Thompson Family-Life

Available Now! Curated No. 4, 5 & 6 & a Winner!

 

Curated No. 4 & 5 is available as a bundle, regularly 10% off if you buy them together, but today through Sunday you get an additional 20% off as a special New Release discount (total 30% off!)! Woot! That is an incredible savings on this bundled kit. You can also buy no. 4 and no. 5 separately if you are interested in just buying one or the other. They are both also 20% off individually through this Sunday.

 

 

This is Curated No. 6, an extra five pages I designed that family with No. 4 & 5. It is also 20% off through this Sunday.

And guess what? Our original Curated No. 1 is 30% off through this weekend in celebration of these new Curated releases. These very handy Layered Templates are also on sale (20% off) - they are perfect for rounding out your album spreads. I used them when creating the album I shared with you yesterday. Some pages you might just want to have photos and that's all, and these layered templates will speed up the process of arranging those pages in Photoshop.

 

THE DETAILS:

How it works: Ordinary yet beautiful objects have been gorgeously styled (or Curated), photographed, and then formatted into digital quick pages. You, then add your family photos, journaling a title (or more) and you have a completed page or album. The great thing about these quick pages is that most of the work has been done for you and your photos will blend seamlessly into these handcrafted layouts.

The End Product: Use the quick pages to create individual scrapbook pages or create a cohesive and complete album with the entire collection that you'll cherish for years to come! Do you create Project Life Albums? You can also print the individuals pages, slide them into page protectors and add them to your Project Life album.

 

LAYOUT EXAMPLES:

Here are some layout examples to give you an idea of what all you can do with these Quick Pages!

A couple of favorite spreads from the album I showed you yesterday... I think Liz's chevron paper totally MAKES this album! I'm loving bold black and white patterns lately (I think they're popping up everywhere these days).

This was the very first layout I completed with this new kit and it's definitely my favorite. Who says boys can't do pink?

Some of my favorites by Liz. This first one is definitely my absolute fav (although I have many favs of hers!). I love how she used the location markers on the circles. So awesome.

On mine and Liz's pages above, the only elements we added (for the most part) were text and photos, letting the Curated designs do the rest of the work. But you can always add more elements that you already own if you'd like! Here are some examples of that... (artwork by Liz's talented Creative Team plus Ranie O'dell and Anna Backstrom)

Below, Ranie even added more photos to this layout. It originally only had three spots for photos, but if you are savvy with Photoshop, you can trick it into looking like there were more!

You can really add as little or as much as you want. If you want to put together a quick and easy album though, this kit is for you. Thorough instructions included. Only basic Photoshop knowledge needed.

 

WE HAVE A WINNER:

Candice, send me an email at thousandclowns AT gmail and I will send you Curated No. 4, 5 & 6! :D

New Curated Album Kit: Sneak Peek & Giveaway!

So excited to show you this sneak peek of my collaboration with the fabulous Liz Tamanaha of paislee press! You might remember the original Curated Album Kit we designed a few years ago and it has taken us way too long to collaborate on another one. But I'm so glad we carved out some time to make this one. It is my favorite! And it was so incredibly inspiring to make a mess with paper (and pom-poms!) again. We are already chomping at the bit to design another Curated kit.

You will see a full reveal of all the album contents this Friday (and if you follow me on Instagram, you've seen some other sneak peeks as well!) but today we are offering a chance to win this new Curated Album Kit before it's released! And just so you know what you'll be winning, this kit will come with 10 digital quick pages (5 designed by me, 5 designed by Liz) as well as another 5 extra pages that I designed. That's FIFTEEN pages total, plenty of choices to fill an entire photo book.

Not sure if you know what "quick pages" are or how to use them? No worries. You only need basic knowledge of Photoshop to use them and thorough instructions are included. You'll be making your own Curated photo book in no time. Many, many more details to come this Friday.

To be considered for this giveaway, leave a comment in the comments section, now through Thursday at midnight. To increase your chances of winning, link people to this giveaway on your Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Blog, and/or Pinterest (you can use the handy buttons below) and leave an extra comment per post below letting me know.

Be sure to pop over to Liz's blog to see her sneak peek!

*photos in second image courtesy Yvette Nicholson.

Guest Post: Kara Haupt

For the four years I was in high school, my church youth group went to a teen conference a few days after Christmas. The conference was about 12 hours away, so we would always drive the first leg all day long and stop at a church in a small town in Oregon for the night before driving the last leg the next day. The girls were set up in a few of the Sunday school classrooms and we always remarked on the authentic retro styling of the rooms. It wasn't until about last year before I appreciated how awesome the wallpaper in these rooms were.

I went on the conference again this year to volunteer as kitchen staff for the conference and I knew that I needed to take pictures of the wallpaper in case I never went back. It's funny because when I was taking the pictures, I immediately thought of Danielle. I knew she would appreciate the kitschy awesomeness!

I made this digital scrapbook page with the wallpaper as my "paper" and then some of Danielle's Kitschy Digitals products, because the style and colors go along so well. I added the "Wrinkled Linen" as a layer from the Granny's Attic kit over the paper to add some texture over the wallpaper. I made a free download of the wallpaper in case you want to use them for your scrapbooks or desktop wallpaper or whatever! Enjoy!

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Thank-you so much Kara for this amazing free download! You know me well - I'm a sucker for vintage illustrations and even better - put them on wallpaper! I could see this used for so many things. It would be super cute printed and used for a sailor themed kid's party for the invitations and more. So many ideas! (for personal use only.. thanks!)

Be sure to check out Kara's inspiring blog and shop. She is also collaborating on a project with her friend Kip called The Lovely Us. These sweet decals are out of stock now, but will be restocked next week! All profits from this project will be used to help pay for Kara's Art School Tuition in NYC. Kara and Kip are collaborating on another business that will be unveiled on March 1st, so be sure to follow Kara's blog for more details on that! You can see more of Kara's photography and other artwork in her gorgeous flickr stream.