by Tami Taylor Are you looking for a way to end a creative slump? Make a “challenge kit” that limits and defines the supplies you can use, and make art today. In the slump Shakespeare wrote “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” Me? Lately I’m stuck–I’m an observer [...]
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How to Use a Challenge Kit To End A Creative Slump
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Look at Your Scrapbook Supplies and Tools in Creative Ways: An Idea Round-up
Exploring new and creative uses for your current scrapbook supplies and tools can not only help you to save time and money, but can also take the quality and creativity of your scrapbook pages to a higher level. You just have to be willing to open your mind and see the potential of your current [...]
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Replicate Digital Looks on Paper Scrapbook Pages with Supplies from the Garage
by Amy Kingsford As a digital scrapbooker I’m used to having a variety of tools and everyday items packaged in kits that make achieving certain effects on my pages a snap. When I’m making paper scrapbook pages, I often dismiss these looks because they don’t seem achievable or they just don’t fit into my “physical” understanding [...]
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Use Masking to Combine Stamped Images on Cards and Scrapbook Pages
by Sharyn Tormanen Years ago, I attended a home stamping party and the demonstrator taught us about masking: I was in awe. Masking opens up a whole new world of possibilities for your stamp collection. In fact it has remained one of my favorite ways to work with stamps. Check out these cards to see [...]
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7 Ways to Translate the Look of Digital Brushes to Your Paper Pages
By Amy Kingsford Whether you’ve dabbled in digital scrapbooking yourself or only just admired the look of others pages from afar–chances are that you’ve seen and appreciated a page that utilizes what digital scrapbookers call “brushes.” Digital Brushes are often used as a foundation to set a page’s inner canvas or focal elements apart from [...]
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Ideas and Inspiration for Scrapbook Pages with Wilna Furstenberg | Video Interview
We spent almost an hour last week talking to Wilna Furstenberg about patterned paper, the quest to balance busy and serene, scrapbooking intuitively, the design of scrapbook pages, and the meaning of them in the end. Each month at Masterful Scrapbook Design (MSD) we host four in-depth interviews with scrapbook page designers on a focused topic. [...]
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How to make your own stencils for spray mist projects
By Tami Taylor Ever since I took “Art Journaling 101″ by Dina Wakley and watched her wield a spray ink bottle, I’ve been an avid collector of stencils. Problem is, my wallet is not an avid collector of money. I recently made a canvas that had a sun on it, and every time I look at it, [...]
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5 ways to make digital and paper scrapbook pages more quickly
By Amy Kingsford Do you love finishing a page and the accompanying sense of accomplishment? One memory down; hundreds more to go! If you want to be a more productive scrapbooker, check out these ideas for making the most of your scrapbooking time. 1. Speed up your scrapbooking with a digital quick page or paper [...]
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Six Ways To Start a Scrapbook Page with Paint or Ink
By Dina Wakley Sometimes looking at a blank sheet of cardstock is paralyzing. When I have “scrapbook block,” I love to take a pristine sheet of cardstock and swipe paint or ink on it. I call this paint or ink a “color field.” This color field counts as my starting layer or foundation. I build [...]
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The Secret to Creating Circular Text in Photoshop Elements
By Pattie Knox Wrapping your words around or inside of a design element can pack a powerful punch when used in your digital art journaling. Unfortunately, while newer versions of Photoshop contain text on a path capability, versions prior to PSCS and all versions of Photoshop Elements are lacking this feature. There IS a way [...]
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