This message, in honor of dad’s everywhere, is brought to you by the font, Corelina. Corelina doesn’t include punctuation, so I used punctuation from Artistamp Medium as needed.
Quick Picks from 9th and Bloom
June 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Today’s window shopping took me to 9th and Bloom. I absolutely adore the look and feel of their shop and found these favorite items as I browsed.
- Art and Soul by Holly Designs and Krista Sahlin
- Linen Alpha by Creations by Rachael B
- Free Spirit by Holly Designs
- Bugs and Slugs by Creations by Rachael B and Mye De Leon
- Funny Notes by Megan Fisher Designs
- Extreme Notebook Papers by Tracey Monette of Clever Monkey Graphics
- Click by Kelley Mickus
- Boardwalk by Becca and Designs by Helly
Dockside, Play It Again and Date Bits 34
June 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Dockside is sure to make your memories of a the sea more breathtaking than ever.
Dockside’s versatility goes beyond the sea. It can be adapted for Fourth of July, kids at play or everyday photos. Just check out these pages from the team.
Play It Again from me Jenn Barrette is the perfect kit to scrapbook your fun family moments! Whatever your tot’s game of choice, you are sure to find it in Play It Again which is packed full of unique game-inspired elements.
Finally there is a new addition in the Date Bits Series.
CU Styles, Cars and Layered Patterns
June 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Here is a look at the new Commercial Use items just release in my guest store at SugarHill Company. All of these items are 20% off through Sunday June 12th.
Fitting Text to Lined Journaling Mats
June 9, 2011 By 7 Comments
The idea for today’s tutorial came from a blog reader. After reading the Text Path for Journaling Mats Tutorials Part 1 and 2 Amy wrote,
Can you tell me how to journal on a lined journal mat? I can’t seem to get the correct font/size so that it lines up correctly!
Sure Amy! We will start where Creating a Text Path for Journaling Mats Part 1 left off – with a bunch of text inside a fitted path.
As you can see, my text does not line up with lines on the journaling mat. We are going to fix that.
Click on the move tool and then use your arrow keys to nudge your text up or down so that the first line of text sits on a line of your journaling mat. Now click on the text tool and click and drag on your canvas to highlight all of your text.
Go to Window>Character to bring up the Character Palette.
On the right side of the palette you’ll see an icon with two letter A’s, one on top of the other. This indicates the leading setting. It’s likely set on Auto, but click on the drop down arrow to the right and you can manually set the leading.
If none of the numbers in the drop down menu gets you quite the right fit, you can type any number into the field as well (including decimals). In my case 31pt gives me the perfect fit.
DJB TweenyBopper font shown in screenshot images for this tutorial.
Quick Picks from Scrap Matters
June 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Quick Picks this week come from the talented team at Scrap Matters. I took a tour through their store and here are just a few of my favorites. Look for picks from another store in digiland next Monday.
- In Harmony by Chelle’s Creations
- Buttoned Up: Sentiments by Krisi’s Creations and Chelle’s Creations
- Happy Homemaker by Erica Zane
- A Life so Sweet: The Flairs by WM Designs Squared
- For the Love of Girls by Stolen Moments and Jady Day Studio (see also, For the Love of Boys)
- Bugged by Dream Big Designs
- My Life and Story: An Autobiography Kit by Jady Day Studio
- Sunkissed by Jennifer Labre
Quiet Reflection
June 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Soft and breezy, Quiet Reflection is full of classic style and easily combinable elements that will help you build beautiful page for almost any theme.
These products previously available at Sugar Hill Company are now available in my Sweet Shoppe Designs shop; Date Bits 33, Painted Backdrops and Timeless Frames. Grab them today, June 4th at 20% off.
New Commercial Use Items at SHCO
June 3, 2011 By 1 Comment
I’m excited to continue on in my guest spot at Sugar Hill Company for the month of June. I’ve decided to stick with releasing commercial use items at SHCo, while keeping all of my personal use line at Sweet Shoppe Designs. So if you are in the market for some new designer tools or inspiration – here’s what is new at SHCO. Each of these items is 20% off through Sunday, June 5th.
Layered Patterns 3 – a set of 5 patterned papers in layered .psd format.
Paper Pieced Flowers - 3 flowers and 2 vines in layered .psd format.
Dashed Frames - 5 frames with dashed edging in layered .psd format.
Chipboard Styles – light and dark chipboard styles (with and without drop shadows) and a Papered Chip style which adds and chipboard edging and texture to a shape/element while retaining the original pattern or color. These styles are seamless and scaled for best results on objects 1″ to 10″ at 300ppi.
This product was previously released (and is still available) as personal use version at Sweet Shoppe Designs.
June DST Blog Train – Monkeying Around
June 1, 2011 By 85 Comments
This freebie from the June Blog Train is no longer available. Please click here to see current freebies. Thanks!
Next stop … Kat’s Creations.