On July 17th, I asked: Dear ProjectB fans of the very first hour: what old kit would you like to see re-vamped? I already did one, but tempted to do another!

2 people answered with the same suggestion, Captured, and that was instant inspiration for me! (btw: they both got the kit for free, as a way of saying THANKS!)

On July 25th, I asked: Time to talk about previews: what kind makes you buy a kit? The stuffed ‘all over the place-can’t hardly tell what’s underneath’ kinda previews? Or the clean and simple ones, where you can exactly tell what’s in the kit? Or do you skip to the layouts right away? Tell me!

Well, many answers were given, and they all were meaningful to me. Clean and simple was mostly mentioned, but the CT layouts were important too. Great info for me!

On August 10th, I asked: What is the one element you cannot live without? Besides paper, picture and journaling, what does your page NEED? Let me know!

This was very fun to read, and inspiring! Strings, ribbons and flowers were mentioned a lot.

On August 11th, I asked: Are you a themed-kit-person? Or would you much rather buy a kit without obvious theme? Let me know!!

Suzanne answered: I like for my theme kits to have enough non-theme stuff in theme to be usable in other ways.

And this is what I always try to do when creating a themed kit!

On August 21st, I asked: Do you use alphas on your page? Do you like alphas included in the kit, do you use basic alphas that will match anything or do you create your own using fonts and styles? Let me know!

Many people said they don’t often use alphas, but would like one to match the kit, just in case. This reminds me I need to do more alphas. Gotcha!

There are more questions, a few unanswered too, but I guess that is because of the time I put it on the wall. If everyone is asleep, no one will answer, right? But, now you see why I use facebook a lot! It’s so inspiring to read what everyone is up to, and what everybody thinks about this hobby. I also use facebook to send out occassional coupons, and all my blogposts will automatically show up on my wall. I have a personal page AND a ‘fanpage‘. Sometimes I wonder if people want to be ‘friends’ or ‘fans’, but if digiscrappers want to friend me, that’s ok. I just don’t want anybody to miss out on the coupons and freebies cause they’re ‘just’ friends, kwim?

So, tell me, are you a facebooker? Or do you Tweet? (by the way: my personal facebook entries get tweeted automatically, gotta love tech ) Love to hear from you!!

(you may notice my facebook is in Dutch )

3 pages with September Color Play goodies:

by Casey

by Denise

by Grace

by Casey, using Afternoon Daydream

3 pages using Looking Up:

by Casey

by Casey

by Casey (can you tell she loves this kit?!)

2 layouts with Birthday Bliss:

by Casey (also using What A Year template)

also by Casey!

by Dawn, using I Love To Read

And a last one by Casey, using Enjoy The Shade

Thanks for looking!!

1. Pictures. I use the iPhone to capture everyday life. When Leonie was first born, we used to snap every single moment of her life. But when Julian was born, I suddenly didn’t have time to snap everything. Besides, I was carrying him in my ringsling most of the time, and I couldn’t life the heavy camera without him somehow in the way. My iPhone was way handier, and although it doesn’t take ‘great’ pics like our Nikon D40 (or something, I’m far from pro), it was very usefull to capture memories. And I had the abbility to shoot videos as well!

2. Notes. At first I tried updating our blog regularly by snapping a picture, taking it to the wordpress app, typing a short message and uploading it. But after I had lost a few posts in cyberspace, I became hesitant. Typing on the iPhone is do-able, but for long messages I wanted to use a normal size keyboard! I had the ability to write notes on a little notepad app, but quickly searched for something else because of the typing issues.

3. Dictating. I have no idea what this app is called in English, but it came with my iPhone, and it’s called something like Dictaphone. It has the image of a microphone, and I use it to capture quick memories! I now have several short audio clips with things like ‘yay, new teeth!’ or something.

So, whenever I’m digiscrapping, I’m simply scraping all things together: pictures from our Nikon, pictures from the iPhone (we have a monthly file folder system on our server), my (poorly neglected) family blog, the videos and the audio. I scrap chronologicly, so whenever I hear something like ‘new teeth’, I’m looking for a picture with Julians smile showing off his teeth and scrap those together! It’s a life saver, at least for me!

Julian in the swing, unedited

Here are some handy links I found over time:

1. Using your iPhone camera – Pioneer Woman

2. scrapping iPhone pictures – the Daily Digi

3. best iPhone camera apps – geeksugar

and something funny: wackiest iPhone cases by Webdesigner Depot. How do you use your iPhone for digital scrapbooking? Do you have a scrapped background?

