I’ve been wanting to make desktop screens for quite some time and I’ve finally gotten to it!

You can download our new March 2009 Desktop
and it includes three sizes:
1280x800, 1024x768 and 1440x900

There’s plenty of room to add a few little notes or reminders for yourself and your favorite picture!

Enjoy!

Make sure to checkout our Thrifty Thursday specials today.  There are 156 items marked down 30% for today only!

The new Simply Inspired Contest is underway! Upload a layout that showcases a visual triangle and you could be selected to win a $10 gift certificate to the Designer Digitals store! Sounds easy enough, right? Check out this thread in the Contest Forum for more details and to see the winning layout from our last contest!

I’ve been gathering together many cool CD covers in order to have a rockin’ challenge for you all! I now have one huuuuuuuuuge folder of suggested and discovered CD art sat waiting! So exciting, I love this challenge!!  Just WAIT till you see next times inspiration

This time it was this rather funky cover..

It looks like a template waiting to happen dont you think?

Actually, we admit, the Creative Team and I found this one a little hard going… circles not being our first choice always! But with some thought and much deliberation not to mention a tiny bit of grumbling heres what we came up with;

Mo knocked my socks off with this, its amazing and such a beautiful page,

Kayleigh hit a home run with this I think, real ‘out of the box’ clever thinking

Steph not only created a fabulous retro page, but a whole retro room too!

And I decided to go vintage, a bit further back than retro and use this picture of my urchins dressed as ... well, Urchins!

Now I want to see what you’ll create! Will it be a direct lift of the CD cover or will you just use it to inspire you in a certain direction? Looking forward to seeing your pages, please remember to leave them here at the itune inspiration gallery.

If you are looking for a page design that will help you fit more photos onto a layout, then this week’s scraplift inspiration page by Jen D is for you:

Gorgeous layering, a lovely monochromatic color scheme (which stops it being too busy) and a gorgeous photo at the bottom corner of the page where your eye naturally rests after travelling across the delights on the page. It’s a great layout, and I also really love how the scraplifts turned out too:

Credits: layout by Linda, Spot Dots No.5 paperpack, Stacked vintage photo frames hearts, joournaling strip masks, photo clusters No.09 and basic paper alpha (coming soon) by Katie Pertiet, Intensity paperpack and Worn hearts by LynnGrieveson, Have a heart felt vol2 and Brad Bonanza No3 by Pattie Knox, Torn and tattered templates no.06 by Anna Aspnes.

Credits: layout by Kim, Jouets collection, Little snips alpha blue, Vintage photo frames No. 04, Clipped stacks No. 02, , Tied fasteners No. 03, Journaling strip masks, ribbons and bows gingham by Katie Pertiet, Stitching by Anna Aspnes, Memory Tags by Ali Edwards.

Credits: layout by Debi, basic paper alpha (coming soon) and journaling strip masks by Katie Pertiet, Intensity paperpack by Lynn Grieveson, Brad Bonanza No 3 and fasten its by Pattie Knox, Page Bling by MaryAnn Wise, Eireen paper by Michelle Martin, Clock rubon by Art Warehouse.

~ Lynn