If you’ve been scrapbooking for a while you know templates make creating your page easier. No more sitting in front of your computer stumped for a layout idea and how to create it. Templates will have the design layout already done, you just fill it with your photos, paper, and elements from the kit you want to use.
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If you’re an Artisan user don’t miss out on these fun templates! Start thinking about that vacation you went on recently or an upcoming one – can you see your photos in these templates?
May is a time for me when I get the garden going since our last freeze date is mid-May. With us being in a severe drought – STILL, I’m not doing a garden this year and reserving our well water for our orchard trees since they take so long to produce I don’t want to lose any.
I created this page with pictures from my garden a couple years ago. You might be thinking why do a page now since you don’t have a garden? Just cause I don’t have one doesn’t mean I don’t miss doing it. 🙂 Plus I can relive the joy of gardening and the beauty of it. I created this layout with Sprout mini by Dandelion Dust Designs.
Many art kits include frames with several different designs in them. I usually only use one frame style on a page but this layout has two different frames that I used each twice. I wanted each photo to stand on its own so they aren’t touching each other.
Look at all the cute little elements in this kit as well as some fun patterned paper that matches the solid colors.
Puzzles are another one of my fun non-scrapping hobbies and this kit is so cute with different puzzle pieces. Color is so important in puzzles to make 1000-piece puzzles a little easier to put together. wink, wink.
1000 piece is my jam on puzzles since I love the challenge but I also don’t want them so hard it takes me hours to just put the edge together. LOL This layout is one my sister and I did the last time she visited – so glad she enjoys doing them too!
Puzzle Me This from Designs by Lisa Minor has what I like in my puzzles – lots of different colors and fun elements. Look at those adorable puzzle pieces!
She also has a bundle to match this kit with premade borders and cluster frames and even some predesigned pages!
I hope you’re able to do some fun summer activities and then create your own layout to remember them by.
I must have slept the last two months away because it’s May now! A new month though means a new FREEBIE kit, Hello May from Dandelion Dust Designs on her Fan Facebook Page.
I don’t know what the weather is like for you but here, March brings a mixture of warmer sunny days mixed with windy days. No matter what or when your Spring comes it’s always a time for new beginnings. New growth in nature, new fun things to do now that the weather is better and maybe some new things for your home. If you’ve not noticed the “newness” of Spring yet, take a moment to look around whenever your Spring comes your way! I know you’ll be blessed.
I’ve been using templates more on my pages because you can already have the design of the layout made for you – less brain work! LOL!! All you do is replace the decorative items that are on the template with the ones from the art kit you’re using.
Another layout using a template – Bits of March from Dagilicious. I love the layers that are in these templates. Simply fill each one with a different paper and you’re layering is done! Spring cleaning is something I know I need to do each year but…. I’m really not one to enjoy that. My sisters’ know that so when they come it always includes a cleaning project! Woo Hoo for me!! I created this with The Weekend kit from Dandelion Dust Designs but I’m sorry to say it’s retired so I have no link for it.
With Artisan 6 you can create your own pocket style template really easily. Add a large rectangle to your page about 10×10, make it any color you want because it won’t stay that way. Remove the stroke at this time, and save. Center on your page.
Select the rectangle you just added and go to the Cut ribbon, choose Grid cutter. Select 4 squares across and 4 squares down, change the spacing to 2, and choose ok. Deselect all the squares so you can make some of them photo holders. Decide which squares you want to hold photos and select each one separately, right-click – fill – convert to a photo drop point. In the other squares, you can ad paper to them by doing the same thing. Right-click – fill – from art kit.
As you can see a couple of my photo squares are two squares joined together. No need to change much to create this. First, select the photo you want to fill two squares and drag the middle drop-down arrow to make it the same length as two squares. That’s it!! Now go over to your elements panel and find the single square that’s underneath the one you created – select and delete. Voila!! See I told you it was easy.
Once you have the grid the way you want it, fill all your photo holders, finish your layout with papers and elements that you want. I do suggest adding a shadow to each square so it stands out a bit more as well as adding shadows to all your elements.
Check out temlates for your layouts soon, you might be surprised at how fun they can be!
Something terrible is happening in Ukraine at the moment. Millions of people have already left their country and millions more will leave. For people in Europe, war has never been that close to home since WWII.
With this charity collection “The Strenght Of Freedom’s Will” Ilonka and her Creative Team are raising money to help the people in Ukraine. All of Ilonka’s commission for the sale of this collection (sale price minus store commission and Paypal fees) will be donated to the United Aid Organization for giro 555 in The Netherlands. More info about this organization can be read in the info that is written about this collection in the stores and in a PDF file that comes in all downloads of this collection.
At the beginning of April Ilonka will announce how much money was raised with the selling of this collection and will be donated. Follow her website, newsletter and social media channels for this.
