Welcome to The Cherry On Top,
There is so much to cover. This particular blog is a lot like myself, eclectic! Hehehe...I've got the second Winter Birdie freebie for ya, some fun winter pages to inspire you, a quick tip about getting your photo albums printed, an exciting announcement and finally a peak at an upcoming freebie that you will not want to miss.
I totally forgot about the second winter birdie design I promised. So me! I apologize. I did write in my notes that I totally need to organize an outline for this blog. There is so much to share.
I'm showing off my new birdie designs on my own mockups. The first one is not mine, but really neat.
As some of you may know, I lived briefly in Amsterdam and I currently live in Belgium, a neighboring country. We often visit our Dutch neighbors and I'll be documenting some of those trips. This way, if you want to check out The Netherlands, you'll get a nifty look or if you'd love to see it through photos and scrapbook pages, you'll be set. I do love seeing my friend's photos from places I've never been and perhaps never will visit. Feel free to share where you'd love to go in the comments and keep your eyes out for this fun free mini scrapbook kit.
I've decided to bail out of the Love For Layout Templates train and do my own thing. Now, don't be too disappointed. I'll be giving away a free template every month. I'll be back with a preview of all twelve templates, soon. Your first free template will be available very soon. Stay tuned!
Below, you see all of the templates from last year. If you need the links for the blog with the freebie, pop over to The Cherry On Top's Freebie board on Pinterest by clicking on the preview.
I promised some winter scrapbooking pages. I chose these since the bird is a winter bird. These are the newest set of templates in my shop, Kreative Design Studio. Last I looked, they were still 50% off.
Here are some fun pages with the templates. The template shown in my page below is uncropped. That means you can turn the mini album into a real one. Won't that be fun?
You can simply add photos to the templates or replace our elements with the ones from your own digital stash.
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Below is my page and Jo's scrapbooking kit.
Did ya miss the last travel blog from snowy Monschau? Click on the pretty page to see all of my pages from our trip to Monschau along with some details on the area.
This is the freebie from last week. I blogged about cleaning. Ugh! Hehehe... Maybe you can learn a thing or two about how to clean better, easier, cheaper and more environmentally friendly?
I'm never a fan of being a Negative Nancy. However, something happed to me the last time I had a book printed and I wanted to share the experience in hopes the same thing does not happen to you.
I wanted to send my mom and dad a scrapbook of me and the boys over the last few years since I've not seen my parents in nearly a decade. I chose to use SnapFish. I thought I used it before and had a good experience, but now I'm not so sure.
First, I'm sure I chose an 8x8 inch template because I always do square formats in either 8x8 or 12x12. Being the ding dong I am, I only noticed at the end that I was working in an 8x11 inch format. Duh! I obviously didn't want to design the book all over again. The cover was also not centered. I'll take the blame for not noticing that SnapFish presented a template that I didn't choose.
Without going in to too much detail, SnapFish sent two of the same albums to the same address. I could easily see that I cancelled my order, fixed the book and reordered. What I didn't know is that there was some kind of automatic payment!! They took the money out twice when I only went through the ordering process once. I didn't know businesses could do this. Of course, I couldn't reach out to any real person from either PayPal or SnapFish, initially. Eventually, the bot from SnapFish did link me up to a person. (I think. Though, the person didn't really act like one.) I had to wait in a line of over 100 others waiting. Thank goodness, I didn't have to pay for the "call".
Anyway, they did not give me my money back, but they did give me store credit which I have no intention of using. Also, the cover wasn't exactly how I designed it. The red and blue didn't show up on the cover. So be very careful of these companies that have automatic payments. I may be ditching PayPal as well. I can't even figure out how to address this issue.
To be fair, I couldn't really see the book well. It was over Skype. It seemed ok. I can also say that photos did upload quickly in their software and when you used an image, a little indication showed up in the gallery which was super handy. I added text to each page to form a poem.
If you've never printed an album, don't let this entry deter you. Digital albums are so much easier to handle. The elements don't fall off and they are a lot less bulky. I am a regular, traditional scrapper, too. It's just so much easier and cheaper to send digital pages to The States.
If you want to learn a lot more about digital scrapbooks, click on the lovely page above. It's full of so much information, tips and tricks for digital scrapbooking with a lot of wedding pages. I've also got a video showing that album off. You might just be surprised how beautiful they turn out!
This was supposed to be a short one! Hehehe...
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Happy scrapping!
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