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!

We’re back with another MORE WITH FOUR challenge!  I think this is one of my favorite parts of the site!  I love seeing what people can do when we reduce product and pump up creativity!  By limiting what you can use, you are forced to move beyond “the norm” and try things that may be new to you.  The end result is usually a page you love.  THE DIGI FILES 7 are just packed with inspiration. I had a hard time narrowing things down to just FOUR products!  But here you go! If you want to join in the fun, post a link to your page before Wednesday and have a chance to win a 5 pack of $10 coupons to sponsoring designer stores!

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.

All of these items are part of the THE DIGI FILES 7 and can be purchased RIGHT HERE.

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Layout by Jacki: Font is DJB MarlaScript

Layout by Kelly: The fonts I used were DJB Heather E and Marla Script.
And I used the staple from PODD School Stuff from the Daily Digi 7

Layout by Ana: Staple School Stuff, Pamela Donnis (in TDF 7) and Fonts: DJB Christy, DJB Marla Script and LDJ Whimsey Outline (title)

Layout by Karen

Layout by Janet: DJB Marla Script; staple by Shabby Princess

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Now it’s YOUR turn!

We’re back with another MORE WITH FOUR challenge!  I love these challenges because I LOVE seeing how people take the same four products and turn out something different.  There is so much power in digital…the power to resize, recolor, mask, warp, multiply, etc.  Most of us have gazillions of gigabytes on our hard drives of digi materials — just think how much more we would have if we learned to use them all to their fullest potential!  The other reason I love this challenge is that I love that it makes you think — makes you be more creative.  “How do I get all this to work together?”  “How do I break away from my normal style and incorporate this onto a page I love?”

Creativity is like anything else — it needs to be stretched, to be excercised, to be pushed. If you haven’t tried it, I would suggest you give it a go.  One lucky person who posts a link to a layout before Tuesday will win a 5 pack of coupons from our sponsoring designers! So come on — stretch your creativity and get a chance to win while you are at it!

Here is the challenge:

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.

All of the items are part of this months THE DIGI FILES, which you can grab RIGHT HERE.

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And here are some of the layouts that THE DAILY DIGI team created…

layout by Karen: “I recolored the papers to make them more boyish. The font is Darcy Baldwin Angel Baby.”

layout by Kelly — Fonts: Fontologie- Printing Primer In Between, Brush Script

layout by Katie: template by BellaGypsy, font is CK footnote, I cut Gina’s frame into pieces to use as stitching

layout by Ana: I also recolored the papers to make them work better with my photo and the color scheme I chose for my page. (font:
DJB Tina, Darcy Baldwin)

layout by Janet: staples by Shabby Princess, paper templates by Emily Merritt,  font is Typewriter Scribbled

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Now let’s see what YOU can create!

WOO HOO!  We’re back with a new MORE WITH FOUR!  And not only that, we get to show off our first team layouts!

MORE WITH FOUR is a product challenge where we give scrappers just FOUR products and they have to create a layout with them.  Here are the “official” rules:

• 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 paint/inking, 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.

This month we have chosen some fun products from THE DIGI FILES 4.  Here they are:

And here are the fabulous layouts some of our team created:

DUNIA: Kaye Winecki’s papers, Sketched Borders by Creashens, Flower buttons by Kristin CB, Curve Templates by Loreta Labarca, Fonts: BookmanOldStyle, Chowderhear and Greer.

JACKI: I choose to use the DigiDare #1 – what you wake up to in the morning. I just got a brand new bedroom set which I’m just loving. The color scheme is completely new to me and it’s fresh and fun. With a new comforter and pillows, it makes it awfully hard to crawl out of bed in the morning – especially at 6:15, ugh! Kaye’s gorgeous papers were just the perfect colors and I loved the dreamy clouds (especially how they fell right over my alarm clock – LOL! . I recolored Creashens sketch borders to white to add to that dreamy feel and layered them several times to give a little extra impact and I also used her cheery green glitter border. The background photo is a repeat of the featured photo and is set on Overlay at 77% opacity. Using the burn tool, I darkened the edges of the background paper to add to the feeling of frames and layers. When I think of beds, I think of lots of layers of sheets, covers, pillows. Kristin’s flowers were the perfect addition and I also cropped the center flower of the button for a little extra variety. Fonts used are Doodlie Beans (for wake-up time) and Smarty Pants, both from Darcy Baldwin.

ANA: The challenge was really difficult for me, as I always use stitches in my pages (or staples). At least we had the buttons to tie the elements! I didn’t need to recolor any element (except for the border, I colored it brown) as the colors of the products kinda matched my picture. I had a hard time using fonts for the title, as I always use alpha, but I thought it was interesting because I searched for a font that was similar to stamp. Credits apers, Kaye Winecki, Sketched Borders, Creashens (colored), Flower buttons, Kristin CB, DJB Libby Fizzed Out, Darcy Baldwin (journaling) and Downcome (title)

KAREN: I didn’t quite realize the depth of my element addiction until I started this challenge! Instead of using lots of different elements, I focused on using Creashen’s borders in several different ways to draw attention to my photo. I also found myself drawn to the “dare flair” part of the challenge that requires texture on the layout. I spent a lot of time experimenting with paint and ink to get just the look I wanted, which was lots of character on the paper, but nothing that would take away from the photo itself or the framing.

(In addition to the four elements of the challenge, I used Anna Aspnes kraft paper tears and Two Sister’s Artist’s Canvas paint/chalk. The fonts you probably recognize: Fontologie Giggles and Printing Primer)

RACHAEL: The challenge was a lot of fun, but I found that creating a layout without photos was more difficult than I thought it would be!

AMY: When faced with limited supplies I always turn to the papers to make up the bulk of the layout.  Using the polygonal lasso tool is perfect for “cutting” out irregular rectangles from paper.  I also used the rectangular marquee tool to cut labels from the white paper (any light solid colored paper works well).  Finally, you can extract pieces of layered or clustered elements to use them separately.  I removed the smallest flower part of the buttons to use as accents on my labels.

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Thanks, ladies, for creating some gorgeous pages that are totally inspiring!

Now it’s YOUR turn — open up your DIGI FILES 4, pull out the 4 products, and get scrapping!  Leave a link here before Friday and we’ll be giving away some great coupons!

P.S.  To all my American readers out there, have a great Memorial Day.  Take at least a few minutes to really remember what this day is about and about the men and woman who risk their lives daily to guarantee our freedom.  And enjoy the BBQ!