a Baby in a Baby Carriage.

Mel has OUTDONE herself. Can you even believe this amazing hybrid template?
It comes in three sizes.  The large template would be PERFECT for the packaging of a baby gift, while the smallest template would be amazing as a favor.   What ever you decide to use it for, it will be a HUGE hit!

Jennifer and Samara had an amazing time decorating this amazing template.

Hey everyone! I’m Jennifer, one of Mel’s hybrid chicks, coming to share a great tutorial with you!

The awesome Mel of PixelGeek Designs has given us this great free’bee’, available at ScrapOrchard:

And I have an awesome step by step tutorial ready for you, with pictures!

Step One: Digitally assemble your template. Add papers, elements, photos, etc. so it is how you want it. Print on matte photo paper or cardstock. Using scissors or a craft knife, cut out your template on the cut lines.

Step Two: Once cut out, use a ruler and a scoring tool(or the backside of a butter knife) to score your template on the fold lines. Score carefully, you want to press hard enough to make it easy to fold, but not enough to break the surface of the paper. It’s best to go slow and you may need to go over it more than once to get it scored properly.

Step Three: Fold your template on fold lines and ink edges if you desire for a nice finished look.

Step Four: Turn your template over so that the printed side is down. Starting with the half of the template that has long flaps, slowly apply glue to tabs and glue together. Make sure to press tabs firmly to the back of the pentagon shapes so they form a nice bond. DO not apply glue to long tabs yet, just to the necessary ones to form bottom half of the box.

Step Five: Repeat with tabs on other half. Make sure glue is dry on both halves.

Step Six: Apply glue to long tabs and other tabs needed to hold halves of box together. Carefully fold box halves together, applying gentle pressure to ensure a firm bond. Ink remaining edges if you wish to give it a polished look.
Allow to dry, and add any additional embellishments of your choice.!

I’ll be back next tuesday with another tutorial for you!
Have fun!

This week PixelGeek Designs has outdone herself!!!

Mel designed an amazing Gable Box, available in TWO sizes!! These boxes are seriously cute and the perfect size for small gifts.

created by Jennifer:

created by Samara:

Next is PixelGeek’s adorable “Build-a-Blog” kit,  “Rule the School”.  Doesn’t it make you want to redo your blog?  I know I want too!

As if that wasn’t enough…

We are having a sale!!! What a perfect opportunity to pick up some awesome templates with an amazing deal!

Click on the coupon to take you to PixelGeek Designs store.

I sure hope you’re still reading this post.  We have an amazing  free”bee” just for you!

Two download links for you:

Free’Bee’ Zip Download

Free’Bee’ Printable Download

Have a wonderful Hybrid Day!

♥Samara

For the past month or so I have started creating some fantastic Hybrid Templates, I am really enjoying this new designing venture and have had to dust the cobwebs off the stuff I learned in Geometry over.. ahem.. 16 years ago, ack!  I have 5 new Hybrid Templates out this week, which are 20% Off until Christmas Eve so hurry on over to Scrap Orchard and pick up one or two!! Oh! I forgot to mention, all my Hybrid Templates are Commercial Use Friendly.. yay!

Take a look at these gorgeous projects made with the Accordion File template:

by Kami

by Samara

Here is an adorable hybrid project made with the Square Box w/ Handle template:

Last but not least, I have release Medium versions of the Milk Carton and PopCorn Box templates previously released!

And to celebrate my new Hybrid Template venture I have created an adorable, little House Box template for you!

The house reminded me so much of the gingerbread houses my sister and I used to get every Christmas from our Aunt Kathy, that I couldn’t resist making it into a gingerbread house!

Click Here to download the House Box Template!

I used Lyndsay Riches & Wild Dandelion Designs delicious Sweet Sugar Holiday kit to make my Gingerbread House (above), it was absolutely perfect!

If I don’t get to chat with you before next week (I sure hope not!); please have a Wonderful and Safe Holidays!

Welcome, welcome to the first ever Scrap Orchard Honey Bee Blog Train!! As you may have noticed, if you finish your train ride you will have not one but two fabulous brag books made with two of our Mystery Megas from last year, Spooktacular and Fallin’ for You!!

