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Getting Caught Up With My FAVE-O-RITES

POSTED ON October 13, 2011 IN Announcements, the Faves

My quest to get caught up on my 2011 Faves layouts has been going along swimmingly.

I am now caught up through August which means I only have September left to do and I’ll be officially caught up. I’m not one to use the phrase “caught up” in scrapbooking very often but in this case I’m pretty excited to be able to say that.

Don’t they look fun together?

The good news for you Faves fans is this means I have a brand-new FAVE-O-RITES template super pack being released in the NettioDesigns Shoppe today!

FAVE-O-RITES Vol. 4 Super Pack

FAVE-O-RITES Vol. 4 includes three 12×12 digital scrapbooking templates based on my June, July and August Faves layouts.

My June Faves layout (I heart that photo, haha):

Credits: Full Throttle by Fee Jardine; Blissful Stitches: Curves by Traci Reed; Alpha from Birthday Girl by Zoe Pearn; Teeny Type Alpha by Zoe Pearn (retired); Choose Happiness by Kristin Cronin-Barrow and Shawna Clingerman; Everyday Moments by Lauren Grier and Jenn Barrette; Pumpkin Parade by Heather Roselli; Font is DJB Lynnette by Darcy Baldwin

 

And the June Faves template:

My July Faves layout:

Credits: Beautiful You by Zoe Pearn; Blissful Stitches Straight by Traci Reed; Teeny Type Alpha by Zoe Pearn (retired); Font is DJB Lynnette by Darcy Baldwin

 

And the July Faves template:

My August Faves layout:

Credits: Indian Summer by Zoe Pearn; Alpha from Those Who Want to Sing by Zoe Pearn; Blissful Stitches Square by Traci Reed; Bad Sewing Machine XXIV: Small 'N Round by Traci Reed; Font is DJB Lynnette by Darcy Baldwin

 

And the August Faves template:

And of course, what’s a New Release day without some NettioDesigns Team Awesome inspiration!

I always love seeing their take on my templates because they really show just how versatile these templates they can be.







The FAVE-O-RITES Vol. 4 Super Pack is up NOW in the NettioDesigns Shoppe and is 20% off thru Friday, October 14.

Pick up FAVE-O-RITES Vol. 4 right here.

POSTED IN Announcements, the Faves, Template-y Goodness

September Round Up

POSTED ON September 30, 2011 IN Monthly Roundups

Well the end of September is officially here which means it’s time for a round up of my favorite posts from this month. I have to say looking back, it’s actually been a rather productive month here at NettioDesigns!

I completed my first ever A Week In the Life Album…

AWITL cover 600

Shared a behind-the-scenes peek at how I put my AWITL album together using Aperture & InDesign…

Awitl indesign lines2

Received my finished AWITL Photobook from Blurb and wrote a little review…

Nettio blurb09

Offered up a map-tastic free template and tutorial for all my fellow map-lovin’ scrapbookers…

Nettiodesigns OhthePlaces preview

Got my goal-setting on with a four month update on my 29th Birthday goals…

29goals 5

And wrote a mini tutorial on how to cropping a two-page template into a single 12×12 document…

Usacrop 03 west

So with that, I am ready to say goodbye to September and hello to October.

But before I do, I want to send out a HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who has stopped by NettioDesigns this month to download my freebie, check out my projects/tutorials or even leave a little comment. You have no idea how much it means to me that you stopped by to check out my lil’ site. : )

A little peek at what’s coming up in October…

  • I’m guest teaching over at Masterful Scrapbook Design along with four other amazing scrapbookers (including one of my faves, Kelly Purkey!). We’re sharing our tips and tricks for pages that record “the times” – current events, news, trends, pop culture and more! It’s a topic that I LOVE and at $12.50 for the month, it’s an absolute steal.
  • I’m the October Featured Artist over at My Scrapbook Art so I’ve got a fun little interview up over there. (Hopefully I don’t sound like too big of a nerd! hehe)
  • Some new products will be coming to the NettioDesigns Shoppe
  • And of course, lots of blog-related goodness including possibly a travel scrapbooking post or two (we’re headed to Chicago!), some more tips & tricks and for sure, lots of eye candy.

