Friday, October 20, 2017

New Artistic Style Scrapbooking Templates and Inspiration Along With A Project Life Freebie

Welcome to The Cherry On Top.

We've got new templates in the Kreative Design Studio.  Take a look at what I and my lovely team has designed with them.  I've got more new templates from Dagi's Temp-Tations paired up with lovelies from Paty Greif as well as my two pages from the Studio's Layout Artist Competition.  Oh!  There's a sweet freebie or two in the post as well.  If you are the recipient of our newsletter and have downloaded the coordinating mini from Trolla Bolla, today's freebie and an upcoming freebie are going to be a sweet addition!

Here they are!  Now, that's something a bit different, right?  We should always be pushing ourselves artistically, intellectually and working on self improvement as well.  Better is better, right?  Hehehe...Start thinking how you are going to scrap up these lovely pages and get an eye full of inspiration from me and my mega talented team.

 Because Templates

I used the Digi Chicks blog hop, Treasured to scrap my lovely boys.  My pictures are not the best of quality, but it doesn't stop me from scrapping them.  I pulled out the lovely shades of green and blue and did not use flowers.  I kept the page neutral and boyish.  These templates can help with that if you find it challenging.

 Because Templates
 Because Templates and Treasured blog train from the Lilypad

I'm in love with XOXO from Made By Keuntje.  I scrapped a kind of funny pic of me and the hubs.  Now, that I look at it here, I think my page can use a touch more green for better balance.  Hehehe...

 Because Templates

I mentioned I have a few new ladies on the team and some free lance ladies, too.  This page is from Sarah.  How about all of that gold on the black?  Pretty fab!  I hope to see more pages from Sarah.

 Because Templates
Because Templates and Moon Beams from Brook Magee and Studio Basics

Dana scrapped up a fairly monochromatic, stylish type of page with this gorgeous pop of aqua.

 Because Templates
Because Templates and A Comfort To Me from Throwing Some Scraps Around

Theresa scrapped these super cute and funny photos.  Someone loved the pumpkin guts and someone else did NOT.  Hehehe...How funny?

 Because Templates
 Because Templates and Pumpkin Guts from Kim Cameron Designs

New team member, Rachelle is scrapping up some fabulous pages.  The blue makes a fabulous background to the yellow.

 Because Templates
 Because Templates and October Scraps Kathryn Estry

What a lovely picture of my scrappy sister, Theresa and her bubby.


 Because Templates
 Because Templates and Highland Romance from Kim Cameron

Oooh...Theresa really stuck with the template for those word bits and it looks great.

 Because Templates
Because Templates and Midnight Pumpkin from Kim Cameron Designs

And now for something completely different...I've got a huge project at hand, that I want ready for you by November and I needed masks.  I wanted a specific shape and couldn't find any Commercial Use in the shops so figured I try to make some on my own.  I've put them in the shop for a song.  Add them to your stash so you can start blending, today.

 Photo Masks

Last week we released these Hallo-What templates.  I've got a few more new pages to show off.

 Hallo-What Templates

Cristiana always makes beautiful pages.

  Hallo-What Templates, kit Peur Beau

This one is from my gal Dana.


 Hallo-What Templates
  Hallo-What Templates  Lindsay Jane Fangtastic

Hilary has a pretty gruesome page for us!  Hehehe..It's really awesome, too!


 Hallo-What Templates

There are two more beautiful pages from Hilary.  Loving all of this gold!


 Hallo-What Templates


 Halllo-What Templates

Robin made a simply beautiful page, too.  I can't believe all of my ladies used the exact same borders.  I thought for sure they would switch them out.  I LOVE that!  These borders gives your pages super dimension and texture.


 Hallo-What Templates
 Hallo-What Templates and Halloween Eve by Lindsay Jane

Did you grab this free template yet?  You can scrap it, add it to our group and get a chance to win something from the shop.  Look for the preview in the group and add your page to the comments.


 Free Template

Here are just a couple of pages for inspiration.  The first one is from Hilary.


 Free Template
Free Template and Haunted Haloween from Clever Monkey Graphics

Rachelle has another lovely page for us, too.