Somehow I found time to design, and I created a freebie mini-kit for the Designer Apprentice contest. I such a sucker for contests, so I just had to play in this one! I can only hope I’ll have enough time to crank out the kits untill I’m eliminated…

I was supposed to design something inspired by SUMMER. That was the only given assignment, and this is what I did. I thought of what Summer meant to me and was suddenly humming ‘This is where I want to be, La Isla Bonita’. Can you believe that? Then I spent all this time avoiding anything cheesy like the Madonna song LOL

Find out how to get the freebie here! I’d love to know what you think, before the judges speak their minds

I have a special thing for you too! A chance to win coupons to my store AND coupons to Persnickety Prints! All you have to do is create a page/project using my stuff (freebies allowed too) and upload to my store gallery. The details are here, enjoy!!

Ok, on to the next thing: another new release day!! Yes, you must have already heard: Elemental Scraps will from now on release new products on Fridays. What a great way to start of your weekend!! Here’s what I have this time (and it’s also Color Play weekend!):

Some of you may already recognize this, since it used to be part of a collab. Now available as mini-kit, Afternoon Daydream, and it’s on sale too!

A set of cardstocks and a set of interview pieces, matching Septembers Color Play pallette! I thought it would a fun idea to interview our children once a year, and document their favorites at that moment. If you like to do this too, you can use the interview pieces as jumpstarters! Color Play items will be $1 only the first week, then they’ll go up in price. Here’s your chance, happy shopping! I’ll leave you with some CT inspiration, and I’ll see you back tomorrow!

(btw: almost 600 fans!!!)

I also wanted to show you one of the challenges currently held at Elemental Scraps. I’m hosting a desktop challenge this month! Do you have some kind of image on your desktop? Would you like to pretty-fy it with a September calender? Out of ideas? I’ve created a template for you to help you out!

It will be suitable for the most common sizes (if you’re missing your size, please let me know!!) and will be easy to adapt for Mac users. If you create a desktop image, upload to the gallery and link us up! You’ll earn points and discounts in the end. More info in the forums!!

My lovely CT got to play early, and here’s what they did:

by Casey, using a mini-kit (to be released tomorrow!)

by Dawn, using Num13ers

by Elaine, using Explore

Show us what you got!! I’ll be back tomorrow with new releases. Again?? Yes, Elemental Scraps changed it’s new release day from Monday to Friday, so this is your lucky week! And don’t forget: all my products are 30% (or 25%) off right now!!

Ah well, we’re going to have lots of fun in September, hopefully it will make up for the change of season that I dread… Here it goes!

First of all: I plan on blogging every day throughout September. Yes, you read that right. If you subscribed to my rss feed, like I suggested here, you WILL get spammed. Sorry. But I promise to make it worth your while, ok? It will not all be digiscrap related, but most of it will, and there will be give aways and freebies. So make sure you check back every day!! Cause… some freebies will be available for 24 hours only. I’ve warned you!!

Second: I’m featured designer at Elemental Scraps! I’m honored, I haven’t been there for very long, but it feels like HOME. To celebrate, I’m having a 30% sale throughout the month (excluding new releases, which already are 25% off for the first week, and collabs). This is your chance to get everything from your wishlist!!

Third: You might want to check out the new challenges at ES too, cause they ROCK. You can earn points and work your way to great discounts. And purchasing ES goodies is seriously interesting, cause there’s even more exciting news here!

That’s it for now, but make sure you check back tomorrow!!

Today is the last day of August. September will be a fun month, cause I’ll be featured designer at Elemental Scraps! This will mean freebies, give aways, challenges and of course a SALE! Make sure you check my blog tomorrow for the inside info!!

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So, I had to do something with that, right? I started with some HUGE numbers, came up with a matching kit and solids. Then I came across something called ‘inchies’. Have you heard about them? Check here and here for examples! I had to do something like that, so I created a pack full of 2 inch squares (see, twinchies ) and I still wasn’t done with this project! Let me just show you what you can buy:

Here’s the kit, at 25% off

Some solids to match, 25% off too!

A matching alpha, 25% off!

If you like it till now, you can get this in a small bundle (on sale too)

The huge numbers, on sale!

The twinchies, already embellished, on sale!

A set of styles, CU ok, on sale too!

And of course, a big bundle, on sale too!!

Remember the post with my goals a while back? Well, another thing about me is I love schedules and to-do-list too. So I of course created this layout with my goals:

(I have this in Dutch too, but since I blogged it in English, it seemed easier to scrap it in English too )

I’ll be back tomorrow with some great CT inspiration! Thanks for looking!!