A Love For Layout Templates Blog Train of Freebies and a Sale, too!

Welcome to The Cherry On Top, hoppers!

We are thrilled to have ya.  Your timing couldn't be more perfect.  We're having our last sale of the summer this week so you are just in time to get our newest goodies and or some popular classics in the Kreative Design Studio.

Why not get something nice to drink, make yourself comfortable and enjoy today's blog?  It's full of beautiful and inspiring page layouts, tips, videos, links and even more fabulous free stuff.  Enjoy!

Kits, Collections, templates, cuttables, printables...It's ALL on sale through Sunday.  Take advantage of these amazing savings.

A most wonderful scrappy sister showered me with glowing complements the other day and asked how I keep coming up with all of these ideas for kits and templates.  Through my blushing, I explained that I look at nearly everything with templates and other creative ideas in mind.  A gorgeous nature scene, a beautiful sun rise, a pretty card, a tattoo, advertising, an imperfect yet perfect smile...Inspiration really is everywhere.

I thought there might be some disgruntled fans of dog lovers so I whipped up a dog template with the same concept in mind.  He's so darn cute, too!  You'll find him along with two other templates in the Kreative Design Studio.  If you follow the templates literally, you'll have super gorgeous backgrounds.  Use your own digital papers or supply the representation with actual elements.  Ya gotta love the flexibility of templates.  I just mentally turned that third one 45 degrees to the left and loved that format, too.  Hehehe...

Take a look at some examples from my incredibly awesome team.

Keep scrolling to get the links for the free template!

I'm holding you hostage for just a bit.

These are our newest templates in the shop.  Also on sale!  Scroll further for lovely pages.

Take a peep at Kim's beautiful page!  She used some of the elements from the template and added a lot of her own.  I love what she did with her picture of Carlo.  So tell me, dog or cats?  For me, definitely cats.

The main thing I love about scrapbooking are the photos and how cute is this one?  The wood look matches Poppa just perfectly.  The color pop makes it very striking.

This one is mine, too.  I bet you recognized me and my hair.  Hehehe...Good Lord, I just had it cut in the spring.  This is Key Lime Digi Designs kit, When Pigs Fly.  Isn't it so fab?!  Not the most flattering of pictures.  Hehehe...

I made a video showing you how to turn the third template into a paper.

Look carefully at the filling in the kitty.  You can always keep the feline plain or use a design paper if your prefer.

Theresa's take on the template has a very traditional feel.  The white, contrasting background makes the word art really stick out, too.

Jarmila always gives her pages extra oomph through the use of shadowing.  She keeps them light and high, high, high.  I like the natural, picture like feel of her page.

This one is mine.  I went back to the Side By Side collection from Kristin Cronin Barrows and pulled out just some of the colors.

Once you've downloaded this template, make it totally yours by customizing it to fit your needs.  Ngoc, ditched the design in the center of her heart and clustered it up beautifully.  What will you do with this template?  Personally, I can't wait to play with the design on the inside.

Theresa often has a very traditional look to her pages and she often does double pages because like a good, savvy scrapper, she prints out her pages.  Hehehe...

Here are a few pages using our other new pack of templates in the shop, Summer Fun.

Can ya guess which team member did this page?  If you guessed Jarmila, then you would be correct.  This page is so awesome. It totally blends yet totally contrasts with the use of blue and yellow.  What a great idea!

Here's my page. I couldn't wait to get back to LouCee Creations kit, Gulls Just Wanna Have Fun found at Gingerscraps. It is so darn cute.  I went ahead and purchased the Commercial Use she used from GS Creations.  It's so cute!

Ngoc used the glasses in a different manner than Jarmila.  Jarmila clipped a photo in the spot.  Ya might wanna go back and check out the kind of photo she used to achieve the look properly.  It isn't all that easy.  It needs to be a long picture with significant background to work best.  I did a page a long time ago with a big pair of sunglasses and used a kind of glass/plastic effect on them to give them a realistic look.

There's my page with the realistic effect.

Recognize the toes?  'Cause that would be weird.  Hehehe...They are mine and so are the goodies.  It's our Soak Up The Sun collection.  Also on sale.

I often hit up the internet when I'm in need of cool titles and or journaling and even search my expansive (cough) digital collection.  This came from a journal card from a kit from Paty Greif and I loved it.  Being raised in Florida, flip flops are my everything and this summer I could wear them for months.  Whoo hoo!

I won't hold you hostage as long this time, but if you keep on scrolling, you can check out more beautiful page inspiration and find out how to get yet another free template in our totally scrap-a-licious group and just so ya know, this blog is full of FREEBIES.  Scroll way back or check out our board on Pinterest, TCOT Freebies.  I can't promise they will all work, but it might be worth your while.

Here is the tif, png and psd link for the L4LT Free Template. 

This is the link for the Page version.

