Digital Scrapbooking Made Easy: 3 Creative Spring Ideas
Digital Scrapbooking Made Easy: 3 Creative Spring Page Ideas Digital Scrapbooking Made Easy: Fresh ideas for telling your stories this season—without overthinking it. 🌸 Spring always feels like a reset. The light changes. The colors soften. And suddenly, you feel the urge to create again. However, instead of starting with supplies or overcomplicating your process, […]
Easy Winter Digital Scrapbooking: 3 Creative Page Ideas
Easy Winter Digital Scrapbooking: 3 Creative Ideas Easy Winter Digital Scrapbooking: 3 Creative Ideas: It’s the perfect time to be present with your photo-taking and storytelling—before you really get going with your memory-keeping this year. ✨ In fact, this in-between season offers a beautiful opportunity to pause, reflect, and tie up any loose ends in […]
Easy Digital Scrapbooking Tips: Stay Inspired
Easy Digital Scrapbooking Tips: How to Stay Inspired and Keep Creating Easy digital scrapbooking tips to help you stay creative, avoid burnout, and create more meaningful memory-keeping pages and photo books. ✨ Quite honestly, memory-keeping always starts with the best laid intentions. However, somewhere between thousands of photos, busy days, and the pressure to “do […]
8 Ways to Digital Art Journaling
Today, [aalogo] Cerative Team Member, Viv Halliwell, is sharing 8 Ways to Digital Art Journaling. 8 Ways to Digital Art Journaling Introduction Digital Art journaling is the fusion of digital artistry and words to convey emotion. A great way to create in the Absence of photos, ‘make sense of the world’ or work through Emotion. […]
Why I Love Digital Scrapbooking Photo Book Projects
Michelle has participated in the annual photo book project at Anna Aspnes Designs for several years, and the photo books she has created are among her favorites. Why I Love Digital Scrapbooking Photo Book Projects 1. Complete a Photo Book Being able to produce a project photobook from start to finish is so rewarding. Ditch […]
8 Ways to Use Recipe Templates
Happy Monday! Today we’re sharing 8 Ways to Use Recipe Templates. 8 Ways to Use Recipe Templates Introduction Ideas and inspiration for using Recipe Template Pack No. 1. Encourages you to: Think ‘outside-the-box’ in HOW you can use theme specific templates. EXTEND the usage of your templates beyond the suggested theme. Have fun telling stories […]
15 Ways to Use Stitched Template Albums
Today I’m sharing 15 Ways to Use Stitched Template Albums. 15Ways to Use Stitched Template Albums Introduction There are LOTS of ways you can use the Stitched Template Album for digital scrapbooking and photo artistry. Augment your FOUNDATION. MODIFY the Stitched Grid Overlay layers. EMBELLISH your photo artistry layout design. 1. Just Add Images Clip […]
10 Ways to Use Scenic Album Templates
Today, I’m sharing 10 Ways to Use Scenic Album Templates in your photo artistry and digital scrapbooking. 10 Ways to Use Scenic Album Templates Introduction Use Scenic Layered Template Album No. 1 to share your photography. There are 20- 12 X 12 Layered Templates in this collection Plus a BONUS ‘Cover Set’ for photo book […]
More Ways to Use Stitched Templates
Happy Monday! Today I’m happy to be sharing More Ways to Use Stitched Templates. This post is intended to give you guidance on using the latest 12 X 12 Stitched Templates No. 2 to arrive in the Anna Aspnes Designs store at Oscraps. More Ways to Use Stitched Templates Click on the images below to access complete digital […]
5 Ways to Use Stitched Templates
Today, I’m sharing 5 Ways to Use Stitched Templates. 5 Ways to Use Stitched Templates Introduction Use the 12 X 12 Stitched Templates No. 1 to create your next photo artistry layout. There are 4- 12 X 12 Stitched Templates in this collection Templates are delivered in BOTH .psd and .png format. Clean AND distressed […]
13 Ways Using FotoInspired Templates
Today, I’m sharing 13 Ways Using FotoInspired Templates. 13 Ways to Using FotoInspired Templates What is FotoInspired? Learn about FotoInspired. Aside from everyday ‘project life’ style scrapbooking and memory keeping, These templates can also be used in the following ways. 1. Travel Albums Document vacations and travel photos and memorabilia. Clip photos and memorabilia images […]
Master Digital Scrapbook Design Using Templates
Marnie shares how to Master Digital Scrapbook Design Using Templates. Introduction Do you struggle with creating a layout from a blank canvas? Templates might just be the answer. A template “is a blueprint design for a finished page.” (Anna Aspnes) Serves as a map to guide us through a project. Afford structure for the beginner. […]
10 Ways to Use FotoInspired Edge Templates
Today I’m sharing 10 Ways to Use FotoInspired Edge Templates in your photo artistry and digital scrapbooking layout designs. Introduction Add an artsy edge to your FotoInspired layout designs plus enhance your photo artistry and photo blending. These multi-layer .psd format templates were originally designed to provide an artsy border to your FotoInspired Templates. The […]
6 Tips for Using Colorful Digital Scrapbook Supplies
Today, I’m sharing 6 Tips for Using Colorful Digital Scrapbook Supplies in your photo artistry and memory keeping. Introduction Approaches for combining your photos with brightly colored digital designs. Color is an ELEMENT PROPERTY to be considered in your layout designs. Bright colors have MORE impact in your designs. It’s important to maintain a BALANCE […]
Frustrated with Clippings Masks?
