Treat yourself to a moment or two of respite but glancing through our gallery and sifting through the Shoppe, some sales are mixed in for those looking for a deal!
This layout features a new product by CD and will make you trade in your sales flyer and Holiday list for a mouse and a few minutes of digital scrapping:
In the Shoppe today for $1 is a very useful paper pack from Leora. And as a bonus, she included some super cute Holiday Doodles, available only for a limited time. Get 'em before they're gone.
Enjoy your Holiday preparations today and have a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Many of our designers and creative team maintain personal blogs full of goodness and sometimes even FREEBIES too! Below are a few of Leora's wonderful layouts from our Little Dreamer Gallery, featuring her outstanding products. Once you reach the end of the post, you will be directed to her blog and her giveaway.
Your results will be very unique and most cutting edge.
Now, off to her blog. DESIGNS BY LEORA.
Shayla, please email us to receive your gift code. Thanks for sharing recipes and playing along last week.
Brushes can be prominently used on a page, or added for a subtle extra something. Below are examples of how our Creative Team puts them to work.
Click on the photo to see a list of products used.
And here is a sample of what's in the shoppe:
This concludes our Holiday Preview week which I think you can agree has
been a wonderful treat full of inspiration and freebies too! Don't forget to share YOUR creations in our gallery.
All remaining winners of contests will be announced next week.
New Paper Piecing Elements from Michelle Filo allow you to create elements to perfectly match ANY of your Holiday kits. These would also be perfect embellishments for gift tags.
You can purchase them ::HERE::.
Next, we have some very festive trees, all in the PNG format from Michelle Coleman.
Dana's Snowflakes:
CD's Woody Bits:
And some Fall paper from Dahlia Co., because after all, it is still Autumn!
Ok, here is a full kit that was just added to the Shoppe by Heidi Larsen. This is very unique in that it has not so typical elements like a recipe card and Holiday Letter template included. Two awesome ideas.
Are any of you font and alphabet collectors like I am? If so, here is the creative push you need to justify a few more purchases this season. Our talented designers created this eye candy just for YOU!
And at the Shoppe:
and one last page sample for good measure:
Super BONUS! Place an order today and qualify to be one of three random winners chosen to receive your entire order FREE! You have until midnight tonight to place an online order, after that all orders will be tabulated and tomorrow 3 winners will be selected. The winners will be announced next week.
Let's start of with new products: Leora's Christmas Flair.
Next, Michelle's Holiday Jingle Mega Kit
Lisa's Winter Woodland Mega Kit:
And last, a great dose of layouts from our Dream Girls made using brand new kits and treasured goodies from 2008 as well.
Click on the layouts for details and products used. New Holiday items are being added daily so check out the Shoppe too. This is a taste of what we have, not an all you can eat smorgasbord!
Today, one random winner will be chosen from those who comment on this post. Please share a link to a holiday recipe (a little tie in to my food metaphor above!) that you enjoy. The random winner will be chosen at midnight Eastern Standard Time, today, Thursday, November 19, and will receive a $10 gift card to the Little Dreamer Shoppe.
This is a long one FULL of creativity so read all the way to the bottom!
A creative use of calendar brushes to make a fridge calendar, by Christina:
Christina also wowed us with these custom jar labels and decorations for holiday gift giving. These enhancements certainly kick things up a notch. She explains her method below.
Next, another fabulous step by step by Michelle Filo demonstrating her mini calendar.
Here is the step by step:
Step 1. Create your layouts digitally using by clipping your favorite photos and digital papers to the shapes provided in the template.
Step 2. Print out your layouts. You can arrange them in one page or print individual 4x6 photos.
Step 3. Cut your layouts to shape, but just the sides and top part, do the bottom cut out AFTER you glue back and front pages together to make sure they will line up. Double sided tape or a snail type adhesive dispenser should be enough. After adhering back and front layouts, you can trim away any excess and do the cut out.
Step 4. Punch the holes.
Step 5. Create the stand. Just cut a strip of sturdy cardboard and make a triangle to the size of your calendar. (you can check step 4 and 5 of the 2009 Mini Calendar for more photos)
Step 6. Punch the holes for the cardboard stand. You can use one of your layouts as a guide to where you should be punching the holes, so you can keep your calendar centered in the stand.
Step 7. Last step is to add embellishments to your mini calendar (optional).
If you want to simplify, you can also use an acrylic frame to display each layout month by month:
Michelle's hybrid items are so well thought out and "easy peasy" to use, just like she says...and shows us!
And one more of Michelle's Hybrid projects, the gift card wallet, completed by Design Team member, Ginger.
And a sneak peek of an Advent calendar made by Rebecca Larson using Michelle Coleman's Holiday Jingle. Details to follow!
Amber shared a darling card from last year:
and by doing so, won a $10 gift card to the Shoppe. Congrats. She was lucky #6.
Amber, email us with your info!
Thanks everyone for a great response and stay tuned for more fun and surprises this week.
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