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Tuesday Treasure~ Two Templates :)
Hi Amber here! Today I have for you two awesome templates made by me to match two kits from our designers Missy’s Bits and Sugarmoon Designs. But first I want to remind everyone that May is Cystic Fibrosis awareness month. I know we have talked about it alot this month but this is something important to us! If you missed the previous post or wasn’t able to dontate then and wanted to come back to do it HERE is the link to the previous post. Also Missy’s Bits and Sugarmoon Designs have their kits at WithLoveStudio on sale for only $2 and all proceeds will be donated to the CF Foundation! So now is a great time to pick up their kits you’ve been wanting and to help find a cure for CF!
Now on to our freebies… Like I said before today I have two templates for you. One to match Missy’s Spring Tea kit found HERE and one to match Sugarmoon’s Vintage Tea Party found HERE
Here is a preview of what you will be getting from me today!
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Enjoy and Happy Scrappin!
Thursday Tidbits: Random Acts of Art Kindness Postcards
Hi there all of you lovely, artistic readers! This is Melissa T. here with your weekly Thursday Tidbit. This week, I would like to share with you a concept that I learned on the website Milliande: An Art Community for Women. Everyone has heard of Random Acts of Kindness, but have you ever heard of Random Acts of Art Kindness (RAAK)? This concept is pretty simple to accomplish and is sort of a karmic pay-it-forward. First, you pick a random person in your art community (on Milliande there is an entire group with people signed to send and receive RAAKs), then you send them a little piece of art to brighten their day. You always get bills, sales flyers, and more bills in your mailbox. How wonderful it is to open the mailbox to find a lovely piece of art from a total stranger! I love it so much that I have an entire memo board filled with these Random Acts of Art Kindness in my bedroom to remind me that you do not need an occasion to celebrate the artist that resides within yourself.
Unfortunately, the price of postage keeps rising and not many of us have the time or energy to prepare large numbers of Artist Trading Cards or Matchbox Shrines to send to total strangers. So, at Milliande, the members have instituted a group that sends Postcard RAAKs. Can you imagine getting a whole new piece of art for $0.32? To do this you will first need to pick the size of your postcard. I usually use a 4″x6″ template because you can fit two on a vertical 8″x11.5″ piece of cardstock, and it gives you more room for your creation. I have created a PDF for you to use for the front of your postcard. Simply design the front of the cardstock, cut out each card, flip it over, address the back, place a stamp, and write a short but sweet message to whomever you choose.
Now, you may ask,”Melissa T., what has this to do with scrapbooking?” Recently, I have discovered that by using GIMP 2.0, my template, and all of the “Outside Content” downloaded in my scrapbooking file on my computer, I can create a lovely postcard digitally without ever having to break out my drawing pens or sketching pencils. I don’t know if this is cheating, but I put as much time into it as I would have if I had created the postcard manually. If you would like to try this technique to send a RAAK postcard, simply follow the steps listed.
1. Open GIMP 2.0.
2. Click the File tab and select Open from the dropdown menu.
3. Select the template for the RAAK Postcard Front from wherever you have saved it and click “Import” into
the new document.
4. Click the File tab again and select Open from the menu.
5. Choose a background paper from your “Outside Content” scrapbooking file. THis will open in a new window.
6. Shrink the size of the paper to 4″x6″, click on the edit tab, and select copy.
7. Paste the paper onto the template and resize it accordingly. Once in place, you may begin adding embellishments,
word art, or extra papers as you see fit by following the directions 4-6. GIMP 2.0 allows you to manipulate the images
in many ways, so use your creativity just as you would if creating a page in a scrapbook.
8. Save the document and print it on white cardstock.
I have created a sample for you to print and use from Simplicity from Missy’s Bits which may be found at MyMemories and Divine Digital.
You may use it to start your own RAAK train. My fingers are crossed, hoping that one will end up in my own mailbox soon. And as always, make a memory today, and be sure to have a camera on hand to capture it!
Thursday Tidbits – Cookie Box Template Hybrid Project
Hello, there! Melissa T. is here to bring you another tasty morsel in the form of hybrid art using digital scrapbooking supplies and GIMP 2.0. I sincerely hope that everyone enjoyed last week’s introduction to GIMP, Moleskine, Milliande, and the freebies I created. I know that it was a lot to absorb, so this week I have another hybrid project for you to enjoy.
For those of you who don’t know, this week is Teacher Appreciation Week, plus Sunday is Mother’s Day. Those are two great occasions in which sentiment (and even gifts) are appreciated. Today we will be creating a Cookie Box (fill with your own recipe for your favorite cookie) designed in GIMP. I suggest printing out the template on white paper first and cutting it out before printing the finished one on cardstock. That way, you know exactly where to fold and glue your box edges.
1. Open GIMP 2.0 and click on “Open a New File.”
2. Once opened, you will click on the template format for the cookie box wherever you choose to save it on your computer.
