Dani has a new kit coming to the Sweet Shoppe tomorrow and everyone will need to get their Paypal accounts ready! I’ve seen it described as a sophisticated Easter kit, but it’s so versatile that you could use it for just about anything.
Did I grab your attention yet? Here’s a little taste of the preview…
And a non-Easter LO I made with it this morning…
So come join us at the Sweet Shoppe tomorrow for this kit’s debut!
We’re tumbling and turning again and want you to play along! But first I’d like to congratulate Christi (clmisener) for being our random winner of the last Tumble Kellie Challenge! Please email dani at designbydani dot com to claim your prize.
Here was Christi’s LO:
All you have to do is pick a LO from Shannon’s Gallery HERE and tumble it in some way. Then post a link to your LO in the comments on this blog entry by Wednesday, March 19th. We will announce a random winner on the 20th for a gift certificate to Dani’s store.
Here’s how some of Dani’s Girls lifted Shannon’s layouts…
Justine chose Friends Since Forever
Credits: The Land of Nod
Kellie chose Kevin Michael
Credits: Love Sprung
Amber chose Wills
Credits: Rockstar by Dani and FunkyBets2 by Zoe Pearn
Mimi chose Your Love . . .
Credits: Love Sprung, Heat Wave date tags, Scalloped borders made with Shape Up!
Heather chose Soar Cam
Credits: Mostly Mahalo (Some colors altered slightly and background paper is a blend), Blue Chipboard Swirls from Love Struck, Stitching from AYOM January, Brown Buttons from Saturday Market
Kristin Cronin-Barrow Shimmer Dust
Jen Caputo Folded Matte Template
Michelle Coleman Brush Strokes
Gina Cabrera Frame
And one by me, Tracy…I chose Gamer Boy
Credits: Rock Star, Hand Stitched Alpha
Do you love the layouts that Dani’s Girls create?
Would you love for YOUR photos to be the star on a layout posted on the Girl Talk blog?
Well …. Here is your chance! We want to scrap YOUR PHOTOS!!
If you can’t read the cute little graphic here are the details:
Danis Girls wanna scrap your pictures!
I hope that got your attention! The girls and I decided that we had so much fun scrapping each other’s photos that it would be fun to scrap yours! So if you want a chance read on …
1st – Zip up a few of your favorite shots and send them to me: SunflwrDesigns at AOL dot com
2nd – Post a comment here on Girl Talk and let me know they are on their way!
3rd – Make sure you include your email addy in your zip so we know where to send the finished LO.
We will be scrapping the first 5 sets of pictures that make their way to my inbox! So what are you waiting for? Hurry up and send me your pics! If you don’t make it this time, don’t worry we would like to do this again really soon! Thanks
Hi everyone 
 Connie here & it’s my turn to share a new Hybrid/Altered project with you! I found these super cute fabric covered shadow box frames at Michael’s, this particular one was from the Martha Stewart line.
I used Dani & Shawna’s Year of Memories kit for this project.
I simply created a digital layout using the inside measurements of the frame & printed it. I used my tape runner to adhere the layout to the inside of the frame. Then I printed a few coordinating elements and cut those out to add to the outside of the frame. This project took less than 30 minutes to create! I think this would have looked better if I would have covered the frame with matching paper too, but I’ll have to try that with my next one.
That’s all for now, hope you have fun with this project! Be sure to link us up if you try one
Connie P.
Happy Monday everyone! I am here to announce the winner of the February template challenge. I think I speak for everyone here at Girltalk when I say you all really rocked this template. Looking through the ways you each made it your own was so much fun! Check out the links in the comments here.
Our winner is Julie Marie with 36 Things.
I love these pictures and how she used the journaling strips to document the things she loves. I am currently working on my second layout with this template and I may have to lift this for a third! Congratulations Julie Marie!
I also want to take this chance to thank Shannon for creating this awesome template. The next template will be available the first week of March so be on the lookout.
Have a great day!!
Julie Marie dani will be contacting you with your prize!
Hey gals! I hope all you girls in the Northern Hemisphere aren’t freezing this beautiful morning. Here in Sabah (Malaysia) we’ve been having cloudy skies for the last two weeks, and when it hit 70 degrees, we donned our long sleeve shirts at my house! I guess it’s all about perspective.
Anyway, you’re not here to listen to me complain about the “cold” weather, you’re here to see some DBD inspiration. Today i have a fun, spring-themed desktop for you. Here’s what it looks like on my computer:
Aren’t those kiddos cute??? I used Dani & Traci’s Love Sprung kit available here.
I just love the purple and blue, plus the alphas comes in three colors. Cool, huh?
Anyway, you can download your desktop here if you like the 1280×800 version and here if you like the 1024×768 version. Thanks for stopping by!
Kellie
I love being surrounded by reminders of my scrapworld, i think that’s how i got into hybrid and altered projects – they bring my digi into my everyday world – i can’t put all my LO’s in shadow boxes and my albums just sit there really and DD can’t really touch those.
