Darcy has been a member of the digital community for as long as I can remember. I remember being in my office (two houses ago) the day she announced she was going to start selling fonts and being so excited for her. Darcy specializes in turning handwriting into fonts (yours, a friends, a parent, etc.), but she also creates other fun and cute fonts too.  Let’s take a closer look at “The Daily Digi Girls” fonts created from the handwriting of our own team members, included in The Digi Files this month:

Here are some layouts created using Darcy Baldwin {fontography}’s contribution:

Layout by Trina. Supplies: The Daily Digi Girls by Darcy Baldwin {fontography}; Mr. Mustachio – Micheline Martin; A Little Help (template) by Lizzy Reiber.

Layout by Kim. Supplies: The Daily Digi Girls by Darcy Baldwin {fontography}; Template by Cathy Zielske; Cardstock by Katie Pertiet; Fonts: DJB Digi Kim and DJB Mouseketeer Kim.

Layout by Amelia. Supplies: The Daily Digi Girls by Darcy Baldwin {fontography}; A New Day by Makita Studio; Silver (template) by Simply Tiffany; BOY Verbiage (word art) by Persnickety Prints; Additional Font: Marcelle Script.

Layout by Karen. Supplies: The Daily Digi Girls by Darcy Baldwin {fontography}; All The Small Things by Something Blue Studios; Topography template by Valorie Wibbens.

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

I’m Darcy Baldwin, fontographer @ Sweet Shoppe Designs. I live in Texas with my family of geeky boys. We’re nerds at heart and love it! We are wanna homesteaders living in suburbia, watching the stars, studying science and history with a passion, and enjoying adventures in food, Doctor Who and Legos!

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I love scrapping all aspects of our lives. We’re budding foodies – not in a snooty way – but in that we love food and love to experiment and love moving towards a whole foods lifestyle, so we track meals we love. Eventually, these layouts and recipes will make it into the “An Introduction to My Son” package for each of the boys when they get married. It was an idea that I thought of when we received recipe cards from all of our family and friends for our shower. It would’ve been great to have a collection of recipes from my MIL on those things my husband really likes (he’s a bit picky), and it would’ve saved a few ruined meals and tears early on!

This is a fun collection of our food adventures, and the boys love looking through them and helping choose our meals during meal planning time.

I always thought scrapping was such a lame hobby (bear with me LOL). I’d only ever seen it done with huge photo cutouts, stickers on vast plains of white. When I had my youngest, I ran into a lady who took scrapping a little further, more creatively, less elementary-school-ish. I thought – That’s more my style! So one day I tried it out, and found while i hated journaling in a book, I loved the process of pictures+story to capture our lives.

I turned to digi about 3 years later when creating a project for a swap on a paper scrapping board. I didn’t want to take the time to do each of the pieces by hand, so played around with a photo editing program and found that I LOVED how I didn’t have to waste paper, I could ALT-Z, and never went back.

When I found an online community of other digital scrappers, I made friends with a fontographer who took me under her wings, taught me the ropes, and sent me on my way – into the great unknown of running my own business. I’ve been doing this since 2007 (wow, coming up on 5 years!)

Our stories. I’m the reluctant daughter of a crafter – meaning my mom crafted a lot to fill her time, and occasionally I’d do something along with her, but crafting just isn’t my thing (I’d rather read). But as I get older, and our stories become more precious to me, creating something to remember them by is what makes me want to craft.

Computer: Windows machine created by my amazing in-house Geek, with more oomph than I can ever remember because it changes as new products come out and he ramps up the power!

Program: I currently use Photoshop C3 for my scrapping.

Camera: I have a Canon Powershot X10. I crave a pocket sized great camera so that I don’t have to lug this one around, though!

Anything Else: Monoprice Tablet (switched from Wacom when we just couldn’t beat the price and my pen broke for the last time, and the pen cost as much as a new tablet).

One great tip I have on your journaling – give it some depth, not height! Written words should never have a shadow – but you can add a little depth as if you were writing with a ball point pen on a stack of papers by adding a simple pillow emboss (in Photoshop, click pillow emboss, choose chisel hard, bring your depth down to about 30, Highlight Mode to about 25 and Shadow mode to about 38.

This will give your text a bit of depth, as if you’ve pressed firmly on your paper. Play around with those numbers as color of paper and font thickness/color will make a difference.

