Tip of the Week - Background Paper - Football Fever

This time of year, football is everywhere.
Our high school aged boys are playing under the Friday night lights.
Our university alma mater is playing on Saturday afternoons.And we are rooting on our Green Bay Packers on Sunday afternoons!

Even if the Packers are not your team, surely you know someone at feeds weekly on football fever.
It's a good thing. It's scrapbook worthy!

In this tutorial we'll spread a little bit of football fever across the background of our scrapbook page.
Manuela Zimmermann's kit, A Man's World - available with the November 2011 Premier Membership - is the perfect kit for scrabbooking the football fan in your life.
But even if you don't have this kit, follow along with me and adapt the tutorial to any kit you own.

Tip for:
Photoshop Elements 9.0
Photoshop CS5

Digital Scrapper Quick Album - A Man's World

A Man's World kit by Manuela Zimmermann

Available in the Digital Scrapper store
after November 2011.

November 2011 Digital Scrapper Premier Quick Album

designed by Jen White.

Quick pages and templates will be available

in the Digital Scrapper store after November 2011.

This quick album was created with photos and journaling belonging to Sharon Maughan.

Click the "Read more..." link to see the album.

Tip of the Week - Cutout Alpha

I love to work with my hands.
Any DIY project is the project for me - especially the ones that take a basic list of tools and a little elbow grease.
My DIY tool belt includes things like a hammer, a cordless drill or screw gun, and a tape measure.
When I'm working with Photoshop Elements, I find myself generally sticking with the Stape tools, the Type tool and the Marquee tool.
In today's tip we'll add a little elbow grease to the before mentioned list of tools to create a custom embellishment that is sure to dress up any scrapbook page.

Tip for Photoshop Elements
Tip for Photoshop

Tip of the Week - Intersected Frame

"Sometimes you feel like a nut.
Sometimes you don't."
I've got that little Almond Joy jingle stuck in my head!
It was driving me crazy until I applied it to my scrapbook page.
Sometimes I feel like square cornered frames.
And sometimes I just don't!
Today, I shall have it both ways... square corners AND rounded ones.
I just love it when things work out!
Check out this sweet little frame I've added to my scrapbook page.
I know you'll want to make one too! So, here's how...

View the Tip for:
Photoshop Elements 9.0
Photoshop CS5

Digital Scrapper Premier Tutorials - Define Me

As the times change and my pennies get pinched tighter, I’m always on the lookout for ways to extend the use of my digital scrapbook kits.

In this tutorial I will seek to inspire you by choosing an element from this month’s Premier kit and transforming it into a versatile text overlay.

I’m confident that your eyes will be opened to possibilities that await you in each and every kit that you own.

This video is available for purchase at Digital Scrapper.

Tip of the Week - Polar to Rectangular Filter

I love it when a plan follows through — seamlessly.
Don’t you?
The most current Digital Scrapper Premier kit — Alphabet Soup by Christina Mortimer — includes a super-duper cute circular frame. (You can see the frame below.)
As soon as I saw it, I had grand plans to put the frame into action.
Then I thought — hey, this frame would look super-duper cute as a horizontal strip, too!
Too bad for me? Think again.
Photoshop Elements is packed full of power filters.
Check out this one for turning circles into horizontal lines.

Tip for Photoshop Elements 9.0 OR Tip for Photoshop CS5

Digital Scrapper Premier Tutorials - Tucked In

Back in the day – the days of early photography – photographs were rarely applied to albums using adhesives. Instead they were displayed through the use of photo corners or by simply cutting slits in the paper large enough for the corners of the photo to fit through. These techniques allowed for family and friends to easily remove the photo for sharing.
In this lesson I’ll teach you how to digitally create the look of photo corners being tightly tucked into your scrapbook page.

It will be easy to discover a bit of nostalgia with this simple technique.

This video is available for purchase at Digital Scrapper.