Little Butterfly Wings The Wonders of Motherhood, Dear Joe Casual font.

Our readers LOVE the Play it Again feature here at The Daily Digi and they really enjoy seeing all the different ways to scrap the same memory. You can see some of the past posts here. This time, I thought it would be fun to do something really different and illustrate all the different ways there are to scraplift a layout. I’ve written about scraplifting here before, but it’s something that I always need to remind myself about. It’s perfectly OK to use the inspiration you find from other people’s pages!

Here’s a layout from one of our own Daily Digi team members (Melissa Lewis) that I’ve been wanting to scraplift – I’ve pinned it here and the gallery link is here.

Supplies: Gina Miller Happy, Happy, Joy Joy templates, Basic Kraft papers, Michelle Godin Snarky Snippets, Emily Merritt Tiny Quotes, Amy Martin Perfect Amount of Mess, Kaye Winiecki A Little Edgy vol 2, CD Muckosky Markerific, Font is The Branch

The assignment for this challenge was to scraplift Melissa’s fun layout in some way. It could be a literal or “loose interpretation” type of a scraplift. I love seeing all the ways that this great page can be lifted!

It’s ok to lift your own layout

How fun is this that Melissa scraplifted her own page?! I love this one just as much as the original! All the bright and colorful cards of word art give this page such a fun feeling.

Supplies: Little Butterfly Wings The Wonders of Motherhood, Jenn Barrette They Say It’s Your Birthday kraft paper, fonts are Ck Mama and The Reed

Build on the original inspiration

Daily Digi team member Ronnie was obviously inspired by combining word art pieces as well. I love her take on this challenge and the great masculine touches she added to her layout!

Supplies: KarlaDudley  -DigiEssentials, Angie Kovacs -  Believe In Me, Chelle Creations – Yeehaw, Just Jaimee – Story Starter April, Kaye Winiecki – Ordinarily Special, Little Butterfly Wings – Twenty Four Seven, Geek Like Me, Mye De Leon – Happiness lies within, Thats my kid, Michelle Godin – Build your wings, Pink Reptile Design – Wanderlust, Diane Rigdon – Total Gamer, Tracie Stroud – I am beautiful, Wild blueberry Ink – The Good Life

Scraplifting gives you a headstart

Britanee (britaneejean) said “I LOVE journal cards right now so this layout was a dream for me to scraplift! I loved all the quotes & wordart AND the composition so that’s what I chose to lift. I love the end result.”

I have to say that I absolutely love this page also. What a pretty combination of papers, wordart, & a darling photo!

Supplies: Balancing Act Collection by Bella Gypsy, All Stitched Up Vol 3 by Tracie Stroud, Big Stamped Alpha by WM[2] Designs, DJB Britanee’s Thin Pen

Your page will be unique because you made it

I love lifting pages because even if you use the exact same ingredients, your page will turn out different because it about your own memories. I used the same template and word art snippets by the same designer (different kit), but my layout feels like my own. I’m so glad that Melissa helped me make it happen!

Supplies: Gina Miller Happy Happy Joy Joy template, Michelle Godin Book snippets, Michelle Godin I’d rather be reading, Kaye Winiecki just one more page, Georgia font.

Give scraplifting a try!

Whether you decide to lift Melissa’s layout, or pick another page that has caught your eye, make a goal to do some lifting of your own. You will learn a lot about your own scrapping style and you might even surprise yourself. I’d love to see your results so feel free to leave a link to your project in the comments. I know you will have fun and you will have something special to enjoy as a result. Give it a try!

I am excited to welcome Angie to The Digi Files this month! Angie has a bold, bright, and graphic style that I adore! She also includes a surprise bit of shabby or vintage goodness that all works really well together.  Making a great alpha with patterned papers is not easy, but it’s something Angie does very well!  I love that she says designing came from her inability to just have hobbies (see below for more). Our team created some gorgeous layouts with this kit and really had fun working it.  Let’s take a closer look at “Believe in Me” that is included in The Digi Files this month:

This is ONE of SEVEN collections you get when you become a member of The Digi Game this month. You also get an interactive Playbook (in PDF and iBooks formats) that has lots of ideas for using the supplies including techniques, tips, and tricks! All of that, including access to exclusive collaborations every four months you are a member, for only $7.50 total per month! Here are some layouts created using Angie Kovacs’s contribution:

Layout by Ronnie. Supplies: Believe in Me by Angie Kovacs; All Hallows Eve (ribbon) by Chelle Creations; Photocentricv2 (template) by Crystal Livesay; Build Your Wings (alpha) by Michelle Godin; Pearl (pearl) by Pattie Knox; doily by Daily Digi Collab; Pearl by Pattie Knox.

