I mentioned it last Saturday already, but one website with tons of amazing inspiration is “pretty paper.true stories” by Shimelle. Shimelle is one of the great paper scrappers out there, but you can find a lot of stuff that will help you work on your digital pages as well. She’s got great style, a wealth of knowledge, and it’s certainly a place you would want to keep sticking around for …
Are you ever looking for more inspiration and stuff to learn? A great place to start would be Anna Aspnes’ blog. If you’ve never heard of her, AA stands for lots of fun, useful digiscrap designs (stitches, brushes, stamps, and lots lots more). Her blog also has lots of great tutorials that I find very inspiring. So, if you want to get your scrapbooking skills soaring out there somewhere, Anna’s blog is a place you don’t want to miss peeking around a bit.
If you’re anything like me than you’ll always like a good set of actions to edit your photos. On the www there’s a ton of stuff out, some of it useful, some of it not! Recently, however, I came across a blog that has a ton of free downloadable actions, a lot of which I find very useful. It’s The Coffeeshop Blog. If you’ve never heard of it before, you might want to check out that site, because it doesn’t only come with actions for photo editing, but also actions to create storyboards and a lot more! Curious? Go check it out.
Using a broken glass effect on a scrapbook layout can have a very dramatic effect. Take a look at this layout which I created last year: I only used a free set of broken glass brushes I found on the internet (you can download them HERE), and added a style to give it the effect of shattered glass. Here’s How It Works … Once you downloaded and installed the brush set in photoshop, create a layer with the broken glass brush. For my page above, I found that the following settings worked best: First, add your shadows as usual, and then make sure to adjust the following settings: Inner Glow Blend Mode: Screen Opacity: 100% Color: white (you may want to try different colors depending on your background, though) Technique: Precise Source: Edge Range: 8 Check Anti-aliased As usual, you may want to experiment a bit to see how things look on your page. These values are what worked well …
Font lovers, take heed! I found this website the other day, which has a large collection of awesome free fonts. And what’s best about them, they’re all commercial use fonts. So, if you’re looking for more great fonts to add to your collection, don’t miss it! There’s all sorts of handwriting fonts, script fonts, typewriter fonts, etc. … some of which I’ve never seen on any of the other big free font websites. So, if you haven’t checked out this source yet, you might want to do that!
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. Let’s start off this year with some inspiration. And since it’s the beginning of the year, we can’t avoid talking about Project Life. If you’ve been around any of the major digiscrap forums, it’s all too prominent – Project Life is everywhere. At least at my favorite store, the designers are whipping products for the use of PL like crazy, and if you take a look at the gallery at SSD, it seems like everyone is intent on doing it this year. It seems. I for one, will not embark on that journey. Not because I don’t like PL. On the contrary. But I know myself too well. And I know that 2013 is probably going to be the busiest year of my life (because I’m approaching the end of my postgraduate studies which means I’ve got major projects to work on). So, I’ve decided that I’m not going to add another project to my busy schedule. But that doesn’t mean we can’t talk about PL here in my little Digiscrap Corner. So, …
For many of us, November is a great time to stop what we’re doing for a moment and think about all the blessings we have. Darcy Baldwin (Sweetshoppe) has created a set of templates/quickpages using Meghan Mullens kit Count Your Blessings, which helps us do just that: her Count Your Blessings Album is a perfect tool to record happy moments and thoughts with just a few mouse clicks. Her album is a ready set of pages, but the quickpages come layered so you can easily clip your own papers to them and add embellishments, which makes this album super versatile and perfect for a little project to remember what you’re thankful for in November 2012. Here’s a page I created with one of the templates from this pack:
The other day, I was looking for a tutorial on how to create your own realistic looking sewing stitches, and I found this neat website HERE. Of course, for stitches you can always buy one of those element packs some of the designers put out (e.g. see Traci Reed’s, Anna Aspne’s, Erica Zane’s stitch packs, to mention just a few). But sometimes, you want something that none of the designers offer – an odd shape, a letter, etc. That’s when this tutorial (and the actions it offers) comes in handy, so I recommend that you hop on over and check out what cadjunkie has to say about sewing stitches and photoshop.
I haven’t shared a Photoshop action with you in a while, but I think this one should be fun for some of us scrapbookers. It allows you to generate polaroid photos from your pics, and polaroids always look great on any layout. Anyways, to get to the download, simply click on the image above, and have fun with this one!
