Traveling

Oof.  What a summer.  My husband retired from the USAF two months ago and we moved into an RV, which I'm still living in.  We visited lots of friends and five national parks which has been a lot of fun.  Internet has been spotty, but I've still managed to keep up my CT commitments.  We've landed in Pennsylvania and I still have more than a month of RV living to look forward to.

I've also been busy making *.page files for Scrapping With Liz and she has some great templates, including new calendar templates that she did as a collaboration with Fiddle Dee Dee.  Check them out!  The page files will work in SBC 3.0 and 4.0 and Artisan, depending on when you bought it.  And the templates are 12x12 and 8.5x11, allowing you to use whomever you want to print your calendars.  And of course, there are *.psd and *.tif files for PS and PSE users.

Mye De Leon has been making some great kits, too, at her new home at Design House Digitals.   She recently had a new collection of Scrap It Simple templates that are available with *.page files, too.

I thought I'd share some pages I've been making using Amanda Heimann's products.  Check our her kits at Scrap Orchard.

Little Blossom

Spring Forward kit

American Pride kit (collab with Suzy Q Scraps)

Island Getaways (collab with Ziggle Scraps)

This Side Of Crazy

This Side of Crazy

American Pride (collab with Suzy Q Scraps)

Little Blossom kit

New Design Team

I am very honored to have been selected for the design team for Amanda Heimann's design team at Scrap Orchard. She has great templates, which will be complete with *.page files from now on as well as fun scrapbooking kits.  Her blog is here.  These cute templates already have *.page files for those of you that use Storybook Creator Plus.  Here, I used the templates along with her Spring Forward kit.  Both the templates and her super cute kits are on sale at Scrap Orchard!

Mye de Leon

Mye de Leon also includes *.page files in her template packs.  I've only been making her templates for a short while but her catalog of them is extensive.  Mye uses lots of layers to get a great look.  Have you seen some great clustering in the galleries?  Her templates help you achieve a great look without having to guess about what looks good.  So whether you want something griddy and formal or whimsical and wonky, she's got you covered.  She also sells some great kits with beautiful 3D elements at her stores.

Here are some of my favorites that you can pick up from Digital Scrap Shop, Gotta Pixel, or My Memories.  I included one of my favorite kits of hers, too. 

Scrapping With Liz makes *.page files

Did you know that you can get *.page files that will work in SBC3.0 and 4.0 from many sources?

 I make *.page files for Scrapping with Liz and when I make them, I make sure that photo spots work like photo spots and that any standard shape, when possible, is also a live photo spot.  This allows you to drag and drop your papers into places and then zoom and move the papers to get the part of the paper you want.  I also make sure the text spots are editable.

So when you get templates from Scrapping with Liz, you can be assured that you can make your pages quickly and easily.  I've been doing these for the past year, so you can be sure that you'll find *.page files in any of her recent offerings.  If you find a set that doesn't have page files, just contact Liz (find her on Facebook at  Scrapping with Liz).  From adorable Christmas letter templates to cards, to 12x12 pages to blog wear, to super cute calendar toppers, she's got you covered.

Here are some of my favorites, but you can find them all at The Scrap Orchard:

Fun with Fonts

Head on over to the Digital 411 page to see my latest post about importing fonts to use as shapes in SBC4.0

Fun With Fonts

Creative Memories Virtual Crop

Did any of you play along with the recent Creative Memories Virtual Crop this past weekend?  I did and loved following along with the cues.  I got a good number of pages done.  I was sort of cheating because I was playing in digital but the important thing is to make progress and get those pages done, right?  I thought I'd share some of them with you here.

Using a Magazine layout for inspiration

Inspiration from Vegetarian times to make
the layout to the left

Scraplifting from the Project Center

Making pinwheels, coffee colored papers, and spring

Using "scraps"

Pinterest inspiration

Using their sketch for inspiration

If you didn't make the crop, don't worry!  The challenges can still be found on the CM Traditional 411 Blog.  There is so much inspiration there!  And you can see all the other great projects made with these cues here.

Making Monograms

I received a few private comments after the Creative Memories blog hop as to how I made the letter E that was a clue for the giveaway.  SBC 4.0 makes it so easy!

First, I went to the Insert ribbon and selected the text Shape option.  I selected the letter I wanted to use. For the E, I selected the new Creative Memories Enchanted Paper 9. I selected the line color, line width, and line style I wanted.  For the E, I used a compound style with two equally weighted lines. 8 pts, and black. And that's it! Layer a ribbon and a flower from the kit to make it a little more interesting.  When you do this on your own pages, if you don't like what you get, just delete it and select the text Shape again and it will retain all the settings you just used so you don't have to enter it all again.  How cool is that?

You can use this technique to make great titles, email signatures, too.  You can fill in big chunky text with photos! Have a play!

Enchanted and Divine

Here are some layouts featuring Creative Memories' new power palettes, Enchanted and Divine. Click on the pictures to be taken to the instructions for how to make them on the Creative Memories Project Center site. I hope you like them.

Cootie Catchers!

My first blog post is live with the Creative Memories Digital 411 Blog. Take a look and try it out! It has both SBC+ and sbcStudio instructions.