New Video Preview: PhotoPlay Paper's This Guy Collection!

We're giving you a video preview of the 'This Guy' collection.  It's from a brand new paper crafting company called PhotoPlay Paper.

Be sure to let us know what you think!

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'Strong & Brave' Paper

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'This Guy' Collection Pack

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'This Guy' Element Stickers

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You can find more of their newest releases HERE.  PhotoPlay's products focus on the reasons behind scrapbooking and paper crafting - Creativity and Preserving Memories.

We think you're going to like this new company.

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Let's Do A KaiserCraft Facebook Giveaway!

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KaiserCraft has some amazing new products and they're available now in our shop!  

The 'Off the Wall' paper crafting collection is full of 'Boy Things'.  It has lots of blues, crazy busy designs with an urban vibe. 

KaiserCraft's 'Hello Today' paper crafting line features muted browns, creams and greys and is full of beautiful life sayings to help highlight your colorful every day moments!

KaiserCraft's new 'Close Up' scrapbooking collection is perfect for that shutterbug inside all of us!  And guess what?  We're giving you a CHANCE TO WIN items from this line!  Just let us know you saw this blog post by LEAVING A COMMENT on our Facebook page and be automatically entered to WIN these GOODIES:

One randomly selected participant will be chosen on Thursday - November 20th to WIN!  Be sure to share with your friends!  They'll be glad you did!

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Welcome Monique - June Guest Designer

Screenname:  MD_Scrap_Divas

Name:  Monique Nicole Fox

Q&A Section:

Favorite Colors: Red, green and orange (happy colors)


I mostly create: 12x12 scrapbook layouts / traditional


Guilty pleasures: photography, blogger, shopping, facebook, anything curry, free shipping and enjoying my MD Scrapbooking Divas Group

I also love photography.  I want to capture moments and occasions for me to be able to look back on one day.  Plus as I get older, it helps to remember what happened way back when. 

'Birthday Boy' featuring Birthday Boy Mini Theme Collection by Echo Park:

  Products Used:

To learn more about Monique and to view more project ideas, click HERE.

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Create Holiday Projects The Digi Way

Posted by Smiley-Scrap8 (Ronny):

With all the new kits in the Digital Shop it looks as if it has been decorated for the holiday season, just like our homes. Whether it's a kit to help remember good times with family showing our thanks or kits to help us deck our halls, our digi shop has it all!

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Dec Daily 2010 by Angie (nun69)
Angie says,"I am catching up with my Dec Daily {inspiration from Ali Edwards} from 2010 and what better way than to use Bella Gypsy's Sketchology Templates on one of her fabulous Rocking Around The Christmas Tree Kit."

See Angie's other page using this kit HERE

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Joy by Laura (Art_Teacher)
Laura says, "For this reveal, I selected HotFlashDesigns' gorgeous "Believe" kit, first of all for the color scheme. When I started looking at the kit, I was thrilled with how many detailed, beautiful elements were included. So many, that I will be making many more Christmas layouts with this kit and they will be so easy to put together, because Marci has thought of everything in this kit!"

See the Hybrid Invitations Laura made with the same kit HERE

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Hybrid Thankful Two Handled Baskets by Ronny (Smiley-Scrap8)
Ronny says," Along with the bread for my kids teachers, my dd also wanted to take something to her teachers from other years. So we decided on some mini muffins. I made these cute little baskets by WendyBird Designs using the Project November Kit by Crisdam Designs. I think they are so cute and hope the teachers enjoy them as well."

Check out the Tags for more baked goods Ronny made HERE

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2011 Christmas Card by Jenn Kellams
Jenn says," I am in love with Bella Gypsy's new Christmas collections! There is one for any holiday occasion. I used "Jingle Bell Rock" to create these lovely Christmas cards for my family. I can't wait to send them in the mail!"

 

Now don't forget to "Deck Your Halls" the digi way this holiday season.