You may have just come from Two Worlds.  Your next stop is with Jodi at Throwing Some Scraps Around.  If ya get lost or need the list, pop over to the group. It is Pinned to the top. Enjoy the rest of the hop and thanks so much for stopping by The Cherry. You've made my day!

 

We have a lot of fun in our group.  Posting our pretty pages from any designer and even a few traditional pages and projects, too.  I did a Throw Back Thursday post and when we had 20 old pages posted from our group members, I gave away this template.  We get into all kinds of scrappy chatter and answer questions you might have about digital scrapbooking.  Join us!  This template is still available until Monday.  Pop over and grab it while you can, by clicking on the image.

              Free template in the group.

This page shows off the total awesomeness of our Planned templates.  Our first pack was so popular I made a second and I've even got a third pack on tap.  So if you've already purchased the first and second, hold on to your hats for the third.  I might like them even more than the first two.

Planned Again

 Planned Templates

I've got a new page from Hilary using our Ecstatic templates.  It's all on sale in the shop through Sunday at 40% off so you don't wanna miss!

Ecstatic Templates

All of our kits and collections are also on sale.  Ngoc went back and played with our pretty, Ethereal scrapbooking kit.  How beautiful?!

Ethereal

I'm showing off a fantastic collection from my gal Aimee Harrison and our Green Thumb templates.  Of course, they are also 40% off and they might just be the perfect fit with our Summer Fun templates for you to design and print an album of your summer.  I'm considering sharing my garden journal/planner and designing goodies for you to print and add to your very own garden planner.

I do NOT have a green thumb.  As a matter of fact, I have no idea what I'm doing in the garden.  Hehehe...My neighbors, in Germany often let me know when I need to cut.  Hehehe...  I don't have a sizable patch of land in a sunny patch prepared for gardening so I put all of my seeds and a few plants, in pots.  I'll save all of the details of my gardening experience for another blog when I show off the templates and project.

Find Aimee's beautiful collection at Gingerscraps.

Another fab collaboration from Aimee and Tammi Miller is, No Drama, Llama and you are so going to love this one.  It's so much fun!  You can find it at Gingerscraps as well.  I paired the collaboration up with one of my favorite packs of templates, that I often go back and use, Got Your Back.  I love the backgrounds they provide for your pages and the flexibility, too.

This is a high school friend of mine and her amazing doggie.  Aren't they a blast?!  No!  I did not photoshop that crazy hair either.  Hehehe...

If you are following along with my niece's wedding album, I've been plugging away this week and want to finish it up in the next days.  I'm on page 28!  Here are just a few I did this week.

Look how tall the groom is!

The journal card came out really cool for this one and I designed another wood paper to fit the wood of this building.  Hehehe...I did not use templates for these two.

Here's the Paper Pieces template.  I inserted the original photo and then extracted the ladies and truck and put it over the photo for added dimension and something different.  I'm not great at extractions, but hopefully, an untrained eye will not notice.  Hehehe...

I'm more than grateful for all of my templates with multiple photo spots!  I think I used all of them.  This one is Fabulous Photos.

I'm going to try and put a video together when the album is totally finished.

Wow!  Look at you!  You made it to the end.  Hehehe...  Thanks so, so much for your visit.  I hope you choose to visit our shop and leave a comment to show your appreciation.  I'd love to see what you do with the free template or any of our products.  Post any of your lovely pages in our group and stay tuned for more special exclusives, challenges, daily freebies and overall scrappy fun, there.

Have a super scrappy weekend!

Ecstatic Digital Scrapbooking Templates with Coupon and Beautiful Inspiration

Welcome to The Cherry On Top.

I actually took a week off, last week.  I've not done that too many times over the many years of this blog's existence.  Hehehe...So you better believe I'm back with a BIG, totally scrap-a-licious entry. I just told my team I was so thrilled with their pages.  I couldn't stop smiling as I was putting this blog together. I hope you like it half as much as I.

We've got new templates, some serious layout love for them, previously released templates and pages from other designer's goodies.  I've also got a new challenge in the group and a coupon code so you can grab the new templates at a discount.  Enjoy!

A scrappy sister sent me a few sketches of what she wanted as digital templates and that's how several of these templates came about.  A few I sketched out myself months ago and finally got around to designing.  This first one was such a blast to design, though I will admit, it took me a long time to get just the right patterns, solids, backgrounds together...then it was smooth sailing from there.  I just don't like a page that is too busy and with a lot of different colors and patterns.  My mind is cluttered enough so I need my pages to be less spazzy.  Hehehe...

I recently came across these adorable pictures of my boys and their cousins, thanks to FB and there flashbacks.  I loved the contrast of expressions when my boys received a kiss from their niece.  Hilarious!  Of course, JJ had his typical "Autistic" expressionless look.

These template need a designer with awesome papers.  So you know, I jumped right to my gal Aimee Harrison.  She's got a new collection out that is so bright and fun, I couldn't resist Pineapple Express. If it's totally your kind of 'thang.  keep reading, I've got another page with it.