Are you FRUSTRATED with Clippings Masks? Frustrated with Clippings Masks? Introduction Clipping masks are an EASY to blend your photos. But they do NOT come without their problems. Modify Clipping Masks provides solutions for ALL these frustrations. There is ALSO guidance and inspiration for using the NEW ArtPlay Rainbow Collection. 1. ‘Hard’ Photo Edges This […]
Creativity Sparks Creativity
Today, Creative Team Viv Halliwell, is sharing ways to ensure Creativity Sparks Creativity. Creativity Sparks Creativity Introduction Guidance FOR THOSE DAYS WHEN YOUR CREATIVITY IS MISSING. On days when… The thoughts are blank You feel a bit down. And creating seems SO far away. This is the time when you need to create the most. 1. […]
Finding Creative Opportunity in Uncertainty
Today, I’m inspired to interrupt our typical ArtsyInspiration post to share some thoughts on Finding Creative Opportunity in Uncertainty and providing encouragement for starting a photo project TODAY. Finding Creative Opportunity in Uncertainty Introduction Let’s try and worry less. There is obviously a LOT going on right now with much uncertainty. And there is a […]
Celebrating Birthday Cards
Today I’m sharing Celebrating Birthday Cards inspiration via [aalogo] Community Member, Cheryl Ausdahl. Celebrating Birthday Cards Introduction March has arrived Notoriously this is a time to celebrate around here. Both myself and Oscraps share Birthdays this month and so why not share some inspiration for documenting the cards created for these milestone events. Cheryl emailed […]
Taking The Creativity Outdoors
Today I’m sharing some thoughts on Taking The Creativity Outdoors and how it helps me create endlessly without burnout. The Story Adventuring in the mountains. Eric and I spent this past weekend in one my favorite places, doing one of my favorite things. MOJO The weather was unusually warm allowing us to reach terrain at […]
5 Ways to Use an ArtPlay Palette
Today, I’m sharing 5 Ways you can use an ArtPlay Palette. I’ve been working on a number of different projects over the last several weeks. 1. Create a Greeting Card Make a greeting card and print at home or online. My sister and Mum both have birthdays in January. Create a New Layout (File>New) in […]
Develop Your Style
Today, I’m sharing a few thoughts on how to develop your style in terms of artistry and memory keeping. Develop Your Style Origins Experience comes through showing up and walking the talk. I have been an ‘official’ memory keeper since 2002 when Ella, my first child arrived in this world, but the introduction to this […]
Photo Book Project Theme Inspiration
This post provides some photo book project theme inspiration from the creative team. Photo Book Project Theme Inspiration Miki Krueger This will be my fourth year participating in the annual photo book project. The first two years, I followed a Christmas theme: Christmases of the Past The 12 Days of Christmas Last year, I took […]
Boundaries for Success
Today, I’m sharing some thoughts on Boundaries and Success in order to help you with your scrapbooking and photo artistry goals. I’m also announcing some changes at Anna Aspnes Designs based on these principles. Boundaries for Success Yes to Boundaries They protect us and enable us to have what we want most. Last week in […]
Beginner Lessons in Artistry
In this post, I’m sharing my 2 day painting adventure last weekend, as well as thoughts on ‘Beginner Lessons in Artistry.’ The Origins I have always fancied myself as a bit of a painter. I was creating art before I could walk and my Mum still has my first painting on her bedroom wall. In […]