Happy Valentine’s Day. Carol (Iowan) has created a lovely cluster for you using Techno Love. Just click on the image below to get your “heart” a-twittering.
Enjoy!
Valentine Hybrid Ideas & 2 FREEBIES | Digital Scrapbooking Hybrid Ideas
Hello Friends! Another week of cold weather here in the U.S. I hope everyone is safe and healthy. Speaking of health, why not discuss Valentine’s Day, candy, flowers and cards that you can create. I challenged our team to come up with some great digital scrapbooking ideas for us all to use. They made some really fun ideas. Check ’em out below.
Krisi (Krisi’s Kreations) created this valentine card for her daughter.
The same kit was used to create the bag toppers.
Krista (kc71595) created this fantastic mailbox.
Donna (djp332) made this wonderful card. She used Love Grows & Love Grows Rub-ons.
Chelle has many products that are a perfect fit for your valentine hybrid ideas. Just click on the images below for a quick trip to the market.
My Sweet Valentine:
Chocolate Lovers:
Techno Love:
Love Grows:
Or, if you need some easy last minute help, we have 2 sets of FREEBIE valentine cards that you can use.
Go crazy and make something fun for your valentine!
Perfect Pairs: About A Boy & Techno Love | Digital Scrapbooking Kit Combinations
Hello Friends! I think we just might have Spring here in Northern Utah. We have a couple of fabulous kits to highlight for you this week. About A Boy & Tencho Love. I love the bright colors of About A Boy and the Black & pink/red tones of Techno Love will spark your imagination. I’ve a few layouts to show you from our creative team to help get you started.
Lynett (lynett_rock) created this layout about her son Tyler. I like the wonky shapes of the shadowed squares. They caught my eye and I looked at her layout longer to see if I could figure out more detail about the shadows. A great example of how shadowing can add dimension to your layout.
Teri (ta_merkins) shows us this great layout about her son and the Kindle he loves to play with. Love the bright pops of red that she includes to help us recognize he is in Kindle “LOVE.”
Jan also used gaming as her representation of Tehcno Love. Love her journaling about beating her son, John. I wonder if we all have a mantra about our kids… “Beat John. Beat John. Beat John.” Go Mom.Great Job on showing the big screen of the game statistics. Love the clusters!
Here are the links to the products used by the Creative Team.
Enjoy your week. Hugs!
Techno Love | Digital Scrapbooking Classics
Whew! I’ve been proofreading a student’s computer science fair project, and as usual, I am also starting to think about Valentine’s Day a little late. With these two things both rambling around in my head, I decided to shop for a digital scrapbooking kit. Can you guess which kit I found? Chelle’s Techno Love kit jumped right out at me. It is the perfect mix of geek and chic, and it was love at first byte with me with all its bold shades of pink and red and those cute little computer elements. Lest you think you need geeky pictures to go with this kit, a couple of Chelle’s team members have made some example layouts to inspire you and show you the kit’s versatility.
My friend Leslie made the first page I want to show you. Her husband is the qwerty to her keyboard, and she is missing him terribly while he is away with his job. Skype has been their friend, and with a good webcam, she was able to capture her photo and use Chelle’s kit to make a perfect page with respect to the theme of the kit. I love that she put her husband’s picture in the computer monitor felt from the kit and then framed the two photos similarly to give equal weight to each. May your cache of love always be full, Mrs. Leslie!
We have a few guests on Chelle’s team this month, and one of them is Brandy. She has generously provided two layouts for this blog post. The first one uses the full theme of the kit, and I love how she clustered the USB heart cable with the ribbons and the title on her page. She began taking pictures of her sweet baby using the iPad when she was very tiny, and she has collected quite a few lovely photos. Now that Delilah is 19 months old, she has had enough experience with the iPad that she can work a piece puzzle and color sort. Amazing! I’m sure she is just a chip off the old silicon block. 
OK, enough of the computer metaphors. Brandy had these older photos of Delilah that she had never scrapped because she just hadn’t found the right kit. Techno Love was PERFECT for them. Look how well the pink and red colors of her outfit match the kit colors. And the heart stitches are the most appropriate complement to the clusters of heart and string elements. I love that she used the blank tags to date and label the layout, too.
I hope you are inspired to check out this kit. I’ll show you a close-up view of it here. The image is linked to the market. Also, check out the Techno Love Valentines in the market, too. If you’re like me and are shopping a bit late this year, maybe you need these like I do. Just print from home and you’ll save yourself a trip to the store and have some original Valentines to give out this week. It’s a win-win!
Valentine’s Day Layouts | Digital Scrapbooking Resources
Valentine’s Day! Love, Hearts & Candy. Since this post is about resources, I found some I thought I’d share with you. They are about Valentine’s Day Writing and Journaling Prompts.
- Complete this sentence: “I know ________ loves me because ….”
- Make a list of ways that you can show your love for your family members.
- Make a list of people who love you and give at least one reason why you know they love you.
- Write a letter to your Mom or Dad telling them why you love them.
- Describe a time when you felt especially loved.
- Write an acrostic poem using the word “FRIEND.” (I had to look up “Acrostic” to see what it meant.)
- Think of one reason you like each person in your family. Use your reasons to write Valentine’s cards to your family members.
- Write a poem entitled “Love is …”
Valentine’s Day Story Starters:
- Jake couldn’t wait to get to school. Today was the day of the class Valentine’s Day party.
