Remember, the download is kept up for 5 days, and then it is taken down. If you miss pieces, the kit will be available for purchase on the first day of the following month.
Post expires at 10:00am on Monday February 3rd, 2020
DD: JAN 27
Jan
27
2020
Remember, the download is kept up for 5 days, and then it is taken down. If you miss pieces, the kit will be available for purchase on the first day of the following month.
Post expires at 10:00am on Sunday February 2nd, 2020
DD: JAN 26
Jan
26
2020
Remember, the download is kept up for 5 days, and then it is taken down. If you miss pieces, the kit will be available for purchase on the first day of the following month.
Post expires at 10:00am on Saturday February 1st, 2020
DD: JAN 25
Jan
25
2020
Remember, the download is kept up for 5 days, and then it is taken down. If you miss pieces, the kit will be available for purchase on the first day of the following month.
Post expires at 10:00am on Friday January 31st, 2020
Fresh Baked: January 24, 2020
Jan
24
2020
I hope you’re ready to save a few bucks, and stock up on some amazing kits! The designers don’t just have amazing new kits for you! They also have an amazing sale going on. It’s time for the big ol’ Retirement Sale, and they’re putting more than just retired products up for sale! How can you beat a deal like that?
Remember when you spend $10 in the store, you get a great new collab! Winter is fully set in and it’s time to cozy up and get warm.
So, excuse me for a bit. I feel an overwhelming urge for a cup of coffee!
Remember, if you complete 10 challenges, just ten, you get a free kit as well!!
This kit makes me like snow. As long as I’m not driving in it…
DD: JAN 24
Jan
24
2020
Remember, the download is kept up for 5 days, and then it is taken down. If you miss pieces, the kit will be available for purchase on the first day of the following month.
Post expires at 10:00am on Thursday January 30th, 2020
Sneak Peeks January 23rd 2020
Jan
23
2020
Happy Thursday!! Our designers have a ton of new goodies for you this week! Let’s take a peek!
From Scrapping Serenity
From Tinci
From Neia
From Aimee Harrison
From Jb Studio
From Lindsay Jane
From LDrag
DD: JAN 23
Jan
23
2020
Remember, the download is kept up for 5 days, and then it is taken down. If you miss pieces, the kit will be available for purchase on the first day of the following month.
Post expires at 10:00am on Wednesday January 29th, 2020
~~January Featured Designers~~
Jan
22
2020
I know – it’s almost the end of January and I’m just now getting this posted. I don’t know about anyone else, but work has been absolutely crazy. I’ve worked enough hours the last two weeks to take a full week off. If only it worked that way.
I had the pleasure to have The Cherry on Top and Key Lime Digi Designs answer my questions. Let’s see what they have to say.
How long have you been designing?
TCOT: I’ve been designing around 5 years.
KLDD: Summer 2013
What made you decide to design?
TCOT: I’ve always loved being creative on all kinds of medium since I was kid. I went from a full time professional to a stay at home to take care of my handicapped sons and I needed some other fun outlet to feel whole.
KLDD: I was on many Creative Teams and Store Team at a large digi site starting beginning around 2007 I think….After a while I picked up enough knowledge and increased my skill set to want to try the next step.
What do you use to create your designs (program, additional tools, etc.)?
TCOT: I use PSE/PS/Procreate/a sketch book.
KLDD: I am still using the out of the box software from right before Adobe moved to subscription. As the saying goes, If it ain’t broke…
Describe your design workplace.
TCOT: Disgustingly neat and tidy. I cannot concentrate in a mess. A glass of wine or tea is as reckless as I get!
KLDD: Organized chaos. I am absolutely terrible at putting away and organizing. I constantly make “digital” post it notes to remind me to do something and then forget about it. I have 3 EHDs that I promise myself will be THE ONE that gets organized. As for my work space, I have from the beginning, and probably will always remain a desktop gal. I can’t do laptop.
What motivates and inspires you as a designer?
TCOT: Absolutely everything! Beauty is everywhere. In a cloud formation. The way the sun reflects on a gently flowing river. The cat napping in just the right position…
KLDD: I love good color harmony, so when I see it on a blouse at a store I will snapshot it or at least make a note of the colors that were in it and run home to make a palette of it.
What is your favorite kit currently in your GS store and why?
TCOT: Awe, man! It’s just cruel to make me choose! My favorite template pack, (I assume you mean our own and not another designers?) would be the Planner series. I really dig those realistic, mock up types of pages, currently.
Link to all of the Planned templates: https://store.gingerscraps.net/search.php?mode=search&page=1&keep_https=yes
KLDD: I Belong to the Sea. When I was making it, I was in my element. I live in a coastal area, actually on an island chain, so I guess while making it was like being home. Bonus factoid: That collection began with the colors in the Little Sailor Boy Tin element. A close second though, has to be Indigo Serenade..I mean you gotta check out the CT Layouts on that one. They make me swoon.
What was your first job?
TCOT: I worked at AARP everyday after school, weekends and summers. I started at 13.
KLDD: Counter girl at a deli…hated it and never did food service again…LOL!
Have you ever met anyone famous?
TCOT: The list is very long. I lived in Florida where many famous people can be found and I also worked as a bartender in a huge, popular club not too far from NYC. I guess the biggest names might be John Cougar, John McEnroe, Dawn Wells, Green Day, The Ramones, Hootie and the Blow Fish…
KLDD: I would say quite a few, especially because they are here to relax. The latest one was Norbert Leo Butz. He played the middle son in Netflix’s Bloodline (filmed here in the Keys) and was in original cast of Wicked. He joined the local guys at a jam one night about 3 years ago. He can sing! It was great to be in a small audience of 15 or so people.
