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Featured Designer Weekend at DHD

Just popping in to remind you that this weekend is my Featured Designer weekend at DHD, so my entire shop is 25% off through tonight at midnight. In addition, I've got 1 kit that's available for FREE, as well as three others that are just $1.00 right now (Camp Currie, Good Sport, Whiz Kid).

I've also got a new collaboration with Gen Bursett available; I created the elements, plus a fun handwritten chalk alpha too.

And finally, don't forget about our August Dollar Days promotion; I've got four Dollar kits available in the shop right now: Bookshots, Confetti & Cupcakes Cards, Insta-Frames Set 2, and Handwritten Days & Months.

To end this post, how about a hearty helping of inspiration using these featured kits? My CT and the DHD Decorators have been so busy creating, and I haven't had time to share their work with you until now.

by Anna:

by Becca:

by Christy:

by Claudia:

by Jennifer H:

by Jennifer V:

by Jeryn:

by Mandi:

by Melanie:

by Rachel:

by Rachel (using Mama Loves You):

by Shannon:

 

 

August Dollar Days: Confetti & Cupcakes Journaling Cards

If you haven't heard, we're welcoming back our August Dollar Days to the shop at Design House Digital this month. That means that every day will feature a new kit for just $1.00, all month long!

Today's offering from me coordinates with my newest kit, Confetti & Cupcakes. It's a set of fun journaling cards, in both 4x6 and 3x4 size, perfect for Project Life, hybrid cards, and scrapbook layouts. 

I've got a few guest CT members helping me out this month, as well as my regular CT girls. They've made some great pages with the full kit, and I love how these layouts feature the journaling cards.

from Liz:

 from Joey:

 hybrid card from Shannon:

by Jen H:

 by Claudia:

House Party: August (plus August Dollar Days are back!)

Welcome to our House Party at Design House Digital this month! The Designers have released coordinating paper packs, elements, word art, templates, and more -- giving YOU the option to mix and match them to your heart's delight!

I've got a fun-filled doodled bundle called Read to Explore available in the shop; of course, you can purchase the papers, elements, word art, and doodles separately as well. Let's see them in use:

by Liz (also uses my ABC Journal Cards)

 by Jennifer B:

 by Crystal:

by Celeste:

 by Katherine (ahhhh, this extraction and scene -- GENIUS!)

 Today also kicks off our annual August Dollar Days. EVERY SINGLE DAY this month, we'll have a selection of BRAND NEW kits, pried at just $1.00 for the entire MONTH! For today's offering, I created a fun set of flairs and embellishable Polaroid frames to match our House Party kits called Bookshots. 

I've got a couple of Guest CT members helping me out this month, too. Here's how they used this product:

by Liz:

 by Joey:


 

Tuesday $$ Deals: Tag Team Templates (and a tutorial, too!)

(I've really got to stop it with the alliteration on these Tuesday $$ Deal posts...the last post was just as bad!)

I ADORE this week's $ kit; I think these little tag templates are SO flexible and fun! I can't wait to see what you make with them! The House Decorators and my creative team came up with some awesome layouts -- take a look!

by Becca -- I love how she clustered all the tags together and used screws to attach them to the wood background. The Camp Currie and In the Moment kits work perfectly with those swimming photos too!
(additional credits: alpha and paint splatters from Be You)

by Rachel -- This page is so lovely. The tags line up perfectly, and all the little details (buttons, tags, embellished words) lead your eye directly to that beautiful photo. I love the soft brush in the background and the hint of pattern on the blue paper too.
(credits: I Do kit and freebie, Painterlays, Iconic Banners, paint and edge from By Your Side Bits, recolored tape from Celebrate)

by Missy -- Missy noted that she'd print this page as a 6x6; she loves using the tag as a major focal point and thinks it would look awesome as part of series of smaller pages, bound into an album or framed. I have to agree!
(credits: Flight Path kit)

by Liz -- Liz's page uses a number of different items, many from a new kit that will be releasing in my shop on Thursday, so consider this to be your SNEAK PEEK! :) Hope you like what you see!
(additional credits: Garden Party Alphabet)

I wanted to share a quick tutorial with you; last week, I posted a great layout from House Decorator Carey, using my Sports Fanatic bundle. There are lots of great details on Carey's layout, but the one I love the most is how she combined two different flairs to create an element that perfectly matched the team's colors (blue and gold).

Here's how she did it (I'm using PSE 5.0):

1. Open the two flair elements that you want to combine. (NOTE: With the Pennant Pieces kit, each flair comes in two types: a white base with a colored image, and a colored base with a white image. There are also 5 different colors to choose from: red, blue, yellow, green, black. 15 different sports are represented.) For our example, we're going to place the blue image onto the yellow flair.

2. Select the Magic Wand Tool (use keyboard shortcut W) from your toolbar along the left side of your screen. Pull up the blue and white track image. Click anywhere on the image that is blue. This will cause "marching ants" (a dotted outline) to appear around that blue image.