 

So how did your September go? Can you believe it’s almost October already? This year is just flying by! We’ll be opening presents under the Christmas tree before we know it!

The one good thing about it being almost October is fall has finally arrived here in Texas which means we are getting some much needed relief from the 57 days of 100+ temperatures we’ve had this summer (and even a little bit of very very needed rain!).

POSTED IN Monthly Roundups

How To Create a Scrap-worthy Map with Photoshop

POSTED ON September 22, 2011 IN Free Stuff

For the Sugarbabe September Portfolio challenge over at Sweet Shoppe Designs, I was tasked with creating a digital scrapbooking layout based on inspiration I had saved/favorited/pinned.

Since I have an love obsession with Pinterest, I turned to my scrapbooking pin board and selected this super awesome layout by one of my absolute favorite paper scrapbookers, Kelly Purkey. She’s a girl after my own paper-lovin’ heart with the way she rocks patterned paper!

Kellypurkey map

Specifically what inspired me about this layout was the graphic shapes she gave to the states and her bold use of patterned paper against the kraft background (no surprise there, haha).  I also loved all her little circle photos representing all the places she had visited.

Now while I love to travel, I certainly don’t travel as much as she does, so I decided instead to theme my layout around all the places Adam and I have lived so far. Since we have yet to live on the East Coast (it’s on our short list of places to go next since it’s the one US time zone we haven’t lived in yet, haha), I decided to simplify my layout and do a single page featuring the Western half of the United States.

Here’s my finished layout featuring Zoe Pearn’s super adorable Sunshine & Lollipops kit:

Nettiodesigns placeswevelived

Since I posted this layout over in the Sweet Shoppe gallery earlier this month, I’ve gotten a some questions asking how I put this layout together. Kelly has an awesome tutorial over on her blog showing how she designed her map using paper, but since my layout is 100% digital, I’ve whipped up a little tutorial to show you how you can get this same look using Photoshop.

A little note: this tutorial was written based on Photoshop CS3 so it should work in other versions of Photoshop, but I haven’t tried it using Photoshop Elements. As always, there are a million different ways to do the same thing in Photoshop so I’m just sharing what worked for me.

Ok, on to the tutorial…

Step 1: The first thing you need to is find a map of your desired location. I took a screenshot from Google Maps for my map but any map image will do as long as it has the outlines of the states/countries on it.

Once you have your map, you need to drag it onto your scrapbooking canvas and resize it to the size you want your final map to be. I made my map fill the majority of the page. Don’t worry if your map image ends up pixelated, it won’t show in your final layout.

01 googlemap

Step 2: Next, you want to grab your Polygonal Lasso Tool. You’ll find it under the normal Lasso tool –  it’s the lasso with the weird angles on it.

02 polygonallasso

Step 3: Now we’re going to use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to draw a shape around each state using the lines on the map as a guide. Don’t worry about all the little detailed areas, we’re going for the angular look of the shapes in Kelly’s inspiration layout so we want to keep the shape simple.

If you’ve never used the Polygonal Lasso Tool before, it’s really easy. You just point and click where you want to add a corner on your shape. If you want to draw an exact straight line between two points, hold down the Shift key and it will give you either a 90 or 45 degree angled line. To close off your shape, bring your arrow back to your starting point and move it around until you see a small circle. Then click to close the shape.

If you’ve done it correctly, you’ll end up with a shape surrounded by marching ants like this:

03 marchingants

Step 4: Our next step is to fill the shape we’ve created. The easiest way to do this is to hold down the Shift+F5 key which will bring up the Fill dialog box that looks like this:

04 filllayer

Step 5: Select a color for your shape (I went with grey tones but it doesn’t really matter) and then click ok. Your shape will now look like this:

05 filledlayer

Step 6: Now you want to deselect your shape (Cmd+D on a Mac, Ctrl+D on a PC) and repeat steps 1-5 for ALL of the states or countries on your map. For my original layout this meant the entire Western half of the US but for the sake of this tutorial, I’m going to just do four states.

Here’s what your map should look like once you’ve completed all your shapes. Notice at this point there is no space between the shapes – they all fit together nice and tight. That’s what you want.

