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4 Play

Monday, March 5th, 2012

If you find that you’re coming down with a case of the Mondays, I hope our 4 Play feature will help vault you into the rest of a fabulous week. Each week we choose 4 kits from 4 Designers in the Design House Digital Shop to mix & match and then we share 4 different layouts by the Design House Decorators using those kits. The challenge is to ONLY use items from the 4 kits that are chosen.

Here are the kits I chose for this week’s feature:

Audrey Neal Everyday Celebrations Elements

Deena Rutter Maybe Solids

Kate Teague Life in April Papers

52 Thursday Templates No. 20

Let’s see what masterpieces the decorators have created this week!

Tiffany Bodily:

One of the great things about templates is the ability to resize them to create an entirely different look. I was able to create a page with some negative space by shrinking down the entire layout design. I then duplicated the scalloped portion of the template to make a strip across the bottom right corner. Looking at the foursome from this week, I don’t think I would have immediately thought “Valentine’s” but I love the way that I was able to combine these kits to create a more masculine look for my son’s Valentines from a few years ago.

Audrey Neal:

Different templates lend themselves to different types of layouts, and when I saw Tiffany’s template this week, I realized that it was perfect for really letting my photos take center stage. I simplified the layout even further by deleting the scalloped edge, and then I flipped the entire design so that my photos were on the right side. The blues and grays in Deena and Kate’s paper packs coordinated beautifully with the watery tones of my photos from Cassidy’s baptism, which I’ve been holding on to for the past few months. I kept my embellishments simple — a couple of buttons from my element pack, plus a small banner created from the twill ribbon and a circle element cut from Kate’s patterned paper. The result is a layout that I’m thrilled with, because it records such an important event in a way that lets the images really shine.

Celeste Smith:

I just love bright, cheerful colors and fell in love with Aria’s picks. I rotated Tiffany’s template 90 degrees to accommodate my three portrait oriented photos. Never one to shirk from multi-colored patterns I chose two from Kate’s paper pack. Then added solids from Deena’s pack. Audrey’s elements add the little touches I love – buttons and stitching!

Aria Andrus:

I absolutely love working with templates and bright, cheerful colors! The fun colors in these kits seemed to go well together and I’m also a big fan of multiple photos on scrapbook pages. Tiffany Tillman has so many great templates where you can tell stories using multiple photos on scrapbook pages. I loved using Audrey’s elements to create the title work in this layout and they combined so nicely with the papers.

Don’t forget that today only (ends Monday at midnight PST), you can get each of these kits for only a dollar, and one is even FREE! So go grab them, and then play along. Upload a layout using these four kits to the DHD gallery by Sunday, then come back here and post a link to it. Not only will you learn to stretch your kits, but you could win a gift certificate to DHD!

(Congratulations to janfrn, who wins a gift certificate for playing along with last week’s challenge! Be sure to leave her some love in the gallery!)

-Aria

Tags: 4 Play, Aria Andrus, Audrey Neal, deena rutter, Kate Teague, Tiffany Tilllman
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4play!

Monday, February 6th, 2012

Hi Everybody! I’m excited to be bringing you another edition of the DHD 4 Play. As I was picking the kits I found myself drawn to orange – it is such a happy color and our designers gave me some fun kits to pick from. I’ve been wanting to use Tiffany’s kit, so I was excited that Deena’s great paper kit coordinated so well. I love masks and was excited to use Celeste’s tape masks to customize tape pieces. I love Lori’s masking shapes, they work great for all kinds of things. I hope you can play along with us this week!

Here are the kits:

Lori Whitlock – Masking Shapes 1
Celeste Knight – Happy Tape
Tiffany Tillman – Baby Dinos
Deena Rutter – Woodsong Papers

Our first layout is from Celeste Smith.

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Celeste shares: ”Mandi chose the perfect mix of kits! I used Lori’s Masking Shapes to create a rounded corner background for the main part of may page. Then used the solids in Tiffany’s kit as a mat for my page. Deena’s paper pack has such a great assortment of colors for each piece it was hard to choose how to fill my paper blocks! I couldn’t find any dinosaur photos, but decided to use the more generic parts of the element pack to embellish my page. I finished off the photo with a piece of Deena’s paper clipped to Celeste’s masking tape masks.”

Our second is Jen Flaherty:

Jen says, “When I first signed up for this challenge, I wasn’t sure what I was going to do, because I didn’t have any dinosaur pictures. But once I went through the Woodsong paper pack, I was inspired by that theme instead. Lori’s masks made easy work of creating clipping shapes that I would usually do in several steps. And Celeste’s tape and the elements in the Baby Dinosaur kit are so versatile, the layout actually came together really quickly.”

Next we have Aria Andrus:

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Aria shared, “It was so much fun to work with the kits Mandi chose. I’m always looking for fun papers and elements to use on little boy pages and this was perfect for me since our son absolutely loves dinosaurs. Lori’s masks and Celeste’s tape are great elements to add to any page. I love clipping and reclipping different papers to the masks to find just the right paper to blend with the layout. The colors of the papers all worked so well together and there were so many fun dinosaur related elements that I tried to limit myself to not overburden the page.”

