How to Blend your Digital Scrapbooking Papers. Digital Scrapbookers have a lot of papers and textures in their stash of digital goodies. I wanted to teach you a way to start brainstorming how to make the most out of your stash. One of the fun things I like to play with is blending papers. It’s easy with the tools we have in hand to make the most of your creative journey. The most important thing with these techniques is the fact that you’re putting your ideas and touch to your layouts and not just how the digital scrapbooking kit presented to you. Tools we can use to blend digital scrapbooking ..read more

Many times people are curious how a digital artsy layout is done and my speed process is just so you can see my process doing the layout. As you can see the layout itself doesn’t have tons of elements, but they are rather clustered together. Masks combine with brushes make your blending faster. Make the mask do most of the job and refine our blending with the brushes. Products used: Flowery 1 Scribble Flowers Acrylic 2 Dynamic Brushes Shine and Paint Doodles Paint and Grunge Papers Lights 1 Enjoy the video The post Digital Artsy Scrapbooking: Evolve Layout Speed Video appeared first ..read more

Digital Layout Template Hop One more amazing hop with amazing digital scrapbooking templates. If you want to get started with digital scrapbooking and want to learn how to use templates and start documenting and using your pages, this hop if for you. If you want to start since the beginning the hop starts at the Layout Hop Facebook Group HERE. This is my template this month, don’t forget to join our  Youtube as well to watch the tutorial on our templates and other videos to learn how to create digital artsy scrapbooking. Inspiration from Cindy : Make sure to visit our Shop for deals and eve ..read more

Drop Shadows Tutorial Part 3 On our 3rd part of drop shadows we go beyond regular shadows and talk about shadows that help composite layouts. You’ll learn When it’s time to brush your own shadows. Using perspective to create shadows. Thinking about the direction of light to help the shadows Cast shadow on people, animals and objects. I hope with this 3rd lesson and a lot of practice you’ll get your layouts to have amazing shadows. Previous tutorials Drop Shadows Tutorial Part 1 Drop Shadows Tutorial Part 2 Shop Supplies at my store. The post Digital Scrapbooking: Drop Shadows Part 3 Tutoria ..read more

Drop Shadow Tutorial Part 2 In this section, we are moving forward and continuing with our drop shadows  tutorial for your digital scrapbooking, in this video, we are taking it a little further and talking about other tools like Puppet tool and also other ways to manipulate your shadows. I hope that with these videos you can learn to take your digital scrapbooking further. Drop shadows can really make a big impact in your pages especially if you use a lot of elements and create clusters. If you missed part 1  you can read and watch the video here. I’m using some basic shadows from Viva Artistr ..read more

We celebrated the digital scrapbooking day and I decided to make 2 effects as many people in our facebook group that answered to our survey said they would love to create some photo effects in Photoshop. In this tutorial, you’ll learn to understand better filters, practice and use layer filters thanks to smart objects. From there I give some suggestions on how you can take these effects and use brushes to help you. Read below for written effects steps of the effects. First some brushes and things I have used and products that would help you give a final paint look in the digital layout Waterco ..read more

Digital Scrapbooking Tutorial This video is part of my live streams on youtube, where I show how to create a digital scrapbooking layout in one hour plus some tips that help with design principles. In this tutorial will learn: how to use your brushes to help you to blend 2 papers together how to combine brushes to blend photos how to use opacity and flow in your brushes to control your blending how to end your layouts with a balance of light and color. How to make elements your own with bevel layer style Products used: Marble Papers Artsy Transfers 3 words and bits 3 waterblends brushes artsyb ..read more

Hello, Fellow Scrappers, we have this month another great hop for you with so many fantastic templates. The designers did a great job this month. As always if you’d like to work with more templates every month on my Facebook Group I have a free template plus a video class. If you don’t do Facebook another way to get my free templates is joining my newsletter. HERE. This is all the amazing templates This what my CT did with my template This template is great to mix traditional and artsy scrapbooking. If you’ like more templates check my store HERE. If you’d like to learn more about Artsy Sc ..read more

At our Facebook group, people voted to learn more about drop shadows so I touched on this subject before but I’m doing a more extensive series tutorial this time. Drops shadows are really important skills to learn when you are starting digital scrapbooking. Why drop shadows are so important? Drop shadows prevent your layout from looking flat. It creates realistic effects like the real look of a paper raising from the surface. It helps to balance colors and light in your layout so your focal point is visible. It prevents the layout from looking the with the same casting. In this series, we’re g ..read more