06 filledstates

Step 7: Our next step is going to be to add space between the shapes so our mat layer will show through. (On my layout the mat is kraft, on Kelly’s layout the mat is white.) To do this we’re going to contract each shape down by the same exact amount.

First you need to get the marching ants around your shape again. A really easy way to do this is to hold down the Cmd/Ctrl key and click on the layer thumbnail for that layer in the Layer palette. Once you have your shape selected, go up to your toolbar at the top of your screen and choose Select>Modify>Contract:

07 modify contract

Step 8: We’re going to contract each shape by 10 pixels so enter a 10 into the dialog box and click ok.

08 contract

Your marching ants should now be slightly smaller than your original shape:

09 contract

Step 10: Now we’re going to inverse the selection by hitting Cmd+Shift+I (Ctrl+Shift+I on a PC) and then hit the Delete key to remove the extra part of the shape like so:

11 inverse

Now your shape should have an empty border around it that separates it from the surrounding shapes:

10 contract

Step 11: Now you’re going to repeat Steps 7-10 for all the shapes on your map. As you contract each shape, you may find that you need to adjust the placement of some of the states. Since you have already drawn all your states, you don’t need to worry about the states lining up perfectly with the map layer anymore. How they relate to each other is more important. I just eyeballed the spacing based on what I thought looked best.

Your finished product should look like this:

12 contractedshapes

Which if we hide the map layer will look like this:

13 withoutmap

See, we have nice even borders between each of the shapes.

Now if you’re wondering why I essentially told you to create each shape twice rather than just contracting the original selection, the answer is because I found it much easier to draw out the shapes when they were all touching. I did try a few different methods for adding space between the shapes but ultimately the Contract & Duplicate gave me the best results. Yes it’s a little tedious this way but once you get into a rhythm it goes pretty quickly.

Step 12: Once you’ve got all your shapes drawn and contracted, the final step is use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to draw a shape for your mat layer. The steps are the same as how you originally created each state, just on a bigger scale.

I didn’t worry about the mat being the exact same size all the way around so I just eyeballed the border to get this:

14 border

And that’s pretty much it! You’ve created your very own map template! Now all you have to do is add in all your photos and papers and elements and you’re good to go.

The great thing is this method will work for any map so if you’re not in the US or are wanting to do something more country or even world focused, you can totally follow the steps in this tutorial to create a layout based on any map your heart desires.

Now I’m sure there are some of you who are reading the tutorial and thinking, “well that’s great, Lynnette, but it sounds like a LOT of work and I would much rather be pinning on Pinterest.”

Which is why I also created a little something extra for all my fellow US-map lovers. And because I was feeling extra generous, I even included all of the Eastern half of the US for you as well.

And best of all?

It’s FREE!

Yes, that’s right I am offering up this awesome template for FREE for personal (non-commercial) use. If you’ve never purchased one of my templates before, here’s your chance to see what NettioDesigns is all about.

All I ask in return is you spread your love for the template on Twitter/Facebook/forums/blogs and let everyone know they can download it right here at NettioDesigns. Oh and if you post your layout in any gallery, please credit NettioDesigns and where allowed, include a link back to this post.

The template is a single 12×24 inch file so if you use the entire template you’ll end up with a two-page layout similar to Kelly’s layout or you can use your crop tool to crop the template to create a single page layout like I did.

Nettiodesigns OhthePlaces preview

Download here

I can’t wait to see what you create so if you use the template or tutorial, be sure to link me up to your layout!

Happy scrapping!

POSTED IN Free Stuff, Digital Scrapbooking, Template-y Goodness, Tips & Tricks

Are YOU Ready to Scrap Your FAVE-O-RITES?

POSTED ON August 5, 2011 IN Announcements, the Faves

If you’ve been following NettioDesigns or my scrapbooking for awhile, it’ll probably come as no surprise to you that I love scrapbooking Faves layouts.

You can read more about why I believe every scrapbooker should scrap a Faves page here in this post, but it’s pretty safe to say that being a part of the NettioDesigns family means you’re on board with the whole Faves layout lovin.’

So it seemed only fitting that for their first task as members of the NettioDesigns Creative Team (or Team Awesome, as I like to call them around here, haha),  I asked my team of lovely ladies to get their Faves scrapbooking on and boy, did they totally rise to the occasion!

