitle. Two other fonts I use often are Pea Alisha…use this especially for journaling my dates, locations, etc. And I always love a good typewriter font and my current fave is L.C. Smith 5 Typewriter that I used here on the label. Here are the links for them if you need them.

Jenn V (jennv)

 

Moving on to Mel B (prettypeaches) and her favorites. I absolutely LOVE the font sf Natalie.. It was a freebie font that I found a few years ago.. Sadly its no longer available to download anymore, as the blog that I downloaded on, is no longer around :( I  used Toadally Bundle and Toadally Add-On for this LO.

 

Mary (plumdumpling) blogged

  • I love Slim Sans Serif like jennv. It’s such a great font to fit in a lot of journaling without looking too crowded.
  • Some of my go to fonts are default fonts that come with many programs. I love Century Gothic for a simple, uncluttered look. For layouts that require a serif font, I usually go to Perpetua or Georgia.
  • My favorite typewriter font is Rough Typewriter. http://www.dafont.com/rough-typewriter.font. It has an uneven baseline and if you double up on a letter, it has two options of the letter. Does that make sense? Like if I write look. The second o is filled in and looks different from the first one. Very fun.
  • For kid layouts where my journaling is written from the child’s perspective, I like to use a childlike font. One favorite is WM2_NowWeAreSix. Link here: http://scraporchard.com/market/wm2-n…scrapbook.html

Hope you all enjoyed the LO’s and the fonts.

Until next time, Hugs!

 

Phrases & Titles | Digital Scrapbooking Resources

Hello Everyone! Today I thought I would share some ideas for titles and phrases you might use for your LOs. I have the privilege of going through the galleries and looking at the ideas all of you come up with. Debbie Hodge suggests using the following list.

  1. Use your subject’s name
  2. Use Word Art
  3. Let handwritten “subject, date, place” suffice
  4. Let a pre-printed label or tag work as both title & embellishment
  5. Incorporate your title into your journaling block
  6. Put your title on a photo
  7. Span the width
  8. Use a pre-made label
  9. Use a font instead of alphas
  10. Jiggle, wrap, split and fix

Here’s a few ideas from Chelle’s CT Team. (The last 6 work well with Chelle’s product release on friday, September 21st.)

  • Popping in to say you’re great
  • You’re Beary nice/fun
  • You’re sweet (cupcakes)
  • Speeding by to say you’re great
  • I’m nuts about you (nuts from food for fans)
  • Owl love you (what a hoot)
  • Don’t be angry, be my friend (fly little birdie)
  • You’re a DINO-mite friend/kid/son(prehistoric)
  • An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
  • Apple of my eye
  • Apple Harvest
  • Apple ____ Recipe card
  • You’re a hoot
  • What a hoot

Here are some other places you can check out. Peppermint Creative Scrapbook Art, Scrapbook.Com/Titles, The Perfect Title, Easy To Scrapbook & I Dream of Scrapbooking all have lists you can review. I Dream Of Scrapbooking had a title I thought was very funny, “The best antiques to collect are old friends.”

Here are some of my favorite Title & Phrasing LO’s by Chelle’s Creative Team using different ideas for titles. This LO is by KSCroppyChic. She used titles & lists to add in her LO.

Karen S. shows how phrasing can add to you LO.

I thought I’d show you a few of Chelle’s Word Art Designs just to give you some more ideas. My favorite is her “Golf” word art that has the golf ball as an “O” and the club used for an “L” in the word “GOLF.”

Hope you all found some inspiration! Talk to you soon!

Hugs!

Capture Your 365 Idea List | Digital Scrapbooking Resources

Hello! Today I get to remind you about Katrina Kennedy’s Project 365. I went to her website and found some great information to share.  Not only does she give us a monthly list, she  chooses 4 camera features to focus on each week. This week it’s light, aperture, shutter speed, & point of view.

She starts by printing out her October list! or downloads it to her smartphone. There is no wrong way to use the list. Here are a few things she mentioned:

  • I love to have a printed hard copy. I like how tangible and real it becomes then. Perhaps that is indicative of my age, born into the paper culture. Maybe not. I look at it each morning and let it set my focus for the day.
  • I don’t necessarily seek out the prompt for my photo, but I let it guide my creativity. Consider the prompt PLAID. I honestly thought there was no plaid in my house. I know there is none in my wardrobe. In my plaid-less stupor, we left the house the morning of the prompt with PLAID, emblazoned across my thoughts. And then I began to see it. It popped up at me in the strangest of places. There was the woman with the plaid purse perched on the chair at Capitol Dog, our local spot for vegan hotdogs. I didn’t photograph it, but I thought about all of the ways I could.
  • There was the little boy who bounced out of the house with plaid shorts on. Once again, I didn’t photograph him or his shorts, but I thought about ways that I could. And then I came home. I’d taken many others shots throughout the day. And from those, one was destined to be my photo of the day. None are plaid, but they were inspired by plaid. Inspired because I set out into the world ready to see. Ready to scavenge something that I might not have otherwise been looking for!

