I think one of my favorite things to scrap with by Julie Billingsley is her patterned papers! They are super easy to use in a small space, big space, and combine together without competing for attention. It’s not easy as a designer to get the patterns on papers just right and Julie does a fabulous job. I also love her themed kits and she knocks the boy kits out of the park! I’m happy to welcome Julie back to The Digi Files again. Let’s take a closer look at “Imagine That” that is included in The Digi Files this month:
This is ONE of SEVEN collections you get when you become a member of The Digi Game this month. You also get an interactive Playbook (in PDF and iBooks formats) that has lots of ideas for using the supplies including techniques, tips, and tricks! All of that, including access to exclusive collaborations every four months you are a member, for only $7.50 total per month! Here are some layouts created using Julie Billingsley’s contribution:
Layout by Heddy. Supplies: Imagine That by Julie Billingsley; Bunch of Sketches 14 by Kitty Designs.
Layout by Katie. Supplies: Imagine That by Julie Billingsley; Scrapbook Lady Stories template; Font: Code Bold.
Layout by Jacki. Supplies: Imagine That by Julie Billingsley; Inky Pot by CD Muckosky. Scrapbook Lady Squares (template) by Scrapbook Lady.
Layout by Kimberly M. Supplies: Imagine That by Julie Billingsley; Baby It’s Cold Outside Template by Studio Basic; Font is Ten Thousand Reasons by KG.
You can see more layouts created with this kit on our “Team Inspiration” page.
Hello! My name is Julie Billingsley and I live in Oregon with my husband, two sons, and our dog. My oldest son is 21 and in his third year of college and my youngest son is 9 and in fourth grade. You probably just realized that is an 11+ year age difference and think I’m crazy… you’d be right. Just kidding! Honestly, being a mom is the best thing that could have happened to me and the age difference in the boys just keeps me on my toes and makes parenting more fun!
In my free time, my husband and I enjoy taking our dog Maisie for walks. We walk almost 3 miles each day. I also love to read, learn new things, and dream about taking vacations.
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This layout is of my youngest son from back in 2004. I had initially disliked the photo because my son wouldn’t look into the camera, so the picture stayed unscrapped on my hard drive only to be forgotten. Then 8 years later, Jady Day Studio and I created this baseball theme collab so I dug around my hard drive, found this picture and realized what a hidden treasure it was. I couldn’t be happier with this layout turned out!
I am a designer at Sweet Shoppe Designs. I was so blessed to actually start my designing career there five years ago. I scrapped my heart out at the Sweet Shoppe’s and the Lilypad’s creative teams prior to that. Although I don’t get to do it enough these days, I will probably always consider myself a scrapper first. I believe designing from the perspective of a scrapper makes my product very useable and enjoyable to scrapbook with.
My inspiration typically comes from my family photos and events. I have been inspired by everything from the colors of a children’s book, to a visit to the zoo, to the shirt my son was wearing. Inspiration is in no shortage, however time to create it all is!
Computer: 27″ iMac with 8GB of RAM and 2TB of hard drive. My favorite accessory is my Wacom Intuos tablet. I use it for everything and don’t even have a mouse.
Program: Photoshop CS5 and Illustrator 5. For Mac apps, I use Better Rename 9 and YemuZip.
Camera: Canon S100 point and shoot and my iPhone camera are my main cameras.
Since I have 21 years of photos of my children, I’m pretty much resigned to the fact that I’ll never catch up. But I have a tip for making scrapping easier when you are overwhelmed with photos and memories. I always had the trouble of wanting to scrapbook, but just picking a photo to scrap was hard when facing the large amount of pictures on my hard drive and in photo bins. That was when I created a folder and put a maximum of 10 unscrapped photos in for each year. Not that the other photos weren’t important, but I said to myself, if I can only scrapbook 10 memories for 1999, which 10 photos would I pick? Then armed with just 10 pictures a year, I could then easily know what kits I was on the look out for. Picking a photo was no longer daunting. Then when scrapping, I can easily go back to my original folders to grab supplemental photos from the same event to add to my layout as well. This technique is how I found that adorable picture in my baseball layout above and finally got it scrapped.
My favorite kit is a fireworks kit called Ignite the Night that I created because I needed a fun vibrant kit for my Disney fireworks photos. I was a little nervous about the brightness of the colors with the contrast of the black when I picked out the colors, but I love how it turned out. It’s sparkly and fun, and I’ve seen many gorgeous layouts with it!
My most popular product is a tropical kit called Kona Coast. I love the sun-faded beachy colors in this kit. I picked the colors from a men’s vintage Hawaiian shirt. It makes me dream of relaxing on a sunny beach, listening to the sounds of the waves, and soaking up the sun.
