Free Easter Printables Stickers a Template and Papers are Coming Your Way

Welcome to The Cherry On Top.

SPOILER ALERT!!! Hehehe...

I want you to keep coming back to The Cherry. So, I've put together some sweet freebies that coordinate. I used designs from Design Bundles. If ya want to look for more papers and more that match with these freebies, pop over to Plus.

Above, I've got a page of 3x4 inch journal cards that you can print or use digitally. There's also some really cute, round stickers. They are very similar to what you can get in Plus. I saved the layered version so I can change them up for other uses. I love the soft, pastel color palette and the cute characters from the talented designers at Design Bundles.

These will be available separately, right here on the blog. Your first freebie is the round stickers. You can download them, right here.

The above printable is a mini scrapbook or maybe you'd rather turn the designs into a greeting card? Add a title, text, journaling, pictures ... I've left them blank so you have some creative freedom. I'll have a pack of papers, too! You'll be able to use them together. The image below is my book from Plus. If you prefer it, download and get scrappy. You'll also see a kind of tutorial over there. Use brads to join the pages or staples. This is a simple, quick project. Maybe the kids want to have at it?

Below, is a super fun, layered page layout template. Open it in your favorite scrapbooking software. I sometimes use the software that comes FREE with the Plus Membership. I've got a few videos showing you how to do it. It might be easier than ya think. Keep your eyes out for the template. It will be free on the blog, this month.

These papers will also be free on the blog this month.

Each week, this month. I'll have a different freebie ready for you. The freebies on this blog are Personal Use Only. The items in Design Bundles are Commercial Use.

Thanks for checking us out, today. Feel free to scroll back over hundreds of freebies and all kinds of crafty, home making projects including recipes and gift ideas.

Happy crafting!

Free Printable and Helpful Tutorial On How To Scrap Hybrid Style

Welcome to The Cherry On Top's Hybrid Saturday.

As you may have seen from yesterday's blog, we are celebrating my birthday.  There are coupons, awesome new collections, pages and pages of gorgeous scrapbooking layouts and of course, free stuff.  A lot of free stuff!  

Today, I'm showing you how to quickly design a sticker sheet to print and use with our collection, Bee My Valentine that we've designed with Art & Life Scraps.

Grab the free printable in our group.

Save $3 on nearly everything in our GingerScraps Shop.

So if you are a hybrid or traditional scrapper, then you too will love digital products like the ones we sell.  I'll show ya how you can quickly design a sheet to print and use on your traditional projects.

I'm using PhotoShop elements.  It's a super easy program to use.  It's not very expensive and it's a one time fee.  You do not need to subscribe and pay monthly. (Yet!)

Open a blank document in a printable size.  (I have a custom size of 8x11 so most people around the world can easily print our stuffs.) Slide in an element you like from the collection.  Square ones are super, super easy to cut after finishing.  If you don't have a cutting machine, it's really easy this way.  Size it to how you want it.

I simply dragged in my journal cards, tag and filled in the odd spots with smaller embellishments from the collection and sized them all to fit neatly on the page and to be cohesive on my project.

I want more journal cards.  Let me show ya how to design them really simply, next.  Go to your layers bar and duplicate one of the journal cards.  This way it is the exact same size as the others.

Then drag in a paper from the collection and put it on the layer over the card you just duplicated.  Click on "create clipping mask".  This will crop the paper perfectly over what is underneath of it.  If you've got a design paper, you may want to bump and move it around so it fits just the way you like.

You may want to back up or mat your card for more contrast and interest.  You could add a stroke by going to the "effects" tool or you could slide in a coordinating solid paper and position it to fit under your card.

Duplicate the card again, in the size you need and repeat the process.  I took one of Cindy's graphics, placed it over the card layer and cropped it to fit perfectly on it, then again, matted the card.

Just another card layer and some fun elements from the collection.  Don't forget to shadow!  They make your embellishments and papers pop. You can find the shadows under the "effects' tools.

You are ready to print!

You could merge everything all together and save it as jpg.  Now you have no more layers so you won't be able to make corrections.  It's best to save a layered copy in either psd or tif (tif is smaller) and another one in a merged jpg format.  Jpg formats are much smaller and will save space on your computer.