3. Pick out the paper from your “Outside Content Folder” on your computer or external hard drive. Click on the File button and select “Open a file” and import it into a new document. From here you will want to shrink the size of the paper and copy and paste it into the background of your template. You do not have to stick with one color or style of paper since it is your project. Using this template, it is rather hard to use the “Fill” option, so you will have to cut and shrink the paper, move it, and rotate it to fill in all of the rectangles.
4. Choose an embellishment or word Art to add to your cookie box and select “Open a new file” to import it into GIMP. You will want to shrink the embellishments, word art, or even pictures that you open before copying and pasting onto the first template.
5. Repeat this step as many times as necessary until you feel that you have completed designing the front and back of your box.
6. Once finished, save the file and print it on heavy cardstock. Cut out the template, fold, glue as directed, and allow to dry before inserting your cookie or gift of choice (this is the perfect size for a Post-It pad for a teacher gift).
For my sample template, I created a design from Divine Digital’s Blog Hop this past week on Women in Creativity in which Sugar Moon participated. You may either use my PDF or create your own using all of the freebies and “Outside Content” you can find. The world is your proverbial creative oyster!
All of the tools are here to start your cookie box hybrid project.Cut out the template along the solid lines, fold along the dotted, and glue along the diagonal lines.Allow your box to dry after gluing before closing the cookie box completely.This is what your finished Cookie Box will look like!
Cut out the template along the solid lines, fold along the dotted, and glue along the diagonal lines.
Allow your box to dry after gluing before closing the cookie box completely.
This is what your finished Cookie Box will look like!
Women in Creativity Cookie Box Template
Go make a memory today, and make sure that you have a camera on hand to capture it!
Tags: "Outside" Content, freebie, Hybrid Projects, sugar moon designs, Thursday Tidbits
Tuesday Treasure- Teacher Appreciation Week
Hi Amber here with your weekly Tuesday Treasure. First I want to let you all know that Sugarmoon Designs has the Download a day at 3scrapateers! She will be giving you all her Birthday Bash kit!
Teacher Appreciation Week Starts Monday May 7th. Today I have a 5×5 card for you and a small 3×2.5 tag for a little gift basket. What are you planning on doing for your childrens teachers? Where did you find your inspiration? I have been searching Pinterst to find some inspiration as well as talking so some of the other parents at my kids schools. I still am not totally sure what I will be making for my kids teachers but here are a few cute freebie cards for you to use 
The 5×5 card says “Thank you for being an A+ Teacher” and the tag says ” A teacher can’t live by “apples” alone they need “hugs” too”
I think I am going to get a little basket and fill it with hersheys hugs and add this tag to it!
I found the idea HERE
You can find the kit Schooled by Numbers here at Divine Digital {HERE} which is where i got the pieces to make these cards from Sugarmoon Designs Parts and Missy’s Bits Designs Kit.
Wacky Wednesday: Speed Scrap
Hii, Amber here. We have just completed Aprils Speed Scrap over on Missy’s Facebook Page. I just love hosting Speed Scraps, also keep your eyes out for them each month! We will go back and forth between Missy’s and Sugarmoon Designs Facebook page.
Once you have completed your layouts make sure to upload them at Divine Digitals Gallery and post the link in a comment here with the link and your email address so we can send your prize! :) For everyone who posts their link here by Midnight April 27th will get a $3 coupon to Missy’s Divine Digital Store which you can find HERE
I used her kit Spring Par-tea for my layout today and for the Speed Scrap instructions page
Tuesday Treasure Tea Party Card
Hey Amber here with your Tuesday Treasure! I came aross this really cute and bright kit made by Missy’s Bits and Sugarmoon called Mad Hatter Tea Party! This kit has so much more than what is shown here also! I love the bright springy colors. This is great for making layouts of your little ones tea party photos!
And today I have for you a 5×5 Card printable! I have one with the saying “A Tea Party sounds like a fun Party” then I have a blank one with no words and a third with the option of adding a photo! Hope you enjoy the cards and they come to great use for you! Make sure to stop by Mymemories and check out this great kit and others by these amazing designers.. They are also having a TAX SALE!!!
Missy’s Bits Designs has ALL her Shops on sale until the 18th
Her shops are at
And Sugarmoon Designs also has a sale
Her shops are
And With Love Studio is having a sale!
Here is a Sample of what I made for you today:
Enjoy:)
Congrats to our LOTD CT members!
Hi Shanna here with a weekend spotlight! Our amazing CT members at Scrapping Artistry have really gotten alot of recoginition in this last week all over the digi-scrap community. Here are are few of the layouts I found that have been praised!!
Spring by Memi –recieved LOTD at Divine Digital on April 13th, she used Missy’s Spring Par-tea
Ambie got LOTD at Divine Digital on April 12th, using Sugar Moon’s Vintage Tea Party
Missy got LOTD at Divine Digital on April 3rd using her kit Skylar’s Dream
Shanna also got her Mommy & Skylar layout featured in this week’s With Love Studio Newsletter — using Missy’s Skylar’s Dream kit
Well done ladies!
