Yearly Archives: 2012

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!

Scrap Skills: Weaving | Digital Scrapbooking Skills

Maybe you’ll remember back in June, I wrote a post here about weaving elements on a digital scrapbooking page. Have you had a chance to try it? Do you need to see Chelle’s excellent videos again? There is one about linking charms here and one teaching you how to weave a string through grommets on a banner piece here. They are short, easy to watch during a coffee break, and very helpful for making a woven element look 3-D and realistic.

Maybe you just need a bit more inspiration? Chelle’s fabulously talented team members have been playing with these techniques again. First, Lynett made a double page and chose to weave a string around the alpha on her title. The string really helps to anchor her title to the photos, doesn’t it?2girlsLynett Just like Lynett, Erica also took a string and wove it around the title elements. Notice how this helps your eye go across the page following those adorable photos. Look at how well they each did the technique with the string going over and under the letters and shadowing the alphas that are covered just a bit.Mint Tea Template- by Little Green Designs Lady Bug Hugs and E-I-E-I-O- by Chelle's CreationsNext, Jan wove strings all over her page. Take notice of that gorgeous black and white photo, but look also how the strings woven around the flower on the left and the two strings woven together on the right help to give a very realistic texture to the page. fr2Jan Next, Heather followed more of the Linking Charms video technique as she wove a string through the ice skate and tag in her mixed element title. It is very similar to the way Chelle described hanging a charm on the tassel in her video; very subtle, but oh so effective. mkfhof_ladieslp600cHeatherFinally, Jenn made a page using Chelle’s Oh Snap! kit, and she wove the honey ribbon hanger in and out of the negative strip element. Her shadowing is perfect on the ribbon, and her page truly looks 3-dimensional in every aspect. 7_2012_snap_600JennI hope this post has inspired you to hone your weaving skills to give your pages an enhanced, realistic feel. If you try this technique using Chelle’s kits, post your pages to Chelle’s Gallery at Scrap Orchard and let us know. We would love to see your pages and leave you some love!

Sneaky Peek & a Chance To Win | Digital Scrapbooking Freebie

Hello everyone!
Corn Mazes, watching pumpkins grow, harvest season drawing to a close, hot apple cider…. hmmmm.

Remember we have NEW RULES!!!
You can enter to win by sharing the sneak peek. You can…
1. share it on your blog
2. share it on Facebook
3. share it via twitter
4. share it on Pinterest
Remember, since the winner is chosen using a random number generator, be sure to come back and know in a new comment when you’ve done each way.
Deadline: 11:59 PM EST Wednesday.

Indian Summer Playdate | Digital Scrapbooking Inspiration

Hello Friends! Indian Summer is a favorite time of year for me. I love FALL! College Football, Tailgating, the World Series, temperatures dropping, and watching the leaves change from green to the brilliant hues of Yellow, Orange & Red. For many years, I lived in a community where the maple trees had both a green and a deep plum magenta leaf. When I first saw Chelle’s kit, I was immediately drawn to the magenta flower with the yellow in the center. It made me think of many “Decoration Day” flowers we take to family headstones to honor and remember our family. We put a lot or orange or plum/magenta on our male ancestors. Oh My Gosh! Do you need a new fall siggy? Chelle has you covered there as well. Let me show you you the goodies of the week.

Chelle has also been busy working on some fun and exciting CU items. I haven’t shown you some of them because we’ve been canning. Last Saturday Chelle canned salsa (40 quarts) and I was did (65 points) of beans. I know she’s been canning beans, corn and peaches also. Here are the CU products she’s released since I last did a playdate.

The first video explains why she created the Indian Summer Kit. Then Chelle has 2 new videos to help you with your scrapbooking. Here’s a link to each of them and to her YouTube Channel. Just click on the image.



Are you going to the Original Scrapbook Expo on September 27th & 28th in Sandy Utah? Chelle is teaching 3 classes if you’re are in the area. Sandy is about 20 miles or so south of Salt Lake City Utah. Here’s some more information about the classes:

  • FREE Introduction to Digital Scrapbooking.  That class is filling up fast.  If you would like to attend, hurry and register quickly.
  • Jumpstart Your Journaling: Is your writing battery dead? Do you skip the journaling step of scrapbooking because you lack writing skills? Do you feel like your stories aren’t worth sharing? Jump-start your journaling and learn how to craft sentences like a pro!
  • Scrapbooking Trends & Techniques: 101 Simple ideas for incorporating trends in your scrapbooks.  Current styles and trends often make their way into scrapbooking from the worlds of fashion, home decor, advertising or handmade crafts. In this class, we’ll discuss what’s new and trendy as well as tips for successfully incorporating the styles and trends of today into layouts that will last for future generations.

Let’s see… what else can I share with you? Have you joined club? (Creative Club Digi & Creative Club Digi Designer Edition) We’ve been going strong for 6 weeks now. I’ve been attending the chats. 2 each month: 1 on tips & tutorials and 1 on questions and answers. The chats last about 60 minutes. They are REALLY interesting. She records them and club members can watch them at their convenience if they didn’t catch it live. Plus and I do mean PLUS, you get all of her CU or PU items that she has designed and released that month. PU for CCD and CU for CCDDE. Register here.

  • Next chat for CCD? Wednesday, Sept 19th at 7p.m. MST.
  • Next chat for CCDDE? Thursday, Sept 20th 2 7p.m. MST – Guest: Attorney speaking legal/copywrite/trademark issues for digi-designing. Even if you don’t have the design bug, it will still be filled with valuable information. Please help us spread the news.

 

Now, to the good stuff, the inspiration from the Creative Team.

