Lovin’ from the Oven

Mmmmmmm, don’t you just love the smell of fresh baked goods? Chelle’s Creations has a great classic kit perfect for capturing those sweet baking memories on our digital scrapbooking pages. Lovin’ from the Oven is perfect for savoring those cherished memories of baking cookies in the kitchen with grandma or for recording her favorite recipe. Recently, Chelle even added journal cards and InstaLife cards to the collection making it easy to use her kits in pocket style pages or even from your smart phone. Let’s look at a couple of layouts with these products in use.

First, Karen made a page to record her grandma’s cookie recipe. She used the bundle which includes the word art for her page. I love the way she added the clusters around the recipe card. crescentcookies_600

Jenny made a page about her children baking Christmas cookies with their grandparents. She used Chelle’s 3D InstaLife cards along with the Lovin’ from the Oven kit.  Christmas-Cookies-2014-1_web

Here’s a closer look at the bundle and the cards in the market. The images are linked. cc_lovinoven_bundlecc_lovinoven_ILcc_lovinoven_JC

Tuesday Template – Lay It On There {Doubles} #10 | Digital Scrapbooking Resources

Hello Friends! Have you downloaded your FREE Tuesday Template? The links are right there, down below the image. You can choose 12×12 or 12×24 for a double page. Love how this template can be so diverse. Any kit, any location or theme. What fun!

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Click here for 12×24 size
Click here for 12×12 sides
This awesome template inspired lots of the Honeybees and Orchard Girls! Here are some of their fantastic layouts with the template. I’ve a few layouts to inspire you. The first layout is by supergirljennie. Using Jump Zone and the coordinating Alpha by Chelle’s Creations.

Using Jump Zone and the coordinating alpha by Chelle's Creations

Chelle made this layout using Down on the Farm. She used Down on the Farm {Kit} & the coordinating Alpha. The DOTF collection also has Elements, Papers, Wordart, instaLife Cards, Journal Cards, and Sounds instaLife & Sounds Journal Cards.
Using Down on the Farm by Chelle's Creations

Roxana made this layout using Bella Gypsy’s Snap Happier: January collection
Also using Bella Gypsy's Snap Happier: January collection

Using Into the Deep by Dream Big Designs
Using Into the Deep by Dream Big Designs

Last I have a layout by Shari.
February Template Tuesday Challenge #ttchallenge

Take advantage of this free template. It will add a fun flair to you layouts.
by Sari

Grill On, Choco Lovers & CU Doodles Patterns Playdate | Digital Scrapbooking Week In Review

Hello Friends!

We have some fun new products for you to add to your instaLife and Journal Cards digital scrapbooking stash. Get Your Grill On and Chocolate Lovers are part of Chelle’s personal Favorites.

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Miss the other coordinating designs of Get Your Grill On? Just click on the image for more details.

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Now we’ll look at Chocolate Lover’s.

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Miss the coordinating Chocolate Lovers Kit & Word Art? (They are all linked up for your. Just click on the images.)

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Here are a couple of layouts from our creative team. First from Kayla.

Jan M.

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Heather

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Now for another new favorite. CU Doodled Patterns. I simply adore Chelle’s doodles. Add a touch of whimsy to your designs quickly and easily with CU Doodled Patterns.  Includes 6 Patterns each in 2 sizes (regular and small) = 12 patterns.  These multicolor patterns are layered. Let me show you this one.

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See you next week for more goodies!

by Sari

Stop The Crop!

Hi Everyone! It’s Jenn, jk703, here. Did I get your attention!? By me telling you to Stop the Crop isn’t referring to actually stopping your scrapping, but toward the cropping of your photos! :) We all scrap and the reason could be for many reasons – photos, creative outlet, recording our memories and sharing the stories. Sometimes, you can use the photo to give more information, or just as a backdrop for your journaling. Maybe you don’t have any space to journal, as you filled up your page with all photos!There may be times the story could also be in the surroundings in your photo.

Journaling on photos isn’t hard, but there are a few tips that might help you.