Here's a look at our collection.  There is so much in here, including a pack of templates from yours truly.  I certainly advise scrolling back to yesterday's blog and find out about all of the other freebies on offer and check out the fabulous layouts from the team.

Take advantage of this awesome deal throughout the week and thanks so much for checking out The Cherry!

Pool Side Digital Scrapbooking Templates and Free Coordinating Collection

Welcome to The Cherry On Top.

We've finally made it!  I bet you just couldn't wait for today's round of fabulous freebies or our new coordinating templates.  I'm so excited be giving you these wonderful gifts as a way to say thanks as well as keep coming back for more.  We've always got something up our sleeve and today's blog will get you all geared up for August.

First, I'll show off the templates, provide you with some helpful tips and information about the pages and then give you an update on all that is going on this month as well as a freebie wrap up.  So scroll through and enjoy.

I got so much inspiration via so many sources for these templates.  I was boggling my mind at how I'd get that unicorn head on my float and then remembered, I already drawn a unicorn head for a template so I used that.  Now, it isn't perfect and it is painted so it will have a bit of crafty feel to it.  They are not perfect shapes.  Just so ya know!  Hehehe...

Since I went through all of that trouble making these elements for the templates, I thought why not just add some texture and styles and design a little mini and then it just kept growing and I thought I'd just give it all away to our adoring fans and hoped maybe in return, you'd get these templates to go with it all as way of thanks back.

Let's see what the lovely, talented ladies have designed.

JBStudio's Pool Party

Free Daily Download at GingerScraps!

Tip:  Add some fun styles to give your pages more POW!

Goodies from the GingerBread Ladies and a style from Mommyish

Watercolor sure does look pretty with these templates.  I just love Theresa's page!  She even added a fun spot on the snorkel and the bottom cluster looks awesome, too.

Goodies from Heart Made ScrapBook

Jenn did up her photo really cool and what a really cool photo, too.  That cluster is to die for!

Products from TraceyB

You can always keep it a bit more simple...

Ocean Dreams from Throwing Some Scraps Around

Felicity just used our background and did her own thing on the top.  Rebel!  Hehehe...

A mix of goodies.

Just So Scrappy

Theresa totally customized our flamingo floaty and you can too with styles, design papers and paint.  Tip:  A bevel style will give your floaty a more realistic look.

More from Just So Scrappy

Theresa has done a double pager with the templates and our free collection.

Our free collection.

The Pool Side Collection.

To get the ellies and the alpha, you have to sign up to our newsletter.  You'll love our letters!  I keep it very brief and I only send out once a week, promise.  I will not clutter your box and besides, I often give exclusive freebies to our subscribers and it's a great way to keep up with our happenings because we have a lot.

The papers are over in the group on Facebook.  If you are not on Facebook, send me a message and I'll send you the links for the papers.  I wouldn't want to force anyone to have an FB Account.  Hehehe...(Make sure to give me at least 48 hours to respond.)

The Pool Side Freebie!

Here are the free journal cards for you.

My apologies for the problems with the links that keep breaking.  Fingers crossed this link will stay.  I'll keep coming back to check.

Click here or the image to download.

I'm posting the ugly link too because Blogger keep deleting my links.

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1v8UaAxkt-P4aHCKKAC8ThmmvAYKQMHIM

I'll have these stickers on our Hybrid Saturday blog tomorrow, along with how to use our free collection, hybrid style!

Free on TOMORROW'S blog.

Did you do the hop around and get all of the fabulous free templates?!

Last week's free template and cuttable.

Don't forget all of the challenges in the forum at GingerScraps.  We've done the Desktop Challenge, once again.

Free template for the Desk Top Challenge at GingerScraps.

I've put SIX packs of templates in the shop at GingerScraps.  Make sure they are not already in your stash!

We've also contributed to the Free With Purchase for August.  Check it out!  although the theme may seem very summery, if you get rid of a few of the obvious elements, these templates are really quite versatile.

Free With Purchase this month at GingerScraps.

Free With Purchase this month at GingerScraps.

A few of my Cherries played with the template from Dog Days Of Summer.

LouCee Creations

Goodies from Connie P.