We also have a page from Liz Jutila:

Liz added, “Tiffany’s dino kit is packed with a surprising number of embellishments! I had such fun excavating through her kit (that’s a pun, get it?!) to find just the right dino accessories to tell my story. This is a rare example of a real conversation with one of my granddaughters, so I wanted to get in every word. Lori’s mask gave me a nice, big area to house photos, embellishments and text too. Celeste’s tape is the big bonus of this week’s 4play — these are incredibly versatile. Try different blending modes with these tape embellishments. Deena never disappoints with her whimsical pp’s, and she made it easy to give this lo just the right tone.”

Last, we have mine:

I loved the colors in these kits! I used Deena’s papers to clip to Celeste’s tape brushes and Tiffany’s star mists. Lori’s mask worked perfectly as both a photo mask and a frame mask. The baby dinos in Tiffany’s kit were the perfect addition to my page about how BIG my little boy is getting!!

I hope you are inspired to play along this week. Don’t forget that today only (ends Monday at midnight PST), you can get each of these kits for only a dollar, and one is even FREE! So go grab them, and then play along. Upload a layout using these four kits to the DHD gallery by Sunday, then come back here and post a link to it. Not only will you learn to stretch your kits, but you could win a gift certificate to DHD!

There were so many AMAZING layouts submitted last week! Thanks for playing! Congratulations to Judy in SD the winner of last week’s 4 Play Challenge!

Tags: 4play, Celeste Knight, deena rutter, Lori Whitlock, Tiffany Tillman
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4Play!

Sunday, December 25th, 2011

It’s finally here the big Christmas day! I’ve put together a grouping of four kits that are sure to inspire you to get scrapping those fabulous photos you’ve taken over the holidays. Tomorrow things will slowly be getting back to normal – what better time to scrap a page or two with this week’s 4Play kits!

Here are the four kits, simple click on the image to be taken to the store…

The Decorators have been as busy as elves creating some eye candy for all of you to enjoy on this fine Christmas Day!

Layout by Jen Papadimitriou

Jen says: “Celeste chose the perfect combo of patterns and elements I had to play! The elements were so fun to play with and the template is one of my all time favourites! I chose to extract the blue ribbon from the frame and enlarge it to cover both the photographs”

Layout by Katherine Hanson

Katherine says: “I love this mix of kits! I ended up rotating the template and adding a solid paper panel on the right to help balance out all the patterned papers that I wanted to use. I also omitted a few pieces of the template. The buttons added some great dimension to the page, and I extracted the snowflake-styled brush from one of the tags from the Happy Christmas elements – they were perfect for my snow-themed page. I recolored the orange flake so that it blended a little better with the overall color scheme.”

Layout by Lori Pickens

Lori says: “These kits work great together. You can never go wrong with one of Tiffany’s templates, which really help to get the ball rolling when you have a ton of Christmas photos to scrap, but don’t have a clear design vision for each. The Warm Wishes papers and Happy Christmas elements coordinate perfectly. The fun Notions word bubble was a perfect accent for my cousin’s happy exclamations.”

Layout by Celeste Smith

And I say: “I rotated most of the elements on Tiffany’s template 90 degrees then I made one photo spot out of two. After I did that the circle border was a little lost so I made it a bit bigger. I love the warmth of Robin’s papers with this photo. I adore buttons so I snagged those from Jen’s kit. I love how buttons give dimension to a page! Last, Deena’s borders add the right finishing touch.”

Congrats to treasureBachs winner of last week’s challenge!

Tags: Celeste Smith, Christmas, deena rutter, Jen Allyson, Jen Papadimitriou, Katherine Hanson, Lori Pickens, Robyn Meierotto, Tiffany Tillman
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Hybrid Advent Calendar – 20 Days of Christmas

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

Hello DHD fans, it’s Joscie checking in with a hybrid advent calendar to help the kids enjoy the countdown to Christmas.

Here’s what I used:

Plain White Cardstock, Mini Paper Bags, Glue Dots, American Crafts Foam adhesive, Hot Glue Gun, Big Shot, Tim Holtz Rosette Die, Paper Tray Ink Label Dies, Marvy 2″ circle punch, Fiskars 1″ circle punch, Creative Charms Adhesive Gems, Canvas, Tattered Angels Glimmer Glaze Tinsel Town, foam brush, Scissors, Paper Trimmer, Divine Twine, White buttons, Printer.
I was thinking about using library card envelopes and then I found these bags in my stash- 2.99 from Hobby Lobby and 2 bags of 12? just the right number for my project!

In Photoshop, I opened a new 8.5″ x 11″ 300 ppi document and added tags and labels from Deena’s Jolly Holiday kit. I resized all so none were wider than the size of my bags.

