I Heart You - New from Scrapping with Liz

Well, we're feeling all loved up here on Liz's team, she's been getting ready for Valentines Day with some gorgeous templates and masks. These are 20% off, and if you buy the templates, you get the masks FREE! Both offers are valid until February 3rd.

I'm just thinking that those masks would be perfect for Valentines cards :) Here's some inspiration form the CT...

By Carrie

By Christine

By Britanee

By Carrie

By Christine

By Heather

By Helen

By Sarah

So there's a mixture of layouts for you with one thing in common....LOVE!
Hope you have a great day, thanks for stopping by,
Ellie xoxo

Life with Liz - Vidoe Tutorials, Sneak Peek & Chance to Win!

Well, it's another Tuesday....an almost normal Tuesday. My household has been sick on and off for the last 2 weeks and we are finally having a somewhat normal week.  It's been tough getting back into a routine but we are getting there, slowly but surely.

Anyway, on to today's blog post. I'm a visual learner. If I see it it's so much easier for me to learn and remember. So with that said, I thought I would maybe start a series of vidoe tutorials for all my blog followers. Here's just a short one to show you how to change up a template. Simple but I hope it's helpful.

Here's a video I posted on my facebook fan page a few days ago showing how I scrap (this one is higher resolution). It's fast forwarded about 8x.....I didn't think you would want to watch a 30 minutes of me scrapping! I had music with it and it was WAY cooler with music but I didn't want to do anything illegal so I took the music off....so maybe turn up your iPod while you watch it, it might be more fun that way?!? It's just supposed to kind of give you an idea of how I scrap. I had already kind of picked out the pictures, paper & elements I wanted to use, and I added a few as I went.  I used the awesome grab bag from Flergs, Ziggle, Suzy Q & Laura Banasiak and a template from my Recyclables 1 set. Enjoy.

So what kind of video tutorials would you like to see? I'll be trying to make a few of these each month for you, if you like them ;-) So leave a comment here letting me know what kind of tutorials you would like to see, and as usual one of you will win my new stuff that is coming out on Thursday. Here's a little sneak peek for you. Do you see what has been on my mind lately?

Oh and by the way....GO PACKERS!

Life with Liz - My Fave Digi Blogs & Chance to Win!

I've recently been helping my sister-in-law start digi-scrapping. It's taken me almost 2 years to get her hooked and I think I'm almost there! She's done quite a few digi-pages already and they look great. Once she got used to the whole digi-scrapping thing then I introduced her to some of my fave digi blogs and other places I think digital scrappers should know about (besides Scrap Orchard of course!). So I thought I would share with you some of the places I shared with her. They are my go-to places for tips, inspiration, & just other places I use for printing, fonts, photos actions, etc...

Here they are in no particular order.

1. The Daily Digi

I love this site because they have some great information about digi scrapping and great inspiration. Plus they have the Digi Files each month. Each month they gather a group of digital scrapbooking designers from around digi-world to bring you a grab bag of sorts. It's only $5 and it allows you to try out a variety of different designers for 1 low price. I love reading their blog posts everyday. There is such a variety...sometimes inspiration, sometimes just everyday posts, somtimes tips & tutorials, it's really great!

2. My4Hens Photography

This place is a must for getting your photos looking AMAZING. She has some great actions, a lot of freebies and now she even has some great tutorials! I highly encourage you to become a fan of hers on facebook because she randomly posts coupons & tutorials. If you've never used a photo action before I encourage you to try it out, they do wonders to your photos. You do have to have Photoshop CS to use her actions.

3. Kevin & Amanda - Fonts for Peas

Have you ever seen a scrapbook page with a wonderful handwritten font and wondered how they do that? Well, at Kevin & Amanda's Fonts for Peas Blog you can pick up a ton of FREE handwritten fonts. The have over 300 fonts to choose from....it's wonderful! Plus there blog is super fun to read & they have lots of yummy recipes too!

4. Persnickity Prints

Printing & Costs? Those are the two things people always ask me when I start talking about digi-scrapping. Where do you print your pages & how much does it cost. I've recently discovered Persnickity Prints and I LOVE them. I don't think I will ever print anywhere else again. 12x12 prints are $1.99 and I've even snatched up coupons where I've saved 30% off the $1.99 price. The quality & color of the prints are amazing. I've NEVER had a problem with them.

Those are my top places. I asked my Creative Team what there favorite spots were and so I thought I would share with you what they like too.

Sarah, Heather, Christine all suggested The Pioneer Woman. I must admit that I frequent this blog too. She has some great photo actions and photos tips....and I really love her homeschooling section & oooh, her recipes are wonderful too!

Heather also likes SuzyQ's blog. She has lots of tutorials and an awesome freebie section.

