I know I talked about working with clearly defined patterns a lot last year; at least five different times. It all started with my Patterned Vellum post on May 6, 2025 and ended with my Masking Patterns post in December of 2025. Today I’m going to use some of the same tools/techniques I wrote about in all those 2025 posts to show you a fun, new result…Glitter Patterns! If you’ve already read some of these earlier posts, a lot of…
I don’t know about you but sometimes I have a lot of photos that I want to include in a single layout. I don’t necessarily need the entirety of each photo, just the primary subject(s). Using photo tags is a fun way to highlight these photos without filling up the entire page. Grab a few photos and let’s get to work… Special Download I don’t normally put together an assortment of supplies for a given post. But I wanted to…
If you read last week’s post about lasso tool edges, I said I could save the layers as a PSD file for future use. And I promised to explain how to use that edge template this week to create other edges/papers. If you didn’t read last week’s post you may want to go back and read that first or most of this might be a bit hard to follow. If you have your PSD file from last week, please open…
We’re already nearly three full weeks into the new year and it’s time for me to get back to giving you creativity tips. I love fresh starts. However, I certainly don’t want to go cruising headlong into the new year too quickly. So, I thought I’d take a few weeks to ease into tips. I’m going to try keeping things on the simple side until we get our 2026 “sea legs”. I want to start with a tip about custom…
This may not be the best first creative tip of the year but I want to get one thing off my chest and be done with it for the year. I came of age in the information technology era. Oddly enough, I don’t always appreciate where technology has taken us. Over the years here on the blog, I have repeatedly mentioned how often technology complicates things. That said, I do appreciate some advances, but those are oft times far outweighed…