In celebration of National Scrapbooking Day, I am offering Buy One Get One Free on all Digital Scrapbook kits and Custom Ebay Auction Templates.

Just place an order and let me know the FREE item** you would like!

**Free custom auction template when you purchase a custom auction template. Free digital scrapbook kit when you purchase a digital scrapbook kit.

**Offer expires May 31, 2008

The Scrap Princess La Vie Digital Scrapbook Kit

Here is a layout with my newest digital scrapbooking kit, La Vie.

It features over 80 elements, including papers, flowers, ricrac, stitches, chipboard pieces, alphabet & so much more! All with a French flair & beautiful chocolate, red, pink & champagne tones….

This layout was made in Paint Shop Pro X and I used various blending modes to achieve a sepia look for the photo and all of the elements. The alphabet comes in a rich red color but after changing the blend mode to luminance, I was able to give it a softer and more aged look.

There are so many exciting pieces in this kit and it is my first new release in awhile. I hope you enjoy it!

As always, if you would like to share your layouts with me for inclusion on my website and blog features, please contact me.

Celebrate Life!

Lisa

After reading the current issue of Creating Keepsakes (March 2008 in full - I just couldn’t put it down!!!), I found this adorable idea for an Easter Egg Garland made from wooden shapes (in this case a football shape).

Here are the ingredients for this project:

16 wooden football/egg shapes (mine are from Michael’s)

4-5 sheets of scrapbook paper (I used scraps in spring colors from random companies)

9 yards of spring ribbon

Alphabet stickers or stamps (to spell Happy Easter)

Sandpaper & Ink square (I used Around the Block Antique tool in red - one of my favorite tools!)

Purple gel pen (to outline the alphabet stickers)

Crop-a-Dile (to punch holes in the wooden eggs)

Modge Podge Matte

Cross Metal Accent

Adhesive

First adhere your egg onto a sheet of paper, placed upside down. This way you can cut the egg out of the paper, rather than trace & cut. This saves tons of time! Cut out all of your eggs (don’t worry about being perfect - you will be sanding the edges next).

Next sand & ink all the edges of your eggs.

After you ink the edges, allow them to dry a few minutes before handling them.

Next, line up your garland in the order you would like to see the patterns so that you do not end up with any matching papers next to one another.

Add the alphabet stickers or stamps or other embellishments. Outline stickers with gel pen in contrasting color to make them stand out.

Paint eggs with Modge Podge to seal & protect.

Punch holes into the sides of each egg with the Crop-a-Dile tool or another heavy duty hole punch.

Cut ribbons into 4″ lengths and tie eggs together.

Hang & enjoy this beautiful Easter season!

$5.00 USD

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The Birthday Dots Digital Scrapbook Kit includes over 50 elements including:

• (5) 12×12 papers
• (6) Word Sentiments
• (6) Decorative Embellishments
• (1) Happy Birthday Photo Mat
• Full Alphabet & Numeral Set

This fun birthday digital scrapbooking kit features whimsical polka dots, word sentiments and accents. Please read the terms of use enclosed with the kit and have fun creating your layouts!

Celebrate Life!

Lisa

Yes I know….very late in posting these layouts! I apologize to those of you who I promised would get some more glimpses of the rockstars we hung out with on the ATRR Tour. So here are some more pages from the album I created for my sis-in-law including pictures of Nickelback, Daughtry & Breaking Benjamin:

For Christmas I made my sister-in-law a scrapbook album as a tribute to our year and a half on the road with Nickelback.

Michelle (my sister-in-law) and my girlfriend, Lucy (Life As It Is) and I shared a total of 20+ concerts on the tour. We flew as far as Kansas City, MO and had planned to travel to Canada for some shows but we ran out of money, LOL. I can say that for what it cost it was more than worth it (except for the illnesses we all had from lack of sleep and food and sharing Chad’s water bottle


The album, papers, stickers and chipboard I used for her Nickelback Rockstar Scrapbook album was all from the Rock Star line by DCWV.


I had so much fun making this album. Not only did I get to relive all the memories of the past 2 years during the Nickelback tour but also remember how blessed I am to have such wonderful family and friends.

