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. 

Perfect Pairs: Family Tree & Oh Snap! | Digital Scrapbooking Kit Combinations

Hi Ladies! Family Tree & Oh Snap! What a great combination! I was thinking about digi and how much easier it is to store & add names to pictures. Then I stared thinking about ancestors & pictures. When my Pitcher Grandparent’s (Chelle’s Great Grandparents) had their 50th wedding anniversary party, our family worked hard on the gift. A Family Tree quilt with each family member’s name hand-embroidered on it. It was a beautiful masterpiece and they loved it. My Mom’s brother had 5 children and Mom’s sister had 5 children. They used about 1/3 of the quilt. The other 2/3 went to Mom’s family. My parent’s had 9 children and 13 grandchildren at the time of the 50th party. To give some perspective, Grandma was 60 year’s old when I was born and 61 when Chelle was born.

Grandma & Grandpa loved to dance. They met at a dance. Grandpa said he “fell in love at first sight.” Grandma said, “if he was gonna take her out, then he’d better learn to dance.” Grandma so graceful and she floated along as they danced ballroom. Later in their year’s they hooked up with a square dance club. At their anniversary party, they were sort of sad because none of their dancing friends had shown up. Just at the end of the party, in walked all the square-dance club members, fully decked out and ready to go. They left Grandma and Grandpa their traditional spot in their square of 4 as they promenaded in. Grandma & Grandpa jumped up and joined right in. The square-dance caller had even changed his lyrics to be all about “Mel & Mon.” Grandma was 72 & Grandpa 71 at the time. This picture was taken a couple of year’s later and is my favorite picture of them square-dancing together.

Now for some inspiration from the Creative Team.

Jenn J (jmljensen) used Beep Beep Boop Beep Template by SWL also. Jenn’s blocking is done so well. I love the string flower hidden behind her yellow flower.

Kassie (kass_23) Look at how well Kassie has tied her background in with Grandma’s dress? Love the cluster’s and the journaling about her baby liking her own voice all mic’d up.

Carol (Iowan) Carol’s LO is just wonderful! I love all the cluster’s! What a great way to use “faded” as an indicator of the time that has passed.

Chelle’s Products in the Market are all linked up for you!

 

 

 

 

 

Hope I gave you some perspective on LO’s you could create using these 2 perfect pairs! Hugs!

Sneaky Peek | Digital Scrapbooking Freebies

Telegrams & Tags. This kit will have you peeking for pictures in the vintage “frame” of mind. Chelle has a FABULOUS collection coming this weekend.  And you can win it…see details below:
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.

Eeeek! | Digital Scrapbooking Inspiration

Trick or Treat! That greeting all of Fall adores. The pumpkins. The Carving! The home I grew up in had 4 pillars around a cement porch. I remember many years standing on the cement porch watching Dad carve the faces into our new jack-o-lanterns. We’d get a strand of Christmas lights and change out the bulbs to be yellow. Viola! The fun would now begin! I would be so excited I’d be jumping everywhere. Soon Chelle & her sisters and I would get together, hold hands as we walked down the road from house-to-house. We were about as noisy as 4 girls could be, and then later we got to have the boys with us. Chelle’s brother and my brother. We’d run and skip and scream like banshees because it was Halloween. Our sugar rush was very high. We knew which houses we wanted to go to because they had the ‘cool’ or ‘most desirable’ candy. I don’t do much with the decorating any more, but our neighbors across our breezeway and put up a spooky house banner, 3 skulls — in glitter colors, a green mummy with spider webs & spiders. Just this week, he added a lovely zombie that swings out from under the stairs. We are in Halloween heaven — and that’s before you ever get to our door. LOL
When I saw Chelle’s newest products, I was so excited. The fun side of Halloween. I couldn’t help but feel my day lighten up as I watched Let me show you all of the coordinating products: Eeeeek Bundle, Eeeeek Scatter (FWP) Eeeeek Kit, Eeeeek Painted Papers, Eeeeek Word Art, Carve It Up, & the Eeeeek freebie.


For our designer & CU friends, she released CU Layered Folded Ribbons V2. Last night was Creative Club Digi Designer Edition monthly tips & tut chat. Laura Coyle presented a demonstration on Adobe Illustrator CS6 pattern making. It was soooo interesting. I learned a ton. If you want to design your own stuff, CCDDE is THE way to go. Join today! Next week we have Q&A on 10/17.