 Free template
 Free Template and Spooky Witches by PScrap

And Theresa did a nifty job on her page.  I like how she lined the corn down my extra borders.

 free template
Free Template and Crows Fest from LouCee Creations

Now, for Dagi's new templates and Paty Greif's collection, Cozy Days.

 Gotcha Covered

Dagi had your album covers in mind when she designed these.  What a great idea!

 Gotcha Covered


 Gotcha Covered


If ya follow The Cherry, then you know we have entered the Digital Scrapbooking Studio's Layout Artist competition.  Shoo...hehehe...What was I thinking?  Hehehe...I get two free kits a week and a lot of practice.  They've got a play along version as well.  I think I'm much better suited for that one, but what the heck.

This was my Artistic entry.  Aren't these colours so awesome?!  Way out of my comfort zone and loving it.

Cape Cod from Berma's Playground


 Cape Cod from Berma's Playground

This is more of what I'm used to.  My traditional entry.  LOVE these colours and the theme.


Sea Side Treasure from Booland Designs

Sea Side Treasure from Booland Designs



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I've got a freebie for you from our Trolla Bolla Collection.  There is a coordinating one for newsletter subscribers as well.  If ya find my blogs much too winded, then the newsletter is just what you need.  It's the entire week's blog in a nutshell.  I have exclusive freebies there and look aheads.  Sign up on our Facebook Page or right here on the blog, top right.

Newsletter Freebie

 Free project Life Card

Are you looking to be a part of a new scrapbooking group on Facebook?  Mis Mel Designs, Mel started a new group with challenges, inspiration, chit chat, etc.  Join us!

 New group join us

Ya gotta come back tomorrow to see what I'm doing with this page!  I've been giving some step by steps on Tuesday's blogs if you're a traditional only scrapper.  After seeing tomorrow's blog, you may just start combining the two and giving hybrid a try.


Wow!  You made it to the end!  Hehehe...  Thanks so much for checking out The Cherry.  We're thrilled ya did.

If you're looking for even more free stuff our Facebook page is what you need.  We post several freebies nearly every single day.  Our Pinterest is full of freebie boards that are continuously updated as well.  We'd love to see ya around our social spots.  You can check them all out at the top, right side of the blog.  The newsletter sign up is there, too.

Happy scrapping!




Tuesday, October 17, 2017

From Digital Scrapbooking Page to a Traditional Page, Part II

Welcome to Traditional Tuesday with The Cherry On Top.

Last week, we showed you how to utilise a digital template from Lissy Kay Designs to make it traditional style.  Click here to go and see how the first part is done.

This is what you'll get after following the first installation.  There are several different ways you can play with this nifty frame.  I would totally do this digitally because it's faster and a lot easier.  The next step I'd do is fill in all of the backgrounds of this frame, print and then scrap traditionally on top of that.  It would be a lot faster and easier.

If you're going hard core, this is how you can approach the task.

Print out the frame once you've ditched the rest of the template.  Remember, you can do this with any digital template and use it over and over.


You can decide if you want to work on top or behind the frame.  making it a frame if placed on top or a mat if placed on the bottom.  Both would work but give your page an inconsistent look.

Because the lines are so nice thick and dark, it's easy to trace!  



See how I turned it into a cut out template?  Didn't take long at all.  Trace these designs onto your desired paper.  Remember!  Hehehe...Remember to trace on the right side of your paper so that it comes out right and not the opposite.  I do that ALL of the time!



Those thick lines will give you some room for error and imperfections.  A cutting machine would be a very easy way to cutout these shapes and insert your own.  All digital templates come in a png form which works in most, new cutters.

So, we've given you several examples on how to approach the next step.  You're off to a great start!  We'll be back with the finishing touches and the rest of the tutorial.

Make sure ya check out Scrapbook.com and Cricut to make totally awesome pages easily and quickly.  They have top quality products and customer service.  Make them a part of your scrapbooking repertoire.

Happy scrapping!


Saturday, October 14, 2017

Free Highlands Printable Book Marker From Aimee Harrison and The Cherry On Top

Welcome to The Cherry On Top.

