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Thanks for stopping by! I believe scrapbooking is all about preserving memories. Whether you’re a seasoned scrapbooker or beginner, I think you’ll enjoy what’s in store for you here at the Café. I hope to provide tips, inspiration & information about scrapbooking resources.  I’ll also be available to help you tackle any challenges you may face. So, sit a spell, browse the menu categories and enjoy a “fresh cup” of inspiration in the galleries.  I look forward to scrapping with you…

More Blurring

More Blurring

In last week’s post I talked about how to frame or highlight a “busy” photo’s subject, keep the original photo, but blur out all the distracting parts. That post got a bit too long so I decided to show you the rest of the story today. Let’s take a look at some other ways to focus on your “star”. Focus & Blur Part 2 There’s nothing that says you have to frame a section of your photo to highlight it….

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Drum Roll Please…

Drum Roll Please…

I have finally finished all of my testing…whew! I am happy to report that it appears we’ve finally gotten the problem fixed. I wouldn’t have been able to get through this without the stellar support of the WordPress Premium Support team at GoDaddy! The true final test will be when next week’s Tuesday Tip post gets published! But I’m fairly confident that it will go without a hitch. Thank you all for being patient as I worked through this issue….

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Blur Distractions

Blur Distractions

Surely, you’ve run across more than one photo in your scrapbooking adventures that you want to use but the primary subject isn’t the center of attention. It’s not so much that you don’t want all the other people or things in the photo; you just want the primary subject to be “the star”. There are multiple ways to deal with this scenario. Most often, the majority of us will either enlarge the photo so we can crop out the “distractions”….

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Mask With Grey

Mask With Grey

A few weeks ago, I shared a post about using “Two-Tone Masks”. Today I want to show you another masking technique that is very similar but a bit more intriguing. Let’s take a look at using grey to make a mask selectively, magically transparent. Magical Mask As I mentioned when I posted about two-tone masks, most often those masks are done in black & white. You may already know this but whenever we use a layer mask, we don’t have…

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Where’s My Glyph?

Where’s My Glyph?

I recently did something I hardly ever do…I actually purchased a font. Well, technically I purchase fonts all the time but not in the usual way. I have a subscription at Creative Fabrica which allows me to “freely” download fonts all the time as they are unlimited as part of my subscription. So, I kind of forget that those fonts are truly “paid for” but at a very nominal cost. Other than those fonts, I usually try to stick to…

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