- When I looked up and saw Cupid with his bow, I knew we were in trouble. …
- Mi-Lin woke up itchy. Seeing tiny red spots all over her arms, she groaned. What could be worse than chickenpox on the day of the school Valentine’s festival?
- Tommy Terrence thought Valentine’s Day was for babies. But one special Valentine’s Day made him change his mind.
- Clarence the Candymaker rubbed his hands gleefully. Today, he would introduce the world to a whole new kind of Valentine’s Day candy.
- Jessica couldn’t believe her eyes. Stuffed into her mailbox was the biggest Valentine she had ever seen. …
Here are some ideas of my own:
- One of my nieces made a shadow box. She used a title of “I love Gordon because….” and then a heart shape frame was filled with little strips of paper saying the reasons she loves her hubby. They strips are all in different colors & jumbled about within the heart frame. What a beautiful expression of love. Make a digital scrapbooking heart and layer on your reasons.
- If you are a single person, Valentine’s Day can get a little touchy. Why not create a mini album using the Title, “I Love………” Then use a favorite activity or sport as what you love. I love skating. I love the Utah Jazz. You get the idea. Being single just gives you more leeway in what you love.
We challenged our Creative Team so make us some wonderful layouts and they ventured out on their own and gave us some hybrid designs too. Let me share them with you. I’ve also linked you up to the products they used.
- Crystal (krstylbear) starts us off with Love Grows. She created a lunch box note card. Her used of the baker’s twine and the brown paper envelope really ties it all together. The heart ribbon and stitching gives it a sweet nostalgic feel. How could a son not know his mother loves him! She used Love Grows, Rub-Ons & Bonus Papers.
- Kassie (kass_23) I adore this LO. Using Chelle’s Techno Love kit, Kassie emphasizes the love shared between she and her husband. Clearly defined papers really flow together nicely and the the clustering emphasizes their love and how crazy they are for each other. Isn’t the graph paper with the tiny tossed hearts the cutest ever?
- Jenn J (jmljensen) Added some love to her layout by adding some flowers, greenery, & different pieces of paper to surround her son with love. Look how well the shades of blue tie it all together. Of course, he would be her valentine! She used Love Grows kit.
- Last up, Sheila (Nonna@Dreja) used Letters From Home to share a beautiful poem. The banner, stamps, & buttons surround the poem with the vintage doily and kraft envelope make it even lovlier. This layout transcends time, it could be used now or it might have been used by your Grandfather and given to your Grandmother.
- Here’s another hybrid idea. Jenn (jmljensen) used Techno Love to create these darling fortune cookies. Oooh I can just imaging the fortune strips and the excitement from a spouse or children/grandchildren would have guessing what their fortune might be. Jenn made these using the Techno Love kit.
- Kayla (keepscrappin) used some sepia or tonal colors to emphasize her “He Loves Me” layout. What a great guy, he gave her chocolate covered strawberries! The bright colors on the side and her creative use of the clustering with the string really makes the reds and browns grab your attention. She used Chelle’s Chocolate Lovers kit.
I know I feel inspired to scrap and I hope you have some great ideas. So scrap them now and add them to the gallery. I’m excited to see what you create. Hugs!
February 2013 Desktop Freebie! | Digital Scrapbooking Freebies
Hello Scrappers!
It’s Kairyn here with another desktop freebie! I just love changing out my desktop image each month, don’t you?
This one features Chelle’s Techno Love kit available at Chelle’s Scrap Orchard shop:
This is what I created with it:
Download all three sizes here.
Have a great February, see you next time!
2-28 Perfect Pairs: Big City and Techno Love
Today we’re looking at some of my favorite digital scrapbooking goodies from Chelle’s Creations: the Big City kit and Techno Love. The creative team has been busy making layouts combining these two kits so you can see how to stretch your stash. First, take a look at the two page spread KairynLisa made about her daughter’s building project regarding the history of Wall Street. I think that newsprint paper is one of my all-time favorite background papers. 
Next, Neenee also used the newsprint paper, but she added a gray paper from Techno love on top of it to make an appealing stack. Look how well the black and white heart elements from Techno Love coordinate with the Big City elements. 
Kayla took an entirely different approach to mixing the two kits, still using the newsprint for background, but she made a winter snow page using the pink and red elements from Techno Love, and the computer fits perfectly since the page is about the snow in the weather forecast. 
Erica chose to use a different background paper, and she has an equal mix of elements from the kits. The computer elements from Techno Love are complemented perfectly with the zippered flowers and ribbons from Big City.
Finally, Cara made an adorable page of her son’s building projects by mixing the elements and papers of the two kits and even made the title by mixing the alphas. Look at his face – no doubt he will do as well as Trump in the future, right? 
Do you have both these kits? Do you need a closer look and maybe a trip to the store? Here they are! 
Happy Scrapping!
Techno Love Play Date | Digital Scrapbooking Inspiration
Hello! Another fabulous playdate today. Chelle’s new products are perfect for the techie and romantic in all of us. It is super sweet kit and check out the awesome pages the team did!
And here are the fabulous products the team got to work with: Techno Love Collection (kit, wordart, quickies, and bead alpha also available separately)
Techno Love Valentines (which are free with the purchase of the bundle this week)
CU Grab Bag Collab 2 with Happy Scrap Girl
And of course, a fun freebie!
Hi! I'm Chelle: a 40 something mom of 7. My husband & I live in a rural community in the rocky mountains with our 4 children still at home. In the winters we enjoy sledding & snuggling by the fire. I the cool fall evenings we love relaxing around the campfire & meeting friends at the county fair. Admiring the stars 
