Digital Scrapbooking kits and clip art

April 25, 2011 by: Kate

Jacki’s Battle of the Books

For today’s creative spotlight I want to show you another great project by Jacki (you might remember her Luau party invitations and scuba diving book – she is a hybrid genius!) This time Jacki created a set of certificates, awards and badges for her school’s Battle of the Books scheme:

Aren’t they fun?! Here are some close-ups of the goodies that the participants received:

And my favourite, the badges (buttons?!)!

And look what my little girl has:

Yep, Jacki was kind enough to send me a couple of the badges! Thank you Jacki for choosing my doodles and allowing me to feature your work here, as you can see DD is very taken with her new badge 🙂

April 1, 2011 by: Kate

No Place Like Gnome

I am stupidly pleased with myself for coming up with this name!

Usually when I am deciding what sort of theme to illustrate when I make a new pack I think about everyday events, special occasions or holidays and try to keep in mind the sort of photos someone might want to scrap or the type of card they might like to make. And then I make doodles I think will compliment that. That’s what I usually do. Sometimes, I see a colour swatch and immediately know what I want to make with no other thought at all. The April BYOC swatch was one of those times, and the thing that I wanted to draw when I saw it was, well, gnomes. Like these:

Because if you are going to draw gnomes, you might as well go the whole hog and draw fairy toadstool houses and wishing wells too 🙂 Here are some layouts from my amazing team, who not only managed to scrap with a load of gnomes but also created these within hours of me finally adding the doodles to the store. Thank you girls!

Creative Team Inspiration

Winnie

Cvetana

"Relax" Spring scrapbook layout ideas | digital scrapbooking page by Julia

layout by Julia

Spring scrapbook layout ideas | digital scrapbooking page by Tami

layout by Tami

"Spring time" Spring scrapbook layout ideas | digital scrapbooking page by Anso

layout by Anso

Valeria

Stacy

Well, my DVD and Chinese takeaway are calling me! For all those Mummies in the UK, I hope you have a wonderful Mother’s Day on Sunday with lots of lie-ins, flowers, chocolates and beautifully behaved children!

No Place Like Gnome doodles | stamps | bundle

March 30, 2011 by: Kate

Missy’s Doodled Cookies

Yep, doodled cookies – a combination of two of my most favourite things in the world, ever! Today’s spotlight features some amazing cookies created by Missy Jennings and inspired by some of my doodles. Check these out:

Aren’t they great?! I think they might even be too good to eat, and that’s something I never thought I would say about a cookie! Here are some close ups of the chick and lamb:

and one of my favourite characters in the pack, my little froggy friend:

I can’t tell you how stupidly excited I was to see my drawings turned into cookies, thank you Missy for making my day by making my doodles edible! 🙂 For more amazing decorated cookies, check out Missy’s Flickr page to see more photos of these doodle inspired treats and heaps of other yummy cookie art!

March 10, 2011 by: Kate

You know you’re a child of the 80’s when…

You remember when the biggest mystery in the world was who shot J.R.
You wanted to be a Goonie
You were led to believe that in the year 2000 we’d all be living on the moon, wearing silver suits and driving cars that flew… because that’s what Raymond Baxter and Judith Hann said would happen
You believed that “By the power of Greyskull, you HAD the power”
Partying like it’s 1999 seemed SO far away
You watched Carry On films and thought they were really rude
You remember David Hasselhoff when he wore clothes and talked to his car
Kajagoogoo? Thompson Twins? FGTH? Twisted Sister?
You remember Nena’s hairy armpits
Saturday was Multi Coloured Swap Shop day
You remember the theme to the Banana Splits
The words ‘I’m gonna live forever, i’m gonna learn how to fly’ are special to you
You’ve ever said “bright light, bright light” in a strange high-pitched voice
You’ve ever held a chicken in the air, or stuck a deckchair up your nos.
You went to school with Pogo Patterson, Gripper Stebson, and Ro-land
You know what “sike” and “not!” mean
You can still sing the rap to “Fresh Prince of Belair”
You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the ONLY female smurf
You make layouts like these:

Paula

Rachel

Tami

Tiki

Child of the 80's | Digital scrapbook layout by Kate Hadfield Designs creative team member Vale

Val

Child of the 80's | Digital scrapbook layout by Kate Hadfield Designs creative team member Val

Val

Karen

Keela

Val

Tiki

And when you design digital scrapbooking kits like this:

🙂 You’ve gotta love the 80’s! Special thanks to A Quarter Of for these and many other blasts from the 80’s past!

Child of the 80s Doodles | Stamps | Bundle

February 8, 2011 by: Kate

P365 Free Digital Scrapbooking Template

You might remember that a little while ago I waffled on and on trying to decide how to tackle Project 365 this year. Well, I finally made a decision – and it’s only February! I’m going to do it digitally. I know, a HUGE surprise for this digi-loving girl! I finally made the decision based on the following:

I know I won’t get my photos printed often enough. Case in point: I have printed a grand total of, wait for it…. wait for it…. 0 of the photos I need for the December Daily project I have been working on.
This is going to sound a bit odd, but I don’t like page protectors. I don’t like the plastic, shiny, slipperiness of them. And the way things move around inside them, and fall out.
Seeing other people’s Project Life albums come together and thinking about our family life, I am wondering how many pieces of real “stuff” (photos, tickets, receipts, drawings etc) I would actually keep, as opposed to scan or photograph. And I am thinking that the answer is probably “Not very many at ALL.”

So all in all, I think a sleek non-shiny-plastic digital photobook is the way for me to go! Looking back through the photos I took for last year’s Project 365 I am really drawn to the simple little everyday bits and pieces I captured that I wouldn’t have even thought to snap if it hadn’t been for this project, so that’s what I am going to focus on again this year, with bigger spreads for special events, and maybe even some “proper” layouts thrown into the mix!

Free digital scrapbooking template

I made a template from the format I used for last year’s photos, in the layout example below you can see how I swapped the columns of photos round to suit the images I had. I tend to take a lot of upright pictures and this format worked well for me last year! Across the top there’s a text layer I used to highlight which dates my pictures covered (I just changed the font colour for the date range for the page). You can download this free P365 template here:

Download Project 365 Template

There are actually two separate layered files in the zip rather than one big 12×24 template. I found it easier to work on one page as I tend to work on one week at a time, and my computer likes the smaller file size of a single page rather than a big 12×24 spread! If you use the templates, I would love to see what you make so please feel free to link me up! 🙂

Happy Project 365-ing!