Layout by Rachel. Supplies: Believe in Me by Angie Kovacs; Fonts: DK Carte Blanche and GF Halda.

Layout by Jacki. Supplies: Believe in Me by Angie Kovacs; Fonts: Date stamp by Shabby Princess; mustache by Kaye Winiecki.

Layout by Heddy. Supplies: Believe in Me by Angie Kovacs; Packed template by Amy Martin, font is DJB Digi JenLin by Darcy Baldwin.

Layout by Monica. Supplies: Believe in Me by Angie Kovacs; Stitched by Anna No. 3, Fonts: CK Ali’s Hand, Clementine Sketch, Pea AngeDawn.

You can see more layouts created with this kit on our “Team Inspiration” page.

My name is Angie (because that wasn’t obvious ) and I live just outside Cleveland, Ohio. I have 5 kids, 1 husband, and 1 dog, which seems like 1 too many of something most days. When I’m not at my desk reading Facebook over and over again, err I mean designing, I do a bit of running. I started out running to lose weight, and have sense done 8 marathons, so I guess it’s safe to say I love it. I even got certified to coach it and now I coach beginners up to half marathons. My next exciting adventure is going to be a dog running service. I figure I love running, and so do dogs, so why not put these things together and make a business out of it?

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I’m lucky enough to be able to be some amazing creative teams (I pinch myself often), so I have a buffet of fun stuff to play with. I love all my pages equally (more than I can say for the kids some days!) so it’s hard to pick a favorite, but this one I did recently stands out a bit. I love the pops of color on the white background. And, of course, I love that photo of my baby boy.

I started paper scrapping completely against my will in 2002. A friend had signed up for a Scrapbooking 101 class, and didn’t want to go alone. She offered to pay my way if I went with her, so I begrudgingly agreed. That was pretty much that.

I started dabbling in digital in 2006ish, I think. I was active on a site that embraced both mediums, and I was given the opportunity to try out some products. At first, I was positive I’d never give up my paper scrapping. Today, I have a room full of it that I haven’t seen in years.

The progression into designing was born of my inability to just have hobbies. I always find a way to turn them into jobs!

All the cliche stuff you can possibly imagine… color, theme, holiday. There’s no telling when and where inspiration will hit. I try hard to only create when I’m really feeling it, and just hope that doesn’t lead to a 6 month span without a release.

Computer: Windows 7, 8 gb RAM, AMD Phenom II X4 940 Processor – I don’t even know what I just said after the RAM part.
Program: Photoshop CS4 and Illustrator CS4. Trying to talk myself into the Adobe Cloud subscription, since I’m a college student (in my spare time – HA) and can get it for $20/month right now.
Camera: Canon 30D. I’d like a newer one, but I have no excuse for getting one, really.
Anything Else: I have a dinky little Wacom (4×6) that I only use when I’m doodling something, and not always even then. I still rock the mouse out half the time.

A decent photograph can go a long way toward making you love the pages you are creating. That isn’t to say that I don’t love the crappy ones, but I do notice that the pages I love the best are the ones with the higher quality photographs. You don’t need to go all crazy taking photography classes and learning to shoot in manual mode or all of that. Just being a bit more aware of how the light is shining on your subject or how still you hold the camera can help quite a bit. Maybe kick the dirty laundry out of the way in the background first (unless that’s just me that needs to do that?), or shut the door that leads to the messy room behind the subject. Little things here and there can make a big difference! I have a certain spot in my house that has more light than the rest, so that is the spot I try to take pictures if I can’t get outside where the real light is. I also don’t hesitate to make a photo black and white if it doesn’t work with the kit I’m using, or if there are just too many colors in the picture to distract me from the beautiful faces. I love black and white anyway, though, so it’s not much of a compromise.

I love this because it’s so ME. I work out 6-7 days a week and love it, so this was obviously a labor of love. Also, the title makes me laugh and I start singing that song every time I look at it. I also love bright and fun colors.

My most popular products are the digital page protectors. Everyone is loving this method of documenting their memories, whether it be paper or digital.

Here are some of my favorite products by Angie Kovacs:

Here are some more inspirational layouts using Angie Kovacs’s products. All of the layouts are linked to the originals with credits.

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Layout by SharonS. Credits: Believe in Me by Angie Kovacs; Template by Scrapbook Lady; Brushes by Cinzia Designs and Zoe Pearn; Font: The Sharon.

