All posts tagged: scrapbook

Behind the Scenes: Broken Glass Brushes

Published by Sula H.

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 …

P2D: Winter Wish

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One website that comes with awesome inspiration for traditional scrapbook layouts is scrapbookgeneration.com. It’s kind of more like a club thing, but if you check out their site, you’ll find lots of really great pages that allow for your papers and photos to shine! Just check out this post, for example. They usually show off double pages, but who says you can’t turn double pages into single pages? Take a look at this winter themed page for example: I simply took the general composition of this page, turned it into a single page layout, added a couple more embellishing clusters, and this is what came out: I used my new winter kit “A Cup Full of Winter” for this (the first part is available for you for download as a freebie since yesterday), plus a couple of Cindy Schneiders layered labels she just released this weekend. I simply replaced two of the photo spots with the labels, and if you look hard enough you can see how my layout still resembles parts of the original …

scrapbook layout, winter, snow, misty hilltops designs

Winter Wish

Published by Sula H.

Credits: A Cupful of Winter by Misty Hilltops Designs (me, upcoming freebie on my blog) Layered Cards: Winter by Cindy Schneider Layered Weekly Labels & Journaling Cards by Cindy Schneider Font: DJB Celeste by Darcy Baldwin

Freebie Friday: A Cup Full of Winter, Part 1 – Alphas

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Ho ho ho, it’s Friday again, and that means it’s time to start sharing a new scrapbooking kit with you. It’s my third ever created full scrapbooking kit with a winter theme, called “A Cup Full of Winter.”       As usual, this kit is jam-packed with 26 papers, 78 elements, and three alphas. That’s a full-fledged kit with lots of unique elements, for which you’d pay good $$ elsewhere. But here, you’ll get it for free, and I’d love it if you could spread the word, so more people can enjoy this kit. Sooo, when you start collecting the parts to this kit, why don’t you go and drop a note about this on your blog, Facebook, twitter, galleries etc. and send people this way? I’m sure they would appreciate you sharing this info with them. Read this about the alphas … Anyhow, today, we’ll start with the alphas, and there’s something a little special to the red one I included. I left it as a full sheet of letters on a red …

Hybrid Hub: A Mini-Book of Travels, Part 1

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After lots and lots of cards that I presented to you in the hybrid hub over the last couple of months, I’ve got a special treat for you today. I finally managed to upload my finished mini-book project on my travels with my parents a couple of year ago. And today, I’m ready to present to you the first part. This is a full hybrid project for which I used lots of digital scrapbooking products that I printed, cut, and assembled into this book. Part 2 will follow next week.