Here are the supplies for this months “From The Files”, the rules are the same; use each of these products at least once.  We will randomly draw a winner from the layouts linked up in the comments (post on your blog or in a gallery) before midnight EST Sunday. The winner will receive a $10 GC from one of our sponsors and will be announced on Monday morning.

Here are the file names:
Paislee Press: Paislee-Once-pp1
Sweet Shoppe Designs: kcroninbarrow-tddcollab-pp2
Vinnie Pearce: VPearce_Bag_queen_012
Michelle Underwood: MUnderwood_Youpickedme-stitches
Digital Design Essentials: Journal_Spot_Orange_GinaCabrera
Something Blue Studios: SBS_Alt365_Jan_wordart-today
Traci Reed: treed-littlemiss-string
*BONUS* DJB Leoni (font in SSD kit)

Here is what our team did with this challenge:

Layout by Karen: “I used most of the stuff as is, but duplicated the wordart a few times (and varied the blending each time) and cut little hearts out of Kristen’s paper and recolored it to match the pink in Danielle’s word art.”

Layout by Jacki

Layout by Katie

I wanted to share some great find from around digiland this week:

If you would like these fun cupcake wrappers and toppers, it’s really easy and it helps HAITI (you choose the charity and the amount)!  Make sure you read FOR THE LOVE OF HAITI if you haven’t yet.

Ali Edward’s did a series of posts this week all about digital scrapbooking, be sure to read them for some great tips and information:

Scrapbooking With Your Computer: Day 1

Scrapbooking With Your Computer: Downloading, Unzipping, and Organizing Digital Elements

Scrapbooking With Your Computer: Opening, Recoloring, Adding to a Photo, Loading Brushes

Scrapbooking With Your Computer: Digital Product Definitions & Suggestions

Scrapbooking With Your Computer: Creating Layouts With Layered Templates (video tutorial)

Here’s some other things I’m loving:

P.S. Sharon S. is the random winner from our post yesterday, she won a $10 GC to Vinnie’s store and this is what she had to say about Vinnie’s stuff:  “I love Vinnie’s photo masks, especially Grunge Floral Masks 01! I’m really thinking of making a purchase today!”  Check your inbox Sharon.

Over the next couple of months you will see some changes around here.  Some will be really big and noticeable, others will be more subtle.  Today is a smaller change.  We have been doing the monthly “More With Four” challenge since the first Digi Files went live almost a year ago.  We are changing the name to “From The Files” and instead of four products there will be ONE product from EACH collection in THE DIGI FILES that month (even the hybrid project by Mel this month ).  The rules are mostly the same:

• use all of the supplies listed somehow on your layout
• do not use any other supplies
• you may use any fonts or templates you want (this may change from month to month depending on our contributors)
• post the layout somewhere (gallery, blog) where we have access to view it
• come here and add your information in the McLinky tool below (the link to the layout and your email address in case you win)
• do all of this before midnight on December 20, 2009

Here are the supplies straight from the files this month:

Here is what our team did and some explanations on some of their tricks:

Layout by Karen: I did a few things with this… I changed the color of Nancy’s paper a few times. I cut the frame down to hold a single photo. I also cropped Mel’s paper block to a smaller strip and extracted the button from the Wetfish flower…

Layout by Katie: I duplicated the frame 2 more times and merged the layers to form the background mat for my photo. I also erased the word “date” and just made it say “Today” since I didn’t know the date of this old photo from 1982. Additional credits: Template by Kelly Mize Font is CK footnote.

Layout by Jacki:  I extracted stripes from the plaid paper and button from the flower. Made a new layer on the flower and recolored it and gave it a little opacity. Recolored Nancie’s paper a couple times. Font is Typewriter.

Layout by NeeNee: Font is Pea Dana Anne

Isn’t it amazing to see all of the fun things that can be done with the same supplies? Now, it’s your turn!  We can’t wait to see what YOU do!!

We have been busy on Facebook and Twitter giving away gift certificates to our sponsors stores.  Congratulations to the people that won a $10 GC (they have already received their gifts)

Twitter:  MrsMKnight, klbsgb, wetfishdesigns, judet95,  and FeAlves

FaceBook: Tracey, Kelly, Angie, Jodie, and Lisa

It’s that time of month again…time for another MORE WITH FOUR challenge!  What can YOU do with just FOUR products?  This month’s challenge calls for really stretching your creativity as you have just one paper, a few elements, and one awesome alpha!  I can’t wait to see what you can do!

Here is the basic set of guidelines:

• You will be given four digital products.
• You are to create a layout or hybrid project using these four products only
• For a digital layout, in addition to these items you can use staples, paper tears or tearing actions, and fonts
• You can alter the items shown as long as the item is still recognizable.
• You need to use some of each of the items.

Here are some layouts from THE DAILY DIGI artist team!

Layout by Karen: I recolored the paper, cut up the stitches and resized the flowers and branches a few times…

Layout by Jacki: To achieve a darker look to my LO I used ‘linear dodge’ and ‘hard light’ on some of the flowers and the alpha. I also darkened some flowers, ‘burned’ the edge of the paper and darkened the stitching a bit too. Font is Pea XOXO from Karen.

Layout by Janet: I selected a small part of the leaves and enlarged them to create the flower stems.  I extracted the leaves from the branch element and added them to my flowers.

Now it’s YOUR turn!  Create a page with the MORE WITH FOUR challenge papers/elements from THE DIGI FILES 9 and have a chance to win a set of coupons from our sponsoring designers!  Post a link to your layout before Saturday!

A new DIGI FILES means a new MORE WITH FOUR challenge!  Yea!  I am so excited to bring you this challenge every month — it is definitely one of my favorites.  By limiting what you can use it forces you to look at your products in new ways…and often with AMAZING results.  Here are this month’s products (all from THE DIGI FILES 8).

Here is the basic set of guidelines:

• You will be given four digital products.
• You are to create a layout or hybrid project using these four products only
• For a digital layout, in addition to these items you can use staples, paper tears or tearing actions, and fonts
• You can alter the items shown as long as the item is still recognizable.
• You need to use some of each of the items.

And here are some layouts that our team came up with!

Layout by Amy: “I used the photo overlay to create my own brick like pattern paper.  I needed a journaling block and decided to fill in the middle of the photo overlay with the paint bucket to create an ink block to journal on.  Lastly, I needed 5 different flowers, so I recolored one using the hue/saturate adjustment filter.“

Layout by Katie: “I did recolor the blue paper to a match the picture. I love how the crochet flowers match my Mom’s groovy vest!
Fonts are Steph2 Whirligig and Times New Roman.  This was my 1st Birthday “

Layout by Karen: “Here’s mine… I was looking for a “sunny” paper to go with the photo/theme, but wanted it lighter than the yellow paper I used in the strips. I blended the white paper and the yellow checked paper to get the tone I wanted. I also cut up the mask/frame to use it as an inked edge on the right side of the layout.”

Layout by Jacki: “Mine morphed several times until I ended up with something completely different than what I started with! I thought the challenge was difficult this time! But I ended up loving the end product, a celebration of great-grandparents and generations of family.

I used all the More with Four products but used the painted photo frame for my background paper instead and extracted a couple buttons from the crochet flowers.”

Now we want to see what YOU can do…MORE with FOUR!  Post a link to your layout before Monday night and get a chance to win a five pack of coupons from our sponsoring designers!