Watch Me Scrap with Affinity 2024

Hello. One of the things I want to try this year is recording my scrapbooking process for some of my layouts. I use Affinity and the videos will be a cross between a watch me scrap and tutorials as I will be talking through my process and the techniques I'm using.

I've posted a quick short introduction video to my Youtube Channel.


Links to the videos for future reference:

MOC Challenges

Jan 4th - Railway Engineering. Techniques include photo masks, and threading a charm onto a string.
Jan 5th - My Grey Dress. Techniques include torn photo templates, and using the black & white adjustment layer
Jan 9th - Snow Day. Big Photo layout
Jan 22nd - Elephant. Big Photo with Pop-Out
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Feb 7th - Quite Moments Girl - Art Journaling Page. Techniques include colouring in an image, and threading a charm onto a string.
March 18th - Sheep
April 5th - Smoothie
May 4th - Shed A Double Page Mulitphoto Layout
May 21st - Peace: Digital Art Journaling. Techniques include text on a path.
June 7th - Wild Garlic: Ribbon Weaving Technique.

Summer School Challenges

July 1st - Week 1 Alphas
July 8th - Week 2 Art Class - Using the Pen Tool
July 15th - Week 3 Social Sciences
July 22nd - Week 4 Holidays - Cutouts
July 29th Week 5 Computer Science - Using Cutting Files
Aug 5th - Week 6 STEM
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Nov 23rd - Child's Game: Word Wrapping Technique
Dec 24th - Nativity (DYD page)

I have created a new thread for 2025.
https://the-lilypad.com/forum/threads/watch-me-scrap-with-affinity-2025.95647/

 

Watch me scrap with photo masks for today's MOC challenge - Day 4


My finished layout:

 

@G.J. I'm going to be posting links to my Videos in this thread as I go along.

 

Another video, this one for day 5 of MOC - Torn Photo Collage.

My completed layout:

This will be the last one this week the house is going to get too noisy for filming my next few MOC pages.

 

for MOC day 9 - Big Photo


here's my finished layout

 

For MOC 22 - Large Photo with Pop Out


Here's my finished layout

 

Thank you. I hope to make another one soon.

I use Affinity Publisher for my scrapbooking, and then go into Affinity Photo or Affinity Designer if I need to use brushes etc. The basic scrapping process is very similar with all 3 programs.

We have all 3 for various reasons. If beginners only want one, then I recommend going for Affinity Designer. My son tells me that you use Affinity Photo in a similar way to using Photoshop. So if you are used to Photoshop you might want Affinity Photo. There are things that are much quicker and easier to do in vector graphics, for that you would use Affinity Designer or Affinity Publisher. I like Affinity Publisher because it's designed for quick and easy layout creation, working with multiple pages, and has a lot of useful text tools. When it's not enough I go to Affinity Designer. There are a few very advanced techniques that require Affinity Photo but I don't use them often. Affinity Photo is also better for complex detailed photo editing - e.g. touching up old photos. But basic/standard photo editing can be done in Affinity Designer. I hope that helps.

 

some digital art journaling today


here's my finished page