You know how that happens. You buy a red car and you suddenly see them everywhere. Someone mentions a restaurant and then suddenly you see ads for it everywhere. That is how the prompt list works. Just gets you thinking and seeing so that suddenly everything around you has the potential to be your photo of the day on this day. And then as you type you’ll realize  you do have a plaid thing in your life. Every day your husband and your son put on button up short sleeved shirts. Friends call them, “Shea shirts,” because he wears them so often. And yep, they are plaid. I can see them hanging in the closet from where I sit at this very moment. Funny how inspiration can be right in front of you!

Diana made this comment:

I love things in print as well. I also really appreciate that you explained how you use the list. I hadn’t thought of simply looking for items in the prompt and then imagining how I would photograph them — that makes such sense, particularly since we can’t always simply take photographs of other people’s children or their articles of clothing, for instance. Now I don’t have to feel that I’ve “missed out” when there is another way to think of the prompt word.

I think this an intriguing idea. I don’t have a camera, but I can see photo opportunities. I can always use a “word” to think about during the day at my real job. I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna give it a try! Join me…. Katrina will even send you a daily inspiration e-mails. Get on her list. How could you use an idea list? What could you capture?

Hugs!

Back 2 School Ideas | Digital Scrapbooking Resources

Hey Everyone! The other day I came across one of my high school photo ID cards. Wow! Was I ever really that young, skinny & awkward? Let me start this story by saying and “Griffin/Thompson” eyebrows are big and thick. I literally could put a 1/2″ curler in my Dad’s eyebrows. Imagine this, my mostly bald Father asleep in the recliner during a semi-annual TV church meeting. To keep my quiet, Dad would let me “curl” his hair. I always wanted to put the curlers in his eyebrows. How I got away with “wetting” his eyebrows with a comb & putting in rollers, is beyond me now. I’d only get cussed if I let the cold water run down his neck! I never did get to curl his eyebrows. LOL

I digress. The day I needed to go register for sophomore year, I decided I had to get my eyebrows done. I found someone who could do it and went and had them “done.” The beautician was a “very-thin-one-line” eyebrow person. I didn’t know this. This was a DRA-AA-STIC change for me. Not to mention that the wax was too hot and she burned my skin around my eyebrows. They were glowing red. I’ll let you imagine how lovely that picture turned out. The funniest was when my Mom (Chelle’s grandmother) saw me, she told me I looked like a surprised stink bug! That really boosted my confidence. I was extremely shy back then. Not so much now! LOL

The other day Chelle and I were talking about Back 2 School as a great photo opportunity. If you take the same photo in the same place year after year, you’ll have a visual growth chart. There are lots of details you can capture each year.  Chelle said, “I love how the clothes & hairstyles my daughters choose for their first day show how styles change.” Start a tradition now!

Let me show you what the CT made for us.

Ronnie

Karen S

Roxana

Here’s Chelle’s Back 2 School List:

Hugs!

Get your photos off your phone…| Digital Scrapbooking Resources

I’ve heard it said that the best camera to use is the one you have with you.  Sometimes that is the phone on my camera.  I haven’t always taken photos with my phone.  Probably because the quality on my old phone wasn’t great.  But mostly because I didn’t know how to get the photos from my phone…to my computer.  I hated trying to track down the right cord….or just remembering to do it.

Recently when listening to an episode of The Digi Show, I learned I could do it with dropbox.

I’ve been using dropbox for a while, but I didn’t realize how simple it was to get my photos onto my computer:

  • You need an account with Dropbox.  You can start with a free account.
  • Download the correct app to your iPhone, blackberry, or android phone.
  • Follow the instructions at Dropbox for automating the process.

Now after I take a photo with my phone (as soon as I am in wifi range) my photos are uploaded to my dropbox account.  With a quick click & drag I can move them to my Photos 2012 folder in the correct month…freeing up space in my dropbox for the next time I take photos.

It only takes a few minutes to set up the whole system.  You’ll be glad you did when, for example, your husband finds your phone in the toilet courtesy of your 18 month old.  Just saying’.

Squeeeeee!!!! Backblaze ROCKED it! | Digital Scrapbooking Resources

Woot! Just got back from vacation…(remember, my EHD died the day before we left) This morning the FedEx man brought me a package. I’m headed out the door to replenish my refrigerator, but I just had to stop and see if everything was on my new EHD. IT IS!!!!!

Back up your files. Do it today…right now. I love Backblaze because they back-up External drives. Woot!

ps…my original back-up took more than 2 months because I have LOTS of digi stuff & pictures. I understand that Crashplan will send you an EHD and you can do your original back up that way. But I know for CERTAIN that Backblaze works!

Podcasts & Webinars | Digital Scrapbooking Resources

Hi Scrappers!  Today I want to share some of my favorite digi-scrapping resources that you might not know about, but I’m sure you’ll enjoy them.

Podcasts.  My favorite podcast is The Digi Show.
Nearly every week there is a new show posted…60-90 minutes of listening to ladies chat about digi-scrapping.  They talk about techniques…journaling resources…websites…trends.…  You can download the podcasts directly from the website…or FREE through iTunes.  I was a guest in this episode.

Webinars.  My NEW favorite webinar is SOUL.  (Scrap Orchard University LIVE)  I’m the featured guest at the one on July 6th.  You register (online) then at about the time the webinar begins, you click on the link in your registration confirmation email to join the meeting.  On your screen you’ll see video & screensharing from the presenters.  We’ll have prizes & lots of fun.  You can register here.

Hugs!