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Here is the second part of the beautiful Thanksgiving freebie from Mary Monistere Dargis, owner of Nola Originals and DigitalPhotoBookPages . Hope you enjoy and please remember that all freebies are for personal use only. Hope you are able to make a beautiful Shutterfly photo book with the digital kit.
Download Give Thanks Embellishments
Look at the awesome freebies that Mary Monistere Dargis, owner of Nola Originals and DigitalPhotoBookPages created for all of us for Thanksgiving. Enjoy the digital papers today and check back in a few days for more coordinating freebie embellishments from Mary! Enjoy and please remember that all freebies are for personal use!
Download Give Thanks 12x12 Paper
Did you know that Shutterfly has a link specifically addressing your digi-scrapping needs? You can gather ideas, get product specs and so much more. The link is a "must" for all digi-scrappers!
Here is some everyday inspiration by Mary Monistere Dargis, owner of Nola Originals and DigitalPhotoBookPages. Enjoy.
"My style has been described as “over the top”. In my personal books, I don’t always adhere to a “traditional scrapbook look”. Some of my favorite pages have a retro, wild look! Then again, I also love a vintage, antique style. I almost never just “place” the photos on a page with a sedate background. If you’re gonna do that, you might as well just place prints in a regular photo album.
A lot of my inspiration comes from my hometown, New Orleans! Life is Good in New Orleans."
Here are a few layouts of inspiration from Mary.
Below we have some "techno talk" with Mary Monistere Dargis, owner of Nola Originals and DigitalPhotoBookPages.
What is your favorite piece of technology?
"My laptop! It changed my life. It was only then that I found digital scrapbooking and Shutterfly! I would really love a new, smaller netbook, to be used solely for digital scrapping and my blog, since I drag my heavy laptop everywhere I go,(I could sit in my local bookstore or coffee shop and create for hours!) but, that will have to wait."
What digital software do you use?
" I use Photoshop Elements 7 about 90% of the time. I love the ability to create my own embellishments with it. I also use the free programs, paint.NET and Gimp. Both are similar to Photoshop, but each offers me something I can’t get with the other. These 3 take up a lot of room on my laptop, but I need them!"
Here is a fun little quickpages freebie created by Mary. The pages are waiting for your photos and can be easily printed at Shutterfly! Enjoy!
Download Give Thanks Quick Page 3
Mary Monistere Dargis, owner of Nola Originals and DigitalPhotoBookPages shares a "Give Thanks" freebie quick page with us. This freebie is sized perfectly to be printed at Shutterfly! Enjoy and please remember that all freebies are for personal use only.
Download Give Thanks Quick Page 1
Featured artist Mary Monistere Dargis, owner of Nola Originals and DigitalPhotoBookPages created a beautiful Shutterfly photo book for everyone to view. Hope it provides some awesome inspiration!
Welcome to our new featured artist Mary Monistere Dargis, owner of Nola Originals and DigitalPhotoBookPages . She comes to us this November in the season of being "Thankful" to share about herself and to of course share some awesome "Thankful" freebies! Lets start by getting to know a bit about her!
"I was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. I’m happily married with 2 grown daughters. Having this digital scrapbooking hobby got me through the “after affects” of Hurricane Katrina. Although, at the time, I did not know it was actually called digital scrapbooking! I was just “creating” on my laptop. It’s something that I can get completely lost in for hours. So many people here lost every photo they owned from the water of Katrina. I hunt down photos from everywhere, and create as many photobooks as I can for gifts.
I’ve been digi-scrapping for several years. I used the free program, Gimp and paint.NET until about a year ago when I got a used Photoshop Elements 7. It offered so much that I went wild with it and have never looked back! Being a visual learner with ADHD, I am not a good “reader of directions”. So everything I’ve learned about digi-scrapping, and creating (the paper, embellishments, etc), I’ve had to experiment until I figured it out."
Here are a few layouts that Mary created to inspire all of you! Enjoy!
It's Fall and the creative juices are flowing. People are making holiday books, holiday cards, treasured family recipe journals, canvas wall creations and so much more.
I thought it might be fun if you shared some of your scrapbook creations with us via the Shutterfly Gallery. I challenge you to create and upload a Shutterfly photo book into the "Scrapbook" category on the Gallery. Once it is uploaded you can share it with me at [email protected] and we might just post it here on the blog. ALSO........The first 5 people to share their newly uploaded Shutterfly photo book with me will receive a coupon code for a free 8x8 Shutterfly photo book. All you have to do is pay for your shipping!
So, go, create and share. We are excited to see all your wonderful creations!
