design team inspiration

Hi there!

It is getting closer and closer to the magical days of Christmas. We are so excited to welcome the holidays and document all the memories that come with this season. Our Design Team has been busy creating projects that will inspire you. First up Mari.

Mari created these Christmas Tags using the Lawn Fawn Say What tag dies and the Lawn Fawn Holiday Critters stamp and dies. The patterned paper used as accents is from the Really Rainbow Christmas, also from Lawn Fawn. There are so many options with these stamps and dies; the middle tag has a shaker element using sequins and shaker mix from Studio Katia.

It’s fun to make your own tags at Christmas time to attach to a gift for someone you love! They will adore these fun tag elements! Thank you so much Mari for these beautiful tags!

Next up is Nathalie and her colorful Holiday layout,

This week’s tutorial focuses on creating embellishments that will work with the ones in the Holiday collections, Nathalie chose the new Merry Days collection from Crate Paper, and used mixed media and cut files to create the colorful background.

You can read more about her layout and see how it all came together in the previous post. The colors of the trees are nicely accented with gold and embellishments from the collection.

Well, that is all for us today. We would be taking a small break to enjoy our families and the season, so let us take this opportunity to wish you all peace, love and joy during the upcoming Christmas and thank you for all your support this year, we wish only the best for 2019.

Have a blessed holiday season!

Happy Valentine’s Day to you all!

Today it is a day to celebrate love and friendship! We are so grateful to have you as part of our friendly crafty community that we also want to celebrate with you this day. So we are releasing two new free cut files that are all about love and those special loved ones.

Click on the cut file images below to download yours today!

Our friends over at The Cut Shoppe have created these lovely cut files, exclusively for Scrapbook Nerd, and we love how versatile they can be when creating all those special projects. Here are just a few samples of what some of our DT has created using the cut files:

Joy’s layout combines a few of her favourite things; paint, stamping, gold splatter, and some of her own pattern paper. Joy likes to use old scrapbooking paper and gives a new life with acrylic paint, stencils and other mediums. She used that paper behind the LOVE word for a graffiti look.
Using the Luck Stars dies from My Favorite Things Joy die cut the stars from some POW gold glitter paper. When cutting this paper you will need to use a shim as it does have a thin plastic backing on it. The stamping on this layout uses an old Hero Arts Music background stamp.
Joy used Gold Heidi Swapp Gold Lame and some coordinating Dina Wakley Blackberry paint for the splatter on this page.

Nathalie used the Crazy Love to document a selfie gone wrong on her page:

She welded the “XO” image a few times to create her background, and then used Pebbles’s Forever My Always collection to back the cut-out, and add some small details to the page.

She added a bit of hand stitching to each of the hearts inside the “O”s and then brought a bit more of that sparkle to the page using some Vicki Boutin Gold Glaze and an Echo Park (Beach Towel) stencil to the background.

This page is filled with small details, that complement that sweet picture of Nathalie’s baby stealing a kiss from dad!.

We hope that the free cut files and the samples our DT have provided inspire you to create a special project about or for your loved ones. Remember to tag/link Scrapbook Nerd whenever you use this project and share it on social media; we would love to see what you create with these files.

Stop by the Scrapbook Nerd store to pick your free copy of these files, and to check all the new goodies that are arriving daily at the store’s shelves!

Have a Wonderful Valentine’s Day!