New Release "A World At My Fingers" with fantastic FREEBIES!

At some point in our busy lives we have to stop to smell the roses and take some time to just breathe.  Everyone needs a chance to just get away and relax.  "A World At My Fingers" is a gorgeous kit with calming deep purples and blues that will help you to capture those moments when you just stop and really notice your surroundings whether it is in your backyard or somewhere new.  Scrap the "journey" moments of your life with this beautiful collection!

To see the larger previews of the individual parts just move your mouse over the thumbnails.

Here are some amazing layouts made by the CT using A World At My Fingers:

 

A World At My Fingers is available as a full kit, borders, alphas, extra papers, and a bundle.

The winner of the kit is Marlie.  Thanks for participating and enjoy your prize!
Please send an email to scrapyrusdesigns at gmail dot com to claim your prize.  You have to claim it within one week.

Don't despair if you didn't win, we have some goodies for you too.  Click HERE if you want to receive future newsletters and freebies by Scrapyrus Designs.

If you "like" Scrapyrus Designs on Facebook, you can get this Journal Card pack made by Tia.

 

Click the image below to get this beautiful cluster made by Carol for FREE!

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Win "A World At My Fingers"

Who wants to win Scrapyrus Designs' brand new kit called A World At My Fingers? I know you all do so go ahead and follow the instructions below.

To stand a chance to win this kit, you need to:
1. Leave a comment on this blog post with your name and email address if you comment anonymously.
2. Comments must be left by noon on Thursday the 26th of June 2014.
3. You can share this RAK on your own blog or facebook and upon leaving a public link in the comments for each, you could have more opportunities.

Good Luck! Winner will be announced when the kit is revealed.

Tutorial: Sharpening for web

If you have ever looked through galleries online and wondered how some people's layouts look so much better than others...this tutorial is for you. Regretfully this is for photoshop or photoshop elements users only.

Create your layout as normal.
 Resize it to 600px. (image - resize- image size 600px by 600px at 72 dpi, keep scale styles, constrain proportions and resample image boxes all checked.)
Save this as a jpeg image.

I then open this new saved jpeg image, and go to Enhance - unsharp mask (150% amount, 0.3 pixel radius and 0 threshold), then save it again, over writing the original.

The difference is subtle but marked, even when viewed side by side.

I would then resize for web to decrease the size down to the 250 kb maximum most galleries require and save it as a smaller version with the same name ~ adding a small into the title, without over writing the saved image.

I hope this simple tutorial helps you to add that extra something special to your layouts when viewed in galleries.

For my layout Learners I used Scrapyrus Design's kit called Hit the Road.

New release "We Are Family" and lots of freebies!

Summer is my favorite season. I love the nicer weather and that we have more family time since both my husband (teacher) and daughter are out for summer vacation. Scrapyrus Designs has a new kit this week called "We Are Family". It easily embraces all those special moments spent with family, past and present. I love the nostalgic feel it has and that the colors are just perfect for Fourth of July layouts as well. 

To see the larger previews of the individual parts just move your mouse over the thumbnails.

We Are Family is available as a full kit, borders, alphas, extra papers, journal cards and a bundle. 

The winner of the kit is Brenda. Enjoy your prize !
Please send an email to scrapyrusdesigns at gmail dot com to claim your prize. You have to claim it within one week.

For everyone else that didn't win, we've got some gifts too. If you subscribe to the newsletter you will be getting this for FREE! Not one by two freebies!
Click HERE if you want receive future newsletters and freebies by Scrapyrus Designs.

On the Scrapyrus Designs' Facebook page, you can find this lovely cluster by Carol. And at the end of this post you can grab a great quick page by Tanpopo.

Take a peek at what our talented CT created this week:

 

We have a blog freebie QP made by Tanpopo.

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Win "We are family"

As Summer heats up, we spend more time at home, longer evenings chilling with friends and family. This kit, with it's primary saturated colors is perfect for scrapping these precious Family Moments.

To stand a chance to win this kit, you need to
1. Leave a comment on this blog post with your name and email address if you comment anonymously.
2. Comments must be left by noon on Thursday the 19th of June 2014.
3. You can share this RAK on your own blog or facebook and upon leaving a public link in the comments for each, you could have more opportunities.

Good Luck. Winner will be announced when the kit is revealed.

June Gallery Pick

Each month we will be showcasing a layout in the Scrapyrus Designs Gallery at Scrapbook Graphics. I love looking through the gallery and see how you make use of Sonia's products. There are some pretty amazing layouts out there. It was really hard to pick just one but one especially caught my eye.

The layout I chose to showcase is called "Picked a Name" and it was made by Justagirl.

It's not often that I see pocket scrappers using Scrapyrus Designs' products. It's so unusual that I had to look at it for several minutes and it's really well done. I love the balance of the amount of pictures and clusters. Every parts of the page is relevant. And what a sweet little baby boy you have. I just LOVE it! Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful page with us Justagirl! Congratulations!

If you are inspired too, you can find this beautiful kit at Scrapbook Graphics. She used the Sweet Bump bundle by Scrapyrus Designs.

Love to ... A Flashback Special

To many of you this collection might be very familiar and the others this will be a fantastic new discovery at an unbelievable price.

I'm going to keep this blog post short because we all need to spend as much time as possible with the amazing men in our lives and although it's Father's Day, the products this week honor both Mom and Dad.


To see the larger previews of the individual parts just move your mouse over the thumbnails.

Flashbask special: Love to My Mom & Dad Bundle at 60% off! 

The individual products are at 50% off: Love to My Mom Kit | Journal Cards | Love to My Dad Mini Kit

Look at this collections of great pages with these products:

This lovely, coordinating alpha was given to all newsletter subscribers. Don't miss out next time and subscribe.

June Blog Challenge

We are back with another blog challenge to help boost your creativity and add another finished layout to your album!

I'm Lisa and I'm in the US. Many schools across our nation are getting ready to go on summer vacation.  That means parents are coming up with all kinds of activities to keep kids busy and hopefully get to spend more family time together.  Your challenge this month is to create a layout featuring something your family does while on vacation or break time from school.  Some of you may have year round schools and some may still be in session so your pictures don't have to be from this year!! =)

If we are lucky enough to be able to get out of town we love to go to the ocean!  We live on the west coast so getting to take our daughter to Florida and see the Atlantic was a treat!  Here she is at Cocoa Beach.  I used Spring Break by Scrapyrus Designs:

The rules:

• Layouts should be made with 100% Scrapyrus Designs Products.
• Freebies are allowed.
• You are welcome to submit more than 1 layout. Each page will give you a chance to win.
• For a chance to win, upload your page(s) and put the link in the comments on this blog post before the 25th of June.

The winner of this challenge will get a guest spot on the Scrapyrus Designs Team!

This is how Tia's family spend their summer.

And good news for the two participants in our May blog challenge, they have both won a guest spot on the Scrapyrus team. Congratulations Andi Walker and Connie Miles!