The year in pages- so far

I decided to tackle Project Life this year. I of course have to do digi, so when I got the Scrapit Pocket Page actions From Wendyzine I was ready to go! As a subscriber to The Daily Digi, they were a bonus in November or December! I've been using products from the fab designers at Design House Digital mostly with  a few extras here and there.

Credits: A Life Recorded Collab- Audrey Neal and Karla Dudley

Credits: Robyn Meierotto -Hello Love 

Karla Dudley-Remarkable
Karla Dudley-Right Now

 Credits: Gennifer Bursett- Up To Date
Karla Dudley- Edge Labels
Karla Dudley- Right Now
Lori Whitlock- Spring Celebration

 Credits: Karla Dudley- Remarkable

Credits: Celeste Knight- Happy Tape-Brushes
Gennifer Bursett- Toolbox- Shadows V1
Kate Teague- This Life Journalers
Karla Dudley- Jumbo-Sentiment

Audrey Neal- WhiteoutGennifer Bursett- Photo Journalers

Credits: Gennifer Bursett- Favorite Things- Journal Cards

Gennifer Bursett- Favorite Things

Kate Teague- This Life

Robyn Meierotto- Let's Go

 Credits: Gennifer Bursett- To Date

Robyn Meierotto & Karen Funk- Hello Love

Karla Dudley- Jumbo Sentiment Cards

 Credits: Gennifer Bursett- Favorite Things
Gennifer Bursett- Writer's Block

Kate Teague- This Life

Gennifer Bursett- Mists

Credit: Gennifer Bursett- Writer's Block
 Gennifer Bursett- Favorite Things

Karla Dudley- Digi Essentials

Gennifer Bursett- Photo Journalers

 Credits: One Little Bird- Retrospective
Gennifer Bursett- Writer's Block
Gennifer Bursett- Photo Journalers

Also, the digital page protectors were made by me.

Mad March Memories Blog Hop- a Giveaway & a Freebie Take 2!

Welcome Blog Hoppers!

(The Giveaway is now closed, but you can still collect your letter and receive a code for the collab kit until the end of March 2012)

I have great stuff for you here today- A tip/tutorial, a giveaway and your Super Secret Letter!

First up here is my tip:
We are going to combine 2 or more templates to make one completely unique template.

The first thing you need to do is pick out templates that you like elements of, I pick 2-3, but you could pick more. I think it might be hard to do more than 5.
Here are the templates I picked out:
Two are from Tiffany Tillman's 52 templates series, #29 and #31 the other one is from the DHD TNT collection.

After your templates are open, create a new canvas/document in your preferred scrapping size. I scrap in 12x12 so that's what I've created

Now we'll begin selecting the elements of the templates that we want to keep. I want the dark strip from  #31 so right click on the layer in the pallete and you should see this:

See the option on the third line down? That's what we want.
Now this dialogue box will open:

I haven't renamed my canvas yet so I want to pick Untitled-1

Keep selecting the layers you want and duplicate them onto your canvas.

If you prefer to drag and drop, you can drag the layers while holding shift and alt/option this will make the layer drop into the same place it was on the previous canvas. 

After all my layers are on my canvas, here's what it looks like:

Now move things around until you like the placement, think about things like balance, visual weight and creating flow on your layout. (or just make it look good, and that stuff will happen)

Heres mine:

I realized I needed journaling so I jumped back onto one of my templates and grabbed a journaling block. Now I'll save it, but first I will rename 3 layers with the names of the templates so I have a record of which templates I used and can give credit later on for the inspiration.

Here is my completed page:

I used the Sweet Bee collab from Jen Allyson and Celeste Knight

Next up is the giveaway! I have a Gift Certificate to Design House Digital to give away! You can enter up to 5 times. One comment, like me on Facebook, follow me on Twitter, and post to Facebook and Twitter. I tried to make it easy on you- just use the Rafflecopter widget below to submit all your entries! :)

Mad March Memories Blog Hop- a Giveaway & a Freebie

Grrr- Blogger ate my post! SO...I will attempt to recreate it! here goes!!