Practical, step-by-step guides to help you grow as a digital or hybrid scrapbooker—from beginner basics to advanced techniques., step-by-step guides to help you grow as a digital or hybrid scrapbooker—from beginner basics to advanced techniques.
Hello everyone, Polly Stefanie here with two single layouts I created using two different Template sets by Sahlin Studios to create one double spread. When I was a paper scrapbooker, all of my layouts had to match or at least…
Hi again. Last time we discussed real world shadows based on photos of real scrapbooking elements and some different Blend Modes you could use to create more realistic shadows digitally in Photoshop with some of the limitations of each. All that…
Hello, Polly Stefanie here with an album cover I made for our recent trip to Zimbabwe. I used this fun template set from Scrapping with Liz. I dropped in my photos, and some papers, and then some finishing touches. It’s…
Hi there. If you visit the blog regularly, you might know I’m an over-thinker and occasionally test things out in the real world in my sporadic quest to have realistic digi pages that would stop a paperscrapper in their tracks…
Hello there, Polly Stefanie here with another step by step tutorial. This time I started with Scrapping with Liz’s Simple Drafts Template. I added my photos first, along with the stroke and drop shadow. I like to shadow as I…
Hello there, Polly Stefanie here to share the awesome freebie template you can download from NBK Designs in the forum this month. As part of the challenges, we provide a template to play along with every month. You can find…
Hello there, Polly Stefanie with another step by step guide to my process when using a template. I started with this template from Scrapping with Liz: Recyclables #84 **Watch out for it 50% off in the SOSN sale tomorrow. I…
Today we’re starting to get to know the free graphics program GIMP by scrapping with a layered quickpage (QP). Fair warning – this is a long post with (hopefully) enough information and screen images to make using it easy for…
Hello there, Polly Stefanie here to encourage you to document how your senses can ground you and spark joy. The 5 primary senses of: See (Eyes/Sight) Smell (Nose/Odor) Hear (Ears/Sound) Taste (Mouth/Flavour) Touch (Skin/Feel). We all have favourite smells, that…
Hello there, Polly Stefanie here highlighting Angela’s art Journaling challenge for this final week of February. You can find it in the Lilypad forum, HERE. Each week we are exploring different colour schemes, and this week our scheme is Monochromatic….
Hello! Following on from discussing design styles for Beginners in my last post, I gave myself an informal challenge to produce 2 different style layouts using the same photos and same products, and seeing it’s Monday and I like alliteration,…
I remember as a new digiscrapper, galleries were both awe-inspiring and also a bit daunting. If you are new to scrapbooking and galleries, the various different styles and methods people use may seem a bit overwhelming at first, and you…