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A Fresh & Funtastic Friday!

Post by Katie

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I was worried that I wouldn’t find anything new in digiland this week after the big iNSD events of last weekend, but the designers made me happy with all their great new releases!

Have you ever searched and searched for the perfect kit to scrap a photo with, but you just can’t find that particular theme? mle Card now offers a special custom drawing service in which she will draw you 1 unique element and 3 drawn coordinating filler elements to help you scrap that photo . Available for 20% off now through 5/17. Please read product details carefully.

Standing in Sunlight by Tracey Monette of Clever Monkey Graphics is filled with sunny colors, everyday quotations, flowers, and more. Without a specific theme, this kit will help you scrap many, many stories.

This pack contains a set of 12 random Word Art bits that can be used on your layouts or hybrid projects. Wordart Bits No.1 from Karen Lewis is available now @ 20% off.

Liz has 5 NEW State Template sets available in her store. If you aren’t familiar with them they are a super fun way to scrap vacations or places where you’ve lived. She has a lot more State Templates in her store too, make sure you check them out.

Fayette Terlouw has shared the coupon code FD30-TDD for Daily Digi readers to save 30% on all products in her shop at PBP!

Heather T. has a brand new pack of beautifully swirly stitching at MScraps.

Jenn Labre has a beautiful new kit out today. Flora is on sale for 20% off all weekend!

Are you getting ready for a graduation? This kit from WM squared is the perfect way to document this exciting time!

Mye De Leon is finally bringing this beauty in her stores! Get it at 30% off for 1 week along with its coordinating packs at Gotta Pixel!

Flergs has a fun new collection out!

New mini kit from SuzyQ Scraps celebrating YOU — because you deserve it!

Studio Basic has a freebie on her facebook page!

Studio Rosey Posey’s Follow Your Heart also has a great Mother’s Day Add-on Pack!

Peppermint Creative has a project that is PERFECT FOR MOTHER’S DAY! Turn an ordinary deck of cards into a custom gift! Just add your own text, print, cut, assemble. Includes PSD & TIF format as well as blank JPG/PNG files and print-ready fill-in-the-blank PDFs. Options for everyone! Also included: inserts have been pre-assembled for you on a layered 8.5×11″ document to make the job easier.

and speaking of Mother’s Day… how about giving (or receiving) the gift of an Annual Daily Digi membership? It’s the gift that keeps on giving (A LOT) all year long!

Hope you have a digi filled weekend!

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P.S. SharonS is the random winner from the comments on Vicki Stegall’s feature from Monday. She won $10 in product from Vicki!

P.S.S SharonS was the random winner from the comments on Amy Jaz’s feature yesterday. She also won $10 in product from Amy!

P.S.S.S SharonS better go buy a lotto ticket…this has never happened before!

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Posted in Funtastic Friday Posted on May 11, 2012 by Katie | Tagged digi, digiscrap, fun finds, Funtastic Friday |

Amy Jaz Designs: Something More Important

Post by Steph

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I first discovered Amy Jaz Designs when Amy uploaded some layouts to our Flickr group using her own products. Her credits were linked up to her blog, where I started following her. I was so happy to hear she had a guest spot at The Lily Pad and thrilled when I found out she would be staying! I love Amy’s clean, whimsical style! Let’s take a closer look at “All Around Town” that is included in The Digi Files this month:

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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 Amy Jaz Designs’s contribution:

Layout by Jacki. Supplies: All Around Town by Amy Jaz Designs; Grungy Month Brush by Michelle Coleman; Fonts: Typewriter.

Layout by Katie. Supplies: All Around Town by Amy Jaz Designs; Scrapping with Liz background template;
Fonts: Traveling Typewriter.

Layout by Anne. Supplies: All Around Town by Amy Jaz Designs; Alpha by Heather Rossellini (recolored by me); Font: District Thin.

Layout by Heddy. Supplies: All Around Town by Amy Jaz Designs; Family Circle template by Amy Martin.

Layout by Karen. Supplies: All Around Town by Amy Jaz Designs; Template by Emily Merritt.

You can see more layouts created with this kit on our “Team Inspiration” page.

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My name is Amy Jazwinski, and I live in Arizona with my loving hubby, and two beautiful daughters.

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This layout was inspired by a favorite picture of my oldest daughter from one of our recent trips to Disneyland. I am a very clean, simple style designer, and that reflects in my layouts as well. I like to focus in on one photo, and focus on the emotion that the creates.