Designs from Jen Yurko.

Another mix of products.

Goodies from Dandelion Dust.

I'm gonna close up.  It's going to be in the 90's, my office is in the attic presently and we've got no AC.  So stay cool and get totally scrappy this weekend!  I hope to see ya in our group and in the forum at GingerScraps.  

Leave us some love and enjoy all of the fabulous freebies.

Happy scrapping!

Sweet Scrapbooking Page Inspiration, Amazing Freebies and a Free Printable Mini Album For You To Make Before Valentine's Day

Welcome To The Cherry On Top, Hybrid Hipsters!

I've got new release information from JoCee Designs and the Sweet Shoppe.  I've also got a new big project on tap that you might be interested in.  Something that will make scrapbooking really fast and CHEAP!  You can see a set of our templates that are our best sellers to date.  I've got some incredible freebies you won't want to miss and that free printable for you.

Let's dive in to the scrappy abyss!

Only You templates and ShutterBug from JoCee Designs

I used our best selling templates to date on my page, here.  Last week, I showed you the star template in action.  I couldn't wait to play with today's.  A fun artistic touch, some bright vivid colors, great pictures and a really, really fun kit with all kinds of great goodies to build your page.

This year, I'm designing an enormous Year Book Collection with every intension of printing out all of my pages that I make for it.  It was the point, after all.  I wanted to be able to print out my pages, from home and bind them simply in single page sleeves. The kind that our boys have to put their thousands upon thousands of worksheets in.  Meaning CHEAP!  Just a big metal binder that I'll spiff up with the sleeves and my 8x11 pages with a Project Life kind of format.

The beauty of Project Life is its simplicity.  You can save a lot of time and money if you go this route.  If you love to scrap or love scrapbooking pages and just don't have the time, money or in my case, the materials needed, then this is certainly the way to go.

I've designed 10 basic templates 8x11 inches that can very easily be altered in a variety of ways over and over again.  I also experimented and saw that is was nearly as easy to turn them into a 12x12 inch page, which you'll see a bit further down.

Clip your photos in the spots, add a stroke for contrast if you like and a couple of embellishments and you're finished!  You could just use all pictures or you could also use some journal cards.  There are free journals cards in this blog and around the internet so you can see how inexpensive your album can be.  You might even have everything you need already.

This page uses the same kit from Jo, Shutter Bug and it took me 9 minutes to scrap.  Don't forget that there are APPS for Project Life, too!

Here's a peek at my templates.  One will be free in an upcoming newsletter.  I'll be giving a few free ones throughout the year with the project and the rest will go in the shop.

Here's an example of one at 12x12 with just a few short steps.

In the Group

I'll be having this free portion ready any day now.  It's most of the Winter portion for the Year Book Collection.  The other portion will be exclusively for newsletter recipients.  Make sure you are in the group.  It's the only way to get the large portion and to participate in the Progressive Scrap.

You'll receive this portion to download.  You will be required to design 3 pages.  They could be Project Life style, 8x11 (ish) or 12x12 inches.  Once you have completed 3 NICE pages  (Do not just throw something together!  You're getting a lot of fantastic free stuff, here!  It's the least you can do!  Hehehe...) and put them in the Winter album, you'll be eligible to receive the next (spring) pack for free.  When you do the three pages, post them in the correct album...you'll get the next season...I'm warning you!  You'll have to wait until that season.  I don't have them all finished yet.  So be patient, scrap beautiful pages and build yourself a lovely Year Book along with The Cherry!

Newsletter Exclusive

How about 52 free, coordinating journal cards?!  Shoo wee!  We had a huge endeavor last year.  I failed miserably as expected.  Hehehe...I gave away 52 cards.  You were supposed to customize them if you wanted with pictures and or your own journaling and turn them into a mini album.  I gave explicit directions and several tutorials along the way to help as much as possible.  I did not finish my album.  I did print and cut all of my cards out, but I didn't finish adding all of the photos.  Boo!  I hope you did?

The images are linked up for you!  There's even a video somewhere in the mix.

Thanks for checking out The Cherry!  We'll be back next Friday and Saturday with more hybrids, freebies and scrapbooking delightfulness!

Happy scrapping!