Giveaway Spotlight
Found this awesome vintage goodies giveaway over on Natalie's blog Scrap Doctor. Look at the yummy goody bag she is giving away:
To see the full list of goodies up for grabs and how to win them, check Natalie's blog post here.
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Tape strips on photos above are from Katrina over at Pugly Pixel! Grab her new freebie whilst your there:
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Hope your having a wonderful day!!
Posted by
Diana Martin
In:
inspiration,
vintage
Be Still My Vintage ♥
On my travels today I discovered this ever-so pretty Vintage Paper Love kit from With a Twist by Tara Anderson. Have a look at this swoon-worthy prettiness:
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I am loving all the other goodies in her store, I want to buy everything!! Three of my favorite items are the Pretty Packaging Kit, Vintage Saturday + Sweet Heart Stickers + Vintage Button Cards below:
The one thing about Tara's store that really caught my eye is her photography skills and the way she present's her products. Each photo has perfect lighting conditions, eye-catching color combination's and beautiful attention to details in her product previews. To me, this is a winning combination and sure-fire way to get those sales!! You may want to check out Tara's blog The Pink Couch for more beautiful product photos recipes, giveaways and loads of inspiration!!
I wanted to make a special mention about a newly found blog crush I have on Pugly Pixel {mentioned here} and the gorgeous Clipart Tape Strips freebie Katrina has on her blog:
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Katrina is offering them for personal and business use! How cool is that?? I am totally lovin' them!! Hop on over to her blog and check them out as well as the rest of her blog and don't forget to leave her some love!! Thanks a bunch Katrina xo
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Diana Martin
In:
I ♥ Sunday,
inspiration
I ♥ Sunday
Sunday is my favorite day of the week as I sit at my PC surfing the net, scoping out inspiration and sipping way too much coffee. I want to share with you some of my favorite things I ♥ this week:
- A ♥ goes to this little sweetie {gotta ♥ the name}:
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- A ♥ goes to this little giggle-worthy piece of art by Marc Johns:
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{ mustaches on strings are the finest of things }
- A ♥ goes to these awesome acrylic stamps from {kr}:
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- A ♥ goes to these AMAZING cupcake kits from Meri Meri:
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- A ♥ goes to this fun album kit by Evalicious:
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- A ♥ goes to the pretty, pretty paper kit Sweet Lily by Belladrummer {sweet Debee Campos}:
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- A ♥ goes to Katrina of Pugly Pixel for her fun tutorial on Scalloped Edges on photos:
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- The last ♥ goes to Roben-Marie's video tutorial on making these shabby-yummy fabric flowers:
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Time to get out of my PJ's now.....lol! { Happy Days ! }
I ♥ Faces - Fix-It Friday #50
I played with the curves in CS3, brightened up the eyes and fixed some blemishes, ran my favorite action Eggshell from Freshly Vintage at My Four Hens Photography and added a layer of texture. That's it, here's my version:
Had loads of fun doing this, I think I may have to do this every Friday now......lol!!
That's it for today.......more goodies to show you in the next week....fun, fun, fun!!
Posted by
Diana Martin
In:
After 5 Designs,
Catherine Designs,
CT,
digital,
inspiration,
layout,
scrapbooking,
walk through
Petit Jardin + A Digital Walk Through
A gorgeous new mini kit Petit Jardin by Catherine Designs from After 5 Designs was released yesterday and I wanted to share a digital page I created using the April Shot as well as using some of Catherine's part of the After 5 Collaboration kit Little Garden:
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Can you believe that this mini kit {below} is only $2.00!! Here's what is in Catherine's April Shot:
(most elements include one or two shadowed versions)
4 beautifully textured papers ( 12" papers, 300 dpi, .jpg )
1 bird
1 basket
1 herb pot (with one stacked version)
1 bucket
1 duck
3 butterfly (green, blue, orange)
1 wheel ( with a frame version)
1 snail
1 raffia bows
3 garden tools (green, white, orange) 2 'petit jardin' WA
4 beautifully textured papers ( 12" papers, 300 dpi, .jpg )
1 bird
1 basket
1 herb pot (with one stacked version)
1 bucket
1 duck
3 butterfly (green, blue, orange)
1 wheel ( with a frame version)
1 snail
1 raffia bows
3 garden tools (green, white, orange) 2 'petit jardin' WA
several embellished clusters (including some elements from the store collab 'Little Garden')
Each month the After 5 Designs store designers create a collaborative kit that coordinates with the designer's individual shots, here is Catherine's part of the collaboration:
The collaborative kit Little Garden has some of the best digital scrapbooking designer's in the industry including:
The April Guest Bren Boone, Bisontine, Catherine Designs, Cinnamon Designs, Createwings Designs, K Studio, Kimla Designs, Jazzmin Designs and Lily Designs.
The Little Garden kit is only $5.00 for 5 days, how awesome is that!! All those goodies for 5 bucks! Be sure to check out some of the other pages created using this gorgeous kit. You will find some in the gallery here & here, and on the kit page in the store.
I just love brown's and green's, makes me think of dirt and grass and the smell of freshly cut lawn....lol!
A sweet friend asked if that was my garden on my layout and no it's not. I simply created the scene using all of Catherine's goodies from her shot and her part of the collab.
QUICK NOTE: Catherine has posted a tutorial towards the end of her blog post on how to create a natural looking scene on your digital pages.
Once this was created I flattened the image and ran a photo action from My Four Hens Photography called Eggshell from the Freshly Vintage Action collection. I took this paper:
And used the Polygonal Lasso Tool in Photoshop to cut the center circle from the page and promoted it to it's own layer. I used this circle as a mask and clipped my layout to this circle.
I changed the layer to Multiply in the layer palette so that the inner shadow of the original paper would show through:
The scene is looking a little washed out so I duplicated the layer and changed this layer to Soft Light to brighten it up a little:
Now we are left with this:
I really want this page to POP so I changed the outside paper to this:
I simply clipped the paper over the outer side of the circle cut out, duplicated the layer and changed this layer to Multiply:
Now once I turn all the layers back on, added a few more embellishments and a cute title using Catherine's Alpha called Aqua-Lime Alpha {which coordinates with one of Catherine's gorgeous kit called Guy Things} Here is the end result:
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Hope you enjoyed the little walk through on how I created this page. As always, any questions, shoot me an email or leave me a comment....I love comments......lol!! Wishing everyone a very Happy Easter! xo
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