When it comes to traditional scrapbooking, many things seem to fall into place just naturally, while with digital scrapping nothing is coincidence. Everything that is on the page is there, because we deliberately placed it there. For example, while on a traditional scrapbook page you can randomly scatter elements by just throwing them on the page and adhere them wherever they fall, you can’t just “throw” things onto your computer screen, and hope they’ll stick with your digital page. It just doesn’t work that way. Another thing, that comes rather easily on a traditional page is the looping of elements, for example through a ribbon. You just tie the ribbon around the element, and place it on your page. Not so with a digital ribbon. Wrapping a digital ribbon takes some extra effort and knowledge of your graphics program to achieve the desired look. But no need to worry – it actually isn’t all that difficult. Let’s take a look at this page, for example: If you take a closer look, you will see that …

Being totally honest, who of us doesn’t struggle with the title sometimes when we work on a page? There are so many things that can either make or break a layout, just because of poor use or placement of a title. Now, I have to admit, I’m not a graphic designer or a professional in this area by any means, so a lot of the things I’m going to share with you today are mostly based on personal preference. However, after doing a little bit of research on that topic, I find that there are a few things about working with titles that are rather useful to know. This tutorial is going to be a rather lengthy one. To give you a brief overview, I’m going to touch on: 1. Title – Yes or No 2. Character of a Layout 3. Photo Inspiration 4. Bold or Subdued 5. Determining the Size 6. Some More Basics (6 quick tips) 7. Layouts to Give You Inspiration Title – Yes or No Now, before I get all into …

I’m so excited to present you one of my favorite tricks on how to turn fonts and elements into a sticker. It’s very easy and I use this technique over and over on my pages. The most common way I use it for is to turn fonts into an alpha (for better visibility on the page), but I use this same technique with brushes, stamps and other elements to get an even more interesting look. I picked two of my older layouts (you can tell by the different page format I used) to show you what I mean. Here’s what I do … I start by choosing the text tool and a font, and write the desired text anywhere on my canvas (placement will come last). I re-size and change the color of everything until it’s exactly as I need it for my page. (On the second image above I actually clipped a paper to my font – the one I used for the big fat title). Now, I pick a paper from the kit …

It’s about time that I’d take you to the world of fonts. For a long time, I’ve been intrigued by fonts, collecting them on my computer (and yes, I’m aware that people say they slow things down). Still, I can’t help myself – I do love fonts, and it’s great how you can put them to use in digital scrapbooking. So, today I want to talk about typewriter fonts. Tons of different typewriter fonts are out there – a lot of them for free. You can use clean types, but I especially love the ones that look old, worn, ragged. In general, typewriter fonts will give your page a kind of vintage look. They also work great when you combine them with handwriting fonts. On top of that they make great word strips, even work as titles. Here’s just a quick glance at some of my pages I did recently where I used typewriter fonts (simply click on the image to enlarge): Now that you’ve seen all this inspiration, of course you want to know, …