Hi everyone, Dalis here! I used to do paper scrapping and card making before I was sucked in the digital world. One of my favorite things to do was do Paper Piecing using rubber stamps. When I started digital scrapbooking I also did a lot of hybrid, and I wanted the paper piecing look, and this is what I came up with. I hope you enjoy it too! If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.In case you are interested in the super super cute items I am using for the tutorial. I am using Colour In: Nativity by Kate Hadfield and the papers are from Yarn Snob by Valorie Wibbens. NOTE: At this point you might be wondering why we did "LAYER VIA COPY" instead of "LAYER VIA CUT" since we were going to "CUT" the area anyways. Well, remember that step where you did the SELECT-EXPAND and added 2 px to the selection? If you had done "LAYER VIA CUT" you would … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2013
Easy Peasy Vignette Effect
Hi Everyone! Dalis here with another fast and easy tutorial. I love pictures with a light and airy vignette effect, but don't want to spend too much time creating them. I want to spend time scrapping the picture. I have an easy peasy tutorial on how to create a vignette look in a couple of minutes at the most. It is a super step by step, so trust me in a matter of maybe 2 mins you will have your image with a really nice vignette look.This is your end result, you can apply the effect again for a darker vignette look by repeating the steps or just doing CMD+F (for mac) or Ctrl+F (on PC). Go try it and show me your vignette! If you are wondering about that total cute Journal card used in this tutorial, it is this product. … [Read more...]
May Challenge Spotlight
Hello everyone! It's Polly Karen here bringing you another Challenge Spotlight post where I get to show off just a few of the amazing pages that were created for this month's challenges. We have 7 challenges each month and you can earn a nice coupon just for playing along. (2 challenges = 10% off, 4 challenges = 20% off, 6 challenges = 30% off) As an added bonus everyone that completes all 7 challenges is entered into a contest to win a one month guest spot on the Creative Team (Polly) and this month there are TWO guest spots up for grabs! So let the following amazing layouts inspire you to finish 7 pages of your own and grab your chance to win a guest spot for yourself! 1. Scraplift Challenge - scraplift tag: by THEMrsPeel: by Ellie: 2. One Word Challenge - Carpe Diem:by RaquelS: by … [Read more...]
Merging Templates – Making them work for you.
Hi everyone, Dalis here! I love templates, they take me out of my mojoless hole. I am here to share with you one of my ultimate tips/tricks about templates. How to merge them and transform them, so they are exactly what you need.Have you ever wanted to use a template but it's not EXACTLY what you need? It's just missing something. I am here to help YOU fix it. Before we start there are a few tricks to help you merge your templates more easily.TIPs/TRICKs for merging templates. (These are tips/tricks and not RULES, these may be true for some cases but not all, so don't FORCE them, ok?)Merging templates from the same product or set is easily than merging different products.Merging templates from the same designer tends to be easier. Most designers have a "look/flow" that just can be seen in most of their templates.Open more than 2 templates, even if you are merging 2. That … [Read more...]
Decorated Wooden Letters
Hey all, Polly Jewelle here with a quick hybrid tutorial. I've been slowly trying clear out my craft closet of all unfinished projects. Tell me I'm not the only one with a closet filled with unfinished projects?! One project that has been in there for a long time is some wood letters. Each letter is the first initial of my daughters names. I've wanted to find a pretty piece of scrapbook paper to cover them, but my local scrapbook store never seems to have anything that would work. The letters continued to sit in the closet and gather dust. That is until I realized I have 1000's of papers right at my fingertips. Digi papers to the rescue! I browsed through the store at The LilyPad and discovered Gina Miller's Colorless papers. I knew these would be perfect for the job so I grabbed them and got to work. Before using these beautiful papers I needed to create a template of my … [Read more...]
Acrylics
I love using acrylic alphas and elements on paper pages, but especially on digital pages, no messy glue to worry about! I admit to loving white backgrounds and using acrylics you can make a big title without it being too overpowering.Browsing through the gallery, I have picked out some great examples of layouts using acrylics. And here are some of my favourite products and kits with gorgeous acrylics:The key to great looking acrylics on digital pages, is with perfect shadows. Krista has some great tips on shadowing acrylics on her blog. And Peppermint has some general shadow tips on her blog, as well as fabulous shadow layer styles in the store, including one for acrylics. … [Read more...]