Layout by Beatrice Skinner. Credits: Believe in Me by Angie Kovacs.

Layout by Erika Hybben. Credits: Believe in Me by Angie Kovacs.

Layout by Kelly Mobley. Credits: Believe in Me by Angie Kovacs.

Layout by Lisa Kane. Credits: Believe in Me by Angie Kovacs.

Layout by Ma Martinez. Credits: Believe in Me by Angie Kovacs.

Layout by Vicki. Credits: Believe in Me by Angie Kovacs; Fonts: Calibri & Caviar Dreams.

Layout by Sula. Credits: Believe in Me by Angie Kovacs.

Layout by Trina. Credits: Believe in Me by Angie Kovacs; Graph Paper Alpha by Cluster Queen Creations; The Smart One template by Connie Princ.

Layout by Sula. Credits: Believe in Me by Angie Kovacs.

Layout by Ronnie. Supplies: Believe in Me by Angie Kovacs; All Hallows Eve (ribbon) by Chelle Creations; Photocentricv2 (template) by Crystal Livesay; Build Your Wings (alpha) by Michelle Godin; Pearl (pearl) by Pattie Knox; doily by Daily Digi Collab; Pearl by Pattie Knox.

Layout by Rachel. Supplies: Believe in Me by Angie Kovacs; Fonts: DK Carte Blanche and GF Halda.

Layout by Jacki. Supplies: Believe in Me by Angie Kovacs; Fonts: Date stamp by Shabby Princess; mustache by Kaye Winiecki.

Layout by Heddy. Supplies: Believe in Me by Angie Kovacs; Packed template by Amy Martin, font is DJB Digi JenLin by Darcy Baldwin.

Layout by Monica. Supplies: Believe in Me by Angie Kovacs; Stitched by Anna No. 3, Fonts: CK Ali’s Hand, Clementine Sketch, Pea AngeDawn.

Little Butterfly Wings – World’s Best Dad. Black Jack font.

We want to wish a happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there (including our own)! We hope you enjoy the day making or remembering memories with the special fathers in your own life.

If you are looking for any quotes to use on a Father’s Day card or a digital scrapbook layout, here are some of my favorites:

The greatest thing a father can do to his children, is to love their mother.- Anjaneth Garcia Untalan

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection. – Sigmund Freud

It is a wise father that knows his own child. – William Shakespeare

It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. – Anne Sexton

I’m a father; that’s what matters most. Nothing matters more. – Gordon Brown

Hope you all have a wonderful day!

Quirky Twerp retrospective tags. Black Jack font.

We love showing you all sorts of ways to use all the fun goodies that come with digital scrapbooking kits. Tags can be one of the most useful supplies for a digital scrapbooker and there are so many creative ways to use them!

One of my favorite ways to use a tag is to include the date on it. Such a simple, but stunning way to add that important detail.

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A tag is the perfect mini-canvas for a design element on your page. A monogram, a flower, or any shape will be right at home on a tag.

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Tags add visual interest to a page and can break up a linear composition with a natural angle.

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Tags can be layered just like any other embellishment to add fun designs to the page.

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Tags are a natural spot for journaling and titles and they will naturally catch your eye’s attention.

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Quite often, designers will include tags as part of their digital kits. There are also some individually packaged tags if you want to boost your stash a bit. Here are some of my recent favorites: (all images are linked)

Take a look through your own layouts and see how you have used tags. Think about how you can use tags to enhance your next digital page and have fun playing around with adding the perfect little finishing touch to your creation!

Credits: Changes by Cilenia Curtis (part of this month

Check out the new possibilities in the scrap-o-sphere this week…

Can’t get enough Washi? Chelle has a new CU Washi set. It includes 20 “ready to clip” washi tapes: just clip your favorite papers.

One of the Boys by Erica Zane at SSD is perfect for the boys in your life (big & small)…while some of the word art is obviously gears to Fathers, this kit is handy for so much more (even girls)!

Danielle Young and Tracy Martin have teamed up to create this bright & summery collaborative kit: Beach Shack ~ on sale now at Oscraps! And swing by Danielle Young’s Facebook page to get a FREE set of coordinating journaling cards!

New this week from Kimeric Kreations

Scrapping with Liz has these new Chopped Masks that will be a great addition to your stash. Add them to your pages and clip papers to them to make your own unique designs on your page. They are 20% off this week! Make sure to check out all of her new products!

