SMJ Calendars!

Not only are 2011 Calendar designs already hitting web shelves, people are PRINTING their 2011 Calendar gifts as I type this! I am lucky if I have mine finished by December 31st. Feeling the pressure here!

Back when I started digital scrapbooking in 2007, Shabby Miss Jenn Designs was one of the first Digital Shops I found, and was in awe! I still wonder where she can come up with all of this great stuff.

My very first custom calendar purchase... the SMJ Wall Calendar Volume 1

Shabby Miss Jenn Designs is now onto Volume 4

There are lots of cool things about the SMJ Calendar

1. They are .png files, so it's really, really easy to put these together. You just layer a photo underneath. Done.
2. They are reusable. Yep, you can use the SAME Calendar every year if you want. 

How you ask?

Well, when you purchase an Entire Calendar "Volume", it comes blank with separate Monthly Word Art files, and the Yearly Overlays. (currently 2011)

Sometimes I like to even use the separate word art on my digi layout pages, and Greeting Cards!

Check out the entire new Shabby Miss Jenn Designs 2011 Collection!

Get 10% OFF with this exclusive coupon

code: persnicketycals2011

 Persnickety Printing Options and Sizes

Sincerely,
         Chari

Freebie and a Challenge

1. Click here to get in on the Creative Juice No. 23 CHALLENGE from Biograffiti!

2. Create your layout using this template + your choice of digital supplies then upload your LO to your favorite gallery.

3. Post a comment with a link to your gallery post.

4. Two Winners will be chosen and each winner will receive $5 to Biograffiti.  You have until Saturday October 9, 2010 @ 11:59pm MST to enter.  Winners Announced Monday 10/11/10.

How to create a calendar with custom "toppers"

Ok, so you have seen custom calendar "toppers" around the digital world. Some are layered for .psd use, some are .png. The question is, once you create your calendar "toppers" in your digital program .... what do you do next?

We will show you how to make your own customized Calendars this year with these easy steps!

To get started:
1. Upload your finished calendar .jpeg to your online account
2. Choose the Custom Calendar Option
3. Follow these steps:

 

 

Customize Individual Dates with Images and Text

Scrappers' Workshop

New item on Bucket List: I hope to meet Stan and Jenn someday.

We are in Utah, they are in Tennessee.

The most difficult part of my job is explaining to people in a nice, calm, and unbiased way WHY they should be printing their cherished memories on professional PHOTO PAPER. Not the photo paper that you buy at Target or Walmart and insert into your inkjet printer. Real, true photographic, silver halide photo paper...

Stan did just that. Stan is my new hero.

Without our knowledge, Stan writes this beautiful blog post about this very thing, why it is so important to be educated about your prints. It's an exquisite piece.

Do you know what an electrostatic print is? Find out here... in all of its beauty.

P.S. Stan and Jenn have been in this business for longer than some of you have been alive (sorry guys). Not only do they know their stuff... they teach it too! Try one of their interactive classes at Scrappers' Workshop! You will love it.

-Chari