As a kid, I looked forward to going back to school every year. I loved seeing friends after a summer apart, getting new textbooks and shopping for new school supplies and outfits. Since I’ve become a scrapbooker, my love of new notebooks and pencils has grown to include scrapbooking supplies. I can never have enough! Here are some great new "supplies" I’ve found this week!

Anna Benjamin’s Mari’s Garden is just too adorable! I love those "button buds" and the pretty, girly colors.

Michelle Godin’s Stamped Bracket Mats will add a funky finishing touch to your layouts. The brackets with letters and numbers will be great for your school pages!

Dianne Rigdon’s Old School papers, elements and alphas are perfect for scrapping those back-to-school photos or maybe even some of your own school pictures!

Flergs’ Dusk till Dawn is filled with rich and gorgeous colors! Add some glamor to your pages with the gold foil alpha and all those fabulous swirls and flowers.

Traci Sim’s Splendiferous is packed full of fun, bright colors and patterns! I love the retro feel and funky elements!

Studio Crew Favorites
This week I have a favorite from our Studio Crew member Ramona!

Ramona says, "Honest to goodness, I love staples. And I love a variety of them on my layouts. So Maya’s Personal Stash - The Ultimate Staple Collection is perfect for me."

And the winners are…

Post #21–Keely

Steph will be emailing you soon!  Congratulations!  And thanks to everyone that left comments!  It was great to hear how much you love fonts!!!

I’ve been thinking about this for a while…how you could make a laptop skin using your digital and/or traditional supplies, and guess what I found in our gallery from a couple of months ago?  This laptop skin created by Melinda (aka mmbstaley):

So pretty!  Great job, Melinda!

I found this site called Schtickers that lets you upload your custom design image and have it created for $24.99. The web site Skinit has a great customizer interface (I was easily able to find my laptop), but their price was $34.95 for my device. UniqueSkins offers customization for $20, but I found their device styles limited. And keep in mind these sites don’t just create skins for laptops…just about any electronic device can be skinned! 

And for the true do-it-yourselfer, there are inkjet printable products that will cling to a laptop.  The HP web site recommends Janlynn Glass Cling Sheets. Unfortunately, these are only 8.5 x 11 sheets, so you’re not going to get full coverage, but it’s still cute to have a design centered on your cover, as Melinda did.

What a great way to tell the world, "I am a creative being!" 

If you’ve created a skin, I’d love to see it.  Put a pic in our Hybrid Projects Gallery so I can get some ideas!

The hot summer days are drawing to an end and Wendy has been spending her time indoors staying cool and creating some great new products for her latest grab bag, and you get to choose between the regular version (5 brand new actions, templates and journaling tools)

and the XXL version (the 5 products from the regular version, 3 additional products and a $2 coupon).

The regular version is $3 and the XXL is $5. These bags will only be available for the next week, so hurry over and pick them up! (PLEASE NOTE: The regular version works in PSE4+ and PSCS2+. The XXL version works in PSE5+ and PSCS2+. PSE4 users can use most of the actions in the XXL pack, but one will not work. And, PSE users must use the BW Alt action instead of the BW Basic action.)

We’re rocking the templates of Janet Phillips today!  We love that Janet has templates that will work for one photo or 20. She’s got clean and simple styles that you can embellish to your heart’s content and more complex designs to help you get it done beautifully. So great to have a place to start when you’re feeling blocked, isn’t it? And it always surprises me how no two people ever make a template look exactly the same when they’re done with it. So, come along for the ride today…it’ll be fun!

ROBIN

CREDITS: Janet Phillips Gimme Some Space templates from her August Grab Bag; Michelle Godin’s Chic Chick; Kim Jensen’s Date It and Spell It Beads from Scrapdish

BECKY

CREDITS: Janet Phillips The Misc Collection from the August Grab Bag (template); Traci Sims’ Dirty Denim (background, striped and frame papers; buttons; brads); Flergs’ Cottage Chic (solid journaling paper); Hootie, Fontologie’s Howie’s Stamps Lowfat, Susie’s Hand; Phuong Ton’s Serenity (paper used as overlay, flower).