 

 

 

 

 

Now the inspiration from the creative team:

Carol (Iowan)

Jan (Quilty Mom)

Jenn J Left (jmljensen)

Jenn J Right (jmljensen)

Kayla (keepscrappin)

Lynett (lynett_rock)

Mary Left (plumdumpling)

Mary Right (plumdumpling)

Ophelia (navaja77)

Ronnie (Ronnie_Texas)

Roxana (roxanamdm)

Out CT friend Dagi (Dagmar) is from Czechoslovakia where they don’t celebrate Halloween. She posted that she was working on her calendar for next year and provided this example.

Dagi (Dagmar)

Krisi made us a hybrid birthday card invitation to share with you.

Krisi (krisi616)

I can’t wait to see all the LO’s you post to the gallery. I know I’m going to LOVE them. See you soon.

Hugs!

Words on Wednesday: Sayings | Digital Scrapbooking Tips

Hi Fellow Scrappers!  Does your family have a favorite saying…maybe it’s a movie quote…or a phrase from an inside joke. Those sayings make great words for your scrapbooks. Sayings… boy, my family has a bunch of them. I can only think of a few of them, but I know we have/had a zillion of ’em.”

  • “Were you born in a barn?” (question asked when someone didn’t shut the entrance door to the house. Usually on Sunday night’s as my Mom & Dad’s. Culprits were usually the grandkids racing out the door to play.)
  • “You make a better door than a window!” (asked when someone crossed in front of the TV and blocked their vision.)
  • “Live or Die. It’s up to you.” (said by Grandma Pitcher when she transplanted something)
  • “Those potatoes are so creamy!” (said to change the subject. Quote from the movie While You Were Sleeping)
  • “That must have happened while I was in the mission field!” (of my father’s 9 children, 5 daughters and 2 son’s have served mission’s for our church! )  Said whenever someone brought up a memory you had no idea what they were talking about. It didn’t have to happen during the actual mission, it could be yesterday, but we would always that. It eventually morphed in “Mission Memory! Also funny because they were actually non-mission memories! LOL
  • Too many accessories clutter an outfit!” (said when commenting about someone’s outfit or jewelry. Quote from the movie Troop Beverly Hills”)
  • “Green means go in Utah!” (said to any driver who doesn’t drive as fast through the intersection as we might have liked.)
  • Stupid Announcer Comment! (said when watching sports and the play by play guys makes an absolutely ridiculously statement!)
  • Chelle’s Dad says, “Because it’s colder in the mountains than in the spring!” I find this one funny because I’ve never heard him say it.
  • Another I remember him saying was “Act, Not React!”

More recently I will say:

  • Dude! Really?
  • Seriously? That’s what your going with!”

Think about the phrases that you and your family use.  Then scrap about it!   Let me show you what the CT Members created (links to the products are in the caption under the photo):

Melissa N. (KSCroppyChic) shared what she found out after polling her friends and family.”I polled my family on what I say most. Come to find out, it was unanimous among the 4 of them. It’s not so much a saying as a word, so I asked my sister, my mom and 2 best friends and again unanimous. I was struggling with this topic for some reason so I decided to go with a word more than a saying, hope it works. On the other hand, I think I need to find something else to say! Seriously! LOL” Here’s her LO.

Mel N (KSCroppyChic) Mel used Apple of my Eye and Fill-Me-In-Bundle

Nee Nee (neenee) She used Ladybug Hugs!

Ophelia (navaja77) She used Rainbow Collection, Oh Snap! & Fill Me In {Marker}

Hope this post gives you lots of great ideas.
Hugs!

Fill Me In Playdate | Digital Scrapbooking Inspiration

Hey! I love to read! Let me just start out with that. I’ve had eye-glasses since I was 16 years old. Almost 30 years. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve had a hard time reading because I wasn’t able to see as clearly and my tri-focals had to be in just the right spot to read. Yesterday I was reading a 2-book series by Carla Kelly (Borrowed Light & Enduring Light) They take place in SE Wyoming and I had read about 1/3 of book one. I usually read in the bathtub, but I had an illuminating thought last night. If I could hold the book right in front of my nose in the tub and see without the eye-glasses, I could do that in my bed. LOL! It’s only taken me years to discover this obvious piece of wisdom. I’ve always had to use my glasses to read street signs, etc, and it just didn’t occur to me….duh! So I’m guessing you’re laughing at me and you should be be….  Long story short, I read all night. I finished book 2 this morning at 6:30 A.M. I had truly missed reading. I love “holding” the book”. I’d been considering a e-Reader, but didn’t want to lose that “piece” of myself. So here’s my thought for the week….sometimes the idea for a LO has been in front of your nose all along…. and my advice? Well, don’t wait 30 years to figure it out!