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I began digital scrapbooking in back in 2008 when my first daughter was born, and I was looking for a way to document photos of her and all her milestones, but did not want to spend a zillion dollars on paper scrapbooking products. I found a tutorial online on digital scrapbooking, and was hooked instantaneously. At the same time, I started doing a little graphic design, and I opened my etsy shop Bean Sprout Studio, designing party invitations and birth announcements. For the last four years, I have been designing stationery, and at the same time, personally designing for my digital scrapbook pages and layouts. Recently I had my second daughter and have been realizing how quickly the time goes, and I knew that I did not have nearly enough of my daughter’s lives documented. I decided to switch my focus from designing stationery products to digital scrapbooking products so I can focus more of my time on doing something that is important to me.

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As cliche as it is, my daughters inspire me to create. I design and scrap to preserve their childhood memories, so I create products that I want to use in my own personal scrapbooking. My style is very clean and modern. I wish I was the type to include more photos on one page, but it just doesn’t fit my design aesthetic.

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Computer: Computer- MacBookPro
OS- Mac OS X 10
RAM- 4GB
Monitor- no outside monitor.
Program: I use Photoshop CS4 and Illustrator CS4.
Camera: Nikon D90
Anything Else: I also have a Wacom Pen Tablet.

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I think an important thing to remember when designing is scale. I always zoom out to view my whole layout, to make sure the size of each element makes sense in relationship to the other elements on the page. For example, when stapling a paper frame to a page, the staple needs to look proportionate in relation to the frame. Disproportionate elements on a page jump right out at me, and I usually can’t get past that to view the layout as a whole.

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The Fresh Start Kit is one of my favorite kits to date. I usually map out my kits in advance, but this kit practically designed itself. I had a path in mind, but once I got into designing it, I went in a completely different direction. I love how it turned out, with just the right balance between modern and vintage style. I designed it at the end of 2011, and the focus of the kit is all on starting fresh in the new year. It’s a great versatile kit, with a soft and neutral color palette that will really compliment many products in your current arsenal.

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Hands down my most popular product to date is the Day By Day Overlays. I designed these overlays to fit in with my digital Project Life, and they’ve been a great resource to have in my collection. I love the hand drawn design, and they really help a digital Project Life, feel like the real thing.

Here are some of my favorite products by Amy Jaz Designs:

Here are some more inspirational layouts using Amy Jaz Designs’s products. All of the layouts are linked to the originals with credits.

Go have a look in Amy Jaz Designs’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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Posted in Contributor Feature Posted on May 10, 2012 by Steph | Tagged Amy Jaz |

Inspired by Amy Jaz

Post by steph

The following layouts were created using “All Around Town” by Amy Jaz and included in The Digi Files during May 2012:

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Layout by SharonS, additional supplies: Template: Fiddle Dee Dee, Journal Spot: Scrapgirls, Font: CK Beetlemeyer CK Penman

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Layout by Jacki. Supplies: All Around Town by Amy Jaz Designs; Grungy Month Brush by Michelle Coleman; Fonts: Typewriter.

Layout by Katie. Supplies: All Around Town by Amy Jaz Designs; Scrapping with Liz background template;
Fonts: Traveling Typewriter.

Layout by Anne. Supplies: All Around Town by Amy Jaz Designs; Alpha by Heather Rossellini (recolored by me); Font: District Thin.

Layout by Heddy. Supplies: All Around Town by Amy Jaz Designs; Family Circle template by Amy Martin.

Layout by Karen. Supplies: All Around Town by Amy Jaz Designs; Template by Emily Merritt.

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Posted in Team Inspiration Posted on May 10, 2012 by steph |

Using a smartphone to make more time (and material) for scrapping

Post by Katie

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When I can do more on the go with my smartphone, that frees up my time on the computer for digi scrapping! One of the best thing about phone apps is that they let you do complex tasks while you are using your phone.

When I’m waiting to pick up my daughter from class she takes outside of our home, I end up with small blocks of time ranging from 5-15 minutes. When I’m sitting in a doctor’s waiting room I can usually find at least 10 minutes of time. I used to read magazines in the doctor’s office and sometimes I had a few stashed in my car. That was all before I carried a smart phone. Now I kind of get excited when I have a few minutes of waiting time that I can use to catch up on things with my phone.

