http://blog.designerdigitals.com/index.php/site/index/ Digital Scrapbooking Blog and Scrapbook Inspiration From DesignerDigitals en lisaleepate@gmail.com Copyright 2012 2012-02-09T15:51:14+00:00 http://blog.designerdigitals.com/index.php/site/hybrid-scrapbooking-and-more-simply-stated/ http://blog.designerdigitals.com/index.php/site/hybrid-scrapbooking-and-more-simply-stated/#When:14:51:14Z Hello everyone, Lisa Pate here. A few weeks ago Laura posted a layout that became an instant favorite of mine. This week I decided to use it as my inspiration for a hybrid project. The process is simple.  Print your images onto cardstock, cut them to size, and then place them in a frame. This is by far one of my favorite projects to date. I love that this project is personal and can be easily modified as needed in the future. As always we enjoy seeing what you create in the Hybrid Gallery. Supplies: Katie Pertiet’s Fifty States Brushes and Stamps MegaPak Andrea Victoria’s Salamat Paper Pack Ali Edwards’s Little Bit Of Messy Home Brushes and Stamps Hybrid Scrapbooking and More 2012-02-09T14:51:14+00:00 http://blog.designerdigitals.com/index.php/site/1st-quarter-sale-at-designerdigitals/ http://blog.designerdigitals.com/index.php/site/1st-quarter-sale-at-designerdigitals/#When:11:00:24Z It’s that time again, time for our 1st quarter sale at DesignerDigitals. Every regular item is now marked down 30% AND there are 32 NEW Items marked down 30% as well. The sale runs through next Tuesday at midnight California time so it’s a great time to stock up on your favorite items! We will be having chats with freebies throughout the day on Saturday as well. We look forward to seeing you there! Sale is valid through February 15, 2012 3am EST. Applies to all digital scrapbooking products. Offer does not apply to gift certificates, CDs or extended licenses. Does not include shipping charges for CD orders and is not redeemable on prior purchases. Announcements 2012-02-09T11:00:24+00:00 http://blog.designerdigitals.com/index.php/site/making-it-your-own/ http://blog.designerdigitals.com/index.php/site/making-it-your-own/#When:04:15:14Z I tend to be an “inside the box” thinker. It’s probably the left-brained, English teacher in me. And when I see a template, sometimes I’m intimidated by the design that’s already laid out before me. As I’ve grown as a scrapper, however, I am more apt to assert my creative independence. Just because a design element is a certain size or in a certain place, that doesn’t mean it can’t be changed. Part of the real joy of working with a template is making it suit your vision. I didn’t issue a specific challenge to the Creative Team with Studio Double-D’s Layer Works No. 095, but each of us definitely made the template her own. Let’s take a look. Connie (scullen2), one of our new Creative Team members, used the white space in the template to include a wonderful blended image. The pops of color against the neutral background draw the viewer’s eye down her page to a photo of her daughters giving a kiss to this sweet little guy. Credits: Layer Works No. 095, Littlest Farmer Kit, Spot Dots Overlays, Edge Overlays No. 04, Stack-a-Date Brushes and Stamps No. 01, Gator Crossing Kit, Little Layette Kit, Baby No. 01 Word Art Brushes, Stormy Weather Kit Terri (tdavenport) draws us right into her Christmas Eve page with the red background paper, and I love the seasonal embellishments she included to support her theme. The Santa hat on that owl is just too cute, and I really like how she used the photo of Santa’s milk and cookies. Credits: Layer Works No. 095, Midwinter Kit, Assorted Messy Stitches: Pink No. 01, Felt Board Friends: Mad Hatters Christmas, Little Snips Alphabet No. 02, Little Hearts Element Pack I went seasonal with my page in honor of Valentine’s Day. I reduced the size of the inner mat and shifted it off center to make room for