Scrap Orchard’s Annual Iron Scrapper contest is back and starts on July 3rd! Stop by Scrap Orchard as they reveal this year’s prizes each week!

Heather T. has a new “boy” kit out at MScraps, called “The Next Step”–all about growing up! It’s 20% off through the weekend.

Got a special Grandma in your life? Jenn Labre has a beautiful new kit out called Nana’s Heart that is perfect for scrapping about her or any other special people in your life.

Save an extra 10% on Angie Kovacs’ new kit Just Be with coupon code justbe_10more now through Sunday 6/16/13.

Meagan’s Creations has a great collection out this week for list-making, Project Me, or bucket list projects! Bucket List is a great grungy, doodly collection with clusters, journal cards, glitters, word art clusters and quick pages! On sale for 20% off through Sunday!

*NEW* Brothers and Sisters Collection – 20% Off through Sunday

Tracy Martin released My Favs, a huge, revamped kit, perfect for documenting your favourite things. Make sure to check Facebook for a new freebie this week too!

Piccolina Designs has a new, fun template set this weekend. Page Builders volume 2 is 30% off through Sunday

Follow Cilenia along and get Artsy with her with some unique tricks & tips. Share & Comment to get her free Quick Pages created in the videos.

Check out Rosey Posey’s awesome summer sale at Scrapbookgraphics!

The We Create bundle (He Creates and She Creates) is an extensive and beautiful collection for scrapping about creative activities and school memories. It’s versatile so you can record everyday, non-school related memories, as well. Enjoy this collection at any time for only $12.

There are only a couple more days to get this amazing kit from Clever Monkey Graphics FREE with any $10 purchase at ScrapMatters!

Life Quotes n°4 by Sabrina’s Creations, now at MScraps and Oscraps. Save 20% off through the weekend!

Maya de Groot invites you to play her Express Your Creativity Challenge. This Month we are scrapping initials.

Free digital mini kit & journal cards when you subscribe to weekly updates from SuzyQ Scraps!

Yin is sharing this free 12×12 template on her blog!

Just in time for Father’s Day! Karla Dudley has a new collection and you get a free kit with purchase!!!! Available now!

Exclusive offer for Presslist Subscribers – purchase the He & She Journaling Cards this weekend and get the set of coordinating tags FREE. Full details in the paislee press newsletter. Subscribe now.

Celebrate the coming of summer with Studio Blagovesta! Enjoy 50% off two of her summer themed bundles.

Sugary Fancy added a NEW gorgeous kit with cute and exclusive birds at Store this week!! Birdie-ful Kit is available and ON SALE now!!

Bobbie of River~Rose Designs has a brand new fun and colourful collection on sale through now through June 16, 2013.

Sherwood Studio is now at Scrapbookgraphics! To celebrate, everything is on sale for 30% off through the 19th, including bundles and the latest addition to the Life Story collection.

New this Friday, find Swim Like a Fish in Tracey Monette of Clever Monkey Graphic’s store at ScrapMatters.

By popular request, Wendy’s Export Layers script now comes in a JPG version to save each layer in your PSCS or PSE document as a separate JPG. Great for exporting journaling cards or papers.

Sunday Afternoons are always wonderful.  A day to relax before the busy work week.  Let this kit take you to your happy place!  Through Jun 19, get 4 gorgeous Quickpages FREE with purchase.

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Cilenia joins us this month for the very first time an brings her Art/Life Journaling style designs with her.  I desire to inspire others, through her designs, to become more in tune with their inner voice and express it through scrapbooking or visual journaling. I think she sounds like a super fun Nanna too!  I found the colors and textures in her collection to The Digi Files super inspiring. The painted/printed papers, the banners, the fun journal pages that are included are so unique and some of them are from her real life art journals.  Let’s take a closer look at “Changes” that is included in The Digi Files this month:

This is ONE of SEVEN collections you get when you become a member of The Digi Game this month. You also get an interactive Playbook (in PDF and iBooks formats) that has lots of ideas for using the supplies including techniques, tips, and tricks! All of that, including access to exclusive collaborations every four months you are a member, for only $7.50 total per month! Here are some layouts created using Cilenia Curtis’s contribution:

Layout by Vicki. Supplies: Changes by Cilenia Curtis.

Layout by Ronnie. Supplies: Changes by Cilenia Curtis.

Layout by Jacki. Supplies: Changes by Cilenia Curtis; Font: Typewriter.

Layout by Sula. Supplies: Changes by Cilenia Curtis; A Piece of Me Templates by Scrapping with Liz; Font: DJB Please Explain by Darcy Baldwin.