I seem to always start with my email. I really don’t like it when there’s a red number next to the mail icon so I like to get rid of it by reading my messages. I get a lot of email! Here’s a link to a post I wrote explaining how I deal with my ever-overflowing email inbox. I love powering through emails I don’t need to answer when I’m on my phone. I usually leave the ones where I need to respond with more than one sentence until I can work at my laptop. All no response or short response emails are processed with my phone when I have a few spare minutes.

I like to check in on my calendar for the day and be sure I’m remembering everything I have scheduled. I also like to look ahead to the next few days. I use Google calendar for everything, even to keep track of blog posting schedules.

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My next order of business is managing any photos I’ve taken recently with my phone. I have a few favorite apps that I seem to always come back to. We’ve either written about most of these apps here or talked about them on The Digi Show so I’ll link up to all those references for each app. This is one of the best things about having a smart phone – you can take, edit, and upload pictures wherever you are!

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Photos – comes with the iPhone and the app I use the most because I like to do the simple auto-enhance fix on all my photos. This is the way I edit most of my phone photos because it’s quick and easy! I only use the other editing apps if I have a little more time.

Photo 365 – I love this app (thanks to Steph!) for keeping track of my daily photo project. I add the photos to the calendar in this app whenever I have some time with my phone. At the end of the month, I upload the entire calendar image to my Flickr account.

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FlickitPro (the free version is also good) – I’m constantly uploading my phone photos to my Flickr stream with this easy-to-use app. I love to get them on Flickr as soon as possible so I have a backup, and so I can share them with my friends and family.

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Flickr – I use this app for browsing through my own photos as well as keeping up with what my contacts are sharing. See my post about Flickr to find out why I love the place so much!

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Snapseed – a favorite app of mine for when I want to get creative with my photos. I talked about Snapseed in this episode of the Digi Show because it’s one of my go-to editing apps.

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Camera+ is another favorite app for editing and creative filters. I’m constantly trying to decide if this or snapseed is my favorite one for filter effects. I guess it’s a tie!

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Instagram is a new addiction for me. I love to turn photos into quirky little instagram squares and share them in my instagram feed. I also can upload them directly to Flickr (or a variety of social network sites) at the same time. I love the interaction from other instagram users and I get so much inspiration from the photos I see there!

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Incredibooth is an app that I use when I’ve got my phone and a few minutes to capture a fun memory. My son and I like to play around with it when we are waiting in the car for my daughter.

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Notica is an app that I found because of a listener pick from this episode of The Digi Show and I use it all the time now!

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I like that I can generate journaled images to use later on for blog posts or scrapbook pages.

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After I tackle my photo-related projects on my phone, I give myself permission to do more of the “time hog” type of activities if I still have some time to spend. This is when I delve into facebook, pinterest, hootsuite (twitter), and catching up on blogs with feedly. If I started with these activities during my waiting times, I would never get around to the photo editing and uploading. I don’t feel like I’m wasting time to use these apps because I’m able to gather a lot of inspiration, ideas, and keep in touch with people I care about. I do feel like it’s easy to spend too much time in these apps though so I’m glad that I make myself work through email, calendar, and photo management first. Also, when I use these apps on my phone instead of my computer, I always spend less time. It’s too easy to sit at the computer and hang out on Twitter or Facebook for long periods of time and I’d rather use the time on my laptop for scrapbooking.

Of course, I can do even more cool things on my phone like; exploring Daily Digi inspiration, reading, listening to audiobooks & podcasts, surfing websites, and playing games – there are almost endless possibilities! More than anything else, I really appreciate that I’m utilizing small pockets of found time to accomplish many tasks using only my phone. I sure am grateful for all the apps out there that help me make the most of my scrapbooking time and material!

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Posted in Check it Out! Posted on May 9, 2012 by Katie | Tagged digi scrap, digi scrapping, digiscrap, iphone apps, photography apps, smartphone apps |

Twist and Turn & Design Quality Guide

Post by steph

If you listened to last week’s Digi Show, you heard me talk about the Design Quality Guide. This is something the digital scrapbooking industry has needed for a long time. All of the industry standards and expectations in one place. If you have ever wondered what makes designs quality, save this to your computer and refer to it. If you are an established designer or just getting started, download it and take a look, I learned a thing or two and I’m sure you will too!

