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Wanna Be Friends?

Monday, May 14th, 2012

A few weeks ago I signed up for a local scrapbooking class taught by Amy Tangerine. I was so excited because this will be my first in-person scrapbooking class at a local scrapbook store! How fun would it be to meet up with like-minded women who love to scrapbook and craft as much as I do? I have been to crops, knitting meetups with strangers, and book clubs. I love to meet people who are just as interested in the hobbies that I love.

Meeting new people can be a little bit scary and awkward though. I wanted to make the process as painless and low-risk as possible. I needed some sort of ice-breaker. So I came up with the idea of a personal crafting calling card. That’s what I need! Some cute calling cards with my contact information to give out, to people I meet who I seem to get along with, and would want to be friends with. It’s pretty low risk. I give out the card and it they want to come to my blog, email me, or contact me on Twitter or Instagram, they totally could! And I won’t be heart-broken if they don’t.

So I thought about some of my favorite hobbies, and I opened Photoshop and dug into my Lilypad digital stash and came up with these designs.

I knew I wanted to print them at Moo.com because they have high quality thick paper, and they allow you to have as many designs as you want in the card package that you order. I ordered the rounded-corner “business” cards, except mine aren’t for business, just for fun!

When my cards came, I couldn’t wait to open them up!

They are every bit as cute as I had imagined they would be. The thickness of the cards really surprised me. These cards are hefty, in a good way!

Here are my six different cards all laid out. The back of each card has my little headshot, the “I craft”, and my contact info.

I think it’s safe to say that I love them lots! Now I can’t wait to go to classes, crops, and other meetups and actually meet some new people and give them my craft calling cards!

Here were the digital supplies I used from The Lilypad. Please keep in mind that most designers will only allow personal-use of their digital designs. In my case these are personal calling cards and not business cards. If you are actually designing business cards, I would email and ask the particular designer if she allows that type of use, and if not, if you could purchase an extended-use license.

Scrapping 9 to 5 by Kate Hadfield

Pins N Needles by Kate Hadfield

In My Backpack by Kate Hadfield

Child Of The 80’s by Kate Hadfield

Everyday Story Doodles by Lauren Grier

Non-Lilypad: I also used Techno Girl by Pixel Gypsy Designs (the white laptop in “I scrap”).

I love it when I find new ways to use my digital scrapbooking supplies!

Christine (listgirl)

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Hybrid Cards with Labels and Frames

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

Whenever I look at a digital kit, I can see using it for more than just scrapbooking. I love making handmade greeting cards to give to friends and family, so today I’m going to show you how I used some digital packs from The Lilypad to make some greeting cards!

I printed my digi elements and used my Silhouette digital cutter to cut them out. I also used the sketch function on my Silhouette to draw onto paper. You can certainly hand-cut the elements after printing them out if you don’t have a digital cutter. If you do have a Silhouette, I posted a video tutorial earlier this year on printing & cutting any digital elements using the Silhouette.

Card #1: doodled frame card using Valorie Wibbens’ Silly Frilly Frames

The doodled frames were perfect for the sketch function on the Silhouette! I traced the digi elements in my Silhouette Studio software and used some of my Sharpie pens and Sakura glitter pens to draw the frames onto my card. Here is the sketching in action.

I used my Silhouette to print and cut a bunch of elements out from Laura Grier’s Everyday Story Doodles to add to my card.

And here’s the finished card. Pretty cute eh?

Card #2: doodled frame card using Jacque Larsen’s Thin Doodley Frames

I used the same process as the first card to sketch out the frames with my Silhouette. Here’s the finished card after adding more of the doodles from Lauren Grier.

Card #3: thank you card using Gina Miller’s Boho Fair Sticker Frames

I printed and cut the frames with my Silhouette again. Then I just arranged them onto my card and adhered each frame.

I used foam dots to pop up the frame with the “Thanks So Much” on it to make it stand out. I also used some clear stamps and ink to stamp on some of the blank frames to add some variety and interest.

Card #4: birthday card using Amy Wolff’s Mega Label Pack #2

Using the same process as card #3 above, I adhered a bunch of the labels to a card and stamped some hearts onto some blank labels.

I love using digital elements for more than scrapbooking. I hope you are inspired to make some cards with frames and labels! :)

Christine (listgirl)

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Giving Hybrid Another Chance V3

Friday, March 30th, 2012

Hiya friends! I hope life finds you doing well this beautiful Friday!!!! I know here in Northern California we are experiencing a bit of a wet start to spring, but its much needed after a dry winter. Before we get started, just a side note .. .have you checked out the store today!? SOME SERIOUSLY YUMMY new goodies at the PAD today!!

So since the last time we chatted I have discovered a whole new layer of hybrid. Can you believe that? Yeah, me either .. honestly!

TEMPLATES!!!!!! I know who would have thought a paper scrapbooker could use digital templates in an effective way? Here is what I really love about it girls… when you are using digital paper for paper scrapbooking you are needing to print off more paper than you might use. With templates you are ONLY printing what you will use! Awesome right? They way you do this is with the Cameo’s print and cut feature, which I am just over the moon about! I want to start off my saying, I am sure this isn’t the easiest way, its just the way I have been going about it so far!

First step of course, is to pick your favorite template! For this one I used one of Amy Martin’s amazing templates!

SKetches: Whip it Up Fast v4

I choose to use the one in the upper right hand corner, I love those little bunting shapes… and HELLO white space… I adore you!

And now for my paper…. I LOVE these bright and cheery papers!

Happy Day Paper’s by Sabrina Dupre

Then I open both of these into Photoshop (or your editing program of choice), and I put the papers into the template as I would for a digital page (for my paper scrapbooking friends out there, if you need a tutorial on how to use a template in general, one of our AMAZING designers, Sahlin Studio’s here at the pad has a great tutorual on her blog , so make sure to check that out if templates are new to you!) I like to do this to make sure I like the paper placement. I also change any paint splatter etc to match the template, and do my journaling and title work at this point. I love that you can do your journaling at this point, I already know where the papers will go, and sometimes I struggle with journaling if I wait until the last min. becuase I don’t want to “mess” it up! So I take away all the layers except what I am wanting to print (journaling and paint splatters) and change it to 8×8 (or whatever size you want) and print right there in photoshop. Once that prints out I simple cut the paper down to 8×8 and I already have a base and a great start to my layout.

So here is what mine looked like when I printed it.

Then I take the pieces of the template that I am wanting to print and cut (make sure to delete shadows), and I make two copies, one with the actual papers and one with a solid black template. I know this is an extra step, but I think it makes it easier once we get it over into the Cameo. At this point it looked something like this:

and the template with paper

I save both of these as a jpeg and take them into the Silhouette Cameo software. Here is a warning, its going to open up HUGE!!! Just resize it down to the size you are working with (in my case 8×8). Then I just follow the steps for using a print and cut feature (if this is new to you, please check out THIS AMAZING tutorial from listgirl!) use the black template to trace the shapes, I find that its easier since I often choose papers with lighter prints. Once the shapes are traced, I then slip in the digital paper. Send to printer, and then cut in the Cameo and you have all the pieces for your layout!!!

You can add other elements, your own style, just have fun with it! Here is how this one came out!

You can also check it out on my gallery.

If you made it this far, you deserve a prize!!! Don’t you think? One of my favorite template designers is Valorie Wibbens and she is giving YOU this SWEET template to play around with!!! Isn’t she a sweetie?!

Thank you so much for sticking around and if you make a paper page using a digital template, will you make sure to link us? I would love to see your work of art!

Talk to you soon!

xox – Shanna

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