Layouts, Layouts, Layouts!

Well, I have had a good weekend scrapping some of my own photos. It seems that as you make the transition to designer, you have less time to scrap yourself! You really have to schedule things to get some time to just scrap.

First, I completed a heritage layout using my newest kit, Newsworthy.

 

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Then I created a two-page spread, using my kit, Snuggle.

 

 

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Lastly, I have a wonderful layout by Scraptigz using my Bounty in Burlap page kit. Please click on her layout to be taken to her gallery so you can leave her a comment!

 

 

If you have some layouts that you have created using DreamScrapper products, please send me a link so I can showcase them here!

As always, I love hearing from you! Leave me a comment below.

Style or Rut?

As you do more and more scrapbooking, digital, hybrid or paper, you will see your own style develop. You may like clean, simple lines in your scrapbooking. Others prefer a more cluttered look, using lots of embellishment clusters to fill in the page. Some enjoy a grungy style, with all their papers containing some sort of distressing or inking or paint. Whatever your style, it is sometimes good to review your recent layouts to see how your style is evolving . . . or NOT!

 

It is easy to get in a rut with your scrapbooking. Perhaps you tend to prepare your pages in exactly the same way, depending on the number of photos you are using. You may enjoy using ribbon but always place it in the same place and always fasten it to the layout in the same way each time. Maybe your titles rely on the same alphas, layout after layout.

 

The same thing goes for the techniques you use in your layouts. Do you always use the same ones? Have you tried tearing paper? Folding corners? Clustering photos or embellishments? Have you added stitching? Inked or painted your edges?

 

I would like to see some layouts from my readers. Send me a link to a previous layout of yours and one in which you have tried a new technique or layout style.

 

All of us, let's try something new this week in our scrapbooking. Leave a comment below to tell me how you made out with it!

 

I'll leave you with a couple of layouts I have done recently, using my new kits, Midnight Blues and Bounty in Burlap.

 

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A Couple of Things . . .

I am so glad that you like my newest kit, Bounty in Burlap! I have received many favorable comments on it. Today, I received notice that my kit has been featured on Scrap Praise! As a new designer and store owner, this is very exciting and encouraging! I hope that you, my readers, will continue to enjoy the kits I design. I would appreciate some feedback from you as to the kind of kits you are looking for or need. What colors do you want? I tend to favor very bold colors so if that's not what you are after, I need to hear from you so I can accommodate your needs! What themes do you want in your kits? What type of textures and patterns do you like in the papers of a kit? Is there some special element that you would like to see included in a kit? Leave me a comment below.

 

Don't forget to use Kaboodle to bookmark your wish list of items from my store! Be sure to include dreamscrapper as a tag so that I can do a search and possibly find you to bestow a RAK (Random Act of Kindness) of some sort! I have already gifted one lucky recipient with a special coupon to my store. You could be next!

Share in Nature's Bounty!

Is there any better time than autumn to witness the glorious colors of nature and rejoice in their splendor? Come and celebrate the season's bounty with the release of my new page kit, Bounty in Burlap.

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If you don’t already have some autumn shots waiting to be scrapped, you’ll be posing your kids in the leaves just so you can use this kit! Burlap, pumpkins and apples abound in this special autumn kit. In “Bounty in Burlap” by DreamScrapper, you will receive 8 delightfully textured papers, in glowing autumn colors of russet, ochre, sienna, tan, and orange. You will also find a special bonus in this kit: an 11” by 11” frayed burlap paper with folded corner. Papers are created at 12" by 12" at 300ppi and saved as high-quality jpg files ensuring excellent print quality. In "Bounty in Burlap" you also get a plaid bow and matching ribbon, a border composed of a ribbon, bow, and apple slices, 2 pumpkins, a burlap bow and ribbon, both a whole apple and an apple slice chipboard charms on beaded chains, a cluster consisting of leaves, an apple slice, cinnamon sticks and a bow, a frayed burlap frame embellished with messy ribbon stitching and autumn leaves, a circular frame composed of ribbons, and an assortment of wrought iron fasteners - 4 photo corners, 4 photo prongs, brad, eyelet, staple, paper clip and swirl clip. Completing this page kit is a stylish, wrought iron alpha. Alpha has a complete upper and lowercase set, numerals 0 to 9, as well as 11 other punctuation marks. Alpha is provided both as a single sheet and as individual letters. All elements are created at 300ppi and saved as png files to preserve transparency. Drop shadows are applied only where layering of pieces makes shadowing necessary for realism. Thank you to Tandika Star and DigiScrapDesigner for items used in the creation of this product. Special thanks to Stacy Carlson (Gotta Pixel), Atomic Cupcake and Monica Larsen. Thanks to Lara Payton at http://www.dustybear.com for the use of her Ribbon Stitching.




I would welcome feedback on these products. Please leave me a comment below.

Also, I have a freebie for you that coordinates well with the kit.

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