No what I love about templates and maybe you too, is that the designer has taken all of the time for the hard parts!  Hehehe...That is totally what happened on this page.  The template took me a really long to design, but the page scrapped up in mere minutes flat.  I used our Optimism Collection for this page.  I love the masculinity and youthfulness of this collection.

Tammy totally rocked this pack of templates. She played with three of them and as usual, they are jaw droppers.  She also confessed to how fast they scrapped up.  When you see them, you won't believe that she didn't spend an afternoon on them.

Like this one with our little cutie...Is she just not the cutest?!  Those faces!  Find these goodies at the Sweet Shoppe.

Tammy used an amalgamation of goodies from the Sweet Shoppe for this one. If you ever have any specific questions about a page, download it and bring it to our group and ask.  The sisters are so, so helpful and always have an answer.  

I know, right?!  How absolutely exceptional?!  These colors are so, so beautiful, too.  Ya just know they are from the Sweet Shoppe, again.

Jarmila has worked her magic with BooLand. I'd like to be standing right there!

Ngoc used goodies from Aprilisa.  You can find her at GingerScraps.

I miss the Blue Jays and Cardinals.  I've not spotted them here in Europe yet.  Though there are some lovely replacements.  I'm in love with the tiny red (orange to me) breast.  He's so darn cute.  I've got so many birds at our place in Germany.  I fill FOUR feeders in the morning and by lunch they are all empty!  Even the crows are starting to hang out at the cafe!

Hilary is a huge Clever Monkey Graphics fan.  You can also conveniently find her at Gingerscraps.

If you are like me, a fan of bright colors, then this page from Robin will certainly make you smile and this little lady has me cracking up.  As much as I love the digital part of designing and scrapbooking it really is the photos that win the show for me.  I love photos and they don't even have to be mine.

Nearly as much as I love bright colors, I love denim.  Nothing like an awesome fitting pair of blue jeans, right?!  I love what Rachelle from Bits N' Pieces has done with her page.  She used goodies from Just So Scrappy. I so love Katie's kits and collections.

I've got a page from scrappy sister Dorian this week.  She's also showing off her little man who is actually quite the big man, now.  Hehehe...I love going back to old pics, though.  Especially, since the boys are so big now.  Don't get me wrong, I love watching them grow and I really appreciate that they are becoming so independent.  Scrapping kids, teens, adults, pets and various occasions makes the hobby so much more interesting.

I've got a COUPON of 30% off the Ecstatic templates for one week only!

Use code TCOTECSTATIC and save!

I've got some new printables in the shop for our hybrid and traditional fans.  If you are a planner fan these might be just right for you as well.  I'm in a few groups for planners and there were a lot of people looking for things dealing with mental issues.  There were also some requests for more masculine content.  After all, guys can have cool planners too, right?!  I thought our Optimism collection would be perfect for these.

So I designed some dashboards in Personal size.  Though you could size them anyway you want.

There are also three pages of stickers.  I designed all the printable pages on an 8x11 inch sheet so they will easily go through all kinds of computers around the world.  There are png and jpg formats for the stickers so if your cutting machine is png compatible, you can run them through there.

I told you earlier I had another page with Pineapple Express.  Here it is!  My mo-la at their place in Spain. If you're a fan of ours, you've seen this view a lot.  Hehehe...Mmmm...Spain!

This is a page using our Colorful templates and what inspired me to make the rest of the pack.  Unicorns and Rainbows from Aimee was used and those are my fabulous peonies, which I recently found out were edible.  So are roses!  I've been making rose water, potpourri...Can't wait to try rose jam, but I've made SO much jam from the berries, it'll take all year to eat it.  

LouCee also had a fabulous release last week, Sugar and Spice.  I'm so in love with all of this girly delight.  That mason jar of hearts and the little lady are so fab.  I scrapped up my girlfriend's little beauty.

I've got a few more pages to show off that have come in later.  Nothing wrong with using the same templates or pack of templates over and over, right?!  Scrappy Sister Jenni has been totally abusing both our packs of Planned templates and I'm loving the results.  This is the kind of abuse that I can totally appreciate.  Hehehe...She's another jaw dropping creative artist.

I've got several new pages in using our Love Always templates.

Just take a gawk at this one!

Ngoc also played with a few of our templates from Love Always and A Reason To Celebrate.

These colors and the setting are so beautiful and inspiring.  I love seeing so much of Ngoc's life.  How awesome of her to share it with us.

Danica scrapped her star in some seriously refreshing goodies.

More from Ngoc and A Reason To Celebrate.  You don't have to scrap romantic or wedding pics with our, A Reason To Celebrate collection.

Jump over to the group, click on the photos tab, click on the July Album, then read the Recipe in the album's description.  Scrap up a page using our free goodies from all of the previous month's challenges and place your page back in the July album.  At the end of the month, I'll send around a link for this free template for your participation.

Shoo wee!  That was a big one. I'm so glad you joined us and I hope to see you in our group.

Happy scrapping!