My Muse Scrapbooking Collection, Bringing Back the 80's With Flair and Free Stuff

Welcome to Freebie Friday with The Cherry On Top.

Made By Keuntje and I have teamed up again for another spectacular scrapbooking collection, My Muse.  It started off with those templates you see in the middle, there.  I used Dana's kick'n colour palette and her funky flowers as well as LouCee Creations totally rock'n cool chick templates and someone suggested we design a kit to match.  Well, let me tell ya.  It kept growing and growing... Hehehe... There are nearly 40 papers and over 80 elements!  We also have a pack of over 20 word bits with sayings that you may have used once or twice 20 years ago and a pack of really cool journal cards.

Keep reading to see what I and our teams have designed with the collection. Throwing Some Scraps Around also has some new templates you can check out and grab those freebies!

My Muse Scrapbooking Collection

The first five pages are mine.  I'll try to keep the blah, blah, blah to a minimum or it'll take awhile to get through it all.  Hehehe...I often recommend getting a nice warm drink whilst perusing the blog.  Especially, Freebie Friday.

So, there I am with my altered bridesmaid dress in 1990! Oh! I just noticed a serious watch tan.  I'm showing off the everyday side of our collection.  We got 25 embellishments in the pack specifically showing off 80's goodies and the other 50+ can be used for absolutely anything.

My Muse Scrapbooking Collection

Did you also live by hair spray and a pick?  Hehehe...

The journal cards are so fabulously versatile.  I used them for a Project Life style page.  We've got several Project Life style templates in the shop if you are in need of them or for inspiration.

My Muse Scrapbooking Collection

Huge earrings, monstrous plastic hair clips, swatches and jelly bands and shoes.  Remember?!

This page shows off some of the many artistic style elements in the collection.  We've got quite a bit of scatter, splatter, stamps, stitching, doodles and artistic style papers, too.

My Muse Scrapbooking Collection

Showing off a few of my pages with the kit and my templates.

My Muse Scrapbooking Collection

Our templates are darn gnarly, would you not say?  Ha!  I clipped in a few super papers and added a few more ellies around the edges and the banner.  Added a date and BAM!  Finished!  Can't forget the epic photo of me and my bro with his fabulous hair doo and Coca Cola shirt.  That was my convertible.  Of course, these templates can be used as quick pages.  Just place in your photos and you're all scrapped up!

My Muse Scrapbooking Collection

Now, on to our talented team's designs.  We got so many fabulous pages from our ladies.  Dana and I were beaming with joy and pride.

My Muse Templates (found in Dana's shop)

My Muse Templates (found in Dana's shop)

Hilary used my Siggies and Titles templates we released last week for her awesome title.  Pretty fantastic!

My Muse Scrapbooking Collection and Siggies and Titles Templates

Siggies and Titles Templates

My Muse Scrapbooking Collection

My Muse Scrapbooking Templates

My Muse Scrapbooking Templates

Hilary did a really cool page with bright on black and one heck of a cool photo effect!

Our templates were very popular with the ladies!

Karrie used the template really creatively.

My Muse Scrapbooking Templates

This particular template was very popular.  What will you do with it?

My Muse Scrapbooking Templates

My Muse Scrapbooking Templates

Give contrast to ellies and papers with strokes.  Rachelle gave one of records a white outline to give it contrast to the basically black lettering.   Ruth did the same, above.

My Muse Scrapbooking Templates

See!  More outlines.

My Muse Scrapbooking Templates

My Muse Scrapbooking Templates

Journal Cards and Word Bits

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

You can purchase the entire bundle in Dana's shop for $7.  You can also purchase the packs separately there, along with the templates for just $3.  The templates are not in Kreative Design Studio.  In The Cherry's shop at Kreative Design Studio. You can purchase separate packs of papers, ellies and a combination of the word bits and journal cards.  I also have the word bits and journal cards in printable versions for you.  I totally will be printing and playing and showing off our projects on the Tuesday blog.

Made By Keuntje and I have freebies for you.  Blogger was being wonky and I wasn't able to link up the images, but you can click on the high lighted wording to get the links.

The Cherry's Freebie

Made By Keuntje's Freebie

Get out your throw back photos and get scrapping!  Of course the colours and assets are gender and age neutral so you really could scrap anything with this fun collection.

Here's my page using Throwing Some Scraps Around's new templates, Enchanted. I couldn't wait to scrap these pics of my boys.  I also used Jodi's kit, Gotta Be Me.  Isn't it great?!  More gender friendly colours and great for anything.

This was another page I did with Gotta Be Me.  It's so diverse and versatile.  I just love it.  I did design a coordinating freebie with it.  Find it here.