3. As you'll see, though, only a portion of the image is selected. With the image still selected, right click. When the drop down menu appears, choose "SIMILAR." This will select all the other parts of the image that are the same color blue. (Hint: If you repeat this step, it will continue to pick up more bits of blue color on the image).

4. Right click again and choose "LAYER VIA COPY." This will make a duplicate layer of the selected image. If the selection didn't pick up the entire image (you can see that some of the track image, for example, is closer to white because of the flair highlights), then choose the portion of the image that wasn't selected the first time around and repeat steps 3 and 4. (HINT: Make sure that the original image is your active layer, NOT the copy layer. If you have to make more than one copy, you'll want to merge CTRL+E those layers until you have one full copy.)

5. Drag the copy on top of the yellow flair and position it so that it overlaps the white image. Once you have it positioned where you'd like it to go, just merge your layers and save the image under a NEW FILE NAME. Do not save over the original!

 

christmas in july sale!

That's right -- we're celebrating Christmas in July at Design House Digital, this weekend only! Our entire shop is 30% off, and holiday kits are 40% off. I've brought my popular Winterberry kit out of retirement for the weekend, so if you didn't grab it before I retired it from the shop, now's your chance to get it.

It's one of my favorite kits because I love the graphic patterns and the modern color palette. Plus, those paper piecings are just so much fun to scrap with! Here are a number of layouts I've created with it -- and you'll notice that they're not all winter layouts. It's great for Project Life, Photo a Day, and everyday scrapbook pages too.

(this layout also features my 12 of 12 template)

(this layout also features my 1-2-3 template)

(this layout also features my Days Go By template)

In addition to the store-wide sale, a few kits in each designer's shop will be reduced to just $1.00 for the weekend; I'm featuring my Winter Words Word Art and my Ice Alphabet, both out of retirement just for this sale. 

Here's another bit of inspiration -- House Decorator Anna combined some of my Winterberry elements with a few of the other kits you'll find on sale in the shop:

 

new release: Sports Fanatic

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!):


 

House Party: July 2012

That's right -- it's time to kick off summer Design House Digital-style with our July House Party! What's the house party, you ask? It's our monthly designer collaboration -- we pick a theme and a color palette and then the designers go to town, putting together mix-and-match papers, elements, alphabets, and more! And since everything coordinates, you can simply choose a little or a lot from each of the participating designers. Even better, the House Party kits are 30% off for the first 5 days of July, so it's a great time to shop at the House!

This month, I contributed four kits to the House Party: Latticework Papers, Banner Blooms, Summer Jotters, and Garden Party Alphabet. You can purchase them separately, or you can purchase them as one large bundle -- the choice is yours!

Here's some inspiration from the House Decorators and my creative team with these kits (and the rest of the available pieces from other designers too!)

from Celeste:
using ju's papers and journal cards, mye's papers, smears & elements, audrey's banner flowers & papers, robyn's alpha, karen's papers

from Becca:

from Claudia:

 from Shannon:

 

Featured Designer Weekend at DHD

This weekend, I'm the Featured Designer at DHD (along with my collaboration partner, Sara Schmutz).

I'll be chatting in the DHD Chat Room at 7:00pm MST (that's 8:00 central, 9:00 eastern, and 6:00 pacific -- just to make it easier on you!)

As part of my Featured Designer weekend, my entire shop is 25% off through the weekend, with some additional savings too! You can get my Ribbons + Bits template for FREE, and you can pick up Family Rules Tags, Celebrate Elements, and Tribal Elements for just $1.00 each.

Here are some fantastic layouts featuring these kits -- I think you'll agree that for just a buck, you definitely need to add them to your digiscrapping stash!

from Katherine:

 from Celeste:

 from Katherine:

from Rachel:




 

new release: be you

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:


 

Tuesday $$ Deal: Timeline Templates + Sneak Peek Freebie

Wow. It looks like I'm being very alliterative today, doesn't it? HA! The sign of a true English teacher, I guess.

Anyway, I've got a great timesaving product up for sale in the shop today as part of our Tuesday Dollar Deals promotion. These Timeline Templates make it easy for you to personalize your Facebook cover photo.

Just drop in your favorite photos and digital papers, accent them with a couple of digital embellishments, and add a quote or word art; the results are gorgeous! Take a look at this example from House Decorator Katherine, who opted for a photocentric layout with a pop of red -- one of the flair buttons from my recent collection. 

Here's the same template from House Decorator Rachel. You can see how easy it is to create a completely different look, just by varying your papers and elements -- Rachel used various kits from our June House Party collaboration. 

House Decorator Jen Hignite used my Whiz Kid kit (just perfect for patriotic holidays, but flexible enough for LOTS of other projects) with the starburst template, which is my favorite. I love those lines of stitching.

Finally, I created a quick little freebie to share with you (just right click on the image and save to your computer -- you'll be able to upload it directly as your Facebook cover photo without having to make any changes). It's a sneak peek at a couple of the items coming your way on Thursday; I've teamed up with Sara Schmutz for a new collaboration kit, and there are a couple of great add-ons you don't want to miss either.