Here are some of my favorite products by Julie Billingsley:
Here are some more inspirational layouts using Julie Billingsley’s products. All of the layouts are linked to the originals with credits.
35% off Julie Billingsley solo designs at Sweet Shoppe Designs! Expires 1/31/2013, not valid with any other sale. Coupon code: julie-tdd
Go have a look in Julie Billingsley’s store! We will randomly select a winner from the comments to win $10.00 in product from her store! (Comments must be posted before midnight EST to qualify)!
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The Kona is my favorite too!
LOVE these robots! Thank you so much for the coupon and for the chance to win. I am wondering, though, why my comments always come up as being posted an hour later than they are posted. It is 11:09 PM Eastern time right now. Thanks for the other freebies too! I LOVE Daily Digi!
I LOVE the Masked Marvel Lolipops…too cool! Thank you for the template and the chance to win
Ooh, another new to me designer! I’m seeing a variety of some really awesome kits! Home of the Brave, Fearless, LIFEtime Templates, and Masked Marvels are just a few that really stood out to me that I really should own. lol
Steph, you must have missed the Mouse Mania kit. I would think that would be a must have for your digi stash!
Love Put me in Coach and Dream Come True. Beautiful kits. Thanks for the opportunity.
I loved her kits
I find Julie’a kits so useable, and love her colour combinations.
fantastic kits! I love your color choices and all the awesome boy kits
I really like Julie’s “Oodles” series. Who wouldn’t like to have this versatile assortment? Thanks for the chance to win.
Such wonderful designs! Thanks for the opportunity to win!
I love your kits Julie. I think your little sucker add ons are great and the kit included in the files goes great with my grandsons 5th birthday theme. Your tip of picking pics to scrap per year is awesome.
I love all of Julie’s kits. She definitely rocks the boy kits which I appreciate, seeing as how I have a boy. So excited to use this kit!
i LOVE her industrial alpha. That would be perfect on so many of my layouts!
Luv the papers in ‘Ignite the Night’ … might have to pick up that kit … thanks for the chance to win … mj
I love Julie’s tips about tackling overwhelming amount of photos, 10 at a time. Thank you for that! and for the chance to win!
I love Julie’s kits. Great read!
Julie is one of my favorite designers! I absolutely love her designs. Thanks for the chance!
Being that I am leaving tomorrow for a trip to Disney World, the ignite the night and dream come true kits pop out at me. Thanks for a chance to win these!
I love Julie’s kits and have quite a few, but I’m defiantly in need of more- thanks for the discount code and thanks for the chance to win $10
I love Julie’s boy kits. She does an amazing job with those. I actually used a few pieces of this month’s kit on a layout already.
Julie and I met years ago at a digi-scrap convention at the beach – what a crazy good time it was… she is as great in person as her design work is on paper! Julie’s kits often make me wish I had a boy but I have definitely bought some more girly ones for my own scrapping of my daughter. Heck last summer I skipped putting any big fireworks in my own kit as I bought her Ignite the Night kit because it was so colorful and well done. Didn’t think I could improve on perfect – LOL.
I can’t wait to use this kit!! After taking a look at Julie’s store, my wish list has grown substantially!
I loved your kit in the Digifiles. I have three boys and I am always looking for boyish kits.
The little penguins in Frosty Frolic are adorable!
I love Julie’s stuff!!! I have so many of her kits and they make wonderful pages! Thanks for the chance to win another!!
As a mother of more boys than girls I love this kit! Thanks so much for being a part of the digi files!
Love Julie’s scrapping tip. Gonna try this – maybe I can make a dent in my “backlog” without feeling overwhelmed.
Thanks for another nice interview and it. I especially like Julie’s Artistic Impressions – Leaves and Lifetime Templates.
I agree, Julie sure can mix papers! Thanks for this month’s great kit, the coupon and the chance!
Thanks for the chance! She is one of my favorite designers!
I’m always on the lookout for great boy kits-thanks for pointing me to Julie!
Love Fearless!
Julie’s tip for unscrapped photos is marvelous! And I just adore those superhero lollipops–how did I miss those in the store? So unique and cute! My boys will LOVE those!
I love Julie’s style of design – pefect for hybrid!!!
those masked marvel lollipops are so adorable!
What a great boy kit! Love it and her designs! Thanks for the chance!
I love her kits..they are so much fun.
Jennifer B
After a few days of negative temperatures, Julie’s “Summer Lovin’” kit really appeals to me. (Of course, once those blistering hot, humid days hit, I’ll long for cold weather again.)
Thanks for the coupon and chance to win. Great kit this month.
Since I just scrap a {few} boy pictures, I always love it when I see a great *boy* kit! This kit is so versatile that you can go either way and I love that even more! From Julie’s shop I loved America–Heartland, Brotherly Love, and Fearless. Thanks for the coupon and a chance to win!