Take Inspiration From What's Around You

My wife's a big quilter, so I'm quite familiar with half-square triangles, and pieces of fabric stitched together in all sorts of unique shapes.

That's what inspired my latest kit.....and my first digital scrapbooking templates!

First up, the Patchwork Year card kit:

The idea for this kit is pretty simple. Each month of the year gets a filler card with a quilted pattern on it, and then I made matching journal cards, too!

Next, I branched out a little bit--moving away from Project Life App pocket card kits (but not too far away! LOL) and into digital scrapbook page templates.

The idea behind a digital template is that I offer up a page design with different layered elements. You replace these layered elements with your own selection of digital papers, elements, and/or cards.  I'll have to come up with a blog post that goes through all those steps, but if you are already familiar, I'll just share the templates I came up with here, and give you a page example of how it looks once you're done.

Here's the first template:

Basically, I created a page that is made up of two large photos (with frames), a journal box with a frame, two flower shaped place holders (where you could put your own elements), all on a quilt pattern background.

The way templates work, you simply replace all the layers with your own stuff-photos, papers, elements, and/or cards.  I made the quilt-looking background into three colors: green, blue, and yellow and made each of those colors their own layer. So when you replaced the templates yellow layer with a gray digital paper, replaced the green template layer with a red paper, and replaced the blue template layer with a green paper, (and then put in your own photos, journal card, and element) you end up with something like this:

Templates are just a guide! You can still do your own thing. See how I didn't use two flowers like the template had--just added one poinsettia, and how I ended up tilting my two photos when the template had them straight.  It's all up to you!

Here's another example:

First the template:

And then my finished page:

See how fun that is!

You can purchase the Quilt Patterns templates HERE.