Supplies: template is Flight Plan #13 by One Little Bird; Flying High by Design by Dani; fonts are Smith, Century Gothic, and Fontologie Weathered.

When Jenn submitted the layout below for the May Playbook with a tip about angling the papers when working on a template, I thought it was pretty smart. I was sure there might be lots of new scrappers that don’t twist their papers a little to match up to the angle of a template shape. I remember a time when I was too new and hadn’t thought of it myself. I thought I would share today, how to twist your paper angle to match a template.

Supplies: Flight Plan #13 by One Little Bird; Love You More Than Ice Cream (included in May 2012 Digi Files); font is Just the Way You Are

Notice on the layout below how the stripes on the paper aren’t perpendicular with the edges of the paper strip:

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By mousing over one of the corner handles and turning the paper until the box is perpendicular with the edges of the paper shape, that strip of paper looks more realistic:

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I’ll do the same thing with the green paper strip behind the paper we just adjusted. Here is the before:

And after adjusing the green paper…

The changes are subtle, but make a big difference on the finished layout!

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Posted in Just for Beginners, SCHOOL of SCRAPPING Posted on May 8, 2012 by steph |

Vicki Stegall: I Like Gadgets

Post by Steph

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I’m so excited to be welcoming Vicki Stegall Designs to The Digi Files this month! I love Vicki’s eclectic design from vintage to shabby; from retro to grunge and everything in-between; Vicki can do it all! Our team had a lot of fun creating with Vicki’s versatile contribution this month! Let’s take a closer look at “Butterfly Kisses” that is included in The Digi Files this month:

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Layout by Kimberly K. Supplies: Butterfly Kisses by Vicki Stegall Designs; Fonts: Hero.

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Layout by Jacki. Supplies: Butterfly Kisses by Vicki Stegall Designs.

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Layout by Trina. Supplies: Butterfly Kisses by Vicki Stegall Designs; Lizzy Freebie (template) by Crystal Livesay; Font: DJB Brittany Script.

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Layout by Tara. Supplies: Butterfly Kisses by Vicki Stegall Designs.

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Layout by Heddy. Supplies: Butterfly Kisses by Vicki Stegall Designs; Fresh Cut: Gerbera (template) by Sara Gleason.

You can see more layouts created with this kit on our “Team Inspiration” page.

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Vicki Stegall is the proud owner of Oscraps.com. Vicki opened Oscraps 6 years ago when she made the transition from a traditional paper scrapbooking to digi scrapping. While Vicki is and always will be a designer at heart, the responsibilities of running a major digi site don’t leave her as much time for designing as she’d like. She’s a born and bred ‘Okie’ and really does say, “y’all” all.the.time. She lives with her IT hubby, Anthony and her 12 year old son, Alyx, who is also her primary scrap subject.

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Andrew & I went out to Lake Hefner to take photos for his graduation announcements and he was such a great model! I’m sure he was sick of me taking pictures long before I was tired of taking them.

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I’ve been creating photo albums and scrapbooks since my first job in high school. I worked in a FotoMat booth and developed a love for taking pictures. I moved more into creating individual layouts as paper scrapper after the birth of my son, Alyx. I became a stay at home mom with his birth and needed a creative outlet. Scrapbooking was the perfect activity for me. I primarily scrapped with a friend I met in childbirth classes and one day she called me and said, “Hey, you know more about computers than I do. I heard about this new thing, digital scrapbooking and I was hoping you’d check it out and see if it’s something we can do.” Well, this was early on in the industry and there just wasn’t much out there. But, I was intrigued and decided to give it a try. Since there really wasn’t much out there at the time, I decided to try making my own designs. I mostly just made things and then printed them out to use on my paper layouts which I posted online at scrapbook.com. Many people started asking for some of my items and for me to create more and more. I soon realized just how much I loved designing. I figured it would be easier to share my designs if I had a website, so I built Oscraps.com on a server here in our house and released all my designs as freebies. The bandwidth demand immediately interfered with my hubby’s online gaming, so I bought my first ‘real’ server. Oscraps grew at such a phenomenal rate, I couldn’t keep up with the demand on my own, so I brought on other designers and soon built it into a full service shop complete with gallery and forum.

