Showing posts with label cards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cards. Show all posts

Friday, December 18, 2020

Free 2021 Printable Calendar, Fun and Festive Digital Scrapbooking Templates and Much More

Welcome to The Cherry On Top at Kreative Design Studio.

We've got all kinds of new goodies in our shops.  Papers, templates, stickers, tags, cards...As in good ole Cherry fashion, we've got new freebies, too.  Ones you certainly don't want to miss and even a sale on new products to save you money in these tough times.

I'll show off the new goodies and examples with the different ways to use them with a sprinkling of tips and tricks to make your scrapbooking pages and projects totally awesome.

I've got a new printable calendar in different versions this year.  This is THE calendar I use to organize (ha ha ha) my dates, deadlines, sales, etc. and I prefer it to start on Monday which I recently learned was a European thing.  When I reached out and asked what others use, they unanimously responded with a Sunday start.  Originally, I designed a Sunday start and did not like the result.  I took the time and created a new one, from scratch and clipped in more colors, used larger boxes for more journaling and then decided to give 8x8 as well as 8x11 formats.

Scroll through to get the free calendar that starts on Sunday or pop over to our shop at Design Bundles and get this one.  The one I use.  I just love the designer I used to adorn the new calendars.  They are the ones from our magically inspired, Patronus kit.  I put the calendars on sale at 50% off.  So for a few dollars, it's yours.


Also new in the shop is our Valentine Collection.  Full of adorable peeps pulling pre Covid moves of love and affection.  Hehehe...I certainly hope we'll soon be able to give our lonely neighbor a comforting pat on the back or even an embrace to a student who is under loved at home.  From my experience as a teacher, there are plenty of children who desperately need a hug or gentle reassuring tug on the shoulder.  To think we may have taken theses things for granted?!


Bright and fun colors with a modern yet vintage vibe.  Full of sweets and sweetness.  I only barely tweaked the colors from the original because I just loved them, which hardly ever happens.


Think of the many uses you can use with these stickers.  Close an envelope.  Adorn a planner or agenda.  Wrap a gift.  Put on or in a lunch box...


I thought some papers might be a nice addition to the cards, tags and stickers.  Just in case you want to go all out.


I used the Valentine's Mockup to show off the cards.  I used a touch of intense shadowing to bring out a few of the features.

On to the new templates from this week and last week.


If you're an avid fan of The Cherry, you'll know I love the holidays.  I'm continuing our fun, whimsical and slightly silly template collection.

Check out what I and the team have created with them.  These pages will certainly inspire you and hopefully give you a smile and warm your heart.


I love traditional holiday colors and themes.  That deep red is gorgeous.  This is a page from Jarmila using products from Pat's Scraps.


Caro's little angel is just the cutest!  This style of template provides a really fast option to scrap and often a great way to emphasize your photos if you choose to do so.  Caro used HeartMade Scrapbook products.


Cherry's page holds more traditional vibe with a bit of glamor and luxury with the bokeh and glistening gold embellishing.  Gorgeous designs from the Sweet Shoppe!


Star scrapper Cindy, has scrapped an adorable page showing off the versatility of our gnomes and JoCee's new kit also found in the Sweet Shoppe.


Yip!  Another page with Jo's goodies, from Ella.  I love the silly pictures and the gnomes are super fun.


I don't know about you, but I can't choose what I love most about this page from Esther?  The kit from Valentina looks so awesome and I like how she replaced my gnomes with ones from the kit.  Then there's that little cutie.  So much to love about this page.


What a super idea to duplicate the gnomes and put them wherever the heck ya want.  Theresa used our Gnome For Christmas collection.  There is a page of free tags in the kit and I've kept it at a spot price for you, too.


Obviously, you can ditch the H's if they are not your thing.  As did Jillian on her pretty page.


Another bright, fun page with Jo's kit and this elf guy.  Hehehe...Roxana sure knows how to have fun on her pages.


I love to see the gnomes designed in different ways.  This is Theresa's version with a kit from Connie Prince.


More from Theresa and Connie Prince.  I really like the background with the contrasting, black shoes.  A really pretty page.



See what I mean about the photos?  A few elements here and there.  Theresa even clipped a few on to the template, in the middle.  This template is a great way to show off multiple photos when you want them to take center stage.


Templates are a super way to inspire you.  Sometimes you might like an aspect of one template so you go with that and change it up where needed.  When you're at a stall, templates are just what you need.  I've got so many friends that don't even bother to scrap without a template.

These are our templates from last week.


I wanted to try a few different things with my template so I took the opportunity to play with this one and a new collaboration from Key Lime Digi Design and Aimee Harrison Designs.


I tried merging my heavy outline into the stocking, but ended up liking this version better.  I added a bevel to give the stockings a more dimensional feel.  I did the same to the mortar on the chimney.  It feels a bit more realistic.


I also scrapped up a page with Clever Monkey Graphics new collaboration, Cozy and Warm.  I used our Fancy Flakes templates.





