relive the Embellishment chat, or if you weren't there...

[kathleen.summers]

see what we were talking about! Plus, see what was missed because we ran out of time! So sorry it took so long to get these to you. The in-laws left late last night and this was my first chance to compile this! Ok, so here's a brief summary of our fun-filled hour!


Once I was able to get the text options working and we joked about how BIG my font was, lol . . .

And once everyone downloaded Katie's awesome freebie and oooh'd and ahhhh'd over it . . .

And once Britgirl/Mel announced the winner of her iTunes chat winner (Squeak/Shirly, yay!) . . .


em-bel-lish/Verb: To make (something) more attractive by the addition of decorative details or features, to make beautiful, as by ornamentation; decorate, adorn

We talked a bit about what our can't-live-without embellishments are, different categories of embellishments, what's hot & trendy right now . . .

mymalloryboys/Amy's page that uses embellishments as a central part of the design:
This is Why I Love Autumn - Digital Scrapbooking Ideas - DesignerDigitals

popular shapes in embellishing and two examples:
JALong/Janet's gallery has great examples of using arrows:
JALong Gallery - Digital Scrapbooking Ideas - DesignerDigitals

a great page using stars by missybaby:
Elmo Cupcakes - Digital Scrapbooking Ideas - DesignerDigitals

A few people had asked for help with using 'the string thing' that came in the freebie and I gushed about Pattie's TieIts and gave these links for inspiration:
New Home - Digital Scrapbooking Ideas - DesignerDigitals
Today I feel like a . . . - Digital Scrapbooking Ideas - DesignerDigitals
Sat Scraplift: 'Grow' - Digital Scrapbooking Ideas - DesignerDigitals
Astro Blasters (Disneyland) - Digital Scrapbooking Ideas - DesignerDigitals

Then we moved on to non-dimensional embellishing (but not before wendymck/Wendy made fun of me for using such big words, lol!) and the conversation moved toward Fotoglows and these examples were given:
earlofoxford/Linda's Memorable Face
echogirl/Doris' Look Mom
Phylis' entire gallery

Other great examples of non-dimensional embellishing:
DonnaGoar's page using Anna's LabelTransfers Clipping Masks
Ali's page
Ang66's AAM layout
and casbury's entire gallery

A page showing a great mix of dimensional and non-dimensional embellishing:
Christina's "Little Pilot"

And the chat couldn't go by without me mentioning the QUEEN of embellishing, Kayleigh!


Then we moved on to the trivia question to win the $5.00 gift certificate to the DD store, but not before I gave everyone two 'practice' questions! *snort* which segued into talk about Embellishing with Alphas and Jesse's awesome Angione alpha.
Anxela/Heidi won the trivia question (with JayDee4 coming in just a millisecond behind!) and the $5 coupon! Pattie was so sweet, she gave JayDee4 a prize of any one of her products! Thanks Pattie!

Thanks for being my wingman, Wen!

A few of the things I'd planned but didn't have time to discuss during the chat:

Using just a couple embellishment products for a great looking page:
Les: Balloons - Digital Scrapbooking Ideas - DesignerDigitals (the LoopDaLoop and flowers add so much to this template!)
Kacy: The Wolf Tree - Digital Scrapbooking Ideas - DesignerDigitals (wonderful repetition)

Embellishing with the date:
Sharon's date cluster in the lower left with a clever use of staples
muddygirl/Sam's cute combo of date strip and embellishment to show the date

Embellishment clusters:
classic flower/bow/tag combo Melissa Hill's LO: favourite things - Digital Scrapbooking Ideas - DesignerDigitals
Katie's "Grand People": grandpeople - Digital Scrapbooking Ideas - DesignerDigitals

Things you may not think of as embellishments: patterned paper, journalers, etc:
Linda/earofoxford used mostly patterned paper (cut to look like ribbon) to embellish this fabulous page: Katie on a Swing - Digital Scrapbooking Ideas - DesignerDigitals
or like how Kayleigh uses journalers as embellishments in the Wee Ones Quick Pages (so cute!):
Wee Ones Quick Pages - Digital Scrapbooking Quick Pages DesignerDigitals

[lizj]

Thanks, that was my favorite chat of the day! The links are really great to go back to.

btw, I totally plagiarized your Mickey ears lo at Disneyland, and I want to thank you for your awesome inspiration. I can't post it, unfortunately, b/c I have a dh that is message board shy, but my version is almost as good as yours! Thanks again for a great chat.

[whatnext]

thanks, Kathleen! didn't know my entire gallery was a good example of ANYTHING....! you are gracious and TOO kind to me

[ValerieP]

Thanks for the notes I copied them into my chat notes!

[Britgirl]

*blush* I'm so sorry to crash in and announce my winner ... so rude, but so good for squeak I love all these links Kathleen, thank you so much for all the inspiration

[Melissa Hill]

Thanks Kathleen for posting this, now I feel like I didn't miss this one!

[Schokolade]

Thank you so much for these notes and links, great to go back to them for inspiration. Your chat was a must for me, embellies are my very weak spot!

[LoriS]

Thanks for posting this, Kathleen! I was SO SORRY to miss it!!!!!!! And the fabulous freebie of the hour.... :-( I love embellishing and afraid I never do it right... I think I'm putting too much stuff sometimes and not enough at other times... I'm so happy to be around so much great inspiration here!!!