I love that I get to play a part in so many people bringing their stories to life in their own handwriting. Whether it’s a professional who wants to be able to write to parents or clients in a more personable way, scrappers who want to be able to bring their own personality to their pages without the process of hand writing them, or capturing a love one’s handwriting to preserve (I’ve got to say doing kid fonts are SO much fun!), I am honored to be a part of the process of their stories.

This is actually a collection of some of my most popular fonts, together in one package.

Here are some of my favorite products by Darcy Baldwin:

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

35% off Darcy’s products (not valid during store-wide sales or on font services) through February 29th.

Go have a look in Darcy Baldwin’s store! We will randomly select a winner from the comments to win $10.00 in product from her store! (Comments must be posted before midnight EST to qualify)!

Layout by Heddy, supplies include: DJB Digi Jenlin font by Darcy Baldwin, Pasted and Pinned: Big Bundle by Amy Stoffel and Jenny Davey, Journal Bling by Jenn Barrette

Layout by Jenn, additional supplies: My Life in Print by TDD,  DJB Digi Tara

Layout by SharonS, supplies: February_2012_MyseryMega, Scrap Orchard, Photo Mask: Julia Makotinsky, Frame: Scrapgirls, Font: DJB Digi Tara

Layout by Trina. Supplies: The Daily Digi Girls by Darcy Baldwin {fontography}; Mr. Mustachio – Micheline Martin; A Little Help (template) by Lizzy Reiber.

Layout by Kim. Supplies: The Daily Digi Girls by Darcy Baldwin {fontography}; Template by Cathy Zielske; Cardstock by Katie Pertiet; Fonts: DJB Digi Kim and DJB Mouseketeer Kim.

Layout by Amelia. Supplies: The Daily Digi Girls by Darcy Baldwin {fontography}; A New Day by Makita Studio; Silver (template) by Simply Tiffany; BOY Verbiage (word art) by Persnickety Prints; Additional Font: Marcelle Script.

Layout by Karen. Supplies: The Daily Digi Girls by Darcy Baldwin {fontography}; All The Small Things by Something Blue Studios; Topography template by Valorie Wibbens.

Just my type by Mari Koegelenberg. The typewriter font by Heather Hess.

When I was younger, I had dreams of being a writer. I was sure that I would live in the English countryside (don’t know how I was going to get there from Utah?) where I would plunk away on my typewriter for hours every day. It was a ridiculously romanticized image of what the life of a writer would be and I’ve come to understand that is not likely to ever be what my life looks like. The best part is that I’ve since realized I don’t want that type of existence. Sure, the English countryside part still sounds wonderful, but I definitely want more out of my world than just a one on one relationship with words and paper. I want to live life each day and experience it. That means that I have to squeeze in bits and pieces of writing when I can.

Sometimes, when I discuss my love of scrapbook journaling with others, they seem to have an idealized notion of what it must be like to be one of “those people” who write a lot on their layouts. They act as if I have more time or talent than they do because I’ve put a few paragraphs on a page. What they might not realize it that it comes out word by little word, and it often takes many tries to simply jot down a few sentences.

I’ll open a word document and type a few thoughts, then I need to drive my daughter somewhere. That document stays open in the background of my computer while I answer emails, teach my children in homeschool, and balance our checkbook. I play around with the layout. It’s much more fun to arrange flowers than it is to extract words from my busy brain.

I remind myself that the page will not be complete without the story, so I go back to my word document. I switch back and forth between photos and thoughts. I stare at the pictures and try to remember what I want to say. I type a few words. I look at the clock and realize that dinner time is right around the corner. I forget about the journaling. Hours later, the kids are finally in bed, and I have a few minutes. But, I’m exhausted and I have other things that need to get done before morning. Those tasks come first, but I type a few more lines to explain the memories.

This process can last for days at times. It all depends on what interrupts me. I have a real life. I’m needed by actual people. I don’t give up. I write when I can. I take any little chunk of time that falls into my lap and I use it. That’s what writers do.

My new image of a writer is not someone who sits alone for hours in a quiet room, but it is someone who makes notes on her smartphone, works on ideas when she has a few minutes, types captions into her photo uploads, shares thoughts on social media, and post pictures and thoughts in blog posts. She can type memories while her son plays rock band in the other room, or in a quick dash as she fits in some time before a friend drops by.