There are my gals.  They don't seem to mind the snow at all. Just as long as they can reach the grass underneath, they are ok.  I have to get my hands on any kit with chickens.


I thought I'd also share that I've got three of the above templates in cuttable, svg format at Kreative Design Studio.  Of course, they are a little cheaper because they do not contain the elements and there is one less. If you only want the cuttable aspects of Fancy Flakes, then grab them from Design Bundles for just a few bucks.


Look at all of the pretty things I made with just the cuttables.  Pages, greeting cards...I used our collaboration with Art & Life Scraps, Flamazing Christmas.  You can get the PU version at GingerScraps and the Commercial Use version at Kreative Design Studio.

Here is the FREE version of the 2021 Calendar.


This is the version in the shop for just over $2.  Thanks so much for supporting us!

Did you receive your third installation of this free kit in your newsletter?  Better check your trash to make sure.  I'll be giving out all four links next week.  If you missed one, no worries.  If you still want to join our family, do so ASAP so you don't miss this lovely free gift.  I often shower our readers with free goodies and specials and it's a super way to keep up with all we have going on.  Challenges, sales, free stuff, progressive scraps and so much more.


Thank you for stopping by the blog.  Consider joining us in our group, page, Instagram, Pinterest is totally hopping and of course visit our shops to nurture your creative fix.  You can find all of the links in the side bar.

May the holidays bring you joy, health, wisdom, love and laughs.

Happy scrapping!












 

Saturday, March 14, 2020

Floral Spring Hybrid Tote Bag Idea From Clever Monkey Graphics and The Cherry On Top

Welcome to The Cherry On Top.

Enjoy another fun filled blog of scrap-a-liciousness in the form of hybrid and digital scrapbooking, today.  I've got more fabulous goodies from my own shop at Gingerscraps as well as beautiful kits from some of your favorite designers at the Sweet Shoppe.

If you've been following us for awhile, you know that I love color so much.  Especially, bright POW! In your face kinds of colors, which makes me a great match up with Tracey from Clever Monkey Graphics.  You can bet your pretty little butt that I fell head over heels in love with the colors and theme of this Little Shark collection.  How adorable?!   I had just the perfect subject, too!  My JJ is not a huge fan of water, but once he gets good and in there he's good to go.  It took him a really long time to learn how to swim and he struggles a bit, like a lot of kids.  Especially, those with Autism.  Stick with'm and make sure they understand the importance of learning to swim and swim well.

Ship Shape templates from TCOT and Little Shark from Clever Monkey Graphics

 Little Shark

These templates are from GingerScraps Buffet for March and that means they are only $2.  I keep my buffet goodies at $2 for the entire month, but don't let that throw you off from buying now.  You might forget!

 Ship Shape

You are going to have a blast in Tracey's shop.  There are so many new things to look at.  Butterfly Season is a brand new kit and it is impatiently waiting for you.  I LOVE butterflies so much.  We have butterfly bushes at both of our places.  They are a huge attraction to the local insects.  We never use any kind of chemicals in our yards and gardens so wildlife is in abundance and bees and butterflies are no exception.  I've seen at least half a dozen varieties.  I've got two pictured here.  There are two new comers, but I'm yet to get a picture.One is a rather dainty fellow, mostly off white with a bit of orange at the tips of his wings.  I believe he's a Tiger Butterfly.  I'll try my luck again this summer and see if I can get him on camera.  There's also a tiny bluish purple one.  It could be a moth.  I have to brush up on these new visitors.

I added two extra layers to the top of Tracey's gorgeous black and white paper and used the pen in PSE to color over the lines.  Then I just clipped in some glitter paper using styles.  That's how I got that one flower with color.  Next time I do this, I'll make a video showing you how it's done.

Keep your eyes out for a FREEBIE that coordinates with this, at Sweet Shoppe! They have a page with a free sample from each designer.  This way you can try before you buy and they update yearly.  There are 23 free samples!

 Butterfly Season

 Butterfly Season


Also in Tracey's shop this weekend, you'll find Rawr!  A super cute and fun Dino inspired collection. I used our brand new templates, In Perspective for these.  It's a totally different way to scrap. I've got a lot more page inspiration with these on yesterday's blog as well as tips and optional, alternative uses that are included in the templates, but not shown.

JJ loved his Dino so much and of course he lost it because he took it with him absolutely everywhere. I had bought a back up, but you know how that goes!  Hehehe...



 In Perspective



 Rawr


Also new in the Sweet Shoppe this week is JoCee Designs, Through The Stones kit.  Any Outlander fans out there?  I bought through book 5 and I've been stuck on the fourth one for awhile.  I'm still waiting for something to happen and I'm in over 300 pages!  Claire drove me nuts the first book.  I loved the second one and the third one was quite the adventure.  It all started when my hubs and I stumbled across the show whilst going through the channels on a local TV sender.  We loved it from the very start, but have stopped watching because I want to read all of the books, first.  Between us, it's really only pay backs.  He did the same darn thing to me for Game Of Thrones and he reads SO slow!


