Photoshop Template for Instagram Photostrip

Just a quick phone pic of a photostrip I made using a Photoshop template I designed to use my Instagram photos and turn them into a photobooth strip.  Each square is exactly the same sized and spaced evenly, the photos edge is my third photo down and the first one is very light so it's hard to see where the photo ends and the white border is.

 

If you'd like a copy of the template you can get it here

 

I apologize for the quick post, but I wanted to get it available before it gets too late.

Happy Mother's Day Everyone

I hope you are enjoying your Mother's Day today! 

This card was made as an alternate choice for Doug's mom.  I used Heidi Swapp products exclusively.  All can be found at Michaels.

It's been quite some time since I made cards.  Sometimes you just have to change gears to get your creative juices going again.  I always feel so much less pressure to make a card. 

Happy Mother's Day

A quick Mother's Day Card I made for Doug's mom.  I used some old paper stash and a few Heidi Swapp embellishments. 

Freebie Vintage Word Strips

I made this fun page full of vintage word strips that can be printed and cut apart to add to your scrapbook photos or instaframes, etc as little extra captions here and there.  If you'd like to have a copy you can download it here.   Enjoy!

Heidi Swapp Memory File Adventure

Another page in my Heidi Swapp Memory File Adventure.  According to the instructions, this section is supposed to be about "quotes".  I've already done a layout about my favorite quotes, so I decided to do some of my iphone photos of scenery and shots I've taken that are not necessarily of a person (even though the shot above is me, it's just a shadow).  

On this page I used a template and some acrylic paint, along with a color pop frame.  I love the heart peek-a-boo on this page!

Another peak inside my Memory File

 This is another page in my Heidi Swapp Memory File Adventure mini album.  This photo stack represents photos of my family.  I love this page and I love how the colors really came together with the different colored color shined letter.

This is the backside of one of the tags.

Are you playing along with the Heidi Swapp Memory File Adventure?

 Heidi Swapp and her media team have been giving prompts/tips/directions to complete this awesome spiral album that is part of Heidi's newest release.   The above picture is the first page in the album.  It is so fun to follow along each Monday to see what they have in store for the next four pages.  I'm a little behind, but I'm trying to take my time and utilize their ideas, while making them my own by a little twist here and there.

 This is the cover of the mini album.  Heidi provided a printable banner for the front, but I made my own using a digital chalkboard paper and some fun fonts

This page was a fun page to put together.  Heidi provided this "last list" interactive elements to be filled out and added to the book.  It's full of random last lists.

If you haven't been following along or are interested in making your own Memory File Adventure, go to Heidi's blog at http://heidiswapp.com, all of these yummy ideas are free! 

Heidi Swapp Sugar Chic Layout - #Scrapmyoutfit

The other day I challenged Instagrammer followers and a few of my friends to post a layout inspired by what they were wearing that very moment.  I was wearing a black suit with a black and white stripped shirt and a silver/red necklace.  This is the layout I came up with.  It's fun to just have a direction to start and see where you end up.  In my mind I was going to do a very black/white/red layout, but once I started creating this is where I ened up.

 I used the Heidi Swapp Sugar Chic paper pad, buzzwords and color magic hearts/arrows, all of which are available at Michaels right now. 

I also used Pink Paislee's digital cutting file for the cute circle/heart cut piece.  I cut it on the Silhouette.

Thanks for looking.  If you'd like to try to scrap your outfit, I'd love if you would post it on Instagram hash tag #scrapmyoutfit.  I will try and do this again, since it was a holiday weekend, a lot of people didn't have time to play.

Heidi Swapp What "Wood" you do - Take Two

 This is another album I made to add to the #HSWOODALBUM contest on Instagram.  If you haven't entered you have until March 25th (See details on previous post).   For this album I again used the versamark ink for the butterfly stamp, but I also used it with a stencil to make the pattern on the front.  I used white embossing powder over the versamark then heat set it.  Once the embossed areas had cooled, I misted the entire cover with ColorShine in Mustard.

I covered the top right corner with a small paper plate and then misted with Georgia Peach around the edges.   I finished it off with seam binding with I also misted with the Mustard and Georgia Peach and a few pieces of bling.  I also used Heidi's Buzzwords for the "true". 

Heidi Swapp What "Wood" You do Wood Album

 Have you heard?  Heidi Swapp is having a random drawing to win ALL of the bottles of Color Shine?  All you have to do to win is pick up one of her wood albums at Michaels and get to work making it your own, post pictures on Instagram of your process and/or finished project and tag it with #hswood album and add a shout out to Heidi by adding @hkswapp.  That's it!  That's all you have to do to be entered to win.

For my album I tried heat embossing the heart album.  I used Versaark ink, script stamp and white embossing powder.  Once I heat set the embossing powder I misted the cover with Primrose.

 I finished the album off with some of Heidi's buzzwords and mistable hearts.  The black and white glitter paper is from her Sugar Chic paper pad.  All items available at Michaels.

Heidi Swapp Color Shine & Sugar Chic Mini Album

 

I made this album to put my spring flower pictures in this year.  It's so bright and cherry.

 I used the Heidi Swapp Color Magic Papers and Color Shine spray in Mustard for the outside covers.  The inside pages are all from the new Sugar Chic Paper Pad now available at Michaels
 

 For the inside pages I cut a sheet of 12 x 12 in half to 12 x 6, then folded it in half, rounded the corners and punched with the cinch.

The shorter pages are from the tag page included in the paper stack.  This album went together in minutes and I love how everything coordinates in Heidi's line.  So easy!

