About Charlene

I live in Renton, WA with my husband, our 6 year old daughter, and our two cats. By day, I work as a Sr. Finance Manager for a large, high-tech/software company. By night/weekend, I'm the CEO of "Casa L", but also can be found doing various hobbies such as cooking, scrapbooking (both traditional and digital), stamping, and working on my photography skills. In addition to my creative team role here at Owl Tree Studio, I am also a creative team member for Simple Kelly Designs. If you'd like to see some of my creations, I'd love for you to come visit my blog The Crafty Bee .

Digital Kit Organization: Managing Your Downloads

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First off, I want to thank everyone for the feedback on the post I did last month on organization.  There were some great questions and comments and they inspired me to take the leap and kick off a “remodel” project of my entire digital organization system. I am going to do a follow up post [...]

Digital Scrapbook Printing Options: Suggestions from Charlene

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[Note from Tiffany: Although this post talks about several different digital scrapbook printing options based on Charlene's experience, Owl Tree Studio does *not* have an affiliate relationship with any of the companies discussed below.] Although I’ve been digital scrapping for about a year and a half, I hadn’t printed any of my layouts off until [...]

Every Day Wonders: Daily Favorites

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Have you ever noticed that there are just certain things in our everyday life that can “make” our day?  The things that make you smile or give you a little comfort?  They may even be things that (if they’re missing) can set you off on the wrong foot?  Well, today, I thought I would share [...]

Find It Quickly: Digital Scrapbook Kit Storage & Organization

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I think it is safe to say that there are a number of ways that we can store and organize our digital kits. There isn’t one single method that is right or wrong because we all have different ideas and preferences on what is going to work for us. I’ll share how I originally was doing things and touch upon things that I will probably do going forward.

1 Calendar, 3 Ways: Part 3

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This is the last post in our calendar series this week and today we’re going to talk about using the calendar grids we created earlier in the week to create a 6″x6″ desktop calendar. The first option for creating your desktop calendar is to use the 6×6 calendar pages that I showed you in my [...]

1 Calendar, 3 Ways: Part 2

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Today’s calendar project features this 12×12 inch record frame (by MCS). In the first post in this series, I mentioned that I ended up creating three different calendar projects – all leveraging my original 12×12 version. This is the second of those projects. As soon as I got home from Costco, I was excited to [...]

1 Calendar, 3 Ways: Part 1

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When I saw the calendar collab kit in this month’s Owl Tree Studio product lineup, my brain went on overload thinking about all of the cool things you could do with the kit. Feeling very inspired, I have put together a calendar project (or three) to share with you this week. Three calendars, you ask? [...]