a scalloped border and a cool new dictionary blendable by Katie. It was fun incorporating the heart embellishments to support my theme. Credits: Layer Works No. 095, Just Linens Paper Pack No. 12, Bella Kit, Recycled: Love Paper Pack, Scallop Strip Masks, Lovable Paper Pack, Dictionary Blendables: Love No. 01, All About the Love Brushes and Stamps No. 01, Stitched Word Strips: Dates No. 01 Value Pack, Wire Rimmed Charms No. 01, Tied Fasteners No. 03, Defining Words Brushes and Stamps No. 05, Little Bits Alphabet: Red, Little Bits Alphabet: Red No. 02, Cut Out Alphabet: Red, Drop Shadow Styles Collection, Be Loved Paper Pack, Silk Road Kit: Remix, Sock Monkey Kit, Inky Dink Page Borders, Have a Heart Felts No. 04, How’d They Do That? No. 13: Bending Shadows Whether you think inside or outside the box, I think you’ll enjoy working with this template. And remember, Katie and Randy are generously donating a $5 gift card to the store to one lucky scrapper whose page will be randomly selected. Post your 100% current DD page in the Template Challenge Gallery by 11:00 PM EST, Thursday, February 16, to be eligible. Template Challenge 2012-02-09T04:15:14+00:00 http://blog.designerdigitals.com/index.php/site/heritage-challenge-no.-49-heritage-with-a-mod-twist/ http://blog.designerdigitals.com/index.php/site/heritage-challenge-no.-49-heritage-with-a-mod-twist/#When:12:15:39Z This week the field is wide open . . . we have no particular heritage category today.  So just find a great old photo from the 70’s or earlier and scrap away.  Too easy?  I’ll throw in one request . . . let’s put a modern twist to our heritage pages this time.  When going through the fabulous Heritage Gallery I find that often times I am drawn to the simple and sort of mod looking layouts . . . so I thought that perhaps it might be fun to see what some others come up with too. I typed “heritage” into the search box in the Designer Digitals Store and came up with loads of cool heritage products . . . and I think that these are particularly mod looking.  Conifere Kit Alphabetize Me Brushes and Stamps No. 05 Coming Unglued: Families Alphabet Cut Ups: My Family Genealogy Now go through the store on you own and find some other “non-heritage” products for your pages and share them with us in the Heritage Gallery.  Take a look at the pages that CT members Carol [carollee], Sharon [Shannamay] and I [readstoomuch] have made for the challenge. Carol’s A Note to My Future Self used these products:  Pink Florale Paper Pack, Valentine Pretties Paper Pack: Solids,  Ripped and Stitched Do-it-Yourself No. 03, Artistry d’amour Add-On Paper Pack Clean Stitched: White No. 03, Stitched Journal Strips No. 03, Classic Curled Photo Frames No. 03, Nana’s Buttons and the new and fabulous Anders Kit. Next we have Sharon’s Love these Memories about her Nana & Grandy.  Sharon used the following from the DD Store:  Filed Photo Frames No. 06, Mega Tag Pack, Anders Kit and Hello Life Boxes Brushes & Stamps No. 03. The last page is my own . . . I have used the following products:  Design Your Life Template No. 12, Bead Scatterings No. 03, Fine Line Twists No. 01, Fiske Kit, Love Sentiment Strips and Artistry d’amour Add-On Paper Pack. Lynn aka Grandma Lynnie, my Heritage Challenge co-writer for the blog & I hope that you will draw inspiration from Debi, Jana and the two of us this week for Heritage Challenge No. 49. We would love to see your back to school pages in the Heritage Gallery along with ours.  Remember that your pages should use products from the Designer Digitals Store and feature memories from the 1970’s or earlier.  