I also printed various patterned papers from Deena’s Jolly Holiday Kit on plain white cardstock.

I cut strips 1.75″ x 11″ out of the patterned papers.

I used the Tim Holtz rosette Die to cut the strips.

I accordion folded the strips.

I adhered the ends and pushed the centers in.

I used large flat glue dots in the center of the rosettes to both hold them together and to adhere them to the bags.

If you don’t have glue dots, you can use a hot glue gun.

Hand cut the labels and tags.

In Photoshop, I added Robyn’s Vintage Newsprint Numbers over some of Deena’s Patterned Paper and printed on plain white cardstock.

I used a 1″ circle punch to punch the numbers.

I lay out all of the bags and started planning which elements would go where.

I tied some divine twine Christmas Twine in some white buttons and adhered with the hot glue gun (since it was handy).

I used American Crafts Foam Adhesive Squares to adhere all the numbers for dimension.

I added self adhesive gems from Creative charms on some labels.

I tied divine twine on mini bottle brush trees.

I used the hot glue gun to adhere the trees.

More Creative Charms adhesive gems.

I painted my canvas with Tattered Angels Glimmer Glam in Tinsel Town. It dries very quickly.

I used a laser level to beam a straight line across my canvas to help me lay the bags out in line.

I used one mini glue dot to adhere to the canvas.

I can remove the bags and add them to a december daily mini book.

I created these fun activity cards for my advent daily rewards:

You can use whatever activities or verses or story titles if you want to read a certain story each night.

I hope you like my advent calendar and are inspired to make something for the Holiday!

Tags: 20 Days of Christmas, Christmas Hybrid Projects, deena rutter, Hybrid, Hybrid Holiday Projects, Hybrid Tutorials, Joscelyne Cutchens, Robyn Meierotto
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4 Play

Monday, November 21st, 2011

It’s time for another 4play! I’m loving how this weekly challenge stretches my creativity, and I hope you do too! Each week we choose 4 kits to mix & match exclusively. The challenge is to ONLY use items from the 4 kits that were chosen.

With Thanksgiving on my mind this week, I wanted to pick some kits that weren’t specifically Fall, but had traditional fall colors mixed with some non-traditional colors such as blue and pink. I started with Deena Rutter’s Hotel California Desert Highway Papers because I love the color combo. Next, I chose Audrey Neal’s Madeleine Elements since the colors coordinate well with the papers, and I love the assortment of elements. I added some solids with Gennifer Bursett’s Sweet Child of Mine Baby Girl Solid Papers, which includes both traditional and non-traditional fall colors and pulls the blues from the other kits. Finally, I wanted to throw some basic patterns in the mix, and Kate Teague’s Basics Patterns fit the bill with a wide variety of patterns and colors. I picked a variety that shared some common colors to show how you can stretch your kits and mix some not-so-obvious matches.

First up is Jennifer Hignite:

Jennifer said: This 4play was a challenging combination for me. My personal scrapbook style is pretty clean and simple and this many patterned papers honestly scared me at first! I definitely would not have thought to try to scrap all these papers together, but I love the results! The colors of each paper pack are subtle, and work together beautifully. The distressed frames, rotated and placed in a square pattern like I did here, makes for a fun peek-a-boo effect!! Audrey’s elements are the perfect way to tie the whole layout together.

Next is Liz Jutila:

She shares: One of my favorite tricks is to clip patterned paper to white stitching for coloring stitching. Deena’s buddy patterned paper from the Hotel California Desert Highway collection worked really well to color the stitching from Tiffany Tillman’s template (52template 28). A very light drop shadow helped give the stitching a little depth. The delicate pattern in the tan paper from Desert Highway had an understated and cool effect when clipped to the unusual shape of the mask in Tiffany’s template. I really liked Kate’s Basic Pattern dots for the background — subtle and not too overpowering, but not plain either. And, of course, you’ve got to love Audrey’s word art and fun elements. This turned out to be a really fun combination for the challenge!

We also have one by Gennifer Bursett:

Who said: I’ll admit, at first glance this 4Play scared me a little. I loved the kits; in fact, I already had every single one of them, but I had never really contemplated putting all those patterned papers together. In the end, I decided to go big, and used a little bit of a lot of them in the form of small strips. I kept a lot of white space to balance out the strong patterns, and added an unexpected twist with the baby pink background. I absolutely love the way it turned out, and I’m so glad I played along this week!

And finally, my layout:

The blues from each of the kits pulled together nicely to add a pop of color to the more neutral fall colors. The papers and elements coordinated beautifully to showcase the fall photo of my son from a few years back. The distressed frame adds to the rustic feel for my fall cowboy, while the banner ties everything together and adds a bit of whimsy fitting for a toddler layout.

(Congrats to treasurebachs, who wins a GC for playing along last week!)

Tags: 4 Play, 4play, Audrey Neal, autumn, Carey Bridges, deena rutter, fall, Gennifer Bursett, Inspiration, Kate Teague
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