As a working professional and a mother of five children, Nicole understands the challenges that a woman faces as she tries to stay on top of preserving her family's memories. It's easy to feel overwhelmed and behind! That's why she designs digital products that allow you to quickly and easily create fantastic layouts that capture the delights in your life. With a degree in visual arts and 15 years of graphic design and advertising experience (along with obsessions in fashion design, interior design and illustration in between), she brings amazing imagination and energy to every product she designs. Nicole grew up in Southern California performing in her family’s wild west show - and to this day, still loves riding horses. For the last fifteen years, Nicole, and her husband Gabe, have been working together creating award winning designs for a variety of clients. She is passionate about being a mother, digital scrapbooking, graphic design, interior design, eating healthy, and exercise.
| A fairytale came true for my daughter at her 6-year-old, fairytale princess birthday party using the Princesses Digital Scrapbooking Kit and the Royal Digital Scrapbooking Alphabet in pink and purple. From the invitations, to photo frames, and regal party favor bags, the pieces in the Princesses Digital Scrapbooking Kit perfectly brought my majestic princess party concept to life. |  |
I used the Cowgirl Digital Scrapbooking Kit, Cowgirl Baby Digital Scrapbooking Kit, Cowgirl Party Embellishments Set and Stunt Alphabet in pink to decorate for my cowgirl-themed baby shower. I am expecting baby #6 (we’ll have 3 girls and 3 boys) and I happen to love all things cowgirl. I know it might be unusual to create decorations for your own baby shower, but I was dying to test drive these cowgirl digital kits that I recently designed. My fabulous sisters and Mother who were throwing my shower certainly didn’t mind. (more…)
I used the Junior Dinosaur Digital Kit to throw an Explorer-themed birthday party for my son’s 8th birthday. My son loves dinosaurs, reptiles, and anything that is creepy and crawley. So the Junior Dinosaur Digital Scrapbooking Kit and Junior Dinosaur Party Mini Kit was the perfect Pixelbooking product to execute my prehistoric birthday vision.
We chose to hold the party at a natural preserve park near our house complete with winding trails, cool rock areas, a sand pit, a fishing lake, roaming ducks, a waterfall, and a cool pavilion. We planned out an adventure trek around the park with six stops at interesting locations where we could teach the kids cool stuff about the local critters and terrain. (more…)
To commemorate Valentine’s Day, I designed a love timeline for our digital scrapbook highlighting milestones in our relationship. I often think back to my college years when I first met my husband. Then I look at the brilliantly smiling faces of our five children and chuckle inside with the realization that they are the wonderful result of falling in love with him way back then.
Creating this Love Timeline was so much fun! I loved pulling together old photos to see the progression from our first meeting to our latest family photo. My children really got a kick out of seeing the finished layout and trying to imagine that Mom and Dad actually had a life before kids.
I have found that if I write down my goals, then I am far more likely to actually accomplish them. So, I wrote down my 2011 Goal List and then created three different ideas using the new Blomma Digital Kits (available in Peacock, Fuchsia and Slate).
Since visualization is the first step to realization, I wanted to create some positive reinforcement for myself. For this reason, I selected my top three resolutions and either found a photo or took a photo of me accomplishing them. Then I wrote a generous paragraph explaining why the resolution is important to me.
As my gift this year to all my siblings and extended family, I made a set of 12 Custom Thank You Cards using digital scrapbooking supplies. I wanted to give them a gift that not only is practical, but also has a special meaning. 
You don’t always have to use holiday-themed digital scrapbooking products to make your own custom holiday cards. I tried a different approach to my Christmas card this year and used the Mother Earth Digital Kit to create my card.
We moved to Chandler, Arizona from Orange County, California almost six years ago. Up until now we’ve considered ourselves Californians having an Arizona experience… I decided that this year I would embrace the fact that we are now residents of Arizona and take our family portrait in a beautiful desert setting. I dressed the family in shades of orange, teal, and denim.
Instead of using a traditional, holiday themed kit for my 9″x6″ card, I decided to use the Mother Earth Digital Kit in autumn colors to complement the beautiful Southwest colors in our photo. The Mother Earth Digital Kit includes several journal blocks. I chose the horizontal rectangle journal block to share our very simple Christmas message.
So what’s your assignment for the Thanksgiving feast? I’m in charge of stuffing and homemade white wheat rolls. I’ve had the same assignment for the last four years so I must be doing something right. Actually, I’ve been threatened with being disowned from the family if I deviate from my stuffing recipe in the slightest degree. Everyone’s afraid I’m going to add something crazy like chopped apples to it.
Regardless of your dinner assignment, why not make your Thanksgiving feast extra special by making your own custom Thanksgiving place cards using the Thanksgiving Harvest Digital Scrapbooking Kit? Here are two sophisticated examples using classic design…
Here are some simple instructions to make your own custom Thanksgiving placecards using your photo editing software… (more…)
Receiving holiday photo cards from my friends and family is one of my favorite parts of the Christmas season. Even though we don’t get to talk to everyone as much as we like, one look at their holiday card brings back a flood of memories and makes me feel like I saw them yesterday… Even though I love receiving the long recap letters some friends send, I have to admit, the holiday photo cards are the ones I enjoy the most. As they say, “a picture is worth a thousand words…”
Using Pixelbooking holiday digital scrapbooking kits gives you the option to create a custom holiday photo card that captures the mood and flair of your family’s personality. You can also write your own holiday message to convey your thoughts and feelings about the holidays.
You also have options for going green and for using these same 10 steps to create other types of custom photo cards such as baby announcements, graduation announcements and party invitations. Watch this video to find out how… (more…)
I was watching How it’s Made on TV with my kids the other night (which happens to be their favorite show) and the show was featuring how jeans are made. Did you know that once the jeans are sewn together, they place the jeans on these inflatable legs and fill the legs with air? Then, with the denim stretched to capacity (kind of like how I feel in my jeans after they come out of the dryer), they literally take power tools and start scuffing the denim. It was so cool to watch!
Now, I’m very critical of the scuffing when I buy a pair of jeans. Just the right direction of scuffing can be the difference between wider or narrower looking thighs. It was funny to think that a skilled factory worker with a sander in hand is determining how thin I look.
I channeled my love of denim and finickiness for scuffing into designing the American Denim Digital Kit.
I made some cool scuffs and stitching to include in the kit — all in separate png files for the scuffs so that you can place the scuffs exactly where you want them! I also included several denim fabrics. Because we all know all denim is not created equal.
Two of the denim scuffs included in the American Denim Digital Kit
denim scuffs and stitching on top of one of the denim papers included in the American Denim Digital Kit.
