Monday, April 4, 2011
New Creative Victorian Kit
This is a layout that I did from the latest Creative Victorian Designs kit, a collaborative with Arminia Designs called Romantic Intrigue. A lovely colorful, romantic kit filled with flowers and gorgeous designs. You can get it here:
Sunday, April 3, 2011
CT Layouts for Heritage Scraps Collab
Just dashing in quickly with these lovely layouts from the StarSongStudio CT team, done with my portion of the Heritage Scraps April Collaborative, Spring Symphony. The kit is on sale right now for just $2.50 at HeritageScraps.
Jan
Sharon
Edna
JeanAnn
And a sneak peak of some new CU products that I'll be blogging about tomorrow!
Friday, April 1, 2011
New Spring Symphony Collab at Heritage Scrap & Freebie
The designers at Heritage Scrap have gotten together to offer a series of coordinated mini kits to welcome spring. Pictured above is my offering and it's on sale right now for just $2.50. You can purchase it here:
And while you're there check out the other kits in the Spring Symphony series.
Here's a layout that Jean Ann made using the kit. And she made it into a quick page so that you can have this lovely design for your own special photograph.
You can download it here:
And I have two more layouts to share. These were created by Edna with my Sweet Spring kit, which is also available at Heritage Scraps.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Violets and Old Lace and a Freebie
You can purchase it at HeritageScraps and at Coolscrapsdigital along with my other PU and CU products.
I know when I'm shopping, the CT layouts are often the most helpful. So here from my
fantastic CT team are some layouts so that you can see what Violets and Old Lace looks like in action.
From Alejas
From JeanAnn:
From Dillie:
From Marnie:
From Janette White
And Marnie has very generously provided a stunning cluster for our readers. I adore this frame cluster that she made and hope you enjoy using it as much as I did.
You can download it here:
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
New Layouts
Today I want to share some gorgeous CT layouts. The first ones are from my Sweet Spring kit available at Heritage Scraps and at Coolscrapsdigital.
So here they are:
Two layouts from Lavender Angel:
And two from Marnie:
And some great heritage layouts from Jan done with my Old Clock Kit. This kit is also available at HeritageScraps and Coolscrapsdigital.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Our 4th Interview and Another Freebie
Today, I'd like to introduce a very special member of the StarSongStudio team: my daughter Dawn. Dawn is the person who introduced me to digital scrapbooking and the one who taught me all the basic techniques and continues to teach, coach and inspire me on a daily basis.
Dawn designs under the name MorningSunDesigns and she is the collaborator on the Royal Romance kit being featured this week. We're currently working on another collaborative right now: Midnight Magic, that we plan to release soon.
So with no further delay:
Here's Dawn.
Dawn designs under the name MorningSunDesigns and she is the collaborator on the Royal Romance kit being featured this week. We're currently working on another collaborative right now: Midnight Magic, that we plan to release soon.
So with no further delay:
Here's Dawn.
1. How did you get started in digital design and scrapbooking?
I stumbled across digital scrapbooking while looking around the Internet for photoshop brushes. I was familiar with paper scrapping, but digital scrapbooking was a new concept for me.
2. Tell us about your art and design background?
Starting in high school I took a lot of art classes. One of my favorite projects was when our art teacher gave us each a camera and sent us out to start photographing anything and everything. I learned to look at the world in a whole new way. After high school I went on to study Architecture in college. The Architecture program I was in was very art/graphic based. I took pottery, printmaking, photography, drawing, landscape painting and then jewelry making. I started using photoshop in college for my art classes and never looked back! I was in love!
3. What do you like best about the world of digital scrapping? least?
My favorite thing about the digital scrapbooking world is the freedom to create such amazing visual projects. My least favorite thing would be the lack of understandable terms of use for items as well as the lack of public domain resources.
3a. What do you hope your contribution to this field will be?
I'd like for my contribution to be to create things that people enjoy, and that encourage them to create beautiful things.
4. How would you describe your scrapping style and your designing style?
I'd say my scrapping style is typically heavily clustered. I adore clustering. Once I discovered how to cluster; well there was no turning back. My designing style is realistic/graphic, mainly since those are the elements that appeal to me when I am scrapping.