This album will be re-made for myself in the upcoming months in the 12×12 format so that I can preserve some of the 1,200 pictures I took of Nickelback, Hoobastank, Hinder, Three Days Grace, Breaking Benjamin, Chevelle, Trapt, Daughtry & Staind.

I hope you enjoy these pages as much as I enjoyed making them:

More pictures to come later…..or else this post will take up an entire page of my blog

Since I have been reading so many blogs during the Ultimate Blog Party, I have come across ideas, inspiration and have had alot of laughs Thank you all for sharing who you are and for stopping by my blog…..

I decided to do a meme post that I found inspiring at Kimberly’s Cup.

These are a Few of My Favorite Scrapbooking Things…

Adhesive: Zig glue pen by EK Success
Book: anything by Simple Scrapbooks
Coffee: Starbucks Java Chip Frappucino - I need Starbucks some days to keep scrapping LOL
Die-Cuts: Basic Grey Die-Cuts, especially the Urban Collection
Embellishment: Tags (made from my own papers) and in digital designs, one of my favs is photo prongs
Font: Arriere Garde
Glitter: Pink glitter is my fav!
Heidi Swapp Item: Bling Jewelry Art
Inspiration: My daughter, Mikayla
Junkitz Item: Rub-ons
Kits: The Scrap Princess Digital Kits have to come first LOL but I love My Mind’s Eye products (close 2nd).
Layovers: My Mind’s Eye - Pastel Pink Alpha
Mini Kit: Wild Asparagus - Adorable Mini Kit
Non-scrapbook-related favorite: Listening to music
Organizing Tip: Separate papers by color/theme and place in a 12×12 accordion file.
Punch: My 3″ tag Giga punch
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Paper: Since I am such a paper-aholic I needed 2 for the letter “P” - my favorite paper is Wild Asparagus. I never stop talking about Wild Asparagus and I will buy anything they release
Quote: “I Scrap…….Therefore I am Broke” ~ The Scrap Princess
Rub-ons: Die-Cuts With a View ~ Rub-on Stacks
Stamps: Inkadinkado
Tool: My paper trimmers
Undeniable craving: To visit Jo-Ann Fabrics once a week…they send me those coupons every week so I can’t wait to use them LOL. I think my husband is going to start intercepting the mail!
Valentine Line: Karen Foster embellies/stickers
Wild Asparagus Paper: Memories Polka Dot series (can you tell I love WA products?…lol this should have been all about the product line at this point).
X as in 12 x 12 - my favorite size to scrap
Y as in Why has it taken me 3 days to write this post? Answer: I’ve been scrapbooking!!
Zoo Animal: Elephant….well there wasn’t a scrapbooking favorite that I could think of that started with a “Z” lol if someone else comes up with one, please share and I will modify this one!

Be sure to comment and leave a link your A-Z Favorite Things post as well…
?, Lisa

In honor of Valentine’s Day I wanted to share a layout I did of my husband (and best friend), Paul

Digital Scrapbooking - How to Begin

To begin the series on digital scrapbooking, here is a list of some necessary tools you will need to start your digital layouts.

1) A computer with at least 256 mb RAM. You do not neccesarily need huge amounts of memory but you will need space on your pc in order to open up some images that are quite large in size. One 12×12 digital paper file can be 1-2 mb depending on the dpi (which is the quality of the image). Some complete digital scrapbooking kits can be between 10-12mb in size and I suggest you open what you need and keep the rest of the graphics closed until you do.

2) A digital image editing program such as Corel© Paint Shop Pro, Adobe Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, Ulead PhotoImpact or a digital scrapbooking program. You can find the trial versions of these programs at their respective websites.

3) Digital photographs. You can either upload your images from your digital camera, get a photo disc made where you have your 35mm film developed or scan images into your pc.

4) Digital Scrapbook Elements such as paper backgrounds, alphabets, embellishments, etc. You can purchase digital scrapbooking kits at http://www.thescrapprincess.com/Digital_Scrapbook_Kits.html

Optional:

5) Photo Printer & Paper. You can purchase a 12×12 printer specifically for printing out 12×12 layouts or you can opt to print out the layouts on 8-1/2×11 sheets. Whichever size you decide to use, be sure to keep that in mind when you are creating your pages in your digital image editing program.