Saturday, October 16, 2021

Christmas and Halloween Scrapbooking with Page Inspiration and Awesome Holiday New Goodies

Welcome to The Cherry On Top, enthusiastic scrapbookers.

Today's blog is full, full, full of new scrapbooking items in Plus and Kreative Design Studio.  It's full, full, full of pretty page layout inspiration to get your creative juices flowing.  We're going to just diver right in and run you through some of the newer items I've designed.  I'm putting 15 products, weekly in Plus and trying to get a products in Kreative Design Studio every week as well.  Shooo wee....that is a lot of designing!


So I found these adorable penguins in Plus and just had to design a fun winter themed pack of crafting and scrapbooking goodies.  I've got about a dozen papers that coordinate, a fun sticker sheet that'll be perfect for your holiday crafts and gift giving.  There are some cool elements in the form of arabesque ornaments, journal cards a few clusters for further decoration and design.  The journal cards and ornaments will make great tags or even ornaments for your tree.  Mix and match them all for some serious flexibility and scrap-a-licious and crafting fun!



I've put together some festive, flamingo fun designs that coordinate perfectly with our Flamazing collection found in Kreative Design Studio.  Again, there are papers, word art that'll be ideal for sublimation projects, stickers, tags...type in Flamazing in the Plus search and grab all of the packs. Grab coordinating templates and more in Kreative Design Studio.  Both of the packs of  templates are amazing.  No they are, Flamazing!


Match up the Desktop Templates with Flamazing and design super fun and whimsical page layouts.


You can scrap really fast and beautifully with clusters and a few papers.


Plus peeps are digging my Farmhouse Santa Kit!  Thanks so much if you are a part of that.  It's got a sweet vintage vibe with a versatile set of word art, clusters, elements and it really is perfect for crafters and scrapbookers.  You can whip up scrapbook layouts, cards, Christmas tags, stickers and sublimation projects in minutes.  Just look at those country style plaid papers!  I love them!


Similar to the style of Farmhouse Santa is the Holiday Designs pack.  I've got a glittery hint for festive fab and a more whimsical approach in its design.  I've got an image with some ideas on how to use it.  Again, design cards, tags, scrapbook layouts...in minutes.

Here are just a few designer resources I've put in Plus.  For just one credit, you've got very useful items that you can use personally or for Commercial Use.  Typically, I give a few examples in the packs.  So you get the design that you can use over and over, any way you like and you get a few, texture rich design papers, too.





I LOVE edges!  Painted, brushed...it's all good.  Since I've designed so many for my own designs, I'm putting them in Plus for y'all to use, too.  Edges really make a paper look polished and finished.  They are a super way to give a feel of texture and introduce other colors to your design in a more subtle manner.  Give them a try and if you love them, look out for more.



My most popular item this week are these tag templates.  I use tags over and over and thought I'd also share these.  I'm also giving this page of tags in the template pack, too.  I've provided a one page psd format, a jpg format, a png page format AND hehehe....each tag, singularly in png format.  Not bad for one credit!


It took me all night to design these Skulls papers, but man they are so COOL!  Gothic and not just for Halloween either!



Theresa has played with the Adventure template and our Halloween kit.  Whoo hoo!  What fabulous pages!  I've got an entire Halloween kit in my shop as well as coordinating ultra fabulous papers in Plus.  Together they make one heck of a stunning collection.  Here are the skull papers and here is the other design pack.

The Adventure template and fun designs from Clever Monkey Graphics.

Don'cha just love Caro's page?!  I love JumpStart Designs, too!

Another page with the Big N' Little Templates and designs from Sweet Shoppe.

Oh, yay!  The collaboration with Art and Life Scraps and the Simple Squares template.

One of my favorite formats of templates, Project Life!  More from JumpStart and Caro.

Can a kit get any cuter than this?  I LOVE sushi and poke bowls!  You?

Here are this week's, new templates found in Kreative Design Studio.


Art & Life Scraps can now be found in The Studio!  Whoo hoo!

A Sweet Shoppe Collab and super cute page from Michal.  Keep your page simple to add more focus on your photos.



More from JumpStart Designs.

I love this kit from LouCee Creations.


I'm such a sucker for a train scrapbook kit!  Fun stuff from Meagan's Creations.

Awesomeness from the Sweet Shoppe.


Connie Prince Designs



Halloween is fast approaching!  I've got so much stuff in Plus and Kreative Design for it!  Here are some super fun templates.  It all coordinates!  Cool, eh!



Oooh...My Patronus kit!  Loved this one! If you ever REALLY want something that I had in my GingerScraps Shop and it is not in KDS, give me a shout and we can possibly work something out.  

