Blueprint #5

Blueprint #5 was created by Krista Lund, inspired by a layout by Meg Mullen.  Isn’t it fabulous?

Here is the blueprint:

ScrapVillage Blueprint#5

here is Krista’s layout:

Love Is In The Air, by Krista Lund

And here is one I did with her blueprint:

Underwater Adventure, by Tana Lyon

click here to download the free digital template for this blueprint!

Blueprint #4

Sorry this one is a bit late!!  Here’s the blueprint:

Blueprint #4

Here’s what Cheryl did with it:

Engagement Party, by Cheryl Gardner

And here’s a page I made:

Beach Time, by Tana

You can download the free psd digital template for this sketch here.

Have fun!

Blueprint #3

Explore Your World

here’s the Blueprint:

Blueprint #3

Digital scrappers, you can download the free psd template here

School Days Album Templates

I’m working on a school days album for each of my children.  I don’t want to spend a lot of time on it so I created a digital template to make it easy!  Here are the first pages…  the rest will look very similar.

School Days Album - Preschool

And here are the templates:

School Days template page 1

School Days template page 2

You can download them here.

If you use them to create your own School Days Album, I would love to see what you create and share it here on the blog, send me a link! 

Blueprint #2

I’m very happy to bring you the second new and improved Blueprint.  You can either download it as a photoshop layered template, or use it as a sketch for paper scrapbooking.  Follow it to the letter or go wild and crazy with your own additions.  Either way, please reply here with a link to your creation so we can admire your layout in our next blog post!

ScrapVillage Blueprint #2 (click to download free digital template)

Here are a couple ideas to get you started…

Emily at 3 months, by Krista Lund

Golf Camp, by Tana

Blueprint #1 — Your Creations!

WOW, I am so impressed with all the amazing layouts everyone created with the newest SV Blueprint!!  Digital pages, paper pages, some followed the template to a T and others took it in a new direction.  I love seeing everyone put their own creative spin on the same blueprint.

Here they are..  click on the images to go to the museum where you can see a larger image and leave feedback for the creator!

Scrappin', by Jenny

Family, by Joy (her very first digital layout!)

Garde 6 by Micha (check her gallery for more awesome school pages using the Blueprint as a sketch!)

Sock Thief, by Cheryl

Virtual Friends, by Mel

Mr. Cool, by Ally

Sweet, by Becca

All in the Family, by Joy (she did one paper and one digital layout!)

Wedding Chapel Entrance, by Karin (the large photo folds open to display more photos!)

Kick, by Cat

Aren’t they all just so fun???  I think I caught all of the layouts posted in the museum that used the Blueprint, but if you have one more to add, please don’t hesitate to PM me and let me know!!  If you missed this Blueprint, don’t worry, it’s still available to download here.

The next blueprint is coming out tomorrow, can’t wait to see what you all do with it!

Blueprints are back and better than ever!

I’m so excited to share with you that we are bringing back the ScrapVillage Blueprints in a new and improved version! In addition to sketches for paper scrappers, we will be offering them as PhotoShop templates for digital scrapbookers!   Our goal is to make a new Blueprint available on the 1st and 15th of each month.

Here is the Blueprint (digital scrappers, you can click the image to download the psd template):

ScrapVillage BluePrint 001

This beautiful layout was created by Krista Lund (of Krista Lund Photography!):

Emily Jewell Easter

And here is a layout I created with the template:

Puppy Love

The digital supplies I used are from the My Favorite Guy kit, and the font is Pharmacy.

If you use the blueprint to create a layout, please add a link to your layout in the comments so we can all see how you made it your own!

2010 Goals check-in and prize winner!

I used a random number picker to select a prize winner out of everyone who replied to the last post to say she was setting scrapping goals for 2010…  and the winner is:  KRISTA!  Congrats Krista, I’ll be mailing a prize to you this week!

Now that we’re in the second month of 2010, how are you doing on  your goals?  did you check anything off your list yet?  I have one thing checked off and another biggy — finishing up 2005, almost done.  I am so close I can taste it.   I have a mini-goal for February of finishing at least 2 more things on my list.  Wish me luck!

Finishing old projects? Getting caught up?!? New challenge with a prize!

I have never really tried to “get caught up” in my scrapping.  I always followed the philosophy of enjoy the process, have fun, no pressure, be creative, who cares if 1 page takes 2 weeks…  blah blah blah.  Which I fully believe.  But seriously, the kids are starting to wonder why there are no layouts of them in the last 4 years!!  As much as I love scrapping for the myself, the kids are a big part of why I do this.  I am also tired of being a project starter but not a project finisher.  So with that in mind, I made a list of every unfinished and way behind album I have right now and my goal is to get through them, as well as all family photos through the end of 2008.  By the end of this year.  (And there is a tiny part of me hoping to get through 2009 too.)  So there you go.  I said it.  In writing.  In public!  There’s no turning back now.

I am going to get caught up.  And in order to do that, I am going to become a speedy scrapper.  For real.  Done is better than perfect is my motto!  In this quest I will paper scrap, I will digital scrap, I will simple scrap, I will do whatever kind of page I feel like, but the pages will GET DONE.

I put my to do list in this thread that Joy started on new year’s SBR resolutions and I already checked one thing off my list!!

If you need a little extra motivation, and some amazing eye-candy, check out Tee’s blog where she is on a quest to use up her scrapping supplies.  I have shopped with this gal so trust me when I say, she has a lot of fun stuff to use up!

And now my challenge for you…  is anyone out there willing to join me and try to get some old projects finished and caught up?  You set your own goals for the year, post them in the Resolutions thread, and then reply here to let me know.  Simple right?  Everyone who takes that first step will be entered in a drawing for a little prize.

October week 4 winner!

Yay Joy!!  Congrats and thanks everyone for playing along!