The Days of December are continuing here at DesignerDigitals. We have a new batch of 260 items marked down 30% and a brand new item priced at just $ 50 cents. These specials will only be at this price until 6am EST on December 25th.
Today’s special item is Text Clusters Brushes and Stamps No. 03
Hi there, everyone! Janet Long here with a quick idea you could do now, or after the holidays if you don’t have time beforehand. I can’t believe that Christmas is in just two days.
I have alway loved reading. I can still imagine the feeling I used to get when I would receive a new Nancy Drew book for Christmas. There is nothing like snuggling up and reading a good book when it is cold outside. I don’t quite understand why, but I love it when I finish up reading for a little bit and place a cute bookmark in my book to hold my page. Every time that I do it I get this little thrill. I am sure you all probably think I am really silly and well, I probably am. Anyway, these magnetic bookmarks are especially fun because not only are they a bookmark, but the also contain magnets. I have always had a fascination with magnets, too. I love my magnetic pin cushion and my various magnet boards around the house and now I love these little magnetic bookmarks. They make the sweetest little click when I put them in my book. I made a bunch for my book club and they all love them, too.
I was totally inspired to do this project by this project by artmidget. Erica always has such great style and fun ideas. You can see her bookmarks here:
http://www.designerdigitals.com/digital-scrapbooking/ideas/showphoto.php?photo=140003
Here are my directions for making the bookmarks:
http://www.designerdigitals.com/digital-scrapbooking/ideas/showphoto.php?photo=145578&cat=890
When I make my bookmarks, I do it on a document that is 8 X 10.5. I place six bookmarks on a page. Here is a sample of what my page looks like after it is printed. On this particular bookmark I stuck wiggly eyes on the owls with glue dots and that made them extra cute.
I hope that you all have a Merry Christmas and that if you don’t have time to make these bookmarks before Christmas, January would be a perfect time to do so. Then you can have as much fun as I do when you finish up your reading and place one of these in your book.
Merry Christmas! Its just about the big day, can you believe it?!
First, if youre creating your Days of December layouts, be ready for the 24/25th of December - I reckon you’re going to be busy 
- so use your template, get your elements in order and then you can just slide in your photos and be done. Recording your day is worth its weight in gold, but so is living the moment!
I’ve also got the jump start on some creative, festive layout ideas for you 
1) Consider bullet pointing your day. 8am? 11am? Share whats going on in your home. Its an excellent way of getting lots of details and information across without writing paragraph after paragraph. Bet you’ve got ten seconds for one line every hour or so…
2) Hand the children the camera! Okay, maybe not THE Camera, but make sure theirs is charged and ready to go. A whole new perspective on their - and your- day!
3) What wouldn’t it be Christmas without? What *always* happens to you at Christmas? Do the Christmas lights fuse? Your Mother completely over-cater? Does Santa alway leave you a Terry’s Chocolate Orange? Put it down on paper, the good, the bad and the downright funny; what makes it Christmas Day in your house?
4) Have you thought of sharing the journaling? Maybe all your family and guests can give you one line about their favourite part of the day. So can relatives over the phone.
5) Take a picture of all your gift tags, of all the parcels, of all the baking, (and in my case of all the snow )
Last minute gifts needed? Yes, me too I think I’ve been creating since September and I’m still not done…
Along with the usual calendars, cards and photobooks, here’s what else I’ve been making-
I was hugely inspired by Janet’s Type poster for her daughter and its taken me in all sorts of directions, gift wise.
I made my surname
(and liked that so much its become a mousemat or two for Christmas…)
And also used that idea to create ‘message posters’ for loved ones, like this one;
I think the thing I’ve enjoyed making the most though, has to be personalised Printer Trays.
Take one of Katie’s Printer Trays, alter it to your desired size, add in lots of elements, particularly those apt to the recipient, a bunch of tiny family photos, and get it framed in a box frame…
(not toooo close up on those… shhh! secret!)
Heres one I can show you in detail
I think they are going to be very well received
I hope you’ll share any last minute gifts you create in the gallery, and that you’ll join me back here next week, when its ‘Get it Together -for 2011!’
Happy Holidays
The Days of December are continuing here at DesignerDigitals. We have a new batch of 260 items marked down 30% and a brand new item priced at just $ 50 cents. These specials will only be at this price until 6am EST on December 24th.
Today’s special item is Christmas Postcard Journalers No. 01
The month of December is an incredibly busy time of year for most of us here at Designer Digitals. The Days of December pages are just amazing and so abundant and it is obvious that each of us who is participating is having a blast with our own pages . . . isn’t it fun seeing all of the layouts in the gallery too. The designers in the DD store have been working overtime to provide us with many, many new products to work with. And, Katie has out done herself with the 50 cent items & incredible sales in the store.
Isn’t December here at Designer Digitals just wonderful!!!!!
Today the 3 Kits 3 Ways Challenge is using three great kits that I think will work together beautifully for your Christmas layouts. All three kits will be on sale in the DD Store at 30% off through 6am EST on Friday morning, the 24th of December.
The challenge is to use these three kits in your layout . . . you can use as many other DD products as you would like to complete your page.
Katie Pertiet’s Krafty Cut-Ups: Holiday
Lynn Grieveson’s December Magic Kit
and, StraightLine Stitching: Red No. 01 from Anna Aspnes:
Now we will take a look at the “3 Ways” from three of our talented CT Members:
From Kayleigh is “Opening Presents” . . . you will love seeing Kayleigh’s darling little girl opening gifts under last year’s Christmas tree. For this creative layout, Kayleigh used the following extras. Inked Flakes No. 01, Merry and Bright Layered Template, Taped Photo Masks No. 01, Stitching Holes Brushes and Stamps, Rounded Corner Clipping Masks Brushes, Garden Stakes: Dates, Gator Crossing Element Pack, White and Grey Tab Alphabet and Thick Christmas Handdrawn Words Brushes and Stamps.
Jana’s (Jana Morton) page “Precious Moments” is such a sweet layout using a photograph of the reading of a special Christmas book about the birth of the infant Jesus. Jana used the following DD products along with the three challenge kits: Worn Page Edges, Little Prince Kit, Notebook Edge Frames No. 03, Loosely Labeled Dates, Fineline borderlines No. 6, Alandia Rancheros Kit, Spackle Textured No. 01 BrushSet, Hipster Plume Korners N Edges No. 04 BrushSet, Fasten Its!, I Believe Kit and Cut Offs No. 01 Brushes and Stamps.
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Heidi (Heidi2008) created this wonderful Christmas page for the blog . . . she used the red background paper from Lynn’s new December Nights kit along with the elements from Lynn’s December Magic Kit. I love the results! Heidi also used these products: December Nights Kit, Photo Wraps No. 19, Wintery Clusters Brushes and Stamps No. 02, Carded Stacks No. 01, Holiday Hand Drawn Brushes, Staple Its!: Clusters and Felt Board Friends: Jingle Bell Felts No. 02.
Merrilee and I look forward to seeing your pages posted in the 3Kits 3Ways Gallery. And, remember that you can use any extra items from the Designer Digitals store that you would like to use for your layouts. Be sure to look in the 3 Kits 3 Ways Gallery to see these layouts a bit closer too.