Very impressive work from Felicity with a mix of goodies including our Halloween kit.

More of our kit.  Not bad, eh?!

Holy wow kit from Throwing Some Scraps Around.

I'm in love with JumpStart's kit!!!

I showed off this scrap fast gnome Christmas fun kit and got a few more pages!



If you missed these mega fun Desktop Templates, grab them now!


More from Art & Life Scraps.

Y'all!  I had tons of FREE stuff on the last blog.  Get your pretty butts back there and check it all out and download until your heart is content!  I want NO excuses for you not scrapbooking.  Hehehe...I've given you so much inspiration, wonderful items to scrap with and even free stuff.  If you're new to digital scrapbooking and want to dive in, free is the way to go.  Test the waters and give it a try.  I've got a blog and VIDEO dedicated to getting you started. There is a free template, free kit and full instructions on how to scrap digitally.

If you like what you see and don't want to miss out on our designs, sign up for the newsletter and or follow us in our social spots that are over to the right, at the top.

Happy scrapping and crafting!!!









 

Friday, October 1, 2021

Digital Scrapbooking Weekend Is Here! So Many New Products, Scrapbook Inspiration and Freebies

Welcome, Scrapbookers and Crafters!

I'm so super thrilled you are here.  The Cherry is THE place to be for DSD and any time you need scrapbooking inspiration, tips, tricks and awesome digital designs.  We've been at this for nearly 10 years now.  Can you believe that?  We've been published several times and we even have a sweet little spot in the Top 100 Scrapbooking Blogs, too.

So make this your go-to place for inspiration, ideas and anything digital scrapbook-related.  

THIS BLOG IS PEPPERED WITH FREEBIES!!!


I've just put some new Desktop templates in the Kreative Design Studio over at Design Bundles.  That's our new home.  You'll love it over there!  They've got amazing designs at awesome prices.  An awesome community and great customer service and then some.  It's truly impressive!

Fabulous goodies from Sweet Shoppe and a great page from Jenni.

More awesome from Hilary and Sweet Shoppe.

A great page from Dorian and a sweet kit from Studio4.

More from Jenni and Sweet Shoope.

You guessed it!  More awesome from Jenni and JoCee at Sweet Shoppe.

Lisa whipped up this page with goodies from Alexis Design Studio and Key Lime Digi Design.

Oh, yeah gorgeous!  Caro and lovelies from Sweet Shoppe.

Evelynn is playing with awesome from Sweet Shoppe, too.

Gorgeous page from Felicity and goodies from GingerScraps.

A lot of fabulous from Fallen Angel and Sweet Shoppe.

Did you check out all of the different ways my ladies scrapped the binding on their pages?  Simply clip in a coordinating paper if you like.  I'd totally go for a silver style and or a bevel, puffy or thicker style for extra dimension and an even more realistic effect.

Join us in our scrap-a-licious group and grab ALL 10 FREE TEMPLATES!

Next up, we're switching gears and creeping down Spooky Street.  I've got a huge collection of fabulous Halloween goodies in Design Bundles, now.  My latest addition are these fabulous templates.  Seriously, if you just add texture and your photos, your pages will be great, right?!

My entire shop is 50% off for the weekend.  So you can get everything you see here today for a fantastic price.  Whoo hoo!


More awesome from the Sweet Shoppe and Hilary!



I'd like to take this opportunity to explain a bit about Plus membership at Design Bundles without sounding too salesy.  Yuck!  But so many people are asking and it is something totally new.  So I think it's worth the explanation.

I've got a regular shop at Design Bundles where you can just go in and buy something as you would at any digital shop.  I'm also working for Design Bundles as a Plus Designer.  Plus is a part of Design Bundles, too.  It's the "membership" part.  You've got Bronze Gold and Silver memberships with the cheapest membership being only 7.99.  

I'd encourage you to pop over there and read all of the fine details, but wow!  You can get amazing deals, services and even software usage with the Gold membership that can be amazingly useful and a totally awesome deal.

Here's another free kit you can find in Design Bundles that I designed.


Basically, you get credits according to the membership you have. With the basic membership, you get 10 credits.  Most items in Plus are 1 credit.  For now, mine are all one credit, too.  So let's say, you've got the basic plan with 10 credits and I'm putting in about a dozen products weekly.  You can get 10 of my products (or any designer's products) for just 7.99!  That's pretty insane.  Even for a cheapo like myself!

It only gets better from there.  You get credits for liking things, participating in the community and all kinds of VIP services.  We've got monthly $1 Deals.  If you miss out on them, depending on your membership, you get extra time to buy and even other special opportunities for other awesome deals.  It's totally worth it if you buy a lot of digital products. AND you can get out when ya want.  You are in no way trapped.  Also, if you don't use all of your credits, (as if) you can move them over to the next month.  Pretty cool, right?