So i’ve started making stuff dd CAN touch and use, and because i’m kind of a practical and learn while u play mum, I thought I’d share two of those ideas here today:
FLASHCARDS:
Why did I even think or bother to make them? DD got some (expensive) Dora ones for Xmas and loves them, she loves the pictures and i really believe she is beginning to recognise the words – but she has already bent most of them which makes me freak out! These ones i can print again and only really cost a dollar or two cos they’re just printer ink and paper, and laminating stuff when i get to them. I can also print a second set and use them as a MEMORY GAME if i want. You could do this with any of your digi alpha sets too and you could have alphabet flash cards.
How’d I make them: I drew a rounded rectangle in Photoshop and duplicated it a few times; drew a few more custom shapes and picked some of Dani’s papers with distinct
common patterns (dd is very into patterns at the moment!) and clipped them to the shape; added some plain text names; printed and cut them out. Papers for shapes from Dani’s Kitchmas Cheer; County Fair; Heat Wave; Snow Bunny and Under Construction kits, all available at designbydani.com
DIGI PAPER DOLLS:
Why: DD love dress ups, whether it’s Barbie or paper dolls and this is a personalised paper doll! & I was a bit over doing the Fisher Price Little People dressup on their site.
How’d I make them: I extracted a full body photo of my daughter (she was on a balance beam at gymnastics), added a white outter stroke (1st image) and made basic clothes for her using Photoshop, saving each file as a PNG and then whenever dd wants to play ‘dress-ups’ we sit at the computer and she chooses from the premade PNG clothes and we drag them into Photoshop and dress our Alyssa doll as if i were creating a LO. The middle doll has a Love Struck outfit on and the stripey dress is made with Love Sprung (buttons from Sleigh Bells Ring). You could also print them, trim them and add a velcro dot to each piece. This could be taken further by making different ‘backdrops’ too – the cloud paper in Love Struck and the tree and leaves in Spookable would make for a great backdrop!
I’d love to hear of any other ways of using digi stuff with or for kids, so please leave a comment with any ideas or links! C ya!
Hello everyone, it is Amber here today to inspire you with a new altered project. I got MY inspiration for today’s project while surfing a 2Peas Gallery for the Paper 2 Digi challenge at SSD.
I had seen many paper bag albums, but I had never made one. It really wasn’t hard to figure out at all. The total project took me a weekend to complete (in between my other activites like cleaning, cooking & taking care of the kids LOL).
Here is the supply list:
Step 1 - Take your 3 paper bags and lay them out rotating the open ends
Step 2 - Stack the bags together and then fold in half.
Step 3 – Measure this area to size your digital layouts correctly. For my bags I made my layouts 5″ wide by 5.5″ high. It left about 1/2″ on the width so that I could bind my album.
Step 4 – Punch holes along the folded edge of the bags. I started in the middle and worked my way to the edges. I made 5 holes total. I used my crop-a-dile which punched everything really easily.
Step 5 – Using LOTS of ribbon tie your album together. I used 6 different ribbons and put 3 colors in each hole, but I tied each separately. I trimmed the edges in various length.
Step 6 – After printing your covers and layouts cut them with your paper trimmer.
Step 7 – Attach the layout to the pages using your preferred adhesive. I tired a new adhesive with this project as was not happy with the results. I used Mulit Mono, but I think a dry adhesive like the Xyron or double stick tape would work much better and give a smoother finish to the page.
Step 8 - Embellish!! I used a variety of flowers on the front & back covers from Heidi Swapp and Prima. I attached them with my glue dots. I also added some ribbons to some of the inside pages and some flowers as well.
Here is the finished product!
Remember, if you are inspired by one of the altered projects here on the Girl Talk blog we would LOVE for you to link us up!
Till Next Time!
Amber
As you may know, we have a template challenge on this blog every month. This month’s template was created by Shannon. You can find the original post here. Many of the awesome LO’s done by Dani’s girls have already been shown to you, but I wanted to take a minute and show you two more.
Kellie created this adorable LO of her son.
I just love how she used all her elements and I just love the border around the solid pink.
This is the LO I created for the challenge. I used Dani’s new kit Land of Nod.Â
If you have not yet finished your template LO or if you haven’t downloaded it, do it now!! Come and play and you may be the winner.
Hi! Don’t you just love the new The Land of Nod kit?!
I want to give a friendly reminder to anyone who has been waiting to pick it up, that today is the last day that you can buy it at Sweet Shoppe Designs and get the Land of Nod Brag Book put together by Traci Reed for free. Don’t let this deal pass you by!!
 Here are a couple of layouts using the Land of Nod that have caught my eye.
Sweet Princess by nun69
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Sweet Dreams by bnj123
And here is my first layout with it (and I am sure there will be several more!)
Have a great weekend!