Tags: divine digital, LOTD, missy's bits, Skylar's Dream, Spring Par-tea, sugar moon, Vintage Tea Party, WLS
Monday’s Meal: Asparagus Gratin
Hi guys! Cammi here with Monday’s Recipe. If your house is like mine, it’s completely overloaded with Easter Candy. I am not exaggerating when I say my kids got more candy for Easter than they did at Halloween! LOOK!
Total sugar overload! And this was just from egg hunting. The Easter Bunny didn’t put candy in their baskets. Thank goodness! When I was a kid we hunted for empty eggs. Or maybe there was a treat in a few of the eggs. Now every. single. egg. has candy in it! Yikes!
So…that all said, I’m not bringing a sweet dessert to you today. Today’s recipe is Asparagus Gratin. I kinda have a love/hate relationship with asparagus. When I was growing up, my parents always made the asparagus from a can. It was so mushy and I hated it. It wasn’t until I was an adult that I realized it didn’t have to be that way! So I found this recipe and decided to give it a shot. I love anything to do with cheese, and the picture looked delicious! I tried it out, and wow it was delicious! Even my very picky 6 year old came back for thirds. Yes, thirds! Thank Apron Appeal for sharing this recipe. I hope you all try it, and enjoy it as much as I did.
- Adjust oven rack to upper-middle position and heat broiler. Line broiler safe baking dish with paper towels or a lint free kitchen cloth. Snap the woody ends off the asparagus and set both stalks and ends aside.
- Bring water to a boil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add asparagus ends and ¼ teaspoon salt and cook covered, for 5 minutes. Using slotted spoon, remove asparagus ends and discard. Add asparagus stalks to skillet, cover and cook, stirring occasionally, until nearly tender,2-4 minutes. Transfer asparagus to paper/cloth-lined baking dish. Pour asparagus water into liquid measuring cup. If liquid does not read 1-cup mark, add water until it does.
- Melt butter in now empty skillet over medium heat. Add flour and cook, stirring constantly until golden, about 1 minute. Whisk in reserved asparagus water and bring to boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until thickened, 3-5 minutes. Off heat, whisk in ½ cup Parmesan and Monterey jack until smooth. Season with salt and pepper. Cover and let stand for 5 minuets.
- Remove paper towels from baking dish. Drizzle sauce over center of asparagus and top with remaining Parmesan. Broil until cheese is golden and asparagus is tender, 4-8 minutes. Serve.
Also, don’t miss out in the sales today going on at Divine Digital
Spring/Easter Kits
Good Saturday morning to everyone. I hope you are enjoying your day with your family and getting ready for your Easter Celebrations tomorrow. Is there anything special you do on Easter with your family? Easter is probably my most favorite holiday,it’s a great time to reflect on all that Jesus has done for us. Yesterday, I took my daughters to the Passion Experience which is a self guided tour you do by going through all these different stations leading up to the cross. They had stations like hand washing, the Last Supper, the coins, the nails, the torn veil, and a few others. It was really neat because you could touch, smell, and taste the events leading up to Christ’s ultimate scarifice…The Cross! They had great sticker books for the kids with explainations for each station in kid terms.
I also wanted to share a tip I use when using chocolate candy to stuff inside those platic eggs. Stuff the candy in the eggs then put the eggs in the FREEZER so the chocolate won’t melt as quickly {at least this is a great tip for the south when it’s 100 degrees out on Easter}
So have fun at your Easter celebrations and be sure to take lots of pictures to scrap….Speaking of scrapping have you seen these great Easter/Spring kits in SugarMoon & Missy’s Bits’ MyMemories Store? You’re going to need some special kits to do your photos justice …
Birdsong at Daybreak – Scrapping Artistry
My Easter Peeps by Sugar Moon Designs
Garden Whimsy by Missy’s Bits
He is Risen by Sugar Moon Designs
Also don’t forget Sugar Moon has this great sale going on this weekend in her Divine Digital boutique.
And Missy has her My Memories shop 40% off all weekend too!
Have a Blessed Easter!
Shanna
Tags: Easter, missy's bits, sugar moon designs
You Found a Bunny Print!
Have you been hopping down the bunny trail searching for Divine Bunny prints today? We have an extra set right here!
All day the Divine Designers have been leaving Bunny Prints all around Facebook and their blogs! If you want to find them all you’ll have to visit the Divine Digital Forums for clues on where to look- and when. Some of the bunny prints disappear very quickly! So you’ll want to move fast to get them all!
Missy has a special quick page for you today using her newest kit- Skylar’s Dream.
Sugar Moon has a special set of stacked papers for you from her “My Easter Peeps” kit. Download Here
Tags: bunny hop, digital scrapbook freebies, divine digital, freebies, missy's bits, sugar moon designs
