Hello Friends!
I’ve been over gazing at the Pin Gallery an Scrap Orchard looking at some amazing digital scrapbooking layouts! Wow! Check this layout by GmaMary23. I love the colors in this layout. Great job matching the paintings. The title is great fun. Perfecto!
She used Shore Thing & Green Thumb.
Here’s another fantastic layout by Jan Merkley. I love her clusters and the way the string weaves in and out and how she scattered the flowers over the branch.
She used Fleur de Violette.
Enjoy!
Happy Halloween!!
Chelle introduced a new digital scrapbooking cute & spooky Halloween kit this week called Too Cute To Spook. It makes me want to dress up for Halloween and go Trick or Treating! Those little Halloween People are just to DIE for. You can get it as the Bundle and get it all (Kit, instaLife Cards, Journal Cards, Mummy Bonus Alpha, Stitches, Washi, Word Art, Take a look! Or if you prefer, you can snag them separately.
The word art is free with the purchase of the kit.
The Bundle includes everything from the Kit, and the Borders, Mummy Alpha, Stitches, & Washi.
Let me show you the layouts from out team. Witchy Fun!
For our CU Friends, this week Chelle released CU Bloomers {Blues}.
Hugs!
Hello!
This month I wanted to share more with you about the Collect App that lets you do digital scrapbooking on your phone. This information is mostly from Chelle from our PU newsletter from March 23, 2015. So you may have read about this before. Here is aa link to the Collect App.
Hey Friends!
Almost 7 years ago I failed at Photo-A-Day 365. Up to that point in the year I’d done pretty well. I’d only missed a few days in the first 3 months. And I kept up on the scrapping side of it, a 2 page layout for each week. But the truth is, it was HARD! Hard to remember to take the photos. Hard to take the time to upload them from my camera to my computer. So easy to forget. So easy for something to be more important.
However, now things have changed. There is a good camera on my phone which means I have a good camera with me almost always. And while I still enjoy scrapping the memories we make, I also like to document the little things that make up our days. Back in December I learned about an app that might make it easier to be successful at Photo-a-Day or P365. BUT, things were still crazy in my life. So I downloaded the Collect app and decided to start on January 1st. Amazingly 3 month later I am still going strong. And it is super easy. Every afternoon I get a reminder to take a photo if I haven’t taken one yet. Before I go to bed, I choose my favorite photo of the day and add it the Collect app…during that time I am usually thinking about our schedule for the next day and planning for what photo I’d like to take the next day.
But I think my favorite part of the app is the story-telling portion. There is a place with every photo to add just a bit of the story (and more space below if necessary). This “forces” me to be concise in telling the story of the photos…or just what I was thinking at the time.
So what will I do with these photos?
I liked my calendar so much, that I’ve added more calendars that first one. I don’t know how many calendars you can create, but I have 3 right now. In addition to my main album, I set up a calendar to keep the screenshots of my Couch to 5K workouts. (You don’t have to have a photo for every day. And you can have more than one photo each day.) I’ll use these photos when I scrap about this journey to improve my fitness level.
And I set up a calendar for my ‘other’ venture: Illustrated-Faith. I probably won’t ever scrap these photos because I have the original book. But I like having them all in one place where I can see them. It keeps me accountable and motivated.
And next fall I’ll start a “kindergarten year” calendar for my son.
I love how it gets me thinking about the moments I want to capture to tell the story of our lives.
Enjoy!
Hey Scrappers!
My son wanted to be a mummy for Halloween this year. He figured out in his little 5 year old mind that all I needed was a roll of toilet paper to make his costume. 
And THAT was the inspiration for my newest kit: Too Cute to Spook!
This word art is Free w/Purchase of the Kit.
You can save time & money by purchasing the Bundle. The Bundle is temporarily priced lower to reflect the fact that the stitches, borders, and washi are free this week. Next week the price will go back up.
Nutshell: If you want the cards or Mummy Alpha, get the bundle & skip chasing the freebies (they are in there) If you don’t want the cards or the Mummy Alpha, get the kit and chase the freebies.
Now… For the fantastic FREEBIES. Newsletter subscribers get these fabulous borders. (new subscribers will be sent the most recent edition of the newsletter within 24 hours of subscribing)
Here on the blog are these fantastic stitches. Click on the image to download.
