Happy Birthday P&Co! You're Invited to the PARTY!!!

It's February, and we are all super excited - Today is Pixels and Company's First Birthday! We're going to be partying (P&Co style!) all week long, so hop on over to the forum to check it out. There's challenges, prizes, freebies, and to top it all off, the entire store is on sale! Be sure to like our Facebook Page, because we'll be running special FB-only events, too... You certainly don't want to miss out on any of this! It's time for our Company Stash once again and our designers did a fantastic job this month! Don't you just love these luscious and colorful collections? These are perfect for the boys in our lives! On sale for 35% off!                                             We're sweetening things up with our February Free-With-Purchase kit: Get Love, Me: Part 1 free with any $10 purchase in our shop Feb 1-14! Have you "liked" our Facebook page? If not, what are you waiting for? We're giving away this beautiful collab mini kit to all our friends on Facebook, so head on over and grab it. Then, work your way through the rest of the blog hop, because there's a lot of goodness to be had! (You may also notice that we have another mini kit that we're giving away to anyone who signs up for our newsletter. You can get it here.)

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One Template - Three Ways!

One Template – Three Ways!

January 8, 2014

P&Co. Blog Post for January 8th, 2014:

I’ll admit it, I’m a template addict. I love how the basic design is started for me! Sometimes when I’m creating a layout, my biggest anxiety is having to start from scratch. So I often stalk the store looking for the perfect template to help get me started. Sometimes a template will jump out at me right away, and at times only part of the design will inspire me and I end up tweaking it a bit as I go. Whether you leave the template ‘as is’ or alter it in some way is totally fine.

Occasionally, I’ll even go back to a template and use it multiple times! What a great way to get the most of your purchase – and you’d be amazed how different the same template can look by just changing it a little and/or adding different patterns and colors!

I recently used Scotty Girl Design’s Paper Stacks set. I loved the versatility of template no. 3 so much I used it three times! The clean lines and design made this the perfect template to play with. Check out below what I did with it!

Arrow brushes by Wild Blueberry Ink

Template #1 

This first example is keeping the template style ‘as is’. Just add photos, papers and journaling! In this case I even used patterns from the same kit – which made scrapbooking this layout a breeze.

 

This Year Collection and Paper Stacks by Scotty Girl Designs

 Template # 2

With the same template (no. 3),  I rotated it and reduced the size. This template style uses more white space which creates a wonderful simple design. But best of all, look how different the template looks from the one above! How fun!

Daily Routine and One Moment Collections by Sabrina Creations

Template # 3

I went to town on this one!   I rotated and expanded the template to fit to the edges of the page. Then I took the wonky strips and duplicated them again to the other side of the photo block (I used the second photo block as a patterned mat behind the photo. This template is completly different looking, yet it came from the original template (no. 3)! Sometimes it’s okay to experiement with different looks! You might be surprised what can be created from a good base. Plus there is always the undo button if you don’t like the way it’s going! No pressure, just play!

 Dude Collection by Robyn Meierotto, quotes by Sabrina Creations and More Cowbell by Gennifer Bursett

Another fun thing you can do is steal elements or styles from other templates! I’ve done that quite a few times when playing with templates. The next layout incorporates two templates from Karla Dudley’s Jack Template set. I loved the design of the one on the left, but preferred the title from another – so I used them both! 

Besides using  a title from a different template, I also reduced the size of the template on the left a little.  Here is the finished result!

 Jack and Noted Collection by Karla Dudley, Flair by WBI and Smears from Mye De Leon

I hope this has inspired you in some way to look at templates differently. There are so many possibilities, so have fun and keep documenting those important memories!

Happy Scrapping!

Project Life 2014!

I'm starting my third year using Project Life* style albums! I'm so excited. I decided to go with a different template style this year - using Sabrina's Creations Document Life - and make my background a lighter colour. Here are my first two pages using products from Splendid Finns! Please click on images for additional credits from P&Co..

I didn't document much last year as far as my Project Life layouts go, but hopefully I will show you more from this year. Stay Tuned!

*note: Project Life is a daily/weekly/monthly document style of scrabooking originally created from Becky Higgins.

Happy Scrapping!

I miss my doggie... and November Yummies!

Those who follow me know I recently lost my 10 year old chocolate lab Ryley. I miss him so much, and I noticed I've done a couple of memorial pages of him recently. It helps - scrapbooking therapy. :) So I thought I'd share them... plus I have some November Yummies from P&Co. to showcase as well. Hope you find some inspiration!

Please click on layout for Credits!

... and more Yummies:

Happy Scrapping!

P&Co. Yummies to Share - October Edition

Here are my newest layouts from P&Co. for October

Please click on layout for credits...

Happy Scrapping!

Splendid Fiins Goodies to share!

Here are a few of my layouts for October - November to share!

Please click on layout for credits!

Happy Scrapping!