I just love Hybrid Saturday.  It's something so different than the norm.  Combining digital and traditional scrap is something that appeals a lot to me.  To me, it's just smart combining the digital aspects of scrapbooking with the traditional ones.  Different projects call for different kinds of methods, right and with all of these fantastic different kinds of cutting machines like Cricut, downloading digital files, printing them and cutting them, leaves you with a lot of options and the ability to use that awesome flower over and over again.  Stay tuned for our downloadable, cuttable designs for pages and cards and check out the ones we've got in our shop, Kreative Design Studio.

Here's an example of one.  Our Florida Page Starter Kit.  You can find a free coordinating goodie that go with it, here.

 Florida Page Starter Kit, print, cut and scrap

Get good at all three styles!  Digital, traditional and hybrid by following along at The Cherry. We'll show ya how and share a lot of free stuff so you can try it, too.

I designed this book marker to go with Aimee Harrison Designs new release, The Highlands.  You can pick it up over on her blog.  Now keep in mind, I get up a lot earlier than Aimee.  If it isn't ready on her blog, it will be later.  Hehehe...

 Free Printable book Marker Highlands

These were the pages I've done coordinating with the Digital Scrapbooking Studio's Store collaboration.

 Aimee Harrison Designs and Lissy Kay Template

This one is from Butterfly Dsign.  Her goodies were beyond fabulous!  Hop over to the Studio and check them out.  The prices are CHERRY!


 Butterfly Dsign
 Butterfly Dsign and a free template from Kmess

This is from Kim Cameron's portion and my Circlicious templates.



If you are all about awesome deals, like we are then you have to jump over to Create For Less and check out there goodies.  They are having Craftoberfest, a hand made Halloween costume contest and a Halloween Spooktacular there.

 Create For Less

I chose these goodies from the sales event.  They wold make excellent additions to your scrapbooking and paper craft stash.

This two tray organiser is just over $15. The other organiser is just over $7.  That's peanuts!  They've got this Sissix Starter pack for just over $45 and I love the pearlised card stock and finger guards.  I don't know about you, but I always burn my fingers with the glue gun.  Hehehe...True story!


 Create4Less

We blogged yesterday and included some links to free stuff you may have missed and you can read about a game with a prize we're playing in our group on Facebook.

I'll be back next week with a really great tutorial you won't want to miss.  We're mixing a digital background with traditional elements.  How cool is that?!


Thanks so much for checking out The Cherry and happy scrapping!

Friday, October 13, 2017

New Templates, Halloween Inspiration and More

Welcome to The Cherry On Top.

We've got new templates in the shop, pages and pages of inspiration and of course, some links to some freebies.  There are all kinds of new collections in and around DigiLand as well as contests at the Digital Scrapbooking Studio that might interest you.  I've also got a new video uploaded.  Keep reading to find out more.

Get your mojo in high gear after checking out the blog and get scrapping!

 Hallo-What templates

Our newest set of 4 templates are pretty awesome when it comes to versatility.  If you're really not into the ghoulish festivities, ditch the themed ellies and put in your very own.  We've got several pages here without the Halloween theme and they look smashing.

 Hallo What Templates
Hallo-What Templates and Happy Halloween from Paty Greif

Isn't that page so much fun?!  Paty is just great at whimsical design.  The borders along the side are bringing those layers to your attention, adding volume and depth to the page.


 Hallo-What Templates
Hallo-What Templates and Marie H Superstitious

Above is Marie's page using her revamped kit, Superstitious.  How unique?   My mom is so superstitious.   I never even heard of half the stuff she talks about and despite all of the rolling of the cabbage, she still hasn't been swimming in it.  Hehehe...


 Hallo-What Templates
Hallo-What Templates and Paty Greif's Happy Halloween

Anita's page is fabulous as usual.  What darling little ones in such an out of the box pose.  Great thinking, Girl!

  Hallo-What Templates
Hallo-What Templates and Ghoulies from Just So Scrappy

Hallo-What Templates and Ghoulies from Just So Scrappy

We've got some new ladies on the Creative Team!  Above, are Rachelle's pages.  She's done such a super job what fantastic photos of the fam.  Ya gotta love double pagers!



 Hallo-What Templates


 Lisa was casting spells on her pages, too.  Above and below are her designs with the new templates.


 Hallo-What Templates

Marina's page is so much fun.  Check out the grizzly look on the boy's face!  Ha!  Then the hammy, cheeky little girl.  Hehehe...Just love fun photos like these.  What better reason to scrap?


