I'm Never Tired of Patterned Prints

I love working with prints until I have a pattern that's just perfect. And I never seem to get tired of it! With the encouragement of some dear friends, I've been making some of these labors of love available as commercial use digital scrapbooking designs in my little shop at NutHouse-Scraps.

I called this new set of patterned overlays Blossom Prints because they are all based on floral designs. I hope you'll enjoy them as much as I do.

They're a black design on a transparent ground for maximum usability. But write me if you have any questions about using them as a designer resource.

Rachael Hudnall used them in her new gorgeous Sweet Summer collection, including a wonderful free quickpage:

Swirling Prints for Commercial Use

It's the Summer of Prints for me - and I do love making them! Many thanks to my designing friend, Manu, I made some pretty swirling prints this week and got them into the shop in time for Sunday's sale at the NutHouse!

There are six deliciously swirling prints in full-size scrapbooking pages, ready to be used or abused as overlays, underlays, or other creative way. But I've also included the 6 hand-built seamless pattern tiles with transparent backgrounds which I used to create these overlays so that you can really customize them.

Color them, distress them, erase parts of them ... add stuff to them, texture them, use them over your own textured papers to match perfectly - the sky is the limit when you have the tiles to build your own patterns!

It's the way I wish all printed papers came, so I'm trying to do my best at doing what I preach!

Take advantage of my DESIGNER SPOTLIGHT Offer - PM or email me when you use one of my CU items in your products for sale. Then I'll feature it on my blog and add it to the most recent previews right in the shop for this set.

Here's some quick papers I made from these same prints:

I'm Designer of the Month!

NutHouse-Scraps has chosen me to be the designer of the month! Wow! All my digital scrapping items will be on sale for 35% off all month long, including all personal use and commercial use items.

Rainbow Whims

Adorable Grandson Not Included! This is strictly a BYOBaby event!

Nathan is showing off all his Duckies from last Spring in my new Rainbow Whims digital scrapbooking kit. It's on sale for 35% until midnight Saturday - and there's matching glitter that goes with it, too!

This kit was a huge stretch for me ... but those smooth rainbow backgrounds are just killer to play with. I hope you'll enjoy them, too! Share all the Adorable pages you make with me! I can't wait to see.

It's at NutHouse-Scraps.com if the rainbow is calling your name like it was mine!

Get Your Stamps for Days 1, 2, and 3 Here

Missing Stamps Found!

I'm happy to report that the missing stamps for the 12 Days of Christmas have been located and fixed - and here are the links that you will need for the first three:

First Day of Christmas Stamp

Second Day of Christmas Stamp

Third Day of Christmas Stamp

Fourth Day of Christmas Stamp

I'll leave these links up until Jan 5th so everyone has a chance to nab them. You can pick up the daily stamps by looking for the same image above in the shop at NutHouse-Scraps.com and clicking on it.

Thank you SO MUCH for letting me know this wasn't working correctly! Don't forget, there's a coupon in the stamps for you to use anytime in January!

All the Days of Christmas

Before American commercialization got their hands on the Twelve Days of Christmas, it was a 12-day countdown from Christmas Day to Epiphany, or Three Kings Day. So the first day of Christmas, most remarkably, is Christmas Day!

At NutHouse-Scraps, we're going to honor those roots and have a huge 12 day sale with something different on sale each day - and something new each day for free, too.

I made a digital stamp for your Christmas pages for each of the days of Christmas - there will be one you can get for free each day! You can collect them all for free, as pictured above.

All The Days of Christmas stamps will mix and match with the Christmas Past Mega Collection and Christmas Past Glitter Me This digi-glitter.

The first free stamp will be Dec 25th! Don't miss it! Look for the same image of the 12 Days of Christmas in the shop at NutHouse-Scraps.com, which is pictured above, and click on it for your daily free stamp from the 12 Days of Christmas collection!

Did I already mention ... there might be a nice coupon in the stamps? Thanks to our shop owner for that!

Christmas Past

I've been so busy with Christmas and a new project for a give-a-way (it starts tomorrow, come back then!) that I forgot to post about my Christmas Past Kit.

I had so much fun making this kit - from the glorious damask papers to the glittery candy cane frame, it will make your festive memories from this year or last century a snap for your scrapbook treasure!

Merry Christmas to you and yours! Our Christmas with the family starts with the Christmas Eve program that our grandson is in this evening and goes through Saturday evening where it culminates with a celebration with our extended family.

Wow, check out this lay out!

Look what Heather did with a Halloween candid and my Wild Things kit! I think it is totally brilliant! She's one of my wonderful and talented Creative Team members.

Here's the larger image of the layout in the gallery.

I totally adore how she used the dark round frame in the back as just another layered element, like a collage.

Leave her some love in a comment and tell her what you liked about it.

Making Memories

With an eclectic mix of elements and wide use of neutrals, you're going to find my new Making Memories kit useful for a wide variety of scrapbooking pages. There's 12 textured and expressive backgrounds waiting to become the canvases for your next digital scrapbook pages. Then use any of the 22 elements to complete your showcase of special memories.

Multiple frames, flowers, journal elements, swirls, and an open book complement the rich backgrounds and go easily from traditional to contemporary styles.

Here's the layout I did with Making Memories from my Mom's 8th grade graduation portrait. (Yes, I said 8th grade - I told her she was jailbait!) I entered it in the county fair and it brought home a blue ribbon!!

