Hi again! For this month's Mixed Media Beginners I was inspired by a recent blog post by Gaelle on pocket scrapping. (If you haven't seen her blogpost about getting started with Pocket Scrapbooking on the Project Life app, you can check it out here). Pocket scrapping can be clean and simple, messy and mask-y, or somewhere in the middle, which I call 'Clean and Artsy'.Personally, I started making digital pocket pages through Project Mouse and my style definitely evolved over the years from 'clean and simple', with a lot of plain pocket cards and rectangular photos and white borders (and also rounded corners - I remember those days, Gaelle!), to 'clean and artsy', where my borders were obscured with painted or blended edges, elements overlapped everything and there were less clean lines and more doodles and scribbles, but still featuring a white background and border. That was my real … [Read more...]
Adding Text From Journal Cards
Journal cards are very versatile. One of my fave ways to use them is to remove the text and use it separate from the card. Let me show you a number of ways you can do this.Here are some journal cards and the text that I have removed from the cards, using these products:Paislee Press - A Love Story Journal CardsJust Jaimee - Storyteller 2016 July - 6 x 4 Pocket Journal CardsAmy Wolff Designs - Jot It Down Vol.4One Little Bird - Carson Park Journaling CardsIn photoshop, I selected the magic wand and and selected "this week", then I inverted the selection (select>inverse). I right clicked and chose "layer via copy" to put the selected text on its own layer. The orginal layer can then be deleted or you can unclick the layer if you think you might want to activate it again to use another part of the journal card (this is what I do because I never know exactly what I … [Read more...]
But I don’t do Project Anything?
So how in the world am I going to use all of the awesome Journal Cards that show up each and every week! I just love them, you may say, but I can't see where I'll use them. Well, never fear, I'm gonna give you some inspiration from our own Pollys to help you out with this. And you'll be snatching up Journal Cards to help augment your pages before you know it!1. Let's face it. Journaling is sometimes the most challenging part of creating a page. One way to use Journal Cards is to do your journaling for you. Sneaky, right?This fun page by Rachel uses this technique. She added a few words to each card and it tells the story quite well. Don't you think?She used these fun card templates *bonus* from Valorie Wibbens. And here's one from me that totally uses the card as my journaling, LOL. (No, it's not cheating) I used these great school themed cards from Sabrina … [Read more...]