5. Are there any emerging styles or trends in scrapbooking that you especially like?
I really love the blended photos that I see in so many layouts. It also seems like the caliber of the photos is getting better, which I think is great!
6. Your photography is phenomenal. Any tips or suggestions? Any low cost ideas for things that make digital photography easier and better?
When ever possible use a tripod. It helps with a sharper focus. Bright sunlight is usually not the best light for photography, I love an overcast day for picture taking. Keep learning; buy a book on your camera and really get to know all the features. Then try them out. The cost of your equipment is a lot less important than training your eye to get photos that have impact.
6a. What equipment do you use for photography?
I use a Canon 30D, a wide angle, telephoto and a prime lens, a tripod, and a remote trigger.
7. Where do you get your inspiration?
Most of my inspiration comes from the things around me that I love or that I find visually stimulating. Anything from a movie scene to a nice blog layout.
8. Five adjectives that describe you as a person.
Creative, thoughtful, independent, focused, curious
9. What's on your list of goals in this field?
My only goal is to work on constantly improving and expanding my digital scrapbooking skills.
10. Hobbies and interests?
My main hobbies are dog training, photography, and digital scrapbooking. My interests would be art, architecture, gardening, and reading.
Here are my three favorite layouts. On the first two I really love the combination of clustering combined with an extracted photo. The third layout is one of my favorites because I spent hours tinting the elements to give a cohesive night time look to the scene and it turned out really nicely.
Dawn has created a freebie for you today -- a lovely cluster frame from Royal Romance.
Friday, March 18, 2011
CSD Blog Train is Here & CSD QP Freebies
Take a ride on the train and collect each portion of this mega kit.
You're here at StarSongStudio and your next stop will be Kakleidesigns. Karen is an amazing designer so once you look around here and collect the freebies on my blog, jump on the train and head on over. The download for the blog train is at the end of this post but I've been posting freebies all week for the CSD quick page contest, so make sure you check out my CU and PU freebies before you leave.
If for any reason you hit a bump in the rails, the complete list of blog train participants is below. Please remember, that participants are on different time zones and might not yet have posted their part when you first visit.
BLOG LIST:
Star Song Studio
http://starsongstudio.blogspot.com/
Kakleideisgns
http://kakleidesigns.blogspot.com
Cocotounette
http://cocoscrapbook.blogspot.com
Created by Jill
http://createdbyjillscraps.blogspot.com/
MaChabine
http://m-creationsscrap.blogspot.com/
EMS Arts
http://emsarts.blogspot.com/
Chili Designz
http://chilidesignzz.blogspot.com
Snickerdoodle Designs by Karen
http://snickerdoodledesignsbykaren.com/
PrettyJu
http://prettyjuscrap.blogspot.com/
Nydia's Scraps
http://mis-myscraps.blogspot.com/
Addies Designs
http://coolscrapbook.blogspot.com/
byMurielle
http://bymuriellescrapdigital.blogspot.com/
Amanda & Millie Desings
http://sewretrosoyou.com
Junkin' Punkin
http://digitaljunqueemporium.blogspot.com/
*Adeyeo*
http://adeyeo.blogspot.com/
Connies Digi Pages*
http://conniesdigipages.blogspot.com
Pmarie
http://petitemariedesigns.blogspot.com/
Here is my portion:
And you can download it here:
And be sure to check out the CoolScrapsDigital Quick Page Contest now underway. 26 talented scrappers have signed up to create quick pages with the StarSongStudio and MorningSunDesigns collaborative kit, Royal Romance.
They will be competing for a $10 gift certificate. But you're the winner in this contest as you get to collect all of their quick pages for free. They would make a wonderful album. Each participant is posting a preview and a download link here:
And the kit is currently on sale here for 40% off.
And as I mentioned before, click on my previous posts for freebies coordinated with the Royal Romance kit. I have both CU and PU freebies and more to come. So stop back again this weekend.
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- I'm a scrapbook addict. I've been involved with digital scrapabooking since July 2009, when my daughter introduced me to her favorite hobby. When I'm not scrapbooking (hmm, when exactly is that?), I'm enjoying life with my family including my two daughters and two grandsons, my husband Clemens and my Cavalier Spaniel, Vinnie. My hobbies include photography, reading, biking, and hiking.
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