When the time comes to pull it all together, a writer gathers the breadcrumbs she’s been leaving behind and gives them a home. In my case, the finished product is not a novel, but a scrapbook page. Bits and pieces at a time. Line by line, I’m writing the story of my life and I call it scrapbooking. Not in a cottage overlooking an English garden, but in a house full of people, cooking dinner, teaching school, wearing sweatpants, at 11 p.m. at night, or on my phone at the breakfast table.

I’m a writer because I stick with it. I keep going until those words are on the piece of paper. It’s not glamorous. It’s not even particularly talented. It’s persistent, and it pays off in the long run. I’m a writer because I’m a scrapbooker. I’m a writer because I keep trying to be one. The key is to just chip away at it until you have something down on paper, and when you do – put it on a layout!

I love editing my photos in Lightroom and I’ve shared that passion in this post here at The Daily Digi and in several episodes of The Digi Show. Presets are my best friend when it comes to making my photos shine and it really is my favorite method for photo editing. I keep telling Steph that “she will love editing photos in Lightroom” but she hasn’t been all that interested since she kind of dreads photo editing. She has enjoyed using Lightroom for tagging her digital scrapbook supply previews and has shared that passion in this post and also on The Digi Show. She keeps telling me that it’s so fast and easy and I “really need to try it.” I’ve made a big point about how I really don’t like to tag supplies. I’ve had bad experiences in the past and I’ve been very happy with my trusty folder system. We found that we both were passionate about different parts of Lightroom and wanted to share what we loved with each other. I’m not sure who issued the first “challenge”, but somehow it became an idea that I would try tagging previews, if she would try photo editing with presets. We started referring to it as a “showdown” and we decided our readers would also enjoy seeing this epic battle. LOL!

The Anti-Tagger (aka Katie)

I took a deep breath and imported all the images from my misc. kits preview folder into Lightroom. I applied the keyword “preview” to each of them as they imported which meant all I had to do was to type that word once and it was automatically applied to all 515 previews as they were imported into the program. (Yes, I realize I have a slight addiction!)

That was super easy, (and fast) but I needed to see how it worked if I wanted to tag each preview with the designer’s name. The whole point of tagging for me would be to make it easier to search for something specific. I went through and selected all the kits by a certain designer and then applied a keyword of their name. In this case, I chose Lauren Reid’s kits and added the keyword “laurenreid”.

This was a very easy and quick process since the previews were already organized by designer name in my folder. I was able to keyword all 515 previews in less than 18 minutes! Suddenly, it made sense for me to apply tags to my supplies because the process was fast and painless. The keywords are applied as metadata so I don’t have to worry about losing them or that they are only useful in Lightroom because that information is written to the file’s metadata. Now my previews are all tagged with the designer’s name from Anita Designs to Zoe Pearn! (A to Z) I could also easily add keywords based on the kit’s theme or other relevant factors. For the first time in years, I’m excited about tagging!

The Editing Hater (a.k.a. Steph)

I hate editing photos! That is not news to you at all if you listen to The Digi Show. The problem is, I can’t put a photo on a layout without editing it first, no matter how I try. Editing photos just takes too long, which makes me not like it.

Katie has been telling me for a very long time that if I edited my photos in Lightroom, I would like it, but I have remained skeptical. I bought Lightroom a long time ago and did a bit of photo editing and admitted that I could probably start to hate it less. However, I didn’t really understand the program that well and I didn’t want to take the time to learn it, just to edit photos.

After getting my supplies organized in Lightroom, I could see the advantage it would be in my workflow to edit in Lightroom as well. When Katie agreed to my challenge, I dug in and started learning how to edit in Lightroom. I went through the Basic Develop Module Workflow video at Lynda.com (Chapter 26 video 1). It was a seven minute video and enough to get me going!

I already knew how to import my photos from doing all of my product previews, so I got to work importing all 35,548 photos taken over the past 5 years (yes, I still have another harddrive that includes photos taken between 2000 and 2006).

I had an album in mind that I wanted to work on and decided to process those photos. I selected several photos at time that had similar lighting conditions and used my Totally Rad Presets to edit them. I also applied tags to the photos based on event:

I have to admit that I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly I was able to batch edit these photos. I would have never sat and batch processed this many photos in Photoshop…ever. It took me 3 hours to edit almost 300 photos. While I won’t say that I LOVED it, I will say that I didn’t hate it. I would even go as far as saying I liked it (I had to have at least liked it in order to sit there for 3 hours editing).