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What inspires me to create? EVERYTHING. (and deadlines – lol) I tend to get caught up in the actual running of a large store – background site issues, customer service, etc. so I don’t have as much time for designing (and/or scrapping), so deadlines and commitments are my biggest inspiration at the moment. Regardless of time constraints, I’m always, always looking at everyday items and thinking about ways I can translate them into a scrap item. For example, I was in Tractor Supply today and found inspiration in some form of gear thingie.

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Computer: The majority of the time, I use a Dell XPS15 laptop with 8 GB of RAM and 680 GB harddrive (wish it was bigger!)

I also have a desktop PC with two 21 inch linked monitors. This is my primary design computer and I use one of the monitors turned sideways so that I can really spread out my current items to see everything together and moving within various Photoshop windows while designing a new kit.

Program: I use Photoshop CS5.

Camera: Everyday camera – my iPhone 4s

My “good” camera (which I don’t know how to use very well) – Canon EOS 5D

Anything Else: iPad 2, Kindle 1 & 2, and Nook Color (I like gadgets). My favorite is my Kindle. I use it to listen to my books via the “text-to-speech” feature. It takes some getting used to, but I love listening to books while I do extractions and laundry

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My biggest tip ever is to PLAY. Play with features in Photoshop or your camera that you’ve never used. Experiment with layer styles. Use items in unexpected ways. This layout shows using a gajillion elements to create my title and is one of my favorites because it I used various items in unexpected ways.

Just PLAY! You can always ctrl+alt+z (which is a keyboard shortcut in Photoshop and my most used shortcut).

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Rock On {World Tour} is my favorite kit of mine. I absolutely love all the grungy, funky and wild patterned papers. I totally enjoyed a tremendous sense of creative freedom while making this kit from playing extensively with Photoshop tools & tricks to printing out the papers to hand craft some items for extraction as elements.

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Ransom {The Whole Shebang} is my most popular product. It was inspired by ‘ransom notes’ and my fascination at the time with recycling magazines in different craft projects. This kit took the longest of any of my kits to create due to the fact that I painstakingly went through magazine after magazine clipping words and letters to create an authentic ransom note alpha and word art set. Because of the random nature of the alphabet, it totally freed me up to play with a vivid and varied color scheme. Knowing not everyone likes bright colors for scrapping, I included a complete set of neutrals, as well.

Here are some of my favorite products by Vicki Stegall Designs:

Here are some more inspirational layouts using Vicki Stegall Designs’ products. All of the layouts are linked to the originals with credits.

Save 20% off Vicki Stegall Designs with coupon code Stegall-TDF-spec. (Exp: May 31, 2012. Excludes collaborations & commercial use items.

Go have a look in Vicki Stegall Designs’ 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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Posted in Contributor Feature Posted on May 7, 2012 by Steph |

Inspired by Vicki Stegall

Post by steph

The following layouts were created using “Butterfly Kisses” by Vicki Stegall and included in The Digi Files during May, 2012:

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Layout by Audrey

Layout by SharonS

Layout by Sue

Layout by Linda

Layout by Trudy

Layout by Chris

Layout by Maya

Layout by Sandra

Layout by Eva

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Layout by Kimberly K. Supplies: Butterfly Kisses by Vicki Stegall Designs; Fonts: Hero.

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Layout by Jacki. Supplies: Butterfly Kisses by Vicki Stegall Designs.

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Layout by Trina. Supplies: Butterfly Kisses by Vicki Stegall Designs; Lizzy Freebie (template) by Crystal Livesay; Font: DJB Brittany Script.

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Layout by Tara. Supplies: Butterfly Kisses by Vicki Stegall Designs.

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Layout by Heddy. Supplies: Butterfly Kisses by Vicki Stegall Designs; Fresh Cut: Gerbera (template) by Sara Gleason.

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Posted in Team Inspiration Posted on May 7, 2012 by steph |

The Daily Digi Team Playlist

Post by Heddy

My guess is that more than a few of you have a some new (inter)National Scrapbooking Day purchases unzipped and that you’re ready to scrap! I know I do! I like to scrap to music, so I asked the Daily Digi team to give me a list of their favourite songs to create a “Daily Digi Team Playlist”.

We have some current songs and some all-time favourite songs here. I hope you find something new-to-you that you like too!

