{Buttons Galore & More Blog Hop}

May 7, 2013

 


We’re hav­ing a blog hop with But­tons Galore & More!

Look­ing for great Father’s Day and Grad­u­a­tion ideas? You’ve come to the right place! The Dott­esses have been work­ing hard to cre­ate Father’s Day and Grad­u­a­tion Day crafts for our blog hop with But­tons Galore & More!

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Hop to each designer’s blog and leave a com­ment (includ­ing mine)!  Email them at GlueDotsFans@gmail.com with your name and address (city, state, zip) by 11:59pm CST on Thurs­day, May 9th to be entered to win a spe­cial prize pack!  One lucky win­ner will be announced on their blog on Fri­day, May 10th!

Here is the card I made…

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This card was com­pletely not my usual pink-fru fru style. A grad­u­a­tion card is always use­ful to have on hand come May/June!

Don’t for­get to hop on over to the But­tons Galore & More blog to see what their Design Team has cre­ated with Glue Dots!

Fol­low the links below to each of our Designer’s blogs to see what they’ve created!

Dawn Bar­rett

Donna Budzyn­ski

Erin Bul­lock

Joy Dick­son

Holly Gagnon

Danielle Hunter

Smitha Katti (you are here)

Michelle Philippi

Anita Scrog­gins

Lau­rel Seabrook

Saman­tha Taylor

 

Love & Dots,

The Team at GDI

{beach boardwalk}

May 3, 2013

I have an absolutely busy excit­ing week under­way here and am hop­ing to steal a few hours tomor­row (National Scrap­book­ing day) to scrap a bit. What are your plans for NSD?

Pop­ping in today to share this lay­out I made with the new dig­i­tal ver­sion of  Carta Bella’ “Beach Board­walk” col­lec­tion that hit the stores today.…

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It’s snow­ing here again (where do I live again? An ice­box?) so I sim­ply can­not tell you how happy it was to go through sum­mer photographs.

Here’s to warmer weather!

 

{Project Life: Week 17 and a Free Printable}

April 30, 2013

Keep­ing up with Project life this week.

While it gives me immense joy and hap­pi­ness to get each and every week doc­u­mented, it takes a good amount of time every week to stay on track. Its a commitment.

With the weather get­ting sun­nier, i can already see that i am not going to be able do this every week. I dont want to aim too high and fall short. so i am think­ing biweekly maybe?

I kind of wish i had a Canon SELPHY , and that way i could print pho­tos as and when i took them. I spend a good chunk of time each week col­lect­ing pho­tos from all of our devices…

I love my big Canon printer.

But today, I hit print only to real­ize I need more ink. Out of the 8 car­tridges my printer uses I have 7 replace­ments ready on hand. But it ran out of, you guessed it, the one ink car­tridge I don’t have. Photo magenta.

I have a Costco run com­ing up this week, so I am just going to upload and print them there for this week.

But here is the digi lay­out all ready to be printed…

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The left hand side page is a 4 by 4 insta­gram page pro­tec­tor. The right hand side is a 4 by 6 hor­i­zon­tal page.

The Love this life card on the left is by Ken­sie Kate (pinned here). She has an AMAZING set of free­bies that go along with this one. Have you ever bumped into a new per­sons pin­ter­est board and thought ” I could totally be friends with her?” Kensie’s pin­ter­est boards are so much fun!

The cir­cle words (which are so awe­some!) are a free­bie by Scrap­ercu (pinned here)

And lastly that rain­bow, is a free­bie by Just Jaimee (pinned here)

The “I love you every sin­gle day” is some­thing I doodled/handwrote this morning.

And you can get that one in this weeks freebie…

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Things that I reached for for this spread: Pho­tos. Every sin­gle photo I took. And my new favorite font Raleway.

Things I did dif­fer­ently this week: I told a whole story. Instead of just adding a line at each photo, I focussed more on the journaling.

Things I loved on this spread: This weeks spread is inspired by some­thing that caught my eye in a mag­a­zine. After last weeks busy page, I wanted a good amount of white space in this weeks lay­out and I love that I got to write down so many of my thoughts.

Things that worked for me on this spread: Get­ting three or four pho­tos in one 4 by 6 pocket. I usu­ally nix many pho­tos each week, but this week I just made such pho­tos tiny in size.

 

Hope you guys enjoy this one!

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Click here to down­load “Hand­writ­ten” cards

Thanks for stop­ping by today!

Want even more Free­bies? Read all pre­vi­ous Free Print­able posts by click­ing here

Click here to scroll through all of my pre­vi­ous Project Life spreads.
 
If you are inter­ested in dig­i­tal free­bies, like/fol­low me on face­book or twit­ter and get the lat­est updates and sneaks!  I  pin a lot more of the free­bies that I spy in this pro­jectlifeLOVE board on pin­ter­est. I am also join­ing in on the Project life Tues­day at The Mom Cre­ative, I love how Jes­sica gives us a dead­line to get our spreads done.
The Mom CreativeIf you are new to Project life head here to learn more. If you want to read more about my 2013 approach to Project life head here. Supplies: I am print­ my pho­tos (and the PL cards) at home using my Canon 9000 pro series.
I use this paper by Canon- which is sim­ply amaz­ing!!! It is a matte paper and has the look and feel of card­stock. This printer/paper combo is the main rea­son Project Life is work­ing for me this year. I am also using this new cor­ner rounder by Fiskars.
My album and page pro­tec­tors, I got at Tar­get and are the We R mem­ory keep­ers brand. I am try­ing to main­tain a con­sis­tant jour­nal­ing font this time, and am using Hel­vetica Neue. I do all my dig­i­tal pro­cess­ing in Adobe Photoshop Cs5.

{Laundry Love}

April 28, 2013

One thing about hav­ing lit­tle tod­dlers in the house– you always have laun­dry wait­ing to be washed.

But oh.so.cute laundry.

Laun­dry that makes you smile while you are fold­ing them.

Laun­dry that has lit­tle frills or a teddy bear face on the pants behind.

I am going to miss this when they grow up…

I saw this Laun­dry quote on pin­ter­est (by three lit­tle mon­keys stu­dio) and knew that I wanted it on a layout!

Then I came across this laun­dry list punch and thats how this lay­out came together :)

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Lots of Echo park paper (Sweet Girl Col­lec­tion) and a lit­tle bit of mixed media in this lay­out– and you can see how I put it together (with more pho­tos) in this tuto­r­ial I put together for Fiskars.

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Happy Scrappy Sun­day everyone!

 

 

{Mixed Media Ideas #4: Thank you card}

April 25, 2013

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This one is all about using your stamps dif­fer­ently. Sure, we all pull out our stamps and stamp them with black ink. Often.

But here I talk about using water­col­ors to stamp. And while you are at it, why not try stamp­ing on some­thing other than paper? Have you tried stamp­ing on fabric?

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Read more in this tuto­r­ial I wrote for Fiskars (with more pics of course) here.

 

 

  • Hi there! Wel­come to my blog! I am Smitha Katti, and here I share every­thing that is color, cre­ative and crafty in my life. A happy mix­ture of scrap­book­ing, pho­tog­ra­phy, pho­to­shop­ping, sewing, paint­ing and two lit­tle girls! I hope you have fun fol­low­ing me in my crafty endeavors…
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