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A Creative Approach Podcast

Karen began her life in the Canadian prairies followed by several years of studying medicine in Montreal. Marriage, family, and career brought her to California where “Snow is optional. You can drive to it.” With a large extended, blended family and a love of travel, Karen’s hobby of scrapbooking has endless resources. An enthusiastic world traveler, she still has the continents of South America and Antartica to cross off her list. Karen loves meeting her network of online friends on her journeys. Karen came to podcasting through scrapbooking and has been a co-host on "The Digiscrap Geek Podcast" (now on hiatus) and a guest on many other shows including a recent episode of “Shift Your Story” with Beca Lewis. Karen remains a licensed physician in California, though currently retired. Karen has wide ranging interests including podcasting, blogging, medicine, and scrapbooking. She is a self-admitted genealogy nut, and life-long learner of art, history, science, business and anthropology with a passion for a sustainable world. She is an artist and a student and is fascinated by people's stories of creating who they are and what they do. She is delighted to share her conversations on “A Creative Approach Podcast.”
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02: Add Depth to Your Digital Scrapbook with Cheryl Ashcroft 0
Dec 20, 2016

Are you looking for new and exciting ways to add depth to your scrapbooking projects? Would you love to learn more about the art of digital scrapbooking? If so, join Karen Poirier-Brode this week, on A Creative Approach Podcast, as she interviews Cheryl Ashcraft, designer of digital scrapbook kits and templates, as they talk about Cheryl's creative approach to digital scrapbooking.

 

Cheryl, a hometown girl from Florida, creates richly layered, intricately designed digital scrapbook templates, to help scrapbookers tell their story without the fuss or mess. When she's not busy creating fabulous new template designs, Cheryl loves taking family photos, decorating her house, doing detailed pen and ink drawings and lately, dabbling with watercolors and mixed media. She is also an avid reader and an occasional cross stitcher. Let her explain how you can use digital kits and templates to become more creative with your scrapbooking.

 

Today, Cheryl talks to Karen about:

 

  • Her creative influences while growing up.
  • How she started out scrapbooking and how it developed with the use of digital media.
  • How she converts her drawings to digital.
  • The advantages of digital scrapbooking as compared to paper.
  • How she used old files and layouts to create a slideshow in very little time.
  • A good reason to save old PSD files.
  • How she stared designing digital templates and her approach.
  • Themed templates as compared to non-themed ones.
  • How to add authenticity to a digital scrapbook page.
  • How to add depth to your scrapbook design, using digital tools and templates.
  • How to do art journaling, using a traditional digital scrapbook kit. 
  • How to create 'hybrid' projects, using her digital templates.
  • Her advice for anyone wanting to pursue digital template or kit design as a career.
  • Her advice to anybody wishing to become more creative.

 

Links:

 

Karen's website: www.acreativeapproachpodcast.com

 

 

Cheryl's website: www.fiddle-dee-deedesigns.com

 

Cheryl on Youtube: Watch Cheryl Scrap 

 

Cheryl on Facebook: Fiddle-Dee-Dee Designs

 

Cheryl on Twitter: @fiddledeedeedzn

 

Cheryl on Instagram: Fiddledeedeedesigns

 

Cheryl on Pinterest: Fiddle-Dee-Dee

 

Cheryl recommends: www.thedigichick.com

 

 

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