The Daily Digi Team Playlist

Big Jet Plane – Angus and Julia Stone
In Your Arms – Kina Grannis
Up Up Up – The Givers
I Hurt Too – Katie Herzig
Same Mistakes – Paper Aeroplanes
Take It From Me – The Weepies
The A-Team – - Ed Sheeran
It’s Time – Imagine Dragons
Somebody That I Used to Know – Gotye
Boy With a Coin – Iron & Wine
Holocene – Bon Iver
The Circle Married the Line – Feist
Too Cold – Current Swell
July Flame – Laura Veirs
This Is the Thing – Fink
By Her Side – Sara Kamin
Big Strong Girl – Deb Talan
Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You) – Kelly Clarkson
Moves Like Jagger – Maroon 5
Radioactive – Imagine Dragons
Wavin’ Flag – K’naan
Rolling In The Deep – Adele
Set The Fire to the Third Bar – Snow Patrol
Dog Days Are Over – Florence and The Machine
Marry You – Bruno Mars
We Are Young – Fun.
Tonight Tonight – Hot Chelle Rae
I Like It Like That – Hot Chelle Rae
Stereo Hearts – Gym Class Heroes featuring Adam Levine
My Brain is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg) – The Ramones
I Ran So Far Away – Flock of Seagulls
Friday I’m in Love – The Cure
I Melt With You – Modern English
Lips Like Sugar – Echo and the Bunnymen
Anything from The Joshua Tree album by U2 (especially the “B” side)
Kiss the Dirt (Falling Down the Mountain) – INXS
We Belong – Pat Benatar
Billie Jean – Michael Jackson
Africa – Toto
Sharp Dressed Man – ZZ Top
Hot in the City – Billy Idol
Edge of Seventeen – Stevie Nicks
Fortress Around Your Heart – Sting
Don’t You Forget About Me – Simple Minds
Lay Your Hands on Me – Thompson Twins
New Song – Howard Jones
Stay – Oingo Boingo
Situation – Yaz
Pale Shelter – Tears for Fears
Crazy Little Thing Called Love – Queen
Forever Young – Rod Stewart
Forever Young – Alphaville (original version)
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) – Green Day
Snow (Hey Oh) – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Viva La Vida – Coldplay
More than a Feeling – Boston
Suspicious Minds – Elvis Presley
Imagine – John Lennon
Faithfully – Journey
You’ll Be In My Heart – Phil Collins (from the Disney movie Tarzan)
Give a Little Bit – Supertramp
MMM Bop – Hanson
Just the Way You Are – Bruno Mars
We Are Young – Fun.
This is Us – Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris
The Saga Begins – Weird Al Yankovic
King of Spain – The Tallest Man on Earth
Home – Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros
Mother’s Sick – Horse Feathers
5 Years Time – Noah and the Whale
The Stable Song – Gregory Alan Isakov
Baby, Let Me Follow You Down – Bob Dylan
The Cave – Mumford and Sons
Sweet Lord in Heaven – Mike Doughty
Mr. Pitiful – Matt Costa
King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1 – Neutral Milk Hotel
Satellite – Guster
First Day of My Life – Bright Eyes
Weighty Ghost – Wintersleep
Joy of Cooking – Old Man Luedecke
One Foot – Fun.
The General – Dispatch
Helena Beat – Foster the People
Shake it Out – Florence + the Machine
True Affection – The Blow
Lessons Learned – Matt & Kim
Is There A Ghost – Band of Horses
Gin and Juice – The Gourds
Once In A Lifetime – Talking Heads
New York City – moe.
When My Time Comes – Dawes

What are you listening to these days? Leave us a comment! We love to find new music. Smile

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Posted in The UN-digi Posted on May 6, 2012 by Heddy |

Digital Scrapbook Supply Shopping with Friends

Post by steph

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Right before Digital Scrapbook Day, Katie, Peppermint, Renne Looney, and I recorded a Digi Show all about this most loved holiday in digital scrapbooking. It was that show that gave me the idea that Katie and I should shop together over Skype. Katie and I live almost 1,000 miles apart, so getting together isn’t an option. But, we both have a passion for digital scrapbooking and especially digital scrapbook shopping. I will admit that Katie can out shop me almost any day, but it was so fun to do some of it together.

