Tip of the Week... DSD Tip!

It's almost time for Digital Scrapbooking Day!  WOOT!  It's an exciting time around digi-land and you will want to be ready for it.  My Tip for this week is to look carefully and really evaluate the product you "can't live without" before you buy or download it.   We can all be swept away in the sea of freebies and sales.  Some of that is really, really good and fun, but some will just leave you with buyer's remorse or a full hard drive, LOL.

So... take some time a few days before the big weekend (like now) and visit the stores you love the most.  Fill you wish lists, then try to stay true to that this weekend.  Also, follow along with all of the fun Blog Trains you will see, but don't download every single piece if you know you will never use it!  And the stuff you do download, get it all organized into folders and "put away" as you go if possible.  If you find the downloading process really slow, consider downloading your items after Sunday when the servers are less busy.  Don't forget them, though, as most stores only give you a few days to download your goodies!

As far as Danimoy Designs goes, you know you will want to visit her stores, right?  Well, head over there now, browse through all of her great products and put your faves in your wish lists.  Then on DSD Weekend, you will be ready to shop... stress free!

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Enjoy the great weekend and happy scrapping!

Shine On You Gallery Spotlight

Duo-licious is the creative work of danimoy designs and A+ Designs and they have some awesome stuff!  Their latest kit is called Shine On You and is just lovely for all kinds of pages.

In the Gallery this week, I spotted this beautiful LO from sharonbertolino using the kit.

Head over to her Gallery and give her some love!  And now is the perfect time to pick up this and any of Dani's kits because her entire store is 40% off until October 31st in Celebration of Halloween!  

Happy Scrapping!

Tip of the Week - Do You Shift?

Do you know that magical things that your SHIFT key can do for your scrapbook pages?  It's a super easy tip, but one I didn't know when I was starting out in this awesome hobby.

Hold down the SHIFT when you are resizing your stuff and they will keep their proportions.

When using your Line Tool, use the SHIFT to get a perfectly straight line every time.

When rotating your paper, text or elements, hold the SHIFT key to "pop" them into place beautifully. 

 I *heart* my SHIFT key :).

And don't forget that Dani's entire store is 40% off until October 31st in Celebration of Halloween!  

Now that is a Tip you cannot live without!

See you next week!

Scrapbook Bytes Gallery Spotlight!

Did you hear the news? Yep, Danimoy Designs is back at Scrapbook Bytes! And everything in her store is ON SALE! You have to check it out!

I want to show you some inspiration from her gallery to get those creative juices flowing today.

This LO is from Amy Jo. I just love the fun "Rock" feel of it and the great display of those photos.

She used Dani's Rock Star kit (appropriately, hehe). This whole kit is on SALE right now for $1.80... WHAT? Yep 64% off... grab it quick.

Here's a yummy page from M'Lee. The clustering and colors are stunning and show off the photography quite well.

M'Lee used Summer Treats kit... on sale now for $3!

And finally, look at this spectacular LO from VanillaDesignz. The colors could not be better for that adorable picture and I just love how she used all of the stacked horizontal papers. Fabulous!

The kit she used was Strike a Pose, a collar by Danimoy and Ivory Keys Digital Dreams. You can find this gorgeous Collab on sale now for $3 as well.

Check out these kits and so much more on Sale now! Happy Scrapping!

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Progressive Challenge Spotlight

Have you checked out the challenge Dani is hosting at Gotta Pixel this month? It's a super fun Progressive Challenge and there is still time for you to jump on the band wagon for August!

The scoop: Each day for the first 10 days of the month, Dani will post a new instruction in this thread. You will then have the rest of the month to finish your layout and post it in that thread.

The fine print: You must use at least 60% Gotta Pixel products and no double dipping for challenges.

The fun stuff: All layouts completed by the end of the month will be entered in a random drawing for THREE $5 coupons to her awesome store! WOOT!

And just for inspiration, I'm gonna highlight a layout from among those already completed right here on Dani's Blog.

This page from gduncan really caught my eye! I love that she highlighted herself in the LO and I love the quote she used at a photo mat of sorts. Awesome job!

Glenda used Dani's new kit called Fresh Start for this page, by the way, and you can pick these up for a great price right now!

Elements

Papers

Paint Splats

Now it's your turn! If you haven't been scrapping along, that's ok, it's not too late! You have until August 31st to complete a LO, upload it to her challenge thread at Gotta Pixel and be in the running for one of those $5 coupons to Danimoy's Store! It's a win-win so go for it!

See you soon and have an awesome day.

Tip of the Week: Recipe Fun

So, how many of us have a "Recipe" Bookmark on our computer with tons of awesome recipes we either want to try or have found to be a hit with our families? *raising my hand* And how many of us have scribbled recipe cards where the ink is fading and it's getting difficult to distinguish between the Tsp and the Tbsp? (big difference, by the way) *raising my hand* Well, the tip today is to do something about it!

Use your copy and paste miracle or bite the bullet and type the thing out... but get those family and new recipes onto your hard drive and spitting out of your printer! And if you really want to be impressive, grab your camera after you create your culinary masterpiece (ie... mac 'n cheese) and snap a picture of it for the recipe card. Because as scrapper, none of us will be satisfied with a simple word document.

Oh no! It must be pretty :)... and I have a great tool to get you started. DaniMoy has these great Recipe Templates for sale. They are perfect to start the ball rolling. Or create your own templates. But having a few simple templates to work from will help you when you are ready to sit down and document the recipe.

Then find a great Cooking Kit (or two) to use so the card, or page will be pretty. Dani has one of those, too, called Cook With Me. How convenient, hehe...

Remember that DaniMoy's ENTIRE store at Scrapbook Bytes, Scrapbooks Gone Digital, and Gotta Pixel are on sale now for 40% off until 8/15. Now is the time!

So, here's what I came up with for my first "pretty" recipe page using Dani's template and Cook With Me kit. I plan to add to this book as I go until it is brimming with my yummies. Oh, and when Gift Time rolls around, how cool would it be to print these off for a friend or family member. Special, lovely and relatively easy!

Go for it, Ladies... I'd love for you to link us up to show off what you come up with, or share any other Recipe tips you have. I just love comments :)... I'll see you next week.

TIP of the Week: Rounding Corners

Have you ever wanted to add a little something, something to your page. How about rounding off some corners? You can do this with photos, papers, clipping masks, elements... the list goes on. There are several ways to do this, but here's one way that's pretty simple. I used PSE for Mac if you don't recognize the screen shots.

The first step is the choose the item that you want to have rounded edges. Stunning start to this tutorial, right? hehe (I've chosen this adorable photo of my daughter in her multiple hair bow phase as the example, just because it's cute) Then use the marquee tool to select a square or rectangle around your picture or paper.

Then in the drop down menu, choose Select - > Modify - > Smooth.

You will get a pop-up then. Not a bad one, I promise... You will need to choose a number of pixels. You can start with 50, although in my example I used 75.

The next part is the fun part. In your drop down menu choose Select - > Inverse then click your Delete button. Fun, huh?

Now, go to the menu and choose Select - > Deselect and you are done!

Before I leave, don't forget about Dani's awesome Christmas in July Bundle! There are SO MANY Holiday goodies in this bundle for a fantastic price (75% off). Seriously, you just have to check it out. Maybe you can even find an excuse to round some corners *wink*.

See you next week...