Tips from Chelle…and a giveaway…| Digital Scrapbooking Freebies

I’ve been fortunate to be able to share some tips at a couple of my favorite digi hangouts this week.

I did a guest post @ simple scrapper sharing one of my favorite easy journaling tips (Let someone else do the journaling)  You can read/see the details:  Where to find the Words for Scrapbooking @ simple scrapbooking  Jen @ simple scrapbooking focuses on keeping scrapbooking doable.  Check out her website & add it to your reader.  You’ll love all the inspiration to keep things simple.

And today is my feature at Keeping Life Creative.  Pam shares a little about me including one of my favorite speedy scrapbooking tips.  There is a discount coupon and I’m giving away a $10 coupon to one of Pam’s lucky readers.  Head on over and enter to win.  And make good use of that coupon code :)

Improving your on camera flash

I thought when I built my house that having one wall that was mostly windows would add lots of light…and it does…in the middle of the afternoon. But I want to take photos throughout the day, so I end up using my flash…A LOT.  I know there are all those fabulous natural light photos, and I have some of those.  I know there are tricks for adding more light to your photo situation (like a fixed 50mm lens & upping the ISO).  I use both of those tricks as well, but the reality is, with a busy 2 year old, sometimes I need a flash.

Last week I was perusing my blog reader when I ran across this article on improving your on camera flash.  My favorite part of Sarah’s suggestion was that it doesn’t involve any fancy or expensive equipment…just a simple piece of white paper and a little piece of tape.  In a nutshell, Sarah recommends you roll a piece of paper into a tube and place that over your camera flash.  The diffused light will give you a much more “normal” looking photo.  Here’s Sarah’s tube rolled up:

She shows a with/without comparison in her tutorial.  We decided to give it a try.

Here’s Fonetta’s “with” photo using Techno Love Bundle, In Harmony, & Love My Fans Alpha:

Here’s her “without” photo:

Here’s Ronnie’s “with” photo using Tutu Cute:

And here’s her “without” photo:

Jami reminded us that sometimes even when outside we need to use the flash.  Here’s her “with flash” photo using Let’s Camp S’more:

And here’s her “no flash” photo:

Our consensus is DO IT!  It’s not very difficult, not expensive, and we loved the results.

Sneaky Peek & A Chance to Win!

Hello digi scrappers – Are you ready to see what Chelle’s been designing this week? Well, she’s had a hairy week…and here’s a little peek:

You can enter to win the collection 3 ways. By commenting on this blog post, sharing the link on facebook, or tweeting about the collection — but we won’t know you’ve facebooked or tweeted unless you come back here to tell us and leave the link to your FB post or Tweet. We’ll choose a winner at midnight Wednesday, February 8th EST.

Please check back here to see if you’ve won…or leave us your email addy, and we’ll get in touch with you.

Have a great day!

 

Edited to add:  Congrats to scrapingramma!  You win The Mane Event collection.  Please email chelle @ chelles.creations1@gmail.com for your downloads.  Thanks for entering everyone!

Alliteration | Digital Scrapbooking Words on Wednesday


I love reading Dr. Suess books to my children. The silly, catchy sounds in his books always make us laugh. You don’t probably don’t want titles in your scrapbooks like: Quick Trick Chick Stack or Tweetle Beetle Puddle Paddle Battle, but that doesn’t mean you can’t learn something fun about titling your layouts from Dr. Suess. Dr. Suess was a master of Alliteration. What does that mean? It means repeating the same sounds in your title or your journaling. It can be as simple as using the same beginning letter, like Furry Friends or Helping Hands. Give it a try. Here’s a few examples from the Creative Team:
From Kayla:

using Fireworks:

From Melissa:

using Pearly Whites:

From Cara:

using Celebrate Brite:

Do you hear that RUMBLE?

ScrapOrchard is hosting a Rumble in the Orchard CT challenge. Each week 4 of my super-star CT members: Ronnie, Jenn, Jennifer & Carol compete against other ScrapOrchard creative teams. This week part of the challenge was to make each of their layouts part of the whole. Check out their entire entry:

You can see each part up close at ScrapOrchard.
And make sure you GO VOTE! <--linked to voting page

Gallery Standouts | Digital Scrapbooking Inspiration


Jami here wishing all of Chelle’s faithful followers a HAPPY NEW YEAR! Here are some standouts from the gallery at ScrapOrchard using kits by Chelle……….I love the white space of this one and the shadowing is F-A-B!!!

Shop Til we Drop by htew

I am always in awe of hybrid projects, and this one was so perfect for the kit!

Chore Chart by lab130

I love themey pages that aren’t scrapped with entirely themey things, this page is just too fun!

2 page LO Dec 25th 2011 by andrea_luhman

This page just has it all, enough said!

Garden_4-10 by stanworth

Great perspective captured in the photo and I love the linear line!

Toot Toot! by meejay

I hope to see you in the gallery soon, until then HAPPY SCRAPPIN’!

Sneaky Peek

Wondering what I’ve been working on his week? Well, the truth is I’ve been working on stuff for Digiscrapapalooza…but besides the cool stuff for that, I’ve got this FABULOUS new collection. You’re going to love it!

You can enter to win the collection by commenting on this blog post, sharing the link on facebook, or tweeting about the collection — but we won’t know you’ve facebooked or tweeted unless you come back here and tell us. I’ll choose a winner at midnight Wednesday EST. Check back to see if you’ve won…or leave us your email and we’ll get in touch with you.

Chelle Scraps | My Felties

Chelle scraps. Really I do. Sometimes. But I also spend time playing with felt. One of my CT members didn’t realize I make all my felt stuff…with felt (rather than digitally manufacturing them.) While there is still a lot of “digital work” involved, I do make nearly everything using my felt collection. I pulled out a bunch of stuff to show her:

And I thought you might like to see it as well. Can you find the elements from your favorite kit?
Take some time this week for you. Fill that need to create. Scrapping makes my heart sing. I hope it does for you as well.