Then head on over to Chelle’s Facebook Fan Page to pick up this washi tape.
PS. He didn’t dress as a mummy. But we found a mummy/zombie costume that he liked. No masks at the church party tonight, so I painted one on for him:
Hi Friends! Have you ever used Storymatics Rememory Cards to jump start your digital scrapping? Chelle mentioned them to me in one of our mammoth Gmail conversations. I think 73 was the highest one yet, but I digress…
Chelle said, “Here are a few cards from my Rememory deck. In theory you draw 3 cards, think briefly, then start telling what you remember. As you start to remember more and more of the story will come to you.
So here are a few. Choose 1 from each column. They are: the setting on the left…the players in the right, and the memory sparks in the middle.”
So here’s what Jenny came up with. Jenny said, She used autumn, what makes them laugh and brother or sister or friend.” She used Falling 4 U.
Go for it. See what stories you suddenly remember.
Let’s talk templates. They really help speed up our digital scrapbooking and make our layouts more distinctive. This month I challenged the team to use a template with a large photo and then show us their layout. I really like templates that show a large photo because they draw me in and make me wonder what was happening at the time the photo was taking. They make me WANT to read the journaling. So check these out.
This layout is by Christine.
She used this template.
Jenn Schultz created this layout.
Jenn used this layout.
I would like to see the ways you use big pictures and templates. Make a layout and share it in the SO Pin Gallery. Remember to use #chelle on all your layouts.
We all lover flowers and sometimes we need a certain color that isn’t included in the kit. Chelle of Chelle’s Creations has a video tutorial showing us how to recolor her CU Miniflowers. Follow along and create a rainbow of flowers. Enjoy!
This week, with Halloween just around the bend, it must be on the minds of many because without knowing it two of Chelle’s amazing CT ladies created a layout using the same kit, Trick or Treat. They both also used the CU MiniFlowers.
First up is Christine (Carolina Scrapper) with this frightfully stunning page. Isn’t her border cluster just gorgeous? I also love the way the photo is blended into the page. She recolored the purple flower to dark purple, the pink flower to dark pink and the yellow flower to green and orange.
I love how you can use the same kit and get two totally different looking pages. Krista (kc71595) created a page about picking out that perfect pumpkin. She created a darker purple flower for this page.
Head over the Chelle’s store and check out the CU MiniFlowers. While you are there see if you have missed any goodies she has released.
If you create a page using the mini flowers or any of Chelle’s products be sure to share them in the Scrap Orchard gallery. We love seeing what you create. Happy scrapping!
Have you ever thought about how to use the sky patterned papers Chelle’s Creations has in some of her kits? I think they make great background papers for travel pages. They can give a page the perfect vacation feel, light, and airy, and ready to relax. Take a look at a couple of pages from Chelle’s CT.
First, Donna made a gorgeous page about travelling across the world. She used Chelle’s Aviator kit to make a page about her dream of travelling to Europe. I love the way she layered shapes of the continents on top of sky paper when on a map we would normally see a blue ocean there. With that cute airplane taking off from Pittsburgh, it’s the perfect feeling of flight across the seas. 
Karen also used a sky paper as a background. Her page is about a trip to Disney World and the sky paper gives the perfect light and happy feel. She used a combination of Chelle’s kits that worked perfectly together: Get Your Grill On & Good Night Teddy. Look how well her journaling fit on the clouds. That’s a perfect place to record memories from a magical day. 
When you’re thinking of using sky papers, don’t overlook the nighttime sky papers. Goodnight Teddy has a couple of those, of course. Are you inspired? I’m hoping you’re looking up now, finding your next great idea. The sky’s the limit!
Hi Friends!
Halloween is getting closer at the time. This month I challenged our creative team to do digital scrapbooking layouts including Trick or Treat & Toil n Trouble. Check out this fantastic layout by Jan.
What can you make?
You must be logged into the ScrapOrchard forum for the link to work. $14.99 per month OR $74.99 for six months = Six for the price of Five.
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 
on a clear summer night and splashing in spring mud puddles. We love making memories together. Me? I love blueberries, fresh salmon, creating, memory keeping, & above all my family & my faith.