Back to our regularly scheduled program.  Hehehe....  Here are some things I've been designing for Plus that might interest you.  It isn't everything!

Since I'm new to Plus, I'm testing the water on the styles people like there.  You'll see what I mean as we progress.  When I first started scrapping I loved designs like this, Baby Girl Collection.  I had little boys then.  So that might have something to do with it.

This collection boasts mini kits 1, 2 and 3 that have papers, element clusters and word art that makes your scrapbooking incredibly expeditious!  You can scrap a mini album in a very short time.  I've also made quick pages and got to thinking.  Sure they are great when you are short of time.  They're awesome when you really don't know "how" to scrapbook, too.  Another great aspect is when you want to give someone an album or mini and you're not sure that the receiver would really appreciate an album that you worked hours on end for, right?!  Been there.  Done that!


My Halloween goodies are doing very well in Plus so far.  Whoo hoo!  The papers posted here are my best seller so far.  Thanks so much if you are a part of the success.  If you noticed, all of these fantastic Halloween scrapbooking goodies coordinate with the free kit I designed for Design Bundles.  Whoo-hoo!  That means you can scrap for hours and you can definitely scrap an entire album when you use our quick pages 1,2, 3, and 4, which are not even shown here but are also doing well in Plus.

They feature some seriously cute witchy animals and a haunted house.  They might be worth a look-see.

Below, you'll see the Haunted House quick pages, Haunted House papers, fabulous extra paper pack, templates from the regular shop and that free kit.


Here are a few fun Halloween page layouts to inspire you.



Here's a coordinating freebie for you.  If you love it, get more coordinating goodies from Plus.


Next up are products that might interest designers and scrappers that love to customize. For Plus, I can only use items from Plus and things that I totally make myself.  Shoo!  So, I have to get in there and do a lot of raw designing.  I figured, if I can't find it in Plus then maybe others designers need it as well.  So when I design something unique, I put it in the shop for other designers.

These paint splatters are super versatile.  You can erase parts ya don't want or need.  You can totally clip in any paper over them and just go nuts making them yours. I've started a line of design papers, too.  Dots, hearts, starsscalloped, starbursts and much more to come. 


Plaids are always in style and they are perfect for the holidays.  Since I needed a bunch for the papers I'm designing, I put together all of my plaid papers so far in this huge bundle.  It's on sale for 50% off, too.  The plaids are very versatile and texture rich.


To keep things a little shorter, I've got another preview of the paper packs I've put in Plus.  Which one do you like best?  I think those Basic Blacks will take you very far in your designs and scrapbook pages. I'm totally digging the retro vibe in the Dots Delight papers and I just go gah gah over Christmas.  I was asked to make Christmas papers and specifically, glittery Christmas papers.  The country, vintage rose papers aren't too shabby either.  I needed a touch of spring in my life at that point.  Hehehe...



Another collection I've spent a lot of time on is Pumpkin Spice Latte.  OH, boy!  The colors are just so awesome.  Warm and cozy like your favorite wooly socks, a cup of coffee and cool like the fresh air outside this time of year.  I've got 3 paper packs, specialty papers, quick pages 1-6, clusters, word art, stickers, elements...Just type in" Pumpkin Spice Latte" in the search and check it all out.  This is just some of the collection.


Totally scrap-a-licious!


Here's a coordinating goody I gave to subscribers.  It pays to get our newsletter. If you love it, head over to Plus and grab more wonderful fall scrapbooking elements.  Don't miss out on the next freebie for newsletter recipients.


If you are here for the blog train, here is your free template.  It'll go super with our Pumpkin Spice Latte Collection.  Enjoy the free template!

You came from Promethean Concepts and next is AnnieC Digitals.

Theresa used our free Halloween kit and the plaids for her page.  Wonder-fall!

Switching gears just a bit for you scrap-a-holics.  Hehehe...This is my page inspiration with collections and collaborations from Clever Monkey Graphics.  You can find her amazing products at Sweet Shoppe.

September Story from Clever Monkey Graphics

Pie Season From Clever Monkey Graphics and WendyP

Heebie Jeebies from Clever Monkey Graphics and Erica Zane

Hike Into Autumn from Clever Monkey Graphics and Blagovesta

If you made it this far, THANKS!  That is totally awesome!  I hope you could enjoy all of the page inspiration and the free stuff.  If ya just loved what ya saw, join us in our scrap-a-licious group, all of our wonderful social spots which you can find up top in the sidebar and consider joining our newsletter.

Scrap happy with The Cherry and Kreative Design Studio.