KIM

CREDITS: Janet Philips Over the Edge Template; Phuong Ton Serenity and Floral Grunge (Background paper, flowers, silk bow, button and brad); Stephanie O’Neill Garden Variety and The Gardens (floral photographs); Natali Design Playing with Twine (stitching and wrap); Vera Lim A Little Magic 6 (collaged doodle)

MICHELLE

CREDITS: Janet Philips Template from The Studio Girls’ Impressions of Laughter;  Phuong Ton’s Floral Grunge Kit; Maya’s Date Stamps; Fontologie Textura Fonts

DONNA

CREDITS: Janet Phillip’s Clean and Simple 3 template; Michelle Godin’s I Met a Boy papers and elements; fonts are Fontologie’s Giggles font and Eight Fifteen

LAURA

CREDITS: Template by Janet Phillips from the Simply Elegant #3 Collection; Papers, buttons, and ricrac by Kristie David from her Olivia kit; Stitching by Andrea Burns; Photo corner by Corina Nielson; Drop Shadows by Traci Murphy; Wild Tear by Atomic Cupcake; Font is Pea Cammi-Pea

I have always massively disliked red. Max is a red fanatic and his is the only room in the house that has any. But while out on our (many) renovation forays, I saw this set and I swear, it was like a cartoon. The outside sounds of the world went silent, the outer rim of my vision got vaseline smeared, my heart popped outside my skin and could be seen beating in huge throbs. This was more than love at first site. I said to Joe, "I gotta touch it." My adult self has watched my juvenile self crushing on this machine ever since but has held firm. I am only getting it (and getting into way way more debt than I am already mired in) because the old machines are fried.

It, and its lovely matching dryer are sitting in my living room. Let me illustrate.

The delivery men refused to lift them to take them downstairs. As I write Joe (who said no problem and fantasized a group of friends who would do it Saturday night) is at the laundromat. I consoled myself by arranging my kitchen. I moved shelves, arranged crockery, took the tags off the appliances and just generally made it home. I no sooner got that done than Max ripped a cupboard door off my kitchen island. Ran right through it after he left it open. My beautiful cherrywood cabinet door is in splinters along one side.

Someone, somewhere, at some time said you can’t go home again. That is resonating with me right now.

In honor of the grand opening of Studio Fontologie this week, we’re giving away three $10 gift certificates good for anything in the Fontologie line! All you have to do is leave a comment on this post telling us something fun you like to do with fonts.  Three winners will be selected from a random drawing of all entries. The deadline to enter is 11:59 p.m Eastern August 19th.

If your post doesn’t appear immediately, never fear!  We’ll catch it when we moderate comments!

ETA: This contest is now closed!

Yep, there’s still time to get those Studio Girls’ collabs you’ve got on your Wish List for the fabulously low price of $5.00 each!  Now through the end of the month, everything in The Collective is on sale…you could pick up any of our nine "Impressions of…" collabs, our Funky Train collab, the Say What word art collection, Happy Birthday, or the Day at the Spa collab. 

The Studio Girls will be back next month with the latest in the "Impressions of…" series, Impressions of Serendipity! This beautiful, jewel-toned collection will be perfect for your end of summer and early fall layouts, for travel pages and for romantic reminiscing.  Here’s a peek…

We’re really excited that Fontologie opened its doors here at Scrapbookgraphics this week.  The Studio Crew, like most digital scrapbookers, has a bit of a font addiction, so the chance to play with new fonts is one we just couldn’t pass up! Seniority has its privileges, too, because I got to call dibs on Howie’s Stamps, not one of Steph’s new fonts, but mmmm…I love a good stamping font!