Some of you may be surprised that you are considered “heritage” girls!!! Heritage 2012-02-06T12:15:39+00:00 http://blog.designerdigitals.com/index.php/site/digital-scrapbooking-layout-of-the-week-february-4-2012/ http://blog.designerdigitals.com/index.php/site/digital-scrapbooking-layout-of-the-week-february-4-2012/#When:11:00:13Z Congratulations to lizziet5. Her layout Hello Pappa has been selected as the featured layout of the week where she won a $ 5 DesignerDigitals Gift Certificate for product of her choice! Layout of the week 2012-02-04T11:00:13+00:00 http://blog.designerdigitals.com/index.php/site/tell-it-like-it-is-saturday-scraplift-no.-239/ http://blog.designerdigitals.com/index.php/site/tell-it-like-it-is-saturday-scraplift-no.-239/#When:15:00:32Z Hi everyone! Katie here, stepping in for Lynn this weekend! Tracermajig aka Trace, has been putting up some amazing pages in the gallery lately. And some of them are without pictures which is really great. It is all about the story after all and there aren’t always pictures to go with it. But it’s still a story to tell and I love that she is doing such a great job with her pages! This weekend I chose “I Don’t” as the Saturday Scraplift! Steph took a turn at an “I Don’t” page too! page credits: Pocket Pages Layered Templates No. 04, Graphica Paper Pack, Graphica Solids Paper Pack, Nikki Journalers, Ribbon Blooms No. 01, Tabbed Dates No. 03, Clip Its! No. 02: Clipped Blooms, Cut Ups: Everyday No. 02, Noted Strips No. 01 Patricia approached the challenge by adding in some photographs in her Love Light Page! page credits: Dictionary Blendables Love No. 1, Autumnal Artistry Element Pack, 2nd Hand Memories Element Pack, Anders Papers, Anders Solids, Luv You Sanded Chip Alphas PINK, Speed Byte Layered Template No. 165, Pearl Borders, SoSoGeo Papers, Apple Dumplings Kit for pink lace, Fold it Up And Linda took a different approach and made an event calendar which is a great way to showcase birthdays and adnniversaries! page credits: Naturally Krafty No. 02 Paper Pack, Pocket Cards 2012: Rainbow Dates No. 01, Assorted Messy Stitches: White No. 04, Edge Overlays No. 01, Time Clusters No. 03, Drop Shadow Styles Collection, Brad Bonanza No. 01: Digital Fasteners, Brad Bonanza No. 03: Digital Fasteners, Getting There Kit, Festive Fall Kit, Have a Heart Felts No. 02, Felt Board Friends: Thanksgiving, Gran’s Garden Kit, Shiver Kit, Purple Fever Kit, Rouen Kit, Janine Element Pack, Jules Kit, Frog Prince Kit, Lovisa Kit, Eilon Kit, Floral Graffiti Mini Kit I hope these amazing lifts and Trace’s page give you a jump on a lift of your own! Be sure to share your pages with us in the Saturday Scraplift Gallery! And thanks for playing! Saturday Scraplift 2012-02-03T15:00:32+00:00 http://blog.designerdigitals.com/index.php/site/digital-date-stamps-and-thrifty-thursday-at-designerdigitals/ http://blog.designerdigitals.com/index.php/site/digital-date-stamps-and-thrifty-thursday-at-designerdigitals/#When:21:26:31Z It’s Thrifty Thursday at DesignerDigitals where we have a brand new item priced at just $ 99 cents and 482 items marked down 30%. These specials only last until 6am EST on Friday morning so don’t miss out. Announcements 2012-02-01T21:26:31+00:00 http://blog.designerdigitals.com/index.php/site/3-kits-3-ways-no.124/ http://blog.designerdigitals.com/index.php/site/3-kits-3-ways-no.124/#When:13:22:14Z If you read the 3K3W blog challenge from two weeks ago here on the DD Blog, you may have noticed that Merrilee and I are trying to create new 3K3W challenges with a little pizzaz!  Last week Merrilee introduced the challenge with a new twist . . . and this week I am following her lead and doing a second 3 x 3 = 9 kits challenge!  Bailey, Elena & Kathleen have created three pages with three kits of their choice . . . that gave us the nine kits to choose from.  If you would like to join these talented CT members, you can choose 3 of these 9 kits to use for your layout.  