I love the bright colors of this collection! I used it for my love of doors. I know I’m weird but whenever we travel I love taking pictures of fun architecture and doors.
Now that the weather is changing start taking pictures of the new brighter colors you notice around. They’ll be fun to scrap!
Last week I showed you three layouts I created for “Love Day”, aka Valentine’s Day! We all have something or someone we love and I’m here to show you a few more creative ways to show that love.
My first layout is showcasing such a cutie to me! I made this cluster like a big bouquet but just big enough to highlight that precious smile of hers. When you are using your digital elements for clusters my biggest tip is just put a lot of elements on your page and PLAY with them, moving them around until you LOVE it!
I created by Little Smooches layout with A Little Smooch page kit from PattyB Scraps. If you look at all those cute elements you’ll be able to create so many different pages with this one kit.
This little guy is just fascinated with these sunglasses so, of course, a layout needed to be created. I really like to see what frame elements are in a kit that I can use in different ways. I used the three-circle frame for my photos and then the film strip for another photo. I think they both go great on this layout.
Yes, today is “Love Day”! I know it’s actually Valentine’s Day but I like love day better because so much brings me love. The kits I’m sharing can be used traditionally for valentines type layouts of course but I like to “think out of the box” when I see different kits to use. I hope as you’ve been following me you see that I like to challenge you to do the same. No one likes to buy a kit and use it once – digital kits can be used over and over again so let’s get the most out of them.
This first one is Flirtation from Over The Fence Designs. My Ranchman is my first layout because he’s been here with me through thick and thin for more than 30 years.
Now when you look at the preview below you might be thinking what? Your page came from this? Yes, always look at each paper and element and see how they can go together. I didn’t want the pink or purples in this layout but I loved the tans and blues. On Sale for $7 through TODAY!
If you’re like me I also LOVE my animals and that can be dogs, cats, horses or even cows!
My love of books and reading goes back to when I was a kid. I’d go to our local bookmobile and check out as many books as I was allowed and by the time it came back around again I had read them all. I still love going to bookstores and browsing for hours to find the exact books I want. So this “love” page is different. I used Amour by ADB Designs.On Sale TODAY for 50% off!
These are just a few layouts I’ve done for my “love day” so be sure and check back next week for more. Hope you enjoy your own Love Day!
I did a layout that I’ve not done much since I’ve started doing digital scrapbooking. Remember the pocket page layouts in traditional scrapping? When I was traditional scrapping it was super easy but once I started digital I wanted to be more creative in how I designed a page. You know what though? You CAN be more creative on a pocket-style digital page!
What’s really good on pocket style DIGITAL templates – you can use the pockets for whatever you want, delete a pocket, or make two pockets into one! The creativity options are all up to you OR you can use as is!
I filled the title box with elements and created my title on top of my main photo. I used Blastick Normal font filled with a light color and added a heavy shadow so it would stand out.
I also put my journaling in a different box than what the template showed. I really like using a fun font for my journaling, this one is Annie. I used a button element to help fill the box since my journaling wasn’t long.
You know me and my clusters of elements and how I love them so I created another cluster for the bottom box instead of a journal or photo box.
These templates are fun and EASY to create a layout just your own!
If you’ve been scrapping for a while you know that your pages really SHOULD have journaling on them. Why you might ask. Well, think about when you find pictures or albums from a family member but when you turn it over hoping to find out who, what this picture was all about it doesn’t have any info on them. So the picture might be fabulous and could be telling a story that you don’t know. Without the journaling though, it’s just a nice picture.
Journaling can be intimidating for sure though because you might think it has to be a novel or you might think you’re not really a good writer. Don’t think any of those things, just write the first things that come to your mind. Don’t overthink it.
Here’s a couple of pictures that I cherish but without any journaling, you really don’t know what they actually mean to me. Don’t get me wrong the pics show some beautiful horses and that’s great but…
These pictures are from a time on the ranch when we had a large herd of horses and they would come around and see us every couple of days. I couldn’t wait to see them when they came by as they are so BEAUTIFUL!
Here’s a layout I made with these pictures but with journaling so the reason I cherish them will be saved also. As you can see it’s not long or perfect but it’s MY story on these pictures.
This page also shows you can change up how you journal on your page. I love the strips of paper behind each sentence. To me, this is a fun way to journal instead of all on one piece of paper. So think “outside” of the box when you journal next time.
Christmas is less than a week away and I’m just getting started on my wrapping. I’ve got the paper and bags to do the job but tags I’m always short on. So I created some with journal cards from a digital art kit. This is the easiest way to make tags, just insert them on an 8.5 x 11 sheet and print!
This is the first kit I found in my digital art stash but I know there are many kits out there you can use. Check your own stash and see what you find!
Ranch Creations 