Katie and I set up a time that we could both be on our computers on the Saturday. I was pretty busy that day and only had a couple of hours that I could shop. We connected via Skype and shared our screens. We went to the same stores and started browsing. Each time we found something we had to have, we showed it to each other via the screen sharing in Skype. We did a lot of enabling this way Winking smile

It was so fun to share this day and our shopping with each other. I later took all of the previews from all of the goodies I bought and a screenshot of Katie and I Skyping and created this layout, supplies are by Lisa Sisneros.

Do you have a digi friend that you could go shopping with today (on {inter}National Scrapbook Day)? Have you done something like this before? I would love to hear about it in the comments!

P.S. Mary M. was the random winner for the Jenn Barrette feature post and she received $10 to spend in Jenn’s store!

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Posted in Truly Inspirational Posted on May 5, 2012 by steph |

The great big iNSD enabling post!

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If you’re anything like me, you will be spending A LOT of time at your computer this weekend shopping and scrapping in celebration of {inter}National Scrapbook Day! We recorded a fun episode of The Digi Show with Kate Hadfield as our guest so you can have something to listen to while you are downloading and creating.

Persnickety Prints is kicking off (inter) National Scrapbook Week with a BANG! The Persnickety Prints Semi-Annual sale! (yes, print credits for 12×12 & 8.5×11 will be available as well). 12×12, 8.5×11, and 8×8 layouts are the lowest prices ever! Checkout with code bigsale25 to get your discount.

Flergs has 50% off everything except collections/bundles! (May 4-6)

Kristin Aagard’s store is 40% off May 3-6 for iNSD! Her brand new kit Birthday Wishes is included in the sale! And if you spend $5 in her store during the iNSD sale, you will get a free mini kit with your purchase!

Julianna Kneipp has a huge sale 50% on all of her products and 60% in some selected products that are retiring…plus she’ll have a special freebie on her facebook fan page!

Sahlin Studio has a new collection out today at The LilyPad, “A Wonderful Day”. Stop by the Sahlin Studio blog and pick up a FREE try me that coordinates perfectly with, A Wonderful Day.

20 products by SuzyQ Scraps for only $1 each — including 4 new products! Hurry! These low prices will only be available May 3-6. Be sure to stop by her fan page today for a limited-time freebie!

Jennifer Labre has a 40% off sale going on this weekend!

Its Farmer’s Market time at Scrap Orchard and mle Card has 8 brand new products(including 3 brand new kits) along with 12 previously released for just $1 each! May 3rd-6th only.

Lynne-Marie from CatScrap is retiring from designing to pursue a career in music. Her store is -50% to -83% off until June 14th!! You’ll find full kits for as low as 1$!! Don’t miss this!!

Save 25% off Studio Wendy May 5th-6th. Sign up for my newsletter for a bonus 5% off coupon to be delivered to your inbox on Friday!

It’s time to wake up because this dream has come true! Emily Merritt and Heather Hess teamed up to turn this well loved alpha into The Doodled Alpha Font … Two Ways! And for one week only purchase the fonts and get the Doodled Alpha … Two Ways by Emily Merritt for FREE! Squee!!

Scrapping with Liz has 20 products for sale at a $1 each including three new template sets. One of them are these new Mix and Match Double Templates II. There are so many ways to combine these and make double page layouts. You won’t want to miss it at $1 for the whole set.

Mye De Leon has this special NSD Grab Bag for you! It is fully revealed in her stores so be sure to check it out and don’t miss it at Gotta Pixel!

Tracie Stroud has 20 goodies that are on sale for Farmer’s Market for only $1! These designs will never be in Farmer’s Market again, so don’t miss out! 3 brand new designs are also $1, including her new kit, A Mother’s Heart.

Meredith Cardall has 20 products on sale for only $1 each!

WM squared is guesting at Scrap Matters and has a fun and krafty grab bag! Included are FIVE all new items, for ONE LOW PRICE!! So be sure to purchase NOW! In 1 week it’ll be split up forever! Be sure to head over to her BLOG for the matching freebee!

Here is your last chance to grab Deca Designs kits.

Be sure to stop by Chelle’s Creations @ the Farmer’s Market. New $1 items each day.

Check out all the great stuff Secret Stash has going on for iNSD!

New from Mari Koegelenberg – Berry Sweet a fresh summery kit full of berry sweet goodies!

The Lily Pad is ready to party in a big way this weekend for {inter}National Scrapbooking Day! They will have a storewide sale, a free with purchase kit, some amazing giveaways, a Facebook hop, games, challenges, speed scraps and chats!