Speaking of Megas… I have the inside scoop that on Saturday, Scrap Orchard will be sending out a Special Edition of Fresh Fruit Fridays! with an uber exciting Mega Special Offer, so if you haven’t already, make sure you subscribe to our newsletter (not to mention October is our Customer Appreciation Month where you will receive 25% Off all Fresh Fruit and a chance to win a $25.00 Gift Certificate)!!

So on with the Blog Train!  Below is my page to be added to your Fallin’ for You brag book:

Click the image or here to Download

This is the last stop on the Blog Train, so I will return you to the Blog Train Station!

Welcome!  By now you should have collected tons of *fabulous* free’bees’ from the awesomely talented Scrap Orchard Designers..!  I am the second to the last stop on this crazy train ride… Shauna put me here, in the caboose… do you think she’s trying to say something?!?!  I think I should probably have a little chat with Miss Shauna!

All my products (except my one collaboration kit with Ziggle Designs) are one sale.. ByOneGetOne Free!  So make sure you head on over to my store and grab some Build-a-Blogs!

Anywho, here is my little piece of this fabulous kit:

Click here to download my Free’Bee’…!

Next stop.. heading back to Grand Central Station… Scrap Orchard!

Welcome back!  As promised, here is the second half of T.G.I.F. – Thank Gosh I’m Female!

Enjoy.

Don’t forget to stop by and pick up the coordinating alpha: The Alpha Is Half Full!

Thank Gosh I’m Female!

So I have decided to start trying to learn how to make my very own digital scrapbooking products, finally!  To celebrate this new venture, I will be giving away my very first solo kit away for free.. yes, you heard me right.. FREE!  But there *is* a catch… you’ll have to come back tomorrow to get the second half.. hehehehe!  And, well, if you enjoy the kit, I would love for you to  take a look at the coordinating alpha: The Alpha Is Half Full. (Psssst! The alpha will be 30% Off until Saturday and then 20% Off until next Thursday, so hurry on over and grab it at its reduced price!)

Okay, okay.. I know you are dying to get to the Free’Bee’.. so here it is!

of a White Christmas… in Arizona. Hey now, it’s been known to happen.. once every other millennia..! Kami and I have been talking about me starting to design digital scrapbooking products (and really, who better to teach me than my favorite sister?) and with me losing my job a couple weeks ago and all.. I am finding I have plenty of time on my hands to join her little mini-apprentice program..!

Kami came up with the idea of doing a Christmas kit because well.. we seriously both have this Christmas fetish. We love everything about Christmas.. the decorations, traditions, music and especially the movies! One of our all time favorites is White Christmas… seriously, when we were 7 and 10 years old, it was one of our favorites mostly because of all the singing and dancing. Okay, back on track, so Kami came up with the idea of making a collaboration Christmas kit inspired by White Christmas.. so there you have it. Kami did most of the designing.. I just made the alphas, cluster elements and some of the quickpages. Have no fear, she will have me slaving over a hot computer banging out full digital kits of my own in no time! But until then, you’ll just have to enjoy this gorgeous collaboration kit:

White Christmas {The Bundle}

The Bundle includes The Kit, The Pages and The Words (buy it now while it’s still Fresh Fruit and you’ll get everything for only $8.00!)

White Christmas {The Kit}

White Christmas {The Pages}

White Christmas {The Words}

So to celebrate our first ever collaboration, we both are giving you wordart from our favorite White Christmas song: Sisters!

Here is the wordart you’ll find on Kami’s blog:

And here’s the wordart for my blog:

Whew! You finally made it to my little corner of cyberspace!  Who says Trick-or-Treating is just for the kiddies..?!?!  I bet you are having a blast collecting all the digiscrap goodies.. I know *I* am!!!  So, let’s keep this train arollin’..!

*knock* *knock* *knock*

With all the trick-or-treater’s visiting our blogs and downloading the free”bees” the blog train is sure to be a little slow… have no fear! We will all be leaving our treats up for days to come!  So if you get stopped or slowed down, just make a note to come back and get pick up your treat later!  If you’re not sure where to go next, check out the complete blog train list in the Scrap Orchard forum!

Now on to the next house… Vasco of Moon Scraps!