What I’m most excited about is now that I have my photos in Lightroom and my supply previews organized and tagged in Lightroom; I can batch edit some photos, select a few for a layout, and add a layout keyword to the photos as well as the supply preview I want to use.

Here’s a closer look at the keywords on the above images:

When I am ready to scrap, I can export those photos into Photoshop. I can right click on the preview and select “Show in Explorer” and the folder containing those supplies will open; from there, I can drag and drop the supplies I want to use into Photoshop.

I am excited about being able to quickly edit my photos in Lightroom and have them looking “good enough” to go on my layouts. I am super excited about the way I will be able to incorporate all of this into my workflow and save time.

If you are having a hard time getting excited about a technique that someone else loves, try going head-to-head with them in a challenge. Help each other by sharing tips and tricks. Ask each other questions. If you don’t have a digi buddy, try posting in a forum to ask for some inspiration. Or create your own challenge by deciding something like “I’m going to to try Katrina’s technique for photographing people with glasses” or “I’m going to start a pinboard for pages just like Heddy did.” We love to share our passions here at The Daily Digi and we are often inspired by something YOU tell us about in the comments. It’s fun to learn from each other. I’m sure glad Steph challenged me to step out of my comfort zone and try something new!

P.S.  Noelle was the random winner chose from the comments on Sabrina’s Creations feature last Thursday. She won $10 in product from Sabrina’s Creations!

P.S.S. Ophelia was the random winner selected from yesterday’s feature on Stolen Moments Designs. She won $10 in product from Stolen Moment Designs

Sometimes, when I come across a new designer, their designs really jump out at me and I remember them for a long time. If I find myself going back again and again to see what’s new, I know I’m hooked. That’s what happened after I found Stolen Moments Designs. I love her great color sense and unique elements that can always be found. So many fun things that inspire me to scrap my memories! Let’s take a closer look at “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” that is included in The Digi Files this month:

This is just ONE of the collections you get this month when you become a  member of The Digi Files OR Digi Game! This month, we have EIGHT full collections for a total of $7.50 and that includes our Playbook with ideas for putting the products into action!

Here are some layouts created using Stolen Moments’s contribution:

Layout by Karen. Supplies: Let Me Call You Sweetheart by Stolen Moments; Fonts: .

Layout by Jenn. Supplies: Let Me Call You Sweetheart by Stolen Moments; Fonts: DJB DigiKim.

Layout by Anne. Supplies: Let Me Call You Sweetheart by Stolen Moments; Fonts: Noteworthy.

Layout by Lauren. Supplies: Let Me Call You Sweetheart by Stolen Moments.

Layout by SharonS

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

I’m Amber, a 27-yo mom of 1-and-a-half boys, who works full time by day and scraps part time by night. I’m back living in northern Utah after having been away for 3 years while DH completed his MFA in theatre in Missouri. My degree is also in theatre, and my “real job” is in arts administration. BTW, I hate these types of intros – I’m never witty or clever enough to make them interesting..

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These are some little boxes I made to give homemade gifts in for Christmas of 2010. My favorite thing about them is that they were my first true dive into hybrid crafting. I never paper scrapped before starting digi, and it was really fun to “get my hands dirty” in a way I never really had before.

I was first introduced to digital scrapping the summer of 2008 when my husband’s cousin blogged about it. I had a new baby at the time, missed having a creative outlet now that I was a SAHM, and had always been intimidated by “real” scrapbooking because I’m too much of a perfectionist. The idea of being able to ctrl+z whenever I needed was a perfect solution! I surfed around the freebie sites for a couple weeks and decided I wanted to try my hand at designing, and the rest is history.

The first thing that always speaks to me when I’m looking for inspiration is color. I’ll see an image – DS’s clothes, a family photo, an ad in a magazine – and the colors will immediately pop out at me and say something. The final product may not have anything to do with the image I pulled the colors from, but the feelings evoked by that combination of colors is always there.

Computer: I do all of my work on my 15″ Dell Inspiron 1564 that I bought back in 2009. She’s in desperate need of a new battery (as in, the moment it comes unplugged she dies), hasn’t had any RAM or other upgrades (although she needs them) and is running Windows 7 – which I love! Before getting Stella I worked from DH’s desktop with a 17″ monitor and never thought I’d be able to comfortably work on a laptop – now, though, I can’t ever image going back!

