Today's new release is a collaboration with DHD Designer Mye de Leon. We created a kit called Free Spirit, with the intention of capturing an easy-going fun-loving personality. Mye's papers and my elements work beautifully together; my elements also coordinate perfectly with my Krafty Colorblocks papers, which are still just $1.00 for today only. Here are some great samples using these pieces.
from Claudia
from Joey
from Becca
I've got a sweet treat for you for today's weekly release at Design House Digital. My newest kit is called Confetti & Cupcakes, and it's one of my favorites to date! It's 30% off today only, so fill your cart!
It's a combination of simple patterns, delicious colors, and whimsical elements. Let's take a look at what my creative team and the House Decorators did with it:
by Jennifer V:
by Janell:
by Amy (also using the 4 Tags template):
by Mellie (using my Timeline Templates):
This week's new release is a bit of a step outside my comfort zone. I've had this color scheme saved for quite some time -- I've been drawn to the colors but just haven't been sure what to do with them. So I started playing around with some damask patterns and woodgrains, and this collection was started. Say hello to Urban Flair!
This kit is filled with damask and woodgrain papers, flat and tied ribbons, paint splatters and washi, awesome quotations, 3x4 and 4x6 Project Life cards, and a marquee-style alphabet. There's a little bit of everything packed into this kit, and it's perfect for scrapping a wide variety of topics. Take a look at a few layouts from our House Decorators.
by Anna:
by Becca:
by Jennifer B:
The kit is available as one large bundle, or you can purchase the four parts individually. The paper pack comes with 16 papers, the alphabet has a base layer that can be recolored with a woodgrain layer to go on top, the Project Life cards feature stackable cards with cutout phrases, and the elements contain a variety of embellishments, including a woodgrain city skyline and awesome damask paint masks.
Let's take a look at a few more layouts.
by Jeryn:
by Erika:
by Liz:
by Mandi (using Crystal's Angled templates)
by Rachel:
by Shannon (using Crystal's Jumpers 13-16)
I've got another big release for the shop this week: a new kit and three new templates. I've got lots of inspiration layouts to share with you (my amazing team has been BUSY!) so we'll get right to it. Just remember, new releases are 30% off until midnight tonight, so if you're looking for a deal, BUY NOW!
My newest kit, Mama Loves You, combines some of my favorite colors (red, orange, and green, with a couple of pops of pink), cork-textured elements, and a subway word art block that I adore. You can purchase it as a full kit, or you can buy it separately (papers and elements).
The Tiny Blocks template gives you space for three photos (the shadowed frames are included in the template), plus space to feature a number of smaller pieces of patterned papers. Add tiny embellishments to the blocks, and finish it off with a large title in the middle and some paper pieces down the side (stitching included).
by Melanie: I love how she substituted the subway word art in place of one of the paper blocks, and just moved the row of tiny blocks to a vertical alignment instead of horizontal.
by Anna: Anna deleted a couple of paper blocks, added some brushwork, and created a great diagonal line to draw your eye from one corner to the other.
The 4 Tags template features four shipping tags with flair accents and space for Instagram-sized photos.
from Aria: I love how Aria used a variety of patterns from the Mama Loves You kit for her tags and placed the cork banner across the entire page.
from Jen H: I love how Jen added the stitching on top of her tags, which use the solid papers from the kit. It adds a great bit of visual interest and I think the result is super-cute!
The Stacked Up template is an 8.5x11 inch layout that can easily be converted to a 12x12 canvas. The following layouts all use the template, and I love seeing how each person has modified it to fit their needs.
by Celeste: Celeste shrank the layers down a bit and rotated the layout for a horizontal orientation before placing it in a lower right-hand position on her page.
by Jen P: Jen switched to a 12x12 size and moved the layers to the left-hand side of her layout. She also blended the gray paper with the wood-patterned paper from my Whiteout kit for her background, and used the subway word art in place of some of the papers. Great touches!
by Becca: Becca paired the Mama Loves You kit with one of the kraft papers from my Neutral Stock paper pack -- the colors and textures look gorgeous together.
by Claudia: I love how she chopped up the word art and used the phrases on the various pieces of paper in the template -- awesome idea!
by Katherine: Kat rotated the design for a horizontal orientation and then loaded on the embellishments -- that's the great thing about templates. You can make them as simple or elaborate as you'd like!