Layout by Anne. Supplies: Changes by Cilenia Curtis; Fonts: Soymilk & American Typewriter.

You can see more layouts created with this kit on our “Team Inspiration” page.

Hi there happy people! My name is Cilenia, pronounced Sa-leen-na, and I’m a Mixed Media Artist with an obsession for papers, fabrics and inks while even mixing it up with computer graphics. I have been drawing on a computer since 1986 and creating art even longer with visual art journaling and art quilts. Somewhere in the middle there I started mixing it all up, and now I pull all my various art forms into each other to create unique one of a kind pieces. I am a Mama of 5 grown children and a Nana of 8 and all of them enjoy art as much as I do. It isn’t unusual to find us in the loft art studio gettin’ messy!

My dream is to help people become more in tune with their inner voice and use digital art for self expression along with creating scrapbooking pages for their stories for what I call Life Journaling. It is mostly about the journey deep within ourselves and expressing it through Art-Life Journaling.

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I have always done art for affirmations and healing. Some call it ‘She Art’ today, but for me… it has always been more than that. It was my inner voice speaking from my soul thru my art dolls or dancers. I continue to do these today digitally and in my mixed media projects and it’s a form of stress release and an expression of my inner self. I would encourage everyone to create for themselves, along with memory keeping. It doesn’t always have to be a photo of a memory, but can be about capturing the feelings of the moment and expressing through art no matter if created digitally, in mixed media or with a box of crayons. It’s all about the play and enjoying the process.

I have been scrapbooking, or as I like to call it, Life Journaling for as long as I can remember. In the late 1980s I started drawing on the computer and printing journaling and simplistic art onto papers to include in my scrapbooking. I guess it was called Hybrid, but I didn’t know that. I started to do more digital scrapping and art around 2004 but working full time and raising 5 children took most of my time and it wasn’t until late 2009 when I was laid off work did I really dive into it full throttle. I never looked back. Today I am still experimenting on how to bring my real life art into my digital art and am growing and learning every day. My styles have evolved, and will continue to evolve, as I nestle into my own unique art style of a cross between art journaling and scrapbooking.

I am inspired by everything! Literally! It can come from music, a tiny flower, an emotional experience or playing in my art room with children. I am so inspired by children as they have such a playful attitude towards art and freely express without any boundaries. As I teach them, I also practice the muse of asking myself, “What color do you feel like today?” From there, the sky is the limit.

Computer: I work on a 27″ iMac with duel a monitors set up and 16GB RAM. I’ve worked this way for 20 years and couldn’t live without the two monitors. My second monitor is a swivel type and it usually has my mail and text files opened while my iMac is where I work my graphics. I’m a total computer geek and create or modify all my programing for my sites. I’m still waiting on Santa on the iPad.
Program: I work in Adobe Masters CS6 and AutoCAD for my graphics and use ScreenFlow for all my videos.
Camera: My iPhone is my primary camera now along with a Canon PowerShot. I had a minolta x-700 but it was stollen years ago.
Anything Else: I have a 36″ Pen Plotter for large printing and work with a Wacom Bamboo tablet drawing directly on the computer, but have my sites on the new Wacom Cintuq. Hint hint Santa!

My favorite tip for scrappers has to be about Shadows. I’m asked all the time about mine and how to recreate. It’s not always about your style settings, but more about how they should appear as in real life. Look at shadows around you, study how papers, books and objects cast shadows and where the light source is coming from. Observe how they relate to each other and how the objects are layered or overhanging each other. If you study your real life shadows and tweak your program styles, you will have a richer, more realistic layout with a lot more depth to them. I have several articles and videos on this subject on my blog and invite any questions you may have

Color Play 2 has to be my fav! I was playing in my art studio with colors and flowers trying to decide what colors for my accent wall and this was a happy accident. I fell in love with them! Of course I had to bring in my florals and butterflies again with soft textured watercolors. These ended up in many of my art quilts at the time too. My wall ended up being the light slate color with a touch of the blue


My Follow Your Art Growth kit has been my all time most popular kit sold. I think it was because I combined my love of flowers and butterflies with a soft vintage twist but still with a modern feel to it. It represented the birth of Summer to me and I think that carried in the feel of the kit.


Here are some of my favorite products by Cilenia Curtis:

Here are some more inspirational layouts using Cilenia Curtis’s products. All of the layouts are linked to the originals with credits.

Cilenia has two special offers for you. Use code Digi25 to take 25% off any order (one time use) or code Digi40 to save 40% off any order over $20 (one time use).

