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A new release from Designer Digitals

Title                    A Mother's Love Layered Template Book
Designer             Katie Pertiet
Released             24 March 2007
Price                   $24.99 (includes a voucher for 30% off an 8x8" Shutterfly photobook [expires 5/14/07])
Link                    Here
Cost Per Item      Not Applicable

Site Blurb - "A complete 20-page scrapbook in layered templates. Each page has different word art related to mothers, children and love. Also includes flourishes, frames, fasteners, stitches and buttons in a cohesive, classic design making the perfect gift!

And to make it even better, the set includes a 30% off an 8x8" Shutterfly photobook [expires 5/14/07]! File Size: 29MB"

Designer Digitals and Katie Pertiet know what their customers need before their customers even know that they want it.  Justified text trails, printable tag templates and amazing brushes, they cover all these and much much more.  Unfortunately this review blog only covers kits and templates, so let's dive into this template book.

I have several Shutterfly 8x8 books and I think that they are marvellous.  Unfortunately, I printed them all out and it was only when I received them that I realized that an 8x8 photobook cut off the edges of all my 8x8 LOs.  Not a cheap error to make.  Luckily I was too delighted with actually seeing my LOs printed out (so delighted that it was only the thought of being locked up that stopped me running out into the street and showing my book off to random strangers) for that to bother me.  It doesn't say in the blurb if the templates are "true" 8 X 8s or "Shutterfly" 8x8s.  If it is being packaged with the Shutterfly voucher (which is a great touch by both Shutterfly and Katie Pertiet)  I would hope it was the latter, or both.

The templates are a good mix of single picture and multi picture LOs.  I would resize the small picture on the last page; a picture that small might get "lost" in a large 8x8 LO.  The templates favor a clean and mimimalist LO, so if you are a fan of  "I paid for 20 papers in this kit and I will use them all if it kills me" scrapping you may have to do a bit of freestyle shoehorning in to add extra papers.  I can't read the quotes on the previews, but I will assume that they are all tasteful and suitable - can't imagine anything else from Designer Digitals!  The joy of templates means that if you don't like or want them, or want to use this book for another reason, they can be binned.

The problem with most of us digiscrappers is that we love doing LOs of other people but really struggle doing LOs featuring ourselves.  I would feel weird doing a book saying how wonderful I am as a mother, so would rely on someone making it for me.  Seeing as there is more chance of my husband orbiting the moon under his own steam than taking up digiscrapping and making me a book like this (which I would sob like a baby upon receiving and then treasure it forever) I would use it to make a beautiful gift for my friends and relations who are mothers.

One Sentence         Great idea from Katie Pertiet for making a moving Mother's Day gift.