CREDITS: Janet Phillips’ Make Mine a Double Template (August Supersized Grab Bag); Maya’s Doubles Craft Paper; Maya’s Date Markers #1; Traci Sims’ Itsy Bitsy Blooms (flowers and brads); Phuong Ton’s Serenity (grass and bows); Wendyzine Scraps’ Text Paths 1; Traci Sims’ Buttercup (butterfly); Fontologie’s Howie’s Stamps Abundant and Howie’s Stamps’ Lowfat; Wendyzine Scraps’ Shadows and Borders Black; SBC Chit Chat.

KAREN MAGGIE
"This is my digital version of a ‘Clear’ or ‘Acrylic’ album that I see so many hybrid scrappers creating.  I love the look of these albums and how you can see through some of the pages to other pages.  It was a blast to try to create this effect digitally, using various acrylic digital elements.  And Fontologie’s fonts were the perfect way to journal it!"

CREDITS: Fontologie’s Printing Primer, Textura, Free Refill;  Scrapbookgraphics Popsicle Pop Collab (Scrap-N-Art Freebie) items from Sausan Designs, Dana Frantz, Traci Sims, & Vera Lim; Meredith Fenwick Make Your Own Epoxy Frames; Natali Designs Playing with Twine; ON Designs Ribbons No. 2; Vera Lim’s A Little Magic; Flergs’ Checkered Acrylic Alpha; Tag book Template by Janelle Gustafson (Digital Artist Magazine); Holliewood Studios ‘My Happy Place’ (Leaves);  Emily Powers ‘Art Nation Blossom’ (Acrylic filmstrip); Fei-fei’s Stuff (Acrylic Frame); Kasia ‘Momtourage’ (Acrylic flower Swirl); Aja Abney Acrylic ‘Dreamer’ (’Sweetheart’ Acrylic); Mirranda Reinhardt ‘For the Boys’ (Journal mat); Loreta Labarca ‘The Good Times’ (Buttons); Kate Hadfield ‘Knotted Stitches’

DENISE
Love the way Fontologie’s Wiggle Worm font mirrors the watery waves on Denise’s page.

CREDITS: Fontologie’s Wiggle Worm and Giggles; Dianne Rigdon Calypso Add-On Paper Pack, Element Pack, and Life’s a Beach Charm set; Jen Caputo Sketch Collection #25; Maya’s Date Markers #1;  Rhonna Farrer Split Pea (waves); Aja Abney My Life Word Art Snips.

ROBIN
I love the way Robin colored the outline of the font green and left the center black!  You can do this by copying the text layer, changing the color, rasterizing the layer and then erasing the parts you don’t need on the top layer.

CREDITS: Fontologie’s Textura; Vera Lim’s You’ve Got A Friend Elements and Papers

DONNA
Donna told us the other day how much her grandson Max loves his giraffe boots. Her daughter told him to go get his shoes before leaving for daycare, and this is how he came out. Already running late, she didn’t have time to argue, so this is how he went!

CREDITS: Flerg’s Apartment D kit; Fontologie’s Empty Wrapper and Giggles

NOVITA
Love the way Novita used two different fonts for her title!

CREDITS: Flergs ’s Cottage Chic; Fontologie’s Giggles, Printing Primer 1, Wiggle Worm.

WENDY
Wendy also used two fonts for her title, filling in the bold font with a coordinating color and softening the title by using a script font for the word tickles.

CREDITS: Phuong Ton’s Floral Grunge; Fontologie’s PS I Love You and Textura; Stock photo

This is one side of a two-pager that Wendy did, too, using Textura again.

CREDITS: Janet Phillips The Miscellaneous Collection (grab bag);  Flergs’ Apt D; Fontologie’s Textura; Traci Sims’ TS Wendy; stock photos

KIM
Kim got herself on a roll scrapping this past week and enjoyed creating a quirk series based on the five senses (we are told there will actually be a 6th entry in this series…NONsense!)–I’ll let you check out the credits in the gallery, but the Fontologie font she used on each page is Textura Empty.

We’re so excited we get to offer you some more fonts designed by a digital scrapper for the digital scrapper!  Welcome to Scrapbookgraphics, Steph!