Go have a look in Cilenia Curtis’s store! We will randomly select TWO winners to win $10 in product! All winners will be selected through the Rafflecopter widget below. There are several ways to enter and you can do ALL of them to gain more entries for yourself!

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Layout by Vicki. CREDITS: Changes by Cilenia Curtis; Starglow brush by Hawkmont; Fonts: Orial, 2Peas DW Stamped.

Layout by Vicki. CREDITS: Changes by Cilenia Curtis; Shalin Studios-template 10 Oct. 12.

Layout by Jacqueline. CREDITS: Changes by Cilenia Curtis.

Layout by Angie. CREDITS: Changes by Cilenia Curtis.

Layout by Beth. CREDITS: Changes by Cilenia Curtis.

Layout by Beth. CREDITS: Changes by Cilenia Curtis.

Layout by Jeannette. CREDITS: Changes by Cilenia Curtis.

Layout by Jeannette. CREDITS: Changes by Cilenia Curtis.

Layout by SharonS. CREDITS: Changes by Cilenia Curtis; Template by Trixie Scraps, Font: Amelie.

Layout by Vicki. Supplies: Changes by Cilenia Curtis.

Layout by Ronnie. Supplies: Changes by Cilenia Curtis.

Layout by Jacki. Supplies: Changes by Cilenia Curtis; Font: Typewriter.

Layout by Sula. Supplies: Changes by Cilenia Curtis; A Piece of Me Templates by Scrapping with Liz; Font: DJB Please Explain by Darcy Baldwin.

Layout by Anne. Supplies: Changes by Cilenia Curtis; Fonts: Soymilk & American Typewriter.

If you’re on Facebook, you probably have a timeline cover image. Have you ever used your digital scrapbooking skills to scrap a cover image? It’s a fun way to decorate your Facebook page while showing off your digital scrapbooking hobby.

Fortunately, the digital scrapbook community has tons of great stuff to help you make an awesome timeline cover quickly and easily! From freebie quick pages to templates, the designers have lots of goodies to help you add some personality to your Facebook page.

Facebook Timeline Cover Freebies

Many digital scrapbook designers offer Facebook timeline cover “quick pages” as freebies, often made to promote a newly released kit. I did a quick search and found a few freebies. Keep in mind that these were active freebies the week of June 10, 2013, but they might not be active if you’re reading this post in the archive in the future. It’s more of an example of the type of timeline cover quick pages that are available.

Timeline Templates

Naturally, if you want to make your own Facebook timeline cover, there are templates available for purchase to make things easier:

Making Your Own Timeline

If you want to make your own Facebook timeline cover, it’s very easy! Before you start though, double-check the Terms of Use on the kit you want to use to make sure that the designer is okay with it being used for Facebook timeline images.

To make your own cover image, create it on a canvas with these dimensions:

• Length = 851 pixels
• Width = 315 pixels

All you have to do is scrapbook the timeline as you would any page.

As a final step, remember to save your finished product at the web-resolution of 72 dpi as a flattened JPG image.

And that’s all there is to  it! Another fun way to use your digi supplies!

I’ve come a long way since I started digital scrapbooking back in 2009, even further since my early paper layouts back in 2003. One thing I noticed in my scrapbooking was the absence of feminine touches. My life has changed a lot since having my children. My life is filled two boys and lots of denim, and reds, blues, yellows, stripes, solids, plaids. No frills or lace, no pinks or purples, well sometimes purple because Ian’s favourite colour currently is purple. So a touch of purple. I’m naturally drawn to yellows and oranges, turquoise and apple greens, I love stripes and plaids and that’s OK. Lately, especially when there are so many cute and pretty collections out there, I’ve wanted to put a softer touch to some of my pages.

To satisfy this need I have in this world of mine filled with dirt, construction vehicles, monster trucks, computer games and mechanics I decided to jump in and bring in a softer touch with a doily here and a splash of pink there.

First I started with these layouts of my garden, I’ve really started to get into gardening over the last two years and what a perfect opportunity to play around.

Then the challenge of scrapping about yourself, I’m a woman, so of course it can be a little… girlie.

Last and my biggest challenge yet, bringing into my life with boys and their pages.

I try and keep the more feminine elements soft and simple so they don’t overwhelm the page. It’s a little liberating to know I don’t have to tweak every kit I love because it contains pink, purple or even flowers, hearts and butterflies. Here are some more examples:

I hope you join me and start using the pinks and purples. Enjoy it and have fun with it.

Tara