We have Monthly Faves from Aly & Alexis…

April Faves 2011 WEB

April faves

Summer Faves from Rebecca, Jen & Kathleen…

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Summer faves

Summer2011TopTen

Fall Faves from Inga…

Fall Faves web

Vacation Faves from Natalie & Heather…

2011 07 11 Top Vacation Moments copy

Roadtriptunes

Birthday Faves from Jen…

Birthday faves

Family Faves from Kim…

Klund familyfaves

A cool spin on my April Faves from Crystal which I am now dying to try…

Book faves

Another spin from Brynn who really made the March Faves template her own…

10thingsWAweb

And of course my monthly Faves layouts that served as inspiration for it all…

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Nettio 2011faves 04apr

Nettio 2011faves 05may

And look! I’ve even got Adam jumping on the Faves bandwagon now…

Nettio adamo aprfaves

This is what I LOVE about templates.

You can give a team of people the same three templates and topic and yet each layout is completely different and unique because each of our lives and stories are totally unique.

The solid modern paper-lovin’-style design may stay the same but by adding in a touch of your own scrapbooking awesomeness, you end up with a layout that is so-very-YOU.

And that’s exactly what these ladies did.

Feeling inspired to scrap your own Faves now?

Check out the FAVE-O-RITES Vol. 3 March, April & May Super Pack.

It’s NEW in the NettioDesigns Shoppe today.

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Looking for more Faves templates? Check out FAVE-O-RITES Vol. 1 & Vol. 2.

Scrapbooking some Faves layouts may be the perfect way to beat the summer heat this weekend, I’m just sayin’. ; )

Have a great weekend everyone!

POSTED IN Announcements, the Faves, Template-y Goodness

Announcing the NettioDesigns Creative Team!

POSTED ON July 22, 2011 IN Announcements

First up, a big HUGE squishy hug to each and every one of you who applied to my Creative Team call!

Adam will be the first two tell you how nervous I was about doing the call and how even up to the moment of posting it, I was convinced no one would apply and I’d have to slink away in a flurry of digiscrap embarrassment,  haha. So the fact that so many of you wanted to be part of my little ol’ team seriously means more to me than you know.

I had such a fun time reading through all of your applications this week and getting to know a little bit more about each of you and your motivations for being a part of this amazing hobby of ours. I can’t even tell you the number of times I laughed or giggled or nodded along with you because I totally get where you are coming from. You definitely made my decision tough!

But as we all know, there are only so many slots on a team and ultimately a decision had to be made. So with that I am here to announce the lucky ladies who will be joining my first ever Creative Team. And by lucky, I really mean that I am the lucky one to be able to work with such awesome scrapbookers!

I know these ladies are really excited to get started and I have no doubt they’ll be scrapbooking amazing pages to inspire you! Lots of good things are coming so I hope you’ll all stick around for the fun!

POSTED IN Announcements

It’s Time! NettioDesigns Creative Team Call!

POSTED ON July 14, 2011 IN Announcements

We interrupt your regularly scheduled edition of Friday Faves for this important announcement…

That’s right! The moment you’ve all been waiting for has finally arrived, haha.

As I mentioned in Monday’s Goal Update post, I’m ready to kick things up a notch here at NettioDesigns. But in order to do that?

I need a team of kick-ass digital scrapbookers.

Which brings me to this…

In case you can’t see the graphic…

I’m on the hunt for some AWESOME • CREATIVE • ADVENTUROUS digital scrapbookers to join my first ever Creative Team!

As part of my CT you would:

  • create a minimum of ONE layout per product prior to release day
  • post your layouts in TWO galleries
  • serve as a passionate ambassador for the NettioDesigns brand & blog

Think you’ve got what it takes to be a part of my team of awesomeness?

To apply, go to:

http://modern-school.flywheelsites.com/ctcall

Deadline to apply is TUESDAY, JULY 19 at NOON aka 12:00PM EDT (9AM PDT). Team will be announced Friday, July 22.

What do you have to lose? Apply today to be a part of the most kick-ass NettioDesigns team ever.

It’s going to be FUN!

POSTED IN Announcements

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