 Now, about that awesome binding wire?  I had an idea the other night.... spray paint!!  Yep, that's all I did and it worked!  I was so excited!!!  Check out these cutie patooties!

Can you imagine how cute these would be on a fun album?  I am so flipping excited!!!!

Thank You Card

My last thank you card.  This card could really be just any occasion.  Again, it's a hodgepodge of items from my scrap drawer, diecut drawer and miscellaneous twine, stickers.  The typewriter is a digital element as is the green decorative piece. 

I recently started randomly cutting miscellaneous die cuts with my Silhouette using the scraps in my drawer.  I just put them into a cute little box and when I'm making a card or layout, and need a little something, I just scour through the box and find something that will work.  It's really become a fun method for me and I find that I use things in ways I would have never thought to. 

Thank you Card

Another Thank You card for one of the girls from Girls' Weekend.  This card was made from scraps from my scrap drawer.

Valentine Card with Heidi Swapp products

A fun Valentine for my sweetie using Heidi Swapp's Valentines Digi Cutting File ("mine"),

A thank you card

I made a few thank you cards for my girls for all the goodies we received during Girls Weekend.

Sweet Dreams Daisy.....

As some of you may know, I, very unexpectedly, lost my sweet Daisy this past week.  Her kidneys were failing and she was very, very sick and it happened very quickly.   I'm so terribly sad.  She was such a wonderful, sweet, beautiful dog, friend, family member, sister and baby girl.

When we decided to get a dog, Doug and I had talked about the fact that we both had always wanted a Golden Retriever.  If you know me at all, you know I have zero patience.  I immediately started looking for a dog that would be available RIGHT then.  I found a couple, but for whatever reason, another ad in the paper kept calling my name.  I called and found out that yes, they did have puppies available, but they were only 3 weeks at the time, so they would not be available for several weeks.  I asked, do you have a runt of the litter?  That's the one I want.  She was indeed, the runt of the litter at about half the size of her siblings.  We went to meet her the following weekend and immediately knew this was OUR baby!  The rest is history.  She was born on May 1, 2009.  I named her Daisy May and she was the most special, amazing dog I could have ever hoped for.  She was meant to be a part of our family and we were so blessed to have had 2.5 years with her.  She made me smile every single day, and warmed my heart by just being her.

It broke my heart when I took her to the vet.  I thought we were going in for antibiotics, and I came home having to had said goodbye to my sweet girl for the last time.

I'll love you always, Sweet Dreams Baby girl.  XOXOXO

Valentine Layout for my kids using Heidi Swapp's Valentine Digi Files

I made this fun digi layout using Heidi Swapp's newly released Valentine Digi Files.  You can find them here.  If I had the time, I would've made this a hybrid project using the glimmermist and printing out the papers.  It's such a fun Valentine Package.

Circle Journal Part 2 with Heidi Swapp Sugar Chic/Vintage Chic

 This is my input into the wonderfully, uber taleneted Colette Nederhoff's Circle Journal.  Her theme was "a Favorite Quote".

For Colette's Journal, I started with an idea that I created in my Silhouette Studio Software.  This is how I looked in my head.  The weird looking thing on the top is a bow when it's folded.

 And this is how it looked once I printed it and cut it out with the Silhouette.  Colette also used Heidi Swapps File Folder system as a base for her journal.   The insta-frames are only sealed on 3 sides so that Colette can add her photos to the layout. 

I have used the Silhouette Studio software do "design my layouts" for all 3 circle journals.  I like to use this method to get the scale right for the individual elements.

Check out Colette's work at her blog.  She is also an amazing photographer.

I will post my journal soon.  It's still working it's way back to me. 

Circle Journals using Heidi Swapp and Vintage Chic/Sugar Chic

 I've been talking about it for awhile and now I can post most of it.  I participated in a circle journal project with 3 lovely ladies.

If you are not familiar with a Circle Journal, here's how it works.  You gather a group of special crafty friends and you each make a journal.  Each person decides on a theme for their journal (or you could all do the same). 

 

This particular journal was WhimseyGirl.blogspot.com 's journal.   Her theme was a series of questions that each person had to contribute to her journal with their answers.  She titled her journal "She Asked".

 I titled my section as "She Answered".  The picture above is the front cover of a file folder that contains my answers to some of her questions.  I used a combination of Heidi Swapp Vintage Chic, Sugar Chic papers and embellishments as well as a few odds and ends from my stash.

 On this page I answered her question... "what life advice would you give to your daughter?".  I decided to include a letter that was addressed to my daughter in a vellum envelope.  I attached a photo of Ashlea and I to the outer flap of the envelope.

 This is the two page spread.

 This page answered the question..."are you doing what you always thought you would do?"  I included my answer inside the openable (the flowered card).

 "What makes you happy?".  I answered that question in a simple layout I created in photoshop and added only a coupe of elements.

 Each person sends their journal out with the theme set and usually the originator completes the outer shall (cover) and adds their own thoughts related to theme as well.  As a group you decide when each person will send their journal on to the next.  When you receive a journal you have a certain amount of time allotted to add your input to that journal, then you swap again, and so on until the originator has their own journal back.

 This was such a fun project.  If you are interested in a circle journal, I suggest you just go for it!  It's so fun and so inspiring to see all of the different interpretations of the theme.  I thoughly enjoyed it.

If you would like to see the incredible full journal, check out Kathryn Morrow's blog (WhimseyGirl.blogspot.com).  She will show you not only her incredible work she put into the journal, but Colette's input as well.

Next up, I will show you what I put into Colette's journal.