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...

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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.

Digital Scrapper Premier Tutorials - Spinning Spirographs

Back in the day I would spend hours on the floor huddled over my construction paper trying to master the techniques and designs of my amazing new Spirograph set. That was a good thirty or more years ago, but the same feeling of WOW comes over me now when I’m able to create some of the same Spirograph designs using my Photoshop.
In this tutorial I’ll share with you the steps it takes to create a Photoshop action that magically Spirograph before your very eyes. Prepare to be addicted.

This video is available for purchase at Digital Scrapper.

Alphabet Soup Kit and Templates

Alphabet Soup kit
by Digilicious Designs
available for purchase at Digital Scrapper

Click [HERE] to view the templates I created with this album.
These are available for purchase at Digital Scrapper also.

Tip of the Week - A Touching Title Track

The title element of a scrapbook page can make or break it.
With a simple change of Photoshop options, you can go from merely elegant to elaborate in just a matter of seconds — but getting off the straight and narrow path sometimes requires a bit of outside inspiration.
Come take a trip with me to inspiration station as I squish the letters of a title together and skid them across the page.
It may be just what you need to put a little giddy-up in your title.

Tip links for:
Photoshop CS5
Photoshop Elements 9.0

Tip of the Week - Title Tag – Road Trip

All right. I’ll admit it.
I’m cheap.
I’ve never gotten a manicure, I cut my own hair, and I rarely buy new clothing.
The Goodwill is the place for me!
All that frugal-ness trickles down to my scrapbooking tendencies as well.
When I get my hands on a fabulous Digital Scrapper Premier kit… I make sure and stretch it a LONG way.
In this tutorial, you can follow along with me as I use a custom shape to create my own title tag that compliments the August Premier kit, Off We Go. Check it out…

Get this tip for:
Photoshop Elements 9.0
Photoshop CS5

Tip of the Week - Scratch Paper - Word Filled

The possibilities of making a background paper from scratch are endless.
The colors are endless.
The textures are endless.
The content is endless.
In this tutorial I invite you to follow along with me as I turn endless possibilities into an endearing creation.

Tip for Photoshop Elements 9.0
Tip for Photoshop CS5

Tip of the Week - Photo Filled Layouts - Fading Gradients

Sometimes the harsh edge of a photo is a distraction on a scrapbook page.
In this tutorial I'll show you how to make a photograph gradually blend into the background with the Gradient tool.
It's the third (and final) tutorial in my series called "Photo Filled Layouts".

Tip for Photoshop Elements
Tip for Photoshop

Digital Scrapper Premier Tutorials - Window Panes

Making objects jump off the page at you is all about the custom shadows. It’s not possible without them. In this tutorial we will create a six paneled window from an ordinary frame. Then we’ll set it on a shelf and lean it against the wall. The result will be something you’ll want to reach out and touch.

This video tutorial is available from Digital Scrapper.

Digital Scrapper Premier Tutorials - Wrinkled Tissue Paper

 

Tissue paper is a staple item around our house. We use it for gift wrapping, decorating, crafting, and even scrapbooking! In this lesson I’ll teach you how to create your own version of this crafty element from scratch.

This video is available from Digital Scrapper.

Digital Scrapper Quick Album - Happy Birthday

Jubilee kit by Peppermint Granberg.

Available in the Digital Scrapper store
after June 2011.

June 2011 Digital Scrapper Premier Quick Album

designed by Jen White.

Quick pages and templates will be available

in the Digital Scrapper store after June 2011.

This quick album was created with photos and journaling belonging to Jenny Jorgeson.

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

Digital Scrapper Premier Tutorials - Realistic Balloons

In this tutorial we’re going to create a balloon from scratch using familiar tools and tools that you may not use often. I think you’ll be amazed how realistic the balloon will look.

This video tutorial is available from Digital Scrapper.