 Hallo-What Templates
Hallo-What Templates and Amber Shaw's Halloween Party

What a splendid fall background in this page.  Shelly really kept to the template.  Keeping it nice and simple and using everything as is.  That kind of scrapping makes your pages go along much faster and you still get great results.


 Hallo-What Templates

Hallo-What Templates, World Art World By Jennifer, Hallo Halloween

On to other new goods around DigiLand.  Like this amazing collection from the Digital Scrapbooking Studio.  I got to work with several different designers kits.  The first one is from my gal Aimee Harrison.  I paired it up with Lissy Kay Designs new templates, The One.  Loving all of these luscious layers.


The One from Lissy Kay Designs and The Highlands from Aimee Harrison Designs

This here page is from Butterfly Design.  She had so many splendid goodies in her part.  I could hardly decide which ones to use.  Hehehe...


 ButterFly Design
Highlands from ButterFly Design and a free template from Kmess.

This page is SO special to me.  That's me with my sister-in-law and my bro with my hubs.  I haven't seem them in 15 years!  They finally took a visit to Europe from Florida.  Good thing it was nice and hot when they got here, though not Florida hot.

Kim Cameron's Highland Romance is this fab kit I used along with my Circlicious Templates.


Even more new goodies are waiting for you!

Just look at all of this water colour gorgeousness! That's me and the hubs all dolled up with babysitter waiting for us to leave.  First time in 12 years, folks.  We had a great time at a friend's wedding.


Jodi from Throwing Some Scraps Around has out done herself, yet again.

 Celebrate Our Love

How about some more newer and new designs from your favourite digi shops?

 J2 Reach

How is that for something completely different?  Art journal style definitely isn't a regular part of my repertoire, but ya have to give it a go now and then, right?  The Urban Fairy certainly is an awesome designer for this style, too.

MagsGraphics also has a new collection out, Wicked Adventures.  Can you guess the theme by the name and my page?  Hmmm...It actually is a Somewhere Over the Rainbow theme, but I really wanted to scrap this beautiful pic and needed a kit with a lot of green and yellow.  Perfect!  I paired it up with Dagi's Temptation's, Scrap-Tastic templates.

 Wicked Adventure

Let's stick with different for the next two pages.  The Digital Scrapbooking Studio is having all kinds of contests this month as well as their challenges where you can find great freebies and play along.  The Next Designer and Layout Artist contest are live in the forum and I'm playing along.  Speaking of playing along, there is a place to do just that.  You'll get the same challenges we do only you're not a part of the competition.  How fun is that?

Of course there is a perk to doing the contest, like free kits and prizes.  This is my first challenge in the traditional competition.


 Fall Fresh

I've also decided to do the Artistic Style category.  I need a push to do this style and this is a great way to do just that.  How about a fabulous mini from The Urban Fairy, Blue Skies?  Isn't it a great back drop for these lovely photos of my friend's beautiful girls?


 Blue Skies

Have you played with our free template from Friday yet?  If so, pop over to the group and find the status with the preview of the free template from the Love For Layout train and add your page in the comment.  The page with the most likes will receive an item of their choice from my shop at Kreative Design Studio.  We'll see how many entires there are by Monday.

 Free Template from The Cherry On Top

I got this free template playing along with Kim Cameron's annual Zombie Run.  Join us over in her group if you haven't yet.  I've still got a free template there and you can get the next challenge pack.

 Free Template from Kim Cameron

This will be the freebie on tomorrow's, Hybrid Saturday blog.  Download, print, cut, consider laminating and mark your favourite book.  I'm actually in the middle of the second book of Highlander.  This marker will be perfect!  Gift idea?  Tag? Border for a pretty page?  So many things you  can do with it, right?!

FREE book marker printable on TOMORROW's blog.

I've been uploading videos to my You Tube channel.  I just put one up Wednesday where I scrap the free template I designed for Kim's group.  Check it out along with a few others.  Process videos and quick tips in PSE along witha  few older videos for paper craft.  I'll be adding traditional scrap videos eventually, too.

Thanks so much for checking out The Cherry, today!  We'll see ya tomorrow.

Happy scrapping!