The good news when it comes to cards is that there’s always a reason to send others a little greeting. Like today’s card, which I created for my friends who’d returned home after a summer away. Supplies used: A Place to Call Home by Christy Lyle & Amanda Heimann (retired), ribbon, card stock
Well, friends, what can I say? My little sweetheart sister is the best! Not only is she a web designer in her own right, she also hooks me up with cool stuff regularly, and look where she pointed me just the other day: Couture Collection aka www.ewcouture.com For all of you photography lovers, this is a place you don’t want to miss. This blog comes packed with free stuff for photographers – templates, storyboards, all sorts of things that help you showcase your photos. And who says you can’t use these things on a scrapbook page, too? Anyhow, don’t get distracted by the image above. The website has a lot more to offer, so why don’t you hop on over there to check out the place?
Alright, friends of the digital scrapbooking business, if you remember well, then you’ll remember that I promised you the other day to show you how to create pockets like the ones on the Project Life layout I shared with you the other day. This one: It’s actually a fairly simple process, and doesn’t require much skill at all. Soooo … Here’s How it Works Step 1 | Create a Rectangle On your canvas, add a new layer to your Layers Panel (windows key + shift + N – on my computer), and activate the Rectangle Tool (shortcut U). Draw a rectangle of the size you desire, and rasterize it (right click on the rectangle layer in the Layers Panel and choose Rasterize Layer from the options you are given). Step 2 | Create a Circle Now, you want your pocket to look like a pocket (of course, or else it wouldn’t be a pocket), so for that you want a little semi-circle to be cut out from your shape. Similarly as in step one, …
It’s journaling hour here in my little Digiscrap Corner, but today, I got something special for you. Something a little out of the ordinary. But don’t worry (for those journalers among you), you’ll still get a ton of inspiration out of what I’m going to share with you. Have you ever heard of “Grace is Overrated”? It’s a website by some awesome gal who came up with an amazing idea of creating journaling pages. Something like this: You can easily find her pages on her website (for download and print, in colored/embellished versions, or simple and plain). And what’s best of all, you can use her pages as inspiration for your websites. I for one, took inspiration from the prompts in the middle section of the page above, the section called “Moving ever forward.” And see what I did with it on one of my scrapbook pages … Anyhow, if you’ve never heard of Overrated Grace, then could be time for you to discover some gems!
Uff, with Christmas season and the December Daily, it’s been a while for me since I last posted some p2d inspiration. But for today’s post, I found a nifty little website with tons of inspiration; and sketches, too. So, while my page today isn’t really based off a finished layout, it’s still coming from the traditional side of scrapbooking. Here’s the sketch from Scrap Friends: And here’s the page I whipped up based on it. I used a valentine themed kit to scrap about things I love to do.
Part 4 of the kit “A Cozy Christmas” is ready for download. Sorry, things are always late. Anyhow, you should be able to click on the image to download. And I’m double checking to make sure the links work. If you had trouble downloading part 3 last week, keep trying. I checked the links, and there was nothing wrong with them, and in my file index I can see that people have been downloading. So, keep trying, and I really hope it’ll work. The last part of this kit will follow soon, and I’m well into my next kit – a winter themed little thing. Anyhow, don’t forget that products you download from mistyhilltops.com are for personal use only, and if you’d like to share them with others, simply send them this way. As always, happy scrapping!
Well, I finally managed not only to print, cut, and put everything together, but also to photograph the album, process the pictures and upload it. So, here I happily present to you my completed December Daily Album 2012:
It’s been a long while since I featured an inspirational scrapper the last time, and so today, I want to introduce you to another amazing scrapper who has provided great inspiration to me over the time: mummytothree. Her scrapping style is quite versatile, and she is one of those people who still can whip up amazing page designs without the use of a template. So, if you’re ever in need of some ideas for your own scrapbook pages, don’t forget to check out mummytothree’s gallery.
Stitches always make a good impression on any scrapbooking page. Lots of designers create awesome stitches which they sell in their stores (just check Traci Reed’s sewing line over at sweetshoppedesigns.com, if you don’t know what I’m talking about), but it’s actually not that hard to create similar effects on your own in Photoshop. All you need for starters is a dashed line, and today, I’m going to show you how to create dashed lines in just seconds! All you need to do is, create a new layer (windows key + shift + n), and then use a brush. Here’s How It Works Open your Brush menu. In the Brush palette, choose a default round, hard brush. Now, change the roundness to something like 15%, and the spacing to whatever parameter you prefer (for the stitched line above, I used 650%). Draw your line. To add more texture to your dashed line, you could add a style, and that’s pretty much it. Take a look at this P365 layout that I created the …
Well, oh well, it’s time to give some thought to those new year resolutions again. How are we doing on those, friends? Do we keep up with our goals? If you don’t have a clue where to start on your new year’s resolutions, or if you just need a little motivation to get started, here are today’s journaling prompts: And here’s my take on these prompts: Font used in the prompt is DJB Squirrels in My Pants by Darcy Baldwin, available at sweetshoppedesigns.com.