Don't forget about my $Deal product: Tag Team Templates (on sale for $1.00 ending tonight!), and the Pop A Cork alphabet would make a great addition to layouts created with the Mama Loves You kit. In face, they make such a great pair that I'm offering you a coupon code good for 25% off the alphabet; just enter the code corkDHDalpha2012 at checkout. Code expires 7/23/2012.
Additional products used in these layouts include:
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I absolutely can't wait until the Olympics are here! We watched as much of the Olympic trials as we could, and I felt such a rush of excitement as I watched these athletes put it all on the line, hoping to earn a spot on the Olympic team. Both of my daughters are athletes, and I just can't imagine the number of hours it takes to perform at the Olympic level -- and I think we're busy enough as it is.
So this new kit is a nod to the Olympics, but it was also created out of my own necessity -- as a set of products I would love to use on my own sports pages. Right now, we're a three-sport family (soccer, cross-country, and track). As you'll see from the sample layouts I've posted, though, many of the papers and elements in this kit are completely flexible and can be used for just about any topic.
For today only, Sports Fanatic is priced at 30% off; you can purchase the bundle, or you can purchase the papers, elements, word art, and pennants separately. I hope you enjoy it, and I'd love to see how you use it.
Jen and Rachel's layouts both use my Clipped Frames, which work particularly well with this kit. So well, in fact, that I'm offering you a coupon code to get 20% off the frames. The code will expire 7/16/12.
Here's a look at some layouts by the House Decorators and by my creative team -- there are so many unique ways to use this kit! I'm really inspired by so many of their details and little touches!
by Jen H (I love how she ghosted the subway art over the photo, and the simple banner pennant in the top corner with the baseball flair -- great touches!)
by Rachel (My favorite part? The way the grid paper shows through on the large top photo -- such an awesome touch!)
by Claudia (The brads for the label holders make great "thumbtacks" to hold the journaling card in place -- gives this layout the feel of a bulletin board with memorabilia included!)
by Shannon (Lots of pieces from this kit will work wonderfully with Project Life. The photo cards and the word art are sized at 3x4, so you can easily include them on your PL layouts.)
by Carey (Look at the way she combined two different colors of flair -- blue and yellow -- to personalize her layout. Handy work with the extraction tool -- I love it!)
by Mary (I love how Mary used one of the triangle banners as an arrow, and drew attention to her son's medal with the circle stitches -- such awesome details!)
from Jennifer (Love how Jennifer lets that word art take center stage -- what a fantastic design, with the large photo and the paper strips):
from Liz (an excellent multi-photo layout; I love the flair in each of the four corners!):
by Missy (I love how she used the pennant circle to mark the date, rather than a sport flair or an award -- the banner across the top of the photo looks fab too!):
I've got two new items available in the shop this week. First up is Quote Me, a simple set of speech-bubble shaped quotes about all kinds of topics. There are 10 quotations included, and they come in two versions: a black speech bubble with white print, and the same speech bubble with the print erased, leaving the negative space behind, so that you can "stamp" them onto cardstocks (kraft looks GREAT!) or photos.
Here's a great page from Melanie, using the Quote Me Word Art, the Whiz Kid kit, and the Miscellaneous template.
Melanie also created a second page, using the Be You bundled kit:
The second product is a really flexible set of painted mask templates called Painterlays. These templates come in four designs: squares, circles, triangles, and the oh-so-trendy hexagons. There's a painted layer, which can be recolored (I'd recommend using this tutorial, steps 1-6), as well as an outline layer. They can be used separately, or together. In addition, you can add patterned paper inside the shapes for extra punch. The creative uses for this product are really unlimited, if you ask me.
Claudia played around with them a couple of different ways; she clipped a chevron patterned paper to the circles, and then added the hand-drawn outlines to a second piece of patterned paper behind the clipped circles (everything is from the Be You kit):
Jen created an awesome look at the many faces of one of her adorable boys by clipping a variety of photos and papers to the squares on one of the Painterlays -- the result is awesome:
Be authentic. Be bold. Be creative.