  • Make sure the font is legible on the photo. My thought is that you wouldn’t want to use a fancy script that will be hard to read on busy background photo.
  • Check the color, and change it to see what reads easier over the photo. Try changing the Blend Modes on the Type Layer.
  • Work with the space and shape of your photos. If your program allows, try using the Type Tool, and the Shape Tool to create Text Paths for your journaling.
  • When journaling on the photo, try to determine the best spot to journal. Sometimes you can journal on one spot, but then another it gets to hard to read. Choose wisely.
  • Lastly, to keep the surroundings visible, but to allow for journaling on a busy background, add a paper piece of vellum. You can then still see the image slightly, but your journaling will be easier to read.

Here are some examples that the CT created. Jenn created this YUMMY layout – using Pizza and Pasta Journal Cards, Pizza Amore and the alpha from Pasta La Feasta.  She added some journaling to the photo, used a typewriter font, and used a lighter font on her picture.

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Lisa created this fun layout. She used Roller Coasters and Cotton Candy. Lisa also said that she made two layers of the text, one in white and one in black underneath, and she offset by 1 pixel down and 1 pixel to the left to give a shadowed appearance to make it easier to read.

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Jan made a great layout about her trip to California! She used Get Your Grill On, with Gimmie Doubles Vol. 1 by Cluster Queen Creations. She added her journaling right on to her photos, and tried to place it in a location to make it easier to read.

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Here is my page – I used Chelle’s At The Beach, and Scrapping with Liz’s 2016 Calendar Templates 2. I had originally had my journaling as a long column, but since there was a lot of dark and light pockets on the sand, I moved it only to the water and sky. Much more legible.

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There you go. Stop the Crop and journal on your photos! Have a great week, and thanks for stopping by!

by_Jenn

All You Need is Love

Well, maybe you need a few digital scrapbooking pages about love, too, but surely THAT is all you need. Right? Pages about loved ones and about things we love are so much fun to make, aren’t they? Chelle’s Creative team members have a few new pages they’ve shared with us all about the objects of their affections.

First, Karen used a template by Scrapping with Liz and Chelle’s Chocolate Lovers to declare her love. Loving him more than chocolate is HUGE.  morethanchoc_web

Helen chose to make her page about the things her daughter loves. I love her list of ten things, and I really love that playing with Mommy made her list. So sweet! She used Summer Lovin and CU Frayed Masks. about-love

Finally, Heather used Lovin’ from the Oven and the coordinating journal cards to make this yummy page about baking cookies with her little one. I’m sure mommy and daughter both loved this activity.   16389269616_4c3ced165a_o

So, maybe all you need is love, chocolate, and cookies along with some digital scrapbooking for good measure.

by_Cheryl

Perfect Pairs Berry Sweet & Chocolate Lovers | Digital Scrapbooking Kit Combinations

Hello Friends! I hope you are making digital scrapbooking plans for Valentine’s Day. This month we challenged our creative team to do a layout using Berry Berry Sweet & Chocolate Lovers! They did AWESOME!

Christine’s layout makes me think about yummy chocolate and how we anticipate it. Fun flower clusters and angles for the papers.

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Next,Helen continues on with Christine’s theme. Now I want chocolate so I can lick my lips. The circle frames are adorable and I love her chocolate chip scatter.

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Now Donna, She has me ready to find a chocolate fountain and start dipping strawberries. Her corner photos really anchor her layouts and add dimension to her layout.

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Here are Chelle’s Chocolate Lovers products.

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Berry Berry Sweet

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Have a wonderful day!

by Sari

Dreamboat Alpha Doodles & Pajama Party Playdate | Digital Scrapbooking Week In Review

Hello Friends!
This weekend is Scrapper Bowl! All day Sunday February 1st there will be digital scrapbooking games and challenges happening in the Scrap Orchard Forum. There will be GREAT prizes!

The Orchard Girls have a new release a new mixed-fruit mega called Pajama Party on a special $5 only for a limited time. Pick it up today!
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This is Chelle’s portion of the Pajama Party Mega.

Do you sometimes struggle with resizing your images? Sometimes you only have a small picture to start with. I’ve created a resize larger action and it is available FREE on my website. Here’s a video tutorial on how to use it.

Have you always wanted to use one of Chelle’s Alpha Doodles but dreaded cutting them apart? On my website I have FREE alpha chopping actions designed specifically to work with my alpha doodles.  You can find the download links here.  Watch Chelle show you how to use the Alpha Chopper Action.
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Hope you have a wonderful weekend!
by Sari