See What's New in The Digi Shoppe

Posted by sarahwhithers

 

This week we have tons of great new goodies to show you that you can find in the shoppe now! Lots of new kits from some fabulous designers! Check out what the digi CT did this week with what's new in the shoppe!

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FairyMouseMom says: "What a bright and cute Thanksgiving Kit, "Give Thanks" by HotFlashDesigns, this is! It gave a great amount of pop of colors and fun elements to be added to regular neutral-looking photographs of our Thanksgiving celebration last year! Pairing this kit with a template from Bella Gypsy Designs (Sketchology: Fabulosity) brought forth a fun layout for me. With this template I opted to add more pictures instead of papers! "

 

Also check out FairyMouseMom's other page HERE using the same kit!

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Sarahwhithers says: "For the Digi CT reveal this week I'm featuring some new products by Sweet Digi Scraps and Kollage by Kay. For the kit, Puzzle Bug, it had the perfect papers and elements to showcase my love for scrabble and word games, and the Quilt template by Kollage by Kay was great to show lots of those papers off in a neat pattern!"

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MommyBruno says: "I used two new items from the digi shoppe - templates by JennCK and a kit from Bella Gypsy. The colors in the kit went perfectly with this picture of Xander from a couple years ago, and the elements were so fun to play with! The template had lots of layers, which I like, and I didn't change much because it perfectly suited my needs."

Also check out MommyBrunos other page HERE using Grateful Hearts by Bella Gypsy!

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MamaK321 says: "I love how dark and spooky these Halloween themed kits from JennCK are. I knew they wouldn't work well with my girls' cutesy costumes so I decided to use the products with a photo-less layout and a big hunk of journaling instead. Crisdam's new Project November alpha's matched nicely with a little color tweak on the blue letters. I love how it turned out."

And also check out MamaK321's awesome hybrid place cards HERE using a template by WendyBird Designs and the Harvest Moon kit by Natural Designs in Scrapbooking!

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letumom, our digi guest CT this month, made up this gorgeous page using Believe by Hot Flash Designs.

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So head on over to the Digital Shoppe now to check out these great kits plus so many more!!

Paper Crafting With The Oxford Collection By Basic Grey

Posted by ScrapGoo (Jess):

When it comes to patterns Basic Grey is top of the class! Their new collection, Oxford, is straight from the pages of a college yearbook with plaids and sophisticated yet masculine prints that have a touch of yesteryear combined with typical Basic Grey whimsy.  Naturally, the collection is full of fun embellishments made of everything from chipboard to brads to stickers and they will definitely make you smile!  

How can you not love the old school glasses and all the great academic icons?  This collection definitely has a lot going on!  There are patterns galore and a lot of different colors.  It can be intimidating to work with all that but not if you remember that you don't need to use *everything* on one page.  Simple is good and a little goes a long way.  

Take a look at what I created with Oxford-hopefully I make the grade!

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The Apple of His Eye

I decided to pick out just a few colors for this layout.  The reds and blacks worked well with my photo and allowed me to not be overwhelmed by all the pattern options.  My title was inspired by the cute apple chipboard!  I tried to keep the design clean and easy on the eye by matting most of the main area with the cream lined paper.  It draws the eye in and unifies the rest of the elements.

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Sleep Cheeks

I went in the opposite color direction with this scrapbooking page.  Again, I drew the cues from my photos and chose blues for this layout.  A PageMaps sketch made this page come together quickly.  Although the prints of Oxford are sophisticated they can still be great for the little guys too!  I used the chipboard stars to bring some youth to this page. 

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Smart: It's in the Genes

This is Oxford in all its glory!  I used an old college photo of my dad here.  He is a smart cookie!  And I have to thank him for passing on his smarts to yours truly.  ;-)  I really fell in love with the chipboard elements in this collection; the science stuff, books, writing instruments, and of course the glasses!  (I can assure you that boys DO make passes at girls who wear glasses!) I just layered the crud out of this page- fun!

