Your Scrapping Cafe Blog

Several weeks back in my post about Journaling I mentioned I would have a future post discussing how to cut elements into pieces.  Well, that’s this post! Let me just say, in case it isn’t already obvious…I love digital scrapbooking!  One reason is the supplies, which are truly only limited by my own creativity.  As I’ve already discussed in prior posts about Re-coloring elements & Re-coloring paper, amazing digital editing programs like Photoshop Elements (PSE), makes altering digital supplies a…

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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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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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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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