Day: September 27, 2011

Behind the Scenes: Making Fonts Look Real

I’m excited, because today I’m going to show you one of my favorite techniques in digi-scrapping. I use it on almost every single page I create, and even though the title says that it’s related to fonts, you really can use it for everything – photos, brushes, stamps, rub-ons; everything that you put directly on a textured paper and want the texture to show through. The Example Let me give you an example: You’re writing something on a paper background, but that background has wrinkles and folds. Simply placing your text on top of that will make your journaling look unnatural, and as if the font is kind of floating. That’s what you do not want to happen! Take a look at this page that I created back in April: It has some journaling on some pretty wrinkled/folded paper. Now, let’s take a closer look at the journaling:   This is what the journaling would look like, if I don’t make any adjustments to the text. The letters simply ignore the folds, which makes everything …

Learning About Web Traffic

Well, I’ve had my blog for almost a year now, so you might think I should know about web traffic and the likes. Wrong! Today, I’ve had quite the revelatory chat with my sister who got me all started on this blogging business, and I learned that MistyHilltops.com is experiencing quite some web traffic recently. So much so, in fact, that she had to shift things around to give me more allowance for web traffic. I guess that’s good news and bad news, but I sure learned today, that I should better do my homework first and know what I’m doing before embarking on an adventure like this. But as it is, I’m enjoying the ride with you all, and I hope that MistyHilltops.com will be able to stick around for quite some time to come still!