Hi Everyone :)  Rachel here with a fun little post to give you some scrappy inspiration.

One of my favorite ways to scrap is centered around the photo and story.  And my favorite way to do this has to be uploading my photo to a color palette generator!  I then use the colors it comes up with to scrap my layout.  So I am going to challenge everyone to try it for themselves!!  If you love color then you’ll love this!

I challenged the shabby girls and they came up with some amazing layouts!!  Here are their pages with the photo they started with and the color palette that was generated:

Kylie had a great tip ~ “my photo had heaps of blue and brown/skin tones and the software couldn’t seem to pick up the other colours so I cropped my photo to balance it out“.

If you want to try this out too, here are some sites I’ve found that you might like to use:

Thanks for checking in with us today! Rosy will be here tomorrow with something YUMMY and a freebie too. Don’t miss out on that!! :)

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Hi everyone :) Rachel here to bring you a fun little trick for making stamping look more realistic!

Lets get right to it!

• When your layout is done, and you are ready to finish off with the little details, take your ‘stamp’ ~ in this case the 2009. (My tip: I merged my seperate 2009 numbers to make it easier to work with) Now duplicate your ‘stamp’ layer (right click on your layer and duplicate layer OR ctrl+J)
• Drag one copy of your stamp layer below the layer you are stamping and the other right above the layer you are on. (Here 2009 is above the pattern paper shape and on the green paper)

• Clip (Ctrl+G ) the top stamp layer to the ‘pattern’ paper layer (see above photo)
• Take your bottom unclipped stamp layer and using the eraser OR masking tool (at 100% opacity). Erase a small line between the two (see below photo)

Here is my final layout

Hope you enjoyed my little stamping trick…it is super simple, yet you’ll find it really does bring that perfect touch of realism to your page!

Thanks for checking in with the Blog today! SP will be here tomorrow with her Project SCRAP check-in!

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Hey everyone :) Rachel here!! I hope all my fellow Canucks are having a great thanksgiving!! I took a little break from family to bring you this week’s Layout of the Week! And here it is!!

Not So Choosy by whites19…is part of a double page spread and I love the story behind it. I am all about scrapping the memories and not just the photo, so I LOVE LOVE LOVE that she has done this! And so wonderfully. Check out the page and her story here :)

Here’s a peek of the two-page spread together – very cute!

CONGRATULATIONS whites19!! Enjoy your Shabby Shoppe $10 gift card …sent via email (be sure to check your SPAM folder!)

 Thanks for checking us out today! I’ll be back on Wednesday with a fun little Shoppe Tips & Tricks post! See you then! :)

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Hello everyone!  Rachel here to bring you a new product spotlight!  Doing the product spotlight is one of my favorite things here on the Shabby Shoppe Blog.  I just love looking though the Shabby Shoppe digital kits and getting to revisit them over again.  It’s amazing how many different ways you can really scrap a page with the same kit or even use bits from each one to make exactly what you want.

Anyways, that’s enough of my rambling…here is the amazing Happy Trails kit (on SALE for only $4.95 for a limited time)!!

This kit will have you heading out West with your photos (or at least wanting to…lol)!! So many fun and unique things in this kit. Bandana prints, pony prints, rusted metal and so much more. Curled ribbons and twill tape, torn paper borders, buttons, and stickers. So many things to add some outdoor fun to your photos!

And check out these new layouts from the Shabby Girls!

And, even though you may have seen this layout by Beckie before – it was just too wonderful not to share again!

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today! Tomorrow we’ll be checking in with PROJECT SCRAP… until then, have a wonderful day! :)

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Hello everyone! :) Rachel here with a new product spotlight! This time we are featuring the seriously amazing hopscotch & hopscotch SCHOOL additions.

The hopscotch kit is really so versatile. I have done layouts for my spouse and I, layouts for toddlers and even school layouts with the fun additions pack. And for a limited time both sets will be on SALE at the Shabby Shoppe! The ever-cheerful, jam-packed HOPSCOTCH KIT is only $5.95! And, if you want to pick up the coordinating school ADDITIONS – they are marked down to $2.95 for a limited time as well (the sale prices go away when we post our next Product Spotlight)!

Next we have some amazing inspiration from the Shabby girls…

For more details on all of the above layouts, check out the Shabby Artist Gallery – these fun new pages will be appearing over the next day or so.  And, I would love to see some layouts from all of you, using ‘all things’ hopscotch, in our members gallery!!

Thanks for checking in with the blog today and we will see you back here on Thursday - when SP will share all the very latest on projectSCRAP 2011!  Until then, Happy Scrapping! :)

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