Wait, I have to tell another funny on myself. As a telephone agent (survey taker), I type what I hear all day long. I’ve got LDS General Conference on and I am listening as I write this post. So if suddenly I sound very profound…. I hope it’s me typing and that I don’t start plagiarizing a talk. LOL

Chelle’s been busy doing 2 new alphas for us this week. Fill Me In {Bundle}, {Marker} and {Pencil}. You can get them as a bundle or individually. I’ve linked up the images for you below.


Drips! Splats! For our CU Friends, Chelle offers CU Splats!
Chelle provided not 1 but 2 Digital Scrapbook Tutorial: They too are linked below.

As a reminder, Chelle provides this you-tube tutorial on what to do when doodles cross over the edge of a paper.

If your mail client doesn’t play friendly with the videos, you’ll find all Chelle’s videos on her You-Tube Channel.

In our newsletter’s this week, Chelle hooked us up with a link to make the “Family Banner” hybrid project. It has so many applications, but I see it with a Christmas or Thanksgiving application. I”m sure you have ideas a plenty.

Now let me show up some great inspiration from our creative team!

Carol (Iowan) used Apple Of My Eye

Jenn J (jmljensen) On The Trail & Apple Of My Eye

Kayla (keepscrappin) She used Fill Me In Pencil, Fireworks, Ladybug Hugs, and Apple of my Eye

Lynette (lynett_rock) She used the Fill Me In Bundle.

Lynette LO #2 (lynett_rock) She used the Fill Me In Bundle.

Mel (KSCroppyChick) She used Vrooom! & Fill Me In Bundle.

Ronnie (Ronnie_Texas) She used Fill Me In Bundle & Apple Of My Eye

Roxana Right (roxanamdm) She used Prehistoric, Mark My Words, & Fill Me In Bundle

Roxana Right (roxanamdm) She used Prehistoric, Mark My Words, & Fill Me In Bundle

Hope you have a great week. See you in the Chelle’s Creation Gallery. I love to see what you create.

Hugs!

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!

 

Unlikely Pairs: Ladybug Hugs & Apple Of My Eye | Digital Scrapbooking Kit Combinations

Hello Everyone! Today we are looking at some LOs comparing two of Chelle’s recent kits: Ladybug Hugs & Apple Of My Eye. These two kits are so cute together. Dagmar (dagi) one of our guest CT members created this delightful LO using them. The top picture shows their beautiful eye’s and isn’t the kiss just adorable? Love the banner and clusters.

Heather (snowdrop) created this Disney delight with Snow White. Love the clustering, the use of the flower paper, ric rac and the circle full of multi prints, scallop-shadowing on the edges, but my absolute favorite is the mirror in the background reminding us we are all the fairest of them all.

Mary (plumdumpling) show us her visit to Nauvoo, Illinois. Love the sunbonnet on the little girl. What a cutie! The cluster on the bottom right where she combines all the elements from both kits. A lovely family LO to match the tag inviting us to join them them as they “love to see the temple.”

These layouts will surely give you many ideas for ways you can combine Chelle’s Creations. Just click on the image of Chelle’s products. I’ve linked them up for you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hugs!

 

2013 Calendar Playdate | Digital Scrapbooking Inspiration

Hello Ladies! Calendars…. I love ’em. I hang 1 in my bedroom, 1 in my kitchen, 1 in the office, and I use 2 for work. I love to put stickers on my calendars to mark the passage of time until the next payday. I use the “event planner” in Hallmark Card Studio 2012 to enter all the birthdays and anniversaries in my extended family. It keeps track of that information for me and I can print any calendar in the past and future and it updates all the information. I could print the month I was born. So… I’m going to be figuring out how to use that calendar and use Chelle’s toppers. A goal for me.

It’s the Orginal Scrapbook Expo this weekend and the first Digi Scrapapalooza: Utah 2012. So we’ve had a light week. We weren’t able to send out a newsletter this week (9/27).

Let me show you Chelle’s 2013 calendar’s that you can add your images to. 

For our CU Friends, we have CU Retro Alpha Doodles.

Kayla (keepscrappin) made a calendar front & back freebie for us. Just click on the image to download it.

Topper Inspiration:

Kayla (keepscrappin)

Ronnie (Ronnie_Texas)

Jan (QuiltyMom)

Erica (stanworth)

Heather (snowdrop)

Ophelia (navaja77)

Hugs!