Time to make a list!  A list of words!  Your favorite words. Inspiring words. Words that describe a loved one or a list of their names/nicknames. You can use photos to help tell the story, create a scene where words might be prevalent or artistically design a list suitable for framing!  However you want to approach your list is fine! You’ll see several ideas below that I hope spark your imagination.  Make sure to post your pages in the Studio Starts Gallery so we can leave you some WORDS!

BECKY
"I decided to scrap about words I ,as if I had written them on a chalkboard!"

CREDITS: Maya’s High School Confidential (chalkboard background); Flergs’ Cottage Chic Freebie (glitter swirl and flowers); Traci Sims’ Fancy Edges Journaling Block 1; Traci Sims’ Little Krafty Poetry Tags (string and word tag); Berna Datema Eye Love You 12 x 12 Overlays Vol. 2; Traci Sims’ Bitz and Piecez Doodle Squares; Jessica Bolton Thrifty Graph Paper Cut-outs; Anna Benjamin Spilled Milk (buttons); Studio Manu’s Sweetness of Smell (string bow); Blackout Sans Px and TS Farkleberry.

KAIT
Kait opted to make a list of ten words/phrases that describe her son right now.

CREDITS: Torn and Curled Page Borders by Jen Caputo; Crab card from Bitz and Piecez - Doodle Squares by Traci Sims; Love My Boy kit by Michelle Godin;  Vintage Typewriter Alpha by Vera Lim; Fonts are Coolvetica, Franklin Gothic Book, Impact, Garamond, Sweetheart script, UncleTypewriter, Thiamine, and Fontologie’s Giggles Small.

MICHELLE
Journaling reads: I love words. Big words, little words, spoken words, written words. They can carry us all over the world, change a mood, opinion, even a life in mere seconds. Words can be powerful, emotional, inspirational…they can engulf us, they can set us free.   Words seperate us from all other Mammals. They are an incredible tool.

CREDITS: Life is Art by Michelle Godin - Collab with Aja Abney; Playing with Hangups by Natali Designs; Purity Element Pack by Natali Designs; Alpha tags by PlumTuckered;  Font is Batik Regular

KIM
Um, yeah…no list. No words anywhere, actually. This is inspiration for you from Kim…a little boy reading, that reminds you of words, right?  What words are capturing his imagination right now, do y’think?  Kim says, "I have loved words my entire life. I can’t possibly pick a list of favourites. Max loves words, too, and relishes in verbal play but this picture of him reading is capturing a rare event. I have not (yet) been able to pass on my love of reading which is a particular kind of love of words. The template I used is coming soon to Scrapbookgraphics by Wendyzine Scraps. I have already used it twice and have umpteen more layouts to go with it. Rumour is she will have some furniture too!

CREDITS: Background walls, floor and book from Lorie Davision (Prarie Gals and Faerily Moonlit). Curtain from Berna Datema (Impressions of Romance Studio Girls Collaboration). Wall clock from Robyn England. Table and sofa from Christina Renee Fantasie Ornates Furniture. Boxes on table from Maya.

ANN
"Ok, it’s a lot more like a names list than a words list, but I chose to go the ‘loosey goosey’ route, as Becky says (love it when she says that!).  I had done a similar page to this one for a scripture challenge back in my early days of digi scrapping, and I thought I would give it another shot."

CREDITS: Lorie Davison Faerily Moonlit; Maya’s Sensual; ON Designs Bowset # 3 (no longer available); Gift Photo from Stock Xchng; Fonts are  Acadian and Dominican.

ROBIN
Robin used the fun web site Wordle to create a word collage for her layout!

CREDITS: Birgit Kerr’s Flower Power; Rachel Young’s Crayon Stencil Alphas and All We Need paper; paper border, brackets and ribbon by Kim Jensen from Garden Pop from Teacher’s Pet at FPD; Jelly Buttons by Jennifer Trippetti at Scrapbook-Bytes; Wordle from http://wordle.net/

Word up!!!