These are also available with a Commercial License.

I’m a little late to post today, I’ve been away sick for a while. but better late than never they say right?

Scrapgirls is joining the National Digital Scrapbooking Day fun with a sale, all day of chats and a freebie from ME!

Sale and More!

2:00 PM MDT – Holiday Cards using 4×6 Templates chat
We’re going to help you get started on your holiday cards early this year! Join Andrea (LaughingSun) and April (April Showers) in the chat room where we’ll give you some pointers on using a special 4×6 card template created just for this chat.

With that, I bring you my newest release: ScrapSimple Card Templates: 4×6 Printable Cards 1. These printable cards are more winter/Christmas/holiday themed and will help you get your cards done quickly! Just pop in your favorite papers, embellishments, photos, words and more to have your holiday cards done easily! Even better? Just print them out at your favorite photo printing store and have them in your hands within days, hours or even minutes!

ScrapSimple Card Templates: 4x6 Printable Cards 1

ScrapSimple Card Templates: 4×6 Printable Cards 1

Enjoy!
-Andrea

It’s a howling great thing to get a coupon for
an additional 17.7% off of your sale order total.
We’re tricking you and giving you a treat!

The coupon expires TONIGHT, precisely at Midnight MDT on
October 31st. Use it or lose it!

Coupon Code: HowlingGreatDeal
Make sure you enter it exactly as you see it or it won’t work.

Happy Halloween!!!

-Andrea

Fun new release this week; ScrapSimple Paper Templates-Edgies Biggie. They are fantastic for those final touches to your page.  You can clip papers to them for an added touch of accent or use your blending modes to give some oomph! I like to clip and blend!! Live dangerous even while scrapping!

I want to feature a product that Andrea has called ScrapSimple Paper Templates that go with her Crazy Retro Day kit! I had never seen this kind of template! I got to playing with Andrea’s Crazy Retro Day, making a page and wanted a different paper than what was in the kit.

Now the papers in the kit are so funky cool, but I needed the brilliant blue, with some circles!  So I grabbed the teal and cream papers in Andrea Crazy Retro Day and clipped them with the coordinating ScrapSimple Paper Templates! Oh yeah perfect! I love the effect and then added some of the cool elements in the kit, and a whole bunch of flowers, and oh I am loving the end results!  I used the wicked cool Paper Templates-Edges Biggie! and clipped the fun brown paper and played with different blends to pull the blues together on the top to go with the fun bottom papers!  I am an addict of layers, and when you have the phenomenal flowers like found in Andrea’s Crazy Retro Day Collection! I got layering and spinning and shadowing and the threw a few adorable leaves and love, love, love the cluster strip of flowers!

I  cut a circle in the cream paper and smudges some of the blue around the edge, and of course the burn tool! I like putting the photo under the paper, gives more depth!  Yep, that is me, way back in the day! Woo boy, that is the night before I joined the Air Force! Many, many years ago! Using the way back machine and digital scrapping to bring the past to look good with today’s awesome products! Thank you Andrea, for helping me make the 1980′s look good with all the wonderful designs and extras in your Crazy Retro Collection! There is so much in the collection, pop over to her store at Scrap Girls and browse! You will be glad you did!

Whoops, a heads up, to you designers out there,  both the ScrapSimple Paper Templates-Edges Biggie and the ScrapSimple Paper Templates are available with a Commerical License.

~never lose your joy

I got to playing with the templates and also her Crazy Retro Day Collection and a few pictures of my cat; Lady Fluffypants.  When I opened the Collection, first thing I loved was the funkalicious papers! I mean they are just wonderful!  I feel head over heels with the patterns! I can imagine these papers for teen pages and just feel good memories!

I wanted to keep a girlie feel to the page, so I stayed with the pink/brown/lime green colors on my page from the Crazy Retro Day Collection.

Andrea’s elements all flow really well together, and I was enjoying the flairs and flowers!  Her stamping work on the scatter-type elements are the bomb.  I really think this is one of the best parts of digital scrapbooking.  In paper scraps, you mess up the stamp! growl at everyone in the house!!  But with digital, you can stamp last! I love sticking stamped looked elements on the lower pages for that final touch of  “oh YEAH, that looks good”~

My photos were real dark, so I had to lighten them a whole lot, but I knew I was gonna add a bit of color to them to help them blend with the chocolate browns in Andrea’s groovy papers. I lightened and then added above each photo, the brown paper from the Crazy Retro Collection, and clipped it to the photo (now I don’t merge them ever, cause that makes them go back to normal blend), and I used the COLOR blend mode and brought the opacity down to about 68%.  The eyes on the middle picture were lightened up too much, so I went back in with my burn tool. **warning** I love the burn tool, and have been known to overdose on it, so use at your own discretion**  I just did my kitty’s dark parts of the eyes, so they would pop a bit more.   I made the PINK lines from the outside of Andrea’s template! I love the PINK!

Here is my Frisky Feline, that is under the influence of catnip power! haha

Wait there is more!! Andrea has been busy as can be!

Take a look at her  special edition, professionally designed, two-page digital scrapbooking kits. The Super 7 Spreads kits! With each Super 7 Spread, you will receive two layered PSD files – the left-side and the right-side of the double-page layout. Just open the files, insert your photos, add your journaling, and you’re ready to go.  Andrea designed both the layout too!! Since the designs are separate, you get to play and add more or create a whole different look too!

Don’t forget now is the time to buy, because of Scrap Girls’ 7th Anniversary Sale

Scrap Girls is 7 years old and we’re celebrating with a HUGE sale!

Don’t miss this one!

It only happens ONCE a year!

Save 27.7% off nearly everything in the Scrap Girls Boutique

until Monday, October 24th at Midnight, MDT!

Whew! That is a whole lot to go through, but I am sure you will enjoy shopping and scrapping with Andrea Trump Designs too.  Enjoy your weekend, and preserve your memories!

~Never Lose Your Joy

New today is ScrapSimple Digital Layout Album Templates: Smart Stackers – Volume 1 also available with a Commercial License.

More recently:

ScrapSimple Card Templates: Crazy Retro Day – Lunchbox Love (Commercial License)

ScrapSimple Card Templates: Goodbye, Hello – Lunchbox Love (Commercial License)

JIF 6: Crazy Retro Day

ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Crazy Retro Day (Commercial License)

Brush Set: Crazy Retro Day (Commercial License)

Value Pack: Crazy Retro Day (Commercial License)

enjoy!

-Andrea

Just a quick note to tell you about Scrap Girls “It’s ok to Play” sale this weekend for 18.9% off! You don’t want to miss out… there are some great new Designers bring out new releases as well as the tried and true Designers!

and some new goodies from me

A redo of my kit Goodbye, Hello!!

a fun solid paper add-on

+ a SS Paper Template Biggie that’s available with either a Personal Use or a Commercial License!

Hope you enjoy the sale and get some new goodies

Andrea

And so to the goodies… here is my first Collection Biggie “Spring is Here“.

and so exciting too, there is a Memorial Day sale on right now!!! So come check out the boutique and join the Scrap Girls family!!!

I also wanted to say a big thank you to Pebbles Jones at Scrap Girls for getting my head into designing and to Lauren,Amy & the ladies at Polka Dot Plum for giving me a fantastic start with their amazing apprentice program!!!

Andrea

In the mean time, take advantage of the ‘Buy my store’ sale I’m having because a lot of those items are retiring forever and a few will get a new look. buy the whole store for $5.95 including Commercial Use items!!!

I’ll be back in a week or 2 with the exciting news!!!