Digital Scrapbooking Blog and Scrapbook Inspiration
from DesignerDigitals

It’s a new year, and the newest members of the Designer Digitals Creative Team are excited to bring you a new challenge! The Color Challenge kicks off today with this inspiration:

Your challenge is to create a page using some or all of the colors in the featured palette and/or the photo as inspiration! Your layout should be made using all DD products. Post your entries to the special Color Challenge Gallery by 11:00 p.m. eastern time on Sunday, January 29, 2012 to be eligible for a contest! One entry will receive a $5 gift certificate to DD. Winner will be chosen by vote of our creative team. One entry per member, please.

Melissa, Connie and Joanne have created layouts based on the inspiration:

Credits for Melissa’s layout:
Katie Pertiet
Hung Up Photo Frames No. 6 (coming soon)
Basic Chipboard Alphabet White No. 1 (coming soon)
Sweet St. Nicholas Kit
Elfin Magic Kit
Home and Garden Kit
Lightly Ledger Ocean Blues Solids Paper Pack
Scratchy Masks Brushes and Stamps No. 02
Wooden Alphabet No. 08

Lynn Grieveson
Stormy Weather Kit

Maplebrook Studios
Annelise Neutrals Paper Pack

Andrea Victoria
Salamat Paper Pack
Simple Girl Paper Pack

Ali Edwards
Winter Hand Drawn Brushes

Pattie Knox
Staple Its!

Credits for Connie’s layout:
Maplebrook Studios
Annelise Neutrals Solids Paper Pack

Katie Pertiet
Watery Photo Masks No. 02
Splatters Brushes and Stamps No. 02
Stamping Strips Brushes and Stamps: Love No. 01
Watery Spots Brushes and Stamps No. 01
Fine Line Twists No. 01
Letter Box Hearts Brushes and Stamps No. 01
Artistry d’amour Kit
Twisted Stitches No. 03 Value Pack
Aged Stripes Alphabet Brushes No. 02
Scallop Frame Masks No. 01
Flourished Christmas Paper Pack No. 02
Bursting Words Brushes and Stamps
Cabana White Solid Paper Single
Ticketed Dates
Wire Rimmed Charmed Alpha No. 01
All Hung Up No. 02 (staple)
Thankful Memories Kit (staple)
Banner Labels No. 01
Striping Love Brushes and Stamps No. 01
Frame Me No. 02C
Bakers Twine Assortment No. 01

Ali Edwards
You Are Awesome Brushes And Stamps

Andrea Victoria
Essential Tapes: Just Dots

Credits for Joanne’s layout:
Katie Pertiet
Tabbed Dates No. 3 (coming soon)
Fine Line Twists No. 01
Edge Overlays No. 04
Wooden Words: Love No. 01
Twiggy
Taped Together Stacks No. 01
Loves Park Kit
Stamped Stitched Photo Masks No. 01 Brushes and Stamps
Messy Stitched Borders: White No. 01
Artistry de Blanco Kit
Oiselet Rouge Kit
Elfin Magic Kit
Filed Photo Frames No. 03
Studio DD
Layer Works No. 148
Layer Works No. 044
Layer Works No. 001
Lynn Grieveson
Worn Page Edges No. 02
Rosie Kit

Our inspiration palette was taken from http://www.design-seeds.com. This is a fun website full of beautiful color inspiration! We look forward to bringing you a new color challenge every other Monday. We hope you’ll play along with us!

Congratulations to brenda_in_tx. Her layout P. 2 of 2012 Journal has been selected as the featured layout of the week where she won a $ 5 DesignerDigitals Gift Certificate for product of her choice!

This page by Trace [aka Tracermajig] really caught my eye. I love how the larger photo frames were simulating a filmstrip coming in from the top left. It made you feel like you were reeling it in with the tied fastener. And then the journaler in the bottom right helped to balance it all out. The mix of colors gave it great energy and the three little epoxies on the top image led your eye from the title to the photo and then down to the final epoxy on the journaler. Perfection!

Jen, Lori and Linda all took a spin on this page with wonderful lifts!

From LoriS
credits: Artistry DAmour Kit [COMING SOON], Artistry DAmour Add On Papers [COMING SOON], Haunted Woodlands Solids Paper Pack (for the stripe), Watery Wings Brushes and Stamps, Whimsy Wings Element Pack, Winter Plaids Paper Pack No. 01, Little Bits Alphabet, Basic Paper Alphabet: Orange, All Hung Up, Metal Clip Assortment No. 03, Assorted Messy Stitches: White No. 02, Assorted Messy Stitches: White No. 03, Bead Scatterings No. 04, Kotteder Kit, Layer Works No. 053

from Linda [aka earlofoxford]
credits: Classic Cardstock: Details Paper Pack, Haunted Woodlands Add-On Paper Pack, Classic Cardstock: Finest Paper Pack, Festival Paper Pack, Basic Bare Chipboard Alphabet No. 02, Rounded Corner Clipping Masks Brushes, Clock Parts No. 08, Tied Fasteners No. 03(recolored), Clean Stitched Rounded Corners: White No. 01, Clean Stitched Borders: White No. 01, Basic Twills: Words No. 01, Haunted Woodlands Element Pack(green eyelet lace recolored), Metal Scrolls No. 02, Bookshelf Clusters No. 01 {coming soon}, Twilled Dates No. 02, Drop Shadow Styles Collection, Subtle Plum Paper Pack, Everyday Sentiment Strips Brushes and Stamps, Awanui Kit, Staple Its!, How’d They Do That? No. 13: Bending Shadows, How’d They Do That? No. 19: Recoloring Essentials

From Jen D
credits: Fine Line Twists [coming soon], Game Day Paper Pack, Football Paper Pack, Gator Crossing Paper Pack, Dotted and Dashed Brushes and Stamps, Messy Slab Alphas Brushes and Stamps, All Laced Up No. 03, Alphabet Ribbons No. 01, Banner Strips No. 01, Hinge Pack, Inky Numbers and Dates, Cut Ups: Football, Little Enamel Accents: Sports, Banner Safety Tags No. 01, Tin Frames

I hope you’ll take inspiration too and we’ll look to see your lifts in the Saturday Scraplift Gallery at DesignerDigitals!

This week’s Adobe Photoshop or Elements tip of the week is now available on video. This weeks tip is on Using Brushes to Embellish Text in Photoshop and PSE.

Merrilee (digigrandma) had this great idea for mini notebooks.  We loved them and knew you would love them too.


Here is what Merrilee said about them.
“I saw this idea on a blog found because of Pinterest. I made these for my daughter-in-laws as a little Valentine present. I made them up very quickly.  Directions:  Buy some inexpensive memo note pads like you can buy at Target or Walmart. The little memo pads I used are about 2 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches. Create covers using digital designs, personalize with initials or names, print out on card stock paper and adhere to the cover of the memo notebook with double face tape. I created 4 to a page to print on home printer.”
This is how Merrilee set them up in Photoshop.


Merr used:
Loves Park Kit
Simple Heart Paper Pack
I have been wanting to make a gratitude journal for one of my daughters so I decided to make one like Merr’s.  I added tabs for each month of the year. 

The products I used:
Be Loved Mini Kit
Autumnal Artistry Element Pack
Be Labeled: Love
I want to thank Merr for this fun idea and hope it inspires you to try a hybrid project. If you do, be sure to post it in the Hybrid Scrapbooking and More Gallery.