Archive for August, 2009

August’s Sketch Contest

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Hey everyone, Jenn here! I just wanted to remind everyone about the August sketch contest.  I gave it a go and here is what I came up with:

farm market findThis was a great sketch for using the leftover strips of patterned paper from this month’s kit! But I also included some embellishments from past Kraft Girl kits. Those are the Prima crystals and Maya Road stick pins from July’s kit and the adorable crocheted flower is from May’s kit.  See, this sketch is perfect for the little bits and pieces you have saved!

You have until August 31st to e-mail your layout to Pam to be eligible.  Plenty of time to whip something up! Remember to post it in our new flickr gallery so we can check it out too!

Strut Your Stuff

Friday, August 21st, 2009

Ok so by now you’ve ‘heard’ us promoting the awesome flickr group…and prompting you to join. Kudos to you that already have, I know sometimes learning something new can be intimidating, but I promise this is super easy…really I had my pages up and loaded in the group in less than 5 minutes.

Ok so I may have a little head start, because I already had a flickr account and had loaded a couple of things before. But even if you don’t have a flickr account, it’s still an easy process. Double easy for my fellow mac friends (there’s an upload function right in iPhoto). Windows friends will have to upload from the website or download an application that will allow you to upload from your machine.

Let pretend we’re going to upload directly from flickr, simply login and then choose the ‘Upload Photos’ from your photostream page. If for some reason you’re not on the photostream page, just click on the ‘YOU’ tab and you’ll get to where you’re going.
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Select the upload photos and video link and you’ll can choose files from your computer.  Easy enough.

Next step…join the cool kids group…aka the Kraft Girls Kitgroup.  Click on the link to the left or search for Kraft Girls and you’ll find it. (a side note: there are lots of cool groups out there…try searching for your camera type, favorite manufacturer or even types of photos). Now select the ‘Join Group’ link.  Easy Peasy. Now you can see all of the scrappy goodness the DT and other fab scrappers have put in the group this month. It’s a great way to get inspired throughout the month, not just on reveal day.  Most of the DT has added projects that haven’t appeared on the blog. You can always get to the group by selecting it from your groups tab.

flickr-ss2-join-groupBut we don’t want you to just  join, oh no, we want to see your stuff so we can leave you some love and show the scrapping world that we have the best kit club with the most creative subscribers.  So the last step is to add your photos, the good news is this is really easy since our photos are already on flickr.

Choose Add Photos link and you’ll be taken to a screen where all of your photostream show up. Just click on the photo you want to add to the group, you can do up to 6 at a time…how cool is that.  Then hit the ‘Add to group’ button.

flickr-3-add-to-groupSee, easy right! I bet it took you almost as long to read this post than it would to add your layouts to the group…so what are you waiting for…Post, ladies, post.

~Christyn~

September Sneak

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Here is a little peek at next month’s kit:
September Sneak
Some fun things that were just released at CHA are included in the kit, can’t wait to see what the design team does with this kit:)  Stay tuned for more sneaks!

A little peek at September…

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

September Peek

Adding a little dimension

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

When I started scrapbooking I was all about clean lines and kept my layouts pretty flat. Strangely enough, it was when I started digital scrapbooking that I got interested in adding more dimension to my layouts – probably in an effort to make them look more real, or paper like. This has drifted back to my paper scrapping — now I like to have  a a bit more dimension in my layouts (not too much!) and I’m going to share a few of my methods here.

Take this layout for example:

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I added dimension in a few different ways. I printed out my photos using a digital photo cluster frame (by Katie Pertiet) and used 3M Mounting Tape to adhere them. This raises the photos up from the background papers.

The Sassafras Whimsey flowers take folding very well and I creased, folded and manipulated them to lift them from the background. When adding the centers to the flowers I used 3M foam squares to add additional depth.

I also spritzed and crumpled up a strip of the Jenni Bowlin paper to add texture – ripping the end to add even more texture. The tickets were also raised using 3M mounting tape.

This could have been a flat layout but using different adhesives and manipulating the papers I was able to add lots of depth and therefore interest to the layout. I hope this gives you some ideas to play with!

~Paula