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Oxford Congrats

This cute dotted paper is one of the more fun papers in this line and probably my favorite, of course I needed to make a little card with it!  This would be a great graduation card but I think it could be given to a guy for nearly any important achievement.  I used several layers of journaling bits and chipboard here to build up a mat for the sentiment.  And some natural twine is a great masculine embellishment!

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You Da Man

Okay, okay... I could NOT let this article end without using these AWESOME moustache stickers!  Moustache images are pretty trendy right now and these make me giggle!  Again, around here I can never have too many guy cards so this will definitely come in handy.  I think this simple card will bring a smile to the receiver. 

So, you can see how many different sides this collection has.  It is both serious and silly.  I hope you take a trip to Oxford like I have... only THIS Oxford won't involve pop quizzes or crotchety professors! :-P

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I used the following products on these projects:

Paper Crafting Inspired By Pooh®!

Posted by FurBaby_Mom (Amy):

Winnie the Pooh® is probably my favorite Disney® character of all time.  I mean, who doesn't love Pooh?!   I have hoarded Pooh stickers for years...I won't say HOW many, but let's just say that in my early days, Pooh was being traded for Garbage Pail Kids and Hello Kitty stickers!

ACOT sells several different types of Winnie the Pooh stickers - mainly EK Success and Sandylion.  Both are awesome and I used both for the projects below.  

Keep in mind how versatile Pooh can be - use a sweet quote and he's sympathy; use pink or blue and he's baby; he can be a love card, a thoughtful scrapbook page, or a child's theme album.   These are just a few ideas.

When it comes to scrapbook pages, don't assume that Pooh can only be used with whimsical children's pages.  I actually think that Basic Grey is perfect for a more classic, shabby look.  I'm not a huge fan of shabby chic, but THIS I can do.  

Let me show you a couple of pages, but I'm first going to offer an idea:  If "cutesy" is too much for you - maybe you aren't doing a juvenile page - consider choosing darker papers - distressed, aged, browns and tans.  It'll tone down your cute level a bit.  

Look at the following pages and think about how different they would be with louder, bolder paper.  In fact, sometimes when I want to convey a more serious tone (still using my cutesy stickers), I'll opt for papers like Basic Grey.  Loud papers can sometimes change the whole message of your page and even be distracting.  That's my two cents - it's not right or wrong!

My first page uses the EK Success Pooh stickers.  Like I mentioned above, I used Basic Grey paper to tone it down a bit.  I want the pictures to be the focus.  As a side note, I've seen most Pooh stickers- but never these!  They are super cute, and there are a ton on each sheet.

 

Then there's this page of Elijah.  This one is a more serious theme and I tried several different backgrounds (even within the Basic Grey line- turquoise, red, blue)   If this picture weren't already aged, I'd sand the edges and possibly ink them to make it match the paper.  

This notebook paper Basic Grey sheet is perfect for journaling - I don't normally use my own writing (I know, I should!) but on this one, I wanted to make it like a letter to Elijah.

 

Here are a couple older pages I've made using Sandylion stickers (see how the mood changes with a primary background?):

 

Another using Basic Grey paper:

 

 

One thing I really like about Sandylion's stickers is that they're heavy.  You can put them over printed paper and the background won't show through.  We scrapbookers can be so picky!

Here are a couple other ideas for gifts, using Pooh stickers.  They both are so easy.  The first is a jar, and I used rub-ons...in fact, I stand corrected.  My six year old did it!  That's how easy it was.  I was never a big fan of rub-ons until I started using them on items intended as gifts (like jars!)  Think of the possibilities - jelly jars, baby food jars, applesauce jars...

  

 

Then there are candy bar wrappers.  It's a quick way to jazz up a candy bar and make a quick gift.  I thought that Piglet was cute and would be fun to give to someone who just had a baby.  They would even make cute party favors.  I used Tigger (he's a diecut from the EK Success set.....to die for!) and Piglet (from Sandylion stickers).

  

 

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Hope these give you a few new ideas using an old favorite.  And, if I might add, it's a good time for Pooh because a feature movie will be released in a few weeks!!!