Spring and Summer are the perfect times to use strawberries, plaids and flowers on your paper crafting projects so you need to download these yummy pattern papers that come in different green and pink color combinations. They would be wonderful on picnic scrapbook layouts, sweet Mother’s Day cards or gardening planner and memory pages. There are 12 different papers you can download and print for FREE! Visit Free Pretty Things for You to get them. -Heather Looking for more digital papers? Check out Design Bundles ..read more

Priyanka used the Simple Vintage Spring Garden collection from Simple Stories to create this wonderful Spring is Here mini album project. The cover has lots of depth and dimension with layers of printed images, chipboard elements and 3D flowers. The album is a folio style tied shut with ribbon.  Inside she’s designed unique and interactive pages with two waterfall sections tied shut with twine that can hold lots of extra photos and journaling. There’s also pocket pages, flaps and tags tucked into a band.  Each section has so much decoration, I’m sure you’ll discover something new ..read more

This sweet dog layout has a pastel hearts background with layers of squares of paper, a journaling card, and spring images like sun and clouds, a kite and scooter all in soft coordinating colors. Visit the Spellbinders blog for more details. The wonderful Spring weather is a terrific time to take your pets outside for a photo shoot or maybe you’ve taken a trip to visit some animals like new babies at a farm, too see real bunnies at Easter or took the kids to a petting zoo. It’s a great time to incorporate Springtime themes with some flowers, rainbows and pastel colors on your pet and animal p ..read more

A really fun way to add an interactive element to your scrapbook layouts is with hidden journaling. Antonia added a couple of different secrets on her travel page like adding a top opening envelope under the photo on the top right so an additional photo on a journaling card can be slipped inside. Also two of the arches of pattern paper behind the photos are die cut fold out “doors” that can be opened to add more photos underneath and journaling on the inside back of the door. In addition to these hidden elements this design has even more depth and dimension from chipboard accents and puffy le ..read more

If you’re creating birthday layouts for your scrapbook then you’ll need to get this awesome die cut file created by Paige Evans. It’s a frame with a large stack of birthday presents tied with bows. Andrea used it to create this fabulous layout adding polka dots and stripped pattern papers behind the opening of each gift to create the look of different pretty wrapping papers. The fireworks pattern paper background adds a nice celebration feel too. You could also use this in a smaller size for a festive square birthday card as well. This cut file is FREE to download and use with your electronic ..read more

If you love to get together with friends to craft, enjoy attending crops or crafty classes then you need to create an album filled with all the fun you have getting together with your crafty friends. Traci created this wonderful mini album using a pink 6″ x 8″ binder album from Simple Stories, decorating it with the brand new “Let’s Scrapbook” line of products from Bella Blvd. This collection has pattern papers, borders, stickers and printed die cut featuring crafty tools and products like paper trimmers, ink pads, scrapbook albums, scissors, embellishments, washi tape, totes and lots more ..read more

Bike rides are the best on a Spring Day! This pretty page from Conny has lots of flowers and florals, plaid paper, torn and sewn cardstock for texture and fluttering insects. Learn more over at The Cherry on Top blog. Spring is finally here! The weather is getting warmer, flowers are poking out of the ground and the sun is shinning more, except on those rainy Spring days. So now’s a great time to break out of those winter blues and get some fresh air on a warm Spring day and take some fabulous Springtime photos to scrapbook. I’ve gathered up a bunch of fresh ideas to inspire you to create lay ..read more

Book Nooks have been really trendy for the last few years, if you’re not familiar they are shadow box style vignettes that sit between books on the shelf or even between your scrapbooks. They are usually about the same depth and height but a little wider than a book and are usually themed around popular books. They are frequently made of wood but I’ve seen them created from cardboard and paper too. Miss Mindee has created an amazing set of SVG die cut files that create a Book Nook themed around Alice in Wonderland, one of my favorite classic books! It shows Alice about to climb some stairs t ..read more

Junk journaling is sort of like scrapbooking but focuses more on thoughts and memories and doesn’t always revolve so much around photos, unless of course you want it too. It’s “looser” than traditional scrapbooking, it doesn’t always have to have a theme or structure, it uses lots more mixed media with a free flowing style and lots of layers. The main focus is using “junk” paper and ephemera like tags, tickets, map pages, magazine clippings, bits and pieces of anything you find around the house, your crafting space or have picked up along a journey that can be added to a page, it’s a great wa ..read more

  I hope you’re having a Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Be sure to take lots of photos of all the fun today and to help you create some awesome layouts here’s a wonderful group of downloadable images you can use! In jpg, svg, ai and eps file types you’ll get a Irish flag banner, beer, rainbow, shamrock, a pot of gold, horseshoe and more that you can download, print and cut out. Best of all this collection is FREE! Click here to visit Freepik is get it. -Heather Looking for more digital downloads? Check out Design Bundles ..read more