What I Learned From Challenging My Own Creative Assumption: Clean & Simple White Space

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From The Desk Of Nettio Designs Issue No. 4 I mentioned in From The Desk Of Nettio Designs Issue No. 2 that one of the key components of creatively capturing your life adventures is having an attitude of willingness to push outside your comfort zone and challenge your assumptions of what you think you’re capable of without worrying about failing. We all have assumptions we make [...] Read More »

How To Design Type For Your 10 Things I Love About You Mini Book

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Over the weekend at Sweet Shoppe Designs I released my 10 Things I Love About You Mini Photo Book Templates based on my Valentine’s Day mini photo book I wrote about last week. One of my favorite things about this album are the text-based pages. Not only are they the bread & butter of the book’s sentiment but they’re fun to design as well! So [...] Read More »

New Release | 10 Things I Love About You Mini Photo Book Templates

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Happy Friday everyone! Surprised to see me? In honor of Sweet Shoppe Designs’ 7th Anniversary this month, we’re kicking off February a little early with a special Sweet Shoppe New Release Friday this week. Which is awesome for me because I can’t wait to share this week’s new release with you! I don’t know about you but Valentine’s Day and I are not exactly friends. [...] Read More »

Creative Adventure #5: Designing a Hybrid Mini Photo Book With Photoshop

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I’ve known since the beginning of this 30 Creative Adventures project that one of the projects I wanted to do was another photo book. I had designed one once before for my Week In the Life album in 2011 and I thought it’d be a fun challenge to do another one. And since I designed my WITL photo book using Adobe InDesign the first time [...] Read More »