Through The Stones from JoCee Designs

You don't have to be a fan of Sharon's boos or the TV program to fall in love with Jo's kit.  The classic, luxurious colors are beyond fabulous and look at all of those thoughtful elements, too.  Gems, maps, ships, sword, plaid flowers...take your hot, long romance to your scrap page as I did.  Of course, it doesn't have to be a scorching one.  Hehehe...Pictures of castles, old buildings or artifacts would look great as well.  Of course, if you've been to Scotland, this would be an awesome kit to scrap that.

 Through The Stones


Last week, I showed off how you can use Tracey's journal cards and papers and make a pretty coordinating set of envelope and card.  I also provided a few links to free templates for envelopes if you need them.

Simply resize, print, cut and...


 Spring Floral

This was my page I designed with Spring Floral and my little JJ.  Of course, he is as tall as I am, now.

 Spring Floral

Today's hybrid project is WAY cool!  You're going to love it!

I simply removed the background and ditched the shadows on those un-layered, outside elements as you can see on my tiny image.




I did change up my page ever so slightly by removing my photograph and adding another pretty card.
Keep scrolling to see what I did with it!



Take your hybrid with you or even use your hybrid project to tote your other hybrid projects.



Yes!  Of course this is totally doable and all you need is some transferable paper, a printer, an iron and whatever you want your design to go on like a t-shirt or bag.  I found this quick video from the Hobby Lobby with some tips and instructions.  It's really easy!

If you don't think the glittery paint in the background will come out great, you can always do the real deal on your bag.  Just make sure you choose fabric friendly paint and glitter paint.  I haven't tried, but I might caution that it may be a bit trifling to iron over your paint and or glitter paint so do a test, first!

Take your digital scrapbooking skills to another level and go hybrid.

Thanks so much for popping over to The Cherry.  I invite you to scroll through previous blogs, grab the countless freebies and consider joining us across our social hot spots like FB via page and fun group, Instagram, Pinterest and keep up to date by joining our weekly newsletter family.

Happy scrapping!


Saturday, March 7, 2020

Tea Time Digital Scrapbooking Templates With The Cherry On Top and a Spring Floral Hybrid Project For You

Welcome to The Cherry On Top.

We had so much going on in the last few days, that I even have to split up the blogs or they'd be way too long.  So we're back with more templates, more new pages, more freebies, a hybrid idea and of course, lovely page inspiration.

Tracey from Clever Monkey Graphics put Tea Party Cuties in the Sweet Shoppe last week and I designed some coordinating templates to go with them.  Check out what I and our teams have done with them.

 Tea Time Templates

 Tea Party Cuties



 Tea Time Templates

 Tea Time Templates

 Tea Time Templates
Tea Time Templates  and Ruf Life From Made By Keuntje

 Tea Time Templates

 Tea Time Templates

 Tea Time Templates

 Tea Time Templates




 Tea Time Templates

 Tea Time Templates

 freebie


Pretty fun stuff, eh?  It doesn't stop there!  Check out this week's release.  These templates scrap up incredibly fast.  Great for those of you not finding much time to scrap.

 Just For Fun

Lovely Creative Team Members, Roxana and Cindy paired up Just For Fun with some of Clever Monkey Graphics' kits.


 Just For Fun Templates
Just For Fun Templates and Irish Shenanigans from Clever Monkey Graphics

 Just For Fun Templates

This is a page I designed for Tracey with my little squishy who isn't so little any more, but he is certainly still squishy.  Hehehe...I've got an amaze balls hybrid with this one ready for next week.  So come on back next Saturday and check it out.



 Spring Floral

When ya get beautiful cards like these in a collection there are a lot of hybrid things you can do with them.  The easiest is to enlarge them and turn them into a card either digital or physical.  Tracey saves everything at a really high quality so slight enlargements are totally doable.


 Spring Floral

If cards are your thing, then make sure you have some great envelope templates.  I've got several free ones on this blog.  You can get the one pictured below with the yellow flowers on this blog and the heart shaped template on this one.

 Spring Floral

The scrappy madness is still not ending!  Check out Ship Shape from the March Buffet.  It's only $2! I love the buffet and buffet prices.  These are very basic versatile templates and yes, of course you can use them as quick pages.

 Ship Shape Templates


I scrapped up this page with Ship Shape and Fairy Dust from JoCee Designs also available in the Sweet Shoppe this weekend.  Check out the glitter I added to the fairy on that pretty paper!  She was just dying for some bling.  I make tiny terrariums in unconventional containers like jam pots, candles holders, things from the thrift store or from something I found by the garbage drop off for glass.



My terrarium from plants in my home, moss from outside and containers I find.  




 Ship Shape Templates


Yesterday, I gave away this pretty paper using Throwing Some Scraps Around newest kit.  Pop back and grab it and see what other scrap-a-liciousness we had.



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Happy scrapping!