Design House Digital Blog Hop

**WINNER** - tapeMar 13, 2012 05:55 PM
congrats! I will send off your GC this weekend! thanks everyone for playing along.


we are starting off March with a bang at Design House Digital. Join us!!

We are also doing a blog hop today including some tips, tricks and freebies. Make sure you visit all the blogs today and collect all your featured letters. Take those back to the correct page at Design House Digital, everyone who correctly enters the letters will be entered into the drawing for a Wacom Bamboo Capture tablet. Contest entries must be received by Wednesday, March 14th at 11:59 PM MST. CONTEST CLOSED.

I love working with templates and decided today to share one I created with you along with a few tips on making it your own.

Here is the layout I created today with it:

a few other ways to use the template would be to flip it, rotate it, resize it and even switch up the layers.

Rotated:

Resized:

Flipped:

Remember, a template is just a starting point, you can do so much to really make it your own.

Here is the template freebie for you to download. If you do download it, please leave me a comment. Those who leave a comment by Wednesday, March 14th at 11:59 pm (est) will be entered into a drawing for a $5.00 DHD Gift Certificate.

DOWNLOAD HERE

thanks for stopping by.

Mary
brought to you by the letter M

other DHD bloggers today:

Liz
Anna
Aria
Audrey
Carey
Celeste
Celeste S
Erica
Gennifer
Jen A
Jen P
Karen
Katherine
Lori
Mandi
Robyn
Sarah
Shannon
Tiffany
Wendy

Project Life and My catch up post : )

love the challenge of keeping up with this project. I am journaling a little bit every day, taking my photos and recording the bits of our life. February is winding down for me, which after the past three weeks of crazy is a good thing. We have had a ton of hockey games, a tournament this weekend and then off to The Soo for State Finals. Madison has been sick with a UTI that is finally getting better and I had to deal with recall attempts, Circuit Court dates and Township Budget prep, but I am getting it done and after the Presidential Primary next Tuesday I will be able to breathe a little sigh of relief.

and tomorrow, we will be celebrating!! I married my best friend 27 years ago!! crazy...just doesn't seem possible that it was 27 years ago.

so, as I said I am loving the challenge of keeping up with my Project Life album. I am sharing weeks 3 thru 5 below. week 6 is almost done and 7 is in my head.

enjoy!!!

Week Three - Jan 15th-21st

Week 4 - Jan 22nd thru 28th

Week 5 - Jan 29th thru Feb 4th

Basic Grey - Scarlett's Letter

When I was asked to create a layout for the Basic Grey blog based on the fabulous design of marieetmichael I knew exactly what photo and kit I wanted to use.  Basic Grey's Scarlett's Letter is still one of my favorite lines.  It worked perfectly with our recent family photo.

 

SUPPLIES : [SCARLET’S LETTER] SCR-D066 Starter Kit, SCR-D067 Patterns,  SCR-D068 Textures, SCR-D069 Elements, SCR-D071 Notes, SCR-D074 Trims, SCR-D075 Baubles, [VAGABOND]  VAG-D219 Quick Page Word Art, [BLITZEN] BLI-D622 Starter Kit.

Project Life. Week Two

My week 2 is complete! thanks for letting me share : )

Supplies:
Becky Higgins Templates (jessicasprague.com); Shannon Hegarty - Secretary Papers (designhousedigital.com); Karla Dudley - Today Stamps (designhousedigital.com); One Little Bird -  Check It Card 5 (oscraps.com); Paislee Press - Today I am Stamp, 2012 Calendar Calendar kit, Round about now (oscraps.com); Sue C - Everyday Life word (oscraps.com); Becky Higgins - Clementine Elements journaling tag, stamp 2 (jessicasprague.com); Viva Artistry - Pocket Freebie (thedigichick.com); Font - CK Mini.

Project Life. Love.

I love the idea and really it is the way I have scrapped my pages over the past few years.  Sharing a little bit about us, telling our stories and sharing the photos.  Now I am committed to the project in its entirety with Project Life.  Becky Higgins explains the memory keeping method on her website.  Several of my scrapping friends are doing the project and I just couldn't resist.  Some are doing the core paper edition, some are doing a hybrid version and some like me are doing it the digital way!  There are so many fabulous digital products out there that I knew this was the way I was going to go.  And even though I was tempted to purchase the core kit and do a paper version it just isn't me anymore and I knew I wouldn't be happy.  The hardest part really was deciding on the templates.  I really love these and bought a few to start and then decided I wanted my project to really look more Project Life-like so I went with the templates by Becky Higgins offered at jessicasprague.com .

Here is my completed Week 1 - I love how it turned out!

Supplies:
Becky Higgins Templates (jessicasprague.com); Shannon Hegarty - Secretary Papers (designhousedigital.com); Karla Dudley - Today Stamps (designhousedigital.com); One Little Bird -  Check It Card 5 (oscraps.com); Paislee Press - Today I am Stamp, 2012 Calendar Calendar kit, Round about now (oscraps.com); Viva Artistry - Pocket Freebie (thedigichick.com); Font - CK Mini.

Pinterest!!!