Tami & Heather also like TheCoffeeShopBlog. There are some great photo actions there too.

Tami also suggest the GalleryStandoutsBlog. This is a place I frequently visit too. They go around different digi-galleries and pick out some of their faves. I love looking at all the beautiful layouts. I get so inspired when I go there.

Christine also suggested Ali Edwards. I must admit that I frequent this blog too! She is mainly a paper scrapper but such great ideas that you can easily adapt to digi-scrapping.

Judie loves DonnaDowney. I must admit that I've never been to this site before but I just had to check it out....I must say that it's pretty cool and I just "liked" her on facebook! Lots of idea that you can apply to digi-scrapping.

Another great place that we kind of all agreed was a great spot was JessicaSprague. She has some great classes and inspiration. I've been eyeballing a few of her classes....I just need to find the time to take one!

The way I keep up with most of these blogs is by "liking" them on facebook and then when they post updates it'll come through my facebook wall. You can also subscribe to their RSS Feed.....I'm just so bad at checking this, but I know some people love it.

So, those are our favorite spots....I'm sure I'm missing some other good ones. Do you have a favorite place to get ideas or tips? I'm not talking about digi-stores or galleries here, but blogs. Share your favorite place with me & you'll have a chance to win this weeks newest releases! Do you see a trend here? I've decided that every Tues. in my blog post I'm going to give you all a chance to win my newest stuff. I have 2 template sets coming out on Thursday with a total of 10 templates in each set! Some you've seen before and maybe some you haven't.....hmmm, are you curious? Plus a hybrid template! No sneak peek today but you definitely don't want to miss out on this chance.....3 new products valued at over $18!

I'll be announcing the winner on my facebook fan page at midnight on Wed.

So go ahead and leave a comment telling me your favorite digi blogs. I can't wait to see your favorite spots.

Traditional Templates - NEW this week! Great deal & a freebie!!

Liz has two new template sets out for you this week - Traditional Templates I and II. The CT has had lots of fun with these, and Liz has also been using them to scrap her own pages. She's used every template, some of them twice! By rotating of flipping a template you can use them over and over. For one week only, these two template packs are 20% off...not enough you say? Still can't quite afford them?? Then Liz has an awesome deal for you...

 

So that means, if you buy both sets, you'll get another 20% off in addition to the Fresh Fruit discount of 20%!  What a deal!! Ok, so enough of me rambling on, here's the templates....

And here's some inspiration from the CT, these all use the Traditional Templates I...

By Carrie

By Christine

By Ellie

By Heather

By Helen

By Lynn

By Tami

By Tiff

And here's some using the Traditional Templates II...

By Britanee

By Carrie

By Ellie

By Heather

By Lynn

By Tami

How's that for some rockin' layouts?! And don't forget that if you want to know what kits etc the CT used, feel free to check out Scrappling with Liz's gallery over at Scrap Orchard :)

And now, finally, here's your freebie! Just click on the image to download.

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Enjoy!

Ellie :)

Life with Liz - 2010 Project/Sneak Peek/Chance to Win!

I am so excited to show you my latest project. I can't quite believe it myself but I have completed a 2010 album and I only started this project last Thursday! It only took me about a day and a half to complete! Yes, you heard me right. I must remind you that this wasn't just a day and a half of non-stop scrapping (I'm never quite that lucky). In between scrapping pages, I was homeschooling, babysitting, teaching piano lessons, cooking, cleaning, doing laundry, answering e-mails, etc...

I'll tell you how I did it. First I downloaded the Digi Files #25 Celebrate Collaboration (no longer available). Oh and by the way I'm a contributor this month ;-) There are 2 templates from me in the kit.

Then I grabbed some of my new templates that will be coming out this week. They are perfect for scrapping a whole album. There are 2 sets with a total of 8 templates (plus a freebie temp I made up....that you might see on my blog later this week. *wink wink*) So that gave me 9 templates to work with.

I decided I would pick out my favorite pictures or favorite memory from each month and then scrap just one page for each month of 2010 and then I made a title page. So I made a total of 13 pages.

This project was so fun, easy, quick & simple. I think the reason I had so much fun with this is because I didn't try to overdo it. I stuck to one kit, stuck to just a few pics for each month & I had super good templates to work with. LOL! Oh and I must say that I had so much fun working with this kit. It was so fun to work with so many great designers and their designs.

So without further ado. Here are my pages. I'll do another post when I get this book printed up so you can see what it looks like in a book.

Oh and I used my Year in Review Templates to kind of summarazie the title page. But all of the rest of the pages are made with templates that you'll see in my store on Thursday.

So tell me what Scrapbook Album you would really like to complete in 2011. I'll come back on Wednesday night at midnight and randomly choose someone to win both sets of my new templates! Can't wait to see what your goals are.