It’s birthday season at my house. My kids have their birthdays less than 2 weeks apart. This year I decided to make their thank you cards easy. I took a picture of Kara with each friend at her birthday party. Then I used a 4×6 thank you overlay to turn each photo into an instant thank you card. The photo serves as both a thank you and memento of the occasion. Once I got the photos printed, my daughter and [more]
The theme for the Digi Scrap Connect Facebook Hop this month is Autumn Air. My freebie is this template. You can download it by going to my Facebook page and “liking” it. You will find links to the next and previous designer on the hop on my Facebook page as well! Here is a quick look at all the contributions from the different designers. While you are here you can enter to win a package of Becky Higgins scrapbook dividers [more]
Howdy and happy Spring partner! My son was Sheriff Woody from Toy Story for Halloween. This inspired me to create my Little Cowboy Kit. He picked the costume himself and I think he made a pretty cute sheriff! You saw this layout last week when I released my 4 Photo Layered Template No. 2. Here’s more layout inspiration! Here’s a free Facebook Timeline Cover Photo quick page for you. Click on the image to download. The QP is at 72 [more]
As I said in my a previous post, Spraguefest was all about seeing my friends again. I met three of the other women who attended Spraguefest in 2009 when we met online. Over the past 2 and 1/2 years we have gotten to know each other pretty well and I have had the pleasure of meeting them in real life. Spraguefest was a reunion for us and we had such a great time together. The day I left we spent [more]
This week’s Why I Love Digi topic is Photoshop actions. As a digital scrapbooker and designer, I do many of the same things in Photoshop over and over again. One example of this is when I complete my layouts, I always save a full resolution version and smaller version for posting online. Here are the steps I use for saving a smaller version. change the image size of the layout to 600 x 600 pixels at 72 dpi (full size [more]
This week’s Why I Love Digi topic is templates! I love to design templates. I love to have templates. I love to use templates! Did I mention that I love templates?!? Right now I have 205 templates in my always growing stash. Before I get carried away, here is a little more background. Templates come in various formats but the kind I use are PSD files – layered files proprietary to Adobe Systems. They can be used in Adobe Photoshop, [more]
I am starting a new weekly series on my blog called WILD Wednesdays. I will detail the reasons Why I Love Digi and include some freebies, tips and tricks for you. This week I will start by giving you some background information on me. While I grew up I didn’t do any crafting. My focus was always on school work. Math and science were my favorite subjects and I graduated from college with a degree in computer science. In 2003, [more]