Program: My primary program for designing is Photoshop CS3. I do a bit in Illustrator, but not enough to make any great claims to fame. I also occasionally use ArtRage, and all of my fonts are built in FontCreator.

Camera: Just a simple P&S – the Panasonic Lumix that we bought just before DS was born in 2008. It does a decent enough job – I didn’t know at the time what good really was. We keep saying we’ll save up for a DSLR, but somehow something else always sneaks in to use the cash instead.. One day, though…

Anything Else: I have a Bamboo Fun tablet that I really enjoyed playing with when I first purchased it. But DS got his hands on the stylus once a while back and it’s just never been the same since. Luckily my design style doesn’t really use a whole lot of doodling, so I don’t find that I’m missing out too terribly often.

The BIGGEST time saver I’ve come across in scrapping is the function in PS to “load files into stack.” Go to File –> Scripts –> Load Files into Stack. From there, navigate to the folder you’d like your images to come from and select as many as you like by ctrl+clicking or shift+clicking. The beauty of this is that it keeps the file names of each item in tact in your document (great for those of you who aren’t one-kit scrappers and need to keep track of things for credits) – it also loads them alphabetically, (which always comes in handy as I’m doing product previews). As I’m working, I only need to have two windows open – one with my loaded files and one with the page I’m working on. Once I’ve used a certain piece on my page, I’ll delete that layer from the loaded files document and can easily see if I’ve used everything I wanted to.

A few other time savers in PS that I’m ALWAYS using is to hold down the shift key while I’m dragging a layer from one document to the other. This will always center your layer within your page and make it easy to find. Another one is rather than digging through layer after layer in your palette to select an object, simply ctrl+click on it on your page and that layer will automatically be selected. If you want to select several things – a photo and frame, for example – ctrl+click the first item, then while still holding down the ctrl key, shift+click each other item. This selects everything you click on and you can now treat them as one as long as they are all selected (applying the same layer style, moving them around on the page, etc.)

It seems that my favorite kit is always my most recent – however The Sweetest Season has managed to stand the test of time a bit more than most. I was inspired by an image of a beautifully decked out Christmas tree while I was spending some quality time on Pinterest.. The colors in the photo were so vibrant, but the feel was still very vintage. I wanted to create something a little more kitschy than I normally do, and while I still have a lot to learn in that area, I loved the journey I took in creating the kit and the challenge it presented me to think outside my normal designer box. And hello – that snowman – does it get any cuter than that?!?

The colors and theme for Makin’ Me Happy were inspired by a bouquet of flowers DH randomly brought home to me for no special reason at all.. Nearly 2 years after its release, I’m still getting fairly regular sales of the kit, and I think the biggest reason is that it’s so versatile. The primary colors with a good neutral base can be used for a variety of different types of pages, and there is enough variety within the kit itself that each page I’ve seen with it is different – so no matter your scrapping style, you’ll find something in there for you.. Another reason I think people pick it up is that it just so happens to have a “mouse-inspired” add-on as well..

Here are some of my favorite products by Stolen Moments:

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

Use the code DIGIFILES at Stolen Moments’ Scrapmatters store to receive 25% off your purchase (expires 03/01/12). You will also receive an extra coupon via email for 10% off every $5 you spend on the original purchase – i.e. spend $10 get 20% off your next purchase, spend $20 get 40% off your next purchase.

Go have a look in Stolen Moments’s store! We will randomly select a winner from the comments to win $10.00 in product from her store! (Comments must be posted before midnight EST to qualify)!

Layout by Yolanda

Layout by Amanda

Layout by Cheryl

Layout by Debby

Layout by Leeandra

Layout by Marlen

Layout by Mimontiero

Layout by Patti

Layout by Tanya

Layout by Karen. Supplies: Let Me Call You Sweetheart by Stolen Moments; Fonts: .

Layout by Jenn. Supplies: Let Me Call You Sweetheart by Stolen Moments; Fonts: DJB DigiKim.

Layout by Anne. Supplies: Let Me Call You Sweetheart by Stolen Moments; Fonts: Noteworthy.

Layout by Lauren. Supplies: Let Me Call You Sweetheart by Stolen Moments.

Layout by SharonS

Infographic by Katie. Light bulb icon from Wikimedia commons. Fonts are varying forms of Arial.