I love the widened leeway in the kits that Merr came up with. Elena picked out three kits with all neutral tones for a page using photographs of her sister-in-law made during the Christmas holidays. Katie’s Alandia Rancheros Kit Katie’s Frame Me No. 02 and, Katie’s From My Bookshelf No. 02 Kit here is Elena’s lovely Grateful for You layout: Kathleen aka [kathleen.summers] found three of her favorite kits to create this darling page using a photo of her husband looking at their new little son with the reflection of Kathleen with her camera in the mirror! Maplebrook Studio’s Solina Kit Katie’s Taped Photo Collages No. 02 and, Cathy’s Messy Slab Alphas Brushes & Stamps Be sure to look closely at the photograph in Kathleen’s sweet “Do You See What I See?” layout: The final layout is from CT member Bailey [Starlight9711].  Bailey has created a sweet, sweet page with the three kits that she picked for this challenge. Katie’s Fine Line & Bold Brushes Katie’s Loves Park Kit and, Lynn’s Geometric Hints Brushes & Stamps Here is Bailey’s pretty You Are Loved layout Merrilee and I look forward to seeing your pages posted in the 3Kits 3Ways Gallery.  We hope that you will join in the challenge by choosing 3 kits from the 9 kits featured on the blog today for your layouts.  It is quiet a challenge to limit yourself to three kits . . . especially if you love to use a dozen or more kits in your usual scrapping!!!  Have fun! 3 kits 3 ways 2012-02-01T13:22:14+00:00 http://blog.designerdigitals.com/index.php/site/diy-valentines-treats/ http://blog.designerdigitals.com/index.php/site/diy-valentines-treats/#When:09:00:25Z Making your Valentine’s Day celebration special is easy with Studio DD’s Printable Valentine’s Day Party Pack! It has cupcake wrappers, straw labels, candy wrappers, printable party banners and so much more! And what’s more fun is that you can customize everything easily in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements! Imagine putting names on the children’s straw tags so drinks aren’t confused… wouldn’t that be great? And names on treat bags for handing out at school! The possibilities are really endless with this impressive collection. You’ll want to pick up Studio DD’s Printable Valentine’s Day Party Pack and print it out today! DIY Digital Crafting 2012-01-31T09:00:25+00:00 http://blog.designerdigitals.com/index.php/site/color-challenge-2-tin-tones/ http://blog.designerdigitals.com/index.php/site/color-challenge-2-tin-tones/#When:11:00:20Z There were so many beautiful pages created from color challenge #1! Way to go! It’s time to be inspired once again with this new palette of tin tones: Design Seeds: Tin Tones Your challenge once again is to create a page using some or all of the colors in the featured palette and/or the photo as inspiration! Post your entries using 100% DD products to the Color Challenge Gallery by 11:00 p.m. eastern time on Sunday, February 12, 2012 to be eligible to win! One participant will receive a $5 gift certificate to DD! The creative team will vote and announce a winner on February 14th. One entry per member, please. Sam, Connie and I have created layouts based on the inspiration: Credits:Poetic Words Brushes and Stamps No. 01, Love Me Hearts No. 04 Brushes and Stamps, Lots of Love Paper Pack, Pull Out Journaling, Essential Tapes: Just Dots, Twenty-Twelve Brushes and Stamps, Journalist No. 01 Credits: Layer Works No. 116, Just Linens Paper Pack No. 30, Defining Fall Brushes and Stamps No. 01, Loosely Labeled No. 05 Value Pack, Winter Tickets, Tabbed Brushes and Stamps No. 02, Oiselet Rouge Kit, Assorted Messy Stitches: Brown No. 02, Vintage Flashcards: Fall, Vintage Photo Frames No. 25, Jackson Alphabet, Blue Skies Mini Kit, Pearl Swirls Credits: Chiseled Alphabet No. 05, Fairmont Solids Paper Pack, Photo Clusters No. 34, Blue Element Clusters No. 01, Hinge Pack, Metal Clip Assortment, Twisted Stitches No. 02, Scratchy Masks Brushes and Stamps No. 02, Blue Skies Paper Pack, Artistry de Azul Kit, Inked Flakes Brushes and Stamps No. 01 Color Challenge 2012-01-30T11:00:20+00:00