Just be.
Be you.
That's the message behind my newest collaboration with Sara Schmutz; it's artsy, messy, colorful, vibrant. And for today only, it's 30% off. Make sure you grab it at the reduced price -- it's a great deal. You've got lots of options, too. You can purchase each part individually: papers, elements, alphabet, words. Or you can purchase the papers and elements together, the words and alpha together, or you can grab the whole big bundle (definitely the best deal of the bunch)!
I love the layouts that my creative team and the House Decorators have come up with for this kit -- they are all so expressive and colorful. Let's take a look:
from Celeste
from Katherine:
from Wendy:
from Carey:
For this week's new releases, I have a handful of different products available in the shop. Remember, new releases are 30% off for the first 24 hours.
First up are three different flair collections: DAILY FLAIR, HOME EC FLAIR, and FUN & GAMES FLAIR. You can purchase these separately, or you can buy them in one big bundle (which saves you some extra $$, naturally). These epoxy flairs are the perfect dimensional accent for your Project Life, Take 12, or P365 pages -- and they look great on everyday layouts as well.
Here's a sample layout from House Decorator Wendy -- I love Wendy's modern style. She's mastered the art of photoless layouts, and there are always so many great graphic accents on her work.
I also have a new kit in my shop (which you've caught a sneak peek of if you've checked out my Facebook page for Audacious Designs in the past day or two): Camp Currie. This kit has really become one of my recent favorites. I love the colors -- they are rustic and modern and they work beautifully with camping and lake photos (without falling into the traditional color palette that you normally find). The patterns remind me of primitive summer camp images, and the wood beads and bits of greenery add a great touch of realism and dimension.
Camp Currie is available as a full digital kit, or you can purchase the papers and elements separately.
Here's a layout I made about one of our favorite summer pasttimes; it features my Pop A Cork alphabet too (I just added a color overlay and burned the letters with one of the brushes in the kit to create an additional bit of pattern -- I'll have a tutorial coming next week on how to achieve this same effect).
This layout was created by House Decorator Jen H. I particularly like how she used a wide variety of the patterned papers from the kit -- one of the things that she did to keep the patterns from being too overwhelming is just reducing the scale.
Here's an additional layout by House Decorator Janell; I love how she's used the light wood background and added little touches like the yellow leather cord pinned down at each end with a brad. Careful details that like can really elevate a layout's overall design.
I'm really excited about my new releases in the shop this week. First up is a sunny collaboration with designer Juliana Kneipp called SUMMER PLEASURES. It's all about taking time for the simple pleasures of summer, like laying in the grass, flying kites, eating fresh fruit, and running through the sprinkler. In addition to my kit, which features 17 papers and 50 elements, I also created a matching set of 16 textured solid papers, with and without distressed edges. Don't forget to check out Ju's kit too!
I've also added a really flexible kit called WHIZ KID to the shop. It gives you the opportunity to celebrate academic achievements at the end of school, but also gives you a way to scrap your 4th of July or other patriotic celebrations. You can purchase the papers, the elements, or the full kit -- the choice is yours!
And finally, this weekend I'm the Featured Designer at Design House Digital, which means my entire shop is marked down 25%, plus I've got 4 special kits on sale: You can pick up my 3 Strips Template for FREE! and you can grab Softly, Candyland, and Ahoy Love Elements for just $1.00 each (and don't forget to check out any coordinating element or paper packs to go along with those kits, like the Ahoy Love! papers or the She Is element pack.)
Don't forget my CT call -- the details are here! I'd love to see your application!
Here's the newest addition to my shop: I DO features simple patterns with a whimsical floral accent and a summery, yet understated color palette. It's the perfect kit for scrapping a summer wedding, recording a special anniversary, or remembering a beautiful relationship. It's available separately as papers and elements, or as a combined kit, and there's a matching alphabet too, all 30% off for today only.
Don't forget that you can still enter to win a $10.00 gift certificate to my store. You've got until 12:00 EST TONIGHT to leave a comment on this post, telling me how you'd use the ABC Journal & Photo Cards (and don't worry -- you can repeat one of the suggestions I make or that someone else has made. Oh, and you don't have to have purchased the cards to enter either!)
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