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November 11, 2016
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DIY Gift Guide: Family Recipe Book

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Gather your family’s favorite recipes and make them into an heirloom recipe book, complete with vintage family photos.  The best gifts are made with love, and this one is sure to be a favorite around the tree this holiday season.

1. Select 16 family photos to pair up with each recipe.

Don’t have digital copies?  See our blog post on scanning and digitizing old photos.

2. Choose 16 recipes you’d like to pass down.

3. Click to download the DIY recipe Photoshop template below:

Impressed App DIY recipe book page template for Photoshop

4. Open the Photoshop template and enter your first recipe

5. Save your recipe as a .jpg file

6. Once you have all of your recipes ready, add them along with your desired photos to a Dropbox folder

Get a free Dropbox account here.

7. In Impressed App, select the 8×8 Layflat book

We would recommend using the Layout Selector option here to select layouts that allow for 2 images per spread.

To use:

  • as you start making, you’ll notice a red button titled ‘LAYOUT’ in the middle right hand side of your screen
  • when you tap it, you’ll have multiple options of layouts to use
  • simply select the desired layout and hit ‘USE’

8. Populate your spreads with your photos + recipes.

We went with a photo on the left, recipe on the right.

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October 27, 2016
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Your Holiday 2016 Wrap Inspiration

Posted by | DIY, Holiday DIY, Photo Prints, Photography, Washi Tape | No Comments

With the start of November just around the corner, this is the time of year we like to start getting our ducks in a row for the upcoming holiday season; gifting lists, holiday cards and most fun of all: gift wrapping style!

Before the holiday madness kicks in, we wanted to share with you a few tips and inspiration to getting your gifts looking pretty even if you’re not the craftiest of types.

First things first, gift tags.

Dress up your gifts with personalized gift tags.  We like printing our own on Impressed App’s 3×3″ mini prints.

Ideas:

1. A photo of a special moment shared with the recipient makes for a great gift topper that they can re-use as a daily memento even once the holiday season has come and gone.

 

2. Print a stock photo of a scene you know your recipient will enjoy.

TIP #1: our favorite sites for downloading awesome stock photographs for printing are Magdaleine.co and Unsplash

TIP #2: use the sites’ search tools to find particular scenes or themes such as ‘forest’ or ‘ocean’

[print on far left courtesy of @laurenmichelleanderson]

3. Print free original artwork and graphics directly from Impressed’s ‘Free Artwork’ section.

TIP: find it in your photo sources section, once you start making prints

[palm tree print courtesy of @laurenmichelleanderson]

4. Consider getting 2 different sizes of gift tags and layering them to create unique combinations.

Onwards: wrapping paper

We’re huge fans of purchasing rolls of solid wrapping paper (2 complimentary colors will do!) and letting the accenting and ribbon shine.  This year, we even played around with layering our paper to create a color blocking effect.

Finishing touches

We typically like to choose 3 colors that would go well together as part of our theme and let those colors inspire our accents.  Your accents don’t have to quite read holiday either - think outside of the box and have fun with it!

Ideas:

  • greenery
  • ribbon + string
  • colored sharpies for making patterns + designs directly on your wrapping paper
  • washi tape

TIP: we used ours to make patterns and affix tags to our gifts

 

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June 16, 2016
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Life Well-Lived: gallery walls + interior inspiration

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Meet this month’s stand-out customer: Agata, aka @passion_shake.  We can’t stop (won’t stop!) scrolling through her blog.  It’s just chock-full of wonderfully simple and minimalistic DIYs and interior inspiration for a happy living.  Read on as she shares with us her tips for building out your gallery walls, the inside scoop from Milan Design Week and some serious eye candy courtesy of her blog Passion Shake. Read More

May 12, 2016
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Life Well-Lived: baby’s 1st year with Bridgette

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Meet this month’s stand-out customer: Bridgette, aka @bridgettemargot.  We’ve loved following along this Miami-based mama’s sunny Insta-adventures with her sweet little Lyla.  Her latest project?  A photo book full of her family’s 2015 moments.  Read on as she shares with us her next DIY project, ideas for memory keeping during Baby’s 1st year and how to cheat a space refresh with a not-so-green thumb. Read More