Digital brushes are fun to use. You can use them as an accent on your page or as the focal point, it’s up to you. Mixed media brushes cover a wide range of choices, some are script or ephemera, others are textures brushes or borders, and many can be used to create a clipping mask. The choices are endless and the design capabilities are just staggering. You can recolor, resize, combine, blend, and on and on go the possibilities. Anyone can use brushes, regardless of your scrap style; there is something for everyone!
You can use your brushes as an inverted mask and stamp parts of a paper onto your layout, such as I’ve done in my first sample layout. I used the Mixed Media Monthly May 2017 collection, Lynn Marie’s Soar Collab and Little Butterfly Wing’s Element Add-On. These and all the other May 2017 M3 products can be found HERE. All the brushes can be found HERE.
I used a variety of brushes to stamp color onto the top of the page and stamped a bit of color around the left sided vertical cluster. With an inverted mask I stamped a bit of a paper pattern under the photo. I choose a splatter brush to stamp a small spray of paint along the left side of the layout.
In Photoshop, I can open up the brush panel options to further manipulate the brushes. You can change the size and rotate the brush wheel as desired. I often change the jitter and spacing of brushes.
For those that would like to follow along as I scrap my second sample page, please click the link to my Youtube page where you can watch my 25 minute video (sorry it is so long, in the future I will streamline them to be shorter). You can find my Youtube page HERE.
This page was made with a minimal amount of elements, as I used a variety of brushes to create color and texture around the photos, most prominently I used these two brushes.
I hope that I have inspired you to use brushes in your page design and experiment with different ways to manipulate the brushes. Have fun with it!
bbymks5 says
Thank you for this!!! I need to watch it again since I had a little distraction, but I think I have a better understanding now.