I’ve been fascinated with infographics for some time now. I love the visual representation of data and facts and I really see it as another form of digital scrapbooking. When Steph posted this amazing infographic at the beginning of the year, I knew I had to figure out how to work on my own graphic design skills so I could make my own creation!

The most important ingredients for an effective infographic include; data that can be represented visually, a clean & organized design, and good typography. Study infographic images that are appealing to you and make note of how the information was presented and what design techniques were used. Here are a few that I love:

source: daily infographic

source: daily infographic

I especially love these infographics because they represent personal data shared in a fun & beautiful way. These would be great for scrapbook layouts!

When you’re ready to create your own infographic, there are several great resources you’ll want to explore.

• Infographics toolbox doc that Steph shared in this Christmas Card post
• How to create outstanding modern infographics by Vector tuts+
• Awesome free tools for infographics from makeuseof.com
• Tips, tricks, & resources to make your own gorgeous infographics from thenextweb.com
• Mashable’s Infographic pinterest board
• Steph’s Infographic pinterest board

If you create any infographic-inspired layouts, we’d love to see them! Just upload them to our flickr group or leave a link here in the comments.

on the fly border by Kristin Rice – Kstudio

I found out about Pinterest through Katie’s post about the site back in April 2011. Fast forward to the present and you’ll find me on Pinterest every day! If you haven’t experienced it yet, Pinterest is a visual bookmarking site. It’s a simple concept, but since it’s so visual, I’ll walk you through The Daily Digi (TDD) on Pinterest. You can find TDD’s pins here. TDD organizes its pins into several boards (topics), like this:

I know that’s probably hard to see, so here’s a close-up on a few:

You can choose to follow one specific board or follow every board by a particular user.

Once you’re following a few boards, pins from those boards will automatically show up on your Pinterest page for you to browse. If you want, you can choose to re-pin them onto one of your boards, “like” them, and comment on them.

Scrapbooking Pinboards

I happen to think that Pinterest is one of the best things to happen to digi scrapbooking since drop-shadow styles. Why? Because now I can locate all of my “favourite” pages onto a pin board! I love the inspiration in the galleries and in the past, I would “favourite” pages in the gallery where I saw the page. The trouble was that when I wanted to view it again, I had to think pretty hard to try to remember which gallery I saw it in.

Enter Pinterest. Here are some of my recent favourite pages that I’ve pinned:

Each one is linked back to their original gallery post so I can find it again and check out the page credits.  Now I have hundreds of pages by various scrappers using many different designer products all located in one handy spot.

You can easily pin layouts you like, too! Here’s how:

1. Find a layout you love. I love the title on this page by our very own Trina. I also have a very similar photo of one of my own kids so I know this is a page I will want to refer back to.

2. Copy the URL of the image.

3. Open another browser window/tab with Pinterest. Hit the “+” sign at the top right of the screen. It looks like this:

When you do that, a dialog box will appear:

Select “Add a Pin”

4. Paste the URL, select the image, select a pin board and add in some information. I add the name of the scrapper to pinned pages.

Once you hit, “Pin It”, you’re done. The page is now pinned to your scrapbooking pinboard.

A recent development has been “pin me” buttons in galleries. In galleries with this feature, all you need to do is hit the “pin me” button on a favourite page and it will automatically connect with your Pinterest account (assuming you’re logged in) and take your through the pin posting steps.

Scrap Pin Boards

There are so many awesome scrapbooking boards to follow. Here are just a few:

• Challenge Inspiration by Sweet Shoppe Designs
• Scrap Stuff by Kellie Turner
• Scrapbook Layouts by Kim de Smet
• Scrapbook Layouts We Love by Scrappin Bunnies LLC
• Layout Love by Marisa Lerin
• Scrap It! by Katie Nelson

Many scrapbooking stores are on Pinterest now. If you check your favourite store’s site, you may find a link to their Pinterest account.

You can easily find more pinboards by searching for key words like “scrapbook”, “layouts”, “digi scrap”, etc.

I hope you have fun on Pinterest!

Unfortunately, we are not able to respond to Pinterest invitation requests at this time. If you would like an invitation, try going to your favourite scrapbooking store forum and asking if one of the users there can send you an invitation. I’ve seen this work out for       many scrappers.

Graphics from: Kaye Winiecki Say Cheese.