The month is winding down.  That means it's time to get in those challenge in my group and Kim Cameron's group, too.  I've got two more fun challenges ready for next week.  Don't miss out!

Thanks so, so much for checking out The Cherry.  I hope we've put a smile on your face, a giggle in your belly and some ideas in your brain. Hehehe...

Happy scrapping!

Stretch Your Scrapbooking Templates and Add Some Free Ones To Your Stash

Welcome to The Cherry On Top.

I'm so excited for today's blog.  I've got a lot of scrappy inspiration for you.  I'm showing various ways to change and or alter digital templates and make them more your own and customise them to fit the page you have in mind.  I've also got links to several older templates from this blog that you may have missed.

Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you like what we've got for you, today.

As you may know, I design templates amongst other digital and traditional scrap projects.  Above, I used a template from Heartstring Scrap Art.  Bryony is definitely a top of the list, digital template designer.  She's also started making digital scrapbooking kits and they are equally as fabulous.

For one of the first times, I followed a template literally.  Can you spot it in the collection below?  Bottom left...So soft and pretty.  I used Aimee Harrison Designs newest collection, Aquamarine.  It's really lovely, as usual.  Her collections are outstanding.  Not only do they lend absolutely gorgeous pages, but they make scrapbooking so fast!

OK, take a look at the top, right template, above.  See those THREE photo spots, in Bryony's template?  Well, below you'll see I merged the three photo spots (by clicking on all three grey layers in my software program, then right clicking on "merge layers").  How awesome a spot for a landscape scene like this one from my back yard in Germany.  The rolling hills, river and grape vines and backed up on a beautiful, blue sky.

There really isn't a lot to this layout.  One photo, an awesome messy edge from Aimee's collection and perhaps a dozen elements from Aquamarine.  You can still scrap beautifully when you scrap simply.

This is not my work, but it's just so darn gorgeous, I have to show it off.  Bryony's gorgeous collection is just $1 a pack, which totally freaks me out!  It's so awesome.  Lovely templates, too.  Ya have to take advantage of this deal.

The colours and all of that sparkle!  This is a must have for your digital stash.

This one might be more difficult to see.  My layout above used Lissy Kay's Fast Grid templates.  It's actually the template with the pink background.  Do you see the changes?

I opened the template in my PSE software, used the square marquee tool and snipped off the entire row on the end.  It was really easy to do because of the big, black lines in the frame.  Then I stretched what was left of the template and turned it to the left by selecting all of the layers, image, rotate and left.  I often do that to change up a template so that my page doesn't look like everyone else's who work with the template.

Here's another lovely template from Lissy and my new kit, The PuurFect Kit, featuring my bleach white fur baby, Pluisje.  (You pronounce it, Plow-sh-ya)

I used the top, right template, changed it's direction horizontally and merged some of the layers so that I didn't have to put a different paper or photo into all of those spaces.  Feel free to use papers of photos in all of these spots.  The choice is yours.

Made By Keuntje is another template designer.  Take a look at how I changed up one of her terrific templates to make it my own.

I used the template on the right.  I deleted the entire right side cluster and title spot.  Then I took that separate cluster in the top left and move it over to the top right.  I also enlarged and moved the bottom cluster a touch and replaced her photo spot with her element from this gorgeous kit, Simplicity.

Click on the above image to get to Dana's shop.  She's having a special event in her shop.  Everything she earns for the next week and week past, will go to help our scrappy sister, Jodi from Throwing Some Scraps Around's, grandson who needs surgery.

And yet another way to change up a Lissy Kay template.  Hehehe...  Again, just changed the direction and deleted a few layers I didn't need for my page.

So now you have some ideas on how to change up your templates.  How about some to play with?  I've got a few from previous blogs that you may have forgotten or missed out on.  I'll have to say that these do not come in png or page format and the quality may not be as good as my present templates.

See what templates you can still grab from last year, pictured below.  I have more tips and tutorials on how to work with these quick pages/templates.

This might be my all time favourite template and it is STILL free.  Also no png or page files, but I'm going to revamp it and get it in the shop soon.  Grab it while you can!

I'll take this opportunity to show off my newest templates.  I teamed up with Dana from Made By Keuntje for this uniquely awesome collection, Stay Magical.  We've got a kicking scrapbooking kit, planner inserts, templates, quick pages, badges and more inspiration than you can shake your wand at.  Click here if you want to go to the blog where I feature this collection.  I've also got some freebies there.  Wink, wink...

Thanks so much for stopping by The Cherry.

We'll see ya tomorrow for Hybrid Saturday.  We're scrapping up a hybrid mini album with our new PuurFect Kit and Cute Cards.

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Happy scrapping!