Making Memories will be on sale for 35% off until November 9th in my shop at NutHouse-Scraps! It coordinates perfectly with both my Sunset & Memories Kit and has a matching set of Glitter Me This Digi-glitter. Mix and match them all for even more awesome digital scrapbook pages.

October THANKFUL Blog Train is Over

100 Designers from all over the world brought us 100 free digital scrapbooking kits with the same color swatches and the same "Thankful" theme. And you had 31 days from October 1st to download them all - for free!

It was an awesome thing to be a part of this blog train ... the free downloads have expired, now. Thanks to all the people who 'built' the train and everyone who followed it! I'll leave my post and photo here for posterity - (edited 8 Nov by deb)

Here's my part, inspired by this wonderful season and theme. I'm giving you some neutrals that will probably go with more than just the Blog Train kits, but you be the judge of that. The little cutie in the sample layout page in the preview is one of my adorable great-nieces. Or are those grand-nieces. Hmmm!



Don't miss the discount coupon in the zip file, friends. Our store owner graciously allowed it for everyone who rides on the Blog Train this month.



I hope you enjoyed this leg of the journey. Thanks for taking the 'scenic route' on the October Thankful Blog Train - see you next time!

May this time of the change of seasons bring a blessing to you and your family,
Big Hugs,
Debbers
NutHouse-Scraps.com

Memories Mini Kit Collaboration

The awesome designers at NutHouse-Scraps have made a huge new collaboration this month with a theme of Sunset and Memories. And it's all done with the beautiful hues of a sunset and Fall Colors.

For my coordinating kit, I concentrated on mostly neutral shades for the pages and tags (can you believe I got tag happy? there's two tags in a mini kit! hah! One of my friends said, "Who are you and what have you done with our Debbers??!" when she saw two tags in one small kit!)

But I went for gold and beautiful florals shades in the embellishments. You'll see a little layout page with the preview, the darling with all the fall color around her is my niece.

This is on sale now for 35% off until Monday night, Oct. 5th - along with the entire collaboration, including a 25 page full-size instant album!

Oh! And don't miss the coordinating glitter! Gosh, everyone needs a little a lot of glitter!

Make some memories ... then save them!

Back on 2 Legs Again

I saw the Ortho yesterday, he said the break in my foot didn't look like it required a cast, and so HOORAY! the crutches are history and he put me in a "walking boot".

Which is somewhat of a misnomer, you don't get much walking done. But at least there are no crutches, and I can remove it to sleep and shower.

But -- NO MORE CRUTCHES!!!

The boot relieved at least half of my pain, too, so I'm very happy with the outcome on this! I'll be trying to keep off of it, keep it elevated as needed, and generally move slowly so this bone can heal properly and without delay.

I picked the ever-so-stylish color of black (I had a choice of black, black, and black) and it goes up my leg to just under my kneecap. I am the WALKIN' picture of style now! Well, make that the Hobbling picture of ... forward movement. :)

Screen Shot

Shhhhsh! I've got nothing else to say about this other than it's coming soon to my shop at NutHouse-Scraps. Here's a quick little nab right out of my Photoshop...

Making Memories with Grammy

Rachael Hudnell’s new kit, Heirlooms Revisited, is on sale now at her new shop, InspiredScraps.com. Rachael’s been a favorite of mine for several years, and I was so jazzed when I learned she would be making this kit utilizing my Persian Dreams I commercial use patterns.

Her kit is everything good in digital scrapbooking! There’s lots of pieces to choose from, they go together no matter which pieces you put down with which other pieces, and it was so easy to use that this page of my kids, grandkids and mom-in-law at the park all but laid itself out!

I just love the rich depth and light feel to the kit. Don’t forget to look in her Freebies section, there’s even a coordinating quick page there from Heirlooms Revisited.

Blue Moon QuickPage Sighting

Tonight I found the free quickpage I offerred here on the blog last week from Once In a Blue Moon in the scrapbook gallery for GreatNannaMarg at ScrapbookFlair.com. She used a stunning photograph, well cropped for the exhilarating look in the photograph. It was a great job!

I'm always delighted to see how people take something I've made and make it better. Marg certainly did just that with that incredible photo. Click on her name and go see!

Look for the entire Blue Moon Collection at NutHouse-Scraps.com

Nap Time - and a Quick Photoshop How To

I took a few moments this afternoon to scrap a photo that my daughter took of her three boys all asleep on the couch. It's so adorable, and I wanted to get it on a page.

What's cuter than a sleeping baby? A sleeping dad and kitty with the sleeping baby!

I used the wonderful "Butterfly Wishes" kit by my friend Stacey at Scrapper's Alley. I used one of my favorite tricks for making a scrapbook page for guys - I hid the bow under the photo and only let the ribbon tails stick out. Sorry about that Stacey, it IS a beautiful digi-bow, though!

Astute readers will notice that there is NOT a golden background in the Butterfly Wishes digital scrapbooking kit (pictured on the right). Here's all I did to make it gold, which made the page pop!

I used Photoshop, but you can use any graphics program with layer blend modes (such as Photoshop Elements, Paint Shop Pro, for instance).

1. I brought in the grungy brown paper background
2. I put the green background paper over it
3. I changed the green background paper blend mode to color dodge mode
4. I adjusted the opacity of the green paper layer down a bit to get a soft gold.

When you use blend modes like this, lots of time you can retain all of the details on your papers, but get a wonderful tone shift. That's exactly what I wanted, because I loved the grunge and texture on the brown paper. If I'd done a color shift on it, it wouldn't have ended up with the various shades and vibrancy which the blend modes gave me.