Jan

Jenn J

Jenn V

Kairyn Lisa Left

Kairyn Lisa Right

Karen S

Kayla

Lynett Left

Lynett Right

Mary

Melissa N (kscroppychic)

Melissa B (prettypeaches)

Ophelia

Ronnie

Roxana

Sneaky Peek Winner Announced | Digital Scrapbooking Freebies

Donna Penn says:
September 11, 2012 at 9:22 am • Edit
Shared on Facebook. Thanks for the chance to win.

Congratulations Donna! You are our winner. Please e-mail Chelle for your coupon code. Sari

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Hello everyone!
Warm days…cool evenings.  Savoring the remnants of summer…coming soon: Indian Summer

Remember we have NEW RULES!!!
You can enter to win by sharing the sneak peek. You can…
1. share it on your blog
2. share it on Facebook
3. share it via twitter
4. share it on Pinterest
Remember, since the winner is chosen using a random number generator, be sure to come back and know in a new comment when you’ve done each way.
Deadline: 11:59 PM EST Wednesday.

Creating & Saving Siggys | Digital Scrapbooking Tips

Hello everyone!  Hope you are enjoying September already! Whenever the seasons change, I always see new signatures (aka siggy) popping up in the forums!  It is always a reminder to grab some pre-made ones or get cracking on a new one for myself! So, today I’ve got some tips today on how to scrap a siggy, and save it for the forums. It’s a bit photo heavy, so let’s get to it! For my siggy example, I used Chelle’s wonderful Family Tree – it had just the colors I wanted.

When I usually scrap siggys, I scrap like I regularly do for a cluster on my page. I do this so I am not re-sizing to an extremely tiny size. Another reason to scrap large is so you can see your shadows and how they will look. I know the first time I made a siggy, I made my canvas the size that my signature had to be – I think it was 400 x 250. It was hard to scrap for that size!

OK… Once my cluster is complete, I add my name last. Here is what I would see.

 From the Tools, I’m going to choose the Crop Tool. It is the one that looks like a box.  After this tool is chosen, I crop to just outside my cluster. Make sure not to cut anything off, especially splatters or paint!  

Here is what my cropped signature looks like:

Next, I’m going to save it so I can upload and use it in forum settings. First, click on File > Save for Web and Devices:

Next, a pop up screen will open. Toward the left of this screen there is a lot of information – some important. You can see that my signature is approximately 2014 x 1203 in pixel size, and my image right now is a JPEG, with a high quality. This is way bigger than any forum would allow!  First… here is what you are looking at:

For signatures, you would like to have a transparent background. This is not important, but based more on what you prefer and what you find pleasing. If you have a transparent background, your signature will look just like what you see on the checkered box above. If you prefer JPEG, your image will have a white box where the grey and white checker box pattern is. Purely preference. I decided to choose PNG from the presets menu.

Next, I’m going to change my pixel size. The forums you post in should advise you of the signature size you are allowed in their guidelines – each one is different. For this example, I decided to make my signature 450 x 269. The 269 came about by itself. The lock feature will keep the sizing intact. See the pixel sizes and lock feature here:

Now, you are ready to save your file. Click on File > Save As and save as you wish. Make sure to have the file extension as you want – PNG, JPEG, etc.

            

Here is my final signature (I changed the size to 400). All I would add would be the teams that I am creative for, as well as my own blog. Hope that helped.

Here are a couple signatures that the CT made. Jennifer (jmljensen) made this awesome and bright siggy!

Ronnie (ronnie_texas) made the prettiest signature:

Have a great week and I’ll see you again at the end of the month!  Thanks for stopping by!

Perspective | Digital Scrapbooking Words on Wednesday

Hey everybody! Hope your Wednesday is going G-R-E-A-T! This week’s topic is perspective. I was talking with Chelle last night and we were brainstorming perspective. She gave these ideas: What if your “things” could talk to you? Your purse: “Would you quit stuffing things in me? I am getting SO overweight? Besides, if you put less in here, then you could FIND your keys.”Your paypal account: “Holy Moses! You are working me to the BONE this week. Look at all these fantastic things you’ve found.”Your alarm clock: “Hey. Quit hitting me. It’s not my fault you went to bed at _____. Come on. Get up. You’ve got a busy day ahead of you. If you don’t hurry the kids will miss the school bus.”So, if you nightstand could talk, what would it say? How about your cell phone? Remote Control? Garage Door?

So I set out thinking about other ideas during my workday. What about plants, what do they think? “Blah Blah Blah, she says the same thing everyday…. over and over again. Does she think I’m deaf or have Alzheimer’s? Here comes that woman with the mister (hose). Does she think we aren’t thirsty, I don’t care about optimum watering times, I want a drink now! Shiny leaf spray? Whoppie! Those bugs/insects are going slide right off of me!”

Or weeds at the side of the road? “Here comes that dog again. Wish I had a sneeze screen that could spray him instead of him spraying me. Ooh!  Here comes a kid with shoelaces, I’m gonna attach myself to them and go for a little ride around the yard. I’ll get out of this (barrow) pit yet. Here comes that Swather (tractor), it’ll probably run right over me AND cut my head off!”

A trampoline? “I have the best view of the starry sky each night. I’m the most romantic toy on the playground. Why do they keep on jumping and jumping and jumping? I can only stretch for so long. My stretch marks have stretch marks! Pul-ease, pul-ease don’t point your toenails!”

What could you see with a little change of perspective? Here’s what the CT came up with. Heather’s (aka snowdrop) up first with Chelle’s Oh Snap Kit. It’s amazing how often the team uses the Oh Snap! ellies. Great idea Heather!

Next we have Jenn Schultz. Love the teacup’s perspective. Funny! She used Chelle’s new Tea for Two Bundle.

I bet you have dozen’s of ideas simmering in your teapot.  Try changing up your LO’s with a change in perspective.

Hugs!