What are you reading right now?
TCOT: I’m a super geek. I usually ready between 3-5 books at one time. Half fiction, the other half…dork material. Currently, on my nightstand and in the John is Outlander (#4), The 4th of July, The Great Cholesterol Myth and Marijuana Horticulture.
KLDD: I have been reading a series on the kindle- The Peridale Cafe Mysteries by Agatha Frost. They are easy to do in small bursts and am awaiting Book 20.
What is your favorite quote?
TCOT: “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” Abraham Lincoln
KLDD: “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou
What is something you want to do in the next year that you’ve never done before?
TCOT: I’d love to stop shouting. Next year, any year…I’ve never gone a day without shouting.
KLDD: Become wealthy..haha.
You have your own latenight talk show, who do you invite as your first guest?
TCOT: Ozzy Osborne! He’s a riot!
KLDD: Jason Momoa (Aquaman) would be a fun personality to kick off with.
If you had to delete all but 3 apps from your smartphone, which ones would you keep?
TCOT: I’d need a phone with apps first…
KLDD: Email, banking and maybe one game.
If you could have someone follow you around all the time, like a personal assistant, what would you have them do?
TCOT: Take the darn dog out every time he wants to go outside!
KLDD: I would not as such, but I would welcome a “collaborator”. Life is a learning opportunity meant for sharing.
Would you rather travel back in time to meet your ancestors or to the future to meet your descendants?
TCOT: Family…I’m an ocean away for a reason…I’d rather just stay right here and deal.
KLDD: BACK-remember the disappointment Marty McFly had seeing his self-centered kids…LOL!
What commercial jingle gets stuck in your head all the time.
TCOT: “When it’s time to relax, we’ve got the beer. Miller Beer! If you’ve got the time, we’ve got the beer.”
KLDD: None, really
If you could turn the ocean into a liquid other than water, which one would you pick?
TCOT: Check out last answer…
KLDD: I would not want to take from the sea creatures, so instead how about a kiddie pool of margaritas, like in The Last Man on Earth.
Such fun answers. Thank you ladies so much!!
Want to stalk them? Here are all the details:
The Cherry on Top: GS Store, Facebook Fan Page, Blog
Key Lime Digi Design: GS Store, Facebook Fan Page, Facebook Group
And make sure to grab the Daily Download. I know it’s late in the month. If you have missed the beginning links, you can always grab the full kit in the store next month.
Thanks for hanging out with me tonight!!
Tutorial Tuesday (Windows and Elements)
Jan
21
2020
Following Up for Donna
Last week’s organization tips drew some great comments. Many of you have good systems for sorting and retrieving your digi goodies. But… there are some things that still prove elusive.
Donna had this to say: “Dragging from all different folders from the finder is a pain in the ***, it was so much easier dragging from the searched results in photos.. ” Because I usually copy the files I plan to use and place them in a subfolder of my digiscrapping master folder, I hadn’t worked out a trick for that process that might streamline it a bit for those of you who prefer to drag-and-drop right from your folders into your scrapping software. Read on!
First I’ve shown my folder method using the search box in Windows. (Sorry, I’m not a Mac girl so I don’t have any tips for that platform.) I ran a simple search for “buttons“. The search box is at the upper right of the window and the progress bar runs from left to right as Windows does the work for you.
Once the search was done, I selected 4 buttons with a similar colour scheme, from 4 different folders. Remember, to make multiple selections, hold down the CTRL/CMD key while you’re clicking on the items you’re choosing.
Next, I Copied all 4 of the buttons.
Finally, I Pasted those buttons into a new Button folder I’d created within my Digiscrapping folder. Now, when I’m ready to use them in Elements, I can open that Button folder with the Open tool on the main screen. But that seems to be a little involved. Is there a way to select the same 4 buttons and open them in Elements without the extra steps? Work Smart, Not Hard, right??
OF COURSE!! I got Elements up and running. Then I activated that big Open button at the left of the main screen. But instead of having a dedicated folder with my buttons in it, I instead opened my Digikits folder and USED THE SEARCH BOX! It was something that had never occurred to me before. I typed “button” into the search box and waited.
Then I went through the results in the same way I would any other time. I Selected the same 4 buttons as before. (The image below shows the search results as a list. I did my selections using medium icons so I could see the actual images then I changed the display to a list so I could show you multiple selections.) When I had all 4 selected, I just hit that Open button at the bottom right of the menu.
And there they are! All from different folders and in fewer steps! I hope this is what Donna was looking for.
Her second organizational challenge reads like this: “Having switched to using my cellphone as my primary camera these last few years has actually made it more difficult to group as events, etc because of all the random photos, notes, screenshots etc that I also take photos of. Open to any suggestions there…?” This one is actually an easy fix. Both iPhone and Android have the ability to build albums with our photos. My Android phone creates some of its own albums, but I can make more to suit myself. Moving photos into the albums is as easy as clicking on them, going to the gallery menu and moving or copying the selected photos over. The key here is to sort them soon after you take them so it doesn’t become an all-day job. If you’re planning to use a group of photos taken on a specific day, make an album for that day. Sending the photos to the platform upon which you do your scrapping is the same process as whatever you’re doing now. If you’re using the iCloud, Dropbox or Google Drive or some other cyber-sharing device, that will allow you access to all your phone folders. Give it a try and see if it makes life easier!
Next week I’ll be showing you another paper-to-digi technique courtesy of Steph Barry. I think you’re going to love it!
