It’s Plum Pickins’ Time Again!!
That’s right, it’s August 1st, so that means it’s time for Plum Pickins’ again! This month, the palette is a pretty one, with some pastels and some rich colors. I have two products to go with the collection this month, check them out!
As always, these two products coordinate beautifully with all the pieces from the other PDP designers. Make sure you check them all out!
Tuesday Favorites: Polka Dot Plum
I’ve got nothing new coming out this week, so I thought I’d take today and tomorrow to show you some of my favorites that I’ve created. Today, we are going to look at Polka Dot Plum.
And, as a special treat, I’ve marked all three of these kits 50% off until Monday morning!! Enjoy!!
9 Killer Template Designers Whose Templates I Love
Seeing as I am such a template-a-holic, I thought it would be great to share with you some of the template designers that I regularly use. You’ll notice that they represent a pretty wide range of styles, but I think that keeps everything looking fresh and new.
Cindy Schneider at Sweet Shoppe Designs – I’ve talked before (and talked and talked) about how much I love using Cindy’s templates. I love the clustered look of them, which I have such a hard time coming up with on my own. I also appreciate the little things that Cindy does to make using her templates easier, like color coding the layers. One of my favorite sets of Cindy’s templates is this bundle:
Janet Phillips at Sweet Shoppe Designs – Janet’s templates are almost the polar opposite of Cindy’s. Janet’s are clean and graphic, and always put the attention right back on the photo. Janet is also the master of templates with an insane number of pictures. I especially like this template:
Amy Martin at The Lilypad – Amy’s templates are always a little bit funky. She recently has been doing some templates that have cut out spaces in them, and I love the way those look. I also love that Amy often offers mini bundles, singles, and larger bundles. One of my favorite sets by Amy is
Jaclyn Bernardo at Funky Playground Designs – Jaclyn really is awesome at stacking in her templates. Stacking paper strips, or background papers, or elements, they always look awesome. She even has sets of just her stacks, which I love too. I love this one especially
BTA Designs at Polka Dot Plum – BTA Designs templates’ are great for white space layouts. They often feature a large background with a small cluster in one of the corners or the middle. I especially like this set of templates:
Berry Sweet Designs at Polka Dot Plum – These templates are excellent white space layouts too! They are minimal with a little layering and lots of space around them. This set that I picked also has ample space for journaling, which is a major plus. Check them out
Nikki Epperson at The Digi Chick – I got hooked on Nikki’s templates when she was at PDP with me. What I really like about Nikki’s templates is that sometimes, they are nice and super layered and fun…and other times they are nice and simple. She has a variety of styles, which makes her templates appealing to me. I love this set
Ali Edwards at Designer Digitals – Do I really need to say more than her name? Ali is one of the masters of digi scrap. I love her simple styled layouts. Always clean and graphic, but never boring her templates always seem to make a statement.
Cathy Zielske at Designer Digitals – Cathy’s another designer with nice, clean and simple templates. What I always find fun about Cathy’s templates is that they usually have some great word art already built into them. I love this template
So those are 9 of my favorite template designers. Who are yours? Whose templates do you love using? Let me know in the comments below!
Weekly Wrap Up With Sir Scrapalot Designs – July 12th to July 25th
July 12th – July 25th
On the Sir Scrapalot Designs Blog:
- 9 Quick Ways to Date Your Digital Scrapbooking Layouts
- Exciting New Paperclipping Digi Show with Katie Pertiet and Me!
- What Walt Knew..
- 4 Ways to Use One Photo on a Multiphoto Template
- 5 Tools for Creating Digital Scrapbooking Wishlists
- Twitter Post
Some Great Conversations on the Facebook Fan Page
- Digi QOTD: If you could find your dream kit, what would it look like?
- Digi QOTD: Do you edit your pictures before you put them on a layout?
- Thought Provoking QOTD: How long do you think you could honestly go without internet?
- Non Digi QOTD: What’s your favorite Non Digi website?
- Digi QOTD: How do you share your layouts with others?
Stop by, I’d love for you to join the conversation!
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5 Tools for Creating Digital Scrapbooking Wishlists
If you’re anything like me, you don’t always shop for stuff when it first comes out, and then you inevitably forget about the items you wanted and never purchase them. That was how I shopped for a long time – if I didn’t get it right at release, I didn’t get it at all. Lately, I’ve really begun to appreciate the benefits of creating a wishlist – a list of products I want, but can’t buy right now. By creating a wishlist, I am able to keep track of what I want for times when I have a bit more money, or when a sale is going on. Also, it gives me time to think about products that I may be on the fence about…sometimes, I go back to my cart and don’t want them anymore. There are a few different ways to create a wishlist. Here are five of the most popular.
- Kaboodle – Many digiscrappers use Kaboodle to keep track of their wishlists. With Kaboodle, you can add products from any site to your list simply by clicking a button you install. Items are saved to your list with a description. You can create different lists for different types of products, and you can share your lists with others (perfect at birthday or holiday time!). Kaboodle also is connected with Facebook, where you can sign in with your Facebook account and connect the two.
- Evernote – I mentioned Evernote a few weeks back in THIS POST about tools to make your life easier. With Evernote, you can clip pieces of the web, and add them to your Evernote files. Using Evernote for wishlisting is great if you are already using it for other purposes. You are able to clip the products you want, as well as organize the notes so you can see them all at once. However, if you are new to Evernote, it may not be the place to start keeping your wishlists.
- Amazon Wishlist Button – I was surprised to learn about Amazon Wishlist Button, mainly because it’s a universal wishlist button which allows you to wishlist items from any online store, not just Amazon. Getting started with the wishlist button is easy enough, you just need to have an amazon account set up, be signed in, and drag the button into your toolbar. When you want to add something to your wishlist, you click the button. This is a great option for keeping all of your wishlisted items together, however, it doesn’t have the ability to share lists like Kaboodle does.
- Specific Store Wishlists – At this point, the majority of digital scrapbooking stores offer their own wishlist option. Usually, when you are looking at a product, you are given the option to click the “add to wishlist” button, and the item is added automatically to your wishlist. The advantage to using this method is that it keeps everything “in house,” there’s no third party site keeping the wishlist. This is great if you regularly shop at a few stores. If you don’t regularly shop at a store, a wishlist there may easily be forgotten, so an option where you can keep items from multiple shops may be better suited for you.
- MS Notepad/MS Word/Paper – According to many, the best way to keep track of items you want to purchase is to keep the list yourself. That may be on paper kept by your computer, or in a Notepad or Word document that you create specifically for this purpose. This method is great if you don’t want to deal with using an outside source to create your wishlists, but if you’re like me, you’re likely to lose the list or delete on accident.
So, what’s your method for keeping your digiscrap wishlists? Vote in the poll below and let me know!
Loading ...If I haven’t listed your method, or you want to tell me why you picked what you did, let’s get talking in the comments!
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