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Month: April 2023

Amping Up Your Embellishing Skills

Amping Up Your Embellishing Skills

Do you get flustered by clusters?  You’re not alone.  A lot of people feel unsure about creating them.  Good news is…clusters don’t have to be complicated to be eye-catching. When I was a paper scrapbooker, I always tried to limit how many elements I piled onto a page.  Nobody wants bulging albums.  And you have to be careful that all of those dimensional elements don’t cause damage to underlying layouts.  With digital layouts you can be as dimensional as you’d…

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Investing In Our Planet

Investing In Our Planet

Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by EARTHDAY.ORG including 1 billion people in more than 193 countries. The official theme for 2023 is Invest In Our Planet. Are you up for a challenge… Help Save A Tree In the spirit of investing in our planet & the environment I’m posing a simple challenge for you. To…

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Don’t Let Your Pages Look Flat

Don’t Let Your Pages Look Flat

Good shadowing is perhaps the most important element in digital scrapbooking.  If you want your digital layouts to have the same dimensional look as paper layouts, proper shadowing is key.  If you are new to digital scrapbooking, I hope to give you some basic pointers to get you started.  I also hope that you “seasoned” scrappers will pick up a few new tips here or there. Over the years more than a handful of people have asked me how I…

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Removing Backgrounds

Removing Backgrounds

So, now that I’ve given you some of my “foundational” steps for creating scrapbook layouts, the Tuesday Tips are going to take on a more relaxed (hopefully shorter 😊) and somewhat random format.  Today I want to start with something fun. I can’t even begin to tell you how excited I am to share this with you.  This is a game changer for me and I know others will appreciate it.  Do you think removing backgrounds from photos is a…

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Your Own Handwriting

Your Own Handwriting

Have you ever flipped through some of your mom’s old recipes and just loved seeing her handwriting on those cards?  Do you cherish seeing your dad’s handwriting on letters he sent to mom?  Do you ever want to leave your own legacy in your scrapbooks that make them even more personal? Keeping our memories through scrapbooking is one of the main reasons that most people scrapbook.  But the written word in our journaling can be just as visually powerful as…

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