Anna Aspnes has a 30% off sale in honor of International Scrapbooking Day weekend.

Karen Lewis has a 30% off sale through May 6th.

It’s iNSD and that means that on Saturday when Sweet Shoppe Designs goes live, Janet Phillips is back with a new semi-annual SCRAP YOUR HEART OUT collection. Forty-five templates, one great price!

Scrap Orchard is celebrating with a whole bunch of new and exciting things and a big Farmer’s Market $1 sale!

Now’s the time to stock up on Kaye Winiecki’s goodies while they are on sale for 30% off!

Connie Prince has a HUGE 50% off sale!

Kelleigh Ratzlaff Designs has a new Grab Bag and is also participating in The Digichick Desginer Facebook Page Hop!

Laura Banasiak has three brand new alphas in her shop for iNSD, priced at just $1.00 each! Check out her shop at Scrap Orchard for over 15 one dollar items, May 3rd through May 6th!

Dúnia has 40% in her store!

Krisi’s Kreations is celebrating NSD in a BIG way. Throughout the weekend each item in her entire store will go on sale for $1.00!!!! Now is the chance to grab what you want – May 9th her store is closing. Check out her blog www.krisiskreations.com to see what products will be on sale when. There are tons of great hybrid templates – perfect for gift giving (think teacher appreciation, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, graduation, birthday etc…)

Amanda Heimann has a fun new kit and some BIG news… she’s opened a store at Scrap Orchard!

Tracey Monette of Clever Monkey Graphics has teamed up with Alissa Jones from Pick-a-Paper to design 2 fabulous must-have kits! Introducing Doctor Visit and Eye See You. Both kits and all Tracey’s other products will be 40% off for iNSD! Be sure to drop by her store in MScraps.

New at Studio Rosey Posey is Grazioso, the perfect Shabby Vintage kit for Music Lovers! Special {i}NSD price for the Grazioso Collection!

MScraps will be participating in 2 blogtrains (our own and the digiscrapaddicts blogtrain – 2 free collab kits), we will have a HUGE 30-50% off sale (from May 4 – 6) with a few free with purchases and we have got lots of fun and games planned (forum).

Viva Artistry has a 30% sale for iNSD

Peppermint of One Little Bird Designs is celebrating with a 30% off storewide sale!

Michelle Batton has extended her stay at The Digichick another month and has added more classic products to her store for their 30% off sale running May 3-6. And be sure to check out her new release, Paper Blocks Ones and Twos Collab Bundle which will be on sale for just $7 through May 9.

Jeanye Labaya has a big sale going on, a super cute new kit, freebies and lots of contests going on this weekend.

Back by popular demand…another TEMPLATE BUILDERS’ TOOLBOX GRAB BAG from Girl Boy Girl Designs…especially for iNSD! Three template builders’ tools for one low price! The bag is just $3 Friday only!!!

Check out all the fun new products, happenings, and the sale at Digital Design Essentials!

iNSD is the perfect time to shop at After Five Designs because the entire store is 40% off (shots excluded), Thursday through Sunday, May 3-6!

Vinnie Pearce has a 30% off coupon code for our readers. Use code pom4

During iNSD Sabrina’s Creations is the designer of the week at MScraps. Save 30-40% on Sabrina’s Creations products. Purchase her new kit IN THE MAKING and receive the ADD ON for free. (don’t forget to add the free product to your cart before checking out.

Not only does KStudio have a 40% off sale going on, there’s also a free with $5 purchase treat!

The Digichick Designers are sponsoring a Facebook hop throughout NSD weekend. Make sure to stop by each of the designers’ Facebook page so that you can gather all of the parts of this gorgeous kit!

There will be a 30% off sale in Kate Hadfield’s store Friday-Monday! The sale includes new releases like this new Gardening Grown doodle pack!

Studio Basic is celebrating with 30% off until Monday!

It’s (inter)National Scrapbooking weekend! Time to save BIG on all those ForeverJoy goodies you may have on your “Wish List”! All items are 30% off for the weekend.

Get 25% off Kitty Designs products

Are you ready for a weekend full of shopping and scrapping? I know I am! Happy iNSD to everyone!

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Posted in Funtastic Friday Posted on May 4, 2012 by Katie | Tagged digi scrap enabling, digi scrap kits, digi scrap sales, digi scrap shopping, iNSD, NSD |

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