Hello and Happy Thursday.When you use alphas, it is helpful to understand the "baseline" in typography in order to keep our letters in a straight line.In a baseline grid, there are invisible lines on which the text sits and is written. While there is one major horizontal baseline, there are other parallel lines to form the entire text baseline grid. It helps us make sure that the words are uniformly placed and spaced in a straight line.A baseline is so much more than an invisible horizontal line in designing. A baseline in typography is often used as a guideline to type letters and space them accordingly. Once you understand the concept, you can easily implement fonts in a baseline (or come up with your fonts as well). For this, you need to know the following concepts that are related to a baseline grid.Ascender and DescenderYou can see the small "p" has a downward stroke … [Read more...]
Digital Sketch Blending
Hello all my artsy friends! I am back with a tip for quickly masking an area on digital paper. Have you ever wanted to constrict a photo, sketch or digital paper to a particular area on your page? I was working with these amazing mixed media pages by Rachel Jefferies (available in today's SOSN sale) and wanted to add a back ground sketch in the gessoed area. The sketch was larger than that area so I needed a quick way to create a mask that would match the edges. I initially added the sketch to the page and then tried to create the mask by hand by painting over the areas of the sketch that went beyond the gessoed part of the background. This method works, but takes quite a bit of time to complete. Instead I decided to try the Magic Wand tool to create a quick selection of the gessoed area. This method was much faster and I was able to create a mask for the … [Read more...]
Tutorial Thursday | Silhouette Photos
Hello scrappers, Kayla, aka keepscrappin, here with a Tutorial Thursday. The Threshold filter (Photoshop & PSE) is an adjustment filter that converts a photo to pure black and white, creating a silhouette.Here's the steps in PSE and they are similar in PSCC. Sorry I don't have the steps for other programs, but you can probably search the internet to find a way to get a similar effect in your program. Duplicate your photo (File -> Duplicate -> OK) and close the original. Double click the background layer to unlock it. Select the photo layer and go to the half filled circle in the layers palette or select Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Threshold from the menu bar. Click ok. You will get a threshold window. You can change the Threshold Level if you want. I moved the slider to the left to get more white and detail in the … [Read more...]
Mosaic Magic
Hello Scrappers,It's Kayla, aka keepscrappin, dropping in today to show you a quick trick to get some mosaic magic with your photos.I used Scrapping with Liz's Multi-Mini templates which are 50% off in today's SOSN sale for my layout. These templates work great for scrapping multiple photos, but did you know they also work like magic as a mosaic photo overlay for a single photo?Here's my layout using some products that are discounted in today's SOSN sale. Click on layout for full credits.It's easy to get the mosaic magic look in just a few steps.1. Duplicate and merge (ctrl, alt E) all the photo layers into one photo layer.2. Move merged photo layer below all the individual photo layers and rename it - all in one photo.3. Clip a photo (ctrl, alt G) to the all in one photo layer.4. Turn off the visibility (click eye on layer) for some of the photo layers, … [Read more...]
Wax Stamp Effect in Photoshop
Hello all my artsy friends! I am dropping in today with a quick tip for creating a wax effect with digitally stamped elements or alphas in Photoshop. I love using this effect with alphas to create a waxed title. Here is a look at the effect in action: Notice how "Paris" looks like melted wax on the page? It was so easy to create this look! I used a rubber stamp alpha by Gina Miller on my page (similar to THIS ONE). Grungy, distressed digital stamps work the best with this technique. All you need to do is placed the stamp(s) on your page and apply a bevel. These are the settings I used on my page: Here is a close up of the technique on my page: I hope you have fun with this technique! I cannot wait to see your melted wax creations in the Lilypad Gallery. :) Until next time … [Read more...]
3 Ways to Post Your Scrapbook Layouts to Instagram
Hello scrappy friends!!!I'm so excited for The Lilypad's Halloween Bash this weekend!! There are so many fun games and challenges for you to participate in to get into the Halloween spirit. One of those challenges, that I just happen to be hosting, is the Instagram challenge to post your layouts to Instagram with the hashtag #TLPhalloweenbash2020. I have enjoyed hosting the Instagram challenge for our last several events at The Lilypad. It is a fun way to connect on social media, share creativity and find inspiration.I have had some questions about how to go about sharing layouts on Instagram, so I thought this is a great time to share three ways to do that so you'll be prepared for this weekend!First, you will need to set up an Instagram account if you do not already have one. Some scrapbookers and community members have a separate account just for posting their … [Read more...]
Tilted Layouts in Photoshop
Happy Wednesday everyone! I am dropping in this week with a quick tip for creating consistently angled elements on your digital pages. I don't know about you, but I love change up my layout designs by tilting them at an angle. There are lots of awesome tilted templates that that help to create a tilted design, but when you are adding digital elements to those pages it can be difficult to make sure all the elements are tilted to the same degree as the background pieces. For example, look at this layout made with a template from the Oh so Fabulous Cheryl of Fiddle-Dee-Dee Designs: The background layers were pre-angled in the template, but all of the elements that I added (including the Game Day word art by Scrapping with Liz) were added on top of those background layers. Because I had a lot of linear elements, I wanted to make sure that they were all angled … [Read more...]
Pocket cards in place of photos
Hey, hey scrappers,I'm here today with a quick tip for using journal/pocket cards on your layouts. Not a pocket scrapper you say... no worries, you can use all of the wonderful pocket cards and MPM packs in the TLP store with all kinds of styles of layouts. Let's say you don't have enough photos to fill all the spots on a favorite template. No worries, just open your template and use a pocket card in place of a photo and then scrap away!Here are some more examples of layouts where I used pocket cards in place of photos.So the next time you don't have enough photos to fill all the spots on your template, don't forget to reach for all those wonderful pocket card packs and memory pockets monthly (MPM) kits available in The Lilypad store.BTW: The newest MPM comes out on the last Friday of the month and that happens to be tomorrow... you're … [Read more...]
Patchwork Digital Backgrounds
Hello everyone and Happy Wednesday! As always, there is an amazing SOSN sale today with lots of digital kits available for 50% off. I am dropping in with a quick tip for creating a patchwork neutral digital background. Here is an example (made with some of the goodies in today's SOSN sale - click on layout for full credits): I love creating on neutral/white backgrounds, but sometimes I want to kick it up a notch. Patchwork backgrounds are an easy way to add some interest to a page without using patterned paper. Grid or Pocket Scrapping templates are a super easy way to create a patchwork background. I created the background on my page with these templates by NBK Design: Using neutral papers from Just Jaimee's Storyteller August 2019 kit and Kim Jensen's Temperate Painted Papers in all of the photo and background spaces on the … [Read more...]
Creating Paper Folds in Photoshop
Hello everyone! I am dropping in today with a quick tip for creating a folded paper look in Photoshop (or PSE). You can see the tip in action on this page: Notice what appears to be paper folds across the background paper? Those were created with several paper strips shadowed only on one side. I used the background and paper strips from the "oh so awesome" Fiddle-Dee-Dee's The Magic of You {Dressed Up} templates. All you have to do to create this effect is place a background paper on the bottom. Then clip the same paper (in the same location) to each of the paper strips. When you add the drop shadow it makes it look like the paper was actually folded in a flattened accordion style. Here are the drop shadow settings I used: And that is all there is to it! I hope you have fun creating your own accordion fold backgrounds. … [Read more...]