Did you know that we’ve tweeted more than 8,000 times? Really! Even though we post here every day, and put together these huge Funtastic Friday posts each week, we always seem to have even more great stuff to tell you about in digi land. Be sure to follow us on twitter to keep up with all of our fun finds!

We are in need of new graphics for our contributor feature posts!! We decided it would be fun to have a contest! We will chose one winner based on the designs we want to use for the site. The winner will receive an annual membership to The Digi Game as well as $150 PayPal cash.All entries are due by midnight ET February 17, 2012 (uploading will be turned off at that time)

Click here for the specifics.

Love is in the Air – Capture those heart melting moments with this fun and whimsical kit by Mari Koegelenberg. Just My Type is packed full of unique and beautiful elements that will make you fall in love with your creations all over again!

Find this fun freebie on Studio Basic’s facebook fan page!

Here is a super fun new set of templates from Scrapping with Liz. She designed them with the idea of scrapping a “list” of whatever you might want to document….favorites, memories, dates, etc…. But of course they can be used for almost anything.

It’s time for the FEBRUARY BYOC! Full of amazing products in BEAUTIFUL colors!!
Love Monkey is on sale 20% OFF all weekend long and TDD Readers can enjoy an additional 15% OFF!!!
use code: LOVE_BYOC good through Sunday, February 5th!

Dúnia has a great new pack of templates in her shop!

Today is the last day to take advantage of Sweet Shoppe Designs’ storewide Birthday Sale.  You’ll also find daily freebies all month long in their forums.

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Misty Cato and Krystal Hartley have created a beautifully whimsical tribute to her royal majesty, Queen of Hearts.

Chelle has three CU products in the shop today all on sale for 20% off! It’s the perfect time to stock up while on sale! They are on sale from 2/3- 2/9 EST.

Kate Hadfield has released some super cute Candy Valentine’s printables! Use this code to take 50% off all weekend: lovethedailydigi

Joyce Paul Designs is now Pink Poppy Press! Save 30% off all my products until February 9, 2012

Love handwritten fonts?  Look no further!  This font is from WM Squared’s CT Gal, Cami!  CU is OK!!

After nearly two years, Michelle Batton has decided to close my store at Funky Playground Designs.  All retiring products are 60% off through Feb 15th.  Sign up for my newsletter or become a fan on facebook to get the details about my new adventures!

Lynne-Marie teamed up with her son Caleb to create this fun charity kit for a school project he has.  All profits will be donated to World Vision.  There is a full kit, a set of printable Valentine’s Day cards, and a set of printable home decor posters!

The Digichick is having a sale! Save 30% off on most everything in the store now through Sunday!

Karen Lewis has Document Packs that are designed to help you tell your daily stories quick and easily through journaling and labels. Snapshots Document Pack co-ordinates with Snapshots Designer kit.

Heather Hess must have read my mind because I love typewriter fonts and old typewriters!

There’s a beautiful new set of Blended Templates at Studio Rosey Posey. Great new rectangle masks that can be used horizontally or vertically. All layered, move the elements as needed and change colours easily!

Peppermint Granberg of One Little Bird is hosting a giveaway on her site for a one-month subscription to The Foundations Club by Crystal Livesay. Enter by 2/5/2012 for your chance to win.

Cindy Schneider has a new “Exclusive Fan Freebie” on Facebook, available until February 8th!  Be sure to grab it for free before it hits the store!

Jenn Labre and Kim Broedelet have teamed up to create this beautiful new collab. Snapshots of the Heart is on sale for 20% off all weekend!

Krisi’s Kreations has a template out this week that would be perfect for a Valentine gift as well as birthday favor or gift box.

I’m loving this new Valentine collection from Flergs at Scrapbook Graphics

Kay Miller has have moved her store to ScrapOrchard. She has a new kit and new set of templates and has rereleased Fairytale Dreams.

Mye De Leon has this amazing collection this week called Patchwork of Love – find the beautiful kit and the rest of the collection at her new store at Pickleberrypop

I just love the patterned papers in Kaye Winiecki’s new BYOC contributions!

We also released another digi show this week! We chatted with Wendyzine all about printing and I know you will learn a lot – I sure did!

I’m off to shop! Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

I fell in love with Sabrina’s designs when I very first discovered her a couple of years ago. Sophisticated and classy are a couple of the words that come to mind when I look at Sabrina’s Creations! I have always found her designs so intriguing; I love studying the previews to find simple surprises that she includes in her collections. I am thrilled to have Sabrina joining us in The Digi Files again this month! Let’s take a closer look at “Love is” that is included in The Digi Files this month:

Here are some layouts created using Sabrina’s Creations’s contribution:

Layout by Karen. Supplies: Love is by Sabrina’s Creations.

Layout by Kimberly. Supplies: Love is by Sabrina’s Creations; Fonts: Vrinda, CK Ali’s Hand; Coffee Shop Sunkissed Photoshop Action.

Layout by Tara. Supplies: Love is by Sabrina’s Creations.

Layout by Melissa. Supplies: Love is by Sabrina’s Creations.

Layout by Aaron. Supplies: Love is by Sabrina’s Creations; It’s a Date by Zoe Pearn; Shadows by One Little Bird and Jennifer Barrette; Font: Digi Jenlin by Darcy Baldwin.

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

My name is Sabrina, 30 years, SAHM and living in a small city in Belgium.
Mom of 4 wonderful kids, Sanne (12/2003), Brent (03/2006), Maaike (05/2008) and Mathias (03/2011). Married with Koen since June 2003 and we know eachother since November 2000. He is my first biggest love and still is my biggest love. I want to get old with him. Addicted to my family, photoshop, photography and designing.

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I love this layout because this photo is unique to us. It’s a photo taken at neonatology when Maaike was born with the Pierre-Robin Sequence. This is one of the most beautiful photos I made of her while she stayed at the hospital. It were heavy days, had 2 kids already and I went to 2 to 3 times a day to the hospital to visit my little miracle. I choosed this wordart because I think God gave her to us, he knewed that we could handle it all. If you see her now, you won’t believe that the 2 first weeks of her life were critical.

Expired collab between Sabrina’s Creations and Kelley Mickus Designs, wishing and hoping.

I started to design after the birth of Brent (April 2006). I wanted to make a Thank you card and I did it, it wasn’t a lot on the card, just a 1 or 2 photos and some text on it. A few weeks later I discovered digital scrapbooking and a whole new world opened his doors to me. In 2008 I started to design, I wanted to make my own stuff for making layouts with my photos and since then, I’m totally addicted to it. I love the clean and simple style which I give to my products. I design more than I scrap pages. I’m behind with my yearly photo albums, have to make work on it really soon… A lot of photos are waiting to be scrapped and turning them into a photobook.

A lot of the daily things in life gives me inspiration… Magazines, blogs, pinterest, which is a huge inspiration source. I get a lot of inspiration by looking to my kids or there clothes.

Computer: Intel DUAL Core i3 350M 4GB RAM, 200GB HD. Windows 7

Program: I use Photoshop CS5 to design and scrap. I love this program and wouldn’t change it for another one. I use Lightroom too for editing my photos, I love the filters for Lightroom.

Camera: I have a Canon EOS 50D with 2 lenses; Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 and Canon EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS. And this lense is on my wishlist: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM.

Anything Else: I have a wacom bamboo tablet but I don’t use it a lot.

If you are creating a layout try to resize your elements a little bit smaller, your layout will look better and don’t forget to add some drop shadows to the elements. It will give that extra touch to your layout. Add some journaling to your layouts so you remember what happened that day or what was the reason what happened.

What I also want to say is that it’s really important to backup your files once a month.

One of my favorite products is the ‘Family Love’ kit. I had a family photoshoot with a friend of mine and I wanted to put the photos into an album and needed a kit about Family. I couldn’t find one that I could use for my photobook so I made one for it. I found the colors on the internet, I definitely wanted white-grey and green in it and I bumped to this colorscheme on the internet. I had a lot of fun making this kit and my photobook turned out fantastic. Everyone can use it to capture their family photos.

I think it’s Hello with the free Add On. I’ve found these colors on the internet and the theme ‘hello’ came to me when I saw the colors. I’ve made an add on to it with some blue papers and extra elements. This kit can be used for girls as for boys.

Here are some of my favorite products by Sabrina’s Creations:

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

Sabrina’s MScraps store is 30% OFF during February, excludes collaborations. (exp 02-29-12)

Go have a look in Sabrina’s Creations’s store! We will randomly select a winner from the comments to win $10.00 in product from her store! (Comments must be posted before midnight EST to qualify)!